WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:05.840 Real life presents the Jack Hibbs podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim 2 00:00:05.840 --> 00:00:10.840 truth, equip the saints and impact our culture. Always remember this, as 3 00:00:10.840 --> 00:00:16.440 believers and followers of Christ, we are to always be making our evaluation, our 4 00:00:16.440 --> 00:00:21.720 assessment, with an outstretched arm of love and of hope. If you know somebody who 5 00:00:21.720 --> 00:00:25.840 claims to know Jesus or in fact they know Jesus, but they're not walking right 6 00:00:25.840 --> 00:00:30.640 with the Lord, what are you supposed to do? Stolen them? No, you're supposed to 7 00:00:30.640 --> 00:00:37.480 reach out and pull them up out of the pit. You can get the outlines of this 8 00:00:37.480 --> 00:00:44.760 podcast by going to jackhibbs.com slash podcast. Today, if this podcast lifts you 9 00:00:44.760 --> 00:00:49.000 up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled life in Christ, then make sure 10 00:00:49.000 --> 00:00:54.320 you leave us one of those five star ratings. To us, that's like saying amen or 11 00:00:54.320 --> 00:00:59.560 yes, then that rating will encourage others to listen. Now open your hearts to 12 00:00:59.560 --> 00:01:06.280 what God's word has to say to you. Here is Jack Hibbs. Romans chapter 14, even 13 00:01:06.280 --> 00:01:13.120 out into Romans chapter 15, it's all about interrelational ships of the church. 14 00:01:13.120 --> 00:01:18.000 It's brother to brother sister to sister in the family of God and when we 15 00:01:18.000 --> 00:01:22.560 talk about judging one another, why is it in some scriptures? Does the Bible say 16 00:01:22.560 --> 00:01:27.640 that we ought to judge to determine if somebody is actually a real brother or 17 00:01:27.640 --> 00:01:33.040 sister or not? Does the Bible contradict itself? The answer is absolutely not. 18 00:01:33.040 --> 00:01:38.800 What do we know? What do we mean? Well, first of all, we are victims of the 19 00:01:38.800 --> 00:01:43.800 English language. It's very limited in its description. Just know this that when 20 00:01:43.800 --> 00:01:48.040 the Bible tells us that we are to examine one another's fruit in their lives. 21 00:01:48.280 --> 00:01:53.360 What are we producing as watch believers? Are we really believers in followers of 22 00:01:53.360 --> 00:01:58.280 the Lord Jesus? If we are, it will be seen by how we live our lives and we are 23 00:01:58.280 --> 00:02:03.360 commanded as brothers, sisters and Christ to not only judge ourselves according to 24 00:02:03.360 --> 00:02:10.000 the Bible, but we are to examine one another as well to see if in fact we are of 25 00:02:10.000 --> 00:02:15.800 the household of faith. And the word judgment in that case is not condemnation. It 26 00:02:15.800 --> 00:02:20.400 means in fact Jesus put it this way. You'll know one another, you'll know them 27 00:02:20.400 --> 00:02:26.560 by their fruits. We are called to be fruit inspectors in the family of God. When 28 00:02:26.560 --> 00:02:31.480 somebody says I'm a Christian verbally and then lives a life in opposition to 29 00:02:31.480 --> 00:02:37.440 the statement, we know that they're not for real. But the Bible does say thou 30 00:02:37.440 --> 00:02:43.680 shall not judge. And when the Bible says that, the word is you shall not condemn. 31 00:02:43.680 --> 00:02:49.960 The word judge is also translated in English that way. Unfortunately, in the 32 00:02:49.960 --> 00:02:54.720 Greek and in the Hebrew language, which the Bible was written in, we have no 33 00:02:54.720 --> 00:03:01.440 authority whatsoever to condemn another person just because we think they're 34 00:03:01.440 --> 00:03:08.720 at a line. We do not have that authority. Are you to judge me based upon my 35 00:03:08.720 --> 00:03:14.520 life's statements based upon my life style? The answer is yes, and I the same 36 00:03:14.520 --> 00:03:20.040 to you. But not with the spirit of condemnation. Always remember this. As 37 00:03:20.040 --> 00:03:25.280 believers and followers of Christ, we are to always be making our evaluation, our 38 00:03:25.280 --> 00:03:30.800 assessment, with an outstretched