Hello, and welcome to
Behold the Lamb Presents.
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I'm Chris Shelton your host,
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and I want to extend
a warm welcome to you
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for tuning into our program.
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Today, we are
concluding a four part series
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that we have entitled
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"The Plain Straight
Testimony Must Live."
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We've been learning
about our responsibility
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as individuals and as a
group to properly deal with sin.
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Sin separates us
from our Heavenly Father.
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It was because of sin
that Christ suffered so greatly
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and died for each
and every one of us.
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And it is because
we would rather sin
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than obey God
that so many lives,
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so many lives will be lost
in the end of this whole world.
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So we certainly hope
and we certainly pray
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that you will prayerfully
consider today's message,
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and ask God for divine
guidance in your personal
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and cooperate
preparations for the kingdom.
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But first, we're
privilege to listen to my niece,
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as she sings, "I Can Touch Him,"
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and that is by Melody Firestone,
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and brought to us
from 3ABN Worship Center.
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Desperately, she pushed
her way through the crowd
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They were crushing her
now they were crying aloud
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But she didn't care
it was her only hope
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This was an issue of life
and she could no longer cope
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If she'd ever be
healed, if she'd ever be whole
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Then he was the one
and she knew in her soul
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She had to touch him
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Oh, she said, I can touch him
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He is here within my
reach I can touch him
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Oh, I feel that he lean flow
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My faith will make me holy
as Jesus and I can touch Him
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There comes the time
when you give all you can give
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You've exhausted your mind,
you don't think you can live
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Tormented by fear,
you face the unknown
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People are there
yet you feel alone
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Then you reach out in
faith and confess once again
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Jesus is here and
there's healing in Him
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You can touch
him You can touch him
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He is here within your
reach You can touch him
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Oh, just feel that healing flow
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Your faith will make you holy
as Jesus and you can touch Him
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Oh, we can touch Him
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He is here within our reach
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We can touch Him
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Oh, I feel that healing flow
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My faith will make me holy
as Jesus and we can touch Him
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He is Jesus, he is
Jesus, and we can touch him
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Thank you for joining us
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once again here
on Behold the Lamb.
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As you know, this is
the fourth part of it.
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This is the last
part of the series about
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"The Plain
Straight Testimony Must,
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you know, Live" in the church.
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So it's very,
very important subject
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that we must deal with,
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the God requires
His people to deal with.
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And so, as we are
looking at these issues,
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we pray that the Holy
Spirit of God will not count us
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to back up and be
afraid, but to move forward
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in the power and the
might of Jesus Christ.
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Now, I'm gonna just read a text,
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well, a little quote
here from the testimony,
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then I'm gonna have prayer,
but I want you to notice this,
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4 Testimonies 185 says this,
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"The servants of God
should manifest a tender,
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compassionate spirit.
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But they must never flinch
from pointing out the sins
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that are corrupting the
professed people of God,
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nor should they cease
striving to influence them
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to turn from their
errors to obey the Lord."
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Boy, what council that is?
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We pray, you'll
take that council,
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I will take that council, and
let's take it to God right now,
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shall we as we,
as we pray together.
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Please, where you can
kneel with me as we pray,
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as we ask the
power of the Holy Spirit
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to come into our hearts,
into our minds that will make.
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Well, God, the message
for today will be clear
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in your mind and in my mind,
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and that we
maybe pleasing to God.
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Let's pray, shall we?
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Merciful, Father in Heaven,
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we thank you
for Your love today.
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We thank you for Your
longsuffering with us.
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Thank you for Your grace.
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Thank you for
the Blood of Calvary
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that flowed so freely for
each one of Your Children.
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Now, we ask if there be sin,
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anything in our hearts and
life that need not be there
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that you'll correct
that now by the blood.
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We ask for the
blood of Jesus Christ
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to cleanse us
right now, make our,
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make our minds stayed upon thee,
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help us to
realize Your coming soon,
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we need to be ready.
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Thank you for
hearing, for answering prayer,
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bless the people we pray
now that their ears maybe open,
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their eyes maybe
in tune with You,
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that they may see, hear,
and understand the truths
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that You're bringing to
them today in Jesus' name, amen.
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Now, again we encourage
you get your pencil and paper,
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because it's
important that the points
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that we're making--
we have to move quickly.
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Some people say,
it's too quickly,
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but anyway, we've
got to move quickly
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because there is just
a certain amount of time.
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We covered in part three,
and we're gonna recap that,
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incase you missed part three.
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Point number one, we
must never let sin do,
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what, appear less
sinful to the offender.
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Now, these are all
things we went over,
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not going to try
prove anything right now,
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but these are the
points that we never let,
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you catch them,
"Pat them on the heads,
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oh, we understand and
all, we, you couldn't be help."
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No, sin is
sinful, and we realized,
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it has to appear to
the offender that is sinful
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and it's hurtful
to people and to God.
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Number two,
temptation, no matter,
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doesn't matter how
strong that it may be,
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that may, we
almost overwhelmed with it
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is never an excuse to sin.
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Point number three,
God holds His people
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as a body
responsible for the sins
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in the individual members
of the church, how is that?
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Remember, for God's
people, as a body, responsible.
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So, when you're in
belong to the church,
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friend, you are responsible
for what goes on in that church.
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You have a voice.
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Power of the
Holy Spirit can work
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through your heart and mind.
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And if you don't deal with,
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you know something is
going on in the church,
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and you're not dealing
with that issue and the sin,
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they are open,
you're not prying,
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you're not circling the
block, you're not eavesdropping,
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come on,
somebody follow me here.
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But, you realized
that something is going on,
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you have an
obligation to search it out,
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for the Bible said, individual.
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Number four, if
leaders, leaders,
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you say, well, you know,
we have to be very careful
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'cause we don't want
to upset the applecart,
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that time some of you
ministers upset the applecart,
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that time you
stood for what is right.
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If we neglect,
we neglect to deal
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with the sins in the camp,
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we become
responsible for those sins.
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Same point, get it here.
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Number five, God has
laid the burden of reproving
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and correcting sin
on certain individuals.
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We learned that, didn't we?
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He doesn't choose
just everybody to do it
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because some, you know,
they -- oh, I can't deal,
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I can't deal with it,
others may not want to,
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but they, they
feel the importance
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and they feel the
power of the spirit
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that they must move forward,
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do what God has
asked him to do, what?
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So that we can be
the kind of church
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that God wants us
to be, become pure.
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Point number six,
New Testament Church,
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we're talking about here.
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When problem would
rise, would come up,
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and the local
church couldn't settle
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the issues among
themselves, what did they do?
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They had the council and
different several members
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of other churches, they
came together in council,
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and they heard the case,
they heard what was going on
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and they made massive
ruling and, you know, what?
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It's up to us to
accept if we were that person
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to accept that ruling
of the various churches.
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Number seven, God is
the leader of His people.
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Praise God for that.
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Can't say, "Well, this
group, here the leader,
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God is the leader of
His people, of His church."
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And we must realize
that, He uses visible leaders
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that people can see,
but we must always remember,
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the visible leaders must
always be attached to the, what?
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The invisible leader is, what?
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The God in
heaven to communicate.
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Last point, number eight,
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God is going to
bring in to the church.
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People, when we are, what?
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When we are converted,
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when the members
are truly converted,
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God will bring people in.
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Doesn't bring a
whole lot of people maybe
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in right now in
certain areas, why?
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Because maybe
there's some real problems
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that need to be
addressed in the church.
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As we studied in our
last lesson, we left open,
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and have your
Bible to Matthew 18:18,
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we're gonna be talking about
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because God has given
authority to the church
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to local body, hasn't He?
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To His people, to
deal with the sin issue
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something crops
up in the church,
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it has to be
dealt with, not ignored,
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it's sinful to ignore it.
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God will hold us
accountable for that.
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Jesus made it very
clear, Matthew 18:18,
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He said, "Verily I say unto you,
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whatsoever ye shall, what?
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Good, bind on
earth shall be, where?
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Bound in heaven, and whatsoever
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ye shall loosed on this
earth shall be loosed, where?
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In heaven."
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Now, again He
just didn't guess say,
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"Well, whatever the
church ruling is going to be
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and whatever they
feel like they want to do,
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then I'm gonna
go along with them."
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No, God doesn't
operate that way.
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We must follow
the rules of heaven,
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the principles of
heaven must be in play,
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that's the only way
that heaven will ratify
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the decision of
the local church.
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Now, what if the
church stands dealing with
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the sin issue and
an open sin issue.
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Okay, let's make it
clear, so now people say,
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well, you know, we
do but-let's just listen
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to the Holy Spirit here.
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What are steps that we should,
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we should we take as a church?
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Well, you know,
Matthew 18:15, simply says,
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"Moreover if your brother
shall offend, what do you do?
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Trespass, what do you do?
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Against thee, it said,
go and tell it to him, what?
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He and thee
alone, don't, him alone,
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not somebody else,
and if he shall hear thee,
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you gained your brother."
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More, lot of times
people do want to say,
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"Well, who do you think you are,
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while you're
more sinful than I am
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and more they start
throwing it back in your face."
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Oh, dear
friends, let me tell you,
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a person who is
convicted by the Spirit of God,
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even though someone come,
they come in the right spirit,
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you know, if you're
trying to live right
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and if you're fighting
some issue, you'll hear it.
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And you may welcome and
you will ask for that prayer
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and they're gonna pray,
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and you're gonna
gain some victory.
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Don't just start saying,
"Well, how about your life."
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We're talking about
dealing with open sin here,
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you've gained a brother.
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So here's what?
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Jesus makes it
clear, how a Christian
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then a church is to deal
with, with the sin issue?
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He has to deal with
somebody and this is,
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oh boy, this is
difficult, to deal with somebody
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that just blatantly wronged you,
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deal with somebody
that you sinned against you,
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somebody has taken
advantage against you,
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think about that,
somebody just living in sin.
