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S4 55. Dr Laura Sanger – The Fear of the Lord & Defeating Giants · Millennial Mustard Seed

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  believe that anything else exists in the spirit realm, even
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  though his word tells us that they do, Their bodies weren't
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  permitted to go to sleep, like humans do, and there weren't
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  permitted to go to heaven. So they wander the Earth.
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  You know, I've seen as turn black to unknown tongues being
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  spoken. These Giants were the way up and
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  all the upgrades, the young man was hiding in the trees.
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  The way for one of these, twelve Footers to come walking down the
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  back and they would jump on Dragon back.
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  Then people start to get weapons, I start to get armor,
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  they start to build cities, they social fortify their cities.
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  Now, God looks down and there's violence everywhere.
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  The battle this war that we are at, is not against each other.
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  It's against these principalities in these rulers
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  in, these are cons in high places.
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  It's really worthwhile to read the Bible.
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  A fear is one of the primary drivers of mind control because
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  we have to take every thought captive and resist fear.
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  You're going to have a testimony that is a Justice case against
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  the kingdom of darkness. This is boy Brandon.
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  Thank you for tuning into the millennial.
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  Welcome back to the millennial Mustard Seed, pod cast.
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  I am excited for this episode returning his friend, dr.
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  Laura Sanger. And this is a much-needed
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  conversation. You guys.
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  It seems to be like we're doing this annual birthday interview
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  and it's just an honor to call her friend.
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  We talked about how important it is to walk.
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  In the fear of the Lord in order to Be Giants layers.
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  And also to war, to go to war from a place of rest resting in
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  God, we dive deep into the scriptures, pulling out, just
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  gems in the word of God to help us understand what the
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  difference is between fearing. Man versus fearing the Lord.
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  And why does God command us to rest?
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  And how can we go to war from a place of rest?
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  Honestly, what's the First between Saul's Kingdom vs,
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  David's Kingdom in the Old Testament.
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  And really, what does it mean to fear the lord?
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  What does that look like, dr. Lara shares some personal
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  experiences at the end as well as I do just about growing and
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  learning these things over time. And just how important it is to
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  stay close to the word of God in the days that we live in.
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  I know you guys are going to love this episode.
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  Well, that's all the maintenance things.
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  At least, I think I know them forgetting something, but
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  whatever, I am ready for this episode.
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  Are you guys ready? Let's go.
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  Welcome back to the show. Everybody, I have a special
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  guest returning, I believe dr. Laura, this is your third or
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  fourth appearance overall, on the podcast.
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  So it's a pleasure to have you here with me on this birthday
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  interview. Well, I'm always thrilled to
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  join you especially on your birthday.
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  I consider it a privilege. So thanks for having me.
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  It's awesome. How God has just been working
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  things together for the good of those who are called according
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  to his will and purpose. And we were just talking before
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  this recording a little bit and before prayer, and the topic
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  that we're going to be discussing today, is, is timely
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  and it's important. I believe it's totally got
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  inspired. And this is going to be one for
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  the records because what God is doing today is a little bit
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  different than what he's been doing in previous Seasons.
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  So we're going to be discussing walking in obedience to the Lord
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  walking in the fear of the Lord and how that can lead to slaying
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  Giants. Why don't you kind of warm us up
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  and start us off with everything that God has put on your heart
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  for this amazing episode. Well yes just as you say we're
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  going to talk about the fear of the Lord and you know where that
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  leads us and how it gives us courage to slay Giants.
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  And you know as we were talking before we got on just I'm so
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  excited about speaking about the fear of the Lord.
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  It's one of my most favorite topics because it is made such
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  an impact in my own life. Once I learned how To walk in
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  the fear of the Lord, and not the fear of man.
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  And so I'm so excited to be able to share, just the things that
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  Lord has placed on my heart to speak on this topic.
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  So I thought a good place to start is really just trying to
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  understand what is it mean to walk in the fear of the Lord?
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  And, you know, looking at the Hebrew word for fear is a great
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  place to start and so that's the the Hebrew word is Yara.
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  Now it has this Wide range of meanings and scripture.
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  So, you know, it can refer to that feeling we have of
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  anticipation of danger or pain, but it can also mean all
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  irreverence like when we're in Wonder or astonishment or
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  amazement. And when I think about the fear
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  of the Lord, you know, it's this gratitude and admiration for the
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  mysterious ways of the Lord and it's kind of like I don't know
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  if you've ever been to the Grand Canyon but I have and when you
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  stand on the edge of the Grand Canyon and you gaze at the Under
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  of it. That's what the fear of the Lord
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  is like, it's it's having that overwhelming sense of God's
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  glory and his magnificence and so much so that, you know, you
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  just want to rupt in worship. And so that's what we're going
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  to dive into today and you know, to think more about this Hebrew
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  word, you are a. So the Jewish classical sages,
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  they actually defined this word for fear in three different ways
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  so you can kind of think of them like Like three different levels
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  of fear. The lowest level of fear is
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  really the common understanding of what fear is and that is fear
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  of unpleasant consequences or punishment.
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  And that's, you know, when we anticipate pain of some kind and
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  that triggers, you know, the fight or flight response.
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  Well, this level of fear can also be associated with the fear
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  of, man. So, being afraid of or worried
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  about what other people might think of you, Then the next
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  layout level of fear is when we have fear or anxiety over
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  breaking God's law and so that fear, it motivates us to do good
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  deeds because we don't want to be punished, but the highest
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  level of fear is a profound reverence, for life that comes
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  from rightly seen. And I love that definition
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  because what some of these sages were doing is they were pairing
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  the word fear with seeing and that's because When we operate
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  in this level of fear, we actually discern the presence of
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  God in all things. You know, we can see his
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  workmanship in everything around us and that's what it means to
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  walk in the fear of the Lord. Now, in the English language, we
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  really only have two primary definitions for fear.
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  The first one being, you know, that feeling of anxiety and
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  agitation when we're in the presence of danger evil or pain
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  and that triggers, you know, this these feelings.
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  As of timidity of dread Terror fright apprehension and that can
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  be Associated again with the fear of man.
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  The other definition is this respectful dread or are or
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  reverence? And again, that's associated
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  with the fear of the Lord. So those are just some of your
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  basic definitions of fear and what does it mean to fear the
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  lord? Now I thought it would be
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  helpful if we actually look at two different.
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  Kingdom. So we look at Sol's Kingdom.
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  And we look at David's Kingdom to contrast the fear of the
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  Lord, because it's interesting, you know, as I've shared on the
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  fear of the Lord with different audiences, I find that there's a
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  lot of Christians who just don't understand what it means to walk
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  in the fear of the Lord. And it's, you know, confusing,
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  like, why would we want to fear a loving father?
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  Is he really mean? Like people, some people say he
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  is and that's not at all. What the fear of the Lord.
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  Is. So that's why I thought it's
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  helpful for us to kind of start with some definitions.
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  Absolutely. And that's so important and just
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  a real quick, what my mind was doing is a lot of the times
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  people will relate their Earthly relationship with their father
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  or Dad here with what God is like in heaven.
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  So when there's trauma in childhood or just bad
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  relationship, a lot of times people feel like God's going to
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  squash them like a bug when they hear about.
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  Because they may reflect and say yeah, I've done all these things
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  wrong and they have a really bad approach to who God really is.
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  So the clarity on what fear is in the Lord is so important.
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  Now, what can you tell us about the difference between Saul's
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  Kingdom vs, David's Kingdom? Well, so Saul's Kingdom
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  represents the fear of man. And what's interesting?
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  You know before saw was appointed King, Israel was a
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  theocracy so they were governed by judges but the Elders of
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  Israel got to this point where they were no longer satisfied
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  with a theocracy and they wanted a king.
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  And we read about this in first Samuel 8 verse 5.
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  It says they said to him being Samuel, you are old, and your
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  son's do not walk in your ways. Now, appoint a king to lead us
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  such as all the other nations have.
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  So it's interesting here, the Elders of Israel, you know,
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  they're trying to justify their desire for a king by blaming.
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  You know, the wickedness of Sons as far as the reason why they
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  need to move away from being governed by judges but really
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  that their heart motivation is exposed and verse 20, where it
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  says then we will then we will be like all the other nations
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  with a king to lead us and to go out before us and fight our
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  battles. So, here we see, you know, they
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  no longer trusted the Lord to protect them and to give them
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  victory over their enemies. So they were walking under this
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  fear of, man because they wanted Had to be like all the other
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  nations. You know, how often do we do
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  that? We want to be just like everyone
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  else. Well, so the Israelites, you
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  know, they rejected God as their King because fear of man gripped
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  their hearts and this setup, you know, Saul being appointed as
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  Israel's first king. Now, what's interesting is that
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  salt comes from a very questionable bloodline.
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  I'll say, and let me read 1st Samuel, 9 verses 1 through 2.
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  And it says, There is a man of Benjamin whose name was Kish.
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  The son of a bi eldest son of zeror, the son of Becker at the
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  son of alphaeus, a benjamite, a mighty man of power and he had a
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  choice in handsome, son whose name was Saul.
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  There is not a more handsome person than he among the
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  children of Israel from his shoulders upward.
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  He was taller than any of the people.
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  So there's two things to note from this passage.
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  First of all saw his father, Kish was sidered a mighty man
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  which is Gabor in Hebrew and I'll come back to that in a
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  moment. The second thing is that Saul
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  was Head and Shoulders taller than everyone else.
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  So this Hebrew word gibor, it means Mighty strong Valiant,
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  giant Tyrant Chief impetuous Soldier, or Hunter.
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  And it comes from a Hebrew root word gabbar, which means, you
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  know, to be strong to prevail. Show oneself, Mighty even to act
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  proudly towards God. And the first mention of Gabor,
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  you know, as your listeners probably know is in Genesis 6:4,
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  now I go into much greater detail in my book.
