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The Lord is my light and my salvation. Whom shall I fear. The
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Lord is the strength of my life. Of whom shall I be afraid.
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When the wicked, even my enemies and my foes came upon me to eat
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up my flesh, they stumbled and fell. Though an host should encamp against
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me, And this will I be confident. The Lord is my keeper.
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The Lord is the shade upon my right hand. The sun will not smite
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me by day, nor the moon by night. The Lord will preserve me
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from all evil. He shall preserve my soul, my going out, and
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my coming in. From this time forth and even for evermore. Lord,
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we thank you for your keeping power. You are able to keep that which
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we have committed to you against that day the Lord. The Lord is our
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keeper. And we thank you Lord for a man calling us and preserving us.
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You who have begun this good work in us, you will perform it
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until the day of Jesus Christ. So we give you thanks in all things,
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knowing that you're able to do exceeding abundantly and above all that we can
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ask or think, according to the power that is at work within us.
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Be thou magnified, Be thou glorified in your people. Today in Jesus name,
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we pray and give thanks for all things. Amen and Amen, God
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bless you. Amen. Everyone. We welcome you once again to this another
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edition of End Time Revival Ministries us A Broadcasting Podcasts. I am your host,
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Pastor al Zachary, and today again we are going to revisit this subject
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title concerning God's affirmative Action. This is going to be amen part three of
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this particular A Man now quickly becoming a series. I did not intend for
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it to become a series, but this is part three because the more I
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a man read and contemplate and think about a man all of the promises of
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God, the word of God, what he has spoken in the affirmative concerning
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his people. It is a man, absolutely crystal clear that God has an
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affirmative action program for his people, a man. And today we're going to
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a man delve into that again. Those of you who are listening by radio,
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edition of any podcast is available. All right, Today, we want to
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go to first of all, the Gospel of Matthew, chapter number eight.
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If you have your bibles, follow along with us the Gospel of Matthew chapter
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number eight. We're going to read a couple of passages from the Gospels Matthew
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first, Luke second, and of course we have a couple of other scriptures
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that we're going to Amen, make reference to as we again affirm the people
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of God. This is this is what I'm all about, affirming the people
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of God. Amen. We need to know who we are, know whose
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we are, a man and have the confidence a man right here in this
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present world, Amen, to walk in boldness, to walk in confidence,
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to walk in faith, to walk in trust, to walk in a blessed
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assurance that what God has spoken concerning us, he will bring it to past.
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We need not live in fear. We need not live in doubt and
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unbelief a man. And today we want to focus on this kind of a
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fear factor that the devil uses a man to amen read havoc in our world.
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But first and foremost, I want you to please understand that Satan is
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a defeated foe. And let's go again. First of all, to Matthew
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chapter number eight. I want to read a few verses, Verses twenty eight
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through thirty two. Jesus, the Bible tells us when he was come to
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the other side, into the country of the Gergesenes, there met him to
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possess with devils coming out of the tombs, exceeding fears, so that no
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man might pass by that way. And behold, they cried out, saying,
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what have we to do with thee Jesus, Thou, son of God,
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art thou come hither? Liten what the demons say? Art thou come
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hitherto torment us? Before the time? And there was a good way off
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from them, and heard of many swine feeding. So the devils. The
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devils besought him, saying, if thou cast us out, Jesus, Jesus,
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Jesus, if you're gonna cast us out of these men, if you're
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gonna cast us out, suffer us to go away into the herd of swine.
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And Jesus, in response verse thirty two said, unto them, to
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the devils, to the demons, go one word, go, And when
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they would come out, they went into the herd of swine, And behold,
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the whole herd of swine ran violently down a steep place into the sea,
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perished in the waters. Now go to Luke's Gospel, chapter number ten.
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I want to read a few verses here in reference to a man.
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The authority, as you already see, the authority that Jesus has over demons,
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over devils, a man, and as he a man's coming to and
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and as you can see in from the from the text, there was no
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praying in the sense that he needed to pray and plead and hollah and scream
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and throw oil on the men. And all of this know Jesus with one
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word, because the devils recognized who he was the demons knew who he was,
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and and and with one word, he just said, go go.
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This is the authority that he has. This is the power that he has
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a man, Luke, Chapter number ten. Watch what the Bible tells us
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here after these things verse number one. I'm going to read verses one through
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three, and I'm gonna skip down to verse number seventeen again. So we
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have your bibles. Follow along with me. After these things. The Lord
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so and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place,
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whether he himself would come. So Jesus now sends an additional seventy from
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the twelve. He already has the twelve disciples. So now he commissions,
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as it were, seventy additional disciples, all right, to go out into
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the highways and the hedges, as it were, into the cities, to
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go to be dispersed to What he was doing is distributing his power a man,
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from him to others. And this is what he has done also for
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the church the way, Amen, thank you Jesus. Therefore Jesus said to
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them, listen what he says. The harvest truly is great verse number two.