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So, how will you
look at the issues here?
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God is saying for
us as, as individuals,
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as members of church,
somebody has done you wrong.
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Boy, I hear it
in the world today.
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Well, they did me wrong, boy,
I'm gonna do it back to them.
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Boy, I tell you,
we have to realize
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what we're getting out,
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we have time to get into
that part of that study today,
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we may not, but it's
gonna open the way for you
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to do some more studying
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of what God says
about forgiveness.
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You say, "Well, I
can never forgive them,
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then God could not--
I'm gonna make it right now,
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God can never forgive
you, He can never forgive me,
00:14:26.68\00:14:30.19
we have just closed the
door of heaven 'cause God,
00:14:30.20\00:14:34.99
because God can't agree
with you, that you said,
00:14:35.00\00:14:37.44
"I never can forgive him."
00:14:37.45\00:14:38.65
He has forgiven
you, He has forgiven me,
00:14:38.66\00:14:40.19
oh, my! Friend,
don't close the door today.
00:14:40.20\00:14:44.36
You say, "Well, I can't."
00:14:44.37\00:14:45.43
We're gonna
study little bit more,
00:14:45.44\00:14:46.62
how it's possible to
forgive someone who's,
00:14:46.63\00:14:48.80
who's done you dirty, low down?
00:14:48.81\00:14:53.38
How you can
deal with the issues?
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Well, there's a close connection
00:14:55.62\00:14:58.02
in Matthew 18 and 12 through 14,
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its about,
talking about the sheep.
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And, you know, we
talked about the sheep,
00:15:02.21\00:15:03.27
who they will
stray, and then how that
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we must deal with him
in order for the church
00:15:06.63\00:15:09.71
to be pure and
fit to be used of God.
00:15:09.72\00:15:13.00
Read that when you
have the opportunity.
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Now, so we're
talking about a brother now,
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he is in air, he is doing wrong,
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he sinned, he has gone astray,
00:15:17.93\00:15:19.15
we've gone through those issues.
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We have an
obligation, number one,
00:15:20.90\00:15:23.44
not to drive him farther
away, but to win Him back,
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to win Him back
before it's ever too late.
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Leviticus 19:17, God
gave instructions to Moses.
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Now, listen carefully,
even in the Old Testament,
00:15:35.36\00:15:38.76
notice what the problem
that what we're talking about
00:15:38.77\00:15:40.86
the issues of the church, okay,
00:15:40.87\00:15:42.47
the principle was back
there are too, notice, it says,
00:15:42.48\00:15:44.65
"Thou shalt not hate
thy brother in thine heart,
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Leviticus 19:17,
thou shalt in any wise,
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notice, rebuke
thy neighbour, what?
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Thou bare not sin for him."
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Not to it, so we have to,
you know, something is wrong,
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you need to go
between he and the alluring,
00:16:00.46\00:16:01.98
you need to talk this
issue out, if not, what?
00:16:01.99\00:16:04.28
Oh, you're gonna
have to bare his sin.
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Oh, friend, be careful.
00:16:05.65\00:16:08.29
Well, I heard people say,
00:16:08.30\00:16:09.27
"Well, I know a lot
of things going on."
00:16:09.28\00:16:11.26
Well, then you're
accountable for lot of things,
00:16:11.27\00:16:12.57
if you know, but most
generally things that you know,
00:16:12.58\00:16:14.87
you've never seen
with your own eyes,
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you think, you've heard
it, you've been gossiping,
00:16:16.45\00:16:19.10
you've been sitting around
the gossip corner up there the,
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where you have breakfast,
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you know, what I
am talking about.
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See, if we neglect to do as
Christ has instructed us to do.
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See, if we
neglect to do that work,
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we're in trouble, why?
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Because Christ
has instructed us.
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He is saying, "Pastor
Kenny, whoever you might be,
00:16:33.64\00:16:37.14
He said, 'I want
you to restore that one,
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want to restore
Him, bring Him back.'"
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Even though He is
wounded, even though He is hurt,
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but if you don't do
that, you become responsible,
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if you don't
stand up for the issue,
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you become responsible for
and partakers of that very sin.
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Now, Desire of Ages 4:41,
makes us very, very clear.
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Notice, "For the evils
that we might have checked."
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What does that mean?
00:17:00.84\00:17:02.05
"For the evils we
might have checked."
00:17:02.06\00:17:06.21
For those things that
maybe you could've stopped
00:17:06.22\00:17:08.28
because you knew somebody is
getting ready to do something,
00:17:08.29\00:17:10.22
they shouldn't
or have been doing.
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"We are just as
responsible as if we were
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guilty of the acts ourselves."
00:17:15.49\00:17:18.52
Have you ever been guilty,
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as I've been guilty
of the times passed?
00:17:19.84\00:17:22.27
Maybe you're young in
the church and you're coming,
00:17:22.28\00:17:23.99
you know some
things were going on,
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you didn't that, you didn't
just hear the gossip meal,
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but that person himself
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maybe told you or
you seen something,
00:17:29.34\00:17:31.49
you didn't quite
maybe understand,
00:17:31.50\00:17:33.16
but you're just, you're
not going to say anything,
00:17:33.17\00:17:34.85
'cause you don't
want any trouble,
00:17:34.86\00:17:36.09
you don't want to be
a problem in the church.
00:17:36.10\00:17:38.51
Oh, friend, the
devil loves for us
00:17:38.52\00:17:40.18
to try to keep
quite and back up,
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do nothing about
some of these wrongs.
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So, what? Devil loves it, what?
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God can't do
anything for the church.
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For those things
you might have checked.
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Oh, see this is--
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Now again, this is
important subject that very,
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very few people follow, why?
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Because they
believe that God somehow
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is going to overlook them.
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Some people think
they're special to God,
00:18:01.21\00:18:02.99
of course, everybody
is special, but notice it,
00:18:03.00\00:18:04.84
He doesn't just favor
one person and the other.
00:18:04.85\00:18:08.21
Oh, we're special, God
is not going to have that,
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it happened to us,
you're no exception,
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I am no exception.
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Matthew 18:15 says,
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here's what we've
to do in the situation.
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Here's where it hinges,
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here's where the
majority of the people
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who profess to be
followers of Jesus Christ.
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Here's, how they respond?
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Here's, how they respond
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when they need to
take care of an issue.
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I mean, it's just
actually four words right here,
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they either do it the right
way or they do it the wrong way,
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and it simply says,
"Thee and him alone."
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Wow! When there is an
issue that you have sin.
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Remember, you don't have to,
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'cause somebody
has given you a rumor,
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you don't go
react on that rumor,
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I've had people call
and say, "Somebody said,
00:18:50.83\00:18:54.38
I should just go
click," somebody said,
00:18:54.39\00:18:58.26
"Well, that's a
rumor mail, do you get it?
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Somebody said, they heard.
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These are all will distorts up.
00:19:02.42\00:19:04.52
The Bible says, now listen
carefully Bible says this,
00:19:04.53\00:19:07.96
"If you have awe
against your brother."
00:19:07.97\00:19:10.96
That means, your brother
has done something to you
00:19:10.97\00:19:13.83
not somebody else, you're
involved with something here,
00:19:13.84\00:19:16.63
you've seen
something that by yourself
00:19:16.64\00:19:18.69
and you just simply need
to figure it out in your mind,
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you have a right to go to him,
00:19:21.11\00:19:23.65
between he and thee alone,
00:19:23.66\00:19:25.50
most people professed to be
Christians will not do that.
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Now, listen we have
to, there's no exceptions.
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You don't just, you don't say,
00:19:35.44\00:19:36.74
"Well, okay,
well, you know, I don't,
00:19:36.75\00:19:39.58
I'm not worrying
you're gonna talk about this,
00:19:39.59\00:19:40.86
but I have a best friend
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so I'm going to
tell my best friend.
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No, Bible didn't say that.
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I'm gonna call a group together
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and we're going to discuss it.
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No, He didn't say,
calling a group together.
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Well, I've seen this,
if I'm gonna call a friend,
00:19:50.91\00:19:53.30
I need some
advice from a friend,
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Bible doesn't say that.
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Boy, you know,
with it, what do we do,
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you know, at the same time,
00:20:00.70\00:20:02.81
we're exposing,
when we're doing,
00:20:02.82\00:20:04.50
we're exposing this
wrong to other people
00:20:04.51\00:20:06.64
who have no idea
between he and thee alone,
00:20:06.65\00:20:11.89
don't listen this here, I
see this, I hear of a friend.
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You don't call a
friend and you say,
00:20:15.98\00:20:17.54
"You know, I know, I
shouldn't talk about this,
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you ever had somebody call you?
00:20:20.66\00:20:21.87
I know I shouldn't be talking
about this and you should say,
00:20:21.88\00:20:24.36
"You know, what?
Yeah, you're right, click."
00:20:24.37\00:20:28.11
I know I shouldn't
be talking about this,
00:20:28.12\00:20:30.11
I shouldn't mention
this about the situation
00:20:30.12\00:20:33.20
and then they always
say, but, there is no but!
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The Bible has already spoken.
00:20:36.32\00:20:38.54
Others say, what do you
think about this situation?
00:20:38.55\00:20:40.87
You say, "Well, I don't
know anything about it."
00:20:40.88\00:20:42.47
Well, let me tell you
what I, somebody told me.
00:20:42.48\00:20:45.43
Listen, God has
already spoken on the issue,
00:20:45.44\00:20:48.18
you don't have all these
means with everybody else
00:20:48.19\00:20:50.64
between he and
thee alone, if not,
00:20:50.65\00:20:52.48
you're doing the work
of a devil, you're bad,
00:20:52.49\00:20:55.02
worse than the other person,
00:20:55.03\00:20:56.61
you're spreading
it all over the place.
00:20:56.62\00:20:59.74
And then you say, "Well,
you're gonna be ears for them,
00:20:59.75\00:21:02.87
so they say, 'Well, let me talk
to you a little bit about it.'"
