the Watchman
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and I can remember because brother CH with did used to sing that song
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um man I have some something to share with you last week I told you guys about
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our satellite congregation in Philippines right
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so if you have wondered if the investment we made into
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this equipment and the video cameras and all the things we're doing were
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actually the right thing to do I got a video conference call this
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morning at about 7:30 from
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Pakistan from Pakistan I'll tell you the name of the village hold
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on H the name of the village there is
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seall and it's in a state called to Tech sing they have been using our videos and
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our live feed as their Church um for their Church on a weekly
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basis they have 60 people in church most of the time it's over a
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100 they have 25 families that are and they're in it in a
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village I'm assuming it's pretty big because they have 25 Muslim mosques in
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that town and they are making they are getting people saved and popper they said that
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they didn't have a church to go to they used to travel to go to church the
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person that had that drove the bus that took them to the town where the church was died and they don't have anybody
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that could drive their bus anymore so for two years they've been searching for someone to teach them preach to them and
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do the things that needed to happen for them and they said 3 months ago they started watching our videos from the
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very first one and they had a request they want
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Bibles and the leader of their group they're also praying for a pastor which
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is a good thing but until then we're their pastors but um they're praying
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that God continues to support and uploads uh uplifts our ministry
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here and and helps us reach as many people as we can because we're reaching
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them and they they had nobody to reach them and they told me they've had
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miracles happen and people are being delivered from demonic influences and people are getting healed and you're the
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reason um I have to you know you guys need to give the board credit because I
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didn't do this by myself the board agreed that we would do this and because
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they got in and they have a vision to see this church reach as many people as they can reach we're reaching people we
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never thought we would reach Whoever thought we would reach somebody in the Philippines directly now we all know it
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happens through foreign missions they send missionaries over there and all that but now I get a video call this
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morning that not only are we reaching people in the Philippines 19 adults plus
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families but we're reaching a congregation that's never less than 60 but usually running 100 and there's 25
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families in that congregation and they need
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Bibles that's what I told them I said we'll figure out how to get Bibles to you we'll get you some Bibles we'll
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figure out how to get him there you're making a difference you're
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doing what God called us to do the Great Commission Matthew 28 he says go into
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all the world making disciples teaching them all the things I've taught you to
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do baptize in the name of the father Son and the Holy Spirit and and lo I will be
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with you until the end of the age when I shared that with Pastor Chuck
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this morning and Lee Reynolds Pastor Chuck I'm going to I'm going to read to
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you what Pastor Chuck sent back to me this is his comment he
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said wow with a face with Stars For Eyes Another Blessing from our
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Lord that's exciting my friend make sure the church understands the importance of
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such a thing the gospel going out to spiritually hungry people and the
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blessing it is to them also you made this possible
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you did how many people how many people do
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you know are attending a church where they're starting to reach people worldwide we've only been live live
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streaming for three months since since the beginning of
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June and we're having an impact and it's it's worldwide now the thing you need to
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pray for is this we have 20 people in Porterville that are watching our live streams every week we have 22 in velia
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we have five uh in Springville we have three in popper we have five in
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Strathmore we have some more over in Lindsay and some more down in terabella we want to encourage them to
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come to church in person we're going to we're going to minister to them on uh
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through the live stream no matter what we're going to minister to them but we also need to be encouraged them because
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they need to come here and they need to if they have issues they need handled they need someone to lay hands on them
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they need to have uh people praying for them and that's part of that's part of our discipleship process but we also
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need to realize that we are reaching people we never thought we would ever
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reach and the board helped do that make that Vision work we are reaching the
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world literally I mean there's more countries that we're reaching but these are
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congregations two different countries contacted me to tell me what we've done
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for them and [Applause]
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that's that's you so never never think that these
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things don't matter the smallest things matter in fact it says the little boxes
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spoiled the minds in Malachi chter 3 um that
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destroys works but it's also the small things that you do that build works
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like pioneer days you're going to be there on Saturday we got a booth we've
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got Flyers that are going to get printed that'll be in color it's important because every
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person you tell about God and tell about this church is a seed that's being sewn
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and we need to sew those seeds never be ashamed as shamed of where you go to church never be afraid
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to invite somebody to church even if they say no that's not bad because at
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least you did the work so today's message is called The
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Watchman and uh we're going to
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go to Ezekiel chapter 33 that's where the scriptures are at go ahead the next
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that's it 33 verse I got three sets of scriptures here and then I got something to follow up
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with when um God set up the church he put people
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in different positions and places like pastors and church boards and all these things and their
