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My wife told y'all last time that she wanted a thousand. I didn't say it. I didn't say it because anytime I say it, y'all look at me as being the bully. Look at me as being the one that's trying to force people to do stuff that they don't want to do. No, no, the misses said. My ribs said. My golden Graham said. She said, going over there and subscribe to the channel. What are y'all waiting for? That's what she said. I didn't say it. She said it. So would y'all do that please if you haven't already? Go over to Love, Life, and Marriage with the Woods and subscribe, like the video, share the video. That is how we continue to make content and hopefully you've been blessed by it as well. I want to talk about today and ask the question and I put it up in the chat earlier today before we went live. But first, let me acknowledge because I almost didn't, I almost forgot to do that. I can't forget to do that. Facebook family, welcome. Welcome, Nicole Cole, Radimass, brother Joseph. Welcome to the live. Y'all go ahead and share and like the video as well. If you have not went over to YouTube, y'all go over there real quick and hit that like button and let's get these likes up before the haters come with the thumbs down. You'll know they're going to be coming eventually. But let's go ahead and do that. That way we can get these algorithms back in place and check. Some of you have also said that you have not been receiving notifications. Unfortunately, I don't know what else to do about that. That is something that is on YouTube. Even the time that they have posted on my channel, sometimes it is not even correct. And so I would just encourage you, if you're watching this channel right now, you may want to periodically throughout the day, throughout the week, just peek your head in on my channel to see if I'm live. And then hopefully you'll be able to be abreast and stay up to what is going on here on the BCV channel. But also, again, welcome those of you again. Let me get a little roll call here for those who are in the YouTube chat. I know there's quite a few of you there, so just give me a minute and scroll back up and take it from the top. Elite Energy, what's going on? Peony Giant, what's going on my brother? Of course, the Mrs. She's in the house. Brother David, good to see you, my brother. Sister Monica, welcome. Testaments and testimonials. What's happening? My brother, vigilance servant. How you doing, sis? Let's see who else. David, welcome. Fix your face. Welcome. Ted, welcome. Thank you, my brother. Welcome again. William Reddy, welcome. Good to see you as well. Sister Vina, what's going on? Good to see my sister in the house, back from her vacation and whatnot. Trying to catch up on all the videos she said she'd be missing. Oh, man. Pocahontas, what's going on, my sister? How you doing? All right, so I think I have everybody here, but again, just wanted to show you all, I wanted to share with you all. We're precipitated this particular life. I try to read comments as much as I can. I can't get to all of them. So please, charge it to my head and not my heart. If I'm not able to read all of the comments, I try to do my best as far as that. But of course, with other commitments and things like that, I'm not always able to do so. But when I am, I try to either, you know, put up a heart or put up a thank you. Praise God, thank you. Things of that nature, even try to interact with people and some of the feisty and zesty ones I even try to invite to come on to the channel and to the broadcast to come up. Let's have a conversation. I do believe that that is always best versus just having a back and forth via social media. I think face-to-face conversations, verbal discourse always should be sought if when there is areas of disagreement or confusion, things like that. So I think that that is, that should always be the thing that we strive for. When we're trying to be understood and we're trying to get clarity and understanding, you can't beat verbal face-to-face eyeball-to-eyeball conversation as much as possible, as much as possible. It alleviates a lot of confusion, at least I believe in my opinion. Prowler, as you said, my wife just told me you were alive. She just schooled me on how to get notifications unsubscribed and subscribe. Okay, so there you have it, ladies and gentlemen, you can try to do that. If you have not been receiving any of your notifications unsubscribed, then subscribe back, okay? Subscribe back because that affects the numbers now. So make sure if you have not received notifications, then just unsubscribe and then go ahead and subscribe again. And then hopefully, as my brother said, you'll be able to get the notifications. So you should be all right. You said you, I never voted apparently YouTube did it for me. I never voted apparently YouTube did it for me. Okay. Okay. So anyway, so what caused this? Like I said, what precipitated this? I was actually going through comments and was reading one in particular. This brother had made a comment on my channel and it was on the cowards are us actually what I did was I had made highlights. I try to make highlight videos so that way I know some of the content sometimes may be long. And so I made a highlight clip. One of the statements that I made regarding voting. And I don't know why everybody all of a sudden, I guess because they saw a vote ease picture or image in the thumbnail that oh man, what did voted doing when why is he you know going at voting and why is he attacking voting and things like that. And it wasn't an attack. And like I said at the outset at the beginning of that video and I'm not attacking anybody, but I am attacking the attitude and the spirit and the and the sin that these brothers have committed and I'll say again before I even get into this particular live. John McArthur needs to be on church discipline. John McArthur needs to be on church discipline. John McArthur is not exempt from church discipline. And why do I say that because John McArthur is in unrepentant sin. He's living in unrepentant sin. If you if we can't even see that. If we can't even be honest with the fact that this man has done several individuals in particular women wrong. And some men but in particular one man he's definitely wrong and send against was elder Han Cho. If we can't be honest and be fair and be balanced with that, then we need to repent for our bias, our partiality and our favoritism. In the body of Christ. If we're saying that John McArthur is not in sin that we have placed him above God. And it is not as though John McArthur has not said or done things that he needs to repent and make right and correct. I have never to this day heard John McArthur publicly apologize publicly repent for anything that he has done. I heard people cover up for him. I heard people like Phil Johnson make excuses for him. I heard people, you know, like Colin Miller cape for him. I heard people, you know, like Steve Lawson and Justin Peters and you name it. They'll claim that, you know, they've they've spoken with him about things and and and and John McArthur can be wrong. But yeah, but have you said he was wrong about the things that he has done? That's the question. And no, they have not. And when you or I bring to light or bring to awareness things that have been brought to the body of Christ publicly. And we say, well, why hasn't he done this? And why hasn't he made right with Eileen Gray and with Wendy Gray and with Karen Cardwell and with El Dehan show. And also with the young lady who had to jump out of her car to escape a pedophile who Grace Community Church covered for for at least two years. How do we make excuses for that? We shouldn't. We should not. No one else gets a pass for sin. So why should John McArthur. So yes, John McArthur needs to be on church discipline. I know it's not going to happen. I know it's a pipe dream. I know it's a wish nonetheless, but it's biblical. John McArthur is in sin. John McArthur needs to repair. John McArthur should not be taken communion. Let alone. He should not be facilitating communion at all. At all. He should be sat down. And I would say at this point indefinitely. People want to talk about Mark Driscoe's abuse. What about John McArthur? According to the scriptures, John McArthur is not qualified to pastor. He is not. He is a bully. He's an old bully, but he's a bully nonetheless. He has lorded his authority over the flock. So nonetheless, I made the video. I got questions and I made a highlight of that video. It's called cowards are us. And in that particular highlight, I had just mentioned how these men, including Vodibachem, if they have not publicly made statements regarding what we know our public the same way that they have done with other preachers and teachers and even false teachers, then they should not say anything because that is a coward move. Especially when they know that these things this man has done have been wrong. And so what happened was brother Tony Stevens, and I meant to tag him earlier to let him know. Hopefully he'll be able to watch this. But brother Tony Stevens, thank you for your comment. And although we had a slight issue of disagreement. I'm glad we were able to at least agree on an overall perspective regarding how this matter should be should be handled. So what I want to do I'm going to go ahead and share the screen and read it because this is what this is what set this live in motion for today and why I'm doing this live today. So here's the comment. I'll try to I'll try to blow it up a little bit because most of what he said, you won't be able to read it if I if I if I enlarge it. So I'm going to read it and then I'll enlarge some of the comments if it's not too big in the in the paragraphs. But Tony Stevens he said this in the in the thread under cowers are us. He says quote and he's right up under serving the right of mess. He says one thing about idolization is that we can become idols ourselves if we get enough followers. I noticed the people in your chats that follow you consistently make fun or joke about the misleadings of these well-known pastors. I feel that it is erroneous and we all should be led to pray for these men. No one is to be put on a pedestal, not even you brother. So just be careful of your followers exalting you. The Bible tells us what are two or more are in agreement. God is in their presence. So we have to trust God that we have to trust that God will redirect these men if they are speaking heresies. Now, to my knowledge, I don't know anyone who has been exalting me or man worshipping me. I have no knowledge of that. Anytime I've seen that or if I do see that, then I would put that to sleep. I'll put that to bed. I would dead that. But to my knowledge, I don't have any recollection or knowledge of that. I just don't. I have no problem with people complimenting and appreciating and publicly appreciating someone. The Bible says let another man praise you a stranger, not your own lips. But even that, he doesn't say for us to put people on pedestals and put people in places of veneration. That I don't see know what I ever agree with. And I agree with you, Brother David. None of us have said that 5% of Seiko is better than the whole evangelical world put together. That's what the 5% of himself, Steve Lawson said. That's what I call him. So I responded to the brother here and I said, what are you talking about? I don't control the comments of others. Nor do I read every comment people say. No one is exalted me, nor do I receive such. If you have an issue, don't make up problems that aren't there. Just say what you mean and leave it there. And so the brother responded and said, I understand your cause and your platform. Praise God that he is using you, excuse me, modally to bring these quote unquote pastors to the forefront. I also feel that we all should corporately hold these men up in prayer. There are many souls out there at stake and need the salvation of our Lord. And this is what caused me to say, okay, I need to address this. I know I've addressed it before maybe, but sometimes we need to always circle the wagons and, you know, revisit an issue again. So this is what caused it for me. He said to a new Christian or learning Christian, it would seem like you all hate each other and he gives examples. G Craig Lewis, Marcus Rogers, Alan Parr, will you men ever be on one accord? And so I responded to the brother and I said first Corinthians chapter 11 verse 19. He responds back and he says, so now I basically don't know who to listen to because I just want the word of God and I assume so many others. I want to hear a real well preached sermon. Who on YouTube is preaching the truth? And