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Strive, if you look up the definition is bickering, arguing, heeded disagreement and an angry

undercurrent and that angry undercurrent is the dangerous part of strife. That's like maybe

say at church and I can remember doing this. I can well remember going to church with

my friends and on Sundays we would go out and eat breakfast after church and we would

have the pastor for lunch and enjoyed it. I didn't know any better than I was going to church

but I wasn't living for God and I actually believe that I was born again. I just didn't know

anything and you know no matter how born again you are if you don't know anything people

perish for a lack of knowledge. That's why it's important for you to read good books and

hear good, anointed, truthful preaching. The Bible says in the last days that people will

have itching ears and they will search around until they find somebody that's saying what they

want to hear not necessarily what they need to hear. And so as a minister I'm committed

and if there are any other teachers here who teach the Bible we must be committed to

saying what God wants us to say not what people want to hear. Amen? And you might ruffle

somebody's feathers once in a while but I would much rather you not like me for a while

then for God not to approve of what I'm preaching as his representative. Amen? We are living

in very dangerous times and the Bible tells us very plainly what it's going to be like and it

is. Just exactly what the Bible says in Timothy that's exactly what's going on right now.

And one of the signs of the end times in Matthew 24 is that many people will be offended

and fall away. And the love of the great body of people will grow cold because of all

the multiplied wickedness and lawlessness in the land. So we have to keep our mind and

our focus on what God wants us to do not what's going on in the world. But that angry

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