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Why would God create someone that doesn't love him? And 9 other questions answered!
In this episode, Shane Winnings tackles profound questions about God's creation and the existence of suffering. He explores the complexities of free will, the nature of love, and the consequences...
Why would God create someone that doesn't love him? And 9 other questions answered!
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Why did God create people who ultimately will not love Him, knowing that they are going
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to spend eternity in hell cut off from Him?
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Why does God create people knowing that they're going to have a life of suffering and misery?
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Doesn't this go against your free will for God to create you and give you this kind of life?
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I'm going to answer this question and nine other questions that I'll take live
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tonight as we dive into what's burning in the minds of many here on YouTube.
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Hey guys, I'm Shane Winnings. I aim to give a biblical world view of a world that is not so biblical.
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Let's get into it.
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So far, we're going to be in the streets.
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We're requesting backup.
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All right, so first question and as I do this, I'm going to try to do it weekly.
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You know, my schedule gets pretty busy.
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But the way that it works is I will make a post either the day before or that morning.
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And I will say ask me a question.
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I'll pick one from this post and then I'll take nine live.
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And the one that I chose was the one that I opened up with.
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Why does God create people knowing that they're not going to choose Him?
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Why does God create people knowing that they are going to live a life of misery?
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You know, they're going to be born with a disability or born with some type of disease,
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you know, born with chronic pain, born in poverty, born in a war zone, you know,
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fill in the blank. Why does God create people knowing this?
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So I think the the opener to this, which is something you've got to settle in your mind.
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And if you're watching this tonight, one, let me know where you're watching from,
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two, please hit that thumbs up button because it helps us reach more people
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because maybe they've got a burning question to ask as well.
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Here is answer, okay, for why anything happens.
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Because he is God and we are not.
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Okay, now I'm going to go deeper into this.
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But that is the ultimate answer, okay, because he is God and we are not.
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And it takes a great amount of humility to fully submit and say, Lord, your ways are higher than
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mine. Your thoughts are higher than mine. You are wiser than I. You are more knowledgeable than I.
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You you you you see everything like you're everywhere at all times. You know what's going to happen.
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You know everything. And so for me and you've got to adopt this because it's going to help you
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in your life, even when things get tough. You've got to trust the overall power, knowledge,
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and sovereignty of the Lord as God. Okay. If you think that something in the world would have been
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better if God had done it that way. And what you are saying is God, I know better than you.
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I mean, find me a way that that it's saying anything other than that if we get honest, right?
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If I would change something that God did, I would say God, there was a better way.
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You could have done it a little bit better, right? And I'm sure you don't want to take that
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position with the Lord. I know that I don't. Okay. So as Jessica said in the comments,
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some things will stay a mystery. Yeah, it is a mystery why some things happen. But let me just say
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ultimately, we have to trust that he's the Lord. And if he does something or if he allows something,
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we have to believe that there's a reason for it and that that is the best possible thing that
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could have happened in the scope of all existence. Okay. Because God is is letting everything play out.
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Now, the Bible also says, you know, when has the clay ever looked at the potter and said,
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why did you make me like this? Right? That doesn't happen. Like we have a maker, we have a creator.
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And so we've just got to trust. The Bible says that God can raise up and create some vessels
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for wrath and some vessels for good. Okay. So something that you might need to get into your mind
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that you might struggle with. But again, if you yield to God being all knowing, all powerful, all
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omnipotent, all omniscient, like everything, it just takes humility, even in things you don't like,
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even in things you don't understand. You've got a yield. And so one thing you have to be able to
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reconcile is, man, God can make people for wrath. God can make people for the purpose of being destroyed
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that his power would be revealed. So to kind of really get to the answer of this question,
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one, we have to go back to the garden. Okay. Why do people suffer? And why do people get separated
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from God? Well, where did it all start? Okay, I'm going to make this really easy for you tonight.
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I'm not a I'm not a master theologian and I don't claim to be. I will try to give you the most
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common sense answer to this question. This should be easier to reconcile, Mindy. I see your comment.
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I want you to listen to this. I think this will really help all of you look at God differently.
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Okay. What was God's original plan for Adam and Eve? It was to tend the garden,
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to commune with God day by day and to be fruitful and multiply. Right? That was God's desire.
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That was God's design or humanity. Be in the garden of Eden. Have all of your needs met.
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Spend time with me. Build relationship with me. Right? Be fruitful and multiply like we should have
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been living in the garden of Eden, all of us. And what was the final command? Obey.
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Obey me. Okay. It's not without limitations. We want to have a relationship. We, I want you to
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be fruitful, multiply. I want you to have dominion over all the animals. I want you to have all of this
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stuff. But you must obey me. Now what happened when Adam and Eve disobeyed?
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Sin entered the world. And because sin entered the world, there was a penalty of sin, which the Bible
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says in Romans 6. 23, the wages of sin is death. And so now because of the sin of Adam and Eve,
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really it's the sin of Adam because the sin goes through the seed of the man. Because of that
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sin, original sin is what people call it, right? The first sin. Sin is now in the world. Men,
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humans are separated from God. We're not born his kids. We're born enemies. And so God had to
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send his son to make a way for us to be restored back to the Father. And so now we can be saved
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and have eternal life in one day spend forever with him. But while we're on this earth, we will
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experience all of the ramifications of the sin of Adam, which is that we don't have dominion over
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the earth anymore. The devil does. He is the ruler of the air. He's the prince of the air, the ruler of
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this world, right? He's the one roaming the earth back and forth, looking for someone to devour.
