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Episode 138 - Judgement On A Lawless Land · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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  Speaker 1: Where can I go, said the Psalmis, to flee from
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  Speaker 1: thy presence. Thank God that there is no hiding place.
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  Speaker 1: All things are naked and open to the eyes of
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  Speaker 1: Him with whom we have to do. And thank God
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  Speaker 1: he is our refuge, our strength, and our very present help,
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  Speaker 1: and that he never leaves nor forsakes his own. And
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  Speaker 1: thank God that he has adopted us as his sons,
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  Speaker 1: as children of God. And the Bible says it does
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  Speaker 1: not yet appear what we shall be, but we know
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  Speaker 1: when he shall appear, we are going to be like Jesus. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to see him in all of his glory
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  Speaker 1: and majesty and splendor. So we thank God for that
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  Speaker 1: blessed hope that we have. And certainly if you do
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  Speaker 1: not have that hope, it is yours for the asking asking,
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  Speaker 1: you shall receive. Seeking you will find knock and the
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  Speaker 1: door will be open. We welcome you once again to
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  Speaker 1: this another edition of End Time Revival Ministries USA broadcast podcast.
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  Speaker 1: up our voice as a trumpet in Zion. Amen, blow
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  Speaker 1: the trumpet, sound the alarm, says the Lord, show my
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  Speaker 1: people their transgressions, and the House of Jacob their sins.
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  Speaker 1: That's what we're here for. To speak the truth of
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  Speaker 1: God and love. Amen. To comfort those who are Amen, weak,
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  Speaker 1: those who are oppressed, those who are Amen forsaken. And
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  Speaker 1: we just here to speak the truth of God and love. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: to speak the Word of God which brings of course
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  Speaker 1: that comfort and hope and peace and quietness that we
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  Speaker 1: all need Amen in this present world. Amen. So we again,
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  Speaker 1: as always thank God for all of you. We pray
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  Speaker 1: that God will Amen be a blessing to you. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: through his Word, through his anointing, through his power, through
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  Speaker 1: the power of His Holy Spirit, may work in your life. Amen, always. Man.
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  Speaker 1: Today is the thirteenth of the month of December, in
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  Speaker 1: the year of our Lord, twenty twenty four, A man,
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  Speaker 1: we're almost at the end of another calendar year. Thank
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  Speaker 1: God again for life, health and strength. Amen. We're in
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  Speaker 1: a series entitled God, Government, Church and State. God the Government,
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  Speaker 1: Church and State. And again, as much as we especially
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  Speaker 1: and particularly in our nation and then probably in modern
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  Speaker 1: Western civilization, we would like to pretend, we would like
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  Speaker 1: to believe that there's a real divide between a government
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  Speaker 1: and God, and there's never been and there never will
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  Speaker 1: be a separation, as it were, of God from the
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  Speaker 1: governments of this world. And so we need to understand,
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  Speaker 1: and we talked about this in our previous session, that
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  Speaker 1: there can be no rogue governments that can survive in
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  Speaker 1: our world. A man, because no one, no nation, no people,
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  Speaker 1: will be allowed permitted to run a foul of the
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  Speaker 1: law of God. Forever. There will come a time when
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  Speaker 1: God will Amen visit upon any people, any nation a
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  Speaker 1: man that seeks to again run a foul of His
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  Speaker 1: righteous law. Amen. Righteousness is what exalts a nation. The
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  Speaker 1: Bible tells us. But sin is a reproach. Sin brings judgment,
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  Speaker 1: and that's what we're going to speak about today, Judgment
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  Speaker 1: on a lawless land, judgment on a lawless land. The
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  Speaker 1: Bible tells us the Romans chep. Number one, that the
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  Speaker 1: wrath of God has already been revealed from Heaven against
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  Speaker 1: all ungodliness, all unrighteousness of men who suppressed the truth
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  Speaker 1: of God, and their unrighteousness in their lawlessness, not doing
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  Speaker 1: the things that they know to be done. That they
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  Speaker 1: have a sense of altness about that. Again, they know
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  Speaker 1: God a man. He's been revealed to him to them
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  Speaker 1: a man, a man creation itself screams of his glory,
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  Speaker 1: his majesty, and power. The Bible says, the earth declares
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  Speaker 1: the glory of God, and man, the Heaven's brother declared
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  Speaker 1: the glory of God. Earth shows his and the furnament
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  Speaker 1: shows his power. We're without excuse, in other words, as
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  Speaker 1: the Book of Romans also tells us, because when they
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  Speaker 1: knew God, they glorified him, not as God, but became
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  Speaker 1: vain in their what imaginations. And the heart becomes foolish.
