Aug. 29, 2024

Abomination

Abomination

Let’s discuss what God calls an abomination in Proverbs 20:10

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Let’s discuss what God calls an abomination in Proverbs 20:10

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Looking at our world from a theological perspective. This is

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the Theology Central podcast making Theology Central. Good morning everyone.

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It is Thursday, August the twenty ninth, twenty twenty four.

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It is currently eleven thirteen am Central Time, and I

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am coming to you live from the Theology Central studio

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located right here in Abilene, Texas. Are you familiar with

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this Hebrew word? I want you to listen carefully. Are

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you familiar with this Hebrew word Strong's age eighty four

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forty one? To ava to ava, to a va, to

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a va? Are you familiar with toe va? Do you

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know what that Hebrew word is translated into English? To

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ava to ava? That word is translated typically as are

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you ready? What do you think? Abomination? Toy Va is

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typically translated abomination. It is abominable thing, abominable, abominaal bull

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If I can speak correctly abomination, abominable thing, or abominable,

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that is typically how it's translated. Especially in the King James,

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toy va is used one hundred and seventeen times in

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the King James, one hundred and thirteen times abomination, two

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times abominable thing, and two times abominable bull. All right,

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but typically so abominable. A abomination is the typical way

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it's translated. Again, It's used one hundred and seventeen times.

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Let me state those again. Clearly, don't know why am

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I I'm having such difficulty, but one hundred and thirteen

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times abomination, two times abominable thing, and two times abominable bull. Now,

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the idea of or the meaning of the word, depending

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on how I mean, There's kind of a lot of

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different shades here, but you get the basic idea, something disgusting.

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That's really the idea, mainly from a moral perspective, something

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that is disgusting and abhorrence, abominable, abomination, a disgusting thing.

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That's really the idea is something disgusting from a moral perspective.

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Are you familiar with toy va? Are you familiar with

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the idea of abomination? If you've been a Christian for

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any length of time, you have heard sermons about this

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is an abomination to God, this is abominable, this is wrong,

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this is disgusting, this is horrible. Now here's what I

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want you to do. Now. I want you to forget church.

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I want you to forget everything, and I want you

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to grab a piece of paper. If you can, you

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can write down the word abominable, right, or you can

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write down the word abomination, however you would like to

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write it down. Write down the word abomination. That's the

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one we'll go with, since it's translated that way one

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hundred and thirteen times. Abomination. Write down the word And

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here's what I want you to do. I'll give you

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just a couple of seconds, but you should be able

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to do this quickly, right, from a moral perspective, from

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behavior action. When you think of things, what things are

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an abomination to you? You find them disgusting? Forget church.

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I want you to just be brutally honest with yourself.

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You think it's disgusting, you can't stand it. It bothers you,

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it's repulsive, It angers you, it frustrates you, whatever the

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emotion you want to attach to it. What things do

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you list at Let's try to come up with five

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five things that to you are abominable to you, are

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an abomination to you, or an abominable thing. I want

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you to I want you to you to just be

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brutally honest with yourself, all right, don't worry about whether well,

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I don't know if I can have that feeling. Don't worry.

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This is just unfiltered. This disgusted me. This, this makes

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me angry. You feel it, You have an emotion. It's

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not something you have to pretend. It's not something you

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have to say, well, it's an abomination, because you know

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God says it is. I want your unfiltered reality. What

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is abominable to you? What is an abomination to you personally?

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Your feelings, your emotion? Now, I think if you've been

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in church for any link that does so come up

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with five. Let's do this, come up with five for

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your own this is your your own personal feeling. What

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just it just absolutely it just I mean you know it.

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I mean anyone around you will would see your facial expression,

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would see your reaction. Now, you may not have anything.

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If nothing really discussed you, if nothing really bothers you,

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then by all means, I guess you can say, well,

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nothing discussed me. Okay, we may need to have a

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different discussion. But five things then what I want you

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to do? So they want you to write your own

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five so abomination your list? What is an abomination to me?

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All right? What is abominable to me? However, you would

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like to go abomination again is the word. I think

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that's the way we're going to go with. Since it's

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translated that way one hundred and thirteen times, I think

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that's just the one we'll stick with, right, But I

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just want you to know it's translated these other ways

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as well. To a vas is translated these other ways. Okay,

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so you got that all right, your own personal five.

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Then I want you to write down five things that

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you have heard, and you can try to list them.

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I've heard this one the most, I've heard this one

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the second most, the third, and maybe it's so close

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it's hard to distinguish. But I want you to write down, basically,

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five things you have heard over and over and over

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in your Christian life. This is an abomination. This is

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an abomination. This is an abomination. I want you to

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write down the five things that you think are an abomination,

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and five things you have just heard in your Christian

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life time and time again. And this is an abomination.

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This is an abominable thing, This is abominable, This is however,

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whatever word that they're using, God hates this. This is disgusting,

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this is vile, and just over and over and over

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you've heard it. In church. So the five things that

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you just you feel like it really impacts you, and

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five things the church stresses. I really want you to

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write these down. I know a lot of times when

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I tell people to do this, they're just doing whatever

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they want. But I really want you to write them down.

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Your five and what we'll call the church the five

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things that are most abominable, five things that are an

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abomination to you. Five things are an abomination to the

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church that you have experienced. Don't worry about what other

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churches think. Now, it may not be your church in

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this sense. What you've heard sermons about, what you've heard preached.

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Sometimes you've listened to far more sermons and other churches

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than you have in your own church, especially if you

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listen to a lot of sermons, right if you use

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the sermons two point oh app all the time, well,

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then you've probably heard more sermons from other pastors than

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you have from your own church. So just the general

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sense of what I know, what number one would be.