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Like he is the the one who comes to steal, kill and destroy John 10, 10. This is who Satan is. And so
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you have to whenever there's anything bad that happens in life, you go all the way back to
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why do bad things happen in the first place because of sin? So then the only question that you
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really can ask from there is why did God allow Adam and Eve to sin? Why didn't he just put them in
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a garden without the tree of the knowledge of good and evil? Because it's not true love if you can't
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walk away. God didn't want slaves. God didn't want robots. God wanted lovers. And Jesus said, if you
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love me, you'll keep my commands. And so God gave them a choice. It's not a it's not a choice. It's
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not love if someone can't leave, right? Love or sakes all of the other things to pursue. You know,
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I think about my wife when we took our vows, you know, we said forsaking all others. No one is
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keeping me here at my house, right? Who's keeping me here? No one's got a gun to my head. I'm not
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right now. I could get in my car. I could go anywhere in the world that I want to right now. I
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could go anywhere in the whole world and I can do anything that I want to do. Why? Because I have
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free will. What's keeping me here at my house with my family? Because I love my family. And in fact,
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I don't want to do any of those things like that doesn't sound appealing to me. I want to be here.
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I want to raise up my kids in the Lord. I want to be with my wife until the day that I die. Like,
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that's what love is. And it's not true love if I don't have the ability to leave or if my wife
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doesn't have the ability to leave, that's what makes love so special is because you know that they
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could be anywhere doing anything and they continue day by day to choose you. Okay? That's what love is.
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That is why God gave Adam and Eve a choice. And they chose wrongly. Okay? And so because of that,
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bad things happen in the world because of that people die. Death was never part of God's design.
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But death will be conquered one day and we will be with him forever where there will be no more
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pain, no more sadness, no more sorrow, no more death, no more tears, right? No more sin, no more
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temptation, nothing. It's going to be amazing. So I hope that I answered this well. But when you
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peel it back, you've got to go all the way back to why does any of this stuff happen in the first
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place? It always goes back to the garden. And God gave all the dominion of the world over to man
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and man sinned and handed it over to the devil, right? So people put the blame on God. God's not to blame.
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It's us. It's mankind. We screw it up and really you look at God and you say, how could God be so
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merciful to mankind who messes it up over and over and over and over again? Why would God, here's
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the real question. Okay? Let me let me reverse the question. Ready? Why would God send his only son
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to die even knowing that people would not choose him? Because he loves you and he's giving you a
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choice. Do you love this? God is giving you a choice again. He's putting you back in the garden
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and he's saying you can choose life, Jesus Christ, or you can choose to try to be wise in your own
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mind, the knowledge of the tree of good and evil. This is it's incredible. God gave us the choice
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again. And he said this time, instead of being in paradise and getting yourself kicked out,
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you are on the road to hell. And I'm giving you a lifeline, right? I'm giving you salvation. Will
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you receive it? Will you believe in me? And sadly, many don't. So to me, the question is not,
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why does God allow all of this? The question is, why did God allow his son to die for people who
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would ultimately reject him? Does that make sense? Our perspective is always self-focused. Why would God
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do this to me? God didn't do anything to you. Stuff is happening to you. God knew stuff would
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happen to you. And God says, in my mercy, I'm going to send my son in my grace. I'm going to give
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you the gift of salvation. And I am going to sovereignly intercede and intervene in your life at times.
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Why do bad things happen? Well, the Bible tells us there's a few reasons why bad things happen.
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One, it's because there's a devil out there wanting to steal, kill and destroy. That's John 10, 10. Why
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else do bad things happen? Well, maybe it's a trial. The Bible says that the enemy also will come
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to test the genuineness of your faith. Why else do bad things happen? Maybe it's a perspective
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thing. Is it always a bad thing or is it just a hard thing? Because the Bible does say that God will
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allow you to go through trials and tribulations. Okay, I want you to, if you've got your Bible
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flip over to Romans chapter 5 really quick. Okay, Matthew, Mark, Luke, John, Acts, Romans, chapter 5.
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Look at this. Not everything that happens to you is from the devil or a result of sin even.
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Listen to this. Verse, I'm going to start in verse 1. Romans 5, verse 1.
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Therefore, having been justified by faith, so he is speaking to Christians on how we have been
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justified in the sight of God we've been made right by faith. We have peace with God through our
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Lord Jesus Christ through whom also we have access by faith into this grace in which we stand
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and rejoice in the hope of the glory of God. And that sounds good. But listen to what's coming
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next. Verse 3. And not only that, but we also glory in tribulations. We glory in the squeezing.
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We glory when we're being tried by life, when we're being squeezed by life, when we're going through
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a hard time. Now why on earth would we glory when life gets hard? Here's why. Because we know
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that tribulation hard times produces perseverance. Perseverance is your ability to keep going even
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when it's hard. You don't give up. Perseverance leads to character. You build your character,
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your resolve. You become stronger internally. Your intestinal fortitude is strengthened and
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fortified. And you can take more. Your capacity to suffer grows. And ultimately character, hope.
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Now hope does not disappoint because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts
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by the Holy Spirit who has given to us. So what does this mean?
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And I go to Mindy's follow-up question. I get why bad things happen, but to create being simply
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for destruction is a rough thought to reconcile that he's a good father. Okay? Well, you have to
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understand that we are seeing in part, right? I can just see a little bit in the scheme of everything.
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Look at Pharaoh, for instance. Okay? Now you might not like it because you might be thinking of
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someone you know. And so that tugs on your heartstrings and you go, well, how could God be good if
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he did this? Here's how we look at it. Okay? With the story of Pharaoh, and I'm going to throw in
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Mindy's question as number two as the follow-up question. Okay? So this is question number two.
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God is all knowing. Okay? That means that even before he creates a person, he knows all of
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their days. That's in Psalm 139, that's in Jeremiah. God knows all of someone's days before they
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ever came to be. So in the case of Pharaoh, God knew I'm going to create this guy, Pharaoh.
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He is ultimately going to reject me. So does God make Pharaoh reject him? No. God is all knowing.
