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Episode 67 - God’s Affirmative Action Part V · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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Jesus said to the woman of Samaria, if you knew the gift of God
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and who it is that saith to thee give me to drink, you would
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have asked of him and he would have given thee living water. Lord,
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We thank you that we know the gift, and the gift is Jesus Christ
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given to us, given for us. And thank you Lord for that gift
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of your love. God so loved, so loved, that he gave the
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gift of grace, the gift of peace and joy and all of the benefits
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that we enjoy. Because of Jesus Christ coming down, making himself of no
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reputation, taking on the form of a servant, being found in the likeness
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of men, he umbold himself, and he became obedient unto death, even
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the death of the cross. And we have escaped. Our soul has escaped
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as the bird out of the snare, and we have been delivered and set
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free by your mighty power. Thank you, Lord for this gift of salvation.
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Help us now even this day and until you return again, to walk
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a man in this newness of life, and a man be found faithful when
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you return. For your people be magnified today open, blinded eyes, deaf
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ears, change the hearts as only you can do. In Jesus name,
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we bring gift, thanks for all things. A man, a man,
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a man. God bless you again. Everyone, We thank you, Amen
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again those of you tuning in to this another edition of End Time Revival Ministries,
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US SAY Broadcasts and podcast. I am your host and Pastor al Zachary
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and today again a man. We are going to a man continue with this
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Amen affirmative action program that God has for his people. And today we're going
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to Amen discuss what God has freely given to his people. This we need
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to know and we need to understand that God has freely given to us a
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man all things that pertain to life and godliness, a man in this present
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world, a man, and a man even far surpassing in the world that
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is to come. Amen. So we're going to be a man again,
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a man looking at all of the great benefits that God has in store for
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his people. My purpose is to encourage the hearts of God's people a man
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and to let you know that your help comes from the Lord, to remind
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you that your help comes from the Lord, not man. A man cursed
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is the man who puts his trust in Man, Amen, and so again,
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and we want to remind you, and by the way, those of
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you are tuning in by way of radio, we of course remind you that
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of a burning fire, Amen, because our God is a consuming fire.
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Amen. And God, we are certainly endeavoring a man to preach the word,
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to preach the truth. And of course this podcast Amen is also available
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can access it a man again through multiple outlets, And please, by all
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means share it with someone else. Please share it with someone else. Amen,
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As we again endeavor to Amen, speak that which God has spoken,
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and declare that which he has decreed, Amen, in his word. Amen.
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All right again, let's go to the word of the Lord. I'm
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going to start first in the Book of Romans, chapter number eight, to
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remind you of the promises of God. Then we're going to go to First
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Corinthians, chapter number two. Amen. God's affirmative action program, as we've
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already been emphasizing, Amen, that he decreed, and he put in four
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Amen, for us his children, a man is without cost to us.
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And it is unconditionally always God's action program, affirmative. God affirmed his people,
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his program is always at work on our behalf a man. And again,
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it is freely given to us. And that's what we're gonna be talking
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about, freely given. Because what man gives you you know most. You
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know this, I know this. You've experienced this, and you understand this
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if you've lived long enough. There are strings attached always with anything that comes
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from man, a man. It is priceless what God has given to us
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a man, and and and it is purposed according to his good pleasure,
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a man that He purposed in himself toward his own people, and as the
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children of God. In the Church of Jesus Christ triumphant. We dare not
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allow the adversary a man any operational capacity in which he seeks to a man
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calls calamity and chaos. A man within this sphere of power, a man
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that that has been freely given to us to walk in. If you are
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in the Church of Jesus Christ, please understand this. If you are in
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the Church of Jesus Christ, you are a part, a man of the
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most potent and effectually powerful entity that is operating in this world. Period.
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Amen. God's people are the most powerful people on the planet. Period hands
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down. Amen. I did an exhaustive series. A man on our weapons,
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a man that God has given to us. The Bible reminds us,
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and I remind you that the weapons of our warfare are not carnal. Remember
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what Jesus said to pilots. My kingdom is not of this world a man.