so I said, Tony, your question just inspired me to do a video addressing your sincere question. Thank you. I'll keep you posted. And so he said again, brother say, go, I definitely understand your concern about these well known quote unquote pastors falling into heresy. I guess my concern is about the souls of people who really need Jesus in this generation and future generations to come. I'm glad God has used you to stand in truth. And I know it's hard at times, but I think we both agree there are living souls at stake here. And I said to Tony again, I said, I understand your concern, brother, and I will strive to answer your questions as best I can in my upcoming video. And so brothers and sisters, ladies and gentlemen, here we are. Here we are. This is why I'm doing this video. I believe it is necessary. And I want to do everything I can to let people know where I stand and why I do the things that I do and give them a little bit of a philosophy and method to the madness, if you will, on this particular ministry, this particular channel, and this particular content creator. Now, I'll say this, and I hope that those of you who have been following, who have been watching, who have been viewing my content, hopefully, about what I'm about to say you would agree. Not agree because I'm telling you to agree, but agree because you see the pattern or you see the contrast between what I do here on this channel and the personality and the way I deliver or the delivery versus when I'm on live or when I am doing videos with my wife. I hope you all see a difference in that. Some people jokingly say, some of my brothers were jokingly say the softer side of Seiko kind of like the softer side of Sears. I know I'm dating myself, but the softer side of Seiko. You will see on the Love, Life, and Marriage channel. You will see a different approach. You will see a different delivery and style and tenor and tone of how I communicate, the way I communicate, what we are communicating. I hope you see the difference in that because the point of that channel is for us to deal with, like the channel says, Love, Life, and Marriage. We want to cover and encapsulate all facets of life as a couple. So I'm not going to come out like Buster Rhymes, y'all, y'all, y'all. I'm not going to do all that. I'm not going to come out like DMX. What? I'm not going to do all that. Not over there. Because that's not the divide. That's not the place where my wife and I, we would present that type of information in that way. Now, of course, we're going to keep it real. We're going to keep it real, but we're not, or I'll say me, because my wife was never like that type of person. That's not her style. But I strive to make sure that when we're addressing issues like that, that we keep it real. We keep it relevant. But I want to reserve myself because, again, I think that the marriage channel should always be different, although it's under the same umbrella. But it's just a different substance and of content. So I hope that that's what you all see. But when you come over here, when you come over to the BCV channel, when you see me behind this desk in front of this camera, what you see is what you get. Now, on both channels and on both platforms, it's going to be biblical by the grace and power and spirit of God. It's going to always strive to be biblical. That would never change, okay? However, over here, you're going to get it straight raw. I'm going to give it to you raw. I'm going to give it to you with, I almost said something. I'm not going to do that, but you remember Ice Cube and his diss to NWA. That's how you're going to get it when necessary. Now, everybody ain't going to get it like that. Why? Because if I were to give everybody that type of style, then that would be abuse. Are y'all understand what I'm saying? That would be abuse. How do I know it would be abuse? Because the scripture says it would be abuse. First Thessalonians 514 says, Admonish the unruly, Encourage the faint hearted, Help the weak, Be patient with everyone. That's the overarching thing. Be patient with everybody, but there's three classes of individuals. You have the unruly, you have the faint hearted, and you have the weak. And it takes discernment and it takes maturity to know how to engage and interact with each one. If I invert it, if I encourage the unruly, I just embolden them in their rebellion. But if I smack down the faint hearted or if I dismiss the weak, that's abuse too. So my job, my responsibility, as much as I possibly can, is to deal with individuals and respond to individuals accordingly. Now, some of you may not like it on how I deal with certain individuals, but you can't say that it is sin unless you can show me that it is sin. And my wife just said, you get accused either way most times, and that's true. I can't win for losing. Sometimes I'm damned if I do, damned if I don't. It just goes with what it is. It just is what it is. But I know in my conscience and in my heart, if I'm done with the Lord has called me to do, and if I've delivered it the way the Lord has called me to deliver it, then I'll leave the results to Him. I'll leave the results to Him and I'll leave it to the individual's heart and their conscience. But you can't get mad at me if I quote what God wrote. You can't blame me for that. So here's the reason why we're doing this particular live is because I want to make clear once again for those who may be new to this channel, for those who may not understand that what you see over here may not be like other content creators. I've not seen them the only one, so please don't misunderstand what I'm saying. What I am saying is there's only one Seiko Kenyatta Woods. The last I checked. The last I checked, Lyman and Barbara, they didn't have another Seiko. They only had me. 52 years ago, Detroit, Michigan. It was just me. They didn't have no twin or nothing. They didn't have a clone. It was just me. And some of y'all are like, thank God. I know. I know. I'm saying the same thing, too. But the same way God has made you, He's made me. He's made me unique. He's made me to be what God has called me to be. And I would never apologize for saying what does save the Lord. Never. Now, I can apologize if what I've said was not in the spirit and under the control of the spirit. Yeah, I can apologize and ask for forgiveness for that, but I would never apologize if I'm reading from the sacred scriptures, the sacred text. If I'm reading from the sacred scriptures and I'm reading from the transcendent text, then you can't hold me to nothing else other than what the word of God says. And you got to deal with that. So here's why we're doing this live. And so again, my whole purpose and goal is not to sin to be understood, but to be clear. That's it. That is it. And so I know that there may be, and I've heard this, I've heard this a lot. I've heard this a lot. I've heard people say there could be unbelievers watching. There could be people who are new in the faith watching. Good. Good. I want unbelievers to watch this channel. I want newbies and neophytes in the faith to watch this channel. Why? Because they need to see sometimes these situations go down so that they know what the word of God says. Because both parties can be right over an issue if one is not following the scriptures and one is. So now it's going to take discernment. It's going to take someone to say, wait a minute now. This person says that we should pray for false teachers. This person says we're not commanded to pray for false teachers. This person says you can take the mark of the beast and still go to heaven. This person says you can't take the mark of the beast and go to heaven. This person says that an Orthodox Jew worshiped the same God as a Christian. This person says no, we don't worship the same God as a Christian. This person says I want to build a bridge with heretics. This person says I want to blow bridges up so that heretics can't cross over. And I'm using spiritual analogy. I'm not condoning terrorism or violence. Please. You should know me by now. So which one is right? This one says if you're not baptized in Jesus' name only, you're not saved. This one says you're baptized after you have professed Jesus as Lord because baptism is for believers but not to be believers. Which one is right? Which one is right? And if you say we should never, ever at any time have contention or like I meant to say in my channel, I mean on my thumbnail in the channel, fights, terse, getting it in, barbershop style, getting ready to jump off the third turnbuckle. Then I'm not sure if we're reading our Bibles because there are times when those things I believe, I believe. Here on this channel, I believe it necessitates, it necessitates a fight, spiritually speaking, spiritually speaking. First Corinthians chapter 11, verse 19, verse 19, Paul has an issue with the church of Corinth. What's your issue with them, Paul? Is it about to tell you? They are abusing and mistreating each other at the Lord's table. They actually had a meal. It wasn't just a cracker and some juice or a cup of wine. No, no, no. It was a meal that they came together. And they weren't, they were not treating each other with love and respect because one person had more and the other one didn't and one would eat and would leave other people not having anything to eat and caused conflict over food, over a meal, over a meal. How do we know this? Context is key. Context is key. He says, but in giving this instruction, I do not praise you because you come together not for the better, but for the worse, for the worse. For in the first place, when you come together as a church, I hear that there, I hear that divisions exist among you. And in part, I believe it. He says verse 19 for, here's the reason why he says for the, he said for there must be factions or heresies. Horaces in the Greek, he says among you, notice among you, he's talking about the word. He's talking about the church for there must be factions or heresies or dissensions among you. What's the purpose clause? What is the reason why this should happen, Paul? Know that those who are approved may become evident among you. Paul says for the sake of truth, there must be divisions and dissensions rather and there must be these things because people need to know who is representing God and who are not. One commentator writes this, and I believe it was really good. He says this, this verse is perplexing for translators and commentators. First, some versions put the text in parentheses to indicate that there is an explanatory note which could have been regulated to a footnote. Others introduced the first clause of the verse with translations that reflect concession or consent. I admit or indeed. Next, the text itself features the term dissensions as a variant of the word factions in verse 18. The text has the adjective proven, which must be supplemented with the noun believers. And last, it has the phrase among you twice. This verse is difficult to translate. Explanations, he says. Although this text digresses slightly from the discourse proper, we do not need to put it in parentheses. In fact, the word therefore in verse 20 draws a conclusion based on the verse in verse 19. Paul is realistic and notes that separations occur because of Christ's gospel. He does not condone the schisms within the church, but signifies that true believers should be cut off from societies inimical to that gospel. He urges that believers separate themselves from unbelievers and we all know this verse. Do not be bound together with unbelievers for what partnership have righteousness and lawlessness or what fellowship has light with darkness or what harmony has Christ with Belial or what has a believer in common with an unbeliever or what agreement has the temple of God with idols. For we are the temple of the living God. Just as God said, I will dwell in them and walk among them and I will be their God and they shall be my people. Therefore, come out from them their midst and be separate, says the Lord. And on and on, right? In verse 18, the writer counsels against factions, but the next verse allows dissension. He says, in the good sense of the word, in the good sense of the word are voluntary separations from those who do not teach the doctrine of Christ. This interpretation of the term dissensions is strengthened by the rest of the verse so that those who are approved or those who are proven believers may become evident among you. The proven believers, the writer says, are Christians who have been approved by God because they stood the test he gave them, tested in spiritual warfare. They are recognized among God's people as genuine Christians. These believers shun things that pertain to