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So he creates Pharaoh and he says, I'm going to use his rebellion to further my kingdom.
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God knew that Pharaoh would reject him and so he allowed Pharaoh to ascend all the way up to the
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position of Pharaoh so that he could be the one holding the Israelites captive so that he could
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use Moses to bring the plagues so that ultimately Pharaoh would let them go and ultimately God would
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swallow them up in the Red Sea. God is playing like 4D chess, man. Now what we don't like is, you know,
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we read the story of Pharaoh and we go praise and bless God. We don't like it when it happens in
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our generation. We don't like the thought of God raising up an evil leader. What if God raised up a
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president for evil in order that through oppression, the people of God could come out. I just want you
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to think like this is biblical. So because God knows how it's all going to play out, God is doing what
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he needs to do ultimately to further his kingdom. Okay. So and if that's hard for you to grasp, I want
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you just to go all the way back and say, Lord, I don't get it, but I don't see the way you see.
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You're God. Like you created everything with words in days, you know, I can't create anything.
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I can't make something out of nothing. I can invent things, but I can't create anything. Like
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until I'm a creator, I can't, you know, you could say, okay, well, you can make a drawing. Okay,
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well, create your own lead. You just can't, we have never created anything. We've never made
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anything out of nothing. We've always used something to make something else. This is what's so
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incredible about God. God is all powerful, all knowing. Like he is, he's God and you think of Job,
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and I'll finish question to it this. When Job had a beef with God, what did God say?
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Oh, I'm sorry. Where were you when I hung the stars in the sky? Where were you when I when I split
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the seas from the land? Where were you when I caused day and night to be? Where were you when I hung
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the cosmos? Right? Were you there? I'm sorry. Like there's a humility that's required for us as
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Christians to totally wrestle with the scriptures with God, but ultimately submit to God, understanding
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that he's much, much higher than us. So great, great two questions to open up with. Hey guys,
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welcome to the channel. Thanks for hopping on. We are getting to question number three. Let's see.
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Okay, here's a good question from Vicki. Should a church be in a 501c3? A pastor should
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be a shepherd, not a CEO of a corporation. So it was a question followed by an opinion.
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Now, if I remember correctly, there was a king called Ardazirksis, okay, in the Old Testament.
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He is the one who created the tax exemption for the church. Now, please correct me if I'm wrong,
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but I am pretty sure that it was king Ardazirksis. And he basically said the taxes are not going to
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hit the church. Okay, that is God's money. And so you guys, you won't pay taxes. You'll just use all
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of the money for the purpose of building up the temple and repairs and supplies and taking care of
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those who work in the church and the people who come and have needs for the church. That was the
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original goal. So if you want to talk about a tax exemption, it's from all the way back in the
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Old Testament. Now, has it been abused? Absolutely. Is the modern day church set up to be a business?
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I think it is, right? We exist off of tides. And so the more people that come by math, the more
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percentage of their income you're going to get and your church is going to get bigger. And so
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it can be very tempting to do whatever it takes to get the most people in the door because that's
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going to bring in the most revenue. This is the sad part because there are pastors who could get
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caught up in the revenue and not caught up in the spirit and abandoned the word of God because the
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word of God will drive people away. And so now you have seeker-friendly churches that all they do
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is exist to try to get people in the door. So I don't have an issue with the church being a 501c3.
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My nonprofit is a 501c3 promiskeepers. But we still do have to abide. It's not like we're off the
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hook. Like we still have to abide by the regulations of the IRS and federal laws and state laws.
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You know, we can't abuse that at all. But I do believe that it has been abused and
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ultimately God's going to deal with that. So I think you bring up a great point.
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Thank you for that. That's question number three.
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Question four. I'm not going to answer that. That's just for one person. I'm going to try to answer
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questions that would benefit everyone. Okay, here we go. D.San 97 says happy memorial day. How do
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you know when it's your own thought or God talking to you? That's a really great question. I don't
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always know. In fact, I can't ever say there's only one time in my life that I knew 100% for sure
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that it was God. Okay. The only time in my life that I knew without a shadow of a doubt that it
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was God was when I got convicted and confronted on January 23rd, 2016 when I had my radical encounter
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with the Lord. I was sitting on my bed and I had a thought you have never lived for me one day
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in your life. I knew right away that was God. I knew it. Now, for the last nine years, I even wrote a
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book called Your Next Leap of Faith. And I talk about how I believe I've heard God speak many times.
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I didn't know it was him until I took that leap of faith. Right? So God, I believe God spoke to me to
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leave my job as a cop and become a missionary. I can't say, yeah, for sure, that was God. It's not like,
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you know, I can go to his house and be like, hey, did you say this to me? I have a thought.
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It's accompanied with the vision. It's accompanied with crying, right? Kind of abnormal for me.
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I'm not a big cry here, especially not on an airplane randomly. That's where it happened to me.
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I went home. I told my wife about the vision. I told her about the thought.
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We prayed about it together. And we both experienced what Philippians four talks about, which is a
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piece that surpasses understanding. Now, I want you to keep in mind. She's four months pregnant.
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We live in Tacoma, Washington. I'm making over $100,000 a year as a cop with benefits, right? And
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insurance and everything else. And we are talking about quitting and walking away from all of that and
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trying to raise money from donor support and living off of donor support. In the natural,
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we had none of these things figured out, but we both prayed and we had peace that made no sense.
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And so we said, man, you know what? I think this is God. Let's go find out. And we took a leap of faith.
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That's why my book's called Your Next Leap of Faith. We believe that we heard God,
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and we took a leap of faith. And you know what? As the years have gone by, I would look back and go,
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yeah, I believe that that was God. That has happened in my life so many times.
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Where I believe that God says something, I'm not sure if it's him or not. I try to make a wise decision.
