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Episode 63: God’s Affirmative Action · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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Lord, Jesus Christ, we thank you today for your greatness, your goodness,
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your mercy towards us. Lord, we thank you for your word that
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is illuminating, enlightening, inviting, exciting, reviving, enlivening, and even
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now thriving in a world that desperately needs the power of your enduring word to
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breathe new life a man into the places where the deadly poison of sin has
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festered. And we need your word to drive out the depravity that is saturating
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the hearts of those who are yet living in disobedience and in defiance of your
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holiness and your commands. Lord, we pray today that your word will illuminate
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someone's heart and mind, today, that someone will come to know, Amen,
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come to see that you are the true in the living God, and
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Jesus Christ is the only way, Amen, the only hope. A man
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for our Amen world today, and God be glorified in your people. Blessing,
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we shall be blessed, keeping we shall be kept. We give you
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the praise, the glory of the honor and all things through Jesus Christ,
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our Lord, we pray and give thanks a man and a man all right
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today, God bless you again. We are going to amen, present a
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we're going to AMN delve into this topic a man that is perhaps somewhat controversial,
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has been controversial for quite some time, a man. But as certainly
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as you're going to see in just a few moments, my approach Amen to
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this is going to be from the word of the Lord, as is my
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Amen calling to do. And certainly what we're going to be talking about today
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is this topic of affirmative action. Affirmative action Amen. Of course, this
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program that most of us in the past few generations, health of life here
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in America particularly, we're familiar with it. Amen. And according to the
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Corneal Law School a web page, of course, they define it as a
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set of procedures designed to designed to eliminate unlawful discrimination among applicants, remedy the
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results of such prior discrimination and previ event such discrimination in the future. Applicants
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may be seeking admission to an educational program or looking for professional employment. In
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modern American jurisprudence, it typically imposes remedies against discrimination on the basis of at
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the very least race, creed, color, and national origin. Of course,
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it goes on and on a man. But again, what we're going
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to hear, what you're going to hear from me today. Of course,
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it's not in relation to this from a so called political perspective or humanitarian perspective
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or anything of that nature. My purpose today is not to debate of course,
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most of you, by the way, no of the ruling that came
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down from the Supreme Court in regards to this. If you don't know,
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perhaps you can certainly look at look it up. And of course since that
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ruling there have been a lot of discussions concerning this. But my purpose today
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is not to debate nor to even discuss the ablidity or the necessity of this
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activity. Amen. This has been a well debated and discussed topic for decades.
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Amen, with no foreseeable end in sight. My approach is, of
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course, as I've already forestated, it is going to be both biblical and
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it is going to be aimed. It is aimed squarely at those who are
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saved, who are in Christ Jesus, who are truly in the Church of
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the Living God. Now what what what? What? What is? What
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has been most befuddling to me is a preacher of the Gospel who is supposedly
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studied and learned in the Word of God, who then speaks so contrarily against
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the affirming word that God has spoken. When the Lord speaks to us concerning
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what he has purposed, what he has promised for his people. Remember I'm
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I'm I'm approaching this from the biblical perspective, and I'm aiming this to those
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who are saved, to those who are in the church. And when God
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speaks to us concerning what he has purposed and what he has promised for us.
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How is it somebody helped me? Somebody helped me. I need help.
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I need help understanding this. I need help trying to to to to
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I guess square this, to come to terms with this in my mind,
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trying to understand it. How is it that a preacher of the Word of
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God can act so contrarily contradictory to what he ought to be believing in his
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heart and showing in his actions. How is it now? I came up
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with a little short list of possibilities as to why, And it may be
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more, certainly, I'm sure they are more. Perhaps, And I'm just
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I'm trying to again, I'm trying to wrap my my, my, my
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head around this. Number one. Perhaps perhaps he does not know the word
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of God. That's number one. Perhaps he doesn't know he's supposed to know.
