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What it says I can't I'm a believer and not a doubter I'm a doer and not just a

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hearer I am humble before the Lord I'm obedient to the Lord I am mature in the

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Lord I'm enthusiastic about the Lord I know that faith comes by hearing and

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hearing by the Word of God amen in the book of Matthew chapter 5 verse 13

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through 16 new living translation you'll find these words it says you are the

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salt of the earth but what good is salt if it has lost its flavor can you make

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it salty again it will be thrown out and trample underfoot that's worth it now

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I'm just talking about salt for a few minutes here because later on I'm gonna

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come back and talk about light salt influences food it also preserves but

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it's saying that if comparing us to salt brother Wilson is saying that if you

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lose your influence you ain't no good to God God puts you on this earth to be an

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influencer and if you lose that ability then what good are you to the Lord each

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and every one of you can influence somebody in some circle that you run

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in or walk in or live in or you connect with so the question is are you salty

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changing the environment or you just blending in and losing your labor you are

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the light of the world like a city on a hilltop that cannot be hidden no one

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lights a lamp and then put it under a basket instead a lamp is placed on a

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stand where it gives light to everyone in the house in the same way just like

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light is used God want to use you in the same way let your good deeds shine out

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to all for all to see so that everyone will praise your heavenly Father amen

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you may be seated you may be seated well this is going to be our fourth and

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final sermon in this little series that we've entitled be a good influencer and

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I've been saying that because of the availability of social media platforms

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and the ability of people to flood their ways with various content some people

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are skillfully positioned themselves as influences and we all know that not all

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influences are good influences you know I've said that as followers of Christ we

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should be good influence on our families and our workplace and our social

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circles or in any space where we connect with people we should have an influence

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the definition I've been used for influence is the capacity to have an

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effect on the character somebody say character on the character the

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development somebody say development that's talking about growth and success

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of people and on the behavior somebody say behavior of someone or something in

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other words you can influence how people behave around you amen now if you have

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not been with us for this first three parts of this I encourage you just go

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back and check it out on our podcast or on demand I believe it you know fill in

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some of the blanks that you may not see today but what I want you to understand

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is that I believe that if we understand that significance of us being influences

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we have the ability to make significant change in the world that we live in

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amen and so today we're going to begin our argument in the book of John third

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John I'm sorry third John verse one one little chapter third John chapter 1 verse

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7 3 11 third John chapter 1 here we see the apostle John was writing to a dear

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friend and he was commanding him and commending him for encouraging others in

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the church to show hospitality to traveling ministers in other words

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traveling evangelists people who were teaching in different areas these were

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not you know traveling vacationers these was people who were traveling to

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serve to serve the Lord and sometimes they needed their needs met so people

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will provide place for them to live give them things to eat you know provide for

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their life livelihood and they did that because these evangelists did not want

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people of the world taking care of them they felt like hey we're here to preach

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God's word so therefore people of God should support us in this endeavor

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because if we asked the world for then the world could use that against us at a

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later date y'all following me so far and so what he was trying to do and he was

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encouraged in his friend because his friend was faithfully doing that for

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those traveling ministers but then there was one person in the church who

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refused to support them and who refused to be a part of it and in that same way

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not only did he refuse others but fuse refuse himself but he would try to

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persuade others not to do it and so what I want you to see out of this in this

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context I want you to understand this pretext that sometimes Cliff is sad to

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say but sometimes sometimes not often but sometimes in the church you can run

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up on a bad a bad influence you don't expect it in the but John wants us to

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know that sometime you can find a bad influence in the church you came to Jesus

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today to get your holy ghost on you came to just revans and respect him and you

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come to strive and run up on all I hope that I'm hope I'm wrong on that Pee Wee

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I'm hoping that in striving there are no bad influences but I gotta read what

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John wrote because it lets me know that there is a possibility that in some

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church in America somebody is sitting in there and they are bad look at this I'm

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in verse 7 he says for they are traveling for the Lord tongue my

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those ministers and they accept nothing from people who are not believers they

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we just don't want the unbelievers to support us when we are doing God's word