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job is to watch over or Safeguard the congregation that's what we're supposed
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to do so this is Ezekiel God speaks to me verse 33 chapter 3 starting in verse
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one he says again the word of the Lord came unto me saying son of man speak to the children
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of thy people and say unto them when I bring the sword upon a land if the
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people of the land take a man of their coasts and set him for their Watchmen if
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when he seeth the sword come upon the land he blow the trumpet and warns the
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people then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet and taketh not warning
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if the sword come and take him away his blood shall be upon his own
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head he heard the sound of the trumpet and took not warning his blood shall be
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upon him but he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul kind of sounds
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like Soul winning doesn't it but if the Watchman sees the sword
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come and blow not the trumpet and the people be not warned if the sword come and take any person from among them he
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is taken away in his iniquity but his blood will I require at the watchman's
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hand you can't get away from witnessing you can't get away from being the
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testimony of Jesus Christ because if you fail to witness if you fail to blow the
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trumpet God's going to require it at your hands and and it's even worse for a
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pastor it's even worse for a pastor because if I don't tell you the truth if
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I don't preach the word to you undiluted and preach it correctly and you fall god holds your
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blood on my account I'm responsible for what happens
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because I'm the pastor he said so thou oh son of man I
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have set thee a Watchman unto the house of Israel therefore shal Thou shalt hear the word at my mouth and warn them from
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me a lot of people don't like it when a pastor gets up and preaches a hard
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message that makes them feel bad but if you feel
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bad and most of the time it's because you you need some correction in your
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life and you need to make a change pastor's not doing it because he doesn't like you in fact I will guarantee you
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getting up and preaching that kind of message is the last thing a pastor wants to do however if he's truly serving God if
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he's truly following God and God gives him that kind of message he's required to preach it because if he doesn't and
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you die in your sins guess what God's going to hold him accountable hey there
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they are she looks better
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so we're going to continue going forward on this it says when I say unto the
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wicked oh Wicked Man Thou shalt surely die if thou Dost not speak to warn the wicked from his way that Wicked man
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shall die in his iniquity but his blood will I require at thine
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hand nevertheless if thou warn the wicked of his way to turn from it if he
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do not turn from his way he shall die in his iniquity but thou H has delivered thy Soul it's not about whether or not
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they turn it's about whether or not you warn them we have to warn them we have
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to you you and I everybody if you're serving God if God if you understand
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God's word we're all required to do it pastors even more so because I'm dealing
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with people that are already saved for the most part um but listen to what he says verse
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10 to 16 because we we've got it it comes in three sections go to the next slide
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Chris turn from your evil ways is the first one or the second one this is it
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right here listen he says therefore oh thou son of man speak unto the house of
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Israel thus you speak saying if our transgressions and our sins be upon us
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and we Pine away in them how should we then live say unto them as I live sayeth the
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Lord God I have no pleasure now listen this is God speaking I have no pleasure in the death
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of the wicked but that the wicked could turn from his way and live that's why he came
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and died on the cross he has no pleasure you seen those people saying you know
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well God sends him to Hell God has no pleasure in sending someone to hell it doesn't make him happy in the
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slightest in fact it hurts him to see people die and go to hell because he
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came and died on the cross spent three days in the grave and rose from the dead Victorious over death
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to give them an escape from that it hurts him when people don't
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repent but that the wicked turn from his way and live turn ye turn ye from your
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evil ways for why will you die oh House of Israel and you know there was a whole
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generation of Evangelical preachers that preached and traveled in tents tent
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revivals trying to get this message across to people some were successful at it some
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weren't but the message never changed it's your responsibility my responsibility to warn the wicked that
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they're going to fall and that there's consequences for the way they live and we have to do it
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in a way where they will receive Jesus as Lord and Savior I talked to you guys a lot about not
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judging and uh while we were going through The Sermon on the Mount I went over what judging is from Jesus's point
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of view it's when you act in a state of hypocrisy or you act as well I don't do
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what you do so I'm better than you which is not the case we are all sinners saved by grace and we're all one sent away
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from losing our Salvation uh because what we have if we sin and don't repent and die we've died
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in our sins and we've lost our Salvation that's how important it is
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it's all also how quickly you can lose it just like that so it's it's a thing that we have
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to do we have to repent on a daily basis we have to make sure that our slate
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stays clean and I mean let's be honest when
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something happens you know if you messed up nobody's got to
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come back and tell you you know cuz you got that feeling right there it tells you man I screwed up I screw screwed up
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I need to get some prayer here because I screwed up and there's no shame
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whatsoever insane I screwed up there is shame in hiding it and sweeping it under
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the brook if you confess it what's it say confess your faults one to another that
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you may be healed once you confess it I screwed up it's not there anymore you have been
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set free from it you have made it
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right he says again when I say unto you to the wicked Thou shalt surely die if he turns from his
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sin and do that which is lawful and right if the wicked restore the pledge
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give again that he had robbed walk in the statutes of life without committing