worldliness. They love and obey God, adhere to Christ in faith and demonstrate. There's the key term right there. There's the key word. They demonstrate their loyalty to him in church and society. In other words, ladies and gentlemen, brothers and sisters, they properly represent their king. They properly represent their king. Not just on Sunday morning, but also Monday through Saturday. It's a pattern of their life. They don't just preach about Jesus. They don't just praise about Jesus on Sunday. No, they practice this as a pattern and a way of life. It's a culture to the genuine Christian. It's what they do perfectly. Absolutely not. Striving? Yes, absolutely. It says the verse in Greek begins with the word day, which denotes not obligation, but necessity. Paul tells the readers that dissensions among them are a necessity to bring out the best and true believers. God works out his own purposes to strengthen Christians in times of testing and to punish unbelievers for their wicked deeds. Unity and truth should be the two sides of the proverbial coin. Unity overcomes linguistic, cultural, and geographic barriers when believers confess and uphold the truth of Scripture. Conversely, unity and harmony should never be achieved at the expense of truth. Christians must separate themselves from the forces of unbelief and disobedience. They have the duty on the basis of numerous admonitions to depart from these forces. On the other hand, believers should strive to maintain, defend, and promote the unity of the body of Christ. Church leaders can split a church without much effort, but have an extremely difficult time mending breaches. Paul briefly describes some deplorable conditions and voices his disproval of the Corinthians lack of loving consideration for their poor brothers and sisters in Christ. He rebukes them for their ill mannered behavior and informs them that he cannot praise them in verse 22. He teaches them how to observe communion and counsels them to wait for one another when they come together for a fellowship meal. Paul's exquisite letter of love, although given in a different context, contains explicit instructions for how the well-to-do in Corwin can practice brotherly love. And there's the whole point. Hopefully, Brother Tony, he'll be watching this. This is the reason why some fights are necessary. Some fights are necessary when the truth is at stake. Some fights must occur when the truth is being breached and jeopardized, when the truth is being diluted, when the truth is being inverted and turned on its head, when the truth is being ignored, when the truth is being redefined, when the truth is being censured, when the truth is being told that it's not truth or the one who is speaking truth. They're the ones that people are warning to stay away from because they're speaking truth about their idol or idols. So it is not the first time that we see spiritual infighting among believers. It's not the first time. It won't be the last. We have a record after record of churches, brothers and sisters in Christ who are contending and even fighting for the truth because the truth is being assaulted. Let's look at one. Let's go to Acts. The book of Acts chapter 15 verse one and two. Some men came down from Judea and began notice teaching the brethren. They're now indoctrinating the brethren. And what are they indoctrinating them about? What are they telling them? Unless you are circumcised, according to the custom of Moses, you cannot be saved. You see that? Unless, unless you do this, you can't be saved. You're not a Christian if you don't abide by the teachings of the old covenant of the law. But notice Paul and Barnabas knew that wasn't true because Christ already fulfilled the law. And so these two men, they argued there was a verbal fight. And when Paul and Barnabas noticed, not just had small words, not just say, well, I just disagree. I just disagree. I mean, you know, I heard what these brothers said, but I just, you know, I love them. I, you know, I don't, I don't, I don't agree with them, but you know, hey, you know, we just, we just, we're just going to agree to disagree. Is that what they, is that what they did? No, the text says verse two. And when Paul and Barnabas had great dissension, you see that? And notice, it's actually literal, not a little dissension in debate. In other words, it wasn't, it wasn't just some, some little small issue of disagreement. No, no, no, because this is affecting people's salvation now. He said, no, we're going to deal with this. And now we ain't, we ain't going to talk about, no, we just going to agree and disagree. You know, we agree that you know what you're talking about. Paul and Barnabas is saying the text says, and when Paul and Barnabas had great dissension, notice and debate. So when I hear Christian talk about, I'm not going to debate about this. Well, you're not being, you're not being biblical because sometimes debates are necessary, especially when souls are at stake, especially when people are being told something that the Bible does not teach and it can cause them to fall into sin, into error, heresy and lose their soul. Paul and Barnabas verse two, Luke records had great dissension and debate. Notice, not among, not among Paul and Barnabas. Now they didn't have a little private conversation and talk about what these men said. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, they confronted these men. They confronted these men. They had great dissension and debate with them. And the Bible says that the brethren determined that Paul and Barnabas and some others of them should go up to Jerusalem, to the apostles and elders concerning this, this issue. They had to have a council. They had to make sure that people knew that what these men were saying, it needs to be correct. We need to, we need to hear from the apostles now and the elders of the church regarding this issue, regarding salvation, regarding circumcision. Is circumcision required for salvation? We know the rest of the story, know it is not. But nonetheless, it caused them to have a quarrel. There was a spiritual fight. There were verbal contentions being made. But not only did Paul and Barnabas argue with these men, but Paul had to get in it with Peter. Galatians chapter two, Galatians chapter two, verse 11 through 14. But when Cephas, that is Peter, came to Antioch, I opposed him to his face. Why, why'd you do that? Why'd you do that? Why'd you go and do that love? Why, why, why, why Paul? Because he's stuck in them. That's why Paul said, that's why. For prior to the coming of certain men, men from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. But when they came, he began to withdraw and hold himself aloof, meaning he began to stay away from them. Fearing, notice. You know what Peter's issue was? Fear of man and ethnic prejudice. He says, fearing the party of the circumcision. The rest of the Jews joined him in hypocrisy. That's another sin. Why? Because he was acting one way. Look at the text. For prior to the coming of certain men, prior to the coming of certain men from James, he used to eat with the Gentiles. James was a Jew. For prior to the coming of certain men from James who were Jews, he used to eat with the Gentiles. He had no problem clicking up with them. And notice what the text says. But when they came, he began to withdraw and hold himself aloof, fearing the party of the circumcision. This is an apostle who's seen Jesus. And he's punking because of those who probably didn't even see him. I mean, Jesus taught Peter. And notice, he's fearing the party of the circumcision. Verse 13 says, the rest of the Jews joined him in hypocrisy. Ladies and gentlemen, let me let you look at my eyeballs for a second. Sin is never about you. Sin always affects other people. When we sin, we don't just sin on our own. We bring other people involved in our sin and our mess. So not only was Peter being a hypocrite, he's now causing other people to join in his hypocrisy. Look again, verse 14. But when I saw that they now, now notice it ain't just, it ain't just him. Paul says when I saw, he observed it, he sees it. He had to get no email saying, hey man, look, Peter out here, he tripping. He up here acting, although he don't know, he don't know the Jews. Or he don't know the Gentiles because he hanging around with Jews now. But then he had like, he know the Gentiles when the Jews ain't around. What's up with that? What's up with that, Paul? No, Paul says no. When I saw this, when I observed this, when I noticed that it was clear sin, when I saw that they were not straightforward. And here it is, here it is about the truth of the gospel. See, I keep telling us, I keep telling everybody, it's a gospel thing. It's the effects of the gospel. Notice it is the effects of the gospel that this man is confronting Peter about. It ain't the fact that Christ died, but who did he die for? He died for Jews and Gentiles. But Peter is acting as though, hey man, I don't know y'all. Like he denied the Lord again, now he's denying these Gentiles. I don't know these people. But when I saw that they were not straightforward about the truth of the gospel, notice what he says. I said to Cephas, I said to Cephas, I said to Peter and the presence of them all. If you, being a Jew, live like the Gentiles and not like the Jews, how is it that you compel the Gentiles to live like Jews? Y'all see that? He didn't listen. He didn't pull Peter aside privately. Peter sinned publicly, Paul checked Peter publicly. That's the principle. Why? Because it could cause other people to sin. That's why. That's why. He didn't say, let me pull you to the side and have a conversation with you about what you did. Peter. No. He says, look again. Look again. He says, verse 13, the rest of the Jews joined him, meaning Peter joined Peter in hypocrisy with the result that even Barnabas was carried away by their hypocrisy. Do you see that? Even Barnabas, the brother who was known to encourage people, he's now removing himself from people. Gentiles, that is, because of the quote unquote peer pressure. How many people you know are doing wrong to people because they don't want to take a stand for what is right? Because they're more afraid of what the mob is going to do. They're more afraid of what certain followers of certain groups are going to do. So they know that what they're doing is wrong and they know that the person and who is doing wrong is wrong. They were rather side with the majority instead of be the minority. And really, when you're standing on God's side, you have more going for you than the majority, quote unquote, does. But even Barnabas was carried away. He was swept away by their hypocrisy. But not Paul. Paul, when he saw it, he checked them in front of, he checked Peter in the presence of them all. And Paul, they can care. And let me just say this. Neither should we. Neither should we care. Neither should we care. But unfortunately, many do. And we all can have those moments when we sometimes succumb to peer pressure. We succumb to what the majority says we succumb. When we see comments on social media and we know that what these people are saying about an individual is not right. And instead of us stepping up and speaking out, not just in defense of the people or the person that's being slandered, but for the name of Christ, for the name of the gospel, because this is a gospel issue. Anytime we represent Christ and we see sin, it is a gospel issue. Because the effects of the gospel is supposed to change how we live, how we think, what we do, how we act, how we treat one another. So everything is a gospel issue. I mean, why did God save her? He just saved us for us to stay the way we are, think the way we want to think, do what we want to do, treat people how we were treating them before we got saved? Our philosophies don't change. Our worldviews don't change. But we claim that we have been changed by the power and grace and spirit of God. We claim that we've been transformed, but we're still walking in conformity to the world. I mean, then who really has the power? But you can't be plugged. You cannot be joined to the true vine and still live in the old way of living. It is impossible. So there are times when we must fight for truth. There are times when we must contend. We must scrap it up. And I'm talking spiritually. I'm talking spiritually. I'm not condoning physical violence at all. This is all spiritual. The Bible says, for we wrestle not against flesh and blood, Ephesians 6. This is not physical combat what I'm talking about. What I'm saying, as Christians, we are at war. And I don't want to make this about John MacArthur, but permit me and bear with me for one second. I don't know if you all