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he said now so we ourselves submit then support them so that they can be partners

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as they so that we can be partners as they teach the truth now he says this I

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wrote to the church about this but that trophies are messing up his name but you

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get it who loves to be the leader I know there's nobody in the church that

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love to be the leader you know just love it's all right to be in a leader but

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don't let leadership go to your head I mean leaders are supposed to serve to

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lead supposed to do what everybody else do lives part of the team so he said

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now look I sent instructions to him that he was supposed to assist in helping

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this endeavor but this leader did not respect authority he disrespected that

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apostolic authority of John by not doing what he was asked to do he said he

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refused to have anything to do with us this dude in the church and he don't

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even want to deal with the other leader

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let me read on that one more point but I just want you to see that he says now

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when I come I will report some of the things he is doing and the evil

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accusations he is making against us not only is he in the church and doing some

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crazy thing he talking about us in a bad way make it evil accusations not in the

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church say it ain't so it don't happen in the church like that but just in case

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you run into a church where there's folks in there who you need to be well

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you got to look out for evil influences in the church he says the evil

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accusation he is making against us look at this not only does he refuse to

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welcome the traveling teachers but he also tell Cliff and others not to help

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them you know it's one thing for him not to want to do it and just keep his

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mouth shut but now he telling most most you got a good heart you want to have

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to help them travel don't you do it you don't need to support them and I'm here

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to tell most whoever's telling you that's a bad influence he said look at

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not only does he refuse to welcome travelers he also tell others not to

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help them and when they do help he want to put more out the church now that's

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just bad that is not a good example to follow most got a heart that lines up

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with Jesus because Jesus believe in helping people who are in need and then

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now Cliff I'm just gonna use your object lesson now Cliff come you want to put

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more out the church say more you you no longer fit what we're looking for his

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tribe you you going out there trying to help folks who are traveling that that

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ain't what our agenda is and he's saying now when Cliff come off like that

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brother Wilson Cliff is a

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now look at this he said dear friends don't let this bad example influence you

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you got to come to church to learn to follow what is good not what is wrong

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not what is evil so he says follow only what is good and remember that those

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who do good prove that they are God's children so when you do good you're

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acting like you're a child of God and those who do evil prove that they do

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not know so you can sit in church saying victory belong to Jesus want to kick

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Cliff out and that prove that you don't even know God you don't just

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been saying to him but because you want to kick Cliff out you acting like you

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don't even the reason John will say that so that way here is because in first

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John he talks about love in that way he says that if you say you love God but

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don't love your brother then obviously you don't love God so he's saying here

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that if you want to kick brother Wilson out the church because he want to help

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the traveling ministers then obviously you don't know God people know that we

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know God by how we act around people that don't know God and we have to act in

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a way that they can see God in us amen I ain't gonna be that long I'm gonna move

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on let me move on I'm off the church but look at this talk about all of us and

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how we're living now in Hebrews chapter 11 verse 4 post-humans influence

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since people of faith our good influence should continue on after we're

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gone the good influences that we have on our family and on friends and because

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we are good examples before them it should leave an impression in our heart

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and in their mind so that after we are gone our good influence could be passed

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on to the next generation amen so from this passage which the contact focus on

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faith this verse gives us the reason to believe that our influence can live after

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we're gone you know I'm pretty sure some of you right now like oftentimes I look

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back at my life and I think about Richard Bowden senior my granddad and

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there's some things that that guy told me that I still remember to the this day

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and he been dead for almost 35 years you know there's some things about my dad

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that I remember even though he's not been dead that long but there's some things

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that he taught me when I was coming up there's some things that Lady Jeanette

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taught me now that that still comes back to me even though she is her

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influence to if sometime when I just want to leave the sink a mess cuz I'm

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living at home by myself ain't nobody gonna see it but I hear her say well

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you better watch them even if you don't do nothing but put them in the dishwasher

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still got influence and so what I'm telling you is that you ought to be

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making marks in people lives right now so that after you are gone if you don't

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influence nobody else you influence ought to be enough to influence your