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We have received a spiritual kingdom, a kingdom that can cannot fade away.
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And our weapons that we use, the weapons that God has given to
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us, are not carnal. But the Bible says are mighty through God.
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To the pulling down of strongholds, casting down imaginations, everything that exalts itself
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against a knowledge of Christ. A man a man. So we have a
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man, the most powerful, and we are part of the most powerful,
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a man entity operating in this world. If the people of God, if
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just the people of God a man, would umble themselves. And I believe
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this prayer that was answered by the Lord to Solomon, I believe this prayer
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answer that God gave to Solomon is still effectual today. If my people,
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who are called by my name, would umble themselves and pray, turn from
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their wicked ways, seek my face a man, God would heal this land.
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He would forgive our sins and heal the land. We are the salt,
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We are the light. We are the difference maker in this world.
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And by the power a man that is a working us, we can take
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on serpents, we can move mountains, we can slay giants, and we
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as God, as the Bible reminds us, we always will triumph victorious over
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all of the works of the enemy. Jesus put it this way. He
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said, I give you power over all of the works of the enemy.
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So no weapon a man that the devil comes up with. Listen, I
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don't care again what your skin color is what your nationality is, what your
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birth, your birth origin, where you come from a man, your roots,
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your background, your your your lineage. None of those things matter when
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you are a child of God, a man. None of those things matter
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in terms of what God can do in your life, what God can do
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with your life, because He is for you, and I don't care what
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obstacle you are facing, what mountain you have in your way a man,
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what serpents are trying to attack you a man. Nothing that the enemy has
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can stop what God has for you. No weapon, no weapon, can
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prosper against the people of God. The gates of hell, Jesus said,
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shall not prevail against the power of God that he has invested in his church.
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Kings and kingdoms of this world will come and go. But the kingdom
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we have received again cannot be shaken, the Bible tells us, and it
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cannot be moved, because it is not of men, it is not of
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religion, it is not of this world, but it is of God,
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the Eternal God, the Sovereign God, the Almighty. A man, and
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the best that you can ever have in this life, the best that you
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can ever have in this life, is the free gift of God's saving grace,
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which brings in into your body, into your mind, into your inner
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man, into your inner being. It brings the presence of the Holy Spirit,
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a man to be in you, to work in you, to affirm
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you, a man to be affirmative in you. Amen. When you receive
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the Holy Ghost, You've got God's affirming power at work in you. Amen.
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It is freely given again to everyone who is broken in heart and contrite
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in their spirit. He says, a broken heart, This is a word
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of the Lord, a broken heart and a contrite spirit. I will in
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no wise this by God is near. The Bible says unto them who are
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able of a broken heart and a contrite spirit. And everyone who believes the
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Bible tells us and is baptized into Jesus Christ by the Holy Ghost, is
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instantaneously and forever, irrevocably in the love of God and in God's native action
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program. Nothing can separate us Romans, Chapter eight. Amen, Going now
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just a minute, Nothing can separate us. This is what the apostle Paul
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was persuaded of. He'sa I'm persuaded that nothing can separate us, Amen,
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from the love of God his loving kindness. Amen. His great love that
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he amen, demonstrate it. Amen, far above what we can even of.
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I mean, it's just unimagined, more unthinkable. Amen. And that's
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why the Bible says to the Greeks is foolishness. Amen, it's foolishness they
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don't understand. Amen. It is by his eternal decrees, which God purposed
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in his great love for us, that always causes us, always causes us
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to triumph as though more than conquer us. That we have been declared to
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be a man by the word of God, by the power of God.
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Amen, I am more than any which means I overcome. Amen. Listen
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and listen, and I love again. I make mention of this often.
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Amen. I'm so glad that God puts no more on me than I can
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bear. And with every temptation, with every trial, he makes a way
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for me to escape that I may be able to bear it. Amen.
