Latest / End-Time Revival Ministries, USA / Episode 169 - Government Power Struggle
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- 0:14Speaker 1: Bless the Lord, oh my soul, and all that is
- 0:17Speaker 1: within me, Bless His holy name. We welcome you once
- 0:21Speaker 1: again to this another edition of End Time Revival Ministries
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- 0:47Speaker 1: those of you who listen faithfully, we are grateful to
- 0:51Speaker 1: the Lord for you for all of your prayers and
- 0:53Speaker 1: support amen for this ministry over the years. And we've
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- 1:22Speaker 1: as always here to faithfully share the word of the
- 1:26Speaker 1: Lord and hopefully speak words of encouragement that will help
- 1:31Speaker 1: us all along the journey on our way to glory
- 1:36Speaker 1: that is our ultimate A first and foremost to be
- 1:40Speaker 1: more like Jesus here in this present world, and of
- 1:43Speaker 1: course a man to a man see his face in peace.
- 1:48Speaker 1: We want to hear him say well done, good and
- 1:51Speaker 1: faithful servant. All right, For those of you who've been
- 1:54Speaker 1: following along with us, we're in a series on the God, government,
- 1:57Speaker 1: church and state. We're rapidly coming to a close on
- 2:00Speaker 1: this series, and by the way, I just want to
- 2:02Speaker 1: say this, hopefully, going forward, a man, many of the
- 2:06Speaker 1: podcasts that we're going to be doing in the future
- 2:08Speaker 1: will perhaps be a little bit less lengthy in content
- 2:14Speaker 1: and also perhaps even in terms of lengthy series, which,
- 2:19Speaker 1: of course I believe this perhaps has been the lengthiest
- 2:23Speaker 1: of all of the series that we've done over the
- 2:26Speaker 1: years on this subject of God, government, church and state.
- 2:30Speaker 1: But certainly it is important for us to understand a
- 2:33Speaker 1: man that God is the sovereign and supreme ruler in
- 2:37Speaker 1: our world. So much a man grabs our attention, especially
- 2:42Speaker 1: as it pertains to governments of this world. A man
- 2:46Speaker 1: those who rule, those who are in power, those who
- 2:48Speaker 1: make laws, those who a man again issued decrees, and
- 2:53Speaker 1: so forth and so on. But as people of God,
- 2:56Speaker 1: we need not live in fear, doubt, unbelief. We must
- 3:00Speaker 1: understand and trust in the sovereign rule of God. And
- 3:06Speaker 1: that is utmost important for us, if we're going to
- 3:10Speaker 1: a man live at peace in this world, and that's
- 3:13Speaker 1: ultimately what the Lord wants for us. While we are
- 3:16Speaker 1: here peace, There's gonna be peace in heaven. There's gonna
- 3:19Speaker 1: be joy in heaven. There's going to be bliss, eternal bliss, Amen, Pleasure, Amen, forevermore. Amen.
- 3:26Speaker 1: But while we are here fighting against an enemy, an adversary,
- 3:30Speaker 1: the devil who loves to work in the high places,
- 3:34Speaker 1: a man immense amidst those who are a man already
- 3:39Speaker 1: in many cases obstinate against God. But we certainly again
- 3:44Speaker 1: want to a man encourage God's people to know of
- 3:48Speaker 1: a certainty that a man God is in control, and
- 3:51Speaker 1: there's nothing that is out of his realm of knowledge
- 3:57Speaker 1: and power, and at least from our perspective, ability to
- 4:02Speaker 1: change and literally change overnight, Amen, or even a man
- 4:07Speaker 1: in an instant. Things can change. And we see this
- 4:10Speaker 1: all the time. If you've lived long enough, you've seen it. Amen.
- 4:13Speaker 1: Things can change, Amen, And certainly they do as God
- 4:18Speaker 1: works out his a man eternal plan of redemption in
- 4:22Speaker 1: which He will amen, save and keep and preserve those
- 4:27Speaker 1: who amen put their trust in Him. All right, let's
- 4:30Speaker 1: take quick moment two. A man invoke the presence of
- 4:35Speaker 1: the Lord and ask his favor. God Again, we are
- 4:38Speaker 1: grateful to you, a man. We love you, We praise you.
