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The Sight of the Sovereign - 6/28/26 - Meadows Baptist Church - Pastor Charlie Branch · Meadows Baptist Church Podcast

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  Welcome to the podcast of Meadows
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  Baptist Church of Walnut Cove, North
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  Carolina. We're so glad you joined us
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  today. If you enjoy today's message, be
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  sure to subscribe, follow, and share
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  with your friends. Now, let's join
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  Pastor Charlie Branch with a word from
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  God.
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  Amen. I hope heaven's your home. Amen.
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  And uh I'm going to tell you this, if
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  you're not fighting down here, you
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  probably ain't going to feast up there.
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  Amen.
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  >> And the truth is, if we're here, we
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  going to be waring. Amen. Paul told
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  Timothy, he said, "No soldier that warth
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  and tangleth himself with the affairs of
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  this life, and he may please him who
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  have chosen him to be a soldier." I tell
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  you this, we're way too tangled up in
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  these days uh in this world. Amen. We
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  need to get separated and get set apart.
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  Amen. get serious about serving God.
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  Amen. And I do appreciate the good hand
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  of the Lord. And thank God it's time for
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  me to preach. Hallelujah. I think I've
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  heard about 15 sermons this week and I'm
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  about to die. Amen. So y'all just buckle
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  up. All right. Proverbs chapter 15. Want
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  you to stand in honor reverence to the
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  reading of God's word. When you find
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  your place, Proverbs chapter number 15.
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  I want to read one verse this morning.
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  what the Lord has put on my heart. And
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  then I'll give you the maybe a little
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  bit of the backstory of this. And uh
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  God's been working this in my heart all
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  week long. And I tell you this, there's
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  nothing like a good camp meeting, a good
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  youth camp uh to give you some fire and
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  put some scripture in your mind, in your
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  heart, stir you up. And uh I want to
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  read one verse, Proverbs 15, verse
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  number three. Verse you've all heard. I
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  quote it probably all the time, but
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  we're going to preach from it today.
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  It's what the Lord has put on my heart
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  for this hour. Proverbs 15 verse number
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  three, the Bible says, "The eyes of the
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  Lord are in every place
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  beholding
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  the evil
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  and the good." Verse number three, let's
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  let's read it again, church. The eyes of
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  the Lord are in every place, beholding
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  the evil and the good. Now, Father, I
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  ask you humbly for just a little while,
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  God, that you would help us. Lord, I
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  realize, Father, Lord, that without you,
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  we're nothing. And so, Lord, I pray,
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  God, that you would cleanse us of sin
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  and of self this morning, Lord, that you
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  would help us. You would strengthen us,
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  give us wisdom. And Lord, I pray,
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  Father, today, Father, we would open our
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  ears and our eyes that we might behold
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  wondrous things in thy law, and help us
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  to receive with meekness the engrafted
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  word. And Lord, I ask you, God, today
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  for whatever needs are present, Lord, I
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  know there are many. And God, I don't
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  know how many and I don't know what all
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  is needed, but Lord, you do. And so,
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  God, we commit this service unto you,
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  this sermon. But Lord, I pray, Father,
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  the Holy Ghost, Father, more than
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  anything would have free course and
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  liberty to work in this service, save
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  the sinner nearest hell. And we'll be
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  sure to thank you for what you do
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  because we ask it in Jesus name. God's
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  children said, "Amen."
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  >> Amen. Now, it's a very carnal
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  illustration this morning, but when I
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  think about this verse, I think about
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  the fact, and if you want a title for
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  the message this morning, I'm preaching
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  on the sight of the sovereign, the sight
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  of the sovereign. This morning, your
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  Bible says that the eyes of the Lord are
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  in every place. Behold him, the evil and
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  the good. And I'm reminded of the young
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  the little boy. Uh the story goes that
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  this little boy had went outside and uh
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  he was going to relieve himself and his
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  mother came out the door and found him
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  outside. All right, y'all going to have
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  to lighten up a little bit. All right,
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  I'm going to tell the story whether you
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  like it or not, but he went outside and
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  the and the boy's mother come out on the
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  front porch and she saw the young man
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  right out in the middle of the yard.
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  There's no place to hide, not a thing.
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  And she hollers at him, says, "Son, what
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  are you doing? Why aren't you hiding?"
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  And he says, "Well, I got my eyes
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  closed."
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  >> And the truth is, that's the way a lot
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  of us live.
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  >> Our sin, our life is right out in the
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  open.
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  >> And the fact of the matter is, we've got
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  our eyes closed thinking that nobody can
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  see us.
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  >> But the truth is this morning, we ought
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  to be very well aware of the fact that
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  nobody else might see,
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  >> right?
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  >> But the truth is, there's one who always
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  will.
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  And your Bible says in verse number
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  three of Proverbs 15 that the eyes of
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  the Lord are in every place beholding
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  the evil and the good. Now verses 1
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  through3 this week was my memory verse
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  as a counselor. I had to memorize these
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  three verses this week at youth camp.
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  And you know it's a good youth camp when
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  there's memory verses not just for the
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  kids but for the counselors too. Amen.
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  And we memorize these verses this week.
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  And this verse, every time I read, every
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  time I read this verse, even before camp
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  this week, just jumps off the page at me
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  because it it uh I want to say it
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  describes the essence of God's
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  omniscience that he is all knowing. And
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  Proverbs begins then chapter number one
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  verse number six, I believe it is. It
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  says, "The fear of the Lord is the
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  beginning of knowledge." And when we
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  think about knowledge, the first thing
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  that comes to mind is that faith cometh
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  by hearing and hearing by the word of
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  God. And it is the knowledge of the
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  scriptures and the knowledge of the
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  savior that bring us to a knowledge of
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  salvation. And it is that salvation that
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  produces in us the fear of the lord.
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  That is the beginning of the beginning
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  of wisdom according to what proverbs
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  chapter 1 says. But I think when we when
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  we realize the fear of the lord when we
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  remember what that is not that we should
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  be afraid of him but we have a
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  reverential awe for who he is and all
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  that he does. But really more than
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  anything, what he says. I'll tell you
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  this. You say, "Preacher, well, I fear
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  God." Well, I can determine how much you
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  fear God by how you treat this book.
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  >> Amen. I can determine it by how you
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  treat it physically. Amen. The way that
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  you throw it around, leave it in the
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  dash of your car for the son to bake it
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  all week to pick it up the next Sunday
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  when you go to church. I can determine
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  how you re revere or fear the Lord, not
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  just by you treat it physically, but how
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  you obey it spiritually. Amen. How many
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  of its truths are you employing in your
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  life? How much of the word of God are
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  you being obedient to? Because we know
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  that obedience is the primary purpose of
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  the child of God. We are designed to
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  obey. You were never designed to rebel
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  against God. But you have been designed,
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  you have been created, God made you in
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  such a way that you would have to obey
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  something. Amen. And let me say this. If
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  you're not obeying God, you're obeying
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  the devil. You're obeying your flesh.
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  Amen. and you're obeying this world and
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  you say, "Preacher, well, I'm not in
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  love with this world." Well, let me tell
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  you, if you're not in love with Jesus,
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  amen, there's nothing else to be in love
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  with. Amen. But the world. And I notice
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  in this text, the Bible tells us that
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  the eyes of the Lord are in every place.
