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You can say what you want, but you won't around me Deep among misfits

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A misfit in the trailer park at night A misprint with the sixth sense

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Been sick ever since my brother died of an O .D. My two cents never made sense

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Either to me or anyone else's side of the sheet fence My 9th Smith on my right side

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Tell me what's the bottom line

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The bottom line is I'm not right I'm not left, but this elephant won't find

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And I can't find my assigned seat to sit in My theology don't fit in Black sheep of the

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Reformation sheep pen Reformed, I'm just another Baptist Baptized again, the bastard child of Anabaptists Hostage child of Reformation societies

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Yo, yo, yo, what's up?

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Hope everybody is doing good As you can tell from the bottom of the screen It doesn't say Open Earth Theology This is my channel

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And we thought we'd jump on my channel tonight And my channel is the Black Sheep Gang And so we're just saying

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What's up? My name is Jeff And I am one of the co -hosts of Open Earth Theology And we're on here tonight just to Talk a little crap

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Stuff like that But I am one of the pastors One of the pastors of Covenant Reformed Baptist Church In Tallahoma, Tennessee And there's really not much else to say

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I'm going to pass it over to this old man over here Before he just turns to dust and flies away

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Hey everybody, my name is Tom Shepard And I'm with Even of None I'm also a co -host of Open Earth Theology I'm also a member of Grace Bible Church of Birney, Texas Which is about 20 miles north of San Antonio And we do evangelism every weekend

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In Fredericksburg, Birney, San Antonio As far south as Corpus Christi Sharing the gospel on the streets

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I'm glad to be here And Red, I don't know if you know it But your mute button is on But it's down to you, bro

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What's going on, brothers? Can you hear me? Yeah We can hear you Okay, is there any echo or anything like that?

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Well, that's okay You never sounded good anyway Yeah, no Hey, wait You have like a shine right here

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Yes, sir Yeah, man, got the new dude going on What's good, brother?

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Tell us about you I'm a member at Covenant Reformed Baptist Church Evangelist there

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And just seeking to glorify God And make His name known Amen Amen, amen

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So how was church today, Red? Church is always phenomenal, man

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We always have a good time Fellowship and worshiping the Lord The preaching was second to none today

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Do you have a guest preacher? Do you have a guest preacher? No, man, but Pastor Jeff preached on Hebrews 2, verses 5 -17

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On the purpose of Christmas And it's just a different facet of God's grace

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That Jeff just played today Extolling the excellencies of Christ It was really good

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That's awesome, man Mine was good, too We had a short service today

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Well, actually, not a short service But we didn't have equipping classes in the morning Because of the holidays

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And surprisingly Typically, I think, here at our church It doesn't really fill up with the holidays

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A lot of guests were there today And Michael Beck preached in Luke 1

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When Gabriel was telling Mary About the King of Kings That she was getting ready to give birth to It was

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God incarnate That God became a man And lived a life in our place

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And went to the cross and paid for our sin That story never gets old

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Never gets old I tell you what If that story is owed to you

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You might need to check your heart Absolutely, man Yeah, we did have a good

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Lord's Day We've been going through So the whole month of December I've been teaching Sunday school

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And I've been teaching on Christology And that's what we've been learning about The two natures of Christ Jesus is truly

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God And every way that the Father and the Holy Spirit is God Jesus in His incarnation is

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God And He's also truly man And every way that you and I are a human being

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Look at that Bible Jesus also was a human being And so we've been going through different heresies

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Such as Apollinarianism Which taught that Jesus was

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His body was truly human But His mind was a divine mind

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And if that's the case He's not truly human And I've even been getting down to the blood

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Like a lot of people I think it was in the 70s and 80s and early 90s

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With the independent fundamental Baptists They had an issue

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That the blood of Jesus was divine It was not human blood

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Well, if that's the case Then Jesus wasn't truly a human So just kind of pointing out that When the

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Bible talks about the blood of Jesus It's a euphemism for the gospel The death that He died in our place

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We're covered So basically when we say we're washed in the blood We're washed in the gospel of Jesus Christ The work that He has done in our place

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And then Talking about His death Yeah, yeah

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Jeff highlighted this morning In Bible study Sunday school

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That there was nothing special about Jesus' blood You know, if there was

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If it was If there was something special about His blood

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Then He wasn't every way human like we are You know It was really good

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But it was because of who He was Yes The two natures in one person

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What makes His death special Is the life that He lived in our place

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So He had to be the spotless lamb In order for a lamb to be sacrificed

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And for that blood to please God It had to be spotless So in order for a human blood to please

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God That human blood has to have a spotless record

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And that's where Christ came in our place Live His act of obedience And live in the life that we could not live

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His passive obedience would mean nothing Outside of His act of obedience

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Right You know, it's interesting That can get really deep We've been going pretty deep

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It's been fun too We've been laughing And the questions that Jeff has posed

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He listed 30 questions for us to answer Throughout our

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Sunday school And we've gotten through 19 of them

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And he skipped a few But they've been really challenging Sure They make you think

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I mean, you think about it God cannot die Which is another reason why He had to come as a man

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To not put death in our place And because you can't separate the two natures So in one sense

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You can accurately say that God did die And it also says God is not a man

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And yet He becomes a man And yet He didn't die Yeah, He did die

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But the man that had Yeah, yeah, yeah But because you can't separate the two natures

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So since the incarnation You can't separate the two natures So you can rightly say that God died

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Because of the human flesh that died Just like you can rightly say That Mary held

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God in her arms Sure And you can rightly say that As Mary was holding

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God in her arms That Jesus, as God, was holding the universe together Holding her all together

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Holding the universe together by the word of His power That's exactly Most of those are true

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That's exactly what I wrote down So I quoted Him this morning in my sermon notes It says Mary held God in her arms

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While Jesus held the universe together By the word of His power And He's taken that from the

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Chalcedonian definition But also in Hebrews chapter 1

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Yeah, not only in the incarnation Not only in His birth

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He was holding everything together As He was a child Think about the cross

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He was holding everything together As they were nailing Him to the cross That's enough

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That's enough to put a smile on a Baptist's face Ain't it? That'll make you go from juice to wine

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What we say in Tallahoma In Tallahoma If that don't fire you up Your wood's wet

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Hey man, the church looks great I saw a before and after picture Yeah It looks good man

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There's still some things that we need But all in all Everything's coming together really good

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God has been good Somebody posted on your Facebook Jeff They said that You made a change from that boring old

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Baptist white That Baptist white was actually It wasn't white

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It was lavender Yeah Even the walls look lavender

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Because of the light coming in Reflecting off from the carpet It was bad

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It was terrible You can Like when I walked in I knew that no man

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Had any say so in that church Like there's that video

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That's going around That black guy He says I ain't gay no more

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After we painted those walls I walked in I could have swore I heard the church building say

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I ain't gay no more At least they ain't woke

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We might be broke But we ain't woke I'd rather be broke than woke

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Amen Did you guys get any evangelism done this weekend Or past weekend I haven't been able to do anything

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My Saturdays have been focusing At the church And normally usually when it gets like Super code

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I don't get to go out much Because I don't like you to code I was trying to tell

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Red We can take these Saturdays And work on some teaching stuff Like you know

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Training him in some areas But he's too much of an evangelist He don't want to do that He wants to get out there and preach all the time

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I get it But he's got a little more meat on him Which today he summarized as He's just got a little more of the

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Holy Spirit That's right More room for the feeling baby

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I do want to say We had gone

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Well we did some evangelism Actually there was two events There's a guy by the name of Daniel That goes to our church

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And he's got a big heart For the Afghan community in San Antonio The Pashtun tribe actually

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And it's one of the One of the people groups That is least

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Least gone to To evangelize To hear the gospel and all that And they went out

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Saturday With a mercy ministry Giving them clothes And sharing the gospel with them

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And stuff like that And I wasn't there My wife and I And we had some other people

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From a different church Actually Ryan Denton's old church Out of Dallas actually

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Or he's affiliated with Vanguard Covenant Presbyterian Anyway I went out with them

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To Fredericksburg but I want to tell you So these guys Bobby and Daniel Went out and Latisha And a couple of others went out

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And they met this Afghan group Mostly kids Six years old, seven year old

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Ten years old And they've been trained up by their parents To just hate the infidels

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They were throwing Cake at them Kicking their cars Flipping them off Cussing at them

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And I mean these are six and ten year old kids Wow that is awful

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Yeah And you know it's just And the parents were around And they were supporting them

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And as Daniel was telling me the story Bobby was telling one of the adults He was saying you know We're coming with you in love

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And you guys are responding by hate And condoning What the kids were doing

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And he goes you know our kids don't act like that Christian kids You know not that they're perfect But they don't act like that You don't go over there and you don't do that to adults

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But it's just horrible And these are the people that Came over, they're refugees

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From Afghanistan when the whole thing When Trump brought them over Because they were helping the

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United States And that's what they were treating The gospel And then we went out caroling

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And I don't mean to take it all up We went out caroling To the neighborhoods

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It wasn't really promoted Real big in the church at all It wasn't mentioned from the pulpit at all

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And everything but it was passed around by mouth You know who's going to want to go do caroling And we started downtown

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Burning Nobody was downtown burning so we went in the neighborhoods Rose 40 people

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From our church 36 to be exact Came from our church I can sing as a group

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But not solo Thanks for sparing us Yeah Anyway so yeah you're welcome

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We went from house to house And we rang the doorbell And we just started singing And the people came out

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And we gave a gospel message out there Every song, you guys it was such a blessing It was awesome

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And then we went to Fredericksburg And like I've always said Every holiday time in Fredericksburg At Markerplatz when they turn out the lights

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I send a video on Facebook It rose A thousand people were there

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Literally a thousand people Standing around and listening to the gospel It's such an encouragement

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You know it's such a good time of year To do evangelism So that was our weekend

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What you were saying about the Afghans That were so hostile towards the gospel Pastor Jeff really emphasized today

