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When Assumptions Start Wars | Joshua 22:1-34 | Pastor Diego Mesa
October 30, 2025 · 52 min
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Adam Mesa is Lead Pastor of Patria Church and speaks to a congregation of 12,000 about how the gospel of Jesus Christ brings purpose to every life. Patria
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0:00 Alright. Well, I don't know about you. I wanna have a PhD in giving. Yeah. Not an elementary school certificate or a0:12 high school diploma in giving. I wanna have a PhD that I have mastered what giving is really all about and completely generous. You know,0:24 what amazing set of songs that was, but I appreciate the last song about trusting in God. I've never sensed it more, the0:35 need to trust God than ever before. Not just because of the volatility of the times that we're living in that fluctuate like the wind.0:48 Everything could be great today, but tomorrow it could just go haywire in the world and in your personal lives. And trusting God is the ability to trust God no matter what.1:00 At the end of the day, in your greatest pain and loss is the ability to trust God. So I really wanna encourage you. You know, we we have our dollar bill or our money and it What's on the top of1:12 it? It says trust God. But the reality is is that we trust in that document more than we really do trust God. And I I I'm not a a gloom's day person, but I'm just1:24 here to tell you times are not going to get any better. So say goodbye to them. You'll have good moments. You'll still have fun. You'll still go on vacation. But this world The1:36 2 worlds are colliding. The world of darkness and the world of light. God's agenda versus Satan's agenda. And it's causing this tension and friction that's going on. And so I'm1:48 just trying to tell you your leave it to Beaver days are gone. Your Brady Bunch days are gone. Your Cosby days that grew up, they're gone. We haven't we we we we lost our1:59 fathers. We've lost our patriarchs. We've lost our matriarchs. We've lost our morals. We've lost our values. We've lost our respect for mankind. We've lost all that. I don't know2:12 that we'll get that back before Jesus comes. But I'm just telling you, the way you and I are gonna overcome, not survive. The world survives. They survive2:24 with Jack Daniels. They survive with immorality to hide the pain that's in them. We don't survive. We2:35 thrive. And that's what makes us the light to this world that says, how in the heck can you act the way you're acting when everything around you is going so crazy?2:48 And so I prophesy that the church, the body of Christ all around the world as well as this local church will become a haven more important now than it's ever been before.3:00 And people will come running in with desperation, destitute because they tried everything that the world told them to try. And now they're empty and now3:12 they're hungry. And the reality is is that we need to be ready when they come. We need to be full of faith. We need to be people prayed up. We need to be Christians that have been delivered3:23 and set free so that the anointing through Jesus Christ can flow through you to minister to their hurts and pains. Amen? Amen. Alright.3:36 1 more thing. I'd like us to pray before I start this message today. It's gonna be a good message on Joshua 22.3:47 But 1 of my heroes, 1 of my friends, 1 of my colleagues, Andrew Nunez, deputy got killed on Monday.3:59 And I got the call. First, it was to come to the station and then they told me to go to Arrowhead and said that the wife only wanted to see you out of all the chaplains. And4:11 I showed up and walked the mama in and I walked Yolanda and I walked I walked walked Roxanne and we saw Andrew who had expired. All of4:23 just a domestic call and someone shot him in the head. We need to pray for our brothers. We need to pray that this family as they walk through4:35 the days to come leading in a couple weeks to the homegoing service, and you know pastor Kenny better than us, it's beyond that the days that we have to walk with them. So father, we just lift up4:47 the Nunez family to you today in this tragedy that has taken place. Would you bring some level of peace and safety to our city that's grieving and maybe4:59 people are now in fear? Father, the enemy is wicked and we bind and rebuke this murdering spirit, this assaulting spirit, this destroying spirit5:11 that makes people fool, irrational in their thinking, oh God, and violent, violent. We take authority over that spirit in Jesus name, that murdering spirit5:23 in Jesus name. Father, we ask oh God for the divine protection of our children, our families as we drive the highways and byways of life, oh God, that