- 4:41Speaker 1: Thank you for your great sacrifice, the blood of Jesus
- 4:44Speaker 1: that was shed for the remission of our sins. Thank
- 4:46Speaker 1: you for the word of the Living God that gives
- 4:48Speaker 1: us life, that gives us illumination, that lights our pathway,
- 4:52Speaker 1: that orders our steps. Thank you for instruction. Amen, Thank
- 4:57Speaker 1: you for understanding, wisdom and direction. While again we are
- 5:01Speaker 1: here in this earth, Keep us and we shall be kept.
- 5:04Speaker 1: Bless us and we shall be blessed. Amen. Open the
- 5:07Speaker 1: eyes of those who are blinded, Lord, unstop their ears.
- 5:10Speaker 1: May they hear, then, come to see and know that
- 5:13Speaker 1: you are the truly live in God, the only wise Savior,
- 5:17Speaker 1: God and Redeemer. It's in the name of Jesus we
- 5:20Speaker 1: praying give thanks, Amen and Amen. All Right, today we're
- 5:24Speaker 1: going to kind of focus a little bit on government
- 5:26Speaker 1: power struggle struggle. There is a government power struggle and
- 5:33Speaker 1: we're going to look at that just briefly today. And
- 5:38Speaker 1: we've already perhaps at nauseum spoken in these many previous
- 5:47Speaker 1: podcasts on this subject. About the governments of this world,
- 5:51Speaker 1: about them fighting against the sovereign rule of God throughout history.
- 5:57Speaker 1: And for the most part, when you see this, you
- 6:02Speaker 1: examine the historical perspective of these government rulers. For for
- 6:08Speaker 1: for the most part they have been on a tyrannical
- 6:11Speaker 1: rule by a pride field monarch or king or again
- 6:21Speaker 1: a pharaoh is a king, for example. And in many
- 6:27Speaker 1: of these cases, these mere mortal men were being worshiped,
- 6:33Speaker 1: and in many instance it's also they were exalted as
- 6:40Speaker 1: gods themselves. And uh. And whenever you have a mere
- 6:45Speaker 1: mortal man who has been lifted up and treated with
- 6:48Speaker 1: such daunting admiration and adoration, he's bound to become filled
- 6:57Speaker 1: with arrogance, with pride, and you know, looking forward to
- 7:07Speaker 1: and lusting after and longing for the praises of men.
- 7:12Speaker 1: And he will, if not already has have it, he
- 7:16Speaker 1: will develop a contempt for any other power, any other
- 7:25Speaker 1: authority that would perhaps be a threat to him. He
- 7:30Speaker 1: doesn't want any rival authority. This is why men will
- 7:33Speaker 1: rebel against the authority of God. And herein lies the
- 7:38Speaker 1: government struggle, the government struggle in a world of again
- 7:43Speaker 1: men who are mere mortals, because they feigned themselves to
- 7:51Speaker 1: be more than what they truly are. And we know,
- 7:55Speaker 1: I mean from the scriptural perspective. And they know this too,
- 7:58Speaker 1: I mean they know. Listen, all men know that they're
- 8:01Speaker 1: going to die. Now, some live in grand delusion. And
- 8:06Speaker 1: and and we all no one, let me just we understand,
- 8:14Speaker 1: at least instinctively that death is not something that is desirable.
- 8:19Speaker 1: And again, those of us who know the word of
- 8:22Speaker 1: the Lord, this is not what God, a man made
- 8:25Speaker 1: us to be. He didn't make us to die. He
- 8:27Speaker 1: made us as eternal creatures. And because of sin that
- 8:31Speaker 1: is into the world. Amen, we face death, the sentence
- 8:35Speaker 1: of death, and we fight, we fight against death. And again,
- 8:39Speaker 1: when there are those who are drunken in power, they
- 8:43Speaker 1: and they don't, by the way, acknowledge God. And again
- 8:46Speaker 1: I'm not painting with a broad brush, because there have
- 8:48Speaker 1: been many rulers throughout the ages that God has exalted
- 8:53Speaker 1: and used rather to rule with righteousness and and with
- 9:01Speaker 1: a respect for the sovereignty and law of God as
- 9:05Speaker 1: it were. So, But for the most part you have
- 9:11Speaker 1: those in power who again are drunken on their a
- 9:16Speaker 1: man exalted status, and they will not recognize and honor
- 9:21Speaker 1: the king of kings and Lord of lords a man.