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But the laborers a few pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest.
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This should be one of our prayers, that we pray that the Lord of
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the harvests would send forth laborers into his harvests. Go your ways. Behold,
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I send you forth as lambs among wolves. Again, please understand that
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we, as the people of God, are sent forth as lambs among wolves.
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Yet we are not to be afraid nor to live in fear, doubt
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and unbelief Verse seventeen and the seventy. After they went out, the Bible
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says they returned again with joy, saying, Lord, listen what they says.
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Even the devils, even the devils are subject unto us through thy name.
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Amen, through thy name. Not it's not their power, it's not
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their might. It's through the power that God has given to them, the
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name of Jesus Christ, that we are authorized, as he is, to
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use to invoke a man. Indeed, seventy came back to Jesus rejoicing a
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man that even the devils were subject to them through the name of Jesus.
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And Jesus said, unto them, Behold listen what he says. I beheld
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Satan as lightning fall from heaven, and God, I wish I had the
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time to go through all of that. But I don't. Satan has been
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defeated, He's cast out. He is a man already destined, a man
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for his destruction and doom. He said, Behold, listen what Jesus says,
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I give to you serpents and scorpions, talking about the demonic, the
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devils, the demons. I give you power to tread on serpents and scorpions,
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and over all the power of the enemy. Listen to what Jesus said,
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I give you the power. I give you the power over all of
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the works of the enemy, and nothing shall by any means hurt you.
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Notwithstanding in this, rejoice not that the spirits are subject unto you, but
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rather rejoice because your names are written in heaven. Oh I wish I had
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time for that too, But I will. Let me move on. Let
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me move on quickly. These two narratives from the Gospels serve to illustrate to
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us, They serve to inform us, they serve to inspire us, and
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hopefully, prayerfully, God forbid that we be not emboldened in our faith and
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confidence in the omnipotent power of the Almighty God, to whom we belong the
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devil himself, and all of the demons, all of the demonic, all
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of the spiritual wickedness. They all know who Jesus is. They know him
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as the Lord and the creator. They are all creatures, they were created.
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The devil, as I've said on multiple occasions, is not God's opposite
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equal. He has no power, no authority other than what is granted to
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him. They know who Jesus is. Amen. They know him as Jesus
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I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven. They know who he is.
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Amen. And when he came, Amen to these men who were tormented,
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Amen. And the demons immediately recognize Jesus and said, have you come to
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cast us out? Have you come to torment us before the time? They
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know their destiny, they know their future. Amen. And they understand that
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Jesus has all power and all authority. The Bible tells us. James right
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writes in his epistles, the devils even believe and tremble. Amen. They
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tremble. Amen. And you know the story, and those of you who
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read your Bible's Amen. The account Brother in the Book of the Acts of
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the Apostles, where these seven Sons of Skeeva attempted to cast out this devil.
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Amen, these demons brother using the name of Jesus, but they didn't
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have the authority. The devils leaped that all they came out, all right,
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But they came out and leaped on these men and chased them out of
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the house. The Bible says, naked and wound it. Amen, listen,
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if the devil doesn't know who you are, you don't want to play
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around with these demonic powers. But listen when the Bible says us, God
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has given us authority to tread upon these serpents and these scorpions, and nothing
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by in any means. A man, he says, will hurt you.
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Amen. But the adversary of your soul, which you need to understand,
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is this the advice every the devil, the demonic. They are afraid of
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you. They listen. Oh my God, I gotta let me here.
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He knows that he is defeated. He knows what his destiny is. He
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knows what your destiny is. Amen. I mean, we are destined to
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be more and more like Jesus. He predestined us to be conforming to the
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image of his son. We are a man growing in the knowledge of Jesus.
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That's why Jesus says, take the yoke and learn from me. My
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yoke is easy, my burden is light. I mean, He's already opened
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up the way for us. He is the way, and all we gotta
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do is keep our eyes our focus a man, the Bible says, mark
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the perfect man, and behold the up right at the end of that man
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is peace. We need to keep our minds and our focus in our hearts
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on Jesus because we are destined, predestined to be more and more every day
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like Jesus. And the more you are like Jesus, the more the devil
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will be of you. Amen. He knows your destiny. Amen, your
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destiny is to be more and more like Jesus. And what he has in
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his arsenal, by the way, and what he uses most effectively, is
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a very potent weapon of guile. Gu I l e this weapon of guile
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he has masterfully combined with the spirit of fear in order to wreak have it
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in intimidating man. I mean from generation and generation. Now we don't use
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the word guile that often. I'm gonna spend a couple of minutes on this
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We don't use the word guile that often in our modern lexicon of language,
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but it means to be sly or cunning. See, the enemy of your
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soul is a very sly, slippery, cunning creature. He uses He especially
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uses stealthiness. That is, he loves to go undetected under the radar,
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so to speak. You don't know that it's him, You don't understand that
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he's the one that is at work. He's an absolute master of obfuscaan obfuscation,
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obfusc a t I O N. Even though I'm having trouble getting the
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word out. He deflects focus and attention away from himself to make something else
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or someone else the focus of attention as the fall guy or as the enemy,
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when he is the one behind the scenes doing all the dirty work.
