Sunday Morning November 27th, 2022 - Brother Doug Rea
Rogers Baptist Church
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Um, glad to'}, {'start': '26.240', 'end': '30.240', 'text': 'have him and his wife visiting with us'}, {'start': '27.760', 'end': '31.760', 'text': 'this week. and they probably would never'}, {'start': '30.240', 'end': '34.640', 'text': 'have heard of Roger Baptist Church if it'}, {'start': '31.760', 'end': '37.280', 'text': "wasn't for Tamron and Paul Corak who"}, {'start': '34.640', 'end': '40.559', 'text': 'attend their church there in Cincinnati.'}, {'start': '37.280', 'end': '42.559', 'text': 'So, uh, we can also thank Paul Tam for'}, {'start': '40.559', 'end': '44.320', 'text': "them being here this morning. But we're"}, {'start': '42.559', 'end': '46.480', 'text': "glad to have them. Uh, we'll go ahead"}, {'start': '44.320', 'end': '50.399', 'text': 'and get started with our song service.'}, {'start': '46.480', 'end': '53.120', 'text': "Page 135, come and dine. We'll sing all"}, {'start': '50.399', 'end': '54.800', 'text': 'three verses of this song. And for the'}, {'start': '53.120', 'end': '56.320', 'text': "raise, just so you're aware, I don't"}, {'start': '54.800', 'end': '58.399', 'text': 'like singing, so I turn off the'}, {'start': '56.320', 'end': '61.280', 'text': 'microphone whenever I sing.'}, {'start': '58.399', 'end': '63.120', 'text': "So, um, just because I don't I don't do"}, {'start': '61.280', 'end': '66.159', 'text': "a very good job. I'm not, you know, real"}, {'start': '63.120', 'end': '70.439', 'text': 'good singer. So, but page 135, come and'}, {'start': '66.159', 'end': '70.439', 'text': 'die in all three verses of this song.'}, {'start': '81.680', 'end': '87.840', 'text': 'will spread where the saints of God are'}, {'start': '84.479', 'end': '89.080', 'text': 'fed. He invites his chosen people come'}, {'start': '87.840', 'end': '90.840', 'text': 'and'}, {'start': '89.080', 'end': '95.920', 'text': 'come with'}, {'start': '90.840', 'end': '95.920', 'text': 'his king and supplies our'}, {'start': '106.280', 'end': '109.759', 'text': 'everyus all the'}, {'start': '109.799', 'end': '116.600', 'text': 'time the multitude turn into wine. to'}, {'start': '115.200', 'end': '119.000', 'text': 'the'}, {'start': '116.600', 'end': '122.240', 'text': 'hungry'}, {'start': '119.000', 'end': '122.240', 'text': 'and the'}, {'start': '122.600', 'end': '125.600', 'text': 'disciples'}, {'start': '136.280', 'end': '139.760', 'text': 'Christies every'}, {'start': '144.760', 'end': '152.560', 'text': 'through Jesus all the'}, {'start': '148.440', 'end': '153.720', 'text': 'time. He fed the multitude. Turn the'}, {'start': '152.560', 'end': '156.959', 'text': 'water'}, {'start': '153.720', 'end': '156.959', 'text': 'into the'}, {'start': '160.840', 'end': '168.200', 'text': 'hungry to the ever at his side. All the'}, {'start': '164.800', 'end': '171.840', 'text': 'hosts of heaven will'}, {'start': '168.200', 'end': '173.080', 'text': 'be what will be a glorious sky and all'}, {'start': '171.840', 'end': '178.239', 'text': 'the'}, {'start': '173.080', 'end': '178.239', 'text': 'saints and with Jesus they will feast'}, {'start': '179.720', 'end': '182.720', 'text': 'eternally'}, {'start': '188.519', 'end': '195.680', 'text': 'followed the multitude turn the water'}, {'start': '192.239', 'end': '195.680', 'text': 'into wine to'}, {'start': '201.440', 'end': '206.239', 'text': 'All right, page 360. Leaning on the'}, {'start': '203.599', 'end': '206.239', 'text': 'everlasting'}, {'start': '207.480', 'end': '214.760', 'text': "arms. And we'll sing all three of this"}, {'start': '210.720', 'end': '214.760', 'text': 'song as well. Page 360.'}, {'start': '226.560', 'end': '229.840', 'text': 'What a'}, {'start': '232.360', 'end': '236.519', 'text': 'fellowship of the'}, {'start': '234.920', 'end': '239.239', 'text': 'everlasting'}, {'start': '236.519', 'end': '243.439', 'text': 'heart. What a'}, {'start': '239.239', 'end': '243.439', 'text': 'blessed. What a'}, {'start': '244.040', 'end': '250.239', 'text': 'gracious'}, {'start': '245.879', 'end': '250.239', 'text': 'everlasting arm.'}, {'start': '252.840', 'end': '258.560', 'text': 'Leading safe and secure from'}, {'start': '265.320', 'end': '270.240', 'text': 'all the'}, {'start': '267.560', 'end': '275.960', 'text': 'everlasting arms.'}, {'start': '270.240', 'end': '278.600', 'text': 'Oh, how sweet to walk in this milk,'}, {'start': '275.960', 'end': '280.120', 'text': 'leaning on the'}, {'start': '278.600', 'end': '285.120', 'text': 'everlasting'}, {'start': '280.120', 'end': '289.479', 'text': 'arms. Oh, how bright the path grows from'}, {'start': '285.120', 'end': '293.479', 'text': 'day to day, leaning on the'}, {'start': '289.479', 'end': '293.479', 'text': 'everlasting arms.'}, {'start': '296.600', 'end': '302.240', 'text': 'Le safe and secure from'}, {'start': '307.560', 'end': '314.320', 'text': 'all living on the'}, {'start': '311.479', 'end': '319.880', 'text': 'everlasting arms.'}, {'start': '314.320', 'end': '322.520', 'text': 'What am I to dread? What have I to'}, {'start': '319.880', 'end': '324.039', 'text': 'eating on the'}, {'start': '322.520', 'end': '328.880', 'text': 'everlasting'}, {'start': '324.039', 'end': '330.759', 'text': 'heart? I have blessed peace with my'}, {'start': '328.880', 'end': '333.320', 'text': "Lord's"}, {'start': '330.759', 'end': '337.320', 'text': 'nearing on'}, {'start': '333.320', 'end': '337.320', 'text': 'everlasting heart.'}, {'start': '341.120', 'end': '347.120', 'text': 'strength and'}, {'start': '343.639', 'end': '347.120', 'text': 'power of'}, {'start': '352.520', 'end': '359.639', 'text': 'Lord on the'}, {'start': '355.639', 'end': '359.639', 'text': 'everlasting heart.'}, {'start': '363.919', 'end': '367.840', 'text': "All right. Well, we don't uh I think"}, {'start': '365.840', 'end': '370.000', 'text': 'Sharon got some black ink for our'}, {'start': '367.840', 'end': '371.680', 'text': "printer, so hopefully we'll be able to"}, {'start': '370.000', 'end': '373.759', 'text': 'get our bulletin started. At least our'}, {'start': '371.680', 'end': '375.440', 'text': "prayer request list. I'm not going to go"}, {'start': '373.759', 'end': '376.600', 'text': 'over the entire prayer list this'}, {'start': '375.440', 'end': '379.520', 'text': 'morning.'}, {'start': '376.600', 'end': '382.560', 'text': 'Um but we will if there are any that do'}, {'start': '379.520', 'end': '385.199', 'text': 'need to be mentioned. Um and if we have'}, {'start': '382.560', 'end': '387.759', 'text': "any new ones, we'll take those. Do we"}, {'start': '385.199', 'end': '390.400', 'text': 'have any that we have any updates on'}, {'start': '387.759', 'end': '393.919', 'text': "that anyone's aware of? I talked to my"}, {'start': '390.400', 'end': '396.319', 'text': 'on Wednesday. she got to come home and'}, {'start': '393.919', 'end': '398.400', 'text': 'she said she got a good report that they'}, {'start': '396.319', 'end': '399.440', 'text': "got it all and that she doesn't think"}, {'start': '398.400', 'end': '402.319', 'text': "she's going to have to take any"}, {'start': '399.440', 'end': '404.479', 'text': "treatment and she's not had any pain at"}, {'start': '402.319', 'end': '406.639', 'text': 'all.'}, {'start': '404.479', 'end': '408.960', 'text': 'Amen.'}, {'start': '406.639', 'end': '413.039', 'text': "Well, that's quite a that's quite a"}, {'start': '408.960', 'end': '415.280', 'text': 'blessing there, right? Yeah. And uh I'}, {'start': '413.039', 'end': '418.080', 'text': 'mean my how do you know how old she is?'}, {'start': '415.280', 'end': '420.960', 'text': "She's 80 something, right? So you have"}, {'start': '418.080', 'end': '424.080', 'text': 'someone in their 80s with diagnosed with'}, {'start': '420.960', 'end': '425.680', 'text': 'pancreatic cancer, right? And gets a'}, {'start': '424.080', 'end': '428.960', 'text': 'good report like that. Where do you'}, {'start': '425.680', 'end': '432.000', 'text': 'think that came from?'}, {'start': '428.960', 'end': '434.840', 'text': "That wasn't by coincidence, right? We"}, {'start': '432.000', 'end': '438.000', 'text': 'still have God that works miracles. And'}, {'start': '434.840', 'end': '440.599', 'text': "um you know, just that's a real"}, {'start': '438.000', 'end': '443.440', 'text': 'encouragement. It should be for us to'}, {'start': '440.599', 'end': '445.520', 'text': 'pray and not only to pray, but to have'}, {'start': '443.440', 'end': '447.840', 'text': "faith in who we're asking these things"}, {'start': '445.520', 'end': '449.759', 'text': "of. you know, and he says that if it's"}, {'start': '447.840', 'end': '452.919', 'text': "according to his will, he'll give us the"}, {'start': '449.759', 'end': '455.360', 'text': 'petitions that we desire. So, um, and'}, {'start': '452.919', 'end': '458.479', 'text': "sometimes it's very true that you have"}, {'start': '455.360', 'end': '460.720', 'text': 'not because you ask not, you know. So,'}, {'start': '458.479', 'end': '463.360', 'text': 'uh, we should be encouraged by that. I'}, {'start': '460.720', 'end': '466.080', 'text': 'know all of us deal with things in our'}, {'start': '463.360', 'end': '468.319', 'text': 'lives that seem really, um, to you it'}, {'start': '466.080', 'end': '470.720', 'text': 'seems big, right? I always say, you'}, {'start': '468.319', 'end': '471.759', 'text': 'know, um, consider think about other'}, {'start': '470.720', 'end': '472.880', 'text': "people and how they're going through"}, {'start': '471.759', 'end': '475.120', 'text': "things. And that's that's a good thing"}, {'start': '472.880', 'end': '477.280', 'text': "to do. I've done that my my own life."}, {'start': '475.120', 'end': '480.479', 'text': "But it's it doesn't sort of make your"}, {'start': '477.280', 'end': '483.160', 'text': "issue go away, right? She'll have your"}, {'start': '480.479', 'end': '485.840', 'text': 'issues, too. But, uh, this should be'}, {'start': '483.160', 'end': '489.039', 'text': 'something continue to pray for Mie that'}, {'start': '485.840', 'end': '491.680', 'text': "that she'll uh that God will heal her."}, {'start': '489.039', 'end': '494.639', 'text': "Uh, but it's such a good report that we"}, {'start': '491.680', 'end': '496.000', 'text': 'got so far. We thank the Lord for that.'}, {'start': '494.639', 'end': '497.520', 'text': 'Any others that we have any updates on'}, {'start': '496.000', 'end': '500.240', 'text': 'or any that we need to add to our prayer'}, {'start': '497.520', 'end': '504.680', 'text': 'list?'}, {'start': '500.240', 'end': '507.440', 'text': 'I have an update on Sitchell.'}, {'start': '504.680', 'end': '509.919', 'text': '5year-old heart surgery. He is finally'}, {'start': '507.440', 'end': '510.919', 'text': 'making some progress after several weeks'}, {'start': '509.919', 'end': '514.039', 'text': 'in the'}, {'start': '510.919', 'end': '518.080', 'text': 'hospital from'}, {'start': '514.039', 'end': '519.839', 'text': 'home to get better.'}, {'start': '518.080', 'end': '521.039', 'text': "Well, that's good. I've been praying"}, {'start': '519.839', 'end': '521.919', 'text': "that they'll get to come home soon"}, {'start': '521.039', 'end': '523.919', 'text': "because I know they've been in the"}, {'start': '521.919', 'end': '526.000', 'text': 'hospital quite a while. So hopefully'}, {'start': '523.919', 'end': '527.839', 'text': "that'll be"}, {'start': '526.000', 'end': '529.600', 'text': "uh the case for them. So let's continue"}, {'start': '527.839', 'end': '531.120', 'text': "to pray for Seth. He's been through a"}, {'start': '529.600', 'end': '532.560', 'text': "lot. He's only 5 years old and I don't"}, {'start': '531.120', 'end': '534.880', 'text': 'know how many surgeries and procedures'}, {'start': '532.560', 'end': '536.560', 'text': "he's had to go through. So, and I can't"}, {'start': '534.880', 'end': '539.440', 'text': "imagine what it's like for his parents"}, {'start': '536.560', 'end': '540.920', 'text': 'and for Chris and Linda as well, all the'}, {'start': '539.440', 'end': '543.440', 'text': 'family there'}, {'start': '540.920', 'end': '546.320', 'text': "that's watch him go through that. So,"}, {'start': '543.440', 'end': '548.000', 'text': 'continue to pray for him. Any others'}, {'start': '546.320', 'end': '550.160', 'text': "that anybody's aware of or that we need"}, {'start': '548.000', 'end': '550.160', 'text': 'to'}, {'start': '550.760', 'end': '558.279', 'text': 'add? Quiet lunch this morning. Right.'}, {'start': '554.160', 'end': '558.279', 'text': 'the Larry Sters family.'}, {'start': '560.240', 'end': '563.680', 'text': 'S O U T H E R'}, {'start': '564.600', 'end': '569.279', 'text': "Southern's family."}, {'start': '567.680', 'end': '570.720', 'text': "I don't know if we had any on our"}, {'start': '569.279', 'end': '573.279', 'text': "messenger. I don't think I saw any this"}, {'start': '570.720', 'end': '574.560', 'text': "week that were this week. So, that's a"}, {'start': '573.279', 'end': '575.480', 'text': 'good thing. We should be thankful for'}, {'start': '574.560', 'end': '578.240', 'text': 'that,'}, {'start': '575.480', 'end': '579.680', 'text': 'right? Still the Thanksgiving season. We'}, {'start': '578.240', 'end': '582.080', 'text': 'should be thankful for all that the Lord'}, {'start': '579.680', 'end': '584.080', 'text': "does for us. So, let's just uh be"}, {'start': '582.080', 'end': '585.839', 'text': "grateful that we don't have a lot to add"}, {'start': '584.080', 'end': '587.839', 'text': 'and we have some good updates on our'}, {'start': '585.839', 'end': '589.360', 'text': "prayer request this week. We'll go to"}, {'start': '587.839', 'end': '591.680', 'text': 'the Lord in prayer. Would you lead us in'}, {'start': '589.360', 'end': '592.959', 'text': 'prayer this morning? Our heavenly'}, {'start': '591.680', 'end': '595.279', 'text': 'father, we just thank you for the'}, {'start': '592.959', 'end': '597.440', 'text': 'opportunity we have to come to you Lord'}, {'start': '595.279', 'end': '599.519', 'text': 'in prayer and we thank you Lord for the'}, {'start': '597.440', 'end': '602.240', 'text': 'freedom we have in this country that we'}, {'start': '599.519', 'end': '604.000', 'text': 'can still do that. We ask Lord that you'}, {'start': '602.240', 'end': '606.720', 'text': 'just lift up these prayer requests that'}, {'start': '604.000', 'end': '608.480', 'text': 'were mentioned. Lord, we know that you'}, {'start': '606.720', 'end': '610.080', 'text': 'still heal. And we ask that you continue'}, {'start': '608.480', 'end': '612.399', 'text': 'to heal man and that you work with her.'}, {'start': '610.080', 'end': '614.640', 'text': 'Lord, you do your will in her life.'}, {'start': '612.399', 'end': '616.000', 'text': 'These others, Lord, that are for comfort'}, {'start': '614.640', 'end': '617.440', 'text': 'for the ones who have passed away. Lord,'}, {'start': '616.000', 'end': '620.800', 'text': 'we ask you just comfort their families'}, {'start': '617.440', 'end': '622.320', 'text': 'and you show your loving self to them.'}, {'start': '620.800', 'end': '624.040', 'text': "We know it's hard to lose loved ones,"}, {'start': '622.320', 'end': '626.320', 'text': 'especially during the holiday'}, {'start': '624.040', 'end': '627.760', 'text': 'season. Lord, we just ask now that you'}, {'start': '626.320', 'end': '630.320', 'text': 'just open our hearts and our minds to'}, {'start': '627.760', 'end': '631.760', 'text': 'the message you have for us. We know'}, {'start': '630.320', 'end': '633.440', 'text': "we're not here by coincidence. You have"}, {'start': '631.760', 'end': '634.800', 'text': 'us here for a reason. You have a message'}, {'start': '633.440', 'end': '638.640', 'text': 'for us, Lord. We ask what we just'}, {'start': '634.800', 'end': '640.480', 'text': 'received in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. Go'}, {'start': '638.640', 'end': '643.640', 'text': 'ahead and take up our offering. Just'}, {'start': '640.480', 'end': '643.640', 'text': 'come forward.'}, {'start': '655.600', 'end': '659.120', 'text': 'Father, we just praise you for your'}, {'start': '657.040', 'end': '661.279', 'text': "greatness and for your mercy that's"}, {'start': '659.120', 'end': '664.560', 'text': 'renewed for us each and every day. We'}, {'start': '661.279', 'end': '666.720', 'text': 'just thank you for your love towards us.'}, {'start': '664.560', 'end': '668.959', 'text': 'We thank you for Christ who gave his'}, {'start': '666.720', 'end': '671.519', 'text': 'life on Calvary for the remission of our'}, {'start': '668.959', 'end': '673.760', 'text': 'sins. And we just thank you for all that'}, {'start': '671.519', 'end': '675.600', 'text': 'you do for us. And we just pray that you'}, {'start': '673.760', 'end': '677.600', 'text': 'would bless the offering this morning'}, {'start': '675.600', 'end': '680.600', 'text': 'according to your will in Jesus name.'}, {'start': '677.600', 'end': '680.600', 'text': 'Amen.'}, {'start': '681.920', 'end': '687.279', 'text': "Now I'll make this announcement for"}, {'start': '684.560', 'end': '688.800', 'text': "brother Ray whenever you'll notice that"}, {'start': '687.279', 'end': '690.720', 'text': "almost no one's on this right side over"}, {'start': '688.800', 'end': '692.360', 'text': 'here. as you stand up here. This is the'}, {'start': '690.720', 'end': '694.720', 'text': 'leprosy'}, {'start': '692.360', 'end': '696.079', 'text': "side. I don't know what it is that feel"}, {'start': '694.720', 'end': '697.600', 'text': 'if people feel like that the church is'}, {'start': '696.079', 'end': '700.000', 'text': 'going to somehow get off balance and dip'}, {'start': '697.600', 'end': '701.079', 'text': 'over the hill, but almost everybody sits'}, {'start': '700.000', 'end': '703.920', 'text': 'over'}, {'start': '701.079', 'end': '706.640', 'text': "here. It's just a joke. Not really. No"}, {'start': '703.920', 'end': '708.399', 'text': "one has left as far as I'm aware. But"}, {'start': '706.640', 'end': '711.200', 'text': "it's so it sometimes whenever you're"}, {'start': '708.399', 'end': '713.279', 'text': 'doing Sunday school and there might be'}, {'start': '711.200', 'end': '714.640', 'text': "one person over here and everybody's"}, {'start': '713.279', 'end': '716.320', 'text': "over here and they're right here and we"}, {'start': '714.640', 'end': '719.200', 'text': 'have four videos in the back usually.'