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Maybe today we will come with the last of our heart-to-heart talks on this 9th commandment.

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I'm not sure.

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When I left your home last time, I never dreamed we'd be having another heart-to-heart talk

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regarding this 9th of God's 10 rules, Fuldery.

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It's so simple, only nine words.

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Thou shalt not lie about thy neighbor.

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Now that's the way I would say it.

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That's exactly what it means.

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The word of God says, Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

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But if I were talking to you or you were talking to someone else, you'd say, Thou shalt not

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lie about thy neighbor.

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Thou shalt not lie about anyone.

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In so doing, you besmirch his reputation.

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Every time you tell a falsehood against someone else, you are breaking this God's commandment.

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And something that is so amazing is the fact that there are people, thousands of people,

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people whom I'm talking to right now, who would not think of taking one thing that does

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not belong to them.

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You wouldn't think of stealing for any new world.

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To even mention the fact of killing, that's the furthest thing from your mind.

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Thou shalt not kill, oh, the horror of it all.

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You shudder to think of it.

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And yet, you think nothing whatsoever of breaking this ninth commandment.

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And it's just as important as any one of the other nine commandments, as important as any

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one of the other nine of God's rules for the being.

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Thou shalt not lie about thy neighbor.

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Thou shalt not lie about anyone.

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Life is precious.

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A human being is the most important thing in the whole world to Almighty God.

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I don't care who you are.

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You may be a street sweeper.

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You may be a garbage collector.

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You may be, you may have the most menial job in the whole world.

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And yet, in the sight of God, a human life is important.

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You may be the very least of all humanity.

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Yet, in God's sight, you are more important to Him than anything else in the whole world.

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A human being, human life, is important to Him.

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You are important to Him.

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Therefore, He has given a commandment whereby He protects the reputation of every man and

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every woman.

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Now, I left you and a little heart-to-heart talk about this thing of the tongue.

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It's a world of iniquity, the Bible says.

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It's a fire.

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It can cause more destruction than all the bombs that were ever dropped, all the guns

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that were ever fired.

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It can do more damage than the Air Force, the Navy, the artillery all combined, believe

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me.

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Oh, it's a world of iniquity.

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The most destructive weapon in the world this very hour is the human tongue.

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That's right.

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I left you with a portion of the Word of God as found in the seventh chapter of Matthew.

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Judge not.

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In other words, in breaking this law, you are going to be punished.

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You'll find the same thing on your own doorstep because there is an inescapable law of God.

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It's the law of life.

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

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There it is.

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You can't get around it.

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It's God's inescapable law.

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It's what we call the law of life.

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It is absolutely as inescapable, as unchanging as the law of gravity.

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I mean that, this law of retribution, impersonal, unchanging, it is as solid as inescapable

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as the law of gravity.

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And nobody would ever think of trying to break the law of gravity.

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People accept it because it's inevitable, it's inescapable, and so they shape their

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conduct accordingly.

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And the law of retribution is even as the law of gravity.

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Water finds its own level sooner or later, and our treatment of others returns at last

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upon ourselves.

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And when I left your home the last time, we saw that every unkind word, every unkind deed

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that you do, every unkind thought is returned to you again sooner or later.

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But remember something, it's a poor law that does not work both ways.

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And so it's equally true that every good deed that you do.

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And for every kind word that you speak, you will in the same way, at some time or another,

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get back an equivalent.

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You know, people often complain about ingratitude on the part of those whom they've helped,

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upon whom they have conferred favors, and too often with truth.

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It is true.

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We've gotten to the place where we don't know what the word gratitude means anymore.

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This generation has gotten the idea that the world owes them a living, that there isn't

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such a thing as a kindness, not really.

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Everybody's out to get as much as they possibly can for nothing.

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And someone does them a kindness, well, the attitude is they should have done it so hot.

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You know, kind of like that.

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The whole thing is upside down and topsy-turvy.

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And you want to know why?

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Because we've gotten ourselves into this mess, this wrong thinking and wrong living.

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Our morals have dropped so low that we don't know what is truth anymore.

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We scarce they know right from wrong, because we're going against God's laws for living

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and God's commandments just as hard and fast as we can possibly go.

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We forget that these laws and his commandments are inescapable.

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Chickens do come home to roost.

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Papa said so.

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They do, sooner or later.

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These things do come back.

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I know people after doing a kindness are going out of their way to do something for someone

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else, often come back and complain of the ingratitude on the part of those whom they've

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helped or upon those that they have conferred favors.

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And this complaint shows a false attitude of mind, which is very important to correct.

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When you feel hurt because someone has been ungrateful for your kindness, it shows that

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you're looking for gratitude.