nothing could hurt or harm us.5:35 But now, come alongside this family. I thank you. 3 months ago, if not more, Andrew came to a service and I smiled with the biggest smile on my face that he was the5:47 first chaplain that we were able to influence that came, oh God. I thank you that he's in glory now and he will embrace his wife 1 day, his 2 year old daughter, and his unborn baby that's5:59 in her womb 1 day, oh God. And so I just thank you Lord for giving them amazing grace during this season as this congregation prays. In Jesus name, amen.6:11 So if you'd be so kind as to just hold up the Nunez family and your devotions every day. That'll be that'll be pretty awesome. That's what we do. In Joshua 22, I wanna just share a word from you6:23 and piggyback off of all our great communicators as we've been preaching Joshua. You guys only have 2 more chapters and then we're gonna wave goodbye to Joshua and we'll see who the next book is or the next6:35 person that we take on. But I pray that you have learned a lot through the book of Joshua about how to have courage and how to be a conqueror and how to inherit the promises of God and all that God6:47 has challenged us in this series. So let's stand and we're gonna read a few verses. It's a long chapter. I won't navigate through the entire chapter of reading it but I'll try to highlight some points. The6:58 Reubenites, the Gadites and half the tribe of Manasseh left the Israelites at Shiloh in the land of Canaan to return to their own land of Gilead which they took possession7:10 of according to the Lord's command through Moses. When they came to the region of the Jordan, the land of Canaan, the Reubenites, the Gadites and half the tribe of Manasseh built7:23 impressive altar there by the Jordan. The Israelites heard it and said, look, the Reubenites, the Gadites, and half the tribe of Manasseh built an altar on the frontier of the7:35 land of Canaan at the region of the Jordan on the Israelite side. Last verse. And when Israel heard this, the entire Israelite community assembled at7:46 Shiloh and said, it's time to go to war again. You may be seated. They're about ready to kill their brothers. It was serious business. They're about ready to go to7:58 war. I wanna ask some opening questions to you today because that will be the theme that we will navigate through and park in a few moments. But have you ever thought you were right only to find out you were wrong about8:10 something? I have. And when you found out you were wrong, did you apologize? Did you admit it? Oh, that's another subject. Let's move on. Have you ever been guilty of misjudging someone's8:22 intentions or their actions or their motives? You were absolutely sure you knew what their motive was. Only to have to eat your words8:34 to find out it wasn't really the way it looked. I have. Have you ever been guilty of overreacting to something someone did? I remember there's a classic story in8:46 the bible of David overreacting to Nabal, and if it wasn't for the counsel and wisdom of Abigail to come alongside and say, wait a minute, you're a king? This guy's a8:58 fool? Why would you jeopardize the anointing in in your life to kill someone just because they don't treat you right? Sometimes we have to learn from each other.9:09 You know, I don't know about you, but I am a If if you ever get my number, you ever want to communicate with me through texting, I just want to apologize upfront. I am a lousy texter.9:22 I do not text in sentences. I do not text in paragraphs. I I I just I I just text in 1 word from yeah. Good. Thank you. Goodbye. Have a nice day.9:35 So if you're looking for the you your text is like 29, 30 words, mine is about 3. And you're thinking, man, I put all this effort and thought into texting Diego and he just gives me 4 words9:46 or just an emoji. Hi. Thank you. God bless you. May the Lord take a liking to you. I don't know, you know, but you know, we've grown we we come from a generation9:58 that used to talk over a fence or drive to someone's car to talk to drive from a car to their location. We we become a generation that we then move to the10:10 phone. We pick up the phone and we communicate that way. Now, we've come a generation where we communicate through texting and emailing. And you and I recognizing that10:21 texting can can sometimes screw the screw. Miscrew. Yeah. Screw. Yeah. It's good. Miscus crew.10:35 Your intentions, your motives. Because we can't see each other. We don't get we don't see body language. We don't see facial expressions. We don't we don't hear the tone of someone's voice10:46 in that. And so you look at it and you're offended by it, but nothing offensive was meant by it, but because you couldn't see it. That's what we're gonna talk about in a few