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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)