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I think I've heard the most this is an abomination

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to God, and I've heard it preached over and over

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and over and over and over and over and over

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and over and over and over and over and over

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and over, and yeah, I think you probably know which

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one I've heard. So your top five and what you

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would consider Christianity or the Church's top five things that

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are an abomination to God? These things are these things

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are disgusting, These things are vile. Now, how does your

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five match their five? Are you in the same page? Now,

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maybe you're five matches there five because you were raised

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in Christianity. And but the key I don't want you

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to see, That's what I was trying to do, is

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not for you to just give me the church answer.

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I want you to just be honest with yourself. You

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may have heard your whole life that this is an abomination,

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but you've never really been that disgusted or bothered by it.

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I know you're not supposed to say that, but sometimes

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you just got to be honest with yourself. Now, why

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am I starting this broadcast that way? Well, you can

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hear that. I've got my Bible in my hands. Here's

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what happened. I came up here, I sat down in

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front of the microphone. I'm like, well, what do I

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do today? What do I do today? It's Thursday, We're

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fast approaching holiday weekend. I know I've got to do

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some sermon prep. I've got a lot of things going

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on this weekend that I need that's gonna take me

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away from being able to record to see if we

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need to finish that Ephesians four. We need to do

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a little work on this. And I'm just kind of just,

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you know, flipping around, just trying to kind of figure

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out what to do, what to do, what to do.

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I've got different books. I'm looking at devotionals. I'm just

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kind of looking. I'm looking at notebooks, right I just

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I'm just kind of flipping through all kinds of different things.

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And I'm sitting here. In the meantime, I have this

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beta dot sermon audio dot com website open. I see

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that again. It's all colleges. Ambassador College was broadcasting. Bob

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Jones was broadcasting Fairhaven, a church in college is broadcasting

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right now. I'm like, okay, well that's what I told

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everyone to focus on, so let me click on Bob Jones.

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I clicked on Bob Jones talking about the Holy Spirit

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being her advocate. So I was like, okay, some interesting

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things with the Greek word. Okay, I'm like I could

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do something with that. That's interesting, all right. So I'm

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just and then that their webcast kind of went off

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the air for a second. They were having some kind

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of technical difficulty. So I was just like, finally, I

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just kind of turned that off, and I said, here,

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and I have this new Bible sitting on the table here,

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Foundation study Bible, and I just opened it. I just

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opened it. It just fell open, and I kind of

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looked down and the very first word I saw was

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the word abomination. There's the word abomination. The sentence was

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abomination to the Lord. Abomination to the Lord. That's the

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first thing I saw, right, So I grabbed my pencil

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and I got ready to underline abomination, abomination. And so

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my mind just started thinking of all the things I've

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heard and abomination to God. God hates this, This is disgusting.

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I started thinking about my own things that I would

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consider to be an abomination. And then I looked up

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from the word abomination to the verse itself, and this

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is Proverbs chapter twenty, verse ten, and I read this.

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Divers weights and divers measures, both of them are alike

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abomination to the Lord. Diverse waits and divers measures, both

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of them are like abomination to the Lord, and I

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kind of like sat back and I'm like, wait a minute,

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Wait a minute, wait a minute. You never hear this one, right,

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This is not in the top five, this is not

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like well, this is an abomination to me. So then

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I'm like, okay, well that's what the King James says.

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So then I reached down grabbed another bible that's pretty

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pretty new, and I'm like, okay, well, let me go

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to Proverbs chapter twenty verse ten in this Bible. Proverbs

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chapter twenty verse ten in this Bible, and like, how

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does it? It says, and it's almost identical. Diverse waits

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and diverse are diverse. So diverse is the way the

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King James, the new King James has diverse weaights and

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diverse measures are both alike and abomination to the Lord.

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All right, so we have weights and measures and abomination

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to the Lord. I'm like, okay, so I need to

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do a little work here. I need to do to

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do a little work here. So I'm like, okay, what

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exactly is going on? And Proverbs chapter twenty verse ten,

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So now like now my mind is going, right, my

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mind is going I'm like, okay, all right, abomination abomination.

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All right, I know the basic idea of what abomination is.

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It's more it's morally disgusting. It's vile. God loathes it,

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God hates it. It's an abomination to God. I'm like, okay,

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so I would have not have ever thought, Oh wait,

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diverse weights and diverse measures are both an abomination to

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the Loyd. Like, when I saw the word abomination, my

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mind immediately went to different actions and different activities and

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different things. It did not go to this. This was

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not even in my top five if bro, I don't

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know if it would even be in my top ten.

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So I was I'm really giving it much thought. So

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I looked it up in a different translation, differing weights

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and differing measures. The Lord detests them both. And I'm like, okay,

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so divers diverse, differing weights, and differing measures. Whoa yeah,

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when I hear of differing weights and differing measures, man,

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that is an abomination. That's the ski Okay, wait, well no, okay,

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let's do a little bit more work here, right. So

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this proverb seems to be addressing the issue of dishonesty

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and injustice, specifically in the context of business and trade

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in ancient times. Transactions were often conducted using weights and

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measures to determine the value of goods. Dishonest merchants would

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use different scales or measures, one for buying and another

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for selling, and they did this to cheat their customers

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or suppliers, giving them an unfair advantage. All right, so

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let's listen to that again. This proverb Proverbs twenty ten

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addresses the issue of dishonesty and injustice, specifically in the

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context of business and trade. In ancient times, transactions were

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often conducted using weights and measures to determine the value

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of goods. Dishonest merchants would use different scales or measures,

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one for buying and another for selling, and they were

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doing this to cheat their customers or suppliers, giving them

