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692. Bible Study: Micah 3 ("Peace", Evil called Good, Holy Spirit, Love of Money, False Prophets, Silence from God) · Faith by annm2705

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  Chapter 3 of Micah dear God once again we ask you that you be
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  with us as we read through this chapter and give us wisdom,
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  insight, revelation. Speak to us through your word.
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  We ask for this in Jesus name. Leaders and prophets rebuked.
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  Then I said, so this is Micah the prophet speaking to the, I
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  guess, the northern Kingdom of Israel.
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  But the first statement that he says sounds like maybe he's
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  speaking to Israel in total, not just the northern Kingdom.
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  So here it goes. Then I said, listen, you leaders
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  of Jacob, So when leaders of Jacob, that would be all that
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  would be the northern Kingdom and the southern Kingdom in my
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  opinion. And then it says you rulers of
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  Israel. So that could be both kingdoms
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  or it could be the northern Kingdom who had the capital in
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  Samaria, because they were split after King Solomon.
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  They split into the northern Kingdom and the southern
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  Kingdom. The northern Kingdom was called
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  Israel and the southern Kingdom was called Judah.
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  So let's go back then. I said, listen, you leaders of
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  Jacob, you rulers of Israel, should you not embrace justice?
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  You who hate good and love evil, who tear the skin from my people
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  and the flesh from their bones, who eat my people's flesh, strip
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  off their skin and break their bones in pieces, who chop them
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  up like meat for a pan, like flesh for the pot?
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  I that this part is really hard for me to understand because I
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  know it's all symbolic but I I mean it's just I'll see what the
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  study Bible says OK? Were the leaders cannibals?
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  No, this language is figurative and sarcastic.
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  Micah compared social injustice to cannibalism.
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  In order to emphasize the insatiable greed of the rich and
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  their cruel, insensitive treatment of the poor.
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  They were devouring the meager sources of their disadvantaged
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  neighbors and in doing so consuming their neighbors
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  livelihood and hope OK, that helps to give some light to it
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  because it's very graphic details that he said.
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  But one of the things was who hate good and love evil.
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  And that stands out to me because I do see that in our
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  culture today that we things that are good are called evil
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  and evil things are called good. Like there is a change up.
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  If you look at the Bible, if you use the Bible, because that's
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  the that's the truth. If you use the Bible as the the
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  benchmark, then things that are in the Bible that are good are
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  called evil in many places today and vice versa.
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  So we have to pay attention because this is actually
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  happening in our time. There's, you know, good that's
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  being called evil and evil that's being called good.
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  And the only way we know the difference, not the only way,
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  but the way we know the difference is through the word
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  of God. The word of God is very clear.
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  It's the foundation of so much. And the Word of God is actually
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  the foundation of a lot of government, which I recently
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  found out in the United States. We, you know, we just celebrated
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  the 4th of July, the Declaration of Independence, and this is
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  July 6th, 2025. And so there the foundation of
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  our government was on God. And there is God that shines
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  through, but that's been covered up throughout history.
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  Students are taught information about our history that is not
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  accurate. It's tells a narrative of what
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  those against God would prefer. It doesn't tell the truth and
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  there are documents apparently that you know, I have not seen
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  the documents, but I recently listened to a speaker who spoke
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  that he has these documents that he can show in writing the
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  history that it was a it was founded, our country was founded
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  on God and along biblical principles and many of the early
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  leadership read the Bible and followed along with it.
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  And that there were two different groups of people who
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  settled in the United States originally and there were two
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  different they called themselves Christians, but one was not did
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  not act like Christians and the other did.
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  And there were very vast differences.
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  If you want to explore this further, then look into Jameson
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  and also Plymouth and see the differences and the the person
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  that you would want to actually go and get this information from
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  search David Barton Barton. He's an author and he has lots
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  of books on Amazon, but it is a great resource to see to
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  realize, to understand that, you know, much of our public
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  education is not the truth. It's skewed.
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  It's it, you know what, why is that?
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  Is that the enemy just trying to take over the world?
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  I mean, that's kind of what I think.
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  And but, you know, it could be a variety of reasons, but that
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  just seems to be a very evident reason.
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  You know how much if you listen to my podcast, you know that I
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  believe in spiritual influences and I believe that people don't
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  even know that they're being influenced by evil and it comes
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  packaged like something good, but it's really evil.