remember this. I played it before. I wasn't going to play it this time because I want to focus on a particular group or groups of people for a moment. Because I've dealt with MacArthur in other streams and in other videos. I can always deal with him later. And those who follow him and cape and idolize him later. But for the sake of reference, I don't know if you remember this statement that MacArthur made that I played before in another video months and months ago. John MacArthur in the 2003 Shepherd's Conference, I was there because I heard it. But you can go to the 2003 Shepherd's Conference General Session number one with John MacArthur. Don't take yours truly words for it. You don't have to. I just gave you the receipt. This gave you the reference. The 2003 Shepherd's Conference General Session number one with John MacArthur. In that general session that he hosted, he said that when he went to seminary, he was trained and he was prepared to deal with the theological and spiritual issues of the time that he thought that he was equipped to deal with outside of the church, liberalism and all these other attacks against the gospel. John MacArthur said this in 2003. He said never in my adult life, never in my life. He said, did he ever think that he would have to protect or defend the gospel against the church? I didn't say it. The evangelical Pope said it. I remember that to this very day that stuck in my head like shrapnel. Yes he did, David. Yes he did. I want somebody, I want my moderators to pull it up. I want my moderators to go real quick online and pull up shepherdsconference.com or whatever and pull up the 2003 Shepherd's Conference General Session number one and put it in the chat. If you could please and put that link in the chat because I want that to be on record. I want people to see that I'm not making this up. That when I make these claims and when I go hard in the paint and I throw them bowls in the spirit realm. I'm not doing it to cause unnecessary contention, confusion or strife. That has never been my goal. That has never been my mission and no one can point to a sermon. No one can point to a video, a podcast where I have ever done that. Any spiritual bar fight, any spiritual brawl, any spiritual battle royal that you've seen me in, it is because the gospel has been at stake. It's because the truth has been compromised anytime and every time because I don't have time to waste of a petty stuff. But I'm just telling you, I recall that. I remember that and that statement stuck with me to this very day. 20 years ago. In fact, 20 years ago. Isn't that ironic? The Shepherds Conference just happened this March, this month here in March. It's a few weeks ago. 20 years ago, I remember that statement. He didn't have to say anything else. That was enough. It's the 2003 Shepherds Conference General Session Number One. And if not, I'll put it up in the description maybe later on. But I just wanted people to have that as a reference. Okay. So I hope people don't understand my point. Let's see. So that's one instance you see here. A Christian. Two brothers. A Christian. Two brothers. Dealing with an issue or particularly one brother dealing with an issue that has caused other people to sin. Yes, he said that in 2003. Yep. He said it in 2003. I know, ain't it? That is weird. But another text I want us to look at. Let's see. Let's go to Titus. And this is not exhaustive. This is just representative Titus chapter one verse five through 14. Paul lays out the qualifications of elders and versus five through nine. Okay. And he gives the reason why these things must must be must take place and why these qualifications are necessary. He says in verse nine, holding fast the faithful word, which is in accordance with the teaching so that he will be able to both to exhort and sound doctrine and to refute those who contradict verse 10. For there are many rebellious men, empty talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision who must be silenced. Why? Why must they be silenced? Because they are upsetting whole families, teaching things they should not teach for the sake of sordid gain, for the sake of money. That's why King James says for filthy looker and this silence right here. Don't take my word for it. Don't take my word for it. This word silence. That means to muzzle. Like you muzzle an animal. Like you muzzle a rabbit dog or someone that could could maul you. Yeah, they must be muzzled. If it's the mitzo must be muzzled, keep their mouths shut. Why? Because they are teaching things that they shouldn't teach for profit for money. That's why that's the reason why. Second Timothy chapter 2 verse 14. Let's go back on the book. Second Timothy chapter 2 verse 14 and 18, excuse me. Second Timothy 2, 14. Remind them about these things and solemnly charged them in the presence of God, not to wrangle about words which is useless and leads to the ruin of the hearers. Be diligent to present yourselves, approved of God, a workman who does not need to be ashamed, accurately or rightly dividing the word of truth. Verse 16. But avoid worldly and empty chatter for it will lead to further ungodliness and their talk will spread like gangrene. Among them notice he mentions names. Hymenaeus and Phyletus. Men who have gone astray from the truth, saying that the resurrection has taken place has already taken place. Notice what happens. They upset the faith of some. They got folk thinking that they missed it. He says they must be silenced. You must avoid these people. You must mark them. You don't mark those who are speaking the truth. Hello, mob. Hello, April Chapman. Hello, K-dub. Montana Viking. Ricky Caldwell. Dear Walt Christian. Use those terms loosely nowadays. Protestia. David Morrill. JD Hall. Not sure if he's out of rehab yet, but anyway. You don't mark and avoid those who are telling the truth. You mark and avoid those who are upsetting the faith of some. Not those who are upsetting idolaters. You mark these people. You tell people to stay away from them. To stay away from them. Stop supporting them. Stop subscribing to their channels. If they are teaching things that they are not to teach and they are upsetting the faith of some, the Bible says we don't support these people. We don't support them at all. So let me ask you all this question before I get to the last point. To the last text. Or one of the last texts. What do you see the overarching theme or issue by which fights, contentions, quarrels, beef, a habit term you want to use it to convey what I'm trying to make known to you? What is the overarching theme on why these things must occur? Can anyone give me an answer for that? I think I may have already said it earlier. And if I did, that's fine. Maybe you may have forgotten. But if you have remembered, then you should know. So just go ahead and share it in the comments. What is the overarching issue? What is the overarching theme by which all these texts that we've just read that have precipitated to have caused these people to get into fights? Thank you. Thank you, David. The fights happen when heresy is being taught. The fights happen when truth is being compromised. Great point. Thank you. When it causes people to either question their salvation, to question their walk with Christ, to wonder whether or not what the Bible is, whether it's true or not, or it questions one's morality or the moral character of God, rather, then there must be quarrels. There must be divisions, dissensions, schisms. And now to say this, if you don't know how to fight, please stop telling people that do know how to fight, how to fight. I'm just saying. If you don't know how to square up, please don't tell people to stop getting into square because it ain't for you. They're doing it for others who may fall prey to Satan's schemes. Yes, I have seen it. Excellent, excellent, excellent video. Yes, I did. And I would highly recommend it. Highly recommend it. Now, I'm not going to read the entire text for the sake of time. I'm not going to read the entire text for the sake of time, but I want to reference a few points in this next text that I'm going to show you all because I believe it is important and I believe we miss this when we are making a statement like my wife just mentioned right here. She says some are under the belief that factions never or should never or shouldn't happen rather at all, ever. And that's the whole point. Some of us think that it is Christian never to get in the dojo. And again, I'm talking spiritual now. Some of us think that it's never right for us to put the gloves on or take the gloves off when faith is at stake. Some people, honestly and sincerely, though sincerely wrong, think that there is never a time because the world is watching. Let them watch. Because if anything, 1 Corinthians 11-19 makes it clear that they must know who is representing Christ and who are not. Probably, as you said, when you're an underchecker, talk about it, but won't be about it. Question I'll submission. Man, come on. Who is mostly in the Christian YouTube circle? I heard about them when they attacked Pastor Jeff from Apollo Gear, Mike Winger and Mike Winger rather. Christian YouTube has a lot of drama. Yeah, it does. It does. It indeed does. And some people, and I notice for a fact, some people do not even want to support your channel or even put you on their channel for fear, listen, for fear that it may take their subscribers from them. I don't know why that type of mentality is like that other than these people really need to examine their heart or they'll go to this degree and to this extreme. They'll tell people and lie on you so that they don't support your channel. Because they disagree with you about something that may not even be of essential importance. They would rather destroy your name and character because, hey, you got more followers. And whoever has the most followers must be telling the truth, right? Just going through the comments real quick. K.O. said that he was responding to Ted. Very interesting bully culture with those folks. So curious how bullies get together with other bullies. Ain't it though? You know, when they have a common enemy, that's when it usually happens. What's going on, my brother John? Good to see you, man. Good to see you. Proud River says, our feelings get hurt by the thumbnail alone. No context needing. Teach him Chuck, what up though? What up though, bro? Praise God, man. Thank you. Y'all get those likes up. My wife said get those likes up. We got 76 in the chats. Let's hit those likes, y'all. Let's hit those likes. Absolutely. More scared of losing followers than having faith in God. Absolutely. So I want to read this passage of scripture, okay? Or just actually a section, and it's two chapters, but I'm not going to read it all for the sake of time. I'll just reference it to you, and you can read it at your leisure, okay? We're going to go to Judges. We're going to go to Judges. And we're going to start in chapter 19. Judges chapter 19. Judges chapter 19. I need everybody to see this. Here's some important points, I believe, that we miss, but I believe it is applicable to what we are dealing with and addressing right now, even regarding MacArthur and Grace Community Church and those who are defending and caping for him. This is a story about the Levite and its concubine and also the tribe of Benjamin. If you've read this story before, this is a tragic event in biblical history. I'm talking about tragedy. When I, man, listen, the Bible is so relevant. I'm not saying it because I'm a Christian. I'm saying it because it's true. The Bible is relevant if you read it. If you read it, it is very relevant. This man has a concubine just to give you the cheat notes or give you the cliff notes. This man has a concubine. Miss Street is the concubine. The concubine leaves. She gets raped by men and it's kind of a reference on some of the things that have happened in Genesis 19. This woman is ravaged. She's brutally raped and beaten and mistreated. Goes back to the Levite who, by the way, is a Levite. He's the one that's supposed to represent how we are to go before God. He's a Levite. That's the sad and sickening and ironic thing about this. And like I said yesterday, sometimes it's the ones that you think are supposed to do you right who do you wrong. This is why I tell people we need to be careful who we allow ourselves to be with in relationships in friendships whatever, because they could be the very ones when you need them that would do you the most dirt than those that you thought would do the most dirt to you. But it says in verse 1, now it came about in those days when there was no king in Israel that there was a certain Levite staying in the remote part of the