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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.

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Jesus said, a new commandment I give you goes like this.

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The new commandment I give you, this is the one you're going to do.

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It's not on stone, I'm going to write it on your heart, and it's this.

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When you understand what I'm going to do for you at the cross and you write in the bed,

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you are going to find out how much you're loved by Almighty God.

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Yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen.

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Now open your hearts to what God's word has to say to you.

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Here is Jack Hibbs.

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John chapter 13 verse 34, Jesus said, a new commandment I give you that you love one another,

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as I've loved you.

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Isn't that interesting, by the way?

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It was not a new commandment the way that you're thinking, though, the Old Testament had

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said that.

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Love one another.

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See, what was Jesus saying?

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A new commandment I give you, let me tell you.

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Jesus was the one saying it right there, and at the Holy Spirit would soon be coming.

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When Jesus said a new commandment I give you, it goes like this.

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The new commandment I give you, this is the one you're going to do.

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It's not the one you're going to fail at, it's the one you're going to do.

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It's not on stone, I'm going to write it on your heart, and it's this.

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When you understand what I'm going to do for you at the cross and you're writing the

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dead, you are going to find out how much you're loved, by the Almighty God.

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You'll be so grateful, you're just going to just blow up into this blossom of love,

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and you're going to love those that are unlovable.

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Real, biblically based love.

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And Jesus, again, John chapter 13, I started reading that verse 34 and 35.

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He says, a new commandment I give to you that you love one another, as I have loved you,

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that you also love one another, verse 35, by this all will know that you are my disciples.

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Oh my goodness, everybody, listen, by this you're going to know that you belong to me.

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If you have loved one for another, practical, living love.

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John 15, verse 12, I'm asking you to write these down and then we'll move on.

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John 15, 12, this is my commandment that you love one another, as I have loved you.

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Greater love has no man than this than a man laid down his life for his friends.

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So you could also amen to that, but that also means that those that are around you, listen,

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this is the easiest right now, we're in class right now, the people here, they're your

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neighbor.

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I'm saying, well, I have neighbors in my neighborhood.

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You have neighbors in your neighborhood, but the love of God starts in the house of God

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first.

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You're to love one another, and you need to do that.

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And here's the truth of the matter.

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Listen, big church, big blessings, big church, big problems.

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Anybody could come here at any given time, we have no membership, people could just show

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up, and they do.

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Some people come to cause trouble, and they do.

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But one of the greatest things you can't capture this on surveillance, camera, or anything

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else, and that is an attitude.

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There are people who come in and out of this place, they might even be faithful to come,

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but they're as lost as the day is long.

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They don't care what Jesus has to say to them.

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They treat their husband like dirt.

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They cheat on their wives.

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They're all in the porn.

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Are they beat their kids?

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Or the kid is sneaking out of the house that night, knowing his parents love him.

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But he loves pleasure more than he loves his parents, and he certainly loves pleasure

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more than God.

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People know, some people do, some people act in certain ways, and they keep coming to church.

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And some people say that God told me to tell you, it's okay for me to have a woman on

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the side.

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Don't be surprised over this.

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You're not a Christian.

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You're going to, really, you're a Christian?

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I'm a Christian.

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I'm a Christian adulterer.

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Yeah, yeah, I really am.

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If you're a Christian adulterer, then you're taking Jesus into your adultery.

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So just remember this.

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The next time you're with that girl, open up the door and say, Jesus, come on in, because

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that's what you've done.

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Now, see, you're not really doing that because you're not a Christian.

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Can a man fall?

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Can a woman fall?

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Ask King David, but can you live like that?

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Things cannot live like that.

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It's not possible.

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The Holy Spirit will not allow it.

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If the Holy Spirit dwells in you, he will make you repulsed at these things.

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And yet there are people that come in and out through the doors of any church, and they

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think they're fine with God.

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Listen, they insult his intelligence.

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They insult his spirit.

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They mock him.