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He ought to know. The Bible tells us to study to show ourselves
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to be approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed rightly
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dividing the word of truth. So he supposed he supposed to know the word
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of God. But perhaps he does not know the word of God. Number
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two, perhaps he does not believe the word of God. Oh, I
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don't know. And I as I go through this, I don't know which
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which is worse? Which is which is I don't know. I'm I'm perplexed.
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I told you from the outset. This is fuddling to me. How
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that a preacher of the Gospel and I'm not I'll get to the people of
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saints. I mean, there's no really no excuse there. But I'm laying
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this primarily, primarily at the feet of those who are leaders, preachers,
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who have the responsibility of leading the people, teaching the people. I'm laying
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this primarily at their feet. Number one, he does not know the word
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inexcusable. Number two, he does not believe the word okay. Number three,
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he does not believe in God's power. Okay. Number four, he
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does not believe in God's promises, which is really the same as he to
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believe the word of God. But their promises that are specific a man,
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and I'm gonna I'm going to I mean, I'm going to lay them out
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today, promise after promise after promise after promise after promise in the Word of
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God. And I'm not even I'm not going to even touch the tip of
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the iceberg really to what God has demonstrated and what he has promised concerning his
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people. So perhaps again he does not believe in God's promises. Well,
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well, maybe it is that he number five believes that God does not intervene.
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Maybe that's his reasoning. Number six, perhaps he believes in man rather
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than God. He has more hope in man, He has more trust in
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man, He has more confidence in man than he does in God. Maybe
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that's it number seven, the last one. Maybe he believes that man can
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change the hearts of other men. Maybe he believed that the laws that we
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implement, or the rules or or you know, the punishment or whatever it
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is, can change the hearts of man. Ah, God, I can't,
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I can't, I can't well, or whatever the reason or the reasons
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for any preacher, especially abandoning the word of God and then turning as a
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leader the hearts of people, to trust in man, to trust in institutions,
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to look to man, to look to the laws of men. Uh,
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this is this is heretical. It is antithetical to God, to his
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sovereignty, the one who is the creator and the ruler or over the affairs
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of all of his creation at all times. I've, I mean, I've
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I've spoken about that, the sovereignty of God. I did a whole series
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on perhaps two or three series on the sovereignty of God in the past,
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and and and it's just it just befuttols me. How someone who is supposed
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supposedly a preacher of the Gospel, A learned, a man, studied individual
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in the Word of God. How is it that he can then turn and
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put his trust and hope and faith and confidence in man when that same Bible
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tells him the cursed is the man who puts his hope and trust in man.
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Now there is an affirmative action program for the people of God. And
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this affirmative action program for the people of God is the affirmation that has already
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come from the Lord himself. Everyone who is in the household of faith,
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everyone who has been baptized into Jesus Christ, everyone who has been called out
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of the darkness, everyone who has been delivered from the power of Satan,
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everyone who has the spirit of the Living God inside of them, everyone who
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is a child of God adopted into the family, made an heir and a
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joint heir with Christ in sonship with Him. We are the recipient. We
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are the recipients, ladies and gentlemen, of God's divine favor, and we
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are the recipients of His blessings upon our lives. We have already been affirmed
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by the Lord Jesus, who loved us, who gave himself for us,
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and we are already declared to be victorious more than conquerors, through Christ Jesus
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again, who loved us and gave himself for us. I'm going to take
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you to a very familiar passage of scriptures. Those of you who have wretched
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Bibles have heard this broadcast in the past. Certainly you've heard me referred to
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Romans chapter number eight. This is one of my favorite of all times.
