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Episode 168 - God’s Governments · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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  Speaker 1: continue a man with our exploration, if you will, in
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  Speaker 1: this long running now series on God, Government, Church and State.
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  Speaker 1: We're coming to close on it, but we want to
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  Speaker 1: go to Romans chapter thirteen on today. So if you
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  Speaker 1: have your bibles, please, by all means follow along with
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  Speaker 1: us from the word of the Lord. And before we begin,
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  Speaker 1: as always, just take a moment to a man acknowledge
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  Speaker 1: the Lord. Father. Again, we thank you. We are grateful
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  Speaker 1: to you for all of your benefits and blessings that
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  Speaker 1: you bestowed upon us. We can do nothing without you
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  Speaker 1: apart from you, So help us today speak your word, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: through our hearts and minds. O God, let us be
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  Speaker 1: listening doing Amen, not forgetful, but doers of the Word,
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  Speaker 1: that we may be blessed. Thereby open someone's eyes ears heart, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: to believe, to know that you are the children to
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  Speaker 1: live in God. And there is none els beside the
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  Speaker 1: be glorified in your people everywhere. It's in the name
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus Christ. We praying your thanks, Amen, and a
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  Speaker 1: man all right, God Government, that's our focus today, God Government. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Romans chapter number thirteen. So if you have your bibles, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to be reading here just the moment of
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  Speaker 1: Romans chapter thirteen. But again we've stressed throughout this Amen,
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  Speaker 1: series on God, Government, Church, and state that God is sovereign,
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  Speaker 1: He reigns, he rules, and we're certainly going to reemphasize
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  Speaker 1: it again. Amen. So that we as to people of God,
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  Speaker 1: need not be troubled. Amen. As we live in this
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  Speaker 1: world need not be disturbed or confused, feel forsaken, discouraged
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  Speaker 1: a man based upon a man, the happenings, the news events. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: We should have no fear of man. What can man
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  Speaker 1: do unto us? Amen? Is Amen? What the Psalm is declared,
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  Speaker 1: I shall not fear what can man do unto me? Amen?
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  Speaker 1: And we are already Amen. The Bible says, counted as
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  Speaker 1: sheep for the slaughter. Amen. Our lives no longer belong
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  Speaker 1: to us. Amen. And so we have yielded ourselves over
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  Speaker 1: to the Lord. And it is a man, his life
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  Speaker 1: that now is in us. And the life as Apostle
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  Speaker 1: Paul said that I now live, is the Christ that
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  Speaker 1: lives in me. Amen. And so we've yielded ourselves over
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  Speaker 1: to the Lord. And we trust him Amen, to keep us,
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  Speaker 1: to guide us, direct us, protect us as only he
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  Speaker 1: can do by his mighty power. Romans, Chapter thirteen. God
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  Speaker 1: governments all of the governments of this world belong to God. Amen. Romans,
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  Speaker 1: Chapter thirteen, beginn at verse number one. Let ever resoul
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  Speaker 1: be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no
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  Speaker 1: authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are
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  Speaker 1: appointed by God. Therefore, whoever resists the authority resists the
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  Speaker 1: ordinance of God. And those who resist will bring judgment
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  Speaker 1: on themselves. For rulers are not a terror to good works,
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  Speaker 1: but to evil. Do you want to be unafraid of
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  Speaker 1: the authority? Do what is good, and you will have
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  Speaker 1: praise from the same, For he is God ministered to
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  Speaker 1: you for good. But if you do evil, be afraid,
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  Speaker 1: for he does not bear the sword in vain, for
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  Speaker 1: he is God's minister and avenger to execute wrath on
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  Speaker 1: him who practices evil. Therefore you must be subject, not
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  Speaker 1: only because of wrath, but also for conscience sake, For
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  Speaker 1: because of this you also pay taxes. But they are
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  Speaker 1: God ministers, attending continually to this very thing. Render verse
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  Speaker 1: number seven. Therefore, to all their due taxes, to whom
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  Speaker 1: taxes adue, customs, to whom customs fear, to whom fear honor,
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  Speaker 1: to whom honor Amen. Romans, Chapter thirteen, Verses one, through seven. Again,
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  Speaker 1: I want to reemphasize this that all governments in and
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  Speaker 1: of this world are Gods governments, all of them, all
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  Speaker 1: of them. This is a biblical truth that is very
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  Speaker 1: difficult for some in the Church to comprehend or for
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  Speaker 1: some of us, many of us maybe perhaps to reconcile
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  Speaker 1: in our minds a man. And the trouble with us
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  Speaker 1: reconciling this truth, for I guess for many of us
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  Speaker 1: in our minds, is because we have a limited view
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  Speaker 1: of the sovereignty of God and when the governments exist
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  Speaker 1: that do not align, which, by the way, the vast
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  Speaker 1: majority of if not all of them, really in reality,
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  Speaker 1: are not governments that are a man, God fearing, a
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  Speaker 1: man following the law of God governments. These are not
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  Speaker 1: the kinds of governments that we have in our world.