hill country of Ephraim who took a concubine for himself from Bethlehem in Judah. So she did wrong and she went away from him to her father's house in Bethlehem in Judah and was there for a period of four months. Then her husband arose and went after her to speak tenderly to her in order to bring her back taking with him his servant and a pair of donkeys. So she brought him into her father's house and when the girl's father saw him he was glad to meet him. His father-in-law, the girl's father detained him and he remained with him for a few days. So they ate and drank and lodged there. Now in the fourth day they got up early in the morning and prepared to go and the girl's father said to the son-in-law sustain yourself here, sustain yourself with a piece of bread and after which you may go. So both of them sat down, ate and drank together. The girl's father said to the man, please be wanted to spend the night and let your heart be merry. Then the man arose to go but his father-in-law urged him on the fifth day. He arose to go early in the morning and the girl's father said please sustain yourself and wait until after noon so both of them ate. When the man arose to go along with his concubine and servant-in-law the girl's father said to him, behold now the day is dawn is drawn to a close rather please spend the night low, the day is coming to an end spend the night here that your heart may be merry. Then tomorrow you may arise early for your journey so that you may go home. But the man was not willing to spend the night so he arose and departed and came to the place opposite Jebus that is Jerusalem and there were with him a pair of saddle-dunkies. His concubine also was with him. When they were near Jebus the day was almost gone and the servant said to his master this city of the Jebusites and spend the night in it. However his master said to him we will not turn aside into the city of foreigners who are not of the sons of Israel but we will go on as far as Gibeah he said to a servant come and let us approach one of these places and we will spend the night in Gibeah or Ramah so they passed along and went their way on the son and went their way and the son sat on them near Gibeah they turned aside there in order to enter and lodge in Gibeah when they entered they sat down in the open square of the city for no one took them into his house to spend the night then behold an old man was coming out of the field from his work at evening now the man was from the hill country of Ephraim and he was staying in Gibeah but the men of the place were Benjaminites don't forget that y'all the man was from the hill country of Ephraim and he was staying in Gibeah but the men of the place were Benjaminites and he lifted up his eyes and saw the traveler in the open square of the city and the old man said where are you going and where do you come from and he said to him we are passing from Bethlehem in Judah to the remote part of the hill country of Ephraim for I am from there and I went to Bethlehem in Judah but I am now going to my house and he took me into his house there is both straw and fodder for your donkeys and also bread and wine for me your maid servant and the young man who was with your servants there is no lack of anything the old man said peace to you only let me take care of all your needs however do not spend the night in the open square so he took him into his house gave the donkeys fodder and so forth in the name of the city certain worthless fellows surrounded the house remember I told you before when people were talking about don't be telling somebody they ain't no good they ain't what the text says right here worthless no good sons of Belial worthless surrounded the house pounding the door and they spoke to the owner of the house the old man saying bring out the man who came into your house they wanted to have sex with the man homosexuality then the man the owner of the house went out to them and said to them no my fellows please do not act so wickedly since this man has come into my house do not commit this act of folly look at verse 24 look at verse 24 here is my virgin daughter and his concubine please let me bring them out that you may ravish them do y'all see this did y'all think that 2023 was the only time that women being abused and mistreated and seen as nothing happened only in the 21st century some say there's nothing good under the sun ladies and gentlemen you would think that this so called man not only would protect the man but he would definitely protect the women he says here is my virgin daughter who never had sex with a man and his concubine who has a man please let me bring them out so that you may ravish them and do to them whatever you wish hello hello genesis hello genesis 198 so that you may do to them whatever you wish but do not commit such an act of folly against this man look at this so it's not an act of folly to mistreat and abuse and sexually assault these women but it's an act of folly to do it to the man so it's okay to rape women but it's not okay to have homosexual sex with a man both are wrong and both are wicked I just want you to see how women were treated but notice verse 25 but the man would not listen to him so the man look at this the man seized his concubine notice the man that was supposed to protect this woman he seized his concubine and brought her out to them and they raped her and abused her all night until morning you talk about running trains on people this is what you see right here verse 25 but notice he didn't take the virgin girl out not that he should have but the man would not listen to him so the man seized his concubine and brought her out to them and they raped her and abused her all night until morning then let her go at the approach of dawn as the day began to dawn the woman came and fell down at the doorway of the man's house where her master was until full daylight when her master arose in the morning and opened the doors of the house and went out to go on his way then behold his concubine at the doorway of the house with her hands on the threshold he said to her, look how heartless and how cold and how callous and how wicked this man is he said to her get up and let us go but there was no answer then he placed her on the donkey and the man arose and went to his home this woman is basically half dead if not already and pretty much she is there's no answer there's no response she's non responsive verse 29 man goes home when he entered his house he took a knife, laid hold of his concubine and cut her in 12 pieces limb by limb and sent her throughout the territory of Israel all who saw it said nothing like this has ever happened or been seen from the day Israel came up from the land of Egypt to this day, consider it take counsel and speak up I have to read that chapter forgive me I want you to see how wicked and how wicked, how barbaric how cold these men were to this woman matters not she was a concubine she was still an image bearer she knew and worth and should have been protected and what did she receive what did she receive remember we talked about yesterday which one are you remember I said that yesterday which one are you, you're the priest you're the Levite callous coal, you see the violated you see the voiceless you see those who are vulnerable now you just walk over them walk by them this man did nothing to protect this woman and notice verse 30 again the last part of it take counsel and speak up notice don't be quiet about this all who saw this said now we need to do something about this and so chapter 20 not going to read all of this but chapter 20 they got to find out who did this who's the guilty party then all the sons of Israel including the land of Gilead came out and the congregation assembled as one man to the Lord at Mispah the chiefs of all the people even all the tribes of Israel took their stand in the assembly of the people of God 400,000 foot soldiers who drew the sword and they had to find out who did this notice look at verse 4 look at verse 4 look at this punk so the Levite the husband of the woman who was murdered answered and said I came with my concubine to spend the night at Ghibir which belongs to Benjamin but the men of Ghibir rose up that ain't what happened that ain't what happened that's a lie you didn't have to give her away look at verse 5 y'all but the men of Ghibir rose up against me and surrounded the house at night because of me they intended to kill me instead they ravaged my concubine so that she died no you gave her let me just pause for a second is that what happened is that what happened saints is that what happened Bible readers is that what actually happened this man says but the men of Ghibir rose up against me surrounded the house at night because of me is that what actually happened and they just took her y'all didn't open the door y'all didn't make a way for her y'all didn't make a way for her to be to have access to is that what actually happened that's what I want to know I think there's some omission of the story in this investigation what y'all think I think if a law and order Israel version would have came out they would have to do some more some more investigating because that is not what happened notice he says right here verse 5 they intended to kill me instead they ravaged my concubine so that she died no you gave her to them and then they ravaged her and I took hold of my concubine and cut her in pieces and sent her throughout the land of Israel's inheritance but he said they ravaged my concubine so that she died she was there before you came back because you gave her those wicked evil demons called men I took hold of my concubine and cut her in pieces and sent her throughout the land of Israel's inheritance for they have committed a lewd and disgraceful act in Israel so notice what happened this is how it always happens folk lie start a riot and people die I mean again nothing's doing to the son ladies and gentlemen verse 7 in all the people arose as one man saying not one of us would go to his tent nor would any of us return to his house but now this is the thing which we will do to give you we will go up against it by lot and so this is what they did they had to cast lots it was God's supernatural and sovereign way to find out who did it they didn't have forensics casting lots that was God's forensic system in the Old Testament take ten men out of a hundred out of a thousand out of ten thousands of supply food for the people that when they come to give you a Benjamin they may punish them for all the disgraceful acts that they have committed in Israel and that's what they were doing let's posse up let's roll out we buy the pull up and notice again they said here now then notice they get to the place verse 12 sent men throughout the entire tribe of Benjamin saying what is this wickedness that has taken place among you he calls it wicked right there was some men some real men who was not going to sit back and let this wickedness happen and the culprits not held be held accountable then the tribes of Israel sent men throughout the entire tribe of Benjamin the wickedness that has taken place among you now then deliver up the men the worthless fellows in Gibeah that we may put them to death and remove this wickedness from Israel but notice what happened oh thank you lord the application is just man God's application God's spirit is just straight up fire y'all notice did they turn the men over look at the text look at the B part of verse 13 listen to the voice of their brothers the sons of Israel now we ain't doing that hand them over to us so we can deal with this dude hand them over to us so we can deal with these men who did this wickedness Benjamin is like I ain't they ready to go to war and die over sin wickedness cover up the sons of Benjamin gathered from the cities to Gibeah to go out to battle against the sons of Israel civil war civil war all they had to do is do what was right deliver up the men the worthless fellows in Gibeah that we may put them to death and remove this wickedness from eat from Israel but the sons of Benjamin would not listen to the voice of their brothers the sons of Israel do you see that hand them over turn them over and the child of Benjamin the Benjamin might say no we're not doing that and so now a war is about to ensue now the sons of Israel rose went up to Bethel inquired of God and said who should go up first for us to battle against the sons of Benjamin the Lord said Judas shall go up first sons of Israel rose in the morning camped against Gibeah the men of Israel went out to battle against Benjamin and the men of Israel arrayed for battle against them at Gibeah the sons of Benjamin came out of Gibeah and fell to the ground on that day 