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A man reading all of the havoc, the same skillful tactic of the enemy
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is an abundant supply, Oh God, is it ever being used today?
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As the devil and all of his evil forces. A man work, as
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the Bible tells us in the high places. That's why we gotta understand.
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You gotta understand a man as a child of God, that you are not
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wrestling against flesh and blood. You're wrestling against principalities in power, spiritual wickedness
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in the high places, and you need to be equipped with the whole armor
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of God. A man understand that the devil uses these tactics. A man
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working in the high places, a man in order to manipulate, in order
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to foment a man hatred, war, terror, A man continuously in the
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earth. A man. He's a destroyer, he's a manipulator, a man,
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and he uses the weapon of deceitfulness and fear. He deceives people using
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fear added to the mix in order to a man rereak havoc Amen in the
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lives of people everywhere. It started in the amen to fall in the garden
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of Eden, when Adam and Eve amen man disobeyed God. God came to
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them, calling to Adam chapter number three of Genesis. You can read that
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account there, and looking for him, Adam, where are you? God
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knew where he was. Where are you? Adam responds to the Lord,
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saying, I heard your voice in the garden. I was afraid, and
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I hid myself because I was naked. And so the Lord said, who
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told you you was naked? Have you eaten of the tree where I commit
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whereof I commanded you not to eat? Amen, man, the man,
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of course, Adam said to the Lord the woman, Oh that we go,
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deflecting the blame. That's what we do, a man, that's what
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that's that's that's that's that's that's straight from the devil, that's straight from the
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enemy. No, no, no, no, don't take accountability. Don't
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take responsibility. It's not me. It's somebody else. Don't look at me.
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Oh no, don't, don't, don't, don't, don't. Don't
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hold me accountable. I'm not responsible deflecting the blame. The woman whom you
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gave me, she gave me of the tree, and I did. And
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by the way, that's double blame. What the devil does. This is
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what we loved. He put it on two or three or four or five
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people and the whole group of folks. Amen, it's always somebody else's fault
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for my failure. Amen, the woman. Listen what he said, the
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woman you gave me. So he's blaming the woman, and he's blaming God.
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See, it's always somebody else. The woman you gave me, she
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gave me of the tree, and I did. He and love said to
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the woman, what is this that you have done? And the woman said
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the serpent. See, she got the same spirit of who you know once
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you fall into sin that we fall in creatures. There's all he pointed to
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finger somebody else. The serpent beguiled me. He tricked me. He deceived
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me. That's what happened. The serpent beguiled me, and I did eat.
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And Paul made reference to this, by the way in the New Testament
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Second Renting, in chapter eleven, when he was writing to the church,
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verse number one, I'm just gonna read three verses there with the God,
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he said, you would bear with me him a little in my falling.
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Indeed, and bear with me, he said, I am jealous over you,
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with godly jealousy, for I have expoused you to one husband that I
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may present you as a chase virgin to Christ. The church. The church
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is to be a chase virgin presented to Christ as what He's coming back for,
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a church without spot or wrinkle. Paul says, I this is my
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my my my calling, this is my desire. I long to present you
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as a chase virgin to Christ. A man, he said, listen verse
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number three. But I fear less by any means, as the serpent,
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that old devil, A man that that that that devil, he said,
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But I fear less any by enemies, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his
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subtlety. He's subtle. Oh, he's cunning. He's sneaky, under again,
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under the radar, behind the scenes, below the surface, as it
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were, Amen, So that when you look, Amen, he's not the
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one who threw the stone. You see somebody else standing there, you you
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assume that they're the one. They're the enemy, even though the devil uses
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people. Don't get it wrong, don't get it twisted. We know that
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a man, We know that that there are many of many of many of
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many of people who are in alignment with the devil, who are in agreement
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with the devil, who are tools of the devil. Amen, we understand
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that. But they're not the power. They don't have the power. And
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they are sitting in government, they're sitting in institutions, they're sitting in all
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kinds of places. But never, never, never forget that they are mere
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mortal men. That's all. They are, mere mortal men. And I
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wish I had the time to food with that. But I don't, Amen,
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but the devil, Amen, be guy old Eve, through his cunningness,
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through his slick tactic of taking the word of God, that's what he
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did, and twisting a man. He's a deceiver, that's who he is.
