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What are some of the most subtle pitfalls

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and attacks from the devil

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that you can warn others about?

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Kevin: Well, of course, 
the devil's crafty.

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I think one of the pitfalls

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is taking Christians to an extreme.

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They go from one extreme to another

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all the time.

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As Lloyd-Jones said,

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it doesn't matter what extreme you're on,

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the devil's always at the end of it.

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People think a church is too big,

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so they go another extreme of:

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well, we're going to meet in a house.

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(incomplete thought)

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The other pitfall of the devil

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is "only-isms."

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What I mean is it has to do

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with getting out of balance.

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It's when they make minor things

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major things.

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Being a Christian or the essential thing

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is you've got to be home schooling,

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or you've got to be 
doing street evangelism,

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or it can be so many things,

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but it's not centered upon Christ.

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So I think definitely

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taking people to extremes;

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getting people out of balance

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is the big problem.

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Question: And personally, yourself,

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when you were saved -

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we're all fighting to be balanced -

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are there times you felt 
like you got off balance?

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And what happened to make you see

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you were getting off balance?

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Kevin: One thing that the 
Lord's always shown me

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and has been faithful when 
I have got off balance,

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normally by seeing people who are

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obviously Christians; godly men

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who have a different opinion from me

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and they're not off balance like me.

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And you start to realize, 
hang on a minute,

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there's maybe something 
wrong with me here.

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We've got to have that humility.

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I think of the examples

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when Jesus was exhausted by the well

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in John's Gospel there,

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and of course, His 
disciples went to get Him

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something to eat.

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And He's talking to that woman there

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and it led to her salvation 
and many others.

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But when His disciples came back,

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it says they couldn't understand

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why He was talking to a woman,

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let alone a Samaritan woman.

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But it also says they 
dared not question Him.

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You see, their conscience was going off,

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saying He shouldn't be doing that!

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Why is He doing that?

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But I think they'd learned enough

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about holiness to say,

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well, this guy's maybe a 
little more holy than me.

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I better keep my mouth quiet here.

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And that has really helped me

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when I'm with other brothers

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more mature over the years,

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and to realize maybe they know a bit

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more about holiness than me.

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(incomplete thought)