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Faith and Failure's podcast

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So on another note , actually not on another , on

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the same note . So my Jonathan

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Cahn talked a little bit about like what

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exactly biblically

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, what the Pope was doing ? Like why

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is it that way ? It is a blatant

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disregard and disrespect

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to the Word of God . I don't care who the guy

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is , you have no authority

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in the Spirit . You have no authority in the Word

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. You have no authority from God . If

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you say what God says is sin

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is okay , you cannot bless what God

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says is cursed . You cannot curse what God

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says is blessed . That is just the facts

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. So we're going to watch another video it's

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a very short clip about this and

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then we're going to read another scripture , but

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it is the five news . So Pope

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Francis approved same sex blessings

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. This just came out four weeks ago when

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he came out and said he's

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going to bless it .

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And Mark Rowling from the Vatican . Pope

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Francis is now announcing that Roman Catholic

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priests can administer blessings to same

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sex couples , with some exceptions

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. It's a massive change in Vatican

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policy , the Vatican official saying

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that those seeking God's love and mercy

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shouldn't be subject to quote an

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exhaustive morale analysis

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to receive it . However , the Vatican

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says that this should in no way be confused

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with the sacrament of marriage between a

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man and a woman . The document

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says that requests for such blessings

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for same sex couples should not be

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denied full stop . Landmark

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.

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Now tell me , how in the

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world is that supposed to

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clear anything up ? You're

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saying this is not just not like marriage

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. The devil is the author of confusion

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, and even in that kind

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of confusion it's still a bunch of

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nonsense . That is crazy to me . All

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right , so let's look at the scripture , and I want

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you to think about this as we read . They even mock

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God and say hurry up and do something

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. Have you ever heard this before ? Like people want God to do

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something . Like if God is real , he would do X , y

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and Z . This is exactly what

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Isaiah was talking about . This is Isaiah , chapter

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five , 19 through 30 . They

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even mock God and say hurry up and do something

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. We want to see what you

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can do . Let the Holy One of

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Israel carry out his plan , for we

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want to know what it is the

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scripture entitled little kids . What

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sorrow for those who say that

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evil is good and

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good is evil . The dark

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is light and the light is dark . That

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bitter is sweet and sweet

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is bitter . What

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sorrow for those who are

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wise in their own eyes and

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think themselves so

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clever . That's

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straight up today . Sorrow

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for those who are heroes

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at drinking wine and boasts about

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all the alcohol they can hold . You

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know , when I was living in sin meth

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, alcohol , whatever , like we always

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that's exactly what we did every

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single time is we would brag

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about how much alcohol we could

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hold , how much we didn't get , like

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when I , when I was like drink , drink every

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single night when I lived in Orlando . The

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reason I did it without any

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remorse is that I would stay

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up until the crack of dawn . I'd fall asleep

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and then I wake up just in time for that night to

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come and start doing it all over again and go out in

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the cycle for weeks and weeks , and weeks , and weeks

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and weeks , and I never get hungover . That

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was a big part of my issue . I never had a consequence

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with it . I mean , I lost my child , I lost my first

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wife , there's a lot of other issues , but I

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never got hungover . So they

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take bribes to let the wicked go free

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what's up politics ? And

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they punish the innocent . Now , this is another thing

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that I

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don't understand how , depending on what

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lawyer they have , if someone does something

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and they are guilty , they can go

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free . Like we have a

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jacked up system to where people who

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are guilty can walk out free

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, and then we have people out here that

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are that are trying and really

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trying to do what they can for their family

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and they can't get help because they're they're

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not in poverty yet . They're

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people where they have to be so broke for them to

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get help and they have to

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be so rich for them to get out of trouble

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. Therefore , just as fire

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looks up , stubble and dry grass shrivels in

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the flame , so their

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roots will not a

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roll rot sorry , it was like what the

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rot and their flowers wither , for they have rejected the

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law of the Lords of Heaven's armies and

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they have despised the word of the Holy

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One of Israel . That is why the Lord's anger

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burns against his people . So this is

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not something about people don't know God . This is about

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the people of God . That

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is why the Lord's anger burns against

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his people and why he has raised his

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fist to crush them . The mountains tremble

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and the corpses of his people litter

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the streets like garbage . But even the

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Lord's anger is not satisfied . His

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fist is still poised to

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strike . He will send a signal to the distant

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nations far away and whistle

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to those at the ends of the earth . They

