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Episode 113: Not Many · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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I will bless the Lord at all times, and may his praise continually be
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in my mouth. The summon says my soul shall make her boast, and
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the Lord the Humble shall hear thereof and be glad. Oh, the invitation
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is, magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together.
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Hey man, we welcome you once again to this another edition of End
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Time Revival Ministries USAY podcast. That is, for those of you who are
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listening by way of our audio podcast, which by the way, of course,
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available through many different platforms, and of course those of you who are
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viewing us by way of our YouTube channel. Our YouTube handle is one Voice
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in the Wilderness, the number one the letter V I T W. One
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voice in the wilderness, and that's who we are. That's what we are,
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a voice crying out in this wilderness, in this season, in this
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time, in these end times, to a man compel men and women everywhere
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to flee from the raft to come. Amen. The Lord Jesus Christ is
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coming back. A man his second Coming is imminent, and we want to
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be ready a man to receive him. The Bible says to them that look
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for him, shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation. And
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we are as the Church of Jesus Christ, the Bride of Christ, and
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we are to be preparing ourselves, adorning ourselves a man in anticipation of being
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a man at the great marriage feast supper of the lamb. Amen. But
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today we are going to continue in our series that we begun a couple of
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weeks ago in the first Letter to the Corinthians. And if you have your
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Bible, you can go with us to the very first chapter and we will
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commence there in just a few minutes. But of course, as always,
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let's take just a quick moment to a man, invoke the presence of the
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Lord a man, give him praise, glory, honor, and thanksgiving in
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all that he has done for us. Father, again, we are grateful
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to you for all of the blessings, all of the miracle, signs and
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wonders, your very presence, your power, your anointing a man, the
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word that you sent down from heaven, the precious blood of Jesus Christ that
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will shed it for their mission of our sins, the hope that we have
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a man, the joy, the peace O God, the contentment that all
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comes from You and You we live, move and have our being. Lord.
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We just simply pray today that your spirit will lead us, guide us,
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and Lord, speak to someone's heart today so that they can come to
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see and know that you are the true and the living God, the only
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hope of mankind. Be thou magnified today in your church, in your people.
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We pray. Amen and Amen. All right, God bless you again,
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oh boy. Today our subject is just the simple to words, not
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many, not many. Amen. We'll get to that just a moment.
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But if you're with us in our previous two sessions, particularly in our last
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session, fool's gold. Amen. We from the biblical text of First Corinthians,
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chapter number two, Amen, we can see that it is fool's goal
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to follow after the wisdom of this world. Amen. If your faith is
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built on the charisma of man, the enticing words of man's wisdom, as
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Paul put it, a man. If your faith is built on the traditions
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of man, a man, you are You're doomed to failure. You're absolutely
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doomed to failure. That's why Jesus of course warned his disciples to beware of
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the leaven, beware of the doctrine, beware of the traditions of men.
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And there's something enticing, there's something alluring, attractive, and sometimes even exciting
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and being I would say, fantasized and maybe even romanticized by the power and
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the persuasiveness of the charisma that seemingly oozes out of some individuals. And it
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looks right, it sounds right, it seems right a man. The Bible
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describes them as wolves in sheep's clothing, And of course Jesus said, my
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she will hear my voice, and a stranger. They won't follow. But
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again, the end thereof the Bible makes clear is death, it's destruction,
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it's disappointment. And again following after the traditions of man, the wisdom of
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man, those things are going to lead you to grave disappointment. I must
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say, And as Paul put it again, the wisdom of this world a
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man comes to naught. It comes to nothing. God has made foolish the
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wisdom of this world. So a man, we as the children of God
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who are in the Church of the living God, who are amen his sheep
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and of his pasture. Amen, we are not to get caught up in
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the wisdom of this world. We're not to be swept away as and as
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Paul again put it, tossed to and fro and carried about with everyone of
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doctrine. Because again it's foolishness. It's fool's goal. And it is wise
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for us to know and to understand that not many wise men, not many
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mighty men, not many men of nobility. And let me rephrase RepA rephrase
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that, brother, let me restate that, because I want to say what
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the Bible says very specifically about the wise, because it is a very wise
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thing for you and I to be servants of Christ, a man following the
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Lord. So what we need to know and understand is that not many wise
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men after the flesh, a man according to the wisdom of this world,
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as what the Bible says. We're going to read that in just a moment.