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So God's not gonna put more on you than you can handle. Amen,
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but He will always cause you to triumph. This which takes us now to
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Romans eight twenty eighth. The Bible tells us, and we know that all
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things, Amen, all things work together for good to those who love God,
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to those who are the called according to his purpose, for whom he
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for knew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his son,
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that he might be the firstborn among many brethren. Moreover, whom he
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predestined, these he also called. Whom he called, these he also justified,
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And whom he justified, these he also glorified. What then, shall
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we say to these things? Oh I love this, Oh I love this?
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Romans eight thirty one. If God be for us, who can't be
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against us, He who did not spare his own son, but delivered him
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up for us all, How shall he not with him also freely give us
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all things? Oh, My God, who man o man o man o
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man If we God help us, God help us, y'all know, I
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said, I said, I praised, I prayed all the time. God
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help us. Help our unbelief. Oh God, help our unbelief. Amen.
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If God is for us, who can be against us? He did
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not spare his own son, He delivered Jesus up for us all the Bible
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tells us. So how shall he not with him also freely give us,
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freely give us all things, All things worked together, all things worked together
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for good to those who love God, to those who are the called according
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to His purpose, Every every child of every child of God, Oh My
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God, help us Jesus, every true believer in Chris Jesus ought to ask
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him him or herself. Amen, these questions within their own minds, and
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and and and and it needs you need to This is this is your responsibility,
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This is your This is your This is a part of building your faith.
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Amen, your trust and your confidence in the Lord, and your boldness
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a man in this world. Amen, answer those questions accordingly. What do
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I say to these things that God has done for me? If God is
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for me, who can be against me? Having delivered Jesus up for me
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this is personal, then how shall he not, with Jesus also give to
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me freely all things? Oh My God, help us Jesus. What do
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you say? What do you say to these things? If God is for
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you, if God is for you, who can be against you? You
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gotta answer that question. You gotta be persuaded, fully persuaded in your own
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mind. This is how your faith, This is how your confidence in God,
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not in yourself. This is not about building your yourself up a man.
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It does build you up, but not puff you up. It builds
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you up because of your faith, because your confidence a man is in the
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Lord God Almighty. Amen, Oh God help us Jesus. You can stand
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before a man, a king who is about to a man execute you,
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and speak with boldness and confidence. Y'all, y'all know what I'm talking about.
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Shout me shake had been to go a man o king? Huh.
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We're not careful to answer you in this matter. But the God that we
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serve, we know he's able to deliver us. But if not, Amen,
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we still will not bow. We we've got confidence in him. Now
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we're not going to presume on what he's going to do, but we know
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we know he has all power, he has all authority, and that we
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know he is for us. He's for us, Oh, my God,
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Hoh help us Jesus. Who. If God is for you, why are
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you worried? Why are you fretting about racial discrimination, racial disparity, preferential
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treatment, nepotism, favoritism. Why are you worried about those things? Amen?
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If God is for you, Oh help me, Jesus, Help me,
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Jesus, Oh help me, Jesus, who, if you can answer
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all of these rhetorical questions in the affirmative. In the affirmative, then you
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are well positioned in your mind, in your spirit man, a man to
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take on any and all challenges, any and all challenges, along with any
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obstacle, any mountain, any giant, any and all of the darts of
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the devil, the arrows Amen of that wicked one. Amen. And they're
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gonna come your way, They're gonna come our way. That's okay, that's
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okay, because God is for me. God is for me. And who
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can be against me. No one, no one, no weapon can prosper,
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no one can defeat the God of all power and all sovereignty. God
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turns the plans of the wicked back on their own heads. They dig a
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pit and they fall into it. They set a trap and they get ensnared
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in it. Amen, It's not for me, because what God has,
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oh y'all, some of y'all used to have seen this years ago, what
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God has for me? Is is it? Do you believe it? Amen?
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If God is for you, help help Jesus, Help Jesus, Help
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us, Jesus. Amen, help us Jesus, Amen, help us,
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help us Lord, help our faith, increase our faith. Amen. First
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Corinthians. Let me go to chapter number two. If you have your Bible's
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goal with me to Verse Corinthians, chapter number two. We gotta know what
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God has freely given to us. It's freely given to you, Amen,
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freely given to you. No strings attached with God's affirmative action program, because
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He is for you. He is for you. Amen. Amen. God
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made an uncle. We talked about Abraham last week. God made unconditional promises
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to Abraham. And everything that God spoke to Abraham was in the affirmative,
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in the affirmative. And that's what God does. He speaks, he has
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decreed, he has purposed, Amen, and he has commanded. Amen.