}, {'start': '716.320', 'end': '720.640', 'text': "But it's kind of strange how our no one"}, {'start': '719.200', 'end': '721.920', 'text': "I don't know what it is about this side"}, {'start': '720.640', 'end': '725.519', 'text': "of the church. Why do you people don't"}, {'start': '721.920', 'end': '728.240', 'text': 'like it? Usually that side was always it'}, {'start': '725.519', 'end': '731.360', 'text': "was Yeah, it was on that side. It's like"}, {'start': '728.240', 'end': '733.440', 'text': 'we lost uh you know, brother Bob, he'}, {'start': '731.360', 'end': '734.880', 'text': 'went home with Lord and Freda and Bill'}, {'start': '733.440', 'end': '736.320', 'text': 'and everybody and so I guess everybody'}, {'start': '734.880', 'end': '737.760', 'text': 'just abandoned this side and came over'}, {'start': '736.320', 'end': '741.160', 'text': "here. It's all the young people. That's"}, {'start': '737.760', 'end': '744.000', 'text': 'what it is, I suppose. But anyway,'}, {'start': '741.160', 'end': '745.519', 'text': "that's odd how that works. But all"}, {'start': '744.000', 'end': '747.839', 'text': "right, we'll sing one last song here."}, {'start': '745.519', 'end': '747.839', 'text': 'Page'}, {'start': '748.200', 'end': '753.240', 'text': '313. What a friend we have in Jesus.'}, {'start': '760.160', 'end': '765.480', 'text': "We'll sing all three verses of this one"}, {'start': '761.760', 'end': '765.480', 'text': 'as well. Page 313.'}, {'start': '778.680', 'end': '783.760', 'text': 'What a friend we have in'}, {'start': '784.040', 'end': '789.440', 'text': 'Jesus. All our sins and'}, {'start': '793.320', 'end': '796.320', 'text': 'great'}, {'start': '799.240', 'end': '804.040', 'text': 'to God in prayer.'}, {'start': '804.440', 'end': '810.360', 'text': 'Oh, what peace we often hold.'}, {'start': '810.839', 'end': '815.440', 'text': 'Oh, one thing'}, {'start': '816.120', 'end': '822.240', 'text': 'we all because we do not'}, {'start': '824.600', 'end': '827.600', 'text': 'care'}, {'start': '831.399', 'end': '835.720', 'text': 'tonight and temptation.'}, {'start': '836.560', 'end': '840.880', 'text': 'Is there trouble'}, {'start': '841.800', 'end': '847.680', 'text': 'anywhere? We should never be'}, {'start': '848.279', 'end': '854.320', 'text': 'discouraged. Take it to the holy'}, {'start': '854.600', 'end': '861.720', 'text': 'prayer. Can we find a friend so'}, {'start': '858.720', 'end': '861.720', 'text': 'faithful?'}, {'start': '862.040', 'end': '867.880', 'text': 'Who will all our sorrows share?'}, {'start': '868.680', 'end': '873.279', 'text': 'Jesus knows our every'}, {'start': '873.560', 'end': '879.680', 'text': 'weakness. Take it to the Lord in'}, {'start': '881.639', 'end': '885.600', 'text': 'prayer. Weak and'}, {'start': '888.120', 'end': '893.560', 'text': 'heavy with a load of care.'}, {'start': '895.240', 'end': '899.399', 'text': 'Preious still are'}, {'start': '897.639', 'end': '905.440', 'text': 'with'}, {'start': '899.399', 'end': '905.440', 'text': 'you. Take it to the Lord in'}, {'start': '908.680', 'end': '912.199', 'text': 'pray'}, {'start': '910.440', 'end': '919.320', 'text': 'for'}, {'start': '912.199', 'end': '919.320', 'text': 'me. Take it to the Lord in prayer.'}, {'start': '919.880', 'end': '926.320', 'text': 'In his arms'}, {'start': '923.320', 'end': '926.320', 'text': 'take'}, {'start': '927.000', 'end': '930.000', 'text': 'me'}, {'start': '935.399', 'end': '940.600', 'text': "find brother Ray. I'll have you come up"}, {'start': '937.600', 'end': '940.600', 'text': 'now.'}, {'start': '954.160', 'end': '958.560', 'text': "The only thing I've learn is keep the"}, {'start': '955.920', 'end': '961.560', 'text': 'sound guy happy. They can make your life'}, {'start': '958.560', 'end': '961.560', 'text': 'tough.'}, {'start': '968.079', 'end': '971.800', 'text': "You know what's hard about making Jesus"}, {'start': '970.399', 'end': '975.040', 'text': 'your'}, {'start': '971.800', 'end': '978.360', 'text': "friend? I mean, let's be honest. we get"}, {'start': '975.040', 'end': '981.240', 'text': 'saved. He is our our our Lord and our'}, {'start': '978.360', 'end': '983.519', 'text': "Savior, but it's hard to make him our"}, {'start': '981.240', 'end': '984.800', 'text': "friend. And this is free. I'm not going"}, {'start': '983.519', 'end': '986.880', 'text': 'to preach on this, but the thought'}, {'start': '984.800', 'end': '989.880', 'text': "struck me. So, let's go to John chapter"}, {'start': '986.880', 'end': '989.880', 'text': '15.'}, {'start': '1000.240', 'end': '1003.440', 'text': 'John chapter'}, {'start': '1003.560', 'end': '1009.199', 'text': '15, look at verse uh'}, {'start': '1006.680', 'end': '1012.279', 'text': "14. You're my friends if you do"}, {'start': '1009.199', 'end': '1015.759', 'text': 'whatsoever I command'}, {'start': '1012.279', 'end': '1017.839', 'text': 'you. No human relationship survives'}, {'start': '1015.759', 'end': '1020.240', 'text': "that's based on that's a one-sided"}, {'start': '1017.839', 'end': '1022.199', 'text': "relationship. Amen. You've been married"}, {'start': '1020.240', 'end': '1024.160', 'text': "any length of time. It's not"}, {'start': '1022.199', 'end': '1025.600', 'text': 'one-sided. You know, I can remember'}, {'start': '1024.160', 'end': '1027.600', 'text': "getting saved and thinking, man, I'm"}, {'start': '1025.600', 'end': '1029.919', 'text': 'going to run my home and this this that'}, {'start': '1027.600', 'end': '1031.600', 'text': 'and the other. I learned real quick, you'}, {'start': '1029.919', 'end': '1034.600', 'text': "better learn to compromise or you're not"}, {'start': '1031.600', 'end': '1037.439', 'text': 'going to stay married very'}, {'start': '1034.600', 'end': '1040.160', 'text': 'long. So, no human relationship is a'}, {'start': '1037.439', 'end': '1042.640', 'text': 'one-way relationship. That relationship'}, {'start': '1040.160', 'end': '1046.079', 'text': 'usually dissolves. But your relationship'}, {'start': '1042.640', 'end': '1047.760', 'text': "with Jesus Christ, it's one way. You're"}, {'start': '1046.079', 'end': '1051.280', 'text': "going to be his friend. It's on my"}, {'start': '1047.760', 'end': '1054.080', 'text': "terms. It's my way. And that's why God's"}, {'start': '1051.280', 'end': '1056.160', 'text': 'people struggle to get to salvation, to'}, {'start': '1054.080', 'end': '1057.200', 'text': 'friendship with with Jesus Christ.'}, {'start': '1056.160', 'end': '1060.160', 'text': "Because if you're going to be his"}, {'start': '1057.200', 'end': '1062.400', 'text': "friend, it's on his terms. But when your"}, {'start': '1060.160', 'end': '1065.200', 'text': "friend's the omnipotent, perfect, holy,"}, {'start': '1062.400', 'end': '1069.840', 'text': 'righteous God Almighty, those terms'}, {'start': '1065.200', 'end': '1072.600', 'text': "work. Amen. It's just we struggle to we"}, {'start': '1069.840', 'end': '1076.160', 'text': 'think we got better ideas of our'}, {'start': '1072.600', 'end': '1077.799', 'text': 'own. And I mentioned in in Sunday'}, {'start': '1076.160', 'end': '1080.799', 'text': 'school,'}, {'start': '1077.799', 'end': '1082.640', 'text': "um I'm a chapl at the juvenile detention"}, {'start': '1080.799', 'end': '1085.360', 'text': 'center in my county. So I work with'}, {'start': '1082.640', 'end': '1088.240', 'text': 'young people. I mean, sometimes they can'}, {'start': '1085.360', 'end': '1091.039', 'text': 'be in the juvenile system 18, 19 years'}, {'start': '1088.240', 'end': '1092.720', 'text': 'old because they if they were juvenile'}, {'start': '1091.039', 'end': '1095.280', 'text': 'when they committed their offense, they'}, {'start': '1092.720', 'end': '1098.480', 'text': 'stay in under under the umbrella of the'}, {'start': '1095.280', 'end': '1101.039', 'text': 'juvenile system until um till they kind'}, {'start': '1098.480', 'end': '1102.559', 'text': 'of get through that process. But I do'}, {'start': '1101.039', 'end': '1104.559', 'text': "I've seen them in there as young as 8"}, {'start': '1102.559', 'end': '1107.320', 'text': 'years old and you just sit there and'}, {'start': '1104.559', 'end': '1110.080', 'text': 'think and the problems those kids'}, {'start': '1107.320', 'end': '1113.440', 'text': 'have. 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Look'}, {'start': '1132.880', 'end': '1137.000', 'text': 'at John chapter 7.'}, {'start': '1142.559', 'end': '1146.640', 'text': 'Because the boys I work with obviously'}, {'start': '1144.880', 'end': '1148.799', 'text': 'we have chaplain from all kinds of'}, {'start': '1146.640', 'end': '1152.720', 'text': 'denominations and they hear everything'}, {'start': '1148.799', 'end': '1155.600', 'text': "from A to Z and it's it's it's so"}, {'start': '1152.720', 'end': '1158.480', 'text': "there's that's a problem too. But I'm"}, {'start': '1155.600', 'end': '1159.520', 'text': 'always a straight shooter with them. I'}, {'start': '1158.480', 'end': '1161.039', 'text': "tell them all the time, you've been"}, {'start': '1159.520', 'end': '1162.320', 'text': 'coded long enough. You need somebody'}, {'start': '1161.039', 'end': '1165.039', 'text': "that loves you that's going to tell you"}, {'start': '1162.320', 'end': '1167.360', 'text': "the truth. And folks, that's a that's"}, {'start': '1165.039', 'end': '1168.960', 'text': 'one of the greatest attributes of love'}, {'start': '1167.360', 'end': '1172.960', 'text': "is you're willing to tell people the"}, {'start': '1168.960', 'end': '1176.640', 'text': 'truth. Because western culture was a the'}, {'start': '1172.960', 'end': '1179.600', 'text': 'western hemisphere was dominated by a a'}, {'start': '1176.640', 'end': '1183.520', 'text': 'system of we believe in absolutes, right'}, {'start': '1179.600', 'end': '1186.080', 'text': 'and wrong. And western culture was truth'}, {'start': '1183.520', 'end': '1188.160', 'text': "is what mattered. We've been infected"}, {'start': '1186.080', 'end': '1190.559', 'text': 'with what I call eastern culture because'}, {'start': '1188.160', 'end': '1192.960', 'text': "in eastern culture they'd rather lie to"}, {'start': '1190.559', 'end': '1195.120', 'text': 'you than offend you. Their big thing is'}, {'start': '1192.960', 'end': '1198.400', 'text': "offending you and so they'd rather lie"}, {'start': '1195.120', 'end': '1199.919', 'text': 'to you than offend you. And so if if'}, {'start': '1198.400', 'end': '1201.440', 'text': "telling you the truth offends you, we're"}, {'start': '1199.919', 'end': '1204.400', 'text': "not going to tell you. Doesn't that"}, {'start': '1201.440', 'end': '1206.880', 'text': "sound familiar today? Everybody's afraid"}, {'start': '1204.400', 'end': '1208.840', 'text': "to offend somebody. You know, we can't"}, {'start': '1206.880', 'end': '1211.080', 'text': "we can't take a stand"}, {'start': '1208.840', 'end': '1215.200', 'text': 'anywhere. But this'}, {'start': '1211.080', 'end': '1218.720', 'text': 'morning, look at John chapter 7 and look'}, {'start': '1215.200', 'end': '1220.679', 'text': 'at verse 16.'}, {'start': '1218.720', 'end': '1223.559', 'text': 'Jesus answered him and said, "My'}, {'start': '1220.679', 'end': '1226.160', 'text': 'doctrine." Okay, doctrine. That\'s his'}, {'start': '1223.559', 'end': '1228.320', 'text': 'teaching. My doctrine is not mine, but'}, {'start': '1226.160', 'end': '1230.000', 'text': 'his that sent me. If any man will do his'}, {'start': '1228.320', 'end': '1231.679', 'text': 'will, he shall know of the doctrine,'}, {'start': '1230.000', 'end': '1232.760', 'text': 'whether it be of God or whether I speak'}, {'start': '1231.679', 'end': '1236.360', 'text': 'of'}, {'start': '1232.760', 'end': '1238.880', 'text': 'myself. Let me paraphrase. 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I was saved when I was"}, {'start': '1260.400', 'end': '1264.760', 'text': "almost 20. So, I've been living this"}, {'start': '1262.640', 'end': '1267.960', 'text': 'book for 40 years. I can tell you'}, {'start': '1264.760', 'end': '1270.720', 'text': 'absolutely, positively this book is'}, {'start': '1267.960', 'end': '1273.120', 'text': 'right. And when I tell you that, I'}, {'start': '1270.720', 'end': '1275.840', 'text': 'studied every major religion on the'}, {'start': '1273.120', 'end': '1277.760', 'text': 'planet. You see, I was born and raised'}, {'start': '1275.840', 'end': '1280.320', 'text': 'and educated Roman Catholic. My mother'}, {'start': '1277.760', 'end': '1283.120', 'text': 'was raised by the nuns. And the thing I'}, {'start': '1280.320', 'end': '1285.000', 'text': "hated about Catholics was that's all"}, {'start': '1283.120', 'end': '1287.760', 'text': 'they knew was'}, {'start': '1285.000', 'end': '1289.120', 'text': 'Catholicism. And I used to think, if you'}, {'start': '1287.760', 'end': '1291.200', 'text': 'never looked on the other side of the'}, {'start': '1289.120', 'end': '1292.960', 'text': "fence, how do you know you're right?"}, {'start': '1291.200', 'end': '1295.039', 'text': "That's a fair thought, isn't it? Maybe"}, {'start': '1292.960', 'end': '1297.799', 'text': 'the Buddhists are right. Maybe the'}, {'start': '1295.039', 'end': '1300.880', 'text': 'Muslims are right. Maybe I need to be a'}, {'start': '1297.799', 'end': '1303.159', 'text': 'Hindu. you know, maybe I need to, you'}, {'start': '1300.880', 'end': '1305.120', 'text': 'know, join Tom Cruz and get into'}, {'start': '1303.159', 'end': '1307.360', 'text': "Scientology. I mean, there's all kinds"}, {'start': '1305.120', 'end': '1310.000', 'text': 'of religion out there. 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Not only personally by'}, {'start': '1338.400', 'end': '1342.559', 'text': 'studying all the religions of the world,'}, {'start': '1340.880', 'end': '1343.840', 'text': 'but when I first got saved, we did a lot'}, {'start': '1342.559', 'end': '1346.320', 'text': 'of street preaching in downtown'}, {'start': '1343.840', 'end': '1348.720', 'text': 'Cincinnati. Man, you get hammered by'}, {'start': '1346.320', 'end': '1351.840', 'text': 'everything and everyone, every nut in'}, {'start': '1348.720', 'end': '1354.400', 'text': "the woods you'll run into. 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But the point is is that if'}, {'start': '1369.840', 'end': '1373.840', 'text': 'you want to find out if this book is'}, {'start': '1371.280', 'end': '1375.840', 'text': 'right, you just put it into practice.'}, {'start': '1373.840', 'end': '1379.760', 'text': "So, in other words, how many of y'all"}, {'start': '1375.840', 'end': '1382.000', 'text': "know um now I can't afford one? Probably"}, {'start': '1379.760', 'end': '1383.440', 'text': "a good thing I can't because if I drove"}, {'start': '1382.000', 'end': '1386.720', 'text': "it, I'd be in trouble. But anyone know"}, {'start': '1383.440', 'end': '1388.799', 'text': 'what a Hellcat is? Dodge Challenger'}, {'start': '1386.720', 'end': '1391.120', 'text': 'Hellcat. I mean, they used to come out'}, {'start': '1388.799', 'end': '1393.440', 'text': 'about 750 horse. I heard they got one'}, {'start': '1391.120', 'end': '1395.679', 'text': "now that's over a,000 horsepower. Oh,"}, {'start': '1393.440', 'end': '1398.799', 'text': 'man. You could burn the tires right off'}, {'start': '1395.679', 'end': '1401.120', 'text': "of They got so much power. But they're"}, {'start': '1398.799', 'end': '1403.600', 'text': 'supposed to do 0 to 60, you know, in'}, {'start': '1401.120', 'end': '1406.559', 'text': "about I don't know 3.4 4 seconds or"}, {'start': '1403.600', 'end': '1408.880', 'text': 'something. I looked it up before. But if'}, {'start': '1406.559', 'end': '1410.640', 'text': 'I was going to go buy a Hellcat, and I'}, {'start': '1408.880', 'end': '1412.640', 'text': "mean they're pricey. We're probably"}, {'start': '1410.640', 'end': '1414.159', 'text': 'talking 80 grand for one of those'}, {'start': '1412.640', 'end': '1416.480', 'text': "things, which I'd never spend that kind"}, {'start': '1414.159', 'end': '1418.880', 'text': 'of money on a car. But, you know,'}, {'start': '1416.480', 'end': '1421.280', 'text': 'assuming I had the money and I was'}, {'start': '1418.880', 'end': '1424.720', 'text': 'stupid enough to spend it on that. What'}, {'start': '1421.280', 'end': '1426.960', 'text': "do you think I'm going to do?"}, {'start': '1424.720', 'end': '1428.320', 'text': "I'm going to test drive it."}, {'start': '1426.960', 'end': '1430.240', 'text': "We're going to get on highway and I'm"}, {'start': '1428.320', 'end': '1432.960', 'text': 'going to kick that thing to the floor to'}, {'start': '1430.240', 'end': '1436.080', 'text': 'see if this this Hellcat is can do what'}, {'start': '1432.960', 'end': '1437.760', 'text': "it's advertised to do, right? I mean,"}, {'start': '1436.080', 'end': '1440.799', 'text': "even if you're buying any car, don't you"}, {'start': '1437.760', 'end': '1443.440', 'text': 'test drive it? I mean, my wife and I'}, {'start': '1440.799', 'end': '1445.520', 'text': 'were looking at cars a little bit'}, {'start': '1443.440', 'end': '1447.520', 'text': 'because, man, they have gone through new'}, {'start': '1445.520', 'end': '1448.960', 'text': "cars are are through the roof. I've"}, {'start': '1447.520', 'end': '1452.240', 'text': 'never owned a new car, so we were'}, {'start': '1448.960', 'end': '1455.279', 'text': 'looking at new cars and it was a it was'}, {'start': '1452.240', 'end': '1458.559', 'text': 'a what was it? Was it a a Nissan? And'}, {'start': '1455.279', 'end': '1461.440', 'text': 'supposedly this thing had had a P a gear'}, {'start': '1458.559', 'end': '1463.760', 'text': 'in it where you get extra acceleration.'