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But not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty men,
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not many men of nobility, a fame fortune, the Bible says, are
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called to this great salvation. Now, why would this be the case?
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Would not you would think you would think in your mind at least I would
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say from our perspective, from a carnal perspective, from an earthly perspective.
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And again, because we don't have the mind of God, he said,
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my ways are not your ways, My thoughts are not your thoughts. But
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from our earthly, carnal perspective, we would have the impression that the church
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would be stronger if we had more people of nobility, if we had more
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people of the world's wisdom, if we had more people of might and strength,
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and fame and fortune. It would add to the kingdom. It would
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make the Kingdom of God more powerful? Would not, we would ask,
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in our carnality, would not the select liberty endorsement, as it were,
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make the church more enticing, more appealing to the masses to come on in
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and sign up, Amens. That's why we don't have the mind of God.
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And this is what the Bible teaches very clearly to us, and this
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is what we need to understand. So again, if you have your Bibles,
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go with us to First Corinthians, chapter number one, and we're going
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to begin reading at verse number eighteen. This is what the apostle teaches,
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Amen. So that we can again get an understanding that. And I want
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to reemphasize this at the end of this. God does not need our help.
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God does not need our assistance. God does not need anything from man.
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God does not need the wisdom of man, Amen, the fame and
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fortune of man, the things of man, the things of this earth.
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He's the creator, He made it all. It all belongs to him.
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And without him, and apart from him we can do nothing. First Garathians
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chapter one, verse eighteen. For the preaching of the Cross is to them
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that perish foolishness, but unto us which are saved, it is the power
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of God. For it is written, I will destroy. This is God
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speaking. I will destroy the wisdom of the wise, and will bring to
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nothing the understanding of the prudent. Where is the wise? Where is the
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scribe? Where is the disputer of this world? Hath not God made foolish
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the wisdom of this world? Oh? Yes, he has, Yes,
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he has, Yes, he has listen Verse twenty one. For after that,
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in the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom knew not God.
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It pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. I
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mean, let me just pause here for just a moment, because again in
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our last session, a man we saw how again following after the wisdom of
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this world is fool's gold. And the Apostle makes clear, a man about
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the Gospel of Jesus Christ, a man being the power of God, a
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man the wisdom of God. Jesus is of course the wisdom of God.
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And again, when we failed to understand a man the power of the cross,
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the power of God salvation, a man, we become foolish. A
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man, we become fool And this is why the apostle Paul in the first
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chapter of Romans say, I'm not ashamed of the Gospel of Jesus Christ,
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because it is the power of God unto salvation to everyone that believes. What
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happens to those who are wise in their own wisdom, wise in their own
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ways. Where's the scribed? Amen? Where is disput of this world?
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Amen? Those who would contend with God, those who would continue in their
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rebellion against Him. God, the Bible says, hath made foolish the wisdom
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of this world? Amen? It please God. This is what the Bible
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says, Amen. By the foolishness of preaching, preaching Amen, to save
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them, Amen, that believe. Now again, how can they hear without
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a preacher? How can they preach except they be sent? Amen. But
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again the Bible tells us the problem is they have not all obeyed the Gospel.
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Amen. It is not as though the sound has not gone into all
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the earth. It is not as though God has not delivered. The preacher
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delivered, the spokesman delivered, Amen, the word to us and given to
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us, and made known to us this thing, as the apostle Paul stood
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before King Agrippa, saying this thing was not done in a corner. God
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did not and is not hiding himself his word, his kingdom, his salvation,
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his king. He has set his king on high and proclaimed to all
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men. Amen, this great salvation that is available, and it pleases God
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through the foolishness. Is foolishness to us of preaching to save them that believe?
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Amen, God, Amen sends the preacher. God has sent the word.
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Amen, He sends faith. He creates faith. Amen. And God
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Amen again, is the author and the finisher of the faith. And and
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and and and Uh. This is this is what God has a man designed
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in his own wisdom, unfathomable Amen, unapproachable, unobtainable. You know with
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our finite minds. Amen, our limited wisdom and knowledge and understanding, we
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cannot attain. Amen to the wisdom and knowledge of God, and God purposed
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through the preaching of the Cross. Amen, through the death of His son,
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Jesus the Christ, the Messiah, the King of the Jews, the
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King of the era Earth, the King of the world, the King of
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Kings and Lord of Lord. It pleased God that he would be bruised and
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put to death, and that his death, and that his burial, and
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that his resurrection, his a man ascension back to heaven. A man.