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And hey, I'll find out if it's him along the way. So faith is really spelled RISK.
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If you want to find out if it's God a lot, if you want to find out if it's God or not,
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a lot of times you're going to have to take a risk. So here is a, here is
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kind of a rule of thumb. Okay. And this should be obvious, but I'm just going to say it so that you
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have like some parameters. God is not going to tell you to do something illegal. Right? It's not
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going to tell you to break in somewhere or steal something or lie about this or that, you know,
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he's not going to tell you something illegal. He's not going to tell you to do something unethical
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or immoral. And so my kind of frame of reference is like, if it's none of those three things,
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it could be God and I might take a leap of faith. All right. So a lot of times you're not going to know
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until you try. Great question. That was number four.
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This one won't count, but are you still on the faith team at the White House? Yes, I am.
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I haven't been up there in a little while. The next meeting I have is when I can go up there
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with some policy that I want to see past or maybe an executive order drafted. I'm still really
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thinking about like what kind of initiatives would I want to see for the country? So I'm not going
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up there and worshiping. I'm not going up there to get a photo or pray in the White House. Like I
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have other things to do. But that door is still open for me if I'm ready to bring a policy that I
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would like the president to pass or an executive order, you know, or something like that. So
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do I hang out with these people? No. Do I talk to them? No, I don't really talk to anyone on the
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faith team. Do I see them? No, I don't ever see them. Really, it's like I have an open door
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whenever I want to come up to discuss policy or things that could make America great and godly again.
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So that's where it's at and that's where it'll stay for no. That one doesn't count though.
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Question five.
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How do we encourage the local church of the urgency to evangelize? Christians have grown cold.
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Yeah, that's a tough one. You know, first let me encourage you in this.
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I know what you mean when you say the church has grown cold or Christians have grown cold,
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because it can feel like that. However, it depends on where you're looking. Because I know plenty
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of evangelistic movements that are out there right now. They're winning souls every single day.
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I'm telling you, there are so many movements within the body of Christ, people that are truly
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winning souls, truly trying to make disciples. And if you get caught like doom scrolling, you know,
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on social media, you can really, especially if you're only hearing the negative stuff,
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which there's a lot. And rightfully so, I mean, this stuff needs to be called out, especially when
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there's crime in the body of Christ when there's legitimate abuse in the body of Christ, like this
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stuff needs to be dealt with. But please don't think that there aren't faithful ministries out there
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winning souls. However, to go back to your question, and you say you're in Canada, it's different.
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Yeah, I'm sure. To go back to your question, the way that you encourage people to evangelize,
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it's actually a deeper issue than you need to evangelize. It is getting them to care about
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people other than themselves. If you think about it, why would you not tell someone
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about Jesus? Because you know, you've already got it for yourself. And so you're good.
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Maybe you say, well, I don't know how to evangelize. Okay, I'm not being mean, but like, do you know
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how to tell people your testimony? Why do you believe what you believe? Can you express that? You
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know in one or two minutes, five minutes? Do you know why you are a Christian?
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Do you understand that we are not born children of God, we're born enemies in that God sent Jesus
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Christ to make us right with him? That's that you could tell someone that even. I mean, even if you
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didn't know what to say, hey, I'm sorry, I don't mean to bother you, but I just want you to hear
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this if you've never heard it before. God loves us so much that he sent Jesus to die for us.
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The reason that Jesus had to die is because when we're born, we're enemies of God. We're not right
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with God, but God wanted to make us right with him. And so because Jesus paid the price for our sin
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on the cross, we can be saved. The Bible says that our sin leads to death and we're all born in sin,
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but Jesus made a way for us to be forgiven. And so, hey, if you put your faith, hope, and trust in
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Jesus, if you follow Jesus, you'll be saved. If you call out to him, you'll be saved. That's what
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the Bible says. Like you just say a couple, you know, that was what, 35 seconds. So I just don't buy
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it when people say, well, I'm not comfortable. There are people heading to hell all around you.
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Now that doesn't mean that you got everywhere you go, you know, you can't even get groceries because
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you got to be evangelizing everywhere. I'm just saying if you never do it,
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if you never talk about it with anyone, not even your family because you're scared or something,
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you just got to wonder like, have you lost heart? Do you truly care for other people? Because
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we keep acting like someone will get to him or maybe I'll get to him tomorrow is not promised.
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And if someone dies and they don't know Jesus, they don't get another chance.
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And we have to have that heart. The reason people don't evangelize is because they
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forgot what it's like to be lost. And they forgot what happens when we die when we don't know Jesus.
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Right? It's like we're in the club and so we're not worried about people who are on the outside.
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No, man, we have to keep our eyes fixed on Jesus Christ and part of that walk
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is telling the world around us. The Bible says this, God is pleading through us to the world saying this,
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be reconciled to me. That is what God is saying. But he can't plead to the world through you if you keep your mouth shut.
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You've got to, you've got to spend time with the Lord and learn a couple of scriptures, right?
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Watch a couple of videos on how to evangelize, figure out, you know, how you like to do it.
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But you can't say nothing to no one. And the sad reality is the last statistic that I saw, I believe,
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it was from Barna. And it said that only 2% of Christians will ever lead someone to the Lord in their
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lifetime. That is a disgusting statistic. Only 2 out of 100, let me put it this way, 98 people out
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of 100 will never lead someone to Christ in their Christian in their lifetime. However, among Gen Z,
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I believe, especially because of the outbreak of, you know, faith that we saw during the lockdowns
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over the last five years, starting in 2020, which is when my tick-tock blew up and many others.
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I believe the number of something like 80% of new Gen Z believers share their faith within the
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first year. These people are getting saved and then they're getting set on fire. We could learn
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something from that next generation. How do you follow up question? I'll just add this to number five.
