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Episode 140 - The Government’s Judge · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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  Speaker 1: Final Friday of the year of twenty twenty four. A man,
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  Speaker 1: we are a couple of days removed from the celebration
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  Speaker 1: a man always remember a man during this season the
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  Speaker 1: he came, Amen to save us from our sins.
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  Speaker 2: That's why he came. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Although we engage and get distracted with all of the
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  Speaker 1: other Amen, externals a man associated with the celebration, which
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  Speaker 1: is fine to a certain extent, let us not forget,
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  Speaker 1: Amen, up until this present time, it is the Lord,
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So again we are grateful for that. All right, we
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  Speaker 1: are continuing in a series that we begun on God, government,
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  Speaker 1: church and state. God government, church and state. And we
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  Speaker 1: have already a man set forth a man the premise
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  Speaker 1: that God rules in the kingdom of men, and that
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  Speaker 1: there is nothing that runs a foul of its a
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  Speaker 1: man righteous rule in judgment that he will not visit upon.
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  Speaker 1: And that is what we're going to look at today
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  Speaker 1: from the biblical perspective. So if you have your Bibles,
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  Speaker 1: you can go with us to the Book of Genesis,
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  Speaker 1: a man, to the Book of Genesis where we're want
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  Speaker 1: to show you and a man, I guess solidify our
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  Speaker 1: a man previous podcasts a man's statements, and I guess
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  Speaker 1: you can call argument that we put forth a man
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  Speaker 1: about the God of creation, who again, a man is
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  Speaker 1: sovereignly in charge and ruling over all of the kingdoms
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  Speaker 1: of this world. And certainly we're going to see the
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to show you three examples here in the
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  Speaker 1: look of Genesis.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So again, if you have your Bible, what you can
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  Speaker 1: turn with us as we will look there. Amen, for amen,
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  Speaker 1: the word of the Lord teaching to us what we
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  Speaker 1: need to must need. Remember again, before we of course
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  Speaker 1: delve into the Word of God, let's just take a
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  Speaker 1: quick moment to amen, invoke the presence of the Lord again. Father, again,
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  Speaker 1: we thank you for mercy, favored love, kindness, truth, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: your peace that surpasses all understanding, the joy of the
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  Speaker 1: Lord that is our strength. We thank you for help
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  Speaker 1: each and every day. We know where our help comes from.
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  Speaker 1: So that's why we lift our eyes to you, the
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  Speaker 1: God of creation, the God of all flesh. Lord, we
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  Speaker 1: know that you are the author in the finish of
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  Speaker 1: our faith, and that all in you is of you
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  Speaker 1: and from you. And Lord, we just want to give
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  Speaker 1: you praising glory today. So help our minds and hearts
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  Speaker 1: to receive you and grafted word which is able to
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  Speaker 1: keep us and save us. Amen, and present you faultless,
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  Speaker 1: Present us for rather faultless before your presence, with exceeding joy.
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  Speaker 2: Amen to you. The glory belongs. Amen and Amen.
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  Speaker 1: The government's judge, The government adds a judge. All governments
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  Speaker 1: have a judge, and it is the judge of all
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  Speaker 1: of the earth. But there is in our world, of course,
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  Speaker 1: especially and particularly maybe even more egregiously, perhaps even in
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  Speaker 1: our Western culture in the United States of America, we
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  Speaker 1: have a faulty and illogical Amen argument and or understanding
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  Speaker 1: that some people, some people, I'll just say, some people
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  Speaker 1: have this in their minds regarding the intervention of God
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  Speaker 1: in the affairs of men, by the way, in the
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  Speaker 1: affairs of this world, that He has created Amen for
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  Speaker 1: his glory, honor, and good pleasure. Nevertheless, although that thinking
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  Speaker 1: exists in our world and our culture and is pervasive,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, and perhaps even in the Church, there
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  Speaker 1: are some who don't believe that God is involved, that
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  Speaker 1: God is intimately involved, that even cares about what happens
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  Speaker 1: in our world and our governments. But God not only
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  Speaker 1: is intimately involved in the affairs of his world, but
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  Speaker 1: he also decreed and ordained all that comes to pass
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  Speaker 1: a man, and he did it before the construction, if
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  Speaker 1: you will, of this world began. He is a sovereign ruler.
