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Yay, King Jesus!

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We need a PowerPoint operator.

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We need a PowerPoint operator, please.

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I'm a Jesus.

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You are the one.

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I'm walking away and oh, everyday, everyday.

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I'm never gonna be the same.

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I'm a lion train.

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I'm a lion train.

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Jesus, I'm a lion train.

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I'm walking away and oh, everyday, everyday.

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I'm never gonna be the same.

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God glorified and became banked and that's what we eat all right because there is a war going on and

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We want to be a part of that we want to see things move in the right direction

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We call it your family that has a purpose all right, so it's a great week

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But it's falling behind now the last kind of cool thing that's going on if there's a lot of folks

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And there's bioverses said this morning as they said all six bioverses and we have prices for them to take on today

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It's really kind of cool if you have not done that yet kids you can do it with your Sunday school teacher when you go to class

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Maybe you just need to polish it a little bit then there that's fine

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But if it's you haven't touched it at all you probably are gonna be a junkie they don't stress over it

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Next time you get that opportunity to do it. Okay. This week is the fourth of July weekend

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slash the first of the week because the fourth of last Tuesday for us that means a couple of things for one

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Southern Baptist making a resolution to the effect of what they what would happen?

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So two years ago three years ago now three years ago Southern Baptist asked the federal government to overthrow overturn Roe v. Wade and make abortion

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Illegal federally and then let the state decide how they want to handle it

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realizing that you have blessed us to be part of a nation

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founded on the principles of freedom. We recognize that men have certain and alienable rights. They have

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to hear from you and to choose whether to follow you or to go another way.

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to the local councilman at every level. We pray for our soldiers of

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every branch of the military and everywhere they might be right now.

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didn't last a few years and many originates that last a lot longer.

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Those inalienable rights that you have bestowed to the men.

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Why do we pray for our sick? We pray for Josh, we pray for Ron, we pray for those who are hurt, we pray for June, we pray for Chris.

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Well, there's a lot of trials and tribulations in this life. We know your words, that's kind of pure joy,

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but we also know that in the midst of trials and tribulations, sometimes that seems very difficult.

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I'm going to pray for my wife. She continues to struggle with the problem of her neck and her back and her head.

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There needs to be a solution for her.

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We know you have the power. We pray you will review the evil spirits of infirmity and set out our people truly free to follow you and the strength that you have bestowed them with.

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I pray to you, Father, that they are overcoming and where they are mailing to overcome, I pray that you will lift them up so that they can.

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Father, I pray for this worship to sort of honor you.

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And we would, as Kayla reminded us, realize we are in such a good place to be here, to be able to be beyond any struggles that might stop us from coming.

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While people in Canada are fighting fires over millions of acres of forest, started by the drive of May in history.

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We pray for others. I pray for the gentleman and his son.

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He works at Aaron's work and Aaron's been witnessing to him.

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And now his son is going to go to camp and camp with us and volunteer for life ations because we've gotten in trouble with the law and need to do that.

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Florida, you want these eager and wants to learn about you.

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Not our kind of power, but your kind of power.

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I pray you'll take over this time to call on distractions, overcome temptation, and help us focus on you.

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We pray all of you to be with him.

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So I need you to stand up and dance a little, clap a little, sing along.

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His heaven loves me,

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Our hands are red again,

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That's better than yours to be,

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Forever here is our life,

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Forever here is our life,

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For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God.

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birth a person spiritually so that they can begin a new with him start over altogether

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that you should be able to go back again.

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I submit to you that I struggle with that because Satan and evil spirits and demons

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get no more second chances.

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They rebelled overtly against God and I guess you could say by some stretch of the analogy

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that if a demon decided to turn his life over to Jesus and be on the right side again, perhaps

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God would forgive and then you would say perhaps a demon would never do that.

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He would never change sides.

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But they're not stupid.

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They fear God and tremble.

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And the Bible says that they recognize the name of God and they fear.

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They tremble at the name of God and yet they do not switch sides either by their own will

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or I submit to you that it's entirely possible that they are not allowed.

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They have gone beyond.

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They are, the Bible says that he is able to keep unto that day their just punishment,

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their eternal punishment.

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So then I struggle with the human being who would say, use the phrase God is a God of

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second chances in all kinds of environments and under all kinds of things.

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So I repented, I turned away from this thing that I was doing and now bless you, I've gone

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back into it again and I repent again and I turn away and I repent again and I turn

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away and I repent again and I turn away.

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And as long as I'm still repenting every so often before I die, God will forgive and

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everything will be fine.

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I'm not sure of that doctrine.

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Some would argue it's true from scripture.

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Others would say no, that is not Christianity to repent and turn to the Lord and allow God

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to work in you is to actually see fruits of God's labor in you.

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Jesus even said you shall know them by the fruits of their tree or what they produce.

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So is God a God of second chances?

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Absolutely.

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Is he a God of seven chances?

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Perhaps.

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Is he a God of 77 times seven chances?

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Perhaps.

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Certainly when Jesus was asked how often shall I forgive my brother if he comes and apologizes

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and they were told 77 times seven times.

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So always to be forgiving.

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I want you to bear that in mind today then as we look at the text because there is a place

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in this text where there is no way back.

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It's not the only place elsewhere in scripture.

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It talks about how there were those Israelites who came out of the Promised Land and God

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had basically chosen them by grace and they died in the desert and were never allowed to

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see the Promised Land after failing to go in courageously when he told them to and then

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going in when he told them not to.

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They did all of that and they were never allowed to see the Promised Land dying in the desert

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and it says that they were as an example to us that eventually there is a place where

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you can get to where there is no more repentance, there is no more forgiveness, there is no

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going back.

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This one that we're going to see today is a very specific case with a very specific

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purpose but at the same time I submit to you it will teach us something about the greater

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case, the case that might apply to all of us.

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So grab your Bibles if you would and go with me to Deuteronomy chapter 24.

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Amen.

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Very little hoots and hollers today, a little something from Tommy back there.

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I don't know what that was exactly.

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That was Arden.

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Yeah, a little sound bite.

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Okay, that's good enough.

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Very good stuff.

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So even the sound guy gets in on the hooting and hollering back there.

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I like that.

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It was fun.

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All right, so Deuteronomy chapter 24.

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We're just going to have the first five verses and I will quote a couple of other texts and

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read two other texts by the time I'm done.

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So this will go by fairly quickly.

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So be careful, you don't miss it.

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Deuteronomy chapter 24 verses 1 through 5 says, When a man takes a wife and marries

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her and it happens that she finds no favor in his eyes because he has found some indecency

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in her and he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends

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her out from his house.

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That's as far as verse one goes.

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So there are a couple of troubling phrases in here for purposes of interpretation.

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I was troubled by them when I read them in English and then when I went and looked at

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the various commentaries, they're all pointing out that there are struggles in translating

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them from Hebrew to English and that's why they're in different translations.

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If you didn't read in the New American Standard, you may have seen something different there.

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So I'll point them out to you briefly.

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The first one where it says he has found no favor in his eyes.

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So in other words, he doesn't love her anymore.

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He doesn't want her anymore.

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She's not the apple of his eye, if you will, because he has found some indecency in her

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or in the phrase he writes her a certificate of divorce and puts it in her hand and sends

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her out from the house.

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Both of those two are taught to translate.

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The indecently, the word there is he's seen a nakedness in her.

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So now that they've been together, and it doesn't mean, although someone might try to

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interpret that way, it doesn't mean that he saw her naked and he doesn't like what he

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sees.

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It's nothing like that.

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It means that now that they've been together intimately and in all ways and spent some

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time together, he has decided that she's not the person she presented herself to be.

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There's something about her that is indecent and immoral behavior, if you will, that is

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in keeping with her normal character.

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And he has decided that that indecency in her disqualifies her as his wife.

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That's what it's talking about.

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In Jesus's day, this particular case has so expanded that indecency in her, the thing

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that he doesn't like that leads her to not have favor for her, has so expanded to say

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by many that if there's anything at all he doesn't like about her, he can divorce her.

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That's the way they were doing it in Jesus's day by a lot of people.

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But it was left to only the man.

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If there was anything that the man did not like about his wife, he could write her a

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paper of divorce and send her away out of his house.

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And so it was occurring quite frequently because if it's not an offense to God, any Jewish

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male might do it any time he feels like he should, any time he feels like he wants to.

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He might look at his wife and go, she put on 15 pounds, and here's this pretty check

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over here that ain't put on the 15 pounds, I'm going to get rid of her, and I'm going

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to take this one instead.

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And there were those in the main line Jewish faith who were interpreting the text to say

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if there was anything at all that he didn't like about his wife, he could just write

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her papers of divorce and get rid of her.

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And so there were far too many divorced women running around in Jesus's day, which of course

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is why Jesus addresses the issue of divorce multiple times in his public ministry.

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That being said, that's not what it meant.