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  I have a whole chapter on the Gabor but essentially you know
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  the first mention like I said is in Genesis 6:4 and referencing
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  the Nephilim. Now, what's important to keep in
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  mind though is not every time in Scripture that the word gibor is
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  used, is it. Sensing the hybrid race of
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  giants. So we have to look at the
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  context of scripture to discern whether or not it is.
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  And I think you'll see as I lay out, you know, Saul's life and
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  dive deeper into these things will see that within cells, DNA
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  was this jet genetic mutation for the hybrids.
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  Now, why on Earth would God? Choose as Israel's?
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  First king? A man with Nephilim genes and
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  when we think about it, God is Almighty, he's all-powerful,
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  he's all-knowing, but he's not all controlling, and you know,
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  in his abounding love for us at the point of creation, he gave
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  us Free Will and that's because the father, you know, he wasn't
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  interested in a race of automatic guns.
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  He wanted a race of beings that were free to choose whether or
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  not we love him and whether we want to follow in his ways.
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  Now we know Free Will is risky because you know it can mean
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  that there's Disappointment, there's pain, there's Rebellion,
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  there's abandonment. But for the father, you know, it
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  was a risk worth taking. And then as we see in Saul's
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  life, you know, we see that he was inclined towards
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  Disobedience and pride and even showing favorite to his fellow
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  Gabor. Now there's two instances and
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  Saul's life where we can clearly see that he walked in the fear
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  of man. And the first time is when he
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  faced the Philistines for the Very his very first battle and
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  I'll read this. This is from first Samuel 13,
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  verses 5 through 14. It says the Philistines
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  assembled to fight Israel with three thousand chariots 6,000
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  charioteers and soldiers. As numerous as the sand on the
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  seashore, they went up and camped at michmash East of Beth
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  Haven. When the Israelites saw that
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  their situation was critical and that their army was hard
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  pressed. They hid in caves and thickets
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  among the rocks and then pits and cisterns some Hebrews.
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  Even cross the Jordan to the land of GAD and Gilead.
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  Now, I'll come back back to that in a moment because that's
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  significant Saul remained at gilgal and all the troops with
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  him were quaking with fear. He waited seven days the time,
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  set by Samuel but Samuel did not come to gilgal and Saul's men
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  began to scatter. So he said bring me the burnt
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  offering in the fellowship offerings and saw offered up the
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  burnt offering just as he finished making the offering
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  Samuel arrived and saw went out to greet him.
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  What have you done as Samuel Saul replied when I saw that?
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  The men were scattering and that you did not come at the set time
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  and that the Philistines were assembling at michmash.
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  I thought now the Philistines will come down against me at
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  gilgal and I'll I will have not sought the Lord's favor so I
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  felt compelled to offer the burnt offering.
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  You have done a foolish thing. Samuel said you have not kept
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  the command your lord, the Lord, your God gave you.
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  If you had, he would have established your kingdom.
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  For Israel for all time, but now your kingdom will not endure.
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  The Lord has sought out a man after his own heart, and
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  appointed, him ruler of his people, because you have not
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  kept the Lord's command. So In this passage, you know, we
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  see that saw, he was afraid to lose his army because they were
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  beginning to scatter while waiting for Samuel.
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  So Saul took matters into his own hands.
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  He was more concerned what people thought of his Leadership
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  than obeying. The Lord.
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  And this is an example of how he walked in the fear of man, but
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  his troops also. Did you know?
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  It says that, you know, his troops were quaking in fear and
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  then some of them even retreated to the east back Crossing back
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  over the Jordan. And I want to take a moment
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  actually to consider the significance of this because you
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  know, what is it? What is crossing, the Jordan
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  represent? And in order to understand that
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  if We go back to the first time, it's mentioned in Scripture.
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  It gives us some understanding it's in Genesis 13 verses 10
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  through 11, it says lot looked up and saw that the whole plain
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  of the Jordan was well watered like the garden of the Lord,
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  like the land of Egypt towards or this was before the Lord
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  destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, so lot, chose for himself.
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  The whole plain of the Jordan and set out toward the east.
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  Okay, so here you have a lot, goes to the east of the Jordan,
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  Abraham goes to the west of the Jordan.
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  Now, east of the Jordan is later where the half tribes of
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  Manasseh and Ephraim, and then also Gad would settle in that
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  land. Well, Abraham, he's, he goes to
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  the place near Bethel were earlier in his life.
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  He had heard from the Lord and when he was there, this is what
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  the Lord said. This is Genesis 13, verses 14,
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  through 17, it Says lift up your eyes from where you are, and
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  look, north and south east, and west, all the land that you see,
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  I will give to you and your Offspring forever.
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  I will make your Offspring like the dust of the earth.
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  So that if anyone could count the dust, then your Offspring
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  could be counted. Go walk through the length and
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  breadth of the land for, I am giving it to you.
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  So essentially this was the promised land that Abraham was
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  He was given this promise and then later of course you know,
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  when Joshua was leading the Israelites into the promised
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  land in order to obtain their inheritance, they had to cross
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  the Jordan, so crossing the Jordan represents possessing our
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  inheritance. Now, what's interesting is, you
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  know, you think about lot and he represents the Flesh and walking
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  in the fear of, man, Abraham represents the spirit and
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  walking in the fear of the Lord. Well, so when Saul's men were
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  Filled and gripped with fear of man, it cause them to retreat
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  from the land of promise, which was given to Abraham and his
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  descendants and it caused them to cross back over the Jordan,
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  into the land of the East where lot was given.
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  And that's where kind of that fear of, man, was established in
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  that land. And so, What we can gather from
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  this is when we operate in the fear of, man, we actually step
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  outside of that place of promise, and we can lose the
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  inheritance that God has given us.
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  Now, another example of Saw walking in the fear of man is
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  when we examine how he treated the Gabor and this gets really
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  interesting. So for Samuel 1452 says, now
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  there was a fierce war with the Philistines, all the days of
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  Saul and when You saw any strong men or any Valiant man, which is
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  the word gibor, he took him for himself.
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  So instead of Saul killing the Gabor and battle, he actually
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  took them in, he collected them so to speak.
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  And when you look at the Hebrew word for that phrase, he took
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  him for himself. It's the Primitive root word, a
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  cough, and it means to gather receive collect and Assemble.
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  And so we see here that solves Behavior towards the Gabor
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  actually demonstrates this Fascination that he had with
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  them. He actually had an affinity for
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  them and this led to his downfall.
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  So God commanded salt to Haram or completely destroy the
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  amalekites. And this is in 1st, Samuel 15
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  verses 2 through 3. It says, this is what the Lord
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  Almighty says. I will punish the amalekites for
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  what they did to Israel when they waylaid them as they Came
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  up from Egypt now, go attack the amalekites and totally destroy
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  all that belongs to them. Do not spare them.
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  Put to death men and women children and infants, cattle and
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  sheep camels and donkeys. Now, I don't know about you, but
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  I have always struggled with passages like this.
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  You know, I have a gift of mercy and so I feel people's pain and
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  I'm always drawn to those who are in despair or distraught.
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  Well, I hate the fact that the children and infants had to die
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  in this circumstance. I'm like, what in the world did
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  they do? Why did they have to die?
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  And it wasn't until I understood this principle of Haram that it
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  made sense to me. So, when God, well, first of all
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  the Hebrew word haram, it means to completely destroy
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  exterminate and to devote for Destruction.
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  And so it's a term that denotes yahweh's absolute disdain.
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  For particular acts of sin, especially the mixing of
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  species. So when the hybrid race is being
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  spread, so when God commanded Haram, he was calling for
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  punishment by total Annihilation because they were spreading the
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  hybrid race now, who are the amalekites?
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  The amalekites were these vicious plunderers, and they
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  were actually Israel's first enemy when they left Egypt.
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  So it happened if you remember, you know, the Egyptians handed.
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  Their wealth to the Israelites well that plunder caught the eye
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  of the amalekites and they wanted it for themselves so they
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  develop this strategy of attacking the back of the
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  Caravan. So those who straps towards the
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  back? That would be, you know, the
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  frail, the weak, the sick, the elderly nursing mothers
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  children, they were easier prey for the amalekites and so they
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  would attack and kill them. Well when you look at the the
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  bloodline for the Amalekites and again, I go into this in my book
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  but it's really interesting how these pieces connect.
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  So amalek was the grandson of Esau and Esau is son.
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  He had a son named Aaliyah, Faz in illya, Faz had a whore, a
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  concubine name timna. So, Tim Nabor Ilya phases son,
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  and they named him amalek. Now, the name itself amalek
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  means bloodthirsty, as in someone who devours something.
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  And licks up the blood And so what we have here is a Malak,
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  you know, with his mother being horite.
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  And the Hornets are mentioned in Genesis, 14 among a list of
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  tribes of giants, but it's not thought that they themselves
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  were a tribe of giants, but more that they intermingled with the
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  Giants. So they, you know, they were
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  spreading the hybrid race. So it's likely that amalek had
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  the Nephilim genes within am. Now one thing we do know for
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  sure is that amalek in inherited the extreme hatred that Esau had
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  toward Jacob. So, you know, The Strife between
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  Esau's descendants and Jacobs descendants intensified
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  throughout the generations causing the amalekites to be one
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  of Israel's worst enemies. Now given all that it's
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  reasonable to conclude. The reason why the amalekites
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  were so detestable to the Lord is because not only were they
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  merciless in their attack of this.
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  Burgeoning nation of Israel, coming out of Egypt, but they
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  practiced interbreeding. They were spreading the hybrid
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  race and that's why I Commanded Saul to Haram the amalekites,
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  but he failed to do that. So during Saul's day, a gag was
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  King of the amalekites and because saw walked in the fear
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  of man, you know, he gave in to the whims of his fancy and he
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  preserves King a gags life. And what's interesting is
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  Josephus, you know, one of the the famous Jewish historians.
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  He writes this about why Saul did that he says.
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  So also took A gag. The enemies King captive.
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  The beauty and tallness of whose body, he admired so much that he
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  thought am worthy of preservation giving way to human
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  passions. He preferred the fine appearance
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  of the enemy to the memory of what God had sent him about.