- 9:25Speaker 1: And and uh, the government power struggle that exists in
- 9:30Speaker 1: our world today against the rule of God, against the
- 9:34Speaker 1: power of God, against the sovereignty of God, is it
- 9:37Speaker 1: is self perpetuate, perpetuated rather by the pride that is
- 9:43Speaker 1: in man again, because he's under a spell of delusion,
- 9:51Speaker 1: he's under a sense of grandeur. That that that that
- 9:57Speaker 1: that the devil himself, by the way, who is the
- 9:59Speaker 1: prince power of the air, the one that again loves
- 10:03Speaker 1: to a man traffic in these high places. Because if
- 10:08Speaker 1: the devil, and he knows this, if he can work
- 10:12Speaker 1: within powerful rulers, and the more power they have, all
- 10:18Speaker 1: the better, because with them and through them, he can
- 10:23Speaker 1: affect I mean untold thousands and millions of people in
- 10:30Speaker 1: a certainly devious and deadly way. Because that's what Jesus
- 10:36Speaker 1: told us about the devil. And he comes to steal, killed,
- 10:41Speaker 1: and to destroy. And those who willingly submit themselves to him,
- 10:47Speaker 1: they are his children. Amen, they are his children. And
- 10:51Speaker 1: that's what Jesus said. By the way of those a
- 10:54Speaker 1: man Jews who would not believe on him, who rebelled
- 10:59Speaker 1: against him, he said, you are of your father, the devil,
- 11:03Speaker 1: and the deeds of your father, you will do so.
- 11:06Speaker 1: The devil loves to work a man in those who
- 11:10Speaker 1: are in power, because again, they can have such a
- 11:13Speaker 1: drastic effect negatively upon the culture, upon a civilization as
- 11:19Speaker 1: a whole. And but let's keep this in mind, though,
- 11:26Speaker 1: by the way, when these rulers, when these government leaders,
- 11:31Speaker 1: when these kings, monarchs, whoever they may be, a man,
- 11:36Speaker 1: though they deny and rebel and refuse to acknowledge God
- 11:43Speaker 1: as being sovereign, it does not in any way alter
- 11:47Speaker 1: the fact that God is who he is. Amen. Again,
- 11:53Speaker 1: it is their own delusion. But what it does do
- 11:58Speaker 1: it exacerbates the government struggle. Because again, when you refuse
- 12:04Speaker 1: to submit, when you refuse to honor, when you refuse
- 12:08Speaker 1: to give thanks to the God who made the heavens
- 12:12Speaker 1: and the earth, the God who holds your very breath,
- 12:16Speaker 1: your very being, your very existence in his hands, when
- 12:19Speaker 1: you refuse to do that, you are exacerbating the struggle
- 12:24Speaker 1: a man. The chasm, as it was, is already great.
