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Episode 86: Free Me, Favor Me - Part 4 · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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  Bless the Lord, O my soul and all that is within me. Bless
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  his holy name. I will bless the Lord at all times, and his
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  praise shall continually be in my mouth. The Psalmist says, my soul shall
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  make her boast in the Lord. The humbo shall hear thereof, and be
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  glad. All magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name
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  together. Father, we thank you for this another day that you have allowed
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  us to see to breathe the breath of life that comes from you. You
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  are the God of creation. You're the God of provision. You're the God
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  who sustains and keeps us from day to day. And we give you glory
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  and honor. Amen. While we have our being bless Now your word,
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  let someone somewhere amen, hear the voice of the Avior speaking to their hearts,
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  and then, of course, in obedience, say yes to your will
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  and to your way. God be glorified in all things. In Jesus' name,
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  we pray and give thanks for all of your blessings. Amen and amen,
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  God, bless you again. We welcome you once more to this another
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  edition of End Time Revival Ministries USA podcast, and I am your host,
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  Pastor al Zachary. And today we are continuing in this short series seven sessions
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  on a very near to me pray requests that I have Amen, and I
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  began to take notes on it a few weeks ago, and I decided to
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  a man share some of these with Amen, well all of it really with
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  amen. All of you who amen will tune in, and we certainly invite
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  you, by the way to share Amen, this podcast with others so that
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  they can and also a man here Amen, the word of the Lord,
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  because that is what our endeavor is, to speak the truth of God,
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  to declare His a man truth, plainly, boldly in such a time as
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  this. But this particular little short series is based upon prairie quest of buying
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  that I personally am asking the Lord to do in my life. Amen.
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  And it is biblical. It is certainly something that I would think any a
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  man child of God would desire for their lives. And certainly we want to
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  a man share these things, and the hope in the prayer that God will
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  a man use it to bless someone and to guide someone to help someone a
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  man, because that's what we're here for, to encourage one another, a
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  man to pull each other up, not tear each other down, but certainly
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  to pull each other up, and to be examples a man to those who
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  are lost and in need of a savior, in need of the Gospel of
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  Jesus Christ, which is the power of God, unto salvation to everyone that
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  believes. So, we are certainly a man as always grateful to the Lord.
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  For a man, this calling, this opportunity, Amen, this freedom
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  that we have, a man to speak, a man the truth of God
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  in a nation, a man that was founded with the ideal of freedom.
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  Amen. And freedom comes from God. It is a God given gift a
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  man. Bondage is from the devil. It is of the devil. And
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  certainly, as the people of God, we should certainly understand all of the
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  nuances as much as we possibly can. We should certainly understand all of the
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  nuances about bondage. It's not just physical shackles or chains or jails or imprisonment.
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  Amen, from the physical perspective, but certainly from the spiritual side,
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  we see, we understand, we know what it is like to be free,
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  Amen, free in the Lord, free from sin, from satan,
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  from death, from bondage, from fear, and all those things and this
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  is what this particular short series is all about. Lord, Free me.
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  And then I want the Lord to favor me. So it is entitled free
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  Me, Favor Me. And this is part four, and I've already covered
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  three of them in our previous sessions, and we certainly invite you to,
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  Amen, catch those particular podcast episodes, the previous three prior to this one.
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  If you have not heard already, Amen, these three things that I've
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  already covered that I'm praying, Amen, that the Lord free me from Amen,
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  free me from these. Number one, we covered free me from fear,
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  Amen, Lord free me from fear. Amen. Fear is of the
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  devil. Fear is not from God. The Bible says that God is not
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  given to us the spirit of fear. It is a spirit. I mean,
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  we're in spiritual warfare, but He's given us power, love and a
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  sound. By Lord, Free me from fear. Amen. And then number
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  two, Amen, Lord, free me from folly. Amen. Folly and
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  foolishness are closely related, and we're going to get to that in just a
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  moment. But Lord, free me from folly. And thirdly, we covered
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  this in our previous session. Lord free me from faltering. I don't want
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  to falter. Amen. I believe, and I stand on the word of
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  God, and I believe the promises of God, that he is able to
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  keep us from falling and to present us faultless before his presence. The Bible
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  says, with exceeding joy, he who hath begun a good work in us
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  will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ. Now unto him who is
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  able to do exceeding abundantly above that we can ask or think. I believe
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  and I stand on that the Lord will keep me from faltering. Although the
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  enemy of our souls, the adversary of our souls, seeks to entrap us,
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  Amen, entangle us. Amen. With the affairs of this life.
