(Must SEE) Textbook Evangelism w/ Sye Ten Bruggencate

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Yes, sir. I don't feel right about this, man.

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Let me turn this off. Brother? Is there a girl in there?

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You're having now. It's just going to get worse. I know. I really do know, and I feel like God's going to discipline me, and it's going to take me a while to get right with him, man.

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No, but the thing is, you have to be careful, because there's a chance that you can't get right with him, if you do this willingly.

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Now, is she here to take a pill, right? Yeah. Now, is she taking the pill in there? Yeah, she's taking the pill in there.

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I mean, I'm... See, the problem is that it's not necessarily... It's kind of a family issue.

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Like, both households have lost all of our jobs. Right. And it's like...

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It's getting kind of scary. Like, I don't know what the future holds. It honestly, like, it terrifies me.

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I grew up really poor. Right. It really does scare me. And I've always been a firm believer in the

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Lord, but... John? Part of me doesn't even know how to, like, properly do the whole thing.

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It's been so long since I've been near, like, a real... John's from a local church here, and he can tell you the type of services that they offer.

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Right. This is our church. This is my email. I'll give you my phone number. It's the church's phone number.

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You can reach me through there. Sure, man. All right, man. Now, we'll help you with anything.

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I just... I go crazy sometimes, man. Like, I don't know. There's so much happening to me all the time.

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Especially in these fleeting years. I'm only 18 years old, and she's 21. I'm, like, sinful mistakes.

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And I'm causing, like, her all this, like, pain. And, you know, part of it doesn't want to go through this.

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But we both know it's the sad truth that this whole thing's, like, so hard. Right. And her mom, like, my dad especially, he, like, he doesn't want it.

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And, like, I know that if I do have it, like, everyone will be just so disappointed in me.

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And if I don't, everyone will be so disappointed in me. But here's the thing. There's another option. And the other option is adoption.

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We have somebody who can do that. Look, if it doesn't go through, of course,

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I'm... If it comes out, like, what I'm saying, if there's a chance that the baby still lives, like,

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I'm there for it. Of course, I've never been the one to, like... Is she in there for an appointment?

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Is it a pre -appointment or is today the day? This is today's the day for the pill. And she's, like, concrete on her decision.

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Sorry. Well, I know. I know. Is there any chance you can get her to come out and talk to me?

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I don't think so. Not Abby. No, not her. It's worth a try, man. It's your son and your daughter.

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I can't do it. I... Think about this. I feel like my ignorance now is going to make me meet

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God someday in my life when I'm still alive. And he's going to put me to a task. I feel like he's going to put me to a task and he's really going to make me suffer.

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And if I don't complete the task, I feel like it's... Here's the task. Right now, the only task you've got is to try to save the life of your son and your daughter.

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It's worth a try, dude. Think about this. I've got a 3 -year -old at home. When I come home from work or whatever, being out here, she'll come running up to me and say,

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Daddy, I love you. And she hugs me. It's worth a try. It's worth a second. It's worth a second because we'll help you.

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You guys probably have 401Ks and stuff. I'm like one step away from welfare, dude.

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And Abby can help me. The thing is, you say that those people are going to be disappointed in you if you have the baby. You know what the thing is?

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Those are the people who are going to be bouncing your child on their knee with a big smile on their face. You think they're going to be disappointed?

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They don't like the inconvenience now. But if you have that baby, a grandchild of those people, they're going to be bouncing that child on their knee.

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Guys, I'm 18. My dad's like 36. And he will be bouncing your child on his knee. He'll love that baby, man.

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He'll be teaching that baby how to ride a bike. It's so much pressure for me.

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He might be disappointed with you now. But when you have that baby, you think your parents aren't going to come around? But that's not the main issue.

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The main issue is that what you're doing is an abomination to God. We all stand before God.

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My dad is... I just need a prayer. I need a prayer. I really do.

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My father, he's an older man, but he still acts like a child. He's doing cocaine and alcohol all the time.

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I want him to die. Dude, man. Let us help you. Her dad does the same exact thing.

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Let us help you, man. We want to help you. We want to help your girlfriend. We want to help your baby.