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  Speaker 1: He is the supreme governor over all of his creation
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  Speaker 1: and all creatures therein. And so we must understand that
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  Speaker 1: the kings and the kingdoms of this world a man
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  Speaker 1: are operating under and within the confines of what He
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  Speaker 1: has predestined and predetermined again before the foundation of the world.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And what we need to see and what we're going
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  Speaker 1: to see the day is in the aftermath of the
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  Speaker 1: fall of man in Eden. It was necessary for our survival,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, and this is for our survival, that
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  Speaker 1: the governments of this world that are now operating outside
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  Speaker 1: of Paradise. Adam, Remember and Eve were removed from the
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  Speaker 1: garden of Eden, removed from Paradise.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. So now we.
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  Speaker 1: Operate outside of the paradise, the world, the perfection, world
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  Speaker 1: of perfection that God provided for us. And so now
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  Speaker 1: that we are outside of that rim in this fallen world,
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  Speaker 1: with our fall in nature, sin for nature, rebellious nature. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: it is necessary that we have government Amen, to restrain,
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  Speaker 1: to check, and to discipline, Amen. And it has to
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  Speaker 1: come from the Almighty God, because government of man and
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  Speaker 1: by man will never Amen, be able to a man
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  Speaker 1: keep in check, Amen, the wickedness and evil that is
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  Speaker 1: a man within the hearts of men. So in the
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  Speaker 1: very first book of the Bible we have the divine
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  Speaker 1: intervention a man of God with the governments of men,
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  Speaker 1: beginning in chapter six with the flood, and in chapter
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  Speaker 1: eleven with a man the Tower of Babel, and then
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  Speaker 1: of course in chapter nineteen with the cities and planes
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  Speaker 1: surrounding plains of Sodom Ingamara Amen. And so we're going
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  Speaker 1: to look at this and in these three instances, for example,
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  Speaker 1: in government number one, which we'll as the flood, Government
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  Speaker 1: number one, we had lawlessness, lawlessness, Amen. And again we
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  Speaker 1: already dwelt on this Amen, that we cannot have and
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  Speaker 1: there cannot be a man, any government that operates with
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  Speaker 1: lawlessness that cannot and will not be visited visited upon
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  Speaker 1: by amen, the divine intervention of God unless they repent,
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  Speaker 1: of course.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And so Government number one, when God brought the flood
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  Speaker 1: upon the earth was because of lawlessness. Government number two,
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  Speaker 1: when God brought judgment upon the Tower of Babel, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: when they were building that tower in Babylon.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: That is, they had a government of rebellion. They refused
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  Speaker 1: to obey God. And Government number three when God over
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  Speaker 1: through the cities of Sodom, Ingamara and the rounding planes
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  Speaker 1: and cities therein a man, it was because they had
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  Speaker 1: a government of wickedness.
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  Speaker 2: A man so intertwined.
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  Speaker 1: And all of these is lawlessness, lawlessness, rebellion, in wickedness,
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  Speaker 1: They're all intertwined. But that's what we're going to take
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  Speaker 1: a look at today. So in Genesis chapter six, again,
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  Speaker 1: if you have your Bibles, we read about the God
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  Speaker 1: of Creation's divine indictment of mankind that was brought upon
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  Speaker 1: their government. And I'm in Genesis six and verse number five,
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  Speaker 1: just a couple of verses there, or one verse actually
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  Speaker 1: in Genesis six, verse five. We're going to see here
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  Speaker 1: that there's an indictment of this government of Noah's generation
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  Speaker 1: because of the lawlessness a man of their government, or
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  Speaker 1: perhaps there was altogether a lack of government. And that's
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  Speaker 1: exactly what when you have a lawless government. That's exactly
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  Speaker 1: what you're having there, a lack of government, aben, a
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  Speaker 1: lack of law and order.