moments.10:59 But I wanna open up with these thoughts that we read about. First of all, they're gonna show us a map. Hopefully, we'll get a good map. You knew what I did right there or whatever.11:11 You guys are smart congregates. Oh, no. Pastor Diego's up there. Good luck for the power point team. You know what? This this is where all the tribes in Joshua settled. Okay?11:23 This is the land of Canaan. Okay? But you'll notice right in the dab in the middle is Shiloh. Shiloh at this time is the capital and that's where the11:35 tabernacle exists. Where the altar of God's presence is. Okay? It's right there in the middle there. But notice to the right of this, now you11:46 get nations that are on this side and nations on that side. And then the middle of there, you can barely see it, is is the Jordan and the Dead Sea. So this separation11:58 began to take place and the Jordan began to divide the western tribes from the eastern tribes. Say with me, west West. And east. The12:10 west side. West. The east side. East side. Can't get along. And so that's what's gonna begin to happen in the story that you just got. There's this12:22 Jordan that's gonna separate them, and the bible talks about the 3 tribes of Reuben, Gad, and half of Manasseh are living now on the eastern coast where all the other12:34 tribes which are called the Israelites, even though they're still recognize that, are now on the western side. Okay? So what happened was is these 2 and a half tribes fought12:46 for their brothers. Moses said, we're gonna go to war and I want you to fight for your brothers to gain their land. Once they're done, you could go back and inherit your12:57 property, your real estate. You could go back to your family. So all these Say this with me. Men. Men. Okay? I'm not trying to say anything bad, but I'm just saying13:09 these were men warriors. There were no women warriors here in this story. Okay? These were men fighting the battle. These were men leading their household. The women were at home. They were taking care of their children13:20 and the elderly and so forth and so on. So these men were fighting a battle. The battle was over now. It was a time of peace and now they could begin to go back across13:31 that Jordan and begin to inherit their promise. But the Bible brings out the overwhelming character of these individuals that I'd like to highlight for a few moments.13:43 And so to get to understand this, we're gonna go to verse number 1 and read through verse number 4. Joshua summoned the Reubenites and the Gadites and half the tribe of Manasseh and he told them,13:55 you have done everything Moses the Lord's servant commanded you and obeyed me in everything I commanded you. You have not deserted your brothers even once this14:07 whole time, but have carried out the requirements and the command of your Lord. Now that he has given your brothers rest, now there's no more fighting, they have their land just as he14:18 promised them. Return home in your own land that Moses, the Lord's servant, gave you across the Jordan. I love this point because it's14:30 gonna magnify the characteristics of these men that went and fought for their brothers that are now gonna come back to their families and inherit. I think these are14:42 strong character for men, husbands, and fathers to follow, but I think they inspire everybody else that's in this room. Because the Bible said this about their character and let it challenge14:54 you, that they had done everything that God had asked them to do. They've done everything. The bible had they finished it. They did everything. The second quality,15:06 they obeyed in everything. The third quality, they never once abandoned or deserted their post, their brothers, their assignment, their calling, their duty, their15:17 expectations. Never not once these men did. The fourth characteristic, they carried out the directives, the orders, and the expectations that were placed upon them.15:29 They carried them out. That ought to inspire us in our lives. I don't know about you. I don't wanna be a d n f. And a d n15:41 f in running situations that I'm sure in other sports, when I used to run, if you get a DNF next to your name it means this, did not finish the15:53 race. Because everywhere in life there's a lot of enthusiastic motivated starters. Oh, I'm gonna have a great marriage for better for worse, for richer for16:05 poor, in sickness and How did that go? What are the marriage statistics of the dropout? I'm not trying to bring any condemnation, but I'm just trying to tell you, what's the dropout rate of marriage?16:17 And how about New Year's resolutions? How about losing weight? How about fitness? How about getting out of debt and starting to manage your money? How are you doing? How about