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Episode 137 - No Rogue Governments · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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Speaker 1: Bless the Lord. Bless the Lord, Oh my soul and
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Speaker 1: all that is within me, Bless his holy name. The
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Speaker 1: God Praise. If the trees of the field can clap
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Speaker 1: their hands, if the beast of the field know their creator, surely, surely, surely, surely,
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Speaker 1: man is made in the image and likeness of God
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Speaker 1: should know that God is their maker. God is their keeper.
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Speaker 1: God is there sustainer. And may we forever give God
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Speaker 1: welcome you this day, beautiful day, first Friday, in the
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Speaker 1: all of the benefits that God has Amen for us
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Speaker 1: to enjoy right here in this present world as we
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Speaker 1: look for as the Bible says that blessed hope and
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Speaker 1: the glorious appearing of our Lord and Savior, Jesus the Christ. Amen.
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Speaker 1: Before I begin today, I want to and by the way,
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Speaker 1: those of you who are following along with us, this
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Speaker 1: is the second episode of a new series that we've
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Speaker 1: begun on God, Government, Church and State. We begun on
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Speaker 1: the last week in our previous session on this topic,
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Speaker 1: on this line of thought that we're going to be
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Speaker 1: developing over time, A man about God, Government, Church, and
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Speaker 1: state in our last session. In the introduction, I referred
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Speaker 1: to it as an introduction I believe. I believe I
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Speaker 1: did stress quite often in that podcast that there is
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Speaker 1: no separation. There simply is no separations. But we would
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Speaker 1: like to believe there's a separation, and that God has
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Speaker 1: some far off, unattentive, inattentive, absent deity if he existed
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Speaker 1: at all, and that he doesn't care, and that he's
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Speaker 1: not involved history. Certainly, the word of God and events
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Speaker 1: that happen all around us all the time. The providence
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Speaker 1: of God, that's I mean, is at work, and it
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Speaker 1: is so clearly seen and undeniable in our world today.
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Speaker 1: And I wanted to begin. I want to begin with
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Speaker 1: a quote from a venerable American hero man by the
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Speaker 1: name of Benjamin Franklin, and I read quote. I've lived, Sir,
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Speaker 1: a long time, and the longer I live, the more
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Speaker 1: convincing proofs I see of this truth that God governs
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Speaker 1: in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot
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Speaker 1: fall to the ground without his notice, is it probable
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Speaker 1: that an empire can rise without his aid. We have
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Speaker 1: been assured, Sir, in the sacred Writings that accept the
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Speaker 1: Lord build a house, they labor in vain, who build it.
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Speaker 1: I firmly believe this, and I also believe that without
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Speaker 1: his concurring aid, we shall seceed in this political building
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Speaker 1: no better than the builders of babble. We shall be
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Speaker 1: divided by our little, partial local interests. Our project will
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Speaker 1: be confounded, and we ourselves shall become a reproach and
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Speaker 1: byword down to future ages end quote Benjamin Eland. And
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Speaker 1: so today I am going to continue in this series
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Speaker 1: on God, the government, Church, and State with this thought
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Speaker 1: that I hope you will carry with you and remember
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Speaker 1: in the remaining years of your life on this planet,
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Speaker 1: that there is no rogue governments, no rogue governments. And
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Speaker 1: certainly what we're going to certainly again emphasize here is
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Speaker 1: that it is God who reigns and rules sovereignly in
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Speaker 1: all the earth. His providence, his providential hand, his power
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Speaker 1: is always at work. God knows all seeds, all hears all.
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Speaker 1: Nothing escapes him. There's nothing that happens that He is
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Speaker 1: not aware of before it happens. And by his permission
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Speaker 1: and by his perfect will, all things a man transpire.
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Speaker 1: And so with that understanding in our hearts and minds.
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Speaker 1: We should not fear, We should not live in doubt.
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Speaker 1: We should not be troubled by events that may transpire
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Speaker 1: in our times, no matter how dire or devastating they
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Speaker 1: may be at the time of their occurrence. God reigns
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Speaker 1: and rules sovereignly in the kingdom of men. Now I
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Speaker 1: want to stress this as it pertains to nations, and
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Speaker 1: this applies to cities, to tribes, to states, to whatever
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Speaker 1: gathering of people there may be in a civilization so called,
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Speaker 1: or under the governance of some type of government. And
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Speaker 1: make no mistake about it, we all live under some
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Speaker 1: kind of government. There has to be rule of law.