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And he watches over his word to perform. Amen. And we can have
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that confidence. We can have that blessed. That's all this is, This
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is this is all a part of our faith walk, our faith journey.
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Abraham had to grow. We all have to grow in faith. Abraham did
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too, the father of the faith. He had to grow. Amen in
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the faith a man. This is what the word of God is. For
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this is why God has spoken, because word, the Word of God is
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what gives us faith. Faith comes by hearing, hearing by the word of
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God. First Corinthians, chapter two. Again, at verse number one,
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Paul writes these words to the Church, and I, brethren, when I
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come to you, or came to you, brother, did not come with
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excellence of speech or of wisdom, declaring to you the testimony of God.
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For I determined not to know anything among you except Jesus Christ and Him crucified.
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I was with you in weakness, in fear, and in much trembling.
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And my speech and my preaching were not with persuasive words of human wisdom,
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Oh help us Jesus, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power.
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Listen to the verse number five, that your faith should not be in
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the wisdom of men, but in the power of God. Your faith,
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my faith, the faith of the Church of the Living God, the people
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of God, the children of God, the heirs and joint heirs with Christ.
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Our faith must not reside in the wisdom of man and the things of
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this world, but in the power of If. Oh My God, help
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us, Jesus help us. Our faith has to be in the power of
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God. Do y'all hear the word of the Lord. Your faith, your
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trust, your confidence must be in the power of God. Listen what he
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says. However, verse number six, we speak wisdom among those who are
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mature. Again, we must grow in our faith and our trust, in
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our confidence in the Living God. So Paul says, we speak wisdom among
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those who are mature, yet, not the wisdom of this age, nor
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of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing. Oh God,
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if we can only see, Oh God, God, give us eyes
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to see. God give us ears to hear. God, give your people
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wisdom and understanding and hearts to discern and to know and to believe your report,
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and to know that the wisdom of this world, the wisdom of this
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age, the rulers of this age, are coming to nothing nothing. God,
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help your people to know that you are the one who sets up kings
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and kingdoms and rulers and nations and peoples. Oh God, help us,
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Oh God, help us. We speak wisdom among those who are mature yet,
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not the wisdom of this age, nor the rulers of this age,
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who are coming to nothing. But Paul says, we speak the wisdom of
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God in a mystery, the hidden wisdom which God listen, what the Bible
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says, which God ordained before the ages for our glory. This was already
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ordained of God. Amen. The hidden wisdom which comes from God. And
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the Bible says, if any man lacks, let him ask of God,
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who gives to all men liberally. Amen. This wisdom, not the wisdom
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of this world, that comes from God. God ordained it. Listen what
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the Bible says. He ordained it before the ages. That's an eternity pass
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before the world even came into existence. A man, the eternal, almighty,
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all powerful, all knowing God, A man ordained this for our glory.
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Do you hear that? Oh, thank you Lord, Thank you Lord.
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Which none of listen, which none of the rulers of this age knew,
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Paul says, For had they known it, if they knew better,
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if they understood it, if their eyes were open, if their hearts were
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obedient, Amen, they would not have crucified the Lord of glory. If
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you knew the gift of God. They didn't know. They didn't know.
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They missed it. He came unto its own, the Bible says John chapter
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number one. He came unto his own, and its own received him.
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Not they missed it. The vast majority of God's people, the Jews,
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missed it. The rulers of the Jews missed it. The Pharisees missed it,
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the Sadducees missed it. The elders missed it. The priests missed it.
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Many of them missed it. Most of them missed it. Had they
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known it, Pilot didn't know. The soldiers didn't know. Amen, they
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didn't know. For had they known, now, of course the centurion after,
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oh, y'all know the story. He after Jesus, bowed his head.