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Give us a chance. Go in there and get her out. Bring her out here, man. You can do it. We don't see very many men out here.

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We see a lot of boys. But I've seen in you a guy who at least knows what's wrong. I know what's wrong.

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You don't want to turn into your dad. And you know what? If you walk away from here and you allow this to be done, how do you think you're going to bury that pain?

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You're going to bury it with cocaine. I'm going to bury it with God. I'm going to bury it with God. I have to. There's going to be something that he's going to give me because I know that I truly believe that someone has died for my sins.

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I really do. And I feel like this is the hard part.

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You're slapping him in the face right now. The God that you say has sent his son to die for your sin, and you're in his lap slapping him on the face, and you think that God is going to turn around and rescue you?

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You know, I'm not saying that he won't, but I'm not saying that he will. Who can?

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I don't know either. I pray. I try to pray as much as I can, and I don't feel like I get anywhere.

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But let me tell you, however this goes down today, you need to get out of that situation. If you're with a woman here who is willing to birth your baby, you need to leave her.

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You need to get right with God, and it's not going to be in your own house by yourself. You need to get with people who are right with him.

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You need to get with a good church. I've been with her for a year now, and she's just started to take

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God into consideration. And I know it's not like the real. She hasn't done the real acceptance of him.

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I can tell because she's just young. You can't do mission dating. You should go in there and say, look, if you kill this baby, I'm leaving you.

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I'm going to be a man, not a coward. She's leaving me. Well, that's fine. Let her leave you. You don't want to be with a murderer.

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Do you want to be with a murderer? Do you want to marry a murderer? Because right now you're an accomplice to murder.

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That child that you're killing is an image bearer of God. Your child has a God, and that God is going to seek vengeance for that life.

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That's a scary thing, man. I wouldn't want that. I might as well be done. I'll take the sacrifice. I don't care. No, but the thing is, you don't know what you're saying.

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Because you don't know what an attorney in hell is like. You have no idea. You would not say that if you knew what it would be like to spend an attorney in hell.

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You would not say that. If you knew what it was like, you'd run in there screaming to get your woman out of there.

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It's not too late, man. And you know what? Even if she does take the pill, is this the first one? The first pill? It is the first one.

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She can reverse it in the next 72 hours. It's online.

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abortion pill reversal. But you need to do that, man. There's always APR, you know? It's just like, the scales are so, like,

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I don't know what side's better. I really don't. Sure you do. You know what side's better. You might fool other people with that.

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You're not going to fool us with that. You know what side's better. There's no doubt about that. And you know what side's better.

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And you're choosing... You're facing the same...

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What am I going to do? You're going to tell her to stop. My dad's girlfriend would leave him if she found out that...

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You don't have to put it on him. You don't have to put it on him, man. That's legit.

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Before, during, and after, man. We will step in and help. Whatever you need, we will take care of it.

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If you need a place to go, we will find it. It's all of it, dude. All of it. Whatever you need.

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That's why we do this. What's your name? I'm Sai.

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I'm John. COVID. How do you spell that? I mean,

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I'm a good kid. I know I am. I mean, I'm not like... But the thing is, I know that I'm not a good man. You can say you're a good kid, but you're fooling yourself.

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Because I'm not a good man. I deserve hell and death just as much as you do. I feel this the exact same way.

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Part of me thinks... And actually, part of me knows that all sin is equal. But it's equal in God's eyes.

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There are degrees of sin. Like a murder is worse than a white lie. But they make us all equally undeserving of the grace of God.

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The difference between us and unbelievers is not that we know that God exists, that we're better. The difference is that we're going to heaven.

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Although we don't deserve it. We all deserve hell. The difference is that we're going and we don't deserve it.

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And we want that for you. Have you heard the song Scarlet Begonias? I don't know it. From the

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Grateful Dead? No, I'm not much of it. We've talked about it, you know.

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We both know, like, we think we're making a mistake. But the pressure is unbearable from our sides of the family.

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Both of them know that in a time like this, in a time of crisis, no one's got jobs.