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I live by this. I live by this, amen every single day of
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my life. I live by this Romans eight twenty eight. And we know
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that all things and all means, all ladies and gentlemen, all things work
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together for good to those who love God, to those who are the called
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according to His purpose, for whom he foreknew, He also predestined to be
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conformed to the image of his son, that he might be the firstborn among
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many brethren. More of whom he predestined, These he also called, whom
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he called, these he also justified, whom he justified, these he also
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glorified. What then, shall we say to these things? If listen to
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this, listen, I want you to hear this. Oh, please,
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affirmative action, affirmative action. Listen. If God be for us. If
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God is for us, who can and be against us? If God is
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for us, who can be against us? He who did not spare his
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own son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall listen what
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the Bible says? How shall he not with him also freely give us all
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things. I'm not gonna dwell on this long because I got so many more,
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so many more, so much more in the word of God that speaks
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affirmatively to us for us on our behalf. When God has spoken concerning the
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people of God, those who love Him, those who have called emen first
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and foremost, the Bible makes it clear, number one, that all things
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work together for good. Now, it doesn't mean that all things are good.
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Everything that happens to me is going to be good, Amen, And
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certainly from my perspective. But even I found that in my decades on this
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earth, Amen, being a child of God, even when the bad things
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happen, and I can't see how it's going to turn I can't see how
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it's gonna work. I mean, it's horrible at the outset, and I
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just don't see it. I can't fathom how this is going to turn out
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for my good. But God all he makes. I don't know how he
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I can't explain it. It's inexplicable, Amen, But he's all He always
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Paul Paul wrote the pulpits God always causes us to triumph, no matter how
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bad, no matter how dire, no matter how I mean, horrible,
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inexplicable. And again God allows these things to happen, and and and this
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out will take comforty in this. God will allow nothing more to happen to
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me, come upon me than I compare. Nothing more whatever comes my way,
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good, bad, or indifferent. God will put no more on me
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than I can bear. That's a promise of God. Amen. So all
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things work together. That's number one, All things worked together for good,
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for good. Number two, God predestined us. Never forget that. He
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predestined us to be like Jesus. And what does it mean to be like
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Jesus? Victory victory, victory, victory, victory, victory. I'm just
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gonna put it in that one word, victory, victory, victory, ultimately,
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victory, victory, victory. Number three. He then called us to
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be justified. He cleaned, washed, Amen, uplifted, pulled us up,
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picked us up, you name it. He called he justified us.
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Amen. Yes we were guilty, Yes we were enemies, Yes we were
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contrary. Yes we were going our own way. But God, who is
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rich in mercy, Oh, don't get me started there, So he justified
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us. He finishes this with glorification. Amen. The best is yet to
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come. The best is yet to come. Eyes have not seen, ears
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have not heard it. Neither has it even entered into the hearts of men,
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the things which God has prepared for them that love him. Amen,
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we are going to be glorified with him. Amen. And if God listen
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what the body says. If he has determined in these things, if he
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has decreed these things, if he has ordered these things, if he has
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commanded these things to be, then who has the power, who has the
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ability, who has the wherewithal to disannoyl it, to cancel it, to
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avoid it? Who? If God be for us, if God has spoken,
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if God has already affirmed his affirmative action program, is that he affirms
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his people. Oh God help us, Oh God help us, help me,
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Jesus, help me, Jesus. If God be for us, who
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can be against us? I don't care what your present status is. I
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don't care what family you were born in. I don't care what state you
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were born in, poverty circumstances, how harbor your parents, or your your
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your schooling or your education. If God be for you, Oh, thank
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you Jesus. I've heard it, I've seen it, I've witnessed it.
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I've experienced it, God reaching down into the into the cesspool of humanity and
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lifting people up. If God be for you, it doesn't matter your skin
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color. It doesn't matter your gender, it doesn't matter your age, it
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doesn't matter any None of those things matter, because one with God is with
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the majority. If God has determined, if God has decreeded, if God
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has spoken it, if God has commanded it, no one, no one,
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no institution, no man, no nothing, no law, no nothing,
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no action, no activity by man can cancel out convoid. Can this
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all know what God has already spoken concerning his people. That's my affirmative action
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program that I'm in. It's the affirmative action program for all of the people
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of God. All things have been freely given to us. That's what God
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has done. Because the earth is the Lord's and the fullness thereof the world,
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and they that dwell therein, and the wealth of the wicked is our
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Oh my God, y'all don't believe the word. This is your problem.
