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You're listening to kf I AM six
on demand. Since the beginning of time.

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It's easy to throw up your arms
and look at the world and say,

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what is going on with the world. It's auguring it's going to h

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e double hockey sticks in a basket. And that's not untrue, unfortunately,

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But it's better to look at why
so. Scripture has said many times to

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be in the you know, in
the world, not of the world type

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thing, not being wrapped or cloaked
in the world, meaning to always have

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your eyes set upon God, the
promise of heaven, and to be here

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presently in the world to figure out
the puzzles that will strengthen you as a

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believer. And by puzzles I mean
life's trials, because life has them for

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Christians and non Christians alike. God
has them for the faithful and the unfaithful

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alike. And that is something that
will be until the end of time.

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It's been said, this is not
the perfect world. It is the best

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way possible to the perfect world,
which is Heaven. But alas here you

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are in the world, seeing things
go by on the daily, hearing them

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in the news, or seeing them
on social media. The concentration of that

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is overwhelming, for sure. More
and more are you consuming this news and

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all put it in quotes because the
actuality of it is that it's just clips,

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photos and videos of the world.
There was a day when you sought

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out the news to understand what was
going on in the community, to understand

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what your part was to correct it, or what to be on the lookout

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for so that you could do your
part as a community member. Look for

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the people that we're not living up
to the standards of the community and the

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promises made therein people that are doing
bad things to the community, people that

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are trying to live off the promise
of the community without being a part of

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the community. And a lot of
that comes down to entitlement. As a

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matter of fact, if you want
to play a game with yourself, you

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can sit and look at every sin
and yes, every crime, and it

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comes down to entitlement. So a
lot of what you see in the news

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is people holding cameras up while others
are doing whatever they want, regardless of

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community standards, and every single one
of those acts our entitlement. The world

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is sitting dressed in entitlement now instead
of humility. Tis the focus of all

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things now is entitlement. And with
entitlement being at the center of every sin

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and every crime, you go through
the Ten Commandments, anytime you break one

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of those is based on entitlement.
Now you get to a point where the

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way to humility, the cure for
entitlement, if not given, if not

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learned, if not understood, becomes
humiliation. So the world either understands and

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cloaks themselves in humility, or God
teaches the world, maybe you by way

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of humiliation, breaking down hubrists,
breaking down the things that make you say

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I'm entitled to that I'm entitled to
get to where I'm going more quickly than

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someone else. So I will speed, or I will cut the off,

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or I will make dangerous moves on
the roadways to do what I need to

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do because I have justified it in
my heart. But if somebody else does

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it, then it becomes a possible
road rage because two people are entitled,

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and with that entitlement and that lack
of humility to see someone else on the

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road and think, you know what, I'm going to drive on the road

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with humility, giving grace to those
that believe, Hey, if you're gonna

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if you need to go somewhere that
fast. It is not worth my life,

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it is not worth my time.
Here you go, there's an open

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roadway for you if you need it. It doesn't make you small, and

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it doesn't make you weak, and
it doesn't make you unseen, because often

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in anger, in entitlement, the
core factor becomes you don't see me as

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a human being. That's why the
wave is so popular in driving, because

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the wave is a way of letting
someone know, Hey, if I did

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that on accident, and I apologize
and you give the wave, you're saying

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I see you. Most people just
want to be seen. They want you

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to know that they exist and they're
worthy as as much of the roadway or

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anything else as you are. So
really, this big package, this ball

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of pride and entitlement and the lack
of humility, becomes entangled, and it's

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one of those things that nobody wants
to step up and say, I will

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break myself, I will find myself
that humility. And this has to start

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with those that believe the people of
faith are the leaders and should be and

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should lead by example. And trust
me, I understand those that struggle with

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that finding that place in your heart
to define the moments in life to be

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that example. My producer Neil and
I have talked extensively about this because although

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his heart is in the right place
most of the time, he struggles with

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that. It's hard not to get
wrapped up in your own existence. Everybody

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thinks that they are the star of
their own movie, and for the lack

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of a better term, that's very
true. You live your life from your

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point of view, from your place
out in the world. You actually don't

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really think about others for the most
part. You are on the roads or

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in a mall or going to an
event with hundreds or thousands of people daily,

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and you continue to look at how
it suits you rather than how it