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Also in 2 Timothy Chapter 2 verses 24 -25 The slave of the

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Lord Must not be quarrelsome You know Must be able to correct

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Those that oppose the gospel With gentleness In hope that The Lord will grant repentance

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That leads to the full Knowledge of Christ Or the full knowledge of the truth

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Rather So that's something we have to keep In the forefront of our mind When we go out to a hostile world

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One of the things in Hebrews That I think a lot of people overlook Is that Paul I believe is preaching a message

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And Luke is Describing what he Preached Because the theology is

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Pauline And the writing is more Lukean Is that The Hebrew Christians They're on the run

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They're being persecuted by Jewish By the religious

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Jews And they're being put to death They're being slaughtered They're being

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Towed that Christ is Victor And they're wanting

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Victory over this persecution And so Whenever You look into the

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Hebrew Story, the Jewish story They held to angels

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Leading them So there's stories all throughout the Old Testament How an angel would come

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And either empower them in victory Or an angel would come And slaughter their enemies

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So that's the kind of victory that they were looking for They were looking for some kind of Angel of the

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Lord to come With a sword And to mop up the Jewish religion

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To save them And Paul is saying No God did not send an angel

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To subdue the world That word subdue there It's hapataso

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And it means to take control of Or to put in Subjection to subdue To put under one's rule

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For obedience Tell us what we have Tell us Tell us what we got

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Instead of the sword He sent his son And through his life

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Death, burial and resurrection Particularly in his death So this is that euphemism of the blood In his death he defeats the devil

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By taking away his power Power of death And that's him being bound

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So the devil can no longer deceive the nations And that although it looks It doesn't look like he has put the world

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In subjection He has And the only way to see nations

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Come to Christ Because a lot of people We get on this Christian Nationalist And stuff like that, that subject And the problem is

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It's just like you see there They're wanting angels to come and rescue them Well because angels haven't come to rescue us

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Men have picked up the sword To try and rescue themselves And we see this all throughout church history

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We see this stuff starting to kick back up When in reality The sword is the word of God And so if you want to see nations

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Want to Christ You have to get out there and preach the gospel Of Jesus Christ You want to see people saved

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Preach the gospel of Jesus Christ And that is the only way for the revival Is going to come

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Go ahead I was going to say Instead of taking matters into our own hands

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Doing what we think is right Doing what is right In our own mind and our own thinking

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It's the power of God And the salvation through the gospel That's the weapon That's how the world is conquered

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Through the message Of Jesus Christ What he has done for us

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And that's exactly what those kids need They need to hear They need to hear the message of Jesus Christ I truly believe that as one

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Is throwing the cake Their heart can be changed Look at the man on the cross

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The thief on the cross Was changed on the cross As he was blaspheming his name

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Something happened As he was You think about that When he was on the cross

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He was thinking about who Jesus was He was thinking about the miracles That he performed

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He was thinking about that he hadn't done any sin And then it was like The Holy Spirit went boom

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And he went like oh snap He is God I am a thief

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I don't deserve this Christ doesn't deserve it I deserve this

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Ephesians chapter 2 verse 4 But God made us alive Even when we were dead in our sin

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And trespasses By grace you have been saved Right? To which of the angels

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Did he ever say You are my son Today I have begotten you It's amazing

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The Holy Spirit granted life to that thief Yes Matthew is dogging him

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And then in the other gospels He is dogging him But then he asks for him to remember him And I would argue

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I think I can make an argument And I was explaining This to Jeremiah The apologetic dog

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That I believe those thieves Were Gentiles Because you did not crucify

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Jews Yeah Because you would bring a curse on the ground

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Right It was against Judaism at the time

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They wouldn't allow it Only Jesus They were like crucify him

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Wasn't Barnabas a Jew though And they were going to crucify him They didn't say crucify Barnabas You mean

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Barabbas Yeah Because I do remember when they were saying

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There's a tradition That's what Pilate said That there was a tradition But it didn't say they were going to crucify him

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Like you said Jeff There's a tradition that we're going to release one to you And he was trying to Yeah Get out of the prison that Pilate was in When he knew he was innocent

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And tried to release him I mean you got to think of the law code Concerning Jerusalem Right Anyone who hangs on a tree

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Is accursed of God Right But you could not let them hang overnight

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Right And so Would the Jews Allow for them to Have another

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Jew Hanging overnight in Jerusalem I think there would have been an up war Sure Right And it was right before the

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Passover I mean it's going against their law Right Do you think

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Barabbas was a zealot For sure Because it says he was

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A murderous insurrectionist Yeah You had the sect of the zealots

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At that time I would say he was an unrighteous zealot Would that make sense

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I don't think that he was for good We're all unrighteous zealots Good in his own mind

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We're all unrighteous zealots brother Yeah I mean no I'm saying that I don't think it was for righteousness sake

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I think that he was going against the grain Just simply Because he didn't like their power or whatever

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Not for righteousness Thinking that they were just too religious And doing something wrong

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I think he was just going against the grain Just because he was a rebel Just my opinion

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Total conjecture For sure For sure So yeah everything is going good at the church

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We have another Inspection Tomorrow So we had an inspection

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So this is a codes inspection We had one Thursday And they made a list of some things

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I needed to get done So I spent Thursday evening and Friday evening Getting all that done

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And so we have an inspection meeting With the codes department Tomorrow At 10 o 'clock

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So if all goes well Which I don't see any reason why it won't Like I think we got it done

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Nailed down now If all goes well Our first Lord's Day service will be

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The 29th So we plan on having A Christmas Eve service there

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This Tuesday And then Throughout the week and the evenings

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Me and Pastor Cal are going to be moving some stuff And then Saturday the 28th We'll make sure we move everything

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From the current church building Into the new church building And have our first service there

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The 29th And we're changing our Livestream a little bit Because we've been getting a lot of kickback

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Because of the music And so we're only going to be Livestreaming the Preaching service

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And it will be going off of this Stream yard that I have

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And so the Livestream will run off of the church's YouTube channel

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The church's Facebook page And probably my personal

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Facebook page to kind of get More eyeballs on it Yeah Hmm Speaking of more eyeballs

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More eyeballs on it So and I think we're going to be Talking about this too is that we're

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Trying to figure out You know maybe Going back to the old platform

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With Open Air Theology Just to get more people To see

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There's Melissa, hey We miss you Melissa Hey Melissa Just our favorite dispy

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Ha ha ha ha Just to get more people You know, you guys we have a conference

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Coming up and we need to sell some tickets And we need We need people to, it's only $100

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In Tullahoma Tullahoma, Tullahome, Tennessee Tullahome Can't do it,

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I can't say it I might as well say Kofi's name Kofi abadoobadoo

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Kofi Adaboon, Kofi Adaboon I can say that but I can't say Tullahoma You just did it

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Good job It's not Tullahoma Tullahoma Listen This guy right here

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He's a nut job Ha ha ha Oh my goodness

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Has he been to the cigar bar With you guys out there Yeah he's come twice He was coming this past Friday And he shows up with his brother -in -law

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Had a really good time Rub it in Jeff You were there

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I was on the road brother He's got a job Right Got to work and feed my family

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Yeah Mr. Are you going to be there the next Friday night

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Cigar lounge night Probably not But he will be out preaching

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That Saturday Wait a minute, stop for a second You realize I'm coming, I'm going to be in Tullahoma, Tennessee You realize

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I have to do what my Employers say or I lose my job Right You are looking a little bit sick that day

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No I'm not I'm not Because I have a week long

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Trek that I have to go I have to go up to Canada and back So it's not like Okay I can get sick on Friday You know what

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I'm saying And just lay out of work because I'm still driving in the truck Oh Okay Yeah You have to have a major illness

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Where have you been Melissa Let me know I'll tell you Jeff's been so busy with the church

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That he hasn't been able to come on the show Very often So it's been Braden and I And Red And Braden and I And what's his name

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Jeremiah Jeremiah and Andrew Rappaport And we've not seen Jeff or Melissa So what's up Where have you been

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And the question is have you been staying out of trouble I'm going to tell you right now She hadn't

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She's a troublemaker She is She got them problems She's sick mostly

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Sick mostly She's got She's got all the attributes of a reformed

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Baptist Just with that This be Thing going on there

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You know I'm so grateful that God can draw a straight line with crooked sticks Amen So I'm going to try to By the way

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I think it's I think it's dying What is Disconnect Oh yeah

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Another 10 -15 years Out of there It's gone It was a 200 year fad

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I mean once you get to the point That you know

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Israel became a nation in 1948 Once you get so many years past that It's hard to Make the connection

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Yeah What was you saying

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Red I'm going to try to I'm going to try to get another bid though So that I get

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Maybe I can get back on a Monday through Friday gig Because Whenever I first started going to the cigar

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Lounge with Jeff and all the guys From church I had a Monday through Friday gig and I would get

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Back on Friday evening and make it over To the cigar lounge Right when they were kicking it off At 6pm so That would be ideal

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But Right now Please do You are going to be there

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Saturday when we go do evangelism Absolutely like I said last week We can go to the cigar lounge

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On Saturday Again Jeff loves smoking cigars

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I don't know if you knew this But in January On See if you were there

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Friday I would buy cigars On Friday but since You're gone on Friday I think

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Wasn't the rule Jeff that Red buys cigars on Saturday No I'm going to beat you

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In a foot race and you're going to owe me a cigar Anyway This fat boy is going to tear you up On the track son

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You better put it on the wall Bro Jeff better be

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Pushing you Red I'm going to beat you in the foot race And then Jeff is going to put you in an arm bar

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Both We can arm wrestle too Red I'll buy you a cigar

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And you beat me in arm wrestling After I beat you In the foot race

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I know you haven't ran In a long time Bro I know you haven't

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I have absolutely Zero interest in running Have you seen the new videos of butt racing

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Where you sit on down With your butt You kind of scoot across the floor I was going to need some clarification on that We have all the diddy talk right

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I've seen a video It has these two guys Scooting on their butt racing