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an unfair advantage. So things had to be so if

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you look at this idea, things had to be weighed,

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things had to be measured. So you would use one

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that when when you were let's go through this, when

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you were buying something, as the merchant, you were buying something, well,

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you would use one so that it would be advantageous

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to you. Right, you would have to pay, you would

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be able to pay less and yet get more. But

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when you were selling, you wouldn't use weights and measures

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that would make it cost more for them, so that

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you got more money for less things that you were

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giving out. So when you were buying, you wanted to

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be cheaper yet get more. When you were selling, you

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wanted it to cost more, but you give less of

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whatever you're selling. So then you would always do this

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in a way that would be advantageous to you, no

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matter how dishonest it was. You weren't doing it to

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be honest. You were doing it simply for the bottom line,

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so that you would get more money. It would be

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advantageous to you. It would be beneficial to you, didn't

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matter if it hurt your supplier, didn't matter if it

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hurt your customer. You were just doing it for your

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ultimate good. So this verse in Proverbs twenty ten condemns

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the practice, emphasizing that God values honest and integrity fairness

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in all dealings the term detest or abominable. They use

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the word abominable, and some translations show the strong disapproval

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God has to deceitful practices. So this is the idea

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that in business, you're not quite honest, you're being somewhat deceptive,

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you're somehow manipulating things ultimately for your good and not

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the good of other people. And God, this is abominable.

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This is an abomination. God detests this. Is that in

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your top five? Is that what you've heard in church? Hey, God,

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it's an abomination to you who own businesses, who do

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things that are not quite honest, that's not quite above board.

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you're not being truly honest. It's an abomination. It's an

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abombas when the church does things and it's business dealings

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or it's practices, or it's fundraising, that's not quite honest

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or or fair, or there's something questionable about it. This

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Proverbs Proverbs twenty ten highlights the importance of integrity and

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daily life, especially in financial and business interactions, and underscores

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the principle that deceitful practices, even those that might seem

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minor are justified for personal gain, are offensive to God.

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There are practices and things people may do in business,

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even in churches, and their business dealings and financial dealings

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that may seem justified, but God, they are an offense

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to God. They're an abomination to God. See that's always

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the thing when it comes to the Bible, is it's

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never about what we feel or what we think. It's

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about how God sees something. And almost inevitably we find

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ourself and doing things that, from God's perspective is an

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abomination or an abominable thing, and we may not quite

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see it as that severe. Using different weights and measures

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kind of working business to your favor. Come on, how

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many Christians would be like, Hey, that's an abomination? I

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would say most Christians don't. Most Christians are very much

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pro you know, hey, make all the money you can't.

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They tend to have a much more of a conservative

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perspective on business and making money, maybe more so than

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a truly Christian perspective. The use of differing weights and

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measures metaphorically extends beyond conmorce commerce to any situation where

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deceit or manipulation is used to exploit others. It points

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to the broader Biblical call for justice and righteousness in society.

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As believers God, we need to see God hates these

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deceitful practices, whether it's in commerce in any other and

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we as Christians must then go and live in a

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way that is well trying to be fair and just

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and our dealings. The verse reflects God's nature is just

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and holy. He requires his people to reflect his character

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by acting with honesty and fairness. The strong language used detest,

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according to some translations, abominable and abomination serves as a

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reminder that God's standards for righteousness are non negotiable. So

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in what ways have you been guilty of some not

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quite honest dealings? Have you ever sold something? Maybe you

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put an ad on Facebook or other sites, and you

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were selling something but you weren't quite being honest so

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that you could get a little extra money for it.

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You got extra money, and maybe the people didn't quite

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get what they thought they were getting. They paid more

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for really what it was worth. Come on, have you

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ever done that? Come on? In what ways have you

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been somewhat dishonest, somewhat not accurate in your business dealings?

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Come on? At work? What are some things that are

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done that a little shady, not quite ethical? Maybe maybe questionable,

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morally questionable maybe not just right now? How do you now?

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In some cases you're kind of like what do I

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do here? Like you're you're you may be just the worker.

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Now you can obviously not engage in said activity. Maybe

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you're stuck, maybe maybe you don't know what to do.

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But clearly, if you own the business and you have

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power to change it now, now, now you become even

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morally you become even more morally responsible. In modern terms,

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this principle applies to any form of dishonesty or unethical behavior,

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whether in business, personal relationships, are even in one's personal life.

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It is a call for consistency and ethics. What one

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expects from others, one should also practice. What you expect

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is what you should practice. Oh don't you wish that's

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the way it really worked. Proverbs twenty ten teaches that

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God abhors dishonesty, specifically in business practices where deceitful measures

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are used to gain an unfair advantage. It calls for

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integrity and fairness in all our dealings. It reflects God's

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just character. The verse serves as a reminder that ethical

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consistency is crucial in all aspects of life, and that

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God holds people accountable for their actions, especially when they

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harm others. So here's again, here's what I want you

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to do. Have those five things that you that are

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an abomination to you, that are an abominable thing to you?

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And five things you've heard the church say abomination, abomination, abomination,

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and look at that. And then where does different weights

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and measures show up in either list? Con Where do

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they show up? Different weights and measures? Where do they

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show up? I've seen Christians have some weird things, like

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like like certain things that's an abomination and it needs

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to be ridded, I mean, it needs to be removed

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from society, and they get all up in arms. But

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there'll be these other things, and you'll like, not only

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do businesses do these types of things. Maybe the person

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you're trying to vote into office because you're fighting the

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other abominations, it's guilty of these very kind of shady

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business practices. Do you not care? Well, no, that's the abomination.