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suits every talking about entitlement and the
issues that you see daily, whether it

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is smash and grab robberies, whether
it is the horrific treatment of others,

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like driving and hit and runs,
where someone in a car can hit someone

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and take their life often and drive
off like they rolled over a cup from

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a fast food restaurant. Story out
of Las Vegas of two young boys driving

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a car and video that videoing themselves
as as they hit bisyleck by bicycle drivers

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and laughing even killing a retired cop
who was just out for a ride and

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laughing. That kind of entitlement is
beyond what you can imagine. I'm sure,

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I hope. But even in that
circumstance, one of the kids,

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and I say kids because they're under
eighteen, but certainly not eighteen in mentality

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or not an adult in regular mentality, one would hope one of a said,

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you know it's going to be nothing
will be out. The idea of

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zero consequences, the idea of being
able to get away with whatever you want

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to do, is fuel for entitlement. There is there is nothing in the

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eyes of people that do crime that
doesn't reek of entitlement. Along with that

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comes the need for humility. Unfortunately, humility is not something you can purchase

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somewhere and put in your pocket.
Humility often comes from humiliation, and those

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consequences can be quite interesting, to
say the less to watch James four one

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through twelve. What causes quarrels and
what causes fights among you? Is it

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not this that your passions are at
war within you. You desire and you

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do not have, so you murder. You covet and you cannot obtain,

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so you fight and quarrel you do
not have because you do not ask.

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You do not ask, and you
do not receive because you ask wrongly to

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spend it all on your passions,
You adulterous people. Do you not know

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that friendship with this world is supposed
to be with God and not with this

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world. Therefore, whoever wishes to
be a friend of the world makes himself

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an enemy of God. So this
is how it starts. It starts in

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a placement of what is referred to
in scripture as passions. But what that

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is his entitlement. You're making friends
with the world, is being in that

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world, is going okay if you
can't beat them, join them, and

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finding yourself justifying just like others,
why you do the things you do,

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and how it's different from the way
the rest of the world does the things

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that they do. Talking about entitlement, the world of entitlement that continues to

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captivate people watch and say, oh
my gosh, look at these smash and

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grab robberies. Look at people latently
walking in to a store, taking things

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and leaving. You might have heard
in the past couple of days that big

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stores are closing. Target is said
to be closing nine of their locations.

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Why because of the loss, all
the theft, and putting their employees in

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front of people who don't act human, and their employees are being threatened,

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and for their safety and for all
of the loss, they're just closing stores.

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I bet that's not something you've ever
seen in your lifetime. And again,

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the entirety of this all traces back
to entitlement. That is the center

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of all sin, that is the
center of all crime, the justification in

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one's mind to ignore the rules and
to do whatever they want. They are

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the people that have justified in their
heads that they can do anything, go

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anywhere, ignore rules, ignore laws, ignore the things that make a community

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a community, society, society.
And unfortunately it doesn't take much for others

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to go, well, the heck
with it. I'll do that too.

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I'm just going to do that.
If they're going to do it, I'm

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going to do it. You have
to find your faith, find your humility,

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and be better than that to walk
in a way that people can see,

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walk in a way that is so
different that there are those that will

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have to ask about that hope with
light that lies within you, because people

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of entitlement have no hope they don't
know hope, they don't know love.

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All of this is done for their
own gain. As a matter of fact,

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it is. There used to be
rules inside of these types of gangs

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or individual who would be like,
yeah, i'll go do that, but

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even you know, don't snitch and
all these things doesn't matter anymore if you

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put money behind it and reward money. Then you've got people calling others out

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easy peasy because they're so entitled.
There's no there's no commonality. Even in

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thievery. It's just about the individual, and it's sort of understood that hey,

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I'm just trying to get mine,
but you're taking it. You're not

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getting, you're not earning, you're
not taking anything into your own hands and

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learning to be strong, learning to
give and be a part of the society.

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Second, Thessimonian three ten says,
for even when we were with you,

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we would give you this command if
if anyone is not willing to work,

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let him not eat. Working as
part of how a system stays together,

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doing your part is imperative for these
things to work. The breakdown now

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is that as stores close as people, especially mom and pop shops just say

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hey, we can't do this.
Anymore. Can't live like this. We're

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being threatened, being shot at,
have knives pulled, have tear gas,

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bear spray put in your eyes.
I don't want to do it anymore.

