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We've all been hurt. We all carry scars. We can all overcome these things and be

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healed through a relationship with Jesus Christ. Let's build that relationship

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together right here. Welcome to Healing Scars with Pastor Burton. Hey everybody

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welcome back to the sanctuary. It is so great to have you with us and this week

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we are looking at the book of Joel chapter 3 and this is going to tell us

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more about the judgment of nations and the blessings for believers that come

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from God's promises. Not only that but we're quickly and easily going to see

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some things called out that are impacting us today which is going to

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make this very relatable. So ready or not we're jumping in and today's ride is

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going to get a little bumpy as we head downrange with the Lord. Now for those

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following along with their Bible and those taking notes we're gonna jump

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straight into the word today and so I'm gonna have you turn to book of Joel

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chapter 3 and we're gonna start off verses 1 through 3 and the Bible says

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in those days and at that time when I restore the fortunes of Judah and

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Jerusalem I will gather all nations and bring them down to the valley of

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Jehoshaphat. There I will put them on trial for what they did to my inheritance

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my people Israel because they scattered my people among the nations and divided

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up my land they cast lots for my people and traded boys for prostitutes they

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sold girls for wine to drink. So wow that's a that's a bit to digest there

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isn't it? So first things first the phrase at that time this is actually a

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direct reference to Joel chapter 2 verses 32 which we just saw last week and

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it says that those who call on the Lord will be saved. This is talking about

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believers those who repent and trust in God and we're seeing God getting straight

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into the business straight to the nitty-gritty. Evil is going to be dealt

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with. God's judgment and justice are going to be handed out. He's asking the

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hard questions and people are going to have no choice but to answer him. No one

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gets to keep quiet on this. This is a firm reminder to us all that

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whether we want to admit to our sins or not God knows every single one of them

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and he's gonna call us out on them. So it is better to fess up to it now say hey

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God you know I messed up I messed up this is what I did. Own up to it and

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repent because believers we're already seeing his promise that he'll see to our

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needs and healing. That's what is meant right here where it says when I restore

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the fortunes of Judah and Jerusalem. See a lot of people read this and they

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misinterpret it because they see the word and they don't actually break it

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down for what it is or what the context of the time was or anything else. See

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wealth it's not necessarily money. We know this and right here in this context

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it is not. Wealth is not what makes you rich. It is the Father. It is his glory. It

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is his blessings upon us that make us rich. Not all the material things here on

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the earth because they are all going to go away as the Bible tells us. They will

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rust. They will mold. They will be devoured by moths. We're not taking any

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of it with us people. None of it. Our riches are stored up for us in heaven.

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Now verse 3 here this is especially jarring and it's it's a bit it's been a

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bit of a hit in the news here lately. You know it's not that long ago that we just

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saw the movie The Sound of Freedom take theaters by storm and it blew up. Not

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only the theaters but social media, radio, I mean pretty much any news broadcast you

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can find it was being talked about. You know and as we can see right here from

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the Bible this is not a new phenomenon. It's not. You know the devil's been hard

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at work trying to suppress people and lure people and get people to do evil

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things for a long time. You know God even told his people all the way back in

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Deuteronomy that they needed to teach the children about God. Let me say that

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again. Teach the children about God. It applies to us just like it applied to

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them and if we look forward just a bit into the book of Matthew chapter 18 verse

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6 the Bible tells us that it would be better to be weighed down and drowned

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than to do anything that could lead a child away from God. Yet here we are and

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from our streets here all the way out to the city and around the world what do we

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see? Children being neglected and abused and assaulted, used as labor, used as

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slaves, drugged up, drunk, molested, raped, some places even armed and used as

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children. I'm sorry to use as soldiers and then some. See the world is flying

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these flags trying to legitimize adults liking children and God's telling us

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right here and in several other places that it's not okay. It's not alright. It

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is a sin. It is wrong and this spits in the face of Almighty God when people do

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it. Notice that the same flag that they use also tries to legitimize other sexual

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sins that are in front to God. Yet many people who call themselves Christians

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support this stuff because they don't want to hurt anyone's feelings. Well let

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me tell you sometimes love hurts and if it is the difference between doing what

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is right, teaching children about God and leading them to knowing Jesus then I say

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the more it hurts the better. I would rather hurt someone's feelings by

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telling them the truth than not doing what God has said and allowing someone

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to be hurt through my inaction. It is that simple. But people would rather get

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caught up in the ways of the world and the ways of the world are the ways of

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Satan. You know we see right here you know once we're reading through this you

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know it talks about lots basically gambling for people. It still happens. Boys

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traded for prostitutes. See this around the world even here. Girls being sold.