}, {'start': '1461.440', 'end': '1465.600', 'text': 'So I said, "Okay, let\'s see if it has'}, {'start': '1463.760', 'end': '1467.440', 'text': 'extra accelerator." I popped it and I'}, {'start': '1465.600', 'end': '1469.600', 'text': 'kicked that thing down and I thought,'}, {'start': '1467.440', 'end': '1472.159', 'text': '"What? L it was lame. It wasn\'t much'}, {'start': '1469.600', 'end': '1474.400', 'text': 'better than, you know, standard." But'}, {'start': '1472.159', 'end': '1475.240', 'text': 'the point is, you test drive it. You try'}, {'start': '1474.400', 'end': '1478.799', 'text': 'it'}, {'start': '1475.240', 'end': '1481.600', 'text': 'out. And and so often I see people tell'}, {'start': '1478.799', 'end': '1484.400', 'text': 'me this book is a bunch of baloney, but'}, {'start': '1481.600', 'end': '1486.640', 'text': 'they never try it out.'}, {'start': '1484.400', 'end': '1488.640', 'text': "Amen. They don't put it into practice."}, {'start': '1486.640', 'end': '1490.720', 'text': "They don't obey it. And I've been"}, {'start': '1488.640', 'end': '1493.440', 'text': "trying. I mean, trust me, I'm I'm like"}, {'start': '1490.720', 'end': '1495.919', 'text': 'any saved sinner. I wander and stray. I'}, {'start': '1493.440', 'end': '1498.240', 'text': 'got to get back on track. But I am'}, {'start': '1495.919', 'end': '1500.480', 'text': 'telling you, I had tried to be an'}, {'start': '1498.240', 'end': '1502.400', 'text': 'atheist after 25 years in the ministry.'}, {'start': '1500.480', 'end': '1507.039', 'text': 'I tried to be an atheist. I was so mad'}, {'start': '1502.400', 'end': '1510.480', 'text': "at God at what he did to me. And I can't"}, {'start': '1507.039', 'end': '1513.159', 'text': 'tell you what he did to me.'}, {'start': '1510.480', 'end': '1516.080', 'text': 'But I was very'}, {'start': '1513.159', 'end': '1517.840', 'text': 'bitter, you know, and I thought God was'}, {'start': '1516.080', 'end': '1520.159', 'text': 'treating me, you know, giving me a raw'}, {'start': '1517.840', 'end': '1522.320', 'text': 'deal. Well, I sacrificed my life for'}, {'start': '1520.159', 'end': '1524.240', 'text': 'you. I, you know, since I got saved,'}, {'start': '1522.320', 'end': '1526.559', 'text': "I've been trying to serve you, man. And"}, {'start': '1524.240', 'end': '1527.960', 'text': 'I was just really bitter. And I tried to'}, {'start': '1526.559', 'end': '1530.000', 'text': 'be an'}, {'start': '1527.960', 'end': '1533.440', 'text': "atheist. And that's one thing I never"}, {'start': '1530.000', 'end': '1535.360', 'text': 'really looked at. So, I I locked myself'}, {'start': '1533.440', 'end': '1538.240', 'text': 'in my room and for about two hours I'}, {'start': '1535.360', 'end': '1541.120', 'text': 'meditated on atheism and the and the'}, {'start': '1538.240', 'end': '1542.799', 'text': 'consequences of being an atheist. It'}, {'start': '1541.120', 'end': '1544.440', 'text': "didn't take me long to figure out that"}, {'start': '1542.799', 'end': '1547.039', 'text': "that's that's a dead"}, {'start': '1544.440', 'end': '1549.080', 'text': 'end. And the biggest reason why atheism'}, {'start': '1547.039', 'end': '1552.960', 'text': "is a dead end is because if there's no"}, {'start': '1549.080', 'end': '1554.400', 'text': "God, there's no absolute mor morality,"}, {'start': '1552.960', 'end': '1557.159', 'text': 'right?'}, {'start': '1554.400', 'end': '1559.840', 'text': 'right and wrong, good and evil become'}, {'start': '1557.159', 'end': '1562.880', 'text': 'self-defined, which means practically'}, {'start': '1559.840', 'end': '1565.720', 'text': "anything goes. And there's nobody on"}, {'start': '1562.880', 'end': '1568.880', 'text': 'this planet that believes anything'}, {'start': '1565.720', 'end': '1570.559', 'text': "goes. Even if they're a thief because"}, {'start': '1568.880', 'end': '1573.799', 'text': 'when somebody steals from them, all of a'}, {'start': '1570.559', 'end': '1576.240', 'text': 'sudden stealing is not cool.'}, {'start': '1573.799', 'end': '1578.320', 'text': "Amen. But that's what I tell these boys"}, {'start': '1576.240', 'end': '1580.799', 'text': 'all the time in the juvenile. I said I'}, {'start': '1578.320', 'end': '1583.520', 'text': 'said you want to sit around and cry'}, {'start': '1580.799', 'end': '1585.919', 'text': 'around about you know your problems and'}, {'start': '1583.520', 'end': '1588.799', 'text': "I said I'm not I'm not diminishing your"}, {'start': '1585.919', 'end': '1591.200', 'text': "problems but I said I'm telling you"}, {'start': '1588.799', 'end': '1593.600', 'text': 'after studying every major religion on'}, {'start': '1591.200', 'end': '1596.400', 'text': 'this planet including atheism evolution'}, {'start': '1593.600', 'end': '1598.400', 'text': 'I studied philosophy you name it and I'}, {'start': '1596.400', 'end': '1601.520', 'text': 'have been the perfect hedenist I have'}, {'start': '1598.400', 'end': '1603.760', 'text': 'lived for pleasure done it all so much'}, {'start': '1601.520', 'end': '1606.080', 'text': 'so that at almost 20 I was ready to kill'}, {'start': '1603.760', 'end': '1609.279', 'text': 'myself because I thought I thought I had'}, {'start': '1606.080', 'end': '1611.919', 'text': 'done it home. I thought I am miserable.'}, {'start': '1609.279', 'end': '1613.919', 'text': 'Why grow old and be miserable? Why live'}, {'start': '1611.919', 'end': '1615.679', 'text': 'another 50 years and be miserable? Why'}, {'start': '1613.919', 'end': '1618.080', 'text': 'just get it over now? But fortunately,'}, {'start': '1615.679', 'end': '1620.799', 'text': 'God sent somebody by to tell me about'}, {'start': '1618.080', 'end': '1623.559', 'text': 'Jesus Christ. As a Catholic, I knew'}, {'start': '1620.799', 'end': '1626.799', 'text': "about him here. I didn't know him"}, {'start': '1623.559', 'end': '1629.600', 'text': 'here. Amen. I learned the longest'}, {'start': '1626.799', 'end': '1632.240', 'text': 'journeys from the head to the heart. I'}, {'start': '1629.600', 'end': '1633.480', 'text': 'knew about Jesus Christ as a fact. Like'}, {'start': '1632.240', 'end': '1636.480', 'text': 'today,'}, {'start': '1633.480', 'end': '1638.480', 'text': 'Sunday. Okay.'}, {'start': '1636.480', 'end': '1640.640', 'text': 'What is the date today brother? November'}, {'start': '1638.480', 'end': '1643.039', 'text': '20 27th.'}, {'start': '1640.640', 'end': '1645.840', 'text': 'So Jesus was a fact me like today is'}, {'start': '1643.039', 'end': '1648.000', 'text': 'Sunday November 27th. I knew he was'}, {'start': '1645.840', 'end': '1650.120', 'text': 'savior but I was taught as a Catholic to'}, {'start': '1648.000', 'end': '1653.039', 'text': 'live my live a good life and save'}, {'start': '1650.120', 'end': '1654.600', 'text': 'myself. But the point is is since Christ'}, {'start': '1653.039', 'end': '1657.760', 'text': 'saved'}, {'start': '1654.600', 'end': '1660.679', 'text': 'me I have challenged my faith all along'}, {'start': '1657.760', 'end': '1662.960', 'text': 'the way. And I tell those'}, {'start': '1660.679', 'end': '1665.240', 'text': "boys and a lot of them don't care and"}, {'start': '1662.960', 'end': '1668.360', 'text': "I'm going to and and I and I I"}, {'start': '1665.240', 'end': '1671.200', 'text': "understand they've had such bad"}, {'start': '1668.360', 'end': '1673.120', 'text': 'lives. I mean, we have girl, my wife'}, {'start': '1671.200', 'end': '1674.960', 'text': 'deals with the girls. They have teenage'}, {'start': '1673.120', 'end': '1677.200', 'text': 'girls in there for the sole reason. They'}, {'start': '1674.960', 'end': '1679.440', 'text': 'have been molested so many times by'}, {'start': '1677.200', 'end': '1681.600', 'text': "mama's constant stream of boyfriends."}, {'start': '1679.440', 'end': '1683.360', 'text': 'You know, so many single women. They get'}, {'start': '1681.600', 'end': '1685.440', 'text': 'a new boyfriend every month. She molest'}, {'start': '1683.360', 'end': '1687.279', 'text': "the girls. Now, it's even the boys. It's"}, {'start': '1685.440', 'end': '1689.200', 'text': 'awful. They put them in there to find'}, {'start': '1687.279', 'end': '1690.679', 'text': 'till they find placement for them'}, {'start': '1689.200', 'end': '1693.320', 'text': "because they're just"}, {'start': '1690.679', 'end': '1696.399', 'text': "overrun. It's just"}, {'start': '1693.320', 'end': '1698.360', 'text': 'overrun. I mean, the justice center, the'}, {'start': '1696.399', 'end': '1701.440', 'text': 'the the adult prison in downtown'}, {'start': '1698.360', 'end': '1703.919', 'text': "Cincinnati, it it's built for like a"}, {'start': '1701.440', 'end': '1705.679', 'text': 'thousand. They got 1,500 in there.'}, {'start': '1703.919', 'end': '1707.840', 'text': "They're underst staffed. They're overpop"}, {'start': '1705.679', 'end': '1709.120', 'text': "populated. It's a disaster. And we're"}, {'start': '1707.840', 'end': '1711.760', 'text': 'getting so many of these boys, they want'}, {'start': '1709.120', 'end': '1713.360', 'text': 'they want to try them as adults. And I'}, {'start': '1711.760', 'end': '1715.039', 'text': 'plead with the judge to keep them in the'}, {'start': '1713.360', 'end': '1716.799', 'text': 'juvenile system because they go in the'}, {'start': '1715.039', 'end': '1719.760', 'text': 'adult system. You might as well throw'}, {'start': '1716.799', 'end': '1722.000', 'text': 'their life away. The juvenile system is'}, {'start': '1719.760', 'end': '1723.440', 'text': 'trying to rehabilitate them, which is'}, {'start': '1722.000', 'end': '1725.919', 'text': 'why they let us come in and teach them'}, {'start': '1723.440', 'end': '1727.600', 'text': 'the Bible. The adult system is so bad.'}, {'start': '1725.919', 'end': '1730.320', 'text': "They're just trying to retain them. They"}, {'start': '1727.600', 'end': '1732.000', 'text': "don't have enough guards and facilities."}, {'start': '1730.320', 'end': '1733.679', 'text': 'But I tell the boys this all the time,'}, {'start': '1732.000', 'end': '1736.559', 'text': "and I'll challenge you young people."}, {'start': '1733.679', 'end': '1738.399', 'text': 'Maybe even older folks. You think this'}, {'start': '1736.559', 'end': '1740.320', 'text': "Bible's baloney? I tell you to do two"}, {'start': '1738.399', 'end': '1743.120', 'text': 'things. Put it into practice and find'}, {'start': '1740.320', 'end': '1744.720', 'text': "out if it's true. And second, if you're"}, {'start': '1743.120', 'end': '1747.360', 'text': 'sitting here this morning, you frankly'}, {'start': '1744.720', 'end': '1748.880', 'text': "don't care one iote about God. Would you"}, {'start': '1747.360', 'end': '1752.080', 'text': 'be willing to bow your head and pray,'}, {'start': '1748.880', 'end': '1752.080', 'text': '"God, would you get my'}, {'start': '1752.360', 'end': '1757.840', 'text': 'attention?" I\'m 60 years old. I\'ve never'}, {'start': '1755.520', 'end': '1760.399', 'text': "had anyone who didn't care about God be"}, {'start': '1757.840', 'end': '1762.760', 'text': 'willing to pray that prayer. Those boys'}, {'start': '1760.399', 'end': '1766.120', 'text': "won't pray with me. You know why they"}, {'start': '1762.760', 'end': '1768.720', 'text': "won't? They know God can get their"}, {'start': '1766.120', 'end': '1770.120', 'text': 'attention. I know firsthand he can get'}, {'start': '1768.720', 'end': '1772.200', 'text': 'your'}, {'start': '1770.120', 'end': '1774.640', 'text': 'attention'}, {'start': '1772.200', 'end': '1776.559', 'text': 'firsthand. Doing them drugs, playing'}, {'start': '1774.640', 'end': '1778.960', 'text': 'that rock and roll. Man, I used to crank'}, {'start': '1776.559', 'end': '1780.880', 'text': 'that. I used to crank my amp up and I'}, {'start': '1778.960', 'end': '1782.440', 'text': 'just kept turning it up to drown the'}, {'start': '1780.880', 'end': '1784.640', 'text': 'pain in my'}, {'start': '1782.440', 'end': '1786.480', 'text': 'heart. Instead of being able to use'}, {'start': '1784.640', 'end': '1788.080', 'text': 'drugs and get stoned, I used to sit'}, {'start': '1786.480', 'end': '1790.080', 'text': 'there and be trying to get stoned. And'}, {'start': '1788.080', 'end': '1793.600', 'text': "I'm analyzing mentally, why are you"}, {'start': '1790.080', 'end': '1795.600', 'text': "doing this? You're miserable. Why do you"}, {'start': '1793.600', 'end': '1797.440', 'text': "keep doing this? And I'm just thinking,"}, {'start': '1795.600', 'end': '1799.600', 'text': 'just turn off. I just want to get'}, {'start': '1797.440', 'end': '1802.399', 'text': "stoned. I don't want to think. I don't"}, {'start': '1799.600', 'end': '1804.320', 'text': "want to feel. I don't want to care."}, {'start': '1802.399', 'end': '1806.799', 'text': 'Because I talked about in Sunday school'}, {'start': '1804.320', 'end': '1808.799', 'text': "I had such a my home life wasn't very"}, {'start': '1806.799', 'end': '1810.919', 'text': 'good but I just developed this attitude'}, {'start': '1808.799', 'end': '1813.679', 'text': "of I don't"}, {'start': '1810.919', 'end': '1816.399', 'text': "care. That's a great way to try to avoid"}, {'start': '1813.679', 'end': '1818.279', 'text': "pain. You just don't care. Pain and"}, {'start': '1816.399', 'end': '1821.760', 'text': "responsibility just I don't"}, {'start': '1818.279', 'end': '1823.640', 'text': "care. But they don't want to. But God"}, {'start': '1821.760', 'end': '1825.919', 'text': 'got my attention because I was so'}, {'start': '1823.640', 'end': '1828.080', 'text': 'miserable. I had I came to the'}, {'start': '1825.919', 'end': '1830.480', 'text': 'conclusion that pleasure can bring you'}, {'start': '1828.080', 'end': '1833.120', 'text': 'pain.'}, {'start': '1830.480', 'end': '1835.120', 'text': 'And I had never banked on that. And when'}, {'start': '1833.120', 'end': '1837.039', 'text': 'I realized that you can just wallow in'}, {'start': '1835.120', 'end': '1839.840', 'text': 'pleasure and try to be and it only bring'}, {'start': '1837.039', 'end': '1842.000', 'text': "you pain, that's when I had to begin to"}, {'start': '1839.840', 'end': '1844.080', 'text': 'rethink the direction I was headed in'}, {'start': '1842.000', 'end': '1848.039', 'text': 'life. Unfortunately, it took me to hit'}, {'start': '1844.080', 'end': '1850.080', 'text': 'the bottom before I would. But this'}, {'start': '1848.039', 'end': '1852.799', 'text': "morning, I'm telling you all this"}, {'start': '1850.080', 'end': '1857.279', 'text': 'because I want you to turn to 1st Samuel'}, {'start': '1852.799', 'end': '1859.679', 'text': 'chapter 17. When I say 1st Samuel 17, if'}, {'start': '1857.279', 'end': '1863.120', 'text': "you know your Bible, you know that's the"}, {'start': '1859.679', 'end': '1863.120', 'text': 'great story of David and'}, {'start': '1863.559', 'end': '1867.960', 'text': 'Goliath. Because I want to talk to you'}, {'start': '1865.520', 'end': '1871.799', 'text': 'this morning about a defining'}, {'start': '1867.960', 'end': '1874.640', 'text': 'moment. A defining moment is a turning'}, {'start': '1871.799', 'end': '1876.559', 'text': "point. It's a pivotal moment. It's kind"}, {'start': '1874.640', 'end': '1879.679', 'text': 'of what we sometimes refer as a moment'}, {'start': '1876.559', 'end': '1882.320', 'text': 'of truth. And this was a turning point,'}, {'start': '1879.679', 'end': '1884.960', 'text': 'a defining moment in the life of David.'}, {'start': '1882.320', 'end': '1888.240', 'text': "He's a shepherd boy."}, {'start': '1884.960', 'end': '1890.360', 'text': 'But here, after he kills Goliath, he'}, {'start': '1888.240', 'end': '1893.520', 'text': 'becomes a national'}, {'start': '1890.360', 'end': '1895.600', 'text': 'hero. Why? He he was he would be what we'}, {'start': '1893.520', 'end': '1898.640', 'text': 'would call the Medal of Honor recipient.'}, {'start': '1895.600', 'end': '1901.120', 'text': "They're they're writing songs about him."}, {'start': '1898.640', 'end': '1902.960', 'text': 'Songs that put him head head and'}, {'start': '1901.120', 'end': '1906.559', 'text': 'shoulders above Saul, the king. And'}, {'start': '1902.960', 'end': '1909.519', 'text': "obviously, uh Saul's envy ensues as a"}, {'start': '1906.559', 'end': '1911.519', 'text': "result of that. But he's he's probably"}, {'start': '1909.519', 'end': '1913.519', 'text': 'in the neighborhood I I would say around'}, {'start': '1911.519', 'end': '1915.279', 'text': '15 to 16 years old when this happens'}, {'start': '1913.519', 'end': '1918.240', 'text': "because he he can't be in the military"}, {'start': '1915.279', 'end': '1921.279', 'text': "yet. Draft age was 20 years old. So he's"}, {'start': '1918.240', 'end': '1923.440', 'text': 'definitely below 20. His brothers are'}, {'start': '1921.279', 'end': '1925.840', 'text': "older brothers are fighting but David's"}, {'start': '1923.440', 'end': '1928.360', 'text': "he uh looks like he's the youngest of"}, {'start': '1925.840', 'end': '1932.880', 'text': "the bunch and he he's not old enough to"}, {'start': '1928.360', 'end': '1936.159', 'text': 'serve but he he becomes a general of'}, {'start': '1932.880', 'end': '1938.240', 'text': 'sorts in the army. Can you imagine 15,'}, {'start': '1936.159', 'end': '1941.279', 'text': '16 year old being a general leading'}, {'start': '1938.240', 'end': '1944.640', 'text': 'grown men into battle? It was a turning'}, {'start': '1941.279', 'end': '1946.720', 'text': 'point. It changed his life forever. Now,'}, {'start': '1944.640', 'end': '1949.679', 'text': 'he had more than one turning point in'}, {'start': '1946.720', 'end': '1953.600', 'text': 'his life, one one more than one defining'}, {'start': '1949.679', 'end': '1955.919', 'text': 'moment in his life, and so will you. But'}, {'start': '1953.600', 'end': '1958.080', 'text': 'there have been times in your life where'}, {'start': '1955.919', 'end': '1960.320', 'text': 'you had to make a decision that would'}, {'start': '1958.080', 'end': '1962.399', 'text': 'forever affect the direction your life'}, {'start': '1960.320', 'end': '1964.399', 'text': 'went. Obviously the most obvious one is'}, {'start': '1962.399', 'end': '1965.960', 'text': 'will you accept Jesus Christ as your'}, {'start': '1964.399', 'end': '1969.200', 'text': 'savior or'}, {'start': '1965.960', 'end': '1971.640', 'text': 'not? And sometimes you know but the'}, {'start': '1969.200', 'end': '1975.760', 'text': 'point is is'}, {'start': '1971.640', 'end': '1979.840', 'text': 'that these defining moments usually come'}, {'start': '1975.760', 'end': '1981.880', 'text': 'on the heels of of God just giving us'}, {'start': '1979.840', 'end': '1984.320', 'text': 'situations in life we have to make'}, {'start': '1981.880', 'end': '1986.880', 'text': 'decisions. this decision here, this'}, {'start': '1984.320', 'end': '1990.360', 'text': 'decision here, this decision here, and'}, {'start': '1986.880', 'end': '1993.840', 'text': 'ultimately leads us to this defining'}, {'start': '1990.360', 'end': '1996.559', 'text': 'moment. And so those pivotal moments in'}, {'start': '1993.840', 'end': '1999.120', 'text': 'your life where your life is forever'}, {'start': '1996.559', 'end': '2000.960', 'text': 'changed are often built upon those'}, {'start': '1999.120', 'end': '2001.799', 'text': 'little small decisions you made along'}, {'start': '2000.960', 'end': '2004.120', 'text': 'the'}, {'start': '2001.799', 'end': '2007.360', 'text': "way. And we're really"}, {'start': '2004.120', 'end': '2010.399', 'text': 'good at, as the Bible mentions in the'}, {'start': '2007.360', 'end': '2012.960', 'text': 'book of Zechariah, despising the day of'}, {'start': '2010.399', 'end': '2015.360', 'text': "small things. We're Americans. We like"}, {'start': '2012.960', 'end': '2018.000', 'text': 'big things. Big production. Big big big.'