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The problem is this is where we are falling. This is where we are
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failing. I'm talking to the church. I'm talking to the people of God.
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This is where we are failing. This is where we are falling.
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It is in our trust factor. We don't believe the word of God.
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We don't believe his report. As simple as that, we don't apply it.
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And the Bible has commanded us the just shall live by. You gotta
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believe God in spite of the circumstances, in spite of what you are witnessing,
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in spite of what you're experiencing, in spite of what you are seeing
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with your eyes, trust in the Lord. I'm gonna hit you with the
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word. I'm going. I'm going with the word of the Living. Trust
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in the Lord with all of your heart. The Bible says, and lean
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not to your own understanding in all of your ways. Acknowledge Him and He
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will direct your path. God will cause your enemies, He'll make your enemies
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to be at peace. He'll make people do what they would not ordinarily do,
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because he's the God who commands favor, who commands, blessings, doesn't
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matter. Oh, my God help us the sovereign Lord over all of the
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earth. He has already decreed, and he has already spoken good concerning his
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people. When we have not, the Bible says it is because we ask
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not or we ask amiss. As James wrote in his epistle, I'm giving
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you the word of God, and we are or we are. Let's put
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it that way. Let me start this over again. When we have not,
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it's because we ask not, or we ask a miss or we are
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living in disobedience to the word of God, to the will of God.
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Those are the you know, that's the only thing that can hold you back.
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That's the only thing that can hinder you. That's the only thing that
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can stop you. And that's why Satan, this is why he is.
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He knows, he knows this. He wants you to live in disobedience.
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He wants you to trust in man. He wants you to ask not according
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to the will of God. He knows that these three things are the only
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things that can keep you back. That can hold you back, that can
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spiffle you, that can stop you, that will frustrate you. You ask
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not, You have the reason why people know how people ask him is brother,
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it's because they don't know. They don't know the Word. They don't
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know the Word, they don't know the will of God. So he keeps
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you from the Word of God. He preoccupies you for all these other things
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that takes precedence over the Word of God. And the Word of God is
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the lamp. The Word of God is the light. The Word of God
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is your illumination. The Word of God is your direction. It's your protection,
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it's your inspiration, it's your illumination. You need the Word of God.
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It is your life giving Amen, substance in this world. You need
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it more than you need food. Amen. You need to know the Word
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of God. You know it. God has spoken. The Word of God
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contains revelation. What God has revealed to us. He has revealed to us
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everything that we need to know. Everything you need to know is in the
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Word of God. Everything you need to know, it's in the Word of
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God. And Satan knows this, and he deploys all kinds of devices,
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schemes, trickery to keep you from the Word of God, keep you from
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knowing the Word of God. And when you don't know, Amen, when
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you go in prayer, you ask a miss because you don't know any better,
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and that's why you don't have We have not because and then we ask
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not, James says. And then the other major factor for people of God
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living beneath the privileges, living beneath the benefits, is disobedience. Look no
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further than the nation of Israel. Read the history, read it in the
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Bible, Read it, and the promises God made. They fell so far
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short of them, and God, in spite of them disobedi he still blessed
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them. But they lived far beneath their privileges. Their enemies always tried the
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triumph over them, over and over again, not always, but continually a
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man, their enemies came in and triumphed over them. When they were supposed
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to be the head and not the tail above only and not beneath the lending.
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They're not the borrower. They were not to be in servid too.
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God brought them out of Egypt, but they went back into bondage over and
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over and over again. Why because of their disobedience. Not knowing the will
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of the Lord. For your life on this earth, I guarantee you,
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in most circumstances it will cause you needless painful frustration. Amen. Amen.