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It needs to stop. God's warned us. The people are still out there doing it

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trying to justify it. Continuing on now Joel 3 verses 4 through 8. Now what have

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you against me? Tyre and Sidon and all you regions of Philistia. Are you repaying

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me for something I have done? If you are paying me back I will swiftly and

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speedily return on your own heads what you have done. For you took my silver and

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my gold and carried off my finest treasures to your temples. You sold the

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people of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks that you might send them far from

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their homeland. See I'm going to rouse them out of the places to which you

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sold them and I will return on your own heads what you have done. I will sell

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your sons and daughters to the people of Judah and they will sell them to the

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Sibians a nation far away. The Lord has spoken. You know here in verse 4 going

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through here notice it is an entire region being called out. These were cities

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and countries, countries that were thrilled that Judah fell. Why? Well because

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they profited from it. They were greedy which gave way to who their idol was and

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it's really one of the most common isn't it? You know so much so that you know I

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really started to you know I shouldn't say started I you know it's been a while

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now you know I hate the phrase that you know oh we like money oh I like money

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because it's so easily used to manipulate others you know and unfortunately it is

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everywhere and I do mean everywhere. It wasn't it wasn't that long ago that I

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was at you know I was at a place of worship. I don't want to call it a church.

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There's a place of worship because church is the people right so this is a

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place of worship I'm at and the quote-unquote pastor stood up there in

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the pulpit and asked the question at the very beginning service like he basically

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kicked it off who wants to be rich and then proudly proclaimed I do and raised

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his hand and then from there he proceeded to give an entire sermon an

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entire prosperity sermon where not only was scripture taken out of context but

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he went so far as to invoke the name of a recently deceased member of the church

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and claimed that that person was only wealthy because they gave a lot of money

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to the church and in turn they you know they were rewarded and favored by God

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and if everyone wanted to be rich and wealthy like him then they had better

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give a lot of money to his church or else they'd find themselves cursed by

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God. If it's not already clicked let me just put it out there. This is totally

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unbiblical. I left that church. It is unbiblical. It is false teaching. This is

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a huge red flag. Huge. Not only it's not just a red flag. It has flashing red

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lights going on and alarm ding ding ding ding ding ding ding going off telling people

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hey you know what? Get out! Run! Run fast and run far unless they want to fall

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into one of the devil's traps and if you ever ever hear anyone preaching like

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that then I'm telling you now get out of there. Run. Leave. Find someplace else

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because that is a false teacher right there. I could go on for hours. We know this.

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This is an example from you know my past that I've witnessed. I'm not gonna sit

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there and harp on it and keep on beating on a dead horse.

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Alright. But you notice here you know it's like hey you know it's like the

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scripture saying hey you know you you took my people you sold them and you did

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all this stuff you know well guess what? You're gonna get a receipt. You know and

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in wrestling they had this thing where somebody they hit someone a little too

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hard you know that kind of thing you know or you know they didn't pull a

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punch like they were supposed to. That sort of stuff. Well they get what's

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called a receipt where the person on the receiving end you know after they've

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gotten either one that was just a little too hard or this person keeps doing it

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up they're doing unsafe things they give them what's called a receipt where they

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hit him back just to wake him up you know quite often it's you know where you

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see them doing their little chop thing across the chest. Not always. There's other

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things too but you know you could tell it's not necessarily just about you know

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putting on the show but they're a little upset about something you know because

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you could tell the difference between the show and when something's actually

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going on and that's what this was and that's what God's saying. It's like hey

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guess what? You're about to get a receipt. You know we see here you know as it was

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profitable for all these other nations when Judah fell. They not only that you

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know they they went in and they basically sacked anything that was left.