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Is it weird? How we kind of create our like

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our you know, top list of abominations and that's the

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only ones we care about. So Proverbs twenty ten. This

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Hebrew word Strong's age eighty four forty one to ava

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to ava, to ava to ava abomination. It's used to

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a vas used one hundred and seventeen times, one hundred

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and seventeen times, one hundred and thirteen times abomination, two

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times abominable thing, two times abominable. Yeah, see, I can

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actually say the words correctly. See how frustrated I get

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when I don't say things correctly? All Right, it's an

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abomination to me if you if you wanted my own

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personal thing, it's an abomination to me. When I try

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to do a broadcast and I mess up worse, I

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get probably more frustrated and more upset and more bothered

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and more disgusted by that. Then I probably do my

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own sin, which is utterly ridiculous, which just demonstrates I

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care more about how I'm perceived and my own pride

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then I do a boss. See, sometimes are what we

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think is an abominable thing or an abomination has more

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to do with us and how we really feel about

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the thing. Okay, but yeah, that's a whole different broadcast,

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isn't it. But do we have a correct understand? So

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then I continue to do a little bit more work,

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and I'm like, well, let's just consider then, let's just

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consider here some things. And so I did a little

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bit more work here, let me find all my notes.

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of put this down, was, why does it seem that

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so much attention is given to other sins but maybe

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not so much like these sins but not these sins.

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almost an obsessive, compulsive focus on these, but not these.

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So I'm like, well, why is that? But I'm like, well,

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before I get into that, let's do this. Let's do this,

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let's consider let's see here if I have these, I'm

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going to skip these, Let's go down to this. So

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then I'm like, well, let's try to figure out what

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God considers to be an abomination right now. I almost

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was going to just leave this as like an assignment,

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but I've already kind of given you a brief one.

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You're write down your five what you think the church is,

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the church's top five abominable things are, But what does

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God say? Well, the Bible uses the term abomination to

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describe things that are detestable to God. These abominations can

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be actions, attitudes, practices, or objects. Now I want you

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to hear that they can be actions, they can be attitudes,

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they can be practices or objects that go against God's character.

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Here is a list of things that the Bible explicitly

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describes as abominations to God. All right, so we're just

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gonna go through this list. You may want to write this. Now,

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you've got your five, you've got what you believe the

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church's top five. Let's just go through this list. I

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don't know if I'm gonna make this an exhaustive and

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cover everything, but I want to throw some things out

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at you that maybe we tend to look at. Here's

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one idolatry. Worshiping idols or false gods is frequently condemned

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as an abomination. Let's look at a up some scriptures here.

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Let's go to a Deuteronomy chapter seven. Deuteronomy chapter seven.

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I'm gonna have two different Bibles here so we can

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look up if we need to look up different translations.

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Deuteronomy chapter seven, Verse twenty five. Deuteronomy seven twenty five.

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The graven image of their gods shall be burned with fire.

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Thou shalt not desire the silver or gold that is

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on them, nor take it unto thee lest they'd be

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snared therein, for it is an abomination to the Lord

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thy God. Neither shalt thou bring an abomination into Thine house.

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Lest thy'll be a cursed thing like it, but thou

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shall utterly detest it, and thou shall utterly abhor it

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for a cursed thing. No graven images, no form of idolla. Tree.

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Now immediately right there, you should get a little nervous,

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right because on one hand you can say, well, I

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don't make a graven image. But we all know we

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have all kinds of idols. Your life is riddled with them,

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My life is riddled with them. We all have these

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things we place before God. We all, in many cases

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we have graven image of God, in other words, a

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false image of the true God, which we've created in

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our own mind. Remember the famous saying God created us

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in his image, and we've returned the favor. We've basically

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recreated God into our own image. Sometimes our ideas of

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God is nothing more than a graven image. We just

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haven't carved it out of stone. Deuteronomy twenty seven, Deuteronomy,

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Chapter twenty seven. Deuteronomy Chapter twenty seven, Verse fifteen. Cursed

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be the man that maketh any graven or molten image

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and abomination onto the Lord the work of the hands

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of the craftsmen, and put it in a secret place.

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And all the peace people shall answer and say, Amen,

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it's an abomination, graven image idols, it's an abomination. How

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about Isaiah forty four Isaiah forty four, Isaiah chapter forty four,

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Verse nineteen. And none considereth in his heart, neither is

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there any knowledge nor understanding. Say I I have burned

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part of it in the fire? Yeay? Also I have

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baked bread upon the coals thereof, I have roasted flesh

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and edith, Shall I make thee residue thereof an abomination?

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Shall I fall down to the stalk of a tree? Now?

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The idea here is obviously of idolatry. The idea of

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is idolatry. In fact, if you look at it, go

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back to verse eighteen. They have not known nor understand,

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for he has shut their eyes. They cannot see their hearts,

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they cannot understand. None considered their's heart, neither their knowledge

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or understanding to say, I have burned part of it

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in the fire. Yeah, I of break baked bread upon

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the coals. Thereof I have roasted flesh and eateth it.

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And shall I make the residue thereof an abomination? Shall

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I fall down to the stalk of a tree? He

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feedeth on ashes a deceived heart, hath turned him aside

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that he cannot deliver his soul norse. And we can

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go on and read a little bit more. But the

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concept here still deals a little bit with the idea

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of idolatry. That one is not as clear as the others,

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but you get at least the concept. That one would

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require a little bit more work, but you get the

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basic at least the basic idea here. So idolatry is

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an abomination to God. Idolatry God detest, he hates, He

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wants idolatry destroyed, He wants it wiped out. Idolatry is

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we basically, we become blinded to the true God when

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we are worshiping an idol because we have now placed

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something before God so that we're blinded to God. So,

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then here is the question. You see those five things

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that you hate, those five things that are disgusting to you,

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those five things that are an abomination to you. You

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see those five things that the church yells about and

478
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yells about, and yells about and yells about. Now, how often,

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how frequently is the church and how frequently are you

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and I guilty of idolatry, which is an abomination. See

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here's what we have a tendency to do. We're quick

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to see every other abomination, we're not so quick to

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see our own. How about this one Proverbs twelve twenty two.