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  So a God was most likely this giant and by Saul preserving
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  someone with a defiled genome what he was doing on, not in
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  that particular Battle of the seed war is he was In the enemy
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  of Victory because Saul chose to align with the seat of Satan.
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  And then later solve confesses his fear of man in first Samuel
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  15 24. He says, then Saul said to
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  Samuel, I have sinned, I have violated the Lord's command and
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  your instructions. I was afraid of the men and so I
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  gave in to them. Well, this is precisely why I
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  saw a lost his kingship, You Know, Not only was he stripped
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  of being King, but No descendant of salt ever became king.
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  So he lost the dynastic quality of his monarchy and this just
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  emphasizes. When We Fear, man, we lose part
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  of our inheritance. That there's so much there.
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  Wow. So what I find interesting is
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  when you were talking about when Saul had the fear of the man and
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  then God gives him this judgment, that he lost the
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  kingdom. He could have had this
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  established Kingdom that could have continued on and then it
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  makes me think of his son. Jonathan, you know we see
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  Jonathan and and just to look ahead a little bit Jonathan
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  feared, the Lord to the point that he's older than David more
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  experience. When David's, young boy,
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  Jonathan is out. Conquering the enemies, you
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  know, him and his shield Bearer, just wiping them out and relying
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  on, God, it reminds me of Philippians 4:6.
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  Be careful for nothing but in everything by prayer and
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  supplication with Thanksgiving, let your requests be made known
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  to God. Jonathan says, I forget the
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  verse, but something along the lines to a shield Bearer if God
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  is with us, We're going to jump out here and kill 20 of these
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  enemies but Jonathan hands his position as as far as he knew
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  and inherit an inheritor of the Kingdom being Saul son to David
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  in humility. And you see the fear of the Lord
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  and Jonathan, but everything that's all did.
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  Loving the tallness, this stature of, you know, this
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  wicked bloodline that he was to Haram to utterly destroy to wipe
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  them out. Clearly, this is a very
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  important biblical insight into what it looks like to fear, Man
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  versus fearing the Lord. And and I know you have to have
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  some more gems to share on this and this is, this is so
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  exciting, it's so exciting. Yeah, I love that.
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  Bring up Jonathan because I'm going to share in a few minutes
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  about Michal Saul's daughter and yeah, you know, Jonathan is an
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  example of overcoming generational iniquity.
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  Because he didn't walk in the fear of man, but we'll see that
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  Michael walked in the fear of man.
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  Just like her father did. And so I appreciate that you
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  brought up Jonathan because it gives us encouragement that no
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  matter what's in our generational line.
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  You know, the curses that exist there, that generational
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  iniquity. We can cut that off.
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  And and so that it no longer flows forward in our
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  generations. And that's what Jonathan did and
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  precisely. What your Pointing out is
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  because he walked in the fear of the Lord.
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  So I want to share about David because David's kingdom is this
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  representation of the fear of the Lord.
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  And, you know, there's two distinct instances where we
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  clearly see that David walked in the fear of the Lord.
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  The first one is when he faced Goliath yesso Goliath, you know,
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  guy accused fear and intimidation to paralyze the
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  armies of Israel for forty days. You know, he is spewing these
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  insults Israel and for 40 days, the armies of Saul you know go
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  up to the battle line and they do absolutely nothing.
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  But when David walked onto the scene, he shifted the atmosphere
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  and I love that because that's what we can do, we can shift the
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  atmosphere, no matter where we go.
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  So you know, David was sent on this errand by his father and he
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  was to bring Provisions to his brothers because his brothers
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  were part of Saul's army, they were the ones on the battle line
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  doing Absolutely nothing. Well, here's the shepherd boy.
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  You know, he was tried and tested on the fields while
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  protecting the sheep and he had spent his days.
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  Developing this intimate relationship with the Lord.
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  And because of that, the intimacy that he had, it gave
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  him the confidence and the courage to fight The Lion and
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  the bear when they were attacking the Sheep.
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  So here David is. Now on the scene, he's hearing
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  these insults that Goliath Spewing and he's indignant.
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  He's also perplexed at the lack of courage in Saul's fighting
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  men. See David had not given himself
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  over to the fear of, man. He had developed a relationship
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  with the god of Israel. Now, one thing that's
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  interesting too, is that Goliath's name means Splendor
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  and it comes from a Hebrew root word Galah, which means to
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  expose to uncover to remove to be Closed and to depart and I
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  think that's interesting because it really was a prophetic name
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  that he carried because he was exposed, he was uncovered
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  removed, and he was departed from the earth because of
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  David's, courage, and listen to what David said.
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  This is one of my favorite passages.
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  It's in first, Samuel 17, verse 45 through, 47 David said, to
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  the Philistine you come against me with sword and Spear and
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  Javelin, but I come against you. And then Name of the Lord
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  Almighty, the god of the armies of Israel.
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  Whom you have defied this day, the Lord will deliver you into
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  my hands and I'll strike you down and cut off your head.
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  This very day, I will give the carcasses of the Philistine Army
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  to the birds in the wild animals and the whole world will know
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  that there is a God in Israel. All those gathered here will
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  know that it is not by sword or spear that the Lord saves for
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  the battle is the Lord's and he will give all of you into To our
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  hands. And I love that, that is such a
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  declaration of confidence and it's because, you know, the fear
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  of the Lord enabled, David to see a different reality than
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  everyone else that was vexed by the fear of, man.
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  So, the fear of the Lord allowed David to step into his
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  inheritance as a great warrior because later, you know, he'd
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  be, he'd be known as slaying 10,000.
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  So, David's fear of the Lord allowed him to have this
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  Fearless attitude towards Goliath, you know, here's this
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  8-foot 8-inch Giant and David's, you know, a young teenager, he
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  doesn't care who he's up against because he knew who he was in
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  the Lord. His confidence came from the
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  assurance that the Ancient of Days had as back.
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  And I absolutely love that talk about slaying Giants.
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  So that's what we can do when we walk in the fear of the Lord, it
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  doesn't matter how intimidating the giant is that we're facing
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  in our lives. We have the Ancient of Days on
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  our back, you know, ready to be there and to conquer.
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  And so another instance of David walking in the fear of the Lord
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  is found in his worship. Now, David abandon himself
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  before the Lord, and worship. And we read this in second,
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  Samuel 6 and all read verse 14 and then 20 through 23 since
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  David wearing a linen, ephod dance, Just before the Lord with
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  all his might, when David returned home to bless his
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  household Michal daughter of Saul came out to meet him and
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  said how the king of Israel has distinguished himself today.
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  Disrobing in the sight of the slave girls of his servants as
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  any vulgar fellow would David said to Michael, it was before
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  the Lord who chose me rather than your father or anyone from
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  his house. When he appointed me ruler over
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  the Lord's People, Israel, I will celebrate Before the Lord,
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  I will become even more in dignified than this.
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  And I will be humiliated in my own eyes, but by these slave
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  girls, you spoke of I will be held in honor and Michal
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  daughter of Saul had no children to the day of her death.
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  So here we see that, you know, Michael is operating in the fear
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  of man just like her. Father did she was more
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  concerned about what other people would think, then by
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  obeying the Lord and, you know, this led to to the fact that she
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  lost her inheritance, you know, she walked in this generational
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  iniquity, she didn't break it like Jonathan did.
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  So she walked under that fear of man and that caused her to
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  remain. Barren the rest of her days.
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  But here, we see David, you know, walking in the fear of the
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  Lord and it allowed him to Lavish the Lord, with this
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  extravagant worship. And in return, the Lord
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  enlarged, his inheritance. Beyond what David can imagine
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  and we read this in second Samuel 7 verse 9 and 16.
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  It says I have been with you wherever you have gone and I've
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  cut off all your enemies from before you.
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  Now I will make your name great, like the names of the greatest
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  men of the earth, your house and your kingdom will endure forever
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  before me, your throne will be established forever.
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  So here we see, you know, these two kingdoms Saul gave in to the
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  fear of, man and no one from his bloodline ever became king.
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  But David walked in the fear of the Lord and the king of kings
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  came from his bloodline, that is a wow.
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  So even if Saul had done, right and kept the in and establish
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  this Kingdom, Jonathan still would have obeyed the Lord, and
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  it would have came to David, like just remembering because,
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  oh my gosh. So, David his heart as after
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  God, all of this stuff is going on and he is emptying himself
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  and worship. So God had him in mind.
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  Regardless of what everybody else was seeing.
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  And I love the fact that you you're bringing up where David
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  goes and makes the Declaration to Goliath.
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  Yeah, that's me and my son's favorite Bible book to read
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  together and he kind of reacts. Re-enacts that seeing between
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  David and Goliath sometimes I think he treats me like I'm
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  Goliath and he runs over and hits you don't like oh no yeah
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  it is just so cool and the confidence David picks up five
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  smooth Stones when he crosses over the brook the fear of the
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  Lord builds this this confidence.
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  It's there's prophecy. What David says to Goliath
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  happens to a tee? So he's prophesying to him
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  saying. Listen, this is what is going to
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  happen this day. He up and Goliath supposedly has
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  four brothers. According to, I believe some
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  extra biblical documentation or forget what the sources are.
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  But I'm pretty sure I think it's in the Bible as well.
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  Is it in the Bible as well? I should have pinpointed that
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  for this discussion but it's there for the audience, you guys
• 39:45
  investigate Beyond just this conversation.
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  There's so many gems that dr. Laura sanger's.
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  Pulling out for us in. The word of God that's just
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  never ending but the confidence that David had.
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  Yeah. Yeah.
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  Everybody else is scared and like you said, he's a young
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  teenager and The Lion and the bear, he builds this
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  relationship with God, where God has protected him against these
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  smaller enemies and the confidence was building up and I
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  just love the story of David because when he warships, he
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  empties himself, he is not worried about what other people
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  are seeing. Around him.
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  There is power and life in the word of God.
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  I'm terribly excited for this for this conversation, just just
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  right now. I it's just filled up.