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  And I want to give you three truths out
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  of this text. And before we get to the
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  message, I want you to think about this.
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  This idea is seen all throughout the
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  scriptures that the eyes of God are
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  always watching. And we I think about
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  creation. And we go all the way back to
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  Genesis 1. And the Bible says that the
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  Lord saw what he had made and that it
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  was good. Amen. When he looked at man,
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  he saw that man was very good. Amen. In
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  his eyes. And God was watching. We think
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  about Noah. We preached about him some
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  months ago here at the church that Noah
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  found grace where? In the eyes of the
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  Lord. Amen. And God told him a chapter
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  over. He said, "Thee have I seen
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  righteous before me in this generation."
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  And so God is watching. God was watching
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  Abraham. And God was watching Isaac. And
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  God was watching Jacob. And all the time
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  that Joseph was suffering, when he was
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  in prison, when he was in Piper's house,
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  and when he was in the palace until the
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  day that his brethren came to meet him
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  there in Egypt in that famine, God was
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  watching. When he was thrown in the pit
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  at the beginning, all the way till his
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  death, God was watching his life. You
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  understand? God has never taken his eyes
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  off of the children of men. God is
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  always watching. Amen.
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  Some verses you could put in your margin
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  2 Chronicles chapter 16 and verse number
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  nine Hannah the seir tells Asa the king
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  in the text that God is watching the
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  writer of Hebrews in Hebrews chapter 4
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  and verse number 13 says that everything
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  is naked in the eyes of God there is
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  nothing that can be withheld from him
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  and I'm reminded of this fact that when
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  we turn to the book of Revelation that
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  when John looked on Jesus in Revelation
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  chapter 1 the first thing that John saw.
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  You remember what he said in Revelation
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  1 and I believe it's about verse 14. He
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  said he had eyes as it were a flame of
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  fire.
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  >> Yeah,
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  >> that was the first thing he saw. It's
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  preeminent in the nature of God that
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  he's watching. His eyes. Let me say this
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  sinner. God sees you.
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  >> You're not hiding.
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  >> Amen.
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  >> You know what you're doing? You just
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  closing your eyes hoping nobody sees
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  you.
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  >> Right?
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  >> But God sees you. Yeah.
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  >> And beyond what you like to think, this
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  preacher sees you.
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  >> These other people in this church see
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  you as well.
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  >> I want tell you this. Don't think you're
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  hiding. Cuz if none of us see you, God
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  does.
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  >> Let me say this, child of God. God sees
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  you, too.
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  >> Amen.
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  >> Let me say this. He don't just look at
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  you from the outside, but he looks at
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  you from the inside.
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  >> Right.
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  >> Amen. Bible says when you got saved, the
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  Holy Ghost
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  >> put it put within
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  That is God's representative on the
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  inside.
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  >> He is watching. And I notice in this
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  text, three things I want to give you
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  here in the text. And I, you know, I
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  thought about, you know, God when we
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  think about his sight, the sight of the
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  sovereign. I think about the fact that
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  he views all places. There's no location
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  that you can find yourself in where God
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  is not able to see you. He views all
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  periods. He doesn't only view all
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  places. But he views all places in all
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  periods, all time frames. There's never
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  been a day in history, nor will there
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  ever be a day in future where there be a
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  place or where there be a period that
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  God cannot see. He views all
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  pilgrimages. And I use that for sake of
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  alliteration, but this is what I want to
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  emphasize that as is God views every
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  man's life. You see, right now, you are
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  living on this day, June the 28, 2026.
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  But do you understand that God in this
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  moment views this day, but every day in
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  your past all the way to the time you
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  was conceived in your mother's womb, but
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  at this moment he doesn't only view all
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  the all the way back to your conception,
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  but he views all the way to the end of
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  your days where you will die and take
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  your last breath. I'm saying he views
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  every life. He knows what you're going
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  to do tomorrow and the day after that
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  and the day after that and the day after
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  that. But more than that, all the things
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  that you've forgotten about, all the
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  places you've been, all the people
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  you've seen, all the things that you've
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  done, all the things that you've
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  forgotten about, God's aware of every
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  one of them.
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  >> He views all places, all periods, all
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  pilgrimages. And I put this in there as
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  well. He views all people.
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  >> You know what? They're they're really
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  seriously talking about putting men on
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  Mars.
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  They're talking about it. But I tell you
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  this, they can find the furthest planet
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  and the furthest galaxy
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  >> and the furthest of the furthest of the
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  furthest away. And if they get a man to
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  that place, you know what? They're going
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  to find God was there before he got
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  there.
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  >> And after he dies and rots on that
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  planet, amen, God's still going to be
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  there. Amen. I don't know about you, but
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  this is a helping me this morning. Amen.
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  I'm saying he views all places. HE VIEWS
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  ALL PERIODS AND HE views all people this
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  morning.
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  >> God sees you this morning. You say,
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  "Preacher, that's awful intimidating."
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  Well, I'm thankful that he doesn't just
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  view us. Amen.
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  >> But he loves us.
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  >> Amen.
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  >> I want to give you these three thoughts
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  this morning. I'll be done. I see in
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  this verse number one, I see the vision
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  of the sovereign here that's mentioned.
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  You say, "What do you mean?" Well, verse
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  three, the Bible says the eyes of the
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  Lord, capital L, capital O, capital R,
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  capital D, that is Jehovah God. You know
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  what that means? That means he is the
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  self-sufficient one.
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  >> You know what? Your eyes were created
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  eyes.
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  >> You hearing me preach?
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  >> Your eyes are are eyes that were
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  created. They were conceived in the womb
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  of your mother. Amen. and through that
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  birth process and you came to be out in
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  this world and there was a day when mama
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  for the first time looked into the eyes
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  of that little baby. But do you
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  understand that God's eyes are not
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  created eyes?
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  >> That's right.
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  >> But they are eternal eyes. Amen. They're
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  eyes that never will cease to exist, nor
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  did they ever come into being, but
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  they've always been.
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  >> Capital L, capital O, capital R, capital
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  D. It is the sovereign's vision. The
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  eyes of the Lord. Hey, he don't have
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  eyeglasses.
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  >> Amen.
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  >> Amen. His vision's not waning. Amen.
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  Because he don't get older.
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  >> Amen. His vision's just as clear this
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  morning as it was 3,000, 4,000, even to
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  the beginning of time, 6,000 some odd
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  years ago. His vision still just as
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  clear. Amen. I'm saying it is the sight
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  of the sovereign and that he is our
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  creator. The eyes of the Lord are in
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  every place. This vision is sovereign.
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  But I'll say this, this is the Savior's
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  vision. You say, "How do you know that?"
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  Well, it says the eyes of the Lord. The
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  Lord, who's the Lord? That's Jesus.
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  >> You know, the Bible tells us in John
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  chapter number one that by him he made
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  all things. That is, creation was made
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  by the word of God. And who is the word?
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  Jesus. Amen. John 1, in the beginning
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  was the word, and the word was with God,
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  and the word was God. The same was in
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  the beginning with God. All things were
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  made by him. Without him was not made.