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What it means in the text and what it means in the Hebrew and what we've just studied

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is to say that having come to know her, he now realizes that there is a deep indecency

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and immorality, something about her, a flaw in her character that disqualifies her from

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being his wife.

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Covered up during their courtship, covered up during his previous knowing of her.

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We're not just talking about the fact that maybe she was not a virgin when they married.

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We covered that a little while back in Deuteronomy.

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We're talking about an indecency in her character and immorality that continues, is persistent,

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and it's not going to easily go away.

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It's funny how that works, isn't it?

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When you run into somebody and they have a flaw and it's clear that they're not going

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to get over their flaw anytime soon, you're left with only really kind of like a couple

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of possibilities.

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One is you still stay in there with that person, you hang in there tight with that person,

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and you suffer the negative effects of the flaw in their character over and over and

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over again.

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That's one of the possibilities.

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Another is you hang in there with that person and fight the good fight and maybe between

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the two of you, you're able to overcome that flaw in character and someday you defeat it.

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Those two possibilities can be combined.

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We stay in there, we fight, we suffer the effects for as long as we have to, and eventually

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that person becomes a person of character in that area.

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The third one is to put some distance between you and them.

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What Moses told the men here in Deuteronomy 24 is that if it so happened that the woman

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was found to have an indecency in her moral character and the man chose then to write

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her a certificate of divorce.

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Notice, this is not saying if there's a flaw in her character, he can write her a certificate

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of divorce or he should write her a certificate of divorce or the proper course of action

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is or if he does, he will not be held accountable by God or anything like that.

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It doesn't say anything like that.

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What it says is that if it arises that after you come to know her, she has a flaw in her

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character that you were not previously aware of that disqualifies her from being her your

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wife and then you choose to write her a certificate of divorce, then now what we're going to read

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next.

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The dominos fall like this, then this is what God says you must do.

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God does not say that you will find a flaw in her character.

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God does not say that you will divorce her if you find a flaw in her character.

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This is by no means authorizing that.

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It was used that way.

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It has been used that way on a number of occasions, but God is not authorizing that course of

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action but rather saying I can see that this will happen.

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The same as he once said you don't need another king, but I can see that one day you're going

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to have one.

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God often tolerates in us certain actions that we should not do.

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If he is actively tolerating things in us that we shouldn't do, he then tells us what

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we should do about that.

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For example, God says when you lie, this will be the result, repent of all deceit and put

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lying away from you.

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He doesn't say you'll never lie as a lost person because lost person doesn't have the

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strength to do that.

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He says you will lie, you have lied, therefore now repent and put it away from you.

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And then if you should lie again, do it again.

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But that being said, the only reason that second time, third time, fifteenth time is

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possible is because Christ is making an intercession next to the throne of God for us and he becomes

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our intercession according to John.

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Back on task for a second here.

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When these things unfold, she is found with an indecency and her husband writes her a

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certificate of divorce when that happens.

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And she leaves his house.

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So those are the three dominoes and she leaves his house and goes and becomes another man's

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wife.

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There's the fourth dominoes.

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So four dominoes have fallen to get it to this point.

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She was found indecent by the man according to his testimony.

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She was divorced.

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She left his house.

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She married another man.

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So all of those things have fallen in order.

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Now verse three, it says, and if the latter husband turns against her and writes her a

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certificate of divorce, boy, it's a messed up world when it can be so common that she

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was married, put out by divorce, goes on to another person and he puts her out maybe for

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the same reason.

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Now he would have verified that she was divorced.

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No way he was going to marry her if she wasn't divorced.

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So he verified that she was divorced and if she was divorced, she had the paper which

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said why she was divorced.

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So he saw that and if he puts her out for the same reason, that's pretty messed up.

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Maybe intentional on his part.

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Like, oh, OK, well, I can see past that.

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Oh, sorry, I can't see past that after all.

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So if he then turns against her and writes her a certificate of divorce, so now we've

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got five dominoes and puts it in her hand and sends her out of his house or substitute

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domino or if the latter husband dies, who took her to be his wife.

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So in other words, she married a second guy.

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Now the guy died off.

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And we generally in this world, we think, if your husband dies, you're free to do whatever

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you want as far as remarrying that kind of thing.

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But this is about that circumstance as well as it's about it for second husband divorce her.

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So whether he divorced her or if he croaked either way, OK, verse four, then her former

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husband who sent her away is not allowed to take her again to be his wife since she has

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been defiled.

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Two things there.

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First of all, there's no going back.

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She's divorced her, she went and remarried, her second husband died or was divorced, divorced

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her because of an indecency that he found her or whatever.

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But she was divorced a second time.

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She's not allowed to go back with her first husband.

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OK.

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And the second part of it says, because she has been defiled.

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Now defiled means unclean or useless.

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I submit to you in this case, it means that she's unclean or useless to her first husband

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or to God in her first marriage, not in life in everything necessarily.

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She's not permanently defiled or unclean necessarily, but defiled as we'll see in a second, specifically

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for her first husband's use, if you will.

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So since she has been defiled, then it says for that is an abomination before the Lord.

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If you take her back after she has been defiled for that purpose, it would be an abomination

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before the Lord.

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That word abomination is something like this.

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Mwah!

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Mwah!

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God would be sick to his stomach to think that a man who was married, who divorced his wife,

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she goes off, marries another man.

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He divorces her.

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She would go back to her first husband.

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OK.

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Or if her second husband died, which we would normally think, well, then he's fine.

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She's fine.

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She can go back to anybody she wants to have that because he died.

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She stayed with him until death through us part.

495
00:42:37,000 --> 00:42:38,000
That's marriage vile.

496
00:42:38,000 --> 00:42:39,000
It's not Bible.

497
00:42:39,000 --> 00:42:40,000
All right.

498
00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:45,520
So when he died, she goes back to her first husband, God's buck, throw up.

499
00:42:45,520 --> 00:42:47,720
This is an abomination before the Lord.

500
00:42:47,720 --> 00:42:53,640
And you shall not bring sin on the land which the Lord or God gives you as an inheritance.

501
00:42:53,640 --> 00:42:57,960
In other words, while you're in the land doing this, don't do this.

502
00:42:57,960 --> 00:43:01,000
Don't exercise or be part of that abomination.

503
00:43:01,000 --> 00:43:04,880
I submit to you, there are more ways in this to bring sin than just that abomination.

504
00:43:04,880 --> 00:43:08,480
But clearly that abomination would be a sin before God.

505
00:43:08,480 --> 00:43:12,800
And God should be pleased by what he's done calling his people out in the Promised Land,

506
00:43:12,800 --> 00:43:14,720
giving them this land that they didn't plant.

507
00:43:14,720 --> 00:43:15,720
They get the harvest.

508
00:43:15,720 --> 00:43:16,720
They didn't build.

509
00:43:16,720 --> 00:43:19,040
They get to live in the houses, all that.

510
00:43:19,040 --> 00:43:22,840
He defended them in combat while they were going in.

511
00:43:22,840 --> 00:43:25,800
Lord, your God is giving you an inheritance.

512
00:43:25,800 --> 00:43:29,560
And while there, don't bring sin on the land.

513
00:43:29,560 --> 00:43:32,920
The place that God takes you, don't bring sin there.

514
00:43:32,920 --> 00:43:34,440
Last verse five.

515
00:43:34,440 --> 00:43:40,400
When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out with the army nor be charged with any

516
00:43:40,400 --> 00:43:42,160
duty.

517
00:43:42,160 --> 00:43:49,040
He shall be at home one year and shall give happiness to his wife whom he has taken.

518
00:43:49,040 --> 00:43:52,240
So this is another state where a man marries a wife.

519
00:43:52,240 --> 00:43:54,680
It's his first year with his new wife.

520
00:43:54,680 --> 00:43:55,780
Maybe he's in the military.

521
00:43:55,780 --> 00:43:56,780
Maybe he's not.

522
00:43:56,780 --> 00:43:59,240
Maybe the king is calling up levies, whatever.

523
00:43:59,240 --> 00:44:05,160
Either way, he's free not to go out into the military for the first year.

524
00:44:05,160 --> 00:44:09,600
He is not to enact his duty, according to this, can't be charged with any duty.

525
00:44:09,600 --> 00:44:10,600
So it could be a temple duty.

526
00:44:10,600 --> 00:44:11,600
It could be an army duty.

527
00:44:11,600 --> 00:44:13,680
It could be a city servant duty, whatever.

528
00:44:13,680 --> 00:44:17,920
He can't be charged with any duty that takes him away from his wife.

529
00:44:17,920 --> 00:44:18,920
You could say it this way.

530
00:44:18,920 --> 00:44:24,600
He's got to be able to sleep at home every night during the first year of his marriage.

531
00:44:24,600 --> 00:44:26,400
This is Moses.

532
00:44:26,400 --> 00:44:28,160
God speaking through Moses to what it would be like.