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Speaker 1: There has to be a in the enforcement. There has
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Speaker 1: to be It has to be because we cannot live
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Speaker 1: in anarchy, we cannot live in total anarchy. And to
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Speaker 1: that end, this is the This is why I want
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Speaker 1: to emphasize today that there is no rogue r O
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Speaker 1: g u E rogue governments. There are no rogue governments.
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Speaker 1: I want to take you to a book of the
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Speaker 1: Bible that is seldom used for preaching, but I want
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Speaker 1: to emphasize, uh make emphasis of the text of the
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Speaker 1: topic no world governments from this amen passage that is
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Speaker 1: found in the Book of Leviticus, the Book of Leviticuts
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Speaker 1: in the Old Testament, chapter number twenty. The Lord is speaking,
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Speaker 1: and I want you to hear these words that God
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Speaker 1: speaks concerning nations. Concerning nations, Listen what he says, beginning
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Speaker 1: at verse number twenty two. Leviticus, Chapter twenty, Verse twenty two.
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Speaker 1: You shall. God is speaking to his people Israel as
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Speaker 1: he is. By the way, let me just emphasize this.
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Speaker 1: He's taking them to make of them a nation of people,
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Speaker 1: and He's given them his laws, his judgments, his statues,
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Speaker 1: and he intends for them to not be like those
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Speaker 1: other nations. They are going to be they're called to be.
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Speaker 1: They are predestined to be a holy people, a holy nation.
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Speaker 1: God has already declared them to be, that separated set
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Speaker 1: apart to God for God, for his glory through whom
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Speaker 1: he would pour out his blessings and his favor. And
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Speaker 1: of course, ultimately we know now a man bring in
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Speaker 1: the Savior through this, a man seed of Abraham. But
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Speaker 1: before they can get there, God has to instruct them.
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Speaker 1: God has to teach them. God has to give them
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Speaker 1: a man an understanding of what he is requiring of
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Speaker 1: them on a rudimentary level. And this begins with how
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Speaker 1: you govern yourselves as a people, as a nation in
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Speaker 1: this world. And Nope, and may we not make any
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Speaker 1: mistake about it, make no mistake about it, that this earth,
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Speaker 1: this world belongs to God. He ruis and range, he
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Speaker 1: raises up nations, he takes them down. Amen. And so
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Speaker 1: the biggest twenty verse twenty one, he says, God says
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Speaker 1: to his people, you shall therefore keep all my statues
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Speaker 1: and all my judgments. In other words, obey my law.
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Speaker 1: Obey my law. And then he says, and perform them
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Speaker 1: that the land where I am bringing you to, dwell
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Speaker 1: may not vomit you out. That's almost as if it's
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Speaker 1: an automatic occurrence that will happen. In other words, if
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Speaker 1: you go into this land and you do not obey
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Speaker 1: my voice, you don't obey my words, if you don't
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Speaker 1: follow my law, then the land that I'm giving you,
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Speaker 1: the land that I'm taking you to, it is going
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Speaker 1: to spit you out. And by the way, you know
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Speaker 1: the history of Israel, that is exactly what happened to
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Speaker 1: them because they did disobey it. Never knows I mean,
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Speaker 1: I mean, I digress. Verse twenty three, and you shall
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Speaker 1: not walk. Listen to this carefully. You shall not walk
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Speaker 1: in the statues of the nation which I am casting
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Speaker 1: out before you, for they commit all these things, and
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Speaker 1: therefore I upfore them. But I have said to you,
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Speaker 1: you shall inherit their land, and I will give it
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Speaker 1: to you to possess a land flowing with milk and honey.
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Speaker 1: I am the Lord your God, who has separated you
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Speaker 1: from the peoples, the nation that were occupants of the
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Speaker 1: land that God swore to their fathers that he would
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Speaker 1: give to them. God said, I am casting them out
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Speaker 1: because of the commission of all of their abominations that
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Speaker 1: they have done. And I abhor such abominations and practices,
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Speaker 1: and therefore they cannot reside in the land. Now, what
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Speaker 1: does God, by the way, what does God demand of
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Speaker 1: any nation of people? What does God demand? He certainly demands,
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Speaker 1: and He certainly commands a man, that nation, every nation,
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Speaker 1: to do what is lawful, to do what is right.
