Bobby Chandler - The Unguarded Heart: How Small Compromises Destroy a Life

July 15, 2026 | 24:58

Pastor Bobby Chandler has found hope in Jesus and wants as many people as possible to experience that exact same freedom.

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Guard your heart.
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Above all else.
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For what determines the course of your life.
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Let me also say it like this.
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Guard your heart because it determines
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The rest of your life.
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Will your heart goes.
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You usually follow.
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So why are you handing out your heart to everybody
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That asked for it?
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I want to share this because a bit of burden on my heart.
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We have people that even have given their lives
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Over to christ and watch all the way from iran.
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And if you know.
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Yeah, let's give god some praise there.
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And i don't know, i think i'm going to speak on this soon.
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But, you know,
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The same demon
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We see
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Out of the book of daniel, it's the same demon
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Over the land of iran for this ancient persia.
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And, you know, people are fighting
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For their freedom and losing their lives.
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I believe over 12,000 have been murdered.
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And so we're praying for for freedom from the demonic
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Because it is demonic islamic regime.
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And we're also praying that that jesus shows up,
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Shows up to a lot of people.
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I believe there were two men.
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There were two men that came here
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Probably two years ago and one from iran.
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And he told me, he said, jesus showed up to me in a dream,
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And that's why he gave his life over to jesus.
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And so anybody watching online and dealing with persecution,
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I want you to know we're praying for you.
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And god has not given up on you.
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And god is still doing powerful things.
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And so we thank you for tuning in.
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And if you're new in the house of the lord today to as well,
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I want you to know that you are family here.
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Please keep coming back.
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And god is doing some incredible things, so
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I'm gonna make you do something awkward for a second, okay?
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Look to somebody next to you.
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And i know some of you going to fight it,
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But just look to somebody next to you and say,
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Are you ready for the party?
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Are you ready for the party?
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Now, listen, some of you, it's not that type of party.
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This is a church.
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Don't get it twisted.
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But this upcoming sunday, we're celebrating
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Seven years, seven years of ministry.
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And my goodness, guys, if you look back like my hair
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Has changed a lot over the years. i'll tell you that.
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But you've been dealing with me
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For seven years, so god bless you.
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And god has done some incredible things here.
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And this is a year of supernatural
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Miracles very, very soon.
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And again, i can't
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I can't say what i think it's going to be, but very, very soon
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We're going to be in the new transition place
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And we're going to have a lot more room.
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And i believe god's got a lot more for us.
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Okay. and that's fitting because we're in a new series.
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If you haven't been here the last couple of weeks,
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We're in a new series titled still growing.
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And the vision behind this series
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Is just to prove to you
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That even though you've
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Been saved for a long time, some of you have.
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If you've given your life over to jesus years ago,
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Maybe decades ago,
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Maybe you were baptized when you were ten years old.
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It doesn't matter.
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Like there's still things that you need to learn.
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It doesn't mean that you have it all figured out,
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Because you gave your life to jesus
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When you were ten years old, and so god is always
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Still teaching us something brand new.
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There's still something to grow in.
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And so god is teaching you,
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And i love this because god is teaching me.
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And so when i preach to you, i'm also preaching to myself
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These revelations, and i want to learn from them.
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And so we've been learning
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From the life of king solomon and king solomon.
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If you know a story,
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You know that he was the wisest man who had ever lived.
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Besides jesus christ.
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But even though he obtained wisdom straight from heaven
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Because that's where it came from.
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Okay?
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It didn't come from just random information
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From this world or a lot of, you know, facts in his mind.
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It came straight from heaven.
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He knew the difference between right and wrong.
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But here's the story about king solomon.
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He did not surrender everything over to the lord.
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That is my burden today is that you can know
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The difference between right and wrong.
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You can have a lot of scriptures memorized, like you can know
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The bible from genesis all the way to revelation.
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But if you don't learn
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How to surrender your life
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Over to the lord, you can still do the
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Wrong things even though you know better.
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And so we've been looking at king
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Solomon, and i want to continue very quickly in chapter three.
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And by the way, if you have your bibles today,
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We're going to be in first kings chapter three,
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And then we're going to skip to chapter ten today.
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Okay.
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But in chapter three, god intervenes in the drifting.
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What do i mean?
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Remember, solomon has been drifting away from the lord.
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He loved the lord.