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And this is a mistake.

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I want to say that right here and now.

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If you get your feelings hurt because you felt that someone did not show their proper

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gratitude for a kindness that you did, then you had the wrong motive in doing the thing.

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And that's not right.

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That's wrong.

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I have something that I keep on my desk.

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I've had it for years and years and years.

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It was made especially for me.

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The artist in the bottom has designed a basket because those who know me well know that now

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for years and years I've always carried, most preachers carry a briefcase.

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I carry a basket.

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I don't tell anybody, but if you come to Pittsburgh and you say to someone, how will I best know

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Miss Kuhlman if I see her on the street?

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They'll say she'll be carrying a basket.

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And so an artist from the University of Pittsburgh designed, made me this metal plaque.

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And in the Conner, he has designed a basket, which is so characteristic of me.

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And these are the words that are engraved on this piece of metal.

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You will soon learn that charity is a heavy burden to carry, heavier than the kettle of

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soup and the basket of brand.

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But you must keep your gentleness and your smile.

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It is not enough to give soup and bread.

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This the rich can do.

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You are the little servant of the poor, always smiling and in good humor.

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They are your masters, terribly sensitive and exacting, as you'll see.

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But the uglier and dirtier they are, the more unjust and bitter.

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And the more you must give of your love of his love.

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For it is only because of this love that the poor will forgive you for the bread that you

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give them.

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You know, if I always waited for gratitude for everything that I did, I wouldn't be

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doing.

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I never think of the gratitude.

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That's when you can give and forget it.

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Do the kindness, forget it.

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Forget it, don't think of it again.

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Don't expect anything.

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If you give because you expect something in return, then you had the wrong attitude.

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If you do a kindness because you expect something in return, that's not the right kind of giving.

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You're not going to get it back.

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You'll only get hurt feelings because people can hurt.

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Oh, they can be cruel.

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If you can do, if you can give because you love, because you expect nothing in return,

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you do it because, like the word of God says, for me to live is Christ and Christ is love

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and you do it in his name.

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You do it because you want to.

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You do it out of the abundance of your heart.

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You do it because you love doing it.

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Even at the moment that you're giving and that you're doing, really, you're getting

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a greater joy, a greater thrill, a greater pleasure out of it than the one who's receiving.

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Even at that moment of doing it, you're the one who is really profiting by it.

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When you do it in the right spirit, after the deed has been done, you can forget it

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as though it never happened.

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Then I'll promise you, it shall be returned unto you again.

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That's God's word.

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Yes, sir?

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When you get your feelings hurt because someone has been ungrateful for your kindness, it

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shows that you've been looking for gratitude, and this is a great mistake.

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The true reason for helping another is that it's our duty to help others insofar as we

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can do so wisely.

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It's an expression of love.

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That's it.

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It should be an expression of something that's inside of us, not expecting anything in return.

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Let me ask you, is it not a beautiful and encouraging thought that all the prayers you've

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ever said in your life, all the good deeds, all the kind words for which you've ever been

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responsible are still with you, and that nothing can ever take them away from you?

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Indeed, our prayers and our words and our acts of kindness to others are really the

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only things that we do keep, because all the rest must sooner or later disappear.

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But the things that go on and on forever, the things that are eternal, are not the paychecks,

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not the house that you've just now built, or the new grass that you've just sown, or

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the new car that you just bought.

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You're not going to take your business along with you.

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You're not going to take those stocks and bonds along with you.

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Not really.

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That's right.

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The only things in the final analysis that you are going to take with you are those prayers

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that you've prayed, those kind deeds that you've done in the name of the Lord, those

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kind words that you spoke to make somebody's burden a little lighter, the things that you

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have said and you have done in the name of the Lord.

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Those things and those alone are the things that go on and on forever and ever and ever.

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Isn't that something?

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Oh, my friend, let's just sum the whole thing up in the next minute or two.

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Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor.

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Thou shalt not lie.

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Against that commandment, we have that member of the body, the tongue, that is a world of

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iniquity.

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Now, in between the two, we have human beings, not a perfect one among us, not one.

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I can tell you so many faults that I have that, oh, really, I have no right to talk

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about anyone else because there's so many things wrong with me.

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When I get to know you as you really are, there's so much good about you that I should

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never find fault with anything that you do.

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Therefore, I think it's a pretty good plan to do just like mama did.

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Right by her telephone, she had a little motto and Belle painted little forget-me-nots all

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around it.

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These were the words that were on that little motto.

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There's so much bad in the best of us and so much good in the worst of us that it hardly

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behooves any of us to talk about the rest of us.

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Amen.