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  I feel full like I've eaten, I haven't eaten yet today.
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  But here I am feeling like excited and full of energy and
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  just this is good. Yeah and I think you know, one
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  of the things for me in my life. I've walked for years and years
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  under fear of man. And when the Lord broke me of
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  that and I began understanding, what does it mean to walk in the
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  fear of the Lord? It just, there's nothing like
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  it. It's like you It's like you come
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  into this realization of how magnificent God is, and it
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  doesn't matter what other people think of you.
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  We only have an audience of one, you know, when we walk in the
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  fear of the Lord. And so one of the things I
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  wanted to do is just lay out some characteristics of the fear
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  of, man versus the characteristics of the fear of
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  the Lord, so that each one of us can honestly take You know, a
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  look at where do we fall? Are we walking under fear of,
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  man, are we walking in the fear of the Lord?
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  So characteristics of people who walk in the fear of man?
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  Generally you know they try and please others.
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  They want to enable others as well.
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  And they typically will avoid conflict, you know, they give
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  into an intimidation because typically they're timid or their
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  codependent or insecure and also oftentimes they're influenced by
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  peer pressure, you know, they just want to do what everyone
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  else is doing, they don't want to stand out, they don't want to
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  be different sometimes, even they can have social phobias.
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  You know, being around crowds of people is difficult for them
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  because, you know, they're fearful of what other people
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  might be thinking or saying about them.
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  Also, people who walk in the fear of man will act foolishly,
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  they'll follow the advice of others rather than walking in
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  obedience to the Lord. And typically they want to avoid
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  accountability. They don't want to hear, you
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  know, difficult things about their personality or what they
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  need to change and most often they're plagued by doubt.
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  You know, self-doubt doubt in the goodness of God.
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  You know, they struggle and walking in faith and doubt just
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  takes over now characteristics of the fear of the Lord.
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  You know, these are people who desire to please God, just like
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  I was saying, you know, we have an audience of one and all we're
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  after is Pleasing the Lord and it doesn't matter what other
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  people think, or say about us in relationships were like iron
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  sharpening iron. So we're not afraid to say the
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  difficult thing in love and we Embrace healthy conflict because
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  you know, we're confident and who we are in the Lord, we're
• 43:23
  able to face, intimidation head-on, we're bold, we're able
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  to set those healthy boundaries because once again we're secure
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  in our identity of who God has made us to be.
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  Then biblical truths shape, our decisions, not what everyone
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  else is doing, not what peer pressure or the world suggests
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  but biblical truths will shape our decisions and we're okay.
• 43:47
  Going against the flow, we're okay standing out and being
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  different because we know that we're walking in obedience and
• 43:54
  that allows us to be comfortable, you know, no matter
• 43:56
  what the size of the crowd, it doesn't matter.
• 43:59
  It doesn't matter what people think it doesn't matter what we
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  look like. It doesn't matter.
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  What people are saying about us, And oftentimes we walk in wisdom
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  because we're following the voice of the Lord and not the
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  voice of others and we welcome accountability because we
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  recognized that when people show us things about ourselves, that
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  we ourselves can't see that are, you know, weaknesses or areas of
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  sin, then it allows us to deal with it and we become better.
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  It's like we move from glory to glory, and so people who walk in
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  the fear of the Lord, welcome accountability and then we Walk
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  by faith and not by sight. So those are some of the
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  differences in characteristics. And you know as we think about
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  how God gave David Promises of this incredible inheritance.
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  You know, when he walked in the fear of the Lord, well we see
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  through scripture that the Lord gives us promises for those who
• 44:54
  walk in the fear of the Lord. And I've actually I've put
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  together 22 different promises from scripture of those who walk
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  in the fear of the Lord and I can And send that to you.
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  I don't know if it's possible to include it in your show notes or
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  what. But it's so powerful to read
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  these promises and I'll just read three of them.
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  So One Promise is generational blessing and this comes from
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  Psalm 112 verses 1 through 2 it says praise the Lord.
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  Blessed is the man who fears the Lord who finds great Delight in
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  his commands, his children will be Mighty in the land.
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  The generation of the upright will be blessed.
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  First. And then we also have promises
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  of Deliverance which we see from Psalm. 34:7, it says, the angel
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  of the Lord encamps around those, who fear Him and he
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  delivers them and there were promised wisdom.
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  Proverbs, 9:10 says, the fear of the Lord, is the beginning of
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  wisdom. And so, you know what we see is
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  when we walk in the fear of the Lord, when we live our lives in
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  that way, it changes everything about our perspective.
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  And I want to read to you a quote, it's John Parsons He has
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  a website called Hebrew for Christians and he writes when we
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  really see life as it truly is, we will be filled with wonder
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  and awe over the glory of it. All every Bush will be a flame
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  with the presence of God and the ground we walk upon shall
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  suddenly /, be perceived as holy, nothing.
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  Will seem small trivial or insignificant in this sense,
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  fear and trembling before the Lord is a description of the
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  inner awareness. This of the sanctity of life
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  itself and I love that. And, you know, those who walk in
• 46:40
  the fear of the Lord, we take seriously his Commandments and
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  one of those Commandments is to rest.
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  Wow, that is a powerful quote and what a difference between
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  fear of man in the fear of the Lord.
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  And and this is something I find interesting about the repenting
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  to have a change of mind. So There's characteristics, I've
• 47:06
  noticed, like, in my younger life that I would, I was
• 47:09
  equation is just going with the flow, whatever the culture was.
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  I didn't really know where I belonged in Life, or what I was
• 47:17
  going to do. But, you know, series of events,
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  my near-death and counter and, and some other things that
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  happened in my personal life. It opened my eyes.
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  To the point of God, I've never even inquired of you.
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  I don't know who you are. I don't know how you work and it
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  came from this place of wanting to see can understand, you know,
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  really, really, I was worried about what actually is going to
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  happen when I die. And it's funny that you say, you
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  know, as we follow God we don't care what other people think,
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  because kind of over the next couple years, it was long and
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  drawn-out, but I just didn't care.
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  If I looked foolish or if people would say, oh why are you not
• 47:56
  doing what you used to do? Used to be hip and cool or
• 47:59
  whatever. And now you're, you know,
• 48:02
  carrying around a Bible reading a Bible making, Stance where
• 48:05
  you're going to dive into these, these strange things within
• 48:09
  Christianity, to try to get a deeper understanding.
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  And and for me, having this change of mind and changing my
• 48:16
  mind and learning as I go to take captive, my thoughts and
• 48:20
  obedience to Christ really. I personally have seen slowly
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  not not incompletion by far. I still got a long way to go but
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  converting some of these fear of man things, they'd just been
• 48:33
  dissipating as time goes on. And I Find myself just more
• 48:36
  infatuated with what God's truth is about us.
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  So, please do send me those 22 promise quotes from that, that
• 48:44
  you have listed out there, they will be included in the show
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  notes. Okay, no, this is so important.
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  This place of rest that you're talking about because those who
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  are walking with God and this wrestling match has been taking
• 48:58
  place with where they're calling is and identifying, you know,
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  generational iniquity He's and, and we've covered this and
• 49:06
  previous episodes. So if anybody's listening for
• 49:09
  the first time we did Breaking strongholds iniquities.
• 49:12
  We did the episode of marriage your first time here.
• 49:15
  We discussed your book spiritual mapping and the Nephilim agenda
• 49:18
  and real quick. I just want to throw this out
• 49:21
  there. Dr. Laura has released the roots
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  of the Federal Reserve on audio. So it's available inaudible and
• 49:31
  that's actually just went through it again recently.
• 49:34
  Which Which is so helpful being that, I battle with dyslexia.
• 49:39
  So sitting and reading sometimes is difficult.
• 49:41
  So for anybody out there, go and support, leave her a review on
• 49:45
  Audible order, the physical copy on Amazon, or anywhere else.
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  It's available. But one of the one of the really
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  cool things is that I'm hearing from listeners and just friends
• 49:59
  and family, who have been following this podcast.
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  Many other great podcasts that are taking A stance they're not
• 50:06
  going with the culture. They're not bowing down to just
• 50:09
  all of these crooked and perverse systems.
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  That seem to be bubbling up and over into our society.
• 50:14
  They are taking a stand and they are slowing down.
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  So this place of rest is so important and timely also
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  because a lot of us feel like I just need to spend some time
• 50:28
  with the Lord. I need to just rest in him.
• 50:31
  Yeah. But how do we do that without
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  letting our guard? Down.
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  How do we fight from that place? Please help me understand the
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  audience. This is good.
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  Yeah, well, I, you know, I think it's so important, like you're
• 50:44
  saying to learn how to rest because we are in the midst of
• 50:49
  an intense spiritual battle and we can get weary and worn out
• 50:55
  unless we learn how to rest and, you know, Sabbath is this gift
• 50:59
  that the Creator gave us. It prolongs our life, you know,
• 51:02
  gives us sanity and wholeness and Even in relationships, you
• 51:07
  know, it enriches our relationships and increases our
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  fruitfulness, but Sabbath is not what we do.
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  Once all our tasks are completed, rest is what we do in
• 51:20
  the middle of all our tasks and we rest without excuse and we
• 51:24
  rest without guilt, because God taught us how to rest from the
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  very beginning. And this is Genesis 2 verse 23.
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  It says by the The seventh day, God had finished the work.
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  He had been doing so on the seventh day, he rested from all
• 51:40
  his work and God blessed the seventh day and made it holy
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  because on it. He rested from all the work of
• 51:47
  creating that he had done. So in that passage, when you
• 51:51
  look at the Hebrew word, for rest is shevat and that's the
• 51:54
  root word for Sabbath. Well, it means to cease desist
• 51:59
  or rest to put an end to to exterminate to destroy and to
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  remove You've and all of those describe voluntary rest, but it
• 52:09
  also means to cause to cease to cause to desist to cause to fail
• 52:15
  to make one rest and be still and to take away and that
• 52:20
  describes involuntary rest. And I'm going to come back to
• 52:22
  that in a moment. But when you, when you think
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  about this definition of rest, you know, how can the same word
• 52:29
  for rest? Mean to destroy and exterminate,
• 52:32
  you know, how does that fit in with?
