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🗓️ 11 October 2024
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0:00.0 | This is what man does. He takes the truth of God and exchanges it for a lie. |
0:07.0 | Do you see that the fact that men are religious at this point and have religion and worship compounds the felony? |
0:21.5 | Think of it this way. I know that my wife would love to have a mint coat. I don't have |
0:27.5 | enough money by a mint coat, but I love my wife and so I want to get her a mink coat. |
0:34.0 | So I scrape and save and work overtime, do menial tasks, |
0:39.0 | degrade myself and do everything else. |
0:41.0 | Try everything in my power to save enough money for |
0:43.6 | Minkcoat and finally the day comes where I buy her the Minkcoat and I |
0:47.8 | presented to her on Christmas morning and she says that is beautiful and then she takes that mean |
0:55.0 | takes that main coat and she goes to the garbage dump |
0:58.0 | and throws it in the banana peals and the rines from oranges and the tomatoes and the rotten eggs |
1:07.0 | and she just takes that minka and throws it into that |
1:10.0 | and then roots down into the garbage and finds the dirtiest, smelliest, crumiest, rottenest, |
1:16.5 | putured ransid rags she can find and wraps them all around herself and comes home and says look at my new coat. |
1:26.9 | She went in and exchanged her coat for these rags. |
1:31.8 | I would call a doctor. There's something wrong. It's insane to do something like that. |
1:37.8 | But you see that that's a poor analogy because the difference in glory between rags and a mink coat is infinitesimal in comparison |
1:49.1 | of the difference in glory between a totem pole and the God who made heaven and earth. |
1:55.0 | But this is what man does. |
1:58.0 | He takes the truth of God and exchanges it for a lie. |
2:02.0 | He takes the glory of the uncorrettable. and exchanges it for a lie. |
2:02.9 | He takes the glory of the uncorruptible God |
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