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  Speaker 2: Look of Genesis.
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  Speaker 1: Verse five of chapter six reads, I'm reading from the
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  Speaker 1: King James Virgin. The Bible says, and God saw that
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  Speaker 1: the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and
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  Speaker 1: that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was
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  Speaker 1: only evil continually. Amen, And only God, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: who is again the righteous judge, who is the judge
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  Speaker 1: of the earth, the judge of all men, the judge
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  Speaker 1: of governments and nations.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: He looks down upon the children of men, And the
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  Speaker 1: Bible says here that he saw that the wickedness of
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  Speaker 1: man was great. It wasn't just a little here and
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  Speaker 1: a little there, fifty to fifty twenty eighty. No, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: we had literally one hundred percent wickedness.
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  Speaker 2: And that this one.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible says, every imagination, everything that he thought about,
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  Speaker 1: everything that he dwelt on, everything that he meditated on
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  Speaker 1: in his mind, in his heart.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. The Bible says, it was only.
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  Speaker 1: Evil continually, day and night, day in and day out,
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  Speaker 1: week in and week out.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And so that generation of lawlessness in government was found
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  Speaker 1: guilty by the court of heaven, if you will, amen.
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  Speaker 1: And the divine intervention was therefore exercised by the washing
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  Speaker 1: away and the thorough cleaning or cleansing of the inhabitants
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  Speaker 1: of both man and beasts of the earth, with the exception,
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  Speaker 1: of course, you know the story of now and his
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  Speaker 1: family and animals, that God preserved alive.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And it was because of again the violence and the
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  Speaker 1: blood shed that was continually being poured out upon the
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  Speaker 1: earth and polluting the earth. Remember the very first murder
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  Speaker 1: that was recorded in the Bible and the scriptures, that
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  Speaker 1: killing his brother Abel. And when his blood, life of
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  Speaker 1: the body is in the blood, by the way, and
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  Speaker 1: so when that blood was spilled in the earth.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. The Bible tells us that the blood of.
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  Speaker 1: Abel cried out to God. So when we shed blood,
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  Speaker 1: when we shed innocent blood, that is when we shed
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  Speaker 1: innocent blood. The life of that body, the life of
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  Speaker 1: that person, Amen, is in that blood.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And that life is crying out to God a man
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  Speaker 1: for vengeance, Amen, for divine intervention. And again, this is
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  Speaker 1: why we must intercede, Amen, because of the time which
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  Speaker 1: we're in, where we're I mean, so much innocent blood
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  Speaker 1: is being poured out, Amen. And then I and again
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  Speaker 1: it's hard for me to just not speak on this
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  Speaker 1: because it is just where we are, Amen. We are
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  Speaker 1: killing innocent babies, slaughtering them by the millions, not just
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  Speaker 1: in America, all over the world every year. And that blood,
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  Speaker 1: Amen is crying out for God to intervene.
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  Speaker 2: How long, o Lord.
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  Speaker 1: In the Book of Revelation, it speaks about that, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: people who are martyred a man crying out, how long
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  Speaker 1: before you avenge our blood upon them?
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  Speaker 2: Amen?
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  Speaker 1: Who have polluted the earth? Who've a man sullied the
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  Speaker 1: soil of the earth with the blood of the righteous,
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  Speaker 1: of the blood of the innocent, Amen, Only nor in
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  Speaker 1: his family.
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  Speaker 2: We know the story.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to take the time to go through
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  Speaker 1: all of that. Only know in his family was spared. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: the wrath of God upon that lawless government.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And after the flood, of course, the Lord would go
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  Speaker 1: on to communicate to Nora and his family the necessity
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  Speaker 1: of a government to punish those who would violently shed blood.
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  Speaker 1: Looks at what the Bible teaches in Genesis chapter nine
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  Speaker 1: a man verses five and six.