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He said, no man takes my life from me. No one takes
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my life. I lay it down. I have power to lay it down,
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and I have power to take it up again. I'm laying my life.
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I'm giving my life. Amen. And after amen, he bowed his
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head and gave up the ghost into thy hand. As father, he said,
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I could my spirit. He said, it is finished. Man.
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When the earth began to quake and the sun refused to shine, and darkness
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came up on the earth. Amen, that centurion says, surely this is
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the son of God. Now now now, now, oh, I see
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it now. But none of the rulers knew it. For had they known,
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Paul says, they would not have crucified the Lord of Glory verse number
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nine. But as it is written, I has not seen, nor ear
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heard, nor have entered into the heart of man the things. Oh watched
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this, Watch this, Oh my God, I love this. Oh,
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I love this. It has not entered into the heart of man, the
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things which God has prepared. Listen what the Bible says for those who love
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him. But God has revealed them to us through his Spirit. For the
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spirit, this is what the Bible says. The Spirit searches all things,
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Yes, the deep things of God. Oh Jesus help us God. Do
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you know what God has in store for you? Do you understand that?
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Do you understand what God's affirmative action program is and entails for you? Do
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you know that? Or do you only see the natural? Do you only
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see what's in front of you? Do you only see your present day circumstances.
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Are you so engrossed and enthralled and and and and and deeply troubled by
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what man can do and what man is doing that you can't see what God
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has for you, what God has prepared for you, that God will prepare
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a table before you in the presence of your enemies. Do you not,
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Oh, help us Jesus. Oh, heppus, Jesus, help us,
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Jesus. He reveals them to us through his spirit. For what no what
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man knows Verse eleven. The things of a man is hempt the spirit of
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the man, which is in him. Even so, no one knows the
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things of God except the spirit of God. You cannot know the things of
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God without the spirit of God. That's why we have to walk in the
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spirit, be led by the spirit. Oh help us Jesus. The only
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way for you and I to know what things God has prepared for us is
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by his Spirit revealing those things to us. You don't know it otherwise.
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One of the hindresses that we all incur, I believe, especially in our
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modern day, is our looking to mere mortal man for what we need,
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rather than looking to the Lord God, who promised and who does supply all
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of our needs. The Bible says, according to His riches in glory by
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Christ Jesus, the righteous are never forsaken his seat, are never begging bread.
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Amen. That's one of our hindrances, made your hindrances, I believe,
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because we are looking to man, we are trusting in man, in
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politicians, in governments, in systems entities other than the power of the living
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God. See, God not only supplies all of what we need, but
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He also has freely given to his people all things, all things which a
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man rightfully belonged to us as heirs and joint heirs with. What do the
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words say, how shall he not with him also freely freely give us all
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things, not some things, all things. We are heirs and joint heirs
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with Christ, who is the owner, who is the Maker, who was
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in the beginning, who is the Word made flesh incarnate. All things were
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made by him, and without him was not anything made. That was made.
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In him is life, and that life is the life of man.
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It's the light of man. It's the light of the world. It's the
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light that shines in the darkness. Amen, it belonged to all things,
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belong to the people of God, because we are heirs and joint heirs with
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the one who owns everything. But the Kingdom is not of this world.
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So don't get caught up in the carnal, don't get caught up in the
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natural, don't get caught up in the temporal. Jesus standing before Pontius Pilot
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testified my kingdom is not of this world. See see Pilot was again,
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just like with Jesus had a conversation with the woman as well. So you
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have nothing to draw with. Where is this water? Where is this living
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water that you're talking about? You have nothing in your hands, Jesus,
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woman, if you only knew, if you only knew the gift of God,
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if you only knew what I have to fully give to you, you
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would ask of me. The Kingdom is not of this world. The Kingdom
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of God is not in meat and drink, in carnal things and temporal things
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things of this world. Righteousness, peace, and joy, in the Holy
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Ghost. The Kingdom of God is not in word, but in power.