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  Amen, we are to be on God. We are to be aware of
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  his devices, of his schemes, Amen, and to cleave to God and
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  resist the devil. Amen. And He will keep us a man, as
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  he promised, safely in the palm of his hand. So, Lord,
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  free me from faltering. And number four, what we're going to cover today
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  is Lord, free me from foolishness. Foolishness, Amen. And by the
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  way, let me just make mention again of those things that I want the
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  Lord in the affirmative. Also to do for me favor favor, Amen,
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  nothing like the favor of God. Amen. Lord, favor me with faith
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  number one, favor me with focus number two, and faith me with fruitfulness.
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  We will cover those three in our next three sessions. God willing,
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  all right. Today, our focus is on Lord, Free me from foolishness.
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  Free me from foolishness. If you have your Bibles, turn with me,
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  please, or take note of this particular passage that is found in the
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  New Testament, the Gospel of Mark, the Gospel of Mark, chapter number
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  seven. These are the words of Jesus as recorded by a man Mark in
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  his Gospel. Amen, the words of Jesus as he was teaching a man
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  his disciples. And we pick it up in verse number twenty. Amen.
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  And let's hear what the Lord has to say. And he said, and
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  I'm reading, by the way, from the New King James version of the
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  Bible, Jesus speaking, what comes out of a man that defiles a man?
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  What comes out of a man that defiles a man? For from within
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  out of the heart of men proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
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  deaths, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness and evil, eye,
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  blasphemy, pride, foolishness, foolishness, all these things Verse twenty three come
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  from within and defile a man. Now, Jesus makes it crystal clear to
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  the hearing ear that what defiles a man is not the food that he eats,
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  which goes in through the mouth into our mouth, of course, and
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  eventually, of course, is disposed of out of the body. That is
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  not. Jesus said, what defiles a man, What defiles a man,
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  is what comes out of his heart. All of these evil things that Jesus
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  enumerated here a man, they start from within the man. And foolishness is
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  one of these very things that is called by Jesus evil. Foolishness is evil.
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  Now, from the superficial perspective of fallen man, we only see the
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  outward appearance. That's how we see things and judge things. But God along
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  a man, sees the heart and deals with our heart in order to drive
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  evil away from us. The wisdom of God, the Bible tells us,
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  and the proverbs by the way we're going to be going there. The wisdom
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  of God is calling out to man. The Bible speaks of this daily in
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  the streets, in the highways, at the main intersections, if you will,
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  of life. The wisdom of God is calling out to man. Amen,
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  in order to again correct us, to put us on the right path.
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  Amen, to return to him, to repent, to avoid the snares,
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  the traps. Amen. That the enemy, the adversary of man,
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  says that that's the devil. Amen, the Bible, as Jesus said,
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  I say this so often, or what Jesus said about the devil, Satan,
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  your adversary, my adversary. He comes to steal, kill, and
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  to destroy. But the wisdom of God is readily available for man, a
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  man not hidden. Amen. Its and it's by the way all men,
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  not just those who are in the household the faith, of course, but
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  it is available to all men everywhere. The wisdom of God, the Bible
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  says, is crying out in the streets. Come hearken to me, Listen
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  to me, Eat of my fruit, eat of my ways. Amen.
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  And those of us who of course have answered the knocking at the door of
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  the heart, that's what Jesus does. That's who comes to knock at the
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  door of your heart. Wisdom is coming Amen, to point you always to
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  Jesus, to the Savior. Now you can have wisdom and still not have
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  salvation. Amen, because wisdom again is freely available to all men. Amen.
