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How to Help Our Nation Survive, Part 1 - Pastor Chuck Swindoll Insight for Living (128k) · INSIGHT FOR LIVING: Biblical Wisdom For Everyday Living

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  Speaker 1: America turns two hundred and fifty years old this weekend.
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  Speaker 1: And while the fireworks light up the sky and the
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  Speaker 1: flags wave proudly in the summer breeze, millions of Americans
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  Speaker 1: are quietly asking the same haunting question, will our country survive?
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  Speaker 1: The threats are real, the problems run deep, and no election,
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  Speaker 1: no legislation, no political leader holds the ultimate answer. But
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  Speaker 1: there is an answer, and it's older than America itself. Today,
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  Speaker 1: on Insight for Living, Chuckswindall opens the Bible to reveal
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  Speaker 1: God's survival guide for a nation in crisis. Chuck titled
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  Speaker 1: his message how to help our Nations Survive.
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  Speaker 2: Survival. This is a sur about survival. How to help
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  Speaker 2: your nation survive, How to help yourself as a people
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  Speaker 2: of this nation survive. This will not be lengthy nor complicated,
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  Speaker 2: but rather a relevant call from God to all of
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  Speaker 2: us to play our part in the survival program that
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  Speaker 2: He has arranged for a nation. The basis of these
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  Speaker 2: words is found in Second Chronicles, chapter seven. Over in
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  Speaker 2: the Old Testament, I realize that the nation in question
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  Speaker 2: is not America, but an ancient nation, the nation of Israel,
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  Speaker 2: and that the man involved in this monologue with God
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  Speaker 2: is not a president but a young, perhaps fearful king
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  Speaker 2: named Solomon. And the event is not a holiday, but rather,
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  Speaker 2: in every sense of the word, it is a holy day. Actually,
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  Speaker 2: it is a day of dedication, and technically not just
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  Speaker 2: a day, but a season of dedication, because something very
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  Speaker 2: important has just been accomplished. God's house has been built.
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  Speaker 2: He never had a permanent residence before. He had always
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  Speaker 2: lived in a tent. That is, if we could say
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  Speaker 2: the chakaina of God is where he lives. He had
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  Speaker 2: always lived in a tent that was folded up and
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  Speaker 2: carried on men's shoulders from one region to another. His
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  Speaker 2: white shining light had always blazed into this altar room
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  Speaker 2: within the tent that had been built. But now he
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  Speaker 2: was to dwell in a house, a house not extravagantly furnished,
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  Speaker 2: but expensively furnished. Smell of cedar was still in the rooms.
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  Speaker 2: You could see the gold untarnished by the weather. The
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  Speaker 2: stones did not bear any of the appearance of age.
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  Speaker 2: Along with the house had been completed. The place where
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  Speaker 2: Solomon lived to call the palace beautiful, but not nearly
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  Speaker 2: as beautiful as the House of God. And suddenly in
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  Speaker 2: the middle of the night. God visited his man, not
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  Speaker 2: for all the public to hear, and for all Solomon
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  Speaker 2: would know the rest of his life. It would never
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  Speaker 2: be known by anyone but God. The Holy Spirit chose
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  Speaker 2: to preserve and etch on the record of his permanent
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  Speaker 2: word of truth, the monologue, not dialog. Solomon's quiet. He
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  Speaker 2: is completely silent, and into his room comes Jehovah, God
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  Speaker 2: to visit, to talk, to talk into the night. What
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  Speaker 2: prompted an encounter such as this, Well, there had been
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  Speaker 2: sacrifices Chapter seven, Verses four and five, A lot of sacrifices.
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  Speaker 2: The people had offered sacrifice. The king himself had offered
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  Speaker 2: twenty two thousand oxen and one hundred and twenty thousand sheep.
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  Speaker 2: The altar was already smeared with blood, and it would
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  Speaker 2: stay smeared with blood. That's why it was there. And
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  Speaker 2: this had come before God as a sweet smelling aroma.
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  Speaker 2: It pleased him because through the blood men contacted God.