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  With. Well, when we rest, we are
• 52:37
  actually also worrying. We're destroying the works of
• 52:41
  the enemy. We're putting an end to striving
• 52:44
  stress exhaustion, worry, self-sufficiency and pride, and
• 52:49
  God established, you know, the principle of rest as a
• 52:53
  commandment and Sabbath is the fourth Commandment.
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  And this comes from Exodus 20 verse 8 through 11.
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  It says remember the Sabbath day by keeping it holy which that
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  word for a Lead means to sanctify to consecrate, to set
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  it apart, as sacred goes on to say six days.
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  You shall labor and do all your work but the seventh day is a
• 53:15
  Sabbath day to the Lord your God on it.
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  You shall not do any work. Neither you nor your son or
• 53:20
  daughter nor your male or female servant nor your animals nor any
• 53:25
  Foreigner residing in your towns for in six days, the Lord made
• 53:29
  the heavens and the Earth. The sea and all that is in them,
• 53:32
  but he rested on the seventh day.
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  Therefore, the Lord blessed the Sabbath day and made it.
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  Holy, So, In this passage, what we see is that, you know, this
• 53:42
  principle of Sabbath is not just for the children of God.
• 53:45
  It's for all of humanity, so it's for slave and free, it's
• 53:48
  for Jew and Gentile, but not only that, it's for all of
• 53:52
  creation animals need to rest, Les and needs to rest.
• 53:58
  Exodus 23 10 through 11, says, for six years, you were to so
• 54:02
  your fields and harvest the crops.
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  But during the 7th Year, let the land lie, unplowed and unused.
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  See the Lord took, very seriously, his commandment for
• 54:13
  the land to have rest. And if his children neglected
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  it, he would drive them into captivity, Leviticus 26, 33
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  through 35 says, I will scatter. You among the Nations and will
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  draw out my sword and pursue you.
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  Your land will be laid waste and your cities will lie in Ruins.
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  Then the land will enjoy it. Sabbath years all the time that
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  it lies desolate and you are in the country of your enemies.
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  Then the land will rest and enjoy its Sabbath all the time
• 54:43
  that it lies desolate. The land will have the rest.
• 54:46
  It did not have during the Sabbath.
• 54:48
  She lived in it. Well it's interesting to realize
• 54:52
  is the whole reason Israel was driven into Babylonian captivity
• 54:58
  was because they failed to give the land the rest, second
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  chronicles 36 2321 says he carried into exile to Babylon
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  The Remnant who escaped from The Sword and they became servants
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  to him and his successors until the kingdom of Persia came to
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  power the land enjoyed its Sabbath rest all the time.
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  If it's desolation a trusted and Till the 70 years were completed
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  in the Fulfillment of the word of the Lord spoken by Jeremiah.
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  So, here we see, you know, the Creator.
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  He gives us the instruction manual for for all of creation
• 55:33
  and it says to rest. Well, if we don't follow this
• 55:37
  instruction, what happens is creation gradually falls apart.
• 55:41
  See rest is so vital that's why he established it as a
• 55:45
  commandment. And I want to read The Ten
• 55:47
  Commandments because I'll point out something interesting about
• 55:50
  Here it says you shall have no other gods before me.
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  You shall not make Idols. You shall not take the name of
• 55:58
  the Lord, your God in vain. Remember the Sabbath day to keep
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  it. Holy honor, your father and
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  mother you shall not murder. You shall not commit adultery.
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  You shall not steal. You shall not bear false.
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  Witness against your neighbor. You shall not covet.
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  So, in the first three Commandments, what we see is
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  that were instructed on how to have a healthy relationship.
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  Up with God. And then in the last six
• 56:23
  Commandments, we see how to have a healthy relationship with
• 56:26
  people in the fourth Commandment is that transition commandment
• 56:30
  and that shows us how important rest is.
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  So when we enter into rest, not only are we drawing deeper in
• 56:38
  relationship with the Lord? But it also provides us with the
• 56:42
  refreshment that we need to love others.
• 56:47
  Wow. And I'm thinking as you were
• 56:49
  speaking, the scripture says be holy as I am Holy.
• 56:53
  And there's like, you say this refreshment and this rest is so
• 56:58
  necessary. And unfortunately, the way the
• 57:01
  general consensus is today is go, go go, right, right.
• 57:05
  And people will argue, oh, the Sabbath is actually Saturday or
• 57:08
  no, it's Sunday. No, son.
• 57:10
  Day comes from the sun, god worship, right?
• 57:12
  And there's all these confusing things, but the importance in
• 57:16
  the Ten, you just read to us, keeping the Sabbath day.
• 57:20
  Keep its holy, its separate, it set apart, and it is designed
• 57:26
  for our good and we know that there's consequences for not
• 57:29
  keeping that according to the verses you shared with us and
• 57:32
  and what God is saying. And that's so important.
• 57:37
  You know, when David is talking about in the Psalms God, you're
• 57:41
  my strong tower, I run to you in time of need and time of help.
• 57:46
  What God is Holy and if he's saying for us to be holy like he
• 57:50
  is Holy, this is just a connection.
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  I'm just making as I'm thinking, I'm listening to you.
• 57:54
  And like, scriptures are coming to mind, like, reiterating what
• 57:57
  you're saying, just as beautiful.
• 57:59
  But when we run to God, We need to have the kind of fear of the
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  Lord where we're in acknowledgement and obedience to
• 58:09
  what his law is for us. As his people, we should be holy
• 58:13
  as he is. Holy set apart, not following
• 58:16
  the way that the world is not just going with the flow and
• 58:19
  accepting whatever anybody says. And it's going to look bold.
• 58:22
  Sometimes we're going to be a little louder aggressive.
• 58:25
  But it's going to come from a place of like like a holy anger
• 58:28
  or righteousness. And all of this is so important.
• 58:35
  The only I'm not a big birthday guy.
• 58:37
  Like I don't celebrate too much or make a big deal out of my
• 58:39
  birthday, but the only reason I would want more in one year's to
• 58:42
  have a birthday Bible study with you larvae.
• 58:44
  Because this is, this is epic, this is so good.
• 58:48
  And this is what's accessible to all of us.
• 58:51
  If we just come in, humility a broken and contrite spirit.
• 58:55
  God does not reject you. You reminded us David emptied
• 58:58
  himself as he worshiped, the Lord, we can do this on.
• 59:03
  A daily basis, you guys a weekly basis, a monthly basis get
• 59:06
  plugged in with another strong, believer, for all of you
• 59:09
  listeners out there and get excited about the word of God.
• 59:13
  And this, I think about you like what we were saying earlier.
• 59:18
  How, you know, when you enter into rest, we actually can war
• 59:24
  from that place. And for me, when I discovered
• 59:28
  that reality, it transformed the spiritual Fair that I'm engaged
• 59:34
  in. And so you know like I mentioned
• 59:36
  earlier when we rest were destroying the works of the
• 59:41
  enemy, you know we're putting to death striving and stress and
• 59:45
  exhaustion and all those things and you know when we honor the
• 59:48
  Sabbath, it requires us to trust the Lord instead of our own
• 59:52
  efforts, right? To take care of our own needs.
• 59:55
  And I love Matthew 68, you know? It talks about how the Lord that
• 59:59
  this is for your father knows what you need even before you
• 1:00:02
  ask him and it's so true. You know, he sees the big
• 1:00:06
  picture, he knows when we need to rest and he'll lead us into
• 1:00:11
  rest, but so often, we don't follow him because, you know, we
• 1:00:15
  want to maintain control over our own schedule, but entering
• 1:00:19
  into rest means that, we learn how to daily surrender to him.
• 1:00:23
  And I remember years ago, I began praying this prayer.
• 1:00:27
  And I just said, Lord order my day and it's amazing how this
• 1:00:31
  daily simple Or has completely changed my perspective.
• 1:00:36
  So I used to get like really irritated with people when they
• 1:00:41
  would cancel on me. But now when that happens it's
• 1:00:45
  like it doesn't bother me at all because I realized that God is
• 1:00:48
  reordering my day and I would much have I would much rather
• 1:00:51
  have what the Holy Spirit has in mind for my day than what my
• 1:00:55
  calendar says. And there's literally days when
• 1:00:58
  everyone will cancel and you're like, what is going on and then
• 1:01:02
  I realized Oh, I must need to rest.
• 1:01:05
  The Lord is like completely clearing my schedule and I love
• 1:01:09
  days like that. And you know, when we think
• 1:01:11
  about Psalm 23, it talks about how the Lord lets us rest in
• 1:01:16
  Green Meadows. And he leads Us beside these
• 1:01:19
  peaceful streams any. He makes sure that he guides us
• 1:01:22
  on these right paths so in other words, he's inviting us to
• 1:01:26
  follow him into rest. But again we get to choose how
• 1:01:31
  we enter into rest whether Sara Lee or involuntarily now,
• 1:01:36
  voluntarily entering into rest means that we choose to cease to
• 1:01:40
  stop to submit our time to the Lord, because we recognize that
• 1:01:44
  he's our provider, not the works of our hands involuntarily
• 1:01:48
  entering into rest, means that something or someone causes us
• 1:01:53
  to see. So, you know, we may work
• 1:01:55
  ourselves so hard that we get injured or, you know, we get
• 1:01:58
  sick or worse yet. We trigger a disease in our D.
• 1:02:04
  Sometimes we get laid off from a job.
• 1:02:06
  You know, no matter what the circumstances are, there's some
• 1:02:09
  circumstances that Force us to rest, but we still have a choice
• 1:02:13
  or we going to enter into rest. Are we going to get ourselves?