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  But wisdom also, of course points every one of us to Jesus.
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  Amen. And it is calling out in the streets. And again when Jesus
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  comes knocking at the door of your heart, Amen, and you answer that
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  call. Amen, He brings you then into sonship, into that unique relationship,
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  into that relationship that was broken, that was marred, that was lost
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  in the garden of Eden when Adam sinned and rebelled against God. Amen.
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  Jesus, a man has come, a man to men what was broken,
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  a man the breach. Amen. And because the Bible makes it clear that
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  he is the mediator, the only, the one and only mediator between God
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  and man, that which was lost and man, that which is broken,
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  that which is a man marred, a man the potter has come to put
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  it back together again. And in this sonship relationship a man that we have,
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  a man with our Savior, with the Lord Jesus Christ. He disciplines,
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  the Bible says, and he corrects every one of us in order to
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  purge us again from this foolishness, the foolishness of this world. Amen,
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  all of these evil things. Amen. That Jesus himself again, and I'm
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  going to read this again for you enumerate it. When he speaks about again
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  what it is that defiles us again? Out of the heart, Jesus said,
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  evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness,
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  deceit, lewdness and evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness,
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  foolishness. Lord, free me from foolishness. The Bible tells us, by
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  the way in the Book of Proverbs, just one verse, chapter twenty two,
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  verse fifteen, so that you will understand and know this is something that
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  is a man, a part of us, a part of Amen our makeup.
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  Now we are falling creatures. Look on what the Bible says, Proverbs
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  twenty two and fifteen. Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child.
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  The rod of correction will drive it far from him. Listen to that
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  again now, Proverbs twenty two, verse fifteen. Foolishness, which, by
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  the way, again what Jesus called evil is bound up in the heart of
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  a child, and the rod of correction will drive it far from him.
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  That's why in this same book of Proverbs, this wise man, the wisest
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  man who ever lived, Solomon, a man admonishes the parent, a man
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  to chasing your son, chasing your child while they're his hope. Beat him
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  with the rod a man, the rod of correction, a man to drive
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  foolishness away from him, and also the Bible says, to deliver his soul
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  from hell. Foolishness is in the dna of man, every one of us
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  a man from our youth. The Lord testified of this again way back in
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  the book of Genesis after the flood. He said that man is evil from
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  his youth up. The heart of man is desperately wicked. And the Bible
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  says, what is bound up in the heart of man is foolishness. Foolishness
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  must be dealt with by correction. And the most potent a man weapon against
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  foolishness is the power of the wisdom of God, a man that only comes
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  from God, that will drive foolishness away. That's what the spirit, the
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  Holy Spirit is here for. That's what the wisdom of God is here,
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  for that is what the Gospel of Jesus Christ is here. For that is
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  what the Word of God God is here. For wherewith all the Bible says,
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  shall a young man cleanse his way by taking heed to the word of
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  God. The salmon says, I Word, have I hidden in my heart
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  that I might not sin against you. Foolishness is in our Dna, but
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  it has to be driven away. Whenever the foolishness of man is not corrected
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  by discipline, when it is not corrected by instruction, when it is not
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  corrected by the wisdom of God, when it's not a man corrected by a
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  man the knowledge of God and obeying his voice, the heart of man is
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  going to proceed further down the road. Down that path, the Bible says,
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  that leads to destruction, that's going to lead ultimately to death. There
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  is a way that seems right to a man. Amen, Because foolishness blinds
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  his eyes. A man, when foolishness is not corrected and driven away,
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  the doors to the heart of man is ripe for evil thoughts. That's why
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  again, my Lord, Lord Lord, deliver me, keep me a man
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  away from foolishness. And when evil thoughts are brewing within the heart. Amen.
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  And that's and listen. Evil thoughts can come from anywhere at any time,
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  and they will come even for those of us who are saved evil.