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To the other end and then their wives would sit down And race back to the other end What the heck am I watching

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I don't have any time On my hands That is a stretch From the

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MMA Watching MMA I'm getting really old I can't do

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MMA no more So I'm trying to figure it out I mean you know what We're going to do

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Butt racing In 20 years We're all going to be Betting each other in chess You're going to be with the lord

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You might have got one foot in the door Brother What happened to your beard man

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Did your wife shake you What in the world happened to your beard brother

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There was a problem He's trying to look like Brayden There was a problem with my beard

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You look like Brayden's dad It's in transition

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You're a trans You're transgender now Is that what you said

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He's transbearding Oh transbearding that sounds gay Oh my gosh

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By the time I get there It will be better I needed to fix it

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So I started to trim it And I kind of messed it up And I was like dang it One of them has a trimmer

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Where it has like guards And so my beard starts getting out there And I need to do it again I can just brush it down And it will take all the curve out of it

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You should have called me You don't ever shave your beard man

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Intentionally I'm sorry I might need you to trim up my beard

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But I don't have time on Sundays But you know what We can do it another day

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When I go to the barber Nobody knows how to do a beard You go to a barber

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I don't do my own hair I do You do hair You are a barber

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I know You know what Moody Texas You should have called me

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If it's getting long and it's getting curly I use a blow dryer That has a comb on the end of it

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Because mine gets really I look like the old Greek statues

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And the beard is all like But it looks good Because it's sculpted that way

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Mine has this big Wave right down Right there

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That's what mine is doing Wash it And then dry it with a towel

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And then take you A blow dryer With a comb attachment

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And comb through it and straighten it out a bit I'm just going to say it right now I feel a little

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Gay having this Hairstylist conversation on the show You look gay You look gay

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You're sitting here Take a little Right here and put a blow dryer And That looked really natural

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We see you have a nice Red beard What do you do for gray beard

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You let it stay gray It's your crown of glory I know you better believe it

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Look at Melissa I just got a message From my phone

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It said time for your bed time That's some old man stuff right there

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Take your Geritol Open air geology

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You get that bible yet I'm going to be expecting you to Go kick a midget

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Hunt and kick one I gave him one of my old ones A nice one

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I haven't even showed it to him I just sent it to him And told me that you sent him one

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And you didn't even have to Kick a midget I'm doing it anyway You're giving one to him

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And you made me pay double price You're welcome

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Tell the truth Tell the truth

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Tom No He gives me a good deal I try to take care of my people

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And I will say this That I am the only guy

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That has On my bibles It's a retired stamp

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No I have the original

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The number one The first and the second So you see

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You see my first battle scar What'd you do So we were taking

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Communion today and my three year old Sitting next to me and I've got my wand I've got my wand in my hand

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The lord's blood And she hits my hand And the wand just goes right

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On top of my bible It blessed it Blessed it It's been sprinkled

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Like the mercy seat So the blue one I put in my bag and it has

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Like a scar from where the pen was And so this one I'm like So the bag

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I use I use one of these, my wife makes them It's just like a slip case Again and it matches my bible too

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So all I've put in it is the bible Hey post what Melissa just posted

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If I ever get a chance to visit y 'all I get cigars, a beard trim A JMAC bible

40:54

Oh Absolutely I got you on the beard trim Melissa At least bleach that mustache of yours

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We can cut some from the top And put it on there for you There we go

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I want a clip on beard I want to get a clip on mullet We can make that happen brother

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I would love to get a clip on mullet You and TJ will be twins I'm telling you

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If I wasn't losing my hair I'd have a mullet I'm just throwing that out there

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You ain't gotta have much business in the front man All you need is the party in the back

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I know I might lose my past shirt if I do That seems to be a qualification

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Well if we trim your beard We can take some and put it on Put it on Tom That way he's not gay anymore

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It'd be like that black dude I'm not gay no more I'm not gay no more

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When I come to a conference I'll have a full beard I'm not gay no more Braden will still be gay

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I don't think his beard will grow It's getting full No it's not

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Some people just don't grow long They just grow around and get thick It's the serpent seed

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The serpent seed They just don't grow beards man My hair grows long

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Versus You got the Calvin No girl

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I mean for most of y 'all I'm sure y 'all remember back when my beard was like Down in here

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How long did that take to get it down to My belly button I don't know man I was growing it for I think four or five years

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About four About four years but I trimmed it all the time Did you?

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But because I trimmed it it grew really fast Yeah It's like trimming a rose bush

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If you don't trim it It's just like your hair Women don't trim their hair

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You get split ends and all kinds of Naps and mats and stuff like that It doesn't do good

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You need to repent She already saw it

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Oh That was funny Melissa But no it's like that's what

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I tell People that I trim their beard I tell them if you don't trim it And keep it manicured it won't grow

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And it won't look right Do you use any oil on yours? I use an oil based

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Balm I don't really like the straight oils But the

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The oil based balms The thing I don't like about it is The longer it gets On the light colored shirts

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It leaves a Oil ring on your shirts I never have that problem

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You're using too much oil So I use oil and I use beer butter

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And I also have It's basically It looks like a stick of deodorant But it's small and it's wax

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Mustache wax So sometimes depending on I'll kind of rub it down Depending on how my hair is doing

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I never saw one of those before Jeff showed me That little stick that looks like deodorant

44:38

Is pretty cool And you get your stuff from Live Bearded right? I have been yeah

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Just because they're more sufficient I try to get stuff from other people There's a couple reform guys

44:49

I try to get stuff from It just takes freaking forever To get their product Anthony said whenever he gets that Bible And strokes out from joy

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Jeff you can preach his funeral Yeah from that Bible I'll get it back Write it in your favorite verse

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Hey man Anthony I was listening to you preach Like you had the whole

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Organ and everything going behind you He had that Cadence That Come on down to the

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Lord's house And get your Praise and worship on You're going to have to teach me how to do that That's street preacher style man

45:43

I don't do any of that I don't preach like that I don't think I can have it in my voice

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Man I don't know I don't do that either When I get fired up I just Yeah Jeff gets animated but He's not really monotone

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I think he's dynamic in his preaching He's not He gets animated but like I said

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Yeah so like Preaching should never be this Nor should it be this

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This Nor this It should be Yeah Like a heartbeat

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Almost like a heartbeat Yeah You should be able to preach

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Like in your normal voice You should get low And then you should be able to get excited

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It should never just be Like I love Jeff Durbin But it's just kind of like One yell

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It's just always that high Yell scream That he does

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He speaks real loud It's like that the whole time he's preaching Yeah Jonathan Edwards Was said to be

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Pretty monotone I don't like it monotone I don't like it low

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I don't like the way MacArthur preaches now He's old so I give him a pass

47:07

You listen to MacArthur In the 70s and 80s Oh that was a fireball

47:13

Yeah he was for sure I like H .P. Charles Preaching Yeah I like H .P.

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Charles I think he does really really good But he has that Soulfulness to him too

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You can get that organ going behind him Oh yeah His worth is fun to listen to His worth is

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Dynamic Yeah he is He's got a great person He's got a good booming voice too

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He's got a really deep voice man Yeah Whenever I'm preaching on the streets Because I have yet to preach behind a pulpit

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I talk to people like I do Anybody else I just talk to the community

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Where we're at When you're ready to preach behind the pulpit You just gotta talk to me brother That's what

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I'm planning on doing I'm thinking about chucking the nose band Just going straight preacher on y 'all

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I know somebody with a pulpit That's a nice pulpit

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I don't know if it's too early Are you still planning on doing something In the summer Jeff Yeah we're going to be

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So our church So our church The people in our church has reached out to me

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About having conferences Put on by our church And not the podcast

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For the most part The church has been the one That's volunteered

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That's been doing all the work So they want one that represents The church And it'll be taking place

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In the month of July I do believe And we'll be advertising for it soon And it'll be solely based on the gospel

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It'll be just a two day conference And tickets will be $50

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And if you can't afford the $50 Message me and I'll pay for it for you Awesome That sounds good

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I can't wait to get back out And do some street preaching man Well we're

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Going for sure Third week in January So when we get straightened out

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At the new building We're going to be hitting the streets Man I know you guys are going to be there before me

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So I can't wait Send me We're going to be hitting the trailer park first Let's do it

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And we're going to be hitting everything We'll probably do some I really want to get some

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Some of those signs about praying for people Like a prayer station And just I think if we just set it up right there in front of the church

49:50

It gets so much traffic Yeah It's going to be good

49:56

And we plan on Like once it gets warmer We plan on getting the grill out

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Cooking some hot dogs and hamburgers And having free food For people in the neighborhood

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Yeah And doing some evangelism that way as well For sure We're about to Shake up some things

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Thank you Melissa That is She's trying to make up for that saying

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What she said earlier Yeah I believe her I believe her

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I've been really thinking about Doing what you did Tom This past weekend Going out and caroling

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I'd love to do that man I think that's something we need to really plan for Next year

50:42

What we've been talking about too In our regular evangelism Getting out there and just all having

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Singing Singing songs And hymns and spiritual songs Sure That's awesome

50:57

What was the name of that coffee shop It was like a Celtic place

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Celtic cup Go over there and Start doing a

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Sea shanty Thank you By the Lord he said

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To the Lord we go We're going to be doing one This coming up Lord's Day Next Lord's Day Stomping on that wood floor

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Oh boy It's going to sound so good in that new sanctuary Oh man

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I'm probably going to cry People stomping on that wood floor Beating on the pews

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In a freaking War yard Is that a reformed Baptist church It'll be enough

51:43

To make a Baptist want to do a Pentecostal Twirl son That's right Jeff can't twirl though he'll fall down I spun around one day

51:53

Making fun of him about Phil Yeah So Orthodox MacArthur Just like Caroline is a great outreach

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Especially with shut in fellow members It is We actually went to one of the elders house

52:07

That lives close by our neighborhood But then there was a member Of our church that You know

52:14

I knew he hadn't been in church for a while And he had an eye infection And we went over there And just totally lifted his spirit