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Speaker 1: The nation of people that continues, however, in their rebellion,
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Speaker 1: in their reproach against the law of God, against God himself,
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Speaker 1: will be rooted up, uprooted. If you will, they will
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Speaker 1: suffer ultimately extinction any nation. The Bible says, righteousness is
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Speaker 1: what exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach. Sin
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Speaker 1: in a nation continued without repentance, without a man, remorse,
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Speaker 1: without forgiveness, without acknowledging God, that nation will suffer extinction.
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Speaker 1: Sin brings any nation down to hell again that refuses
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Speaker 1: to a man obey the law of God. By the way,
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Speaker 1: the law of God has been in our hearts and
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Speaker 1: we know it. And governments of nations have been ordained
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Speaker 1: by God, and they exist for the purpose of enforcing
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Speaker 1: the more law of God, the written law of God.
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Speaker 1: And again even without the Ten Commandments, as it were
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Speaker 1: a man. The law of God is written in the
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Speaker 1: heart of man. And no nation, no people, no tribe,
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Speaker 1: no civilization can survive when there is anarchy and lawlessness
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Speaker 1: running a mock in that nation a man, and no
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Speaker 1: nation that is living under no people that is living
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Speaker 1: under a man a rogue government can survive, And certainly
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Speaker 1: they will cannot and will not thrive. That nation again
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Speaker 1: will inevitably self destruct under the weight of the sinfulness
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Speaker 1: and the rebellion a man that is taking place in
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Speaker 1: its mytst a man again, because God knows, and we
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Speaker 1: know the word of God's beaks of it that we
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Speaker 1: have this sense of aughtness that's in us. And He's
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Speaker 1: shown you, oh man, what is good? We know, we know,
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Speaker 1: we know what is right, we know what is wrong.
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Speaker 1: But when the government of a nation goes role, when
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Speaker 1: the government fails to do its duty as ministers of God,
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Speaker 1: as agents empowered by Him to enforce righteousness, what is right?
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Speaker 1: A man, divine judgment is coming upon that nation. I
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Speaker 1: could take the time right now, I could. I could
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Speaker 1: go throughout the Bible and throughout world history and point
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Speaker 1: out again nation after nation, civilization after civilization that crumbled
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Speaker 1: under the weight of their rebellion against God. Because no
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Speaker 1: nation or civilization can survive with a government that is
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Speaker 1: pro destruction. They cannot survive with a government that is
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Speaker 1: pro warfare all the time. And I'm not speaking of
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Speaker 1: in terms of defending itself. I'm talking about a nation,
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Speaker 1: a government of people that is on the war path
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Speaker 1: and attacking their neighbors, seeking to destroy their neighbors, seeking
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Speaker 1: to overthrow their neighbors. And man, no nation is going
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Speaker 1: to survive a government such as this, a government that
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Speaker 1: is pro oppression of its people. A government that is
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Speaker 1: pro lawlessness. In other words, again, they will not punish
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Speaker 1: evil and man punish wrongdoers, but instead they are for
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Speaker 1: it and participate in it. Heymen, when you have a
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Speaker 1: government like that, this nation cannot survive. A nation cannot
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Speaker 1: survive a rogue government that is pro deception, pro dishonesty,
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Speaker 1: pro delusion. They are for delusion, in delusion and living
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Speaker 1: in delusion. A man where their leaders are corrupt, a
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Speaker 1: man where there's propaganda night and day, and uh, they
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Speaker 1: have a u. I mean, it's really an intent within
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Speaker 1: their heart to decend, to mislead, to to do to
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Speaker 1: ultimately as basically as what it is going to lead
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Speaker 1: to destruction. Again, the Bible says, there's a way that
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Speaker 1: seems right into a man, but the end thereof is destruction.
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Speaker 1: And you have malfeesis you have criminal intent. Really, and when.
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Speaker 2: This happens in sight of the government, and it is
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Speaker 2: at the highest levels of government, no nation. When when
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Speaker 2: a government has gone rogue in that way, no nation
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Speaker 2: can survive, no nation. The Bible says, in proverbes, let
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Speaker 2: me give you air, some some some scriptures, some words
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Speaker 2: these I'm gonna I'm gonna read three passages from Proverbs
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Speaker 2: and beginning with Proverbs chapter eleven, verse number one, the
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Speaker 2: Bible says, a false balance is abomination to.