533
00:44:28,160 --> 00:44:31,920
When a man takes a new wife, he shall not go out with the army nor be charged with any

534
00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:33,000
duty.

535
00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:38,560
He shall be free at home one year and shall give happiness to his wife whom he has taken.

536
00:44:38,560 --> 00:44:44,480
And so for a year, he is to be committing his undivided attention, at least staying

537
00:44:44,480 --> 00:44:48,400
at home, so that they can build a marriage.

538
00:44:48,400 --> 00:44:52,960
Before I go into exposing the text in three points, which I have written here on my paper,

539
00:44:52,960 --> 00:44:56,280
I want to share with you a story.

540
00:44:56,280 --> 00:44:58,160
Mary and I went to Tennessee.

541
00:44:58,160 --> 00:44:59,920
While we were in Tennessee, it was over Christmas break.

542
00:44:59,920 --> 00:45:04,920
We got there on about the 26th of December and we had the girls with us.

543
00:45:04,920 --> 00:45:10,920
And while we were there, Malia developed an ear infection and it got pretty severe.

544
00:45:10,920 --> 00:45:14,320
So we called back up here to Prairie'sburg to our doctor and we said, Malia developed

545
00:45:14,320 --> 00:45:17,760
an ear infection and she had had a physical at the doctor maybe about four months before

546
00:45:17,760 --> 00:45:22,440
or something and they looked that up and the doctor said, okay, we'll call you in an antibiotic,

547
00:45:22,440 --> 00:45:26,560
give her some Tylenol for the pain or whatever you need to do, Tylenol, ibuprofen overlapping

548
00:45:26,560 --> 00:45:32,680
if necessary, that kind of thing and go to the pharmacy and get an antibiotic.

549
00:45:32,680 --> 00:45:34,800
So we did, we went to the pharmacy.

550
00:45:34,800 --> 00:45:38,360
While we were at the pharmacy waiting in line, I noticed there was just gazillion drugs

551
00:45:38,360 --> 00:45:42,960
back there hanging up that people were coming to pick up and we were waiting in line for

552
00:45:42,960 --> 00:45:49,960
the antibiotic and as I am want to do, whenever I am able to do, I began a witnessing conversation

553
00:45:49,960 --> 00:45:52,480
with the lady who was giving us the antibiotic.

554
00:45:52,480 --> 00:45:54,120
She was wearing a cross around her neck.

555
00:45:54,120 --> 00:45:58,560
By the way, I submit to you that if you ever see anyone wearing a cross around their neck,

556
00:45:58,560 --> 00:46:00,560
that is an open invitation to witness.

557
00:46:00,560 --> 00:46:02,520
The very least you can say, hey, I like your cross.

558
00:46:02,520 --> 00:46:04,240
Yeah, okay.

559
00:46:04,240 --> 00:46:08,480
If it's a crucifix, then you can, which means it has Jesus still on the cross.

560
00:46:08,480 --> 00:46:12,920
You can comment that we're grateful that Jesus is not still on the cross but did go to the

561
00:46:12,920 --> 00:46:14,720
grave and resurrected on the third day and so on.

562
00:46:14,720 --> 00:46:16,160
You can begin that conversation.

563
00:46:16,160 --> 00:46:18,360
If it's an empty cross, you can say it's funny.

564
00:46:18,360 --> 00:46:25,320
Our faith is the only faith that uses an implement of torture and death for its main symbol,

565
00:46:25,320 --> 00:46:28,560
the cross, which point they'll go, yeah, that's true.

566
00:46:28,560 --> 00:46:31,720
And then you can begin to talk about what a Christian believes.

567
00:46:31,720 --> 00:46:37,360
You can go right into sharing the gospel pretty quickly and you might even say something like,

568
00:46:37,360 --> 00:46:41,320
do you recall what Jesus said to Nicodemus in John chapter 3 and go straight to that.

569
00:46:41,320 --> 00:46:42,880
Talk about being born again.

570
00:46:42,880 --> 00:46:46,360
And if they are Catholic and not born again, they just might get saved if they believe what

571
00:46:46,360 --> 00:46:50,680
the word says and if they are a Christian living outside the will of God, living on

572
00:46:50,680 --> 00:46:53,640
their own, but they just like to wear a cross because crosses are pretty, you'll have shared

573
00:46:53,640 --> 00:46:55,760
the gospel with somebody who desperately needs it.

574
00:46:55,760 --> 00:46:58,360
So the lady at the counter back to the story was wearing a cross.

575
00:46:58,360 --> 00:47:02,760
I commented on her cross, began witnessing to her and she had an amazing story, which

576
00:47:02,760 --> 00:47:03,760
I'm about to tell you.

577
00:47:03,760 --> 00:47:04,960
It's brief.

578
00:47:04,960 --> 00:47:06,560
She lived in Washington state.

579
00:47:06,560 --> 00:47:10,240
Jamie, you know Washington state.

580
00:47:10,240 --> 00:47:12,960
Jamie lived in Washington state for quite a while.

581
00:47:12,960 --> 00:47:16,800
Living in Washington state in a small town, I don't know where she married a young man

582
00:47:16,800 --> 00:47:17,960
coming out of high school.

583
00:47:17,960 --> 00:47:20,280
She was 19 or 20 years old.

584
00:47:20,280 --> 00:47:22,560
He was a couple years older than she was.

585
00:47:22,560 --> 00:47:26,600
Turned out that this young man was into drinking alcohol.

586
00:47:26,600 --> 00:47:29,720
Whenever he drank, he was physically violent.

587
00:47:29,720 --> 00:47:33,660
They stayed together for about nine years with him being physically violent whenever

588
00:47:33,660 --> 00:47:35,400
he would drink too much.

589
00:47:35,400 --> 00:47:40,720
By that time she had two children, one of which was seven and one of which was four.

590
00:47:40,720 --> 00:47:44,200
She just couldn't take it anymore when the violence began to turn toward the children

591
00:47:44,200 --> 00:47:46,200
and not only her.

592
00:47:46,200 --> 00:47:50,560
So the YWCA paid her way to relocate elsewhere.

593
00:47:50,560 --> 00:47:52,440
They'll do that.

594
00:47:52,440 --> 00:47:53,920
So she fled to the YWCA.

595
00:47:53,920 --> 00:47:59,480
They paid her way to relocate and ultimately they settled her in Tolahoma, Tennessee, where

596
00:47:59,480 --> 00:48:02,240
she got her pharmacist license and became a pharmacist.

597
00:48:02,240 --> 00:48:04,040
She went off social media.

598
00:48:04,040 --> 00:48:05,400
She canceled her cell phone.

599
00:48:05,400 --> 00:48:09,960
She disconnected from her old life in every way so that her husband who had beaten her

600
00:48:09,960 --> 00:48:15,080
every time he got drunk or often anyway and had turned to beating her children fairly recently

601
00:48:15,080 --> 00:48:18,400
would leave them alone.

602
00:48:18,400 --> 00:48:19,400
Nobody knew where she was.

603
00:48:19,400 --> 00:48:23,120
She was far away.

604
00:48:23,120 --> 00:48:29,920
Fast forward about five, six years and her elder daughter is a teenager now and there

605
00:48:29,920 --> 00:48:33,040
she got involved with a church, went to a Bible study, went to VBS, went to something

606
00:48:33,040 --> 00:48:34,040
and she got saved.

607
00:48:34,040 --> 00:48:39,920
And so that led this woman, mind you that I'm talking to you at the pharmacy counter

608
00:48:39,920 --> 00:48:43,200
with a cross on her neck so you can imagine where this is going, to get in church.

609
00:48:43,200 --> 00:48:44,560
She gave her life to Christ.

610
00:48:44,560 --> 00:48:46,880
Her second daughter gave her life to Christ.

611
00:48:46,880 --> 00:48:52,760
So there became a Christian family, a single mom, two kids serving in the church, actively

612
00:48:52,760 --> 00:48:56,400
serving in the church there in Tolahoma.

613
00:48:56,400 --> 00:49:01,840
So she's going to church one day and she runs into somebody who looks kind of familiar and

614
00:49:01,840 --> 00:49:05,560
it turns out, and mind you this is really weird to even happen because we're 1500 miles

615
00:49:05,560 --> 00:49:07,240
away, right?

616
00:49:07,240 --> 00:49:14,960
But this person used to live in Washington, recognized her from where she used to live

617
00:49:14,960 --> 00:49:19,000
and says, aren't you so and so?

618
00:49:19,000 --> 00:49:21,640
Now mind you she's not going by that name.

619
00:49:21,640 --> 00:49:25,320
So she says no, no that's not me.

620
00:49:25,320 --> 00:49:28,680
And she said, well I don't mean any trouble and they let it go.

621
00:49:28,680 --> 00:49:32,560
Well over several weeks she gets into conversation and she basically shares there in the same

622
00:49:32,560 --> 00:49:33,560
church.