52:22

I mean you think about it When the members of your church Go over to another member who's sick Hasn't been able to come

52:29

And you ring the doorbell And you're singing joy to the world And it just touched his heart

52:36

So yeah absolutely And not only that It's just It's a confidence builder In your membership

52:43

For people who think that Getting out there and sharing the gospel Is a hard thing to do It's a good icebreaker

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You know what this really isn't that bad Once you get going You can do this

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Everybody can do this God will equip you to do that I'll tell you what

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I don't think it's a salvation issue But I guarantee you this Everyone Who does not get out there

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And witness the gospel in some fashion It doesn't have to be the way that we do it But in some fashion When you stand before God That's going to be one of the things you wish you could go back and do

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Yeah You're going to wish That you went out there and Proclaimed the gospel

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Like when you go We were talking about this today And past Sundays In Sunday school

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And through the preaching of the word Christ Being Made much of And being taught and being learned

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In the way that God has prescribed Through his word And through the other means of grace

53:52

Like catechisms And confessions And creeds To me whenever you learn

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Who Christ is What God has done And what the Holy Spirit is doing That That just fills me with confidence

54:09

And with joy to know That whenever I go out into the streets Or whenever I have one on one evangelistic

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Conversations Or if we go out and sing hymns And songs and spiritual songs

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That Christ Own are coming to him Yes Jesus says

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All that the father has given to me Will come to me We have that promise

54:34

Why wouldn't we want to go out Just now We were talking about too And it has been a thing of mine to say

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Even if none And yes God is glorifying the preaching of the gospel Period But we can't make that an excuse

54:49

To think that he's not Going to accomplish What he set out to do

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And like Jeff and I were talking The other day We should be going out

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Sharing the gospel With the expectation That he's going to save His people

55:07

Through the work of his labors He said that the harvest is white It's ripe

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It's ripe for the picking Lord my mouth I'm not drunk guys

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It's that beer It's that gay beer It's not long ago He proved that He proved what he was saying to his disciples

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In John chapter 4 Because the woman brings the whole city of Samaria Back out to him

55:34

And the entire city is saved When they come and they see And they hear for themselves

55:41

Most street preachers today Or most people think that we have The ministry of Isaiah and Jeremiah But we don't

55:49

He's told us to go out And make disciples He didn't tell the disciples

55:54

To go and preach But no one's going to listen That's not what he said

56:01

To his disciples He says go and make disciples of all nations The devil has been bound

56:06

Because of the work of Christ His life, death and resurrection He can no longer deceive the nations

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We're called therefore You and I should go out there With the intentions of making disciples

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And my whole point has been And again I do think that we should go

56:24

To large crowds every once in a while But if you really and truly Want to see the fruit

56:30

You need to do some local evangelism Around your church And God And you will see

56:38

Because you can be traveling the world Doing evangelism and people are getting saved And you won't know

56:43

You won't see any fruit or you won't see any of them Until you die I've been very intentional

56:50

Praying that God will let me See the fruit while I'm alive And by God's grace

56:57

You can ask Red He has been allowing me to see these things I'm a piece of that fruit

57:02

Yeah, I mean yeah You're an apple I'm a pear

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Get it right One of the things I was saying When you were saying we're not Isaiah, we're not Jeremiah But not only that Not only do we have the authority

57:18

And the mission and our marching orders But we have the spirit of God in us

57:24

The power of the gospel In us God is using us as an instrument

57:30

Not about our ability to sell Make a sales pitch or anything All we got to do is

57:36

Tell them And God will do the work And like you said Jeff We're going to see fruit if we're doing it locally

57:44

Because you're going to see people Coming to your church You're going to see people growing in Christ You're going to come alongside that person

57:51

And help them now What does it look like now that God has adopted you And declared you righteous How do you live a life pleasing unto

57:58

Christ And what an encouragement that is To the people who share the gospel That's huge That should encourage

58:06

What Jeff has said What he preached today Should drive Christians out into the streets

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Should drive Christians to do one on one evangelism With whoever they meet Sure Because we have the truth

58:19

Because we know that God's word doesn't return void That's right He accomplishes all that he pleases in the heavens

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And on the earth That's right Amen Amen And I just want to take part

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I don't want to I don't want to say it in a boastful way I don't want to If God's moving in a situation

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I want to take part I want to be invested in it And I know the one ministry

58:49

That God is moving in And it's saving sinners I know this because he sent his son

58:54

To die for sinners This is a trustworthy saying Paul said That Christ Jesus came into the world To save sinners

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This is something that he's actively doing And he does it through the preaching of the gospel And I know the gospel

59:07

The gospel is the power of God and salvation We have it on our lips He preached

59:13

He purposed to save a people So he chose a people He sent his son to live and die for them

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And the Holy Spirit applies that purpose To the preaching of the gospel And I want to be a part of it

59:24

In our reformed circles We believe that the Holy Spirit Is still raising people from the dead

59:30

You gotta believe it You know what's encouraging too Is that I know the two evangelists

59:35

That mainly go out And we had talked about this That there's probably less than five people

59:42

That go out of the local church That goes out and evangelize And I know you two are

59:48

That five percent When you go out But a friend of mine Told me this past week

59:54

He said little is much When God is in it And it's huge God will do great things

01:00:02

With just a little bit of faithfulness Look at Gideon's army

01:00:08

Everybody watching So yeah, same thing When we go out Gideon's army is a testament

01:00:15

He whittles the army down So that nobody can say It was because of them

01:00:21

You got too many people Too many people That's right I love the opposition

01:00:29

That's why I'm going to be a fish out of water Getting behind a pulpit Because I look forward to the opposition

01:00:37

And to being hated And to being scoffed And mocked at because I know

01:00:42

God is working Sure While you're in the pulpit I'll throw something at you I'm down I'm down When I went out

01:00:53

Because I'm the same way with you I'm used to going out on the streets Where nobody's paying attention to me

01:00:59

Eyes aren't on me and stuff like that And then if they are they'll come up Matter of fact at the park

01:01:05

This past week a guy came right up to my face I have a video of it Matter of fact it's on Facebook He just wouldn't get out of my face

01:01:12

And some big dude about your size Came over and scared him off It was kind of funny But it was so funny because I was pitching

01:01:20

Jeff is my bodyguard Yeah, yeah, of course And you're faster anyway

01:01:28

You can outrun him That's right If I'm running

01:01:33

Red is a lot bigger than me But as Red's under shepherd No one's going to mess with Red while I'm around If I'm running

01:01:42

You better take off running too Whatever is chasing me Is bigger than me

01:01:48

If you're running I'm out there Because I'm like you brother

01:01:53

I'm like you Tom I ain't got no business I used to run 8 -10 miles a day

01:02:01

Yeah Used to Used to Right now all

01:02:08

I do is run my mouth Yeah, that's true It is a different animal

01:02:15

You're doing about 10 -15 miles I mean miles a day Yeah, hey

01:02:22

If running my mouth got you skinny I'd be a rail I still get surprised man

01:02:31

I'm not going to lie I still get surprised When Jeff and I are out there preaching

01:02:37

And we have vehicles show up Or people come over and ask for prayer Or desire to have a bible

01:02:43

You can ask Jeff The director of the missions board For the Duck River Baptist Association I didn't know who he was

01:02:50

I about tackled him Before he ever got out of the truck You know what

01:02:56

I'm saying Just make a beeline For these folks that are coming over It's a wonderful encouragement

01:03:04

And a blessing to see God moving And bringing people Right after we've prayed for God to do that It's amazing

01:03:12

We'll be there You know 2 -3 hours And I want to stop We'll pray and I'm like God send somebody

01:03:19

I'm screaming send somebody I look like an idiot probably We were out there

01:03:25

We were out there it was raining And I was like dude let's put some speakers

01:03:31

Let's put some bags over the speakers Let's just go at it We got under a tree we started preaching And God started bringing people over to us

01:03:38

He was getting ready to pack it up I was like man let's put some bags over these speakers And built it baby let's go

01:03:45

We're going to put a tent up We went to the Alamo And did that at the game We put an umbrella over the speakers

01:03:52

And got wet and we were okay But this last Saturday This lady

01:03:58

Young lady she was from Austin And after Preaching the gospel to the crowd

01:04:03

She came up and she was just crying And she said You know I know that you were preaching to the crowd

01:04:10

And just started bawling saying But everything you said was right for me And it was just I just felt like crying right there

01:04:17

Just knowing that I mean that's the reason If she was the only one that heard it

01:04:24

That was the reason that we went out It was a blessing It's so encouraging Especially for people who go out and do this

01:04:31

To see something like that When you don't see any of it It can be discouraging

01:04:36

It is discouraging But when you see fruit man it's such a blessing It really is cool

01:04:45

We're definitely seeing Some real fruit in our church From the ministry And I think the

01:04:52

Lord is going to do a lot more This coming year So this year alone This has really been the biggest year

01:04:59

Honestly I preached on those streets Faithfully until Red came

01:05:08

For nearly four years And saw no fruit And this last year

01:05:18

We've seen fruit And God is using it To grow our church

01:05:23

Just that I'm out there Preaching my heart out by myself

01:05:29

Year after year Screaming I know

01:05:35

I look like an idiot I'm driving down the road To go to the place to preach And beat my steering wheel

01:05:44

The people were like Noah what is rain Give us a working definition for rain

01:05:55

Noah I was praying for two things That God would

01:06:01

Use me And the salvation of others To grow our church And that God would raise up someone

01:06:08

To be there with me And this year it's happened So this year at our church

01:06:15

We've been able to baptize eight people Seven of those have been salvations

01:06:20

And you're a small church You're a small church I've heard of it

01:06:25

Any kind of reformed congregation Normally we just get people From other churches What did you do so terrible

01:06:35

To get stuck with me I don't know A thorn in my flesh

01:06:43

Jeff, God's grace is sufficient bro Yeah You know

01:06:49

We do kind of have If you look at the other side of What Jeff said that we don't have

01:06:55

Ministries like Isaiah And like the prophets that come Before us We kind of do in an aspect

01:07:02

Because Jesus tells us we're going to be hated Because the world hates you And the message of the gospel

01:07:10

Is foolishness to those that are perishing It's going to be a stench of death To those that hate the gospel

01:07:15

And there's Christians that That hate what Jeff just said About the gospel going forth

01:07:23

And there's unbelievers that hate But when you look at Ephesians chapter 4

01:07:28

Evangelists Shepherds, preachers And teachers Do the work of edifying And building up the church

01:07:37

Even street evangelism Or one -on -one evangelism When you're talking to other Christians It's meant to encourage them

01:07:44

To build them up in the faith To give them confidence And to continue to look to Christ in faith

01:07:52

Yeah, definitely I also would point to the parable Of the sower seeding the soils

01:07:59

Only one Out of the four Who was Jesus speaking to?