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Would a man save them that would believe in him. Amen. His death,
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his death, is burial, his resurrection, his ascension back into Heaven,
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and again his return. Amen. Amen, as the King of Kings
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and Lord of Lords, that he is. Amen. It pleased God by
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the foolishness of preaching to save all them that believe. Now you cannot be
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saved if you do not believe the Gospel. If you do not believe the
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report of the Lord, you cannot be saved. Amen. The Jews,
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the Bible says, look at verse twenty two. The Jews require a sign.
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And the Greeks are seeking after wisdom. Now, if you want wisdom,
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if you're lacking wisdom, if you're need of wisdom, the Bible says,
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you simply ask of God. If you again, if you fall for,
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if you are enticed by, if you are allured to the wisdom of
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this world, your faith is going to be. It's really not gonna be
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a faith at all. It's gonna be a faith in man. It's going
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to be a faith in systems. It's going to be a faith in the
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the world a man. And by the way, all of that is built
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upon a man. The doctrines of devils Amen, the God of this world,
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small g Satan darkens confuses blind a man, the minds of them that
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do not believe a man, but the Gospel a man. The foolishness of
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the preaching of Jesus, the Christ a man saves them that believe. The
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Jews are looking after a sign. And you remember, during the earthly ministry
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of Jesus, they wanted Jesus to show them signs, even though he had
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already demonstrated, even though he had clearly shown himself to be a man,
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the king of kings, and the Messiah, the one they were looking for.
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Nicodemus, a man, made the confession when he said, no one
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can do these miracles, these signs, these wonders that you were doing,
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except God be with him a man. And God was not only with him,
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God was in him. God was in Christ. The Bible says,
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reconciling the world unto himself. Jesus Christ, the God man, a man,
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all power, all might, a man, all dominion, a man
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is in him. The fullness of the God had dwells in him, and
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in him and him alone are we say verse twenty two. Again, the
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Jews are looking for signs, the Greeks are seeking after wisdom. This is
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what Paul says. But we preach Christ crucified. We preach Christ crucified.
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We preach the fact that Jesus died the death. He is the propitiation,
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He is the substitute. He took our place. He died the death that
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we deserve to die, so that we can have life, as he said,
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and have it more abundantly. I mean, that's what we preach.
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We preach that neither is there salvation in any other It is buying through the
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blood, atonement of Jesus the Christ, that we must be saved. Amen.
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Without the shed in the blood, there's no remission of sins. And
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all of our blood is tainted, all of our blood is filthy. Amen.
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And we can even give ourselves all ourselves to God a man as a
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man acceptable Christ, to pay to atone for our sins. Amen. So
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Jesus the Christ came wanting for all to put on a man himself all of
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our sins, all of our transgressions, all of our iniquities. Amen.
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He who knew no sin became sin. That's what we preach. We preach
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Christ crucified. It is unto the Jews a stumbling block. Why, because
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they were looking for a messiah. They were looking for a king who's going
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to come and restore unto them the kingdom the glory days again, make them
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the head and not the tail. They were under the subjection, under the
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foot, as it were, of the Roman government at that time. And
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they were not looking for someone riding on a donkey. They were looking for
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someone on a white steed with an army that would overthrow their enemies. So
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the preaching of Jesus Christ being crucified, being nailed to the cross. You
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know, they reviled him as he was hanging there. If you are a
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Christ, if you are the son of God, come down, save yourself.
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He saved others himself, he cannot save. So when you preach the
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cross, when you preach Christ crucified, to the Jews, it's a stumbling
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block in their minds. They cannot rapid, they cannot fathom it. They
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cannot understand it because they missed all of the Old Testament prophets telling them how
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Jesus was coming. When Jesus was coming, he was going to be the
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suffering servant. Or now that they missed it, so for them, the
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cross Jesus stumbling block. Unto the Greek, his foolishness. Wait a minute,
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you mean to tell me that an innocent man is going to take my
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place, is going to die in my place, is going to atone for
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me. I get to escape, I get to run, as it were,
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as the escape go into the wilderness. I get to be forgiven.
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And he's going to take my place. He's going to be my substitute.
