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You children, you're
watching your parents.
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Listen, your parents aren't perfect.
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And don't sit there and
look at their life and say,
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well, I see where they fail
and where they fall short.
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What is that?
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What is that to you?
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Are you going to look at that and say,
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well, that justifies me to ignore Christ?
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No, all that shows you is
that sinners need Christ.
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And we need Him all the way to the end,
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to the very last day.
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But are you going to turn
your back and say
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I don't need Him? You better think again.
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Because I'll tell you, that day is coming
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when you're going to have
to stand before God
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and you'll think right then.
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You'll know.
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Change your mind now.
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Rethink this thing now.
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Some of you young people,
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you gather out there.
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It's like as fast as you can get away -
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get away from this thinking,
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get away from this
religion of your parents,
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get out there, get closer
towards the world,
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move out towards the sidewalk.
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We see you out there.
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(incomplete thought)
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Remember how it is,
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the devil plucks up the seed.
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And you want to get out there
and let each other pluck it up.
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The evil influences,
the worldly influences,
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let it get plucked up
because you want it gone.
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You feel better, but listen,
there's a day coming
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when you won't feel better.
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You better think again.
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This thing that you want
to so casually throw off
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and run away from and live
it up and live your life,
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you better think again.
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Because what Jesus said is those
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who believe in Him,
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those who come to Him,
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He gives to them life and more abundantly.
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You're on the way of death.
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You better think again.
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It feels like life.
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It feels like freedom,
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but it's a devilish one
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and it's a deception.
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And all the time, Jesus is calling you,
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"Come unto Me.
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I'll give you life and I'll give it
to you more abundantly,
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and I will forgive every
single one of the sins,
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and I'll take you to paradise
just like I did that thief."
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You better think again.
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What I'm offering you is the
Treasure of all treasures.
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Is it offensive to tell people
those kinds of things?
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Is it offensive to tell people that
their sins mount up to Heaven?
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And that pretty soon, the
ground underneath them
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is not going to bear them up anymore?
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It's going to give way
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and they're going to fall right
into that lake of fire?
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Yes, that offends people,
but that is the truth.
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And we need to call them:
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Think again. Think again. Think again.
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Ask yourselves this question.
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Some of you, you're sitting here,
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you know you're not Christians,
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or you know you've been playing a game.
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This excerpt was taken
from the full sermon:
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What is Repentance?