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The very center of the American dream
to be able to design your path.

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Shops that have been handed down from
family member and generation to family member and

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generation can't stand. You see even
corporate owned stores, like I said about

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Target closing up nine different stores in
the United States, and in this process

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is not a store going out of
business. What you should see is a

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breakdown and being civilized. That's what
a civilization is. It's a group of

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civilized people that come together in agreement
of laws and order, and if those

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are not seen or utilized, it's
done. There is no white or yellow

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paint on a freeway that can stop
your car. You have to participate in

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that and see that as a wall
that helps you understand how you need to

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act on the roads. But it's
not magic, it's not going to prevent

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anything. It's still on you,
and those invisible or those visible lines in

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this case only matter for those that
use them. But you can see people

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more and more doing things that before
seem done. Civilized and that goes back

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to entitlement. So you have to
answer your own questions. You have to

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ask yourself, what are you entitled
about? What are the things that you

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do that are excuses for you to
break the rules because everyone does it,

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and believers sometimes can be the worst. I've seen believers justify all kinds of

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things, even against scripture, because
what they want to see, what they

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want to be instead of what is, and the power of entitlement pulls down

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over and over and over, continually
taking good people with it because now it

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becomes the force of the ocean and
the tide. Well, everybody's doing this.

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If I don't do it, then
I'm going to be left out or

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I'm going to be the sucker.
You have to be stronger and better than

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that. The chide the tide needs
to be changed. You need to push

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in the opposite direction to write this
imbalance. As believers should be uniting against

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these things, coming up with ideas, trying to find civilization again and being

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civil to one another. And it
should start with the people that believe that

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God has a plan. Wrapping up
some thoughts on entitlement and the lack of

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humility and the desire to just grab
what you want. The nickname for these

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types of crimes are called smash and
grab. And how interesting is that?

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How base is that smash and grab? Just break, defile, destroy and

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grab what you want? And it
isn't it interesting that the Creator reminds you

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over and over that the enemy destroys. The enemy decides that destruction is the

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best method. And God, the
Creator says that creating and building up.

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There are those that build and give. There is those that smash and grab

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the destruction that comes with it,
not even caring about what that does to

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a community. Now, believe me, things are changing more and more.

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You'll see people defending themselves. And
it is legitimate to defend yourself, for

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sure, And it is a legitimate
thing to want to protect what is yours.

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You have the right as a store
owner. You have the right as

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someone hired by the store owner to
protect those things as well. But God

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also reminds you the wrath of God
is with you, and that there are

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times to find your humility in a
peaceful way. Romans twelve nineteen says,

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beloved, never avenge yourself, but
leave it to the wrath of God,

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for it is written vengeance is mine. I will repair, he says the

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Lord, And that comes in the
end. You're not supposed to be a

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doormat for those doing the devil's work. It's not my intent with that is

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to say that even when you think
someone gets away with it, even when

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you think that the system didn't work
for you, that God sees these things.

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So the people that may walk away
thinking they're getting away are never getting

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away. They may be getting away
for some time. They may think they're

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getting away, but they are not. And finding yourself in a place to

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be that light to others, to
return wallets to be a part of speaking

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up against crime. Being a good
witness is one of the first things police

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will tell you to do. That's
how you can do the best with crime

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is to be a good witness when
law enforcement does step in to find out

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what's going on, To do your
part of being civilized in an uncivilized situation.

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But it all starts in the heart, every single bit of it,

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when that tiny little seed of entitlement
grows, and right now it is growing

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into a strong, strong tree.
The types of entitlement to harm a person,

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to take the life of a person
for fun, or to think that

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they're not worth anything. To be
able to drive over them and move on

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is heinous. But if there is
no accountability, there is no rule of

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law, then the people that are
on the fence in life will always choose

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themselves over anyone else. The only
thing that will push out the crime is

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humility. By way of humiliation,
accountability, and no pie in the sky

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thoughts that they're just misguided, because
misguidedness shouldn't take a life. Misguidedness is

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maybe taking some gum at a drug
store and finding your way out of stupidity.

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But right now, humility is important. Accountability is important, and that

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should come from the people of hope, because people without hope do very,

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very horrible things. Kf I am
sixty on demand