22,000 but the people the men of Israel encouraged themselves and arrayed for battle again in the place where they had arrayed themselves the first day sons of Israel wept went up and wept before the Lord until evening inquired of the Lord saying shall we again draw near for battle against the sons of my brother Benjamin and the Lord said go up against them got to deal with the sin but these are my brothers we've we've had fellowship together we went to conferences together go up we got study Bibles in go up but the conferences next go up but who's gonna speak of it go up go up against them sons of Israel came against the sons of Benjamin the second day Benjamin went out against them from Gibeah the second day and fell to the ground 18,000 men of the sons of Israel all these drew the swords then all the sons of Israel and the people went up and came to Bethel and wept thus they remained there before the Lord and fasted that day until evening and they offered burnt offerings and peace offerings before the Lord the sons of Israel inquired of the Lord for the Ark of the Covenant of God was there in those days Phineas and a son of Eleazar Aaron's son stood before it to minister in those days saying shall I yet again go out to battle against the sons of my brother Benjamin or shall I cease and the Lord said go up for tomorrow I will deliver them into your hand and look at what happened they go up the third day sons of Benjamin went up and out against the people and were drawn in away from the city and they began to strike and kill some of the people at other times sons of Benjamin, verse 32 the sons of Benjamin said they are struck down before us as they are the first but the sons of Israel said let us flee that we may draw them away into the highways and the men of Israel were rolled from their place to raid themselves at ball tomorrow verse 34 thousand choice men from all Israel came against gibbia the battle became fierce but Benjamin did not know that disaster was close to them and the Lord struck Benjamin before Israel so that the sons of Israel destroyed 25,100 men of Benjamin that day all who drew the sword so the sons of Benjamin saw that they were defeated and we all know what happens civil war people died unnecessarily because people refused to do what was right verse 48 just says the men of Israel then turned back against the sons of Benjamin and struck them with the edge of the sword both the entire city with the cattle and all that they found they also set on fire all the cities which they found what am I saying I'm telling y'all that sin left unchecked affects everyone and some people lose their lives I don't know what else to say I mean if we don't think about our times we need to take a stand we talked about in the first hour how when doctrine causes us to have to take a stand and have to contend even against our own but you know that injustice is a doctrine too or that justice is rather and injustice and injustice is wickedness and we should fight and take a stand and be willing to defend women and children whenever necessary we should never allow women to be put in harm's way whether it be in the world and specially in the church the church should be the last place where women and children should feel that they're not protected that should be THE last place if no other place the house of God where the people of God dwell are supposed to protect the people of God and so the reason why there are fights and the reason why I fight the reason why I have to take a stand is because God's word tells me to Sis you have what they call pacifist and the bible knows nothing about that Old or New Testament the bible knows nothing about that and you write those unfortunately you wonder you wonder so the reason why and let me go back to the question that that brother Tony had made here okay some of y'all this are coming in I want to make sure that lay out the context for this for this particular live why did I why am I doing this and number one I don't hate anybody I don't I hate sin now I hate what God hates and I will stand for what God commands me to stand for and so when I read my brother Tony Steven's comment and his question it was a sincere question it was a sincere question he says it here right at the top of the screen I understand your cause and your platform praise God that he is usually you might lead to bring these pastors to the forefront I also feel that we should corporally hold these men up in prayer that there are many souls out there at stake and need the salvation of our Lord Christian or learning Christian it would seem like you all hate each other G Craig Lewis Marcus Rogers Allen Parr will you men ever be on one accord and the answer to that question is absolutely not aim is three three how can two walk together unless they agree I can't walk with people who endorse heretics I can't walk with people who are in unrepentant sin while abusing God's people I can't walk in I can't I can't walk in unity rather when when people are or link up with people who are in sin abuse God's people or are refused to repent for the sins that they commit I can't do it I refuse to do it I refuse to do it my wife said unless you're part of the mob we only have 43 likes now we have 53 now now it's 53 let's get those likes up ladies and gentlemen the wife has spoken but no aim is three three how can two walk together unless they agree there cannot be any walking together unless we agree with God's words I would never by God's grace partner with anyone who violates God's word and refuses to repent not gonna happen I don't care who it is and that should be our disposition and our attitude too so Allen Parr no I know I know he gets another plaque because he hit a million subscribers and he's thanking and praising God listen I'm not saying that Allen Parr is a wolf I'm just saying he loves dancing with them he loves making and building bridges with wolves Allen Parr is the trojan horse whereby the enemies of God are able to cross over that bridge I would consider Allen Parr a sellout I would consider Allen Parr a traitor because Allen Parr has yet to repent for what he has done and if you make light of this ladies and gentlemen if you make light of this type of sin then what else are you making light of because I don't have nearly as many subscribers as Allen Parr Rouge Lawn you name them but I treat this channel as though I do I may have just almost under 7,000 subscribers but I'll treat it like I got almost 7 million because I understand to who much is given, much is required and I'm responsible for what comes out of my mouth my tears and so if I side with wickedness or if I side with heresy or heretics or false teachers or false doctrine and I know I have influence because all of us have influence every last one of us have influence the question is do we take serious the influence to us that we will one day have the given account for when we stand before him I take what I do serious very serious and I know the enemy is attacking let him he's using the very ones who I helped build their channels by God's grace to attack they're gonna have to give an account to God on that they're gonna have to give an account so woe to them, not to me but I'm going to continue to speak God's word and speak his truth regardless regardless so Alan Parr no I can't rock with Alan Parr until Alan Parr repents G Craig Lewis never ever it has someone on the channel on my channel under one of the videos that I did on G Craig Lewis and they were defending them I'm not surprised and I said you're taking this man to your own destruction and you know what that person said well let me be destroyed then I'm not lying I'm not lying they said well let me be destroyed then I said hey by your words you'll be justified and by your words you'll be condemned and I'm talking about they saw the video saw what this man did saw the seeds attack me as though I'm the problem which is understandable I get it when people are blind that's what they do and I said well you're following this man to your own Jesus says if a blind man follows another blind man both fall into the ditch the one leading and the one following both will have the same fate and that person said well let me have the same fate then isn't that what happened didn't that happen with Jim Jones David Koresh and every other cult leader this is why I keep my mouth open and will continue to keep my mouth open and running and always expose these people because I understand but I also know the blessing that comes with this kind of thing as well too that there are people who watch this channel and they may watch it like a nick at night person and don't want to come out and publicly say anything but I see the emails I get the text and the inboxes and the DMs thanking me people to this very day from G Craig Lewis this quote unquote church reach out to me maybe not to the same velocity and frequency as it did when it first started going down but they still do people were guarding John McArthur and they couldn't reach out to me because they see what's going on those are the people I do it for so it's never been about numbers for me this is how God is now using me to provide for my family and this is why we ask for you brothers and sisters in Christ to support channels like mine because we know what we're up against and if the body of Christ supports each other then we can accomplish much read Ecclesiastes two are better than one for they have a greater reward for their work Dana welcome but I don't have enough time in the day somebody help Dana somebody point Dana to some receipts I got over 100 I have over 100 videos and content that you can just binge on that go to EX ABC support group support them as well there are EX ABC members they have I mean listen time will not allow me to give you all the receipts on that will you ever deal with Larry Reed? No I wouldn't I would not I mean there's so much out here I can't deal with everybody too much too much even to address let's go back to the videos I've done two years ago matter of fact you can go to my channel if you haven't subscribed to it yet Dana and just type in Seco Woods and BCV or whatever thank you Dana, thank you sis EX ABC network go to that channel you said I got ok yes shout out to my brother Sir Walter Jones if y'all haven't subscribed then go subscribe to that brother's channel as well too but thank you tell my brother thank you I will too as well but yeah just go check him out and if you like have any questions brother you can email me at www.yahoo.com I'll try to respond and help out any way I can but yeah you're gonna be in for a treat get your snacks and stuff ready bro you're gonna need it but let me do this real quick ok if y'all have time if you have time because I'm not doing this for I'm not really doing it for you those who have been following because I know y'all have seen these things but I'm when I'm about to share I'm doing it for those like Dana and others who are new to this channel or have just come across this channel and they're like wait a minute who wait a minute what and before the enemy will try to have them to believe that you know I'm on the attack no I'm not attacking people I'm attacking philosophies I'm attacking worldviews I'm attacking doctrine so bear with me for the next few moments I know brother Corey maybe started his live at 5 o'clock if y'all have to go that's fine but this will be in the in the replay those who may be moderators for brother Corey it's not not intentional but I needed to get this information need to get this information out so again this is for those who have questions who are sincere like the Tony Stevens of the of the world right who are either new in the faith who are even unbelievers and they're like man you know I don't know what to believe about this kind of stuff you say break down my videos in the playlist I need to do that down there give me some tips on that because I probably need to work on doing that but yeah I agree I need that that's a lot of stuff I need to do y'all but I'm gonna play a few clips maybe not all in this entirety but you can you can actually go to the to my channel and you can find you can find them you can find them there but let me just play a few of the clips and why um fights like these are necessary because of because of statements like this Marcus how you doing man are you here are you here with us uh yes pastor I appreciate you for having me awesome awesome awesome thank you my brother Mike my brother all right now I want I want you all to hear what he just said okay because this is going to be important this is going to be important I don't want you I don't want you thinking that I'm being uh being petty I'm trying to make an issue out