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  And I think that's what we are actually experiencing today.
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  And it was very refreshing. Like I said, I recently heard
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  him spoke speak and, and he has a lot of books that you can get
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  on Amazon. And so I would highly recommend
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  checking it out if I mean, it will really change your mind
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  about the United States when you read it and in a in a good way
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  that it isn't it. There were some really good
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  solid things that were under God and they actually at several
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  different important meetings, they did pray to God.
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  They started their morning with prayer.
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  And that's something that we all should do, is start our morning
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  with conversation with God for guidance that we follow in his
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  ways, that we understand, that we get to know what his ways
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  are, and that he guides us in whatever comes about in our own
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  day. Because every day is different
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  for different people. And we need God's guidance, we
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  need God, we need the Holy Spirit to help us with our words
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  when we speak with one another and to, to exhibit the
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  characteristics of Jesus as we become refined or, you know,
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  made holy. Like God says, we should be holy
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  because he is holy. And if we are children of God,
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  we should become holy. That's a process.
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  And it takes submission to the Holy Spirit to allow the Holy
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  Spirit to basically say, OK, your will, God, not mine.
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  You know, I, I, when we read the Bible, we know what things we
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  have to work on and then we can when those things come up, we
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  can sense when we are at odds, when we are against what's in
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  the Bible and we can ask God, help me with this, help me,
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  change me, mold me. And that's what God's looking
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  for is humble people who are willing to do that, to submit to
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  God and be changed, be transformed.
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  And it's a good thing for other people because God is love.
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  So when we become changed, there is more love in the world.
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  So let's go back to Scripture. So it continues on.
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  It says then they will cry out to the Lord, but he will not
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  answer them. So these are the evil, the
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  people who are doing evil but calling it good.
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  Then they will cry out to the Lord, but He will not answer
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  them at that time. He will hide His face from them
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  because of the evil they have done.
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  So that's a word of warning for us.
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  When we start doing evil and we don't submit to God, we continue
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  to do stuff that God, we know God doesn't want us to be doing.
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  Then we are separating ourself from God and that there's that
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  protection of God. God is that resource and if we
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  are against him and he doesn't listen to us anymore because we
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  are in the midst of sin and we don't care anymore, we're just
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  going to do what we want to do, we lose that protection of God
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  and things can go terribly bad for us.
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  And it's just that our communication with God is so
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  much greater when we submit to Him.
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  When we want to do God's will and ask for the Holy Spirit to
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  help us to accomplish God's will, this is what the Lord
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  says. As for prophets who lead my
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  people astray, they proclaim peace if they have something to
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  eat, but prepare to wage war against anyone who refuses to
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  feed them. OK, so again, this is another
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  thing that it seems like often if you have a prophet that's
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  telling somebody who claims to be a prophet that's talking
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  about peace, it probably isn't true throughout the Bible.
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  I don't know if there's any time where a prophet said you're
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  going to have peace. The one time that I do know that
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  there was peace was when Solomon was king and there was that
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  period of time, but then, you know, there wasn't any more.
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  And I know Solomon kind of did a lot of things that were against
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  God. And so I don't know if that's
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  that kind of opened the door for evil to come in and start
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  wreaking havoc again and taking away the peace.
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  I don't I'm not sure because that only God knows that, but I
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  have not seen much in the Bible when a prophet talks about peace
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  that actually happens. It seems like those are not
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  true. And and Jesus said there will be
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  wars and rumors of wars, you know, all the way until he
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  returns again and he hasn't returned yet.
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  So there's going to be there's not going to be peace not until
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  he returns. So anybody who says there's
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  going to be peace that there is going to be this temporary peace
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  that's going to again deceive people that they are in peace.
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  So every time I hear the stuff about the Abraham covenant, the
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  Abraham Accords, that's that false sense of peace, that's
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  that agreement that is, you know, going to be peaceful for a
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  little bit, but it's not going to be lasting because the Bible
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  says it, not because of anything else, just because the Bible
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  says that's not going to. It's a great intention and I'm
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  sure the people who are joining it have that intention.
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  But the Bible tells us the reality of it.
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  There isn't going to be peace. It's going to be a false sense
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  of peace. And when when they say peace and
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  security, then sudden destruction comes upon them.
