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There are thousands of Cults in America, some harmless and some that can be very dangerous. A cult is a group or movement held together by a shared commitment to a charismatic leader or ideology. It has a belief system that has the answers to all of life’s questions and offers a special solution to be gained only by following the leader’s rules. It requires a high level of commitment from at least some of the members.
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foreign
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so we really don't talk about coats in
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today's society in in 2022 we don't
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really
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talk about it anymore
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it's almost as if we think that the
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threat of Cults is over with is it's not
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real anymore it uh you know the David
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caresses are gone the uh the
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um uh Jonestown is gone you know I mean
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there's there's no more Jim Jones
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there's uh no more Charlie Manson you
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know what I'm saying there's no more uh
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um Applewhite you know what I'm saying
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there's no more Apple White Mr
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Applewhite you know what I'm saying
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we we think that those days are over
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with
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but I'm here to tell you
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that we have Cults Among Us right now
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they never have gone away
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we just think as a society that we have
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grown too smart
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to not be able to recognize them we know
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what they look like you know what they
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sound like they sound like these guys
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then it's a cult but I'm here to tell
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you as a cult Survivor
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they're not always recognizable
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so I happened upon this article
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uh talking about five signs
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of a cult
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that's right that's mask as a church
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okay so I'm gonna share that with you
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guys
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okay
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so
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I'm just gonna do a little bit of
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reading here it's very important
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right here it says Cults may appear
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wonderful on the outside but on the
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inside are very manipulating
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cult leaders are desperate to trick you
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into joining
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very important
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they are after your obedience your time
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and your money
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Colts use sophisticated mind control and
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recruitment techniques
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that have been refined over time I'm
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going to be sharing a lot of this type
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of material with you in the upcoming
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year so be on the lookout for that many
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people think that they can't be deceived
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by a cult but that's far from the case
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beware of thinking that you are immune
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from cult involvement
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Colts have millions of members around
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the world who once thought they were
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immune and still don't know they're even
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in a cult because they've masqueraded
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they've masqueraded so well
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despite a cult you need to know how they
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work and you need to understand the
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techniques they use they will use the
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these secrets and techniques to trick
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you trick I'm sorry to trick and control
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you
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and it's um imperative that you are able
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to spot them that's what I'm here for to
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give you the information that you need
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to know what a coat looks like
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says uh once you understand how coats
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work you would better be able to
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identify them avoid recruiter and
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protect family and friends here are five
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warnings of a of a cult masked as a
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church and the first one is what do you
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think it is
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the pastor or leader is always right
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now I'm going to go out on a limb and
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say you've probably run into this person
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several times and you didn't even
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realize it
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we're having a discussion with them
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they're always right
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never wrong
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what they say is King
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no I'm right about this no you're wrong
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and never never ever ever ever wrong
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that's a problem
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that's a problem
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Pastor or leader is making himself or
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herself right this may be a sign of cult
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involvement
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there is a no tolerance for questions or
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critical injury this is the reason this
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is one of the manipulation techniques
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he can't be wrong or she can't be wrong
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because that's part of the manipulate
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manipulation to get you to buy into what
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this person says okay
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if you disagree with a church leader
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then you are told it is your issue
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because you have to learn to submit to
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imperfect Authority
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interesting right whenever you bring up
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a legitimate biblical issue to
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leadership they find a way to turn it
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around on you you're the one with the
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problem you just don't have
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understanding you just don't get how
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this works
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right and point out that you are not
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you're you are not only wounded but you
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also have no right to question them
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hmm
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no one is always right including pastors
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and I want to I just want to say that
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right there I let me let me let's talk
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about that for a second
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if you're if you're in an environment if
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you're in a place where a pastor thinks
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he's always right then there's a problem
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because nobody is always right
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I just want to bring that up because we
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are in an era where we worship our
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pastors okay and we worship our leaders
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okay
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and we shouldn't
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should we put them on should we esteem
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our leaders yes we should esteem them
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but understand that they are not perfect
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they are not infallible
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when they're so Quake it's okay to
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question them
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right
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okay so let's get back to this
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a pastor's responsibility isn't to
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interpret the Bible listen to this very
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closely I want you to listen to this
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very closely it's not to interpret the
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Bible their job is to preach the gospel
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it's not based upon what they think
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listen that's important
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it's based on what God says
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if your pastor or leader is unwilling to
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acknowledge or admit their mistakes or
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doesn't accept an obvious mistake that
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they have
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uh uh that they should be that should be
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a major red flag
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also if there's a problem in the church
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your pastor should be approachable for
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pastors not is not approachable and not
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open to constructive criticisms or
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concerns then he his or her heart is not
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in the right place
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look here
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look here
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somebody who's not willing to take
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criticism there's a problem there and
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back to the point about
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their job not being to interpret the
