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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. So good to have you with us and if you're new let

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me just be the first to say welcome. So not that long ago my wife and I we finished

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watching a movie about Vikings. Now I know it's fake but it got me to thinking.

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Something this I'm gonna talk about something here it just didn't happen

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when I was in the service okay but today you see and you hear it a lot

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especially with active-duty servicemen and women veterans first responders and

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the like you know they they use this term till Valhalla all the time. You see

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it plastered everywhere. I saw a sticker on a car you know just you know on the

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road earlier today even you know especially when someone passes away.

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Many professing Christians at that you know and it's something you know as

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Christians this isn't something that we should be saying. We should not be saying

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it at all. Now I know there's a lot out there who are probably saying right now

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you know hey it doesn't mean anything come on you know I'm here to tell you

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yes it does. You know it originates from Norse mythology you know or as they

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viewed it at the time you know their their religion you know just like the

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Romans the Greeks and many other pagan cultures that you know they worshiped

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these false idols these false gods and as we discussed not that long ago the

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Bible tells us not to worship any other gods or idols nor are we to make it. It's

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in the Ten Commandments in several places throughout the Bible and we're

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going to talk about that and a few other things here today you know. Now this in

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turn brought something else to mind. Something else that we see regularly. I

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already mentioned you know bumper stickers you know seeing things on a car

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you know I got a I have a co-worker at my day job even that and we're gonna

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get into this even you know and I'm gonna be dating myself a bit here you

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know this used to be something that you'd see occasionally you know once in a

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while you'd see a bumper sticker here and there now you see them all the time

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you know there's cars they're absolutely covered in them you know several of them

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I mean you might as well not even have to paint on the car because there's so

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many stickers sometimes even on the windows you know and there's one out

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there specifically you know that stuck out over the years and you've probably

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seen it I have a co-worker who has this specific sticker on their car

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it uses various religious symbols to spell out the word coexist. Now generally

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I don't say anything why because I'm in my car I'm driving down the road to my

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own destination so I'm minding my own business I'm not the kind of guy who's

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gonna start a road rage incident you know and upset somebody next to me by

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rolling down my window be like hey you know what that sticker is you know

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however I recently had somebody make the comment to me you know when we were

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discussing this that they like the idea which led to a conversation you know and

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it's a friendly reminder that anything that you say can be used in a sermon

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with some exceptions of course all right I'm not gonna violate anyone's privacy

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or anything like that but you know it's certain things can absolutely lead to a

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conversation things that you say things that you do that are public knowledge

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you know hey guess what it's there you know and it's one of those things you

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don't have to agree with me on but please hear me out you know nothing

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I'm gonna say here is it is meant to hate hatefulness or anything like that

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all right now the idea is this sticker in question you know that the idea is

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that it is a statement that everyone should get along everyone should get

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along you know world peace that sort of thing and I will concede here some that

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the idea of that is nice and when we all like peace I think I think we would you

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know it's something that we all pray for the world over you know so the idea

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itself it is it is pretty nice however what most people don't know because

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they've never thought to look it up they don't know anything about you know what

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else is going on here you know is that going back to the very beginning this

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very thing that we're talking about this sticker itself has been covered and

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filled with sin

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what do you mean well you can actually look this up the original piece itself

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was designed by a Polish man for an art contest in the attempt to win a hefty

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prize the original piece itself only actually consisted of about three

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symbols the rest were letters soon after that though there is somebody who took a

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liking to what he did and without his permission they stole his piece and

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reworked it into their own and it's been reworked by several others since then

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for the sole purpose of making money imagine that from its beginning it was

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chasing that almighty dollar now all this in turn of course led to several

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legal battles bringing us all back full circle here you know now you can

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understand part of why I'm not a big fan of this particular sticker to make

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matters worse the depiction and the narrative that is trying to push is that

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all religions lead to God they don't when you look at it you will find pagan

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symbols as well as Islamic Buddhism's represented even Siddhartha Gautama

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himself said that he was not God and did not want to be worshipped as such but

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what's happened since he's passed on you know you know I think we've all heard

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the term you know rolling over in their grave pretty sure this would this would

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fit that case you know then you have Islam in here which claims to be a

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religion of peace yet when you look at the Quran you know it says in the book

