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Episode 98: Pandemic Of Lies IX · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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Bless the Lord, O my soul and all that is within me. Bless
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his holy name. Lord God, we give you praise, glory and honor
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for this glorious, magnificent, splendid, marvelous day of the Lord, day
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of salvation, day of hope, day of joy, day of peace that
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we have because of your great salvation that you brought down to us. We
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thank you for all of the benefits, all of the blessings. We thank
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you for the joy of the Lord that gives us strength to persevere even in
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the most difficult times. And Lord, we look now to you, the
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author and finish of our faith, knowing that you, who have begun this
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work in us, will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ. Be
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magnified today, be glorified. Today. We pray for listening ears, obedient
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hearts, Lord, that your will will be done on earth as it is
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in heaven. In Jesus Name, we praying give thanks for all things.
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Amen, and a man all right. God, bless you again. We
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welcome you to this another edition of End Time Revival Ministries USA podcast. I
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am your host, Pastor al Zachary, and two day we are continuing with
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another installment of this series, A pandemic of lies. Pandemic of lies.
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And we go first to second Timothy tewod Timothy, chapter number four, because
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there's a grave, grave, grave, severe severe danger in insisting upon not
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believing God's truth. When you insist upon not believing God's truth, you are
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in grave, grave danger. And I cannot emphasize that enough. Two Timothy,
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Chapter number four. Beginning a verse number one, Paul writes to his
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son in the Gospel, Timothy, I charge you, therefore, before God
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and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at
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his appearing and his kingdom, preach the word. Be ready in season and
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out of season, convent, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and teaching.
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But the time will come when they will not endure sound doctor, but
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according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap
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up for themselves teachers, and they will turn their ears away from the truth
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and be turned aside to fables. If you insist upon lies, lies,
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you will get those who insist upon turning their ears away from God's truth to
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hear what they want to hear instead of what they need to hear will get
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exactly what they desire. And as a matter of fact, God will see
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to it that you get what you want to have. God will see to
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it that you get what you want to have. If you desire truth,
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God always has a messenger to speak his truth, no matter what generation,
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no matter what season, no matter where you are, God, you can
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be in the middle of the desert. God dispatched a man Fillip to the
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Eunuch, a man who desire to hear the word of It in the middle
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of the desert. Doesn't matter where you are. If your desire is to
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know the truth of God, God will rend the heavens to see to it
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that you get the truth. If, on the contrary, your desire is
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for lies and fables, as the apostle Paul warned of the time coming,
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and certainly we know that it is here. If that is the desire of
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your heart, God will give you over to your desires. I'm gonna take
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you today to the Old Testament, to what I see as one of the
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most interesting narratives in all of the Old Testament and perhaps in all of Scripture,
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where it gives us one of the few glimpses into the heavenly Ram.
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First Kings, Chapter number twenty two tells the story of the fate of the
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King of Israel Ahab, who did not want to receive the truth of God
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from God's messenger. He wanted to hear what he wanted to hear, and
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he insisted upon hearing what he wanted to hear, and he suffered a fate
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because of it. First Kings, Chapter twenty two, beginning of verse number
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one, three years passed without war between Syria and Israel. They had been
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at war twice. Let me give you just a little bit quick, quick
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quick background. Syria and Israel had been at war twice and Israel Ahab,
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the King of Israel, had defeated the Syrian Ben Haydad was the king of
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Syria. He had defeated him twice in battle. In the last defeat,
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Ben Haydad, the King of Syria, promised to restore Citi's territory that rightfully
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belonged to the nation of Israel. But he reneged on his word. A
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have believed the word of a liar, and the man did not restore the
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cities as he had promised to do so. Three years have now passed.
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The Bible says verse number two, came to pass in the third year that
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Jehosafat, the King of Judah, went down to visit the King of Israel.
