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Episode 167 - Government Protection · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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  Speaker 1: I will lift mine eyes to the hills from whence
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  Speaker 1: comes my help. My help comes from the Lord, the
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  Speaker 1: Lord who made heaven and earth. He will not suffer
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  Speaker 1: your foot to be moved. He who keeps Israel neither
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  Speaker 1: slumbers nor sleeps. The Lord is our keeper. He is
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  Speaker 1: the shade up on our right. And the sun will
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  Speaker 1: not smite us by day, nor the moon by by night.
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  Speaker 1: The Lord will preserve us from all evil. He will
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  Speaker 1: preserve our soul. I were going out and our coming in.
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  Speaker 1: From this time forth and even forever more, we welcome
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  Speaker 1: you once again to this another edition of End Time
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  Speaker 1: Revival Ministries USA podcast. That is, for those of you
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  Speaker 1: who listen to us by way of our audio podcasts,
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  Speaker 1: and for those of you who view us by way
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  Speaker 1: of our YouTube channel one Voice in the Wilderness, we
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  Speaker 1: welcome you as well. And again we are grateful to
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  Speaker 1: the Lord for another day that He's allowed us to see.
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  Speaker 1: And we are a man certainly again privileged and honored
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  Speaker 1: to be chosen by Him to speak forth his word
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  Speaker 1: with truth and boldness and clarity. Such a time as
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  Speaker 1: this we honor the Lord and give him glory and
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  Speaker 1: praise for his goodness toward us, and we are a
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  Speaker 1: man recipients of the many benefits that God has a man,
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  Speaker 1: stored up a man, and allowed us to be participants of.
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  Speaker 1: And so again our hearts are eternally grateful. And again
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  Speaker 1: we urge, we urge you as well, if you are
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  Speaker 1: not already a man, aware of a man, the goodness
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  Speaker 1: of God a man, it is exactly what leads man
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  Speaker 1: to repentance. A man, it is to be known and
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  Speaker 1: seen and understood. And we certainly again those of us
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  Speaker 1: who are in the Church of Jesus Christ, ought to
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  Speaker 1: be reveling and relishing, Amen, reveling in and relishing all
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  Speaker 1: of the goodness of God that He, a man, so
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  Speaker 1: undeservedly on our part, of course, bestows upon us. It
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  Speaker 1: is by grace we are saved. The Bible tells us
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  Speaker 1: through faith. It's not of ourselves. It's not a work
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  Speaker 1: soles anyone should boast. And I'm so glad also that
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  Speaker 1: we can a man live in this world with boldness
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  Speaker 1: and confidence, Amen, And knowing that a man God is
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  Speaker 1: with us and force. He never leaves us, nor does
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  Speaker 1: he forsake us. And of course, for those of you
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  Speaker 1: who have been following along with us, we have been
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  Speaker 1: in a series on God, government, church, and state. We're
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  Speaker 1: coming to a close on that, but I want to
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  Speaker 1: and that this will probably be in our next session.
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  Speaker 1: We'll go to Romans chapter thirteen and look at Amen,
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  Speaker 1: our duties and responsibilities. But we need to also understand
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  Speaker 1: a man, that government, a man has been established and
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  Speaker 1: ordained by God, and that we need not live in
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  Speaker 1: fear of government, nor I mean any ruler, a man
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  Speaker 1: who sits in power or authority. God is sovereign and
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  Speaker 1: he reigns and rules in the kingdom. Men. He it
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  Speaker 1: is who raises up leaders and rulers and governors and
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  Speaker 1: mayors and presidents and prime ministers and kings. God is
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  Speaker 1: in control, Amen. And so this is what we want
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  Speaker 1: to look at a little bit today. Government protection. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Government were a man designed again and ordained by God.
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  Speaker 1: And God still operates and works within the confines of
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  Speaker 1: government everywhere there is nothing that is out of His control.
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  Speaker 1: And again this is why we as the people of God,
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  Speaker 1: need not live in fear, doubt nor unbelief. Amen. So
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  Speaker 1: before we begin, we're going to be in the book
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  Speaker 1: of Isaiah. Shortly. If you have your bibles, Isaiah forty five.