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will come racing towards Jerusalem . A lot of times

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we think that the enemy , the

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devil , is out to do something . We forget

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that God has ultimate reign over everything

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and if you ain't doing right , or

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you're pretending to do right and

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you're just living a life for yourself , god's

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hand will rise against you because

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he loves you that much . Listen to this , listen to

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the story and I understand

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that it's harsh . We're like God wouldn't do

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that . God wouldn't allow that to happen

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. Yes , he would , because he loves

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you that much . That's what you're not

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understanding that God loves

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you so much he will

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let you suffer , but

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everybody thinks that , oh , if God is love

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, he wouldn't allow suffering in the world . That's

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the most immature statement you could ever make , because

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it's false . That's

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like saying that if you are a loving

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parent , you will never allow your child

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to fall , stumble , scrape their knee , burn their

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hand . But we learn

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, we mature . We

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learn how to protect ourselves , how to protect others , how

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to care for others by understanding

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the realness of pain . He

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will send a signal to the distant nations far away and

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whistle to those at the end of the earth . They

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will come racing towards Jerusalem . They will not

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get tired or stumble . They will not

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stop for rest

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or sleep A lot of us like

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to quote the scriptures , where we're rising up on the

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wings of angels and won't run out of breath

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, but he's saying that the enemy that he's whistling

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hey , come on , they're

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not listening . Have at it Judgment

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. People think that God of the New Testament

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yes , he's full of grace and mercy , but

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he is still the same God and he is a just

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God , and rightly so and justly

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so . The punishment that we

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actually deserve to receive

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. We don't ever think , we don't like to think about that , but

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it's the honest truth . We don't deserve God's love

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and mercy and grace , every blessing that I have

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in my life . I understand completely

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that I have not earned it and I do

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not deserve it , but for some reason

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and I have no answer why for some reason

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God still gives me blessings

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, even in hard times . I know he's still

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there . Not a belt will be loose

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, not a sandal strap broken . Their

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arrows will be sharpened , their bows ready for battle

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. Sparks will fly from their horses

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. Hooves and the wheels of their chariots will

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spin like a whirlwind . They

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will roar like lions , like

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the strongest lions growling

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. They will pounce on their

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victims and they will carry them off . Why

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do we fall ? So we can learn to get back up with

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God's help . We can't do life

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on our own . That's right , which is another

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reason why God tells us not

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to forsake the gathering . We

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got to stop making excuses why we don't want to go

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to church . Church is full of hypocrites

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. The world is full of hypocrites . Everywhere

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you go , it's full of hypocrites . You probably

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are one if you're saying you love God but you don't adhere

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to a scripture and carry them off and no one

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will be there to rescue them . They will

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roar over their victims on that day of destruction

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like the roaring of the sea . If someone looks

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across the land , only darkness and distress

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will be seen . Even the light will

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be darkened by the clouds . Isaiah

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didn't play , but here's what I wanted to highlight

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right here . They even mock God . So

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listen , we like to talk about the people who

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aren't in church and what they're doing wrong , but

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I think sometimes , with our church culture that we

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create or things we allow in our churches , like the

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Pope is doing now , we are mocking

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God . We are guessing and vetoing evil and

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allowing a culture to

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dictate the almighty

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God's ruling in our lives . They

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even mock God and say hurry up and do something . We

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want to see it . Then it says what's all for

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those who say evil is good

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and good is evil , that dark is light and light is dark

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and bitter is sweet and sweet is bitter . We have

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got to , on purpose with our walk with God

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, to

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make sure that we

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are , as Christians , aligning

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who we are , what we say

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, how we say it , how

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we respond , how we react , everything

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that we do . If we

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say we love God , then

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everything that we do should

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align with the word of scripture . We

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do not make the scripture align with us and how

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we feel . We set our feelings aside

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and we go off of facts that what God

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says is good is good . What

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he says is sin is sin . What

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he says is wrong is wrong . What he

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says is right is right Bottom

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line . That's the end . Our

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voice doesn't matter in the scenario

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because he is the creator

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. He is the one that dictates right from

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wrong , what is righteous and unrighteous . The

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Bible says that our righteousness next to his

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is like filthy rags . So

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we need to stop trying to play the game of having

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the culture tell us what

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Christ is and we need to be infiltrating

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the culture with who Christ

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is living through us willing vessels

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to go out , be who God

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says we are supposed to be , and not

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let the world manipulate us by

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dictating what scripture actually

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means .