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That's not an excuse. You just heard my friend John here say that he will take care. His church will take care of that baby.

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That's not an excuse. So you're just using that as an excuse. I don't even live here. I'd have to find some other church. I'm from downtown

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Dallas. We've got connections all over the country.

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We've got people that care all over the country, all over the world. We'll help. We'll pitch in and help, man.

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I promise you. I promise you. I promise you. We'll take care of it.

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Look, you're in a bad situation to begin with. You know it. You just told us about it. You need to get out of it anyway. So, get out of it with your child intact and let us help you.

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The problem is, if you feel at all comfortable about what you're doing, ever, that's God handing you over to Satan.

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Because that's what it says in the book of Romans, that he hands people over to their sin. Now, you might come out here the next time.

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Next girlfriend you get, or she gets pregnant again, and you're standing out here. And now you give us the finger or something. You came out here today because God is working on your heart.

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Right. And what you do today is very important. Because you're either going to give God the finger and say,

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No, you have moved me to come out here and talk to these freaks on the other side of the fence, to speak the truth to you because we love you.

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Now, what you do is very important. Because God has come here to speak to you today through us.

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And the decision that you make with that is either to say, God, I'm going to give God the finger, turn around, I'm going to do it anyways.

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Or you can say, No, I'm going to listen to you, God. Today is the day that you came to me. You sent some people here to me today because you love me.

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And what I'm going to do with that is very important here today. And if you walk away from here with your heart hardened,

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I fear for your soul. It's not a mistake that we came here today.

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This place is supposed to be closed. And we still come out here today so we can love on people like you.

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Because we love you. Your father might not love you. His girlfriend might not love you. But we love you. We want to see you in heaven with your child.

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My father is like, it's so ironic. It's so ironic. You'd think that a father would have more of a conservative sense of decency.

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But this guy, man, I swear. He acts like he's 18 sometimes. He acts like he's my buddy, my bar buddy.

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And it's funny. I swear, when I first moved to Dallas, I was having beers with my dad.

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I never did cocaine, but I smoked weed and all. Now, more than ever,

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I feel like something's not right there. That's not your problem today.

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If you had a one -year -old and you killed it, what would your father think of you? I think he's the one who told me, you're not having a baby.

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But if your baby was one -year -old, you had the baby and you killed it, your father would think you're a murderer.

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Why doesn't your father think you're a murderer now? It's an inconsistency.

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This is a 37 -year -old kid who grew up in the 90s who was raised by that fucking, like, free will ideal.

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The free will ideal that makes people think today that they're in control of their own life.

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That's how my dad is. He acts like he's some kind of activist, like Bernie Sanders or something.

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I don't know. He acts so young on the inside. It just seems like he doesn't want to accept that he's going to be in his 40s soon.

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That's just what it looks like. He gives me a lot of not -good ideas, regardless if it's not good with God or if it's not good in general.

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I just always feel like... You can break the chain, man. You can break the chain on that stuff.

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My dad had me at 18 and he said, and he left me too.

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I'm only living with him now, this year. I'm 18. But he was absent between the years of 3 and 18.

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But if you abandon that child today, you're doing the same thing. No, no, you're worse than him. He didn't kill you.

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Yeah, he didn't kill me. I'm a Christian anyway. I honestly don't believe that his soul is going to...

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But there's hope for him too. I pray for him. I've done it so many times. I've talked to him. Can you imagine saving this child?

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Why did your father say, Why did you save the child? Because I fear God more than I fear you. I fear

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God more than I fear what you're going to say to me. I fear God more than you kicking me out of the house. And you know what?

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Because you didn't kill me. I'm taking your advice. You didn't kill me, I'm not going to kill my child. I'm going to love my child like you love me.

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I'd appreciate that, man. Please do that. I will. She won't come out here, believe me. God can do anything, man.

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We'll pray for you while you're in there. What's her name? I can't go in there.

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She said they'll kick you out if you're in there. I'll try. It's worth getting kicked out, dude. Can you text her?

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Does she have a phone or something? Yeah, I'll try to text her. What's her name? Huh? What's her name? Okay.