cleaning out your garage? How are we16:28 doing now? We're all challenged. We're all challenged by this. And we need to be inspired by these men that we're about ready to see. And16:40 you're gonna see why it is so inspiring for them to be people that complete and finish. People that are highly trustworthy and faithful and people16:52 that can absolutely be counted on versus starting my commitment with Christ, starting my commitments with others, and DNFing and did not finish what17:04 I said I would do. The second characteristic I think is a huge 1 too. It's found in verse 5. Only carefully obey, this is after now. So now they're gonna be released, but they wanna17:16 commission them with something. So this is what's given to them. Only only carefully obey the command of instructions that Moses, the Lord's servant, gave you to love the Lord17:28 your God, walk in all his ways, keep his commandments, be loyal to him, and serve him with all your heart. Guys, this is more than a17:39 placard that we put in our in our homes on our walls. This is more than we something we recite. I'm gonna trust God. I'm gonna love the Lord with all my heart, with17:51 all my soul, and all my mind. This is something that's lived out. And it's got to constantly be reminded in our minds every day. And so Joshua felt to bring it back to their18:02 attention. You heard this under the leadership and administration of Moses. You've gotten some victories now. You've gotten some successes now. Now, I want to recommission you to say this18:14 to you. What does that mean? It's the warning that after your success and now you'll enter into a season of rest, keep18:26 the first things first. I believe as I've studied my life and the lives of others and the lives of the Bible, that there are 2 times in which we18:38 are tested in life. We are tested in our struggles and we are tested in our successes. And many people in their struggles will cry out to God18:50 in desperation. I need you. I'm gonna do right now, God. I'm gonna start going to church. I'm gonna start treating my wife. I'm gonna start giving God. Why? Because you need a miracle. But once your19:01 marriage gets back together, and once you get a promotion on your job, and once you're not in that battle anymore, we kinda let go and let kick back and are not19:13 as diligent as we ought to be to need God like we needed him in our desperation. And so Joshua's warning them now. We're not battling anymore. There's rest19:25 now in the land. So now when you go back and you'll see what he's talking about in a few moments, I want you to remember God. And here's how I want you to remember God, he says.19:37 You remember to love your God every day. It's not something we automatically do. You've got to put in the forefront of your mind. He says19:49 here, walk and live in the ways God wants you to. Because you can love God, but not walk in the ways he wants you to. Then he says, to love20:01 God's word. Again, I can love God. It's it's it's an oxymoron, but people are saying they love God, but they don't love his word because they pull pages out of the Bible20:13 and and won't live out the the hard scriptures. In reality, you can't love God and not love his word, but he challenges us to love20:24 him, love his ways, love the word, and then be extremely loyal and dedicated to him. Then always be in service to him. This is what you just20:36 read. And then always give your best and extra for the cause of Christ. That's what he's challenging us with. Again, it's the story of20:48 David. When when men go off to battle, this guy does not go off to battle. And he's sitting in a comfortable kingdom where he does not have to fight as much as20:59 anymore. There's success and rest in his kingdom. And so that's when he starts messing around with Bathsheba. So watch out for these times of leisure and21:11 pleasure at success. I've been mindful of that through this beautiful transition of succession.21:23 I had to be prayed up because I had to preach so much. I had to depend on God because there was vision in this house. I had to be close to God because I didn't know what I would21:35 encounter as the lead pastor, but I'm not the lead pastor anymore. I think you're getting what I'm feeling. So now I could pick it back21:47 as a 64 year old man on my laurels. I don't have to work as hard.22:01 I've got a retirement check coming in now. I get to pick and choose. But I felt like the Lord challenged me as I was preparing for that a22:13 year and a half ago that I needed to depend upon him more in this next season than even I did in the season that I walked through. And that's why I believe humbly God22:25 is using me greater in this season than he did in the last 30 season years. And my prayer is my latter