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The Bible tells us power spiritual, It is supernatural, and it is temporal
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things of this world. The Lord richly, as I mentioned Abraham earlier,
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Lord actually blessed Abraham with the temporal treasures of this world. But those blessings
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did not cause Abraham to lose sight of the true riches, he refused.
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If you remember the story, their narrative, Amen, after the defeat of
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those kings who had come and taken Sodom, and along with Lot and all
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of the people of Sodom into captivity. Amen. Abraham, with his trained
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servants in his house, went and defeated those kings, five kings, coalition
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of five kings, and he brought back Amen. The people restored the King
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of Sodom and Lot and all of the folk back to their Amen land and
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with their goods and everything. And the King of Sodom wanted to give Abraham
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of the spoils, but the Bible tells us Abraham refused to take any of
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the spoil from the King of Sodom. Amen, Because Abraham, I'm understood,
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he told the king keep your stuff, keep all your stuff, lest
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you, a man, get puffed up in your mind. I'm paraphrasing,
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Amen, and have the occasion of boasting that it was you who made me
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rich. You, your your riches don't come from man. Your promotion doesn't
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come from man. See, the Lord had already made the promise to Abraham,
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Amen, before this. And Abraham growing in faith, That's what it
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is. It's growing. And see you don't need the bribery. Oh my
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God, you don't need the spoils of this world. Amen. Some of
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some of us, some of us have the problem with some of us is
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we just if we don't. If you're going and confess and get and get
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repentance and forgiveness, Amen, we can. We can. We can move
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on a man and grow a man in knowledge and wisdom and faith and confidence
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in God. Why don't we just admit, some of us just flat out
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at admitted that we have a spirit of covetousness. Just admit it, Amen,
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and ask God for forgiveness. Ask God for deliverance from the spirit of
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covetousness. See the Lord told Abraham. He says, I am your shield
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and your exceeding great reward. Oh Lord, have mercy Jesus. I am
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your shield. I am your exceeding great reward. The Right of Hebrews tells
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us that Abraham look for a city whose builder and maker is God. He
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looked beyond. Abraham was rich, Abraham was prosperous. And you know who
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did it. God did it. God did it. God made him rich
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and powerful and made his name. He promised to do it, and he
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did it because God was for him, and it wasn't because of Abraham's goodness,
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and he merried on his part. God called him out of a heathen
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pagan culture and just bestowed grace upon him, just as he did with Noah.
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Noah found grace. Grace is not a new phenomenon, Amen, It's
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always been the grace of God. It's not of works, ever, that
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any of us should boast. Abraham grew in faith and came to understand that
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God is my shield and my exceeding great reward. Keep your stuff. I
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don't need you to affirm me. I don't need you to bless me.
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I don't need you to prop me up, because my help comes from the
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Lord. My blessings come from the Lord. Now, God can use and
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give to you blessings through other people. I'm not saying that I'm not disparaging
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any of that, but you better know where it comes from. You better
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know the source you need it, all the support and the one who gives
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you the entrance into your job, your career, who holds your future in
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his hand. Amen. This is what the human eye and the carnal eye
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cannot see. The human eye is earthly focused. The cardinal eye is looking
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for self gratification. The here and the now. That's the cardinal, that's
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the fleshly, that's the earthly. The worldly eye will not see and the
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deaf ear will not hear, nor will it enter into the unbelieving heart the
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things which God has prepared for them that love Him. If we're going to
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see, if we're going to hear, if we're going to believe these things,
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it must be through faith in the God that cannot lie, that cannot
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die, that cannot fail. We gotta believe God. Just that simple,
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ladies and gentlemen. Church of the Living God is just that simple. We
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gotta believe God. Now, let's look at what the Word of God tells
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us that we have received in God's affirmative action program that he has for his
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children, Verse number twelve, First Corinthians, chapter number two. Listen what
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the Bible says. Now we have received. We have received not the spirit
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of the world, but the spirit who is from God. That's the Holy
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Spirit, the Holy Ghost God in you, Christ in you. Now we
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have received not the spirit of the world, but the Spirit who is from
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God. Listen what the Bible says that we might know the things that have
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been freely given to us by God. I'm listening. I'm in the Word
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of God. I'm in the Word of God. Everything I'm telling you is