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  Speaker 1: But before we gain we begin, of course, let's take
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  Speaker 1: just a moment to amen, acknowledge the Lord Father again,
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  Speaker 1: thank you for this day, Amen, this day that you
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  Speaker 1: have made. We certainly are grateful that you allowed us
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  Speaker 1: to wake up this morning with the breath of life,
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  Speaker 1: with the breath that comes from you, with all of
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  Speaker 1: the again goodness of your mercy and grace and loving
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  Speaker 1: kindness toward us. Thank you for saving us, calling us
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  Speaker 1: out of the darkness into your marvelous light. Lord, We
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  Speaker 1: certainly even now pray that your word will find someone's
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  Speaker 1: heart today. Prick someone's heart today, Turn someone's heart today
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  Speaker 1: to you. They will come to know and experience in
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  Speaker 1: the fullness all of the benefits, all of the man
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  Speaker 1: loving kindness that you have stored up for them, if
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  Speaker 1: they would only believe. Amen. So Father, help someone today, God,
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  Speaker 1: their feet, open their eyes, ears heart, Oh God, let
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  Speaker 1: there be a amen for your glory, for your honor.
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  Speaker 1: We praying give thanks Amen, and all right government protection
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  Speaker 1: God has given us. And this is, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: one of our benefits. Perhaps we overlook and I don't
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  Speaker 1: know if you've noticed this, and I don't know how
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  Speaker 1: much this is still seen, but it used to be
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  Speaker 1: quite common, and I think it is still in some places,
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  Speaker 1: perhaps on the vehicles of police officers. You see and
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  Speaker 1: man these words to serve and to protect, to serve
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  Speaker 1: and to protect. Amen. But again, government is God's design,
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  Speaker 1: and all human governments of this world, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: have their existence and authority from God. It is God
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  Speaker 1: again who instituted a man human government, and he did
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  Speaker 1: it for the purpose of rewarding and promoting what is good,
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  Speaker 1: while restraining and punishing what is evil. And all of
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  Speaker 1: this is necessary because all of us a man, are
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  Speaker 1: sinners by nature, a man living in a falling world.
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  Speaker 1: And again, the world is falling, the whole creation is
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  Speaker 1: groaning and travailing a man. And because all have sin
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  Speaker 1: and falling short of the glory of God, it is
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  Speaker 1: necessary a man that government be instituted, a man of many,
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  Speaker 1: but by God, a man. And again, sadly, so many
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  Speaker 1: people have dismissed God and don't believe that God is
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  Speaker 1: involved at all, even people in the Church, of course, sadly,
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  Speaker 1: who should know better. They think that God is aloof
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  Speaker 1: that God is uninvolved and not even caring at all
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  Speaker 1: about what happens. But certainly we need to understand that
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  Speaker 1: all of human government, and although you know again these
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  Speaker 1: governments are ordained by God, they are made up of
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  Speaker 1: fallen human beings. And yet they still serve as ministers,
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  Speaker 1: if you will, and this is in Roman Chepter thirteen.
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  Speaker 1: They all still serve as ministers of God to carry
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  Speaker 1: out what God has ordained a man, and their primary
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  Speaker 1: purpose should be to maintain law and order. Again we'll
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  Speaker 1: see that in Romans thirteen, perhaps in our next session.
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  Speaker 1: But because of the rebellious fallen nature of man, in
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  Speaker 1: man's obstinence against God, God, in his sovereign and absolute
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  Speaker 1: power and authority, and with if you will, in his
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  Speaker 1: predestined plan of salvation to redeem the souls of lost man.
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  Speaker 1: God is the one who can and will and does,
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  Speaker 1: and well again we've seen this throughout the scriptures. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: God is the one who turns the heart of the king,
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  Speaker 1: the heart of rulers, Amen, in ways that will accomplish
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  Speaker 1: its eternal decrees what he has purposed to do. But
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  Speaker 1: He has already established what He's already spoken in eternity past.
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  Speaker 1: And God did this long before the foundation of the world, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: long before we came into existence. God purposed God predestined amen.