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Sorry for that Isaiah passage. It wasn't Sometimes you get

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into one and you're like, well, how much do I

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go back? How much do I try to work on

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00:32:00.880 --> 00:32:02.559
this one? That one would have been best just to

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leave off my list. But that's okay. I will find

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a way to try to get back to that Isaiah

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passage and do a little bit more work on it

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so we have a better understanding what's going on there.

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But in the meantime, let's move forward. Here we go.

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Proverbs twelve twenty two. Lying lips are an abomination to

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the Lord. Idolatry is an abomination. Lying is an abomination, lying,

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bearing false witness. Lying. Now, one of the things that

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I've driven has just I've almost lost it with a

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00:32:48.400 --> 00:32:51.720
good portion of Christianity is how many times pastors and

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churches and Christian podcasters turn on their microphone and they

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spread lies, they bear false witness, They make accusations, say

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things that are just not accurate or true, whether they're

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00:33:03.680 --> 00:33:06.799
talking about a politician, whether they're talking about this, they're

502
00:33:06.799 --> 00:33:10.920
talking about that. Christian radio promoted the lie over and

503
00:33:10.960 --> 00:33:13.480
over that the election was stolen, and then many of

504
00:33:13.480 --> 00:33:16.079
the people that they promoted then ended up in court

505
00:33:16.119 --> 00:33:19.920
and had to acknowledge that they never know they understood

506
00:33:19.920 --> 00:33:22.920
it wasn't real, but they were doing this or doing this.

507
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What I mean, we could go through, you know, Sidney Powell,

508
00:33:26.039 --> 00:33:29.960
Jenna Ellis, Rudy Giuliani, all the different things, Fox News

509
00:33:30.000 --> 00:33:33.279
being sued for defamation about all their lies they said

510
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about the dominion voting system, and then they had to

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pay Watch seven hundred and something million dollars over But

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Christians repeated those same lies and they and when you

513
00:33:41.680 --> 00:33:46.039
repeat those lives, you're you're literally bearing false witness, You're lying,

514
00:33:46.079 --> 00:33:50.119
you're spreading half truths, misinformation, disinformation. The one thing Christian

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00:33:50.240 --> 00:33:54.400
but does Christianity have an abomination is lying? No, because

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Christians engage in it constantly. We were guilty and by doolatry,

517
00:34:00.640 --> 00:34:04.799
and we're guilty of lying to ourselves, lying to others, lying.

518
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Who knows all the different ways we lie? How about

519
00:34:15.199 --> 00:34:17.519
this one? Han, he let's go to let's see, we're

520
00:34:17.559 --> 00:34:21.280
gonna go back to Isaiah. No, oh boy, the reason

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Isaiah versus. Sometimes I don't like quoting Isaiah Versus because

522
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there's so much context there. Sometimes, hopefully this one will

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be a little bit easier. We will see here we go.

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I well, God is very upset obviously with Israel here,

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and he says this bring no more vain oblations, incense

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as an abomination unto me, the new moons and Sabbaths,

527
00:34:49.239 --> 00:34:53.559
the calling of assemblies I cannot away with. It is iniquity,

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even the solemn meeting. So God does not want any

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more of their worship service, He doesn't want any more

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of their worship. He doesn't want any more of their

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00:35:02.000 --> 00:35:06.800
entire worship has become simply vain and empty. One source

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would say performing religious rituals without genuine faith or obedience

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is an abomination. How many times do we worship and

534
00:35:15.159 --> 00:35:30.840
it's just empty ritual, vain, meaningless. Here's one Proverbs sixteen.

535
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I believe, yeah, this one is very famous. Proverbs sixteen

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to five. Everyone that is proud in heart is an

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abomination to the Lord. Though hand joined in hand, he

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shall not be unpunished. I want you to hear that

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00:35:49.280 --> 00:35:54.320
everyone that is proud in heart is an abomination. Christians

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00:35:54.320 --> 00:35:57.920
will run around screaming, that's an abomination, that's an abomination.

541
00:35:59.119 --> 00:36:01.840
If you're proud and he heart, you are an abomination.

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If you have idolatry in your life, you are an abomination.

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00:36:05.440 --> 00:36:08.719
If you've engaged in bearing false witness and lying, you

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00:36:08.800 --> 00:36:13.039
are an abomination. See it's so quick to it's bizarre

545
00:36:13.159 --> 00:36:15.920
all the things you get Christians scream at about being

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an abomination. How come pride is not like maybe at

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00:36:19.199 --> 00:36:24.639
the top of the list. Shouldn't pride be number one?

548
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Idolatry and pride? Should I not be like the number one?

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And number two and then lying like number three? And

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the reason I would put these at the top because

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these are the ones the church is most guilty of.

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How about Proverbs six nineteen Proverbs Chapter six. I believe

553
00:36:52.440 --> 00:36:57.559
verse nineteen almost read the wrong chapter. A false witness

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that speaketh lies he that soweth. Well, let's go back

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to verse sixteen, because because we need the context here,

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all right, these six things that the Lord hates seven

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are an abomination under him, A proud look, a lying tongue,

558
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a hands that shed innocent blood, a heart that deviseth,

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weakened imagination, feet that be swift and running the mischief.

