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Real life presents the Jack Hibbs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim

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truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. One of the worst things that you

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can do is to stop telling people about Jesus. Listen, listen, don't respond, just

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check yourself right now. Maybe all of us tonight would say, yeah, I'm a Christian,

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let me ask you something. According to the Bible, Christians tell other people

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about Jesus. Now telling people about Jesus doesn't make you a Christian. Are you with me?

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But if you are a Christian, you've got to tell people.

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You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibbs.com slash podcast.

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Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled life in Christ,

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then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. To us, that's like saying,

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amen or yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen. Now open your hearts to what

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God's word has to say to you. Here is Jack Hibbs. Just church is Satan's number one target.

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Just church. Satan hates you. He can't stand you. Satan wants to destroy your life.

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Listen, here's how effective he works. When something bad happens in our lives in this world,

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even as a believer, if we're not rooted and grounded, we have a tendency to question God

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about what just happened. Maybe your child died or your husband died or you lost your job.

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And many times, if you don't know the word of God, you'll say, God, what are you doing?

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And you forget. Jesus said that you've been delivered out of this world, but we're not gone

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yet. But the Bible says that Satan is the prince of the power of the error. And he's the Lord

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or the God of this earth for this time. Did you know that Satan's realm of domain

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is to rob you, to kill you, and to destroy you? Jesus said, I've come to give you life eternally.

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But we often blame God for when we should be blaming Satan for it.

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Hey, everybody, thank God this earth is not our home. We're going home someday.

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But you're under attack right now. If Satan has told you to be fearful,

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that's a temptation you have fallen for if you've become fearful.

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It's Satan that whispers in your ear. You know what? My wife is not that excited anymore.

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Maybe I need a new one. You know what? I don't think I love him anymore.

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These kids drive me nuts. I'm out of here. That's Satanic friends. That's a temptation by the enemy.

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But when you're weak, you'll entertain the thought of it. And Satan, listen,

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read your Bible. He's no dummy. He knows us. And he sets things up to trip us up. Imagine.

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There's an invisible world, even in this room tonight, according to the Bible.

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There's angelic and demonic entities invisible to our natural eyes that the Bible says surrounds us.

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Think about this vast auditorium and what's going on in the invisible realm. I'd like to see that. Maybe not.

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But this I know, greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world.

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Jesus said Satan's real. So don't think he's not. Jesus said he's real. He opposes us. He distracts us.

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He tries to sow apathy in our hearts. He tries to get us to never commit to anything of God.

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He confuses us. Confusion. Doesn't that describe the last four years, three years?

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He tries to sterilize us. You know, if Satan loses your soul to Jesus, he doesn't give up.

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He tries to keep your mouth shut after you've given your heart to Christ. You know,

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that feeling is don't tell anybody. They'll think you're Jesus-free.

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That's the enemy attacking. By the way, have you noticed that when you start, in fact,

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I would love all of you to, after you leave it at night, you got to do this. You ought to just go

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up to people and say, hey, I happen to be a person of prayer. Is there anything you have

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to be prayed for? You just do that for a test. Just test that. I'm just throwing that out there

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to you. Watch what happens. It's pretend we're in a little lab test and that's your homework.

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You're going to ask somebody, I believe in prayer. Is there something I can pray for you for?

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Watch what happens. People will say, yes, you can pray for my daughter. She's sick.

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You'll be surprised. And by the way, the door will open up and you can give them Jesus.

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Christian, there's no greater joy and there's no greater renewal in our lives than for us to

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fight back the enemy by sharing the love of Christ. He wants the souls of your children,

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of your grandchildren. He wants the soul of your husband or your wife. He wants the soul of America.

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And as weak as the church is in America, it looks like he's winning to me. But thank God the Bible says,

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as Jesus told us, the gates of hell will not prevail. I know it's looking slim out there when it comes

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to churches. I know it's getting harder. And right now with all the stuff that's going on in the

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world around us, it seems like the church is silent. Not all of them, but it feels like it.

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We need to remember this. Satan is a defeated enemy. And according to the scriptures,

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he was judged at the cross. And God put his Holy Spirit inside of every true believer.

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What does that hold him? Satan trembles when he sees the weakest saint upon their knees.

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We need to remember our great calling, everybody. First, Thessalonians, chapter 2, verse 18 says,

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therefore, we wanted to come to you, Paul says, often in time again, but Satan hindered us.

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He's hindering you from going to church. He's hindering you from growing.

