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staggering statement that we find in the Word

of God. It shouldn't be that way, but it is many

times. I've been on the phone in the last four

weeks with at least ten people from ten

different states asking my counsel over this

very thing. Why is there family division?

Because one believes and one rejects, and

often this is in the same household, and those

who reject will oppose those who believe.

Now, listen. Christ is the occasion of

division, but the blame is in the hearts of

wicked men and women. Before Christ came,

the hostility wasn't there. Let me just give you

one example. In Matthew chapter 2, Jesus

Christ is born into this world. He is an infant,

He is a baby, and everybody in Israel is upset.

There are those like Anna and Simeon and the

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