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And here we go a false witness that speaketh lies,

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and he that soweth discord among brethren. Stirring up conflict

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among others is an abomination. Stirring up conflict among others

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00:37:37.960 --> 00:37:41.719
is an abomination. You churches have people who always stirring

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00:37:41.800 --> 00:37:46.239
up conflict, always show stirring up discord by their gossip,

565
00:37:46.519 --> 00:37:50.800
their slander. They're getting it. They go share things about

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00:37:50.840 --> 00:37:53.639
people that they have no business sharing. They're people who

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will literally destroy someone's life. Also, please note here a

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lying tongue, a false witness that speaketh lies, bearing false witness.

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Lying is an abomination. Sowing discord is an abomination. Now,

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I want you to just think of those abominations. Idolatry, abomination,

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bearing false witness, and lying abomination. I want you to

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think about those. Pride is an abomination, sowing discord is

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an abomination. Being deceitful and business is an abomination. These

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are the abominations I want you to consider today. I

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really want you to consider these, all right, I want

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00:38:58.280 --> 00:38:59.920
you to consider these. I want you I want you

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to write down idolatry is an abomination. Are you guilty

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of idolatry? Putting anything before God? All right? The idea

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of having a wrong understanding of God, a graven image

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00:39:11.079 --> 00:39:18.159
of God, a fraudulent view of God. I want you

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to I want you and we've already covered this one,

582
00:39:19.960 --> 00:39:21.400
but you go ahead and write it down just a

583
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little different order. But I want you to write this

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one down. The obviously of dishonesty and deceit and manipulation

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00:39:28.960 --> 00:39:33.880
and business practices God's that's an abomination, So idolatry. How

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00:39:33.920 --> 00:39:39.559
you conduct yourself in business financial affairs with honesty and integrity?

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00:39:41.039 --> 00:39:46.039
When we worship God with empty ritual instead of anything meaningful,

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00:39:46.199 --> 00:39:48.719
our lips say one thing, but our hearts are far

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00:39:48.719 --> 00:39:51.039
from God. How many times have we worshiped God in

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00:39:51.079 --> 00:39:56.320
an empty, vain way? That's an abomination. Pride is an abomination.

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00:39:58.320 --> 00:40:02.440
Sowing discord is an abomas domination, being a false witness

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00:40:02.440 --> 00:40:08.519
and lying is an abomination. Sowing discord is a an abomination.

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I want you to have those things down, whichever order

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you place them in. I want you to look at

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that list today. You never see anyone getting in trouble

596
00:40:17.760 --> 00:40:20.920
for pride You don't never see pastors in trouble for pride.

597
00:40:20.960 --> 00:40:23.960
But you can hear the pride, You can hear the arrogance.

598
00:40:24.159 --> 00:40:26.360
You can hear it over and over and over and over,

599
00:40:26.559 --> 00:40:32.119
but they won't acknowledge it. Pride is an abomination. Sharing,

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00:40:32.239 --> 00:40:37.880
bearing false witness, being a false witness, lying, spreading misinformation,

601
00:40:38.400 --> 00:40:41.880
that's an abomination. We've reviewed sermons where things are just

602
00:40:41.880 --> 00:40:47.519
said that are absolutely not true, absolutely fraudulent, making accusatory

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00:40:47.519 --> 00:40:55.880
statements that are not true, sewing discord, stirring conflict, that's

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an abomination. Pride we are doing were repetitive here, how

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people conduct themselves in business, idolatry, those are the abominations.

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But typically, what do you hear as an abomination? Now,

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some of these you do here, But Christians love to

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00:41:13.400 --> 00:41:20.559
focus on the sexual sins. That's an abomination. We will

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00:41:20.599 --> 00:41:24.519
put abortion in sexual sins as the abominations and forget

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all of these others. So I did a little bit

611
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more work trying to figure out, well, why is there

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a discrepancy between what these things God really calls an

613
00:41:44.440 --> 00:41:47.199
abomination and the ones that we focus on. Now, God

614
00:41:47.239 --> 00:41:49.800
calls other things an abomination there, but I focused on

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00:41:49.840 --> 00:41:52.159
the ones that tend not to get all of the attention.

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So I'm like, well, why is there a discrepancy? And

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according to some the discrepancy and the attitude or attention

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00:42:01.519 --> 00:42:05.280
given to different sins such as sexual sins versus say,

619
00:42:05.320 --> 00:42:08.480
dishonesty like those mentioned in Proverbs twenty ten, can be

620
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attributed to several factors, and I found this interesting. Sexual

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sins often receive more attention because they are highly visible

622
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and can be sensationalized. Cultural, culturally, issues related to sexual

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00:42:21.719 --> 00:42:25.119
morality often provoke strong emotions reactions, and thus they become

624
00:42:25.119 --> 00:42:28.880
focal points and sermons, teachings, and discussions, and contrasts like

625
00:42:28.960 --> 00:42:34.000
sins like dishonesty or unfair business practices are sometimes seen

626
00:42:34.039 --> 00:42:37.760
as less dramatic or less directly harmful, despite their significant

627
00:42:37.760 --> 00:42:41.119
impact on trust and socialist and justice and society. They

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00:42:41.119 --> 00:42:44.880
can be viewed as acceptable or less serious, particularly when

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00:42:44.880 --> 00:42:49.400
such practices are common or even seen as necessary. So

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00:42:49.480 --> 00:42:51.639
what does that tell you? So many times the way

631
00:42:51.679 --> 00:42:54.880
that church is reacting to sin is more driven by

632
00:42:55.079 --> 00:42:58.599
culture cultural norms than it is the word of God.