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They robbed Judah of anything that was of worth you know and they took it for

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their own gain. Not only that but they they sold God's people as slaves. They

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did anything and everything to get them away. So not only were they you know

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stealing things and doing whatever they could you know to build up their

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financial wealth you know in a number of unhanded you know underhanded ways

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which doesn't it sound like the government a lot of ways you know just

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you know doing whatever they can to get wealthy and you know but you know they

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were they were trying to force all these people away on top of that you know kind

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of out of sight out of mind. It's like yeah they're not worthy anyway get them

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away you know bye bye. So you know going going back here into the word let's

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pick it up in verses 9 through 11 the Bible says proclaim this among the

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nations prepare for war. Rouse the warriors that all the fighting men draw

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near and attack. Beat your plowshares into swords and your pruning hooks into

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spears. Let the weakling say I am strong come quickly all you nations from every

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side and the symbol there bring down your warriors Lord. A battle cries been

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given. For those unfamiliar with the term a battle cry is defined as being a word

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or a phrase shouted by soldiers going into battle to express solidarity and to

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intimidate the enemy. You know it's also a bit of a motivational call you know

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you know when you look at the military specifically you know you've got the

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army with their hooah you know and the Navy and the Coast Guard going hoo yah

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and then of course you know us as Jarheads as Marines, hurrah! You know or

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you might even hear the occasional yut or you know of course simplify you know

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phrases like you know when you're getting away you know liberty or death

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you know even you think about it you know you get ready to tune in to watch

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a fight you know like the let's get ready to you know and just you know

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whatever your catchphrase is or slogan you know all that kind of stuff that's a

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battle cry it's like yeah you know you know I remember going you know you get

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these guys out there and they're giving a thumbs up and they had their little

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calls you know ho and you know whatever else you know they're all over the

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place we all have them we all have them in our lives like yeah this is this is

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my this is what motivates what gets me going it pumps the blood this is awesome

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you know and what we're seeing here in the Bible this is a battle cry that's

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been sounded out for everyone to hear everyone you know looking here at verse

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10 you know this is very David versus Goliath too isn't it you know you know

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it says let the weakling say I am strong you know and you know indeed you know

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even the smallest and the weakest person among us can be the mightiest well how

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is that well it's easy they lean on the Lord they

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profess the Lord you know they talk you know they they have God in their heart

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you know Jesus is their Lord and Savior they're filled with the Holy Spirit God's

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given the warning to prepare for war because his judgment is on the way and

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it's like you know what everyone's going down you better go out swinging because

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hey that's this gonna get hurtful you know and on that day everyone's a warrior

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everyone now either there's two there's two ways to go here either you're a a

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warrior for God and God's army or you're against him and you know when the smoke

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clears we already know God's gonna be the victor the victory has already been

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had there's no weight in the two sides if you're weight the two sides guess

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what you're already on the losing side because it's either you're with God or

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you're not period there's no middle ground here there's no compromise here

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it's like well but no it's one way or the other you know stairway to heaven or

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the highway to hell choose choose wisely you know continuing through here we're

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gonna go pretty quick here today guys Joel 3 verses 12 through 16 the Bible

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says let the nations be roused let them advance into the valley of Jehoshaphat

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for there I will sit to judge all the nations on every side swing the sickle

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for the harvest is ripe come trample the grapes for the wine press is full and

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the vats overflow so great is their wickedness multitudes multitudes in

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the valley of decision for the day of the Lord is near in the valley of

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decision the Sun and moon will be darkened and the stars no longer shine

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the Lord will roar from Zion and thunder from Jerusalem the earth and the heavens

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will tremble but the Lord will be a refuge for his people a stronghold for

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the people of Israel you know this is this is talking about everyone everyone

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past present and future coming before the throne the time of judgment you know

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and it's a huge reminder of what we've been called to do when Jesus gave us

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the Great Commission you know Jesus's command to go out and share the gospel

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with everyone no no this is a great place to reflect you know on yourself

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reflect inwards and and think about what have you done to obey this command you

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know think of your friends think of your family think of your co-workers think of