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  Was there not made anything that was
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  made on the earth? And so these are the
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  eyes not just of the sovereign, that is
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  the father, but these are the eyes of
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  the savior. You understand? Just as God
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  the father has existed in eternity past
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  and will exist in eternity future. Jesus
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  has always existed. Amen. He's always
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  been. Amen. And it's his eyes. It's the
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  loving eyes of our savior. It is his
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  eyes looking upon us that bring us
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  salvation. And he tells us Isaiah 45
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  verse number 22, the invitation is look
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  unto me and be you saved all the ends of
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  the earth. Why did he say that? He said
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  that because he was looking at all the
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  ends of the earth. And he says from
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  wherever you're looking at, oh friend,
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  I'm about to feel happy this morning.
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  Amen. From wherever you're looking at,
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  if you look to him, you know what you're
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  going to meet up with? Your eyes is
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  going to lock with the eyes of the
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  savior. Amen. Because it don't matter
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  where you go, he's looking at you. Amen.
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  And whenever it is you finally decide to
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  look to him, you're going to find not
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  THAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT HIS HAND. NOT
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  THAT YOU'RE LOOKING AT HIS FEET, but
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  you're going to look up and you're going
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  to LOOK RIGHT INTO HIS EYES. AMEN.
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  >> Cuz he's looking at you.
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  >> I see the Savior in this vision, but I
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  also see the spirit in this vision.
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  >> The eyes of the Lord are in every place.
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  You see, it's the spirit of God. already
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  alluded to this, but he is the personal
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  representative in the heart of the
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  believer. But I'll say this, when we
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  think about the ministry of the spirit
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  of God, it is his ministry that produces
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  conviction in the life of the sinner.
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  And so everywhere there is conviction,
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  there is the spirit of God.
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  >> And you know what the Bible tells us?
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  That the grace of God that bringeth
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  salvation hath appeared to what?
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  >> So you know what? The spirit
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  >> it's everywhere. Right?
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  >> You see, this is the essence of who God
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  is.
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  He's everywhere. God the Father, God the
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  Son, God the Holy Ghost. He is present
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  everywhere.
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  So his vision is what? Unlimited, isn't
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  it?
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  >> His vision is unaffected.
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  >> Amen.
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  >> Amen. Because if he's everywhere,
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  there's no place he can go where his
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  vision can be blocked.
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  >> Amen.
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  This will help you if you let it. Amen.
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  His vision's unlimited. His vision's
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  unaffected. But I'll tell you this, his
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  vision is the ultimate vision. You're
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  >> right.
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  >> Cuz when you think about his vision,
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  there's no limitation to it.
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  >> He can see through beyond and even
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  what's not there.
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  >> You see, the thing about it is is God
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  looks into the physical world, but you
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  know where he lives? He lives in the
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  spiritual world.
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  >> Amen.
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  >> And he sees time. He sees eternity. He
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  sees the earth and he sees heaven. But
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  I'll tell you this, he sees your body
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  and he sees your soul as well.
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  >> That's right.
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  >> Amen. And long after this body's gone,
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  thank God, my soul's going to be resting
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  in the sight of one whose vision didn't
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  just affect the earth, but it affects
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  heaven. Amen.
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  >> Verse number three, the eyes of the
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  Lord, I see his vision in the text. I
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  want you to notice second of all this
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  morning, not only his vision, but I see
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  his vigilance in the text. Say, what do
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  you mean? Well, notice it again. The
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  eyes of the Lord are in every place.
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  It's vigilance. What's vigilance means?
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  It means a
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  put it this way. All right. The
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  definition of it is good, but I like I
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  like my definition of it better. Amen.
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  You say, "Preacher, you're warping the
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  scripture." No, I'm not. I'm giving you
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  the message. Amen.
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  >> Just hush and listen. All right.
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  >> Vigilance. When you think about what
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  does the Bible say about vigilance? Be
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  be sober. Be vigilant. He tells Peter
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  tells the church because your adversary
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  the devil is as a roaring lion walking
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  about seeking whom he may devour. You
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  know why he says be vigilant? He's
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  saying be watching.
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  >> That's right.
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  >> Amen.
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  >> Nobody's more vigilant than God.
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  >> Cuz he said the eyes of the Lord are in
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  every place. You say, "Preacher, that's
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  not a deep statement." Oh, but it is.
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  You say, "Why is that deep?" Well, I
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  would say this. Number one, it denotes
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  his presence. The eyes of the Lord are
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  what? in. You ever thought about this?
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  Why does that verse not say on every
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  place?
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  God's not watching from afar.
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  >> God's not seated up in heaven and
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  looking down on men,
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  >> but it says the eyes of the Lord are in
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  every place. You know what? God doesn't
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  look down from heaven and see the
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  outside of your body.
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  >> But God from the inside of you looks out
• 18:44
  and sees everything that's around you.
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  >> Amen.
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  His
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  presence you know you know that's his
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  presence
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  >> he's present everywhere it's in it's not
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  on I see not only his vigilance is
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  expressed is expressed by his presence
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  but his vigilance is expressed in his
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  pre pleenary presence notice that in
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  verse number three in every every you
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  know what we talk about we believe the
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  King James Bible don't we
• 19:12
  >> amen you know what we talk about when we
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  say verbal plenary inspiration you know
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  what that means that word plenary means
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  complete complete entirety. When we say
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  we believe in the verbal pleary
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  inspiration of the King James Bible, we
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  believe that every word complete Genesis
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  1:1 all the re all the way to Revelation
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  22
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  >> is completely inspired by God.
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  >> And when he says the eyes of the Lord
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  are in every place, you know what he's
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  saying? His vision's complete.
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  >> In every place. Every. There's not a
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  place you can go where he's not found.
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  There's not a place where he can be
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  where he cannot see. It's plenary. His
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  vision vigilance is plenary. But I'll
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  say this, it goes not just from his
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  presence to the pl the being plenary in
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  his vigilance. But there's a point.
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  Notice that in verse three, the eyes of
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  the Lord are in every place. I want you
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  to think about this. Though God sees
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  all.
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  All right? That's the field of his view.
• 20:10
  You ever heard hunters? You ever heard
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  hunters talk about the field of view?
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  When you look out and you're deer
• 20:15
  hunting, you know what you're doing.
• 20:17
  Before you put that rifle up there and
• 20:19
  look through that scope, you got a field
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  of vision.
• 20:23
  God has a pleinary vigilance of his
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  view. What does that mean? That means
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  that God sees the complete field.
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  >> But you know what? When it comes down to
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  it, he said the eyes of the Lord are in
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  every place. So it's not just the field
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  of his vision, but there is a focus of
• 20:38
  his vision.
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  >> Amen.
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  >> You know how we look through a scope at
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  that deer? You know what we do? We got
• 20:44
  them crosshairs. We line that thing up
• 20:47
  cuz you know what we're going to do?
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  We're going to drop Bambi, ain't we? You
• 20:50
  know what that means? That means from
• 20:52
  the field of vision, we had to come from
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  the field to a singular focus. But you
• 20:58
  know what? God sees it all. The field
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  and focuses on it at the same time.
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  >> You're right.
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  >> He don't have to stop seeing the big
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  picture to get the little minute
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  details.
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  >> Well, that's good, ain't it? I'm telling
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  you, I was reading this this morning. I
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  I thought the the Holy Ghost is about to
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  blow me up reading this this morning.
