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Real Life presents the Jack Hibbs Podcast, with

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intention and boldness to proclaim truth, equip the

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saints, and impact our culture.

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Jesus walks before us, and God says, walk

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where he walked.

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Didn't Jesus say, come and follow me?

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Put your foot in his footprints, is the

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command of God.

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And every true believer longs to live that

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way, thus we are in hot pursuit of

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Jesus Christ.

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You can get the outlines of this podcast

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by going to Jackhibbs.com slash podcast.

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Today, if this podcast lifts you up and

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encourages you to live a more fulfilled life

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in Christ, then make sure you leave us

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one of those five star ratings.

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To us, that's like saying amen or yes,

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then that rating will encourage others to listen.

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Now open your hearts to what God's word

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has to say to you.

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Here is Jack Hibbs.

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He says, therefore, let us not judge one

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another anymore.

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The word in Greek means stop it, but

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rather resolve.

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And we'll see what this means in a

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Not to put a stumbling block or a

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cause to fall in our brother's way.

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And I'm not going to include this in

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our point, because it's too important.

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It is the presiding overriding factor in our

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study, all the way to the closing of

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the book of Romans itself.

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Mark this down.

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Three key words in our note-taking.

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He says, resolve this.

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No more judging each other.

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Stop it.

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Because we're prone to do that.

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He says, stop it.

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Just stop it now.

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When the thought comes up in your mind

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that you're judging your brother or sister, rebuke

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that thought, hand it over to Christ, resist

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And do this with the same tenacity.

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It means all the more to go beyond,

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to be extravagant with this.

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I love this.

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Listen, in the Bible, we have what is

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known as the parable or the illustration of

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the prodigal son.

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We all know this one?

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The prodigal son.

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We call it the section of Scripture regarding

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the prodigal son.

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Even some Bibles will note it in the

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This is about the prodigal son.

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Did you know that's actually an error?

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That's not in the Bible.

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People put that in there.

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Well, what are you saying that the prodigal

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son is not in the Bible?

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No, no, the prodigal son as you and

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I know it is in the Bible.

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Jesus spoke it himself, but it's not about

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the prodigal son.

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I hope some of you remember this from

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yesteryear.

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It's all about the prodigal.

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You're exactly right.

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She's got the answer, you guys.

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It's not about the prodigal son.

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You say, no, no, it's about the son

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who left his dad, took his inheritance early

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and went and lived like a maniac on

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all kinds of things and then ruined his

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life and then crawled back home.

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It's about the prodigal son because he went

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out and he lived extravagantly.

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love for his prodigal son.

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The star of that illustration that Jesus gives

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father's love is.

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He's the extravagant loving father.

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That's what Jesus was communicating.

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an extravagant decision.

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I, as a believer in the Lord Jesus

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Christ today, resolve to do this.

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Our founding fathers, you can read those documents

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where Patrick Henry, for example, very famously says,

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resolved, we will do this.

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It's a declaration and one powerful word.

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We will not stumble our brother and sister

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any longer because we are Christians.

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We care more about what Christ cares about

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than what we care about.

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the Lord Jesus Christ.

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moment ago flies in the face of the

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modern day.

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Please serve me.

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Please make me happy.

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Please give me a sermon that makes me

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feel warm and fuzzy and do all the

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worship songs that I like, kind of church,

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kind of churchianity in America.

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Why should I go to church?

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I'm surprised, maybe, I don't know, maybe I'm

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Churches have gotten so carnal and so devoted

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to pleasing carnality that the whole church experience,

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they boast that it's come, come to our

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Now somebody might say, oh, that sounds good

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I mean, I gotta be honest.

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care about the things of God.

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Honestly, see what's kind of rude.

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No, no, I'm just getting started.

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No, are you gonna say, can you imagine

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if God said that to you?

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Can you imagine if you said, God, I

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need you to protect me and watch over

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me through this battle of cancer.

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and I will protect you through this battle

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of cancer for 60 minutes.

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No, the word stumbling doesn't mean, this is

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what we do not do.

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If we're doing it, we must stop now,

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a trip hazard to make an occasion of

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stumbling, to put an obstacle on a path.

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spend on Instagram or YouTube laughing our heads

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off at people who trip and fall over

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when a 70-year-old man, wait, no,

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a 90-year-old man, when a 90

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-year-old man gets on a unicycle, not

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Everybody, why do we laugh at that?

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Have you noticed the calamity?

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bruise or a broken bone.

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my life that me as a believer, I

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think I'm so mature that I'm gonna die

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on this hill.