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Just know this. Satan is out to destroy your life. Don't let him do it. Number five,

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just church is a church of healing. In Luke 15, verse 7, Jesus said, I say to you that,

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likewise, there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents, then over the 99

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just persons who need no repentance. That's an amazing statement. The 99 are safe. They're with him.

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So Jesus can afford to leave the 99 because they're in the sheepfold. They're safe. And he goes

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after the one that is in great danger, the one that is wandered away. But notice the word everyone.

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It's a word that pastors don't say anymore. And yet there can be no salvation without it.

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The gospel is this. In Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, the gospel is this in the book of Revelation.

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Repent and believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and you shall be saved. That word repent is

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metanoia in Greek, meta, noia, meta, after, noia, thought, afterthought. Think again. Repent simply

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means to think different. Change the way that you think about Christ, about church, about others.

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And Jesus said, repent. And the Bible tells us here in two places in that verse. Repent and

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repentance. Change your mind. And the Bible says, Jesus said heaven rejoices when that happens.

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What an amazing thing. What an awesome thing. By the way, you know Jesus, I love this.

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You know in the Old Testament it says the prophets would speak and they would say,

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thus say at the Lord. And then they would, Jesus never said that. Jesus says, behold, I say unto you.

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Don't you love that? Why did he do that? Because he was the Lord.

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And he's saying to you tonight, he wants to heal you. Body, soul, and spirit. He wants to heal you.

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I prayed with a couple people tonight. There's three sisters over here somewhere battling cancer.

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And I prayed for a young little girl over here with her knee injured.

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So here's the deal. What's the deal? The deal is this. Aren't we commanded to pray for one another?

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But were they healed or not? That's not for me. It's not for me to design. I am to believe what God

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has said and to act upon his word in faith and obey him and leave the results to him. He knows what

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he's doing. But the Bible says we don't have because we don't ask. The church should be a place of

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healing. Number six, the church should be powered by the Holy Spirit. I'm big on this one.

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The Holy Spirit. The Holy Spirit is not out of control, everybody. Oh, don't talk about the

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Holy Spirit. This is our problem. The Holy Spirit and the whole narrative has been robbed from us.

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And we have forgotten who the Spirit is. Listen, Jesus was born in this world, died on the cross,

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and went back to heaven. And for 2,000 years, the Holy Spirit has been the one working here.

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Who lives inside of you if you're a believer? The Holy Spirit. Jesus said, I'll send the Holy

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Spirit, and he'll be your comforter. He'll be with you. He said, I will not leave you orphaned.

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I will come to you. And Christ comes to you by the power of the Holy Spirit. And today the

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church needs the Holy Spirit more than ever. The Holy Spirit is our guide. He's our teacher. Did

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you know that? Have you ever opened up your Bible? You don't get it? Stop and ask the Holy Spirit

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to teach you the Word of God. That's what he loves to do. The power of the Holy Spirit.

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It was the Holy Spirit that gave life to the church. It was the Holy Spirit that gave power

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to the followers of Christ and they preached the gospel. It's the Holy Spirit. Think about the

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12 apostles. All of them except John died of violent death. But they were able to do that as

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martyrs by the power of the Holy Spirit. Jesus said in Acts 1 verse 8, you shall receive power

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when the Holy Spirit comes upon you. And you shall be witnesses to me in Jerusalem and all of Judea

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and Samaria and to the ends of the earth to Anaheim. Literally. Wherever you are, wherever you

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met Christ, the power of the Holy Spirit. Paul warned the church at Ephesus to watch out that

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you don't grieve the Holy Spirit. I'm just going to tell you straight up. If you're a Christian

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and you're doing things that's against the Word of God, you're grieve in the Holy Spirit.

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And you need a repent of that and stop. He loves you.

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He wants you to return. Number seven, it's exactly that. Just church is about you and I returning

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to Christ. In Luke 17, 5, the Bible there tells us Jesus says, and when he has found it, the little

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lamb, he lays it on his shoulder rejoicing. God wants you to come back as a church. He wants to

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put you as it were on his shoulders. Bring you back. Somebody has wisely said, I know Charles

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Stanley repeated it, but somebody has said, as believers, we need to preach the gospel to ourselves

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every day. I like that. But at the exact same time also, we need to remember that every day we

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need to be returning to Jesus. Every day. So I did that five years ago, every day.

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And when I returned to Jesus, I find myself living for other people.