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everyone you know and everyone that you come into contact with and then ask

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yourself do they know Jesus do they have a relationship with him do they know

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about the judgment and the consequence that's coming for those who don't follow

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him do they know of the hope that Jesus offers to everyone who believes in him

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now having asked those questions out of the many many people that you come into

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contact with every day and your friends and your family and so on how many can

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you honestly answer that about now I'm sure for many of us really let's just be

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honest I'm not gonna say many of us all of us all of us the answer plain and

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simple is not enough because there's so many that we don't know and then there's

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so many that we do know and we can't answer that quote any of those questions

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about now as believers as followers of Christ well we know what's waiting we

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know what's coming and it's on us to make sure that others are told to knowing

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this now and having this painted in front of you this is this bigger picture

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this should get all of us to start thinking about what we can do moving

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forward for the kingdom now speaking of blessings that we already know what

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awaits for us as followers we're gonna be all right things gonna be good I'm

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gonna be better than all right we're gonna be fantastic tremendous even so

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let's look at the rest of what Joel has for us here Joel 17 through 21 the Bible

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says then you will know that I the Lord your God dwell in Zion my holy hill

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Jerusalem will be holy never again will foreigners invade her in that day the

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mountains will drip new wine the hills will flow with milk all the ravines of

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Judah will run with water the fountain will flow out of the Lord's house and

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will water the valley of Acasius but Egypt will be desolate eat them a desert

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waste because the violence done to the people of Judah and whose land they

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shed innocent blood Judah will be inhabited forever and Jerusalem through

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all generations shall I leave their innocent blood

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un avenged no I will not the Lord dwells in Zion you know

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this is really beautiful you know it's justice is coming you know a lot of us

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you know like we get angry we want to lash out you know I was like you know we

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like to take things out of context like an eye for an eye and all that try to

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justify our own vengeance you know and we can't you can't love when you're

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filled with hate and anger you know this book it started out as a warning about

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an impending destruction and devastation all over the world yet as we've seen

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throughout it as we've started at the beginning and then we've come here to

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the end of it it also speaks about restoration and peace you know a firm

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warning that we all need to repent of our sins now and ask for forgiveness you

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know and how we address the father now is the same as how we should all fix

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life we you know we all make mistakes we've all fallen short of the glory of

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God you know we all do things that we shouldn't however God is speaking to us

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all the same way that many of us speak to our own children now he's saying hey

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you know what I know you screwed up it's okay come clean with me come clean with

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me now and you're gonna be better off for it if you don't well you're gonna

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wish you had and it's true you know we we all answer for our sins one way or

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the other we're all gonna answer for now we can choose to do it now and we can be

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you know at peace you know we can rest easily with the assurance that the

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father will forgive us or we could continue to live in it and disappoint

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him and make the choice for him and when the day comes we'll find ourselves in

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hell for eternity wishing that we had repented when we had the chance you know

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just like in the world back then we live in a very complacent world we take

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things for granted we allow God to be mocked and in doing that that alone

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we're guilty of mocking him as well as the Bible has told us though there's

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still hope see this is the time right now we have the time right now this is

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the time that we need to pray this is the time we need to tell God you know

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what I've messed up I'm sorry man I know I need to make some changes I need some

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help to do that you know this is a time to ask for his mercy to ask for his

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grace for his forgiveness and his love and then we know that he because of his

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infinite love for each and every one of us you me all of us because Jesus loves

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us so much it will be granted because to Jesus you are important to Jesus you are

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somebody in Jesus you are loved and because of Jesus you are worth the

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sacrifice that he has already made in blood when he was nailed to the cross

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for our sins and our inequity so by turning to him following him making the

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changes in your life and continually just coming every time you make a mistake

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just tell him hey man you know because he knows we're not perfect and because of

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that we can rest assured that we will be healed we will be restored and we will

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be in fellowship with him and heaven when the day comes you are loved you are

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blessed so go and be a blessing go and be the church I want to thank you for

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joining us today if you have any questions prayer requests or would like

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to know more about our ministry you can find us on our website at be the light

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sanctuary org or on Facebook at be the light sanctuary we'll catch you next

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time God bless