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Speaker 1: The Lord, but a just weight is his delight. We
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Speaker 1: cannot survive. No nation can survive. Again, I can't if
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Speaker 1: they keep emphasizing this. Cannot survive when there is injustice,
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Speaker 1: no justice, and when the government itself is the agent
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Speaker 1: agency of injustice, no nation can survive that. Proverbs twenty
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Speaker 1: and twenty three divers weights are an abomination unto the Lord,
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Speaker 1: and a false balance is not good. So you're talking
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Speaker 1: about again lies, deception, dishonesty, and then in the heart
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Speaker 1: of man where it proceeds from and it is carried
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Speaker 1: out into miscarriages of justice, lawfare, lawlessness, deception, dishonesty from
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Speaker 1: the government. Not talking about the people. Now we're talking
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Speaker 1: about the government. And by the way, and again I
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Speaker 1: can and I will, God willing point this out using
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Speaker 1: the nation of Israel in their history as an example
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Speaker 1: where God spoke through his profits on many occasions as
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Speaker 1: he gave them opportunity over and over again to repent,
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Speaker 1: to relent, to turn to men their ways, as it were.
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Speaker 1: I'm intrigued by how often God put the honus on
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Speaker 1: the leadership, and he said, the leaders of this people
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Speaker 1: cause them to error, caused them to err. And you
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Speaker 1: can look again in the history of the nation of Isinuram,
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Speaker 1: when they had righteous kings, that rule that enforced as
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Speaker 1: it were, the law of God, and put away banished
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Speaker 1: those who would practice lawlessness, witchcraft, child sacrifice, amen or
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Speaker 1: things of that nature. Again, the very things that God
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Speaker 1: for bad the people to do, and that I read
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Speaker 1: it for you earlier in Leviticus. Don't when you go
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Speaker 1: into this land, do not do after the abominations of
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Speaker 1: these nations or these people, not only who were here now,
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Speaker 1: but who were going to be around you, your surrounding
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Speaker 1: neighbor nations that practice these kinds of abominations and lawlessness.
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Speaker 1: You are not to participate in it. Your nation, your kingdom,
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Speaker 1: is to be governed by the rule of God. And
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Speaker 1: when we have, or when any nation has that amen,
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Speaker 1: it is an abomination to God. And God is going
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Speaker 1: to bring judgment. God hates sin, he hates lawlessness, and
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Speaker 1: he will tolerate this behavior from his creatures only for
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Speaker 1: a time, only for a season, and that is at
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Speaker 1: his own Ladies and gentlemen, discretion. As a matter of fact,
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Speaker 1: the Bible tells us in Proverbs six, verse sixteen, this
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Speaker 1: is what the Bible says, These six things the Lord
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Speaker 1: hates yay, and are an abomination to him, A proud look,
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Speaker 1: a lying tongue, hands that shed innocent blood. And I
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Speaker 1: have got to because every time, I mean, there's just
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Speaker 1: no there's just no way I can just read that
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Speaker 1: and just not comment on the abhorrent, abominable practice of
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Speaker 1: child sacrifice in our day, not only in America, oh no,
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Speaker 1: this is not exclusive to America, of course, but the
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Speaker 1: shedding of innocent blood, babies, the unborn souls that God
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Speaker 1: formed in the wound. And we take God help us,
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Speaker 1: God help us, God help us, the life that God created.
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Speaker 1: We take the life that God created to mean absolutely
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Speaker 1: nothing to us, as if, again, we are in charge,
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Speaker 1: we're in control, as if we are sovereign, and we
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Speaker 1: shed that innocent blood and pretend as if we've done
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Speaker 1: absolutely nothing wrong, that that that is not evil. And
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Speaker 1: it's bad. And again it's bad enough, ladies and gentlemen,
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Speaker 1: it is bad enough. Church of the Living God. When
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Speaker 1: the citizens of a nation, when the people of a
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Speaker 1: nation are engaging in these practices, that's bad. It's bad.
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Speaker 1: It's always bad. But when the government gives approval, when
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Speaker 1: the government rights the law, when the government yields to
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Speaker 1: the will of the people, when the government, who is
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Speaker 1: supposed to protect life, sanctioned life, when the government becomes
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Speaker 1: the agent, becomes the administrator, becomes the strong arm of
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Speaker 1: violating the law of God, murdering and.