of out of something that's not an issue none no I want you to hear what what Alan Parr has called this man because this is going to this is going to matter later on in the live yes guys so um um let me let me start off with word of prayer okay because anytime you you have uh brothers that come together discuss the word it is always a good thing to start with a word of prayer Heavenly Father I thank you so much for this day I give you praise honor and glory I thank you for Marcus today thank you for his heart thank you for um his love for you uh God thanking the Lord for his love for for you I pray that you would allow us to have a good candid conversation today I pray that your word would go forth and I pray that humility uh would be uh something that we would both um find ourselves clothed in Lord as we discuss some some topics that we may not see eye to eye on but at the end of the day Lord um you reign supreme so God I thank you for what you're doing in his life and his family's life and and I pray that you how can you thank the Lord for for doing what he's doing in his in his life I mean this is this is why I'm saying this is deceptive this is this is causing people to believe that this man is truly a follower of Christ that the Lord has his hand on this man's ministry he doesn't so that's just one clip okay that's just one I know some of you already seen it this is for those who are new to this channel if you know who Marcus Rogers is Marcus Rogers is a heretic Marcus Rogers does not believe that Jesus Christ is God in the flesh he's a motorist he doesn't he denies the doctrine of the trinity aside from him being a white beater aside from him being a grifter aside from him being a money whore aside from all that he's a heretic okay but Alan Parr the one million one million subscriber man supports and endorses a wolf and considers this wolf to be a brother you can also go to vision and serve vision and servants channel as well too apostasy files go over there on youtube and you can find links and videos about Marcus Rogers and his grifting schemes and his deceptive teachings and practices well too but here's another one I still have my concerns about brother Marcus Rogers and some of his past videos again he calls him brother Marcus Rogers I want to know is this generic or is this a redemptive term that he's using we'll find out hopefully we'll see some differences coming in the future but all of us are going to meet people where we're going to have those those feelings right like I don't know this person and you're going to have to make a choice the same choice that I had are you going to build a barrier towards this person talk about them push them out of your life ostracize them ignore them yeah yeah false teachers yeah we're supposed to I mean let me hey Paul what you say the tightest over here and in the third chapter what you say the tightest Paul maybe we didn't get that letter I don't know let's see hmm but Sean foolish controversies and genealogies and strife and disputes about the law they are profitable and worthless reject the factious man after a first and second warning knowing that such a man is perverted and is sinning being self-condemned hmm Sean you did you say Sean did you say reject we're to avoid these people with with to stiff arm them that's what we're supposed to do Paul that don't sound loving that doesn't sound hmm christiany and here's another one really I had two choices choice number one was to jump on the bandwagon and bash this brother and put him down and drag his name through the mud brother again and let me just say from somebody who has been down at some point in my life from somebody who has made mistakes in my life and I've been ostracized I've been talked about I've had people you know drag my name in the mud for different things it doesn't feel very good right so I had that choice I could have just been like hey you know what this brother is a false prophet he's no good God doesn't have a plan for his life and all of these things or I could have reached out to the brother and really tried to form a relationship with him essentially what I want you to get from this video is this I could have built a bridge towards him or I could have built a barrier towards him and I want to draw your attention to something in the scriptures that I really really want us to all get and that's Acts chapter 9 so you may recall that the apostle Paul had a history a past of persecuting Christians persecuting the church and so after he had his Damascus road experience let me do this pause for a second let me just pause for a second because this guy went to DTS okay he went to DTS so we're not dealing with somebody that's that's new in the faith Alan Parr has a degree in hermeneutics he should know how to interpret scripture so his understanding of Acts chapter 9 if you haven't heard it you're gonna have to just listen to it later on but I had to stop this video because I want you to know that how he explains and how he defends the heretic is baffling really I had two choices was a disciple so you can imagine here's the apostle Paul who wrote more than half of the New Testament had this conversion experience he tries to come in and say hey guys yo what's up man I'm Paul the apostle I want to hang out with you guys and they were like nah bruh I'm sorry man look we heard about you but Alan hmm so are you saying Alan that Marcus Rogers is like the apostle Paul who God truly converted truly saved truly redeemed and who has now come into the church and who the bible says in verse 19 of Acts 9 now for several days he was with the disciples who were at the masques and immediately he began to proclaim Jesus in the synagogues are you saying that that's what Marcus Rogers is doing are you comparing the conversion of Paul to a pseudo conversion of a false teacher in a heretic like Marcus Rogers Alan is that what you're doing let's see so again so I hope you all see those who are new to this channel those who are either new in the faith and you may have heard of Alan Parr you may even subscribe to his channel I'm saying this man is endorsing a heretic and not am I saying it he says it himself Marcus Rogers denies core essential Christian doctrine so why would a Alan Parr build a bridge with a wolf but refuse to build bridges with sheep and fellow sheep like me and others why would he go out of his way to have Marcus Rogers on his channel and have a conversation with him but block me on social media you have to answer that question for yourself I already have my conclusion I already have my answer why would he go out of his way quote-unquote to build a bridge with a wolf and allow people to believe that Marcus Rogers is a brother but treat me and those who who warn the body to stay away from Marcus Rogers why does Alan Parr shun the brethren and cape and cover for wolves you have to ask yourself that question yourself know about you we've seen you persecute the church and persecute Christians we don't want to have anything to do with you we're going to build a barrier towards you Paul but I want you to notice there was one man who believed in Paul and his name is Barnabas but Barnabas took him and brought him to the apostles he told them how Saul on his journey had seen the Lord had spoken to him and how in Damascus he had preached fearlessly in the name of Jesus so do you see this here's Paul being ostracized because of his past because of mistakes that he's made by church people people in the church but Barnabas believed in Paul Barnabas saw the best in Paul oh I get it so you got your Marvin's home so okay so he saw the best in me that's what you're doing now Alan you see the best in the heretic apart from what the scripture says on how we are to deal with heretics and deal with falsities this is why I laid out I laid out the text I gave you Ephesians 5 11 I gave you Matthew 7 30 15 to 16 I gave you Epistles I gave you 1st Timothy I gave you Titus I gave you all of that to show you how we are to deal with heretics how we are to deal with false teachers dealing with a person like Paul who people may have been reticent toward because they didn't know if he was genuinely saved it's totally different than a person like a Marcus Rogers who's teaching everybody how I can see is not Biblical it is a false that's what you don't see that part again just give me all excerpts and clips of this guy caping for a wolf covering for a wolf that is why I fight and contend and will go toe to toe with anyone who endorses and covers and supports wolves and call them brothers having a channel like Marcus Rogers Ruslan is no different either Ruslan is no different either when Ruslan was on Corey Miner's channel and he tried to ignore the fact that he called Marcus Rogers anointed called him a brother now he tried to have Marcus Rogers back on there and say that his beliefs are questionable but he doesn't call him a wolf now to my knowledge now if he has okay but he has not Ruslan has not come out publicly and repented for that either and see that's my point these people with these channels and platforms that are in a six figure numbers and maybe seven figure digits they have more influence and they're able to sway people into believing things if they're not discerning and God is going to hold them accountable for this and then they don't want to have conversations with people like me because like you said these people are afraid of what would happen if a person like me cams up on their live or comes up on their channel so they rather block they rather avoid people like me and others who call them account or call them to account and hold them accountable people have gone so far not just to try to cancel me from social media people have even gone as far as to wanting and plotting to kill me literally the first things that God showed me in that place was that there was a spirit of hatred in that place and what I mean by a spirit of hatred is because several brothers I had a conversation we have a conversation with several brothers and every single one of those conversations was who is this guy Seiko and I know that we can have him killed three brothers I heard say this that gentleman, that brother was a security was a security member of G Craig Lewis church ABC adamant believers council there was a plot to want to kill me so much so that G Craig Lewis himself approached this man approached this brother at the time when he was a member there trying to find ways to have me silence to have me removed so this is not just when I'm exposing false teachers and false doctrine even those in John McArthur's camp they have not made any death threats, not McArthur in them but they're wanting to go out of their way to do whatever they can to kill me on social media to try to kill me in my influence in any shape or form of fashion and even to the point of being extreme and having people like this this man is admitting and confessing when he was there at G Craig Lewis's church these people were plotting to try to have me taken out physically so in response to that I go to Elder Ken Rose no Elder Ken Rose is the senior elder he's supposed to be the elder he's the one that does if anyone's going to preach it's going to be Ken Rose outside of G Craig Lewis and I had a close relationship with Ken Rose too he and his family and so I went to him because I had a close, for one he was elder two I had a close relationship with him and I told him I said hey I've been having conversation and this is what these gentlemen told me they made this comment that about killing Seiko Woods and I said this is the spirit of hatred nobody nobody says this scripture tells us out of abundance of the heart and mouth speaks so you're speaking this stuff you have hatred in your heart and I said this spirit of hate hatred in this place what is going on and I shared it with him because I was hoping that he would do something about it so he his response to me was like well why don't you just go and talk to these brothers directly and to me I thought that that was a little bit egregious for me to go and just talk to them directly but I said okay the the response that I got was that they didn't they didn't mean it literally and they were just basically saying these things because they were upset about what was going on I don't know maybe maybe I have forgotten but have I ever made death threats to any of these people in their ministries can anybody recall a time where I may have plotted to take someone out or where I have lied and intentionally misrepresented anybody because I don't care for their doctrine or because they're saying things that I don't like can anybody recall any any moment or any video that I may have communicated those types of things