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And they think that they are okay with God.

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They're not okay with God.

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In 1 Peter 1, verse 22, 1 Peter 122, it says, since you have purified your souls and

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obeying the truth through the spirit and sincere love of the brethren, love one another

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fervently with a pure heart.

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My goodness, I could go on.

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1 Peter 4, 8.

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And above all things, have fervent love for one another, for love will cover a multitude

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of sins.

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Not point them out.

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Not blame.

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Not make it the other person's fault, but love will cover a multitude of sins.

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Mark 1231.

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And the second is like it, that is the commandment.

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You shall love your neighbor as yourself, where there is no other commandment greater than

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these.

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And then finally, right here, Romans 12, verses 9 through 10, let love be without hypocrisy.

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Abhor what is evil.

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Cling to what is good.

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Be kindly affectionate to one another with brotherly love.

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And honor giving preference to one another.

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And then church in verse 9, we owe love to one another because, listen, I owe you the proof

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of his love.

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And this is both, listen, in the negative and in the positive.

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In a negative article, by the way, I read this week regarding it, in preparing for this,

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in this article, it went on to talk about this.

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And I'll give you the quote here.

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It says, the Jesus of their religion, this person was speaking about Christians, the Jesus

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of their religion emphasized that loving others is as important as loving God.

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This command is the cornerstone of the Christian fate.

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These guys were laughing about this comment.

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And the measure of true discipleship, they were mocking.

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They were laughing about that statement right there.

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Listen, read the statement, is it not true?

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100% true, but they were laughing because their particular exposure had taught them that

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it's not true.

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This is what they say, but it's not what they do.

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And Jesus would say to the unbeliever, they're correct.

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They are correct about the assessment of the church at large.

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Is that loving God and loving one another is the cornerstone of their faith, but is it

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to be believed?

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There's a quote by McGee, of course, he says, they'll show not commit adultery.

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Now you can almost hear his voice, right?

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Can I do it?

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I'll try.

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They'll show not commit adultery.

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Now don't tell me that you love someone and are committing adultery with that one.

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You can call that love if you want to, but it is nothing in the world but sex.

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It is licentiousness, it is fornication, and it is sin in God's sight.

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God hasn't changed his mind about it.

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And that, that is powerfully true.

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If you and I love one another, we cannot be committed adultery.

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You have to be married to commit adultery.

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If you're having such outside of marriage, that's called fornication.

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Marriage sex that breaks up the marriage is called adultery, and you cannot be a Christian

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and practice adultery.

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You can be a Christian that falls and commits adultery, but that Christian will be the

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first one to jump up out of their skin, so to speak, and say, I got my eyes off of Jesus,

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I fell, I repent, and by the way, when they repent, they have no conditions.

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Listen up, everybody.

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This is free.

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This is free what you're about to hear.

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When somebody comes back to you, when your spouse comes back and says, I'm sorry, what

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to be sorry for, you know, don't fill in the blanks for them.

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You'll never know if they're repenting.

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When they say, I'm sorry, you know, it's just some time, you know, people do that, you

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know, throw them out.

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That's not repentance.

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That's not repentance.

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You won't, you won't have to solicit repentance from them.

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They will come on their belly with tears, never to do it again, hating the sin because

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it offended the Holy God because they love God first.

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How can you love somebody when he says here in this verse remarkably, he says, you shall

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not commit murder.

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You know, I just, I just love you a bunches, but I'm going to kill you.

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You can't listen, you can't love God and you can't love your neighbor if you're stealing

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stuff from them.

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Well, it was only a dolder.

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It doesn't matter if it was a penny that we are now not going to make anymore as a country.

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It doesn't matter.

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How can you love somebody and lie about them, bare false witness?

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You don't love them.

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How can we love somebody if we covet what they have?

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They got what?

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Yeah, did you hear?

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He just got a promotion.

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He's going to make a million dollars a minute.

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He's what?

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And now you get all angst inside.