• 1:02:16
  So worked up emotionally that we're angry, or were worried
• 1:02:20
  about our circumstances. Now for me in my life, I've
• 1:02:25
  experienced both and I'm sure you have as well and good
• 1:02:28
  listeners heart have as well. Well, I would much rather choose
• 1:02:32
  rest then. Forced to rest because most of
• 1:02:35
  the time when I involuntarily enter into rest, you know, it's
• 1:02:39
  precipitated by a sickness or by an injury.
• 1:02:43
  And I remember the year between my undergraduate and my graduate
• 1:02:48
  school studies. I was working full-time at the
• 1:02:51
  VA Medical Center in La, Jolla California.
• 1:02:54
  And I was in the department of Psychiatry and I was doing
• 1:02:57
  research on schizophrenia and in addition to that full-time job.
• 1:03:01
  I also was an assistant like coach for the UC San Diego crew.
• 1:03:05
  Team the rowing team because I was on the crew team as a
• 1:03:09
  student and then that same year, I was involved in intervarsity,
• 1:03:13
  Christian Fellowship, on campus and I was dating Tom, you know,
• 1:03:16
  the man I would marry. And so my life was just full to
• 1:03:21
  capacity and I had this really fast-paced life.
• 1:03:25
  Well, I went to this retreat with intervarsity.
• 1:03:29
  And during one of the breaks we were playing ultimate frisbee
• 1:03:33
  and I tore the meniscus in my knee and it turns out I needed
• 1:03:37
  surgery. But I had such horrible medical
• 1:03:41
  insurance that it took them a month to approve the surgery.
• 1:03:45
  So I was on crutches and a knee immobilizer for an entire month
• 1:03:49
  before I had surgery and so my fast-paced life came to a
• 1:03:54
  screeching halt, you know? And I really was out the slope.
• 1:03:59
  Crawl, and it seems like as I look back over my life, it seems
• 1:04:03
  like the Lord just keeps bringing me these lessons of how
• 1:04:07
  to learn how to rest. And, you know, some people, it
• 1:04:10
  comes easier. And I would say, for me, I feel
• 1:04:12
  like I'm getting better at it, but I always have this internal
• 1:04:16
  struggle, because one of my strengths on the strengthsfinder
• 1:04:19
  test is achiever and I am never bored.
• 1:04:23
  I always have like things I'm researching or projects.
• 1:04:28
  I'm working on And my husband, he teases me.
• 1:04:31
  He's like do you have like this ready list in your head of to
• 1:04:33
  do's and it's totally true. I do and I used to go, go, go,
• 1:04:38
  go until I would collapse and of course that's not healthy.
• 1:04:42
  And you know it seems like I was always striving for something.
• 1:04:47
  And I really I learned how to strive when I was a teenager,
• 1:04:51
  young teenager, I was as a child, I was a competitive
• 1:04:55
  figure skater from age of 62 age 13.
• 1:04:59
  And I'm a natural athlete. And so, I've been involved in
• 1:05:03
  all sorts of sports and it, they just come easy to me.
• 1:05:07
  Well, figure skating, I was really good at.
• 1:05:09
  And so I would finish first, second, or third in every
• 1:05:13
  competition, except for the very last two competitions.
• 1:05:16
  My last competition, I remember. So clearly, like, I was super
• 1:05:22
  well-trained. I could do my performance
• 1:05:25
  flawlessly, but when it came time for the competition, When I
• 1:05:29
  let my nerves, get the best of me.
• 1:05:31
  And I fell on one of my jumps in my program and I remember
• 1:05:36
  skating off the ice because I was super disappointed in
• 1:05:38
  myself, I skated with my head hung low.
• 1:05:42
  Well that is the number one thing you don't do as a figure
• 1:05:46
  skater because it's the last image that the judges.
• 1:05:49
  See of you is you being disappointed in your program and
• 1:05:53
  so that will remind them oh I need to Mark her down.
• 1:05:57
  So I skated off the ice. With my head down and my coach
• 1:06:01
  yelled at me in front of hundreds of people and then I
• 1:06:04
  turned to my parents for support and they gave me the silent
• 1:06:08
  treatment and so I learned in that moment if I fail, I'm going
• 1:06:13
  to be rejected. And so I made this unconscious
• 1:06:17
  pact with myself that I'm never going to fail.
• 1:06:20
  And so, I was an incredibly driven individual.
• 1:06:24
  Well, when I made that unconscious packed it opened the
• 1:06:27
  door to a spirit. Out of fear of failure.
• 1:06:30
  And I was plagued by that until graduate school, when I got set
• 1:06:35
  free and delivered from it. And I remember when I was
• 1:06:38
  telling my mom, after I got set free from that spirit of fear of
• 1:06:42
  failure, I was telling her the story and and she asked for my
• 1:06:45
  forgiveness for how they handled that moment, she never felt good
• 1:06:50
  about that. And so this is beautiful time of
• 1:06:53
  reconciliation and healing, but because of that I had developed
• 1:06:59
  This striving mentality. And so the Lord had to teach me
• 1:07:04
  through involuntary, rest, the difference between striving and
• 1:07:09
  rest. And again, even when we're
• 1:07:13
  forced with involuntary rest, we still have to choose to rest.
• 1:07:17
  You know, at first when I injured my knee, I was angry.
• 1:07:22
  I you know it's frustrated I couldn't do the things that I
• 1:07:24
  wanted to do but then finally I let go of that and I just
• 1:07:28
  embraced The situation embrace the, the rest and I remember
• 1:07:33
  what happened. Like things started becoming
• 1:07:38
  more beautiful in my surrounding.
• 1:07:40
  So you know, I had this research job and it required me to go to
• 1:07:45
  some of the research libraries on campus and UC San Diego is
• 1:07:49
  massive. You know on a good day it would
• 1:07:51
  take me 40 minutes to get from one end of campus to another.
• 1:07:54
  So now picture me on crutches with his knee immobilizer having
• 1:07:58
  to get These research libraries and I had to walk so slow.
• 1:08:03
  Like I began noticing flowers and bushes and trees and
• 1:08:09
  interested. There's a fly.
• 1:08:12
  Oh, that's a beautiful bird, you know, nature just came alive to
• 1:08:18
  me and prior to that, I would just whiz on past it.
• 1:08:22
  Not even taking in my surroundings and so the Lord
• 1:08:26
  taught me and not time of my life.
• 1:08:29
  That when I rest, when I entered into rest, I see these truths
• 1:08:34
  and aspects of Hit the beautiful nature of God and what he's
• 1:08:39
  created come to life. And I also realized, you know,
• 1:08:43
  when we walk in the fear of the Lord, it leads us to rest.
• 1:08:47
  And that's what it says in Proverbs 1923.
• 1:08:50
  It says the fear of the Lord leads to life, then one rest
• 1:08:54
  content Untouched by trouble. So, I believe, you know, we
• 1:08:59
  position ourselves to see his wonders when we enter into rest
• 1:09:03
  now. And as I mentioned earlier, you
• 1:09:06
  know, choosing to rest breaks the back of striping and Matthew
• 1:09:12
  11:28 through 30, it says, come to me all who are weary and
• 1:09:16
  burdened. And I will give you rest.
• 1:09:17
  Take my yoke upon you and learn from me for.
• 1:09:21
  I am gentle and humble in heart and you will find rest for your
• 1:09:26
  souls for my My yoke is easy and my burden is light.
• 1:09:32
  Well, there's actually there's a yoke of striving and there's a
• 1:09:35
  yoke of Rest In, Jesus offers himself as our place of rest.
• 1:09:41
  And once I recognized that once I recognized that there's a
• 1:09:45
  place of rest, it's the bosom of Jesus.
• 1:09:49
  That's when I realized, oh my gosh, I can actually war from a
• 1:09:54
  place of rest and when the Lord God called me to the front lines
• 1:09:59
  of this spiritual battle were in, you know, a couple of years
• 1:10:01
  ago. He told me this, he said the
• 1:10:04
  enemy can't find you when you're hidden in my presence and when
• 1:10:08
  he told me that I was like, oh my gosh, that is so good.
• 1:10:12
  And so I'm learning how to live my life hidden in the presence
• 1:10:17
  of the Lord because the enemy can't find me there.
• 1:10:20
  The presence of the Lord is filled with his glory.
• 1:10:22
  You think of the brightest light ever its blinding and the enemy
• 1:10:26
  can't. See me because I'm hidden in the
• 1:10:30
  presence of the Lord. And then he gave me this Vision
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  last year of me like this baby bird.
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  And I'm underneath the wings of the father, and I've got my
• 1:10:40
  mouth open and he's feeding me and he's nourishing me, and I'm
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  just like, super excited to to eat all the nourishment that he
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  has for me. And then when he sends me out on
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  assignment, I become like that peregrine, falcon, and I dive at
• 1:10:55
  incredible speeds and I my mark and then I come back to the
• 1:11:00
  father underneath his wings like that baby bird again and I
• 1:11:04
  absolutely love that image because that shows me that
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  teaches me how to live my life in rest under the shadow of his
• 1:11:13
  wings in the bosom of Jesus. Now I'm going to share one other
• 1:11:17
  thing. Well couple other things too.
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  You know I one of my favorite forms of exercise now that I'm
• 1:11:23
  getting older is paddleboarding I had to let go of a lot of Of
• 1:11:29
  the sports I used to play because they were contact sports
• 1:11:33
  but paddleboarding I absolutely love and we live near a lake and
• 1:11:38
  the Lord has taught me so much on my paddle board and one of
• 1:11:42
  the things that I want to share is he taught me, you know,
• 1:11:47
  through being out on the lake when it's really windy.
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  Now, when it's windy, everything is harder as you can imagine.
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  You know, it's harder to paddle. It's harder to go.
• 1:11:57
  Where it's harder to stay on the board itself.
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  And to me, that's an image of striving, you know, when we
• 1:12:06
  strive, we make everything more difficult, and it's hard to
• 1:12:09
  accomplish anything because we're wearing this heavy yoke of
• 1:12:13
  striving. And when were, you know,
• 1:12:16
  struggling to achieve, that thing that we've set out to do
• 1:12:19
  in and we're just we're not able to achieve it.