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iniquity he shall surely live and he shall not die none of his sins that he hath
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committed shall be mentioned unto him Heath done that which is lawful and
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right he shall surely live I'm going to I want to point something out here have you ever met
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someone man or woman doesn't matter that knows something that somebody did a long
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time ago got themselves in trouble you you met this person they've changed
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their life they're no longer living that life yet this person from their past comes up and says you know what this
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person did do you know what kind of Center this person is you ever met that
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person it's your job to tell them you know what this person repented whatever you're
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talking about God doesn't recognize why are you bringing this up
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towards that person if God forgave the iniquity who are you to judge
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them we have all Bar
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None done things that we're embarrassed about in our past
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we know we've all failed if we didn't we wouldn't be sitting here we wouldn't be saying I'm
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saved because Jesus died for me on the cross I'm just an old sinner saved by
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grace but because of that Grace I now walk in righteousness I have right standing between me and God because not
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anything I did what Jesus did and it's important that we stand in
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the gap for these people we're supposed to
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defend the blameless did you know
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that if somebody has asked God to forgive them if they've accepted Jesus as Lord and Savior and his word if you
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believe what it says he's wiped the Slate clean your job is not to get on that
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wagon where people are pointing out their past faults but stand there and say you know
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what Jesus forgave them you need to
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stop stop beating them up be the example of
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Christ because you messed up too or you wouldn't had to accept Jesus as Lord and
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Savior it is what it is we're all here because none of us were ever good enough
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to get to heaven on our own without
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Jesus and it's important that we remember that when we're dealing with
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people I I have no reason to judge someone you have a reason to inspect
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fruit I shared that with you too if you're saved you're serving God I need
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to make sure that you're producing fruit that's my job I'm not the Holy Spirit the Holy
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Spirit does the convicting I'm here to make sure you're producing fruit that's what I
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do and if you aren't I need to let you know hey you know you need to go back
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and examine some things here because there's no fruit in your life do you
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know what the fruit of the spirit is can you name them off do you know where to find them in the
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Bible longsuffering Peace Love kindness
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gentleness Joy Galatians 5 verse 21 and 22 that's
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where they're at that's the fruit I'm looking for when I say I'm a fruit
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inspector I want to see the fruit of the spirit growing in people's lives if it's
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not we need to find out why something's hindering your
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growth it happens a lot I I can remember walking into church and
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there sister in there that saved for 30 40
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years had a critical spirit about everybody that came into
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church I think you experienced that before uh he's knew exactly who I'm
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talking about not and I'm not naming names but but that's exactly what I'm
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talking about I don't need to have a critical spirit I need to have a spirit
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of Love towards the people that come in so do you and I'm not saying you don't
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I'm reminding you these are things that we need to do because you may not believe this
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because it kind of looks like sometimes it ain't happening but God's doing things behind the scenes in this church
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it's growing um you guys weren't here when I I shared this
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we have two Satellite congregations now we have one in Quon city in the
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Philippines and we have which has 19 adults plus kids and I found out this morning
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through a video conference call that we have a congregation in
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Pakistan yes and they have 60 people who are Faithfully attending and they're
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usually running about a hundred every week and they're in a Vil that has 25 Muslim
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mosques and they asked us for Bibles and we're going to figure out how to get them over
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there so what you're doing matters you are reaching people that we
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have never reached before we reached a lot of people in this
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town over the over the years but God's not done these fields
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here are ripe for Harvest but we do have to be that voice in the wilderness that's crying we do have to be the
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Watchmen we have to be sound in the alarm how many of you believe the end is near how many you believe Jesus is
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coming back soon how much more should that be making
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you feel I have to we have to do something because if Jesus
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returns it could be too late for them
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and because you didn't sound the alarm God's going to require their blood
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at your hands go to the next slide
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Chris so it said the children of the people say the way of the Lord is not
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equal but as for them their way is not equal when the righteous turns from his
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righteousness and committeth iniquity he shall even die thereby this is why when
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you people tell you you can't backslide that's a lie you can backslide and it's right
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here in Ezekiel chapter 33 you absolutely can
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backslide he said but if because once you do you you're no longer walk in as a
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child of obedience you're a child of Disobedience and he says but if the
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wicked turn from his Wicked this and do that which is lawful and
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right he shall live thereby so what he's telling
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us and we all know somebody who used to know the Lord that's no longer going to church that's no longer serving God
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they're probably living a pretty messed up [Music] life you still got to warn them you
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still got to tell them and you still have to be prepared to tell them what the truth
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is even if they reject you because once you tell them your
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responsibility it's no longer your responsibility once you tell
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them the Holy Spirit takes over the Bible teaches us that when when
