male announcer: This
presentation is brought to you
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by the friends of the
Amazing Facts Ministry.
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Doug Batchelor: Enoch walked
with God during a time when
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there was great
wickedness in the world.
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So you can't say, Lord, I'd walk
with You, but in this culture,
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we're in today God needs men who
are going to walk with him no
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matter what's happening around
them, that they're going to
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stand for the right,
though the heavens fall.
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Doug: I want to
welcome everybody.
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Thank you for joining us here
at Granite Bay as well as our
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friends, who are watching
on television and the internet.
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This is the second
part in a four part series.
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We have three parts and one
session of questions and answers
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dealing with mighty men of God,
and our message today is talking
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about "Walking with Integrity"
and that's a rare thing
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these days.
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You know, the Bible tells us
about someone who walked to God
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about as close as you can.
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In the book of
Genesis, you read about Enoch.
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Genesis 5:21: "Enoch lived
sixty-five years, and he begot
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Methuselah, and Enoch
walked with God after he begat
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Methuselah," and some people
think that after he had a son
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and he understood how much
God must love us and that he was
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going to send his Son,
that it did something to his
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relationship and he was
especially close to God after he
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found out about his
love for his children.
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He realized how much God our
Father loves His children and he
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walked with God.
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"And he walked with God
365 years," that's one day for
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every--or one year for every
day, and it says, "He walked
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with God and he was
not for God took him."
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And the Bible says that
he had this testimony that he
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pleased God.
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He was the first one who was,
what you would say, translated.
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God just caught him up.
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Now, through his example
of walking with God, we can
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learn something.
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First of all, we want to do what
Enoch did because Enoch is where
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we want to be.
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Where is Enoch now?
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You know, if I ask you who's the
oldest man that ever lived, what
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would you say?
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Methuselah,
that's a trick question.
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Methuselah the oldest man who
ever died; the oldest man who
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ever lived is Methuselah's
father, Enoch, because he's
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still alive.
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He never died, right?
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He's where we want to be.
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How did he get there?
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He walked with God.
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We need to have that kind
of walk, and walking with God
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doesn't just mean that you
occasionally think about God and
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you come to church once a week.
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It means having a life, a walk
of integrity, a walk of honesty.
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It's interesting that he walked
with God during a time when
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there was great wickedness
in the world, just read what it
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says about his grandson Noah.
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During the time of Enoch, it
says that the thoughts of men's
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hearts were only evil
continually and violence was in
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the land.
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We live with a lot of violence
in the world today, a lot of
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bloodshed, a lot of dishonesty,
a lot of corruption, but he was
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still able to walk with God.
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So you can't say, Lord,
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I'd walk with you, but in
this culture we're in today--God
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needs men who are going to
walk with him no matter what's
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happening around them.
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That they're going to
stand for the right, though the
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heavens fall.
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The Bible says
Noah was a just man.
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Now we're in Genesis 6, verse 9.
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Next chapter: "Perfect in
his generations, Noah walked
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with God."
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If Noah could walk with his
God just before the end of the
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world, you know Noah lived
through the end of the world
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back then.
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We can walk with God
before the end of the world now.
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He saw from the example of his
grandfather, Methuselah, and his
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father, because Methuselah died
just before the flood, and his
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great-grandfather, Enoch, what
it meant to walk with God, and
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he followed that pattern.
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Now, I'm glad I can tell you
that there were good examples
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like Enoch, and then Noah
modeled his great-grandfather's
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example, and he walked with God,
but, you know, even some of the
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men of God failed
in areas of integrity.
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When you think about
the great patriarchs,
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what are their names?
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Abraham, Isaac, Jacob.
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Abraham, a good man, loved the
Lord, kept the Commandments, but
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not always.
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You can read in Genesis 20 verse
2: "Now Abraham said of Sarah
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his wife, 'She's my sister.'"
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You know the story?
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He went down to Egypt during the
time of a famine and Sarah was
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very good looking and she
may have, you know, had a unique
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sparkle because Abraham had come
from another country, and there
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were the women in Egypt were
a little more swarthy in their
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appearance, Sarah stood out.
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It's like I remember when
Karen and I and the boys went to
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Tiananmen Square and I figured
we'd see a lot of European
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tourists there in this
big famous Chinese square.