633
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Because God is saying that is an abomination, You're idolatry,

634
00:43:03.079 --> 00:43:08.320
You're lying, you're sowing discord, you're bearing false witness, your pride,

635
00:43:08.800 --> 00:43:13.920
your dishonest, dishonesty, and business these are abominations, and we're like, well,

636
00:43:14.079 --> 00:43:19.960
those are not the big ones to me again, Comparing

637
00:43:19.960 --> 00:43:23.039
it to sexual sins, sexual sins are typically seen as

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00:43:23.079 --> 00:43:26.760
individual moral fellings, making them easier to identify and condemn

639
00:43:26.800 --> 00:43:30.559
in personal terms. This individualized view often leads to heightened

640
00:43:30.559 --> 00:43:34.880
focus on personal purity. Where Proverbs twenty ten, for example,

641
00:43:35.599 --> 00:43:40.800
addresses systemic sins, these embedded in business practices, economics, and

642
00:43:40.840 --> 00:43:44.559
societal interactions. These sins are often involved complex systems of

643
00:43:44.599 --> 00:43:48.239
deceit and exploitation, which can be more difficult to address

644
00:43:48.360 --> 00:43:53.440
because they challenge societal norms and structures. See once you

645
00:43:53.480 --> 00:43:56.760
can get a sin into a societal norm, once you

646
00:43:56.760 --> 00:44:00.440
can get a sin and to the societal structure, even

647
00:44:00.480 --> 00:44:02.280
the church will kind of be like, well, you know,

648
00:44:03.960 --> 00:44:12.199
but that's an abomination. That's an abomination. Sins related to

649
00:44:12.239 --> 00:44:16.519
dishonesty and unjust business practices are often more subtle and

650
00:44:16.559 --> 00:44:20.159
less visible. They don't always have immediate observable consequences, and

651
00:44:20.239 --> 00:44:22.679
the harm they cause can be dispersed among many people,

652
00:44:22.880 --> 00:44:29.239
making it harder to pinpoint and address. Many religious teachings

653
00:44:29.239 --> 00:44:33.079
emphasize personal piety and individual morality. That can result in

654
00:44:33.119 --> 00:44:36.239
a disproportionate focus on sins that are seen as personal

655
00:44:36.320 --> 00:44:41.239
moral feelings rather than social ethics like honesty and business.

656
00:44:41.599 --> 00:44:45.239
The focus can inavertently downplay the importance of social justice

657
00:44:45.320 --> 00:44:48.840
and ethical conduct, and the marketplace areas where deceit can

658
00:44:48.880 --> 00:44:52.360
be just as damaging. We tend to go for the

659
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individual sins, which I understand, but just remember, individual sins

660
00:44:57.480 --> 00:45:00.400
still are applicable to business because those are indivi vials

661
00:45:00.440 --> 00:45:09.679
committing those sins, so they're still individual. Throughout history, certain

662
00:45:09.719 --> 00:45:13.719
sins have been emphasized more due to their perceived threat

663
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to community order, purity, or the church's reputation. Sexual sin

664
00:45:20.119 --> 00:45:23.480
often falls into the category, receiving more preaching and teaching. However,

665
00:45:23.480 --> 00:45:25.920
the Bible, including the teachings of Jesus and the prophets,

666
00:45:26.000 --> 00:45:30.239
repeatedly emphasize God's concern for justice, honesty, fair treatment, which

667
00:45:30.239 --> 00:45:37.000
suggests a broader and more balanced view of sin. So

668
00:45:37.159 --> 00:45:40.840
even historically we focused on some sins at the expense

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of others addressing sin like those in Proverbs twenty ten,

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such as dishonesty and trade can challenge the status quo

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of economic systems and personal wealth. It can be uncomfortable

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or risky to confront these sins because they they implicate

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00:45:57.639 --> 00:46:02.800
more systematic, systemic issue use invested interest. This can be resistant.

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00:46:03.199 --> 00:46:07.599
This there can be resistance to preaching against economic sins

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because they touch on personal livelihoods. Business practices are societal

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00:46:13.559 --> 00:46:18.000
norms that are deeply entrenched. So again, the thing is,

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you can get some sins that are just so systemic,

678
00:46:21.679 --> 00:46:24.280
so kind of built in that everybody's like, just leave

679
00:46:24.320 --> 00:46:28.280
that alone, just don't touch that, don't rock the buk.

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Go after these sins. And the Church loves that, right.

681
00:46:32.840 --> 00:46:35.639
We love to go out without. We love to scream

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and yell and say they and them, they're disgusting, they're vile,

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they're an abomination. They deserve to burden hell. And we

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love to do that because other sins become much more acceptable.

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They become a part of the systemic nature, maybe of

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the Church of Christianity, of a political eye in theology

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that many in the church already embrace. Now it was

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simple today, it was very simple. I opened up my Bible.

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The Proverbs twenty ten by accident. I just opened it,

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and there it was. Because this new Bible just falls

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it just naturally falls open to Proverbs twenty ten. I'm

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not saying this is like some God thing. I just

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opened my Bible, because the way the because it's a

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brand new Bible. It's just as where when you open it,

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it just falls open to Proverbs twenty ten. Every new

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Bible tends to open up if you just kind of

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just let it fall open. It may fall to different places.

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Proverbs twenty ten just seems to be the place this

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one falls open to naturally. And I saw the word abomination,

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and the Hebrew word is remember Strong's age eighty four

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forty one, to Ava, to Ava, to Ava. It is

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used one hundred and seventeen times in the King James

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one hundred and thirteen times. It's translated abomination two times abominable, thing,

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two times abominable. This word carries the idea of something

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disgusting from a moral perspective, an abhorrence usually connected to

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idolatry or an idol abominable, typically a custom or thing.

