We’ve made comments from the Word of God that cause trepidation in some minds.  I don’t know for a fact, but it wouldn’t surprise me if we were able to sit down with everybody in here, that we would possibly find somebody who says, “I don’t believe in the death penalty.”  Well, you’d better start believing in it because it is God’s declaration!  You need to change your thoughts.  You have another Jesus.  I don’t know if this would be applicable here, but it could be.  There could be those among us that don’t want to administer corporal punishment.  You have to change your doctrine, you’re wrong!  God’s Word has made it clear how you respond.  There is no place for you to establish another doctrine.  My job is to stand up here and preach the Word of God so that you would become hearers, doers, and teachers of others, Jesus said in the Sermon on the Mount; amen?

You might not think it, but coming into these last days, for us to stand, all of these “small issues” need to be addressed.  We need to address all of these “little foxes.”  Make sure that our doctrine is sound, that we are a people who are living in one accord, we’re saying what we believe.  We have set course for the same prize, the high calling of God that’s in Christ Jesus and will help each other get there.  Oh, there’s nothing easy about some of these issues and that’s why love never fails.  It stands there, it prevails, it lifts up hands that are hanging down, it comforts the feeble-minded.  Love never fails.  You cry, you gripe, you get mad, you get up and keep going; amen?  Because the righteous man falls seven times and does what?  Gets up, praise God!  Paul’s basically telling us, “Just keep getting up.  Just keep getting up.”  

We’re going into trials, each and every one of us.  The only thing that Satan can cause you to get off course with would be the moment you think you’re the only person having problems.  That’s from a couple of different perspectives.  One of the perspectives is what we’ve been teaching on just recently and it’s the fact that you’re unable to forgive yourself because of your pride, because you think you’re so special.  The church today wants to talk about homosexuality.  They always want to talk about homosexuality, like that’s some kind of special, pet sin that’s unique from every other sin in the Bible.  When I talk to homosexuals and I’m witnessing to them, I won’t even talk about their homosexuality.  I couldn’t care less about your homosexuality.  We have drunks over here, and homosexuals over here.  Liars over here, and murderers over here.  You’re all on your way to hell if you don’t allow Jesus to redeem you from your sinful nature; amen?  So, there’s no special sin.  There’s no one sin that’s going to send you to hell except the sin that the Holy Spirit is here to convict the world of.  Of sin, because you believe not on Me, Jesus says.  That’s what’s going to send you to hell.  Well, we do some of the same things.  When we sin, we get under conviction and somehow, we think, “Oh, nobody has it like this sin I have to deal with.  It’s like no other sin!  It is so powerful!  Nobody could ever resist it!”  Jesus was tempted in every way and without sin; amen?