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Episode 85: Free Me, Favor Me - Part 3 · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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God Bless you. God Bless you. Once again, we thank you again
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for tuning in to this another edition of End Time Revival Ministries US a podcast
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and I am your host, Al Zachary, and today if you are listening
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for the very first time, we certainly welcome you to this podcast. And
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we are here to proclaim the truth of God, Amen, and to speak
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forth the word of God. We have clarity and plainness of speech. And
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it's always we thank God for choosing us Amen to be an ambassador for Amen,
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the gospel of Jesus Christ, the truth of God's Word. And if
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you are again listening, regular listener to this particular podcast, this particular short
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series that we're in that we're going to be continuing today, it's called Free
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Me, Favor Me, and this is going to be part three on today.
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And by the way, this is the personal prayer of mind that I'm
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sharing, and it is certainly from the word of God, Amen, a
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personal request of mine that I want the Lord Amen to work in my life,
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Amen, so that I can be a man all that God has for
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me to be. And I certainly want to hear him at the end of
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my day say well done, good and faithful servant. Amen. So I
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want you to if you have your Bibles, you can go to a couple
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of passages of scriptures that I'm going to share with you just a few short
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verses. I'll get to those in just a few minutes. But first and
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foremost, let me just open with a quick word of prayer, and I
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just want to pray God's blessings upon our hearing, Amen, and on our
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hearts. Father, we thank you that we are called to be your people,
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and we are the sheep of your pasture, and we thank you for
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all of your blessings upon us. Lord, when we pray today that someone
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somewhere will hear the voice of the Savior, and that we all will be
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obedient, not forgetful hearers of the word, but obedient amen to the word
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of the Lord, to the voice of the Savior, to the call that
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you have on each and every life, so that you get a glory out
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of our lives, and you be magnified in all that we say and do.
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And we thank you now in advance for all of your blessings upon us
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in Jesus name, Amen and amen. All right again, the title of
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this particular series and this is part three again, Lord free me, favor
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me, free me, favor me. And of course, if you've listened
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to the previous two sessions that we did, we enumerated these things that we
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want the Lord to free us from. Again, this is personal for me.
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Free me from these and then I want the Lord to favor me with
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certain things as well. First and foremost, let me recap, Amen,
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the things that I pray that the Lord will always free me from. Number
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one is fear. Lord, free me from fear. We covered that in
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our very first session of this particular series, Lord free me from fear.
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Number two that we covered on our last session, Lord free me from folly,
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Amen. And today we're going to be covering this particular request of the
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Lord to free me from faltering. Amen from faltering. Number four is Lord,
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free me from foolishness. Amen, Free me from foolishness. And then
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at the same time, I want the Lord to favor me with these things,
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these three things I pray Amen, that the Lord will favor me with.
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Number one is favor me with faith. Amen. Without faith, the
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Bible says, it is impossible to please God. Amen. Favor me with
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faith. Number one, favor me with focus, and then finally, Lord
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favor me with fruitfulness. Amen. But today we're going to focus on number
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three. Lord, free me from faltering. Lord, free me from faltering.
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That's my prayer, Amen. Falter. The word falter, defined from
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our dictionary, me to hesitate or waiver in action purpose intent to give way.
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Oh, help us Jesus a whole help us, Jesus. Falter means
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to speak hesitantly, brokenly, to move unsteadily, to stumble. Lord,
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thank you Jesus, free me from faltering. Now now, Now, the
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actual use of this word faltering or falter is just as rare in the translation
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of the Bible as it is uh in our vernacular today, because we don't
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use it that often. But it is certainly as prevalent in the Word of
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God and in the lives of Certainly we can see it, Amen, and
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perhaps even sadly, perhaps even in our own selves, in our own walks.
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For some of us, Amen, we can see the very essence of
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this transpiring in our own lives, those of us who are a man professing
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to be in the faith. Amen. We have to be sure, and
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this is what we want to focus on, is wise. It's my prayer
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one of my prayer requests to the Lord, I do not want to falter.