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scripture this is where I always go back
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to
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trust but verify
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trust your pastor but verify verify what
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he says in the Bible when the apostles
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were going throughout throughout
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preaching the gospel in the book of Acts
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there's a group of people called the
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bereans
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and the bereans followed them around to
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make sure that what they were saying
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was lined up with what they had at the
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time which was the pentateuch the the
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first five books of the Bible
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they would look they were verifying that
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what they were saying was lining up with
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the scriptures you and I should be doing
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the same thing you can't yes in a man
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everybody who says
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I'm a preacher I'm a pastor I'm a bishop
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I'm an apostle
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don't get caught up in uh this this
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Authority thing because he says I'm this
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and I'm that or get caught up in his
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charisma
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that you that you leave your senses I
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just wanted to point that out so the
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next Point here is
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deception
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deception
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okay and it says here it says a cult
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needs to recruit an obvious and
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deception why because of people knew
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their true practices and beliefs
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beforehand
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then they would not join I want to take
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a second here to point out when when
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what I call one of our uh modern day
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cults
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and that is the Hebrew Israelites
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and on this point the recruiting point
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I'm going to point out something that
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they use they use this thing called the
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12 tribes chart
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okay which is very deceptive because
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that thing has been debunked so many
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times it's the chart that tells you who
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the true tribe uh tribes of uh uh Israel
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are according to the Bible okay and
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everybody that's there is not white
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in this chart and this chart was
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developed sometime in the 70s or 80s as
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a deceptive tactic
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if you go online if you go on YouTube
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and do a search
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um just do a search on uh
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12 tribes chart debunked look it up
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um and you'll see a video of an old man
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old black man talking about he was there
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he was there everyone was when they
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developed this chart
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and he talks about how they they knew
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the chart was deceptive
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but they used it to recruit young black
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men into their their organization
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that's the type of tactics this is
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talking about
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using deceptive tactics
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okay you have to be aware of that
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Beware of the SEC deceptive tactics
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that's all I wanted to say there so
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so a cult needs to hide the truth from
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you and until they think you are ready
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to accept it a quote will also have a
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slick well rehearsed public relations
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front
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which hides what the group is really
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like
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okay the mission of the cult may look
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similar to a church listen to this
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you will always hear they help the poor
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they support each other in community
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they emphasize peace you always hear
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that right or save the environment
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whatever it is
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they'll tell you how happy you will be
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in their group everyone in the co
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appears to be happy and enthusiastic
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mainly because they have been told
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to act happy
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and we'll when we'll get in trouble if
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they don't
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behind the scenes stuff right
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these things will be introduced to you
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slowly one at a time
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so you will not notice the gradual
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change until eventually you are
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practicing and believing things
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at which at the start would have caused
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you to run a mile so they string you out
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right they string you out they string
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you out you don't get the whole bottle
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of wax up front
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okay
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they stringed you out because like the
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article says if you knew the full truth
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up front
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you'd run
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okay
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so if you're feeling strung out it's
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probably because you are
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okay so let's move on to the next point
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the next point in this in this uh uh
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article is exclusivism
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exclusivism you know what exclusivism is
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right
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you know it's exclusivism
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okay nobody be saved let's stay in our
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group
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if you're not in our group you're going
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to hell
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notice I said in the group
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because we know there's exclusivity in
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Christ Jesus said I am the way the truth
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and the life no man comes to the father
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but by me but that's not what this is
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talking about
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this is talking about the exclusivity of
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the message
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of this particular group
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that's what it's talking about okay
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if you got a group
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just claiming that everybody else is
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wrong and everybody else got it messed
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up and nobody can nobody understands
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this the way we are the only way you can
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get to heaven is to come through our
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group
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then that's exclusivity and that should
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be a red flag to you okay a normal
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religious religious organization
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would not have any trouble with you
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moving to another similar organization
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as long as you stayed in the same
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religion because it it is the belief
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system that matters not membership in an
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organization this is very important to
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point out
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okay very important for now if you
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wanted to go to another church or you
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want to move an organization shouldn't
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be a problem
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but for example if a Christian
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um then you can move from church to
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another church and still be a Christian
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however
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cult leaders would tell you
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that you can only be saved or can only
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be successful in the their organization
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alone
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no other organization has the truth all
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others have Mr Mark this is a and this
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is a classic mark
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of a traditional code if you look back
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in cult history
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they all say this the same thing
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where we are the the one we're the one
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the chosen one
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so it is not the belief system that
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decides your future but it is the belief
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system in your membership with that