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He had good intentions in the beginning, but
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Good intentions don't excuse you from disobedience, okay?
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And disobedience still has consequences.
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And so there was some open doors in his life.
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He loved the lord, but there was still some open doors.
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And eventually those open doors became wide open for his ruin.
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So god interrupts his drift and gives him a chance.
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And in chapter three, verse five it states this.
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That night the lord appeared to solomon in a dream,
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And god said, what do you want?
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Ask, and i will give it to you.
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And we talked about this last week,
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Because i think all of us would love
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To hear this question from god.
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What do you want?
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But the thing is, it's a test.
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It's a test.
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Would your answer please god, or does your answer
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Only please yourself?
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And when god asks a question, he does it
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Not to get an answer from you
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Because he already knows the answer,
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But he's revealing your true intentions.
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God will ask you a question to get the truth out of you.
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And so
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What solomon is seeing here is that
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He does have good intentions and he wants to honor the lord.
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And so he's being honest with the lord. after this.
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He says, you know,
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After verse five says, that night the lord appeared to
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Him in a dream and god said, what do you want?
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Ask, and i would give it to you.
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And solomon asked for what
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He asked for wisdom, supernatural wisdom from above,
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Because he's around the age of 17 to 18 years old, 17 to 18.
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He's going to lead a nation he's very honest
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With god says, god, i'm not ready for this.
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I'm not wise enough for this.
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And so i need wisdom from you to lead your people well.
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You can ask god for wisdom.
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And we talked about that last week as well.
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And godly wisdom is so valuable that proverbs chapter
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Three, verses 13 to 15
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Stated, like this joyful is the person who finds wisdom.
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And again, this is supernatural wisdom.
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It's not just head knowledge.
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Wisdom from god teaches you right from wrong.
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That's the difference, because there are a lot of smart
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Fools out there in the world.
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Okay, so this is heavenly wisdom,
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And the one
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Who gains understanding for wisdom is more profitable.
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Listen to this than silver.
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And her wages are better than gold.
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Wisdom is more precious than rubies,
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And nothing you desire can compare with her.
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And i can come straight from the word of god
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That comes straight from god's word, that nothing you desire
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Can compare with supernatural wisdom from above.
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Knowing what god wants for your life
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Will fulfill you more than the big house.
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Knowing what god wants in your life
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And what he's telling you to do,
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Will fulfill you more than the relationship
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That you've been desiring for years.
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Wisdom.
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Supernatural wisdom from god is valuable.
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And why is it so valuable?
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Do you remember this from last week, joseph?
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Chapter four, verse six.
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Here's a warning for my people are destroyed.
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For what? for lack of knowledge.
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When you don't know god's ways, guess what?
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You walk in a different direction
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From where god is telling you to go.
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But listen to this.
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It's because you have rejected knowledge.
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So this means joseph
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The prophet is saying, it's not that god has hidden his wisdom
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From you. god doesn't hide his wisdom from you.
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The thing is, you rejected god's wisdom.
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You rejected god's truth. to what?
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To listen to the world.
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How many times do we do that?
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How many times do we say, all right, god, i want to
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I want to do my relationship the way i want to do it
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Instead of your way,
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Because that's the way the world does it work.
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I want to live like this, or i want to pursue these things
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Because the world tells me that's what's going to satisfy
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Me, and that's what's going to make me happy.
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No, it leads to disaster. it leads to destruction.
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It leads to a gaping hole on the inside of you, always.
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Because only jesus can fulfill that.
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Me ask you a question.
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Have you rejected the knowledge of god
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Because of being stubborn?
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Remember, we talked about this last week to the prophet samuel
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Said to king saul, stubbornness is as bad as worshiping idols
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Because it means you're worshiping yourself
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And you're saying that you know better than god.
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So god's not
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Hiding his wisdom from us, but not everyone accepts it.
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But if you need it,
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Listen to this james one verse five if you need wisdom,
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Ask our generous god and he will give it to you.
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He's not going to condemn you
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And he's not going to rebuke you for asking.
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And i think that's amazing.
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The god that created all things, god that created this world
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And created your breath and your life
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Knows you by name.
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So telling people and stop telling yourself that you're
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Nobody.
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God knows you by name.
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You are a somebody.
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He sees you as valuable
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And he wants you to ask.
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He wants you to listen
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Because there's a danger here that we see in solomon's life
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What causes us to reject god's word.
