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 So Jesus says you should be happy when you're persecuted for Jesus sake and then in Matthew chapter 13 Jesus says that people become discouraged and give up because of persecutions or tribulations so how do you put those two together 

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 why did Moses say it was okay to divorce your wife, and Jesus says well that wasn't the way it was meant to be in the beginning, but God made a concession because of the hardness of men's hearts. Okay I don't know about you but there's sort of like this bizarre thought and a lot of people's minds that the Bible is absolute. I know I've worked that way for years and years and I still sort of have this you know the Bible is infallible and the Bible is God's absolute truth. But God God in a flesh body says plainly that it is not that it is like this sort of weird you know book of concessions or or negot sort of like one-sided negotiations almost where God sort of just looks at things and says wow this isn't going to work that way very well so I will make a concession or I will just sort of renegotiate this rule based on reality okay well what is reality I mean God aren't you in charge of reality reality what are you talking about so it's strange I mean it feels weird and so people just give up they're like now the Bible doesn't make any sense I mean God it either God is absolute or God isn't and the Bible has to be absolute or it is not and all this kind of stuff and so they're just like I'm not going to pay any attention to this okay well my impression the way Jesus talked strangely enough is that this stuff is going to end the way Jesus said like we're all going to be judged on judgment Day and the law that God put in there whatever it is that is what the rules are going to be used as on judgment Day and God's going to make those determinations based on God's own interpretation and God's own you know decision process so it may look into like one guy may get away with murder and some other guy may go get thrown right in the lake of fire and you may be like whoa they both committed murderer why how does this working and God's not going to explain anything he's going to be like well that's way that went folks you know murder One made it murder 2 gets thrown in the lake of fire well is that that's you know we want to use the fair word right that's another well that's not fair okay well we have no idea what fair is we because God God isn't fair okay that's that's nonsense that's another weird thing that humans talk about God isn't fair you're right God isn't fair okay because God is fair is what we're supposed to be we are supposed to be fair to one another Factor supposed to be more than fair we're supposed to love one another as if it were ourself well if you see somebody doing really stupid stuff like let's say some guy is I've run into people that they're always wanting to borrow money for some you know crackpot scheme thing that they want to come up with and they need a quick the 20 or 30 grand okay well the way you can help the what what you would do if I were going to do some crackpots game I would go get a job and earn that extra let's say I learn at least half of it 10 grand let's say it's 20 10 grand and then I would start looking for other people to put in with me okay now that the dangerous thing there is if you're not spending it all at one time you could so that you can be deceiving people and possibly even yourself you'll spend their 10,000 first right okay so if you're a wise investor and some guy says well I'm putting in 10 grand of my own money and I want you to put in 10 grand too say how are you going to spend it well the first thing I have to do is buy a $5,000 equipment and then I rent a space for $2,000 a month so it's to get started it's going to cost seven Grand so what you can say in that situation is okay you go ahead and spend your seven Grand and when you burn through your 10 grand I will talk to you about funding you based on where you're at. You see that's loving somebody like you want to be loved you should I mean then they have to face the reality of what the scheme is and what the probability of success is but if you just throw 10 granddad I've been there just like everything's fine till they run out of money and then they're like whoops we're broke I need some more money you see and then they may have squirreled away five grand of their own money and not even be telling you that or cooked up some books you see what people do it's so easy to lie and deceive yourself even and think well no I need that money for future development of something and you need to give me more money see what I mean you just the people are

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