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  Speaker 1: And again when He raises up, as it were, rulers,
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  Speaker 1: when men and women come into positions of power and
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  Speaker 1: authority and government, again we need not fear, because God
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  Speaker 1: sovereignly reigns and rules in the kingdom of men. And
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  Speaker 1: even when kings and rulers seem to be running a
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  Speaker 1: foul of the law of God, of the will of God,
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  Speaker 1: as it were, they are never beyond the scope of
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  Speaker 1: His absolute power, of his sovereignty, of his amen, a
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  Speaker 1: reach if you will. And they are in fact doing nothing,
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  Speaker 1: of course, beyond the fore knowledge of God. And again,
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  Speaker 1: neither are they beyond His ability to reconcile everything within
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  Speaker 1: his perfect plan. Proverbs twenty onety one tells us that
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  Speaker 1: the king's heart is in the hand of the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: every ruler, not just a king. We don't have kings
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  Speaker 1: much as it were a man many many, many hundreds
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  Speaker 1: of years ago throughout the world, as it were, very
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  Speaker 1: few kings reign today. But nevertheless, the Bible is speaking
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  Speaker 1: the rulers and those in authority. The king's heart is
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  Speaker 1: in the hand of the Lord, like the rivers of waters.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible says, he turns it God turns the heart
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  Speaker 1: of the king wherever he wishes, that is, wherever God desires.
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  Speaker 1: Whatever God has and designed, predestined, determined, and eternity past again.
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  Speaker 1: All of this we have to keep in mind is
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  Speaker 1: in keeping with God's great plan of redemption. God from
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  Speaker 1: the beginning of time purposed, even though he knew again
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  Speaker 1: that man would a man rebel against him. He purposed
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  Speaker 1: within himself that he would save a people for his namesake.
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  Speaker 1: So the king, the ruler, the governor, the mayor, the president,
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  Speaker 1: of the prime minister, whoever a man, they cannot run
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  Speaker 1: a foul a man of what God has already determined
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  Speaker 1: to do. And when rogue rulers are are doing their wickedness,
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  Speaker 1: when they are walking in their own way, unbeknownst to them,
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  Speaker 1: they are yet fulfilling the will of God. And even
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  Speaker 1: though they mean in their heart, and they do. And
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  Speaker 1: God doesn't have to fear with the heart of a man.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't have to interfere a man in order to
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  Speaker 1: orchestrate in order to ensure that his will be done.
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  Speaker 1: He can instill. He can allow them to make their decisions,
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  Speaker 1: do as they wish, do as they please. Amen. But
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  Speaker 1: what they don't understand, and what is unbeknownst to them,
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  Speaker 1: they are still fulfilling the will of God even in disobedience. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: because what God has already decreed in his goodness. And
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  Speaker 1: again keep in mind, this is all in keeping with
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  Speaker 1: a man God's eternal plan of redemption. Amen. So whatever
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  Speaker 1: God is already decreed, Amen, his goodness overrides the totality
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  Speaker 1: of all human and demonic wickedness, plans and schemes and
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  Speaker 1: so forth. Amen. So, no matter what man may do,
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  Speaker 1: no matter what the powers of the darkness may do,
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  Speaker 1: a man go to goodness. The Bible says, where sin abounds,
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  Speaker 1: grace much more abounds. So the goodness of God a
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  Speaker 1: man overrides. Amen. You remember the story of Joseph, of course,
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  Speaker 1: a man when his brothers conspired against him and sold
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  Speaker 1: him into slavery, and years later a man. They had
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  Speaker 1: to go down to Egypt and did not know that
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  Speaker 1: Joseph had been promoted to be the prime Minister, second
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  Speaker 1: in command in all of Egypt, a man, and they
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  Speaker 1: didn't recognize him when they got there. But later on,
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  Speaker 1: after they were revealed one to another a man, Joseph
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  Speaker 1: reminded them of what they had done. And he said,
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  Speaker 1: you meant it for evil, but God meant it for good.
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  Speaker 1: In other words, is again God did not a man
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  Speaker 1: stop them. God did not change the disposition of their heart.
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  Speaker 1: He changed their mind. He didn't bend their will a man.
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  Speaker 1: He allowed them to do, Amen, wickedness. He allowed them
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  Speaker 1: to carry forth, out of their passions, their jealousy, their envy,
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  Speaker 1: their hatred for Joseph, carry forth what they wanted to
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  Speaker 1: do to him. Now, of course we know, if you
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  Speaker 1: know the story, they really initially wanted to kill him.
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  Speaker 1: God didn't allow them to do that, and again got overrides.