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  Speaker 1: And the things that we know to do, we don't
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  Speaker 1: do them. Amen. And the whole of creation. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: the Bible speaks of this as well in the Book
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  Speaker 1: of Romans is groaning and travailing in birth pain because
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  Speaker 1: of the sin and rebellion of mankind in the earth.
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  Speaker 1: The land suffers when we sin against God. The fish
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  Speaker 1: of the sea, the files of the air, a man,
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  Speaker 1: the beast of the field, they all suffered because of
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  Speaker 1: man's cosmic treason against the righteous rule of God, against
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  Speaker 1: the sovereign God of the universe. And whenever the Lord
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  Speaker 1: brings judgment upon upon a people or city or nation,
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  Speaker 1: the land and much of what is in the land
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  Speaker 1: is subjected to be overthrown, is subjected to perhaps even destruction,
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  Speaker 1: when God brings judgment. And this is a necessity on
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  Speaker 1: the part of the divine because it is it is
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  Speaker 1: to ensure that man does not self annihilate. It is
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  Speaker 1: to ensure that man does not completely destroy, which he will,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, make no mistake about it. Man will
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  Speaker 1: completely self destruct, self annihilate if God does not intervene
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  Speaker 1: a man to a man save us from ourselves. That's
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  Speaker 1: the truth. That's the truth of the matter. That's what
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  Speaker 1: we're going to see today shortly, And this is the
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  Speaker 1: reason why it's necessary for God to intervene, Amen, because
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  Speaker 1: we have a persistence in us. Amen, we have a
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  Speaker 1: bent in us toward destruction. And I want you to see.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, I'm I'm going to Genesis by the
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  Speaker 1: way in just a moment, but I want you to
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  Speaker 1: go to the Last Bible. I want to read just
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  Speaker 1: a couple of verses from a Revelation, chapter number eleven. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: this is why the final judgment of God upon the
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  Speaker 1: nations Amen, is praised in the Court of Heaven. Revelations
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  Speaker 1: chapter eleven, verses seventeen and eighteen. I'm gonna pick it
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  Speaker 1: up there. We give you thanks, Oh Lord God Almighty.