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What's your problem?

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Nothing.

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Oh, I see, I see a little coach is going on there.

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I see what this is, what this means.

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I don't want him to have it.

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I want to have what he has.

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I'm not happy that he has it.

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I should have gotten it.

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I deserve that.

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This happens at work all the time when somebody gets a promotion or when somebody gets a pat

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on the back or when somebody covets someone else's relationship.

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That could lead to dangerous things.

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If there is any other commandment, they're all summed up in this saying, you shall love

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your neighbor as yourself.

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Verse 9 teaches us.

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Very powerful.

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James chapter 2 verse 8, the Bible tells us, if you really fulfill the royal law according

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to the scripture, you shall love your neighbor as yourself.

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You do well.

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And so I'm going to give you a proof positive as to how it may be difficult for your friends,

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family, spouse to come back next week.

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I don't say this to be funny, but I'd rather expose truth than you do with it.

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Verse 10 ends by, the scripture saying to us, love does no harm to a neighbor, therefore

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love is the fulfillment of the law, and that is, I owe you everything good.

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Friends listen, I jack owe you everything that I can possibly do for you that is good.

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You understand?

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What do the math?

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You owe me the same.

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But take me out of the picture, put me in the pews, and bring up Susie, and put her here,

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and that equation's true.

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Do you see what I'm saying?

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If we were to bring every single one of you up in this service individually one at a time,

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the equation's true.

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We owe you, and he would owe us, do you see this beautiful thing?

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We would not do each other harm.

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The word means we wouldn't scheme or plot to somehow be up over the other at their expense.

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So yeah, this is church discipline built into this.

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It's not a happy thing, but it's a reality.

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It is important for us to make sure that our profession matches our actions.

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And I am pleading because not only does this church agree with what I'm about to say,

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but ministers that I know across the United States, we're all going through the same thing.

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There's an pandemic, and no mask is going to help you like it ever could.

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No vaccine can help you like it ever could.

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There's a pandemic that is far worse than anything that can be grown in a petri dish.

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It's a pandemic of the destruction of marriage.

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Right now, like never before seen, the gates of hell seemed to have been swung open off

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their hinges from coast to coast, boarded a border where Christian homes are breaking up.

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You wonder why?

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Because somebody in the marriage decided to love themselves more than God.

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And everybody pays so you can have your jollies.

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And you have no idea, but you will pay for the damage that it's done to others' lives.

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And we cannot sit idle in this.

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This is put the fear of God in you.

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I hope so.

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I'm just a mere little man.

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I'm nothing.

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Can you imagine if Jesus were to say, I know you called upon my name, I know you even

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had a Bible study group, you even did miracles, you cast out demons.

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The part for me, I never knew you, wow.

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My dear friends, please, look what's stand, I'll say it this way, but you have to stand

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real way over, listen, I'll put it this way, here's the thing.

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You are invited to stop my grandkids, ask them, who is your papa when he's not on the

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stage?

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Stop my kids, ask them, who's your dad when he's not on the stage?

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Ask Lisa, who is he?

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Tell us who he is.

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I owe you that.

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You owe me that.

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If I love you, I must stop you and say, how's your husband doing?

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How are you guys doing?

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To stop your kids?

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How are your parents doing?

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When a young girl, 16 years old, comes up to me last Wednesday night, starts, she's

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all nervous, and she starts to talk, and she starts, breaks, she starts bawling, and

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I thought, oh boy, this is going to be a ugly story, this is going to be sad, boy was

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I surprised, she said I started coming to this church during COVID, Bible changed my

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life so much, my dad, tough, LAPD, he saw the change going on in my life, my dad started

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coming to the church, she said my dad got saved, I wanted to tell you, Pastor Jack, I'm

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here to report on my parents, this church has changed my parents' marriage, has changed

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our home, and it's changed the trajectory of my life, she said, that's what's possible

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if you love God first, and Jesus' name and all God's people said.

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