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And it's simply because of ignorance, My people, the Bible says, are
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destroyed for the lack of knowledge. Amen. Instead of knowing and looking to
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the Lord from which comes your help, you will go. You will turn,
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You will look to fallen man, who is by the way. When
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you're looking to man, when you're looking to institutions, when you're looking to
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do you know that God is the one who causes it to reign on the
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just and the unjust. So when you go to fallen man, he's dependent
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on God. He needs everything. We all need him, the Bible says,
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in him we live and move and have our being. Now he doesn't
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acknowledge, he doesn't understand. Perhaps you know, or he's again in wilful
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defiance of God. But when you turn to fallen man, when you turn
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to these man made institutions, look to a man Egypt, as it were,
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for your help, you don't understand that their help comes from the Lord
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too. We're all here by the grace of God, by the help of
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God. Amen. Psalm number one twenty one. I'm give you the word.
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The psalm is understood. He said, I will lift up my eyes
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to the heels. From whence comes my help. My help comes from the
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Lord who made heaven and earth. Listen what he says. He will not
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allow your foot to be moved. He who keeps you will not slumber.
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Behold, he who keeps Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. The Lord is
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your keeper. You believe the word? You believe it? Do you believe
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the God keeps you from day to day? Amen? Do you believe that
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he orders your steps? Amen? The Bible says, the steps of a
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good manner ordered by the Lord, and he delights in this way. Do
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you I'm talking to the church. Do you believe that the Lord is your
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keeper? Do you believe that the Lord is the Bible says, or shade
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at your right hand. The sun shall not smite you or strike you by
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day, nor the moon by night. Do you believe the word of the
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Lord? Do you believe his affirmative All of these are affirmative promises. By
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the way, this is affirmation for the people of God. The Lord is
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your keeper. The Lord is your shade. Upon it your right. The
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Lord will preserve you. Listen when the body who says preserve you from all
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evil. Is that not affirmation? He shall preserve your soul. The Lord
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shall preserve. Listen what the Bible says. You're going out and you're coming
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in from this time forth and even forevermore. You know what God said to
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his people a man in Deuteronomy chapter twenty eight, when he gave them all
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the promises. And again, of course, if they were diligently hearken to
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the voice of the Lord their God. He said, I will bless you
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when you go out, I will bless you. You can, I bless
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your basket at your store, even every animal that you have. Your children
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are going to be blessed, your lineage, your heritage. Amen. Your
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house is gonna be blessed. Amen. Let me let me ask you this
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question. Where are you living? Where do you live? I'm not I'm
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not talking about your man made address, your longitude, latitude on this earth.
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What is your dwelling place? How about that? How about your desired
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destination? Amen? The Psalmist again Psalm ninety one says he who dwells lives
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abides, take his residence. If you will in the secret place of the
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Most High, shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. What are you
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talking about God's protection. God's covering is for those who dwell in the secret
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place of the most High. That secret place is not a secret, by
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the way, for those of us who they may have been called out of
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the darkness. It's in Jesus. It's in that ark of safety. So
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David the Psama says, first number two, I will say of the Lord,
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he is my refuge. You see that. God is my refuge.
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He's my protection. He's my shelter. He's my covering. A man,
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He's the place where I want to abide, be, live, move,
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rate, Amen, thrive and prosper. He is my refuge, my fortress.
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Oh, if he's my fortress, what is that? Protection from the
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enemy, from the haters, from those who plot against me. God is
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my fortress. Amen, He's built an You remember when Amen, the enemy
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came, Amen, and wanted to He had been desiring to And this shows
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his motive, Amen, what he had wanted to do all along. And
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God knows what the enemy wants to do to you. The Bible tells us
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Jesus told us he comes your adversary of the devil. That's the enemy I'm
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speaking of. Because we are wrestling not against flesh and blood, but against
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spiritual wickedness. The enemy, the adversary of your soul, comes to steel,
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kill, and to destroy. He wanted to get to job for the
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longest time. We don't know how long, but he wanted to get to
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Joe. And he complained to the Lord, as it were, that you've
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built a hedge, You've got protection around him, and I can't get at
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him. Oh I wish, Oh I wish we believed, Oh I wish
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we believed. Oh God, help our unbelief. If you abide, if
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you dwell, if you live, if you make your abode and Jesus,
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listen what the Psalmi says, I will say of the Lord. He is
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my refuge, He is my fortress. The enemy can do nothing that God
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does not allow. He can only do what God allows him to do.