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  So the enemy can want everybody to feel at peace because the
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  enemy has other plans to actually destroy as soon as
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  people feel peaceful. So this is unfortunately
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  reality. This is the the world we live
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  in. But it's not going to be like
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  that forever. So I am really excited about the
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  next several chapters after this one and Micah, because it gets
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  on to the better stuff. So therefore night will come
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  over you with without visions and darkness without divination.
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  The sun will set for the prophets and the day will go
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  dark for them. The seers will be ashamed and
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  the diviners disgraced. They will all cover their faces
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  because there is no answer from God.
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  But As for me, I am filled with power, with the Spirit of the
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  Lord, and with justice and might to declare to Jacob his
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  transgressions to Israel, his sin.
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  So this is Micah. He's, he's saying he's basically
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  filled with the Holy Spirit. He said, I am filled with power,
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  with the spirit of the Lord. So Micah is righteous in in his,
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  you know, his relationship with God and he is empowered by the
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  Holy Spirit and can do these. He's he's not saying, you know,
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  I'm not, I'm not going to be a part of all this stuff like you
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  guys are the what he's seeing is this darkness and they're not
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  going to be getting their answers.
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  They're not going to be able to see the future because of what
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  they've done and gods turned away from them.
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  Hear this, you leaders of Jacob, you rulers of Israel who despise
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  justice and distort all that is right, who build Zion with
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  bloodshed and Jerusalem with wickedness.
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  Her leaders judge for a bribe, her priests teach for a price,
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  and her profits tell fortunes for money.
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  Did you see like a common element in all this?
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  Her leaders judge for a bribe. What usually happens at a bribe?
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  You get something for doing something and usually it's
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  financial. Her priests teach for a price,
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  they're getting paid to teach, and her profits tell fortunes
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  for money. So it's all money focused.
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  Those three things he's talking about is it's all based on
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  money, and money is a tool, is a resource to use for God's will.
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  That's essentially what it is. But people can get it and then
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  they start becoming selfish with it and looking to see what they
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  can do with, with their resource for themselves and not other
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  people. And we probably all have a
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  problem with that to some degree.
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  But here it looks like it's pretty bad when he's talking
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  about these leaders that they're all getting paid off, they're
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  all getting, they're just getting money.
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  They're in it for the money. They're not in it for the right
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  reasons. Their hearts are not turned
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  towards God. They are just trying to get
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  money. Yet they look for the Lord's
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  support and say, is not the Lord among us?
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  No disaster will come upon us. Again, here's that false
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  prophet. No disaster will come upon us.
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  And just like another prophecy says, when they say peace and
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  security comes, sudden destruction.
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  And these people are not hearing from God.
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  And so they're like, no disaster is going to come on us.
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  You know, we're, we're good. We're we're all good.
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  I mean, they've got their money, you know, everything seems good,
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  but he's warning them. Therefore, because of you, Zion
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  will be plowed like a field. Jerusalem will become a heap of
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  rubble, the Temple hill a mound overgrown with thickets.
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  And that's the end of chapter 3. So I will read the questions and
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  answers for this one. Why was the lack of visions and
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  divination considered a punishment?
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  A vision is similar to a dream, but it is often experienced
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  while awake. It involves seeing something,
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  such as objects or a sequence of events that is normally hidden
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  from human eyes. Divination offers information
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  about what is secret or yet future.
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  It is obtained by reading and interpreting certain omens.
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  Because of her idolatry, Israel would no longer have special
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  insights into God's direction. Instead, she would experience
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  dark, dismal times with no word from God to comfort or enlighten
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  her. What were seers?
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  These were prophets who foretold future events.
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  In earlier times, prophets were often called seers.
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  It may be that as Israel developed from a tribal
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  confederation to a Kingdom, and as people turned from God, the
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  prophetic ministry and its name changed.
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  Or perhaps the language just changed.
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  How did power in the Spirit of the Lord fill Micah?
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  Micah's empowering by the filling of the Holy Spirit was
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  in direct contrast to the false prophets and seers in Israel's
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  midst. This particular prophetic role
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  of Micah's had to do with his mission of declaring Israel's
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  sin rather than false words of peace.