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As you know, the tribes had split tribes. Ten tribes comprise the
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Northern kingdom, two tribes the Southern kingdom. Jehoasaphat was the king of the
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southern kingdom named Judah. For those of you who now know your history concerning
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this nation and the division that took place after Solomon, the Bible says in
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verse number three, the King of Israel said to his servants, do you
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know that Raymoth in Gilead is ours? That's the city that he wants,
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one of the cities that he wanted to restore it. But we hesitate to
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take it out of the hand of the King of Syria. So he said
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to Jehosaphat, will you go with me to fight at Raymoth Gilead. And
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Jehosaphat said to the King of Israel, I am as you are, my
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people, as your people, my horses as your horses. Also, Jehasafah
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said to the King of Israel, please inquire for the word word of the
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Lord today. Now he's already committed himself and his people, his horses,
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his chariots, his army, as it were, to help a man a
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have to go fight for the restoration of those cities, those territories that have
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been lost in and were promised to be restored. But we're not. And
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so Jehasaphat agrees a man to a man, go to war with him.
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But before we go, before we do this, Jehosaphat, who was a
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man of God, a god fearing man, a man one who believed in
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hearing from the Lord, a man, he said, let's inquire for the
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world of the Lord. Amen. And so the king of Israel. The
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Bible tells us that Ahab gathered the prophets together, about four hundred men,
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and said to them, shall I go against Raymond Gilea to fight, or
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shall I refrain? So they said, go up for the Lord. We'll
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deliver it into the hand of the king. Now these men knew what a
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haveb wanted to do, and they also were simply trying to appease him,
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telling him what he wanted to hear, what they knew he wanted to hear.
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And this is what the Bible teach. This is exactly what the apostle
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Paul is talking about in the New Testament. By the way, the same
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thing happens today in our world today, and the Bible says, Paul says,
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the time will come they would heap to themselves teachers having itching ears,
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and and and and and and also what you can refer to these teachers as
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false prophets as well, same thing. Teachers. False prophets are plentiful.
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And I've already talked about that in previous UH episodes on this on this particular
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subject of this pandemic of lies, there is no shortage of false prophets.
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The more people turn their ears away from the truth, the more false prophets
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proliferate. This man had an army of false prophets, four hundred, four
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hundred, and every single one of them saying the same tune, go up,
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yeah, the Lord will deliver it into the hand of the King.
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Not one dissenter. They all in unison agreed, spoke and said to a
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have exactly what he wanted to hear. And so Jehosaphat, the Bible says
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verse number seven. Of course, him being a man of God, listen,
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let me tell you something. When you know the truth, and when
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you know the True and the Living God, and when you have the power
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of the Holy Spirit, and you have the spirit of discernment, and when
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you have a man read your Bible, and you have been in communion with
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the Holy Spirit, when you've been in prayer, when you've been in fasting,
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and when you have been in meditation, and when you are having a
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walk and a talk with the Lord on a daily basis. When you hear
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a false prophet, what did Jesus say about this? My sheep, hear
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my voice and a stranger, they will not follow. Even a babe in
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Christ, a new born babe that is truly saved, will not be deceived,
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will not be let not a truth, not a truly saved, not
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are truly born again? Amen, Holy Ghost, feel believer. They will
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not be deceived by false prophets. Amen. Now this is what happens.
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The Bible says Jehosaphat said, is there not still? Now? Now?
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This is this is a bit you you would think this would be. You
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know, when you when you when you this is one thing. This is
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something about majority. Supposedly a lot of times ple oh, well, this
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is a majority and the majority ruse of this is everybody is on the same
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page. And so this is, this is a situation where even though all
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of these props have spoken in the affirmative and gave the king the encouragement to
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go forth into this battle, Jehosaphat is not persuaded by that. He doesn't
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he doesn't see, he doesn't, he doesn't discern, he doesn't he doesn't
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feel, as they were, a man of the word of the Lord being
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spoken here. Amen, and again, when you have a man, a
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godly, a man fear and reverence for God and all of that, my
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sheep, hear my voice, my sheep, hear my voice. And evident
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that Josaphat didn't hear, didn't hear that? He said, I don't hear
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the Lord here? And so he said, is there not still a prophet
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of the Lord here? Basically what he's saying, these guys ain't the real
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deal here, These are not the prophets of the Lord. Is there not
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still a prophet of the Lord here that we may inquire of him? First
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number eight, So the King of israel A have says to Jehosaphat, well,
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yeah, we still got one man, Makiah, the son of m
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Law by whom we may inquire the Lord, but I hate him. Now,
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let me tell you something. When you tell people the truth, when
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you speak the truth, even when you speak the truth in love. Let
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me give you just a very quick, quick, quick example. The apostle
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Paul I believe, when he's writing to the Galatians, and he said,
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have I become your enemy because I tell you the truth? Amen? When
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it's something about people that don't want the truth, who want to heed them
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to themselves a man, false prophets and teachers who will tell them what they
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want to hear. When somebody speaks the truth, when somebody rebukes them for
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their sin and their fornication, for their adultery, for their thefts, for
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their a man uh uh or homosexuality, or whatever it is. When somebody
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speaks the truth to to to to tell them what they need to hear,
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they hate the person who speaks God's truth. And so he says, I
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hate this man. Now, let me let me let me read on it.