00:21:02.88\00:21:05.04
And, you know, what?
00:21:05.05\00:21:06.08
And then if you don't fold,
you begin to spill the beans,
00:21:06.09\00:21:08.99
and before long
you've added more beans.
00:21:09.00\00:21:11.63
Boy, you're
gonna have an explosion
00:21:11.64\00:21:13.05
if you know what I'm talking
about here, getting back.
00:21:13.06\00:21:15.25
You've had your
own beans in there,
00:21:15.26\00:21:18.29
put them in the pot
and you've made the thing
00:21:18.30\00:21:20.12
a lot bigger and
when it spill out,
00:21:20.13\00:21:22.23
it's a bigger
spill than it was before.
00:21:22.24\00:21:24.32
Oh, somebody needs to listen.
00:21:24.33\00:21:27.00
Some people come and they said,
00:21:27.01\00:21:31.10
"I know I
shouldn't mention this,
00:21:31.11\00:21:33.08
I told somebody I wouldn't,
but I'm gonna tell you.
00:21:33.09\00:21:36.20
Well, what do you mean?
00:21:36.21\00:21:37.94
I told them I wouldn't
mention this to anyone,
00:21:37.95\00:21:40.39
but all of a
sudden when you say,
00:21:40.40\00:21:42.90
but you have sinned at the door.
00:21:42.91\00:21:44.86
Notice that, number one, what?
00:21:44.87\00:21:47.00
Because you recognized.
00:21:47.01\00:21:49.04
You said, "I told
him I wouldn't, but."
00:21:49.05\00:21:51.51
You realized, how James 4:17
00:21:51.52\00:21:53.60
would just pound you
in the head over this.
00:21:53.61\00:21:56.11
The Bible says that,
00:21:56.12\00:21:57.11
"To him that knoweth
to do good, and what?
00:21:57.12\00:21:59.69
And doeth it not,
to him it is sin."
00:21:59.70\00:22:03.26
You said, "I
know, I shouldn't but."
00:22:03.27\00:22:06.58
Oh, friend, the Bible is clear.
00:22:06.59\00:22:09.23
Sin lies at your door
as soon as you say that,
00:22:09.24\00:22:11.49
you knew the difference.
00:22:11.50\00:22:12.64
Number two, I told
them I wouldn't tell,
00:22:12.65\00:22:16.27
but -- You have
just become a liar.
00:22:16.28\00:22:21.94
Oh, Bible,
Revelation 21:27 talks about,
00:22:21.95\00:22:25.12
"And there shall no wise
enter anything into the, what?
00:22:25.13\00:22:27.91
Into the city anything
that defileth or that, what?
00:22:27.92\00:22:31.29
Whatsoever worketh
an abomination or, what?
00:22:31.30\00:22:33.83
Maketh a lie."
00:22:33.84\00:22:35.80
You're not
going to be in heaven.
00:22:35.81\00:22:36.88
I know I shouldn't, but,
the devil loves the buts,
00:22:36.89\00:22:41.26
you get it, I was going to
do the right thing, but I--
00:22:41.27\00:22:44.99
Number three, if
someone comes to you
00:22:45.00\00:22:48.36
and starts telling you some,
00:22:48.37\00:22:49.40
oh! Yummy gossip, yummy gossip.
00:22:49.41\00:22:53.78
And then they say
something like this,
00:22:53.79\00:22:55.97
don't mention my name,
don't mention it was me,
00:22:55.98\00:22:59.18
I don't want
anybody to know it was me,
00:22:59.19\00:23:01.04
I don't want anybody
know where you heard this at,
00:23:01.05\00:23:03.74
just, before he
gets to that point,
00:23:03.75\00:23:05.49
cut him off already,
already, he is a coward.
00:23:05.50\00:23:10.20
Think about it, ah! It's gossip.
00:23:10.21\00:23:15.83
Oh, don't listen to that
kind of stuff, dear friend.
00:23:15.84\00:23:19.28
If you want the church,
00:23:19.29\00:23:21.04
if you want the straight
testimony in the church,
00:23:21.05\00:23:22.94
we're gonna have to
deal with these issues,
00:23:22.95\00:23:24.36
but it's prevalent to
see mic in every church,
00:23:24.37\00:23:27.35
and God is calling
us to put a stop to it.
00:23:27.36\00:23:30.72
Don't tell someone
something and then say what?
00:23:30.73\00:23:33.51
Don't, don't tell
where it come from.
00:23:33.52\00:23:36.05
Don't tell anyone I, I said.
00:23:36.06\00:23:39.72
How can a church be pure?
00:23:42.14\00:23:46.03
And remember, when
that person is coming to you
00:23:46.04\00:23:48.37
talking about somebody else,
00:23:48.38\00:23:50.26
they're going to
go to somebody else
00:23:50.27\00:23:52.06
and they're going
to talk about you.
00:23:52.07\00:23:54.38
Please, keep that in mind.
00:23:54.39\00:23:56.00
You say, well,
listen Desire of Ages 441,
00:23:56.01\00:24:00.05
makes this
comment again, listen.
00:24:00.06\00:24:01.92
"We are not to make
it a matter of comment
00:24:01.93\00:24:05.41
or criticism among ourselves,
00:24:05.42\00:24:09.25
nor even after it
is told to the church,
00:24:09.26\00:24:12.43
what, even after the
sins told to the church,
00:24:12.44\00:24:14.68
we are not at liberty
to repeat it to others."
00:24:14.69\00:24:19.06
We've already
skipped down a little bit
00:24:19.07\00:24:20.26
in our steps that
we're doing, but notice this,
00:24:20.27\00:24:22.45
even after it's made
public to the church meeting
00:24:22.46\00:24:25.65
because it's come to that
point that they're sinners,
00:24:25.66\00:24:27.93
not going to listen, and the
church has to be told about it,
00:24:27.94\00:24:30.98
that's the
third step, is it not?
00:24:30.99\00:24:33.80
Even after it's made.
00:24:33.81\00:24:34.96
We have no right to
discuss it, did you know,
00:24:34.97\00:24:37.75
liberty to repeat it to others.
00:24:37.76\00:24:40.11
Almost everybody goes
out and finds their friends
00:24:40.12\00:24:42.21
and they begin to
tell them everything
00:24:42.22\00:24:44.00
that took place in the church
and the people are saying,
00:24:44.01\00:24:46.16
"Why I belong to that church."
00:24:46.17\00:24:47.82
They call
themselves a Remnant Church,
00:24:47.83\00:24:49.53
they call themselves a
Commandment Keeping Church,
00:24:49.54\00:24:51.44
and look at the
problems they have,
00:24:51.45\00:24:52.97
the vision, separation.
00:24:52.98\00:24:54.34
No, God's Church, you
can known by its unity,
00:24:54.35\00:24:57.35
its love one for another,
00:24:57.36\00:24:59.92
if you really love
someone you're gonna,
00:24:59.93\00:25:01.67
you're gonna try to protect
them the best way that you can,
00:25:01.68\00:25:04.50
that doesn't mean overlook sin,
00:25:04.51\00:25:05.48
that means sweep underneath
the rug, it's simply means,
00:25:05.49\00:25:08.02
you don't want to hear
somebody talking ugly, do you?
00:25:08.03\00:25:10.78
As a parent, you would come up
and say, somebody come and say,
00:25:10.79\00:25:12.86
"Boy, I tell your
son and your daughter,
00:25:12.87\00:25:14.32
boy I tell you
how about that, right,
00:25:14.33\00:25:15.94
quick you're gonna stop
that business, aren't you?
00:25:15.95\00:25:19.05
But when it comes to
other people you say,
00:25:19.06\00:25:20.25
"Well, is that right?
00:25:20.26\00:25:21.35
Well, how did that happen?"
00:25:21.36\00:25:24.98
See the sin issue is
going to have to be dealt with,
00:25:24.99\00:25:28.65
but it has to be dealt,
00:25:28.66\00:25:30.33
what, good in the
light of God's word.
00:25:30.34\00:25:33.86
It has to be dealt with.
00:25:33.87\00:25:35.95
These are issues
that we have to look at.
00:25:35.96\00:25:37.84
Oh, I found this
little book called
00:25:37.85\00:25:39.20
"Sons and Daughters of God."
00:25:39.21\00:25:40.40
Oh, I did, you can
get one, oh you read it,
00:25:40.41\00:25:42.59
if you will this is page 13.
00:25:42.60\00:25:44.66
And it starts out telling us
00:25:44.67\00:25:45.73
about how God loves His people?
00:25:45.74\00:25:48.00
Oh, don't you know,
He loves His people,
00:25:48.01\00:25:49.88
but notice this, God
loves His people, but notice,
00:25:49.89\00:25:53.51
"He will not
serve with their sins."
00:25:53.52\00:25:57.20
Come on somebody
hang on, pen it down,
00:25:57.21\00:25:59.28
Sons and Daughters, what, 13.
00:25:59.29\00:26:01.51
He loves His people, but He
will not serve with their sins
00:26:01.52\00:26:05.61
or give-always listen
00:26:05.62\00:26:07.26
"Or He will not
give them prosperity
00:26:07.27\00:26:10.31
while they continue to follow
a wrong course of action."
00:26:10.32\00:26:13.98
Once you know, what truth is?
00:26:13.99\00:26:16.07
You cannot
prosper in this world,
00:26:16.08\00:26:18.32
not with the blessings of God.
00:26:18.33\00:26:19.70
I've heard a lot of people say,
00:26:19.71\00:26:20.68
"Well, I'm really
prospering, you know,
00:26:20.69\00:26:21.76
you just like, you know,
00:26:21.77\00:26:22.74
living for the devil
and living for the world."
00:26:22.75\00:26:24.48
And boy, I'm ready.
00:26:24.49\00:26:25.46
Let's who do you think,
you think God's prosper you,
00:26:25.47\00:26:28.65
then God is not telling
us the truth in His word
00:26:28.66\00:26:30.61
and He always
tells us the truth.