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  The fact that Micah's prophetic role was tempered by by justice
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  and girded with power witnesses to his being filled with the
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  Spirit. Does God refuse to listen to
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  sinners? God will respond with mercy.
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  And when people genuinely repent, if people truly repent
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  and their behaviour reflects a change of heart, God will relent
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  his judgment. That's so important.
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  Repentance is not saying I'm sorry for this and then just
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  living life again the same way repentance is actually changing
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  the, the thing that you're doing that is considered a sin in
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  front of God. And it's, it's there's a new
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  creation, a new person that comes from repentance.
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  When you ask for forgiveness for something, it should be with the
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  intent. I mean, if, if it's meaningful,
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  I mean, if you ask, you can ask for forgiveness for every, for
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  whatever, but it's not meaningful unless you change the
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  behavior you're asking forgiveness for.
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  Sometimes, however, the insincerity of repeat offenders
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  who plead for forgiveness and repeatedly promise to change but
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  never do is so apparent that God does not extend his mercy.
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  OK, that's really an important thing for Christians to know
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  because there's a lot of Christians who just, you know,
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  think they can ask for forgiveness and they're forgiven
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  because they say Jesus stepped on the cross, died for our past,
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  present and future sins. That's what I hear from people.
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  There was only one sacrifice that's was required for the
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  salvation of all people, but that's you.
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  You can't think that it's cheap that what Jesus did that why
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  would we be like on this pedestal to say, OK, now that
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  Jesus did all this, then you're just elevated on this pedestal
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  and you can live evil and you can do evil things and and God
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  died for that. And God's OK with that.
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  I mean, that's like a warped sense of thinking like God's not
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  OK with that. If it, you know, why does God
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  say, why does Jesus say, you know, you must take up your own
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  cross? Like we all have, you know, a
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  certain amount of hardships that we have to endure that, you
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  know, it's not going to be our natural inclination to do the
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  things that God wants us to do. That's not going to come
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  naturally to us because of our sinful state.
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  So that is the cross we have to pick up.
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  We somehow, whatever it is, we all have different sins that
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  affect our life. We have different things that
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  trip us up and you know make us fall back into sin.
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  If if remember if if we don't call on the Holy Spirit for
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  assistance because that's what Jesus said I will give I will
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  send you an advocate. I will the Holy Spirit will be
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  sent to you. The Holy Spirit can help us
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  overcome sin and actually have repentance happen, but it takes
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  us deciding, you know, it's going to be, it's still a
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  decision is a hard thing to do to have your mindset that, yeah,
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  I'm not going to do that anymore because I know God doesn't
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  approve of that, so I'm going to stop that.
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  That's sometimes, often times a very hard decision to make.
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  And then when it comes, when you're tempted with that thing
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  that you turned away from, that's when you call on God and
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  say, God, you know, I'm being tempted right now.
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  I need the Holy Spirit. I need your spirit to strengthen
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  me and that's what the Bible tells us.
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  That's the resource that we have when we have repented, when
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  we've asked God, it doesn't mean that we are going to be smooth
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  sailing and we're never going to have that temptation come
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  against us again. No, that's not the way the enemy
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  works. The enemy and, and just our own
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  desires, like we may like something, you know, we may not
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  want to change it, but it's, it's one of those things where
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  you get to a point where you humble yourself and you realize
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  that I'm not God and God says this is not good.
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  So that means I got to get it out of my life and God, you
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  know, I did this for so many years or whatever, but I'm done
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  with it. I don't want it anymore.
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  Take it away from me now. It's not.
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  I wish that we could just no longer ever have to deal with
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  that or be tempted by that, but that's not the way it works.
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  So we will get tempted again and that's when we have to rely on
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  God, not our own strength because we are weak, but where
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  we are weak in our weaknesses, where God is strong.
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  So when we call on the Holy Spirit, that's when we can be
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  strong and God only tempts us enough where we're, we have a
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  way out where we, we can, we can overcome it.
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  And that's what I don't think a lot of churches are telling
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  people. They're making people
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  comfortable in their sin and not letting them know that, hey, the
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  Holy Spirit can help you overcome that.
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  You can't do it by yourself, so don't try.
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  You have to submit to God and ask God to work in your life and
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  then you can overcome it. And just because you overcome at
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  one time doesn't mean that you're that's one and done.