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  Speaker 1: God overrides. But he did allow them, permit them to
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  Speaker 1: sell their own blood brother into slavery. Amen. And if
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  Speaker 1: you take, for example, many years later, the pharaoh of
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  Speaker 1: the Exodus, to whom Moses was sent to speak on
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  Speaker 1: God's behalf in order for him to release the people
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  Speaker 1: of God who had come down to Egypt. Joseph again,
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  Speaker 1: through the predestined purpose and plan of God, had all
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  Speaker 1: of his family brought into Egypt. But the man hundreds
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  Speaker 1: of years later, a man, this new pharaoh, who did
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  Speaker 1: not know Joseph. And that's to his own demise, a team,
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  Speaker 1: because he should have known one of the greatest of
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  Speaker 1: all of the pharaohs or leaders rather in all of
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  Speaker 1: the land of Egypt. Amen. Moses was sent to this
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  Speaker 1: pharaoh a man. God gave him a message. A man, thus,
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  Speaker 1: says the Lord, God of the Hebrews, let my people go, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: from slavery, from servitude, from bondage. That's the desire, that's
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  Speaker 1: the will of God, that people be free. Amen. But
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  Speaker 1: what the pharaoh did not know, what he did not understand,
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  Speaker 1: was that God had already predestined and orchestrated the flight
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  Speaker 1: and the plight of his people. Amen. The Lord told
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  Speaker 1: his servant Abraham, if you go back all the way
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  Speaker 1: back to Genesis chapter fifteen, Amen. The Lord told his
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  Speaker 1: servant Abraham that his descend would be strangers, a man
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  Speaker 1: would be in servitude, would be in bondage for four
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  Speaker 1: hundred years. Amen. And afterwards the Lord told Abraham that
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  Speaker 1: he would bring them out. So long before this pharaoh,
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  Speaker 1: long before Joseph was born, a man God, a man
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  Speaker 1: in eternity past, had already purposed and decreed what would
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  Speaker 1: happen again, Despite the decision of Joseph's brothers, despite the
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  Speaker 1: decision of the Pharaohs, despite the decision of anyone a
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  Speaker 1: man who tried to interfere, as it were, again unbeknownst
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  Speaker 1: to them, they were fulfilling the will of God, even
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  Speaker 1: when they were sinning and rebelling against God. And this
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  Speaker 1: pharaoh again rose up in his own honor and in
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  Speaker 1: his own pride, failing to know that again in his
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  Speaker 1: own nation's history, which he should have known, the greatest
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  Speaker 1: leader that had ever lived, perhaps in all of Egypt,
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  Speaker 1: a man was once himself a Hebrew slave, Amen, that
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  Speaker 1: was promoted to prime minister, second in command, a man
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  Speaker 1: hundreds of years prior. Amen. And see, God knew that
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  Speaker 1: this unwise and unwilling, ignorant pharaoh would harden his heart,
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  Speaker 1: and refusing to let the people go from slavery, he
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  Speaker 1: told Moses better. As a matter of fact, when he
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  Speaker 1: commissioned Moses and sent him to Egypt, he said, he's
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  Speaker 1: not going to Moses go, tell him he's not gonna
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  Speaker 1: let the people go until I showed my mighty hand.
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  Speaker 1: So it was that again God is sovereignly in control,
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  Speaker 1: and his will will be done, Amen. His will will
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  Speaker 1: be done, Amen. And again what this government tyrant did
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  Speaker 1: not know did not understand was that God would be
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  Speaker 1: glorified in his disobedience or in his compliance. Amen to
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  Speaker 1: obey a God. See, please understand. This is what we
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  Speaker 1: need to understand. We need to get We need to
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  Speaker 1: get this, We need to get this. God is going
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  Speaker 1: to be glorified in obedience or disobedience, whether we comply
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  Speaker 1: with his amen commands, with his word, whether we resist,
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  Speaker 1: God is still going to be glorified. God is still
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  Speaker 1: going to get the honor, he said. And I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to move on from this. But Paul picked this up
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  Speaker 1: in the New Testament. He said, of Pharaoh, the Bible
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  Speaker 1: says this, by the way the Lord said this Again,
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  Speaker 1: Paul picks it up in the New Testament, makes it
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  Speaker 1: an argument about a man. The sovereignty of God. He said,
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  Speaker 1: even for this same purpose, speaking of Pharaoh, that Pharaoh
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  Speaker 1: of the Exodus, even for this same purpose, have I
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  Speaker 1: raised you up, that my power and my name might
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  Speaker 1: be declared throughout all the earth. Therefore He has mercy
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  Speaker 1: on whom he will, and he hardens whom he will. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So no ruler, no leader, no king, no tyrant, no
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  Speaker 1: government official, Amen, president, prime minister, mayor, Amen, city council
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  Speaker 1: person whatever doesn't matter. Amen. They are not in control period. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: they're not. Amen. Whether the government ruler obeys or disobeys
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  Speaker 1: the law of God, the plans and the council of
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  Speaker 1: God still stands. And whatever God is purpose to do, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: whatever he its purpose to be to come to pass,
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  Speaker 1: is independent of what man decides to do independent. Amen. Again,
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  Speaker 1: God overrides over rules. He will allow them to make
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  Speaker 1: these plans and schemes, and and and and and even
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  Speaker 1: again in opposition to the will of God. And yet
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  Speaker 1: God still gets his will done through the wickedness, through
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  Speaker 1: and end and despite of if you will, or in
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  Speaker 1: spite of whatever decisions that these Amen, rogue rulers may make. Again,
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  Speaker 1: if it were possible, let me say this, if it
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  Speaker 1: will think about it, because you have to think about this.