anyone is there one at all okay yeah I was wondering if I did maybe I thought I may have forgotten I didn't think so let me ask you a question yeah when you're joking around with somebody you upset with you said man don't you know I can kill you do you ever joke in that way no absolutely not and if you I don't know if we recall G Craig Lewis said that in the pool pit when he was he was saying that sometimes I feel I just feel like killing somebody and then he's like he's like come on don't leave me out here guys they never felt you remember that they're like you on your own play on that one you know yeah he said you ever murdered somebody in your mind I'm like yeah like I remember yeah so again the plot thickens these people when you affect and touch their idols whether it's their teacher or is their treasures these are the types of tactics that these people will go to and even go through to try to remove you and take you out and I never shared this before I'm going to share I'm going to share now so in the midst of all this and I'm not I don't really recall exactly where it it happened in sequence but in the midst of all this stuff now G Craig Lewis his demeanor towards me was kind of off and on sometimes he would be like hey what you was going on sometimes he would be standoffish it was almost like he didn't know how to really read me right so he was on and off this particular day after after sermon after Sunday sermon I'm on security posts and I'm looking around like I normally do just kind of looking at people seeing how they react and so on so forth and I just glance over G Craig Lewis and he's looking he makes eye contact me he's looking at me right so and I'm like okay so I continue to scan the room and I look at him again he's still looking so I'm like oh that's I you know he never does that you know so then I'm getting ready to go so I go over to one of the brothers in the security team and getting ready to tell him hey I'm getting ready to go home so am I I will start walking over he kind of comes in intercepts me and then he says he says hey and you know I just need to talk to you he says this the saco stuff is really getting me right is really getting to me and so as he's talking to me his eyes are watering up and so so he says he says you know I just want to talk to you with your background and stuff like that in reference to my law enforcement background do you have any ideas that can stop this you have any ideas that can stop this sounds like a desperate wolf right but when he said stop this what was he referring to man he was referring to stopping saco from I guess launching his videos or something like that that's all I can assume that so I don't know it might be it might be do you know how to kill him you know I mean I don't know I can't say that I don't know that all I know is that you know G Craig Lewis has said that in the pulpit in the past and some of the brothers that I ran across I heard them say that I don't know that for a fact so I'm on record I don't know that for a fact in my mind I'm thinking stop saco from telling these telling these lies because that's what they told us that it was lies right and for those who may want to watch this entire video in this entire video it's actually on my channel and it is called G Craig Lewis friend of God or enemy of the cross you can go on my channel you can check it out and you can watch the entire interview there and you can get the full or context of these these brothers who used to be members of G Craig Lewis and had been in ministry at the church there but by the grace of God when all of these accusations and allegations that were proven to be true came out then there was a mass exodus of many people there at that place one more clip or two and then we'll wrap this up so I said well I said well let me think let me think about it and he says yeah you know give me a call if you can he's like you have my number I was like no I don't have your number I never had his number you know and he's like you don't have my number he's like no I don't talk to you like that you know so he gives me his number so I call him up later on in a week and one of the things that because like I said from my perspective because of what they told me they told me that these were all lies so I'm like okay if these are all lies if in fact they are all lies then it could be considered as slander and so I'm coming at it from a legal a law law perspective you know so I said I told him I said one of the options could be to could be to get a restraining order and I said the way that you get oh I'm sorry a protective order I said the way you get a protective order is you have to fear for your safety you have to fear for either the safety of yourself or your family and so I said so I said but there has to be something there the which are what that will cause you to fear for your safety so one of the things that they brought up because the G Craig Lewis paid about $10,000 and you already know the G Craig Lewis paid about $10,000 to get this whole digital investigation firm to get this whole mock-up on you and all the things that you've been putting out there on him that was funny when I remember hearing that for the first time $10,000 this man paid about $10,000 to hire a fake investigative company of business to try to scare me didn't work all it made me do was just double down even more so with him it can remind me of the same tactic that Brenda Linneman did same ones same ones again when you address and you call out sin and idolatry and you're trying to protect Christ, what God has called you to do you're going to get these kinds of things and again this has been par for the course for my ministry for Christ's time. In the context of all of that that's when I heard for the third time a brother say you know you know I want to kill Seiko because this is personal to me so at that point in time that disturbed me and I felt like they weren't being honest you know at least for G Craig Lewis was not being honest I think he was just playing games and whatnot and I felt like I was being used in that manner. So again you can go to my channel and you can pull up G Craig Lewis from the other cross you can find it there. I want to close out this I want to close out this stream close out this live with a word of encouragement when people try to question your motives and try to have you to believe or to think that you're the divisive individual because you are exposing clear sin you're exposing wickedness that have now been brought to the front and brought to the public eye where it can cause the body of Christ or the name of Christ to be slandered or be besmirched don't allow that to stop you even if it comes from people with channels and platforms that may be bigger than you because God has a way of vindicating you and it may not always come as how you and I may want it as quickly as we want it it may not even come this side of heaven but it's going to come so be encouraged with that but know you're not by yourself know that there have been people before you who have faced greater odds or face equal odds in the same types of trials as you have and I have as well and they stood their ground regardless of who it may have been whether it been a person like John MacArthur or Jim Craig Lewis or Alan Parr or whoever social media influence and they may have more subscribers and more followers than you do none of that matters what matters is are you and I faithful to the truth and when you and I speak and say what does save the Lord First Kings chapter 18 verse 16 through 18 we know the story they have wicked king Elijah comes and confronts him and notice in the text this always has been an encouragement to me. So Obadiah went to meet Ahab and told him and Ahab went to meet Elijah when Ahab saw Elijah Ahab said to him said to Elijah is this you you troubler of Israel notice he's slandering the man of God the prophet of God King Ahab has influence he has power he's able to destroy physically speaking, humanly speaking Ahab if he wanted to but notice he calls him the troubler of Israel the nation of Israel he calls this man the troubler the divisive one you're the one that's causing all these problems and notice Elijah didn't just take that sitting down he says no I have not troubled Israel but you and your father's house because you have forsaken the commandments of the Lord and you have followed the Baals and by following the Baals and by following false gods he causes others to do so those are the ones that are the ones that's the troublemakers but also in the New Testament Jews 17 and 19 but you beloved ought to remember the words that were spoken beforehand by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ that they were saying to you in the last time there will be mockers following after their own ungodly lust look at verse 19 these are the ones who cause divisions it's not you it's not me it's these are the ones who cause divisions worldly minded the spirit and following their own ungodly lust takes on many shape forming fashion ladies and gentlemen following their own godly lust could be money following their own godly lust could be power following their own godly lust could be prestige following their own godly lust could be the biggest you who and social media doesn't matter anything that draws you away from God is a lust is an idol so brothers and sisters being encouraged hopefully those of you who have who have seen this channel and been on this video have seen this video for the first time you've heard my heart you know where I stand I'm doing this this video for those of you who are new to the faith or are unbelievers and have not placed your faith in trust in Jesus Christ first and foremost let me talk to you those of you who are not saved you can't use this as an excuse to not accept Christ you can't use this as an excuse if God is using other people to give you the truth of his word and to show you your sin and to tell you and to command that you repent and your excuse is well I saw this bald head dude on YouTube and he was going kind of hard on people and he was talking about this preacher and that preacher and that just turned me off you know what's going to be turned on on you hell if you don't repent you can't use anyone's excuse for your rejection of Christ you will be judged sir or ma'am for what you have done with Jesus so when you watch Christian channels or content like this and you only see it as information and that's something that can impact and change your life and God has and God is using platforms like this to bring conviction whereby you call upon him to save you you can't use the book chapter verse channel as your excuse you can't use my personality you can't use my tone or any of that as an excuse to reject Christ you will stand before God and give an account for your sin so I would encourage you to recognize that you are in need of a savior none of your good works will do it it doesn't matter who you know maybe in the church and maybe involved in this work and that work none of that matters all your righteous desires fill through rags in God's sight you can do nothing to merit the favor, mercy and grace of God but if you hear his voice if the spirit of God is bringing conviction to your soul don't turn from it because there will be a day when he turns from you so I encourage you I exhort you I admonish you to repent turn to Christ give him your sin and take his work on your behalf before it is too late those of our brothers and sisters who are saved you have a choice to make too who are you going to follow when it comes to the truth Jesus said in John 1717 sanctify them in the truth set them apart in truth you can't have truth and falsehood walking in tandem at the same time you and I going to have to make a decision who you going to follow, who you going to support who are you going to defend those who are in need of protection we should always defend them and I'm talking to men it's a weak man who does not defend women and children whether they're in your house or outside of your house and those of us who are in the body of Christ we should never tolerate the abuse of women and children or the abuse of anyone because their name is MacArthur or whoever else we should go just as hard and as vigorous against sin when it is committed like this in love, yeah but love ain't soft sometimes love is tough sometimes love gets in people's behind for the sake of the truth and the gospel we don't have to act like the world but we need to be set apart from the world we've been called from the world if you have been blessed by this video please like it please subscribe to it please share it if 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