00:26:30.62\00:26:32.31
God can't prosper
anyone when they're disobedient
00:26:32.32\00:26:36.84
to the principles of His word.
00:26:36.85\00:26:38.84
Oh, yeah, well, but,
yeah, I have this-- hey,
00:26:38.85\00:26:40.87
you think the
devil can allow that,
00:26:40.88\00:26:42.85
you think he can builds you up,
00:26:42.86\00:26:44.14
you think he
can give you things,
00:26:44.15\00:26:45.89
and cost things to work
out to where it looks like,
00:26:45.90\00:26:48.09
you're having
the blessings of God
00:26:48.10\00:26:49.26
and you're living in sin
and everything is going well,
00:26:49.27\00:26:51.16
you better believe
it, that's, that's no, no,
00:26:51.17\00:26:54.15
you know,
criteria-- so, well yeah,
00:26:54.16\00:26:55.45
well I've a God's blessing me
00:26:55.46\00:26:56.50
because I have
all these things on.
00:26:56.51\00:26:59.80
You got to be
following God's word here.
00:26:59.81\00:27:01.69
Now, notice here,
Father and that's--
00:27:01.70\00:27:04.26
"Prosperity
while they continue to
00:27:04.27\00:27:05.74
follow a wrong course of action.
00:27:05.75\00:27:08.49
Only reading on, only
by faithful repentance
00:27:08.50\00:27:12.48
will their sins
be forgiven, for God,
00:27:12.49\00:27:16.01
listen, will
not cover their evil
00:27:16.02\00:27:19.21
with the robe of
His righteousness."
00:27:19.22\00:27:22.15
God will not, what, cover evil
00:27:22.16\00:27:23.98
with the robe of
His righteousness.
00:27:23.99\00:27:26.72
Sin does what?
00:27:26.73\00:27:28.06
Psalms 59, sin
separates us from God.
00:27:28.07\00:27:33.01
God cannot bless.
00:27:33.02\00:27:36.22
He can even answer
our prayer when we're,
00:27:36.23\00:27:38.25
here's, when we're separated
from Him because of sin,
00:27:38.26\00:27:41.45
but I do know this.
00:27:41.46\00:27:42.73
Proverbs 15:29, He
said, listen to this, He said,
00:27:42.74\00:27:46.21
"He heareth the
prayers of the righteous."
00:27:46.22\00:27:50.03
Oh, isn't that good news?
00:27:50.04\00:27:51.64
The Bible says, "He heareth
the prayers of the righteous."
00:27:51.65\00:27:55.60
Those are
striving to do the right
00:27:55.61\00:27:56.99
by the grace and the strength,
00:27:57.00\00:27:58.50
and the power of God.
00:27:58.51\00:28:00.12
He hears it.
00:28:00.13\00:28:01.10
Oh, and He, He hears their
prayer and He commits us to,
00:28:01.11\00:28:03.95
what, answer those prayers.
00:28:03.96\00:28:06.11
But, boy, there is a Bible say
00:28:06.12\00:28:07.13
in the Proverbs 28 verse 9 said,
00:28:07.14\00:28:10.08
"He that turneth away his
ear from hearing the law."
00:28:10.09\00:28:13.03
And we've got some
people today, isn't that right?
00:28:13.04\00:28:15.98
Oh, you need to look.
00:28:15.99\00:28:17.54
"He that turneth
away his ear from hearing
00:28:17.55\00:28:19.59
the law even his prayer
shall be an abomination."
00:28:19.60\00:28:23.94
Wow, Proverbs
28:13, you know this well.
00:28:23.95\00:28:28.97
"He that covereth, what?
00:28:28.98\00:28:30.54
His sins shall not prosper."
00:28:30.55\00:28:32.79
So anybody says that,
00:28:32.80\00:28:34.07
"I'm living in sin,
I'm living for the world,
00:28:34.08\00:28:35.70
I don't care
about Jesus, and I"--
00:28:35.71\00:28:37.39
God is not prospering him.
00:28:37.40\00:28:41.28
God can't prosper, why?
00:28:41.29\00:28:42.59
Because the Bible says so,
00:28:42.60\00:28:44.27
"If you cover your
sin you can not prosper,
00:28:44.28\00:28:47.38
but whosoever confesses
and what, and forsaketh."
00:28:47.39\00:28:51.24
Didn't just say
confess, you confess
00:28:51.25\00:28:53.39
and you forsake,
you get rid of it?
00:28:53.40\00:28:55.02
There is no longer
exist in your life,
00:28:55.03\00:28:56.77
"Them shall he have mercy."
00:28:56.78\00:28:58.70
Praise God for that.
00:28:58.71\00:29:00.51
Psalm 66:18, it says,
"If I regard iniquity,
00:29:00.52\00:29:04.65
what, you know this
one, if I guard what?
00:29:04.66\00:29:06.79
Iniquity in my heart,
the Lord will not hear me."
00:29:06.80\00:29:12.33
There is no use
trying to say, well, yeah,
00:29:12.34\00:29:13.87
He, by there is
circumstance-- the Bible said--
00:29:13.88\00:29:17.25
the Bible has
spoken, God has spoken,
00:29:17.26\00:29:19.76
that's it on the issue.
00:29:19.77\00:29:22.25
If we can only come to
that point in our life,
00:29:22.26\00:29:24.06
how much happier we would be?
00:29:24.07\00:29:27.35
Friend, you know,
why we seek may be
00:29:27.36\00:29:30.21
to correct someone in air
00:29:30.22\00:29:33.56
and if we are led by
the Holy Spirit to do so.
00:29:33.57\00:29:38.02
Listen very
carefully, we will try to
00:29:38.03\00:29:41.03
protect that person from
the loose talk of the church.
00:29:41.04\00:29:47.11
Are you still with me?
00:29:47.12\00:29:49.64
And certainly we
will try to protect them
00:29:49.65\00:29:51.80
from the world, if we love them,
00:29:51.81\00:29:53.56
if we're led by
the Spirit of God,
00:29:53.57\00:29:55.88
and if we
really love that person
00:29:55.89\00:29:57.45
we're not gonna let
somebody take him apart.
00:29:57.46\00:30:03.62
And what is the good
reason, why we won't,
00:30:03.63\00:30:05.74
we shouldn't let someone take,
00:30:05.75\00:30:07.04
you know, someone
who is fallen in the sin,
00:30:07.05\00:30:08.68
someone who is, all of a sudden,
00:30:08.69\00:30:09.77
they found themself
in a real mess, why?
00:30:09.78\00:30:13.04
Because you are
weak and I am weak.
00:30:13.05\00:30:16.83
We need God's mercy,
00:30:16.84\00:30:18.07
we need God's
forgiveness, do we not?
00:30:18.08\00:30:21.86
And this is how I
would want to be treated
00:30:21.87\00:30:24.48
if I fell into
that same situation.
00:30:24.49\00:30:26.24
How about you?
00:30:26.25\00:30:27.67
Bible is clear in
Galatians 6:1, it simply says,
00:30:27.68\00:30:30.22
"Consider thyself lest
thou also be, what, be tempted."
00:30:30.23\00:30:35.33
So in dealing with someone else
00:30:35.34\00:30:36.97
I want to deal with them the way
00:30:36.98\00:30:38.52
I would like to be
dealt with, don't you?
00:30:38.53\00:30:42.18
Sure, you would, not unmerciful,
00:30:42.19\00:30:44.26
not gossip back
by about throw out.
00:30:44.27\00:30:48.63
Oh, friend, there's many,
00:30:48.64\00:30:51.79
many who have been
wounded by someone,
00:30:51.80\00:30:54.88
and I've talked to a lot
of, they have been wounded,
00:30:54.89\00:30:56.63
have been hurt and, and I
know some of these people,
00:30:56.64\00:30:59.14
listen they try to
get over this hurt,
00:30:59.15\00:31:03.78
they try to love this
person, they may not be able to
00:31:03.79\00:31:09.40
fellowship with
him, because that person
00:31:09.41\00:31:11.06
just too far away gone,
but they don't want that
00:31:11.07\00:31:13.47
to separate them from God,
so they want to be forgiving
00:31:13.48\00:31:16.11
and they're working on
it, but somehow they just
00:31:16.12\00:31:18.24
can't seem to,
to love them the way
00:31:18.25\00:31:20.26
that they should,
let me give you some,
00:31:20.27\00:31:22.05
oh, I tell you
Gospel Workers page 4 of 97,
00:31:22.06\00:31:25.72
makes this comment.
00:31:25.73\00:31:26.79
Oh, please don't miss
this, please don't miss this.
00:31:26.80\00:31:31.15
Because everybody has
been wrong by somebody
00:31:31.16\00:31:33.83
and many times
over in some cases,
00:31:33.84\00:31:36.42
and I heard people lot of time,
00:31:36.43\00:31:37.40
I can't get
over, I can't get over.
00:31:37.41\00:31:39.69
No, listen, I can't love them,
00:31:39.70\00:31:41.49
I can't deal with them,
let me, listen here, here's
00:31:41.50\00:31:43.67
the whole issue right now,
you cannot and you never will
00:31:43.68\00:31:47.33
on your own, I
never will on my own.
00:31:47.34\00:31:49.71
Here's what this
little paragraph says,
00:31:49.72\00:31:51.78
"We need not begin by
trying to love one another."
00:31:51.79\00:31:57.28
Wow, people say, "Well,
I'm gonna try to love him."
00:31:57.29\00:31:59.41
Don't begin by just
trying to love them.
00:31:59.42\00:32:02.26
Here's the key,
"But the love of Christ
00:32:02.27\00:32:06.05
in the heart is what is needed."
00:32:06.06\00:32:10.07
Christ in the heart, what?
00:32:10.08\00:32:12.01
'Cause Christ can
love that person, why,
00:32:12.02\00:32:15.07
he has loved you and
me, we've sinned, right?