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  Speaker 1: If it were possible for mortal man's decisions a man
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  Speaker 1: to interfere with whatever God has a purpose, or if
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  Speaker 1: mere mortal man's decisions could disagnol disavowal with God is purpose.
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  Speaker 1: Where God is spoken and man, then it simply means
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  Speaker 1: that God could not possibly be sovereign, nor could he
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  Speaker 1: be omnipotent. Amen, and arguably not even omniscient, because if
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  Speaker 1: he knew it would happen, and he has the power
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  Speaker 1: to do it, and it still goes a ride. It means,
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  Speaker 1: wait a minute, wait a minute, He's not in control.
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  Speaker 1: So see from our poor little, narrow little perspective, and man,
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  Speaker 1: we seem to believe get and based on our own
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  Speaker 1: I don't know, fears and doubts, perhaps that things are
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  Speaker 1: just out of control and that God is absent, God
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  Speaker 1: is aloof But we really need our eyes open, we
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  Speaker 1: really do. We really need our eyes open to see, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: what God is really amen doing in the earth. And
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  Speaker 1: by the way, if we were really honestly, I believe
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  Speaker 1: if we would just read the Bible, read the word
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  Speaker 1: of God, and allow the spirit of God to speak
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  Speaker 1: to us, I mean, I believe, I understand, it would
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  Speaker 1: be open to understand that we don't need to live
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  Speaker 1: in fear or doubt, that God has protection for his people. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And so not only does God operate through the will
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  Speaker 1: of the resistant ruler, he also raises up kings and
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  Speaker 1: rulers who will do his will. So you have, on
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  Speaker 1: the one hand, those who are obstinate, those who are rebellious,
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  Speaker 1: those who resist the will of God. Amen. But there
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  Speaker 1: again God has and again this is in the Bible,
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  Speaker 1: this is throughout history. God has also raised up, or
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  Speaker 1: elevated or promoted Amen, people to positions of power. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: who will do what He purposed? Amen. We've already seen
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  Speaker 1: how God has strategically placed his own people, for example,
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  Speaker 1: in positions of power, such as a Joseph, such as
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  Speaker 1: a Daniel. And he did with these two individuals, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, in foreign pagan gentile governments, God put them
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  Speaker 1: at the highest levels of government. And God has people
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  Speaker 1: right now, by the way. I hopefully, I hopefully we
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  Speaker 1: can get to some of this modern day govern meant
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  Speaker 1: stuff and in in a week or so, because we
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  Speaker 1: need to understand that God is still again, still sovereign,
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  Speaker 1: still in control, and uh uh and and and and
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  Speaker 1: what we read in the Bible, we should be able
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  Speaker 1: and we should be drawing all kinds of faith and
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  Speaker 1: confidence from it. Nevertheless, again, I think I believe it
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  Speaker 1: is because people don't know the word, don't know the truth,
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  Speaker 1: or if they've read it, they don't believe it. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: which it has to be. It has to be our unbelief.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we're allowing the spirit of fear the rule.