01:08:06

He was speaking to the disciples Yeah, and We would be able to apply that In the same way

01:08:13

That he was preparing them That hey, when you go out And you share this message

01:08:19

He was basically saying Listen, there's going to be people That are going to receive that gladly And then the cares of this world

01:08:26

Are going to come along And they're going to fall away Because it wasn't a genuine faith There's going to be people

01:08:32

Who receive it And Satan will come And blind their eyes Those are the people that fell on the rocky ground

01:08:38

But the one good soil That it falls on The one that God Just share it, he'll prepare it

01:08:47

He'll grow that seed I think John MacArthur preached a sermon And it was called

01:08:54

The gospel of the sleep Or something like that Go, share the gospel, go to sleep And watch what

01:09:00

God does That was the one from Mark Where he says, he goes, he plants the seed He returns to his home

01:09:07

And wakes up the next day It's grown and he doesn't know how it happened Yeah, so if you apply

01:09:13

Matthew 13 The parable of the sower Right, so you have the four different Really three soils

01:09:21

One by the roadside Is not really a soil So The devil comes immediately

01:09:30

And snatches away the ones by the roadside You have the two One in the rocks And one in the thorns

01:09:38

And both of them For the most part Are choked out and driven out

01:09:43

Because of the word of God So when persecution Arises, they leave

01:09:49

Because of the word of God Whenever The cares of this world

01:09:55

They're choked out By the word of God And so this is that pruning process

01:10:00

Right, so in John chapter 15 So in this He takes some away

01:10:05

So some he snips off And he takes it away, how does he do so? With the sword

01:10:12

Right, the word of God is sharper than any Double edged sword, two edged sword And that same knife

01:10:18

Them same snips that he removes Certain disciples From the vine

01:10:23

He prunes some and grows them in holiness And so like one of the things I really hate when people say

01:10:29

Well I don't call myself a Christian, I call myself a disciple Well just because Many, Jesus had many

01:10:36

Disciples that fell away But no Christian falls away That's right If you're truly in Christ, you will not fall away

01:10:44

But many disciples Fall away And so when it Comes time to Whenever he calls us to go out and make disciples

01:10:53

Judas was a disciple Judas was a disciple Making a disciple is not necessarily making

01:10:59

Christians But we disciple these Christians, right

01:11:05

Exactly, some of these people That we think that are Christians That we have discipled

01:11:11

The cares of this world And the You know The word will remove them

01:11:18

From the vine So we have to be diligent Jesus tells the

01:11:24

Pharisees That cross land and sea To make one proselyte He says you make a double son of hell

01:11:29

You make him twice the son of hell That's right In Matthew chapter 13

01:11:35

Verses 3 and 4 And he told many things in parables Saying a sower went out to sow

01:11:41

And as he sowed Some fell along the path And that's all you hear about the sower Yeah It's anything the sower

01:11:50

Is basically the instrument that God Is using to spread the seed All we are are the means

01:11:57

Yes, that's right We are the means and I'll speak about that A little bit in my message

01:12:03

At the conference Yeah So Jeff is talking about His favorite verses

01:12:11

No, it's my life verse Life verse He says that he's a donkey

01:12:16

But man, he speaks through A donkey and Jeff feels that way Right? And today

01:12:22

I told him I said When you look at it from that perspective Because he was talking about Jesus riding into Jerusalem On the donkey

01:12:29

In the triumph Entry, right? I told

01:12:34

Jeff today, I said We're that donkey He rides along the backs Of his donkeys

01:12:42

Triumphantly Saving those that belong to him And we're that means in which he rides

01:12:47

Kind of like the saying that Charles Spurgeon had That the word of God Is the chariot upon which

01:12:52

Jesus rides Right? But all we are Is donkeys, we're a mouthpiece

01:13:00

I definitely Yeah, going along that same line I would say that the evangelists are the feet

01:13:05

Of the church How beautiful are the feet of those who go out and preach the gospel And everything, and I always make that joke

01:13:11

That some of y 'all have stinky ugly feet You got ugly feet You got ugly feet, but how beautiful They go out and share the gospel

01:13:19

I mean, you can have corns all over your feet Like you should have had a Pedicure 20 years ago

01:13:25

If you go out and share the gospel How beautiful You need to wear snow boots, man

01:13:31

Get the snow boots on Cover those things up That's good

01:13:44

I'm not used to people in public Preaching God's word Yeah, and then he follows up with this

01:13:50

And it's true Right, and then those That are really not in the reformed circles

01:13:55

If you go with someone that's not really Calvinistic Reformed circles

01:14:01

I mean, there are some Good Armenians that preach the gospel I'm not going to throw that out

01:14:06

But for the most part The evangelist A lot of these people that do go out

01:14:12

They don't preach the gospel No, and as a matter of fact, they wouldn't even use the word It's just They don't preach from the scriptures

01:14:20

It's all in their head About, I don't know Believe on the name of the

01:14:25

Lord Jesus Christ There's no repentance It's a soft gospel It's easy believism

01:14:33

It's hard to go out there There's a general call

01:14:40

Choose you this day who you will serve I will say that As a Calvinist, I'll say that I definitely will say it

01:14:47

To the church When I'm calling people To be obedient to God Absolutely I think we have a right to call

01:14:59

If you tell me you're a Christian And you're not being obedient I think any

01:15:05

Christian should have the right But especially as a pastor of a church And you're my congregant

01:15:10

I think I have the right to tell you To choose you this day whom you're going to serve Yeah And that's what you see

01:15:20

In Joshua He's speaking to the people of Israel Right These are supposed to be

01:15:27

God's people And you need to choose If you're people of God You need to choose who you're going to serve

01:15:35

And if you're a Christian If you tell me that you love Jesus And that you're a follower of Jesus And you're not serving them

01:15:43

Brother, you need to choose you this day Whom you're going to serve Because you could just be Christian and intellect only

01:15:50

Because Christians bear much fruit When they're being pruned by the Father And guess what happens to Supposed Christians that don't bear fruit

01:15:59

They get snipped That's right Yeah And that's not just in evangelism

01:16:06

That's in every aspect of serving the body Yeah, absolutely We serve And Jeff made a high emphasis on Loving one another today

01:16:16

You know, in his preaching That's how the world knows that we belong to Christ Absolutely It's our love for one another

01:16:24

And we must love our brothers and sisters And that sometimes means calling them to repent And turn

01:16:30

And do what the Lord has commanded Right No matter what it is

01:16:37

No matter whether it's evangelism Or serving tables or praying Or devoting yourself to the teachings of the apostles

01:16:43

Right And I think like if someone became a Christian Today I wouldn't be trying to put them

01:16:52

Behind a microphone And trying to witness to people But if you say Well, could they witness to people?

01:16:59

Yeah, for sure Like in martial arts You know, like in martial arts

01:17:04

Or in boxing or any kind of A trained sport like that All you gotta do

01:17:10

If you know one move You can teach someone that one move Right All I gotta do to train you how to fight

01:17:17

Is to know one move ahead of you And I could Train you to fight, right

01:17:23

Right And so all Immediately if someone is saved

01:17:29

They're gonna know the gospel by which They were saved They're at least gonna be able to articulate that This is what

01:17:35

I know I broke God's law But that God has paid my fine by sending his son

01:17:40

Jesus Christ to live the life I could not live And to take the punishment that I deserve And it's death

01:17:47

That's the gospel message It's hard, isn't it? I wouldn't put them on a microphone

01:17:52

Or anything like that But if someone was to walk up and say something to them They should be able to articulate

01:17:59

That message However, if they want to go out with us and hold a sign I think that that's the first step

01:18:05

Of being in some kind of a public ministry Right Because we have people that were just saved this year

01:18:11

That have gone out and held signs for us We don't put them behind a microphone They're not ready for that yet But if someone walked up to them

01:18:18

They could have a conversation Yeah, I think that's a good point The woman at the well

01:18:24

She didn't know exactly what had happened But she went back to the village And told, come and meet the man

01:18:31

Could this be the Christ? Yes Could this be the one?

01:18:36

And brought him So, yeah And that was just her testimony Bree, you know what we would actually be able to share?

01:18:44

You know what, man? If you're in a dojo And you just signed up To do karate

01:18:51

Or mixed martial arts Whatever, right And all you do is ever stand on the wall

01:18:57

And watch others do their moves You're never going to learn anything

01:19:02

Right You'll never learn anything But at the same time I think that's what

01:19:07

Jeff was getting to Is that the people that are going to be Doing the proclaiming

01:19:13

We have to handle the word rightly They have to be the ones that have Put in the time and studied

01:19:19

And being discipled And having somebody come alongside And like you had said

01:19:25

Going through the moves Let's go out with us Listen to what we say Listen to when people have a hard Is Jesus God?