00:32:15.08\00:32:18.49
We're garbage of the
earth, the dust none good,
00:32:18.50\00:32:22.14
no matter what, but He love it,
00:32:22.15\00:32:23.55
Christ can love them.
00:32:23.56\00:32:26.06
And if you let
Christ into your heart,
00:32:26.07\00:32:27.90
you can begin to
love, that's what is needed,
00:32:27.91\00:32:30.21
and here's goes on, it says,
00:32:30.22\00:32:31.58
"When self is
submerged in Christ,
00:32:31.59\00:32:36.51
true love springs
forth spontaneously."
00:32:36.52\00:32:41.27
I have to submerge
myself in the love of Christ.
00:32:41.28\00:32:45.80
I have to have that
robe of righteousness on,
00:32:45.81\00:32:47.92
because I just in my flesh,
00:32:47.93\00:32:49.82
I just can't love
somebody who has been ugly.
00:32:49.83\00:32:53.99
You just can't love
somebody that's ripped you off.
00:32:54.00\00:32:59.31
You can't love
somebody that's beaten,
00:32:59.32\00:33:01.60
battered somebody that you love.
00:33:01.61\00:33:03.05
You can't love
somebody that's kill
00:33:03.06\00:33:04.71
some of your
fellows and friends,
00:33:04.72\00:33:06.07
you can't love somebody that's
ripped somebody may your son,
00:33:06.08\00:33:09.39
your daughter, whatever
might it you're your child,
00:33:09.40\00:33:12.04
not on your own.
00:33:12.05\00:33:16.29
And so, what I
encourage you to do,
00:33:16.30\00:33:17.31
if you've had those situations
00:33:17.32\00:33:18.79
and maybe some
worst it could be,
00:33:18.80\00:33:21.59
you submerge
yourself in Jesus Christ,
00:33:21.60\00:33:26.31
fill yourself
with the love of Jesus,
00:33:26.32\00:33:29.76
let Jesus come into
His heart of love, what?
00:33:29.77\00:33:32.52
He begins to love
them and that's awesome.
00:33:32.53\00:33:35.85
Your feelings begin,
emotions begin to change,
00:33:35.86\00:33:37.84
you're not really sure, how
as you submit yourself to Him.
00:33:37.85\00:33:42.38
I'll said, you
can deal with issues
00:33:42.39\00:33:43.70
that you
couldn't deal with us for.
00:33:43.71\00:33:47.10
So, when we deal with
sin and a brother or a sister
00:33:47.11\00:33:50.74
in the church or
out of the church
00:33:50.75\00:33:52.49
and we're talking about
this nasty word correction.
00:33:52.50\00:33:57.54
We must deal according to the
word of God, isn't that right?
00:33:57.55\00:34:00.52
That's what we're learning here.
00:34:00.53\00:34:02.35
Think on this, if you
have been wounded lately,
00:34:02.36\00:34:07.06
if you've been hurt by someone,
00:34:07.07\00:34:09.50
if someone's
taken advantage of you.
00:34:09.51\00:34:12.29
Think on this for just a moment,
00:34:12.30\00:34:13.65
just little common sense
00:34:13.66\00:34:14.84
principles here,
but please think.
00:34:14.85\00:34:16.13
Number one, if
someone's wounded you lately,
00:34:16.14\00:34:19.08
take care of the issue quickly.
00:34:19.09\00:34:22.11
Did you get that? Why?
00:34:22.12\00:34:24.19
So resentment will
not turn into malice
00:34:24.20\00:34:28.78
because it begins to be, what?
00:34:28.79\00:34:30.93
You resent, you dislike,
00:34:30.94\00:34:33.11
and then I hear that people say,
00:34:33.12\00:34:34.38
I hate, because what?
00:34:34.39\00:34:36.31
They didn't take
care of the issue,
00:34:36.32\00:34:37.64
they won't take care
of the issue, get so.
00:34:37.65\00:34:39.37
Two, realizing if
you don't take care
00:34:39.38\00:34:42.40
of this issue quickly,
this wound is going to fester,
00:34:42.41\00:34:48.37
it's going to break open with
this poison and it's going to,
00:34:48.38\00:34:51.90
but just poison
your whole being,
00:34:51.91\00:34:55.46
every word that
you come out is poison,
00:34:55.47\00:34:57.41
every deed that
you do is poisonous.
00:34:57.42\00:35:00.88
You'll say, and do things
that you can't easily take back.
00:35:00.89\00:35:06.20
Oh, how many of you
said those are all I have?
00:35:06.21\00:35:08.93
Oh, Lord help me.
You can't take it back.
00:35:08.94\00:35:14.78
Didn't take care of the issue.
00:35:14.79\00:35:15.99
Number three, here is
the key that most people,
00:35:16.00\00:35:19.47
oh, they never think off.
00:35:19.48\00:35:22.36
In fact, when
they've been wounded,
00:35:22.37\00:35:23.34
they've been hurt, they've been,
00:35:23.35\00:35:25.03
you know used, all they
want to do is talk about it.
00:35:25.04\00:35:29.97
I'm going to encourage you,
don't dwell on the situation.
00:35:29.98\00:35:34.21
I know it's gonna be difficult,
00:35:34.22\00:35:35.45
but something else
gonna have to fill you,
00:35:35.46\00:35:36.92
your mind and your heart,
00:35:36.93\00:35:37.90
don't dwell on
that situation, why?
00:35:37.91\00:35:40.72
Because it's only
going to get worse if you do.
00:35:40.73\00:35:42.67
We have to learn by the grace
of God to guard our thoughts,
00:35:42.68\00:35:47.38
the mind of Christ.
00:35:47.39\00:35:48.84
Guard our very thoughts,
00:35:48.85\00:35:50.31
because it can turn
in to, what? Just poison.
00:35:50.32\00:35:52.68
And number four, quickly go to
00:35:52.69\00:35:54.71
your brother and listen,
do it in humility and talk.
00:35:54.72\00:36:01.08
Go to the brother
in humility and talk.
00:36:01.09\00:36:03.08
And some of you're gonna
say so I am going to answer
00:36:03.09\00:36:04.64
those questions in a minute.
00:36:04.65\00:36:05.75
Somebody say, "Yeah, I would,
00:36:05.76\00:36:06.82
but it's not my
fault, I didn't do it,
00:36:06.83\00:36:10.10
and I'm not going."
00:36:10.11\00:36:13.88
Listen, we must learn
to forgive others and wow,
00:36:13.89\00:36:19.90
we need Jesus, isn't that right.
00:36:19.91\00:36:21.54
We have to learn to forgive.
00:36:21.55\00:36:23.35
Mark 11:26 we, you know,
00:36:23.36\00:36:25.28
kind of been bringing
this in principle along,
00:36:25.29\00:36:28.04
but listen, the way
that we forgive, what?
00:36:28.05\00:36:31.60
Others is the way
that he is going to, what?
00:36:31.61\00:36:34.24
Forgive, that's the principle
of Mark 11, you read it 26,
00:36:34.25\00:36:36.87
when you have the opportunity.
00:36:36.88\00:36:39.19
If we don't forgive others
it says, God cannot forgive us.
00:36:39.20\00:36:42.88
So it's essential to
salvation that we learn
00:36:42.89\00:36:45.30
by the grace of
God how to forgive,
00:36:45.31\00:36:49.15
or He can't forgive me.
00:36:49.16\00:36:52.89
And I know this by
reading my Bible, in Mark 2:7,
00:36:52.90\00:36:55.87
it said, "God forgive sin."
00:36:55.88\00:37:00.07
And you know what
Jesus is on the earth
00:37:00.08\00:37:02.15
and Jesus
praised God by His blood.
00:37:02.16\00:37:04.43
He forgives, isn't
right, Mark 2 verse 10,
00:37:04.44\00:37:07.17
Jesus forgives sin.
00:37:07.18\00:37:10.41
There is no pastor,
there is no evangelist,
00:37:10.42\00:37:13.34
there is no priest, there is
no pope that can forgive sin.
00:37:13.35\00:37:20.94
My Bible says,
"God forgives sin,
00:37:20.95\00:37:22.82
Jesus forgives
sin," isn't that right?
00:37:22.83\00:37:24.85
And my Bible says this in
First John, you know 1:9 said,
00:37:24.86\00:37:29.24
that we've confessed
our sins, what is He?
00:37:29.25\00:37:31.12
He is faithful and
He's just to do, what?
00:37:31.13\00:37:33.35
Forgive us of our sin
and cleanse us from all
00:37:33.36\00:37:36.45
unrighteousness,
isn't that good news?
00:37:36.46\00:37:39.91
Some of you are just bound
under the hand of the enemy,
00:37:39.92\00:37:43.51
you just bound, you
know, how to get loose,
00:37:43.52\00:37:47.52
you want to get loose
and you want to change,
00:37:47.53\00:37:49.26
and you want your
life to start all over,
00:37:49.27\00:37:51.30
girlfriend, the problems.
00:37:51.31\00:37:54.24
You don't know how?
00:37:54.25\00:37:56.98
And somebody is wronged you
00:37:56.99\00:37:58.10
and yet you're holding
things inside and you say,
00:37:58.11\00:38:00.51
"Yep, I'd go to
him, but it's not him,
00:38:00.52\00:38:02.61
it's not me, it's
him, he is guilty.
00:38:02.62\00:38:06.03
He is the one that
should be coming to me."
00:38:06.04\00:38:09.75
Let me just encourage
you, put pride aside, do what?
00:38:09.76\00:38:17.09
Usually, if it boils down,
it boils down to a pride issue.
00:38:17.10\00:38:20.80
Put pride aside,
you make the first move,
00:38:20.81\00:38:26.90
regardless of how
offensive his conduct.
00:38:26.91\00:38:31.03
See, God doesn't change His
plan for settling the issue.