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We're gonna read on here because he's gonna tell us exactly why he hates
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the man. Look at verse number eight again. We still got one man
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left. By the way, Macaiah was perhaps in prison, probably probably been
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in prison for three years since the end of that last campaign, because he
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spoke something to Ahab at that time that Ahab did not like. And so
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he says, I've got I got a guy, but I don't like him.
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I hate him. I hate him. Why does Ahab hate this man?
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Why does Ahab hate the man who speaks the truth of God? He
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says, Hey, this is out of his own mouth, because he does
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not prophesy good concerning me, but evil. In other words, he does
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not tell me what I want to hear. He will not tell me that
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I can still kill rob, commit fornication, adultery, I can do I
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he he won't. He won't tell me that I can still do all those
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things and still be in the Kingdom. Amen, listen, there's a laundry
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list in the in the New Testament of Things. Amen. That says,
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and Paul concludes and said, and and they that do such things shall not
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inherit the Kingdom of God. And it's so plain. But when you tell
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people, when you preach it, people hate the truth. They don't because,
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you know what, because they want to do what they want to do.
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And here's a crystal clear example of a man who wanted no part of
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the truth. He hated the man who spoke the truth. And he said,
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I hate this man because he will not tell me what I want to
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hear. He always tells me that bad things are gonna happen to me.
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Well, if you stop doing evil, if you repent, if you turn
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from your wicked ways, then there will be good concerning you. There will
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be good spoken concerning your future if you repent. Amen. But here's a
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man who did not repent and would not repent. Amen. And so the
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Lord has spoken evil concerning him. Amen. And so Jehosapha said, wait,
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wait, wait, hold on, letting not the king say such things.
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Hold on a minute. So verse number nine, look what happens,
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the Bible says. Then the King of Israel called an officer and said,
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bring Makaiah, the son of Imlah, quickly. This is why we believe
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he are already. He was probably perhaps in prison, and he knew exact
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They have knew exactly where he was. And go get him. Call one
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of the officers, go fetch him. Excuse me, And so look at
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verse number ten. The King of Israel and Jehosaphat, the King of Judah.
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They put on their robes. Each sat on his throne at the threshing
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floor at the entrance of the gate of Samaria. And all the prophets they
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are off, four hundred, four hundred prophets prophesied before them. Now Zedekiah,
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the son of Jennina, had made horns of iron for himself, and
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he said, thus says the Lord. With these, you shall gore the
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Syrians until they are destroyed. And all the prophets prophesied, so saying,
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go up to raymonv Gilead and prosper, for the Lord will deliver it into
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the King's hand. There you have it. There you have it. They're
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just, oh boy, they just having a praise and worship and oh my
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God, a prophetic amen utterances, a festival going on here, four hundred,
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four hundred prophets, all prophesied, and just, oh my God,
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probably just dancing and and and and and and speaking and uttering and and all
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of them, and if not all of them, all saying thus said the
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Lord, Thus said the Lord. The Lord is going to deliver it.
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The Lord is going to deliver it. You will prosper, you will listen.