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  I'm saying, friend, he sees the big
• 21:22
  picture of your life, but he knows down
• 21:24
  to the smallest minute details. His Hey,
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  friend, the field of vision. You think
• 21:29
  about what God has to look at. the
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  millions upon billions of souls that
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  have lived on this earth from the
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  beginning of time. But yet, oh, his
• 21:37
  field of vision is so large, his focus
• 21:39
  is so small THAT HE WOULD SEE LITTLE old
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  me and little old you AND THIS DAY AND
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  TIME AND care and and even care about
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  YOU AND I. I'M SAYING, AREN'T YOU
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  THANKFUL THAT EVEN IN SPITE OF ALL THAT
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  HE SEES, HE WOULD STILL TAKE TIME TO
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  LOOK AND FOCUS ON YOU AND I, NOT JUST
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  TOGETHER, BUT INDIVIDUALLY. AMEN.
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  He's watching in every place. You know
• 22:07
  what that does for me? That encourages
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  me. But I'll tell you this. If you're a
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  sinner this morning, that'll scare you
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  to death.
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  >> You will stand before him one of these
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  days individually.
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  >> You won't stand with your mama. You
• 22:21
  won't stand with your daddy. And as much
• 22:23
  as I would love to stand there with my
• 22:25
  wife because we've tried to give our
• 22:27
  life to Jesus to serve him, I'm not
• 22:29
  going to be able to stand there with her
• 22:31
  and she's not going to be able to stand
• 22:32
  there with me. I'm telling you this. We
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  will stand there for oursel as ourself
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  by ourself before Jesus because he
• 22:41
  judges us individually.
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  >> If you're lost without God, you'll stand
• 22:46
  before him at the great white throne
• 22:48
  individually. But let me say this. If
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  you're saved, you will stand before
• 22:52
  Jesus at the judgment seat individually
• 22:54
  because the eyes of the Lord are in
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  every place. You know what? There's
• 23:00
  nobody here that knows every detail of
• 23:01
  my life.
• 23:03
  >> You know why that is? Because I don't
• 23:04
  even know every detail of my life.
• 23:07
  >> But there's one that does.
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  >> And he's the one
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  >> that our judgment's committed to.
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  >> Right?
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  >> Notice this. I see not only the vision
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  and I see not only the vigilance here
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  that his presence is in his plenary is
• 23:24
  seen in the every and then the point is
• 23:26
  seen in the place he had the field does
• 23:28
  not denote does not change his focus
• 23:30
  amen but I want you to notice this
• 23:33
  there's the vision there's the vigilance
• 23:35
  but then I see his view in the text look
• 23:37
  what the Bible said why you preacher why
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  you say it's a view what's the next word
• 23:40
  in the verse beholding
• 23:43
  beholding you know what that means means
• 23:45
  to Look means to gaze at means to view.
• 23:51
  And when he says in the text that the
• 23:53
  eyes of the Lord are in every place
• 23:56
  beholding the evil and the good, what is
• 23:59
  he saying? He's saying, well, his vision
• 24:01
  is sufficient to see all. His vigilance
• 24:04
  is is sufficient for all periods that he
• 24:06
  never misses a detail. But I'll say
• 24:08
  this, his view is described. And not
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  that he just beholds things that are,
• 24:14
  but he holds the things that should be.
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  Say, "What do you mean?" Well, God
• 24:19
  doesn't just see history and the future
• 24:22
  as it's going to be, but he sees history
• 24:25
  and the future as it should have be as
• 24:28
  it should be. You say, "What do you mean
• 24:29
  by that?" Well, you think about this.
• 24:32
  Just to make it simply put, we go back
• 24:35
  to the garden, Adam and Eve.
• 24:39
  God knows what it would have been like
• 24:40
  if Adam and Eve hadn't sinned.
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  >> You say, "Preacher, do you know?
• 24:47
  I know this. If they hadn't messed it
• 24:49
  up, probably one of us down the way
• 24:50
  would have."
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  >> But God knows what could have happened.
• 24:58
  >> God knows what should have happened.
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  >> You say, "How is that?" Well, notice the
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  text.
• 25:03
  He sees verse three, beholding the evil
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  and the good. He sees the wrongdoing,
• 25:09
  but he sees the right doing. He sees the
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  bad decisions, but he sees the good
• 25:14
  decisions. He sees those who are right
• 25:16
  with him, but he also sees those who die
• 25:19
  wrong with him. He sees those who've
• 25:22
  messed their family up. And he also sees
• 25:24
  those who've loved their family until
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  the end. I'm saying, God beholds it all.
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  >> Let me ask you something. I've seen
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  enough in the last week to make me
• 25:33
  depressed enough for the rest of my life
• 25:34
  if I dwelled on it. But you know what?
• 25:36
  God sees eternity.
• 25:39
  >> The good, the bad, and the ugly. And you
• 25:42
  know what? It has not changed it.
• 25:44
  >> That's right.
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  >> Amen.
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  >> You know what happens to us? What we
• 25:48
  see? It makes us depressed, don't it?
• 25:51
  >> What we see drags us down. But I'll tell
• 25:54
  you this, it ain't it. Hey, he saw the
• 25:56
  darkest thing there ever was. And you
• 25:58
  know what he did? The only place God
• 25:59
  ever turned his back away from anybody
• 26:01
  is when he looked down and saw his son
• 26:05
  >> in sin,
• 26:07
  bearing the weight of your sin and my
• 26:09
  sin. And what does the Bible say? The
• 26:10
  earth went black. God the father turned
• 26:12
  his back on his son. And you know what?
• 26:14
  Even in all of that, God, his visions
• 26:16
  never changed.
• 26:21
  >> Amen.
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  >> You say, "Preacher, what what do you
• 26:25
  mean he's beholding the evil of good?"
• 26:27
  Well, I think about the fact his
• 26:29
  vigilant vision, it views many things in
• 26:32
  this life. God sees the heart,
• 26:36
  the innermost being of man. Hebrews
• 26:39
  4:12, the Bible said, "For the word of
• 26:40
  God is quick and powerful and sharper
• 26:42
  than any two-edged sword, piercing even
• 26:44
  under the dividing of sunder of soul and
• 26:46
  spirit, and is a discerner of the
• 26:48
  thoughts and intents of the heart." You
• 26:50
  know what that word discern means? It
• 26:52
  means to see.
• 26:55
  He sees it. The deepest part of man, God
• 26:58
  sees it.
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  >> But yet at the same moment, he views the
• 27:02
  heart. He views the whole universe.
• 27:06
  He views all of time, but yet he views a
• 27:09
  decision made in a split second.
• 27:12
  >> He views all of eternity, but yet in a
• 27:15
  moment, he knows when a sinner goes from
• 27:17
  being a sinner to being a saint through
• 27:20
  the redemptive power of Jesus Christ.
• 27:22
  I'm saying there is no limit to his
• 27:24
  vision. He views the heart. He sees what
• 27:27
  your hope is in. What are you trusting
• 27:29
  in? He sees whether or not there is
• 27:31
  holiness in your life. Whether you've
• 27:33
  ever trusted Christ, whether there's
• 27:35
  positional holiness in your salvation,
• 27:37
  whether there's practical holiness in
• 27:39
  your life, in your sanctification, GOD
• 27:42
  KNOWS WHERE you're at with him this
• 27:43
  morning.
• 27:44
  >> He sees it. Let me say, Daddy, he sees
• 27:47
  your home.
• 27:50
  >> NOBODY ELSE MAY KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON
• 27:52
  DOWN AT YOUR HOUSE, BUT GOD DOES. AMEN.
