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enjoy ourselves. Again, the little fellowship

we had here the other night, you know, it's

good; it's enjoyable; it's peaceful; it's

edifying; it's uplifting. But there is no

edification in joking and criticism and

cutting and sarcasm and all these things.

You ask, “Why is he preaching on this?

Has he seen some of that this week?" No, I

haven’t seen any of that. Even in the

preachers' meeting, there was seriousness

as we talked about the Lord. I'm just saying

to you that when you get serious about God

and you want to talk about God, you want

to talk about holiness and the fruit of the

Spirit and things like that, you're going to

find that there are many carnal people who

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