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You cannot lead ladies, Jeremy, here is a basic biblical principle Old
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Testament, New Testament. You cannot prosper doing evil and wickedness, no matter
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how you may think you are doing. Because you've gathered together some goods and
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you've heaped together some treasures, and you think you're doing good. That's not
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prosperity. Jesus said, a man's life does not consistent in bonds of things
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which he's possessing. Amen, It's about your soul prospering. And so a
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lot of people get to see because they think that the blessings of God,
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they think on the blessings of God only in a materialistic way. Amen.
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Even in the church, so sadly, mostly perhaps in the church, so
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sadly people think that they're, you know, they're in good standing or right
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standing with God because of their material possess possessions. And so they says,
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go go go yeah yeah yeah, yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah. So
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verse thirteen, the messenger who had been sent to get Macaiah, he spoke
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to him after he fetches him to bring him, and he says, now,
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listen, Macaiah. The words of the prophets with one accord everybody's on
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the same page, Macaiah. Everybody is in agreement, everybody is signing off
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on this, and they're all encouraging the king to go and prosper. So
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please, when you get there, let your word be like the word of
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one of them. And for God's sake, Maciah, for the King's sake,
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Machiah, I'm adding a little bit there. He says, speak encouragement,
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encourage the king. So Machiah responds verse fourteen, He says, as
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the Lord lives, whatever the Lord says to me, that I will speak.
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Verse fifteen. Then came to the king. The king said to him,
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Macaiah, shall we go to war against Raymond Gilead or shall we refrain?
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Same question, same question that he asked me. He didn't read reword
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the question, same question, shall we go? Shall we refrain? And
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Makiah answered him, go go, go, go, go go ahead,
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go and prosper. The Lord will delivered it into the hand of the king.
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Now excuse me. Hyah's sarcastically telling the king what he wanted to hear.
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And the King knew Macaiah was being sarcastic, agreeing with the other prophets,
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and and that that that to me, it's a tell tale sign already
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that he he knows he should be suspicions. But let me, let me,
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let me, let me just let me, let me move quickly,
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because he see, even when it's something about the desires of the heart,
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even when you know that people are flattering you, you, you, you,
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and you, and you don't care, Even when you know people are
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telling you what you want to hear, you don't care. And that's how
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he's that's how he's hard. It was he knew instinctively, he knew intuitively
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that what he was hearing from these prophets was pure flattery. So the king
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says to Makiah, how many times shall I make you swear that you will
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tell me? Listen what he says. Listen. This is Ahab responding back
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to Machiah, How many times shall I make you swear that you will tell
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me nothing but the truth in the name of the Lord? So here,
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here, here, here, here, Oh I like this. You want
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you want the truth? Oh? You want the truth? Oh I didn't
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you just get your word from all of these prophets? But you don't you
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don't believe. Well, see see God always has he all Listen. I'm
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telling you God always has if it's only one, he's got a messenger.
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Amen. The prophety Elijah went up against four hundred false prophets. Also Amen,
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God only. God doesn't need an whole army. He's God, he's
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sovereign, he reigns, he rules. Amen. He always has a remnant,
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he always has a messenger. He always has somebody that's going to speak
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forth his truth, that's going to preach the word, that's gonna be instant
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in season out of season, reproving, rebuking, exhorting with all long suffering,
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and doctrine, because doctrine matters. And we know that the time has
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come when people do not want to hear sound doctrine. But whether they want
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to hear it or not, God has a messenger. God has a preacher.
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God has somebody who's gonna stand on the word of God and proclaim it.
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And Makiah was one of those. He's one of those guys. Amen.
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Thank God, Thank God, thank God, thank God. There's always
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a remnant. Amen. So he says, Oh, you're you now,
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Oh now you're ready for the truth. You ready for the truth. King.
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Oh, by the way, I love the boldness, the boldness,
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and this is what we gotta have. We need, we need, I
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mean the cowardness of these so called religious leaders that we have in our nation
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today. Pathetic, pathetic, will not stand up and declare the truth.