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children and your grandchildren your grandchildren ought to be talking about

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you after you're gone and if you are blessed your great-grandchildren may be

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talking about you but definitely your children and your grandchildren they

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ought to know who you are they ought to know what you was about how you live

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before they they ought to know that you a personal faith and because they know

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that you a personal faith and they see you live out that your faith when they

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get older you got to believe it's gonna rub off on them it's gonna influence

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them live to influence the next generation not just yourself live beyond

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you so that when you are gone someone else will still be talking about you

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remembering the things that you share and this is what we find here in this

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passage here in chapter 11 of Hebrews I'm just gonna reverse for he's talking

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about able and this is the whole chapter of people live by faith but in this one

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he does indicate that what he did lived on after he was dead you said now it was

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by faith that able brought a more acceptable offering to God than came

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they both brought offerings but God didn't accept the one God would have

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accepted both of them because it wasn't like God was playing favorites but

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sometime when you bring things to God you got to bring with the right attitude

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and you can't just bring him anything see see if you're gonna offer up some to

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God cliff it ought to be your best even if your best is not the best compared to

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somebody else it ought to be the best that you got and all he would have had

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to do with just best bring the best grain or the best harvest that he had

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don't bring God to beat up stuff God want the first fruit so even though you

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are a farmer and not a herder the herder brought livestock the best cow now

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you got to bring the best corn the first fruit you can't just bring God

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what's been left out there and dried up on the stock and all of a sudden now you

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gonna offer that and then you bring it with attitude when you're gonna give

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back to God you got to give it into the room with the right attitude so when

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they got preferred one over the other it was the attitude and the nature of the

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gift that caused God some problem he says able offer able offering gave

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evidence gave evidence that he was a righteous man so that means the other

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offering must have revealed that he was not righteous and God showed his

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approval of his gift and although able is long dead he's still

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speaks to us by his example of faith we still read about him and all the rest

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of these folks in this chapter even though they've been dead and gone so I

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just submit to you your grandchildren I'll be talking about you after you got

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dead and gone and you can't do that if you ain't got no relationship with them

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so if you are estranged from your grandchildren they need to know you they

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need to talk about you in a good way I agree with you that clip in a good way

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you don't want your you let you and your internment to be the end of you

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you left nothing behind everything about you ended up in the ground or in

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ashes with you when you should have been living to make an influence on your

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grandchildren so my prayer for myself is that bolden and Jensen and and and and

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and J and EJ I'm sorry I got the little one big but I got the big one but my

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prayer is that man when I end this life that them three rascals

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cut their boys and all boys at some point in town little rascals that they

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remember something about their granddad I gotta make it plain Anthony I assume

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that this is I'm a preacher I'm talking about this stuff but since you're

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sure you're right something good about the granddad and that ought to be your

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prayer too you know I look back and I was as I was reading that I started

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thinking about growing up and I started thinking about teachers that influenced

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me and when I just started meditating Miss McCall Mr. McDonough Miss Wilson

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all those people just started popping up in my head and you know that's over 50

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some years ago over 50 some years ago but when I start thinking about did they

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have an impact and influence in my life man that's all the way back to

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elementary and kindergarten people that impacted my life in such a way that I

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can still remember some of the things that they said back then so teachers are

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influences parents and grandparents ought to be influenced amen let's turn to my

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next turn let's say I didn't like that too good but I just time for to know you

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want to leave an influence in the world amen go to Philippians Philippians

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chapter 2 and before we close with with our brief recap of our text here we see

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the apostle Paul in Philippians chapter 2 verse 12 through 15 he you know Paul

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takes a page from Jesus teaching in Matthew and here we see him encouraging

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the Philippian believers to shine like bright lights in a world full of crooked

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and perverse people you know it light has its greatest influence and impact in

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the midst of darkness you know if I brought a flashlight in here right now

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and turned it on it probably just blend in with the rest of the light you will

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hardly see it but if I turn all the lights off that flashlight would influence

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this whole room the point I'm trying to get you to see cliff is that when you

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just hang around other folk who are like you church folk Christian folk all