}, {'start': '2015.360', 'end': '2020.679', 'text': 'Even Even Christianity is that way. The'}, {'start': '2018.000', 'end': '2023.919', 'text': 'good churches are not always the big'}, {'start': '2020.679', 'end': '2025.600', 'text': "ones. That's the way people think today."}, {'start': '2023.919', 'end': '2028.640', 'text': 'Well, that must be a good church, you'}, {'start': '2025.600', 'end': '2031.279', 'text': "know, because it's a big church. Well, I"}, {'start': '2028.640', 'end': '2033.440', 'text': 'know some good churches that were big. I'}, {'start': '2031.279', 'end': '2035.600', 'text': 'know I had some church big churches that'}, {'start': '2033.440', 'end': '2037.279', 'text': 'were really bad. And the same thing can'}, {'start': '2035.600', 'end': '2041.120', 'text': 'be said of small churches. But the'}, {'start': '2037.279', 'end': '2042.200', 'text': 'problem is is that we sometimes despise'}, {'start': '2041.120', 'end': '2044.440', 'text': 'small'}, {'start': '2042.200', 'end': '2047.879', 'text': 'things, small'}, {'start': '2044.440', 'end': '2050.960', 'text': 'duties, small responsibilities, small'}, {'start': '2047.879', 'end': '2053.240', 'text': 'decisions. But those ultimately lead us'}, {'start': '2050.960', 'end': '2055.599', 'text': 'up to these defining'}, {'start': '2053.240', 'end': '2058.560', 'text': 'moments. Think about it with me for a'}, {'start': '2055.599', 'end': '2061.280', 'text': "moment. Wasn't Moses at the bush? Wasn't"}, {'start': '2058.560', 'end': '2063.359', 'text': 'that a defining moment? Whether he was'}, {'start': '2061.280', 'end': '2065.200', 'text': 'going to go follow God and go back to'}, {'start': '2063.359', 'end': '2067.679', 'text': 'Egypt or was he going to stay out there'}, {'start': '2065.200', 'end': '2070.320', 'text': 'in the wilderness? How about Abraham in'}, {'start': '2067.679', 'end': '2073.679', 'text': 'Genesis 12? God calls him out of the'}, {'start': '2070.320', 'end': '2075.520', 'text': 'counties. What a defining moment. I'}, {'start': '2073.679', 'end': '2078.560', 'text': 'often wonder how many people before'}, {'start': '2075.520', 'end': '2080.919', 'text': 'Abraham did God call and they refused'}, {'start': '2078.560', 'end': '2084.159', 'text': 'until he come to Abraham and he'}, {'start': '2080.919', 'end': '2086.000', 'text': "listened. Maybe, maybe not. But I've"}, {'start': '2084.159', 'end': '2088.800', 'text': "often wondered if Abraham wasn't the"}, {'start': '2086.000', 'end': '2090.879', 'text': 'first God called to produce a nation'}, {'start': '2088.800', 'end': '2094.000', 'text': 'that he would bring his son into the'}, {'start': '2090.879', 'end': '2095.000', 'text': 'world. How about Genesis 22 when he had'}, {'start': '2094.000', 'end': '2098.320', 'text': 'to offer'}, {'start': '2095.000', 'end': '2100.920', 'text': "Isaac? I'd say that's a defining moment."}, {'start': '2098.320', 'end': '2103.720', 'text': "Do you realize God didn't really want"}, {'start': '2100.920', 'end': '2107.200', 'text': 'Isaac? He wanted'}, {'start': '2103.720', 'end': '2110.240', 'text': 'Abraham. And the problem was is that so'}, {'start': '2107.200', 'end': '2112.079', 'text': 'many times God is a good father and just'}, {'start': '2110.240', 'end': '2113.880', 'text': 'like any of you good fathers and you'}, {'start': '2112.079', 'end': '2115.920', 'text': "like to bless your children when they're"}, {'start': '2113.880', 'end': '2117.359', 'text': 'obedient. But sometimes you got to be'}, {'start': '2115.920', 'end': '2118.880', 'text': 'careful because sometimes they fall in'}, {'start': '2117.359', 'end': '2121.599', 'text': 'love with the blessings rather than the'}, {'start': '2118.880', 'end': '2124.560', 'text': 'blesser. the gifts rather than the'}, {'start': '2121.599', 'end': '2127.200', 'text': 'giver. And how often God gives us good'}, {'start': '2124.560', 'end': '2130.240', 'text': 'things and we make idols out of them.'}, {'start': '2127.200', 'end': '2132.880', 'text': 'Our families, our jobs, our money, we we'}, {'start': '2130.240', 'end': '2135.440', 'text': 'just they become more important than God'}, {'start': '2132.880', 'end': '2138.160', 'text': 'does. And so sometimes he has to remove'}, {'start': '2135.440', 'end': '2139.599', 'text': 'them to make sure you still love me more'}, {'start': '2138.160', 'end': '2141.760', 'text': "than anything else. And that's what he"}, {'start': '2139.599', 'end': '2144.079', 'text': 'was doing with Abraham. Abraham, your'}, {'start': '2141.760', 'end': '2145.839', 'text': 'whole life is all your promises are tied'}, {'start': '2144.079', 'end': '2148.000', 'text': 'up in this child. But if I decide to'}, {'start': '2145.839', 'end': '2151.040', 'text': 'take that child, you still going to love'}, {'start': '2148.000', 'end': '2153.720', 'text': 'me? Am I still number one? And all the'}, {'start': '2151.040', 'end': '2157.920', 'text': 'way through the Bible, you'}, {'start': '2153.720', 'end': '2160.720', 'text': "know, I mean, Saul, he's king here. 1"}, {'start': '2157.920', 'end': '2163.200', 'text': 'Samuel 17. Talk about a defining moment'}, {'start': '2160.720', 'end': '2165.520', 'text': 'when he did not wait for Samuel to come'}, {'start': '2163.200', 'end': '2167.520', 'text': 'down and offer sacrifice. He took upon'}, {'start': '2165.520', 'end': '2169.720', 'text': 'himself to offer the sacrifice. And'}, {'start': '2167.520', 'end': '2172.320', 'text': 'guess what happened? He lost his'}, {'start': '2169.720', 'end': '2175.040', 'text': 'kingdom. Now, God let him reign 40'}, {'start': '2172.320', 'end': '2176.880', 'text': 'years, but he lost it then and there. So'}, {'start': '2175.040', 'end': '2180.000', 'text': 'all the way through the Bible there are'}, {'start': '2176.880', 'end': '2182.560', 'text': 'defining moments and this one is one in'}, {'start': '2180.000', 'end': '2182.560', 'text': 'the life of'}, {'start': '2183.880', 'end': '2190.079', 'text': 'David. But David passed the test of this'}, {'start': '2188.240', 'end': '2193.440', 'text': 'defining moment because he had'}, {'start': '2190.079', 'end': '2194.680', 'text': 'previously passed some other minor tests'}, {'start': '2193.440', 'end': '2196.880', 'text': 'that were'}, {'start': '2194.680', 'end': '2199.200', 'text': 'preparatory. And so this morning I want'}, {'start': '2196.880', 'end': '2202.079', 'text': 'to look at some of these preparatory'}, {'start': '2199.200', 'end': '2203.280', 'text': 'tests that David had to pass or else he'}, {'start': '2202.079', 'end': '2204.400', 'text': 'never would have been able to slay the'}, {'start': '2203.280', 'end': '2207.280', 'text': 'giant.'}, {'start': '2204.400', 'end': '2210.320', 'text': 'And brethren, every one of us have'}, {'start': '2207.280', 'end': '2212.480', 'text': 'giants to slay in our life, do we not?'}, {'start': '2210.320', 'end': '2216.079', 'text': "We all got them. I mean, there's things"}, {'start': '2212.480', 'end': '2218.240', 'text': 'that are just loom large and they just'}, {'start': '2216.079', 'end': '2221.200', 'text': 'stand in our way of going forward for'}, {'start': '2218.240', 'end': '2223.440', 'text': 'God.'}, {'start': '2221.200', 'end': '2226.000', 'text': "But if we're going to pass, if we're not"}, {'start': '2223.440', 'end': '2228.200', 'text': 'going to blow the defining moment, how'}, {'start': '2226.000', 'end': '2231.839', 'text': 'many people have sat in'}, {'start': '2228.200', 'end': '2234.880', 'text': 'church and the invitations come to be'}, {'start': '2231.839', 'end': '2238.000', 'text': 'saved and they they say, "No, God\'s not'}, {'start': '2234.880', 'end': '2239.880', 'text': 'obligated to deal with us." But when he'}, {'start': '2238.000', 'end': '2241.839', 'text': 'does, we should'}, {'start': '2239.880', 'end': '2244.320', 'text': 'act. And the same thing is true if'}, {'start': '2241.839', 'end': '2247.359', 'text': "you're in here, you're saved."}, {'start': '2244.320', 'end': '2250.079', 'text': "One of the things that's preparatory to"}, {'start': '2247.359', 'end': '2252.880', 'text': 'you passing your defining moment or'}, {'start': '2250.079', 'end': '2254.839', 'text': 'moments in life is when God deals with'}, {'start': '2252.880', 'end': '2257.920', 'text': 'you, do you'}, {'start': '2254.839', 'end': '2260.079', 'text': 'respond? I mean, Sunday after Sunday, I'}, {'start': '2257.920', 'end': '2262.520', 'text': 'had preached for years and watched'}, {'start': '2260.079', 'end': '2265.640', 'text': 'people sit in a pew and never'}, {'start': '2262.520', 'end': '2268.079', 'text': "move and they're they're making"}, {'start': '2265.640', 'end': '2270.400', 'text': 'decisions. When that defining moment'}, {'start': '2268.079', 'end': '2274.000', 'text': "comes, they're going to blow it. But"}, {'start': '2270.400', 'end': '2276.000', 'text': "it's learning to respond when God deals"}, {'start': '2274.000', 'end': '2278.000', 'text': "with you because he's not obligated. I"}, {'start': '2276.000', 'end': '2279.599', 'text': "mean, I'm thankful God still deals with"}, {'start': '2278.000', 'end': '2281.200', 'text': 'me because sometimes I can be real'}, {'start': '2279.599', 'end': '2284.000', 'text': "stubborn and hard-hearted. I don't want"}, {'start': '2281.200', 'end': '2286.800', 'text': "to listen. And I'm so thankful I can"}, {'start': '2284.000', 'end': '2288.800', 'text': 'still come to church and sit in the pew'}, {'start': '2286.800', 'end': '2291.280', 'text': 'and the preacher preaches and God still'}, {'start': '2288.800', 'end': '2294.480', 'text': "convicts me. That's a blessing. He"}, {'start': '2291.280', 'end': '2296.800', 'text': "hasn't give up on me because he he he"}, {'start': '2294.480', 'end': '2299.680', 'text': "could by all rights. I've been very"}, {'start': '2296.800', 'end': '2303.599', 'text': "stubborn along the way. But let's turn"}, {'start': '2299.680', 'end': '2306.400', 'text': "to 1st Samuel 17 and let's begin in"}, {'start': '2303.599', 'end': '2308.440', 'text': "verse 12. I'll trust you know the the"}, {'start': '2306.400', 'end': '2312.480', 'text': 'story'}, {'start': '2308.440', 'end': '2314.560', 'text': 'here. Now David verse 12 was the son of'}, {'start': '2312.480', 'end': '2317.119', 'text': 'that Ephroite of Bethlehem Judah whose'}, {'start': '2314.560', 'end': '2319.359', 'text': 'name was Jesse. And he had eight sons.'}, {'start': '2317.119', 'end': '2321.040', 'text': 'The man went among men for an old man in'}, {'start': '2319.359', 'end': '2323.359', 'text': 'the days of Saul. And the three eldest'}, {'start': '2321.040', 'end': '2325.680', 'text': 'sons of Jesse went followed Saul to the'}, {'start': '2323.359', 'end': '2327.440', 'text': 'battle. The names of his three sons had'}, {'start': '2325.680', 'end': '2329.760', 'text': 'went to the battle relied the firstborn'}, {'start': '2327.440', 'end': '2331.760', 'text': 'and next unto him Abinadab and and the'}, {'start': '2329.760', 'end': '2334.240', 'text': 'third Shama. And David was the youngest'}, {'start': '2331.760', 'end': '2335.760', 'text': 'and the three elders followed Saul. But'}, {'start': '2334.240', 'end': '2337.280', 'text': 'David went and returned from Saul to'}, {'start': '2335.760', 'end': '2339.040', 'text': "feed his father's sheep in Bethlehem."}, {'start': '2337.280', 'end': '2342.280', 'text': 'And the Philistine drew near morning and'}, {'start': '2339.040', 'end': '2345.480', 'text': 'evening and presented himself 40'}, {'start': '2342.280', 'end': '2348.160', 'text': 'days. Here I see the test of'}, {'start': '2345.480', 'end': '2351.359', 'text': 'patience. See, David went back to tend'}, {'start': '2348.160', 'end': '2353.760', 'text': "the sheep when he's a typical boy. I"}, {'start': '2351.359', 'end': '2355.760', 'text': "mean, doesn't the younger brother always"}, {'start': '2353.760', 'end': '2358.079', 'text': 'want to be like the older brother? I'}, {'start': '2355.760', 'end': '2360.160', 'text': "mean, they don't they usually older"}, {'start': '2358.079', 'end': '2362.640', 'text': "brothers that he they're hero in many"}, {'start': '2360.160', 'end': '2364.480', 'text': 'cases and they want to be they want to'}, {'start': '2362.640', 'end': '2366.440', 'text': "run with the big brothers. They don't"}, {'start': '2364.480', 'end': '2369.040', 'text': 'want to be the little boy, but he'}, {'start': '2366.440', 'end': '2371.119', 'text': "couldn't. But he was patient. He"}, {'start': '2369.040', 'end': '2373.839', 'text': 'attended to his job at that point in'}, {'start': '2371.119', 'end': '2376.720', 'text': 'time, which was take care of the sheep.'}, {'start': '2373.839', 'end': '2378.400', 'text': "You'll put your military aspirations on"}, {'start': '2376.720', 'end': '2381.320', 'text': "the back burner, son. You're not old"}, {'start': '2378.400', 'end': '2385.040', 'text': 'enough. And how many times'}, {'start': '2381.320', 'end': '2387.440', 'text': 'impatience has been our downfall? I told'}, {'start': '2385.040', 'end': '2389.920', 'text': 'you about Saul. Saul was supposed to'}, {'start': '2387.440', 'end': '2391.520', 'text': 'wait seven days for Samuel to come down'}, {'start': '2389.920', 'end': '2393.119', 'text': "and he didn't wait because Samuel"}, {'start': '2391.520', 'end': '2395.920', 'text': "carried. He didn't come in the appointed"}, {'start': '2393.119', 'end': '2400.000', 'text': 'time. I think God providentially held'}, {'start': '2395.920', 'end': '2402.320', 'text': "him up to test Saul. Saul wouldn't wait."}, {'start': '2400.000', 'end': '2405.040', 'text': 'Offered the sacrifice and it cost him'}, {'start': '2402.320', 'end': '2407.920', 'text': 'his kingdom. You think you stop and'}, {'start': '2405.040', 'end': '2411.240', 'text': 'sometimes I thought to myself, why would'}, {'start': '2407.920', 'end': '2414.960', 'text': 'was God so hard on him for not'}, {'start': '2411.240', 'end': '2418.000', 'text': 'waiting? Well, waiting is inseparably'}, {'start': '2414.960', 'end': '2421.200', 'text': 'linked to faith, brethren. If you trust'}, {'start': '2418.000', 'end': '2423.680', 'text': "God, you'll wait on him. And what has"}, {'start': '2421.200', 'end': '2426.320', 'text': 'God really ever wanted from the human'}, {'start': '2423.680', 'end': '2427.480', 'text': 'race from the beginning? He just wants'}, {'start': '2426.320', 'end': '2430.560', 'text': 'us to trust'}, {'start': '2427.480', 'end': '2432.560', 'text': "him. Adam and Eve, don't eat of that"}, {'start': '2430.560', 'end': '2433.839', 'text': 'tree.'}, {'start': '2432.560', 'end': '2435.760', 'text': "He didn't even give him all the"}, {'start': '2433.839', 'end': '2436.920', 'text': 'information about it. Did he tell them'}, {'start': '2435.760', 'end': '2439.119', 'text': 'everything that would'}, {'start': '2436.920', 'end': '2441.520', 'text': "happen? Don't we have a better look"}, {'start': '2439.119', 'end': '2444.400', 'text': "today as what's happened as a result of"}, {'start': '2441.520', 'end': '2447.839', 'text': "our father Adam's sin here? You know,"}, {'start': '2444.400', 'end': '2450.079', 'text': 'about 6,000 years later. God saw all'}, {'start': '2447.839', 'end': '2451.599', 'text': "that. He didn't tell Adam that. 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I can"}, {'start': '2474.000', 'end': '2478.319', 'text': 'still hear him preaching at me and doing'}, {'start': '2476.400', 'end': '2479.560', 'text': 'and things in my life. I say, man, he'}, {'start': '2478.319', 'end': '2482.960', 'text': 'was so'}, {'start': '2479.560', 'end': '2485.040', 'text': "right. Why didn't I listen to him? He"}, {'start': '2482.960', 'end': '2488.400', 'text': 'being dead yet speaketh. He still'}, {'start': '2485.040', 'end': '2491.680', 'text': 'preaches at me. You know, I can still'}, {'start': '2488.400', 'end': '2493.520', 'text': 'hear him as if it as if it was yesterday'}, {'start': '2491.680', 'end': '2494.800', 'text': 'in this world of lazy people. I remember'}, {'start': '2493.520', 'end': '2496.560', 'text': 'I was just a little, you know, I was'}, {'start': '2494.800', 'end': '2498.480', 'text': 'probably like eight or nine. Remember,'}, {'start': '2496.560', 'end': '2501.040', 'text': "and he's 65. I used to come up to his"}, {'start': '2498.480', 'end': '2505.280', 'text': 'belt, you know, he said he said, "Boy,'}, {'start': '2501.040', 'end': '2505.280', 'text': 'nobody owes you nothing. Get a'}, {'start': '2505.640', 'end': '2510.800', 'text': 'job. If I tried to lay at home and live'}, {'start': '2508.240', 'end': '2512.720', 'text': "off mom and daddy, I'd have streaks on"}, {'start': '2510.800', 'end': '2515.119', 'text': 'my rear end when he booted me onto the'}, {'start': '2512.720', 'end': '2519.760', 'text': 'street. He was World War II generation,'}, {'start': '2515.119', 'end': '2521.839', 'text': 'man. you work. He He detested welfare.'