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He's a master manipulator. And this is also something that Paul wanted the
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Colossian church to know. A man. In Colossions, chapter number two,
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verses three and four, he says, Listen, he wanted us to understand
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and to know the great benefits that we already have afforded to us, given
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to us a man granted to us, as it were that we have in
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Christ Jesus. Listen what he says in whom that's in Christ he's talking about,
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in whom verse number three are he had all the treasures of wisdom and
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knowledge. And this I say, lest any man should be guild you with
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enticing words. There are a lot of vain talkers and deceivers. This is
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something Paul warned the other apostles as well as Jesus warned us about false prophets
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and apostles and teachers. And Amen, these again embassaries of the devil who
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would go out and beguile people Amen, with enticing words. And Jesus said,
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the blind need the blind. Amen, they will both fall into the
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ditch. And he warned his disciples to be aware of the leaven of the
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Pharisees, their doctrine, their teachings. Amen. Amen. So Paul says
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that this is what the devil seeks to do, is to beguile you with
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enticing word. And the goal of the beguiling of that old, sly and
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slippery servant serpent brother, is to trick you out of the treasures. See,
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God has treasures for us. This is what Paul says again in Colossians
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chapter two, verse three. In whom that's in Christ are here at all
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the treasures of wisdom and knowledge. God wants you to have wisdom. He
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wants you to have knowledge. He wants you to have understanding. And if
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you lack wisdom, He's let him ask ask of God. Any man who
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lacks ask of God, and He gives to all men liberally. Amen.
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So the goal of this old serpent, Amen, is to trick you out
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of the treasures. Trick you out of the treasures that you already have,
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that are already stored up for you in abundance. Amen. And what he
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has certainly again masterfully achieved in our day. Oh my god, He's done
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this over and over again. He's masterfully achieved combining the skill of beguiling,
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the skill of cunning, the skill of deceitfulness, with the spirit of fear
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in order to torment the minds of people to still hope for their future away
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from them. This is why so many people commit suicide. Amen. Some
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people just give up, and some people just flat out give up hope.
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Amen. He he tricks, he beguiles, Amen, he deceives, and
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he not only desires to steal hope from you, Amen, he wants to
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destroy hope entirely in your life. He specializes. He again, he specializes
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in this and beguiling people into believing that there is no hope left for them.
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Oh my god, that is the end. As he wants to take
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you and sift you as weak, take you through the grinder, I mean,
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grind all of the hope out of you. Amen. And by the
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way, this is what is at the root of racism. This is another
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masterful work of trickery from the hand of this slippery slic serpent. The artful
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illusion of racism becomes a reality in the mind when men are deceived into believing
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that there is a difference in men based upon certain factors such as skin color,
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nationality, ethnicity, birth lineages, and on and on and on it
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could go. God has no respective persons, and God made all men.
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He didn't make us all the same. He didn't give us all this He
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grants, and He gives unto us gifts and abilities and skills and all of
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that. And whatever God has given to you, whatever God has enabled you
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with, that can be used. Amen. And if you want, and
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if you will, Oh, my God, if we will. Oh.
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I've read this one of my favorite of all the psalms, Som number one,
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the very first one. Blessed the man who walks down the council down
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God nor sens and way of sinners, nor sits. And it seem the
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scornful. But his delight isn't the law of the Lord, and his law.
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He meditates day and night. And the Bible says he shall be like
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a tree planted by the rivers of waters, bring for fruit in season.
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Whatever he does, the Bible says it shall prosper. God will make it.
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Whatever gift, whatever ability He's given to you whatever amount of knowledge and
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wisdom enough that's available to you, and much is available. But you don't
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have to be the smartest person. You have to be the most knowledgeable.
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Amen. What you need is to know the Savior, the gift giver,
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the one who doles out the blessings. Amen. But blowing up blessings happens.
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See, God has given to us all things that pertain to life in
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godliness. Amen. But you know what happens to a lot of people in
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the church, Amen, And and and in general Amen, in our world.
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Amen. It happens in general, but especially in the church. Amen,
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when people have the I mean the special blessings from God, you blow
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People blow up their blessings with unbelief. They blow up their blessings through This
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is what happened with the nation of Israel. And now have y'all heard me
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time and time again refer back to them a man. It's an act of
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self deprivation. You are depriving yourself of what God has in store for you,
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what God has made available to you when you don't believe him. When
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God has already spoken and has already decreed good concerning you, and you reject
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it. In unbelief. You blow up your own blessings, and you deprive
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yourself, and in some cases you deprive others around you who are associated with
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you. Of what God has prepared for you. Oh, I can give
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you a thousand examples. Was what was the root caused by the way for
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the seat of Abraham becoming slaves in Egypt? Let me get to this fear
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factor, because this is a problem. This is the problem. The devil
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uses this in his cunning, in his slick tactics, a man in his
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arsenal, he uses a man, the spirit of fear, a man again
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to wreak havoc in all the earth. What was the root cause of the
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Seat of Abraham becoming slaves in Egypt? Pharaoh feared them, the pharaoh of
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that time, a man that rose another pharaoh who didn't know Joseph. What
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did he do? He feared them, He feared the people, And ironically
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he feared the people Amen growing in population, Amen and all that. But
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he didn't fear God. Even after God showed himself to be the Almighty,
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Amen, to be the God of Gods, the King of kings, the
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Lord of lords, Amen, unmatched Amen, omnipotent power, that's who God
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is. Amen. But that was the root cause of Pharaoh dealing so harshly.