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They triangulate, They waffle, they dance, they shuffle. H We need,
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we need, we need more Macias. Who will stand in front of
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the King, who will stand in front of the president, who will stand
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in front of the Congress, who will stand in front of the governors,
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who will stand in front of any elected official, any people, anywhere,
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anytime, and speak, thus says the Lord. Period. We're not gonna
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add anything to it, and we're not gonna take anything from it. Whatever
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the Lord says, what did Macaia say to this messenger when he brought him
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forth out of the prison, Whatever the Lord says to me, That's what
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I'm gonna say, No more, no less. So you want to hear
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the truth, You want to know what the Lord said. Here it is
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I saw all Israel scattered on the mountains as sheep that have no shepherd,
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And the Lord said, these have no master. Let each return to his
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house in peace. Wow, Listen, the job of the prophet, the
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office of the prophet, the true prophet, the true prophet. I'm not
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talking about these false prophets. I'm talking about the true prophets. Men like
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Jeremiah. Jehosaphat was a king who understood, Amen, that he needed to
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hear from a real prophet. So when you had when you knew that that,
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you know, there have been prophets who had spoken in the name of
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the Lord. And by the way, before I go on, let me
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just back up just a little bit to the amen, what the Lord said
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about a prophet. Amen, The true test of a prophet, the Lord
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says, is this, if what he speaks does not come to pass,
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that prophet has divined in his own mind or own imagination. He has not
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spoken according to me. I have not sent him. He is not my
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prophet. Amen. And so if what a prophet says does not come to
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pass, pure and simple ladies and gentlemen, if he said, thus said
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the Lord, Now it's a very It's a difference if you if you give
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your opinion about something. If you give your opinion and say, well,
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I think that this is going to be, you know, you're prognosticate about
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what's going to happen if you and you say, I think this is what's
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going to happen based upon blah blah bah whatever. That's that's different from saying,
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thus says the Lord, or the Lord told me, or the Lord
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showed me. When you invoke God and say thus said the Lord, the
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Lord told me, the Lord showed me, the Lord told me to tell
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you this, and it doesn't come to pass. You're a false prophet.
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You are a false prophet, period. And so we gotta have we gotta
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have more truth speaking. Amen, Men of God, who are gonna stand
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before kings, princes, rulers, no matter who they are, and tell
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them the truth again, men like Jeremiah Daniel. Amen, Daniel stood before
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kings, great kings, some of the greatest kings that ever lived on the
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planet, and boldly and not enough I'm nasha or callous way or he was
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very careful about in Daniel chapter four, telling Nebycion, that's the truth about
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the dream that the Lord gave him. What was gonna happen to him if
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he didn't break off his sins? Amen. But you gotta tell people the
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truth if you continue in your sin. The Bible says the wages of sin
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is death. You're gonna die in your sins. That's what Jesus said.
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If you don't believe that I am he, You're gonna die in your sins.
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Aha. If you insist, if you insist on going up, I
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telling you what I saw, what the Lord showed me. I saw all
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Israel scattered on the mountains. What he's talking about is all of the army,
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all of Ahab soldiers are gonna be scattered, and they're gonna be a
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sheep that have no shepherd. What that means, oh he already. You
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didn't need an You don't need interpretation for that. They have knows knows exactly
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what it is. It means that he's going to die. And the Lord
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said, these have no master. Let each return to his house in peace.
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And the king of Israel, Ahab said to Jehosafad, excuse me,
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he says, he says, didn't I tell you, didn't I tell you
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that he would not prophesy good concerning me, but evil? See you see
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how they see it, See how they see now. Now see if you
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really want the truth, if you really love the truth, if you want
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to embrace the truth, and you got the truth from the man of God
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who warned you not to go. What should you do? What should you
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do? You should take it to heart and obey what you just heard.
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Don't go, because if you go, this is what is going to happen,
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according to what the Lord has spoken. If you go, you're going
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to die. Now. If you don't like it, that doesn't make the
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prophecy bad. Just because you don't like it, that's good prophecy. It's
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gonna save your life. That's good news. That's the good news of the
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Gospel. If you come to Jesus, if you turn, if you repent,
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you will have eternal life if you turn from your wicked ways. And
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that's Old Testament. New Testament said, though your sins be as scarlet,
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Lord say, come, let us reason together. Amen, So listen,
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listen. I told you, Ahab says, I told you. I told
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you. I told you. He wouldn't tell me anything good but evil.