arm of love and of hope. If you know somebody 39 00:03:30.800 --> 00:03:34.880 who claims to know Jesus or in fact they know Jesus, but they're not walking 40 00:03:34.880 --> 00:03:40.440 right with the Lord, what are you supposed to do? Stone them? No, you're supposed 41 00:03:40.440 --> 00:03:45.320 to reach out and pull them up out of the pit. The Bible tells us this in 42 00:03:45.320 --> 00:03:49.960 Galatians that we are to rescue our brothers and sisters in the spirit of grace 43 00:03:49.960 --> 00:03:55.200 with humility, lest we find ourselves becoming guilty of the same. Very, very 44 00:03:55.200 --> 00:03:59.080 strong things. But can you write this down to the top of your notes, please? It's 45 00:03:59.080 --> 00:04:07.300 Psalm 133. Psalm 133 verse 1 says, Behold how good and how pleasant it is. For 46 00:04:07.300 --> 00:04:12.960 brethren to dwell together in unity, it is like the precious ointment upon the 47 00:04:12.960 --> 00:04:21.200 head that ran down upon the beard, even Aaron's beard, that went down to the 48 00:04:21.200 --> 00:04:25.160 skirts of his garment. In other words, he's Aaron when he was called to be the 49 00:04:25.160 --> 00:04:32.540 priest of Israel by Moses, he was covered in the anointing oil. As the dew of 50 00:04:32.540 --> 00:04:38.380 hormone and as the dew that descends upon the mountains of Zion, for there the 51 00:04:38.380 --> 00:04:47.980 Lord commanded the blessing, even life, forevermore. How pleasant it is that the 52 00:04:47.980 --> 00:04:53.180 brethren should dwell together in unity, unity in the body of Christ. Listen, look 53 00:04:53.180 --> 00:04:59.500 at the screen, must be based upon the Word of God. We are brothers and sisters in 54 00:04:59.500 --> 00:05:06.000 Christ. Okay, think about that. How did we or are we brothers and sisters in 55 00:05:06.000 --> 00:05:11.900 Christ? Secondly, if that's true, what brought us together? Answer the Word of 56 00:05:11.900 --> 00:05:21.140 God did. You see, listen, we never sacrifice truth for unity. Oh, our church is a 57 00:05:21.140 --> 00:05:25.180 church of unity. What does that mean? Wait, you make me nervous. What does that mean? 58 00:05:25.180 --> 00:05:29.180 We just allow everything and anything. Everybody just comes together. We're just 59 00:05:29.180 --> 00:05:37.380 one big mess. There's people who are members of our church and they don't believe in 60 00:05:37.380 --> 00:05:41.620 God or they don't believe in Jesus. They don't believe in the Bible, but we're just 61 00:05:41.620 --> 00:05:45.660 one united family. No, you're not. You're living, listen, you're living a nightmare. 62 00:05:45.660 --> 00:05:53.140 You think it's a dream, it's a nightmare. You've got to be unified upon the truth. 63 00:05:53.140 --> 00:05:59.500 And it's the truth that will prevail to us today. The Bible says in Hebrews 64 00:05:59.500 --> 00:06:04.340 chapter 11 verse 1, now faith is the substance, the word in Greek means the 65 00:06:04.340 --> 00:06:09.260 assurance of things hoped for, the evidence, the word evidence is the word true. 66 00:06:09.260 --> 00:06:14.460 That's no stretch. Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of 67 00:06:14.460 --> 00:06:19.220 things not seen. And what I love about that statement, it defines what faith is. 68 00:06:19.220 --> 00:06:24.620 And what is also awesome, if you want to stretch it a little bit, and apply it 69 00:06:24.620 --> 00:06:30.220 to the scientific realm, that our faith in this world is based upon the 70 00:06:30.220 --> 00:06:36.580 operation of scientific laws that we physically cannot see, but are invisible. 71 00:06:36.580 --> 00:06:44.140 You think about that for a moment. Do you see gravity? You don't see gravity, but 72 00:06:44.140 --> 00:06:48.820 all you have to do is look at your body, and you can see that gravity is a fact. 73 00:06:48.820 --> 00:06:54.540 It's real. When you jump off a cliff, you do not go up. Wouldn't that be 74 00:06:54.540 --> 00:06:58.900 something? You jump off a cliff and go up into a cloud. If I were God, I'd like to 75 00:06:58.900 --> 00:07:03.100 try that for a day or two, and just to play with some people's minds. God just 76 00:07:03.100 --> 00:07:06.500 changes the laws of science and they think they're going to jump into the river 77 00:07:06.500 --> 00:07:12.700 and they go up into a cloud. That'd be fun, I think. No, you go down. You can't 78 00:07:12.700 --> 00:07:17.860 see gravity, but you can see the effects of gravity, and the same is true about faith. 