623
00:49:33,560 --> 00:49:36,720
She shares the truth of what had happened that she had relocated and she asked them not to

624
00:49:36,720 --> 00:49:39,560
share anything on social media, nothing about back home or whatever.

625
00:49:39,560 --> 00:49:45,120
And she says, well I hear what you're saying in the story, but wasn't your husband so and

626
00:49:45,120 --> 00:49:46,440
so?

627
00:49:46,440 --> 00:49:52,560
And she said, and the person that she met said, yeah that was my husband but I don't

628
00:49:52,560 --> 00:49:55,680
want nothing to do with him.

629
00:49:55,680 --> 00:50:00,720
And so he proceeds to tell her, I can't remember what the man or woman, but he proceeds to

630
00:50:00,720 --> 00:50:06,720
tell her that back home in Washington her husband has accepted Jesus Christ as his Lord

631
00:50:06,720 --> 00:50:11,160
and Savior, begun going to church and has been going to church for several years.

632
00:50:11,160 --> 00:50:14,280
So where he goes to church by himself.

633
00:50:14,280 --> 00:50:17,200
And they personally witnessed this.

634
00:50:17,200 --> 00:50:23,440
Fast forward two years of very trepidatious discussion cautiously reaching out and like

635
00:50:23,440 --> 00:50:26,120
that she finds out that this story is true.

636
00:50:26,120 --> 00:50:32,120
Her husband living in Washington, now her daughter is now 16 years old and hasn't known

637
00:50:32,120 --> 00:50:36,560
her father in eight years.

638
00:50:36,560 --> 00:50:43,840
And she finds out that her husband is faithfully serving in a church in Washington state.

639
00:50:43,840 --> 00:50:47,120
They elect to meet, they get together for coffee.

640
00:50:47,120 --> 00:50:51,800
And ultimately he moves to Telehoma, they get back together, they reconcile their marriage,

641
00:50:51,800 --> 00:50:54,560
raise their children the rest of the way, the 16 year old daughter was a bit of a hurdle

642
00:50:54,560 --> 00:50:58,080
because she was very concerned but she was very blessed also to finally know who her

643
00:50:58,080 --> 00:51:03,840
father was and they reconciled their marriage after all of that.

644
00:51:03,840 --> 00:51:06,960
That is the grace and mercy of God.

645
00:51:06,960 --> 00:51:09,120
Hear it here in the text.

646
00:51:09,120 --> 00:51:12,920
The first thing I want you to see in this text then is that a good marriage is a thing

647
00:51:12,920 --> 00:51:19,120
to be built, protected, prioritized and respected and I emphasize this in my notes it's all

648
00:51:19,120 --> 00:51:21,800
in caps by all.

649
00:51:21,800 --> 00:51:26,960
All people everywhere should recognize the sanctity of marriage, how valuable it is.

650
00:51:26,960 --> 00:51:29,240
I use these words fairly selectively.

651
00:51:29,240 --> 00:51:34,040
I felt like God was speaking to my heart when I said I said built, marriage takes work,

652
00:51:34,040 --> 00:51:39,200
you build it from the ground up and you start a long time, a long, long time.

653
00:51:39,200 --> 00:51:43,760
Listen to me married people, you start a long, long time before you ever say I do.

654
00:51:43,760 --> 00:51:47,840
If you started building your marriage at the moment that you said I do, you had already

655
00:51:47,840 --> 00:51:49,120
missed the boat.

656
00:51:49,120 --> 00:51:53,440
Like the kids who try to memorize all the Bible verses at 5 minutes to 11.30 on Sunday morning

657
00:51:53,440 --> 00:51:57,600
to make sure they get the prize, you go saying I do and try to fix yourself completely in

658
00:51:57,600 --> 00:51:58,600
marriage counseling.

659
00:51:58,600 --> 00:52:01,920
Sorry, that's not the way it works.

660
00:52:01,920 --> 00:52:06,800
Men will be men that they were created to be first in Christ's image if they have accepted

661
00:52:06,800 --> 00:52:10,080
Jesus Christ, their Lord and Savior but otherwise in the image of the world if they have not

662
00:52:10,080 --> 00:52:13,320
and when they get into their marriage that's who they will still be.

663
00:52:13,320 --> 00:52:16,600
Why do you think there's the stereotyping and the joking about the woman is always fixing

664
00:52:16,600 --> 00:52:20,280
her man for the rest of her life because matters screwed up and they will be for the rest of

665
00:52:20,280 --> 00:52:25,960
their lives unless Jesus Christ has already taken care of some things.

666
00:52:25,960 --> 00:52:29,600
The bottom line is a marriage has to be built and it starts by building a man and building

667
00:52:29,600 --> 00:52:30,600
a woman.

668
00:52:30,600 --> 00:52:34,360
If I was going to build a bridge I would get the parts together first wouldn't I?

669
00:52:34,360 --> 00:52:37,160
First you build a man, you build a woman and then you put a man and a woman together and

670
00:52:37,160 --> 00:52:39,680
you build a couple or a marriage.

671
00:52:39,680 --> 00:52:45,200
A marriage is a thing to be built, it is a thing to be protected.

672
00:52:45,200 --> 00:52:48,360
It will be challenged in every way, shape or form.

673
00:52:48,360 --> 00:52:53,400
It is said to say that the three things most married couples fight about are sex, money

674
00:52:53,400 --> 00:52:54,400
and communication.

675
00:52:54,400 --> 00:52:57,760
The third of which makes it almost impossible because they don't want to communicate because

676
00:52:57,760 --> 00:53:00,600
they are not good at it or every time they do it it screws things up so then they can't

677
00:53:00,600 --> 00:53:02,520
talk about sex or money.

678
00:53:02,520 --> 00:53:07,360
The bottom line is it is a thing to be protected from outside influences and from literally

679
00:53:07,360 --> 00:53:10,720
everything except God.

680
00:53:10,720 --> 00:53:15,000
It is a thing to be prioritized, that it be put up over more important than any other

681
00:53:15,000 --> 00:53:16,000
choices.

682
00:53:16,000 --> 00:53:20,200
A man ought to love his wife more than he loves his kids, I am sorry but it is a fact.

683
00:53:20,200 --> 00:53:23,640
If you can't love yourself you can't love somebody else and loving your wife is loving

684
00:53:23,640 --> 00:53:24,640
yourself.

685
00:53:24,640 --> 00:53:27,840
A woman ought to love her husband more than she loves her kids for the same reason.

686
00:53:27,840 --> 00:53:31,320
If you can't love yourself it is hard to love somebody else.

687
00:53:31,320 --> 00:53:35,640
And your man and woman become a couple, a marriage and so it ought to be prioritized.

688
00:53:35,640 --> 00:53:39,560
In fact man if you pour into your wife she will be a better mother for your children.

689
00:53:39,560 --> 00:53:42,960
If you pour into your husband he will be a better father for your children.

690
00:53:42,960 --> 00:53:46,920
If you push your husband to be a better father for your children you have already missed

691
00:53:46,920 --> 00:53:47,920
the boat.

692
00:53:47,920 --> 00:53:50,800
You are trying to put a bandage on a gaping wound.

693
00:53:50,800 --> 00:53:54,320
You are trying to stop a collapse lung with a pixie stick.

694
00:53:54,320 --> 00:53:55,320
It is not going to work.

695
00:53:55,320 --> 00:54:00,000
You have to get back to where it was supposed to be built, protected, prioritized and then

696
00:54:00,000 --> 00:54:01,000
respected.

697
00:54:01,000 --> 00:54:02,520
Give it the respect.

698
00:54:02,520 --> 00:54:04,840
Give the other person the respect that they deserve.

699
00:54:04,840 --> 00:54:08,520
If your husband or wife is choosing to follow Jesus Christ as their Lord and Savior that

700
00:54:08,520 --> 00:54:13,560
alone makes them a child of God and they deserve the respect of a child of God.

701
00:54:13,560 --> 00:54:19,520
But notice it is not built, protected or prioritized and respected by him or by her.

702
00:54:19,520 --> 00:54:21,600
If it was only by him and not by her it is doomed.

703
00:54:21,600 --> 00:54:23,360
If it was only by her and not by him it is doomed.

704
00:54:23,360 --> 00:54:25,600
If it is by just them it is doomed.

705
00:54:25,600 --> 00:54:28,080
Because it is by all.

706
00:54:28,080 --> 00:54:31,520
Just the same as it says a man is not supposed to be called out for his duty.

707
00:54:31,520 --> 00:54:33,560
We will come back to that in a moment.

708
00:54:33,560 --> 00:54:37,320
A man is not supposed to be called out for by his duty in the first year of his marriage

709
00:54:37,320 --> 00:54:42,200
because all of society is supposed to be protecting the sanctity of marriage.

710
00:54:42,200 --> 00:54:45,560
Why is it a problem that we have redefined marriage in the United States of America?