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Speaker 3: Shedding innocent blood. When it is the government who should
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Speaker 3: be punishing evil, When the government is itself practicing sanctioning, udaining,
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Speaker 3: and decreeing and mandating evil, and especially the shedding of
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Speaker 3: innocent blood, that nation is ripe. Ladies and gentlemen. I'm
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Speaker 3: here to tell you, oh, history is replete. And again
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Speaker 3: I can just, and I probably will for the most part,
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Speaker 3: to stake with just the nation of Israel, and look
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Speaker 3: at their history. And God was abhorred at their practices
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Speaker 3: when they begin again to do like the other nations
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Speaker 3: around them, and to give their children over to molach,
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Speaker 3: to child sacrifice, causing their children to pass through the burning,
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Speaker 3: their children alive in fire, in sacrifice to abominable gods
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Speaker 3: that were not even God.
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Speaker 1: God hates this proud look lying tongue, hands that shed
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Speaker 1: into some blood, a heart that devises wicked plans. And again,
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Speaker 1: it's bad enough when you have this amongst the populace,
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Speaker 1: amongst the people. But when it is, oh, my God,
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Speaker 1: the power of the sword that is doing this, When
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Speaker 1: the power of the sword, when the power of the throne,
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Speaker 1: when the power of the crown, when the head that
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Speaker 1: wears the crown divide, is this wickedness and have feet?
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Speaker 1: The Bible says, that are swift and running to evil.
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Speaker 1: When the government conjures up and brings up false witnesses
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Speaker 1: who speak lies. And this is exactly by the way.
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Speaker 1: And again there I go back to the nation of
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Speaker 1: Israel again, when they put Jesus on trial by the way,
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Speaker 1: breaking all of their own laws. But then they brought
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Speaker 1: up false witnesses against him. God hate this false witness
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Speaker 1: the government. This is the government, y'all. This is the government.
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Speaker 1: This is the government. The leaders of the people who
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Speaker 1: crucified Jesus. This is government at work, su suborning, perjury,
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Speaker 1: false witnesses, lies, and one who solds discord among brethren.
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Speaker 1: And this is the telltales. These are the telltale signs.
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Speaker 1: When the again, when the government does this. When the
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Speaker 1: leadership of nations, of a nation, other people, when they
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Speaker 1: engage in this, it's trouble. It's trouble, trouble, trouble, y'all.
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Speaker 1: The Bible tells us and Proverbs again fifteen to three,
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Speaker 1: that the eyes of the Lord are in every place,
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Speaker 1: beholding the good and the evil. God sees everything. There's nothing,
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Speaker 1: there is no one that is hidden from him. Every deed,
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Speaker 1: every thought, every action, nothing escapes the all seen eyes
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Speaker 1: of God. The Lord looks down, the Bible says, from
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Speaker 1: heaven upon the children of men. He examines our hearts,
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Speaker 1: our motives, And the Bible tells us that all things
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Speaker 1: are naked and open to the eyes of Him with
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Speaker 1: whom we have to do. He sees it all, he
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Speaker 1: knows it all, he hears it all. And God knows
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Speaker 1: those who are again in their hearts, lawless rebels, who
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Speaker 1: have no desire to do what is right, and their
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Speaker 1: time their time. And again when this goes to the
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Speaker 1: level of a king or a prince, or a governor
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Speaker 1: or a president, prime minister, whoever, for a whole body
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Speaker 1: of legislators, when they scheme, when they plot wickedness, and
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Speaker 1: even I think and immediately, of course, in the in
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Speaker 1: the in the example of Daniel, he was a part
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Speaker 1: of the government. They were jealous of him, of course,
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Speaker 1: And because they were jealous of him, and and and
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Speaker 1: hated him and wanted him removed, they conspired. This is
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Speaker 1: this is the government. And we have this all the time.
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Speaker 1: And and and in government you have people in government
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Speaker 1: conspiring against others in government, out of government. And and
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Speaker 1: God is seeing all. He sees it all. God sees
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Speaker 1: it all. The Bible says again, the eyes of the
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Speaker 1: Lord are in every place, and he beholds the evil.
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Speaker 1: He keeps watch on what is evil, and he's watching
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Speaker 1: over good. There's no king, no prince, no prime minister,
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Speaker 1: no government, no mayor, no president, no senator, no congressman.
