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We had been having the nicest time of fellowship together

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in these heart-to-heart talks.

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And believe it or not,

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we are still talking about that ninth commandment.

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And who would have ever thought that in the nine words

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that express the ninth commandment,

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there's such a world of truth,

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of knowledge, such depths,

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that really I do not believe that the keenest mind in the world

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has ever fully been able to comprehend

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the full depth of truth in this commandment.

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On the surface, it's so simple.

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But do you realize

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that all of God's ten rules for living are very simple?

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So simple that even a child can understand.

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Nothing that's really impossible to man.

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It is possible for you and for me to keep

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all of these ten rules for living.

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Remember something.

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God is consistent.

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Man is the one who is the inconsistent one.

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God is just plain, everyday living,

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and he never asks you or me to do anything as impossible.

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That's true.

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That's very true in this ninth commandment.

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Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

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There's nothing about that that's so profound.

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There's really nothing about that

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that's impossible for any one of us to keep.

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It has to do with your reputation.

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It had to do with my reputation.

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It has to do with the reputation of our neighbors,

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the folks with whom we come in contact with

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every day of our lives.

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Don't lie about your neighbor.

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That's the sum of the substance, the whole thing.

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Don't lie about the woman with whom you work.

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Don't lie about the man who works beside you

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in that place of employment.

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Don't lie about me.

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Katharine Guman, don't lie about someone else.

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It's that simple.

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Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

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And yet, there's something that is so profound about the thing

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because in bearing false witness, one of the smallest

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members of our physical body must be in operation.

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To perform this thing, to brace this commandment,

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it takes one of the smallest members of your body to operate,

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and that member is the tongue, that little old tongue.

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But it's so vicious, it can be so vile,

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it can be so destructive that the Bible says,

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it's a little member, but it boasts us great things.

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The tongue, the word of God says, is a fire.

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What can be more destructive than fire?

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A world of iniquity.

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That's exactly how God's word describes the tongue.

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Be careful, this commandment says in essence,

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how you operate your tongue, what you do with your tongue

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regarding another person's reputation.

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You can't touch their character.

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I made that very clear in a previous Heart to Heart talk

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because the character is a true fact concerning oneself.

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You can't besmirch my character because that's something I am.

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That's me, that's the real me.

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But my reputation, you may besmirch by using your tongue

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for the wrong purpose, in bearing false witness.

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And many a person's reputation has been besmirched,

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many a heart has been broken, many a life has been wrecked,

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many a family has had to move out of the neighborhood,

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many a man has lost a job, many a precious woman

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has lost her job because of someone bearing false witness.

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Don't you see how important this thing is?

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So important that actually God gave a commandment

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to safeguard against this very thing

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and to protect our reputation.

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All right?

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I can't read you anything that I said

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in our previous Heart to Heart talk except just this.

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And that is the fact that what is true

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of all of the other commandments

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and all of God's other rules for living

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is also true of this rule and this commandment,

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that whenever it is broken, man pays for it.

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You will pay for it.

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You hung up on that telephone for 30 minutes, 45 minutes.

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For at least three quarters of that time,

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you were maligning somebody,

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you were besmirching somebody's reputation,

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you were saying things that were not absolutely true.

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It was just plain gossip.

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And when it's all boiled down,

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there's very little truth in any gossip.

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When you hung up the receiver and walked away from the phone,

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you felt like that was the end of it.

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You felt you had put it across.

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My friend, for every untruth that you spoke

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during those 30 minutes, 45 minutes, an hour,

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remember, the thing will come right back

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and you'll find it on your own doorstep.

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That's right.

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That is something that God Himself can't bring back again,

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and that's the words that leave our lips.

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He's God Almighty.

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He's the God of miracles.

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But when words have been spoken,

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after words have left our lips,

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God Himself cannot bring them back again.

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You cannot put the thing as it was before.

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Those untrue, those false words were spoken.

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The harm that it did to that somebody is very serious.

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But you have not escaped your own words.

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Your own words, your own deeds,

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will always come back to you.

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You know, there's an old expression

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that we used to use in Missouri.

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I don't know whether they use it in California or in New York.

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It's so homey.

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It sounds as though it was born out of Missouri.

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Chickens come home to roost, and they always do.

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I left you with the seventh chapter of the book of Matthew

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in our last little heart-to-heart talk.

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I'm going to read it again,

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because I still contend, my friend,

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that in these five verses that I'm reading to you

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from the Word of God,

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we're told more about the meaning of life.

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We're told more about the art of living.

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In these less than 100 words,

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we're told more about the way into trouble

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and the way out of trouble.

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We're told more about the nature of man

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than all the sermons that you have ever heard

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in all of your life.

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That's right.

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Judge not.

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What were you doing on the telephone?

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What did you do at that ladies' aid meeting?

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What did you do at that missionary society?

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What did you fellows do the other night at the club?

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Oh, it was juicy.

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I'll tell you, that conversation was a knockout.

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It was good listening.

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It was good telling.

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You had receptive ears, and so you colored it a little bit.

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It wasn't just quite the truth,

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and before you got through with it,

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you had given false witness against a person.

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I'm just going to come back to you.

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Judge not that ye be not judged.

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For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged.

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You're not going to escape.

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And with what measure ye meet, it

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shall be measured to you again.

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Again.

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Isn't that something?

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That's the word of God.

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That, my friend, is God's great law.

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Again, I repeat something that I said the last time

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I was in your home.

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If the average man understood for a single moment

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the meaning of these words and really believed

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them to be true, they would absolutely

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revolutionize his whole life from top to bottom.

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They would turn his everyday conduct inside out,

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so change him that his closest friends would hardly recognize

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him, would hardly know him.