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Then Macaiah said, therefore hear the word of the Lord. I saw the
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Lord. Oh watch this, this is a glimpse into the he I saw
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the Lord sitting on his throne. God gave this man a vision of very
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and I'm not gonna even attempt to dev deep into this only I'm just gonna
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comment very lightly on this. He says, I saw the Lord sitting on
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his throne, and all the hosts of heaven. Standing by the host of
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heaven are angels. Angels on his right hand, angels on his left hand.
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Angels. Now some have concluded that on his right hand were the angels
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of obedience, on his left hand angels of disobedience. They still had access
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to heaven. And the Lord said, who will persuade a half to go
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up? That he may fall at Raymond Gilead? So one spoke in this
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manner, and another spoke in that manner. Then a spirit these are angels.
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A spirit came forward, demonic spirit by the way, and stood before
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the Lord and said, I will persuade him. And the Lord said to
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him, in what way? So he said, I will go out and
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be a lying spirit in the ma outh of all his prophets. And the
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Lord said, you shall persuade him and also prevail. Go out and do
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so. Let me, ladies and gentlemen, I'm gonna tell you something.
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I read this, this, this this when I mean decades ago, and
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the very first time I read this passage. I trembled, I trembled.
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We we so our understanding of God is so so shallow, our understanding of
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his sovereignty is so small, so so so so so really really disrespectful,
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dishonoring most Sadly, I won't say most, but far too many people attribute
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far more power to the devil, not understanding that devils demons, and the
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Bibles refer to them in New Testament principalities and powers. They're all subject to
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God. God, and I'm gonna tread carefully here will use the devil and
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give you over to the devil. The Bible speaks about this in the New
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Testament, how people are giving over to Satan, that they may learn not
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to blaspheme and things of that nature. But God will use the devil to
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accomplish his purpose. His will listen when it comes to an individual, or
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people, or nature whatever. Again, please understand the core root of the
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problem here, the man refuse the truth. When you refuse the truth,
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and God knows, God knows, God knows every heart. He's declared to
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end from the beginning, His counsel stands forever. And when you refuse the
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truth, and it may not result in your death immediately, but you know
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what it happens. What happens. The Bible speaks of this in Roman chapter
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one. Again, God gives people over to a reprobate mind. In other
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words, he gives he gives the devil permission to do to you whatever you
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want, to take you down that path that you insist on going. You
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don't want the truth, you don't want to retain God in your knowledge,
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and so that's what the Bible speaks of. God gave them over to a
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reprobate mind. And in this particular instance, God finishes the days of a
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have because he simply would not receive the love of the truth, he would
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not obey the truth. God sent the messenger there to warn him. And
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you can you can, you can say, well, he really didn't have
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yes, he yet, oh he had choice. We all don't say you
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don't have choices. Don't say. As a matter of fact, the Bible
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speaks of prior to this some and by the way, if you know the
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history of Ahab and who his wife was, Jezibel, I mean they had
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one of the most wicked of the reigns of all of the kings of Israel.
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They had a lot. All the kings of Israel, by the way,
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were wicked. But Ahab and Jezebel, during their reign of terror,
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franked up in the top. But the man, the Bible says, on
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one occasion he humbled himself. And so because he humbled himself before the Lord,
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the Bible says, the Lord says, I'm not going to destroy your
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house in your days during the time that you were alive. And God kept
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that promise, and he didn't. He brought his house down after he died,
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because when Ahab died, his son reigning instead. But listen, anyone
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who almost themselves, anyone who received the love of the truth, anyone who
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obeys the truth. Guess what, it's nothing. God has good. He
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said, I know the thoughts I think towards you, thoughts of peace and
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not of evil, to bring you to what an expected in So therefore look
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what he says. You will persuade him. You will prevail. Go out
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and do so. Therefore, look, Macaiah continues verse twenty three. The
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Lord has put a lying spirit in the mouth of all these prophets of yours,
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and the Lord has declared disaster against you. What that means, of
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course, is the Lord sent, The Lord permitted, The Lord allowed,
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the Lord gave him up, gave him over, amen to what he wanted.