• 27:55
  >> GOD KNOWS WHAT'S SAID. GOD KNOWS WHAT'S
• 27:58
  DONE. AND YOU CAN SAY WHATEVER YOU WANT.
• 28:00
  PAINT IT HOWEVER PRETTY YOU WANT TO. GOD
• 28:03
  KNOWS WHAT'S GOING ON DOWN AT YOUR
• 28:05
  HOUSE. LET ME SAY THIS, FRIEND. JUST AS
• 28:07
  MUCH AS HE KNOWS YOUR HOUSE, HE knows
• 28:10
  your heart this morning.
• 28:15
  >> He sees what you love.
• 28:17
  He sees how you live. He sees what you
• 28:20
  lust after. He sees every location that
• 28:23
  you find yourself. Let me say this to
• 28:25
  those of you that's struggling this
• 28:27
  morning. He sees the sin that you're in,
• 28:29
  the sorrow that you feel, the shame
• 28:31
  that's upon you. He sees your suffering.
• 28:33
  GOD KNOWS WHAT YOU'RE GOING THROUGH THIS
• 28:36
  MORNING.
• 28:37
  >> He sees it.
• 28:42
  Notice it in the text. Beholding the
• 28:44
  evil. Notice that how that's first.
• 28:46
  Holding the evil. You know what man is?
• 28:53
  >> We're primarily evil, aren't we?
• 28:56
  >> Right.
• 28:57
  >> God commendeth his love toward us in
• 28:58
  that while we were yet sinners. You know
• 29:01
  what? We never lose
• 29:04
  being in the flesh that title. Now, you
• 29:07
  you can disagree with me this, but but
• 29:09
  we believe there's only two type of
• 29:10
  people in the world. That's law sinners
• 29:12
  and saved sinners.
• 29:14
  >> Amen.
• 29:17
  Now, I know positionally in Christ, I'm
• 29:20
  not a sinner anymore, but practically
• 29:22
  speaking, you know what we do? What do
• 29:24
  we do? We fail every day, don't we,
• 29:25
  brother Todd?
• 29:28
  >> So, you know what? When God sees us, you
• 29:30
  know what he sees? When he looks at who
• 29:33
  we are in the flesh, it's evil.
• 29:36
  >> Sees the carnality. Sees the flesh. But
• 29:40
  the Bible says he don't stop at just the
• 29:42
  evil. He sees the evil and the good.
• 29:45
  >> Amen.
• 29:45
  >> He sees what's wrong, but he also sees
• 29:48
  what's right. You say, "Preacher, well,
• 29:51
  what does God desire to see?"
• 29:54
  Well, I thought of three things
• 29:57
  particularly God desires to see.
• 30:01
  These are just topical thoughts.
• 30:03
  When God never desires to see evil, I'll
• 30:07
  tell you this. All right?
• 30:09
  You understand God has orchestrated this
• 30:11
  thing to where the perfection of his
• 30:13
  holiness is always exalted in spite of
• 30:15
  what man does,
• 30:16
  >> right?
• 30:17
  >> Because you know what? Every sin that we
• 30:20
  commit, every time that we walk against
• 30:23
  God, not just for those who are saved,
• 30:25
  but those who are lost has been paid
• 30:27
  for.
• 30:27
  >> That's exactly
• 30:28
  >> in the blood of Jesus Christ. And so
• 30:30
  when someone sins, you know what? God is
• 30:32
  glorified not by their sin, but by the
• 30:34
  payment for that sin
• 30:36
  >> in Christ.
• 30:39
  Everything glorifies God.
• 30:43
  The will of God glorifies him when it's
• 30:46
  done and when it's not. Say, "Preacher,
• 30:50
  I don't understand that." I don't
• 30:51
  either, but that's what the Bible says.
• 30:53
  Notice this. What does God desire? Well,
• 30:56
  I'd say it's number one. God desires
• 30:58
  number one that wisdom be sought for.
• 31:03
  Say, "What do you mean?" Well, the
• 31:04
  primary purpose
• 31:06
  of our life is to seek out the wisdom
• 31:11
  that God alone induced. Listen to what
• 31:13
  Solomon says. Proverbs chapter 2.
• 31:20
  Proverbs 2:es 1-7.
• 31:24
  Solomon said, "My son, if thou will
• 31:26
  receive my words, and hide my
• 31:27
  commandments with thee, so that thou
• 31:28
  incline thine ear unto wisdom, and apply
• 31:32
  thine heart to understanding. Yeah, if
• 31:34
  thou cries after knowledge, and liftest
• 31:36
  up thy voice for understanding, if thou
• 31:38
  seekest her as silver, and searchest for
• 31:41
  her as for hid treas treasures, then
• 31:43
  shalt thou understand the fear of the
• 31:44
  Lord, and find the knowledge of God. For
• 31:47
  the Lord giveth wisdom, out of his mouth
• 31:51
  cometh knowledge and understanding. He
• 31:54
  layeth up sound wisdom for the
• 31:56
  righteous. He is a buckler to them that
• 31:59
  walk uprightly.
• 32:01
  You know what God desires for you and I
• 32:04
  this morning more than anything else is
• 32:06
  that we would seek him
• 32:08
  >> for the one thing that we cannot obtain?
• 32:10
  That's his wisdom.
• 32:12
  >> What did James say in James chapter 1?
• 32:14
  He said, "If any of you lack wisdom, any
• 32:16
  of you, let him if any man lack wisdom,
• 32:20
  let him ask of God that giveth to all
• 32:23
  men liberally." The only thing God's
• 32:26
  liberal in is his wisdom that he gives
• 32:30
  to us.
• 32:32
  He gives it to all men libery and
• 32:34
  upgradeth not. He's not going to resist
• 32:35
  you when you come desiring for wisdom.
• 32:37
  You know why Solomon was blessed by God?
• 32:39
  Because when God said, "You ask whatever
• 32:41
  you want," Solomon said, "I want
• 32:42
  wisdom."
• 32:43
  >> That's right.
• 32:46
  You know, the reason why people have no
• 32:47
  common sense in this day and time is
• 32:49
  because we're not seeking wisdom.
• 32:53
  >> We're not seeking wisdom. You know what
• 32:55
  God wants? He's beholding the good. You
• 32:57
  know what the good is? That's seeking
• 32:58
  wisdom.
• 33:00
  >> Wisdom that is sought for. Number two, I
• 33:03
  would say this. Let me say this. I made
• 33:04
  a statement there a minute ago, and I
• 33:06
  need I need you to clarify this. You
• 33:08
  understand when I say God has
• 33:09
  orchestrated everything that he gets
• 33:11
  glory out of it. If you go out and sin,
• 33:14
  God's not going to get glory out of
• 33:15
  that. That's right.
• 33:16
  >> All right. You need to hear what I'm
• 33:17
  saying to you. Okay? This is the way it
• 33:19
  works. Your sin is paid for by Jesus.
• 33:23
  And what is better said and better
• 33:24
  understood is this is that the cross of
• 33:26
  Calvary makes it possible for God to get
• 33:28
  glory in everything.
• 33:32
  >> Because everything's already taken care
• 33:33
  of.
• 33:36
  >> You get a hold of that, that'll help you
• 33:38
  with a sense in your life. the fact that
• 33:40
  it's already been paid for.