711
00:54:45,560 --> 00:54:49,400
Not because we are against certain sinful behaviors but because we are commanded and

712
00:54:49,400 --> 00:54:53,600
led by God and the kingdom of God to protect the sanctity of marriage at all times.

713
00:54:53,600 --> 00:54:58,480
That all men and all women and all married people and all unmarried people and all governors

714
00:54:58,480 --> 00:55:04,200
and all officers and all businessmen and all housewives and all husbands and all teachers

715
00:55:04,200 --> 00:55:05,200
and all doctors.

716
00:55:05,200 --> 00:55:10,680
We could go on if you want to but the bottom line is that we are all called to build, protect,

717
00:55:10,680 --> 00:55:14,560
prioritize and respect marriage.

718
00:55:14,560 --> 00:55:16,960
Marriage is the foundation for a future society.

719
00:55:16,960 --> 00:55:20,760
I am sorry to say whether you like it or not two men are not going to get together and

720
00:55:20,760 --> 00:55:21,760
foster a baby.

721
00:55:21,760 --> 00:55:23,000
It is just not going to happen.

722
00:55:23,000 --> 00:55:26,640
That happens in marriage.

723
00:55:26,640 --> 00:55:29,160
Except it also now happens outside marriage.

724
00:55:29,160 --> 00:55:32,280
So we propagate that which happens outside marriage by more stuff.

725
00:55:32,280 --> 00:55:35,520
It is going to happen outside Godly marriage over and over again.

726
00:55:35,520 --> 00:55:36,520
We raise our children.

727
00:55:36,520 --> 00:55:41,040
I raised my child, my eldest child who was born outside marriage and she had her first

728
00:55:41,040 --> 00:55:44,240
child outside marriage.

729
00:55:44,240 --> 00:55:50,040
I am not pointing fingers at anybody but the bottom line is the future society of the United

730
00:55:50,040 --> 00:55:54,880
States of America and the entire world and especially the kingdom of God depends on as

731
00:55:54,880 --> 00:56:02,960
if that marriage literally were the cradle for the future depends on building, protecting,

732
00:56:02,960 --> 00:56:06,800
prioritizing and respecting marriage by all.

733
00:56:06,800 --> 00:56:09,720
Marriage represents the union of Christ and his church.

734
00:56:09,720 --> 00:56:11,680
That is the main purpose for it.

735
00:56:11,680 --> 00:56:15,600
Ephesians 5 verses 21 to 33 Paul is writing about marriage.

736
00:56:15,600 --> 00:56:17,360
I am flipping there pretty quick.

737
00:56:17,360 --> 00:56:18,960
I am moving along kind of excited.

738
00:56:18,960 --> 00:56:21,840
I apologize if you miss anything but here we go.

739
00:56:21,840 --> 00:56:28,880
Ephesians 5 beginning of verse 21 and he basically says, be subject to one another in

740
00:56:28,880 --> 00:56:32,000
the fear of Christ marriage.

741
00:56:32,000 --> 00:56:35,320
Wives be subject to your own husbands as to the Lord for the husband is the head of the

742
00:56:35,320 --> 00:56:38,560
wife as Christ also is the head of the church.

743
00:56:38,560 --> 00:56:42,680
He himself being the savior of the body but as the church is subject to Christ so also

744
00:56:42,680 --> 00:56:45,720
the wives ought to be to their husbands in everything.

745
00:56:45,720 --> 00:56:52,720
Just love your wives just as Christ also loved the church and gave himself up for her.

746
00:56:52,720 --> 00:56:57,720
You know if I need to put it there I will be prepared to die for your wife in your preferences,

747
00:56:57,720 --> 00:57:00,880
in your strength, in your weaknesses, in your life.

748
00:57:00,880 --> 00:57:09,600
Verse 26 that he might sanctify her having cleansed her by the washing of water with the

749
00:57:09,600 --> 00:57:16,600
word that he might present to himself the church in all his glory having no spot or

750
00:57:16,600 --> 00:57:21,240
wrinkle or any such thing but that she should be holy and blameless.

751
00:57:21,240 --> 00:57:25,680
So husbands ought also to love their own wives as their own bodies.

752
00:57:25,680 --> 00:57:29,760
He loves his own wife, loves himself for no one ever hated his own flesh but nourishes

753
00:57:29,760 --> 00:57:35,200
and cherishes it just as Christ also does the church because we are members of his body

754
00:57:35,200 --> 00:57:39,840
for this cause a man shall leave his mother and father and shall cleave to his wife and

755
00:57:39,840 --> 00:57:42,120
the two shall become one flesh.

756
00:57:42,120 --> 00:57:43,480
Get it?

757
00:57:43,480 --> 00:57:48,120
This is all about an image that God is painting all the way back to Adam and Eve.

758
00:57:48,120 --> 00:57:52,720
This mystery is great but I am speaking with reference to Christ and the church nevertheless

759
00:57:52,720 --> 00:57:57,240
let each individual among you also love his own wife even as himself and let the wife

760
00:57:57,240 --> 00:58:00,520
see to it that she respect her husband.

761
00:58:00,520 --> 00:58:06,680
This is all about God showing us that the cradle for society is a man and a woman in

762
00:58:06,680 --> 00:58:07,680
a proper union.

763
00:58:07,680 --> 00:58:12,960
Do you understand it that everybody on the planet were wiped out if there was one man

764
00:58:12,960 --> 00:58:15,520
and one woman God could start a new society?

765
00:58:15,520 --> 00:58:19,760
We know this because he's already done it in Adam and Eve.

766
00:58:19,760 --> 00:58:24,080
Yes he would have to renew our DNA which is old and weak and tired comparatively.

767
00:58:24,080 --> 00:58:27,440
Yes he would have to renew our bodies and our relationship with him would have to be

768
00:58:27,440 --> 00:58:32,400
good otherwise in innocence or in righteousness as it was through Adam and Eve.

769
00:58:32,400 --> 00:58:38,560
Yes that's true but the bottom line is he could do it because the cradle for the future

770
00:58:38,560 --> 00:58:43,840
of society all society is the marriage of man and women because it is a representation

771
00:58:43,840 --> 00:58:48,400
of the union of Christ and his church.

772
00:58:48,400 --> 00:58:56,520
Bear these things in mind and always seek in all that you do as commanded by God to

773
00:58:56,520 --> 00:59:01,440
preserve the sanctity of marriage.

774
00:59:01,440 --> 00:59:07,480
Second thing to see in these texts then is duty, honor and dignity are required nutrients

775
00:59:07,480 --> 00:59:09,080
to nurture marriage.

776
00:59:09,080 --> 00:59:15,280
So we said that we were going to build, protect, prioritize and respect marriage.

777
00:59:15,280 --> 00:59:19,120
We said that we were going to pit ourselves to preserve the sanctity of marriage recognizing

778
00:59:19,120 --> 00:59:23,420
it as the cradle of all future society and the representation of the relationship between

779
00:59:23,420 --> 00:59:24,420
Christ and his church.

780
00:59:24,420 --> 00:59:29,120
By the way if there is no relationship between Christ and his church we are all going to hell.

781
00:59:29,120 --> 00:59:33,040
That makes that pretty important and it makes our marriage pretty important representing

782
00:59:33,040 --> 00:59:36,200
that relationship.

783
00:59:36,200 --> 00:59:40,240
Duty, honor and dignity then are required nutrients to nurture marriage.

784
00:59:40,240 --> 00:59:45,360
You want to nurture marriage you want to see it be the right kind of thing?

785
00:59:45,360 --> 00:59:49,160
Duty, honor and dignity are required.

786
00:59:49,160 --> 00:59:54,760
The beauty of this is that in a relationship with Christ these things are self supplied.

787
00:59:54,760 --> 01:00:02,640
The man recognizes his duty, holds himself in honor and practices dignity because he

788
01:00:02,640 --> 01:00:08,760
is made in the image of God and is walking in the footsteps of Jesus Christ.

789
01:00:08,760 --> 01:00:12,080
And he supplies duty, honor and dignity.

790
01:00:12,080 --> 01:00:16,120
The woman the same and so when they come into marriage they bring with them duty, honor

791
01:00:16,120 --> 01:00:20,240
and dignity enough to fertilize that marriage.

792
01:00:20,240 --> 01:00:22,480
Let's say for example they don't.

793
01:00:22,480 --> 01:00:27,040
That marriage will not succeed certainly not in representing the image of Jesus Christ

794
01:00:27,040 --> 01:00:33,520
and his church but possibly at all.

795
01:00:33,520 --> 01:00:40,280
Once lost duty, honor or dignity once lost might be regained through repentance.

796
01:00:40,280 --> 01:00:42,600
We might say look I have not behaved with honor.

797
01:00:42,600 --> 01:00:47,440
I lied or I didn't hold up my responsibilities or whatever.