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of potato chips is very offensive to some

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a bag of potato chips and you eat

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it in front of them just to exercise

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your Christian liberty.

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and kind of laugh a little bit because

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look at that, we should put it on

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Look how offended he is for me eating

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the individuals that you and I love in

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the Lord Jesus Christ.

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The word fall, it means to bait a

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not even gonna say it.

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Do you guys recognize the Greek word?

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What does it remind you of?

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our nature being sexually charged, everything's sexual.

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Guys, listen, you need to get control of

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You need to control where your eyes look.

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You say, well, Pastor Chuck, it's so hard

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because she just showed up and everything's out

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Yes, ladies, don't put everything out there.

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Number one, the man falls, he allows himself,

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even though nobody may know, in his mind,

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he falls into a scandalous situation before him

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and God.

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Because he trips, he's baited, but he trips

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over the bait.

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He doesn't say, watch, he doesn't say, oh

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my gosh, there's bait there, I'm gonna walk

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Didn't Job do that?

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Didn't Job say, I've made a covenant with

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my eyes not to gaze upon a young

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Job said that.

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be careful how she dresses because listen, okay,

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you're beautiful.

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God made you that way, but you're not

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on sale.

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You are a daughter of the living God.

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And women, control the way that you look.

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Because guys are weak and women are weak.

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Guys are looking, women know it.

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Women wanna feel approved and accepted.

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I don't, even in California, I do not

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I know that's a heavy thought, but here's

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the deal.

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I've only been a guy, but I can

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tell you this.

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At some age of 12 or 13 years

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of age, a young man's life changes and

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it's not for the good.

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He sees everything different.

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He's got supernatural abilities like Superman to have

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x-ray vision.

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And anybody says, he doesn't know what he's

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talking about, is lying to you.

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I'm telling you right now.

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And the men are gonna scold me after

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service because they're gonna say, why did you

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tell them our secret?

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But women, listen, women are more innocent on

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that end.

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But it's like, oh, he thinks I'm nice.

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He's thinking way more than that.

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Don't create a scandal.

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We need to be wise.

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And I'm looking, oh, you guys are gonna

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write me from both ends, both pendulums.

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You were horrible today.

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It means to pressure or to coerce someone

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into doing what they believe to be wrong.

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In other words, I knew I should not

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have done that.

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Have you ever heard that?

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Have you ever said that?

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I knew I shouldn't have done it.

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Boy, I got in trouble.

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People tell me this, they've stopped and they

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say, we feel like we know you.

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As far as I know, I've withheld nothing

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from you.

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And here goes another one.

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Have you ever been at a stoplight when

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there's no one around?

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And there's no traffic any which way, and

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you're waiting.

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And then here's my, it's like, it's been

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like five minutes.

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And then here's what I do with my

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justification.

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I know this, it's very fresh in my

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mind.

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I just did this.

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Any day now, any day, now, right now,

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nothing.

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So I looked left, I looked right, I

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looked straight ahead, and I looked in my

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rear view mirror.

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And I concluded, the city doesn't know that

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this light's broken, it's broke.

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I safely, like pulling up to a stop

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sign, just like that, hear my justification?

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City needs to know, I should call them,

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it's broken.

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I'm doing like a stop sign when the

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lights go out, but this light's on, I

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know, but it's not moving, it's broken.

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And so I go, forgetting that the Holy

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Spirit, I mean, Lisa was sitting next to

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me.

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And she said, what are you doing?

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I thought it was fine, but my liberty

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in Christ stumbled my wife.

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I throw myself under the bus for your

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edification.

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The same happens in your life.

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Maybe not that, maybe something else.

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And we need to be very careful about

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this.

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This is still the introduction we're in.

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This is terrible.

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The conclusion is this, that we need to

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watch out where we step, where we're walking

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with God.

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Listen, the conclusion is this, watch out where

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you step, make sure your foot is following

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in his steps, put your foot down where

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his was.

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We are followers of the Lord Jesus.

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Just like you go to the beach or

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maybe on a trail, you see the footsteps

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you follow in.

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Did you know that today to this very

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day, you can visit parts of Montana and

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Nebraska and Wyoming.

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And I believe it's still Eastern Oregon State

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where the ruts are still in the ground

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from the great migration when people migrated out

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West from the East coast.

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That the wheels so many, with so much

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weight, with so much of their life, and

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so many of them left a noble scar

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upon the landscape of this nation.

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And now it's a historical spot.

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Listen, they followed one after another.

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Jesus walks before us and God says, walk

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where he walked.

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Didn't Jesus say, come and follow me.

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Put your foot in his footprints is the

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command of God.