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What the people have called it was fear fear. And when the Lord
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delivered these people out of Egypt a man, and they went on their way
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to the Promised Land. What caused the vassment? Not the vast majority nearly
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with ninety nine point nine percent of that generation, the Bible tells us,
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never entered the Promised Land. You know why only Joshua and Caleb and Caleb
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from that generation made it into the Promised Land. You know why they didn't?
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You know why they died in the wilderness. Fear and unbelief. They
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were afraid every time a challenger rose, every time of situal, every time,
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and God showed themselves mighty over and over and over again. And in
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spite of that, they still feared, We're gonna die in this wilderness.
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Moses. They kept complaining, were read the Book of Numbers. They kept
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complaining, over and over again, Moses, Why have you brought us out,
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Moses? What have you Moses? Moses, Moses, This is exactly
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why Cora and all of those who were associated with him were swallowed up by
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the earth. Amen. It was because of their unbelief, because of their
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fear, because of their rebellion. They feared. They feared, we gotta
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go back, we gotta go back. God doesn't want you to go back.
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And you don't need to fear that somebody's gonna take you back. They're
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gonna take us back. They're gonna rule back. They're gonna take us back,
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and the slavery, they're gonna take us back, and do they're gonna
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rule us back and make no, no, no no. That's fear.
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That's the spirit of fear and the common thread that you see in these incidents.
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Amen. And again I can I can give you a mirror. I
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could almost inexhaustible number of examples throughout the scriptures where people, nations, whatever,
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Amen, the devil used it the spirit of fear to wreak havoc.
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And that's the common thread, fear, fear, and this fear comes from
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the adversary. And he doesn't care about your race, he doesn't care about
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your color, he doesn't care about your nationality. The devil has havoc and
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every nation, along every race of people. It's just the beginning of time.
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Amen, it comes from the devil. It's the spirit of fear.
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He comes to steal, to kill, and to wreak havoc in your life.
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Destroy. Jesus says, Now, fear is a very real thing.
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We understand that. Amen, We understand that fear is a very real thing.
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Now there is a such there is such a thing as having a healthy
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fear. And everyone should have a healthy fear for example, of electricity.
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Amen, we understand electricity. Electricity can kill you. Electricity can kill you.
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Oh, yes, you know that. I know that. Amen,
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electricity can kill you. Amen. So we all should have a very healthy
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fear of electricity. Amen. But but but but but but but but listen,
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listening. There's nothing healthy about fearing what man can do to me.
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Nothing healthy about that, especially in this realm of this topic of the subject
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matter of racism or discrimination. And as I as I've said and will continue
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to reiterate, pound it over and over again. Amen, if God be
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for us, If God be for us, If God be for us,
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Amen, who can be against us? Amen? Over and over and over
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again. Throughout the word of God, God has admonished his people. God
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has reassured his people. A man in the affirmative, over and over again
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again that we need not fear, We need not living fear, We need
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not doubt, only trust God and believe. We are not to be afraid
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of the terror by night, nor the arrows that fly by day, nor
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of the destruction that waste that noonday. Listening to Bible less us. No.
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God has appointed his angels, given his angels charge over us, to
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keep us in all of our ways. Why or why do we allow the
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devil? Why do we allow the enemy? Amen? Why do we give
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him space? Why do we give him access? Why do we give him
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that opening a man to come in and to wreak havoc in our lives?
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When all we have to do is trust in the Lord with all of our
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hearts, and lean not to our own understanding. Amen, see what happens
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well? The reason why many of us get deread first and foremost, as
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I said him last week, I believe it was last week may have been
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the first session. I invite you, certainly those of you have not heard
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this first and second session concerning God's affirmative action plan for us. One of
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the major reasons why people stumble. One of the major reasons why people stumble,
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Amen, In and out of the Church, but especially in the Church.
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As the Lord said in the Old Testament, might people have destroyed for
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the lack of knowledge? Amen, for the lack of knowledge. Amen.
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And then when you know and don't believe, Oh my God, I don't
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know if that's that's worse. Actually, when you say God can, God
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can, and he will tolerate to a certain extent a level of ignorance.
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He did it with the apostle Paul. Certainly, Paul was an educated man,
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highly educated man, well respected, a pharisee of the Pharisees, number
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one in his class. Amen. Came up under the foot Amen, under
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the tutelage of the most highly perhaps perspective of a man teachers of his day
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gameleel. Amen. He learned from the best a man. And yet with
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all of his education, with all of his getting, with all of his
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knowledge, with all of his amen skillfulness in the law of God, he
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was ignorant of the righteousness of God. He was ignorant of who Jesus.
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He didn't know who Jesus was. Amen. He didn't understand a man.