}, {'start': '2519.760', 'end': '2524.720', 'text': 'He said, "Welfare is there for people'}, {'start': '2521.839', 'end': '2526.000', 'text': 'that need it. We got too many people'}, {'start': '2524.720', 'end': '2528.240', 'text': 'living off the government because'}, {'start': '2526.000', 'end': '2530.040', 'text': 'they\'re too lazy to work." And he did'}, {'start': '2528.240', 'end': '2532.880', 'text': 'not want me to be'}, {'start': '2530.040', 'end': '2535.680', 'text': 'lazy. Boy, he was so right. I could tell'}, {'start': '2532.880', 'end': '2536.760', 'text': "you many things I'm that still come to"}, {'start': '2535.680', 'end': '2541.200', 'text': 'my'}, {'start': '2536.760', 'end': '2543.920', 'text': "mind. But patience, we can't wait. You"}, {'start': '2541.200', 'end': '2547.200', 'text': "know, we can't wait. God wants us to"}, {'start': '2543.920', 'end': '2550.160', 'text': 'learn to wait on him because his timing'}, {'start': '2547.200', 'end': '2552.079', 'text': "is perfect. He's never early, but he's"}, {'start': '2550.160', 'end': '2554.800', 'text': "never late. His I mean, let's face it,"}, {'start': '2552.079', 'end': '2558.160', 'text': 'does God ever work on your timetable?'}, {'start': '2554.800', 'end': '2559.920', 'text': 'Almost never. But he wants us to trust'}, {'start': '2558.160', 'end': '2562.319', 'text': "him. That's all he's ever asked from the"}, {'start': '2559.920', 'end': '2565.560', 'text': 'human race. Will you just trust me? So'}, {'start': '2562.319', 'end': '2569.119', 'text': "that's why patience and waiting is so"}, {'start': '2565.560', 'end': '2571.760', 'text': 'important. Look at verse 17.'}, {'start': '2569.119', 'end': '2573.839', 'text': 'And Jesse said unto David his son, take'}, {'start': '2571.760', 'end': '2575.680', 'text': 'now thy brethren and etha of this'}, {'start': '2573.839', 'end': '2577.200', 'text': 'parched corn and these 10 loaves, and'}, {'start': '2575.680', 'end': '2579.040', 'text': 'run to the camp of thy brethren, and'}, {'start': '2577.200', 'end': '2580.800', 'text': 'carry these 10 cheeses under the captain'}, {'start': '2579.040', 'end': '2584.079', 'text': 'of their thousand. Look how thy brethren'}, {'start': '2580.800', 'end': '2586.000', 'text': 'fare, and take their pledge. Now saw'}, {'start': '2584.079', 'end': '2587.560', 'text': 'they and all the men of Israel when the'}, {'start': '2586.000', 'end': '2589.839', 'text': 'valid left fighting with the'}, {'start': '2587.560', 'end': '2591.280', 'text': 'Philistines. 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You can'}, {'start': '2654.480', 'end': '2658.839', 'text': 'see all along the way that David had'}, {'start': '2657.119', 'end': '2660.720', 'text': 'learned'}, {'start': '2658.839', 'end': '2662.640', 'text': 'responsibility, the test of'}, {'start': '2660.720', 'end': '2664.960', 'text': 'responsibility.'}, {'start': '2662.640', 'end': '2667.280', 'text': 'He did what dad told him to do, but he'}, {'start': '2664.960', 'end': '2668.800', 'text': 'made sure, okay, I got to go up here to'}, {'start': '2667.280', 'end': '2670.319', 'text': "where they're fighting, but I got to"}, {'start': '2668.800', 'end': '2673.280', 'text': 'make sure I leave somebody to take care'}, {'start': '2670.319', 'end': '2676.319', 'text': 'of these sheep. He he he took care of'}, {'start': '2673.280', 'end': '2677.359', 'text': 'his responsibilities. 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Now anybody can come'}, {'start': '2697.440', 'end': '2702.960', 'text': 'to work you know we typically as a rule'}, {'start': '2700.560', 'end': '2705.359', 'text': 'work five days a week. Anybody can come'}, {'start': '2702.960', 'end': '2708.319', 'text': "to work two days a week when it's"}, {'start': '2705.359', 'end': '2710.720', 'text': 'supposed to work five you know on a day'}, {'start': '2708.319', 'end': '2712.079', 'text': "call instead. I mean I it it's just the"}, {'start': '2710.720', 'end': '2713.760', 'text': 'way people call in today is'}, {'start': '2712.079', 'end': '2715.240', 'text': 'unbelievable.'}, {'start': '2713.760', 'end': '2717.640', 'text': 'But being'}, {'start': '2715.240', 'end': '2720.839', 'text': 'responsible. Being'}, {'start': '2717.640', 'end': '2724.720', 'text': 'responsible. I mean, young'}, {'start': '2720.839', 'end': '2727.119', 'text': "people, you know, when you're told to do"}, {'start': '2724.720', 'end': '2730.280', 'text': 'something, do you do it or you drag your'}, {'start': '2727.119', 'end': '2732.720', 'text': 'feet and have to be told 10 times to do'}, {'start': '2730.280', 'end': '2735.200', 'text': "it? You know, it's a learn. You say,"}, {'start': '2732.720', 'end': '2738.240', 'text': '"Well, it doesn\'t really matter." Yes,'}, {'start': '2735.200', 'end': '2740.079', 'text': "it does. If you don't learn to take the"}, {'start': '2738.240', 'end': '2742.319', 'text': "trash out, if you don't learn to do your"}, {'start': '2740.079', 'end': '2743.920', 'text': "homework, if you don't learn to do this,"}, {'start': '2742.319', 'end': '2745.839', 'text': 'what are you going to learn about? Well,'}, {'start': '2743.920', 'end': '2749.119', 'text': 'you gota you got to work to pay the'}, {'start': '2745.839', 'end': '2750.880', 'text': 'bills and and got to work. Ladies, how'}, {'start': '2749.119', 'end': '2752.960', 'text': "many of you got to work today? It's just"}, {'start': '2750.880', 'end': '2754.800', 'text': 'the way it is. My mama, she stayed at'}, {'start': '2752.960', 'end': '2756.440', 'text': "home. That's a thing of the past. It's"}, {'start': '2754.800', 'end': '2759.359', 'text': "too It's too"}, {'start': '2756.440', 'end': '2761.280', 'text': 'expensive. We are a two income society'}, {'start': '2759.359', 'end': '2764.880', 'text': 'whether we like it or not. It just'}, {'start': '2761.280', 'end': '2767.359', 'text': "stinks. But I mean, mama's got to cook"}, {'start': '2764.880', 'end': '2769.040', 'text': 'and clean and take care of the big kid,'}, {'start': '2767.359', 'end': '2770.599', 'text': 'dad, and the little kids, you know, and'}, {'start': '2769.040', 'end': '2772.640', 'text': "when they're sick and all, but"}, {'start': '2770.599', 'end': '2774.319', 'text': "responsibility. It's responsibility to"}, {'start': '2772.640', 'end': '2776.240', 'text': "be a mother. It's responsibility to be a"}, {'start': '2774.319', 'end': '2778.160', 'text': "father. It's a responsibility to take"}, {'start': '2776.240', 'end': '2780.079', 'text': "care, you know, of your home. It's"}, {'start': '2778.160', 'end': '2782.319', 'text': 'responsibility to be a good church'}, {'start': '2780.079', 'end': '2785.040', 'text': 'member, to give, to be here, to be'}, {'start': '2782.319', 'end': '2787.839', 'text': 'faithful. We are so irresponsible.'}, {'start': '2785.040', 'end': '2789.920', 'text': "Everything's become easy come, easy go."}, {'start': '2787.839', 'end': '2791.200', 'text': "Doesn't matter whether I pray or not."}, {'start': '2789.920', 'end': '2794.400', 'text': "Doesn't matter whether I read my Bible"}, {'start': '2791.200', 'end': '2794.400', 'text': 'or not? Yes, it'}, {'start': '2795.079', 'end': '2803.240', 'text': 'does. Because the root word of disciple'}, {'start': '2800.319', 'end': '2805.920', 'text': 'is discipline. We have to have'}, {'start': '2803.240', 'end': '2809.040', 'text': 'discipline. One of the things I cannot'}, {'start': '2805.920', 'end': '2811.640', 'text': 'seem to get done at the juvenile is get'}, {'start': '2809.040', 'end': '2814.640', 'text': 'those boys to read a'}, {'start': '2811.640', 'end': '2816.800', 'text': 'Bible. They just they struggle to read.'}, {'start': '2814.640', 'end': '2819.920', 'text': "They're poor readers to begin with, many"}, {'start': '2816.800', 'end': '2821.599', 'text': 'of them. But we have a generation of'}, {'start': '2819.920', 'end': '2824.119', 'text': "young people and I'm not entirely"}, {'start': '2821.599', 'end': '2826.560', 'text': "against it, but we're so visually"}, {'start': '2824.119', 'end': '2828.319', 'text': 'oriented. We got we got so much social'}, {'start': '2826.560', 'end': '2830.800', 'text': 'media and we got a picture going by us'}, {'start': '2828.319', 'end': '2832.800', 'text': "every 5 seconds. They can't concentrate."}, {'start': '2830.800', 'end': '2835.240', 'text': 'I try to talk to them and get them to'}, {'start': '2832.800', 'end': '2837.760', 'text': 'concentrate and look at me and'}, {'start': '2835.240', 'end': '2839.839', 'text': "think and they won't read the Bible. I"}, {'start': '2837.760', 'end': '2842.079', 'text': 'said, "You can\'t know God without'}, {'start': '2839.839', 'end': '2843.200', 'text': 'reading the Bible." I told you young'}, {'start': '2842.079', 'end': '2844.720', 'text': "people, if you're going to you want to"}, {'start': '2843.200', 'end': '2846.560', 'text': 'know that book works, you got to do it.'}, {'start': '2844.720', 'end': '2850.240', 'text': 'But you got to know what it says so you'}, {'start': '2846.560', 'end': '2852.520', 'text': 'know what to do first. Reading it.'}, {'start': '2850.240', 'end': '2856.319', 'text': 'Reading it'}, {'start': '2852.520', 'end': '2858.160', 'text': 'systematically, daily reading it. I ch'}, {'start': '2856.319', 'end': '2860.560', 'text': "it's a challenge. Do you know why"}, {'start': '2858.160', 'end': '2861.480', 'text': 'Christianity is so full of heresy and'}, {'start': '2860.560', 'end': '2864.240', 'text': 'false'}, {'start': '2861.480', 'end': '2865.599', 'text': 'teaching? Because the people in the pew'}, {'start': '2864.240', 'end': '2868.240', 'text': "don't know enough Bible to keep the"}, {'start': '2865.599', 'end': '2870.880', 'text': "preacher in line. It's your job. It's a"}, {'start': '2868.240', 'end': '2872.560', 'text': "mutual relationship here. It's not just"}, {'start': '2870.880', 'end': '2874.000', 'text': "the pastor's job to make sure he"}, {'start': '2872.560', 'end': '2876.319', 'text': 'oversees the flock and takes care of'}, {'start': '2874.000', 'end': '2878.319', 'text': 'them. You hold him accountable. You know'}, {'start': '2876.319', 'end': '2880.079', 'text': 'that book, you know he starts teaching'}, {'start': '2878.319', 'end': '2882.160', 'text': 'heresy, you can call him on the carpet'}, {'start': '2880.079', 'end': '2884.240', 'text': 'about it. I tell the boys all the time,'}, {'start': '2882.160', 'end': '2886.720', 'text': '"How do you know if I\'m telling you the'}, {'start': '2884.240', 'end': '2888.440', 'text': 'truth if you don\'t read that Bible?" We'}, {'start': '2886.720', 'end': '2891.440', 'text': "don't."}, {'start': '2888.440', 'end': '2894.880', 'text': 'Exactly. Exactly. Do you know the rule'}, {'start': '2891.440', 'end': '2897.359', 'text': "of thumb, brethren? When a man's income"}, {'start': '2894.880', 'end': '2900.760', 'text': 'is connected with what he says, he can'}, {'start': '2897.359', 'end': '2904.440', 'text': 'never be trusted to tell the truth.'}, {'start': '2900.760', 'end': '2907.280', 'text': 'salesmen, preachers, there are'}, {'start': '2904.440', 'end': '2908.520', 'text': "exceptions. I'm not, trust me, I'm not"}, {'start': '2907.280', 'end': '2911.480', 'text': 'in it for the'}, {'start': '2908.520', 'end': '2914.800', 'text': 'money. But the rule of thumb is how many'}, {'start': '2911.480', 'end': '2916.559', 'text': 'salesmen, preachers, politicians, they'}, {'start': '2914.800', 'end': '2918.400', 'text': 'make their income as largely connected'}, {'start': '2916.559', 'end': '2919.760', 'text': 'with what they say and they lie through'}, {'start': '2918.400', 'end': '2920.599', 'text': 'their teeth and tell people what they'}, {'start': '2919.760', 'end': '2923.280', 'text': 'want to'}, {'start': '2920.599', 'end': '2924.760', 'text': "hear. That's why we got to hold each"}, {'start': '2923.280', 'end': '2927.040', 'text': 'other'}, {'start': '2924.760', 'end': '2929.280', 'text': "accountable. And that's why you have to"}, {'start': '2927.040', 'end': '2931.520', 'text': 'know that Bible and you have to read'}, {'start': '2929.280', 'end': '2931.520', 'text': 'that'}, {'start': '2932.040', 'end': '2937.680', 'text': 'Bible. I tell the boys all the time, not'}, {'start': '2934.960', 'end': '2940.319', 'text': 'to brag, but I said, "I\'m on my 83rd'}, {'start': '2937.680', 'end': '2943.119', 'text': 'time through the Bible." That doesn\'t'}, {'start': '2940.319', 'end': '2946.160', 'text': "include the times I've read the New"}, {'start': '2943.119', 'end': '2949.200', 'text': 'Testament or Psalms and Proverbs. I had'}, {'start': '2946.160', 'end': '2951.119', 'text': 'to teach. We had at our church at one'}, {'start': '2949.200', 'end': '2953.680', 'text': 'point, we had a Bible institute which I'}, {'start': '2951.119', 'end': '2957.079', 'text': 'ran and I taught the book of John. I'}, {'start': '2953.680', 'end': '2960.319', 'text': 'read the book of John for seven'}, {'start': '2957.079', 'end': '2962.640', 'text': 'months, just one book, studying it, man,'}, {'start': '2960.319', 'end': '2964.720', 'text': "it is full. It's amazing what you can"}, {'start': '2962.640', 'end': '2966.240', 'text': 'glean out of reading it over and over'}, {'start': '2964.720', 'end': '2967.520', 'text': 'and over because you see things you can'}, {'start': '2966.240', 'end': '2969.119', 'text': 'just instead of just blowing through'}, {'start': '2967.520', 'end': '2972.040', 'text': "there, you see it. But the point I'm"}, {'start': '2969.119', 'end': '2975.040', 'text': 'making, brethren, is we have to be'}, {'start': '2972.040', 'end': '2978.160', 'text': 'responsible. Responsible. We will never'}, {'start': '2975.040', 'end': '2982.400', 'text': "slay the giant if we aren't able to"}, {'start': '2978.160', 'end': '2984.319', 'text': "wield our sword. We're defenseless."}, {'start': '2982.400', 'end': '2989.119', 'text': 'responsibility. So, David had passed'}, {'start': '2984.319', 'end': '2991.559', 'text': 'that test of responsibility. Look at'}, {'start': '2989.119', 'end': '2995.119', 'text': "uh verse well, let's skip a few verses"}, {'start': '2991.559', 'end': '2996.200', 'text': "here. Let's drop down to 25. And the men"}, {'start': '2995.119', 'end': '2998.720', 'text': 'of Israel'}, {'start': '2996.200', 'end': '3001.839', 'text': 'said, "You have seen this man that has'}, {'start': '2998.720', 'end': '3003.760', 'text': 'come up surely to find Israel as he come'}, {'start': '3001.839', 'end': '3006.000', 'text': 'up. And it shall be that the man who'}, {'start': '3003.760', 'end': '3007.440', 'text': 'kleth him, the king will enrich him with'}, {'start': '3006.000', 'end': '3008.880', 'text': 'great riches and will give him his'}, {'start': '3007.440', 'end': '3010.640', 'text': "daughter and make his father's house"}, {'start': '3008.880', 'end': '3012.240', 'text': 'free in Israel." In other words, you'}, {'start': '3010.640', 'end': '3014.480', 'text': "don't have to pay taxes."}, {'start': '3012.240', 'end': '3015.920', 'text': 'And David spake to the men that stood by'}, {'start': '3014.480', 'end': '3017.280', 'text': 'him, saying, "What should be done to the'}, {'start': '3015.920', 'end': '3018.960', 'text': 'man that kleth this Philistine and'}, {'start': '3017.280', 'end': '3020.720', 'text': 'taketh away the approach from Israel?'}, {'start': '3018.960', 'end': '3022.160', 'text': 'For who is this uncircumcised'}, {'start': '3020.720', 'end': '3023.520', 'text': 'Philistine, that he should defy the'}, {'start': '3022.160', 'end': '3025.440', 'text': 'armies of the living God?" And the'}, {'start': '3023.520', 'end': '3026.960', 'text': 'people answered him after this manner,'}, {'start': '3025.440', 'end': '3029.000', 'text': 'saying, "So shall it be done to the man'}, {'start': '3026.960', 'end': '3031.440', 'text': 'that killth him?" And Eli his eldest'}, {'start': '3029.000', 'end': '3032.839', 'text': 'brother heard when he spake unto the man'}, {'start': '3031.440', 'end': '3035.520', 'text': "and alive's anger was"}, {'start': '3032.839', 'end': '3038.240', 'text': 'kindled against David. And he said, "Why'}, {'start': '3035.520', 'end': '3040.079', 'text': 'camest thou down hither? And why and'}, {'start': '3038.240', 'end': '3041.920', 'text': 'with whom hast thou left those few sheep'}, {'start': '3040.079', 'end': '3043.440', 'text': 'in the wilderness? I know thy cry the'}, {'start': '3041.920', 'end': '3044.800', 'text': 'naughtiness of thine heart. For thou'}, {'start': '3043.440', 'end': '3047.119', 'text': 'come down that thou might see the'}, {'start': '3044.800', 'end': '3049.640', 'text': 'battle. And David said, "What have I now'}, {'start': '3047.119', 'end': '3053.599', 'text': 'done? Is there not a'}, {'start': '3049.640', 'end': '3055.160', 'text': 'cause?" Here he passed the test of'}, {'start': '3053.599', 'end': '3057.359', 'text': 'brotherly'}, {'start': '3055.160', 'end': '3059.800', 'text': 'criticism. This is his older brother,'}, {'start': '3057.359', 'end': '3062.000', 'text': 'his eldest brother.'}, {'start': '3059.800', 'end': '3064.000', 'text': "Eli. And you know, if you're going to"}, {'start': '3062.000', 'end': '3066.960', 'text': "sway some giants in your life, if you're"}, {'start': '3064.000', 'end': '3068.480', 'text': 'going to get victory, one of the things'}, {'start': '3066.960', 'end': '3071.119', 'text': "you're going to have to pass the test is"}, {'start': '3068.480', 'end': '3076.160', 'text': 'the p the test of brotherly criticism.'