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So even when he does whatever he does, it still works together for my
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good. Happus, Jesus, Happus, Jesus, Happus, Jesus. Listen
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what the Bible says. He is my refuge, my fortress, my God
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in him, I will trust. Where's your trust? Where's your faith?
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Where's your confidence? Listen what Osama says Surely he shall deliver you from the
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snare of the in other ways, the traps that the enemy may set,
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the schemes, the devices of the wicked. Oh no, no, no,
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no, no, He's going to deliver you, the Bible says,
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from the snare of the fowler and from the he shall cover you with his
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feathers, and under his wings you shall take refuge. Oh thank you Jesus.
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Amen. I refuse to live in fear, y'all. I'm not going
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to live in fear. You want to live in fear, that's up to
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you. The Bible says, God has not given to us the spirit of
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fear, but of power, love and a soumi, because fear has torment
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with it. This is what the Bible says. He shall cover you with
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his feathers, and under his wings you shall take refuge his truth. Oh
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thank God for the word, and his truth shall be your shield and buckler.
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You shall not be afraid. You gotta listen, You gotta face fear
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and refuse to live in it. Well, how can you live in the
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secret place and live in fear at the same time. You can't? You
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can't, you cannot, you cannot. A man you shall not be afraid
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of the terror by night, nor of the arrow that flat. Now again,
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this is what the Word says. This is not about Oh, did
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you know some kind of imaginary you just gotta just use your some kind of
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secretive power to uh make what you think is happening not be real, or
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you know, some kind of conjuring up of you know, spiritual uh uh
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promulgating so that I can rise up. No, no, no, no,
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no no. These are real terrors that happen, real conflict that happens.
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There are real arrows that the enemy has. There, there's real a
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man uh hostility that is aimed towards you. This is real battle. This
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is real conflict in which we are living in and facing. So this is
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not something that's imaginary. This is not something that's just spiritual or super No,
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no, no, no, no, ladies and gentlemen, this is
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real. And the Bible says you shall not be afraid of the what terror
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by night, nor of the arrow. So there, this is just real
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arrows coming at you, the darts of the enemy. Amen. Don't be
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afraid of it, though, nor of the pestilence that walks in the darkness,
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nor of the destruction that lays waste. At noonday, a thousand may
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fall at your side, ten thousand at your right hand. But listen what
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the Bible says, But it shall not come near you. Only with your
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eyes shall you look and see the reward of the wicked, Because you have
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made the Lord who is Listen what the Sarmon says, Who is my refuge,
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even the most high your dwelling place. See, he is your dwelling
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place. He is your dwelling place. Because you have made the Lord,
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even the most high, your dwelling place. Listen what the Bible says.
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No evil shall befall you, nor shall any plague come near your dwelling.
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For He shall give his angels charge over you, to keep you in all
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your ways. In their hands they share, bear you up lest you dash
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your foot against a stone. This is this not affirmative? Is this not
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affirmation? Is this not? I mean the power, the sovereignty, the
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omnipotence of God, his ability, his charge, his commands, what he
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has spoken, what he has decreed, what he has declared. What more
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do we need? God has already taken affirmative action concerning his people. He
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says, abide in me and my word in you, Jesus said, and
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you will bring for fruit. He said, Without me, you can do
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nothing. If a man abides not in me, he is cast forth as
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a branch. You're broken, you're disoriented, you're disheveled, you are lost,
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you're aimless, you're fruitless without him. Oh, but this is one
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of my favorite of all the psalms, Psalm number one. But blessed is
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the man who walks, not in the council of the ungodly. I don't
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need help from man, not ungodly man. Oh no, no, no,
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no, no, no no no. I don't need I don't need
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I don't need their assistance. Because God can cause again even my enemy to
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be at peace. He will. And it's the Word has already said,
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cause the wealth of the wicked to be transferred over to the whole. Thank
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Lord, Lord hers. Let me just let me, let me read,
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let me read what the Bible says, because y'all don't y'all don't I mean,
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Oh, my God, somebody, we listen. God help us.