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Somebody just asked me at my old age, where do you get this energy? It's the Holy Spirit.

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It's the Holy Spirit when I'm among his people. Ask Lisa. I have no energy at home.

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But when there's a purpose, think about the tools that you have in your garage, or if you're me on

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the side of my yard, I'll rust it out. Those tools work best when they're in use. And God saved you

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for a purpose. That's why you're not in heaven yet. He wants to use you. He wants to do a great work

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in your life. Listen to what Warren Wiersby has to say and we're almost done. So the good shepherd

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pursues the lost sheep, whoos them, calls them, and allows circumstances to come into their

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lives, designed to make them uncomfortable so that they might look up in their time of need.

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It is often in the bleakest hours of circumstances that we finally surrender our demands to have

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life our way. And we finally submit to the good shepherd who carries us back to the sheepfold.

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You think about this. In the Bible, Jesus refers to Himself as the good shepherd saying,

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I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also. They too will listen to my

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voice, Jesus said, and there shall be one flock in one shepherd. Just think about tonight. This

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is one church tonight. If you believe Jesus died for your sins and rose again from the dead,

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and that it's by faith in Him and Him alone that you'll enter heaven. That makes us one church

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tonight. Remarkable. Jesus said, my sheep hear my voice and they follow me and I give them

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eternal life. Wow. And they shall never perish. Did you know that? No one shall snatch them out

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of my hand. My father who has given them me. And yet the 99, still very important to God,

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but they're safe at home with the father, but the good shepherd after securing the 99 goes out

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searching for the one. And I wrote myself this note. Imagine if your house was on fire.

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And you're a dad of 12 kids. 12. It fits for what I'm going to do here. 12.

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The house is burning. You wake up. You start scooping up your kids to take them outside. They're

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out on the lawn. The house is a blaze and you're counting them. You're naming them. And so I put

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the ones that are nearest in our lives. I would put I'd be in that yard and I would be counting

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Emmys number one, Oliver's number two, Ames three, Ben, Ryan, Avery, Eddie, Charlie,

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Presley, Innsley, Hannah. And that's only 11 though. That's 11. Can you imagine if you're out on

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the lawn your house is burning and you count 11 when you have 12? What would you do?

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Dad, what would you do? Mom, what would you do? A mom or a dad will go into the home. It's all the blaze.

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And that's what Jesus is telling us. The world's on fire and you've been away and he's coming

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after you tonight and he's asking you to jump into his arms. Let's go. Let's get out of this

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burning thing. Let's get out of this burning mess. By the way, for whatever it's worth, I don't

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know why I did this, but he goes in securing the 11. He goes into the blaze with the house burning

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and he goes after the one and he grabs her and he takes her outside. And I don't know why I put

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this, but I put her name as Barbie. I don't know any Barbie, but Barbie's face is everywhere and I

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thought I would let that be out there. Number 8 and we end. We have to end right here. Just church

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is about giving people Jesus Christ. You know why? Listen, one of the worst, listen up everybody.

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One of the worst things that you can do is to stop telling people about Jesus. Listen. Listen,

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don't respond. Just check yourself right now. Maybe all of us tonight would say, yeah,

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I'm a Christian. Let me ask you something. According to the Bible, Christians tell other people about

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Jesus. Now telling people about Jesus doesn't make you a Christian. Are you with me? But if you are a

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Christian, you've got to tell people. David was doing great until he slept in and his armies went

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to war and he woke up in the mid-morning who knows afternoon. He looks over the window,

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over the fence or whatever it is. He looks down upon Bathsheba who's bathing naked and David is like,

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I'm okay. And you know how the story goes and then God deals with them and over a year later,

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David's life is ruined and God gets ahold of them. And Psalm 51 is David's confession of

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adultery with Bathsheba. And God forgives him and David says, Restorant to me the joy of my

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salvation. And then I will tell sinners of your way. You know why you don't share Jesus anymore?

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Because he's not very important to you anymore, is he? Now really, come on. He's not that important

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to you. Because when you know that there's a sale at Nordstroms, you're telling everybody about it.

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If there's a good place to eat, don't you text your friends and even send them a picture of the

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food you're eating. And then somebody mentioned Jesus and you freeze up. Is it possible you're ashamed

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of him? Have you ever really made that commitment to Christ? Christian, I'm speaking to you,

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Christ follower. Right now, right where you're at tonight, we need to get excited about Jesus again.

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We need tonight as believers to make a commitment to never look back.

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