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the Holy Spirit was poured out talking on the day of Pentecost not only the
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people on the day of Pentecost received the baptism of the Holy Spirit which is different than the pouring out of the
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Holy Spirit it says he poured his Spirit out upon All Flesh and what that means
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is when you speak the word to somebody when you witness and testify to them the
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holy spirit is able to witness to them because when Christ poured it
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out it he poured it out on All Flesh that had that were living at the
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time and were ever going to be born afterwards the holy spirit is here until Christ
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takes it out of this world you you can reach
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people you can share with them what the truth is you can share with them
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salvation you can share with them healing restoration overcoming in every
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way because the holy spirit is still here and still working in people's lives
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he hasn't changed and so we're going to jump into the New
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Testament and I'm almost done Ephesians chapter 4 I don't have a slide for this
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Chris you can leave it right where it's at so this is called the gifts of
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Christ it says but unto every one of us this Ephesians 4:7 it says but unto
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every one of us is given Grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ
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wherefore he says when he had when he is ascended up on high he led captivity
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captive and gave gifts unto men verse n says now that he ascended
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that means to go up what is it but that he also descended first into the lower
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parts of the earth he spent three days and nights in in the Tomb and the people
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he ministered to were the people that were lost that were in bondage
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he says he that descended is the same also that ascended up far above all Heavens that he might fill all
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things and here's what he did and he says and he gave some Apostles and some
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prophets and some evangelists and some pastors and teachers and they all have the same
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job we all have the same job for the perfecting of the
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Saints that's you for the work of the ministry that's
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us all together and for the edifying of the
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body of Christ which means to lift up I can't lift you up if I'm tearing
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you down you can't lift me up if you're tearing me down we can't lift up a
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brother or sister that's hurting if we're spending all our time focused on the things that are hurting them rather
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than on the that can heal them it's
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important it says till we all come in the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God unto a
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perfect man unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ that we hence forth be no more
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children tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of
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Doctrine by the slight of men in cunning craftiness whereby they lie and wait to deceit that's why it's so important that
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whoever is teaching you whether it's the pastor a Sunday school teacher a guest speaker
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that you invite in you need to know what they believe and you need to know what they teach before you ever put them up
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here because we are Watchmen over God's house and we
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have to make sure that the people that are preaching and teaching and lifting
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people up are actually doing that and not deceiving them okay there's a whole bunch of
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people out there that are preaching a whole bunch of false stuff they kind of sound like Camala Harris and her Joy
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jooy thing and that's that's a lie okay I can tell you straight up
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you're in a fight when you accept Jesus as Lord and Savior it's a fight because
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the devil doesn't like to lose those he already has and when he does he comes
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out ready to fight and you have to be ready to fight back you have to be ready to take a
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stand just like sister Bonnie did yesterday at the end of our meeting she wanted to pray for brother Tim and she said we're I'm praying for you Tim
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before you leave this room and she leted us in a prayer for brother Tim and he's here today and he he's back to normal
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and I'm glad to see that a lot of people praying for him okay he was a sick man this last
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week okay I've known him for a long time
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um first time he ever sent me a message and said I need prayer he just doesn't ask for people to pray for it he's a
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tough guy kind of like me I don't ask people to pray for me either um I'm a
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tough guy I'll fight my way through it okay but there have been times I needed
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people to pray for me and I had to learn how to humble myself before God and say
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help I'm sick I need prayer you need to do the same thing there's no
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shame in it yeah we're supposed to have a confession that says we're walking in
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the Lord we're walking in our healing we're walking in all those things but James said is there any sick among you
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let him call for the Elders of the church let him be Anointed with oil and the prayer of faith shall save the
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sick that's what we're supposed to do lifting each other up ad ing each other
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that means to encourage edifying one another building each other up telling
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you you can do this that's what edification is it's not edification is not saying oh
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you're the greatest edification is telling you you can do this don't lose your faith don't fall away from what
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God's trying to do for you you can do this take it one step at a time one body
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of the elephant and I asked you guys this before how do you eat an elephant one bite at a
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time every Journey starts with the first step you don't have to run a race you
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need to run a marathon to do that you have to pace yourself don't try to do it all in one
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day take one battle at a time because if you try to take all those battles on at once you're going to
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lose one battle at a time one thing at a time
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understand who Jesus is and who he says you are and realize that when you said Jesus
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I accept you as Lord and Savior you made an enemy out of the
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devil and uh if he came and tempted Jesus three times in the wilderness what
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makes you think he's not coming after you and you got a whole lot less than than Jesus did and he couldn't overcome
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it he's coming be encouraged because the one who overcame
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him lives within you so besides sister Lon I want to pray
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for you for your knee is anybody else here come on up Trina anybody
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else sister Bonnie can you help me pray for them brother Tim come on up in fact
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back I'm