- 12:28Speaker 1: There's a great chasm, a great divide. That's what sin
- 12:31Speaker 1: has done. And that's why Jesus came amen to bridge
- 12:35Speaker 1: that divide. The Bible tells us he's the one and
- 12:38Speaker 1: only mediator between God and man. But if you refuse
- 12:41Speaker 1: to acknowledge him a man as lord, a man, again,
- 12:46Speaker 1: it simply exacerbates a man. The government struggled, at least
- 12:50Speaker 1: from that perspective, and it need not be if they
- 12:55Speaker 1: would simply a man, acknowledge a man Jesus as lord
- 13:03Speaker 1: and honor him as their king. Pilot rightly correctly put
- 13:09Speaker 1: that placard. Amen, as they were over, Amen, the head
- 13:14Speaker 1: of Jesus. This is Jesus king, he said, king. But
- 13:20Speaker 1: not only is he king of the Jews. Oh no, no, no, no, no,
- 13:23Speaker 1: he's king of all kings and Lord of lords. But again,
- 13:30Speaker 1: not only historically, but to this very day and on
- 13:35Speaker 1: into the future. By the way, we know this from
- 13:37Speaker 1: the Bible, from the Book of Revelation, from the future
- 13:40Speaker 1: prophecies that are yet to be fulfilled. We have government rulers,
- 13:46Speaker 1: and we'll have government rulers of this world who will
- 13:48Speaker 1: continue to coalesce with a determination to mount up opposition
- 13:55Speaker 1: against the sovereign ruler of this universe. Amen. Because again
- 14:02Speaker 1: they live in a grand delusion that they can somehow
- 14:07Speaker 1: become autonomous rulers. Outside of God's kingship, lordship, kingdom, sovereignty. Amen.
- 14:20Speaker 1: And the Lord in his omniscience is very aware, by
- 14:25Speaker 1: the way, He's very aware of this same spirit of
- 14:30Speaker 1: pride in man that was in Lucifer, that was in
- 14:34Speaker 1: the devil himself, a man who, by the way of course,
- 14:38Speaker 1: was cast down from his position of prominence. Why because
- 14:42Speaker 1: he wanted to exalt himself. He felt like he should
- 14:46Speaker 1: be more than what he is. The Bible, by the way,
- 14:48Speaker 1: warns all men to not think of ourselves more highly
- 14:52Speaker 1: than we ought to think a man. Again, it all
- 14:55Speaker 1: begins with simply acknowledging God. It begins with thanksgiving, it
- 15:00Speaker 1: begins with gratitude. It begins with a man knowing that
- 15:05Speaker 1: he is Lord, and it is He that has made us,
- 15:08Speaker 1: and not we ourselves. There are no self made people
- 15:13Speaker 1: anyone and everyone in positions of power and authority have
- 15:18Speaker 1: been exalted there by God. Period. Amen. I know they
- 15:23Speaker 1: are those who think that, hey, it's my resume, it's
- 15:26Speaker 1: my accomplishments, it's my achievement, it's my popularity. No no, no,
- 15:30Speaker 1: no no no no no no no no no no, Amen.
- 15:35Speaker 1: It is God who has allowed you, permitted you to
- 15:39Speaker 1: be there. And by the way, let me just repeat
- 15:40Speaker 1: this very quickly. I've spoken on this. Amen that probably
- 15:43Speaker 1: again ad nauseum throughout this whether they obey God or not,
- 15:50Speaker 1: God's will will be done. Amen. They cannot no mere
- 15:56Speaker 1: mortal man can thwart, can dis annoy, a man can
- 16:02Speaker 1: alter in any way what God has already predetermined, predestined,
- 16:07Speaker 1: and purposed to be. Amen. And again they will do
- 16:13Speaker 1: well to a man, honor the Lord and come off
- 16:16Speaker 1: of this grand delusion, Amen, and not be broken, but
- 16:20Speaker 1: instead willingly bow their needs and confess that He is Lord. Amen.
- 16:26Speaker 1: All right, So we want to examine very quickly the
- 16:29Speaker 1: prophetic words of scripture that is going to be found
- 16:33Speaker 1: in some number two. We've already visited this in the past,
- 16:36Speaker 1: of course, but these prophetic words are being fulfilled right
- 16:42Speaker 1: up until the final judgment. A man upon all of
- 16:46Speaker 1: mankind who again persist in their a man ongoing campaign
- 16:54Speaker 1: of resisting the right of God to rule in and
- 16:58Speaker 1: over Amen, their lives. And this keep in mind, this
- 17:04Speaker 1: is His universe, Amen, This is His created order. Amen.