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He's going to come off of bitch, take off the robe, come beside
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me, be my paraclet, and then take the sentence. For me,
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it's foolishness. To the Greek, the Bible says, but unto them Verse
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twenty four, which are called both Jews and Greeks. Christ the power of
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God and the wisdom of God. Because listen, the foolishness of God,
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as it were, is wiser than men. And the weakness of God is
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stronger than men. In other words, in Christ, who made himself of
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no reputation, came in weakness, came in poverty, came in subjection,
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He subjected himself, he umold himself, he lord himself. Amen. And
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this is what you can see see as the weakness of God as it were
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a man. But even in that weakness, the Bible says, it's stronger
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than men. For you see your calling, brother, And how that not
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many? Oh, here we go, look at your calling. Look at
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your calling. Look at the church, look at the church throughout church history.
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Look at the calling those who are called to this hey, man,
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great salvation? How that excuse me? This is what the apostle says,
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how that not many? Not many? Doesn't say not any but not many
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wise men after the flesh, not many, mighty men, not many noble
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are called? Please and Now I'm going to again emphasize this after I finished
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this next a couple of verses or so, please please let that soak in.
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Not many wise men after the flesh. God doesn't need them, He
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doesn't need their wisdom. Not many mighty men. The race is not given
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to the swift and the strong. This is a race of endurance. God
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doesn't need your strength. He doesn't need your power. He doesn't eat your
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might. Not many noble Oh you mean you mean God doesn't need the kings
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of this earth, the governors, the presidents, the princes, the prime
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ministers, the mayors. No, doesn't need the nobles. It doesn't need
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them. Not many of them are called. Now again doesn't say not any
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of them, but not many of them are called. God has his people
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in places. He has his congressmen, maybe not many, but he may
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have. He does have I'm sure some senators, and I'm just naming titles.
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Mayors, governors, Amen, presidents, kings, prime ministers, But
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not many, because he doesn't need many. Amen. So Verse twenty seven
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tells us that God has chosen the foolish things of this world to confound the
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wise, and God has chosen the weak things of the world to confound.
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The things which are mighty, I love it. I love it. I
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love it. And base things of the world, and things which are despised
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hath God chosen yea, And things which are not to bring to naught things
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that are. And why does God do that? Verse twenty nine tells us
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that no flesh should glory in his presence. You and I will not be
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in heaven, Amen, boasting and bragging about what we added, what we
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did. No, we're going to be casting our crowns before his feet.
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Amen. It's not of us, Amen, but of Him. Paul says
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Verse thirty and thirty one are ye in Christ, Jesus, who of God
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is made unto us wisdom. This is Jesus wisdom, righteousness, and sanctification
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and redemption. That according as it is written, He that glorieth, let
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him glory in the Lord. Please please please understand that not many wise men
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after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble are called by God.
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Again, God doesn't need them. He's not in need of anything.
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And especially again the wisdom of this fallen world, this corrupt world, in
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order to bolster his kingdom, in order to build up his kingdom. And
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remember what God said. Remember what Jesus said to God, saying, my
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kingdom is not of this world, because if my kingdom was of this world,
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my servants fight. And don't think for a moment that God needs the
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majority of people in order to reform, to change, to make new this
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world. No no, no, no, no, no no. God
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doesn't need the many we bring. Listen, please understand, we bring nothing
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to God. We add nothing to him. As keep in mind, as
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it were, as it is that we are creatures made by Him. It
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is in him we live and move and have our being. We add nothing
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to him. Amen. And God again, in his infinite and unfathomable wisdom
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and knowledge, in his ways, he has chosen the foolish things of this
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world to confine the wise God, in his infinite and unfathomable wisdom, children
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the weak things of this world to confound the things which are mighty. God
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in his infinite, unfathomable wisdom, has chosen base things of the world,
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things which are despised. For example, Jesus had among his twelve disciples,
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what a ragtag bunch that was uneducated, uncouth fishermen, tax collectors. Jesus
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ate and drank with republicans and sinners and called them to repentance. But the
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wise, but the scribes, but the Pharisees, but the sad. No,
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he didn't need him. He doesn't need him now. He later called
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one of them, the apostle Paul, chose him, set him apart,
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and again, not many. And this is, by the way, the
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apostle Paul who wrote this, not many. And by the way, and
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by the way, since I mentioned the apostle Paul, who was highly educated,
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number one in this class, set a defeat of Gamaleo hey Man,
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a pharisee of the Pharisees. This man, what did he say about all
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that he had learned, all that he had accomplished, all that he achieved?