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  Speaker 1: Revelation eleven, verses seventeen to eighteen. We give thanks to you,
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  Speaker 1: O Lord God, my one, who is and who was,
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  Speaker 1: and who is to come, because you have taken your
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  Speaker 1: great power and reigned. Never forget that God reigns and
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  Speaker 1: rules in the kingdom of Men. Verse eighteen. The nations
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  Speaker 1: were angry, and your wrath has come and the time
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  Speaker 1: of the dead. That they should be judged, and that
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  Speaker 1: you should reward your servants, the prophets and the saints,
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  Speaker 1: and those who fear your name. Small and great all
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  Speaker 1: but listens to this and should destroy those who destroy
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  Speaker 1: the earth. That is what man will do, has done,
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  Speaker 1: continues to do unless God intervenes. And this is why
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  Speaker 1: again in the final analysis, when God comes back to
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  Speaker 1: a man, judge all of the nations, a man the
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  Speaker 1: song of praise in heaven, a man would be a
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  Speaker 1: man that we give you thanks, o Lord, because you
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  Speaker 1: are the one who was, who is, and who is
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  Speaker 1: to come, and you have taken your great power, and
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  Speaker 1: you reign. The nations are upset, the nations are angry,
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  Speaker 1: the nations are still in rebellion. But your wrath has come,
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  Speaker 1: and the time for judgment is now, and it is
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  Speaker 1: a righteous judgment. And God intervenes, because if he does not,
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  Speaker 1: we will destroy the earth what God created. Amen. And
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  Speaker 1: that's not possible because God is not going to permit
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  Speaker 1: it to happen. So for those of you, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: who are fearing nuclear holocaust, nuclear war, nuclear destruction and
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  Speaker 1: annihilation by the hands of man, let not your hearts
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  Speaker 1: be troubled. From the beginning of our time outside of
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  Speaker 1: the Garden of Eden, Amen, mankind has been in collusion
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  Speaker 1: and in confederation with the devil. Amen, with that old serpent,
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  Speaker 1: the one who is a liar, the one who is
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  Speaker 1: a deceiver, the one who is a thief, the one
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  Speaker 1: who is a murderer, the one who is the the devouring,
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  Speaker 1: destroyer of life and living. Jesus, on the other hand, said,
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  Speaker 1: I have come that you might have life, and have
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  Speaker 1: it more abundantly. The thief, that's the devil. He comes
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  Speaker 1: to steal, killing, to destroy. Amen. And and and I
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  Speaker 1: want you to see, and we're gonna look at one
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  Speaker 1: of these again in the book of Genesis, your too
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  Speaker 1: grave judgments that God poured out from heaven upon mankind,
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  Speaker 1: and and and I believe that they serve as examples
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  Speaker 1: of the severity of what awaits those who are bent
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  Speaker 1: on practicing lawlessness against the law of God. And and
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  Speaker 1: and and it was also during the earthly ministry of Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: our Lord and Savior, a man that he himself referenced
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  Speaker 1: both of these a man judgments of old, to no
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  Speaker 1: doubt again serve as a reminder to serve as a
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  Speaker 1: deterrent a man for any and all people of every
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  Speaker 1: nation to not follow uh in that same path that
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  Speaker 1: leads to destruction. The Bible says there is a way
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  Speaker 1: that seems right to a man. A man, a man
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  Speaker 1: loves to and desires to a man usurp over the
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  Speaker 1: authority of God, usurp the authority of God. Amen in
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  Speaker 1: their rebellion. But again God is patient. God is forbearing Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And we should be grateful that God is so merciful,
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  Speaker 1: that God is so whole forgiving Amen. The Bible said,
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  Speaker 1: if God were to mark iniquity, who would be able
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  Speaker 1: to stand? None of us? And so the first of
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  Speaker 1: these detrimental judgments that we find in the Bible, in
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  Speaker 1: the word of God a man on a cosmic basis,
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  Speaker 1: or on a worldwide basis, if you will, on a
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  Speaker 1: population of people, because there are two in Genesis. But
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  Speaker 1: the first of these is of course the flood. And
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  Speaker 1: this judgment is announced by God to a man by
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  Speaker 1: the name of Noah. You know the story. Those you
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  Speaker 1: read the Bible heard the stories, Amen, And you know
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  Speaker 1: that Noah, the Bible says, found race in the eyes
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  Speaker 1: of God. And so this first judgment, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: really actually came relatively early in man's existence on the earth,
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  Speaker 1: because at that time Adam, for example, lived well over
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  Speaker 1: nine hundred years. Methuselah was the man who Bible records
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  Speaker 1: lived the longest nine hundred and sixty nine years. I
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  Speaker 1: believe Adam was nine hundred and thirty years, and mean
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  Speaker 1: of the others if you look at the genealogy, the
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  Speaker 1: lifespan I believe in the book of Genesis chapter five.