• 33:43
  >> Sinners sometimes can't grasp, preacher,
• 33:45
  I've just done too much. Jesus already
• 33:47
  paid for.
• 33:47
  >> That's right.
• 33:48
  >> Amen.
• 33:49
  >> Amen. Hey saints, you're not too far out
• 33:51
  in sin. Jesus already paid for it.
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  >> That's right.
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  >> He is the propitiation. Not for our sins
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  only, but for the sins of the whole
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  world. You know what that is? That's not
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  just the world in itself in its
• 34:03
  existence, but that's the world in
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  future, the world in past, that's the
• 34:07
  world present. That's all sin. every sin
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  was placed on him. And he is the
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  sacrifice. He satisfies the father.
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  >> That's how God gets glory out of the
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  cross. Number two, I hope that makes
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  sense. Wisdom that's sought for. Number
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  two, what God desires is not only that
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  wisdom be sought for, but worship be
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  sacrificed for. So, what do you mean?
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  Well, listen to what David said. Psalm
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  99.
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  Psalm we don't hear about much. We hear
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  Psalm 100 all the time. Listen to what
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  Psalm 99 says. Psalm 99 verse number
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  five. Exalt ye the Lord our God and
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  worship at his foottool for he is
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  holy.
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  >> Amen.
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  >> You know what God desires? He desires
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  his people to worship him.
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  >> Amen. The Bible said John told that
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  woman at the well, God is a spirit and
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  they that worship him must worship him
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  in spirit and in truth. You know what?
• 35:08
  We always put the must on the spirit and
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  truth part. But you know what? The must
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  is just as much on the worship part as
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  it is the spirit and truth part.
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  >> Amen. I think we miss that fact a lot of
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  time. We are called rather we are
• 35:20
  commanded to worship him. Amen.
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  >> Oh, LIFT UP YOUR HANDS IN THE SANCTUARY
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  AND BLESS THE LORD ALL YE PEOPLE OF THE
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  LORD. AMEN. OH, BLESS THE LORD, OH MY
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  SOUL, AND ALL THAT IS WITHIN ME. BLESS
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  HIS HOLY NAME. WE ARE COMMANDED. WE ARE
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  COMMANDED. WE ARE COMMANDED TO WORSHIP
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  HIM. AMEN.
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  >> AMEN.
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  Psalm 99:9,
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  "Exalt the Lord our God, and worship at
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  his holy hill, for the Lord our God is
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  holy."
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  >> Amen.
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  >> He desires that we offer the sacrifice
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  of praise
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  unto him. That is the fruit of our lips.
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  Writer of Hebrews said, "Giving thanks
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  to his name."
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  >> Amen. Worship him. Worship him. worship
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  him. Bless his holy name. That's what
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  we're commanded to do.
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  >> We are called to, but we are commanded
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  to. Amen.
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  >> Let me say this. We're real behind on
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  that.
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  >> Psalm 100, make a joyful noise unto the
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  Lord, all ye lands.
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  Serve the Lord with gladness. Come
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  before his presence with singing. Know
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  ye that the Lord, he is God. It is he
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  that hath made us, and not we ourselves.
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  We are his people and the sheep of his
• 36:43
  pasture. Enter into his gates with
• 36:46
  thanksgiving and into his courts WITH
• 36:48
  PRAISE. BE THANKFUL unto him and bless
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  his name. For the Lord is good. His
• 36:54
  mercy is everlasting and his truth
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  endureth to ALL GENERATIONS. WE ARE
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  COMMANDED TO WORSHIP him and that is
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  what God sees. That's good.
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  >> Those that seek wisdom and those that
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  give the sacrifice of worship.
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  I'm done.
• 37:15
  Beholding the evil and the good. You
• 37:17
  say, "Preacher, you said three things."
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  Well, here's the third one. God desires.
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  If you want God to see good in your
• 37:23
  life, there's going to have to be wisdom
• 37:25
  that's sought for. There's going to have
• 37:27
  to be worship that sacrificed for. Let
• 37:29
  me say this. There's going to have to be
• 37:31
  works that are a service.
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  >> Amen.
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  >> For the Lord.
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  Say, "What do you mean, preacher?" Well,
• 37:36
  if you ain't doing nothing, you ain't
• 37:38
  getting nowhere with God.
• 37:39
  >> Amen. Amen. You say, "Preacher, do I got
• 37:42
  to preach a sermon?" No. "Preacher, do I
• 37:44
  got to teach a Sunday school class?" No.
• 37:46
  Some of you ought to. Amen. Not all of
• 37:48
  you have to, though.
• 37:51
  >> Let me ask you this. When's the last
• 37:53
  time you told the Lord, "Lord, I'll do
• 37:54
  whatever you want me to do
• 37:56
  >> and meant it."
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  >> Some of you may have said it, but you
• 38:00
  didn't mean it.
• 38:02
  When's the last time you looked at God
• 38:04
  and said, "Whatever, WHENEVER, WHEREVER,
• 38:07
  HOWEVER, WHATEVER YOU WANT ME TO DO,
• 38:09
  LORD, I WILL DO IT."
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  >> That's the good. See, we like the the
• 38:14
  worship. We like that. Oh, I'll lift my
• 38:18
  hands, preacher. I'll praise his name.
• 38:21
  We don't like the work part. Solomon
• 38:24
  said it this way. Ecclesiastes chapter
• 38:26
  9, verse number 10. He said, "Whatsoever
• 38:28
  thy hand findeth to do, do it with thy
• 38:31
  might." You know what that is? That's as
• 38:33
  unto the Lord.
• 38:34
  >> Colossians chapter 3 and verse number 23
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  says, "Whatsoever you do, do it as do it
• 38:39
  as unto the Lord and not unto men."
• 38:42
  >> Right?
• 38:43
  >> Whether you eat or drink or whatsoever
• 38:45
  you do, do it as unto the Lord and not
• 38:48
  unto men. We are commanded to work in
• 38:51
  service for him. You know why? Because
• 38:53
  God's watching,
• 38:55
  >> right?
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  >> Amen. He's watching. You say, "Preacher,
• 38:59
  but I've never served God and I've lived
• 39:02
  most of my life." Well, let me say this.
• 39:04
  God's not quit watching.
• 39:08
  >> Say, "Preacher, well, I don't have much
• 39:09
  to give." Well, you could give what you
• 39:10
  got.
• 39:13
  >> Preacher, I don't have much to offer.
• 39:15
  Let me tell you this. I didn't have
• 39:16
  nothing to offer.
• 39:17
  >> Amen.
• 39:19
  >> You know what? Until you get to the
• 39:21
  place where you realize that you had you
• 39:23
  didn't have nothing to offer either, you
• 39:24
  ain't going to be fit to serve it. Amen.
• 39:26
  >> God doesn't call the qualified. He
• 39:28
  qualifies the caught.
• 39:29
  >> Amen. Let me say this. When you got
• 39:31
  saved, God, the Holy Ghost took up
• 39:33
  residence in your heart, and he supplies
• 39:36
  you everything that you need to serve
• 39:38
  him.
• 39:39
  >> He's given us all things that pertain
• 39:41
  unto life and godliness. You realize
• 39:43
  none of you are lacking anything this
• 39:44
  morning.
• 39:45
  >> Amen.