798
01:00:47,440 --> 01:00:51,040
I didn't treat so and so with respect.

799
01:00:51,040 --> 01:00:57,560
I repent and I turn to Jesus and Jesus re-institutes in me makes me born again so maybe I was married

800
01:00:57,560 --> 01:01:00,720
not a Christian and now I'm turning to him for the first time where I was married a Christian

801
01:01:00,720 --> 01:01:05,040
but I realized I didn't honor what I said and so I'm turning to him again.

802
01:01:05,040 --> 01:01:09,920
And Jesus then provides the duty, honor and dignity in the life of a person the nutrients

803
01:01:09,920 --> 01:01:16,600
that are necessary to nurture a marriage but be careful about writing people off then because

804
01:01:16,600 --> 01:01:20,880
you may look at a person in this present day or time and they may not be worthy of your

805
01:01:20,880 --> 01:01:23,520
ongoing relationship.

806
01:01:23,520 --> 01:01:30,360
I know some folks and folks some folks I would call friends and they will lie to me and I

807
01:01:30,360 --> 01:01:35,200
could go man they lied to me again I'm done with them but be careful about writing them

808
01:01:35,200 --> 01:01:37,120
off right.

809
01:01:37,120 --> 01:01:41,280
Remember what this is all about or where this all comes from a man who had a wife who found

810
01:01:41,280 --> 01:01:46,320
some immoral and decency in her and she couldn't be his wife anymore she was clearly disqualified

811
01:01:46,320 --> 01:01:51,720
now she went off and became the wife of another man and now he's gone by divorce or by death

812
01:01:51,720 --> 01:01:56,920
and this first man is thinking about taking her back and he's saying you can't do it.

813
01:01:56,920 --> 01:02:01,120
There is a prohibition in taking her back why would he even think about taking her back

814
01:02:01,120 --> 01:02:07,320
he divorced her because we are too quick to cut people off in general and he cut her off

815
01:02:07,320 --> 01:02:12,240
saying she had an immoral and decency that was no good and now maybe he's thinking either

816
01:02:12,240 --> 01:02:16,040
a he can tolerate it it wasn't as bad as he thought the grass is always greener on the

817
01:02:16,040 --> 01:02:21,960
other side of the fence after all or he's saying it's clear that she's all fixed up

818
01:02:21,960 --> 01:02:26,800
now she got passed that saying and I submit to that either one of those two things are

819
01:02:26,800 --> 01:02:33,560
true if he is if he can get past it now or if he realizes that she it's fixed in her

820
01:02:33,560 --> 01:02:40,160
now either one right he wrote her the papers of divorce in the first place prematurely

821
01:02:40,160 --> 01:02:46,080
he never should have done that he cast her out besmirched her honor made her mistrusted

822
01:02:46,080 --> 01:02:53,080
in society etc for an immoral failing that she had rather than tearing with her to try

823
01:02:53,080 --> 01:02:57,960
to work through it or whatever he didn't have duty honor and dignity and mine in his relationship

824
01:02:57,960 --> 01:03:03,320
with her he may with the world he may be a soldier in the army and shows great respect

825
01:03:03,320 --> 01:03:08,200
for command he may be an officer in the city and shows great respect for the mayor he may

826
01:03:08,200 --> 01:03:13,680
be a leather worker and does a great job and always charges a fair price but in his marriage

827
01:03:13,680 --> 01:03:19,520
he didn't have duty honor and dignity he wrote her off thinking she was no good and could

828
01:03:19,520 --> 01:03:25,200
not possibly be qualified to be his wife you know what he had well if he later would possibly

829
01:03:25,200 --> 01:03:30,280
take her back he at least had arrogance and short-sightedness at the very least he thought

830
01:03:30,280 --> 01:03:33,160
he was all that in a bag of chips and didn't deserve to be saddled with somebody who wasn't

831
01:03:33,160 --> 01:03:36,680
as good as him so he wrote her off and now he's looking at her down the road after she

832
01:03:36,680 --> 01:03:40,960
was clearly desired by somebody else now he's thinking well maybe maybe it wasn't such a

833
01:03:40,960 --> 01:03:49,840
bad thing that I had you don't write somebody off lightly ever doesn't matter how bad they

834
01:03:49,840 --> 01:03:54,840
are how much they offend you don't write them off lightly understand that God sees the end

835
01:03:54,840 --> 01:03:58,840
and at the end they may go to heaven which means they would be a child of God and God

836
01:03:58,840 --> 01:04:03,320
already sees that God was at work in my life for 25 years before I became a Christian in

837
01:04:03,320 --> 01:04:07,720
fact I was submit to you that I could recount to you several miracles that God did in my

838
01:04:07,720 --> 01:04:14,560
life before I was saved answering stupid prayers that I wasn't praying to him or didn't think

839
01:04:14,560 --> 01:04:21,400
I was I was just praying to the sky or to the stars star lights are bright for star I see

840
01:04:21,400 --> 01:04:25,760
tonight I wish I may I wish I might have this wish I wish tonight and then God does a miracle

841
01:04:25,760 --> 01:04:31,800
really before I was saved why because God knew when I was 25 years old that I would

842
01:04:31,800 --> 01:04:35,880
give my life to Christ and 26 become a child of God and ultimately become a servant of

843
01:04:35,880 --> 01:04:42,240
God and with all my mess ups and all my mistakes God's never written me off God didn't write

844
01:04:42,240 --> 01:04:46,360
you off with all your mess ups and all your mistakes so let's not be quick to write people

845
01:04:46,360 --> 01:04:54,240
off marriage requiring very various levels of tolerance you've got to tolerate what they're

846
01:04:54,240 --> 01:04:59,320
doing well at the same time wanting better for them that's what marriage is it's not

847
01:04:59,320 --> 01:05:03,440
a we compromise right well I think we shouldn't lie well I think we should rely on Wednesdays

848
01:05:03,440 --> 01:05:07,560
and Fridays well you're right can we just do Fridays no it's not like that it's not

849
01:05:07,560 --> 01:05:12,200
compromise it's tolerance well I think we shouldn't lie why I think we should only lie

850
01:05:12,200 --> 01:05:16,480
on Wednesdays and Fridays okay I'm asking you please don't I really believe this is

851
01:05:16,480 --> 01:05:19,760
what God wants us to do now I'm sorry I think I'm gonna continue to lie on Wednesdays and

852
01:05:19,760 --> 01:05:22,640
Fridays okay well just understand that on Wednesdays and Fridays I'm not gonna trust

853
01:05:22,640 --> 01:05:24,640
you because you just told me you're gonna lie on Wednesdays and Fridays so there's

854
01:05:24,640 --> 01:05:27,920
only trust there but I love you and I'll stick with you and I'm gonna help you I'm gonna

855
01:05:27,920 --> 01:05:32,560
over time we're gonna try to work through this okay it's not compromise it's a varying

856
01:05:32,560 --> 01:05:36,400
levels of tolerance required at different times you and put it say it this way because

857
01:05:36,400 --> 01:05:41,720
it's how I feel you sometimes you got to just put up with their crap why for the sake of

858
01:05:41,720 --> 01:05:46,840
your duty and your honor and your dignity you put up with their stuff so because the

859
01:05:46,840 --> 01:05:52,680
marriage is nurtured in duty honor and dignity not in chastisement or critical nature or

860
01:05:52,680 --> 01:05:56,800
talking bad about what they do or your pet peeves coming through all the time think oh

861
01:05:56,800 --> 01:06:01,560
I don't like it when you do that that's not duty it's not dignity and it's not honor and

862
01:06:01,560 --> 01:06:13,320
it will not nurture the marriage bed we see God's example here in the text of how he comes

863
01:06:13,320 --> 01:06:19,840
back and he says look I'll tolerate your writing a certificate of divorce when you shouldn't

864
01:06:19,840 --> 01:06:24,320
have I'll tolerate that I mean it's gonna happen right there's gonna be women who are

865
01:06:24,320 --> 01:06:27,680
found in a morality and you're gonna write them a suit you shouldn't but you will and

866
01:06:27,680 --> 01:06:34,840
when you do that then they go off and marry somebody else and I'll tolerate that even

867
01:06:34,840 --> 01:06:37,560
though it's not appropriate but that man loves that won't be there's gonna take care of her

868
01:06:37,560 --> 01:06:40,680
wherever it's a marriage and if it becomes a god the marriage great but I'll tolerate

869
01:06:40,680 --> 01:06:46,400
that set of circumstances but here's what I won't tolerate I won't tolerate you writing

870
01:06:46,400 --> 01:06:50,880
them off as I have not done to you I will not tolerate you writing them off and then

871
01:06:50,880 --> 01:06:56,120
later going ah you know I didn't mean to write her off she's actually kind of attractive

872
01:06:56,120 --> 01:07:00,200
or I kind of do one or whatever and since her new husband died I can have her back now