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Now. One of the places, one of the places that you'll find
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the word falter in the New King James version of the Bible. Of the
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Scriptures is found in First Kings. In the Old Testament, I'm sorry.
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In the Old Testament, First Kings, chapter number eighteen, verse number twenty
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one. It was the prophet Elijah, if you're familiar with his journey a
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man, and how he was called of God to be that mighty prophet of
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God and to stand and proclaim all by himself in many cases the truth of
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the true in the Living God, who was a man, the God that
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they had abandoned, the God who had a man, gone into covenant with
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his own people. And Elijah was sent a man to call the people to
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repentance. And as you if you're familiar again with the dealings of this prophet
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with the people, King Ahab Jezbel his wife, there was a situation where
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they had a what we call showdown at Mount Carmel, with all of the
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prophets bailed, the false prophets and the idolatry that was taking place in the
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land, and the people of course, had been led away into idolatry.
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And Elijah, a man who was the spokesman for the Lord, a man
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came a man to this place, to this time, in this season,
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in the history of the nation of Israel, to call these people a man
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to know, to trust, a man that God and God alone is God.
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And so in verse number twenty one of First King, chapter eighteen,
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Elijah, the Bible says, came to all the people and said, listen
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to these words, how long will you falter between two opinions? If the
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Lord is God, follow him? But if bail follow him. But the
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people answered him not a word. How long the question the prophet asks of
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the people, how long will you falter? How long will you falter between
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two opinions? And this speaks of being I call wavery, wavery, wavery,
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Like Paul mentioned that we, as the people of God, are no
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longer to be tossed to and fro by the cunning craftiness of men, whereby
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the Bible says, they lie in wait to deceive, wavering, tossed a
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man like the waves of the sea. It speaks of being hesitant. Why
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are you hesitating? If you trust, if you know, if you believe,
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if you confess, amen, that Jesus is Lord, that he is
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the Savior, that he is the Redeemer, that he is the Way,
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the Truth, and the Life. Why is it that you can have another
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opinion, another gospel, another way. There is no other way. There's
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no other gospel. There is no other salvation. Amen. This speaks of
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the hesitancy of the people. It speaks of them being unsteady, uncertain,
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and certainly, as James wrote in his epistle, double minded. And he
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said, a double minded man is unstable in all of his way. So
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the question again comes to the people of God. How long will you falter
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between two opinions? Amen? Listen, Jesus made it clinton. No one
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can serve two masters. Amen. Those of us who have been called out
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to follow Jesus must do so with a full, unwavering commitment to Jesus and
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him alone. And it was Jesus again, of course, who spoke these
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words. And I want you to see this. You can take note of
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this, and if you have your Bibles, you can turn to the Gospel
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of Luke, chapter No. Nine. I'm just gonna show you a couple
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of verses Amen, from the Gospel of Luke, chapter number nine. Here
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because it was this Jesus, the God that we serve, a man who
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spoke these words about discipleship for anyone, Amen, who would consider being one
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of his followers. Amen, this is what the Bible says. This is
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the words of Jesus. Amen. Verse twenty three of Luke chapter nine.
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Then he said to them all, if anyone desires to come after me,
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let him deny himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. Amen.
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There is no vacillating. There is no other God to serve. There's
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no other master to a man, obey, Amen, you cannot serve God
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and mammon. Amen. And then in verse number sixty two of this same
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Gospel of Luke, same chapter nine, Jesus said to this man that he
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was having a conversation with no one, having put his hand to the plow
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and looking back. Is fit for the kingdom of God if you're going to
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follow Jesus. By the way, there was a rich young ruler who had
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come to Jesus, and Jesus told him to go sell all he had.