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  Speaker 1: And at the end of the day that but, but,
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  Speaker 1: but that should not be not that really just should
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  Speaker 1: not we We we're without excuse in our day. To
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  Speaker 1: whom much is given, much is required, and man, and
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  Speaker 1: let it not be said, Please, let it not be said, Church, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: of those in the Old Testament, as it was of
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  Speaker 1: those in the Old Testament, My people are destroyed for
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  Speaker 1: lack of knowledge. I mean, there's no excuse. We have
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  Speaker 1: so much at our disposal today. There's no reason why
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  Speaker 1: we should be in ignorance. There's no reason why we
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  Speaker 1: should not know the times and the seasons. Amen. This
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  Speaker 1: is it is God, and he has failed it out
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  Speaker 1: for us. There's so much revelation. God has given us,
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  Speaker 1: so much revelation that we have now. People in the
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  Speaker 1: Old Testament were in darkness a lot of things. Even
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  Speaker 1: the prophets, whom God used mightily, they didn't know. Daniel,
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  Speaker 1: one of the greatest of the prophets, didn't understand a
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  Speaker 1: lot of what God was showing him. He didn't understand it. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And so in our day now we are really without excuse.
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  Speaker 1: And so we've already seen how God is operated a
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  Speaker 1: man in place. People in power people in positions of authority.
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  Speaker 1: And God is still doing it right now, right here
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  Speaker 1: in America, in foreign countries all over the world. God
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  Speaker 1: has people that he has put in power, whether they
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  Speaker 1: are in the kingdom or out of the kingdom, God
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  Speaker 1: has raised them up. God has put them there. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: You may not agree with God's selection, with God's choice,
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  Speaker 1: but God does have the Oh my God. I could
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  Speaker 1: go on for another two hours on that God's right
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  Speaker 1: to choose. I've spoken on that at nauseam in the past.
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  Speaker 1: And then when you talk about the sovereignty of God,
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  Speaker 1: God has a right to choose. Here again in America,
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  Speaker 1: we want to always, you know, jump up and down
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  Speaker 1: and yell and screen for our rights. Well, what about
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  Speaker 1: God's rights? If you will? And man does not. God
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  Speaker 1: have the right to choose. Amen, and decide whom He's
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  Speaker 1: going to raise up and put in power. Amen. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: stop me, stop me, stop me, somebody stop me again.
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  Speaker 1: God raises up kings and rulers who will do his will. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And throughout the history of redemption, he's also not only
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  Speaker 1: from among his own people, but certainly are rulers from
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  Speaker 1: among gentile nations. Say again, they don't have to be
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  Speaker 1: in the camp, in the kingdom, in the sheep folk,
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  Speaker 1: amongst the nation of Israel, as it was in antiquity. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: God can use anybody anywhere at any time. Amen. Because
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  Speaker 1: what we need to understand is God It number one
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  Speaker 1: purpose goes all the way back to Genesis, when Adam
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  Speaker 1: and Eve fail and Adam and Eve's sin God put
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  Speaker 1: in place. God spoke it. I mean, the first Gospel
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  Speaker 1: was preached a man in the garden of Eden as
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  Speaker 1: it were. Amen, God is going to save a people
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  Speaker 1: for his namesake, and nothing is going to stop that.
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  Speaker 1: Nothing is going to prevent that from happening. And so
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  Speaker 1: throughout the history of God's plan of redemption, God is
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  Speaker 1: again also raised up rulers from among gentile nations to
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  Speaker 1: carry out his eternal decrees. And again now we're ready
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  Speaker 1: to go to Isaiah forty five, and we look here
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  Speaker 1: at the example. This is one among many of a
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  Speaker 1: pagan king by the name of Cyrus, and the Bible
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  Speaker 1: clearly speaks of him here in Isaiah forty five, being
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  Speaker 1: predestined by God. Amen, to act favorably toward the people
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  Speaker 1: of God long before he was conceived in his mother's wound. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: The prophetized, spoke of prophesied of predicted, if you will,
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  Speaker 1: Cyrus being raised up to do exactly what God purposed
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  Speaker 1: for him to do. Gold, if you will to Isaiah
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  Speaker 1: forty five, Thus says the Lord verse number one, to
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  Speaker 1: his anointed, see what he does. God calls Cyrus his anointed.