• 1:12:23
  What happens is because of that bondage of striving I used to
• 1:12:27
  This phrase what we'll just buckle down and try harder.
• 1:12:30
  Well that comes out of striving and so when you try and do that,
• 1:12:34
  that's when stress and fear anxiety and irritability creep
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  in, but when we enter into rest, it's like the moment on the
• 1:12:43
  board when I get to turn around and go with the wind and I it's
• 1:12:48
  the sense of relief and everything is easy.
• 1:12:51
  In fact, I could literally just stand on the board and not
• 1:12:54
  paddle and just steer a little bit and I'll I'll get to where I
• 1:12:58
  want to go, because the wind is pushing me.
• 1:13:00
  But then when I decide to paddle With the Wind, you know, I
• 1:13:04
  travel farther and faster but with way less effort and to me
• 1:13:08
  that's the Yoke of rest. Now, another thing, the Lord
• 1:13:12
  taught me when I was out on the paddle board in the wind.
• 1:13:16
  Now again, when it's windy, it's not peaceful, right?
• 1:13:20
  There's these waves and your board is like slapping up and
• 1:13:24
  down against the waves, the choppiness of the lake.
• 1:13:27
  And so I'm out there one day and Salt Lake is unique in its
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  whether we tease people who come into town and we say you know if
• 1:13:37
  you don't like the weather stick around in five minutes it will
• 1:13:40
  be different so I don't intentionally go out in the wind
• 1:13:45
  but I'll go out on the lake and it's fine.
• 1:13:47
  It's great it's wonderful day and then in 5 minutes like this
• 1:13:52
  heavy wind comes in or worse yet.
• 1:13:55
  Thunderstorms and so So it was one of those days.
• 1:13:59
  I'm like, really Lord this wind gust so I'm paddling into the
• 1:14:05
  wind and it's it's hard and it's strong and but all of a sudden I
• 1:14:11
  get lost in the presence of the Lord and it's like my body is
• 1:14:15
  still struggling to paddle into the wind but my Soul and Spirit
• 1:14:20
  are with the King of Kings. Like I am just having the time
• 1:14:24
  of my life in his presence and I could Are less about my
• 1:14:28
  circumstances and the Lord spoke to me in that moment.
• 1:14:31
  And he said, no matter what the circumstances are, you can
• 1:14:36
  always find rest. And I realize that, you know,
• 1:14:40
  made me think about Jesus when he was in the boat sleeping, and
• 1:14:44
  there's these wind and waves and that, you know, the disciples
• 1:14:48
  are freaking out because they think they're going to die and
• 1:14:51
  there's Jesus, he's resting, he's sleeping, the disciples are
• 1:14:56
  freaking and he's Ting. Well, I realize I want to live
• 1:15:00
  my life in rest. I don't want to put a freak out
• 1:15:05
  and, you know, back to David, I love David.
• 1:15:08
  My youngest son's middle name is David because David is my
• 1:15:11
  favorite King. My other son's middle name is
• 1:15:14
  Josiah because that's my second favorite King.
• 1:15:18
  But so David, you know, he provides us with a good example
• 1:15:23
  of how we find rest in the midst of difficult circumstances.
• 1:15:27
  And for David, what that look like is that was, you know, him
• 1:15:31
  surrendering to the sovereignty of the Lord.
• 1:15:34
  And I love Psalm 62 because it gives us a window into how David
• 1:15:38
  lived this out. And this is verse 1 through 5,
• 1:15:41
  it says my soul finds rest in God alone.
• 1:15:46
  My salvation comes from him. He alone is my rock and my
• 1:15:50
  salvation. He is my Fortress.
• 1:15:53
  I Will Never Be Shaken. How long will you assault a man?
• 1:15:57
  Would all of you, throw him down this leaning.
• 1:15:59
  While this tottering fence, they fully intend to topple him from
• 1:16:03
  his lofty place. They take Delight in lies with
• 1:16:06
  their mouths, they blessed. But in their hearts, they curse.
• 1:16:10
  Find rest. Oh my soul and God Alone, My
• 1:16:13
  Hope comes from him. So here we see in this passage,
• 1:16:17
  you know, David is surrounded by his enemies that are bent on his
• 1:16:20
  destruction. And so, in verse 1, he is
• 1:16:23
  declaring my soul finds rest in God alone, but Verse 5 he is
• 1:16:28
  commanding his soul to find rest in God alone.
• 1:16:32
  And I think about, you know, I can only imagine the thoughts of
• 1:16:36
  fear and despair and worry that crept into David's mind between
• 1:16:40
  verse 1 and verse 5. Yeah.
• 1:16:43
  And, you know, David had to know God as his Rock his Fortress and
• 1:16:48
  his salvation in order to endure his hard circumstances.
• 1:16:53
  So, what David was doing here is he was taking every thought, At
• 1:16:57
  captive and he was telling his soul lineup and only find rest
• 1:17:03
  in God alone. And that's what we have to do.
• 1:17:07
  You know, sometimes we have to just tell our soul, find rest in
• 1:17:11
  God alone, we have to remind ourselves just like you spoke in
• 1:17:15
  the beginning that God works all things together for good for
• 1:17:18
  those who love him and are called according to his purpose
• 1:17:22
  has. And so I just you know, I want
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  to encourage people that That we anchor our lives.
• 1:17:29
  In Psalm 42 10, which says be still and know that I am.
• 1:17:33
  God, Psalms 116, seven return unto thy, rest.
• 1:17:42
  Oh, my soul for the Lord, hath dealt bountifully.
• 1:17:48
  Hmm. And then I just want to read
• 1:17:49
  Exodus 33 14 quick and he said, my presence shall go with the
• 1:17:55
  and I will give the rest Hebrews 4, 9 there remaineth therefore a
• 1:18:01
  rest to the people of God. so for everybody, listening, the
• 1:18:07
  Psalms 116 if you need to return unto rest, which I highly
• 1:18:10
  recommend, We know that God's ways are good and his ways are
• 1:18:19
  higher than our ways. He is so separate and set apart
• 1:18:23
  and above and beyond what we can comprehend.
• 1:18:26
  So the world may be trying to drive us and harness us to the
• 1:18:29
  plow and to make us produce in the pressure.
• 1:18:32
  Maybe on but it makes me think of faith.
• 1:18:36
  If we have faith. How could you express your
• 1:18:42
  faith? The substance of something hoped
• 1:18:44
  for the evidence of the Unseen. If everything is going perfect
• 1:18:46
  in life, Faith is tested. When a my opinion, when things
• 1:18:50
  aren't going perfect. Yeah.
• 1:18:52
  When we hear what God is saying, we slow down, we've rest and
• 1:18:57
  marinate in his word and then we come out going.
• 1:19:00
  Okay, God, it looks like this on the outside.
• 1:19:03
  People are going to mock me. They may laugh at me.
• 1:19:05
  They may question and try to advise me, but we know that.
• 1:19:09
  Fear of man would take the advice of those around them, but
• 1:19:14
  to he, who hides the word of God in his heart, that he may not
• 1:19:17
  sin against God to he, who was seeking after the Lord, with the
• 1:19:21
  might and the strength that is given.
• 1:19:25
  That's where we're going to find rest when we align our hearts as
• 1:19:29
  we grow, and we learn to repent and change our minds to change
• 1:19:36
  the way that we're viewing and thinking about things because
• 1:19:39
  faith comes from hearing the word.
• 1:19:41
  And there's plenty of scripture quoted from from Laurel, in this
• 1:19:45
  episode, and gems and nuggets. As we went through Samuel,
• 1:19:49
  talking about the difference of Saul's Kingdom vs David's
• 1:19:52
  Kingdom. Let's follow.
• 1:19:55
  After the Lord, in a closer, a deeper in a more secret way than
• 1:19:58
  we ever have before by entering into a place of rest, and to the
• 1:20:03
  world, that's going to sound crazy.
• 1:20:04
  What do you mean your your warring from a place of rest?
• 1:20:07
  What do you mean you're being restored and rest?
• 1:20:10
  They'll say things like the early bird gets the worm and you
• 1:20:13
  need a second job because inflation is so bad right now.
• 1:20:17
  How can you afford anything? But we trust that God will make
• 1:20:22
  a way even if the monetary system.
• 1:20:26
  God Will Make A Way It Is in the presence of difficult things,
• 1:20:30
  that happened that our faith is tested.
• 1:20:32
  Our faith is not for those. Sunny Shiny Days where the
• 1:20:35
  breeze is not blowing too strong, and everything is
• 1:20:38
  overflowing and goodness. Our faith can be tested on.
• 1:20:42
  Will we trust God to enter into a place of rest?
• 1:20:47
  Will we allow lot a time and say God You Are Holy you're calling
• 1:20:51
  me to be holy. I want to enter into a place of
• 1:20:54
  rest. I want to go against the grain.
• 1:20:57
  I want to make a stand and believe your word and your power
• 1:21:01
  and the Revelation, the Rhema this coming alive to me, jumping
• 1:21:05
  off. The pages is greater than
• 1:21:08
  anything that the world is waving around out there.
• 1:21:11
  R, so I'm encouraged. I am so encouraged.
• 1:21:13
  And I love when you were sharing, you know, some of your
• 1:21:17
  obstacles as you were, you know, skating and doing these things
• 1:21:20
  as you were younger, because it really did remind me.
• 1:21:23
  Again of God works all things together.
• 1:21:25
  He's a good god, he's a good father, he's patient with us,
• 1:21:29
  right? It's like we're learning these
• 1:21:30
  little incremental things and then we reflect later in life
• 1:21:35
  and like we're looking back now on the God you've, you were
• 1:21:38
  there for me. And at this season at this time
• 1:21:40
  in the It might not have felt like it but the way that he
• 1:21:44
  works these big things and small things together is definitely
• 1:21:49
  worth the reflection of my opinion.
• 1:21:51
  And I just you always bring this refreshment to the episode.