• 39:45
  >> As far as the father's endowment is
• 39:47
  concerned, we've all got the same amount
• 39:49
  of Holy Ghost.
• 39:50
  >> Amen. Amen.
• 39:53
  We've all got the same amount of Bible.
• 39:56
  66 books inspired, preserved for you and
• 40:00
  I to study, know, and read.
• 40:02
  >> Amen.
• 40:04
  >> And to live by.
• 40:06
  >> We got the same Bible, the same Holy
• 40:08
  Ghost. You know what the difference is?
• 40:09
  You're not employing it.
• 40:11
  >> Amen.
• 40:13
  >> Billy Graham had the same amount of
• 40:14
  Bible. And I don't really like
• 40:16
  everything that he did, but I'll tell
• 40:17
  you this, God used him for a long time.
• 40:19
  >> He had the same Bible I have. He got the
• 40:22
  same Bible. It's in your hand right
• 40:23
  there. Till he got later on his years
• 40:25
  and decided to go crazy. Amen. I'll tell
• 40:28
  you this. DL Moody, CH Spurgeon, all
• 40:31
  those great men of God we talk about,
• 40:33
  they had the same Bible, the same Holy
• 40:35
  Ghost that you got.
• 40:38
  >> You know what? God's watching.
• 40:40
  >> Amen.
• 40:44
  >> I say this. I told Sunday school this
• 40:46
  this morning. I'm going to tell the rest
• 40:47
  of you. You know better. Right.
• 40:53
  Y'all want me to go back over that
• 40:55
  again?
• 40:58
  You know better.
• 41:00
  John looked at that church in 1 John
• 41:02
  chapter number two. And you know what?
• 41:04
  That church didn't have a Bible. They
• 41:07
  didn't have what you got. They didn't
• 41:08
  have 66 books. They might have had the
• 41:10
  first five. Amen. Sometimes I get in the
• 41:12
  first one and get confused.
• 41:15
  Really confused about Genesis 6.
• 41:17
  Somebody say amen right there. But they
• 41:20
  had the first five books and John looked
• 41:22
  at him and said, "You have an uncction
• 41:24
  from the Holy One, and you know all
• 41:26
  things."
• 41:27
  >> They didn't even have a Bible.
• 41:30
  >> John said, "You know better."
• 41:32
  >> Let me say this to you, child of God,
• 41:34
  this morning. You know you ought to be
• 41:35
  at church every time the doors open.
• 41:38
  >> You know you ought not fuss and cuss and
• 41:40
  do all the rest of that.
• 41:43
  >> You all, you know you ought not be in
• 41:45
  fornication. Amen.
• 41:50
  >> You know you ought not be involved in
• 41:52
  adultery.
• 41:54
  >> You know better. You know better. Why is
• 41:57
  that?
• 42:00
  >> And if you didn't have that.
• 42:02
  He's in here.
• 42:04
  >> That's right.
• 42:04
  >> If you're saved, he's in here.
• 42:08
  >> He's watching
• 42:11
  >> the side of the sovereign. Every head
• 42:13
  bowed, every eye closed.
• 42:17
  Sister Melody is going to begin to play
• 42:18
  here in just a minute. I want to ask you
• 42:21
  something.
• 42:23
  How long's it been since you realized
• 42:24
  God's watching?
• 42:27
  Let me say this. If it's been a day,
• 42:29
  it's been too long.
• 42:32
  He's watching.
• 42:34
  Say, "Preacher,
• 42:40
  I'm save. I I'm saved." And
• 42:46
  and I believe that preacher, I believe
• 42:48
  God's watching. Let me ask you ask Let
• 42:50
  me ask you something.
• 42:52
  Why? Why are you not living it?
• 42:54
  Why? Tell me. Cuz let me say this. It'll
• 42:59
  be a lot easier to tell me here than it
• 43:00
  will be to tell him there.
• 43:03
  Cuz you know what? I can relate to you.
• 43:05
  I can say, "I understand. I know how
• 43:07
  hard it is sometimes to do what he
• 43:10
  says." But let me say this. When you
• 43:11
  stand before him, he's perfect.
• 43:15
  Let me ask you something.
• 43:19
  Are you going to choose to live like
• 43:21
  he's watching? Are you going to choose
• 43:23
  to continue walking around with your
• 43:25
  eyes closed,
• 43:27
  thinking that nobody sees you cuz you
• 43:29
  can't see nobody else?
• 43:35
  You need to realize and be assured that
• 43:38
  one of these days you will stand before
• 43:40
  him and you will give an account
• 43:44
  for what he has sought.
• 43:47
  He's going to bring up things that you
• 43:48
  can't even remember and you going to
• 43:51
  have to give an account for it.
• 43:53
  You know, I've thought about that a lot
• 43:55
  of times. You know, a lot of things I
• 43:56
  don't even remember. I'm going to look
• 43:58
  back at that and I'm not going to know
• 43:59
  why. You know, I'm going to have to tell
• 44:01
  him, "Lord, I don't know, but I know
• 44:02
  this. I'm a sinner."
• 44:05
  But here's what I'm glad about. You see,
• 44:07
  since I'm saved, I'll stand before the
• 44:09
  judgment seat, and it'll just be me and
• 44:11
  Jesus there. And you know what he'll do?
• 44:13
  He'll look at the works in my life, and
• 44:15
  this is what he'll say, "You failed
• 44:17
  here, but I covered that.
• 44:20
  You messed up here, but the blood took
• 44:22
  care of that."
• 44:25
  And at the end of that judgment seat,
• 44:27
  he's going to burn up all of those evil
• 44:30
  works that he saw. And I'm going to come
• 44:32
  through that fire with that gold,
• 44:34
  silver, and precious stones. All those
• 44:36
  good things, that wisdom that sought
• 44:39
  for, that worship that sacrificed for,
• 44:42
  and those works that are service for our
• 44:45
  Lord. Let me ask you, how much are you
• 44:47
  going to have?
• 44:50
  How much you gonna have to stand before
• 44:53
  him with?
• 44:56
  Say, "Preacher, I'm not saved.
• 44:59
  Preacher, what you've told me this
• 45:00
  morning scares me to death." Well, I'll
• 45:02
  be honest with you. It should. It should
• 45:05
  scare you to death. Cuz I'll tell you
• 45:07
  this, nobody
• 45:10
  will want to stand before a holy,
• 45:12
  perfect, and just God and have to try to
• 45:15
  answer for all the times that they
• 45:18
  rejected his love and his offer of
• 45:20
  salvation. You know what you can do
• 45:22
  today? You can stop lying and start
• 45:24
  living.
• 45:27
  You can stop hiding
• 45:29
  and start having real joy.
• 45:35
  You can stop faking
• 45:39
  and have the real thing.
• 45:42
  He's watching. Say, "Preacher, would you
• 45:45
  pray for me? I'm not saved."
• 45:49
  Preacher, would you pray for me? I'm not
• 45:50
  saved. Ain't nobody looking around but
• 45:52
  me and God. You be honest this morning.
• 45:55
  Preacher, I'm not saved. You just slip
• 45:56
  your hand up and I'll pray for you this
• 45:58
  morning.
• 45:59
  Preacher, I'm not saved. Somebody's
• 46:02
  written all over your face.
• 46:04
  You've sat there and gripped that pew
• 46:06
  long enough. Why don't you come out and
• 46:07
  get out and come
• 46:10
  say, "Preacher, nobody knows I'm lost."