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  And that's why we can't think on evil, dwell on evil. Amen.
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  We cast down imaginations and everything that exalts itself against the knowledge of God.
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  Amen. Rebuking the adversary, Amen, rebuking evil thoughts. If there are
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  things that are lovely, if Bible tells us, Amen, it gives us
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  a very wonderful list of things to think on. Amen. But evil thoughts
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  will come. And if you allow them to begin to percolate, begin to
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  circulate, Amen, and begin to brew and stir within your mind, you
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  have control over your mane. It is in the mind, the heart of
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  man, buying the mind of man, the heart of man's anonymous. Amen.
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  If you allow that to a man take root in your heart, the
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  devil, the enemy, the adversary of your soul, would use it.
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  Amen. He will use it Amen to get an advantage, Amen, to
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  gain an upper hand in your life. Amen. And from this a man
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  brewing within the heart of foolishness. This is why we have adulteries so many,
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  so many broken homes, so many broken marriages. Amen. Simply because
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  somebody acted a fool, did something foolish. Amen, and they knew it
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  at the time, they knew it was foolish to do it. Amen.
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  Adultery Amen, fornications, all of these things again that Jesus name. Amen.
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  All of this. The Bible, I mean, is very clear about
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  this. Amen. Adultery is foolishness, fornication, foolishness, murder, foolishness,
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  foolishness, deceitfulness, foolishness, lewdness. That's foolishness, blasphemy, foolishness,
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  pride and arrogance, haughtiness, foolishness. Amen, this is what the
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  Bible says. Proverbs, I'm almost done, Proverbs, Chapter twenty four,
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  Verses seven through nine. The Bible says that wisdom is too lofty for a
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  fool. He does not open his mouth in the gate. He who plots
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  to do evil, this is what the Bible says. He who plots to
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  do evil will be called a schemer. And verse nine the devising, which
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  is what this is, scheming, plotting, conjuring up, devising up,
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  thinking up, meditating on it, planning. Amen. The devising of foolishness,
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  the Bible says, is sin, and the scoffer is an abomination to
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  men. The very devising of foolishness, the Bible says, is sin.
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  And again, foolishness must be dealt with decisively and swiftly before it is allowed
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  to deceive the heart. That's what happens. People get deceived and they think
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  they can get away. A man doing things that are foolish, and it
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  is not. Foolishness will catch you every time. Ay Man, you may
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  get by for a season. Amen. And it's and by the way,
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  that's only by the grace of God. And Lord have mercy. He has
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  helped me he or and I know the Lord kept me from a lot of
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  foolishness. Amen. And that's why again I always pray, Lord, keep
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  me from foolishness. Amen. And many people in the church Amen, have
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  become ensnared, trapped Amen, Amen, in into the devices and schemes of
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  the devil. Amen, and have done foolish things Amen, things that ought
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  not to be done. Amen. And this is why again we need the
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  power of the Holy Spirit. We need the Word of God in us,
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  Amen, and we need, amen, the keeping power of the Lord Jesus
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  Christ to free us a man. And he whom the Son says free is
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  free indeed. And that's my prayer. Lord, free me from this foolishness
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  that is in this world. And this world by the way, a man,
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  We're not gonna be taken out of this world until Jesus comes back for
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  his church. In the meantime, you're gonna be I'm going to be surrounded
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  by foolishness. You're gonna be enticed, You're gonna be invited, Amen,
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  to engage in foolish things. Amen. Foolishness. That's what this world is
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  Amen, saturated with right now. Foolishness. Amen. And the very again
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  devising of foolishness is sin verse number six of Proverbs nine. I'm gonna close
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  with this Proverbs nine and six. Listen what the Bible says, just good
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  sound advice. Forsake foolishness and live. Forsake foolishness, and live the Bible
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  says, and go in the way of understanding. Amen. That's what I
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  want. I want, That's what I want the Lord to do. Amen.
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  To keep me. Amen, from day to day. God bless you
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  in Jesus' name. Lord, Free me from foolishness,