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Judge Not, Submit
00:02:27
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| There, Jim, I read a lot of the emails that come in to our ministry. | |
| Oh, God. | |
| Oh. | |
| Sometimes I wonder why I subject myself to that kind of punishment. | |
| Most of them are very nice, but. | |
| Yeah, you're going to have a room full of elephants and one skunk will mess it up. | |
| There's a lot of emails every day that come in from people who profess to be Christians. | |
| And the tone is so nasty and disrespectful. | |
| Right. | |
| And it's not that I'm somebody special that they have to treat me different, but I am a man of God. | |
| Yes. | |
| And I'm working to serve God. | |
| That's it. | |
| And the way that they address me in the email is so disrespectful and so nasty. | |
| And I'm like, you can disagree with me. | |
| I'm going to love you if you disagree with me. | |
| You can write an email to me and say, you know, Pastor Rick, Brother Rick, I think you're wrong on this topic. | |
| I'm going to read that and I'm going to pray about it and everything. | |
| But what I see, Jim, is it's a spirit of rebellion, of unruliness, that they're not going to be in submission. | |
| They're not going to submit to the Holy Spirit. | |
| They're not going to show any submission to the men of God that God has raised up to preach and teach the word. | |
| It is rebellion. | |
| It truly is. | |
| And you know what's even scarier than the whole rebellion thing to me is when you're touching God's anointed. | |
| The thing is, God said, do not touch mine anointing. | |
| But they feel that they have the right to discern who's God's and who's not God's. | |
| I know, I'd be very, very careful. | |
| I don't know what part of judge not we don't get. | |
| He said, judge not that you'll be not judged. | |
| And it's a very freeing scripture, you know, just to judge not. | |
| But the warfare is going on. | |
| But don't be a part of it. | |
| Don't be a part of throwing fiery darts. | |
| That comes from Satan, not from God's people. | |
| That's how you know. | |
| How do we know that they're saved? | |
| You know, by love. | |
| But he said, by their fruits, ye shall know them. | |
| I preached on that the other day if you were watching. | |
| Yes. | |
| But by the fruit, love, joy, long-suffering, gentleness, kindness. | |
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Wow. Love Wow.
00:00:31
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| Right. | |
| Church people, you're sick if you're participating in this. | |
| You know you pass from death into life because you love. | |
| Love. | |
| That's right. | |
| Wow. | |
| I'm telling you. | |
| There's the damage that Tobiah and Sam Bellett could have done to Nehemiah if they had the Internet. | |
| Oh. | |
| Wow. | |
| The message boards, the social media. | |
| Thank you. | |