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  Speaker 1: And there certainly have been noteworthy leaders throughout history a
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  Speaker 1: man throughout world history who have a man and God
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  Speaker 1: fearing Amen, Uh, and and UH sought to promote Amen,
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  Speaker 1: the good of of of and the welfare of the people. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: by doing what is right. Amen. And all men are,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, are commanded to do that. Amen. Micah
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  Speaker 1: Chapter six. The Lord has showed you a man. What
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  Speaker 1: is good? What God requires of all of us is righteousness,
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  Speaker 1: is justice. Amen, the treach and neighbor right. Amen, and
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  Speaker 1: walk in the fear of God. Uh. These these things
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  Speaker 1: are duty bound to all of us. And so again
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  Speaker 1: we are troubled in our minds, many of us, because
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  Speaker 1: we can't reconcile in our minds that how can this
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  Speaker 1: government be of God when it is a lawless, ru
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  Speaker 1: ruthless I mean ungodly government, and I mean what we
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  Speaker 1: must again keep in mind, we live in a falling world.
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  Speaker 1: That's number one. We're all sinners by nature, falling from
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  Speaker 1: a man and exchanged from God. Now, not only are
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  Speaker 1: we falling and extrained from God, we are running away
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  Speaker 1: from Him. Again. I take you back to Psalm number two.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna go there and read it today, but
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  Speaker 1: we've dealt with that Psalm A Man several times throughout
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  Speaker 1: this a man. The kingdoms of this world are aligned
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  Speaker 1: against God. They are at odds a man with the
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  Speaker 1: rule of God. They don't want the rule of God.
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  Speaker 1: And so a man. Even though they don't want God
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  Speaker 1: to rule over them, yet he does, because the scripture
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  Speaker 1: tells us. He says, Yet I have set my Holy King,
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  Speaker 1: my King, King Jesus, a man on high. He's over
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  Speaker 1: the nations, All of creation belongs to him, All things
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  Speaker 1: exist by him. He is before all things a man,
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  Speaker 1: and so whether they acknowledge him or not, he is king,
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  Speaker 1: he is Lord, and he is sovereignly reigning and ruling
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  Speaker 1: in the Kingdom of Men. And we showed you by
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  Speaker 1: the way again. For those of you who may not
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  Speaker 1: have heard or remembered a man from Daniel chapter number four.
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  Speaker 1: It is one of the most powerful kings, if not
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  Speaker 1: the most powerful king that ever lived on this planet.
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  Speaker 1: A man came to understand and to know that God
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  Speaker 1: rules in the Kingdom of Men. Amen. He is intimately
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  Speaker 1: involved in the affairs of this world. And so what
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  Speaker 1: we just read in Romans, I believe the command is
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  Speaker 1: simple and it is straightforward. Amen. We are to be
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  Speaker 1: in subjection to the governing authorities, the governing and authorities
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  Speaker 1: that exists. They have been, They are ordained by God
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  Speaker 1: a man, they are appointed by God. Amen. They exist
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  Speaker 1: because of God. God is the word one who a man,
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  Speaker 1: if you will create it, spoke and or commanded government
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  Speaker 1: in this world. And for those who resist the authority,
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  Speaker 1: the Bible tells us here, you are resisting what God
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  Speaker 1: has ordained. You are resisting what God has appointed a man.
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  Speaker 1: And those who resist the God ordained authority, they are
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  Speaker 1: in danger of bringing judgment upon themselves. And we're talking
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  Speaker 1: about the judgment first and foremost from the governing authorities.