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shining bright amongst each other you make no impact but when you go out into

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darkness to people who don't know the Lord and live right before them now you

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making and see what we expect that in here when you come to church on Sunday

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by virtue of the fact that you're here I'm gonna give you the benefit of the

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doubt and say you won't shine in here because this is an environment other

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lights we're here to encourage one another we're doing that but once we

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leave here you got to shine outside the church you got to shine before your

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grandchildren you can't go around them and then turn your light off you got to

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shine before your friends because when you do then now you can have an impact

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in their life because once we start hanging with people who are living in

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darkness one or two things gonna happen they're gonna be led in the direction of

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the light or they're gonna run from the light like roaches some of your friends

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ain't gonna like the light but that don't mean you turn it off your job is to

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try to get them to see that there's another side of life that don't always

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involve darkness so look at what Paul told this dear church and I mean he loved

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the Philippians man this is one of his favorite churches and and because he

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loved them so much man he didn't want them to start living in a different way

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when he was not with them so look here he says he says in verse 12 dear friends

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you always follow my instruction when I was with you most of your children will

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follow your instruction will follow your instruction long day with you long day

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with you then they you know you with mom and dad you most time you followed

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there in but the test finally came when you left them when they left you are

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you gonna now follow the instruction that they gave in here we're gonna follow

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then but the test is when you get out are you gonna follow the instruction he

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says when I was with you you follow the instructor then look at this now that I

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am away it is even more important some of y'all got kids going off the college

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this year you better sit down and tell them it's more important that you do

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what I taught you to do when you get to college that it is when you right here

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with me because why are you here with me you did it but now that I'm not there

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now that I can't be there every time you turn every time something come up you're

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gonna have to fall back on what you've been told and so it's important for your

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children when they leave you today leave with some in you had a shit of song

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something in that life so that when times get tough they can go back to what

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mom and daddy he says it's even more important so now as he's talking to the

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church he says now look he says work hard somebody say work hard that that just

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don't go over today young folk just don't believe in working hard that's

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almost like a curse word work hard why ain't got no problem with you working

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smart but work smart hard don't be smart and lazy

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work hard that's one thing my granddad to talk me that's why I like that word

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right there cuz he put that in me work if you have a good work ethics so that

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whenever wherever you go whatever you do people gonna know that you're gonna

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give it your best have a good work ethic if you put in the work up front then

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you'll be able to receive the benefits later when I was in the military one of

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things I remember when my granddad told me that every time I went PCS and where

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the first six months I work I was in early early an hour before start time I

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stayed late late because I was learning the ropes for six months but I was

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paying dividends so that when I got ready to go to the gym for three hours

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six months later nobody's gonna say nothing cuz they knew that hey he's off

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work and if he's at the gym for three hours I guarantee you what he needed to

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get done is already work hard so now how does that translate our

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spiritual life in order to grow and mature and bear fruit you got to work

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hard you you're not just gonna bear love in your life without working you ain't

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gonna have no peace unless you work you ain't gonna get no joy cliff unless you

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so when you get saved your work began you got to bear fruit in your life that's

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worthy of your salvation in order to do that you got to get rid of some old stuff

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and start doing the new thing that the Lord wants you to do

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he said work hard work hard work hard tell your children ain't a bad thing to

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have to work hard to prepare for a test they can't be watching TV and prepare

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for the test at the same time they got to now some of your kids are gifted they

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just got it you know that used to trouble me I was in Academy with a guy who

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was like that that dude sit back then they take no nose didn't take no nothing

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and I'm saying how could he do that here I am struggling and I got to go to the

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study group after we got a class this dude I did playing basketball he ain't

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taking that one note but on Friday when the test results came back the dude was

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in the 90s and that just upset me I worked hard and I was in the 80s that

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worked hard but my point is this I knew that I would have been in the 60s if I

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had no work if you gifted you got it like that but 99% of us ain't got it

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like that some of us just got to put in the word he says work hard to show the

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results of your salvation somebody ought to know that you saved

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amen you should be no closet Christian if you working to show the results of