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This is my prayer. Every single day, God help us, help your
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people. I pray that every day God help us, God help us,
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God help us, help us to believe, if we would just believe the
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word of God, if we would just only believe the word of God.
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Believe the word, Believe the word, believe it. You believe God.
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You believe God. Do you know who he is? You know his power,
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absolute power, all power, all authority, totally completely sovereign, the
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King of kings, the Lord of lords? Do you, but do you
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believe God? Blessed is the man, the Psimon says, who walks not
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in the council of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners,
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nor sits in the seat of the scornful. But his delight is in the
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law of the Lord. And in his law. He meditates day and night.
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He listen. This man thinks on the word, He meditates on the
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word. He takes the word of God to heart. He he processes it.
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He he he applies it, He lives by it, he believes in
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it, he acts on it. This is this is, this is why
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he delights. The Bible says, in the law of God. You know,
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you don't delight in something that you don't believe in. This is why
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a lot of people don't have a delight in the Word of God because they
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don't believe it. They don't believe it their trusts, their hope, their
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confidence. I'm talking this is sadly people in the church. Is that man
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is in institutions, political parties, but his delight is in the law of
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the Lord. And in his law he meditates day and night. He shall
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beat Listen what the Bible says, This is what the word of God's this
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is what the promises of God. He shall be like a tree planted by
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the rivers of water. Now let me just pout, because I was thinking
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about this, not this particular, this this verse, this passage, this
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psalm came to my mind when I thought about this, But I was thinking
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about the times in which I've seen personally witnessed, and many of you have
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perhaps two. When an automobile, for example, this is just one example,
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an automobile comes in contact with a tree, a tree, And I've
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seen trees that are not even that big in terms of their circumference or height
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even but because that tree is rooted, if it has had time. I'm
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not talking about a little baby tree that just got planet. I'm talking about
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a tree that has been established and listened with the Bible says he shall be
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like a tree planted by the rivers of water. I have not seen.
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I haven't seen any tree that lost. That collision between the car and the
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tree, I've not witnessed it. Yet every incident that I've seen, the
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tree was still standing, firm in place, just as it was when that
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automobile at fifty sixty seventy miles an hour came in contact with it. That
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tree did not move. He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers
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of waters that brings forth fruit in its season, whose leaf also shall not
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wither. Oh, and I love this, and whatever ever he does,
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this is. This is for the man who is blessed, who who who's
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rooted, who's grounded, who doesn't take his cues from the world, who
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doesn't live by the dictates of this world. A man he doesn't stand in
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the path of sinners, He doesn't sit with a scornful, but rather he
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delights in the Lord. The Bible says, his leaf, his fruitfulness,
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will not a wither. Whatever he does, it would prosper I can do.
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I've heard, and I've heard you. I've heard many of you.
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Maybe not you you, but you know you know you've been in church long
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enough. You've heard this repeated by people in the church. I've heard it
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over and over again decades and decades. I can do all things through Christ
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who strengthens me. Now does does it apply when the forces of evil are
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opposing you, when wicked men, when institutions, when laws are against you?
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Is that only when it's applicable? When that when that's not the case?
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Can you do it when when the enemy comes in like a flood,
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because the Bible says the spirit of the Lord will left up a standard against
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Can you do it when your back is against the wall, When you do
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it when all hope seems to be dissipated? Can you do all things through
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Christ who strengthens you? Is that only when things are going your way?
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When you're swimming downstream as it were? Now unto him? The Bible says,
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who is able to do? Exceeding abundantly above all that we can ask?
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All that we can even possibly think or imagine God's powers. It's unimaginable.