00:38:31.04\00:38:35.91
Think about, God
never changes His plan
00:38:35.92\00:38:38.05
for settling an issue.
00:38:38.06\00:38:40.22
Go to Him, and what?
00:38:40.23\00:38:42.12
The Bible says, "Go to
him in love reasonably,
00:38:42.13\00:38:45.07
calmly, quietly."
00:38:45.08\00:38:48.93
Remember, remember
you're trying to do, what?
00:38:48.94\00:38:51.26
Good. Win a
brother back to Christ.
00:38:51.27\00:38:55.28
James 5:20 says this,
00:38:55.29\00:38:57.05
"Let him know,
that he which, what,
00:38:57.06\00:38:59.24
converteth the sinner
from the error of his way
00:38:59.25\00:39:02.51
should save a soul from death,
00:39:02.52\00:39:05.04
and shall hide a
multitude of sin."
00:39:05.05\00:39:07.58
Aren't you glad,
you have scripture?
00:39:07.59\00:39:09.29
Aren't you glad, you
can draw from this well?
00:39:09.30\00:39:13.56
The blessings and the
strength, and the power,
00:39:13.57\00:39:16.87
led Him that converteth
sin, go to the sinner,
00:39:16.88\00:39:19.79
beg and plead to
get right with God.
00:39:19.80\00:39:22.64
See, that's why "The
Plain Straight Testimony
00:39:22.65\00:39:25.22
Must Live In The Church."
00:39:25.23\00:39:27.89
It must be dealt with.
It's a God appointed work.
00:39:27.90\00:39:34.34
God is in charge,
and you know, what?
00:39:34.35\00:39:37.09
He is going to be
leading the spiritual minded,
00:39:37.10\00:39:40.69
because they are open
and they're listening.
00:39:40.70\00:39:43.36
Let me just read this
quote a little letter,
00:39:43.37\00:39:46.39
found Letter
Two, written in 1851.
00:39:46.40\00:39:49.40
Wow, listen to
this one, it says,
00:39:49.41\00:39:51.74
"God will separate the
precious from the vile.
00:39:51.75\00:39:56.17
Although He bears long, listen,
00:39:56.18\00:39:58.33
with the
hypocrite and the sinner,
00:39:58.34\00:40:01.14
yet he will be searched out."
00:40:01.15\00:40:04.49
What is being,
what's being taught here?
00:40:04.50\00:40:07.49
God eventually
is going to separate
00:40:07.50\00:40:09.01
the precious from the what?
00:40:09.02\00:40:10.47
From the vile.
00:40:10.48\00:40:11.72
The holy and
the purer from what?
00:40:11.73\00:40:13.61
The unrighteous.
Although He bears along
00:40:13.62\00:40:16.64
with the hypocrite,
see hypocrites lot of time
00:40:16.65\00:40:18.75
and sinners say, well, I
have been doing this for years
00:40:18.76\00:40:20.66
and God hasn't done anything yet
00:40:20.67\00:40:22.17
and everything
is fine right now,
00:40:22.18\00:40:23.86
yet He is going
to search you out.
00:40:23.87\00:40:26.97
Bible said be sure
your sins will find you out.
00:40:26.98\00:40:30.52
You know, again if
we're following Mathew 18,
00:40:30.53\00:40:32.11
what we are talking about,
00:40:32.12\00:40:33.09
this is our
time is getting down.
00:40:33.10\00:40:36.58
Bible says when we go to them,
00:40:36.59\00:40:37.84
when we try to plead
with them but they don't want,
00:40:37.85\00:40:39.98
they won't hear the, the
next step is you do what,
00:40:39.99\00:40:43.85
it says you take, take
another with you witness,
00:40:43.86\00:40:46.60
two or three with you, you
take some witnesses with you,
00:40:46.61\00:40:50.49
because the Bible said
you know in the mouth of what?
00:40:50.50\00:40:52.65
Two or three witnesses,
this may be established.
00:40:52.66\00:40:56.53
Please think on
this for a moment,
00:40:56.54\00:40:58.43
the steps that
God has given to what?
00:40:58.44\00:41:00.29
The straight testimony
can live in the church.
00:41:00.30\00:41:02.26
Sin can be
eradicated from the church,
00:41:02.27\00:41:03.81
the member, we're
talking about the people God?
00:41:03.82\00:41:06.44
We have to deal
with these issues,
00:41:06.45\00:41:08.70
they won't go away on their own.
00:41:08.71\00:41:11.25
Only as we deal with them in
the strength of power of God,
00:41:11.26\00:41:15.08
can the church become pure
the way God want's it to be.
00:41:15.09\00:41:18.01
Beset the man won't
listen when you go to he
00:41:18.02\00:41:19.82
and thee alone and it
still an issue and continues on.
00:41:19.83\00:41:22.30
You take your couple
of witnesses with you
00:41:22.31\00:41:24.10
and then you plead
with that brother again.
00:41:24.11\00:41:28.29
Who do you take with you?
00:41:28.30\00:41:30.97
When you go to see this
brother to winning back,
00:41:30.98\00:41:32.58
who you're gonna take?
00:41:32.59\00:41:33.83
You take the spiritual minded.
00:41:33.84\00:41:36.70
Those who want to win this
brother or the sister back,
00:41:36.71\00:41:40.88
the spiritual, I can
remember a case here,
00:41:40.89\00:41:43.64
I know our time run
short Lord help us look.
00:41:43.65\00:41:46.62
We had a man sitting in there
and he is talking about CNN,
00:41:46.63\00:41:49.34
open CNN, dealing
with CNN in the church
00:41:49.35\00:41:51.66
and here's this one
man setting you know,
00:41:51.67\00:41:53.63
and talking about the issues.
00:41:53.64\00:41:55.31
Well let me just get
real personal with you,
00:41:55.32\00:41:58.01
you know, as the pastor,
00:41:58.02\00:41:58.99
I knew this person and
talk with him privately
00:41:59.00\00:42:02.52
and he is dealing with
an issue of another person
00:42:02.53\00:42:05.33
that somebody had said something
00:42:05.34\00:42:08.65
and so he wants to sit in
council and pass judgments
00:42:08.66\00:42:10.87
on somebody that said
something about somebody else
00:42:10.88\00:42:13.86
and here was the man and I
called his--here is the man,
00:42:13.87\00:42:17.08
listen carefully here was a man,
00:42:17.09\00:42:18.80
you take the spiritual
minded with you not the sinner.
00:42:18.81\00:42:21.46
This man was openly
living with someone professing
00:42:21.47\00:42:24.74
to be a member of
good standing in the church
00:42:24.75\00:42:27.08
and as he told me and
I'm not talking about names,
00:42:27.09\00:42:29.22
so you don't know.
00:42:29.23\00:42:30.20
Well, I say he said everyday
I got to smoke some pot.
00:42:30.21\00:42:36.24
And he is gonna sit and
pass judgment on somebody else?
00:42:36.25\00:42:40.49
Somebody said, take
the spiritual minded.
00:42:40.50\00:42:46.82
I didn't put up with him
very long I can tell you.
00:42:46.83\00:42:50.30
It takes a lot of nerve.
00:42:50.31\00:42:53.36
See the hope is dealing
with these people there what,
00:42:53.37\00:42:55.93
they'll turn from
the air of their way.
00:42:55.94\00:43:00.57
And the ones who
are there and talking
00:43:00.58\00:43:02.26
to the one who may be fallen,
00:43:02.27\00:43:04.85
that they see the all
these other brothers sit,
00:43:04.86\00:43:06.60
they are in agreement and
it's the right thing to do.
00:43:06.61\00:43:10.67
It will help him
to see it clearly.
00:43:10.68\00:43:13.64
This is all
about getting us ready
00:43:13.65\00:43:14.89
for the coming of Jesus Christ.
00:43:14.90\00:43:17.21
See again I can see
the duty, can't you of the,
00:43:17.22\00:43:19.59
of the local body of believers.
00:43:19.60\00:43:22.73
The local body of
believers to deal with those
00:43:22.74\00:43:26.61
or some of these
actions are contrary
00:43:26.62\00:43:28.77
to the light that they have.
00:43:28.78\00:43:31.36
We have to deal with them.
00:43:31.37\00:43:33.60
Now, I want you get up
in arms about this just yet.
00:43:33.61\00:43:38.42
Give me a chance
to kind of explain
00:43:38.43\00:43:39.84
little bit here but that,
this statement might shock
00:43:39.85\00:43:42.06
somebody, somebody say--
why shock me in a long time.
00:43:42.07\00:43:46.64
This little book called
Testimonies to Ministers 450,
00:43:46.65\00:43:49.17
if you haven't
read it for a while,
00:43:49.18\00:43:50.68
this might shock
you, but let me explain
00:43:50.69\00:43:52.90
little bit as we go.
00:43:52.91\00:43:53.88
I'm gonna read the statement out
00:43:53.89\00:43:54.86
and then you see if
this is not real plain,
00:43:54.87\00:43:57.48
straight
testimony, see if it's not.
00:43:57.49\00:44:02.89
It says "The time has
come for earnest and powerful
00:44:02.90\00:44:07.25
efforts to rid the church".
00:44:07.26\00:44:09.82
Now stop right there,
I kind of go back listen
00:44:09.83\00:44:11.79
"The time has come for
earnest and powerful efforts
00:44:11.80\00:44:14.77
to rid the church of
the slime and the filth
00:44:14.78\00:44:20.06
which is tarnishing her purity."
00:44:20.07\00:44:22.77
The church of Christ
is called to be a holy,
00:44:22.78\00:44:25.02
powerful people, a name
of praise to all the earth.
00:44:25.03\00:44:31.86
Now you tell me that's
not plain and straight.
00:44:31.87\00:44:34.64
It said the time
has come, time is past,
00:44:34.65\00:44:36.94
we need to rid, you know,
00:44:36.95\00:44:38.31
as the church
needs to be rid of what?
00:44:38.32\00:44:39.86
It says the slime and the filth.