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your salvation obeying God with deep reverence and fear so if you're working

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hard and you're obeying God and you have a reverential respect for God and in

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all who God is in your life then guess what people gonna know it people gonna

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know that if your relationship with God extend beyond just here on Sunday or

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Wednesday or whenever your time is that you meet with God during the week if it

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extend beyond that and if you just gave God a tithe of your week a tie just 20

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out of 40 is 20 wildland day 20 40 minutes a day we live in below the tithe I

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think it's safe to say if I'm living below the tithe most y'all living below

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the time

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because I don't give him two hours and 40 minutes a day I give him a lot of time

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but not two hours and 40 minutes it's what I'm trying to tell you at least

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give him stop of 10 minutes and work your way up but you got to give him

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something if you're gonna work hard you're not gonna grow into what God

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wants you to be if you don't spend no time with him you don't spend no time in

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his word you don't spend no time meditate you don't spend no time in prayer

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that's working obeying God with reverence and fear respecting God look

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here he says now when you put in the word clip he says for God is working in

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you somebody said let God work man that's what you do you need to get out the

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way sometimes just let God he's putting spirit on the inside of you for a

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reason and now you just need to move out the way get your flesh out the way and

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just let God because if you let him work he's saying here that God would give

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you the desires and the power to do what pleases somebody said let him work get

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out the way just let God work stop trying to figure this thing out all by

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yourself just let God work if you let him work he'll give you the power to get

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over some of the thing that's causing your problems in your life let God work

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you've been working long enough and your work is not yielding the fruit let God

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work man say if you let God work then guess what he gonna give you the desire

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and the power see sometimes it's our desires that pulls us away from God so

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we have to realign our desires to start desiring the things that he liked once

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we start doing that then now we're the we allow him to work in our lives

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changing us into something that we were not when we first met him that the

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transformation process going on in you and you just need to let God

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because he wants you to do things that please him then there must have been a

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little bit of fighting in the church there because he had to come back and

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throw verse 14 in there he said now do everything without complaining

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it's a church business man it's God's how try to do everything without

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complaining in our complaining you just disagree with something they doing you

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know when you complain you complain to somebody who won't listen to you amen

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but when you are good you form an argument to fuss and fight with with

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somebody and what you got to do is hear what he's telling you is a hey you may

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not agree with everything that go on is driving but don't start complaining in

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order try to find out why it's going on that way and why they doing that way but

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just don't start when you start arguing you just go at full complaining you

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kind of talk to the folk that thing like you think yeah you know you're right I

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feel like that too they shouldn't have did that that way I'm complaining yeah

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we got you I'm right there with you but then now you know Cliff was on the other

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side of the argument so you come to him it ain't that hey Cliff you know that now

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Cliff little why you were sitting there and let them you should have said some

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clip now he arguing with you Cliff

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you will put them out Cliff you know the reason you have to say this to the

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church is because when the church argue and complain and the world look in on it

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man that's a bad look when the world look in say man they over there arguing

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complaining fussing fight like that and I want no part of that man the people I

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hang out with we don't even argue like that I didn't expect that to go on in

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God's house and so he was telling me people ain't look you know that was too

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late in the church you know if you go back to the first part of you know the

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book that when he wrote to the Philippian they were just arguing about

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stuff and that's why he said let this mind be in you which is in Christ Jesus I

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mean you got to put on his mind when you come to church because when we argue

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fussing fight then that that really tarnished our light and our influence in

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the world arguing cut the lights off the world don't see us what they see now is

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wicked and perverse when we start arguing for the fight they don't see the

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love the peace and the joy and all that no they see just the opposite and what

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that does they were hey if Jesus came working out amongst his own children

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they're peaceful and they can't get along why do I need to go over there with

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him I'm doing all right I hear the world with my friend we don't even care

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wrong like the church so he says God is working you giving you the desire in the

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power to do what pleases him and he says do everything without complaining and

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arguing why so that no one can criticize you you don't want to give the world the

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ammo that they need to come against the church because we are arguing and fussing

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and fighting then he says live clean just try to live right innocent lives as