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  You're going to have more times where it's going to come back to
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  you because there we all have weaknesses and that's where, you
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  know, in our weakness, that's where God is strong, God's
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  strength, we rely on God. That's that submission.
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  That's that humbling of ourselves.
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  And God doesn't like the proud, he likes the humble.
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  He likes those who will humble ourselves and say, OK, I, it's,
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  this is beyond me. I can't do it.
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  I need you. And then God takes over.
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  So sometimes, however, the insincerity of repeat offenders
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  who plead for forgiveness and repeatedly promise to change but
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  never do so, never do, is so apparent that God does not
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  extend mercy. He sees that they have crossed
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  the line and degraded His compassion and forgiveness.
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  So for them He withdraws his offer that he relent if they
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  repent. Instead, he irrevocably decrees
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  judgement and destruction. How about that, repeat
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  offenders? If we keep on sinning, God is
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  going to be silent with us and we are going to be subject to
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  judgement and destruction. OK, such a such a time had come
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  for the rich oppressors in the land of Judah.
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  When the Assyrians invaded the land, the wealthy Israelites
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  cried out to God for help, but the Lord turned a deaf ear to
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  them, just as they had mercilessly ignored the cries of
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  the poor people they had mistreated.
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  Though all who repent and trust in Jesus will be saved, God's
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  patience will not last forever. He has ordained a day of
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  judgment for everyone. At that time, it will be too
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  late to repent. Each person's eternal fate will
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  be sealed. Hebrews 927 and Revelation 20
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  verses 11 through 15. And yeah, so that's that's very
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  timely that, you know, when Jesus returns, it'll be too
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  late. Actually, I do.
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  There are survivors that come out of the wrath of God, and God
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  can have mercy on whomever he chooses to have mercy, but that
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  doesn't mean that you're, if you decide, well, I'm just going to
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  wait and do it, then you may die.
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  And if you die without repenting, then you are destined
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  to eternal separation from God. You are destined to lose your
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  inheritance in God's Kingdom. And if you survive and you go
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  through the wrath of God, and God doesn't allow you to die
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  during that time, it means that you're probably going to have
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  very terrible sufferings, you know, like you may have to.
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  You those who love their life will lose it.
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  So you're going to lose it one way or another.
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  You're going to lose it spiritually or figuratively or
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  literally. So the outcome is, I guess it's
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  much better to do it earlier, sooner rather than later,
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  because if we figuratively lose our life, we can keep on living,
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  but we just like have to put to death the sin in our life and
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  keep on living and stay connected to God.
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  Or if we refuse to do that, it may come and and we still like
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  honor God. It may come with in the future
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  because the Bible says this will happen.
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  Maybe we'll have to proclaim that we believe in Jesus and we
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  will have to be beheaded for that reason.
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  So that's like the other possibility that you don't
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  change now. You keep on doing your sin, but
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  then all of a sudden you realize, oh, I made a big
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  mistake. I'm still alive, but I want to
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  repent. You know, maybe the only way
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  that you're going to make it into God's Kingdom because you
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  delayed is by having your head chopped off because the Bible
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  does say that's going to happen to Christians.
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  So you either take it, take care of that now or wait and have the
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  potential of having your head chopped off.
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  And you know, there are some Christians today who who have
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  had that happen in the world today and which is very
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  horrible, but God is so redeeming that those people are
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  going to be rulers in his Kingdom.
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  So even though that has happened to them, they are going to be
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  exalted and be made leaders and rulers in his Kingdom for 1000
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  years. So God has restoration in mind
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  for everyone, even when we go through these these tough times
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  of taking up our own cross and dying to sin.
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  When that happens, it's hard. It's, you know, there's
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  different levels of hard that people have to deal with, but
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  it's all going to be worth it for what God has planned.
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  And it's just something to take serious, not to blow off.
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  And that's why I hope that you continue.
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  And I'm going to cut this one. So cut this off.
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  So it's not going to get too very long, but come back, join
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  the podcast, subscribe so that you can stay in the word.
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  And I'm trying to do this daily. So I pray that the Holy Spirit
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  is activated within your life. Anyone who's listened to this
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  podcast, I pray that the Holy Spirit really does some
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  phenomenal things in your life. I ask for this in Jesus name,
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  Amen.