end will be greater than my former. Because in that year and a22:37 half, he said, I used to give about a half an hour every day to prayer. This last year and a half, he bumped it to an hour without excuse. You would think I have to give less in22:48 prayer because that's what most people would have that have this think. But it's not. It's not that way. And so23:00 this is a great example that Joshua gives them to challenge them on to remember these important things. Then we get into this amazing verse. I just love all23:12 this. It says in verse 7 b and then 8, when Joshua sent them to their homes, he blessed them. Okay. This is all coming together now. And23:24 he said, return to your homes. Watch this. If you wanna shout, run around the room and claim it, name it, whatever you want. Return to your homes with great wealth, huge number of cattle,23:36 silver, gold, bronze, iron, large quantity of clothing. Share the spoil of your enemies with your brothers. They were blessed.23:47 They lived a blessed life. So my question is my question is what does a blessed life look like? A God blessed life. And and how do I receive23:59 a blessed life? Again, we we have placards we say to 1 another, God bless you. And again, some of us understand what we're saying. Some of us have no24:11 comprehension of what we're saying when we say the word bless. It just becomes a ritualistic word of exchange. But he blessed them. He blessed them24:22 because they did something. Always remember this. Heaven is free. Forgiveness is free.24:34 Salvation is free. But rewards are not free. A blessed life is not free. You're gonna have to merit that. And you have to24:46 earn that through obedience. All you have to do is accept Jesus Christ as your Lord and savior and you get heaven for free. You get salvation for free. You get forgiveness for free. But if you wanna bless marriage and24:58 you wanna bless job, and you want blessed health, and you wanna bless finances, and you wanna bless mind, you're gonna have to obey God, merit that, and earn it. And at least in my25:09 generation, we had a bunch of Christians that would just name it and claim it and and prophesied to themselves that they were blessed with heaven's best and expected nothing less and living like a junkyard dog. They25:21 weren't tithing. They weren't walking in forgiveness. They weren't obeying God. It's voided out. Come on. Stop being so spooky. So25:38 this amazing reward is bestowed upon them. So reality is this, is is the word blessed because again, Psalms 1, the25:50 first Psalms starts off with the word bless. Then you get into Psalms 33. It'll read on the screen Psalms 33 and verse number 12. Happy happy,26:05 that's the word blessed, is the nations who God is the Lord. They're blessed. If we honor God in our nation, we'll be blessed. You want don't wanna honor God, then we're not gonna be blessed. You wanna honor Buddha, then26:17 we're not gonna be blessed. You wanna honor Mohammed, we're not gonna be blessed. This is Jehovah God here. Happy is the nation whose God is their Lord. The people who has chosen to be his possession. And then we26:29 get into the beatitudes and a lot of the beatitudes just simply start off with blessed are the poor in spirit, beatitudes, beatitudes, that's Matthew, beatitudes, beatitudes. There26:40 we go. Blessed are the poor in spirit for theirs is the kingdom of God and list all those things. So the word blessed means to be happy, have good fortune,26:53 forward going, living a straight life, to be envied. My God, does the world envy? Does the sinner envy? Does the27:04 celebrity in you envious? Does the mogul envy us? To to be prosperous, to have joy and satisfaction and salvation in our lives.27:16 That's what the word bless means. And and and it's it's a broad word that it's talking about spirit. It's talking about emotions. It's talking about your mental health. It's talking about your soul. It's talking about27:28 your relationships. It's talking about your career. It's talking about your finances. It's talking about your vocation. God wants you to be blessed in all spheres that are your life. Yes. But it's key27:40 here. How are these tribes blessed? How are you and I gonna walk in the blessings of God? Well, it's it's absolutely here in Joshua as it27:52 reads, number 1 was this, you are to give where God tells you to give. You're never gonna be blessed if you don't give. If you're if you're a hoarder, you're selfish, you're stingy, you walk in fear,28:04 you're a tightwad, then you you're gonna be blessed by your hand, not by the hand of God. And it will be a limited blessing. It will be limited. You'll probably have your mortgage paid off28:16 and you'll probably go on vacation. You probably have lot of money in your