01:19:33

Yeah, what are the verses that we're going back to To show them that yes That Jesus had to be

01:19:38

God Otherwise there is no salvation in anybody If he's just a mere man He doesn't qualify to die on the cross

01:19:44

And pay the penalty for my sin Only God can save And then the verses that show that he is

01:19:49

God Yeah, I mean, Red, imagine If everyone in our church

01:19:55

Was to attend the Sunday school class That we've had this week concerning Christology Imagine Just think about how rich their theology would be

01:20:03

With their Christology We have an elderly couple That's been coming to our church They've been a part of our church for a little over 4 years now

01:20:11

And they've mentioned to me That they've learned more in the last 4 years Than they had in the last 40 years

01:20:16

Wow Being under my ministry But during this month of Sunday school

01:20:22

And Christology They said every time they've come They've learned something about Jesus That they've never heard before They've never known this in all their years

01:20:31

Right So just think if everyone in our church came And they actually Invested the time to sit under this teaching

01:20:40

How sharp they would be If whenever they do Encounter A conversation

01:20:46

Especially when we're going through Christology Like let's say Saturday morning You get a knock at your door

01:20:52

And it says Jehovah Witness Well Jesus is created I know exactly where I'm going

01:20:57

I know exactly where I'm going I'm going to Hebrews 1 and Hebrews 2 Where you preached on this morning

01:21:03

I'm going to show them from Psalm 107 In their own book That Jesus is

01:21:08

God I learned that this morning Right But it would be easy to identify

01:21:15

Oh you're an Aaronist Aaronism You think Jesus was created That's an ancient heresy

01:21:21

You'd be able to walk out with them Right Just learning theology

01:21:27

Like I was talking I've had people tell me Just give me Jesus Keep your theology

01:21:32

My dear friends Do you even know what you're saying Theology is two

01:21:37

Greek words That's compound together Theos and logos

01:21:44

God Word Theology is God's word

01:21:49

You can't have Jesus without God's word Jesus is the sum of theology

01:21:57

And Christology I mean it's Christos and Logos Both of them represent him

01:22:04

He is the word Melissa just said you don't need to use deep theological words In order to share the gospel

01:22:10

Keep it clear You know you're exactly right One of the best things about Old man

01:22:17

Sproul He was such a great theological mind That he could take The most deep theological things

01:22:24

And communicate them Like in kindergarten language And at the same time

01:22:30

I'll accept for baptism But that's the thing If you know rich theology

01:22:36

You can communicate it It's simple But if you don't know rich theology

01:22:42

Your simple ways of communication Is gone You don't really have it

01:22:49

So my point is that when we go out And share the gospel We should be able to communicate the gospel

01:22:55

To a five year old Use the language We don't need to use

01:23:02

Propitiation These big theological words That he's our expiatory

01:23:09

Sacrifice for sins You're talking over people's heads Keep it simple

01:23:15

You need a substitute You need a savior You gotta understand

01:23:22

Who you're talking to Your target audience are people That don't know Christ You're gonna hit some

01:23:29

Christians With those seeds But that should encourage them But it should be judgment To the nonbeliever

01:23:36

And it should be Music to the person's ears That belongs to Christ And what we preach

01:23:45

Out in the streets is law and gospel We want to walk people through the law To show them their sin

01:23:52

And we want to give them the gospel To mend that Broken heart

01:23:58

For the person that comes to Christ With contrition And with sorrow 100 %

01:24:05

Sorry guys That's easy to do Even for the infant

01:24:10

Christian Because the infant Christian Like Jeff said earlier The infant Christian is gonna know what saved them

01:24:17

They're gonna know the gospel They're gonna know that they were an unrighteous Unholy wretched sinner That needed the grace and the mercy

01:24:24

Of Jesus Christ shedding his blood on the cross They're gonna know that And the most infantile

01:24:30

Christian can preach that In the streets or in one on one evangelism Absolutely I once was lost

01:24:38

But now I'm found Revelation 5 tells us That we overcome

01:24:43

By the blood of the Lamb That's the gospel And the word of our testimony

01:24:50

Right Like I once was Now I am

01:24:57

Because of Right I once was a wretched sinner Now I have been saved by God's grace

01:25:05

Because of the mercy of God And the sin of Jesus Christ To live the life I could not live Take upon himself the punishment that I deserve

01:25:12

But the main thing is To articulate that well I would argue you do need

01:25:19

Theology It's just like The word propitiation I think the bible uses it

01:25:25

Two maybe three times at most Right And then you have the real difficult

01:25:31

Definition of it I like to dumb it down as much as possible It's a payment for wrong doing

01:25:38

Yeah Satisfaction for sins Yes the satisfaction for sins

01:25:43

You broke God's law God has paid your fine That's the propitiation Satisfied the wrath of God Yeah In order to know that concept

01:25:54

I had to learn about propitiation Sure I get that I think it's really good to Fill our minds with these theological concepts

01:26:05

And then Work through how I can explain this to children Absolutely Yeah Whenever I'm doing family worship

01:26:14

My wife she used to be like You're saying such big words I'd be like listen If you listen to me

01:26:20

Always give them the word I would say propitiation And I would say that's an appeasement

01:26:26

Or a payment for the wrath That we deserve that God has provided in His son It's actually a sacrifice

01:26:33

An appeasing sacrifice That's a good point I don't think there's anything wrong

01:26:39

With using big theological terms Because they're going to need to know these things They need to come They need to grow in maturity

01:26:45

We shouldn't hide From using them Yeah but you should always

01:26:52

We're talking about the incarnation today That's what I said We're talking about the incarnation today When God became man

01:27:00

Right So every time I say A big theological word

01:27:05

I always bring it down to A child's level A hypostatic union

01:27:11

Yeah always Because I can remember Coming to Listening to Sproul Listening to MacArthur And all these guys

01:27:21

And they would say something And I'm like what? Pause, Google, what is that? You can dumb it down at one point

01:27:28

And say deity put on flesh Why can't I go even further The creator entered creation

01:27:35

The infinite became finite I just go over different ways That I can say the same thing I'm just restating something

01:27:42

Amen The terms are always defined In the word though Whenever Paul say in Romans chapter 3

01:27:49

Verses 21 -31 Paul explains propitiation In this discourse

01:27:56

And then he Exposits What he just preached In Romans chapter 3

01:28:02

In Romans chapter 4 He breaks it down And he explains how we're saved by faith

01:28:07

Just like Abraham was I love it Like the word righteousness

01:28:13

When you understand the word righteousness That it means law keeping That really is a game changer

01:28:21

In Romans chapter 3 It says But now the righteousness of God Has been manifested

01:28:27

Apart from the law Right Yeah Although the law and the prophets bear witness to it

01:28:34

The righteousness of God through faith In Jesus Christ for all who believe For there is no distinction for all of sin

01:28:40

That falls short of the glory of God And are justified by His grace As a gift through the redemption

01:28:45

That is in Christ Jesus whom God put forth Or forward as a propitiation

01:28:50

By His blood He explains and defines That centerpiece

01:28:56

His propitiation In the gracious gift of God In which we are justified

01:29:01

Through the redeeming blood of Christ Through His bloodshed Real quick on Melissa's question there

01:29:08

Which one? So she says Correct me if I'm wrong but sanctification will deepen our theology

01:29:13

And my initial thought On that would be just the opposite That your theology

01:29:20

Will deepen your sanctification It is by By the word of God The more we

01:29:26

I think both can be true Yeah so here's on one end You can go to the flip side

01:29:33

My thinking is this The more we learn about who God is The better understanding

01:29:39

We understand that We aren't like Him The higher view of God That we have by understanding who

01:29:47

He is By our theology By learning His attributes His communicable and His incommunicable

01:29:53

Attributes When we get to understand those things Then I get the view

01:29:58

I have a better view of myself And how high God is in the lower view of man So Wouldn't that be the sanctifying work

01:30:06

Of the Holy Spirit Through the washing of the word of God Bro listen I was over here looking at the verse

01:30:14

It says husbands love your wives As Christ loved the church And gave Himself up for her That He might sanctify her

01:30:21

So speaking of Christ loving the church That He might sanctify her having cleansed her By the washing of water

01:30:27

With the word Yeah So in the sense that you're speaking about It's that growing in sanctification

01:30:35

Through the washing Of the word Through learning theology

01:30:41

Learning about God and Christ But Positionally What you were referring to Red Is that He has positionally

01:30:51

Sanctified Set us apart unto holiness Romans chapter 3

01:30:56

That would be positionally But what I was just saying It would be more like Romans 12

01:31:02

Or what he What Jeff was saying About being sanctified

01:31:08

The Holy Spirit sanctifies us Through the washing of the word And I would say that this is

01:31:14

Has to do with you being a part of a local church Submitting to the

01:31:19

The teachings of the apostles Right So you're under the word

01:31:25

So primarily this is what it's talking about The means of grace You're under the word of God Secondarily you with your bible reading it

01:31:32

Absolutely I don't want to take anything away from that But you with your bible reading it Is secondary to having someone

01:31:40

Who knows the bible Well And can articulate

01:31:46

And interpretate the bible to you The way that Jeff puts it to the church

01:31:52

It's one thing to know The words To know the words

01:31:58

It's another thing to know why they're written To know why the words right The context

01:32:04

The context and rightly having somebody Explain the text to you To rightly divide the words to you

01:32:09

We were talking about that I think at the last show When schools in Texas Are allowing the word of God To be brought back into the

01:32:18

Public schools And we brought up the fact Well yeah but who's going to be teaching it

01:32:24

You know Who's going to be teaching this word Great that you're bringing the

01:32:29

Word of God back in there but If you don't have a teacher that's Accurately handling

01:32:35

God's word And teaching it rightly What it says after he reads the text And digs into the text and explains

01:32:42

The text and how to apply the text You're in deep trouble then I mean a qualified person

01:32:48

Like Jeff teaching Now if you go from the other end Of this so she says

01:32:54

Correct me if I'm wrong but sanctification Will deepen your theology Alright so we looked at it from One end right

01:33:01

How through learning theology God is sanctifying us

01:33:07

Alright now when we get to that Position of him sanctifying us We want to continue to learn that Theology right

01:33:14

And so in our sanctification Because we're starting now We cannot live without The word of God I'm not going to mess this