79 00:07:17.860 --> 00:07:23.780 You do not see the air that you're breathing, but you're very glad for it. Why? 80 00:07:23.780 --> 00:07:27.780 Because these things dwell in a realm that are beyond our ability to see with 81 00:07:27.780 --> 00:07:35.140 the naked human eye, but faith is real. And we see in verse 1 that as we mature in 82 00:07:35.140 --> 00:07:40.220 Christ, it is this, that we produce a practical faith. He says there in verse 1, 83 00:07:40.220 --> 00:07:44.340 receive one another, he's speaking to brothers and sisters in Christ, receive one 84 00:07:44.340 --> 00:07:50.260 who is weak in the faith. Please circle these words, circle the word reserve or 85 00:07:50.260 --> 00:07:56.020 receive, excuse me, receive, circle the word weak. And then he says, but not, don't 86 00:07:56.020 --> 00:08:01.300 receive them with disputes over doubtful things. What does this mean? It means 87 00:08:01.300 --> 00:08:06.060 that those who appear or seem to be or in fact are weak in the faith, they are 88 00:08:06.060 --> 00:08:10.380 your brother and your sister. Church family, I'm going to be hard on this today. 89 00:08:10.380 --> 00:08:20.180 They're not sabah, brothers and sisters. They're not less than you. When the 90 00:08:20.180 --> 00:08:25.620 Bible says that they are weak, let's first of all understand what the Bible means 91 00:08:25.620 --> 00:08:32.260 by saying we are to receive them. Receive is this, to bring in or to make or to 92 00:08:32.260 --> 00:08:37.100 take, excuse me, alongside. In other words, to incorporate them, to draw them near, to 93 00:08:37.100 --> 00:08:42.180 open up your arms toward them as a brother or sister in Christ. It is to welcome them 94 00:08:42.180 --> 00:08:48.180 in, carte blanche, right there, brother and sister in Christ, welcome them in. Is a 95 00:08:48.180 --> 00:08:53.700 very, very important truth. And the amazing thing about this great truth is that when we 96 00:08:53.700 --> 00:08:59.380 are with other brothers and sisters and we begin to perceive, we think that they're 97 00:08:59.380 --> 00:09:06.380 not as mature as we are. Boy, we better be careful with that assessment instantly. Folks, 98 00:09:06.380 --> 00:09:11.700 listen, you think in the reading of this that it's like, oh yes, I know some weak believers. 99 00:09:11.700 --> 00:09:17.700 What you do not know is, listen, that weak believer may actually be stronger than you in 100 00:09:17.700 --> 00:09:25.780 many things. Notice what we read today. It was regarding food. It was regarding the Sabbath. 101 00:09:25.780 --> 00:09:32.980 It was regarding drink. Paul mentions three things. We're going to talk about these things 102 00:09:32.980 --> 00:09:40.220 today, but that weak brother may be extremely strong in areas that you, the strong brother, 103 00:09:40.220 --> 00:09:47.100 are very weak in. And the greatest manifestation of our weakness is for us who think we're 104 00:09:47.100 --> 00:09:52.060 strong to look down at a brother and sister and say, oh look out weak. Someday they'll 105 00:09:52.060 --> 00:09:58.500 be grown up like me spiritually grounded. And the moment you have that thought or that 106 00:09:58.500 --> 00:10:05.940 admission, you are far from being mature. You just might be weaker than the weakest. Quite 107 00:10:05.940 --> 00:10:11.700 remarkable. It's a very practical faith. And so listen to this. The Bible says in 2 Corinthians 108 00:10:11.700 --> 00:10:17.660 chapter 5, verse 10, for we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ that each 109 00:10:17.660 --> 00:10:23.940 one may receive the things done in the body. According to what he or she has done, whether 110 00:10:23.940 --> 00:10:29.060 good or bad, he's talking about the beam of seat of Christ. And in that day, listen, 111 00:10:29.060 --> 00:10:35.100 the great level will take place. All of our human judgment will be proven to be either 112 