• 46:12
  LET ME TELL YOU, GOD DOES.
• 46:15
  And you know what? He's showing you this
• 46:16
  morning that you are.
• 46:19
  And so, you know what? Now that you know
• 46:20
  that you're lost, cuz God showed you,
• 46:22
  won't you come to him? Won't you come to
• 46:25
  him? Just slip out your seat and come.
• 46:27
  He'll save you. He'll forgive you. And
• 46:30
  you know what? But then you won't have
• 46:31
  to worry so much about God watching you
• 46:33
  no more. Cuz you know what? He's not
• 46:35
  going to be looking at you through eyes
• 46:36
  of judgment. But he's going to be
• 46:39
  looking at you through eyes of love.
• 46:43
  He can forgive any sin that's ever been
• 46:45
  committed.
• 46:49
  You say, "Preacher, I don't believe
• 46:50
  that." Well, I'll tell you this. If
• 46:51
  Adolf Hitler somewhere before his death
• 46:54
  asked God to save him and forgive him,
• 46:56
  you know what? He's in heaven today if
• 46:58
  he asked for that.
• 47:01
  There is no amount of sin. There is no
• 47:04
  size of sin that God cannot forgive.
• 47:08
  Not a one. And there's some people in
• 47:10
  here that's testimony, a lit literal
• 47:12
  walking, breathing testimony of that
• 47:15
  fact that God can forgive anything and
• 47:17
  anybody.
• 47:19
  Let me say this. He does. He just It's
• 47:21
  not that he just can. He He wants to. He
• 47:23
  wants to this morning. Father, thank you
• 47:26
  so much for this truth this morning.
• 47:30
  God, thank you that
• 47:33
  your eyes are in every place.
• 47:37
  And God, I know this morning that I'll
• 47:40
  give an account for this message that
• 47:42
  I've preached today. And Lord, I pray,
• 47:45
  Father, that you would help every heart
• 47:47
  this morning
• 47:49
  to hear the truth. But not just to hear
• 47:51
  it, but to obey it.
• 47:54
  Because Lord, obedience is the very best
• 47:56
  way to show that we believe. You told
• 48:00
  those disciples, he said, "The world
• 48:01
  shall know that you're my disciples
• 48:03
  because you have love one to another."
• 48:05
  And Lord, I pray, Father, this morning,
• 48:08
  Lord, if there's any bitterness, Lord,
• 48:10
  between anybody this morning, they'd get
• 48:12
  it settled cuz you're watching. Lord, if
• 48:15
  there's any broken hearts this morning,
• 48:17
  I pray they'd come, Lord, cuz that you
• 48:19
  see them. you see where they're at and
• 48:22
  you want to mend it. Lord, I pray they'd
• 48:25
  come. God, if there's any burdens here
• 48:27
  today,
• 48:30
  Lord, that people's been carrying around
• 48:32
  too long, I pray, God, that they would
• 48:34
  come realizing that you've seen that
• 48:37
  and you want to help them.
• 48:41
  And Lord, I pray most of all if there's
• 48:44
  anybody here that's lost,
• 48:47
  but I pray they wouldn't leave this
• 48:48
  place that way today.
• 48:52
  I pray they wouldn't walk away
• 48:56
  not knowing you
• 49:00
  not trusting you.
• 49:04
  Lord, don't let a sinner walk out of
• 49:05
  this place lost today
• 49:08
  as every heads bowed and every his eyes
• 49:10
  closed still for just a few moments.
• 49:13
  God's giving you another chance, sinner.
• 49:16
  He's giving you another chance. You need
• 49:19
  to be saved today. Won't you get up and
• 49:21
  come? Won't you come?
• 49:25
  These are praying this morning. Others
• 49:27
  need to come. Say, "Preacher, I got a
• 49:28
  situation I can't handle." God sees it.
• 49:32
  God sees it. He can fix it.
• 49:35
  He can help you with it.
• 49:39
  Won't you come get some help this
• 49:41
  morning?
• 49:43
  Look, I don't I don't I don't want these
• 49:45
  altars to fill up to stroke my ego. I
• 49:47
  want these altars to fill up so you can
• 49:48
  get some help. Wouldn't that be a shame
• 49:51
  you to walk out of here and spurn the
• 49:52
  only place you can get help? You say,
• 49:54
  "Preacher, well, I can pray when I get
• 49:55
  out of here." Well, let me tell you
• 49:56
  this. There's something special about
• 49:58
  coming to an altar and humbling yourself
• 50:00
  and getting that pride out of the way,
• 50:02
  realizing you need some help. I'll tell
• 50:04
  you this. You'll find some help if
• 50:05
  you'll come get it.
• 50:08
  You've sit there too long. You sit there
• 50:11
  too long. You sit there too many
• 50:13
  services, won't you get some help?
• 50:15
  There's nobody looking. Nobody's going
• 50:17
  to judge you. Come get you some help.
• 50:47
  I'll ask you this. We're not no hurry.
• 50:51
  Can you honestly say you've done what
• 50:53
  God told you to do?
• 51:01
  Can you in your heart of hearts tell God
• 51:03
  right now, "Lord, I've done what you
• 51:04
  asked me to.
• 51:09
  You know you haven't.
• 51:11
  You know you have. Why? Why you doing
• 51:14
  that?
• 51:17
  The Holy Ghost is real this morning.
• 51:21
  He's fresh in here. I felt him all week
• 51:23
  this week just like this. And he stopped
• 51:25
  by to give you another chance.
• 51:29
  Father, in Jesus name.
• 51:32
  Lord, I thank you so much for gracing
• 51:36
  us, for your presence today.
• 51:39
  Thank you for being real.
• 51:42
  Lord, thank you for just being who you
• 51:44
  are. Cuz Lord, we can't change you,
• 51:47
  Lord. We can't adjust you. We can't
• 51:51
  we can't conjure you up, Lord. We we
• 51:54
  can't do anything to change who you are.
• 51:57
  And Lord, I rejoice in that. Thank you
• 52:00
  for not being a God that fits my mold
• 52:04
  or anybody's mold.
• 52:06
  Thank you for being the God of that
• 52:08
  blessed Bible and you told us right. You
• 52:11
  said you honored that book above your
• 52:13
  name.
• 52:15
  Lord, would you help us to do that?
• 52:17
  Lord, there's people here leaving today
• 52:19
  that's not obedient to you. God, I pray
• 52:21
  that you wouldn't let them get out of
• 52:23
  the parking lot today in disobedience.
• 52:25
  Lord, may they have to run back to this
• 52:27
  altar and get right with you.
• 52:30
  Lord, I love you and I ask it in Jesus
• 52:32
  name. Amen.
• 52:35
  >> Thank you for joining our service today.
• 52:37
  We'd love it if you join us in person
• 52:39
  the next time you are able at Meadows
• 52:42
  Baptist Church. Our physical address is
• 52:45
  2988
• 52:46
  Stewart Road in Walnut Cove, North
• 52:48
  Carolina. Our service times are Sunday
• 52:52
  school at 10:00 a.m., Sunday morning
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  worship at 11:00 a.m., Sunday evening
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  worship at 6:00 p.m., and Wednesday
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  evening Bible study at 700 p.m. For more
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  information, visit us at
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  meadowsbaptisturch.com.
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