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  Speaker 1: And that's why the scriptures tell us here Romans thirteen,
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  Speaker 1: you should be afraid if you are a rebel, if
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  Speaker 1: you are in resistance, if you are a non law abiding,
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  Speaker 1: if you will citizen, you're in danger of bringing judgment
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  Speaker 1: upon yourselves. Amen. Because they bear not the sword in
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  Speaker 1: vain God has given them, And the Bible tells us
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  Speaker 1: here they are minister. Amen, for good. And again we
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  Speaker 1: know we know, we know that all governments, most governments,
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  Speaker 1: perhaps even many would argue, are not good. And we
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  Speaker 1: know that there have been rogue rulers. There are rogue rulers.
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  Speaker 1: Now we've talked about that at nauseum. But the Bible,
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  Speaker 1: the command here is crystal clear. A man that we
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  Speaker 1: are to obey, a man, we are to abide by
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  Speaker 1: the laws of the land. Amen. The governing authorities. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Now there are exceptions two two exceptions to this two
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  Speaker 1: and only two exceptions to this. We obey God, the
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  Speaker 1: Bible tells us, rather than man. When we are commanded
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  Speaker 1: by man, listen carefully to disobey the law of God.
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  Speaker 1: Number One, whenever we are commanded by man, ordered by man,
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  Speaker 1: if man institute, if they were to institute a law,
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  Speaker 1: put forth a decree that violates the law of God,
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  Speaker 1: that has us to disobey the law of God, we
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  Speaker 1: are to obey God rather than man. Number Two, If
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  Speaker 1: we are ordered by man to refrain from obeying God,
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  Speaker 1: we are to obey God rather than man. Now where
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  Speaker 1: do we find a crystal clear example of this? Of course,
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  Speaker 1: the acts of the apostles. We've already talked about this.
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  Speaker 1: When Peter and the apostles who were commanded not to
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  Speaker 1: preach or teach anymore in the name of Jesus, that's
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  Speaker 1: a violation of what they were commanded to do. That's
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  Speaker 1: a violation of prohibition against the whole mission of the Church.
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  Speaker 1: A man go and preach the Gospel to every creature.
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  Speaker 1: So if any governing ruler authority a man commands a man,
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  Speaker 1: the people of God, the Church of God, amen to
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  Speaker 1: not preach, not teach, not speak in the name of Jesus. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: they are a man, commanding, decreeing whatever us to disobey
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  Speaker 1: what God has commanded us to do. So. Number one,
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  Speaker 1: if you are commanded by man, these are the exceptions
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  Speaker 1: to do something to break the law of God. We
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  Speaker 1: are not to obey man. If man has us to
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  Speaker 1: refrain from doing what God has commanded us to do,
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  Speaker 1: we are disobeying the law of God. And we are
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  Speaker 1: to obey God again in these two instances, rather than
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  Speaker 1: man a man. Otherwise, we have been commanded by God himself,
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  Speaker 1: a man, to comply with the government authorities, the authorities
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  Speaker 1: that He has again appointed for good, for our good, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: in order to maintain law and order. Amen. Again, we
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  Speaker 1: live in a falling world and we need government. We
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  Speaker 1: need good government. And of course again we understand we
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  Speaker 1: should understand this, and this again a problem with too
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  Speaker 1: many people in the church when you don't, when we
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  Speaker 1: just don't want to a man believe what the Bible teaches. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: This is where we come into problems. There will never
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  Speaker 1: be a perfect and corrupt free government in this falling world. Never, never,
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  Speaker 1: It's not gonna happen. Amen. We will not have a
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  Speaker 1: perfect government in this world until Jesus comes back to
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  Speaker 1: set up his millennial kingdom here on this earth. Until then,
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  Speaker 1: we are going to be dealing with falling, frail, fragile men,
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  Speaker 1: corrupt men, sinners, all of us by nature are sinners
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  Speaker 1: by nature. Amen. And again, I mean that's what we
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  Speaker 1: have to deal with. That's the world we live in. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: God furthermore commands us by the way to pray for
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  Speaker 1: those who are in authority. That's that's that's that's that's
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  Speaker 1: a biblical command that we are to pray for kings
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  Speaker 1: and rulers, all that are in authority. The Bible tells
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  Speaker 1: us that we may lead a peaceable life. Amen. Again,
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  Speaker 1: while we are in this world, we are not here
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  Speaker 1: to save the world. We're not here to save this
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  Speaker 1: world system. Amen. This this, this fall Babylon has fallen. Babylon,
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  Speaker 1: which represents this world system, the Bible says, has fallen
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  Speaker 1: already been judged. We're not here to save the world,
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  Speaker 1: the world system. Amen. This world system has been condemned
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  Speaker 1: by God. Now is the judgment upon this world. Jesus said. Now,
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  Speaker 1: now what is Jesus going to do? Did he come
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  Speaker 1: to save the world. No, he came to save men.