00:10:35.100 --> 00:10:41.260 true or false based upon the great judgment of Christ Jesus. And for those of you who don't 113 00:10:41.260 --> 00:10:46.620 know, let me clarify real quick though it's not in our notes. God the Father will judge 114 00:10:46.620 --> 00:10:51.540 the world in righteousness. And when he judges the world in righteousness, Revelation 115 00:10:51.540 --> 00:10:59.180 chapter 20, all those who he judges from that, from that judgment go straight to hell. This 116 00:10:59.180 --> 00:11:05.820 is the judgment of God the Father. There's no Jesus involved. The world is an unbelieving 117 00:11:05.820 --> 00:11:13.860 world. God the Father judges them and notice their demise is hell. That's the judgment 118 00:11:13.860 --> 00:11:18.460 of God. And then there's the judgment of the Lord Jesus Christ that we just read a moment 119 00:11:18.460 --> 00:11:25.660 ago. Jesus will judge his own church and it has nothing to do with hell. It has everything 120 00:11:25.660 --> 00:11:31.940 to do with heaven. And you and I will be judged by Jesus regarding our faithfulness where 121 00:11:31.940 --> 00:11:39.140 we've faithful to do what he called us to do and to give of our lives to him as he called 122 00:11:39.220 --> 00:11:44.060 us to give. You will not answer to a person. You're not going to answer to the Pope. You're 123 00:11:44.060 --> 00:11:48.420 not going to answer to Billy Graham. You're not going to answer to me or anybody else. You're 124 00:11:48.420 --> 00:11:53.380 not going to listen. You're not going to answer to your husband and you're not going to answer 125 00:11:53.380 --> 00:11:59.260 to your wife. The Bible makes it clear that we will stand before God. The Bible explains 126 00:11:59.260 --> 00:12:03.900 it this way. We will stand before the Lord naked. It doesn't mean your naked naked. It 127 00:12:03.900 --> 00:12:10.020 means you will have nobody with you. But that's okay. You'll have Christ. He is your great 128 00:12:10.020 --> 00:12:14.860 advocate. He's your great defense. And then he'll, and then I think we're going to see 129 00:12:14.860 --> 00:12:19.300 all the things that we, he invited us to do. You know those things in life where he said, 130 00:12:19.300 --> 00:12:23.900 do this and we didn't do it. I think he's going to show us the opportunities he provided 131 00:12:23.900 --> 00:12:28.940 and we miss them and we're going to weep over that. No wonder why I think after the judgment 132 00:12:28.940 --> 00:12:33.740 it says he wipes away every tear. I think those are our tears. Oh man, he was telling 133 00:12:33.740 --> 00:12:39.260 me to go tell that person and I thought I would be like a fool or look silly and I went 134 00:12:39.260 --> 00:12:44.860 home that day wrestling in my mind. I should have spoke to them. Those kinds of things. 135 00:12:44.860 --> 00:12:49.540 I think I'll be very grieved on that day when the things that God has told me to do or 136 00:12:49.540 --> 00:12:55.740 prompted me to do and I didn't do. And Romans chapter 16 verse 17, I'm going to give 137 00:12:55.740 --> 00:13:00.620 you a lot of reading here in a moment. Romans 16 verse 17, the Bible says, no, I urge 138 00:13:00.620 --> 00:13:06.660 you, brother, note those who cause divisions and offenses. This is within the church. Note 139 00:13:06.660 --> 00:13:13.620 them. You know, people who cause division, they split people up. Listen, in a church family, 140 00:13:13.620 --> 00:13:17.020 you need to mark them. I'll keep reading and they'll come back and come in on this. 141 00:13:17.020 --> 00:13:22.020 It says contrary to the doctrine which you've learned and avoid them. Man, can you imagine 142 00:13:22.100 --> 00:13:25.500 going to church and there's somebody that causes division and the Bible says, you need 143 00:13:25.500 --> 00:13:29.700 to avoid that person. What are you doing? You're making a discernment, a judgment based 144 00:13:29.700 --> 00:13:36.340 upon the Bible. Not your feeling. So if somebody's always gossiping about others, you need 145 00:13:36.340 --> 00:13:43.260 to mark them. You need to mark them. See them come in. You put on garlic and a big crucifix 146 00:13:43.260 --> 00:13:50.900 and sprinkle some holy water on them or something. I don't know. But listen, if you're a gossip, 147 00:13:50.900 --> 00:13:57.900 you need to be marked according to the Bible. The Bible says that a tail bear divides friends. 