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  Speaker 2: Look what the Lord says.
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  Speaker 1: To no Is in the immediate aftermath of the flood,
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  Speaker 1: when they come out of the Amen the ark, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: and go out.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: God wants them to repopulate and the earth and all,
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  Speaker 1: which course they went on to do. But look what
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  Speaker 1: the Bible says. God says to nor and surely your blood,
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  Speaker 1: of your lives, will I require at the hand of
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  Speaker 1: every beast, will I require it? And at the hand
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  Speaker 1: of man, at the hand of every man's brother, will
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  Speaker 1: I require the life of man? What is God talking
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  Speaker 1: about here?
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  Speaker 2: Murder? Verse six?
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  Speaker 1: He says, whosoever sheddeth man's blood by man, shall his
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  Speaker 1: blood be shed. In other words, God requires us government.
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  Speaker 1: We are to have a government, and the government has
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  Speaker 1: been established in the Bible speaks about this, and I
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  Speaker 1: talked about this early on Romans thirteen, when he speaks
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  Speaker 1: of the government being the ministers of God, and the
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  Speaker 1: government not bearing the sword in vain a man, he's
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  Speaker 1: an avenger upon those who would a man traffic and evil,
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  Speaker 1: as it were. And so the Bible says here, whosoever
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  Speaker 1: sheddeth men man's blood by man, shall his blood be shed.
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  Speaker 2: What does God do?
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  Speaker 1: He's extaptablishing government, is establishing law and order. What happened
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  Speaker 1: to bring about the flood? They were murdering and killing
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  Speaker 1: one another, violence day and night, evil day and night
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  Speaker 1: only continually. And God a man after the cleansing a
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  Speaker 1: man of the earth, He says to Noah, anyone who
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  Speaker 1: sheds man's blood, his blood is to be shed a man,
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  Speaker 1: for in the image of God made he man. So
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  Speaker 1: again God now establishes or re establishes, if you will,
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  Speaker 1: government of men in the earth, to maintain law and order,
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  Speaker 1: and to punish those who practice lawlessness and wickedness. No nation,
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  Speaker 1: no people, can survive a man without law and order.
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  Speaker 1: So again, shortly after the flood, we see when men
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  Speaker 1: begin to multiply on the earth, God had blessed them
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  Speaker 1: to do Genesis eleven. We're going to go there a man.
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  Speaker 1: The Lord commanded them to go forth a man, to
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  Speaker 1: inhabit the whole earth. But there were some who refused.
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  Speaker 1: There were those who rebelled against the Lord. Genesis eleven,
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  Speaker 1: verse one through nine. Look what the Bible teaches a
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  Speaker 1: man and the whole earth was of one language and
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  Speaker 1: of one speech. And it came to pass as they
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  Speaker 1: journeyed from the east, that they found a plane in
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  Speaker 1: the land of Shinar. And they dwelt there, and they said,
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  Speaker 1: one to another, go to, let us make brick and
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  Speaker 1: burn them throughly.
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  Speaker 2: And they made.
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  Speaker 1: They had brick for stone, and slime had they for mortar.
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  Speaker 1: And they said, go to, let us build us a
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  Speaker 1: city and a tower whose top may reach unto heaven. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: listen carefully, and let us make us a name, lest
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  Speaker 1: we be scattered abroad up on the face of the
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  Speaker 1: whole earth.
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  Speaker 2: Rebellion.
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  Speaker 1: This is, by the way, the beginning of Babylon, and
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  Speaker 1: Babylon is all about rebellion. It is a spiritual term, certainly,
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  Speaker 1: that we use now to a man. The Bible uses,
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  Speaker 1: of course to describe, and we get to Babylon. All
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  Speaker 1: that later on in the Book of Revelation, of course,
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  Speaker 1: and it has significance, but it has its genesis here
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  Speaker 1: in the Book of the Beginnings, the Book of Genesis,
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  Speaker 1: here in chapter number eleven. Well, you have a group
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  Speaker 1: of rebels a man who are rebelling against God, who
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  Speaker 1: were not doing as they were commanded to a man
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  Speaker 1: scat throughout the earth.