01:33:24

Lord's day I'm not going to mess my Time with God and Bible and prayer And stuff like that and so it's both

01:33:30

End right so God is Strengthening us So he's pruning us to Bear much fruit and a part of that Fruit bearing is that we

01:33:40

Want to be pruned by the vine dresser We want to be disciplined by The vine dresser because we want to live

01:33:46

Holy lives to God And so and that pushes us That causes us to want to be

01:33:52

Sitting under good theology To where God can all the more Prune us

01:33:59

And strengthen our Faith and conform us into the Image of Jesus Christ because ultimately that's

01:34:05

The goal I love that Jeff I was just thinking about this in Psalm 119

01:34:11

He says with all My heart I have sought you Do not let me stray from your commandments

01:34:18

Your word I have Treasured in my heart It just motivates us to love the

01:34:23

Law of the Lord to love his word That we can't do without It I meditate on it day and night

01:34:30

From the moment I wake up The word of God Is in my mind that's what

01:34:37

I'm Thinking about It's all over me man It consumes me

01:34:44

Psalm 119 105 your word is a lamp For my feet and a light into my path

01:34:50

That is supposed To be what our eyes are focused upon I love

01:34:55

Psalm 19 As well That's an amazing song It's kind of like an abridged version of 119

01:35:02

It speaks to somebody like me Specifically In let's see

01:35:09

Starting in verse 7 It says In verse 7 it says

01:35:15

The law of the Lord is perfect reviving The soul the testimony of the Lord is sure making wise

01:35:21

The simple I'm Barely a high school graduate Barely even graduated

01:35:28

High school Barely All the wisdom

01:35:37

All the All the treasures of wisdom are Summed up in Christ man Yeah There's nothing like the word of God What did he say about you know

01:35:48

These 12 ordinary men that he Chose they There wasn't anything special about them

01:35:54

There wasn't anything they were hard They were laborers They saw these men and they knew

01:35:59

That they had been with the Lord They knew that they had been with the Lord So that's

01:36:06

I mean Just know me that I've been with the Lord That's all I care about You want to talk about a testimony

01:36:13

That's a testimony You know someone can meet you and say You know

01:36:18

I don't I know I know one thing about him He's been with the

01:36:23

Lord That's right That is Sound like Sam Waldron crunching on a water bottle

01:36:32

Laughing Laughing What did you say

01:36:40

If that can be said about me I'd die happy If that can be said about me when I die

01:36:45

I would be happy I know That you walk with the Lord Because Scripture Pouring out of you man

01:36:54

I love it It encourages me It pushes me It rebukes me

01:37:00

And that's what prayer is for That's what our prayer groups are for That's what sitting under the word

01:37:06

And the preaching and the teaching is for That's what evangelism is for It's all those things

01:37:11

To encourage us To admonish us To rebuke us

01:37:17

And to cause us to Continue to Come to the foot of the cross

01:37:23

Amen And that's what the book of Hebrews is about He's encouraging these

01:37:29

Christians Preach Laughing He's encouraging

01:37:35

Christians to continue to look to Christ Yeah That's beautiful man

01:37:41

When I was going through it this way So I forgot that That today was

01:37:48

Incarnation Sunday Christmas Sunday So I had already put in a day and a half Of study in John 15

01:37:55

To do my fourth message In those few little Verses Like I've been trying to give everything

01:38:02

I can From that little section And I was like oh crap I've got to do a different sermon

01:38:09

And then I was like So then the next day I started trying to figure out

01:38:14

What am I going to preach on And I was like Hebrews 2 Because I've been talking about it a little bit

01:38:19

In Sunday school class Walking through the Incarnation Walking through the two natures of Christ He's truly

01:38:26

God and truly man And as I was going through it I was like man I really wish I could preach through Hebrews But that was

01:38:33

The last book I preached But that was over two years ago And my

01:38:39

Understanding has grown My mind has been sanctified In the word of God and I just feel like I understand it much more now

01:38:48

And so The way he tied in the last Three weeks with This Hebrews message

01:38:55

Today on the purpose of Christmas It was awesome I told you it was going to The last three weeks

01:39:03

Into Bible study this morning And Sunday school Into the message

01:39:09

Into the message He tied in everything That is all God's providence

01:39:14

In working at and giving his people Exactly what they need to hear Bro Jeff I'll tell you man

01:39:19

There's stuff like that that happens every single week Every single week What's going on Aren't we reformed people

01:39:28

Did I tell you what? Come to our church for a month You'll be like Baptocostals I believe you

01:39:37

The Director of missions Actually called me a Baptocostal He told me he was a free meal

01:39:48

Baptist He got a free meal that day too

01:39:54

What are you doing Celebrating Christmas But making fun of that Those people who don't celebrate

01:40:01

Christmas Because it's I'll tell you what I love Christmas I love this time of year

01:40:08

I love thinking about the incarnation I love thinking about the cross If there's anything

01:40:15

That's going to put our minds on Christ Give me more of that Give me more of that Or More people to be accessible to it

01:40:25

Right Go out on any Average month or any

01:40:31

Day of the week knocking on people's door And singing songs outside their house Right What in the world

01:40:39

During the month of December close to Christmas Yeah more acceptable to To what's taking place

01:40:45

Yeah In the last 50 years Have you

01:40:51

I've not been out And I've not known of any Church that I've ever been a part of To go out and carol

01:40:59

That's why I want to do it so bad I'll sing out there on the streets I don't care man I'm telling you

01:41:05

I googled caroling On Christmas And the only images that came up Christmas caroling

01:41:14

And the only images that were coming up Were ancient Well not ancient

01:41:19

Old 1950s 1960s 70s You don't see it anymore

01:41:26

You just don't And when we were knocking out on the doors We need to make Christmas caroling great again

01:41:34

That's what I promised on my phone I'm serious Because it is an evangelistic call

01:41:40

It's been so encouraging To see you and your church Go out and do it It was worship

01:41:45

It was worship in the public square In the neighborhoods What a better testimony than that Christmas is great y 'all

01:41:54

Yeah 100 % We celebrate the incarnation Every Sunday And the resurrection

01:42:01

I tell you what If you come to our church And I don't mention the incarnation

01:42:08

Death burial, life death burial And resurrection I'll give you a thousand dollars

01:42:18

I'll give you a free PTL Bible Custom any way you like it

01:42:23

If you can show me in my message That I didn't mention those things Oh I'm about to go Looking through some messages bro

01:42:30

Go ahead We do the gospel every week

01:42:35

It doesn't matter I need a Johnny Cash now You know

01:42:41

I do have an Allen That I might need to get redone Let's see

01:42:48

He doesn't He doesn't read my message The message Bibles man

01:42:55

I don't own a message I have my Allen's are

01:43:00

Man I'll tell you what This LSB that he did It's just It has got to be my favorite

01:43:08

Bible This is gorgeous It is beautiful Look at the ribbons Red look at that This is four ribbons

01:43:17

Of the number one Bible that Jeffrey Rice ever made Right here in my hands It's a beautiful Bible It's standard

01:43:24

Ain't nothing like those red ribbons though son That is a nice red

01:43:29

Bible I got some red ribbons in my preaching Bible Oh you sure do

01:43:37

Is that your Is that The one that's just like mine

01:43:43

This one right here is the Allen SCR Oh okay it's not them

01:43:48

Yeah Oh yeah that's sweet Is that gold or silver lining

01:43:57

Silver No pages either Yeah blue Silver and blue Oh it sure is yeah

01:44:04

Man that thing is slick Every Bible man Preaching Bible Every Bible you make dude is phenomenal

01:44:13

This one right here man I got another block Right here it's an

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Allen I got another one So I'm going to have the margins On this one cut off I'm going to make it a handy size

01:44:26

So I'm going to make it smaller More of a reader To carry around This trailer park voyage

01:44:33

Is Bible rich And I got this one right here

01:44:40

So this is an O2 NASB This is the French meal paper This is hot

01:44:46

Bibles ever made Is that the judge right there I don't think it has a nickname

01:44:51

We just call it It's the 07 But I plan on sanding the goat off I'm going to sand the goat off And I'm going to do a

01:45:00

Johnny Cash Because I don't have a Johnny Cash Bible How in the world do you even do that How in the world you don't even have

01:45:07

Your own Johnny Cash Bible I'm fitting to He's just doing that To make me jealous

01:45:17

Like he's wearing that black hat of mine Right now I got a bunch of black hats

01:45:22

This one's navy son He's got a black one Because I've been trying to get him

01:45:27

To make me an all black Johnny Cash hat I'm trying to come up with the money

01:45:34

To get a stamp So I want to have a stamp Where it has the Inhofe Cigna Windchase With the

01:45:42

Cairo It's kind of like have it rounded With the Cairo right in the middle So I got $125 to get it made

01:45:49

Do you have a Cairo stamp I got two Cairo stamps But I want to get

01:45:55

Something special just for stamping Hats Do you have an Alpha and Omega stamp as well

01:46:01

I got a Cairo Alpha and Omega I was thinking about getting you to Stamp over this

01:46:13

Put my stamp over that And then Georgia Says Jeff how much

01:46:19

Would you charge to engrave The word Totalist On my

01:46:24

Bible So here's the thing If you're wanting it right here And the

01:46:30

Bible's already bound I cannot do it You could get it here As a name

01:46:37

If it's bound Like I have to open it like this To put it under my stamp machine

01:46:43

And my stamp machine has arms That stick out and this right here Gets in the way of the arms

01:46:48

And so I cannot But if it's on the end I can do it

01:46:53

But if you want it done in the middle Like I did his I have to do that before I bind the

01:46:59

Bible Look at that right there Like I can't stamp anything in the center

01:47:04

After the Bible's already bound With the stamp machine I have The stamp machine I have is a $2000 stamp machine

01:47:11

These things are not cheap at all They do have better ones I'm just a trailer park kid

01:47:17

Balling on a budget Have you ever stamped like Verses or anything like that On the front of a