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How do you evangelize a world that doesn't want it? Well, you have to understand, it says,
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how will they know if there's no preacher? Right? You've got to preach. You've got to say the word.
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Now, is everyone going to accept Jesus? No. They rejected Jesus Christ himself. They killed him for
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what he said. But Jesus said, when you go to a new town, tell them, hey, the kingdom of heaven is near,
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preach the gospel. If they reject you, you know, dust off your hands, wipe the dust off of your
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feet and go to the next town. Don't worry about it. You're going to get rejected. Go preach and
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find the people that are going to follow me. But you have to expect that many are heading to hell
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down the wide road of destruction and few find that narrow path that leads to the narrow gate,
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which is life. But that doesn't mean that we just don't do it. We've got to get out there.
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We preach the gospel and we trust the Lord to draw people by His Spirit. It's not your job to
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save anyone. The Lord is the only one who saves. Okay, let's go to number six.
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So, we are free from sin saved. But if we do sin, we must ask for forgiveness and repent.
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Okay, Alicia, aka Lisa, good question. Okay, so you are, when you are saved
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and I don't believe in once saved, always saved, I believe if saved, always saved. Okay, there's a
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difference. People who believe once saved, always saved, believe that if you pray to magic prayer,
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you're saved. If you pray, the Lord Jesus coming to my heart, forgive me in my sin, I confess
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that I'm a sinner and I need saving and I believe in your blood and you rose three days later and
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Jesus name amen. They believe like if you pray this prayer, you're in and that's it and nobody
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can do anything about it. Okay, which would also mean you can live however you want. You're in the
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book of life. The Bible, the Bible makes it clear that you will know who actually belongs to Jesus
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fruit of their life. Okay, Jesus said he who endures to the end will be saved. Now, that doesn't
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mean that your endurance is what saves you. That means that if you endure, you were truly saved
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because if you belong to God, then he will have you in the palm of his hand and the Bible says that
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no one can snatch them out of my hand. Okay, if you're truly saved, Paul basically says when talking
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about people who fall away from the faith, he says something to the effect of if they leave us,
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they never belong in the first place. Okay, if someone has the ability to walk away from God,
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they never belong to him in the first place. Now, if they come back to God, well, then they did
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belong. They just had a season of backsliding or a prodigal season or whatever. The point is,
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I can't look at someone and go, you're saved, you're saved, you're saved. Think about these
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preachers that have massive ministries in for 25 years. They're leading these massive ministries.
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They're doing all these great things. But then you find out for 25 years, they've been sinning,
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they've been having a double life and you go, dude, is this person even saved? You know what I'm saying?
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So I'm I'm prefacing this whole question with this idea of like, what is salvation?
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If you are truly saved, the Bible says that you are forgiven of all your sin, that God has thrown
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your sin into a sea called forgetfulness. Okay, he's cast your sin as far as the East is from the
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West. The East and the West will never touch. Your sin is gone. The Bible says in Colossians 1,
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21 through 23 that you are holy, blameless and righteous in the side of God because the blood of
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Jesus has cleansed you from all sin. So what are we called to do as Christians when we sin? Because
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first John says that if you are in Christ and Christ is in you, then you can't sin. And what that
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means is you can't live a lifestyle of sin because you've been made new. But you still commit
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sins here and there. I've been short with my kids. I've raised my voice at my kids when I should have
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been patient. I made a quippy comment at my wife before when I shouldn't have. I've looked at
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something for a second, two seconds longer than I should have. Like I have had anger in my heart.
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I have committed sins since I was a born again Christian. Do you know why? Because we are being
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sanctified day by day. And so I've heard it said like this, a Christian isn't sinless, but they
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should sin less. Right? So it's like the further you go with the Lord, you should not be like I was
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when I was a brand new believer. One day I'm a believer. One day I'm an unbeliever. The next day I'm
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a believer like you don't just become perfect. You don't just become holy and sanctified in your walk.
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You've got a lot of sanctification. You're going to do it your whole life. The Lord's going to be
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working on you. Also, you've got to, you've got to die to your flesh. What are we called to do as
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Christians? When you miss it, when you sin, you have to understand that you're already forgiven by
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God. If you're a Christian, you've got to catch this. God has already removed your sin.
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Okay? So I don't see a biblical justification for asking God to forgive you every time you sin
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because if you're truly a born again Christian, then you are forgiven. I do see a biblical call
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for repentance. What is repentance? Repentance means the Bible says that regret leads to death,
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but Godly sorrow leads to repentance. So when you sin, your heart hurts. Who can, who can testify
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to that in the comments? By the way, help me by hitting that thumbs up button. Help us to reach
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a lot of people tonight. It's super easy. It's free. Just hit the like button, please. Okay. Who can
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testify that when you've sinned your heart hurts and you're like, man, ah, why'd I do that?
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I shouldn't have done that. I know better. God, I'm sorry. Right? I never want to do that again.
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It's godly sorrow and it causes you to think, man, I don't want to do that again. How can I change
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my life so that I never do that sin again or how can I get some discipline? So I never do that
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sin again. How can I fix this? That is the sign of a Christian because God is fathering you.
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God is the one bringing conviction through the Holy Spirit. He won't let you live however you want.
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And so I don't need to ask God for forgiveness. And look, I'm willing to be rebuked if someone can
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find a verse where it says that a Christian has to ask God for forgiveness every time they sin
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because if you're a true Christian, your sin has been removed.
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Now we're talking about godly sorrow and repentance. As you're walking this Christian life out,
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if you stumble over sin, it should break your heart and you should go, man, I never want to do
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that again. God, I'm so sorry. I'm sorry. Then you let grace pull you out of a pit.
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Grace doesn't enable you to sin. Grace enables you to walk free from shame guilt and condemnation.
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And so you mess up, you stumble, you whatever. And you go, God, man, I'm so sorry. Why did I do that?