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That's what he wanted. He listened with it again. He said,
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I hate this man. I hate this prophet, I hate this truth teller.
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I hate this man of God because he never tells me what I want
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to hear. Okay, if you don't want to hear the truth, then,
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as I've said over and over again during this series, there's nothing left
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but lies. That's what you're gonna get. So the Lord sent this lying
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spirit. Just and then listen, one demon, four hundred, one demon,
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one demon singing in all four hundred of the prophets. One demon.
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You know, the devil is the is a liar, Jesus said, and
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the father of lies. So so when you don't want the truth, guess
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what the Lord does. He turns you over to the devil, and you
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fall into the lies, deception, and delusion. So the Lord has sent
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this lying spirit, and he has declared disaster against you. The wages of
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sin is death. Zedekiah, the son of she he's the chief, perhaps
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of these false prophets. He went near and smacked Mechiah slapped him, smote
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him on the cheek and said, which way did the spirit from the Lord
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go from me to speak to you? And Michaiah said, listen, listen,
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watch it, watch this now again. What's the true test of a
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prophet? If what he speaks comes to pass, if what he prophesies,
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if what he foretells comes to pass, that's a true prophet. So he
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says, indeed, excuse me, you shall see on that day when this
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happens, false prophet, when you go into an inner chamber to hide,
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because you're the chief of them. You made these horns of iron. You
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say, yeah, go up, and you're gonna gore the king of Syria.
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Rather, you're gonna freedom, You're gonna win, You're gonna you are
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a winner. You are you are? You prophesigned to folks that's living in
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adultery and fornication and homosexuality, and telling them they okay and they're gonna prosper
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and all of this. Then you lying to these people. But again heap
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to themselves teachers having itching ears. And Macaiah said, when it comes to
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past, you're gonna go in your bedroom and hide. So the King of
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Israel said, take this man, Micaiah. I don't like him. I
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hate him. I hate this guy. Get him, get this truth teller
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from before my face, Take him away from me, Give him back to
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Ammon, the governor of the city, and to joe Ash, the King's
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son, and say, thus says the king. Put this fellow in prison.
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Feed him with bread of affliction, water of affliction until I come in
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peace, in other words, until I return and when I come back.
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And this is a half thinking in this in his head. You know,
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listen, when you when you live in the deception and delusion, you just
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don't believe the truth. He did not believe that he was going to die.
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And he said, put this man in prison until I get back.
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And I guess he's probably in his mind imagine it when when I get back,
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I'm coming back straight to Maciah, and I'm gonna lick my tongue in
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his face and say, ah, you well see see see I'm here,
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I'm here. Put him in prison till I get back. But Macaias listen,
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oh, listen, when you know you got the truth, when you
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know you're a man of God and you're standing on the word of God.
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Amen. You've been called and commissioned by God. Amen, and you are
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speaking the word, preaching the word Amen of God. And you're saying,
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only what does said the Lord. Listen what Macaiah says. Listen to his
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response. But Macaiah said, if you return in peace, if you come
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back alive, the Lord has not spoken by me. And he said,
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take heed, all you people, everybody, all of y'all. Do y'all
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hear what I just said. If this man comes back, if your king
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returns, I am a false prophet. It's basically what he's saying. I'm
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a false prophet because the Lord has not spoken by me. If a have
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returned from this battle, I'm a false prophet. So the King of Israel.
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The Bible says in Jehosaphat, the King of Judah went up to Raymond
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to Gilliad, and the King of Israel said to Jehosaphat, I will disguise
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myself and go into battle, but you put on your robe. So the
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King of Israel disguised himself and went into battle. Now they have wanted to
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take some precautions. Now again this is you can't hide from the truth.
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You can't run from the truth. You may. You may disown it in
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public, but just somewhere deep, this is the truth. The Bible said.
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The word of God is quick and powerful. It's sharper than any two
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edged sword. It is a certain of the thoughts and intents of the heart.