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of Surah that you know to kill non-believers and there's so much more

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there that we get into where we're not going to but there's a lot there plus

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all the other idols and symbols that are represented

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so very much you know we need to be aware of what we're looking at what we're

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hearing what we're saying and what we're representing itself ourselves there are a

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ton of false religions out there more than just what's depicted in this

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particular instance all conflicting throughout the Bible God has told us and

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warned us not to worship any other God we see it in Joshua Deuteronomy Exodus

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first and second Kings Jeremiah even in the Psalms we're warned you know I

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mentioned this really in Exodus you know this is handed down as a commandment and

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in a later chapter it goes into even more detail as to why this is important

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Matthew chapter 6 verse 24 the Bible makes it clear when it says no one can

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have I'm sorry no one can serve two masters either you will hate the one and

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love the other or you will be devoted to the one and despise the other now while

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yes this particular verse is talking about money it is also calling out idols

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and idolatry also known as false gods another way of saying the devil's many

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faces and representatives that are set on pulling you away from God and those

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who do not know they love to say things like but we're all God's children sure

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sure we are if by that you mean that at one point we all belong to the devil

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because we didn't know Christ because we didn't have a relationship with Jesus

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because we hadn't been saved yet become Christians yet however once you do know

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Christ and you are a follower you have that relationship with them you have

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been saved by him everything changes you are no longer a slave but freed by the

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blood of Jesus Christ and as such adopted into God's family that's right

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adopted into God's family contrary contrary to popular belief not everyone

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is a child of God God is the father only to Christians

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I say contrary to popular belief not everyone is a child of God many out

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there are servants to the God of this world the Bible tells us that is the

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devil you have to be adopted into God's family and that comes by way of

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becoming a Christian by way of coming to know Jesus and following him John

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chapter 1 verse 12 the Bible says but all who did receive him who believed in

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his name he gave the right to become children of God they weren't children of

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God yet he gave the right to become children of God and in 1st John chapter

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3 verses 1 through 10 the Bible says see what kind of love the father has given

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to us that we should be called children of God and so we are

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the reason why the world does not know us is that it did not know him beloved

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we are God's children now and what we will be has not yet appeared but we know

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that when he appears we shall be like him because we shall see him as he is

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and everyone who thus hopes in him purifies himself as he is pure everyone

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who makes a practice of sinning also practice law practices lawlessness sin

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is lawlessness you know that he appeared in order to take away sins and in him

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there is no sin no one who abides in him keeps on sinning no one who keeps on

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sinning has either seen him or known him little children let no one deceive you

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whoever practices righteousness is righteous as he is righteous whoever

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makes a practice of sinning is of the devil for the devil has been sinning

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from the beginning the reason the Son of God appeared was to destroy the works of

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the devil no one born of God makes a practice of sinning for God's seed abides

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in him and he cannot keep on sinning because he has been born of God by this

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it is evident who are the children of God and who are the children of the

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devil whoever does not practice righteousness righteousness is not of

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God nor is the one who does not love his brother the Bible is telling us very

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clearly here in depth that we are not all God's children many belong to the God of

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this world the devil and they don't even know it and that God's children are

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separate in first John chapter 4 verses 4 through 6 the Bible carries on to say

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little children you are from God and have overcome them for he who is in you

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is greater than he who is in the world they are from the world therefore they

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speak from the world and the world listens to them we are from God whoever

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knows God listens to us whoever is not from God does not listen to us by this

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we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of error it's explaining that

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those who belong to the devil and the Antichrist will not listen to Christians

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they don't want to hear anything about Jesus their focus is on the world

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worldly matters and all of its temporary joys and riches all those things that

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will eventually fade away leaving them empty and dead inside

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dead and the dead aren't even aware that they're dead yet good look at him as the

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living dead now you could try to talk to them about Jesus however you're not

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going to get very far why because it comes from that mentality that the

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devil has given them and train them up in that needs to be broken that says I'm

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a good person I have a pretty good life I don't have a need for him so I'm gonna

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be just fine without him this is a grave error pray for these people pray for the

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world to come to know Jesus while they still can you know the world's caught up

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in all this pageantry with false idols as Christians we have hope we have

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empowerment and we have joy in knowing that Jesus is the way we like to rejoice