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He said, I count it all as dong that I may win Christ,
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that I might know him. God doesn't need educated people. God doesn't
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need people again with charisma and attractiveness and alluring a man aroma about them.
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No, no, no, no no, God doesn't need it, doesn't
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need it. He chooses the weak things, the base things, the foolish
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things of this world in order to confound That's why we need to When the
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apostles, after after after the resurrection, after Jesus a man had empowered them
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with the holy ghosts a man, and they went about preaching, and they
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stood before the council, and the Bible says, he said, wait,
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whit whit. And by the way, even before that, they were astonished
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that Jesus said, how does this man have this wisdom? How does he
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have this knowledge? He hasn't even been to school he is, he doesn't,
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he doesn't have the learning from the institutions. He's not sat at our
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feet. How does he know? He doesn't have the degrees? And they
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were astonished again at the apostles. H who were fishermen? Peter and John
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were just old, dirty, old, smelly, old, uneducated fishermen.
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These these these were that were just again a ragtag bunch of a man,
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unbelieving at times. Amen, men that God used, as it were,
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the Bible says, to turn the world upside down. Amen. Foolish things,
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weak things, base things. Amen. God chooses in order to confound
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those that are wise, so that again no flesh. It's the glory in
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his presence. That's why God in the Old Testament, for example, I
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give you one more quick I'm almost done. God took the army of Gideon,
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for example, and whittled it down to a mere three hundred men.
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And they went up against an army, and I think, if my number,
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if my memory is correct, they were outnumbered four hundred and fifty to
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one. But God whittled the army of Gideon down to three hundred what so
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that Gideon and all of Israel would know that it is not by your might.
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It is not by your power, It is not by your wisdom,
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it is not by your strategic planning. But it is by the power of
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My spirit, the spirit of the Living God that moves in all of the
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earth. No flesh gets the glory in his presence. So God, listen,
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please. God does not need the many. He does not need the
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mighty. He ses not. He does not need the millions. God needs
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your your millions, your mega millions, your billions, your trillions. God
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doesn't need it. He doesn't need the majority. You know why. He's
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the Almighty, He's the all sufficient. And by the way, he's the
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majority maker. One with God is with the majority. The prophet in the
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Old Testament, surrounded by the enemy, his servant panic servant thought that they
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were done and doomed and the Lord. The prophets that pray, Lord,
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Lord, Lord, Lord, open the young man's eyes, so we can
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see were you were. You with God, you with the majority. He
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is the majority maker. God doesn't need the many. God doesn't need the
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mighty. He doesn't need the millions. And heeds nothing of us, nothing
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from us. He simply desires of us, the few, to hear from
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him, to trust him, to obey him. That's all he desires of
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us. He makes the many out of the few. God does that.
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Abraham only had one son of the promise, Isaac. Isaac had two sons,
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but only one of them was chosen, that was Jacob. Jacob had
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twelve sons, and of these twelve God produced a nation of millions of people.
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He took one with Jesus Amen called twelve disciples, twelve men to follow
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him. One of them was the Son of tradition, of course, but
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after Pentecosts, the twelve went out Amen as Jesus that commanded them Amen.
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And from the day of Pentecosts onward. And on the day of Pentecosts,
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by the way, the one hundred and twenty that were in the Upper room,
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along with the disciples, the original twelve and Mary, by the way,
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the mother of Christ. On that very day, Peter the uneducated fisherman
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preached the first message of the new born Church, if you will, and
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God added to the church that day about three thousand souls. God makes the
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many the few. God doesn't need the mini. He makes mighty out of
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the week. And again the few with him are the majority. So Lord,
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will you just help us today to understand, to know that it is
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not of us, It is not in us, It is not from us.
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It is of you. And it is in you that we live and
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move and have. Our big wisdom comes from you. Power is of you.
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Might is of you. You are the majority maker, You're the beginning.
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You're the end. You're the first, You're the last. So Lord,
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help our one belief come us to trust you and to know that we
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are victorious, that we are more than conquerous, that you reign and rule
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in the Kingdom of men, no matter what we see on the surface,
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no matter how the deception of this world seems to call some to alter our
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faith. It's in you. Our Trust's in you, our hope, it's
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in you our confidence. It's in you, Oh Lord, our God,
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we thank you, we praise you, we bless your name. Amen and Amen,