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I was amazed at how many Chinese
tourists went there, and Nathan
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and Steven were walking around
and everywhere they walk they
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were turning heads because when
they were younger they both had
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blue hair and blond
eyes and they just stood out.
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What did I say, blue hair?
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Well, that's
now, that was before.
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[laughing]
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I really didn't mean to say
that, but everybody was turning,
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it was such a spectacle.
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And Sarah was very attractive,
even though she was older at
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this point, she still stood out,
and Abraham thought, Boy, you're
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not going to go down to Egypt,
got to go, we're out of food.
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They got food there, but,
you know, I don't know about the
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ethics of the people down there,
and they're going to look at
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Sarah and, you know,
it was pretty barbaric.
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It was the wild
wild West back then.
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They didn't have police force
and laws, and it's sort of like
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every man had his own security
team, and he thought, They're
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going to kill me
and take my wife.
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So just to play it safe,
she is actually my half sister.
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I'll leave out the wife part and
I'll just say, yeah, oh, she's
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my sister.
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Well, you know, that didn't
go very well because pharaoh
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thought oh, good, she's your
sister, I'll take her over to
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my harem.
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And then word about that ended
up getting to his son, Isaac.
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There's another famine and Isaac
has to go dwell in the land of
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the Philistines because that's
the only place there's bread,
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and he's married to his
cousin now, Rebecca, who is also
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beautiful, from the
same country as Sarah.
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And the men of the place asked
about his wife, Isaac said, Oh,
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she's my sister.
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And again later he was
discovered and he was rebuked by
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the pagans.
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So where do you
think Isaac learned that?
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And then it doesn't stop there.
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You know, the Bible says, "Unto
the third and fourth generation,
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our example of integrity or
our lack of integrity will be
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reproduced in the
lives of those around us."
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You get that?
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Our lives of integrity, or our
lack of integrity, and I expect
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to see Abraham,
Isaac, and Jacob in heaven.
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Well, we gotta get to Jacob.
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Isaac wants to bless his boys.
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He says, Call Esau.
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Genesis 27: 12: Rachel, says,
No, Jacob you go in and you
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pretend to be Esau, and you put
on Esau his clothes and say that
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you're Esau and you'll
get the blessing of Esau.
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And you notice
how it's progressing?
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First he says, Well,
she's actually my sister.
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Now she's my cousin.
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Well, Dad did it.
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I'll say she's my sister, and
now I'm going to say my brother.
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And it just a little by little,
that's a pretty far stretch from
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calling your half-sister your
wife to calling your brother,
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saying you're your brother.
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But that's kinda how compromise
happens little by little
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in degrees.
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You ever heard the expression
white lies or half truths?
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A half truth is a whole
lie, and Christians ought to be
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consistently
honest all the time.
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You've heard that expression.
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It's not an expression.
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It's actually from Numbers 32,
verse 23: "Your sin will find
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you out," you never
really get away with any lies.
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Your sin will find you,
and it catches up with you.
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Joe the butcher at the end of
his day, final customer came in
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his butcher shop, this was years
ago, and she said I'd like a
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chicken, whole chicken.
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So he reached into the freezer,
he had one chicken left, he
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pulled it out he put it on
the scale and said that'll be a
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$1.79, and she looked at it and
scrutinized it and she said you
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know, it's not quite big enough.
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I think I need a
little bigger chicken.
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She said, Can you
get me a different one?
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He took that chicken he put
it back in the freezer, fumbled
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around, and
pulled it back out again.
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This time he just put his hand
on the scale a little bit and
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said, Okay that
one's going to be $2.
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She thought for a minute.
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She said, you know, I
guess I better get them both.
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He got busted.
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Christians should
be perfectly honest.
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Moses said Deuteronomy 25:15,
"You will have a perfect and
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a just weight, a perfect and
a just measure, that your days
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may be lengthened in the land
that your Lord, the Lord your
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God is giving you."
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One of the criteria for their
staying in the land and not
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being carried off
captive was honesty.
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Faithfulness in their business,
faithfulness in their dealings
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with each other.
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And he said, I'll bless you,
because the Lord is looking for
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truth, the Bible
says, in the inward parts.
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He wants us to
walk a walk of truth.
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He wants
integrity in the family.
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One of the ways you become a
mighty man of God is by keeping
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your vows, and that would
include your marriage vows.
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Ephesians 5:22:
"Husbands, love your wives."