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Speaker 1: There's no government leader anywhere in any place. There's no
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Speaker 1: power on this earth that is beyond the purview of
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Speaker 1: God's power, that is beyond the enforcing of his judgments
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Speaker 1: and his predetermined disperse dispersal if you will, of His justice,
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Speaker 1: Make no mistake about it. Any nation that goals, if
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Speaker 1: you will, a rogue, will be judged by God. But
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Speaker 1: before God brings judgment, this is what we're going to
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Speaker 1: see prayer fullly as we take a look at some
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Speaker 1: examples of God, a man dispensing judgment, in the other
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Speaker 1: times a man being merciful. And I'm thinking in my
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Speaker 1: mind about that city in the Assyrian Empire and antiquity
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Speaker 1: of Nineveh, ruthless, ruthless, lawless people. Jonah, the prophet and
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Speaker 1: God sent to speak to them, did not want to go.
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Speaker 1: He said, no, no, no, I want I don't want.
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Speaker 1: I don't want you. I don't want you to be
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Speaker 1: merciful to these people. I don't want you to save them.
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Speaker 1: I don't want you to Oh no, no, no, no,
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Speaker 1: I want you to spare them. They need to get
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Speaker 1: what's coming to them. God say, go Jonah with my message.
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Speaker 1: And of course those of you who know the story,
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Speaker 1: Jonah went and he preached and proclaimed the message of
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Speaker 1: God's judgment that would befall that people if they did
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Speaker 1: not repent. And you know what happened. The king, the king,
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Speaker 1: the leader the government at the highest level. You know
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Speaker 1: what he did. He he represents the government, he is
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Speaker 1: the government. He's the head of the government. He proclaimed
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Speaker 1: a fast throughout the city that no person, not even
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Speaker 1: the animals, were to eat. But everyone was to go
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Speaker 1: down in sack off in ashes, and the hope that
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Speaker 1: God would relent and God would not bring judgment upon them. Listen,
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Speaker 1: any time there is pentance, any time there is a
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Speaker 1: broken heart and a contrition of spirit, God will not
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Speaker 1: turn away from it. But he knows because he's looking
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Speaker 1: not at the outward appearance, but God is examining the
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Speaker 1: hearts of men. And we cannot and we shall not,
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Speaker 1: and we will not survive when we have rogue government,
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Speaker 1: rogue leaders at the highest levels, corrupting, lying, propagandizing, coercing,
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Speaker 1: and practicing all kinds of abominations.
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Speaker 2: And.
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Speaker 1: Making it lawful for the people to engage in this
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Speaker 1: kind of unrighteousness that is against the law of God. God,
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Speaker 1: in his mercy allows on people a nation to only
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Speaker 1: go so far, but he always gives space to repent.
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Speaker 1: He always gives time to turn. And that is what
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Speaker 1: my prayer is, that is what I pray. In this world.
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Speaker 1: There are nations all over the globe who are running
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Speaker 1: as rogue nations against God, against his law, against his word.
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Speaker 1: But I'm praying, and I want you to pray. I
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Speaker 1: want you to believe God, and I want you to
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Speaker 1: trust God, that he will speak to the hearts, speak
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Speaker 1: to the minds, bring revival, bring deliverance, open eyes, open ears,
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Speaker 1: open hearts, and change the ways of so many so
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Speaker 1: that they do not go down that path of destruction,
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Speaker 1: so that they do not face the divine judgment of God.
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Speaker 1: Because it's only for a season, it's only for a time.
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Speaker 1: And again it is that the sole discretion of God
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Speaker 1: himself when he will bring judgment upon a people. But
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Speaker 1: we are to fear God and keep his commandments. This
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Speaker 1: is the whole duty of man, because God is going
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Speaker 1: to bring everything into judgment, whether it is good, whether
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Speaker 1: it is bad. Father, help us today, Help us in
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Speaker 1: this nation, in nations across the globe, in these last
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Speaker 1: of last days, to hear what the Spirit is saying.
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Speaker 1: To hear and to see your providential handed work, Lord,
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Speaker 1: that men and women everywhere will relent, will repent, will
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Speaker 1: turn to you before judgment falls upon their nation, upon
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Speaker 1: their cities, upon their towns and villages, because of rebellion,
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Speaker 1: because of rogue government leaders who calls people to err.
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Speaker 1: Help us, Lord, to stand for your righteousness and truth.
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Speaker 1: In such a time as this, be thou glorified, Be
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Speaker 1: thou magnified in Jesus' name. We pring your thanks, Amen
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Speaker 1: and amen.