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An abomination. It's a disgusting thing, it's an abomination, abominable,

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and a ritual sense of say, unclean food, idols are well,

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even mixed marriages. And I think the mixed marriage is

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typically there is a believer believers marrying unbelievers, which we

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don't really refer to as an abominable thing, right because

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because that happens all the time, right, So it can

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be used as a discussing thing. It can be used

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in a ritual sense, it can be used in an

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ethical sense. What are some of the things that are

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an abomination to God? When we go through the Bible, idolatry,

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a graven image of God. You can be guilty of that.

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I can be guilty of that. In fact, idolatry is

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so built into us. We constantly put things before God,

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and we constantly have concepts and ideas of God. When

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Christians say, but my God, my God would never sometimes

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I want to say, your God is the God you created,

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because that's not the God of the Bible. So many

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times our understanding of God is never completely an accurate

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picture of God. We always got to be really oh,

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we always have to be willing to admit we may

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have created a graven image of God, even though we

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think we're trying to create a correct understanding of God

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many cases, it's very corrupted because we're sinners. Pride pride

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is an abomination. How many times has I mean, come on,

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can you even de hect pride in yourself? Pride is

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hard to be detect in you because pride will never

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acknowledge that it's prideful. Lying, bearing false witness, misinformation that

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is an abomination, Stirring up strife, bringing up in discord

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that's an abomination. Deceitful business practices, that's an abomination. Do

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we truly see these things as an abomination? The things

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that God lays out as an abomination? Do we truly

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see them as such? You have your five You have

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what the Church says is fine. Now you know the

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ones I did not mention? Right, I could have gone

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into homosexuality, other sexual practices that the Bible referred to

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as an abomination. Those are the ones everyone goes to.

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That's the one everyone wants. And I got no problem.

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You say that's an abomination, but at the same time

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be willing to admit, however, I do abominable things. I'm

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an abomination before God because I'm prideful. I have idolatry.

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I sometimes use deceit and lying sometimes I've not been

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completely fair and financial, you know practices. I have done

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things that are incorrect. I've sometimes bear false witness or

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created discord, been involved in gossip and slander, which I

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kind of goes along with it. In fact, I find

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it interesting. The most famous passage on this most famous

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past is really on the subject, if you really think

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about it, is Proverbs six sixteen. These six things, does

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the Lord hey, A seven are an abomination. It starts

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with a proud look, doesn't start with sexual sin, starts

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with a proud look, a lying tongue, doesn't start with

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That's not homosexuality, now, it's not the transgender movement. Hands

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that shed innocent blood, a heart that diviseth wicked imaginations.

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Oh come on now, your heart diviseth wicked imaginations all

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the time. Can you do you? Can you imagine all

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the things your heart lust for, desires for, craves, imagines, thinks,

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I mean, for crying out loud. If we could put

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everyone's heart, that really the center of our emotions and

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thoughts and on a screen, everybody would be run out

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of church in total utter embarrassment. Feet that be swift

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in running the mischief, how quickly do we find ourselves

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doing that which is wrong? A false witness speaking lies

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here that so with discord among brothers. Please note there's

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not one sexual sin listed there, and that's what always

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gets all the attention. Now I'm not seeing I'm by

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no means, am I saying play down sexual sin. I

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am not saying come on, I'm not saying that someone's

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gonna misinterpret that. What I'm saying is when we consider

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an abomination. And it all started when I opened my

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Bible and I saw Proverbs twenty ten, and I'm like,

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abomination to the Lord. And I'm like, okay, all right,

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what is the divers weights and divers measures? I'm like,

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come on, now, come on, it's gonna be something more

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sensational than different weights and measures. I mean, come on, okay. Yeah.

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So the business guy was like, well, I'm gonna kind

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of use this weight and measure when I'm buying stuff

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so I can buy it for less and get more.

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And I'm gonna use this weight and measure when I

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sell it so I can sell it for more so

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I can make more profit. I mean, come on, that's

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a good business man, come on, right, I mean, I'm

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gonna throw him under the bus, like you're an abomination

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to God. I mean, come on now, So that seems

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a little extreme, but just what other things will say

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that's an abomination. I think what we always have to

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realize is whenever we hate a certain sin, whenever it

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disgusted us, whenever it's vile to us, whenever it makes

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us so angry, just ask yourself, do you have that

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same hatred? Do you have that same it's vile and

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it makes you angry about your sin? And sometimes when

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people come across so hatred of a sin, they come

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out being so hateful and so just bombastic against a sin.

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Sometimes it's projection. They're projecting their own struggle and desire,

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and that what they're hating is their own struggle. All right,

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there we have it, fifty five minutes, a kind of

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a long and winding journey, covering many important aspects, all

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dealing with abomination, abominable, abominable thing. It started a little rough,

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but hopefully it ended in a much better place. But

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hopefully it's ended in a place that makes us all going. Man,

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my list is kind of not really God's list, or man,

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the church's list is really not God's list. Now, I

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know it's probably impossible for some of you, but I

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really want you to think about your list today. I

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guess i'll end with that. I really want you to

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think about your list because because you've got things, some

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of you, it was impossible for you not to write

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down things that you learned from the Bible. You're like, well,

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obviously this is an abomination. I want you to really

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think that what is truly an abomination to you? You

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really hate it? Like do you really hate pride? You

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may hate it in someone else, you probably don't hate

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it so much in yourself. You may hate bearing false

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witness and lying when it's done towards you, you probably

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don't hate it so much when you do it. So

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do we really hate what we say we hate? Do

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we really think it's an abomination? I want us to

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really struggle with what we really feel as an abomination.

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All right, thanks for listening, everyone, have a great day.

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God bless