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It is this.
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It's an unguarded heart.
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When we do not guard our heart, we allow the small compromises
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To come on in.
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So the title of today's message is the unguarded heart.
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The bible talks a lot about this.
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And by the way, i got a lot to show you today.
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So try to keep up at your best.
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If you need more notes,
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It will be on youtube later tonight.
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Okay, but i want to show you a lot today.
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And again, if you have your bibles,
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We're going to be in
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First kings
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Chapter three, and then we're going
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To skip over to chapter ten.
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We're going to talk about
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Two of solomon's most famous, most known stories.
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And what we're going to see out of these stories is
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This is what god used to elevate solomon publicly.
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It's the very thing solomon would fail to guard privately
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Because it's very easy to worship the blessings.
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Okay.
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Instead of the creator that gave you the blessings.
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And this is what we see in solomon's life.
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So point number one is this
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We're going to learn from the first story.
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Is this bitterness would rather destroy than hill
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Bitterness.
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If there's a root of bitterness in your heart,
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It will always seek to destroy than to heal.
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It will always
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Seek to hurt others, then to actually see a resolution.
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So it's kind of funny to me.
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Solomon, just ask god for wisdom.
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All right.
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So let's continue chapter three, verse 16.
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He asked god for wisdom.
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God's like, all right, i'm going to bless you.
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So let's look at how this day is going so far.
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Verse 16.
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Sometime later, two prostitutes come to the king
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And they have an argument that needs to be settled.
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Does that sound like a good day?
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I think you think king solomon woke up that morning thinking,
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This day is going to be like this.
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I'm going to have to deal with what? deal with who?
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What's going on?
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The thing is, people can't just appear before the king.
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I need you to know this.
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This means that this has been a case for a while.
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It's already gone to the judges.
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It's already gone to the elders.
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And it means that nobody can solve this case by human logic.
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So the case got so high and so bad and so known that
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The only person that can solve it is now king solomon.
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And so king solomon asked for wisdom.
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Well, he gets this case that nobody else can solve.
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And again,
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We know that it's this way because it didn't want me to 16
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Verse 18 that states,
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Appoint judges and officials
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For yourselves and for each of your tribes,
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And all the talents of the lord your god
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That he has giving you.
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For they must judge the people fairly.
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And so remember, solomon is called by god.
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We're going to learn two lessons.
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And this story right here
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When it comes to being called by god, here's the first lesson.
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Some problems don't need more opinions.
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They need more godly wisdom.
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Okay.
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Some of the problems in your life
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Don't need more, just opinions and views.
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It's very dangerous today to put a question
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Out on facebook because what are you going to get?
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You're going to get all kinds of answers.
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Y'all can say amen.
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Y'all can say, that's right in here
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Because you're going to get all kinds of answers.
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And here's the deal.
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You're allowing people to pour into you.
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You have no idea how they're living.
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You don't even know if they're hearing from god.
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Right? let me say it like this. okay?
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Not everyone is anointed to speak into your situation.
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Not everybody knows what god is doing in your life.
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Have you ever asked too many people for help
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And left more confused than when you started?
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Think about it.
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You ask so-and-so and they're like, no, no, no, you can.
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You can eat steak every day.
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This is how you build muscle and proteins.
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I like what i just learned from that.
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And somebody else is saying, no, no, no.
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If you eat steak every day,
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You're going to clog your arteries
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And your arteries are going to check out.
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Well, then who do i listen to now?
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I feel more confused.
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The food pyramid just changed and flipped upside down.
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Like, who's right?
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Who's wrong?
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I learned something on youtube,
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But i learned something different on tiktok. like.
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And what i'm saying is there's a lot of options today.
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And here's what i've learned
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In my personal life, because the problem is
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We're not going to god.
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We're going to people too much.
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That's right.
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We're not in the word of god.
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We don't even know what god said about something.
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Did you know that the word of god
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Actually speaks about relationships?
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Did you know that the word of god
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Actually tells you how to be a better husband,
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How to be a better spouse, how to be a better wife,
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How to how to
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Handle your children when there's issues going on,
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The word of god will direct you and lead you
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Because the word of god is for my peace, my feet.
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When it feels like i'm in the darkness.
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But when
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To many of us comes, when multiple advice
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Comes, what i notice is a confusion follows
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Because too many voices can lead into too many directions.