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  Speaker 1: But they all had this except one individual comment. At
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  Speaker 1: the end of their days, they died. He appointing that
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  Speaker 1: the man wants to die, and after death comes to
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  Speaker 1: judgment a man. But God brings a detrimental, woeful judgment
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  Speaker 1: on the earth in its entirety, because of the rebellion,
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  Speaker 1: because of the lawlessness that was in the land. Let's
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  Speaker 1: pick it up in Genesis chapter six, verse number one.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible says, I'm reading from the New King James version.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, now, it came to pass when men
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  Speaker 1: began to multiply on the face of the earth, and
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  Speaker 1: daughters were born to them, that the sons of God
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  Speaker 1: saw the daughters of men, that they were beautiful, and
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  Speaker 1: they took wives for themselves, of all whom they chose.
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  Speaker 1: And the Lord said, my spirit shall not always or
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  Speaker 1: shall not strive with man forever, for he is indeed flesh.
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  Speaker 1: Yet his days shall be one hundred and twenty years.
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  Speaker 1: There were giants on the earth in those days, and
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  Speaker 1: also afterward, when the sons of God came in to
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  Speaker 1: the daughters of men and they bore children to them,
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  Speaker 1: those were the mighty men. Those were the mighty men,
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  Speaker 1: who were of old men, men of renown Verse five.
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  Speaker 1: Then the Lord saw that the wickedness, this is problematic, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: God sees, God hears, God knows again. There is nothing
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  Speaker 1: that is hidden from him. The Bible says again very
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  Speaker 1: clearly that all things are naked and open to the
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  Speaker 1: eyes of Him with whom we have to do. When again,
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  Speaker 1: if you go back, if I may, to the garden
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  Speaker 1: of Eden, after Adam sinned, and the Lord came, Adam, Adam,
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  Speaker 1: where are you? Where are you? God new where he was.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, hey man, there's no hiding place. Have you
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  Speaker 1: eaten of the tree which I commanded you not to
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  Speaker 1: eat of? And of course Adam and we all have
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  Speaker 1: this nature within us. Immediately it's somebody else's fault, the
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  Speaker 1: woman you And by the way, we want to point
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  Speaker 1: all the point the finger. Really actually we want to
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  Speaker 1: point the finger all the way back to God. The
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  Speaker 1: woman you gave me the woman you gave me.
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  Speaker 2: I was just fine.
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  Speaker 1: I was being the animals. We were just having a
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  Speaker 1: great time. We're getting along, Me and my dog. The
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  Speaker 1: woman you gave me, she it's your fault. See. That's
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  Speaker 1: that's how we are. That's who we are. Instead of repentance,
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  Speaker 1: instead of remorse, instead of contrition, instead of owning that
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  Speaker 1: we have sinned, we have transgressed, we have disobeyed, we
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  Speaker 1: have rebelled. Instead of doing that, we want to blame
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  Speaker 1: all the way back to heaven and the final analysis.
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  Speaker 1: That's what we really want to do and do. We
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  Speaker 1: blame God. We blame God. We blame God for the
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  Speaker 1: evil that is in the world. Amen. We say, if
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  Speaker 1: God is so good, then why why why is there
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  Speaker 1: so much evil in the world? Why does he do
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  Speaker 1: something about it? Oh? Always? Oh no, please please, don't
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  Speaker 1: be on the wrong side of that one. Don't be
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  Speaker 1: on the wrong side of that. Don't don't, because if
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  Speaker 1: you read your Bible, he is the time is coming.
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  Speaker 1: This is what we're talking about, God's judgment on lawlessness.
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  Speaker 1: Don't you worry, don't you worry? Read don't you fret,
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  Speaker 1: don't you worry? Don't you fret? And see instead of seeing,
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  Speaker 1: instead of seeing the goodness of God. And this is
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  Speaker 1: this is how, this is how warped and perverted our
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  Speaker 1: minds are, instead of seeing the goodness of God, the
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  Speaker 1: forbearance of God, the patience of God, the loving kindness
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  Speaker 1: of God, the mercy of God, instead of us seeing
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  Speaker 1: that and focusing on how good God is and forgiving
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  Speaker 1: He is even of those who are in straightent opposition
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  Speaker 1: to Him, those who shake their fists in his face
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  Speaker 1: and blaspheming, with the exception of blasphemy against the Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 1: There is no forgiveness for that. God is still merciful, impatient, tolerant.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible says, He knows our frame. He remembers that
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  Speaker 1: we are dust. Man is flesh. He is indeed flesh.