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We cannot even fathom the depths, the richest, the wisdom, the
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knowledge, the wisdom of God, the power of God. We can't even
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fathom it so. Right now, as the psalmon says, my head is
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going to be lifted up above my enemies all around me. I'm going to
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sing praises to him. God prepares the table before me, the psarman said,
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in the presence of my enemies, he anoints my even in the presence
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of my I don't need my enemies to go away. God will prepare a
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table before me right there in their presence. He anoints my head with oil.
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Sarmon says that my cup runs over surely. Oh, I love this.
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His goodness and his mercy shall follow me all the days of my life.
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That's a promise. And you know why His goodness and his mercy is
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going to follow the people who God all the days of because God has commanded
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it to be. So. The Lord is my refuge and my strength,
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my very present help. In the time of trouble. I will not fret.
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I will not fear. I will not fret myself because of the wicked
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man who brings wicked devices to pass. He will soon, the Bible says,
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be cut down and wither as the grass. I will trust in the
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Lord and do good and dwell in the land. I will wait patiently on
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him. I will. I will, because I will call upon the name
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of the Lord, because he inclines his ear to me. All of my
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steps, as I've said, already, have already been ordered by Him,
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and he leads me in the path of righteousness for his namesake. Even though
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I will go through valleys, even though I will have tribulation, even though
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I will have trouble, even though I will have trials in his life,
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I will go through the valleys. I will pass through where the shadow of
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death is. But the Bible says, I will fear no evil because God
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is with me. God is for me. David understood it. He never
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leaves me, he never forsakes me. He comforts me because he is my
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shepherd. And I shall not want leading me beside the steel waters, restoring
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my soul. When the trouble of life, when the trials of life,
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when the tribulations of life, I am blessed, Jesus says, when men
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revile me and say all manner of evil against me falsely, I am blessed.
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When I am poor in spirit, and when I hunger and thirst for
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His righteousness. I am blessed. When I am being persecuted for righteousness sake.
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I am blessed when I am a peacemaker, For then am I a
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child of God. God may Abraham rich and powerful. God made Isaac to
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prosper in the land of Men, the Philistines who were at odds with him.
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God made Jacob a blessed and wealthy and prosperous man when his crooked uncle
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Laban despitefully used him and abused him. God made Joseph to rise to the
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pinnacle of success and prosperity, and and and and lordship in Egypt a man.
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God made Moses the great deliverer, even though he had a bounty on
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his head. God is the one who crowned David, who was the youngest
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of all of the sons of Jesse. God crowned him king and delivered him
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furthermore out of the hands of all of his haters. God is the one
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who made Solomon the wisest and the richest man who had ever lived on this
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earth. It is God who raised Daniel up a man, even as a
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teenager, to become the chief adviser, the chief governor, the chief wise
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man in all of those foreign administrations in which he lived, and resided.
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God is the one who is furthermore, also gave to shot Rat, Meshack,
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and Abnego and promoted them. God is the one who made Mordecai and
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Esther to triumph over the wicked schemes of Hayman. You don't need the affirmative
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action of this world. What you need is affirmation from the Lord. I
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will lift up mine eyes again to the heels from which comes my help.
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My help comes from the Lord who made heaven and earth. He will not
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suffer my foot to be moved. The sun will not smite me by day,
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the moon by night. God is the one who preserves me and keeps
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me my soul from all evil. My going out and my coming end God's
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providence. Please understand, His providence is always at work in the behalf,
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on the behalf of those whom he has blessed, those whom he will never
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leave, those whom he will never forsake, those who will never be forgotten.
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All of the affirmative action that you will ever need in this world.
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Amen, as a child of God, has already been promised to you.
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It is already for you. Because if God be for you, no one,
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no one, no one can be against you. All things, no
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matter what they are, no matter when they happen. All things work together
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for the good, to them who love the Lord, to them who are
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the called according to His purpose. If God be for us, God help
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us. God help us, God help your people.