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Go it, go it bothers. So Ahab was, he was troubled
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by it. He was, he was straight, was worried. And so
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he said, I'm gonna disguise myself. Because the kings stood out in battle,
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they had on their robes, they had on their they rolled in the
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royal charry and all this kind of stuff whatever, and so you can distinguish
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them from the rest of the troops. And so Ahab says, listen,
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I'll tell you what jobs fat. I'm going to disguise myself, but you
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go ahead and put on your robes. So he wanted he said, just
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in case you you're gonna look like the king, and I'm just gonna look
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like I'm gonna be in disguise. But see, what he didn't know was
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this verse thirty one. The king of Syria Ben hey Dad had commanded his
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thirty two caps of his chariots, saying fight with no one small or great,
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but only with the King of Israel. In other words, I don't
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I don't want you to target anybody else. I don't want you to kill
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anybody else. I don't want you to go after anybody else. I want
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you to kill the King of Israel. I want the king. I want
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the head of the snake or whatever. I want the I want the man.
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I want his head. Ay Hap didn't know that. A happen to
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know that, and he disguised himself so he could hide. You can't hide
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from the truth. You can't hide from the word of God. And so
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the Bible says, when the captains, captains of the chariots, they saw
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Jehosiphet, they thought, oh, they thought he was a king because he
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had on his rods, ad have on his ropes, And they turned aside
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to fight against him. And Jehosaphat cried out, boy, you listen if
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when God is for you, that's why your hope and trust, in faith
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and confidence better be in the Lord. Jehosaphat was spared. He shouldn't have
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been there. But that's another story altogether. But but but but but but
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but the Lord spared him. The Lord spared him. The Lord spared him
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a man. And even though Ahab tried to hide in his disguise, and
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they went after Jehosaphat, thinking he was the King of Israel, they recognized
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that it wasn't, and they turned back, the Bible says, from pursuing
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after him. Now, the Bible says, verse thirty four, a certain
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man drew a bow at random. This is just by random, by chance,
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ants as it were. There's no such thing as chance, by the
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way, But the Bible says, a certain man drew a bow at random
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and struck the King of Israel between the joints of his armor. It went
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right between his protection. So he said to the driver of his chariot,
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turn around and take me out of the battle, for I am wounded.
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The battle, the Bible says, increased that day. The king was propped
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up in his chariot facing the Syrians, and died at evening. The blood
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ran out from the wound onto the floor of the chariot. And then as
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the sun was going down, a shout went throughout the army, saying,
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every man to his own city, every man to his own country. Sound
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for me. Oh, It's exactly what Macaiah had said. It's exactly what
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the word of the Lord had said. The fate that Ahab suffered is what
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awaits all who insist on believing in lies and resisting the truth that God has
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made so universally plainly known and available to all men. God has written his
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truth within our hearts. Those who turn from the truth, they leave themselves
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again no other option but deception, confusion, lies, and delusion. And
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we are definitively living in an age in this time when people do not want
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to hear sound biblical truth, sound biblical doctrine, sound biblical teaching. Just
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as the apostle Paul said, it would be I close with this tewond Thessalonians
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chapter two, The coming of the lawless one is according to the work of
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Satan. Satan with all power, signs and lying ones, and with all
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unrighteous deception among those who perish because they did not listen, they did not
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receive the love of the truth that they might be saved. And for this
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reason God will send them strong delusion that they should believe the lie, that
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they all may be condemned who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in
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unrighteousness. Ladies and gentlemen, once again, those who insist upon turning their
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ears away from God's truth to hear what they want to hear instead of what
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they need to hear will get exactly what they want. God will see to
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it that you get exactly what you want if you want the truth, if
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you want to receive the love of the Truth. God will rend the heavens.
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He'll come down. He said, I'm near to those who are a
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broken heart and a contrite spirit. Father, we pray today that somewhere somebody
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will hear the voice of the Savior, will come to know that you are
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the True and the Living God, and you are the Way, the truth,
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and the life. No one can come to the Father but by you,
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Jesus the Christ. So Lord, help someone today. Speak to someone
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today by the power of your Holy Spirit, change their hearts, remove the
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scales from their eyes, open their deafened ears, as only you can do.
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God. We thank you, we praise you, Amen and Amen.