148 00:13:58.660 --> 00:14:05.660 God hates that, by the way. Well, you know, hey, Betty, did you hear what Karen did? 149 00:14:05.660 --> 00:14:12.140 Know what happened. Well, I'm just calling you so we can pray for her. Yeah, right. 150 00:14:12.140 --> 00:14:16.820 How about this response? Do I need to know? And they, oh, yeah, yeah, you really, you 151 00:14:16.820 --> 00:14:20.660 really ought to know. Okay, just know this. Once you get them telling me, I'm going to 152 00:14:20.660 --> 00:14:28.660 quote you having told me this. Oh, well, maybe, maybe I, maybe I left the oven on. You know 153 00:14:28.660 --> 00:14:37.140 I'm saying? Gotta watch out. And so watch out for that because he says in verse 18, Romans 16, 154 00:14:37.140 --> 00:14:42.780 18, for those who are such do not serve the Lord Jesus Christ, but their own belly. And 155 00:14:42.780 --> 00:14:48.140 by smooth words and flattering speech to see if the hearts of the simple Matthew chapter 156 00:14:48.140 --> 00:14:54.860 15, verse one, here's a big one, then the scribes and Pharisees who were from Jerusalem came 157 00:14:54.860 --> 00:15:02.580 to Jesus saying, why do your disciples transgress notice the traditions of the elders, not 158 00:15:02.580 --> 00:15:07.460 Bible, just the tradition of the elders, for they do not wash their hands when they eat 159 00:15:07.460 --> 00:15:12.500 bread. He answered and said to them, Jesus answered and said to them, why do you also 160 00:15:12.500 --> 00:15:17.660 transgress the commandment of God because of your tradition? Isn't that awesome come back? 161 00:15:17.660 --> 00:15:23.060 You guys all excited about my disciples not washing their hands because your traditions 162 00:15:23.060 --> 00:15:27.680 say that that's not good? Then how do you answer the fact that you've put the traditions 163 00:15:27.680 --> 00:15:34.940 of man greater than the word of God? Wow. Verse four, for God commanded, saying, on to 164 00:15:34.940 --> 00:15:40.060 your father and mother, and he who curses father or mother, let him be put to death. But 165 00:15:40.060 --> 00:15:45.860 I say to you, whoever says to his father or his mother, whatever profit you might have, 166 00:15:45.860 --> 00:15:50.940 in other words, whatever I was going to give mom and dad has been given to, as a gift 167 00:15:50.940 --> 00:15:59.180 to God, sorry mom and dad, you're out. Then he need not honor his father and mother. Thus 168 00:15:59.180 --> 00:16:06.500 you have made the commandment of God of no effect by your tradition. Jesus is so mild. 169 00:16:06.500 --> 00:16:13.940 He says hypocrites, well did Isaiah prophesy about you saying, these people draw near to me 170 00:16:13.940 --> 00:16:19.660 with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. And in vain, 171 00:16:19.660 --> 00:16:24.820 they worship me. What a horrible thing to hear from the heart of God. You have vainly worshiped 172 00:16:24.820 --> 00:16:30.820 me. In other words, your worship was false. Why? Teaching as doctrines, the commandments 173 00:16:30.900 --> 00:16:39.220 of men, rules and regulations. And when he had called the multitude to himself, he said to them, 174 00:16:39.220 --> 00:16:47.860 here it understands that not what goes into the mouth defiles a man, but what comes out of the 175 00:16:47.860 --> 00:16:54.740 mouth, this defiles a man. Then his disciples came and said to him, do you know that the Pharisees 176 00:16:54.820 --> 00:17:01.860 were offended when they heard this saying? But he answered instead of them, every plant which 177 00:17:02.580 --> 00:17:08.420 watched this everyone, every plant which my heavenly father has not planted will be uprooted. 