}, {'start': '3071.119', 'end': '3076.160', 'text': 'The brethren are masters of being'}, {'start': '3077.240', 'end': '3082.559', 'text': "critics. You haven't pastored over third"}, {'start': '3079.760', 'end': '3085.680', 'text': 'north of 30 years like I have, man, they'}, {'start': '3082.559', 'end': '3087.680', 'text': 'will pick you apart.'}, {'start': '3085.680', 'end': '3089.520', 'text': 'I remember once we were going through a'}, {'start': '3087.680', 'end': '3091.359', 'text': 'the first church I pastored that I'}, {'start': '3089.520', 'end': '3095.440', 'text': 'started we were going through a church'}, {'start': '3091.359', 'end': '3097.200', 'text': 'split and so I you know I said okay you'}, {'start': '3095.440', 'end': '3099.119', 'text': 'got all these grievances I let them we'}, {'start': '3097.200', 'end': '3102.559', 'text': 'had we had a meeting for two hours man'}, {'start': '3099.119', 'end': '3104.160', 'text': 'they ripped me from stem to stern I mean'}, {'start': '3102.559', 'end': '3105.359', 'text': "I couldn't do nothing right some said I"}, {'start': '3104.160', 'end': '3106.880', 'text': "wasn't doing enough some said you're"}, {'start': '3105.359', 'end': '3108.400', 'text': 'doing too much I mean they picked me'}, {'start': '3106.880', 'end': '3112.559', 'text': 'apart my wife had to sit there and'}, {'start': '3108.400', 'end': '3115.280', 'text': 'listen to that and the point is is that'}, {'start': '3112.559', 'end': '3116.800', 'text': "if you listen to criticism you're never"}, {'start': '3115.280', 'end': '3118.160', 'text': 'going to make any ground in your life'}, {'start': '3116.800', 'end': '3118.839', 'text': "cuz there's always somebody who's going"}, {'start': '3118.160', 'end': '3121.680', 'text': 'to'}, {'start': '3118.839', 'end': '3123.200', 'text': "criticize. You know what I'm saying? You"}, {'start': '3121.680', 'end': '3125.280', 'text': 'got to kind of learn to take the'}, {'start': '3123.200', 'end': '3127.280', 'text': "attitude I do is I just say it's like"}, {'start': '3125.280', 'end': '3129.839', 'text': "work. It's like going to the deli. Take"}, {'start': '3127.280', 'end': '3131.359', 'text': "a number step in line because there's"}, {'start': '3129.839', 'end': '3134.640', 'text': 'always going to be somebody criticizing'}, {'start': '3131.359', 'end': '3136.079', 'text': 'you no matter what you do. You know, you'}, {'start': '3134.640', 'end': '3137.839', 'text': "understand there's a difference between"}, {'start': '3136.079', 'end': '3140.319', 'text': "somebody who's trying to help you and"}, {'start': '3137.839', 'end': '3142.000', 'text': "just simply criticize you. There's a"}, {'start': '3140.319', 'end': '3144.480', 'text': "difference. There's different someone"}, {'start': '3142.000', 'end': '3146.079', 'text': 'that loves you and is trying to reprove'}, {'start': '3144.480', 'end': '3148.319', 'text': "you and correct you because they're"}, {'start': '3146.079', 'end': '3149.599', 'text': 'trying to get you back on the path. Then'}, {'start': '3148.319', 'end': '3151.920', 'text': 'there are just people that just sit in'}, {'start': '3149.599', 'end': '3154.480', 'text': 'the critic box and they just criticize.'}, {'start': '3151.920', 'end': '3156.319', 'text': 'You ever met people, you know, I think I'}, {'start': '3154.480', 'end': '3158.240', 'text': 'told you I work for Nabiscoco, so I work'}, {'start': '3156.319', 'end': '3159.480', 'text': "I'm a rep for them and I work in grocery"}, {'start': '3158.240', 'end': '3164.200', 'text': 'stores all day'}, {'start': '3159.480', 'end': '3166.960', 'text': 'long and there are there are certain'}, {'start': '3164.200', 'end': '3169.599', 'text': 'receivers and some of my stores, they'}, {'start': '3166.960', 'end': '3172.240', 'text': 'are legendary all across the city as'}, {'start': '3169.599', 'end': '3174.880', 'text': 'being the most meanest receiver you ever'}, {'start': '3172.240', 'end': '3177.040', 'text': "met. There's this one woman. She's a"}, {'start': '3174.880', 'end': '3180.400', 'text': 'friend of my sisters, goes to my'}, {'start': '3177.040', 'end': '3184.079', 'text': "sister's church. She's saved saved. And"}, {'start': '3180.400', 'end': '3187.440', 'text': 'she is legendary to being the meanest,'}, {'start': '3184.079', 'end': '3189.760', 'text': 'nastiest woman you ever met. And the'}, {'start': '3187.440', 'end': '3192.000', 'text': 'consolation I have as I walk out of that'}, {'start': '3189.760', 'end': '3193.720', 'text': 'store and I think, "Thank God I\'m not'}, {'start': '3192.000', 'end': '3196.960', 'text': 'married to that."'}, {'start': '3193.720', 'end': '3199.760', 'text': 'Amen. I mean, she blowing my brains up.'}, {'start': '3196.960', 'end': '3200.760', 'text': "I mean, she's she's a mere estate. I'll"}, {'start': '3199.760', 'end': '3203.359', 'text': 'give you an'}, {'start': '3200.760', 'end': '3206.079', 'text': 'example. My delivery showed up at the'}, {'start': '3203.359', 'end': '3208.880', 'text': "store. We're what's called a DSD"}, {'start': '3206.079', 'end': '3212.400', 'text': 'organization, direct store delivery. So,'}, {'start': '3208.880', 'end': '3214.880', 'text': 'I order it, my drivers deliver it, I'}, {'start': '3212.400', 'end': '3217.280', 'text': 'stock it, I build my display. The store'}, {'start': '3214.880', 'end': '3219.440', 'text': "doesn't touch my product. So, my"}, {'start': '3217.280', 'end': '3221.680', 'text': 'delivery got there at like 5:00 a.m. in'}, {'start': '3219.440', 'end': '3223.680', 'text': 'the morning. I had to do it some other'}, {'start': '3221.680', 'end': '3225.599', 'text': 'store. So, I showed up about 8:30.'}, {'start': '3223.680', 'end': '3227.359', 'text': "Wasn't checked in. She was checking I"}, {'start': '3225.599', 'end': '3229.119', 'text': 'think she was checking in the Brownberry'}, {'start': '3227.359', 'end': '3231.839', 'text': 'guy. and she checks somebody else in,'}, {'start': '3229.119', 'end': '3234.319', 'text': 'but she made me wait and then at 11:30'}, {'start': '3231.839', 'end': '3236.079', 'text': 'she goes to lunch. She comes back at'}, {'start': '3234.319', 'end': '3238.839', 'text': '12:00 and checks my order. So, the time'}, {'start': '3236.079', 'end': '3241.599', 'text': 'I got it was 12:30. She made'}, {'start': '3238.839', 'end': '3244.599', 'text': 'intentionally, maliciously made me wait'}, {'start': '3241.599', 'end': '3246.440', 'text': 'four hours to work that'}, {'start': '3244.599', 'end': '3251.000', 'text': 'order.'}, {'start': '3246.440', 'end': '3253.720', 'text': 'Save saved as could be. And you say,'}, {'start': '3251.000', 'end': '3257.040', 'text': '"Why? Why do you act like'}, {'start': '3253.720', 'end': '3258.359', 'text': "that? I won't even talk to her now. I"}, {'start': '3257.040', 'end': '3261.960', 'text': 'want to talk to'}, {'start': '3258.359', 'end': '3268.079', 'text': 'her. I just avoid her like the'}, {'start': '3261.960', 'end': '3270.880', 'text': 'plague. The point is is people are just,'}, {'start': '3268.079', 'end': '3272.119', 'text': 'especially today, Americans are so toxic'}, {'start': '3270.880', 'end': '3273.960', 'text': "cuz they're"}, {'start': '3272.119', 'end': '3277.280', 'text': "miserable. They're"}, {'start': '3273.960', 'end': '3279.119', 'text': 'unhappy. If stuff makes you happy, why'}, {'start': '3277.280', 'end': '3282.079', 'text': "aren't Americans the happiest people in"}, {'start': '3279.119', 'end': '3285.920', 'text': 'the world? We are the playground of the'}, {'start': '3282.079', 'end': '3287.839', 'text': 'world. America, we got it all. I mean,'}, {'start': '3285.920', 'end': '3289.160', 'text': 'everything we seen in that show, Diners,'}, {'start': '3287.839', 'end': '3292.880', 'text': 'Drive-ins, and'}, {'start': '3289.160', 'end': '3295.200', 'text': 'DY, that guy Ferry, I mean, just look at'}, {'start': '3292.880', 'end': '3296.559', 'text': 'the food we had to eat. I mean, that'}, {'start': '3295.200', 'end': '3298.240', 'text': "stuff will kill you. I mean, it's"}, {'start': '3296.559', 'end': '3300.079', 'text': 'wonderful, though. I mean, you know,'}, {'start': '3298.240', 'end': '3301.359', 'text': 'especially my wife used to watch that'}, {'start': '3300.079', 'end': '3302.960', 'text': 'show. I remember watching one time with'}, {'start': '3301.359', 'end': '3305.760', 'text': 'her. They had they were going these rib'}, {'start': '3302.960', 'end': '3307.599', 'text': 'places and I thought, man, I mean,'}, {'start': '3305.760', 'end': '3309.280', 'text': "they're pulling out these smoked ribs"}, {'start': '3307.599', 'end': '3310.720', 'text': "and all these sauces and stuff and I'm"}, {'start': '3309.280', 'end': '3313.200', 'text': 'thinking, God, that stuff will kill you,'}, {'start': '3310.720', 'end': '3314.960', 'text': 'but boy, it looks good. I know people'}, {'start': '3313.200', 'end': '3317.079', 'text': 'who take vacations just to go to all'}, {'start': '3314.960', 'end': '3321.440', 'text': 'these places that he has on his'}, {'start': '3317.079', 'end': '3324.319', 'text': "show. We got it all, but we're miserable"}, {'start': '3321.440', 'end': '3325.760', 'text': "because stuff doesn't make you happy."}, {'start': '3324.319', 'end': '3329.040', 'text': 'But then we keep thinking, "Oh, if I'}, {'start': '3325.760', 'end': '3330.720', 'text': 'just had one more thing, right? Oh, just'}, {'start': '3329.040', 'end': '3335.640', 'text': 'if I just could have this, if I could'}, {'start': '3330.720', 'end': '3337.760', 'text': 'just have that, if only I could." No, it'}, {'start': '3335.640', 'end': '3340.800', 'text': "won't. But there's going to be a"}, {'start': '3337.760', 'end': '3344.079', 'text': 'constant stream of criticism and you'}, {'start': '3340.800', 'end': '3347.280', 'text': 'have got to learn to build up a tough'}, {'start': '3344.079', 'end': '3349.240', 'text': 'hide. Got to keep a soft heart. Have a'}, {'start': '3347.280', 'end': '3351.280', 'text': 'tough hide to put up with'}, {'start': '3349.240', 'end': '3352.880', 'text': "people. You don't want to get a hard"}, {'start': '3351.280', 'end': '3353.799', 'text': "heart because that's then you end up"}, {'start': '3352.880', 'end': '3356.319', 'text': 'like'}, {'start': '3353.799', 'end': '3359.760', 'text': "them. You know what I'm saying? But"}, {'start': '3356.319', 'end': '3362.960', 'text': "people are just miserable. They're"}, {'start': '3359.760', 'end': '3366.520', 'text': 'critical. They sit in the critics box.'}, {'start': '3362.960', 'end': '3368.880', 'text': 'You know, you ever notice how critics I'}, {'start': '3366.520', 'end': '3370.400', 'text': "remember, I know I'm getting old, but"}, {'start': '3368.880', 'end': '3372.160', 'text': 'there used to be this show on years ago'}, {'start': '3370.400', 'end': '3373.839', 'text': "called Entertainment Tonight. There's"}, {'start': '3372.160', 'end': '3375.440', 'text': 'this guy named Richard Walden, I think'}, {'start': '3373.839', 'end': '3377.680', 'text': 'his name was, but he used to critique'}, {'start': '3375.440', 'end': '3379.520', 'text': 'all these movies. I used to think, how'}, {'start': '3377.680', 'end': '3380.760', 'text': "does this dude critique movies? He's"}, {'start': '3379.520', 'end': '3383.680', 'text': 'never made'}, {'start': '3380.760', 'end': '3385.599', 'text': "one. I think it's kind of kind of a lame"}, {'start': '3383.680', 'end': '3387.280', 'text': 'that you want to you want to critique'}, {'start': '3385.599', 'end': '3389.520', 'text': 'all the movies somebody else has made'}, {'start': '3387.280', 'end': '3391.520', 'text': "and you've never made one."}, {'start': '3389.520', 'end': '3393.520', 'text': 'I guarantee you one of the shest things'}, {'start': '3391.520', 'end': '3396.960', 'text': 'that are cure you from being too'}, {'start': '3393.520', 'end': '3400.000', 'text': 'critical of a pastor is you become one.'}, {'start': '3396.960', 'end': '3402.559', 'text': "My my my have I learned and I've learned"}, {'start': '3400.000', 'end': '3404.559', 'text': 'it all through life that every time I'}, {'start': '3402.559', 'end': '3406.240', 'text': 'was critical of someone when I had to'}, {'start': '3404.559', 'end': '3410.160', 'text': 'begin to walk in their shoes. I used to'}, {'start': '3406.240', 'end': '3412.799', 'text': 'think shut my mouth. Now I understand a'}, {'start': '3410.160', 'end': '3415.200', 'text': 'whole lot better. Amen. So we got to'}, {'start': '3412.799', 'end': '3417.880', 'text': 'learn to quit being snowflakes like this'}, {'start': '3415.200', 'end': '3420.799', 'text': 'country is full of. Nobody can take'}, {'start': '3417.880', 'end': '3423.599', 'text': 'correction. Nobody can take criticism.'}, {'start': '3420.799', 'end': '3425.119', 'text': "You got to be able to take it. You're"}, {'start': '3423.599', 'end': '3427.440', 'text': 'going to get it whether you want it or'}, {'start': '3425.119', 'end': '3429.280', 'text': 'not. And some of you young people, you'}, {'start': '3427.440', 'end': '3430.960', 'text': 'go to school and I guarantee you your'}, {'start': '3429.280', 'end': '3433.119', 'text': 'school is full of bullies and full of'}, {'start': '3430.960', 'end': '3434.359', 'text': 'mean people. And you just got to learn'}, {'start': '3433.119', 'end': '3437.119', 'text': 'to deal with'}, {'start': '3434.359', 'end': '3439.440', 'text': 'it. You got to learn to deal with it.'}, {'start': '3437.119', 'end': '3441.599', 'text': 'How you deal with it is between you, mom'}, {'start': '3439.440', 'end': '3443.440', 'text': 'and daddy, and God. But, you know, we'}, {'start': '3441.599', 'end': '3445.359', 'text': 'just we have a society where we just'}, {'start': '3443.440', 'end': '3447.599', 'text': "can't, you know, take anything. We"}, {'start': '3445.359', 'end': '3451.559', 'text': "can't. If you disagree with me, I'm"}, {'start': '3447.599', 'end': '3453.240', 'text': 'gonna get on Facebook and destroy your'}, {'start': '3451.559', 'end': '3456.280', 'text': 'character.'}, {'start': '3453.240', 'end': '3460.240', 'text': 'Amen. I used to tell my'}, {'start': '3456.280', 'end': '3462.599', 'text': "kids, don't you ever put on Facebook"}, {'start': '3460.240', 'end': '3465.200', 'text': "what you won't tell somebody to their"}, {'start': '3462.599', 'end': '3466.960', 'text': 'face. That would eliminate about 90% of'}, {'start': '3465.200', 'end': '3469.520', 'text': 'the stuff on Facebook. At least the ne'}, {'start': '3466.960', 'end': '3471.520', 'text': 'the negative stuff where people are, you'}, {'start': '3469.520', 'end': '3473.920', 'text': 'know, they never say that to their face.'}, {'start': '3471.520', 'end': '3475.200', 'text': "They don't have enough backbone. I can"}, {'start': '3473.920', 'end': '3478.079', 'text': 'remember I tell you something else my'}, {'start': '3475.200', 'end': '3480.160', 'text': 'dad I remember him yesterday he said boy'}, {'start': '3478.079', 'end': '3481.920', 'text': 'he said be a man he said you got a'}, {'start': '3480.160', 'end': '3483.599', 'text': 'problem you go talk to that person their'}, {'start': '3481.920', 'end': '3485.720', 'text': "face don't be like a woman that goes"}, {'start': '3483.599', 'end': '3488.920', 'text': 'around their'}, {'start': '3485.720', 'end': '3491.720', 'text': 'back now men are that'}, {'start': '3488.920', 'end': '3494.400', 'text': "way men they're worse than the"}, {'start': '3491.720', 'end': '3496.760', 'text': 'women got on their britches I mean it'}, {'start': '3494.400', 'end': '3500.680', 'text': 'blows my'}, {'start': '3496.760', 'end': '3503.760', 'text': 'mind these big tough guys you know all'}, {'start': '3500.680', 'end': '3507.559', 'text': 'right the little mouse We better move'}, {'start': '3503.760', 'end': '3511.200', 'text': 'on. Some of you are looking at me'}, {'start': '3507.559', 'end': '3512.799', 'text': 'funny. Verse 31. And when the words were'}, {'start': '3511.200', 'end': '3514.559', 'text': 'heard which David spake, they rehearsed'}, {'start': '3512.799', 'end': '3516.559', 'text': 'them before Saul, and he sent for him.'}, {'start': '3514.559', 'end': '3518.720', 'text': 'And so and David said to Saul, "Let no'}, {'start': '3516.559', 'end': '3520.200', 'text': "man's heart fail because of him. Thy"}, {'start': '3518.720', 'end': '3522.240', 'text': 'servant will go and fight with this'}, {'start': '3520.200', 'end': '3523.760', 'text': 'Philistine." And Saul said to David,'}, {'start': '3522.240', 'end': '3525.280', 'text': '"Thou are not able to go against this'}, {'start': '3523.760', 'end': '3527.680', 'text': 'Philistine to fight with him, for thou'}, {'start': '3525.280', 'end': '3531.240', 'text': 'art but a youth, and he a man of war'}, {'start': '3527.680', 'end': '3531.240', 'text': 'from his youth."'}, {'start': '3533.000', 'end': '3539.359', 'text': 'Now, one of the lessons of'}, {'start': '3536.200', 'end': '3541.599', 'text': "history, if you ever read Will Durant's"}, {'start': '3539.359', 'end': '3543.520', 'text': 'book, The Lessons of History, is he'}, {'start': '3541.599', 'end': '3545.760', 'text': 'said, "The younger generation never'}, {'start': '3543.520', 'end': '3547.280', 'text': 'listens to the older generation, and the'}, {'start': '3545.760', 'end': '3548.280', 'text': 'older generation never listens to the'}, {'start': '3547.280', 'end': '3549.880', 'text': 'younger'}, {'start': '3548.280', 'end': '3552.240', 'text': 'generation."'}, {'start': '3549.880', 'end': '3553.920', 'text': 'Amen. When I was a younger generation,'}, {'start': '3552.240', 'end': '3556.160', 'text': 'you think I listened to my parents? I'}, {'start': '3553.920', 'end': '3558.160', 'text': "thought they didn't know nothing."}, {'start': '3556.160', 'end': '3560.160', 'text': "They're oldfashioned. They're out of"}, {'start': '3558.160', 'end': '3562.119', 'text': 'date. And then you grow up and then you'}, {'start': '3560.160', 'end': '3564.200', 'text': 'find yourself talking like'}, {'start': '3562.119', 'end': '3566.640', 'text': 'them, you know, and'}, {'start': '3564.200', 'end': '3569.520', 'text': "realizing they weren't you. I guess it's"}, {'start': '3566.640', 'end': '3571.200', 'text': 'like Mark Twain said. He said, "When I'}, {'start': '3569.520', 'end': '3574.520', 'text': "was 14 years old, my dad didn't know"}, {'start': '3571.200', 'end': '3578.559', 'text': 'nothing. The time I was 21, he learned a'}, {'start': '3574.520', 'end': '3578.559', 'text': 'lot." You\'ll get that in a'}, {'start': '3578.760', 'end': '3586.240', 'text': 'minute. I realize my dad has learned a'}, {'start': '3581.880', 'end': '3587.920', 'text': 'lot. But here is the test of reproof.'