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  Speaker 1: We just read it in verse three. Man is indeed flesh.
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  Speaker 1: But there is a limitation on what we can do,
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  Speaker 1: on what we will do. And God will not allow
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  Speaker 1: mere mortal man to number one usurp its authority to
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  Speaker 1: number two destroy what He has created. He will visit
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  Speaker 1: upon lawlessness. He will. And it's even worse. And I said,
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  Speaker 1: just watch my last session on this again, God, Government, church,
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  Speaker 1: and state. There is no separation. God will not allow.
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  Speaker 1: He will not permit governments to grogue and to stay
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  Speaker 1: in that state, driving nations and peoples into total destruction.
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  Speaker 1: God is not gonna allow that judgment will come upon
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  Speaker 1: any nation of people, any government. Amen, God will do it.
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  Speaker 1: And he does it, And he intervenes all the time.
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  Speaker 1: He intervenes all the time. He strikes down, he raises
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  Speaker 1: up others. I mean, he takes people, he'll take him
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  Speaker 1: out of he and he can't even now right now.
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  Speaker 1: And a lot of people don't see the judgment the
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  Speaker 1: hand of God. They don't see the providence of God
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  Speaker 1: at work. They don't understand that it is the providence
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  Speaker 1: of God, and that God rules in the kingdom of Man.
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  Speaker 1: And God sets up, God raises up rulers, He takes
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  Speaker 1: people down. It is God who does this. Oh, don't
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  Speaker 1: get me started. Don't get me started. Don't get me started.
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  Speaker 1: All right, all right? So God looks down verse five.
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  Speaker 1: Let me get back to Genesis six. Here God looks
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  Speaker 1: down from heaven. The Bible says he saw that the
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  Speaker 1: wickedness of.
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  Speaker 2: Man was great in the earth, and that every intent
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  Speaker 2: of the thoughts of his heart was only evil.
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  Speaker 1: Continually. Verse sixtion, the Lord was sorry that he had
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  Speaker 1: made man on the earth, and he was grieved in
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  Speaker 1: his heart. So the Lord said, I will destroy. In
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  Speaker 1: other words, judgment is coming. I will destroy man whom
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  Speaker 1: I have created from the face of the earth, both
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  Speaker 1: man and beast, creeping thing, and birds of the air.
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  Speaker 1: For I am sorry that I have made them. But
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  Speaker 1: Noah verse eight found grace in the eyes of the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: I will destroy man whom I've created from the face
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  Speaker 1: of the earth, both man and beast, creeping thing, and
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  Speaker 1: birds of the air, for I am sorry that I
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  Speaker 1: have made them. I'm almost finished. I'm almost finished. But
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  Speaker 1: please understand that there are those who, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: erroneously assume that this divine judgment of God upon the
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  Speaker 1: earth and mankind too severe. Now what pray tell me? Please, please, please, somebody,
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  Speaker 1: please pray tell me what should be done in circumstances
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  Speaker 1: such as these, when the path that mankind has taken,
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  Speaker 1: has chosen to take, is going down. The path which
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  Speaker 1: man is going down is leading to destruction, is leading
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  Speaker 1: to the annihilation. That's what it leads, and that's it's
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  Speaker 1: it's not gonna happen. But I'm saying. This is what
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying is leading to that, it's leading to total
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  Speaker 1: annihilation of the entire species by the hand of wretched
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  Speaker 1: men who, in their own lust, in their own desires,
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  Speaker 1: are seeking to If you will be God, what what
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  Speaker 1: do you think God should do? If He is not interviewing?