- 17:09Speaker 1: And he has the right, the sovereign right, as the
- 17:13Speaker 1: sovereign ruler, as the owner, as the creator, as the maker,
- 17:17Speaker 1: as the sustainer a man, He has the right to
- 17:21Speaker 1: do as he pleases and to impose his commands a
- 17:27Speaker 1: man upon his created order. Amen. It is all Remember
- 17:34Speaker 1: the scriptures teaches us this, All of this is for
- 17:39Speaker 1: his glory, his honor, his majesty, his dominion, And he
- 17:44Speaker 1: did it according to his good pleasure. Amen. And again
- 17:48Speaker 1: God will be glorified. Whether we obey him or not,
- 17:52Speaker 1: He will be glorified. He will get the glory out
- 17:56Speaker 1: of every single life, in obedience or disobedience. God still
- 18:02Speaker 1: will be glorified and magnified. And we're going to find
- 18:06Speaker 1: in Psalm number two that there have been no truer
- 18:08Speaker 1: words spoken. Amen. When we examine, Amen again, the state
- 18:15Speaker 1: of our world today, the history of government in our world. Amen.
- 18:21Speaker 1: The Bible tells us. And by the way, this also
- 18:23Speaker 1: specifically points to Amen, the rebellion against and the uprising
- 18:31Speaker 1: and the murder, if you will, of Jesus while he
- 18:36Speaker 1: was here, Amen, on this earth. Psalm number two. Why
- 18:40Speaker 1: do the heathen rage and the people imagine a vain thing? Amen?
- 18:48Speaker 1: The question is why do they rage against God? Causing
- 18:54Speaker 1: their foolish heart to become darkened? Romans Chapter one. By
- 19:01Speaker 1: the way, in their rage against God, their foolish hearts
- 19:05Speaker 1: are darkened. Amen. And again it's all because of these
- 19:09Speaker 1: vain imaginations that rise up in their mind. Instead of
- 19:14Speaker 1: casting them down, instead of saying no, no, no, instead
- 19:17Speaker 1: of acknowledging, and instead of knowing a man, the God
- 19:21Speaker 1: that a man has, a man appeared to them, appealed
- 19:25Speaker 1: to them a man. The Bible says, when they knew God,
- 19:29Speaker 1: they glorified him, not ask God. Again, it's not as
- 19:32Speaker 1: though these people don't know. Everybody knows that God exists. Amen.
- 19:39Speaker 1: He has clearly shown and again put on display. Amen.
- 19:45Speaker 1: Again Roman chapter one. You can read it there, Amen,
- 19:49Speaker 1: And his knowledge his existence, we know it. Amen. It
- 19:52Speaker 1: is outright rebellion. I heard one preacher say many years ago,
- 19:58Speaker 1: it's cosmic treason against God. The Bible tells us, look
- 20:03Speaker 1: at verse to the kings of the earth. These the rulers,
- 20:07Speaker 1: the Bible teaches the kings of the earth. They set
- 20:11Speaker 1: themselves and the rulers take counsel together. So there you
- 20:17Speaker 1: have it. There's this coalition, there's this agreement of these
- 20:22Speaker 1: amen that are in power to a man come together
- 20:26Speaker 1: to plan, to plot, to scheme. Amen, against the Lord,
- 20:30Speaker 1: look what the Bible says, And against his anointed? What anointed?
- 20:35Speaker 1: Who's anointed? Who is this anointed that he's talking about?
- 20:38Speaker 1: The sums here Christ, Amen, the Christ. And this is
- 20:42Speaker 1: exactly what they did. Amen. We already talked about this. Amen.
- 20:47Speaker 1: All of the government of the Jews got together, even
- 20:50Speaker 1: those who have been enemies and at odds with each other,
- 20:53Speaker 1: Pharisees and Sadducees in particular, they got together when it
- 20:57Speaker 1: came to getting rid of Jesus. And this is what
- 21:01Speaker 1: the Psalmists a man foresaw and it is still yet
- 21:06Speaker 1: a man enforced today in the world with governments and rulers,
- 21:11Speaker 1: not all of them. Again, who a man are refusing
- 21:17Speaker 1: to acknowledge God as God? And so Verse three tells
- 21:23Speaker 1: us what they say. Listen, listen. They because they don't
- 21:27Speaker 1: want to acknowledge God. They say, let us break their
- 21:30Speaker 1: bands asunder and cast away their cords from us. Amen.