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in the Word of God, the Spirit of God, that is from God,
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is there too, to know the things that have been freely given to
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you by God First Corinthians, chapter two. First to freely given to us
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by God. Listen the sanctifying and the illuminating work of the Holy Spirit,
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the Holy ghost that we have received from Jesus Christ, who sends the holy
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ghosts, has been given to us in part for our knowledge an understanding of
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the things again that have been freely given to us by God. That listen
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what the Bible says again, that we might know. You know what that
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means. That you know what that means. That God is affirming you with
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his word, that he is affirming you, that He is affirt He is
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actively action affirming you with his work, with his promises, with this Holy
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Spirit operating in you, bringing his word to your remembrance. And that's why
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you gotta know the word and know the truth. Oh, My God,
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help us, Jesus, Will you help us, Lord, Oh help us
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Jesus, that we might know the things that have been freely given to us
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by God, who you see. Please understand. If we are walking in
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the spirit, if we are being led by the spirit, then the spirit
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of God. He leads us, and he guides us into all truth and
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never ever into error. God by his spirit, would never ever lead us
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into error. And it is grave error for the child of God to put
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his hope, his faith, his confidence, his trust in man, fallen
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man, mere mortal man in this world. That's fatal error. The Lord
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wants us to know the things. He wants us to know the thing he
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listen what the Bible says. Again, he has revealed them to us by
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his spirit. If you have the spirit of God, if you have been
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baptized into Jesus Christ, if you have received the gift of the Holy Ghost,
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the spirit of the Living God, you ought to know the things that
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God has in store for you. When the children of Israel were delivered out
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of their slavery, they were told God told them, See, God is
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not hiding from us what we need to know a man about what He has
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in store for us. They were told, they were informed, they were
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promised, because the faith comes by hearing. Now, they weren't there yet,
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but they were told. They were informed that they were going to a
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land of promise from the Lord, and that land was flowing with milk and
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honey, with houses. They did not build with vineyards that that didn't they
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did not plant. They were told they had to know, and they didn't
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know. Now did all of them believe God? Sadly they did not.
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The vast majority of them died in the wilderness. Now their children went in.
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Their children went in and possessed a promised land. But because of their
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unbelief, see unbelief. Oh God, help us, Oh Jesus helpers.
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Ah. That's why I prayed God, help us to understand, to know
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what you have already affirmed concerning us, what you already have. And He's
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already told old us, I've got this for you. This was a four
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shadow, by the way, what God did with Israel. It was a
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foreshadowing, a foreshadowing of the ultimate land of promise that God has prepared for
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all those who love and obey Him. What did Jesus say In the Gospel
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of John, chapter number fourteen, He says, I go to pre what
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prepare a place for you that where I am there you may be. Also.
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Now, what did Jesus say about this place? It's my father's house,
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and in my father's house on many mansions. Now, who built them?
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Who prepaired them. Did man do it? Did we participate? No?
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See, this kingdom is it's not of this world. Amen. Do
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you believe? Do you believe God's report? Do you believe what God has
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in store for you? Amen? And this is why the Holy Spirit has
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been given to us. Listen, what again, what the Bible says?
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We have received not the spirit of the world. See, the spirit of
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the world is all about this world. And that's why he tells us the
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Gospel of John, not only Gospel Bejund, but the writings of John.
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And he reminds us in his Letter to the Church, Amen, to love
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not the world, neither of the things that are in the world. For
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all that is in the world, the lust of the eyes, the pride
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of life, Amen, the lust of the flesh. It's not of the
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Father. It's that's the word. That's why the world is concerned about.
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Amen. That's what they're seeking after. But Jesus told us to what seek
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the kingdom? The kingdom, The kingdom first, and then all the other
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things. All the other things are already yours. You don't have to covet
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them, you don't have to lust after them. Here's a oh, here's
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here's here's here's a secret. Here's a secret for those of you who may
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not Maybe maybe you don't know. I don't know. But it's not a
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secret. You don't even have to ask. You don't even have to ask.