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How?
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"As Christ loved the church."
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He doesn't say if your
wife cooks well, love her.
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You're supposed to
love her no matter what.
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It doesn't matter whether
she's being easy to get along
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with or difficult--he
doesn't give that out here.
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It's a command: Love your wife.
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Is she your wife?
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Love her.
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Oh, but sometimes
she's so unlovable.
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How?
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Love her like
Christ loves the Church.
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Does God love us
when we're unlovable?
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Did God wait for you to be good
before he loved you or does he
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love you even when you're bad?
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You know that song "Jesus Loves
Me," there's that one verse,
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"Jesus loves me when I'm good,
when I do the things I should.
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Jesus loves me when I'm bad
even though it makes him sad."
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And our love for our wives
should be like God's love for
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us, which is a consistent,
unconditional love, A--
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congregation: Men.
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Doug: If I were to ask
all the men here how many
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love your
wives, raise your hand.
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Don't do it.
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But I bet all the hands would
go up, but then if I were to ask
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how many of the
wives feel loved?
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If there was an honest response,
you might find it's different.
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Now, men often think,
Well, I provide a good house.
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I make sure that there's
food in the refrigerator.
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I protect you.
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I do the yard work,
of course, I love you.
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I mean, for us
that's the evidence of love.
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That's not always the way
the wives view it, though.
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It says, "Husbands, love
your wives, as Christ loved the
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church and gave Himself for her,
that He might sanctify her and
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cleanse her with the washing of
the water by the word, that He
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might present her to Himself a
glorious church, not having spot
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or wrinkle or any such thing,
but that she should be holy
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without blemish.
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So husbands ought
to love their wives."
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It's talking there about Christ
loves the church so that he can
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have a sanctifying
influence on the church.
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Husbands ought to love
their wives so that we have a
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sanctifying influence on them.
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Colossians 3:19: "Husbands, love
your wives and do not be bitter
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towards them."
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Now, sometimes there's
bitterness, harsh words are
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spoken or needs aren't met and
it turns into anger and people
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can live in the same house for
years and act like strangers.
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God says you need to
love, show affection, cherish.
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Doug Batchelor: And then
not only being mighty men of God
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means examples in the family
with the wife or the spouse, but
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with the children.
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"And you, fathers, do not
provoke your children of wrath,
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but bring them up in the
training and the admonition."
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Don't just shout at them
and tell them what they're doin'
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wrong, but be an example
and admonish them in the Lord.
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Do you have
worship in your families?
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There are a lot of husbands and
wives that haven't held hands
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and prayed together.
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It's something that ought to
happen every day in a Christian
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home where
families have worship.
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You've heard the expression,
families that pray together stay
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together, and when you pray,
closer you come to one object,
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the closer you
come to each other.
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And if you're both coming closer
to God in your devotions, you'll
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be coming closer to each
other and be able to talk about
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spiritual things and
things that you learn.
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And we should be honest to God,
not only in our families, but if
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you're a Christian, you probably
have taken some baptismal vows.
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You said by God's grace, I
am going to stand for Christ.
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I'm going to be
part of this people.
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I am going to
support the work of God.
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I am going to share
the good news about Jesus.
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And have you sworn to
your own hurt and changed?
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Are you willing to keep your
word and stand for the promises
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that you've made?
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Now, being a Christian
means a consistent walk.
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Colossians 2:6: "As you there
have received Christ Jesus the
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Lord, so walk in Him."
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You know, some people lose
their first love, we need to
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consistently
continue to walk in the Lord.
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Ephesians 5:8 and 9: "For
you were once darkness, but now
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you're children of the Lord.
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Walk as children of light."
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Our neighbors and the people
around us, if we are men of
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integrity, ought to see that
we're different in the way that
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we walk.
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I heard about a missionary
in India that was teaching a
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roomful of people, and he saw
one lady about halfway through
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his presentation, got up and
went out, and he looked through
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the window and he thought he saw
her talking to his driver that
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was taking him from one
appointment to another, and then
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a few minutes later, she came
back in and she sat down and she
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looked very
interested and he was curious.
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And so after the study, he
went after he says, You know, I
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noticed you got up and you went
out partway through the program
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and I was wondering if
it was something I said?
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And she said, Well, yes.
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She said, What you said
really touched my heart.