873
01:07:00,200 --> 01:07:08,400
no God says you can I'll tolerate those stupid little things to a point but this is where

874
01:07:08,400 --> 01:07:12,560
I draw the line when you take the marriage bed and you drag it through the mud so that

875
01:07:12,560 --> 01:07:17,600
the relationship of Jesus Christ the church looks like two pigs wallowing in the mud

876
01:07:17,600 --> 01:07:23,920
making piglets when you're destroying the image that I have created the image of my

877
01:07:23,920 --> 01:07:34,640
son who would die for the church that's enough I'm done no more

878
01:07:34,640 --> 01:07:41,760
once a person regains their duty their honor and their dignity they may make matrimony

879
01:07:41,760 --> 01:07:49,480
possible or possible again but there is a moment in time at which it is no longer possible

880
01:07:49,480 --> 01:07:56,120
to go back once instituted in another marriage what did she have to do she had to become

881
01:07:56,120 --> 01:08:02,840
one with that person as Christ was one with the church as the church is one with Christ

882
01:08:02,840 --> 01:08:06,240
she had to go embody that image that's what their new marriage had to be about now she's

883
01:08:06,240 --> 01:08:14,040
done that so when she goes back she's now setting an image of I bonded with Christ now

884
01:08:14,040 --> 01:08:19,640
I've lost Christ he died or he divorced me so now I'm going to go back and bond with

885
01:08:19,640 --> 01:08:23,880
the person from before so now what image do we have there we have an image of the church

886
01:08:23,880 --> 01:08:28,160
bonded with Christ now separating from Christ and going back to be with the world that's

887
01:08:28,160 --> 01:08:33,200
an abomination to the Lord we don't go back to who we were before we don't go back to

888
01:08:33,200 --> 01:08:38,600
being with who we were before we chose to be with Christ once instituted in another marriage

889
01:08:38,600 --> 01:08:48,280
that is to say our marriage to Jesus we never go back to the first again duty honor and

890
01:08:48,280 --> 01:08:53,880
dignity are required nutrients to nurture marriage and they are self supplied once lost

891
01:08:53,880 --> 01:08:59,320
maybe regain through Christ once regain may make matrimony possible or possible again

892
01:08:59,320 --> 01:09:06,480
but never when a person has been dismissed goes there and wants to come back because

893
01:09:06,480 --> 01:09:13,840
that is an image of leaving Christ and going back to the world the third point then is

894
01:09:13,840 --> 01:09:19,600
personal uncleanness due to God's commands applied is a very real thing I got to break

895
01:09:19,600 --> 01:09:23,080
that down for you because it is only distantly related to this past scripture it's very clearly

896
01:09:23,080 --> 01:09:28,320
there when you see it personal uncleanness was personal uncleanness is there anyone in

897
01:09:28,320 --> 01:09:33,000
this room that God has ever told them they must do something or they must not do something

898
01:09:33,000 --> 01:09:37,360
that's not in the Bible the Bible doesn't tell you you have to do it but you know God

899
01:09:37,360 --> 01:09:44,200
has told you you have to do it anybody have it do you think of one okay so I'll use myself

900
01:09:44,200 --> 01:09:50,800
as an example God has told me years ago to give up soda that's not a sin to drink soda

901
01:09:50,800 --> 01:09:54,120
I know now that it was for my betterment that God was doing something good for me at the

902
01:09:54,120 --> 01:10:00,280
time I would probably be dead if I hadn't done it but I would never tell you don't drink

903
01:10:00,280 --> 01:10:06,920
soda personal uncleanness personal uncleanness is when you know what you cannot do or you

904
01:10:06,920 --> 01:10:12,040
know what you are supposed to do because of God's talking to you personally but you'd

905
01:10:12,040 --> 01:10:16,920
have a hard time finding it written in here if it's written in here it's never my personal

906
01:10:16,920 --> 01:10:23,520
interpretation if God says don't do it in this book that's don't do it for all of us

907
01:10:23,520 --> 01:10:27,480
and on that we can begin to practice Matthew 18 accountability we can say his word says

908
01:10:27,480 --> 01:10:30,720
it's a sin you're continuing to do it I think it's a sin but you say you're a Christian

909
01:10:30,720 --> 01:10:36,880
come on let's talk about that right but if it's your personal preference your personal

910
01:10:36,880 --> 01:10:42,120
idea or God is maybe God is doing it in you to create dignity so you can stand up firm

911
01:10:42,120 --> 01:10:45,560
maybe you're a person that thinks you should work out every day five days we God has told

912
01:10:45,560 --> 01:10:48,880
me I should work out every day five days I know that's something I'm supposed to do

913
01:10:48,880 --> 01:10:52,440
and I and I try really hard sometimes I fail at it but I pretty much always get it maybe

914
01:10:52,440 --> 01:10:56,400
that's you or maybe you're a person that says we should go to bed by a reasonable time every

915
01:10:56,400 --> 01:11:01,440
night or get up early right and you know that's how your life works and God has given authored

916
01:11:01,440 --> 01:11:08,320
that in you all right so if you quit that when God tells you what to do for you that

917
01:11:08,320 --> 01:11:16,000
would create personal uncleanness bless you God has commanded you and now you quit therefore

918
01:11:16,000 --> 01:11:22,960
you are defiled unclean for the service of the Lord personal uncleanness due to God's

919
01:11:22,960 --> 01:11:27,200
commands applied is a very real thing how do I know this from this text has anybody

920
01:11:27,200 --> 01:11:31,080
already seen it you already figured out how I know that there is a different standard for

921
01:11:31,080 --> 01:11:38,920
one person is tech than there is another the woman who cannot go back and marry her first

922
01:11:38,920 --> 01:11:46,680
husband can she marry again she can't right it doesn't say she can never be married again

923
01:11:46,680 --> 01:11:52,120
especially for husband died right we know that her husband died her second husband after

924
01:11:52,120 --> 01:11:56,800
her first husband divorced her her second husband died what she what can she not do she cannot

925
01:11:56,800 --> 01:12:01,760
go back with her first husband because that would be an abomination to the Lord but she

926
01:12:01,760 --> 01:12:08,880
could marry somebody else right her first husband cannot take her back because that

927
01:12:08,880 --> 01:12:13,440
would be an abomination to the Lord but all other qualified candidates are open to marry

928
01:12:13,440 --> 01:12:19,040
her if they choose you see the difference God is saying to that man who dismissed her

929
01:12:19,040 --> 01:12:24,160
and now would potentially take her back you can't do that it's different for him than

930
01:12:24,160 --> 01:12:27,400
it is for anybody else and if he takes it not only is it going to make him kind of feel

931
01:12:27,400 --> 01:12:34,600
bad but it's an abomination to the Lord and it will bring sin upon the land right I submit

932
01:12:34,600 --> 01:12:38,800
to you if God says to me that I have to do something and I choose not to do it and you're

933
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not going to like what I'm about to say but if God says something to me very clearly and

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I choose not to do it then you're all going to suffer for it every church member in this

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room everyone who's latched themselves to me as a brother or sister in Christ recognizes

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my profession Jesus Christ if I choose not to do what is it God has told me to do you're

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all going to suffer for it because that is an abomination to the Lord God clearly told

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me what to do I'm intentionally choosing not to do it that's an abomination to the Lord

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which according to what it says here brings sin upon the land to which I am called what

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land to am I called to you just just 2103 union street right just going to bring there

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well by the way if it just brought it there that's going to affect my wife it's going

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to affect my current daughter my current son living in my house and everybody that was

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raised there so there goes Alicia there goes Amalia there goes Aaron right so now they're

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all affected and all and their spouses are all affected see how this goes so even if

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we didn't count that limitation of if we only said it's only the house in which I raised

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kids right everybody would be affected and by the way once they're all affected they're

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all going to affect all of you that's how it goes it's going to spread from person to

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person so if you're here today and you're not doing what it is that God has called you

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to do you've not been serving in the capacity that God has led you to you're affecting your

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spouse your kids if you have them or anybody else that stays in your house and not only

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that but everybody that's in the church which means when you choose not to do what it is

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that you were told to do you're affecting me I'm suffering because your church didn't

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do what you were called to do and that's the way it goes and there's no duty honor and

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dignity in that right but there's an exception given here isn't there for the first year

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of the marriage so the first year of the marriage because why because the marriage represents

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the marriage of Christ in the church which is the cheap and foremost point it is the

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thing because we started out saying we must build protect prioritize and respect that

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marriage because it represents the marriage relationship with Jesus Christ duty honor

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and dignity are required as nutrients to nurture that marriage so we should try to have those

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things and build protect and prioritize respect those things but personal uncleanness due

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to God's commands applied is a very real thing you got to do what you got to do in

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the Lord and I got to do what I got to do in the Lord and it's not always the same

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we you and I might go to a restaurant together and the server might come to the table and

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God might say to you hey witness to the server and God might not say to me witness to the