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  Speaker 1: That means God has purposed something for him to do
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  Speaker 1: to Cyrus. See again, by the way, he's naming Cyrus
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  Speaker 1: before Cyrus is even born. Only God can do that,
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  Speaker 1: only God. This is why. By the way, critics of
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  Speaker 1: the Bible, especially the latter half of Isaiah, there's no way.
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  Speaker 1: There's no way. This stuff is too accurate. It is
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  Speaker 1: too dead on. There's no way Isaiah could have written this.
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  Speaker 1: There's no way. I mean this specificity, this accuracy is
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  Speaker 1: spot on. There's simply no way this could have been
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  Speaker 1: written hundreds of years before Cyrus came to be. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: but it was because God is sovereign, and God is
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  Speaker 1: in control. And God is the one who raises up kings,
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  Speaker 1: rulers again, governments of all nations and places, and he
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  Speaker 1: puts people in power that He decides will be now again.
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  Speaker 1: We may not agree with them and make no mistink
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  Speaker 1: about it. When the wicked are in power, the people
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  Speaker 1: are grown a man. The Bible tells us that. But
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  Speaker 1: when the righteous rule, the people rejoice. So thus it's
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  Speaker 1: the Lord to his knowing it to Cyrus, whose right
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  Speaker 1: hand I have held to subdue nations before him, and
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  Speaker 1: loose the armor of kings, to open before him the
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  Speaker 1: double door, so that the gates will not be shut
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  Speaker 1: by the way. This is speaking of in part amen,
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  Speaker 1: not only the judgment the conquering that would come upon
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  Speaker 1: many other nations, but particularly up on Babylon. If you
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  Speaker 1: go to Daniels, chapter number five, a man meets, and
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  Speaker 1: the Persians came in and conquered a man, the mighty
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  Speaker 1: nation of Babylon. And this was God's doing, opening up
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  Speaker 1: the way, as it were, for Cyrus to and his
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  Speaker 1: army to march right in. You can read the history
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  Speaker 1: books for that. And so the Bible tells us verse
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  Speaker 1: number two. The Lord says of Cyrus to Cyrus, I
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  Speaker 1: would go before you and make the crooked places straight.
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  Speaker 1: I will break in pieces the gates of bronze and
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  Speaker 1: cut the bars of iron. I will give you the
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  Speaker 1: treasure of darkness and hidden riches of secret places that
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  Speaker 1: you may know that I, the Lord who call you
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  Speaker 1: by your name, am the God of Israel. And by
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  Speaker 1: the way, many scholars theologians perhaps believed that it was
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  Speaker 1: Daniel who also was in the of Cyrus. Amen was
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  Speaker 1: the one who pointed all of these things out to Cyrus,
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  Speaker 1: showed him a man from the scriptures. Amen certainly made
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  Speaker 1: him aware that God had spoken these things of him,
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  Speaker 1: called him by name long before he was born. Born
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  Speaker 1: and a man also for Cyrus to understand and to
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  Speaker 1: know that it was God who was empowering him. It
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  Speaker 1: was God who raised him up, It was God who
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  Speaker 1: was with him, It was God who was going before him.
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  Speaker 1: And so again, Amen, this is spoken of Cyrus, a
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  Speaker 1: government ruler, Amen, who would act favorably toward the people
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  Speaker 1: of God. All of this is spoken of Cyrus long
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  Speaker 1: before he was born. Amen. Look again, he says verse three.
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  Speaker 1: I will give you the treasures of darkness and hidden riches,
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  Speaker 1: of secret places, that you may know that I, the
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  Speaker 1: Lord who hold you by your name, am the God
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  Speaker 1: of Israel. For Jacob, my servant's sake, and Israel my
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  Speaker 1: elect I have even called you by your name. Look
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  Speaker 1: at that I have named you though you have not
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  Speaker 1: known me. He didn't even know. Hiden again, Daniel, perhaps,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sure was the one who had to reveal all
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  Speaker 1: of this to him. Amen, he said, I have done
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  Speaker 1: all of these things, Cyrus. In other words, you don't
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  Speaker 1: even know. You don't even understand that it is I,
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  Speaker 1: the God of Israel, the God of all flesh, the
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  Speaker 1: God of creation, the Almighty, the first, the last, the
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  Speaker 1: Alpha of the Omega to begin in the end. I
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  Speaker 1: the Lord, the creator of the ends of the earth,
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  Speaker 1: the sovereign ruler over all of the kingdoms of this world.