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Amen, give to the poor. Come and follow me, and you will
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have treasures in heaven. A man a young man, the Bible says,
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went away sorry for because he had many possessions. You can't serve the Lord
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and money and this world and the devil. You can't eat at the Lord's
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table and the table of devils. Amen. No one having put his hand
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to the plow and looking back is fit for the Kingdom of God. And
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I believe it's also in this Gospel of Luke that Jesus gave this amen stern
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warning, one of the most one of the most important, I believe,
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warnings that we should certainly take the heart and all of the New Testament and
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all the Bible. Three simple words. Remember Lot's wife, Remember Lot's wife,
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she looked back. Amen. And again the word falter means to hesitate,
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to waiver in action, in purpose. Do you know and understand what
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your purpose is? Amen? Your purpose? Our purpose is to please God.
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Amen. And Paul wrote it this way. He said, if I
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should be the servant of Man, if I seek to please Man, Amen,
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I should not be this of God. Amen. We can't again serve
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Amen, God and mammon or the devil, or eat at the Lord's table
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and eat at the table of the devils. No. Amen, And and
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and again, when you're talking about faltering, it means that you're hesitant,
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as Elijah was in calling the people, who are you going to serve?
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Amen? Why are you hesitant? Why are you wavering? Amen? Why
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are you not without purpose? Amen? It also means again the definition means
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to give way, Amen, And the Bible speaks about us not giving place
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to the devil with in just a minute hesitating. Amen, to move unsteadily
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stumbling, Amen, and listen. If we have the same boldness, and
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we do, if we would amen again, put our trust and faith and
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confidence in the Lord. If we have the same power of the promises of
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God, which we do, and it's working on our behalf, just as
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it did, and it's been proven for many generations of true believers we have
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come before us. If we have these things, that boldness and the power
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of the promises of God working on our behalf, in no way whatsoever should
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any of us be hesitant in our action of advancing the Kingdom of God.
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Amen. Advancing. Amen, against the gates of Hell. We are on
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our offense, people of God. Jesus said, the gates of Hell shall
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not prevail against us. Amen. Upon this rock I build my church we
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are the Church of the Living God, and the gates of Hell shall not
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prevail against the Church of the Living God. Amen. God has given us
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this gret commission to go into all the world the preach the Gospel to everyone
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that believes. Amen. And the Captain of our salvation has given given to
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us this Amen, this mission as his ambassadors. We are his representatives,
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and our purpose is to again to please Him who has chosen us to be
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good soldiers, and we all to fight the good fight of faith unto death.
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Amen. And our intent must be to do the will of God as
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opposed to our own desires. Amen. That's what our intent must be.
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We're talking about purpose, because if you falter, you know you're faltering in
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your purpose. And so our purpose, our intent, our will must be
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to do the will of God as opposed to our own desires a man,
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which in most cases, if we would be honest, Amen, are not
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in alignment with what the will of God is for our lives. And that's
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why we must be like Jesus, was not my will, Amen, But
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thine be done. Amen. And our humble submission to what God has predestined,
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to what God has prepared to what God has purpose for his glory and
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for our ultimate good. Everything works together for our good. Amen, even
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though we may not see it, understand it. Have the proper perspective.
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Our ways are not His ways, that our thoughts are not His thoughts.
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We don't think like God. Amen. But we must amen again in humble
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submission, say not my will, Lord, but thine be done by no
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means, or we to give place. Amen. And again this definition of
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faltering giving way, Amen, no way, in no way, or we
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to give place to the devil. He's the adversary of our souls. He's
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the accuser of the brethren. And there can be no compromise with the immoral,
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with the un with the evil and wickedness of those who are the children
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of the devil, who have sold themselves to practice and perpetuate evil, a
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man and ungodliness in this world. And they are doing it by the way
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to their own eternal destiny of what Jesus described as weeping and gnashing of teeth
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in the eternal flame that will never go out. Amen. But God has
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called us, ladies and gentlemen. He's called us you and our Church of
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the Living God. He's called us and appointed us to be victorious right here
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in this present world. And we cannot lose, and we must not falter
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in any way, not giving space, not giving place to the adversaries,
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to the enemies of the cross, a man who seek to advance and propagate
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their deadly, poisonous accents, rebellion against the very God who made them and
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who is, oh my God, tolerating. Oh Lord, have us Jesus,
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Thank you Lord for your amen. Thank listen. They ought to be
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grateful that God is tolerating, that God is forbearing in all of their rebellion
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against him. Amen. But listen, let me, let me. I'm
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about to close here, because we dare not falter, We dare not falter.