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in this for ourselves as well we should and we like to rejoice in this for those

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who are brothers and sisters in Christ the family of God however instead of

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staying wrapped up in this blessing and these gifts we need to remember those

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who are not we need to keep about and keep a keep a mind for them as well

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think about those people that you know those relatives those friends those

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co-workers those acquaintances who don't know Jesus those people who are all

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wrapped up and all the this these false idols I said till Valhalla coexist and

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all this other nonsense even sports you know or in TV shows and you know going

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out and you know clubbing and drinking and all this other stuff that the stuff

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that takes front and center stage in their lives what have you done to

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introduce these people that you know to Jesus what have you what have you done

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to let them see his light in you

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you know all these things in the world till Valhalla coexist whatever you know

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nonsense that the woke movement is pandering to you know without even

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knowing anything about it oh I stand with this I stand with that you know you

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know it reminds me of that movie gosh can't think but now they came out in the

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early I'm sorry it's like the late 80s or the early 90s is called PCU and you

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know there's a scene where these students they show up and you know they're

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they're trying to well basically they're getting these guys to protest and these

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these students they show up and they have their own markers and they had their own

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blank sign some of them pop up like an umbrella because this group they're

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ready to just protest whatever is put in front of them at the time they don't

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need a reason to protest just to protest it you know whatever's you know whatever

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that you know they can do to buck the system you know or stick it to the man

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if you would you know these mindless sheep that are wandering around without

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without a shepherd you know we like to think of all the freedoms that we have

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and then we take them for granted those arguments that we're living in a

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democracy or a constitutional republic etc etc you know people forget that this

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isn't how heaven works that once we're adopted into God's family we have a

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different way to live and that is his way not our way it is God's way or the

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highway Matthew 7 verse 14 the Bible says but small is the gate and narrow

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the road that leads to life and only a few find it it's really you know it's

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it's a lonely path in the view of the world the one less traveled however for

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those of us who come to know Jesus who have the Holy Spirit residing within us

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we know that we're never truly alone and that's comforting but for those who

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don't know Jesus those who continue in the way of the world those blindly

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following the main pack without hearing the shepherd you know they don't know

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they think it's lonely because they buy into the lies of the devil of Satan you

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know though you know these are the people they don't find Jesus until death

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has reached a minute it's too late Matthew 7 verse 23 Jesus says this then

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I will tell them plainly I never knew from knew you away from me you evildoers

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it's too late at that point there's no praying for them at this point it's too

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late there's no one that will intercede or can intercede at this point the Bible

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makes that clear too many people have this mindset of you know what I'm gonna

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cross that bridge when I get to it however the Father has warned us that if

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we don't know the cross now if we don't know Jesus now and we're not covered by

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his blood now while we're here in this life then it's going to be too late when

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we go over to that other room it won't exist this is why we have been given the

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Great Commission as many of you recall I spoke at great length as to what that is

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earlier this year you know if you didn't catch that you know look back in the

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podcast it's recorded there or set shoot me a message even I'll show you where to

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find it in the Bible or explain it to you you know whatever we need to do but

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this is something that we need to respond to we need to respond to the

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Great Commission and by respond I mean we need to act on it Jesus didn't say hey

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by the way if you feel up to it go do this no excuse me in Matthew 28 verses

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16 through 20 he said go and do it not only that but that he'd be with us in

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doing so family we're short on time it's one thing that we're not guaranteed time

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which is what makes this so much more important it is so much more important

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that we act on what we've been told to do now on what God has told us to do now I

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will remind you God does not call the equipped he equips the called and as

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followers of Jesus Christ we are all called I mean remind you you are loved

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you are blessed you know what's coming and I mentioned this once before a

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pendulum you know he's a professed atheist himself and he once said how

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much must you hate someone to not tell them he's actually encouraging

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evangelism this is a tremendous point from a professed non-believer and we

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are called to love so go and love on your neighbor remember love is an action

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not just some mushy abused word that's taken out of context it is an action so

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go and love on them by sharing the gospel with them share Jesus's love

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Jesus's hope what he has done in your life go and be an ambassador for Jesus

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go and be the ambassador that he's called you to be go and be the light

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thank you all for joining us here today at healing scars with pastor Burton

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to hearing from you all God bless