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server and then another day we might go and God might say to me witness to the server

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now we all know acts one eight we all know Matthew the great commission right so we're

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all called to witness all called to talk about Jesus all the time supposed to be but on that

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particular day God says to me do it and I don't do it you're going to suffer for it

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or he says you do it and you don't do it I'm going to suffer for it we ought not to go

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out to eat if we're not ready for God to say talk to somebody about Jesus because it very

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well could happen and personal uncleanness due to God's commands applied is a very real

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thing I want you to be real critical of yourself for a second not to accuse yourself that's

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that's the job of the enemy but I want you to think about yourself and how many things

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maybe God is telling you to do that you're not doing and I want to ask I want you to

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ask yourself if that's true am I practicing my duty is my duty to God and am I doing

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the things that God has called me to do and if you're not then you are failing to provide

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the nutrients that are necessary for your marriage or for the marriage of anybody that

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you know your parents your friends your brothers and sisters in Christ the church mine I ask

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you to ask yourself for a moment about honor have you been honorable do you do what you

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say you're going to do when you said you were going to do it are you walking around thinking

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about what God would want you to do or what needs to be done even if God is not right

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there at that moment in time telling you what you're supposed to do or for example if it's

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your parent are you doing what your parents would want you to do remember that the obey

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and honor your parents command was given to adults not only children so as an adult are

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you doing what your parents would want you to do now if it's sin that they would want

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you to do then you can dismiss that but if it's not are you doing what they would want

987
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you to do because that's honoring them if you're not practicing honor how will you build

988
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protect prioritize and respect the marriage bed I don't think I need to go on the bottom

989
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line is you have a responsibility between you and God to figure out what you're supposed

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to do and I submit to you that you shouldn't write God off oh did you think I was only

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talking about people I submit to you that God was saying we should not write him off

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the very one who went to the cross and died for us should never be written off he loves

993
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you will you find flaw in God has got allowed something to happen in your life that you

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didn't like now that you've known God for a while does he ask hard things of you have

995
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gone through things that you might just feel like saying oh my God like the unsaved youtubers

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do a million times in every video taking the Lord's name in vain oh but you know the 10

997
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commandments really when it says taking the Lord's name in vain you know that's kind of

998
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old or something there's some excuse why we can go ahead and do that no don't write God

999
01:18:39,440 --> 01:18:46,160
off his commands are still his commands and your personal uncleanness due to God's commands

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is a very real thing so much so that if you are thus defiled there are going to be places

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that you cannot go back to callings that you cannot now fulfill duties that you cannot

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now do because you have defiled yourself the great blessing is that you can become undefiled

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if you go to the Lord your God repent turn to him and let him do the work we're in our

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conclusion now let me say to you that in this marriage between the church and Christ God

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tolerates an awful lot from us God hates divorce that's what Malachi 2 16 says yet it's all

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too common in the world even Jesus himself speaking in Matthew 5 3132 says the only reason

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for divorce is immorality sexual immorality on behalf of the other person and they're

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like but Moses said you can write a letter of divorce if you don't like what she's like

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and he says that's not what it said and now you know that's not what it said the only

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cause for divorce is sexual morality in the other person by the way he did not then say

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if the person other person is adulterous or sexually immoral you should divorce them that's

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not what it said you can divorce them they shouldn't and they will they will drain all

1013
01:20:20,440 --> 01:20:24,480
the duty honor and dignity out of the marriage they have not built it protected it prioritized

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01:20:24,480 --> 01:20:27,960
it or respected it clearly if they have been adulterous they have missed every command

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and they have personal uncleanness they may even be defiled to the point that you may

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not be able to help them get beyond what they've done and if God authorizes it then we can

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do it and there were no great harm will be done you can divorce them for immorality but

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oh thank you God that he has not divorced us for our immorality sexual or otherwise oh

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thank you God that he has tolerated us all through after having clearly given us the

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commands to build protect prioritize and respect marriage to be a person of duty honor

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and dignity in all things because if the cradle is marriage and it is required for the future

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of mankind's society on earth then I submit to you in heaven then by our not holding the

1023
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sanctity of marriage by our not nurturing it in duty honor and dignity by our not building

1024
01:21:36,000 --> 01:21:43,720
it protecting it by our not doing these things that we are called to we are literally bringing

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about the end of mankind and the kingdom of God help us help us remember you say well

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I'm not married how does this apply to me if you can't hear it then you're either distracted

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or a little too fully yourself because you have the same job duty honor and dignity because

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they are the nutrients to nurture marriage you're just build protect prioritize and respect

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marriage even if you're not married even if you're a kid we all have the same duty God

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help us because we're living in a day when the world at large has divorced God and in

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divorcing God they have decided that marriage godly marriage not all that important but it's

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the cradle for the future and if we go the way that society is going on if we would join

1033
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them and go that way there will be no future if you're here today and Lord has spoken to

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you somehow during this message you said you know what you're not going to hold up your

1035
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marriage you're not honorable you're not respectful you're doing damage to the relationship between

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price and deterrence or maybe you said you're not protected marriage you're not respected

1037
01:23:13,200 --> 01:23:17,640
marriage you've not built yourself up to be married if you're not married yet or as a

1038
01:23:17,640 --> 01:23:20,960
married person you just say well I'm good now she can take care of that or he can take

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01:23:20,960 --> 01:23:25,720
care of that I don't have to do anything to get hurt that's not true you're not building

1040
01:23:25,720 --> 01:23:29,760
your marriage maybe your efforts in working your job and paying your bills instead of

1041
01:23:29,760 --> 01:23:38,480
building your marriage and if that's you you need to repent and turn to the Lord and let

1042
01:23:38,480 --> 01:23:46,640
God call you forward into the kingdom of God and your example of Godly marriage your example

1043
01:23:46,640 --> 01:23:52,800
of supporting married and unmarried person or a young person will make possible the success

1044
01:23:52,800 --> 01:24:02,920
of God and someone's marriage and the future's back on the table you mustn't have worked

1045
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God you must be grateful that God tolerates us up and down every day that's pretty easy

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to come forward at this time and meet our closing hand and if you are responding in

1047
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some way then you come and respond publicly or raise your hand about where you are and

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I'll let you speak God help us we'll stand as we sing this hymn and this will be the

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closing hymn of our service

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nonprofits

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and trust in me, His presence daily will.

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As the red light.

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Pastor Daniel Stevenson, I want to thank you for dialing in today to New Heights Fellowship Baptist Church of East Toledo.

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You've been listening to his people in East Toledo reaching New Heights in Jesus,

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and I want you to know that this podcast is reaching around the world.

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Please feel free to share the podcast with anyone or everyone who might listen

1057
01:25:35,440 --> 01:25:37,440
and also reach New Heights in Jesus.

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We're being aired right now in roughly 50 countries, and it's expanding, expanding, expanding.

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It's all for God's glory. It doesn't matter where people are who want to listen to this.

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They can get it through the LifeForge Toledo app that's available in the App Store,

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01:25:51,440 --> 01:25:55,440
from mobile, Android, and iOS, and it's on the front page.

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01:25:55,440 --> 01:26:02,440
But they can also get it through RSS.com. They can get the link by texting podcast to 419-419-0095.

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Click on the link and they're there.

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01:26:04,440 --> 01:26:07,440
So again, thank you for joining us today.

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If you feel that you are in need or God is calling you to donate to the ministry,

1066
01:26:11,440 --> 01:26:14,440
you can do so by texting G-I-V-E.

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01:26:14,440 --> 01:26:20,440
That's the word give to 419-419-0095.

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And that number then will allow you to set up your debit or credit card to give as you see fit.

1069
01:26:26,440 --> 01:26:30,440
And I hope that you do that as the Lord leads and only as the Lord leads.

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You should be plugged into your local church and tithing.

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01:26:33,440 --> 01:26:37,440
If you feel that God is calling you to New Heights Fellowship Baptist Church of East Toledo,

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then you can check us out online at churchtoledo.com.

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There is a page there about what does it take to be a member of New Heights Fellowship Baptist Church of East Toledo.

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You may live out of state even and God might be calling you here.

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You may be unable to attend church anywhere because you have health concerns

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or there may be any number of other reasons why you cannot really commit to a membership in New Heights Fellowship Baptist Church of East Toledo.

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But you know God is calling you to do that.

1078
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And if that's so, check out that page because there's a thing there called non-resident members

1079
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and the requirements which you cannot meet to be a full-fledged member of New Heights Fellowship Baptist Church of East Toledo.

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You may still be able to be a non-resident member until you find a church home near you

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or until God frees you up and helps you cross those barriers so you can serve at New Heights Fellowship Baptist Church of East Toledo.

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If you'd like to know more information at all about the ministry and there's so many different ways,

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you can get it in our Life 4 Toledo app in the App Store or on our church website at newheightsfalschurch.org or churchtoledo.com.

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God bless you today.