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  Speaker 1: Out of the world people. That's who the church is.
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  Speaker 1: Out of the world, called out, called out, called out,
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  Speaker 1: that's who we are. So we are as long as
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  Speaker 1: we are here, a man, as the Church of the
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  Speaker 1: Living God. We have to be the salt, the light,
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  Speaker 1: a man, that city set up on a hill, a
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  Speaker 1: man in the world, but out of the world, of course,
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  Speaker 1: a man. And we are to be difference makers. While
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  Speaker 1: we are here, I mean we are strangers and pilgrims.
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  Speaker 1: Pilgrims here a man. We're on a pilgrimage. We're on
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  Speaker 1: a journey. Our destination is to be more and more
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  Speaker 1: like Jesus. Our destination is not heaven. Our destination is
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  Speaker 1: to be more and more like Jesus, to be conformed
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  Speaker 1: into the image of his son. That's what our destination is.
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  Speaker 1: Destination Jesus. If you are like Jesus, guess what heaven is.
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  Speaker 1: Show in amen, Amen, Amen, Amen, Amen. All right, So
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  Speaker 1: let's let's let's let's let's bring this to a close
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  Speaker 1: here as the Church of the Living God. Again, it's
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  Speaker 1: vitally impart of us to understand this, that God, the sovereign, ruler,
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  Speaker 1: King of kings, creator of this world. Amen. And because Amen,
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  Speaker 1: he is sovereign, and because he is reigning and because
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  Speaker 1: he's ruling, we don't need to fear operating and cooperating
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  Speaker 1: with the governments of this fallen world. And of course, again,
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  Speaker 1: as I said before, we have people, groups and factions
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  Speaker 1: in the Church who do not believe, amen, that the
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  Speaker 1: Church of God has any place whatsoever within governments. But
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  Speaker 1: we know from the biblical texts, of the scriptures, of
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  Speaker 1: the Word of God, in the Word of God a man,
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  Speaker 1: from literally cover to cover, that this is erroneous theology
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  Speaker 1: about God and his intimate and intentional involvement in the
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  Speaker 1: affairs of this world, which again, by the way, this
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  Speaker 1: world belongs to him. God is not giving this world
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  Speaker 1: over a man, as if he's aloof, as if he's absent,
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  Speaker 1: as if he is uncaring about you know what happens
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  Speaker 1: with us in this world. If God only came a
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  Speaker 1: man to save us and to take us out of
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  Speaker 1: here and leave the world. No he's not. He's not. No, no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: New Heaven, new Earth, wherein dwells righteousness, God is sovereignly
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  Speaker 1: reigning and ruling. And again a man. We know from
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  Speaker 1: the biblical text and from history a man that God
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  Speaker 1: has a man always been in intimately and intentionally involved
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  Speaker 1: Amen in the affairs of this world. For example, again,
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  Speaker 1: we've already covered many of these, if not all of
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  Speaker 1: these individuals Amen in our previous podcasts talking about this God, government, church,
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  Speaker 1: and state. Amen. You have Joseph, you have a Moses,
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  Speaker 1: you have a Daniel along with his Amen God fearing companions.
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  Speaker 1: You had Mordecai and esther Nea, Maia and many others
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  Speaker 1: a man. All of these individuals, now these were just
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  Speaker 1: the people of God. We're not even talking about Amen,
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  Speaker 1: which again we talked about others, whether they were compliant
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  Speaker 1: a non compliant. Again, for example, Pharaoh, the Lord said,
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  Speaker 1: even for this same purpose, if I raised you up,
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  Speaker 1: that I might show my powering you, and MY name
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  Speaker 1: might be declared throughout all the earth, whether if you
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  Speaker 1: comply or not, whether you are obedient or not, whether
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  Speaker 1: you are a child of God or not. God's will
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  Speaker 1: can and will be done through you, even when you
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  Speaker 1: are rebelling against God in the highest seats of authority
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  Speaker 1: and power. But there again are plenty of examples of
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  Speaker 1: individuals again afore named here Joseph, Moses, Daniel, Shaddy, Shake,
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  Speaker 1: been to go these individuals neel Mayah Esther Mordecai, these
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  Speaker 1: individuals God raised up placed strategically in a man places
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  Speaker 1: of power of influence, in order to again see to
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  Speaker 1: it that his purpose, his predestined plan of redemption, is
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  Speaker 1: carried out and carried forth. If you will so again,
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  Speaker 1: the Church, we need not live in fear of the
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  Speaker 1: governments of this world, even when again, when the government
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  Speaker 1: itself is an agent of persecution. And by the way,
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  Speaker 1: the apostle Paul who wrote this lived on a tyrannical
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  Speaker 1: Roman government, one of perhaps the most brutal of all
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  Speaker 1: of the Roman leaders in history, Nero, who, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: is the one we believe that had the postle Paul beheaded.