• 1:21:57
  You've really just you're doing what God is calling you to do
• 1:22:01
  and by sharing your testimony and helping us to find these
• 1:22:05
  nuggets in the word. And this is also a gentle
• 1:22:09
  warning to the As we need to have a holy reverence for what
• 1:22:14
  God is saying, and just having that rest in him because he's
• 1:22:19
  the power move, he is the one who is going to make a way where
• 1:22:22
  there seems like there is no way and I think that's where we're
• 1:22:26
  at as a society as a whole as a country right now.
• 1:22:31
  Obviously we know the answer is not in voting, the right person
• 1:22:35
  in. We know the answer is going to
• 1:22:36
  be seeking the face of the Lord turning from the wicked things
• 1:22:40
  that Have committed changing the way we perceive life, but being
• 1:22:45
  transformed and renewed slowly and surely by the guidance of
• 1:22:51
  his spirit and his word, so edification at its best.
• 1:22:56
  Yeah. It's always an honor to be with
• 1:22:58
  you and just I'm in the zone. You got me on cloud nine.
• 1:23:03
  Once again, every time you go more time like okay, so well
• 1:23:09
  good. I'm hoping it was a Good
• 1:23:11
  birthday gift for you. And it's always so wonderful to
• 1:23:14
  be together. Absolutely.
• 1:23:17
  And I know most people are going to know at this point but please
• 1:23:20
  plug in where new listeners can find you.
• 1:23:23
  Reiterate the information for those who keep coming back for
• 1:23:26
  more here on The Mustard Seed. Where can people find you?
• 1:23:29
  Anything that you're working on anything in the near future
• 1:23:34
  anything you'd like to share with us?
• 1:23:35
  Yes. Well, thank you.
• 1:23:36
  So, the best place to reach me is to start by going onto my
• 1:23:41
  Website, which is no longer enslaved.com and then from there
• 1:23:46
  I have monthly articles that I right.
• 1:23:49
  And if folks are interested in receiving those, I don't
• 1:23:52
  inundate your inbox, I just do one article a month, people can
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  sign up. It's Frida, subscribe and then
• 1:24:00
  you can order my book from my website or off of Amazon and as
• 1:24:04
  you mentioned Rod, I do have it now inaudible.
• 1:24:07
  I'm super excited about that because like yourself.
• 1:24:10
  I've had so many people reach out grateful that I narrated the
• 1:24:15
  book and put it in audio format because either they're too busy
• 1:24:19
  to read or, you know, dyslexic like you said.
• 1:24:23
  And so I'm super excited that it's available now, both in
• 1:24:27
  Kindle form in paperback and Audible, and it's currently
• 1:24:31
  being translated into Spanish. It's probably one of the things
• 1:24:35
  I'm most excited about and God, That's all folks from Some
• 1:24:42
  pastors from Florida that I've just sown seeds into the
• 1:24:45
  translation. And it's I think we're on
• 1:24:49
  chapter 21 has been translated, then it needs to be proof read
• 1:24:53
  and then sent to my publisher and, you know, she'll put it all
• 1:24:56
  together. So it's probably still a few
• 1:24:59
  months out, but I'm so excited for that because it will really
• 1:25:03
  open up these concepts of the Nephilim and the Nephilim agenda
• 1:25:07
  to the Spanish-speaking communities.
• 1:25:10
  So I'm super excited about that and then I'm also on YouTube, I
• 1:25:17
  have a YouTube and Rumble Channel called no longer
• 1:25:19
  enslaved. And I have a 7 part series on
• 1:25:23
  spiritual mapping and a 10 part series on the impact of the
• 1:25:28
  Nephilim agenda today, for those that are interested in digging a
• 1:25:32
  little deeper in those subjects and then if people want to
• 1:25:35
  follow me I'm on Instagram under Laura Sanger 444 hurts.
• 1:25:39
  And then also, Ram, Laura singer, 444 hurts.
• 1:25:43
  So that's what I've got my hands in right now.
• 1:25:49
  And I'm doing the spiritual mapping project currently in the
• 1:25:53
  Salt Lake Valley, which I'm excited about.
• 1:25:56
  We're going to go do some reconnaissance tomorrow.
• 1:25:59
  Yeah, which is awesome. Yeah.
• 1:26:02
  So that's what I'm involved in. Yeah, and I couldn't recommend
• 1:26:07
  your book and it's just unbelievable and a way, and it
• 1:26:12
  is so helpful that you narrated yourself to, that's probably not
• 1:26:16
  easy. So like, wasn't it was so, but
• 1:26:20
  it's so rewarding to just, here you go through it and not
• 1:26:23
  something else also and it just, it really It's been so helpful
• 1:26:28
  for me, I'm at a factory and boots on the ground 40 plus
• 1:26:33
  hours a week. In a manufacturing facility we
• 1:26:37
  make some interesting Parts where we're busy right now
• 1:26:40
  because some of the things that we are tailored to our for the
• 1:26:44
  military and the Aerospace industry that keeps us pretty
• 1:26:47
  busy thank God and I am able to put one ear bud in.
• 1:26:54
  And throughout the day multiple times, I've listened to the
• 1:26:59
  Bible in 24 hours by dr. Chuck Missler.
• 1:27:01
  But, and so now having to be able to utilize some of that
• 1:27:06
  time to listen to your book, which is narrated by you
• 1:27:10
  inaudible. It's been a game changer.
• 1:27:11
  It just really helped me to dive into a space where I'm at work,
• 1:27:19
  and I normally wouldn't have that time to reflect Actor dig
• 1:27:22
  deeper, I found myself Paul's and alright I'll run over to my
• 1:27:25
  desk and write down things on the sticky.
• 1:27:28
  Okay, we gotta look into that and it just just a glimmer into
• 1:27:34
  something. I had text you the other week.
• 1:27:36
  It was just as question about the frequency of gold.
• 1:27:40
  And it's so interesting. I was listening to your
• 1:27:42
  interview with blurry creatures at the time and I was in and out
• 1:27:45
  of still going through your book on Audible and just Little Gems
• 1:27:51
  like that. I remember years ago, when the
• 1:27:53
  linen thing came up where it was their usual, why is everybody
• 1:27:56
  who's Holier? You know, a profit it wearing
• 1:27:59
  white linen in the Bible, right? And it's just, these little
• 1:28:02
  nuggets are what keep us on this Trail.
• 1:28:05
  Lower investigating, the word of God is becoming alive to us and
• 1:28:08
  keeping us. Just interested on day-to-day
• 1:28:11
  basis. So it's a game-changer that you
• 1:28:14
  did that on Audible and for the Spanish Community excited, Sandy
• 1:28:20
  as was on, he speaks Spanish. He Lives local to me and Reading
• 1:28:24
  PA which is predominantly a Spanish City.
• 1:28:26
  You don't get a ton of downloads from Reading I think because
• 1:28:30
  it's they speak fluent Spanish there and not as much English
• 1:28:36
  but it's awesome to be able to represent that too large.
• 1:28:40
  Populations close by to me when that Spanish narration is done.
• 1:28:44
  I think that that's huge loving our neighbors as we love
• 1:28:48
  ourselves is going to stretch the boundaries Beyond just who
• 1:28:52
  we talk to and meet up with and like who's in our inside circle
• 1:28:55
  is going to be sharing this information and really taking an
• 1:28:59
  interest and the people around us whether they're from a
• 1:29:03
  different culture, they speak a different language or not and
• 1:29:05
  that's one of the big things that got me excited.
• 1:29:08
  But I heard you were developing During the Spanish version of
• 1:29:11
  this inaudible so well I could have you told me actually it'll
• 1:29:15
  be in print the Spanish version will be.
• 1:29:18
  Yeah that is that's a blessing. It's a blessing and hopefully
• 1:29:23
  some day it'll grow to even more languages.
• 1:29:27
  Be crazy. Well, another birthday episode
• 1:29:34
  down and thank you for taking the time to just Christ into my
• 1:29:40
  life. I know over the years, just you
• 1:29:42
  encouraging me and all of your work and the feedback of how
• 1:29:47
  it's helping other people grow. You know, the Bible says let
• 1:29:50
  somebody else you know, honor you and praise what you're
• 1:29:54
  doing, right? That we don't do that for
• 1:29:56
  ourselves. So it's a I'm just happy to be
• 1:30:00
  in a position where I know you and like I get encouragement
• 1:30:03
  from me, we get to have conversations.
• 1:30:04
  And yeah, sometimes I'm like, I get the text dr.
• 1:30:07
  Laura question. Like this is crazy.
• 1:30:09
  He, you know, and it's just a blessing.
• 1:30:12
  So, thank you for being here. All the money must be seen
• 1:30:15
  podcast any last words before we close out just, you know, to
• 1:30:21
  encourage people to tune out all the voices that are going on in
• 1:30:27
  the world and just tune into the voice of the Lord.
• 1:30:32
  And that's it. That is the episode.
• 1:30:36
  Thank you for being here. I know this was edifying.
• 1:30:39
  I know this is encouraging. I want you guys to share this
• 1:30:43
  episode with your friends, family members, your neighbor,
• 1:30:45
  share with your pastor and don't forget resting in the Lord is
• 1:30:52
  key coming to you from Southeastern Pennsylvania,
• 1:30:56
  goodbye. Is that your van der Lyn the
• 1:31:03
  distel with his gone with a more was that sound like thunder
• 1:31:19
  walking away? The street of goes here's a
• 1:31:27
  thing is like like me sitting high up on his throne has 10,000
• 1:31:41
  times. 10,000 saying we found, Glory Glory.
• 1:32:03
  Praise the Lord Jesus. Peeing that see CD.
• 1:32:20
  There's a river flowing from God's holy Throne, where their
• 1:32:31
  tree of life is blooming, where the hell has not been No More
• 1:32:43
  Tears. Lives in that bright.
• 1:32:47
  CD date will have to flee, no more sin sickness.
• 1:32:57
  No more heartaches here. That lame a perfect day Glory
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  Glory we have praised Praise the Lord.