bank. But I don't know what your marriage is gonna look like. I don't know what your kids are gonna look like. I don't know the health of your28:23 spirit and I could go on and on. So they lived a blessed life because they gave where they should have given. Number 2, they You you do what you're supposed to do. You do what you're supposed to28:35 do, what God commands you to do living out the Bible. And then you're gonna be what God asked you to be, holy, righteous, integral, honest, faithful. And then you're gonna share28:47 what you have. Your God will put needs in front of you. Yes. Sometimes you need wisdom to know how to do that and how much to do it. But I I wanna28:58 share. I wanna share. And again, I'm not a rich man. I've stewarded I've stewarded my finances. I'm a little bit of a tightwad. So, you know what? I I didn't spend it29:11 whatever little I had on on flamboyancy. I I lived very clean, a very short, very I don't know what the word I'm looking Frugal, wise. I don't know what the word I wanna29:22 use right now. And so the little extra I have, I bless people with. I'm not here to brag. I I I'm not here to brag. I'm here to inspire you. Amen. Amen.29:34 That I put a lot of kids through UCA. I wrote out their check. You say, man, I want you to write out mine. Well, no. No. No. No. No. No. No. No.29:46 I've bought in cars for people. I've bought in refrigerators for people. There's so many whatever. Just led by the spirit of God and need comes in front of me and I do it.29:57 Because I I want I want a rich reward when I get to heaven. I I don't care if I don't get it in this lifetime, but I I know I'm gonna get it in the30:09 next lifetime. And it warms my heart, not out of pride or arrogance, it just warms my heart because God's been so good to me. This Mexican from Montebello that had a30:20 1.8 GPA that thought he never ever owned his first home if it wasn't for Joe Nassar putting down the deposit on it and my life has been a living breathing miracle30:32 of God's goodness. Couldn't make it 300 dollars a week for my family as a preacher. Would never be able to afford a home. Wanted to take my young30:44 little family to Disney World. Couldn't afford to go to Disney World until someone came to me and said, here's 10000 dollars. Take your kids on a vacation. He didn't know. He didn't know30:56 say Florida, but he didn't know that I wanted a vacation. That's just God's and I could go over testimony after testimony after testimony. Couldn't afford to to eat at at31:08 Disneyland. You know, Disney's kitchen Goofy's kitchen. I looked at Cindy and I said, what the heck? I can't even remember what it was, like 39 9931:19 back then when they were little kids. I said, can't afford Nathan, he eats a lot out of Caleb. Bankrupt me.31:34 I said, I guess we gotta use the credit card, just we gotta do what we gotta do. Little did I know that a member went there and had paid for the meal.31:46 The blessings of God Let me tell you something. You don't you don't have to believe me. Believe the word. The blessings of God will find you. You don't have to worry about it.31:59 God's gotta take care of his righteous children. God's gotta take care of his covenant of promises. You don't have to worry about that. Your job is just to get your 10 percent and put it in the kingdom of that's all your32:10 job. That's the biggest test of your life. God will do everything else. I didn't mean to do that. I don't apologize, but we'll keep on. And then they shared everything they had and then they they that you32:22 keep and remain consistent, constant, and continued. These are the rewards that God gives us. The peril of the talent proves that there things can be earned and things can32:33 be merited. The fourth thing with the 3 minutes that I have left will go something like this very quickly. We gotta work through this. We gotta work through this.32:45 So I'm It's found in the bible here where we we started. So these 2 2 and a half tribes on the east now are32:57 gonna build an altar. Okay? And so all the other tribes get mad and they say, you're trying to duplicate the tabernacle. And there's only 1 altar for33:09 sacrifice. And you're trying to create your own religion. And you're trying to create disunity amongst the tribes. And so, what happens is they send the the priest33:20 Phineas and they send leaders of the tribes to go and meet with the leaders of the 2 and a half tribes to find out their intentions of building this altar. Because33:32 remember where we left it in the beginning, they're about ready to go to war with them. Yeah. This is serious business. The God that delivered us out of Egyptian bondage and allowed us to conquer all this33:44 land and now you're gonna forsake him by building a calf or building a