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  Speaker 1: And there are people who believe, by the way, that
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  Speaker 1: God does not intervene, that God is aloof, that God
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  Speaker 1: is after he's an absent deity. They're those who believe
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  Speaker 1: in God, believe there is a God, but they believe
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  Speaker 1: that he is he's absent. He's not He's not He's
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  Speaker 1: not involved. And I read for you, and let me
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  Speaker 1: go back to that. I want you. I want to
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  Speaker 1: read this again. This is a quote from Benjamin Franklin.
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  Speaker 1: I read it last week in the previous podcasts. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: listen to these words. This was a man who, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, did not believe. He believed in God, but
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  Speaker 1: e didn't believed that God a man. Originally, he did
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  Speaker 1: not believe that God was involved, that God did not intervene,
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  Speaker 1: that God was aloof. In other words, there are those
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  Speaker 1: who believe that God created the earth, created the heavens,
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  Speaker 1: and the earth and created man. They believe in creation,
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  Speaker 1: but they believe that God, as it were, just wound
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  Speaker 1: up the key as it wasn't just then just let
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  Speaker 1: us go and let man do whatever he wants and
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  Speaker 1: however he wants, and that God is not involved at
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  Speaker 1: all until I suppose, at least I hope for most
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  Speaker 1: of them until the final judgment. But that's not true.
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  Speaker 1: It's not biblical. And that's what we're going to see.
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  Speaker 1: And as we go through this God willing a man,
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  Speaker 1: the series a man we can see and I cannot
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  Speaker 1: even exist. There are so many examples in the Bible
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  Speaker 1: of God intervening directly, and I'm talking about in government. God,
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  Speaker 1: Oh my God, just the nation of Israel alone, how
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  Speaker 1: many times He directly intervened, not only on their behalf,
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  Speaker 1: but with them, bringing judgment up on his own people.
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  Speaker 1: God will not allow rogue governments to continue because it's
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  Speaker 1: going to a path of destruction. Listening to it, Benjamin
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  Speaker 1: Franklin had to say, just a quote. I've lived, sir,
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  Speaker 1: a long time, and the longer I live, the more
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  Speaker 1: convincing proofs I see of this truth that God governs
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  Speaker 1: in the affairs of men. And if a speil cannot
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  Speaker 1: fall to the ground without his notice. Is it probable
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  Speaker 1: that an empire can rise without his aid? We have
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  Speaker 1: been assured, Sir, in the sacred writings that except the
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  Speaker 1: Lord build the house, they labor in vain who build it.
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  Speaker 1: I firmly believe this, and I also believe that without
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  Speaker 1: his concurring aid we shall seceed in this political building
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  Speaker 1: no better than the builders of babble. We shall be
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  Speaker 1: divided by our little, partial local interests. Our projects will
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  Speaker 1: be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and
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  Speaker 1: byword down to future ages. End. Quote the words of
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  Speaker 1: a wise man, Benjamin Franklin, who understood that God ruse
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  Speaker 1: that God does indeed intervene in the affairs of men,
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  Speaker 1: and a man there can be, and there will never be,
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  Speaker 1: any rogue government, any lawlessness that will go unpunished, that
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  Speaker 1: will go unchecked. Listen, we don't listen. We don't have
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  Speaker 1: to have a government of checks and balances, ultimately, because
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  Speaker 1: God is the ultimate check on the rogue, on the lawless,
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  Speaker 1: on the ungodly, on the unrighteous, any people, any tribe,
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  Speaker 1: any nation, any government. God range and rules. Amen. And
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  Speaker 1: so again what we see here is the Lord looking
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  Speaker 1: down from heaven on the children of men, and he
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  Speaker 1: saw among them not one righteous, not one who did good. No,
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  Speaker 1: not one. This is what the Simons said, by the way, no,
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  Speaker 1: not one. All have sinned, all have gone astray. That
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  Speaker 1: is what the Bible says. All we like sheep, have
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  Speaker 1: gone astray. We come forth, the Bible says, the wicked,
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  Speaker 1: come forth from their mother's wounds, speaking lies. He looks down,
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  Speaker 1: no not one who did good. The thought and the intent,
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  Speaker 1: the actions, the deeds of man had devolved into a
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  Speaker 1: world of evil, only continuously. Now remember again, when Adam
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  Speaker 1: and Eve ate of the tree that was forbidden, the
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  Speaker 1: tree of not of good and evil. The Bible says,
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  Speaker 1: their eyes were open, and they knew. They already knew good,
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  Speaker 1: but now evil evil. So now we have the knowledge
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  Speaker 1: of good and evil. And the Bible says, God has
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  Speaker 1: shown us what is good, and he has to because
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  Speaker 1: our nature now is in rebellion. Our nature is now
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  Speaker 1: striking against the law of God. We are by nature
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  Speaker 1: enemies of God. We are contrary to God. And so
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  Speaker 1: now any goodness that is in the earth has to
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  Speaker 1: emanate from God, and it does emanate from him. That's
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  Speaker 1: why the Bible declares plainly that there is none good, no,
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  Speaker 1: not one nor by the boy. Keep in mind, never forget,
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  Speaker 1: nor was saved by grace, nor was not a good man.