}, {'start': '3586.240', 'end': '3589.520', 'text': 'Now, reproof, as I mentioned, is'}, {'start': '3587.920', 'end': '3592.240', 'text': 'different than criticism. When someone'}, {'start': '3589.520', 'end': '3594.720', 'text': 'criticizes you, most of the time they'}, {'start': '3592.240', 'end': '3596.559', 'text': 'have no interest for in your betterment.'}, {'start': '3594.720', 'end': '3599.359', 'text': 'They just want to they just want to tear'}, {'start': '3596.559', 'end': '3602.240', 'text': 'you down. Most people exalt themselves'}, {'start': '3599.359', 'end': '3604.400', 'text': 'by tearing someone better than him down.'}, {'start': '3602.240', 'end': '3606.960', 'text': "Ain't that what Saul did? David was a"}, {'start': '3604.400', 'end': '3609.280', 'text': 'better man. He loved God, walked with'}, {'start': '3606.960', 'end': '3611.280', 'text': "God. Saul didn't. David was everything"}, {'start': '3609.280', 'end': '3612.720', 'text': "Saul knew he should be, but wasn't. and"}, {'start': '3611.280', 'end': '3615.559', 'text': 'spent his whole life trying to destroy'}, {'start': '3612.720', 'end': '3618.319', 'text': 'him, drag him down so he could exalt'}, {'start': '3615.559', 'end': '3621.599', 'text': "himself cuz he wasn't what he he knew he"}, {'start': '3618.319', 'end': '3624.400', 'text': "wasn't what he should be. But here, Saul"}, {'start': '3621.599', 'end': '3626.400', 'text': "isn't criticizing. His words are words"}, {'start': '3624.400', 'end': '3629.400', 'text': 'of correction to help David get a'}, {'start': '3626.400', 'end': '3631.920', 'text': 'reality check. He said, "Son, you\'re a'}, {'start': '3629.400', 'end': '3633.920', 'text': 'kid. This kid, you know, you ever heard'}, {'start': '3631.920', 'end': '3636.799', 'text': 'somebody say, "Son, I\'ve been doing this'}, {'start': '3633.920', 'end': '3639.280', 'text': 'job longer than you\'ve been alive." Same'}, {'start': '3636.799', 'end': '3641.480', 'text': "thing. He This guy's been fighting his"}, {'start': '3639.280', 'end': '3644.720', 'text': "whole life. He's their champion."}, {'start': '3641.480', 'end': '3647.160', 'text': "Undefeated. No one's beaten. And you"}, {'start': '3644.720', 'end': '3650.480', 'text': 'better go take this this guy'}, {'start': '3647.160', 'end': '3652.880', 'text': "out. David was he wasn't dissuaded at"}, {'start': '3650.480', 'end': '3655.400', 'text': 'all. But the point is is that again,'}, {'start': '3652.880', 'end': '3659.240', 'text': "it's learning to take"}, {'start': '3655.400', 'end': '3663.000', 'text': 'correction. And sometimes,'}, {'start': '3659.240', 'end': '3665.040', 'text': "brethren, sorry, I'm"}, {'start': '3663.000', 'end': '3666.400', 'text': 'detained. They should be here, right'}, {'start': '3665.040', 'end': '3668.319', 'text': "sister? They're leaving a message. I'm"}, {'start': '3666.400', 'end': '3671.040', 'text': 'teasing.'}, {'start': '3668.319', 'end': '3673.040', 'text': 'But the point is is that the younger'}, {'start': '3671.040', 'end': '3675.200', 'text': "generation doesn't listen to the older"}, {'start': '3673.040', 'end': '3677.839', 'text': 'generation and vice versa. I remember'}, {'start': '3675.200', 'end': '3679.119', 'text': 'once telling my son, I said, "Son, your'}, {'start': '3677.839', 'end': '3681.599', 'text': "problem is you just don't have any"}, {'start': '3679.119', 'end': '3684.160', 'text': 'wisdom." He was about 14 or 15 and he'}, {'start': '3681.599', 'end': '3686.319', 'text': 'got real offended. And I said, "Son, I\'m'}, {'start': '3684.160', 'end': '3687.880', 'text': "not saying you're stupid. I'm just"}, {'start': '3686.319', 'end': '3691.119', 'text': 'saying you lack'}, {'start': '3687.880', 'end': '3692.799', 'text': "experience. That's why you lack wisdom."}, {'start': '3691.119', 'end': '3696.799', 'text': "It's a matter of your age. You just"}, {'start': '3692.799', 'end': '3700.799', 'text': 'haven\'t been down road like I have."'}, {'start': '3696.799', 'end': '3703.920', 'text': 'And I said, "Listen to me. I had to be,'}, {'start': '3700.799', 'end': '3706.160', 'text': 'you know, at that time, I I guess I was'}, {'start': '3703.920', 'end': '3707.920', 'text': '50 or near and he was 15 or something'}, {'start': '3706.160', 'end': '3710.880', 'text': 'like that. But anyway, I said I had to'}, {'start': '3707.920', 'end': '3713.440', 'text': "be 50. I had to be 15, too. I've been"}, {'start': '3710.880', 'end': '3716.319', 'text': 'down that part of the path." So, it\'s'}, {'start': '3713.440', 'end': '3719.280', 'text': 'learning to listen to correction. Maybe'}, {'start': '3716.319', 'end': '3719.280', 'text': "that correction's"}, {'start': '3719.960', 'end': '3724.559', 'text': 'wrong. You know, my parents, every time'}, {'start': '3722.400', 'end': '3727.799', 'text': "they corrected me, they weren't 100%"}, {'start': '3724.559', 'end': '3730.960', 'text': 'right. But the point is I would at least'}, {'start': '3727.799', 'end': '3733.760', 'text': "listen. You understand? And that's why"}, {'start': '3730.960', 'end': '3736.240', 'text': 'we need to listen because God often'}, {'start': '3733.760', 'end': '3738.400', 'text': 'times sends people in our path to listen'}, {'start': '3736.240', 'end': '3740.359', 'text': 'to correction. And David had learned to'}, {'start': '3738.400', 'end': '3743.280', 'text': 'take'}, {'start': '3740.359', 'end': '3745.480', 'text': 'correction. Let me finish up here in'}, {'start': '3743.280', 'end': '3749.200', 'text': 'verses'}, {'start': '3745.480', 'end': '3751.520', 'text': '34-37. We see here the test of conflict.'}, {'start': '3749.200', 'end': '3753.920', 'text': 'David had had slain the lion and the'}, {'start': '3751.520', 'end': '3756.079', 'text': 'bear. So he knew what it was like to be'}, {'start': '3753.920', 'end': '3758.400', 'text': 'in the battle.'}, {'start': '3756.079', 'end': '3761.119', 'text': "And I'm telling you, a defining moment"}, {'start': '3758.400', 'end': '3763.520', 'text': 'is going to be a battle. A battle of the'}, {'start': '3761.119', 'end': '3764.920', 'text': 'will to make the right choice. And if'}, {'start': '3763.520', 'end': '3768.680', 'text': "you haven't learned to"}, {'start': '3764.920', 'end': '3771.680', 'text': 'fight, because you realize your enemy is'}, {'start': '3768.680', 'end': '3774.319', 'text': "you. Yeah, Satan's your enemy. But what"}, {'start': '3771.680', 'end': '3776.319', 'text': 'does he use against you? Your old flesh.'}, {'start': '3774.319', 'end': '3778.079', 'text': 'All he needs to do is get you to live'}, {'start': '3776.319', 'end': '3780.000', 'text': 'for this thing and what it wants, and'}, {'start': '3778.079', 'end': '3782.480', 'text': "you'll self-destruct."}, {'start': '3780.000', 'end': '3785.599', 'text': 'Yeah, you may not end up, you know, on'}, {'start': '3782.480', 'end': '3787.440', 'text': 'skid row sleeping in your vomit. You may'}, {'start': '3785.599', 'end': '3789.760', 'text': 'just be like some of the people around'}, {'start': '3787.440', 'end': '3791.440', 'text': 'here that have nice homes, nice cars,'}, {'start': '3789.760', 'end': '3793.760', 'text': "life is good, and they don't give one"}, {'start': '3791.440', 'end': '3795.880', 'text': "iote about God. And what's it going to"}, {'start': '3793.760', 'end': '3798.480', 'text': 'do when they wake up in'}, {'start': '3795.880', 'end': '3800.319', 'text': "hell, self-destruct, because they're"}, {'start': '3798.480', 'end': '3802.400', 'text': 'going after this thing? It wants houses'}, {'start': '3800.319', 'end': '3804.799', 'text': 'and lands and cars and boats and fishing'}, {'start': '3802.400', 'end': '3806.319', 'text': 'rods and guns and all that stuff. And'}, {'start': '3804.799', 'end': '3809.440', 'text': 'those things in and of themselves are'}, {'start': '3806.319', 'end': '3810.640', 'text': 'not bad. But when you care about that, I'}, {'start': '3809.440', 'end': '3812.960', 'text': 'remember once I was coming out of a'}, {'start': '3810.640', 'end': '3814.640', 'text': 'grocery store and I was getting in my'}, {'start': '3812.960', 'end': '3816.000', 'text': "car and this guy's getting his and I"}, {'start': '3814.640', 'end': '3818.240', 'text': 'woke up and said, "Sir, can I give you a'}, {'start': '3816.000', 'end': '3820.559', 'text': 'ticket to heaven today?" Said, "Nah, I'}, {'start': '3818.240', 'end': '3824.319', 'text': 'don\'t need that." He got in his car, his'}, {'start': '3820.559', 'end': '3826.480', 'text': 'F54, and it was spotless. I thought to'}, {'start': '3824.319', 'end': '3828.799', 'text': 'myself, what a shame. That guy cares'}, {'start': '3826.480', 'end': '3830.039', 'text': 'more about his truck than he does his'}, {'start': '3828.799', 'end': '3832.079', 'text': 'own'}, {'start': '3830.039', 'end': '3834.920', 'text': 'soul. Is there anything wrong with the'}, {'start': '3832.079', 'end': '3837.200', 'text': 'F-150 Ford? Nice'}, {'start': '3834.920', 'end': '3838.839', 'text': 'truck. If you care about that more than'}, {'start': '3837.200', 'end': '3841.319', 'text': 'your soul, you got'}, {'start': '3838.839', 'end': '3843.520', 'text': 'problems. So, have you been in the'}, {'start': '3841.319', 'end': '3845.720', 'text': 'battle? Have you learned to fight'}, {'start': '3843.520', 'end': '3850.559', 'text': 'yourself and get a victory over'}, {'start': '3845.720', 'end': '3853.680', 'text': 'you? Next, verses 38- 40, the test of'}, {'start': '3850.559', 'end': '3856.400', 'text': "unproved methods. Here, for time's sake,"}, {'start': '3853.680', 'end': '3859.280', 'text': "I'll move along, but Saul tried to get"}, {'start': '3856.400', 'end': '3859.280', 'text': 'him to put his armor'}, {'start': '3859.400', 'end': '3865.599', 'text': 'on. You got to learn to get your own'}, {'start': '3862.200', 'end': '3867.119', 'text': "armor. You can't wear somebody else's."}, {'start': '3865.599', 'end': '3868.480', 'text': 'You have got to learn that goes along'}, {'start': '3867.119', 'end': '3870.400', 'text': 'with what we said before about the test'}, {'start': '3868.480', 'end': '3872.960', 'text': 'of conflict. You have got to learn to'}, {'start': '3870.400', 'end': '3875.160', 'text': 'get in the battle and put on the armor'}, {'start': '3872.960', 'end': '3877.680', 'text': 'of God and'}, {'start': '3875.160', 'end': '3879.839', 'text': 'fight. Every time I I was thinking about'}, {'start': '3877.680', 'end': '3882.520', 'text': 'this this message this morning, I'}, {'start': '3879.839', 'end': '3884.960', 'text': 'thought about over in 2 Chronicles 24,'}, {'start': '3882.520', 'end': '3888.160', 'text': 'Joash. He was one of the kings of Judah'}, {'start': '3884.960', 'end': '3891.440', 'text': 'and it said Joash did right all all the'}, {'start': '3888.160', 'end': '3894.160', 'text': 'days of Jehoa the priest. As long as'}, {'start': '3891.440', 'end': '3896.640', 'text': 'Jehoa the priest was instructing him,'}, {'start': '3894.160', 'end': '3898.960', 'text': 'Joash did right. But as soon as Jehoa'}, {'start': '3896.640', 'end': '3901.440', 'text': 'died, he listened to the princes of'}, {'start': '3898.960', 'end': '3903.559', 'text': 'Israel and they took him into idolatry.'}, {'start': '3901.440', 'end': '3906.640', 'text': 'He never had nothing on his'}, {'start': '3903.559', 'end': '3909.119', 'text': 'own. He was led around by other people.'}, {'start': '3906.640', 'end': '3911.760', 'text': 'He had never learned to put on his own'}, {'start': '3909.119', 'end': '3914.520', 'text': 'armor and have his own walk with God.'}, {'start': '3911.760', 'end': '3916.640', 'text': 'This is the test of unproved'}, {'start': '3914.520', 'end': '3917.960', 'text': "methods, trying things you don't know"}, {'start': '3916.640', 'end': '3920.640', 'text': 'anything'}, {'start': '3917.960', 'end': '3922.319', 'text': "about. You know, it's like, brother,"}, {'start': '3920.640', 'end': '3923.839', 'text': "when you're preaching, you preach what"}, {'start': '3922.319', 'end': '3926.240', 'text': "you know. You don't preach what you"}, {'start': '3923.839', 'end': '3928.119', 'text': "don't know. Amen. That's that's real"}, {'start': '3926.240', 'end': '3931.280', 'text': "simple, isn't it? You preach what you"}, {'start': '3928.119', 'end': '3932.640', 'text': 'know. You know, so many times I hear'}, {'start': '3931.280', 'end': '3934.319', 'text': "guys preach stuff they don't know what"}, {'start': '3932.640', 'end': '3935.960', 'text': "they're talking about. It becomes pretty"}, {'start': '3934.319', 'end': '3938.799', 'text': 'obvious pretty'}, {'start': '3935.960', 'end': '3940.480', 'text': "quick. Unproved message. You can't wear"}, {'start': '3938.799', 'end': '3942.920', 'text': "another's armor. You got to learn to"}, {'start': '3940.480', 'end': '3947.200', 'text': 'have your own armor, your own walk with'}, {'start': '3942.920', 'end': '3952.319', 'text': 'God, and learn how to stand.'}, {'start': '3947.200', 'end': '3954.599', 'text': 'And last but not least, verses 41 to 44,'}, {'start': '3952.319', 'end': '3958.280', 'text': 'the test of'}, {'start': '3954.599', 'end': '3962.400', 'text': 'ridicule. Here the ridicules coming from'}, {'start': '3958.280', 'end': '3964.599', 'text': 'Satan, typified by Goliath, a type of'}, {'start': '3962.400', 'end': '3967.599', 'text': 'type of the'}, {'start': '3964.599', 'end': '3969.200', 'text': 'antichrist. And how many times, you'}, {'start': '3967.599', 'end': '3971.280', 'text': "know, it's one thing to take criticism"}, {'start': '3969.200', 'end': '3973.839', 'text': 'from people, but you know, the'}, {'start': '3971.280', 'end': '3976.640', 'text': 'battleground is your mind. How many'}, {'start': '3973.839', 'end': '3979.680', 'text': 'times has the enemy attacked your He'}, {'start': '3976.640', 'end': '3982.720', 'text': 'just attacked you mentally trying to get'}, {'start': '3979.680', 'end': '3986.440', 'text': 'you to do the wrong thing. Trying to get'}, {'start': '3982.720', 'end': '3989.599', 'text': 'you to just be like everybody'}, {'start': '3986.440', 'end': '3989.599', 'text': 'else, you'}, {'start': '3989.799', 'end': '3996.640', 'text': "know? I don't I don't"}, {'start': '3993.240', 'end': '3998.880', 'text': "understand. I don't I just I sometimes I"}, {'start': '3996.640', 'end': '4002.240', 'text': 'struggle to understand the the society'}, {'start': '3998.880', 'end': '4004.640', 'text': 'that we live in today. But look at uh'}, {'start': '4002.240', 'end': '4004.640', 'text': 'Job'}, {'start': '4007.880', 'end': '4011.359', 'text': '41. Job'}, {'start': '4012.680', 'end': '4016.359', 'text': '41. This whole chapter is talking about'}, {'start': '4015.359', 'end': '4018.880', 'text': 'the'}, {'start': '4016.359', 'end': '4020.160', 'text': 'Leviathan. And we know comparing'}, {'start': '4018.880', 'end': '4022.680', 'text': 'scripture with scripture that the'}, {'start': '4020.160', 'end': '4025.839', 'text': "Leviathan is a dragon. He's"}, {'start': '4022.680', 'end': '4027.720', 'text': 'Satan. Satan is his own creation. He was'}, {'start': '4025.839', 'end': '4030.240', 'text': 'made a'}, {'start': '4027.720', 'end': '4032.079', 'text': 'cherub. He was a cherub. When he'}, {'start': '4030.240', 'end': '4035.039', 'text': 'appears, he appears as an angel of'}, {'start': '4032.079', 'end': '4036.960', 'text': 'light. You know, angels are men. Look'}, {'start': '4035.039', 'end': '4039.839', 'text': 'like a normal man. But what he actually'}, {'start': '4036.960', 'end': '4042.640', 'text': 'is is a dragon. Seven headed, tentor red'}, {'start': '4039.839', 'end': '4044.039', 'text': 'dragon. And this whole chapter deals'}, {'start': '4042.640', 'end': '4047.160', 'text': 'with this'}, {'start': '4044.039', 'end': '4051.200', 'text': 'Leviathan. And look what it says at the'}, {'start': '4047.160', 'end': '4053.920', 'text': 'end of the chapter in verse 33. Upon'}, {'start': '4051.200', 'end': '4054.920', 'text': 'earth there is not his light who is made'}, {'start': '4053.920', 'end': '4058.319', 'text': 'without'}, {'start': '4054.920', 'end': '4061.640', 'text': 'fear. He beholdeth all high things. He'}, {'start': '4058.319', 'end': '4064.799', 'text': 'is a king over all the children of'}, {'start': '4061.640', 'end': '4066.440', 'text': "pride. He doesn't fear. He has no fear,"}, {'start': '4064.799', 'end': '4070.480', 'text': 'including'}, {'start': '4066.440', 'end': '4073.039', 'text': "God. He is vicious and ruthless. He's"}, {'start': '4070.480', 'end': '4076.319', 'text': 'called a lion in first Peter 5. You know'}, {'start': '4073.039', 'end': '4078.720', 'text': 'how a lion its roar is so frightening'}, {'start': '4076.319', 'end': '4084.160', 'text': 'that it it roars and it uses that word'}, {'start': '4078.720', 'end': '4086.319', 'text': 'to paralyze its prey and it devours it.'}, {'start': '4084.160', 'end': '4089.440', 'text': 'I remember a friend of mine was telling'}, {'start': '4086.319', 'end': '4090.680', 'text': 'me that he was he was walking through'}, {'start': '4089.440', 'end': '4094.000', 'text': 'these'}, {'start': '4090.680', 'end': '4095.839', 'text': 'woods and and I mean he heard a lion'}, {'start': '4094.000', 'end': '4098.000', 'text': 'roar and he said it scared me half to'}, {'start': '4095.839', 'end': '4100.159', 'text': 'death and here it was. This this'}, {'start': '4098.000', 'end': '4101.920', 'text': 'individual had a pet lion had a long'}, {'start': '4100.159', 'end': '4103.440', 'text': 'long chain on it wrapped around a tree'}, {'start': '4101.920', 'end': '4109.239', 'text': "so it couldn't get him but he said man"}, {'start': '4103.440', 'end': '4109.239', 'text': 'it scared me every inch of me.'