00:44:39.87\00:44:43.90
Now let me just
put that into nutshell
00:44:43.91\00:44:45.57
that I'm thinking
sin here, aren't you?
00:44:45.58\00:44:47.96
The slime of sin in the
church that filth of sin
00:44:47.97\00:44:51.52
in the church, we
are all filthy rag,
00:44:51.53\00:44:53.39
we understand
that, so we'll say well,
00:44:53.40\00:44:55.02
you have that person sliming up,
00:44:55.03\00:44:56.57
let's talk about the sin issue.
00:44:56.58\00:44:59.26
It's time to get rid of it.
00:44:59.27\00:45:01.38
So, in dealing with sin issues,
00:45:01.39\00:45:03.25
this slime and the filth of sin,
00:45:03.26\00:45:05.56
please keep this in mind.
00:45:05.57\00:45:07.71
Testimonies to Ministers
451, now we're dealing here
00:45:07.72\00:45:10.23
but keep this in
mind and you've seen it
00:45:10.24\00:45:12.98
and I've dealt with
it, "Sacred and holy things
00:45:12.99\00:45:16.82
are brought down to the
level of the common things."
00:45:16.83\00:45:20.87
Did you get that?
00:45:20.88\00:45:22.10
Sacred and holy thing,
see what's in the sanctuary?
00:45:22.11\00:45:26.48
I won't think about the cameras,
00:45:26.49\00:45:28.82
the equipment that God
has given, it belongs to Him,
00:45:28.83\00:45:32.53
it's sacred and
it's holy, you're sacred,
00:45:32.54\00:45:35.89
you're holy to Him.
00:45:35.90\00:45:37.40
But people want to bring them
00:45:37.41\00:45:38.72
down to the
common level of things.
00:45:38.73\00:45:41.44
She says this, note,
00:45:41.45\00:45:42.51
"The commonness, a cheapness,
00:45:42.52\00:45:45.42
is working itself
into our churches.
00:45:45.43\00:45:48.72
A standard must be elevated,
00:45:48.73\00:45:52.13
the work must
have a higher mold.
00:45:52.14\00:45:54.79
There must be
coming out of the customs
00:45:54.80\00:45:58.43
and the practices of the
world and being separate.
00:45:58.44\00:46:02.73
There must be a
coming upon a higher platform
00:46:02.74\00:46:06.21
by both ministers and people."
00:46:06.22\00:46:09.24
Man that's heavy
duty, you realize at time
00:46:09.25\00:46:12.54
that could be spend
just on this paragraph,
00:46:12.55\00:46:16.58
that which belongs to Lord as,
00:46:16.59\00:46:18.59
you know, the
Seventh-day Sabbath,
00:46:18.60\00:46:19.79
it's sacred and it's holy
and sometime we try to bring it
00:46:19.80\00:46:24.25
down to the level of
the, the common things.
00:46:24.26\00:46:29.56
It's a disgrace, cheapness,
00:46:29.57\00:46:32.87
we're bringing
cheapness into the church,
00:46:32.88\00:46:36.26
cheap teaching
and cheap doctrines
00:46:36.27\00:46:38.59
and friend there is
nothing cheap about salvation.
00:46:38.60\00:46:42.28
Wow! We must reach a higher
standard but more and more.
00:46:42.29\00:46:48.08
We find it
people have a tendency
00:46:48.09\00:46:50.14
trying to lower the standard.
00:46:50.15\00:46:52.43
We're calling scripture
to elevate the standard,
00:46:52.44\00:46:55.23
let the people see the standard
elevated before the people,
00:46:55.24\00:46:58.63
call their attention to it.
00:46:58.64\00:47:00.98
There must be a
coming out from the world
00:47:00.99\00:47:02.70
and the practices of the world.
00:47:02.71\00:47:05.47
A higher platform, what by
both ministers and individuals,
00:47:05.48\00:47:09.29
so far what we learned
here time is running out.
00:47:09.30\00:47:13.12
If a brother has opened you,
00:47:13.13\00:47:14.37
or he has offended
you, he has wronged you
00:47:14.38\00:47:17.52
and there is
something -- open sin.
00:47:17.53\00:47:19.81
Bible simply says what?
00:47:19.82\00:47:20.79
Go between he and
thee what? Good alone.
00:47:20.80\00:47:22.69
Number two if he
refuses to change,
00:47:22.70\00:47:25.92
if he refuses
to repent, do what?
00:47:25.93\00:47:28.10
Good, take your couple of
witnesses with you, right?
00:47:28.11\00:47:30.73
Three, if he
continues in sin after that
00:47:30.74\00:47:34.44
then you tell it to what?
00:47:34.45\00:47:36.17
It must be told to the church
the local body of believers
00:47:36.18\00:47:40.26
and the church is going to
have to deal with the issue.
00:47:40.27\00:47:44.17
Tell it to the church,
so if he fails to repent,
00:47:44.18\00:47:47.66
if he fails to change his life,
make things right as possible,
00:47:47.67\00:47:51.75
the church body must bow him
00:47:51.76\00:47:55.16
out of fellowship if
he refuses to change.
00:47:55.17\00:47:58.04
We follow what
the book of Matthew,
00:47:58.05\00:47:59.29
what Jesus said to do.
00:47:59.30\00:48:01.59
If he will not
listen and continues after
00:48:01.60\00:48:03.67
he is told to the body
and the body would church body
00:48:03.68\00:48:06.96
as a group votes together
to dis-fellowship that person.
00:48:06.97\00:48:10.53
Wow! You say well,
you know, we want to
00:48:10.54\00:48:12.90
listen to - I'm hovering
around with the word of God
00:48:12.91\00:48:16.90
and just as read
it and say thank you
00:48:16.91\00:48:18.35
God for and then follow it.
00:48:18.36\00:48:20.21
Christ Object Lesson 71, says
00:48:20.22\00:48:23.26
"Christ has plainly
taught that those who persist
00:48:23.27\00:48:27.46
in open sin must be
separated from the church,
00:48:27.47\00:48:32.76
but He has not committed
to us the work of, notice,
00:48:32.77\00:48:36.45
judging character and motive."
00:48:36.46\00:48:39.80
We need to be
very careful, don't we?
00:48:39.81\00:48:41.71
We're not to be
judging character,
00:48:41.72\00:48:43.47
well it seems like somebody said
00:48:43.48\00:48:47.28
well, I know what they were
up to they said something out
00:48:47.29\00:48:49.55
but -- that's not for
you, that's not for me.
00:48:49.56\00:48:53.54
I said when they're in open sin,
00:48:53.55\00:48:55.51
I knew dealt Matthew 18 with him
00:48:55.52\00:48:56.98
and they will
not change their way,
00:48:56.99\00:48:58.81
it said plainly
those who persists
00:48:58.82\00:49:00.62
an open sin must be what?
00:49:00.63\00:49:02.98
Separate, that's
what Christ taught,
00:49:02.99\00:49:04.45
that's what Christ
Object Lesson 71 says.
00:49:04.46\00:49:07.21
Acts of the
Apostle, page 268 notice.
00:49:07.22\00:49:11.23
The apostle Paul "Also
enjoined upon the church
00:49:11.24\00:49:14.73
to separate
from their fellowship
00:49:14.74\00:49:16.50
anyone who would persist,
now listen, in disregarding,
00:49:16.51\00:49:20.36
listen the instructions
of God's ministers."
00:49:20.37\00:49:25.33
Paul was preaching
and teaching the apostles.
00:49:25.34\00:49:27.33
If the people
wouldn't go along with what
00:49:27.34\00:49:29.04
the minister was
preaching and teaching,
00:49:29.05\00:49:30.86
he said we separate from this
00:49:30.87\00:49:33.05
because it causes
nothing but division,
00:49:33.06\00:49:35.35
and confusion in the minds.
00:49:35.36\00:49:37.80
Friend, I see that how often,
the purity of God's Church
00:49:37.81\00:49:41.33
must be preserved.
00:49:41.34\00:49:44.70
Wrongs and evil
and sin, you see,
00:49:44.71\00:49:48.43
it's gonna have to be removed,
it's gonna have to be forsaken
00:49:48.44\00:49:51.84
So, if we as a people you see,
00:49:51.85\00:49:53.21
if we were not here
the body of believers,
00:49:53.22\00:50:01.03
The Bible says,
here's what we do?
00:50:01.64\00:50:04.03
Let him be unto thee as a what?
00:50:04.04\00:50:07.91
As a heathen man,
what does that mean?
00:50:07.92\00:50:11.26
If he doesn't hear and
he would persist in the sin
00:50:11.27\00:50:13.37
that means --don't
deal with him anymore,
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don't talk with him,
don't love him, don't -- no!
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A heathen here simply is what?
00:50:19.71\00:50:21.31
A public, a Gentile, a
tax collector whatever here.
00:50:21.32\00:50:24.29
Now remember, we have to follow
00:50:24.30\00:50:26.91
the council that
you know, if he doesn't,
00:50:26.92\00:50:29.22
he has to be
separated from the fellowship,
00:50:29.23\00:50:32.51
but what, he is not to be hated,
00:50:32.52\00:50:35.64
he is not to be
despised, he is not to be shown.
00:50:35.65\00:50:40.86
Oh dear friends,
but we continue to work
00:50:40.87\00:50:43.59
for him as we would,
you know, a non-believer.
00:50:43.60\00:50:47.51
We continue to labor and to pray
00:50:47.52\00:50:48.96
for and to work
with as a non-member.
00:50:48.97\00:50:54.24
But you know that's
when the church goes
00:50:54.25\00:50:55.44
through that many
times, I have seen it
00:50:55.45\00:50:57.38
as they say
treat him as a heathen,
00:50:57.39\00:50:58.75
they shut him out the door.