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What you told me about Jesus was
very interesting, and I thought
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I wonder if this man
really lives like this.
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So I went out and I asked your
driver, Does this is man really
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live the things
that he talks about?
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The driver said, Yes.
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So I came back in to hear
the rest of what you had to say.
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So what would your driver say?
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Are we the same?
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You know what integrity is?
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Integrity means you're the same
person when no one's watching as
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when everybody's watching.
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That's what integrity is.
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God is calling for mighty men
who are going to be consistently
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followers of Jesus, whether
the crowd is watching or not.
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You know, I heard that somebody
did a study on the street, and
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they pretended they were
blind, and they would go up to
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strangers, and cameras were
rolling--you can actually see
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this on Youtube--and they go
up to strangers and they pretend
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they're blind, Sister, I hear
you, can you please help me?
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I've got to get change because
there was you've got to pay for
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a meter, whatever it is, can you
take this $5 bill and give me 5
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ones and some change?
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And he'd ask these strangers
on the street, but he would hand
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them, a 50.
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And fortunately, 70% of the
people said, Oh, brother, that's
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not a 5, that's
a 50, be careful.
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But it was shocking, and you
could see it, some people said
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Oh yeah, $5?
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Sure.
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Let me have your 5,
here's 5 and they walked away.
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They were pretty surprised and
because then the guy would take
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his glasses off and run up to
him and say, Hey, give me back
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my money.
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They got busted.
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But it's kind of scary to think
that when they thought nobody
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was watching, they could take
advantage of a blind person.
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They'd do it.
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I can't imagine that I would
never do that, God's my witness
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that I couldn't live with myself
doing something like that.
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But a person of integrity
realizes that God always has the
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camera running and you are the
same on camera as you are off
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camera, that's what it
means to walk with the Lord.
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It's something that's
happening consistently.
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Psalm 1, verse 1 and 2: "Blessed
is the man who walks not in the
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counsel of the ungodly, nor
stands in the path of sinners,
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or sits in the seat of the
scornful; But his delight is in
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the law of the Lord, and in His
law he meditates day and night."
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This is the man who's blessed.
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This is what it
means to walk with God.
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We talked about Joshua, where
God said last night, If you want
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to be courageous, then walk
in the laws that I gave Moses.
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Here the very first psalm, King
David, who is certainly a mighty
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man, he said, "The man who does
not walk in the counsel of the
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ungodly," and that's tough when
you're surrounded by a world
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that doesn't believe in truth,
"nor sits in the path of seat--
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sinners, nor sits in the seat of
the scornful; But his delight is
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in the law of the Lord,
and in His law he meditates day
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and night."
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Being a man of God means that
you spend time in God's Word day
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and night, amen?
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You need to be
spending time in prayer as well.
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Heard about these pigeons, you
ever seen how a pigeon walks?
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A pigeon walks where it takes a
step and then it moves its head
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and it goes like this...
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And I know they--I grew up in
New York City, we had a lot of
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pigeons--used to catch pigeons,
we bring them home, my mother
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would get disgusted, make us
take them back out again, and
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it's because someone explained
to me that a pigeon cannot focus
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its eyes while it's moving.
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It's something about their eyes
that they have to stop their
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head and they're taking a
step focus, focus, focus, focus.
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You know, ours, God made us
where our focus can continue to
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move while we're moving, and
a lot of other birds, but not a
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pigeon, but it's sort of
kind of how it is for Christian.
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As you're walking, you need
to continually adjust your focus
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based on the Word of God because
the society that we're living in
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can't see straight.
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I--kinda interesting, this year
I was at a dinner back in New
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York City, and I sat down next
to a man, and we're visiting,
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I said what's your name?
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And he said George Barna, and
he's the one who has the fame of
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Barna study group,
delightful Christian man.
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I was very impressed.
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He did a study a number of years
ago, actually it was a 1992
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study that confirmed Americans
are in danger of becoming a
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nation of relativists.
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The survey asked the Americans
is there such a thing as
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absolute truth?
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Amazingly, 66% of Americans--
it's worse today, I'm sure--66%
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of American adults responded
they believe there's no such
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thing as an absolute truth.
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You got your truth and I've
got my truth, and if you believe
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something, you'll get to heaven
and all rivers lead to the ocean
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and you're--you know, we
all kind of have our truth, and
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if its truth
for you, it's truth.