false altar or trying to separate from us? We won't tolerate that. Look at their33:56 stout holiness of righteousness. If we would hold each other that accountable, we'd live blessed better lives. So they go there and basically,34:08 the 2 and a half tribes say, oh, no. No. No. We're not building an altar of sacrifice. We're building an altar of memorial for our further generation because we're34:20 so far away from you, because the river Jordan has divided us. We remember who we are as a people and the God that delivered us, but there are our children, our grandchildren, our great34:31 grandchildren that won't know the story. And we wanna build our altar resembling the point of not sacrificing, but a memorial unto God, a witness of who he34:43 is so that our generations will worship the 1 and only God. When they went there, they said, dang. Our bad. Shoot. Put down your34:55 sword, man. Your knives, your guns. It's all righteous. It's all good. We misread your intention. Wow. So you35:07 could read it, but it's amazing how I'll end with this. Our perception and our interpretation and our assumptions can sometimes be right, but they can also sometimes35:19 be wrong. And if they're wrong, they lead to offense, you becoming critical, judgmental, and having a negative emotion towards somebody. And again, the western35:30 tribes thought that the eastern tribes were in rebellion and disrespecting the altar of God. And it created this suspicion of them and this speculation35:42 of them. But when the truth came out, then they repented and there was unity and solidarity. Sometimes we definitely need to seek clarity35:54 and we need to have great conflict resolutions in our marriages, on our jobs, in our friendships, and in our church family. Yeah. And the problem is is we don't do that right.36:05 Yeah. Let me give you a quote. It'll go on the screen, please. Let's give them the quote. People today don't know how to reason together. They only36:17 know how to react or retaliate against each other. Here's my secondary quote that I'd like to give you. We'd rather talk about someone than talk to someone.36:30 You know that guy Sammy? I know about him. He ought to wear a suit every once in a while.36:41 See, rather than going to Sammy and say, hey, Sammy, I love your wardrobe. Do you ever think about dressing up and wearing a suit? So I'd rather talk about him than talk to36:53 him with whatever offends me. And we lack that maturity. That's why we don't trust each other. That's why our churches This 1 is choosing to be different, but that's why37:04 churches are more assemblies than communities. So it's just a place I attend. I have no relationship with anybody. I'm not accountable to anybody. I don't talk to anybody. I'm the I'm the37:16 last to come to church and I'm the first to leave. I'm preaching better than you're amen ing me here tonight. Again,37:30 pastor Adam did an amazing job on revival, but he talked about the principle of Matthew 18. And I'm just gonna throw it on the screen just so that you know, he didn't he didn't read it,37:42 so I want you to see it. It says, if your brother sins against you, it just simply means someone hurt you, someone offended you. Here's what the Bible tells you to do. If you're a Christian, if you're not a Christian, do37:52 whatever you need to do. Cut their tires. I don't care. Go on social media and lambast them. Lie about that. I don't know. But if you're a Christian, here's how you live. If your38:04 brother sins against you, in other words, you hurt me. You did something wrong. Go tell him his fault between you and him alone.38:18 And then it says this, if he listens to you, you've won a brother. You have unity again, fellowship, friendship. Let's go on. Let's move on. It's not done yet. Don't clap. It's not done. But if he won't38:30 listen, how many of you know people like that? They're not gonna listen. He says this. Here's the next step. Here's how you handle it. Take 1 or 2 others with you. Okay? Now38:42 there's bring reasoning. There's counsel. There's somebody to protect you. There's someone to speak into them. And so it says, that by the testimony of 2 or 3 witnesses, every fact will be established or38:54 true. So they can't come back. You said this. No, I didn't say that. You meant to do No, you That witness will now back you up. Let's go on. If he doesn't pay attention to them,39:06 tell the church. Go public now. If I If we You and I went39:18 public, half this church would leave. They're a Christian church. How they there did they embarrass brother John right there. Well, need to39:29 embarrass brother John if he ain't listen, let me listen. Yeah, if he not listen to sister Sally, he need to be embarrassed. 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