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I was so dumb. And you go, Father, I thank you in the name of Jesus that you have so forgiven me.
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I thank you that you've made my heart new. God, even the fact that when I sin, it hurts.
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I remember when I lived in the world and I would sin all the time and I didn't even care.
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And now when I sin, it hurts my heart and I thank you, Lord, that's proof you're
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fathering me and you've given me a heart of flesh instead of a heart of stone. And God, I thank you
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that you've forgiven me. Lord, I don't deserve your forgiveness. Like I have messed up so many times,
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even since I've been following you, but I know that you love me. You prove that love on the cross.
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You knew that I would sin and you still sent Jesus to die. God, you're amazing. And I just want to
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walk with you closer day by day. Do you see how grace doesn't enable you to go,
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ah, it's good. We're under grace. We're under the blood. Like I can do whatever I want. No,
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that's twisted. That's sick. The Bible says in Titus, for the grace of God that brings salvation
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has appeared to all men, teaching us that denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should live
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soberly, which means clear-minded, righteousness and godly in this present age. Grace is what
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causes you to go, man, I want to live more like Jesus. And you feel confident that you can run
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towards Jesus because you're not covered in shame, guilt and condemnation. Adam and Eve did not
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understand the grace of God. They were not filled with the Holy Spirit. And when they sinned,
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they let regret sink in and they ran away from God. Right? Oh, my dad's going to kill me.
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Grace says, oh, man, I messed up. I need to run to my dad. Do you understand the difference?
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Okay, let's go to question seven. Are you guys liking this?
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We got 250 people on here, live streaming questions. I think this is awesome. Thanks so much for
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being on here, guys. It never ceases to amaze me that thousands and thousands of people
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listen to me share anything. I mean, that is so humbling to me. And I just, I'm so grateful,
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honestly, I will never take that for granted. I will, I will do my best every day to never let
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that go to my head. I remember being a young preacher standing in my kitchen with a small Amazon
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ring light propped up on a box of dog bones. And I was preaching Billy Graham messages that
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really spoke to my heart. But really, I was preaching Billy Graham messages because I'm like,
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this is the best preacher in the world. I'm going to preach his sermons. And I did that as a young
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preacher and many, many people would watch. And I just remember those days. I remember the days of
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going live and having 20 people on, right? Like I just, I just, I really, really am grateful. I saw
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that 250 tonight. And I'm just like, man, that's, that's just really cool. Okay.
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Question number seven.
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So many questions. I'm scrolling. I'm scrolling. I need a moderator to like pull great questions for me.
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Okay, this one won't count. I'll do a video on this tomorrow. Someone said, what's the situation
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with Maraud Mohammed? I just got off of a half hour phone call with a detective this morning,
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very early things are moving. And just for the sake of privacy and to not compromise the
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investigation, just know that this thing is on, man. Like it's, it's on. And this investigation,
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we have some teeth. And it's not going nowhere. Like it's not going away. And I'll just say that.
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I don't want to give away too much because we're planning some things. But I'm very tied in with
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the detective. He keeps me updated. And it's been, it's been awesome. So praise God.
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All right, a lot of great comments, but I'm looking for a question.
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Thank you all for the support.
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Okay, here we go. When God talks to you, his voice is very faint. Will it get louder?
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Okay, that's question seven. You know, that's a good question. I think about Elijah, who was a
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incredible prophet, you know, man of God, and he didn't die. Like he was taken up in a chariot of
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fire by God. Okay, even he was spoken to by God with a still small voice. Right? There was the,
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there was the fire, right? There was the fire and the wind and he was in the cave and all this
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craziness is happening. God wasn't there. He was in the still small voice. And I've never heard
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an audible voice when I hear from God. When I believe I'm hearing from God.
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Like I said, I can only tell you one time that was definitely God. You know, again, I can look back
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and go, man, I'm pretty sure that was the Lord because, you know, look where I am now. I never
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thought I would be where I'm at now. CEO of the National Men's Ministry in the White House,
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like doing all of this stuff because we took a leap of faith to quit my job as a cop. Yeah,
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I think that was God. I can't say that his voice has gotten louder. What I think is that because
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I have really tried for the last nine years to hear his voice on purpose and to quiet my life
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at times, you know, whether it's early in the morning or when I'm by myself, you know, when I'm
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out on a walk or whenever I try to intentionally quiet myself and listen for the voice of God.
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I will tell you this. I feel like it's not louder. It's easier for me to pick up on.
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And I've shared this analogy, but I want you to hear this because this is the best way I could
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explain it. Okay. And I've said this before. If you've heard this, just bear with me. This is
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question seven. So we'll be taking three more. When I was a wrestler, I remember, you know,
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I wrestled for 15 years. I remember wrestling in these big tournaments where there would be 12
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mats on the floor, right? On the gym floor. So you've got 12 matches going on. There's whistles
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all over the place. There's hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people in the stands. You've got
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all the teams. I mean, there's probably a thousand or more people in the building. I remember
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that I was actively wrestling in a match, you know, and if you've ever wrestled, you are using
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all of your strength to try to take control of another human being. So that in itself is like
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occupying in your mind, plus all of the other noise, plus your coach and everything else.
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When I was wrestling, I could hear my dad's voice from the stands. I could pick my dad's voice out
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clear as day from every other voice. And it wasn't because my dad was the loudest, okay? It's because
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I know what my dad's voice sounds like better than anyone in the room. Okay. They used to call me
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Bub or Bubby because my sister when she was little, she couldn't say brother, you know, when she
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was like two, she called me Bubby. So it stuck. They called me Bub. I could be walking in time square.