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  Speaker 1: He was righteous in his generation, but he still was
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  Speaker 1: a sinner by nature, and it was a grace of
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  Speaker 1: God God that saved him and his family. So when
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  Speaker 1: God looks down and he sees these kinds of things,
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  Speaker 1: he sees the cup of a nation filling up and
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  Speaker 1: running over and spilling out, a man into bloodshed in
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  Speaker 1: the streets, of the innocent being slain, and the blood
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  Speaker 1: of the slain victims crying out.
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  Speaker 3: From the ground, from the earth for vengeance. Will the
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  Speaker 3: maker of mankind do nothing? Will the God of creation
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  Speaker 3: say nothing? Will he simply sit silently by while we
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  Speaker 3: destroy one another? Will the divine not intervene at all?
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  Speaker 3: Should he just allow fallen man to utterly destroy all
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  Speaker 3: that he created?
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  Speaker 1: In goodness? Everything got created, good, good, good, And the
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  Speaker 1: Lord saw that it was good, good, good, And he
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  Speaker 1: created by the way for his own glory and for
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  Speaker 1: his own pleasure by the way, and he made us
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  Speaker 1: in his image and likeness, and gave us, granted us dominion.
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  Speaker 1: But because we are sinners, and because we are rebellious
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  Speaker 1: against him, we must be checked, We must be disciplined,
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  Speaker 1: we must be chastened, we must be judged by God. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: God not only sees what we do, he knows, and
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  Speaker 1: he examines the heart, the motives, the intent of the heart.
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  Speaker 1: We can't see. Man looks on the out with appearance. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: but God looks at the heart. He knows what's hidden
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  Speaker 1: within and knows the end of all things. He knows
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  Speaker 1: what will happen. Amen, with the evil, not only of us,
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  Speaker 1: of course, but that's wicked one satan, the instigator a man.
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  Speaker 1: If he does not intervene, if God does not intervene, whenever,
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  Speaker 1: fallen and rebellious man is left to his own whimsical
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  Speaker 1: fantasies and desires and lust of the flesh and of
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  Speaker 1: his mind to do as he pleases. Whenever, if we
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  Speaker 1: were left to ourselves, and that's that's certainly not the case.
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  Speaker 1: But if God were to leave us to ourselves, and
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  Speaker 1: thank God he doesn't, Thank God he hasn't. Thank God,
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  Speaker 1: he never will. Amen. All that would come is death
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  Speaker 1: and destruction and the annihilation. That would be the end
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  Speaker 1: of result. And this is why God intervened in Genesis
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  Speaker 1: chapter six, because he saw that the wickedness. The Bible says,
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  Speaker 1: he saw that the wickedness of man. He saw what
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  Speaker 1: was on the inside, He saw what was happening. He
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  Speaker 1: saw that there would be no repentance. He saw that
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  Speaker 1: there was lawlessness, lawlessness, in other words, no governing authority.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody was doing what was right in their own eyes.