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  Speaker 2: And they said, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: We don't want to We're gonna stop right here, We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna settle right here. We're gonna build a city, We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna build a tower. We're not going out, We're going up.
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  Speaker 1: We're gonna matter of fact, it was all about them
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  Speaker 1: wanting to overthrow, as it were, or to ascend up
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  Speaker 1: to Heaven. Amen without God.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: This is the establishment of religion, their own religion, their
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  Speaker 1: own way. This is all about we're gonna do it
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  Speaker 1: our way. And the Lord said no, no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: you're not Amen. So the Bible says in verse number five,
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  Speaker 1: the Lord came down to see the city in the
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  Speaker 1: tower which the children of men build it. And the
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  Speaker 1: Lord said, behold, the people is one, and they have
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  Speaker 1: all one language. And this they begin to do, and
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  Speaker 1: now nothing will be restrained from them which they have
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  Speaker 1: imagined to do. Go to let us go down. And
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  Speaker 1: they're confound their language that they may not understand one
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  Speaker 1: another's speech. So the Lord scattered them abroad from thence
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  Speaker 1: upon the base of all the earth, and they left
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  Speaker 1: off to build the city. Therefore is the name of
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  Speaker 1: it called Babel. Babel Babylon is where we get Babylon from,
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  Speaker 1: because the Lord did there and found the language of
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  Speaker 1: all the earth. And from thence did the Lord scatter
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  Speaker 1: them abroad upon the face of all the earth. Now
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  Speaker 1: what we see here judgment, judgment. It wasn't a deathly,
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't a flood, it wasn't a fire. But it
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  Speaker 1: was a judgment. And we see the divine invention of
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  Speaker 1: God in the affairs of men. They purposed to do
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  Speaker 1: as they wanted to do, in disobedience, in defiance to
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  Speaker 1: what God had purposed for them to do. Go out
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  Speaker 1: in the earth, replenish the earth, subdue the earth. No, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna, we're gonna, we gonna stay right here. We gonna,
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  Speaker 1: we gonna, We're gonna combine our forces. We're gonna, we're
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  Speaker 1: gonna come up there where you are God, And God said, no,
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  Speaker 1: you're not so.
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  Speaker 2: Again.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of times we think of the judgment of God.
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  Speaker 1: We think only, perhaps exclusively, in the terms of a
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  Speaker 1: draconian way of God dealing with man resulting in death.
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  Speaker 2: But not so.
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  Speaker 1: God has the divine prerogative, of course, to judge as
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  Speaker 1: he pleases, Amen, And in this case he certainly would
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  Speaker 1: have been just. He certainly is always just if he
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  Speaker 1: deals to any of us the death penalty, because we've
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  Speaker 1: all deserved it. The pipes of the wages of saying
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  Speaker 1: his death. Rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft. And
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  Speaker 1: these people were rebelling against God. And he could have,
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  Speaker 1: if he had so decided to do, he could have
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  Speaker 1: killed them all.
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  Speaker 2: But he didn't.
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  Speaker 1: In his mercy, He simply scattered them. He sent them
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  Speaker 1: out as he had sent them out. But in their
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  Speaker 1: rebellion they didn't want to go, and so God intervened
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  Speaker 1: and made them go out. He separated them by their language.
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  Speaker 1: Now that he had introduced into Amen in the world.
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  Speaker 1: And we still now, even to this day, have how
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  Speaker 1: many dialects. Nobody knows. I don't think anyone knows how
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  Speaker 1: many we have. But again in the case of this
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  Speaker 1: rebellious government of the descendants of Ham. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: these were the descendants of Ham. You can see the
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  Speaker 1: genealogies in the tenth chapter of the Book of Genesis.
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  Speaker 1: These were the descendants some of the descendants of Ham.