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  Speaker 2: He arranged it that way. And then there had been
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  Speaker 2: music Verse six. The priests stood at their posts, and
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  Speaker 2: the levites with the instruments of music to the Lord,
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  Speaker 2: which King David had made for giving praise to the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: And this again had brought God praise and pleasure. It
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  Speaker 2: had been a time of feasting for days, and on
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  Speaker 2: top of that, and there had been special offerings verse seven,
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  Speaker 2: so much fat from the peace offerings and on that
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  Speaker 2: bronze altar, that it was not able to contain the
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  Speaker 2: full amount of offering of meat and of grain and
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  Speaker 2: of the fat. The place was overflowing with the signs
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  Speaker 2: and the sounds of sacrifice and praise and music and fire.
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  Speaker 2: Solomon's heart must have pounded in his chest when he
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  Speaker 2: went to bed that night. What a time of feasting,
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  Speaker 2: What a great thing to have it finished. And the
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  Speaker 2: people left verse eight with a happy heart. A very
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  Speaker 2: great assembly had gathered verse nine they had observed for
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  Speaker 2: these days and for these feast days. And finally verse
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  Speaker 2: ten they had, with a happy heart of rejoicing, gone
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  Speaker 2: to their own places, living in the memory of that
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  Speaker 2: time of feasting. Solomon's all alone, and God came verse eleven.
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  Speaker 2: After this place had been finished successfully and all that
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  Speaker 2: had been planned was done. Then verse twelve, the Lord
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  Speaker 2: appeared to Solomon at night. No one was around, no
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  Speaker 2: more music, no audience, no one to applaud the presence
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  Speaker 2: of God. That's over, just God and his man. The
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  Speaker 2: Lord appeared to him at night and said, I have
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  Speaker 2: heard your prayer. Now. I know we're sitting in places
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  Speaker 2: far removed from a bedroom, but imagine yourself resting on
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  Speaker 2: a couch, or on an easy chair, or in bed
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  Speaker 2: in the middle of the night, and in an unexpected
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  Speaker 2: way way there comes the visiting of God into your room,
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  Speaker 2: and you hear his voice, and God says to you,
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  Speaker 2: as he did to Solomon, I heard what you prayed,
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  Speaker 2: and I have chosen this place. I like it. I'm
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  Speaker 2: pleased with it. I fit here. My glory is displayed
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  Speaker 2: in the house that's been built. I choose it as
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  Speaker 2: my residence. What was its purpose? I've chosen this place
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  Speaker 2: for myself. It's a house of sacrifice. There will be
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  Speaker 2: sacrifices of praise. There will be sacrifices of animals of
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  Speaker 2: all shapes and sizes. There will be the sacrifice of offerings.
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  Speaker 2: There will be the sacrifice of prayer. I've chosen it
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  Speaker 2: for myself. It pleases me. And if you will allow
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  Speaker 2: me a little bit of imagination between the twelfth and
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  Speaker 2: the thirteenth verses, I believe God could have said by
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  Speaker 2: way of implication, But Solomon, I have ways of testing
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  Speaker 2: my people. Hard days will come. Not all the future
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  Speaker 2: will be like your past week or two or three.
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  Speaker 2: My nation will come up against the horrors of war
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  Speaker 2: and the weakness of depravity. And Solomon, I will see
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  Speaker 2: them under the test of their times, and I will
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  Speaker 2: want those sacrifices to continue. I will want to have
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  Speaker 2: the offerings flowing out of this place, just as you
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  Speaker 2: have done in dedication, I want it to continue in consecration.
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  Speaker 2: I want that, Solomon. I expect that, Solomon. And here's
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  Speaker 2: the teest verse thirteen. The test for my people. If
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  Speaker 2: I shut up the heavens so that there is no rain,
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  Speaker 2: if I command the locust to devour the land, if
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  Speaker 2: I send pestilence among my people, that's the test, Solomon,
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  Speaker 2: verse fourteen. The same people who suffer under the test
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  Speaker 2: of their times, these people who are called by my name,
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  Speaker 2: I will expect of them, Solomon, in order to survive,
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  Speaker 2: I will expect four things. First that they humble themselves,
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  Speaker 2: and second that they pray. And third, if they seek
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  Speaker 2: my face. Ever saw one's face in the fog, looking longingly,
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  Speaker 2: waiting fervently look for a face in a crowd or
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  Speaker 2: at a large terminal, a large airport terminal, for someone
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  Speaker 2: who said they would meet you, or tried to find
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  Speaker 2: someone in that setting. You've sought their face. Solomon, I
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  Speaker 2: will expect my people to humble themselves, and to pray,
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  Speaker 2: and to wait for me to work, and to give
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  Speaker 2: credence to all of those actions. I expect them to
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  Speaker 2: turn from their ways of wickedness. Even though they are Israelites,
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  Speaker 2: and even though you are their king, and even though
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  Speaker 2: their history is rich, rich with heritage, I expect them
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  Speaker 2: at that moment to turn from their wicked ways. I
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  Speaker 2: want to see an attitude of a servant, a spirit
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  Speaker 2: of dependence, a willingness to wait, a response of obedience.