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  Speaker 1: And yet Paul says, pray for these people. Yet Paul commands, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: by the word of the Lord, that we are to
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  Speaker 1: obey these that are an authority, these that are rulers,
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  Speaker 1: these and these kinds of governments, we the Church, the
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  Speaker 1: people of God, are to comply. Again, there are only
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  Speaker 1: two exceptions to this. Whenever we are commanded a man
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  Speaker 1: to do something that God prohibits us from doing, or
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  Speaker 1: we are commanded to refrain from doing what God has
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  Speaker 1: a man called us appointed us, commanded us to do. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Other than that, even if you and I are living
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  Speaker 1: under a And again, by the way the Bible says,
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  Speaker 1: when the righteous rule, the people rejoice. But when the
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  Speaker 1: wicked in power, when the wicked are in power, the
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  Speaker 1: people grown. Yes, yes, yes, the people grown when the
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  Speaker 1: wicked are in power. And there will be times and seasons. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: We've even in our free, western supposedly culture, western civilization
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  Speaker 1: that many of us enjoy certain freedoms and religious liberties,
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  Speaker 1: and particularly here in America. So forth we have had
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  Speaker 1: right here in America. Amen, rogue rulers who hate the Church,
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  Speaker 1: hate the name of Jesus Christ, have persecuted the Church, persecuted,
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  Speaker 1: and they are still there are still many of them
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  Speaker 1: in places of positions of power right now. Amen. Anti God,
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  Speaker 1: anti church, Amen, and not anti religion. If I said
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  Speaker 1: before that these, hey, these people not anti religion. They
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  Speaker 1: are anti Jesus, they are anti God, they are anti
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  Speaker 1: the True Church of the Living God. Amen. And so
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  Speaker 1: even when the government itself is an agent of persecution. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: we must not become weary and well doing. Amen. We
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  Speaker 1: are not to lose hope. We're not to lose heart.
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  Speaker 1: We're not to feign in adversity. Amen. We are not
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  Speaker 1: to stumble at the promises of God, at the word
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  Speaker 1: of God. Amen. But amen, rather trust that whether we
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  Speaker 1: are living under amen, a government of a government of
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  Speaker 1: oppression and persecution, or a government of relative peace and prosperity,
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  Speaker 1: either way, either way, Amen, all governments are God's governments.
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  Speaker 1: And He is sovereign, and he is reigning, and he
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  Speaker 1: is ruling, and his will and his purposes and what
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  Speaker 1: he is to creed and what he has spoken is
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  Speaker 1: coming to pass, and he will work it through wicked rulers.
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  Speaker 1: Even again, We've talked about this, even though they are
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  Speaker 1: unaware that they are fulfilling the word of God. So
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  Speaker 1: let's believe God. Let's trust God. Let's stand on his word.
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  Speaker 1: Let's stand on his promises, because God cannot lie. Father Again,
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  Speaker 1: thank you for your word, Thank you for your promises.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for this blessed hope we have in you.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for Amen, even the rulers, a man of
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  Speaker 1: this world, a man that you have permitted it to
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  Speaker 1: occupy seats of power and authority. That we pray that
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  Speaker 1: your will will be done. That we pray for amen,
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  Speaker 1: the peace and prosperity of your people everywhere. Open doors,
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  Speaker 1: of course, that no one can shut. Shut the doors
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  Speaker 1: that no one can open. Your will be done in
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  Speaker 1: us and through us. It's in Jesus' name we pray gift. Thanks,
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  Speaker 1: Amen and amen,