}, {'start': '4109.359', 'end': '4114.319', 'text': "Now, I've heard lions roar you like on a"}, {'start': '4112.319', 'end': '4116.159', 'text': "video. You can't even get a roar at them"}, {'start': '4114.319', 'end': '4119.199', 'text': 'at the zoo. You are half asleep, you'}, {'start': '4116.159', 'end': '4120.799', 'text': 'know. But, but if you seen, you know, I'}, {'start': '4119.199', 'end': '4123.359', 'text': 'used to watch the old National'}, {'start': '4120.799', 'end': '4125.679', 'text': 'Geographics years ago. You see things'}, {'start': '4123.359', 'end': '4127.400', 'text': 'about the lions, how vicious they were,'}, {'start': '4125.679', 'end': '4130.920', 'text': "he's"}, {'start': '4127.400', 'end': '4133.719', 'text': 'ruthless and he will ridicule you'}, {'start': '4130.920', 'end': '4136.480', 'text': "relentlessly and it's going to be"}, {'start': '4133.719', 'end': '4138.319', 'text': "mental. And if you're trying to walk"}, {'start': '4136.480', 'end': '4141.359', 'text': "with your God, there's been days where"}, {'start': '4138.319', 'end': '4144.560', 'text': "he has just it's like he has parked on"}, {'start': '4141.359', 'end': '4147.359', 'text': 'your shoulder the whole day and you come'}, {'start': '4144.560', 'end': '4150.000', 'text': "home and you're just wore out fighting"}, {'start': '4147.359', 'end': '4151.480', 'text': "because it's here, brethren. If he can"}, {'start': '4150.000', 'end': '4154.880', 'text': 'beat you'}, {'start': '4151.480', 'end': '4156.880', 'text': 'here, that mind controls these members.'}, {'start': '4154.880', 'end': '4159.560', 'text': "He'll control what you do with your eyes"}, {'start': '4156.880', 'end': '4162.400', 'text': 'and your ears and your hands and your'}, {'start': '4159.560', 'end': '4166.880', 'text': 'feet. And he just tries to wear you'}, {'start': '4162.400', 'end': '4169.199', 'text': 'down. just wear you down. Yeah. The'}, {'start': '4166.880', 'end': '4170.880', 'text': "devil's tactic, he can try to blow you"}, {'start': '4169.199', 'end': '4173.120', 'text': 'out of the water. You like, you know'}, {'start': '4170.880', 'end': '4175.279', 'text': "what I'm saying? You like we're like"}, {'start': '4173.120', 'end': '4176.880', 'text': "into vessels. So, you're like a vessel"}, {'start': '4175.279', 'end': '4178.400', 'text': 'in the water. Yeah. He could try to blow'}, {'start': '4176.880', 'end': '4180.560', 'text': "you out of the water. That's some of his"}, {'start': '4178.400', 'end': '4183.520', 'text': 'tactics. But his most effective one is'}, {'start': '4180.560', 'end': '4185.920', 'text': 'just he works like sandpaper. He just'}, {'start': '4183.520', 'end': '4188.480', 'text': "every day. It's like long as I put just"}, {'start': '4185.920', 'end': '4189.839', 'text': 'a little pinhole in that boat. You put'}, {'start': '4188.480', 'end': '4191.920', 'text': "enough pin holes in it and it's going to"}, {'start': '4189.839', 'end': '4194.239', 'text': "sink eventually. But that's how he works"}, {'start': '4191.920', 'end': '4197.360', 'text': 'primarily. just like sand baby just'}, {'start': '4194.239', 'end': '4199.640', 'text': 'wears you off. And then Daniel 7 talk'}, {'start': '4197.360', 'end': '4203.280', 'text': 'about the antichrist wearing down the'}, {'start': '4199.640', 'end': '4205.920', 'text': 'saints. Just wears them down and it just'}, {'start': '4203.280', 'end': '4207.760', 'text': 'wear you down mentally. Just read'}, {'start': '4205.920', 'end': '4210.000', 'text': 'through say what a fool you are to'}, {'start': '4207.760', 'end': '4212.719', 'text': 'believe that Bible. What a fool you are'}, {'start': '4210.000', 'end': '4215.679', 'text': 'to think Jesus Christ is the answer.'}, {'start': '4212.719', 'end': '4218.640', 'text': 'What a fool you are, man. Just just'}, {'start': '4215.679', 'end': '4222.080', 'text': "enjoy life. Don't Don't get so serious."}, {'start': '4218.640', 'end': '4224.280', 'text': 'He He He will wear you down.'}, {'start': '4222.080', 'end': '4228.000', 'text': 'But the point is'}, {'start': '4224.280', 'end': '4230.800', 'text': "this. It's all these little tests of"}, {'start': '4228.000', 'end': '4234.600', 'text': 'lies that we got to learn to pass'}, {'start': '4230.800', 'end': '4238.560', 'text': "because if we don't when the big test"}, {'start': '4234.600', 'end': '4241.040', 'text': "comes, we won't be ready. We will fail"}, {'start': '4238.560', 'end': '4243.280', 'text': 'miserably.'}, {'start': '4241.040', 'end': '4243.280', 'text': 'You'}, {'start': '4244.199', 'end': '4247.840', 'text': "know, there's a lot of"}, {'start': '4247.960', 'end': '4255.600', 'text': 'tests, lots of them. Learning to say no'}, {'start': '4252.080', 'end': '4256.760', 'text': 'to the drugs, learning to say no to the'}, {'start': '4255.600', 'end': '4258.719', 'text': 'wrong kind of'}, {'start': '4256.760', 'end': '4262.000', 'text': "friends. You know, it's not just you"}, {'start': '4258.719', 'end': '4264.000', 'text': "young people, old people my age, they're"}, {'start': '4262.000', 'end': '4265.920', 'text': "just they're so pathetic being"}, {'start': '4264.000', 'end': '4267.760', 'text': 'controlled about, you know, peer'}, {'start': '4265.920', 'end': '4270.400', 'text': 'pressure, their peers, their age.'}, {'start': '4267.760', 'end': '4273.480', 'text': "They're still controlled by it all day"}, {'start': '4270.400', 'end': '4275.840', 'text': "long. We're going to be a drug head or"}, {'start': '4273.480', 'end': '4278.400', 'text': 'not. Women, ladies, are you going to'}, {'start': '4275.840', 'end': '4279.520', 'text': 'throw your purity away to some dude that'}, {'start': '4278.400', 'end': '4282.199', 'text': "doesn't deserve it? Are you going to"}, {'start': '4279.520', 'end': '4285.679', 'text': 'wait and be pure for your'}, {'start': '4282.199', 'end': '4287.480', 'text': 'husband? Let me give you say this and'}, {'start': '4285.679', 'end': '4290.560', 'text': "I'll get done"}, {'start': '4287.480', 'end': '4292.640', 'text': 'here. The boys at the juvenile, they'}, {'start': '4290.560', 'end': '4296.040', 'text': 'will be painfully honest. They will ask'}, {'start': '4292.640', 'end': '4299.040', 'text': 'you questions, man. Sometimes I just'}, {'start': '4296.040', 'end': '4301.560', 'text': 'go, "Hey, God, what\'s wrong with'}, {'start': '4299.040', 'end': '4304.560', 'text': 'sleeping with'}, {'start': '4301.560', 'end': '4306.560', 'text': 'women?" So, like a good tennis game,'}, {'start': '4304.560', 'end': '4308.320', 'text': 'good serve, you have a good return'}, {'start': '4306.560', 'end': '4311.000', 'text': 'service. I stroke it right back to them.'}, {'start': '4308.320', 'end': '4313.239', 'text': 'I said, "Okay, oh, it\'s'}, {'start': '4311.000', 'end': '4316.320', 'text': 'fun." But there\'s a'}, {'start': '4313.239', 'end': '4319.120', 'text': "problem. The problem is is let's just"}, {'start': '4316.320', 'end': '4320.560', 'text': 'say you\'re I said, "You\'re 15 years old.'}, {'start': '4319.120', 'end': '4322.960', 'text': "Let's just say you want to sleep around"}, {'start': '4320.560', 'end': '4325.600', 'text': "like a dog and heat till you're 25 years"}, {'start': '4322.960', 'end': '4327.760', 'text': 'old. Then you get tired of these empty'}, {'start': '4325.600', 'end': '4330.520', 'text': 'vain relationships and actually want a'}, {'start': '4327.760', 'end': '4332.719', 'text': 'woman that loves you and you love'}, {'start': '4330.520', 'end': '4334.480', 'text': "them. That's going to require you to be"}, {'start': '4332.719', 'end': '4337.280', 'text': 'faithful the rest of your life. So when'}, {'start': '4334.480', 'end': '4339.679', 'text': 'you set up a pattern of 10 years, now'}, {'start': '4337.280', 'end': '4341.840', 'text': 'you got a bad habit that you got to'}, {'start': '4339.679', 'end': '4343.920', 'text': 'break and be faithful to one woman for'}, {'start': '4341.840', 'end': '4346.400', 'text': 'the rest of your life. How do you think'}, {'start': '4343.920', 'end': '4348.400', 'text': "that's going to work out? All you got to"}, {'start': '4346.400', 'end': '4350.880', 'text': "go get divorce rate. That's why we have"}, {'start': '4348.400', 'end': '4352.719', 'text': 'so much problems with it. Of course, you'}, {'start': '4350.880', 'end': '4355.600', 'text': 'throw in TV, they show everything and'}, {'start': '4352.719', 'end': '4356.880', 'text': 'anything. Now, remember the days where'}, {'start': '4355.600', 'end': '4358.640', 'text': 'they used to show the men and the woman,'}, {'start': '4356.880', 'end': '4359.960', 'text': 'they always sleeping in separate beds in'}, {'start': '4358.640', 'end': '4362.800', 'text': 'those old'}, {'start': '4359.960', 'end': '4363.560', 'text': "movies. Wow. That's that's a they laugh"}, {'start': '4362.800', 'end': '4366.400', 'text': 'at'}, {'start': '4363.560', 'end': '4368.480', 'text': "that. But I'm saying they they get"}, {'start': '4366.400', 'end': '4371.199', 'text': 'painfully stricken. They\'ll say, "What\'s'}, {'start': '4368.480', 'end': '4374.960', 'text': 'wrong with smoking dope?" I said, "It\'s'}, {'start': '4371.199', 'end': '4376.880', 'text': 'a lot of fun." But here\'s the problem.'}, {'start': '4374.960', 'end': '4378.719', 'text': 'You know all the pat answers. It leads'}, {'start': '4376.880', 'end': '4380.400', 'text': 'you on to harder stuff. You know, you'}, {'start': '4378.719', 'end': '4384.080', 'text': 'start out smoking marijuana. But I said,'}, {'start': '4380.400', 'end': '4385.080', 'text': '"Here\'s the problem." I said, "You'}, {'start': '4384.080', 'end': '4387.920', 'text': 'become'}, {'start': '4385.080', 'end': '4389.920', 'text': "lazy. You're a lazy little party boy"}, {'start': '4387.920', 'end': '4392.320', 'text': "that won't work. You go around steal to"}, {'start': '4389.920', 'end': '4394.360', 'text': 'get your drug money." And I sat there'}, {'start': '4392.320', 'end': '4397.920', 'text': 'like a bunch of tree full of'}, {'start': '4394.360', 'end': '4399.239', 'text': 'elves. Exactly. Because they knew I hit'}, {'start': '4397.920', 'end': '4402.560', 'text': 'the nail on the'}, {'start': '4399.239', 'end': '4404.080', 'text': 'head. The nail on the head. Making'}, {'start': '4402.560', 'end': '4405.520', 'text': 'decisions.'}, {'start': '4404.080', 'end': '4407.280', 'text': "We've got to learn to make those"}, {'start': '4405.520', 'end': '4410.800', 'text': 'decisions where we can say no to the'}, {'start': '4407.280', 'end': '4413.679', 'text': 'dope and no to being promiscuous, no to'}, {'start': '4410.800', 'end': '4415.679', 'text': "being lazy, being responsible. I'm going"}, {'start': '4413.679', 'end': '4417.360', 'text': 'to be responsible and read my Bible'}, {'start': '4415.679', 'end': '4420.920', 'text': "every day. I'm going to be responsible"}, {'start': '4417.360', 'end': '4423.920', 'text': "and pray. I'm going to walk with my"}, {'start': '4420.920', 'end': '4427.159', 'text': 'God. So when those big tests come, man,'}, {'start': '4423.920', 'end': '4430.000', 'text': "you're ready. You're ready to face the"}, {'start': '4427.159', 'end': '4432.960', 'text': 'giant cuz we all got him. And we got to'}, {'start': '4430.000', 'end': '4436.080', 'text': 'defeat him. But we got to make make sure'}, {'start': '4432.960', 'end': '4439.719', 'text': 'we pass these little tests. So when that'}, {'start': '4436.080', 'end': '4444.520', 'text': 'defining moment comes, we can pass with'}, {'start': '4439.719', 'end': '4449.360', 'text': "A+ 100. Amen. Let's bow our"}, {'start': '4444.520', 'end': '4449.360', 'text': 'heads. Thank you for your patience this'}, {'start': '4450.120', 'end': '4454.520', 'text': "morning. I'm not going to keep you long,"}, {'start': '4452.480', 'end': '4457.920', 'text': 'but what I would ask you to do this'}, {'start': '4454.520', 'end': '4461.040', 'text': 'morning is if God has dealt with you,'}, {'start': '4457.920', 'end': '4463.520', 'text': 'would you deal with him? When I say God'}, {'start': '4461.040', 'end': '4465.679', 'text': "dealt with you, he's the Holy Spirit of"}, {'start': '4463.520', 'end': '4467.600', 'text': 'God will will deal with you'}, {'start': '4465.679', 'end': '4470.640', 'text': "specifically. He'll put his finger on"}, {'start': '4467.600', 'end': '4473.280', 'text': 'you need to work on this or you need to'}, {'start': '4470.640', 'end': '4476.560', 'text': "stop that or hey, you're leaving this"}, {'start': '4473.280', 'end': '4478.880', 'text': 'undone in your life. Where has he dealt'}, {'start': '4476.560', 'end': '4481.520', 'text': 'with you about and would you please deal'}, {'start': '4478.880', 'end': '4483.440', 'text': 'with God? Because as I told you in'}, {'start': '4481.520', 'end': '4486.880', 'text': "Sunday school, God's not obligated to"}, {'start': '4483.440', 'end': '4488.880', 'text': 'deal with us. And the danger we face of'}, {'start': '4486.880', 'end': '4490.920', 'text': 'when we turn a deaf ear to him is that'}, {'start': '4488.880', 'end': '4493.640', 'text': "he doesn't have to deal with us"}, {'start': '4490.920', 'end': '4496.560', 'text': 'anymore. And to leave us to our own'}, {'start': '4493.640', 'end': '4498.800', 'text': 'devices is the worst thing God could do'}, {'start': '4496.560', 'end': '4500.120', 'text': 'because we will self-destruct in one'}, {'start': '4498.800', 'end': '4502.360', 'text': 'form or'}, {'start': '4500.120', 'end': '4504.800', 'text': "another. So let's just take a few"}, {'start': '4502.360', 'end': '4507.120', 'text': 'moments. You can come to the altar and'}, {'start': '4504.800', 'end': '4510.800', 'text': 'pray. You can pray in your seat. The'}, {'start': '4507.120', 'end': '4510.800', 'text': 'issue is the issue of the heart.'}, {'start': '4510.840', 'end': '4515.080', 'text': 'Brethren, let us'}, {'start': '4516.159', 'end': '4520.239', 'text': "Ask respond to God's"}, {'start': '4531.320', 'end': '4537.120', 'text': 'dealings. Thank you today, Lord, for'}, {'start': '4534.480', 'end': '4539.760', 'text': "this old book. I'm so glad I don't have"}, {'start': '4537.120', 'end': '4541.960', 'text': "to preach my opinions because they're"}, {'start': '4539.760', 'end': '4544.840', 'text': 'not worth'}, {'start': '4541.960', 'end': '4547.920', 'text': 'much. And Lord, I'}, {'start': '4544.840', 'end': '4550.400', 'text': 'know as a that these folks have'}, {'start': '4547.920', 'end': '4552.120', 'text': 'struggled in these areas or and are'}, {'start': '4550.400', 'end': '4555.640', 'text': 'struggling just like'}, {'start': '4552.120', 'end': '4558.120', 'text': "me. We're all flesh, Lord. We're all"}, {'start': '4555.640', 'end': '4560.360', 'text': 'grass. And Lord, help us'}, {'start': '4558.120', 'end': '4564.080', 'text': 'today, day by'}, {'start': '4560.360', 'end': '4566.320', 'text': 'day, to learn to make those right'}, {'start': '4564.080', 'end': '4569.040', 'text': 'decisions and pass those little tests'}, {'start': '4566.320', 'end': '4569.040', 'text': 'each and every'}, {'start': '4569.320', 'end': '4575.239', 'text': "day that we're ready for the big things."}, {'start': '4573.480', 'end': '4577.920', 'text': 'Lord, help'}, {'start': '4575.239', 'end': '4580.719', 'text': 'us, as I mentioned in Sunday school, the'}, {'start': '4577.920', 'end': '4585.000', 'text': 'basics. Help us be faithful to just take'}, {'start': '4580.719', 'end': '4588.719', 'text': 'time and talk to our God and take'}, {'start': '4585.000', 'end': '4591.760', 'text': 'time to read his book to get to know him'}, {'start': '4588.719', 'end': '4595.520', 'text': 'so that we can be obedient children'}, {'start': '4591.760', 'end': '4598.000', 'text': 'because God, this book has the answer.'}, {'start': '4595.520', 'end': '4599.600', 'text': 'I have looked high and low for some for'}, {'start': '4598.000', 'end': '4601.760', 'text': 'something else with the answer and'}, {'start': '4599.600', 'end': '4605.040', 'text': 'nothing has convinced me in 40 years'}, {'start': '4601.760', 'end': '4607.760', 'text': 'that Jesus Christ is not the answer.'}, {'start': '4605.040', 'end': '4610.880', 'text': "It's only strengthened my faith that he"}, {'start': '4607.760', 'end': '4613.679', 'text': 'is the answer. So may we be faithful as'}, {'start': '4610.880', 'end': '4615.320', 'text': 'his people to walk with him now. Help'}, {'start': '4613.679', 'end': '4619.120', 'text': 'your people today'}, {'start': '4615.320', 'end': '4620.880', 'text': 'Lord. I commend them. They need a pastor'}, {'start': '4619.120', 'end': '4623.360', 'text': 'and my prayer is that you will send them'}, {'start': '4620.880', 'end': '4625.640', 'text': 'one. And thank you, God, for their'}, {'start': '4623.360', 'end': '4628.880', 'text': 'continued faithfulness in this difficult'}, {'start': '4625.640', 'end': '4631.760', 'text': 'time. This could be their defining'}, {'start': '4628.880', 'end': '4633.840', 'text': 'moment. Are they going to stay faithful'}, {'start': '4631.760', 'end': '4635.360', 'text': 'and stay true until they get a pass? Or'}, {'start': '4633.840', 'end': '4638.719', 'text': 'are they just going to let the church'}, {'start': '4635.360', 'end': '4641.679', 'text': 'disband and and scatter to the winds?'}, {'start': '4638.719', 'end': '4644.719', 'text': 'Help them, Lord, to pass the test and'}, {'start': '4641.679', 'end': '4647.520', 'text': 'stay faithful for the sake of the souls'}, {'start': '4644.719', 'end': '4650.880', 'text': 'in this area that that need the truth,'}, {'start': '4647.520', 'end': '4652.640', 'text': 'God. They they need that answer. The'}, {'start': '4650.880', 'end': '4654.480', 'text': "answer to every person's problem, which"}, {'start': '4652.640', 'end': '4658.000', 'text': "is the Lord Jesus Christ. For it's in"}, {'start': '4654.480', 'end': '4661.960', 'text': 'his name we pray. Amen. Thank you,'}, {'start': '4658.000', 'end': '4661.960', 'text': 'brethren, for being here.'}]