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  Speaker 2: And I in return, Solomon, I will hear the prayer.
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  Speaker 2: I will forgive their sin. I'll heal the land. Observed
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  Speaker 2: by the way the close connection between a disobedient people
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  Speaker 2: and a diseased nation, don't miss that. The pestilence comes
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  Speaker 2: not because God is cruel and standing over man seeing
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  Speaker 2: how much he can squirm under the pain. The pestilence
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  Speaker 2: comes by implication, because they have turned from their ways
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  Speaker 2: with God and gone their own wicked ways. Pestilence has come,
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  Speaker 2: and he who rules the insect world says I can
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  Speaker 2: bring it upon you. He who causes the rivers to
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  Speaker 2: flow says I can dry them up by stopping the rain. Then, Solomon,
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  Speaker 2: I will wait for the prayer of my people. Then
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  Speaker 2: I will look for the right attitude. Jay Barton Pain,
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  Speaker 2: while associate professor of Hebrew at Wheaton College, wrote these words.
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  Speaker 2: This great passage expresses, as does no other in scripture,
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  Speaker 2: God's RecA requirement for national blessing, whether in Solomon's land,
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  Speaker 2: in Ezra's, or in our own. I believe that I
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  Speaker 2: am fully aware that this passage originally was given to
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  Speaker 2: a Jewish king who ruled over a Jewish people halfway
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  Speaker 2: around the world. In specifics, there is hardly a comparison
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  Speaker 2: with America, but in principle there is a rather close association.
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  Speaker 2: I'm also well aware that thee hundred and four people
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  Speaker 2: who finally made it to Jamestown and established our first
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  Speaker 2: colony were not all flaming evangelists, nor did they give
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  Speaker 2: birth to those who loved Jesus Christ pre eminently. And
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  Speaker 2: all the judges in all the courtrooms and all the
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  Speaker 2: people of authority that formed those thirteen colonies were all
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  Speaker 2: men and women of God. I know that you know that. Furthermore,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not so foolish as to believe that all of
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  Speaker 2: our American roots have been nourished by purity in or
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  Speaker 2: out of war. Decisions made in the Oval office are
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  Speaker 2: made in a or those made in a city council.
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  Speaker 2: I am completely aware that we are shot through with depravity,
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  Speaker 2: always will be. But it is true we are a people, uniquely,
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  Speaker 2: uniquely blessed of God. Talk to anyone who has recently
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  Speaker 2: returned from a trip anywhere else, and listen. We even
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  Speaker 2: had a most unique origin. Christopher Columbus, in an unusual
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  Speaker 2: book his Book of Prophecies, includes these words, it was
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  Speaker 2: the Lord who put into my mind. I could feel
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  Speaker 2: his hand upon me the fact that it would be
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  Speaker 2: possible to sail from here to the Indies. No one
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  Speaker 2: should fear to undertake any task in the name of
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  Speaker 2: our Savior, if it is just, and if the intention
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  Speaker 2: is purely for his holy service. The working out of
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  Speaker 2: all things has been assigned to each person by our Lord,
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  Speaker 2: but it all happens according to his sovereign will. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: what a gracious Lord who desires that people should perform
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  Speaker 2: for him those things for which he holds himself responsible,
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  Speaker 2: day and night. Moment by moment, everyone should express their
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  Speaker 2: most devoted gratitude to him. Christopher Columbus, before there was
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  Speaker 2: ever a dream of America strangely, uniquely set aside as
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  Speaker 2: a continent, land, rivers, lakes, mountains, bounty, blessing. How far
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  Speaker 2: we have drifted? What is the answer? Then, some would say,
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  Speaker 2: elect a Christian president. Reminds me of Dwight Eisenhower's words,
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  Speaker 2: never let yourself be persuaded that any one great man,
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  Speaker 2: any one leader, is necessary to the salvation of America.
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  Speaker 2: When America consists of one leader and one hundred and
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  Speaker 2: fifty eight million followers, it will no longer be America.