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And if my dad was like, Hey, Bub, I would know not just because of the word Bub, but because it's my
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dad's voice. But I was wrestling and I picked my dad's voice out of the crowd. And it's
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helped me to understand that is how it works with the Lord. The longer you walk with God, the more time
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you spend with him, the quicker you pick up when he's speaking to you. And so I encourage you, man,
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go after him. Run after God. Try to hear him. Practice hearing him. Take leaps of faith. Ask him
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questions and then stop talking. There's so many people that you go into prayer and you talk 100%
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of the time. Have you ever been to counseling? Have you ever been to therapy? Have you ever been in a
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relationship? When do you ever talk 100% of the time? Especially when you're trying to grow or
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when you need help? Have you ever gone to ask someone for advice and you talked 100% of the time?
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No. No. I heard this before. If I had 10 minutes to pray, I'd spend nine minutes worshiping God
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in one minute asking for things. And I think that's the model. Inner is gates with thanksgiving,
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his courts with praise, right? Love on the Lord. Then sure, you make your petitions, your requests,
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your supplications known because we're called to do that. But then do the thing that many people
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don't do. Shut up. Just shut up. Stop talking. Just wait. Talk to God and then just be quiet.
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Wait. I've had times where God spoke to me right then. I've had times that God spoke to me weeks later,
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months later. I've been wrestling over a scripture before for six months. And then the Lord gave me
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an interpretation for it or a perspective of it or a revelation of what it means. Like I'm just saying
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you've got to get quiet if you want to hear God speak.
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Okay, that was question seven. Three more. Hope you guys are appreciating this.
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I am looking. I am looking. I am looking.
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Okay.
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Lori says, when you get saved, it doesn't cover the sins you will commit after. Yes, anytime you
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sin, you need to ask for forgiveness because the Bible says no sin will enter into heaven. Okay,
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Lori, that is grossly incorrect. If you're going to come on here and you know,
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try to teach in the comments, you gotta be ready because if I see it, I'm going to call it out.
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That is incorrect. When you get saved, the Bible says that you are cleansed of all unrighteousness.
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And if you look at first, John, it says there is no sin in you. God does not see your sin.
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God sees the sacrifice of his son. God doesn't see your sin. He sees his son. Why? Because
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God has not imputed sin against you. That means God has not put your sin upon you. He has not
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made it your identity. He has removed that. You have been made a new creation. And the Bible says
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that God has now imputed or put upon you is righteousness. So it's crazy as this sounds.
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When you get born again in the sight of God, you are righteous as though you have never sinned.
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That is how you are in the sight of God. So how can you go into heaven with no sin? Because you've
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been made righteous by Jesus. If you listen to what Laurie is saying, Laurie is saying that you have
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to live a perfect life after getting born again or you won't go to heaven, which is a lie. Or
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Laurie is also saying you have to ask forgiveness for every sin. Well, Laurie, what if you forgot to
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ask forgiveness for a sin? What if you committed a sin and you didn't even realize a sin of omission,
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right? There's sins of commission and sins of omission. What if you committed a sin and you're not
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even aware of it and you forgot to ask for forgiveness? Laurie, you're not going to go to heaven.
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You see, this is a ridiculous theology. It's untrue. It's not biblical. If you are a born again
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Christian, you now have the righteousness of Jesus Christ. And the Bible says that you will share
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in his inheritance. That is awesome. That is awesome. Okay, just had to correct that. That's going to be
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number eight. All right, two more questions. Hey, thank you for these super chats. I really
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appreciate that. This is all going to go towards the ministry.
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Question from Mrs. Wilkinson. What attributes to the increase in spiritual gifts being more
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exercise in the church? I read that so weird. I put the wrong emphasis on the wrongs to level.
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What attributes to the increase in spiritual gifts being more exercise in the church? That's a
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great question by Mrs. Wilkinson. So she's saying, how do we get the spiritual gifts to grow in the
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church? Well, one, they have to be welcomed. You let me know in the chat, are they welcome in your
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church? Are the spiritual gifts welcome in your church? I'm talking about healing. I'm talking about
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deliverance, talking about prophecy. You know, when we start to get into tongues, that's a whole
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separate issue. I have never seen tongues where it was interpreted. I have practiced, I don't even
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know if practice is the right word. I have prayed in tongues personally for eight and a half years.
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I have seen the power of praying in tongues, but I've never prayed in tongues in public,
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like as if I don't see the point in taking the mic and praying in tongues. I'm not saying that
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it's ungodly or anything. I don't know. I don't know where I stand with a lot of that stuff. I know
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what the Bible says. If you're going to pray in tongues in public, there needs to be an interpretation.
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I just don't understand getting up there and just kind of yelling in tongues or something like that.
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I think it's strange, but I have a personal prayer language, but that's only one. Think about
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the spiritual gifts. Are they welcome in your church? Is healing okay or is it seen as weird?
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Is prophecy okay or is it shut down? If you want to see the gifts of the spirit grow in your
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church, they first have to be welcomed. When they are welcomed, then they can be exercised.
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You've got to give space for people to move in the gifts of the spirit. Have people who are
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praying for healing in the prayer line. I remember one of the churches I was at when people would come
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up for prayer and they told me they had an issue. I would begin praying for it. If they had a
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knee issue, I would lay my hands on their knee and I would pray for God to touch it. I just remember
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someone gently asking me to not do that because it made people uncomfortable. I was like,
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they're coming to church for prayer and I'm not allowed to pray for them because you think it's
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weird that I'm asking God to heal their body. Jesus literally said, I actually don't remember if
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this was Jesus' words. I know it's in the New Testament, but it says, is any among you sick? Let
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them go to the elders and ask for prayer. It's like I just saw many conflicts there. Same with
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prophecy. There was a time, again, I was on a prayer line at a mega church. I was at a mega church
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and someone asked me to pray for them and I began to pray for them and I started to get these
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thoughts. They said, pray for me. We've got a family issue. I start praying and then I'm thinking
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of like mom, mom, mom, mom. I said, hey, is it your mom? Do you have something with your mom?