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So the Lord appeared to him, as you know, on the road the
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Masculs Acts, chapter number nine, a man and enlightened him and opened his
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eyes. A man caused the scales to fall from his eyes. And as
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the Bible tells us, a man, Paul Wright I mean, wrote this
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of him of his own accord. Amen. Later Amen that he a man,
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received mercy from God because he was doing what he did, persecuting the
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church, haulding the saints off, and all of those kinds of things.
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He did it in unbelief, in ignorance, and in unbelief, ignorance and
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unbelief. Amen. And so what Paul was doing, Amen to the church.
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He was doing what he was doing because he was fearful of them.
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See a lot of times there's a fear of other religions. And Paul was
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fearing that this set that these people, a man who was who were calling
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on the name of Jesus, a man who was serving another God. May
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perhaps he had a fear that they would amen somehow because they were growing.
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Oh, yes, the church was being added to daily. The Bible tells
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us in the Book of the Acts that God was adding to the church daily
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such as should be saved. So the church was growing, the church was
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multiplying, it was becoming a threat. Amen to Judaisms, as it was
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to the law of Moses, to the old way, the system of sacrifices
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and commandments, and all of that which God had done away within Christ Jesus
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when the amen he when he died on the cross, the Bible says,
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the veil of the temple was torn. It was over all of those commandments
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of the law, in the law concerning the ordinary sys and and all of
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that, the sacrifices, the sacrificial system, all of that was none away
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with in Christ Jesus. But Paul didn't have that knowledge, he didn't have
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that understanding. He didn't know a man who Jesus is. And so in
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his ignorance, in his unbelief, perhaps more I believe, he acted in
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fear a man, fear, fear of this sec fear of who these people
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were, a man. And so he went about to destroy them. He
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went about to arrest them, he went about to compel them to blaspheme against
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the name of Jesus, a man, and so fear came upon the Bible
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says all the church, and they were scattered. A man would listen again,
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God has not given to his people the spirit of fear, but of
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power love and assignment. And even when these circumstances and situations a man and
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fear causes a man us to a man stumble something, and this will happen
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a man. Fear can cause the people of God to stumble at times.
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But will not to live in fear and will not to allow fear to living
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us. And again doesn't mean that fear is not going to come. Fear
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is not going to attack, that fear is not going to come to a
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man. Seek refuge, seek a solace, seek attention, Seek to a
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man, abiding you and living your house. No fear will always come a
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man around to attack. Again, this is one of the a man most
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potent weapons of the enemy. But the Bible makes it clear to us that
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God has not given us the spirit of fear, but of power, love
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and a sound mind. And so the Church being persecuted, the Bible says,
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the fear of this persecution caused them to scatter. Well. That was
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also in the will of God a man that they go into all the world,
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preach the Gospel to every creature, going to all of the nations.
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Jesus had commanded them, but they had not yet done it. They were
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more or less concentrated around the area of Jerusalem a man, and God wanted
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them to disperse. God wanted them to go and carry the gospel not only
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to the Jews, but also to the Samaritans, those people that they hated
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a man, and to the Gentiles, the people that they absolutely despise a
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man. And so God even in the use of fear, even in the
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use of the enemy Satan. By the way, again, who was using
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the apostle Paul prior to his conversion a man to wreak havoc in his ignorance?
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A man of who a man? Again, Jesus is a man.
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This still worked together for the good for the people of God. A man.
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No weapon, Oh, my God, I wish we believe the word
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of God. No weapon that is formed against you is going to prosper nothing
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that the devil can conjure up, nothing that the enemy can strategize with,
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nothing that the enemy can Amen come up with. Amen, can amen prosper
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against what God has already decreed for your life. Amen, No weapon formed
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against you shall prosper every lying tongue. Amen, you will condemn. The
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Bible says this is the heritage of the saints. Amen, And so we
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need not fear. What did Jesus say concerning the church? What did Jesus
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say concerning the church? Amen? He said, upon this rock, I
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build my church. The church is being built by Jesus Christ. He's the
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head of the church. He's the savor, he's the chief shepherd. Amen.
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Amen, he's the owner. Amen, he's the orchestrator, he's all
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of that. Amen. And so he said, I build my church,
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and the gates of Hell shall not prevail. No weapon, ladies and gentlemen,
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no weapon, No weapon. Amen. He said, I know the
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thoughts that I think towards your thoughts of peasing, not of evil. An,
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I'm going to bring you to an expected end. He that had begun
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this working us, he's going to perform it until the day of Jesus Christ.
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And this is how we got to live. This is how we got
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to walk, This is how we got to operate. When the disciples were
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attacked from the very outset, and y'all heard me used as an example before
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in the book of the Acts of the Apostles, when the apostles were threatened,
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Aman, when they were beaten, when they were put in jail and
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commanded, Amen, not to preach or to teach anymore in the name of
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Jesus Christ. They said, what we ought to obey God rather than men.