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particular group The Cult leaders will
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make you believe there is nowhere else
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you can go and still be saved and if you
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ever leave the one true church that you
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are going to hell
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this is a fear-based control mechanism
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designed to keep you in the cult and I
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told you guys I'm going to be doing more
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of this type of teaching in 2023 because
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I think it's very important for us to
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start begin revisiting the history of
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Cults and how they operate and the mind
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manipulation and what they look like
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today because we still have Cults among
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them Among Us I I truly believe in my
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heart of hearts that has been shown
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without a shadow of a doubt that the
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Hebrew Israelites and groups like in
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Israel United in Christ is a cult
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they have all the signs of a classic
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cult
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they just re-rolled it they just
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redressed it they just Revisited and
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flipped some things backwards and
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forwards shifted some stuff around
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to make them look and sound more
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palatable but now they are outright
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attacking Christianity
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do you need to be let's let's move on
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let's move on here let's see let me
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let's move on let's
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go to the next Point fear and
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intimidation
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fear and intimidation
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cult leadership is feared
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to disagree with leadership is the same
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as disagreeing with God yes
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and if you're watching if you watch
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visuals
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if you watch visuals you'll see the
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intent of the cult when it comes to
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their leader if they're portraying their
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leader
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that looks some kind like some kind of
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God or something
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we got a problem people
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we got a problem
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the cult leaders will claim to have
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direct Authority from God to control
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almost all aspects of your life
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if the cult is not a religious group
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then questioning the leaders or program
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will still be seen as a sign of
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rebellion and stupidity guilt is a
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tactic they will use to control you
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maybe the reason is you're not making
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you're not making money is because
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you're not with the program and and this
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is this goes into a lot of theological
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teaching well brother maybe you're not
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blessed because you're not giving to the
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program you're not giving your tithes
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you're not giving your offerings you
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know what I'm saying that's what this is
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talking about
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um maybe you're maybe the reason you're
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not able to convert new recruits is
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because your heart is prideful or full
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of sin they kick it back on you right it
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could never be that the program isn't
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working
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or the teachings are not working
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for or these new recruits recruits have
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valid reasons for not joining it's
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always your fault you're always wrong
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and you and you must try harder
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it's all your fault
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it's your fault that this happened
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no accountability for leadership that's
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the next point
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this happens
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we're leaders
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only allow those to agree with them into
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leadership positions
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listen this is what I call us I call
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this I call this the Yes man syndrome
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everything I do say is like gold
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watch the people around them
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if everybody's like this if it's a bunch
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of bobble heads going like this
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them dudes just trying to get trying to
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get in on the good with the leader
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trust but verify
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trust but verified
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that's all I'm saying
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but but but in these Cults this is
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what's happening
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this is what's happening in these coats
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so
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it is biblical
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for a church to have Elders in place
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but they need to be mature Elders not
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puppets for the pastor
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or the leader
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the elders are the buffer between the
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shepherd and the Sheep In other words
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elders
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Elders in a church are not Yes Men
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they are there as a go-between between
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the leader and the people to Wolf proof
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the congregation
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I'm gonna say that again
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Elders in the church
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or or the go-between between the the
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church leader
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and the people to Wolf proof them to
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make sure that this leader is from God
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that this leader is Walking with the
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Lord that this leader is teaching
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biblical teachings
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that's what the job of an elder is not
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to just yeah yeah that's right yeah yeah
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that's right yes yeah yeah
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you know you're right yeah yeah you know
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he right again yeah he right again yeah
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no no if he's wrong he should be checked
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a good Elder will check his pastor and
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say in in respect
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um Pastor I want to talk to you about
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this thing that you said you know I I
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was I don't I don't think that lines up
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with what the scriptures say
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something like that
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not just accept everything
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that he says because if that's the case
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then
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he can do whatever he wants so this is
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why these cult leaders need yes men
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around them because they're gonna
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they're going to be water carriers for
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his system okay
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so let's get back to this
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Okay so
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it in fact Elders are the basis for the
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New Testament Church as Paul planted
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churches he appointed Elders in every
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Church the Bible tells us Paul and
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Barnabas appointed Elders for them in
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each church and with prayer and fasting
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committed them to the Lord in which they
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had to put their trust
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acts 14 23 it is imperative that your
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church has checks and balances if your
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church leaders refuse to allow
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a mature Elder board or Council to be
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put in place your church might be
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a cult
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listen
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don't be fooled
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don't be fooled
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the Devil is a deceiver of many
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he's always been a deceiver of many
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okay
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and in 2022 2023 he is Among Us I want
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you
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to be aware
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of the tricks of the devil
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and that is why I want you to be aware
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of these cults
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stand up speak up
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and do the work
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