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  Speaker 1: They did escape death.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: But it clearly demonstrates to us that God rules in
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  Speaker 1: the kingdom of men in all of the earth.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: All right, one more example We're going to show you.
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  Speaker 1: In Genesis chapter nineteen, God deals with this government of wickedness.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And he is seeing again God. Look, please understand that
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  Speaker 1: God is watching. There's nothing that escapes his view. There's
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  Speaker 1: nothing that escapes his eyes. There's nothing that escapes his knowledge.
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  Speaker 1: I know we want to and we seek to hide
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  Speaker 1: in the darkness. We have the very nature of our Father, Adam.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. Trying to run from God, trying to hide from him, Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Trying to cover our nakedness, cover our sin, cover our shame.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. But you can't hide from God. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible says, all things are naked and open to Him,
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  Speaker 1: with our eyes to the eyes of Him with whom.
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  Speaker 2: We have to do.
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  Speaker 1: And so again in Genesis chapter nineteen, we see where
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  Speaker 1: God is viewing, is judging, is discerning, is looking down
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  Speaker 1: upon the wickedness of men.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. That is, by the way, when it gets.
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  Speaker 1: To a point of not only God looking down, but
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  Speaker 1: the wickedness can become so pervasive, can it becomes so
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  Speaker 1: widespread and and detrimental that it reaches.
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  Speaker 2: Up to heaven.
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  Speaker 1: And this is again, this is another case in point.
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  Speaker 1: And we're still in the book of Genesis. We're still
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  Speaker 1: in a book of Genesis where Amen, you have this
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  Speaker 1: kind of lawlessness where God comes down from heaven to
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  Speaker 1: intervene in order to protect the enoncen and also to
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  Speaker 1: preserve the future of humanity from a government that is lawless,
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  Speaker 1: a government that is rebellious, a government that is wicked
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  Speaker 1: to the core.
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  Speaker 2: And this is God coming down. He came down, Amen,
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  Speaker 2: to know he came down. Amen. In the case of.
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  Speaker 1: The Tower of Babel, where they were building a man
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  Speaker 1: in an attempt in their religious Amen, that's what religion is,
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  Speaker 1: man's attempt to reach up to God, to go up
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  Speaker 1: to God.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no, Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Salvation of course is God coming down to man. And
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  Speaker 1: so God comes down here in order to save, in
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  Speaker 1: order to intervene, in order to preserve a man, because
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't take a whole lot. The Bible says, a
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  Speaker 1: little leaven with eleven whole lump. And so even when
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  Speaker 1: you have a wickedness in one city, in one region,
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  Speaker 1: it is corrupting, it is contagious, and it will spread.
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  Speaker 1: A man has to be dealt with, no matter how
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  Speaker 1: small or insignificant a man, a piece of real estate,
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  Speaker 1: or a group of people, a man, or nation or
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  Speaker 1: government they seem to be. When there is lawlessness and
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  Speaker 1: rebellion and wickedness to the core, it must be dealt with.
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  Speaker 1: And this is where God himself, in many cases, in
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  Speaker 1: most cases, in a lot of cases we can see
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  Speaker 1: in the Bible directly intervenes again in order to protect
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  Speaker 1: the innocent, because the government is failing to do so,
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  Speaker 1: in order to preserve humanity, because we will self destruct.
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  Speaker 1: We will self destruct when we get to that stage,
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  Speaker 1: to that point where we have the government, which is
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  Speaker 1: again supposed to be the law in order, which is
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  Speaker 1: supposed to be the protector, which is supposed to be
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  Speaker 1: the minister of God, which is supposed to be the avenger,
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  Speaker 1: to execute a man wrath upon those who practiced evil.
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  Speaker 1: When the government itself when we talked about this. When
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  Speaker 1: the government itself is evil and wicked and corrupt, God intervenes,
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  Speaker 1: and this is what we have in Genesis chapter nineteen.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm not going to go to Genism nineteen. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to go to Genis eighteen because here we're going
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  Speaker 1: to see a dialogue between Abraham and God. A man again,
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  Speaker 1: God came down from heaven, pre Incarnate Christ. For those
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  Speaker 1: view and may not be familiar with this, but I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to go down to verse number sixteen.