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And my truth is true for me, and
so you got your truth, I've got
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my truth.
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And he says doesn't that
kind of permeate our society?
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They can sort of
invent your own truth?
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And you know, it
sounds good philosophically,
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but in reality
that doesn't work.
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Do you want a brain surgeon to
start working on you that says
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well, I think today, I really
believe that I'm going to find
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your brain somewhere in your
ankle, because I believe it.
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Do you want to get on an
airplane and have the pilot say,
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You know, I've had an epiphany
about the laws of aerodynamic
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design, and today I'm almost
sure that this plane will work
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just as well as a submarine, so
as we're going across the ocean,
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I believe it, and so it'll work.
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Would you believe that,
or would you think he should
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be arrested?
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Because there are certain laws
of flight, and people's lives
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depend upon those
absolutes being unchanging.
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So what's the key?
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We become like who we walk with.
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As you spend time walking with
Jesus and the Bible says he is
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the truth.
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Christ said, "I am the
way, the truth, and the life."
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1 John 1:7: "If we walk in the
light as He is in the light, we
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have fellowship one with
another, and the blood of Jesus
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Christ His Son
cleanses us from all sin."
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Acts 4:13: When the disciples
were being tried for their
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faith, "When they saw the
boldness of Peter and John, and
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they perceived they were
uneducated and untrained men,
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they marveled.
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And they realize," they said
ah, "they've been with Jesus."
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By the way they were acting,
they could see that they'd been
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with Jesus.
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Have you ever met somebody
before and you just watch 'em
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for a few minutes and talk
to them and you say, I think
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they're a Christian.
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You become like
who you walk with.
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That's very important if you're
going to be a man of God, who is
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influencing you?
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The Word of God or
the views of the world?
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Do you spend more time
in the Word or watching
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videos, television?
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What's going to
define your values of truth?
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Is going to be Christ?
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We are changed by beholding,
and as we keep our eyes fixed on
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Jesus, how do we lay aside
the sin and the weight that so
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easily beset us?
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It tells us there in Hebrews
chapter 12, Looking unto Jesus,
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the author and finisher of our
faith, it's through keeping our
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eyes fixed on him we become like
him, so that we are transformed
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from glory to glory
into the same image.
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The image of the Lord.
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You know, the whole purpose
of the plan of salvation is to
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restore in man the image of God.
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We need to be spending time in
God--in Christ's Word, and being
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people of integrity.
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Being somebody who swears to
their own hurt and changes not.
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You know how hard it must have
been for Hannah when she said,
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Lord, I'm going to make a vow.
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If you give me a son, I promise
I'll give him back to you.
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And she had Samuel, it was her
only boy, and it wasn't until
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she gave Samuel back to God, God
then blessed her with several
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other children.
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You can read in the book of
Judges chapter 11 about one of
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the judges he's mentioned
in Hebrews, he's going to be in
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heaven, Jephthah.
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He said, Lord, if you give me
victory in this battle against
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the Ammonites--it might
have been the Moabites, I don't
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remember, it was one of
them -ites--you give me victory,
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it'll come to pass that when I
come back, whatever comes forth
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from my house
to greet me, I will
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offer to you as
a burnt offering.
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Well, he thought, you know,
he had a small ranch, he thought
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coming home, you know, the
family cow, goat, sheep would
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come out, and it was his
daughter that came out first.
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And he said, Oh my daughter,
you've brought me very low.
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He says, I've opened my mouth
to the Lord and I can't go back.
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And it was different from
Hannah, and he didn't sacrifice
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her, he gave her to serve
at the temple and she could
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never marry.
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And that's why it says the
daughters of Israel went up
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yearly to visit her.
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And he would never have a
son, it was his only daughter.
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She went on the mountains
to bewail her virginity,
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she said, Father, you've
opened your mouth to the Lord.
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You need to keep
your promise to God.
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Boy, those people are
pretty rare today, huh?
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And if we say,
Lord, I'm accepting you.
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I want you to be my Lord
and Savior and I'm going to live
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for you.
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I'm not going to live
for you when it's easy.
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I'm not going to live
for you when it's convenient.
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I'm not going to just live
for you when I feel like it.
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I'm going to live
for you consistently.
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I'm going to walk
a walk of integrity.
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Is that what you
want to have, friends?
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