- 21:37Speaker 1: This is what they have agreed to do. This is
- 21:39Speaker 1: what they come together to do. They don't want the
- 21:42Speaker 1: rule of God, they don't want the law of God.
- 21:46Speaker 1: They don't want the a man the sovereignty of God.
- 21:49Speaker 1: They don't want the power of God. They don't want
- 21:51Speaker 1: the authority of God over them. So this is what
- 21:54Speaker 1: they agreed to do. Amen. In their frivolity and their futility,
- 21:59Speaker 1: they come together. Amen to again in grand delusion, overthrow
- 22:05Speaker 1: God like Satan, like Lucifer, their father who said I
- 22:10Speaker 1: will ascend to the sides of the north, he said
- 22:13Speaker 1: I will be like the most high God. Amen. He
- 22:17Speaker 1: used that same trickery in the garden of Eden and
- 22:20Speaker 1: is still at work today. Verse forest tells us he
- 22:23Speaker 1: that sitteth in the heavens this is God, shall laugh.
- 22:27Speaker 1: The Lord shall have them in derision. Then shall he
- 22:30Speaker 1: speak unto them in his wrath and vex them in
- 22:34Speaker 1: his sore displeasure. Listen what the Lord said, saying Amen
- 22:40Speaker 1: to these rebels. Verse six. Yet have I set my
- 22:45Speaker 1: king upon my holy heel of Zion. Who is this king,
- 22:50Speaker 1: King Jesus Born, the King Amen, the King eternal, the
- 22:56Speaker 1: King in mortar, the King invisible, the all wise, the Almighty,
- 23:00Speaker 1: the first to last, the aff of the Omega, the
- 23:02Speaker 1: beginning and the end. Amen. He is God, he is Lord,
- 23:06Speaker 1: he is King, he is set and its throng cannot
- 23:11Speaker 1: and will not be overthrown. Yet I have set my
- 23:14Speaker 1: king aby, my holy heel of Zion. I will declare
- 23:16Speaker 1: the decree the Lord has said unto me. Thou art
- 23:19Speaker 1: my son. This day I have begotten thee ask of me,
- 23:23Speaker 1: and I shall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance,
- 23:27Speaker 1: and the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession.
- 23:30Speaker 1: Thou shalt break them with the rod of iron. Thou
- 23:33Speaker 1: shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel. Listen
- 23:36Speaker 1: God's judgment upon those who persist in their outright obstinate
- 23:41Speaker 1: rebellion against his. Listen patient forbearance, loving kindness, graciousness, tender mercies. Amen.
- 23:52Speaker 1: God's judgment is coming upon these, Amen, obstinate rebels. But
- 23:57Speaker 1: now is the acceptable time. Now is the day a
- 24:01Speaker 1: man of redemption of sins being forgiven. Amen. God is faithful,
- 24:09Speaker 1: he is just, he is amen loving, and he will
- 24:13Speaker 1: forgive all who come to him, all who are of
- 24:18Speaker 1: a broken heart and a contrite spirit. God will forgive. Amen.
- 24:23Speaker 1: So listen with the Simon says Sage Advice verse ten.
- 24:27Speaker 1: Be wise. Now, therefore, o ye kings, be instruct that
- 24:31Speaker 1: ye judges of the earth serve the Lord with fear.
- 24:35Speaker 1: Rejoice with trembling kiss the son less. He be angry,
- 24:38Speaker 1: and you perish from the way when his wrath is
- 24:41Speaker 1: kindled but a little but blessed. On the other hand,
- 24:45Speaker 1: are all they that put their trust in him a man.
- 24:51Speaker 1: May the kings of the earth, May the rulers of
- 24:54Speaker 1: the earth. May the government officials who are yet walking
- 24:58Speaker 1: in pride be abased. May they come to know that
- 25:01Speaker 1: Jesus Christ is Lord and King. Blessings to you, Amen
- 25:07Speaker 1: and Amen.