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children of God shining like bright lights in a world full of crooked or

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dishonest or illegal whatever you however you want to frame that and perverse

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people that got a abnormal behavior people man you're supposed to be like in a

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world that is full of crooked and perverse people and we can't do that if

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we are going to fuss and fight because now we acting crooked and prayer it is

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not normal for God's children to fuss and fight that's abnormal behavior just like

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in your family you wouldn't think two brothers with fussing fight or two

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sisters with fussing fight that is not normal and when abnormal behavior get

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inside the body then now you're going to get all type of wickedness and when

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that happened the light of the church is dim and it goes out and when that

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happened now Cliff we have no influence because the world won't say it didn't

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work for you why do I need that formula we got to show them that because of

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Jesus we know how to get along with one another we know how to grow and we know

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how to perfect our salvation by trying to grow to the fullness of our Lord and

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save the Jesus Christ and when they see that in us then we could shine like

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Jesus was trying to get his disciples to see in Matthew and so when I go back

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here and read this now I'm just gonna read it and then I'm gonna close he said

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in Matthew chapter chapter 5 where I've been reading in 14 he says now

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talking to the side you got to see yourself as Jesus preaching to you and

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this is part of Jesus sermon on the mouth his first sermon he had just

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finished talking about the beatitudes the blessed are they that are persecuted

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and all that he told me all the beatitudes then he told him hey look

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here if they persecuted the prophets before you they persecuted me then

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guess what they're gonna persecute you too so he said you my followers you got

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to expect a little bit of persecution every now and then Bible say those who

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desire to live righteous or live godly will suffer so sometimes persecution is

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not a bad thing if you're trying to live for the right reason amen if you get

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persecuted for doing wrong then you deserve that but if you get persecuted

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for doing what God called you to do that's good persecution I think John

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Lewis called it good trouble or good something he said you get in good

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trouble yeah that's good trouble when you persecute for trying to live right

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when you first you were trying to live like God wants you live when you

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persecute find a love one another like he wants you to love each other then

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guess what that's good persecution so now look what he tells him and this he

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says after he had finished the beatitudes and talking about the

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persecution he says now you are the light of the world then he used this

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light to tie to assembly like a city so you got to see yourself you ain't

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down in some valley right now he don't put you on the mountain top I could

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sit it sitting on a hill and a city on the hill top cannot you are not

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supposed to be hidden in there people are supposed to know who you are they

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supposed to know who you represent you're supposed to shine in the time

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that you're living in God didn't put all that he put in you for the you to turn

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you off instead of shining like a light sitting on top of a hill now good

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thing about lights sitting on top of a hill it can lights can give direction

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like it also influence light can allow you know people to see you know the

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shippers used to navigate but when they saw lighthouses that would let them know

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certain thing and so what your light can do you can provide direction to people

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that come into your life they may be wandering around out there in darkness

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but just because you so happen to be in the darkness but your light is on they

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can see you even in the midst of but if your light is off then you have no

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influence on the darkness because you are so he put his spirit inside of you so

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that you will shine so that you will live like you are a light sitting up on

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top of a city I mean you you suppose you're the world supposed to know who

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you are and because of that they ought to be under your in he says no one someone

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say no one he said man this is so simple no wonder this he says no one light a

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lamp and then put it under a basket instead of lamp is placed on a stand

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where it gives light to everyone in the cliff he says God got too much sense to

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put his light in you and then hide hide you brother Wilson he didn't put the

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light in you to hide you to put you in the closet so that nobody in your

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workplace know you say nobody know you know you your children even sure you

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supposed to be shining that I think we got this they mix up it's not that hard

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but I think we make it hard because what we want don't want to do we don't want

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to feel like we're gonna upset some folk because we shine bright so what we do

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like in the world some people that's educated they talk to other folk they

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dumb themselves down

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God don't want you to dim yourself down just to make me feel good you just need

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to turn how to talk to me in another way and let me still understand I'm

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talking to a highly lit person this is not no 10 watt bulb you talking to this

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is a thousand white coming at you and guess what I'm not gonna dim it down