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  Speaker 2: The law is come to.
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  Speaker 1: Visit Abraham to give him a message, to give him
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  Speaker 1: the good news that his wife Sarah's going to have
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  Speaker 1: a son one year later.
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  Speaker 2: But before he departs.
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  Speaker 1: He says, shall I hide from Abraham, to which I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to do. So go to verse sixteen. The man
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  Speaker 1: rose up from thence. It was three men, Two of
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  Speaker 1: them were angels, and the third was again the pre
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  Speaker 1: incarnate Christ himself. The Bible says, the man rose up
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  Speaker 1: from thence. They were at Abraham's place, Abraham's dwelling, and
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  Speaker 1: the Bible says, look toward Sodom. And Abraham went with
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  Speaker 1: them to bring them on the way.
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  Speaker 2: And the Lord says, shall I hi.
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  Speaker 1: That thing which I do, seeing that Abraham shall surely
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  Speaker 1: become a great, mighty nation, and all the nations of
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  Speaker 1: the earth shall be blessed in him. For I know
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  Speaker 1: him that he will command his children and his household
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  Speaker 1: after him.
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  Speaker 2: You know what that is.
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  Speaker 1: That's government, that's law in order. God knows Abraham. God
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  Speaker 1: knows that he's going to not only do what is right,
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  Speaker 1: but he's going to a man teach his children. That's government,
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  Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, that's law and order. This is what
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  Speaker 1: God wants. He wants righteousness. He want us to do
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  Speaker 1: what is right, what is lawful, what is just. I
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  Speaker 1: know Abraham, he will command his children and his household
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  Speaker 1: after him, and they shall look what the Bible says,
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  Speaker 1: keep the way of the Lord, to do justice and judgment,
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  Speaker 1: that the Lord may bring up on Abraham that which
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  Speaker 1: he hath spoken of him. And the Lord said, because
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  Speaker 1: oh watch it, listen, because the cry of Sodom and
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  Speaker 1: gomorraw is great, and because their sin is very grievous.
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  Speaker 1: I will go down now and see whether they have
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  Speaker 1: done altogether according to the cry of it which has
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  Speaker 1: come unto me. And if not, I will know and
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  Speaker 1: the men turned their faces from thence and went towards Sodom.
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  Speaker 1: But the Bible says, but Abraham stood yet before the
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  Speaker 1: Lord verse twenty three. And Abraham drew near and said,
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  Speaker 1: wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked? Peradventure,
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  Speaker 1: there be fifty righteous within the city. Will thou also destroy?
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  Speaker 1: And not spare the place for the righteous or the
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  Speaker 1: fifty righteous?
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  Speaker 2: Rather that are.
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  Speaker 1: Therein that be far from thee to do after this manner,
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  Speaker 1: to slay the righteous with the wicked, And that the
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  Speaker 1: righteous should be as the wicked that be far from thee. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: watch this question, shall not the judge of all the
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  Speaker 1: earth do?
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  Speaker 2: Right? I'm gonna hold it right there. Listen.
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  Speaker 1: Please understand, of course, that Abraham gets it. Abraham knows.
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  Speaker 1: He knows who the judge of all the earth is.
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  Speaker 1: He knows who reigns and rules in the Kingdom of Men.
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  Speaker 1: He understood very well that the Lord reigns and he
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  Speaker 1: governs a man over the affairs of the earth, and
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  Speaker 1: that he is the righteous and just judge of all
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  Speaker 1: the earth.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And so for the remainder of this chapter, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: gonna read all of it, but for the remainder of
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  Speaker 1: this chapter. Amen, we see, amen, Abraham, being permitted, if
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  Speaker 1: you will, to negotiate an intercession for the people of
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  Speaker 1: these cities, a man to be spared the judgment of
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  Speaker 1: God upon a man, the wickedness of their governments.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: But sadly, of course, you know the rest. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: going to go through the rest of the story. But sadly,
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  Speaker 1: for those cities there would be found only one man
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  Speaker 1: and his family who would be graciously spared.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. The overthrow of that government.