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  Speaker 1: And this is the example again and again. It real
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  Speaker 1: care reoccurs over and over again, even again when you
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  Speaker 1: look at the Book of the Judges, God's own people,
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  Speaker 1: when lawlessness persists, when there is no governmental authority that
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  Speaker 1: is governing righteously by the way, and when we say
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  Speaker 1: righteous by the way, Let's let's make a little quick
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  Speaker 1: distinction here. We talk about righteous. We're talking about and
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  Speaker 1: the Bible is in many instances, in most instances, especially
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  Speaker 1: in particul lily in the Old Testament, when you're talking
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  Speaker 1: about righteous, we're talking about doing what is right now.
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  Speaker 1: That is required of man, all men, to do what
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  Speaker 1: is right now. That does not save anyone. We can
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  Speaker 1: only be saved by the mercy of God, by the
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  Speaker 1: grace of God, through the blood of Jesus Christ. But
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  Speaker 1: you are still obligated to do what is right. That's
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  Speaker 1: that's that's he has shown you, oh man, what is good. Micah,
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  Speaker 1: He's shown you. We know, amen, we know what is
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  Speaker 1: right to do this when when you when you're talking
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  Speaker 1: about a righteous government, we're talking about a government that
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  Speaker 1: does the right thing, a government that punishes evil and
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  Speaker 1: protects and defends the innocent, and the government that does
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  Speaker 1: not sheft innocent blood, a government that does not give
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  Speaker 1: hearty approval for evil and wickedness, and a government that
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  Speaker 1: does not itself engage in it. Ah, help us, Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: Help us, Jesus, Help us, Jesus. When God sees this,
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  Speaker 1: when God sees this, he brings his judgment in order
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  Speaker 1: to save us from ourselves. That's why he does it.
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  Speaker 1: That's why he does it. When he looks down and
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  Speaker 1: he always sees, he always knows. And by the way,
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  Speaker 1: God's judgment his time. See, we don't know, we don't
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  Speaker 1: know when it is, but it's already appointed because God
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  Speaker 1: knows when the up it's going to be full. He knows,
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  Speaker 1: he knows, he knows, he knows, he knows when we
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  Speaker 1: will have run our course on this earth. And it's
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  Speaker 1: it's it's already revealed for us in the in the
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  Speaker 1: in the book, especially particularly the Book of Revelation, but
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  Speaker 1: throughout the prophets of old and in the New Testament,
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  Speaker 1: we know that the judgment of God is coming. But
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  Speaker 1: God again, in his forbearance, in his patience, and his
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  Speaker 1: loving kindness, in his tender mercies, the Bible says Peter
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  Speaker 1: wrote these words, not willing that any should perish, but
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  Speaker 1: that all should come to repentance. But the day of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord will come. It will come, It will come. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: He is marvelously and wonderfully patient in his forbearance towards men,
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  Speaker 1: both on an individual basis and on a national tribal
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  Speaker 1: organizational level, toward nations of people governments, even as they
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  Speaker 1: continue in their sin. Again, as the Book of Genesis,
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  Speaker 1: as God himself so stated to Noah, my spirit, however,
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  Speaker 1: will not always strive a man. God will bring in
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  Speaker 1: due course. He will bring upon a lawless land his
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  Speaker 1: righteous judgment, and his judgment is just. So. May we
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  Speaker 1: heed the admonition of Psalm number two. Now therefore be wise,
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  Speaker 1: or kings of the earth, be instructed. You, judges of
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  Speaker 1: the earth, serve the Lord with fear, rejoice with trembling,
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  Speaker 1: kiss the sun. Lets he be angry, and you perish
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  Speaker 1: in the way when his wrath is kindled, but a little,
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  Speaker 1: but blessed, The Bible says all those who put their
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  Speaker 1: trust in Him. God help us. God help us, God
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  Speaker 1: help us.