178 00:17:11.220 --> 00:17:17.620 Let them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind leads the blind, 179 00:17:17.620 --> 00:17:24.180 both will fall into a ditch. Can you imagine? Jesus saying, everything that's not for my father 180 00:17:24.180 --> 00:17:29.700 will be plucked out. That's going to be removed. Church family, I've said this for several times 181 00:17:29.700 --> 00:17:35.940 over these last few months. The church is going through this right now. In all of the world, 182 00:17:35.940 --> 00:17:45.700 the church right now is the Lord is pulling out the false. The Lord is pruning and plucking and 183 00:17:45.700 --> 00:17:53.220 cleansing his church. And listen, I warned you before. Don't look at somebody's face and assume. 184 00:17:54.420 --> 00:18:01.300 God looks at the heart. Well, they're that famous Christian. Famous to who? Famous to God? 185 00:18:01.300 --> 00:18:07.060 No famous to you, not to God. It's the heart of the matter. It's what's inside of them. 186 00:18:07.060 --> 00:18:14.660 And friends, listen, it's what's inside of you. That matters. And before that, we should walk 187 00:18:14.660 --> 00:18:23.300 before God humbly. Jesus Christ came to save us and to give us a whole new identity. And that 188 00:18:23.300 --> 00:18:30.180 identity is not wrapped up in do's and don'ts. We are to receive a brother and sister in Christ 189 00:18:30.180 --> 00:18:35.940 and not get into unnecessary silly disputes and arguments over things that do not matter. 190 00:18:37.540 --> 00:18:45.860 What does this mean? It means agree on biblical doctrine. And when we do not agree on things of 191 00:18:45.860 --> 00:18:55.060 opinions, we are big enough to let those opinions go. And I'm hesitant to think that the church 192 00:18:55.060 --> 00:19:02.420 in America has even matured in that place. We've got this thing, the spirit of arrogance that, 193 00:19:02.420 --> 00:19:07.940 well, if they don't, if they don't go to church wearing flip flops and board shorts, then they 194 00:19:07.940 --> 00:19:13.140 must be losers. And then those who wear three-piece suits are saying, you know what, if those people 195 00:19:13.140 --> 00:19:16.900 go to church with flip flops, then they're, you know, they're all going to hell, you can tell. 196 00:19:18.180 --> 00:19:24.180 This is terrible. Is it okay with you that there are people on the shores of the Hawaiian 197 00:19:24.180 --> 00:19:30.260 islands who go to church with flip flops and board shorts and worship God? You say, how can they 198 00:19:30.260 --> 00:19:39.060 possibly do that? They do. If you go to the jungles of South America, if you go to Brazil, 199 00:19:39.700 --> 00:19:44.980 you're going to see Christians worshiping God and they have a gourd on. You know what a gourd is? 200 00:19:46.260 --> 00:19:54.580 They have underwear covering their private parts. And that's it. And they're praising God in the jungle 201 00:19:54.580 --> 00:19:59.860 where Christ has come to them. And we think because we're from New York City that if they don't 202 00:19:59.860 --> 00:20:04.980 put a suit on, they cannot be worshiping God. Which wrong with us? Might I remind you that the 203 00:20:04.980 --> 00:20:11.540 Bible says in heaven, God will gather together every kindred, tribe, tongue, and nation of the world. 204 00:20:11.540 --> 00:20:16.740 He will bring them together. Why? Because it's what God sees in the heart. It's not what you're 205 00:20:16.740 --> 00:20:22.980 wearing that makes you a Christian. You know the old saying, going to win, I don't know, 206 00:20:22.980 --> 00:20:26.500 they don't even have a windshield. But this is the old saying. I'll just say it. Going to 207 00:20:26.500 --> 00:20:30.820 windshields does not make you a donut, just like going to church, doesn't make you a Christian. 208 00:20:30.820 --> 00:20:37.940 Now of course it's crispy cream instead of winchels. But John chapter 1 verse 12 and 13 says, 209 00:20:38.580 --> 00:20:46.020 but as many as received him. See that? That's the qualifier. To them, he gave the right to become 210 00:20:46.020 --> 00:20:51.700 children of God, to those who believe in his name. Church, is that enough? Think about it. They 211 00:20:51.700 --> 00:20:57.060 believe in his name. They trust him. They love him. They obey him. It's not what they're wearing. 212 00:20:57.060 --> 00:20:59.940 It's not what they're doing. It's not what they're dressed like are the way they call their 213 00:20:59.940 --> 00:21:05.780 hair. 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