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These few words, judge not.

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Don't do it.

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If you do, you will be judged.

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For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged.

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And with what measure ye meet, it shall be measured to you

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again.

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Right here in these few words are expressed the simple,

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the inescapable law of life.

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And the plain fact is that it is the law of life

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that as we act towards others, so will others act towards us.

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What we give will be returned to us.

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The deeds that we do, the thing that we think,

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the word that we speak, so will others think and speak

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and act towards us.

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Whatever sort of conduct we give out, the same thing

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that bound to be returned to us.

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Don't argue with me.

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This needs no argument.

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Our lives prove it.

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Your lives prove it.

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There are tens of thousands who never receive a kind deed

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because they have never done a kindness to anyone.

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Show me someone who has no friends,

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and I'll show you somebody who is too selfish to be a friend.

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When somebody said to me, I have wonderful neighbors,

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I know right then that they are a good neighbor.

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When somebody says, I just hate my neighbors,

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I don't say a word to keep my mouth shut,

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but I know what kind of person that is.

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They are not a good neighbor themselves.

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Anything, everything that we do to others

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will sooner or later be done to us by someone somewhere.

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I didn't say the same person.

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It may not even be the same year, the same day,

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the same month.

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It may be five years later, but as sure

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as there's a god on his throne, it'll come back to you

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because this is God's law of life,

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and it is absolutely inescapable.

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The good that we do to others, we shall

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receive back in like measure.

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And the evil that we do to others in like measure,

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we shall receive back too.

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I can always remember a woman in our hometown.

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She had an obsession, and I mean this exactly what it was,

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that when a girl would get into trouble,

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she was the first one to spread it.

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They might just as well have published it

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on the first page of the Concordium.

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She enjoyed practically going from house to house

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to spread it, and she loved it.

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Oh, she would go with the execution, oh.

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Isn't it awful?

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But inside of her, she was tickled to death.

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She had an obsession for it.

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I shall never forget when her own daughter got into trouble.

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An unwed girl with a baby boy.

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Oh, of course, that was different.

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But it came back to her right on her doorstep.

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Yes, sir?

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Watch it.

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The good that we do to others, we'll

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receive back in like measure.

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The evil that we do to others in like measure,

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we shall receive back too.

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Now, this does not in the least mean

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that the same people whom we treat well or ill

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will be the actual ones who return the action.

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No, I didn't say that.

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That almost never happens.

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But what does happen is that at some other time or place,

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often far away and long afterwards,

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someone else who knows nothing whatsoever

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of the previous action will, nevertheless, we pay it.

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Grain for grain to us.

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For every unkind word that you speak to

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are about another person, an unkind word

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will be spoken to or about you.

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For every time that you cheat, you will be cheated.

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Every time that you deceive, you will be deceived.

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For every lie that you utter, you will be lied to

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or lied about.

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Every time that you neglect a duty or evade a responsibility

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or misuse authority over other people,

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you're doing something for which you will have to pay

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by suffering a like injury yourself.

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To say, Miss Kuhlman, how can you say that?

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I'm only giving you God's word and a fool

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is the person I've learned that a long time ago.

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A fool is a man or a woman who'll take issue with God's word.

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And God says, with what measure ye meet,

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it shall be measured to you again.

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There he is.

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That's God's word?

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I know if only people would realize that all that this is

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literally true for a profound influence it would have

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on their conduct.

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People are very apt to think, especially when they're

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strongly tempted, that they can probably

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escape the law of the land.

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They can outrun the sheriff or slip through the clutches

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of authority in one way or another.

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Our young people have had a lot of trouble

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in one way or another.

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Our young people have had idea.

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They can outsmart the law.

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They can outsmart the authorities.

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They're free to do as they please.

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Being given expression, free expression to their feelings.

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My friend, God's word does not teach free expression

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or that one can do just as one pleases.

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God has laid down certain rules for living.

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He has given certain laws for men and women to abide by.

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His rules, his laws are inescapable.

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You absolutely cannot break them.

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You cannot escape them.

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You cannot go around them.

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They are there.

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I know that those who feel that they can slip through

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the clutches of authority in some way or another,

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they hope that individuals forgive them

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or else be powerless to revenge their actions

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or that the thing will be forgotten sometime or another

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or better still, that they'll never be found out.

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If, however, they understood that the law of retribution

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is a cosmic law, impersonal and as unchanging

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as the law of gravity, remember,

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this thing that I am talking about is as unchanging

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as the law of gravity.

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And surely there's no man, no woman living

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who's enough of a moron to feel that they could change

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the law of gravity.

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Neither can any man change this inescapable law of life.

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It's unchanging.

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It's impersonal.

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The law of gravity never sleeps.

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It's never off duty or off its guard.

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It's never tired out.

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It's neither compassionate nor vindictive.

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And no one would ever dream of trying to evade it

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or coax it or bribe it or intimidate it.

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You wouldn't think of trying to break it.

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People accept it as being inescapable.

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Knowing that it cannot be broken,

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knowing that it is inescapable,

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they shape their conduct accordingly.

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And my friend, the law of retribution

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is as inescapable as the law of gravity.

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Therefore, you might just as well accept it.

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The sooner you do, the sooner you live according to it,

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the sooner you shape your lives and your living

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to coincide with it,

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the sooner you change your life

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and fit in with this law of life, God's law,

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the sooner you'll be a success, you'll be happy.

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Water finds its own level sooner or later,

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and our treatment of others returns at last

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up on ourselves.

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Father God, this is Your word.

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I pray that the last few minutes may change many a life

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in their living, in their thinking,

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in their attitude towards others.

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Amen.