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  Speaker 2: Back in the seventeenth century, the same tension went on
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  Speaker 2: between a man named Increase Mather and another named Solomon Stoddard.
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  Speaker 2: Stoddard confronted Mather with a concern. Mather, you see, firmly
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  Speaker 2: believed this very conviction that it doesn't take just a president,
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  Speaker 2: but it takes a people, though small in number, to
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  Speaker 2: pull it off. Stoddard confronted him. The seventeenth century New
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  Speaker 2: England only a fraction of our population is Christian. Mather
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  Speaker 2: retorted nonetheless, that fraction is sufficient to stand for the
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  Speaker 2: entire land and redeem the whole good word. You and
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  Speaker 2: I are not many in number, but we are who
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  Speaker 2: we are, and we are like little grains of salt,
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  Speaker 2: sprinkled and planted here and there, little rays of light
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  Speaker 2: set upon a hill strategically by our sovereign God, who
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  Speaker 2: has not yet lost control of this earth. And he says,
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  Speaker 2: to those with salt, bite into that society, and those
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  Speaker 2: with the light shine it flood that area. And somehow,
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  Speaker 2: in his magnificent plan he is pleased to use the
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  Speaker 2: salt and the light of a seventeenth century body of
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  Speaker 2: believers to a suage to soften the blows of a
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  Speaker 2: godless society. The verse, my people called by my name,
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  Speaker 2: humbled yourselves. I call that the unconditional surrender of my
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  Speaker 2: will to gods. It's not salvation. This is people already
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  Speaker 2: called by his name. These are people who have already
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  Speaker 2: taken the gift of eternal life, embrace Jesus Christ by faith,
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  Speaker 2: but now said in their own soul, said to themselves,
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  Speaker 2: I turn my will to God's. I'd take his word
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  Speaker 2: as my rooftop. I'd take his principles as my precepts
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  Speaker 2: for business, profession, practice, life and death. I surrender unconditionally
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  Speaker 2: myself to him. I pray, I wait for him to work.
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  Speaker 2: I also do it without hypocrisy. I turn from my
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  Speaker 2: wicked ways. No, I cannot clean up my society. I
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  Speaker 2: can clean up my life by the power of God.
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  Speaker 2: Full time job. Humble myself, pray, seek his face, and
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  Speaker 2: turn from my wicked ways. Then I'll hear and I'll heal.
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  Speaker 2: This is not someone else's job. It won't be accomplished
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  Speaker 2: in the marble wall rooms on Capitol Hill. It is
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  Speaker 2: not something limited to judges in the chambers, or to
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  Speaker 2: voting booths, or the city council meetings, or the mass
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  Speaker 2: gatherings on Sunday mornings or pep rallies. It is something
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  Speaker 2: that fits the chamber of the heart and fits their best.
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  Speaker 2: I save you from the statistics. You know them, many
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  Speaker 2: of you better than I. But just watch the decline
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  Speaker 2: of our country. You're seeing it crumble. God is not panicked.
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  Speaker 2: God says to us in the night hours, go back
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  Speaker 2: to my book, turn yourself to me, pray, wait for
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  Speaker 2: me to work. And I will hear, and I will heal.
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  Speaker 2: You just turned from your wicked ways. We spent this
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  Speaker 2: past a week up at Forest Home, a Christian conference
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  Speaker 2: ground about hours so from here. Most of us had
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  Speaker 2: a grand time. There were a few broken hearts. I
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  Speaker 2: met one the last day. I was preoccupied those hours
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  Speaker 2: with getting four cars full of luggage into three. That
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  Speaker 2: was one of my concerns. We had taken friends from
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  Speaker 2: out of state and so we had all of that
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  Speaker 2: to put together. I had this facing me today. I
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  Speaker 2: appreciate Paul's words, there is always the care of the churches,
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  Speaker 2: and that never seems to leave. So that was on
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  Speaker 2: my mind, seized with fear that we might have nothing
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  Speaker 2: more than testimony time on Sunday morning if I didn't
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  Speaker 2: get my act together and I couldn't seem to get
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  Speaker 2: it clear as to what God wanted me to say.