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  Speaker 1: Abraham started with the negotiation of fifty people and forty
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  Speaker 1: and thirty and twenty and ten, and he couldn't find five.
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  Speaker 2: It with only one, ladies and gentlemen, only one.
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  Speaker 1: And the Lord said, I will spare all the people
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  Speaker 1: if I can just find a few people that's doing
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  Speaker 1: what is right, that speaks to the grace of God,
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  Speaker 1: the mercy of God, the compassion of God. A lot
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  Speaker 1: of people look at it, you know, Oh Goddess, oh
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  Speaker 1: this this God of the Old Testament. These I mean,
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  Speaker 1: this is just the tempered and ill tempered, and oh man,
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  Speaker 1: this just that's just that's just all this brutal to
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  Speaker 1: just kill all those people when the government is not
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  Speaker 1: doing what the government supposed to do. When the government
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  Speaker 1: itself is trafficking in wickedness and evil, in rebellion, in lawlessness,
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  Speaker 1: God is I'm promising you, on the authority of the
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  Speaker 1: Word of God, God is going to visit upon that people.
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  Speaker 1: God is going to visit upon that nation. Amen. And
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  Speaker 1: so amen. This should serve as a reminder to us.
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  Speaker 1: It should serve as a warning to us, because the
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  Speaker 1: Bible says the things that are written afore time a
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  Speaker 1: four hour learning, that we, through patience and comfort of
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  Speaker 1: the scriptures, might have hope. Amen. And and and again
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  Speaker 1: any any time that there is a woeful lacking of
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  Speaker 1: of of of of of of righteous.
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  Speaker 2: Behavior and lawful conduct.
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  Speaker 1: Of justice, and and and and again doing what is right,
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  Speaker 1: and having mercy, showing mercy, Amen, and loving your neighbor
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  Speaker 1: as it were. When we don't have that in a
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  Speaker 1: community of people, in a city or nation of people, Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And in most cases, when you don't have that, it's
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  Speaker 1: because the government itself, which is of the people.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: In most cases it has become a government of corruption
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  Speaker 1: and wickedness and evil and lawlessness and rebellion. And it
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  Speaker 1: will be judged because the government itself, the people itself,
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  Speaker 1: that nation, that city itself, has invited the divine intervention
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  Speaker 1: of God to come down from Heaven upon them. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So again these things are written and preserved for our learning,
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  Speaker 1: that we, through patience again and confident of the scriptures,
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  Speaker 1: might have this hope in us and our ultimate only hope.
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  Speaker 2: By the way, real hope.
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  Speaker 1: Is in the divine intervention of God. And make no
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  Speaker 1: mistake about it, He is still he is. Yet, this
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  Speaker 1: is not just something in antiquity, ladies and gentlemen. God
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  Speaker 1: is intervening right now as we speak. He intervenes because
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  Speaker 1: he's already decreed, He's already determined, he's already predestined. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: we can do nothing about it, but say yes to
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  Speaker 1: his will, yes to his way. Because listen, because the
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  Speaker 1: question that Abraham asked, yes, the judge of the earth
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  Speaker 1: will always do what is right. Because again he reigns
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  Speaker 1: and hebrews in the Kingdom of men, and no one
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  Speaker 1: can stay his hand. Thank God for that man. That's
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  Speaker 1: where my rest is.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Let's rest in it. Amen, Let's have joy in it,
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  Speaker 1: Let's have peace in it. Let's have comfort in it,
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  Speaker 1: knowing that God is in charge. That God is in control,
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  Speaker 1: that the nations of this world, the governments of this world,
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  Speaker 1: they're not out of control. They are under the control
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  Speaker 1: of the Almighty God.
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  Speaker 2: And again the
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  Speaker 1: Judge of the earth will always do what is right.