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We are called out to be saints. We are called out to be
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the shining lights in this dangerous world of darkness. And it is Amen.
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There's a lot of deception, there's a whole lot of delusion, and certainly
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death is on the rise, because the enemy of the soul of man,
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that's all he comes to do, still kill and to destroy. Amen.
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And we've got to point people to Jesus so that they will know that there
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is life to be had in life. More abundantly. That's what Jesus said.
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I Am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Amen.
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That's where our hope is, ladyes and gentlemen, people of God, It's
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in Jesus alone. Amen. And men need to see that for that wretched
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condition that they're in. They're born in sin, shaven, in iniquity,
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and in Jesus Christ, and by him and by Him alone where they find
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their way out of their wretchedness. Amen. They will die in their sins
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unless they turn. Unless they turn, and God has no pleasure in the
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death of the wicked. Amen. And again we a lot of this,
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lady and gentlemen, People of God, Church of Living God is on the
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Church of the Living God, because we are called out to be Amen,
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the light, the salt, the city on the hill, all of those
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things that we are ambassadors to Christ of Christ. Nobody says we are living
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epistols known and read of men. Amen. And if we falter in letting
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our light shine, what did Jesus say, let your You don't have to
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force it. We don't have to force anything. Let your light so shine
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among men before men, that they may see your good works and glorify the
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Father which is in heaven, and that's all we have to do. Amen.
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Let the light of the glory of Jesus shine through us, Amen,
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because if we falter, Amen, we can cause other people to stumble.
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Proverbs twenty five and twenty six. By the way, you can take note
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of this, says a righteous man who falters before the wicked, it's like
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an murky spring and a polluted well. Let me read it again, Proverbed
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twenty five and twenty six. A righteous man who falters before the wicked is
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like a murky spring and a polluted well. Amen. You remember what Nathan,
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the prophet Amen said to David when he came and confronted him concerning his
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sin with Bathsheba. He said to David, David, you have given the
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enemies of the Lord a reason or cause to blasphem. Amen. That's why
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we cannot falter. We dare not give the enemies of the cross, the
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enemies of a man Jesus his blood that he shed. Amen. The Gospel
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of Christ, that is the salvation to everyone that believes, is the power
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of God to everyone that believes. We dare not falter in our walk,
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Amen, in our conduct. Amen, before a man, because we give
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the enemies of the cross a reason to blaspheming against the holiness of God,
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against the name of Jesus Christ. Amen. A righteous man who falters before
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the wicked is like a murky spring and a polluted well. Lord, I
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pray, Oh, free me from faltery. Let me close with this verse
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from First Fearrinthians, Chapter fifteen, verse fifty eight. I want to encourage
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you. I want to re encourage every child of God. Amen, all
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of us. Amen, we need to be encouraged, and I will walk
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with the Lord pause us. Therefore, my brethren, be steadfast, unmovable,
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always abounding in the work of the Lord, knowing that your labor is
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not in vain in the Lord. Steadfast, not stumbling, immovable, not
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unsure, not hope between two opinions. Amen, not stumbling. We want
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to be steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord,
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because our labor is not in vain. Lord, I pray THEE again keep
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me from faltering. Now unto him who is able to do, exceeding abundantly
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above all that we can ask or think, according to the power that is
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at work in us. God, be glorified in your church in your people
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in Jesus name. We thank you in advance. Amen. Amen, and amen.