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See, Jesus had already warned them that these kinds of things would common.
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They saw what they did to Jesus. Amen, they saw what the
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men, some of the same bunch Amen, the chief priests and the council,
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the Pharisees, the Sadducees. They had already witnessed what they did to
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Jesus. But guess what happened, ladies and gentlemen, after Jesus empowered them
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with the Holy Ghost jess as he did, Amen, before he went to
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the cross, before he went to cavalry. See, he had the power
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to disseminate this even before he came Amen to that point of giving his life,
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he had the power, and he gave that power to his disciples before
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cavalry. He gave that power to the seventy other disciples that He's sent out
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before cavalry. Because the power is of God. He did it in the
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Old Testament. He empowered all of the amn saints of old, the prophets,
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the judges. Amen, the spiritual Lord would come upon them. Moses
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was empowered. Joshua was in powered. Amen. All Caleb was empowered,
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Sampson was empowered. You name it jefta Amen. All of the judges,
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Amen, again, all of the prophets powered by what the spirit of the
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Living God. He has the power, he has the authought. You don't
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have to fear what man is going to do. You don't have to worry
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about racism and discrimination. God has discriminated for you on your behalf. He's
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made you the head and not to tell above only and not beneath the lenda
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and not the borrower. But again, you will live beneath the privileges,
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beneath the benefits, beneath the blessings that God has for you, and you
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will blow up your own blessings through unbelief. I'm reminded of this incident,
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this narrative, rather that happened during Amen, the days of Israel. Amen.
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This was in during the divided kingdom, that was a famine in the
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land. It was because the nation, Amen, the city of Samaria was
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under siege. A man, and God sent word through the prophet. God
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sent word through his prophet, and he said, tomorrow, listen what the
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Bible says, Tomorrow tomorrow about this time tomorrow, which is twenty four hours
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Amen. The next day tomorrow, about this time, this siege, this
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famine is going to be over. It's going to be over. That's the
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word that came from God. So the people were living in fear, they
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were closed up, were shut up, Amen, And people were eating their
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children. It was so bad. When things had gotten so bad. Amen,
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inflation was at you think inflation is bad now, it was at I
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mean beyond beyond our ability to even fathom in our day. That's how bad
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it was. Amen. And so and so and so the word of the
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Lord came to the prophet, God's spokesman. And when God speaks his word,
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you better believe God's report. Whose report are you going to believe?
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Am? Are you going to continue to live in fear? And this was
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a very real fear that they were experiencing. And again, these things happen,
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These things happen in life. Amen. And but but but see when
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you when you have the promises of God, when you have the word of
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God, when you have God himself, if God be for you, Amen,
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If God be for you, you who can be against you? And
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so Amen, God send his word, said tomorrow about this time, this
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is over. It's done. Now. The Bible tells us that was a
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servant of the king, Amen, a chamberlain who did not believe the word
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of God's prophet. He didn't believe it. He didn't believe the word of
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the Lord. Amen. And so the Bible says, the Lord said,
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through the mouth of the prophet to this man, you're gonna see it with
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your eyes, but you will not be able to participate. You're gonna see
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it. You're gonna see it, but you won't participate. Now, what
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happened was, of course, if you know the story, Amen, God
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calls that very night, that very night, he calls the enemy to flee.
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He calls all of the enemy who had surrounded the people of God,
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he calls them to flee. Amen. Fear they feared that there was a
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there was another army of something. They would feared that they were about to
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be under attack. And they just left everything and fled. They left all
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of that food, all of the clothing, you name it. They left
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everything and flecked. They had camped out. Amen. They had the city
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under siege, and so they had plenty of resources, plenty of food,
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plenty of other things outside of the walls, Amen, of the city.
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But inside the city, because it was under siege, they had literally nothing
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left. Amen. But God caused the enemy to flee that night. Amen.
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So the next day after there were some lepers by the way who were
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outside of the city. Read the story. Amen. The lepers, they
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were outside of the city, they discovered that the enemy had gone, and
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they brought the good news into the city to the camp. Amen, to
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the people of God. And when the people inside the city found out that
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the enemy had gone and there was food, there was, I mean there
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was there were supplies. There was I mean in abundance outside the walls.
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And they had been living in fear, and Goddess in deliverance. Amen.
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The Bible says, or a stampede that occurred. There was a stampede that
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occurred. Of course, you know what you do, you know that's gonna
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happen. And man, so the people begin to run, the people begin
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to the news spread. Of course, like wildfid. The people went herding
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out of the walls of the city. Amen, to gather food, to
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gather together whatever they needed because it was there. Amen. And you know
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what happened to that man who did not believe. What did the prophet say?
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You're gonna see it with your eyes, but you will not participate.
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The Bible says that same man who did not believe, who despised the word
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of the Lord, who did not believe the port of the Lord, the
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put it trampled on him, stumped him to death. He saw that the
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famine was over, but he did not get to participate in it. Why
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Why because he did not believe God. He didn't believe the word of God.