01:47:24

Bible Like in the beginning was the word Back in the day I did

01:47:29

And I messed up on some And I had a football spike them and eat the cost And say a cuss word

01:47:34

So I'm not doing it anymore I mean because The cover so you know

01:47:41

Normally by the time I'm stamping I've already done stitched them and everything And so I got a lot of time

01:47:46

And when I screw them up For those of you that Don't know

01:47:52

I am dyslexic Okay And when you stamp

01:47:59

When you put the letters in You gotta put them in upside down and backwards Oh my gosh

01:48:04

I have to put everything in upside down And backwards and not to mention I'm dyslexic

01:48:10

By the time he's done with that I hate to stamp He's gone into Exitropia I need to make sure

01:48:19

The Palestine is right So like there's been plenty of times

01:48:28

I've had Wait a minute it doesn't say it's finished It says it's just begun Yeah you should have put that on the back

01:48:38

On the back Should have put it back here Yeah for the most part

01:48:47

People purchase a Bible and send it to me But I do sell once a month So the

01:48:52

Bibles that people Purchase and send to me They pay a deposit Towards the end they would pay the finished payment

01:48:59

And that's what I live on So that's what you know Just my gas that's what

01:49:06

Puts food on the table So on and so forth And then when we make Bibles to sell That pays my rent, my car bill

01:49:13

My lights, water and everything like that So all you listeners get your

01:49:19

PTO Bible Definitely So I'm hoping

01:49:24

It would be really Really great to eventually Get out of rebinding

01:49:31

As a full time job and be able to Focus more on the Pastorate Be praying for that Because I'm working 45 -50 hours a week

01:49:42

In the rebinding And then having to from 8 o 'clock To sometimes 1 o 'clock in the morning

01:49:48

Study for summer preparations And I'm doing that 5 nights a week So I got a lot of Hours that I'm Working and just wore out all the time

01:49:59

For those of you who don't know Jeff and me

01:50:04

Brad, Braden We talk every night And every time

01:50:11

That Jeff, we call Jeff During the day He's in his office And I'm talking working office

01:50:19

Doing rebinds He doesn't stop working And then He's got a little bit of time with his family

01:50:27

And then he's studying every night He's a hard worker man So when

01:50:33

In his free time In his free time He's watching butt races Yes, that's right

01:50:39

I was going to say When that day comes That you do full -time ministry

01:50:45

And stop the rebinding And you're just doing it for fun The value of these things Just double

01:50:51

Because there won't be any more PTL Bibles I can only imagine

01:50:57

Because I mean The knowledge Brother Jeff has Pastor Jeff has

01:51:03

His heart for the lost His heart for Proclaiming and expositing

01:51:10

The word of God And teaching others To become

01:51:15

Like him I want to imitate this brother You know I'm not trying to put you on a pedestal

01:51:23

I'm saying I'm saying that Everybody sees that Yeah Everybody sees

01:51:32

I gotta put a hashtag on me No ditty

01:51:38

No ditty No ditty This brother gives his life

01:51:46

For the work of The ministry To exalt Christ To make him known

01:51:53

I don't want to be like that He's somebody

01:51:58

When Paul says Imitate me as I imitate Christ That's what I'm saying I can only imagine

01:52:06

If he was full time Able to Focus completely on Preaching the word

01:52:13

Evangelism Discipleship amongst the congregation Dude He'd be the

01:52:19

Terminator We would definitely see some revival Taking place up in here

01:52:24

That's right Let's do it Y 'all be praying out there too

01:52:29

That our other pastor Kyle Would get to where he can do full time Ministry as well

01:52:35

If y 'all really want to pray for our church There's There's things that You know

01:52:43

We need So Red is

01:52:50

Going to be our first ordained evangelist We believe That Evangelist Is an office

01:53:00

Of the church Right And Red has

01:53:06

Again I do the work of an evangelist Red is an evangelist I am not what

01:53:12

Red is Concerning evangelism I do it I'm not afraid to do it

01:53:17

And I enjoy doing it But I recognize I just recognize other people's gifts

01:53:23

And I'm not afraid of Other people's gifts I like being around preachers that can preach better than me

01:53:30

And I'm not jealous of them Because I think that They can rub off on me

01:53:35

Right They can make me better preachers And Red can make me a better evangelist

01:53:42

But certain things that we do Need We need God to send men

01:53:47

Who are strong Because our church does need another elder We need someone

01:53:52

That if my body falls over dead That can take my place Right You know

01:54:00

And so Be praying for our church That God will raise up men

01:54:06

Who are strong in the word And who are willing to get out and do the work Amen Yeah Yeah That's key right there

01:54:16

A lot of times we see a lot of Churches equip men And they have

01:54:23

A staff full of men Who are equipped To be pastors

01:54:28

And they're staying in that one church Get out of there

01:54:33

And go plant a church for crying out loud Get out of there That or Young men that they see potential

01:54:42

And they're sending them off to seminaries That are nowhere around the church Right That they were grown in Right It says to take what

01:54:52

Paul tells Timothy To take what I gave to you And give it to other faithful men

01:54:58

And raise them up And plant churches And keep doing it

01:55:03

I think that's the whole prescription Of how God grows his church

01:55:10

Yep 100 % Yeah Well good show Hey so Two hours in In Tullahoma Tennessee Right did

01:55:22

I say it Tullahoma Tennessee In Tullahoma February 20th through 22nd

01:55:28

Did I say it right So the 20th through the 22nd

01:55:33

Will be the conference The war conference Dealing with Basically sanctification

01:55:40

The spirit versus the flesh It's kind of like this So when you're justified

01:55:46

You're positionally right Before God And so it's like well now what

01:55:52

How do I get from A to B Because the Bible says that He conforms us to the image of Jesus Christ How does this conformity

01:56:00

Take place It's through sanctification And we think it's a very Important topic

01:56:06

And so it's war Because as your spirit man Wants to submit to the word of God You also have to deal with this flesh

01:56:15

That's attached to you That wants nothing to do with it And so there's this battle that takes place

01:56:20

Which is why we need the pruning of the father And that's what we're going to be talking about At this conference It begins on the 20th

01:56:27

And it lasts to the 22nd There is a pre -conference On the 19th

01:56:32

Where we're going to be speaking on evangelism We're actually going to be giving Walking you through Why you should evangelize

01:56:40

What it looks like and what to expect It's going to be really good A lot of good fellowship time

01:56:47

Afterwards we're going to be hanging out At different restaurants, different cigar shops Going back to different Homes And just really

01:56:57

Having a good time Talking theology It's just going to be a wonderful time

01:57:02

So I'll guarantee you this If you come to this conference And you don't learn something

01:57:09

While having fun It's a blast

01:57:14

I'll give you your money back Tell a homie About the open air

01:57:22

Theology conference Yeah Tell a homie about the open air theology conference In Tallahoma Yeah man

01:57:31

It's going to be good And then also My church So not the podcast

01:57:37

My church will be having a conference in July I don't have the exact dates yet And it'll be

01:57:44

Focused on The gospel Like this is going to be something That's going to be really really good

01:57:51

So we'll probably be walking through all the aspects Of the gospel that you can think of And brothers and sisters out there

01:57:58

On YouTube If you're looking for A pre -conference

01:58:04

On evangelism We're going to be having four preachers Jeff, Brayden, Tom and myself

01:58:10

We're going to be having We're going to be discussing And preaching about evangelism

01:58:17

We're going to have an evangelism Boot camp And we're going to go out and do evangelism

01:58:22

Locally in Tallahoma So we're going to go out and we're going to be telling homies About Christ Amen We really

01:58:32

Appreciate you Melissa I'm glad you feel better Melissa 103

01:58:38

AM She's in it to win it Georgia and everybody else Who tuned in tonight

01:58:44

We really appreciate you guys We really appreciate all of you There's really no way to express

01:58:51

The appreciation we have for everyone That watches It doesn't go unseen

01:58:57

Yeah If you ever see us in person Listen If you don't come say hi

01:59:05

Do you even have a pulse Like Well We'll hunt you down We're going to hunt you down I'll hold you and Jeff will put you in an arm bar

01:59:17

And we'll do We'll do butt races We'll have a butt I tell you what

01:59:22

You come to Tallahoma's conference We'll have a butt race That's how we're going to race

01:59:30

We're going to do a butt race For a PTL Bible And watch how many people

01:59:36

I guarantee you We'll have a butt race for a PTL Bible Everybody will be on their butts

01:59:42

Yeah If we get all the All the

01:59:47

YouTube Interweb All of our open air theology Peoples We've all got to do butt races

01:59:56

Yeah That's the initiation I wonder how it's like You do like the butt lock

02:00:05

I don't know You're the one that's been watching all the videos I only watched one Just one We're probably going to get all kind of reels

02:00:14

That's one more Than Tom and I have done He's got all the

02:00:20

He's got all the No oil please That might That might make things

02:00:27

Go faster Oh man Alright let's end it

02:00:34

Let Melissa go to sleep Yeah Red got any last words brother

02:00:40

Man Make it Make it a point this week To exalt

02:00:46

Christ To tell someone about The bad news So that the good news

02:00:52

Is actually good news Tell somebody about the law And how they've broken it

02:00:58

And how they deserve the justice and the wrath of God And how the good news

02:01:03

Is that Jesus came And paid your debt It's finished Repent And believe in Christ Lift his name high this week

02:01:15

I can't It's you know having another evangelist On the show Just stole my thunder

02:01:23

Ending Both I can't agree on what he said Go out there make it a point

02:01:31

Find somebody walk out the door Share the gospel with someone And everybody have a merry

02:01:36

Christmas That world One string banjo man Yeah I know

02:01:42

And that string needs to be tuned up I heard him saying If you're ever in Tallahoma Tennessee Please come check us out

02:01:50

Again I pastor Covenant Reformed Baptist Church Here we just got into a Really cool building

02:01:56

And it would be a joy To worship our great God and Savior With you and have a meal afterwards