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And i can prove to you right now what i mean by that.
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Have you ever got on netflix at night and you're scrolling
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And it's been an hour
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And you still don't know what to watch?
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And then it's been two hours and i'm looking at my wife like,
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What do you want to watch?
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And she's like, i didn't even pay attention.
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Did you not pick out anything?
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No. and i keep scrolling.
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It's not that there isn't options.
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There's too many options.
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It's not options i needed i need clarity.
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And i just want you to think about it like,
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Are you asking the wrong people for a vice?
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Are you opening up yourself to everybody around you
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Instead of actually being in the word of god
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And hearing the word of the lord?
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Because james said, all you have to do is ask
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And he gives you wisdom.
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And so let's keep reading here first, kings 317 through 22.
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Now the women start arguing.
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Please, my lord, one of them
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Began, this woman and i live in the same house.
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I gave birth to a baby while she was with me in the house.
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Three days later, this woman also had a baby.
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Okay, we were alone.
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There were only two of us in the house, but her baby died
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During the night when she rode over on it.
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Now listen to this.
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Then she got up in the night and she took my son
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From beside me.
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While i was asleep, she laid her dead
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Child in my arms and took mine to sleep beside her.
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I pictured this scenario
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Right here and in the morning when i try to nurse my son.
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He was dead, but when i looked more closely
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In the morning light, i saw that it wasn't my son at all.
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This is like a talk show going on right now.
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All right.
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Solomon is the one that's judging everything right now.
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This is really heavy.
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Very heavy.
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Like he has to decide whose son does this belong to?
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Because this woman says it's her son,
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And this other woman says it's her son.
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And then here's what happened. the woman interrupted.
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It certainly was your son and the living child's mind.
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So they start arguing and bickering.
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No, the first woman said, the living child is mine.
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The dead one is yours.
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And so they argued back and forth before the king.
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And i'm just wondering,
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Like if solomon looking at them like, oh, no,
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I don't
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Know, like who brought them to me?
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You ever asked that question?
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The thing is, you might have prayed
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For god to ask
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Or god to make you a leader, make your faith stronger and
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Guide you.
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And that also means
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This is the second thing i want to show you.
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It also means
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That you have been called by god to be a problem solver.
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You have been called by god to be a problem solver.
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Have you noticed
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When you gave your life
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To jesus, all of a sudden more people need a vice from you.
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People have issues.
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Maybe before
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Nobody talked to you and now people are just
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Unloading their problems.
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And sometimes you're like, god, why are these people
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Coming up to me?
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And they're crying and they're telling me
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What's going on in their life, and god's like,
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Oh, remember that prayer i called you?
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I gave you supernatural wisdom.
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Notice, solomon, ask for wisdom.
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So god brings him a case.
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Solomon asked for wisdom.
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So god brings him a case that nobody else can solve.
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Meaning you better be careful over your prayer life.
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God made me a leader.
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Okay, i must send some people that are going to make
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You want to pull your hair out.
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That will drive you crazy and say things about you,
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But it's going to make your leadership skills better.
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You're going to learn some things.
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God make me stronger.
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I pray that so many times thinking
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It would just help me bench press more
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And instead god
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May allow some battles in your life, some goliath,
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Some giants, some mountains that need to be moved.
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What about when you ask god for faith?
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How do you receive faith?
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How does your faith grow
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Through trials?
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Do persecution?
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See, god
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Sees you as valuable as gold,
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But gold must be refined in the fire.
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And so sometimes you got to go through the fire.
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You got to go through these trials.
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You got to go through these things
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To realize how good god is.
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And let me tell you this,
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Because don't be afraid to pray those prayers.
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I'm not i'm not saying that to put fear in you,
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Because how many of you have been through some things
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And you wouldn't take it back
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Because of the lesson you learned through it?
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Like god really healed your heart.
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He's made you more mature.
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He's made you a better leader.
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Like you know where your faith is today
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Because you risked it all before.
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All right.
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So these are actually blessings that lead
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To a beautiful testimony.
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But i need to prepare you because you may be asking
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God, give me an answer and a blessing.
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And god's like, no, no, no,
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It's not going to come in a blessing.
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It's going to come in a situation.
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And i have called you to be a problem solver.
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Also, let me give you a revelation here.
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This could mean the very problem you're complaining about
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Is just confirmation over your calling.