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Amen. And people today in the church blow up their own blessings,
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They brought up their own provision what God has for them because they don't believe
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God. And they choose brother to believe the report of man, to believe,
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and to walk in fear and in doubt and in unbelief, believing that
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somebody's gonna roll you back into slavery, somebody's gonna roll you back into the
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gem Crow area era, or you just believe that somebody else has the power
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in their already over to you, when God has already spoken concerning you.
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I'm talking to somebody that believes. I want to believe that you believe the
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word of God. Amen. I hope you believe. I pray that you
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believe the word of God, that if God be for you, no one,
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ladies and gentlemen, no one can be against you. No one can
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stop you. No one can stop your prosperity. No one can stop your
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growth. No one can stop your education. No one can stop your knowledge.
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No one can stop your wisdom. No one can hinder you. No
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man can hinder you. Do not fear what man can do to you.
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Jesus commanded his disciples. I'm gonna send you out as what lambs among wolves.
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You're gonna be like sheep in amidst of wolves. But what don't fear,
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don't doubt, don't tremble. Why because the shepherd the shepherd. The
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shepherd leads us, the shepherd guides us, the shepherd protects us. That's
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why David understood this, And believe you mean David had his share of fears
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and doubts. Saul chased him, Amen for years, trying to kill him.
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Amen. He knew that David was anointed and appointed to be the next
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king. And David, this was real fear. This was real spears being
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thrown at David. There were real threats to his life. This was not
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something imaginary, not something spiritual. It was real. The devil was using
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fear. He put the spirit of fear in Saul, and that spirit of
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fear called Saul to chase David. Amen. David ran for his life.
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Amen. And even after he became kings ran for his life. But anyway,
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let me just get to them before he took the throne, part of
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his life. Amen. When God has something for you, no one and
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I don't care what authority they have. I don't care what position therein,
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No one can stop it. Saul was the king. He was the most
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powerful person in the nation of Israel. He could not stop David from becoming
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the king. He couldn't why because God had appointed him. God had anointed
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him, God had predestined him, God had called him, God had a
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glorified him. That's what he's Oh my God, Oh help us Jesus.
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Oh, I've told y'all. I prayed this every day. God help us,
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God, help us happier people, help us to believe the report of
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the Lord. God had already appointed for David Amen the kingship to take the
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throne. Amen. And there was nothing that Saul could do to stop it.
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Now he signed Jonathan, who was the heir on the human side of
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things, the heir to the throne of Saul, the next king. Amen.
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He even understood it, and he and David Amen became the best of
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friends. Amen. Fear, but fear would calls you to act irrationally.
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It caused Saul to lose his mind. Amen. It calls him to want
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to commit murder, to try to stop where God had already ordered. You
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can't stop where God has already ordained. You can't stop where God has already
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decreed. You can't stop where God has already declared to be. And again,
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God is for us. God is for you. He's not against you.
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The devil is against you. The adversary is against you. The Bible
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says, your adversary. The devil goes about as a roaring lion. He's
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not a lion, by the way, Oh no, there's only one.
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There's only one lion. Amen. He's a serpent. He's a snare ache.
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He's a slippery, sly, cunning devil creature who does not have the
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power, who does not have the authority that he deceives people into believing that
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he has. He doesn't. Amen, that's why those demons trembled when they
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saw Jesus coming and the devil and his demons. Amen, they are afraid
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of you. You need not be afraid of them. They are afraid of
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you because God has given you the power. He's given you the authority.
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He's given you and I his people the power to tread upon serpents and scorpions.
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And he said nothing shall by in any means hurt you. Aman.
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We've just got to listen, ladies and gentlemen, people of God. We
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just got to start believing God. We just got to start standing on the
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word of God. Amen. If you're listening today, Amen, there again,
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We're gonna all have these seasons and times and situations. Even the great
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prophet Elijah had his moment at his time, had his season when he feared
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he ran from Jezebel. I mean, we're gonna have these things to happen
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to us and cause us a man to fear. Amen. But listen,
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never, never, never allow the spirit of fear to come in, because
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the Bible says fear hath torment, and it will torment you. Amen.
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It will cause you to act irrationally, Amen, and out of the character
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that God desires for your life. To fear that racism, discrimination. Somehow
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it's going to stop the blessings that God has for you. It can't.
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It won't. No weapon, nothing that the enemy has can stop you.
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No man can do it. If God be for us, If God be
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for us, who can be against us? No one. God help us
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to day. God help us to day. God help your people everywhere to
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believe your port report, to stand on your word, to stand on your
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promises, to trust you implicitly, no matter what the situation, no matter
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what the circumstances, no matter what we may face in this life. Amen,
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you have already overcome, and you've made us overcommerce and more than conquer
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us. We glorify you, We bless you, we magnify you. Today
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in Jesus name, we pray and give thanks for all things. A man
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and a man