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  Speaker 2: And then I came across a troubled woman. Didn't know her,
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  Speaker 2: had hardly seen her through the week, and she says
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  Speaker 2: to me, as we bumped up against one another in
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  Speaker 2: the last few hours, would you pray for me? I said,
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  Speaker 2: a bit preoccupied, Well, yes, what exactly would you like
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  Speaker 2: me to pray for? She said, Oh, my survival, My survival. Suddenly,
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  Speaker 2: luggage and packing seemed terribly unimportant. A sermon did not
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  Speaker 2: seem a high priority. Survival is at stake, and everything
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  Speaker 2: else bowed to that need. So it is in our
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  Speaker 2: nation what is high priority to you? May I interrupt
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  Speaker 2: and ask you to pray for our survival. Let's do
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  Speaker 2: that now, oh our father. We are masters at passing
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  Speaker 2: responsibility to someone else, someone else who's paid to do it.
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  Speaker 2: Someone else who has the responsibility, some hard charging, high powered,
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  Speaker 2: well paid decision maker, some professional. While we gag in
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  Speaker 2: our days of decadence. How could we think of someone
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  Speaker 2: else more responsible than we ourselves. Giving birth to children
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  Speaker 2: is a frightening thought. Parading them in front of our
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  Speaker 2: newsstands is a desperate, desperate experience. Having them read our
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  Speaker 2: filthy literature and watch our dirty films, and be counseled
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  Speaker 2: by fools, and let us stray by cults and exposed
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  Speaker 2: to the god less. Oh, our God, we are in
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  Speaker 2: desperate times. Integrity is a forgotten word in business. Even
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  Speaker 2: our government has pockets of pollution that we continue to discover.
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  Speaker 2: You are the only source of true purity. You are
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  Speaker 2: the only hope of our future. Forgive us of our
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  Speaker 2: smug complacency. For once we find ourselves well fed, who
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  Speaker 2: really could care less about the hungry? And once we
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  Speaker 2: are comfortably in the rain in from the rain, who
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  Speaker 2: could care about the shelter of another? Begin by humbling
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  Speaker 2: us our Father, giving us hearts of compassion, though we
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  Speaker 2: are securely well fixed financially, giving us a heart for
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  Speaker 2: those that do not have sufficient to survive. Open our
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  Speaker 2: ears to the cry of the hurting. May physicians practice
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  Speaker 2: a compassionate medical practice. May attorneys see and feel the
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  Speaker 2: hurt and the need of their clients above and beyond
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  Speaker 2: what they get out of it. May teachers teach for
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  Speaker 2: the sheer joy of stretching minds and developing a curious heart,
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  Speaker 2: or the world that you have given us to enjoy.
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  Speaker 2: And may we preachers preach the truth. Lord God, somehow,
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  Speaker 2: in some way, cause these words to fall on some
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  Speaker 2: soul who has just about sold out to the enemy
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  Speaker 2: in a time of mid life crisis, or in the
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  Speaker 2: weariness brought on by a recent retirement. Father, purify us
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  Speaker 2: as a people, do a deep soul searching work within
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  Speaker 2: our hearts and then within our homes and then cause
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  Speaker 2: the salt and light to infect and impact others with truth.
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  Speaker 2: Not so we will feel better, but so we will survive.
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  Speaker 2: We ask this in the strong name of Christ and
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  Speaker 2: all God's People, said Amen.
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  Speaker 1: On America's two hundred and fiftieth Birthday, Jucksonndall has reminded
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  Speaker 1: us that the survival of a nation doesn't hinge on
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  Speaker 1: a political platform. It hinges on the posture of God's people.
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  Speaker 1: Our mandate is clear. We must humble ourselves, pray, seek
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  Speaker 1: God's face, and turn from our wicked ways. Four simple
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  Speaker 1: steps and a promise straight from the Throne of God.
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  Speaker 1: You're listening to a special edition of Insight for Living.
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  Speaker 1: Chuck titled his message how to help our Nation Survive.
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  Speaker 1: Whether you live in the United States or not, these
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  Speaker 1: principles apply to everyone because they're deeply rooted in biblical truth.
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  Speaker 1: On this Independence Day, as the flags wave and the
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  Speaker 1: fireworks light up the sky, it's natural to think about
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  Speaker 1: what endures. Nations rise and fall, but the promises of
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  Speaker 1: God do not. And one of those promises is this
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  Speaker 1: For those who trust in Christ, the best is still
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  Speaker 1: ahead Heaven. It's a word we use often, but we
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  Speaker 1: understand far less than we might think. Is it a
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  Speaker 1: real place? What will we actually do there? Will we
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