00:50:58.76\00:51:02.86
And as they shut
him out the door,
00:51:02.87\00:51:04.36
they won't have,
nothing else to do with him,
00:51:04.37\00:51:06.19
never call him,
never talk to him--
00:51:06.20\00:51:07.58
you are not following the Bible.
00:51:07.59\00:51:11.55
Remember the word
of caution here is this
00:51:11.56\00:51:13.52
for so men is so left, listen.
00:51:13.53\00:51:16.58
Is the local body has
voted to disfellowship
00:51:16.59\00:51:20.81
and here I have seen it,
here I have been through it
00:51:20.82\00:51:23.78
dear friend, and it
is wrong as wrong can be.
00:51:23.79\00:51:27.48
The local body has voted
to disfellowship a person.
00:51:27.49\00:51:31.28
Each member should be
careful in his association,
00:51:31.29\00:51:35.98
what you are talking about?
00:51:35.99\00:51:38.01
Peer, a careful
association to make it appear
00:51:38.02\00:51:40.99
that you are in agreement
with him after the fact,
00:51:41.00\00:51:44.19
did you get it?
00:51:44.20\00:51:45.27
If you do, you share in his sin.
00:51:45.28\00:51:49.16
That is you don't go and pad
him on the back and say well,
00:51:49.17\00:51:51.18
everybody else voted, make sure
00:51:51.19\00:51:52.67
you are
nonfellowshippers, but you know,
00:51:52.68\00:51:54.09
I didn't vote, I voted for you,
00:51:54.10\00:51:55.62
your old friend, be
careful, you can do that.
00:51:55.63\00:51:59.03
He needs to see sin
for what it really is,
00:51:59.04\00:52:00.77
1 Testimony 212-213,
here is the enemy working
00:52:00.78\00:52:06.15
and how God can work
"If the ministers of Christ
00:52:06.16\00:52:08.17
will be of one mind,
wouldn't you like to see that
00:52:08.18\00:52:11.21
the ministers of Christ
if they are be of one mind,
00:52:11.22\00:52:14.23
notice this "United
in the plan of action."
00:52:14.24\00:52:17.31
You just get the
ministers to work together.
00:52:17.32\00:52:20.66
And you can hardly do that?
00:52:20.67\00:52:24.00
And how, what a shame that is?
00:52:24.01\00:52:25.74
If we have the mind
of Christ, notice this,
00:52:25.75\00:52:27.86
"United in the plan of
action, united in their effort.
00:52:27.87\00:52:31.76
If they will stand together,"
00:52:31.77\00:52:33.21
notice this, "And
sustain one another,
00:52:33.22\00:52:36.20
faithfully
reprove and rebuke wrong,
00:52:36.21\00:52:39.34
they will soon
cause it to wither.
00:52:39.35\00:52:42.02
Think about all this,
if we just stand together,
00:52:42.03\00:52:44.75
leaders of the
church and ministers
00:52:44.76\00:52:45.92
stand together and say,
Bible says this is wrong.
00:52:45.93\00:52:49.63
This cannot be
tolerated in the church
00:52:49.64\00:52:51.52
and we just stand
out, no sympathy to them,
00:52:51.53\00:52:53.39
they just say we love
you, we are gonna work for you
00:52:53.40\00:52:55.23
that we can't
tolerate that in the church.
00:52:55.24\00:52:59.74
They say if we do that
it will soon wither away,
00:52:59.75\00:53:01.61
it's gone, wow!
00:53:01.62\00:53:03.96
But I want you to see in
the last couple of minutes
00:53:03.97\00:53:05.59
what Satan's plan
is, we do not have time,
00:53:05.60\00:53:07.40
oh there is so
much more Lord, help us!
00:53:07.41\00:53:10.34
One Testimony
213 says this, notice
00:53:10.35\00:53:14.00
"Members and even
preachers have sympathized
00:53:14.01\00:53:16.77
with the disaffected
ones and have been reproved
00:53:16.88\00:53:19.89
for their wrongs."
00:53:19.90\00:53:21.59
Ministers even go
behind the back say,
00:53:21.60\00:53:22.88
well I wish
this hadn't happened,
00:53:22.89\00:53:24.09
but you know the church, oh
stop all that business listen.
00:53:24.10\00:53:27.23
"Divisions of
feeling has been the result.
00:53:27.24\00:53:30.77
I saw that many
souls have been destroyed
00:53:30.78\00:53:34.27
by their brethren
unwisely sympathizing with them,
00:53:34.28\00:53:39.19
when their only hope
was to be left to see
00:53:39.20\00:53:41.93
and to realize the
full extent of their wrongs.
00:53:41.94\00:53:46.29
False sympathizers have
worked in direct opposition
00:53:46.30\00:53:50.58
of the mind of Christ
and ministering angels."
00:53:50.59\00:53:54.24
Oh friend!
00:53:54.25\00:53:58.28
Bible says we've
to learn to forgive
00:53:58.29\00:54:00.37
as God has forgiven us.
00:54:00.38\00:54:03.24
Friend today in the last
couple of minutes, don't you?
00:54:03.25\00:54:05.21
The importance
of this whole study,
00:54:05.22\00:54:07.75
this four part
series is to give us
00:54:07.76\00:54:10.88
to see the responsibility
that we have to deal
00:54:10.89\00:54:13.27
with the sin issue in
the church, the local body.
00:54:13.28\00:54:17.64
And how God requires it
if He wants to bless us.
00:54:17.65\00:54:22.60
He want to place spirit upon us.
00:54:22.61\00:54:26.46
And friend, we
need to pray for us,
00:54:26.47\00:54:27.83
some of you right now, you're
fighting issues right now,
00:54:27.84\00:54:29.70
you don't know how
to get rid of them?
00:54:29.71\00:54:30.90
Remember, you
follow the counsel,
00:54:30.91\00:54:32.62
we're dealing with sin issue,
follow the counsel of what,
00:54:32.63\00:54:34.80
not talking about this issue,
take him to God in prayer.
00:54:34.81\00:54:38.17
And see what God will do what?
00:54:38.18\00:54:39.50
Because of plain
straight testimony must do what?
00:54:39.51\00:54:42.05
It must live in the church.
00:54:42.06\00:54:45.57
Sin has to be
called by its right name.
00:54:45.58\00:54:47.88
the axe has to be laid
to the root of the tree,
00:54:47.89\00:54:50.39
its going to have to go
and God's people responsible
00:54:50.40\00:54:53.12
if they don't stand for
that, they don't say okay,
00:54:53.13\00:54:55.16
we stand as a body, then
you're going to be accountable
00:54:55.17\00:54:57.47
for that sin if
you like I am brother,
00:54:57.48\00:54:58.92
you don't need anybody else's.
00:54:58.93\00:55:00.50
We want to pray
about that right now
00:55:00.51\00:55:01.71
someone who is
striving and searching right now
00:55:01.72\00:55:04.23
for a new beginning.
00:55:04.24\00:55:05.96
And you want it in the
last few seconds we have,
00:55:05.97\00:55:07.70
we are gonna pray
about it right now
00:55:07.71\00:55:08.86
and God is going to
give it to you, lets pray.
00:55:08.87\00:55:10.80
Merciful God in heaven,
we pray right now for those
00:55:10.81\00:55:13.20
who are searching
and crying out for You.
00:55:13.21\00:55:15.39
How they need
another star and light,
00:55:15.40\00:55:16.81
they want forgiveness of sin.
00:55:16.82\00:55:18.34
They wandered far away from you,
00:55:18.35\00:55:19.55
they want to come back
right now before it's too late.
00:55:19.56\00:55:22.46
Pray to it, help them
right now in the name of Jesus
00:55:22.47\00:55:24.62
as they call upon
You, you will hear
00:55:24.63\00:55:26.68
and that You will
answer and I thank you
00:55:26.69\00:55:28.10
for that in Jesus name, amen.
00:55:28.11\00:55:31.05
Thank you for joining us today.
00:55:31.06\00:55:32.20
I realize that you may
be having lot of things
00:55:32.21\00:55:34.35
that you could be
doing, but you spent time
00:55:34.36\00:55:36.80
in the word of God and studying.
00:55:36.81\00:55:38.07
So remember we just scratched
the surface of this study
00:55:38.08\00:55:40.24
continue to pray,
continue to search out
00:55:40.25\00:55:42.85
and see the
responsibility that you have.
00:55:42.86\00:55:45.10
Please remember
this ministry please,
00:55:45.11\00:55:46.62
as you pray about, you
want to support this ministry,
00:55:46.63\00:55:48.62
how to support free will
offerings of God's people.
00:55:48.63\00:55:51.16
We thank you, we love you,
00:55:51.17\00:55:52.46
look forward to
seeing you next time.
00:55:52.47\00:55:57.10
Welcome back, you
know someday very soon
00:55:57.11\00:56:00.51
Christ is going to save
us as He is closing his work
00:56:00.52\00:56:03.36
in the holy of holies in
heaven that it is finished,
00:56:03.37\00:56:08.80
it is finished, very solemn,
yet exciting words indeed.
00:56:08.81\00:56:13.64
Solemn, because we
must ask our ourselves,
00:56:13.65\00:56:15.99
have I done all that I
can do in my life to make you
00:56:16.00\00:56:20.34
what Christ would have it to be?
00:56:20.35\00:56:22.45
Will I be spending
eternity with my Savior?
00:56:22.46\00:56:25.98
Am I, am I in a
saving relationship
00:56:25.99\00:56:29.72
with Him right now.
00:56:29.73\00:56:31.56
I hope friends
that your answer is yes
00:56:31.57\00:56:34.25
and if it is yes,
then Christ words,
00:56:34.26\00:56:37.44
it is finished may also
have an exciting connotation
00:56:37.45\00:56:41.36
to them as well,
because this means
00:56:41.37\00:56:43.63
that He will be
coming back for us very soon,
00:56:43.64\00:56:47.16
back to take us home.
00:56:47.17\00:56:49.02
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00:56:49.03\00:56:53.21
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00:56:53.22\00:56:54.84
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