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God He'll give them to you. He'll command the blessings to come on
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you and to overtake you. He'll command blessings upon your house when you go
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out, when you come in. He'll command his loving kindness, his goodness,
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and mercy to follow you all the days of your life. You don't
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even have to ask. But if you decide to ask, he says,
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no good thing will he withhold from them who walk upright before him. Oh,
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my God, hel Us Jesus. Whoo. So we have not received
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the spirit of the world, but the spirit from God, that we might
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know the things that have been freely given to us by God, not by
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man, not by man. Oh no, no, no, no,
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no, not by man. Verse thirteen. Let me, let me,
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let me get to the end of this these things, Paul said, we
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also speak not in words which man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit
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teaches, comparing spiritual things with spiritual but the natural man, the carnal man,
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the man who walks after the flesh, the man who lives according to
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the dictates of this world. The earthly man helps Jesus. The natural man
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does not receive the things of the Spirit of God. You can't receive and
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know and perceive and understand a man, nor can you operate in the things
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of God, for the Bible says they are foolishness to him, nor can
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he know them, because they are spiritually discerned. Spiritually discerned. God,
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Listen. When you are in Christ Jesus, you have a new eyesight,
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you have a new hearing, you have a new wisdom, you have a
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new knowledge, you have a new understanding, and you have new discernment.
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It comes from God. Amen. And through the word of God, and
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by the power of God, through the leading of the Holy Spirit, leading
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you and guiding you into all truth. You're not like the natural man.
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You're no longer the carnal man. You are being led by the Spirit.
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Amen. And you put off the old and you put on the new.
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Amen. Listen, listen, this is what this is, what this is
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all about. Because if you are in the natural you don't you don't you
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don't get it. You don't understand it, you don't know it. It's
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foolishness to you. Why, because they are spiritually discerned. The wisdom of
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this world, the way of this world, it's lost to the natural man.
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Amen, who simply cannot Amen. He cannot receive, he cannot comprehend,
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he cannot know the things of the Spirit of God. Amen. He's
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blind, he's deaf, and he's a man engrossed in worldliness. All he
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knows in his carnal mind, in his natural mind, is the here and
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the now, in the kingdoms of this world. That's all he knows.
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Eat, drink, and be merry. That's all he knows. But he
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verse fifteen, who is spiritual, judges all things. Yet he himself is
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rightly judged by no one, For who has known. The Bible says the
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mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him. But we we have
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the mind of Christ. And that's why the Bible admonishes us to let this
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mind be in you, which was also in Christ, Jesus, who made
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himself of no reputation but took on the form of a servant. And with
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the mind of Christ we rise above the machinations and the maneuverings of mere mortal
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men in their trivial pursuit of these temporary treasures that listen, Jesus made it
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clear that will not transfer beyond this temporary existence of this life, your life
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in this world, which is but a vapor amen trivial pursuit, that's what
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they are in and chasing after Amen, the carnal, the natural. But
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God's affirmative action program is so far above and beyond anything that man can conjure
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up imany. By the way, again, nothing free. There always strings
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attached with whatever comes from man a man. The affirmative action program of mere
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mortal man is delusion, and it is deception because mere mortal man does not
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have the power of promotion or prominence, or protection or permanence. But when
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God opens a door, no one can shut that door. When God shuts
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the door, no one can open that door. And God has set before
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us an open door that no man can shut. Entry through this door is
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by faith alone, in God alone, who is sovereign, who is ruling
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in the kingdom of men, raising up and putting down as he wills according
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to his eternal purpose, to the praise of His glory. What then,
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shall we say to these things? If God there is for us, who
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can be against us, He who did not spare his own son, but
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delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely
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give us all things, all things. God, help us to day.
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Let your word be magnified in us, that our faith grow in you,
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our knowledge, our wisdom in you be multiplied. For your kingdom, for
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your glory, for your honor. In Jesus name, we thank you now
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in advance, A man and a man