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It is with my mom. Then I had another thought. I don't remember what it was, but it was something
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to the effect of there's a bitterness there or something. She was like, yeah, there is a
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bitterness. I just began to speak life into that area and pray over that area. I believe that God
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giving me words of knowledge. Again, I was kind of gently asked, hey, just stick to the basic prayer.
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And so I just remember thinking, I don't want to be on the prayer team anymore because you're
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limiting the gifts of the spirit. I believe that I was moving in the gifts of the spirit. I
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didn't get but heard about it, but I was disappointed that my church, no longer my church,
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that was way years ago, they wanted to shut it down. So I think we see that a lot because we're
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uncomfortable with it. And so when we're uncomfortable with something, we tend to shut it down.
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Anyways, if we want to see the gifts of the spirit growing the church, they've got to be
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welcomed and then exercised. And hopefully you've got a pastor who can facilitate that, bring
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some order to it, bring some teaching, some clarity, some safe boundaries and guidelines. You
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know, you don't want people out there going, I believe God showed me you're going to get married
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this year, you know, to her or something like, you don't prophesy, you know, dates, babies,
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marriages. There's just some rules to keep it safe. And if you don't have a pastor overseeing
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that, it's just sad and it can get out of control. And I would say the charismatic movement
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is known for getting out of control, but they say that it's okay because it's all in the Holy
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Spirit. I reject that entirely. Like we have this. This gives us order. Paul actually very
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intentionally wrote first Corinthians and many other letters, but first Corinthians specifically
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to help us in the gifts of the spirit. And it cheapens the Bible when we just say, oh, everything's
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allowed because it's all the Holy Spirit. Well, no, it's not. God is a God of order. And I have
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seen a lot of disorder and chaos in some of these movements. Okay, I think that was number eight.
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We've got two more. And then I got to get off here. But man, this is awesome. I've got to do this
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every week. We've got almost 300 people on here. This is crazy. Thank you guys. Two more, two more,
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two more. There's so many comments. So many comments. Shane, if we are clenched from all
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unrighteousness, then why do we feel the failings? Okay, great question, Mindy. Here's why because we
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live in a flesh body. One, that is why we feel, you know, anything temptation. The Bible says the
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lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, the pride of life. Those are things we're warring against.
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The Bible says live by the Spirit so you don't fulfill the desires of the flesh, the flesh,
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has desires. And so that is why you will feel these emotions or temptations that are ungodly.
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Why do why does your heart hurt when you sin? Because this is a clear sign that you have been made new.
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When I was in the world, I didn't care if I sinned, right? I could go downtown. I could get drunk.
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I could meet a girl. I could use her. I could dump her. Not care. Right? The only reason I would care
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is if it was going to hurt my name when I tried to meet another girl. Right? I didn't want her to go
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talk to her friends and tell them that I was a jerk or something. But it didn't hurt my heart that I
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was like a player. Now that I'm a Christian, the thought of like wronging another person, it hurts
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my heart. I wouldn't, I don't want to do it at all. But even if I did do it, it would hurt me.
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And that to me is so encouraging. It's like my heart of stone has been replaced with the heart of
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flesh. That's why you feel it when you fail. You're grieved. It's called godly sorrow. It's the best.
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It's different from worldly regret because people who commit sin in the world and they are like
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forced to deal with it. There's a reckoning. It's worldly regret which produces death because
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they don't have any hope. The difference with the Christian as well is when you fail, a Christian
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still has hope that things will get better because they know that God's not done with them and
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that ultimately they'll be with him forever. But if someone in the world blows it, unfortunately,
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that's why a lot of people in their own lives is because they think there's no coming back from
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this. And Christians do that too, but not at the same rate as unbelievers. It's because they lose hope.
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A Christian, even if you do something horrific, look at David, King David, adultery and then murder.
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And it cover up. Talk about a breaking story. Talk about an exposure video that would be happening.
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King commits adultery then sends the husband to front lines to be murdered and tries to cover it up.
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You know, a pregnancy. Oh my gosh. Like this is insane. How did David respond? He didn't go hang
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himself, right? He grieved with godly sorrow. And he said, Lord, I've sinned against you. I'm sorry.
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Please don't take your spirit away from me. Create in me a pure heart and clean hands. Like that is
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the response of a Christian. And that is because he was being fathered by God.
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All right, last question. This has been awesome, guys.
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Watch this. I want you to, I'm going to, I'm going to waste question 10, but it's not a waste. Okay.
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I just want to do something humble. And I want to show you that I'm a person. Okay. Here's a question
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from Monica. What is the chosen 144,000? I don't know. I really don't know. I've never looked into it.
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And I should. Like you ask that and I'm like, man, I don't know actually. I want to know. All I know
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about the 144,000 is it comes from the 12 tribes, I believe. And that the Jehovah witnesses believe
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that there are 144,000 of them that will be chosen to go to heaven. That's all I know. Okay.
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But I want you to hear from me. I don't know everything by any means. But it shows this question on
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purpose because as a leader and as a human, you've got to be able to say, I don't know. But I will
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find out. And you know what? Next time we do this, I'm going to lead with that question. So Mindy,
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you will get your question answered next time. Okay. We'll lead with it. So look for the 10 questions
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video and the title will be what is the 144,000? As pertains to revelation. Guys, thank you so much
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for being on here. I know that it's 12 sets of 12,000, but like of what? Like I couldn't stand here
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and give you like a really solid answer. So I want to I want to look into it. I want to give you more
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than just it's 144,000 people of the 12 tribes. I want to give you something solid. So hey, guys,
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thanks for being on here tonight. I appreciate y'all so much. If you want to help me, leave a comment.
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