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And every true believer longs to live that

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way.

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Thus we are in hot pursuit of Jesus

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Christ.

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Lord, we pray, put my foot where your

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foot was.

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So I please you and honor you in

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all that I do.

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Psalm 63 verse eight says, my soul follows

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close behind you.

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Your right hand upholds me.

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I love that.

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I love the old King James, by the

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way, the old King James says, my soul

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followeth hard after thee.

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I love that.

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Where you have this passion and a drive.

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I wanna follow you God.

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I don't want my foot to fall anywhere

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else, but where Christ prints are laid out

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before me.

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This is being a Christian.

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Did you know, I'd like to look at

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it this way.

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Did you know that when you leave this

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building today, before you, Christ has his footprints

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for you to follow in.

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Tomorrow when you wake up, put your feet

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down.

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Every day, you think about that.

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Lisa and I were on vacation some years

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ago.

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We're up in Northern California and we're in

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the Redwoods and there was this little shack

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and supposedly this guy has seen more Sasquatch

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than anybody else, Bigfoot.

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And he had these feet that had straps

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on them and they were giant, supposedly Bigfoot

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feet.

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So if you believe in Bigfoot, so, you

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know, okay.

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Look, people, we didn't know gorillas existed until

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like the fifties.

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Did you know that?

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Did you know that we did not know

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that gorillas, the silverback gorilla did not exist

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until the, I think 1950s.

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I'm not saying Bigfoot exists.

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I'm saying that there's people that have really

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big feet that could run around the woods

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unshaven.

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I'm describing a lot of people out of

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the sixties and seventies right now.

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But this guy had these giant fake Sasquatch

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feet that you could strap onto your own

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feet and run around the woods.

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And I just thought, I want to buy

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those.

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I mean, isn't it just kind of cool

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to think you'd like to freak people out.

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But the thing is, it's not your feet.

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It's fake.

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His footsteps are real.

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And he says, just come with me.

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Let's go.

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Let's walk.

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And we walk with him.

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Isaiah 41 verse 10 says, fear not for

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I am with you.

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Be not dismayed for I am your God.

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I will strengthen you.

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Yes, I will help you.

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I will uphold you with my righteous right

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hand.

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That's the promise of God.

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And then I want to read this to

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you.

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As those who name the name of Jesus,

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notice the name name here, the word name

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is capitalized.

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So it goes this way.

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As those who name the authority of Jesus

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Christ, that's what that means about his name.

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We are very aware that how we step

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and where we step leaves a trail of

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footprints, footprints of evidence, evidence of faith that

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others will follow.

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Isn't that what we do as a family?

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Isn't that what moms and dads are doing

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and big brothers and big sisters are doing?

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Isn't that what we're doing with one another?

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We are leaving footsteps, what we hope to

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be footsteps of faith.

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Paul the apostle put it this way.

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As I follow Christ, follow me.

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Man, that's bold.

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Is it not?

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Can you imagine saying that?

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As I follow Christ, follow me.

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That's awesome.

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We should all be able to say that,

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but I don't know about you.

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Sometimes you're a little insecure on saying something

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like that.

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I would just rather tell my kids, follow

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Christ.

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Cause I'm afraid I'm messing it up.

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Mom and dad, you know what I'm talking

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about?

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We can live for Jesus.

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99% of the time we make that

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one goof up and oh my goodness, we

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feel horrible.

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And then we have to tell our kids,

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which is still a powerful act of redemption.

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Hey, that 1% thing I just did

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by losing my temper or going across the

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light when it didn't turn green yet.

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Jesus is not like that.

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We can even redeem those areas in our

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life where we went south on the issue

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or the moment.

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And we can tell our kids or our

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husbands or our wives, I did this and

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it was wrong.

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And I repented of it.

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Just know this, that was not Jesus.

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That's a very powerful church.

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Romans chapter 12, verse four tells us, Romans

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12, four says, for as we have many

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members in one body, that's called the church,

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but all the members do not have the

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same function.

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So we many being many members are one

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body in Christ and individual members of one

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another.

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What an amazing statement of what the church

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is.

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And everything that we do should be led

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by the, therefore, I will no longer live

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my life in such a way that I

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would be putting in front of you a

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stumbling block by which you were put into

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the place of a scandal in your mind

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that you were so disillusioned by how I

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lived or how I dressed or the words

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I used or the things I invested in,

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my time or energies.

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This is what being the disciple of Jesus

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Christ looks like is that I'm going to

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follow him because we want to bring with

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us as many men and women and boys

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and girls into the kingdom as we possibly

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can.

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