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to 100 watts just because no you need all 1000 watts and I'm gonna bring it to

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you in a way that you can understand so that you don't get burnt by this by the

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fire you know I'm not gonna burn you with the fire but I'm gonna heat you up

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with the fire you're gonna know that you've been in the presence of somebody

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who got the light of the Lord gives all light to everyone in the house your

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grandchildren should be give some light when them little rascals come from

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Vegas to my house the rules change cuz we operate in different types of life I

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operate in granddaddy life they operate in mom and dad like and so my role is not

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to just give me everything they want cuz look here I'm granddad I'm big daddy I

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still believe it hey when I say sit down you've been the crowd just go ahead

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get it all out I ain't coming to your rescue I can wait as long as you can

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cry and if I was in my younger days I would whip them tears I get up you

431
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better you better get up you but now but now I can't do that I gotta just let

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them pride out just take away the oxygen and sooner later they'll go out but

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what I'm trying to tell you all that is a part of influence of them so that they

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know when I go to granddaddy house that don't work don't play that with him I

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gotta act a different way when I go to his house I can't leave stuff all low

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play pick it up you through with it over there in the corner somewhere I ain't

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gonna step stumble over tonight when I'm here influence and you got to have that

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type of influence with people in your life that's not a bad influence but

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just a good influence and so he says that in the same way you know let your

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good deeds shine out for all to see so that everyone will praise your heavenly

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it's not about you you're not shining to make you look good you're shining to

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make God look good because they want to say hey this is what God done did in

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cliff life cliff is shining like this then now when they see that they say

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man God must be real he must be real if he can change cliff if he can change

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her if he can change boulder he must be real because I remember them when they

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was walking around in darkness when they was living in perversely I remember

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there when they was crooked but now I can look at them and say man God must be

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and that's what the world need to know they need to know that we serve the

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true and living God and that his spirit is in us and when we allow that spirit

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to operate in us they want the world see that then they will want to know that's

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what our relationship started with the people that you work with you don't

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have to carry a Bible and something that the only deaths every day just live

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right before them if you working with one of the people just do some of the

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things opposite of what they do they're hard they over there cursing out each

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other around the coffee bar you go over there and join in without cursing do

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you know what that curse word mean where it come from if that's how you want to

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talk about your wife you know children influence but if you're afraid to shine

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you get desensitized to it and you can listen to it and don't do nothing to

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your spirit man I'm so sensitive now to cursing is that when I hear curse word

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man my neck just tightens up you know I can't stop everybody from cursing but

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boy that let me know the spirit inside of me don't agree with some words that

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people use it just tighten my neck up man I said God I came but you used to

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say some of those same word but now my spirit say hey I'm free from that but

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boy when I hear it just quicken my spirit say man there's a better way to

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communicate with your children with your wife with your friends and I want to say

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look because he delivered me from that by his spirit he can deliver anybody man

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he can deliver anybody so we got to be light and we got to be willing to shine

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in the world and not just in here this is the easy part of the light test come

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in here and smile hallelujah praise the Lord the real test comes when we walk

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out the door and get around the world people who don't say hallelujah and

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praise the Lord and then now do we go there and be influenced amongst them or

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do we go there and blend in with them a last testimony I know everybody ain't

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gonna stop cursing because you don't I tell you what when I made a vow to stop

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cursing and I wrote it in my Bible two years late I was curse free and the

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people that I hung around knew I didn't curse even though they kept cursing they

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didn't curse around me they had enough respect for me to not curse around me

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even though they still curse when they weren't and so I'm trying to tell you

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every now and then when people know that you have changed they will respect you

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for the change that you made in your life and that's like shining because now

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you're not being like them you're being like amongst them and now they respect

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you and eventually one day if you keep shining on them one day something

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don't wake up in them and they're gonna figure out hey I can live my life

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without that too let's be good influences man let's let's influence our

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community our family and our friends and the circles that we run and let's be

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good influences for the Lord amen give the Lord a hand clap of praise amen

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hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah every head bowed every eye closed every head

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bowed every eye closed