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The people that you're complaining about
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Could just be confirmation of what god is showing you.
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So god didn't bring these women to solomon to overwhelm him.
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He brought them to reveal what god had placed in solomon
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And what god was going to do through solomon.
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Okay, so let's keep reading.
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See what happens next.
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First kings chapter three, verse 23 through 26.
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Then the king said, i like how he said this.
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Let's get the facts straight.
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Both of you claim that the living child is yours,
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And each says that the dead one belongs to the other.
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And i believe the women were like, yes, yes, lord.
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Yes, king.
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Tell us which one?
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And the king said, all right.
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Bring me a sword.
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Like i wonder if solomon was laughing on the inside, like,
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All right,
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Okay, we're going to find out who's really the mother.
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Bring me a sword.
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People are looking around,
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You know?
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The women are getting nervous.
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At least one.
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And so a sword was brought to the king, and then he said,
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Now listen to this.
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Cut the living baby, the living child in two,
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And get half to one woman and half to the other.
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Now you may be reading this thinking, wow, that's cruel.
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But solomon had supernatural wisdom.
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There's a reason he's saying this,
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Because what happened next?
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Then the woman who was the real mother of the living
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Child, who had loved him very much, cried out,
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Oh no, no, my lord, give her the child.
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Please do not kill him.
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Please don't kill my son.
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I love
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Him too much for him to hurt.
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And so i would rather give my baby up and see him live
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Than to take his life.
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But the other woman said what the other woman said.
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All right.
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He will neither be yours nor mine.
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Divide him.
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Cut him up between the two of us.
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And so this goes into something else
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I want to show you today that i believe is very important.
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We need to understand the revelations of this.
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This is the voice of bitterness.
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The woman that's saying out loud, cut
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The baby in half is full of bitterness.
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You know what bitterness sounds like? it sounds like this.
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If i can't have it, you can't have it.
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If i can't be happy, you can't be happy.
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Bitterness will try anything that it can,
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Because it's demonic.
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I'm going to show you in a second.
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It is demonic to ruin everybody else's life
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Because you're due to angry over your own situation.
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Bitterness loves to blame god.
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All right, let's let's dive into this a little deeper.
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There's two warnings about bitterness,
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According to the bible, that i want to show you.
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The first thing it says, bitterness
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Would rather burn the whole house
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Down to let someone else be happy in it.
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You know, somebody like that.
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Have you met somebody that used to be generous?
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He used to be loving,
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Used to be friendly, used to be there for you.
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But then something happened in their life.
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And it's like a light switch just.
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Just went down.
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And all of a sudden the light disappeared
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And everything became dark in their life.
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Their face looks different, their posture looks different.
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The way that they speak to you, it's always negative.
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All right. when pain.
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Please listen.
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When pain goes untreated, it turns cruel.
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When pain goes untreated, when you're like, you know what?
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I'm a tough person.
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I'm just going to hold it in myself.
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You can.
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God didn't design you like that.
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You could be stubborn all you want,
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But you have to give it over to the lord.
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There are things that you cannot handle.
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There are things that you cannot heal.
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Bitterness is pain is the definition of it.
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Bitterness is pain that refuses to heal.
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That's what bitterness is.
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Grief that turns into rage,
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Hurt that turns into hatred.
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Loss that turns into revenge.
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Bitterness does not want relief.
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It wants company.
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All right.
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Have you ever heard the saying
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Misery loves not the single life?
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Misery doesn't love the single life.
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Misery loves company.
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Misery loves other people to be miserable with them.
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And so it
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Tries to pull other people in, putting other people down.
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All right, guys, that's all the time we have for today.
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But i pray that today's message bless your life.
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There is a reason you heard this word today.
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It's not by mistake.
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You're here for a reason and god has a plan for you.
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And listen, if you love this church
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And thinking about giving to this church,
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All you have to do
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Is visit our website at bobby chandler ministries.
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And it's very easy to give.
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And once you give, listen, you're helping change lives.
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Because of your faithful giving, we're able to reach
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Not only the nation, but the world.
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We're bringing the gospel of jesus christ
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Into everyone's home as much as we can,
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So that they know the love of god.
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And listen.
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If you want to hear more sermons as well, don't forget
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To see you again very soon.
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Bobby Chandler - The Unguarded Heart: How Small Compromises Destroy a Life

July 15, 2026 | 24:58

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