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  Speaker 1: I Cyrus, Amen have called you by your name. I
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  Speaker 1: name you, though you have not known me. That's what
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  Speaker 1: I love. Cyrus had no idea yet, no clue. Ah, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: let me finish. Verse five, He says, I am the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: There is no other. There is no god beside me.
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  Speaker 1: I will gird you though you have not known me,
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  Speaker 1: that they may know from the rising of the sun,
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  Speaker 1: who is they? Everybody, every man, every woman, every boy,
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  Speaker 1: every girl. Then and now that they may know, from
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  Speaker 1: the rising of the sun to its setting, that there
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  Speaker 1: is none beside or besides me. I am the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: and there is no mother. What he says verse seven,
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  Speaker 1: the final verse, I form the light and create darkness.
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  Speaker 1: I make peace and create calamity. I the Lord do
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  Speaker 1: all these things. Oh, I wish I had time. Oh listen,
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  Speaker 1: please again, there's absolutely no need for the people of
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  Speaker 1: God to live in fear or doubt or belief of
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  Speaker 1: whatever rogue ruler. I mean, even though again they they
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  Speaker 1: whatevere rulers if it's multiple rulers, and there are, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, But again I don't want to just harp
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  Speaker 1: again on the negative, as it were, when it comes
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  Speaker 1: to government, because again God has used government. He has
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  Speaker 1: used government officials and rulers in power again of his
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  Speaker 1: own people and of those who don't even know him,
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  Speaker 1: in order to accomplish his grand plan of redemption. His again,
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  Speaker 1: God's plan right now for the church is this God's
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  Speaker 1: plan for the world. Is this That the gospel of
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ will be preached in all nations. Jesus said this,
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  Speaker 1: and then the end will come, and we are fastly
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  Speaker 1: approaching that. By the way, So again, any ruler, any leader,
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  Speaker 1: any government official that will rise up and seek to thwart,
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  Speaker 1: seek to shut down, seek to destroy the work of
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  Speaker 1: the Church, the mission of the church not gonna stand.
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  Speaker 1: You do yourself well to leave that alone. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I'll just give you a little if I leave it alone.
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  Speaker 1: Don't think you can shut up the truth. Shut down
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  Speaker 1: the truth. Amen, stop the truth. Amend. God will never
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  Speaker 1: be without a witness and his word and his will Amen,
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  Speaker 1: will be accomplished. Amen. And so we don't have to
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  Speaker 1: live in fear of rogue rulers, a man who seem
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  Speaker 1: to be running a mock reaking have it upon the people.
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  Speaker 1: Even of God. And in this world God told us,
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  Speaker 1: the Lord told us, Jesus told us that we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: have persecution. We're gonna have trials and tribulations. Amen. We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna be hated of all nations for his namesake. But
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  Speaker 1: we must never forget that God is sovereignly in control
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  Speaker 1: of the affairs of this world. And no man, no man,
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  Speaker 1: can disrupt or destroy the perfect plans and purposes of
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  Speaker 1: God Almighty. And even when the wicked again are in
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  Speaker 1: power and the people are groaning, yes, they are growing
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  Speaker 1: when the wicked, when the wicked are in power, there
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  Speaker 1: is protection. There is divine protection for the people of God.
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  Speaker 1: And again, God at times will use the will of
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  Speaker 1: wicked man against him, and at the same time for
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  Speaker 1: the good of his people, and ultimately, of course, to
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  Speaker 1: his own glory and honor and majesty and dominion and power.
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  Speaker 1: Both now and forever. He that dwells in the secret
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  Speaker 1: place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow
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  Speaker 1: of the Almighty Father. Help us today be glory fied.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for divine protection. Thank you that, even though
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  Speaker 1: again we may be perplexing our minds about what you
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  Speaker 1: are doing and how you are orchestrating your plan. As
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  Speaker 1: your people, Lord, we must learn to trust you implicitly
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  Speaker 1: a man, to lean not to our own understanding, but
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  Speaker 1: allow you to order our steps and lead us and
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  Speaker 1: guide us in the way of truth and righteousness. For
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  Speaker 1: your namesake, Father, be glorified today again someone's eyes, someone's ears,
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  Speaker 1: someone's heart. Lord, let it be changed today for your
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  Speaker 1: glory and honor and Jesus name me praying your things,
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  Speaker 1: Amen and Amen.