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Episode 84: Free Me, Favor Me - Part 2 · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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  All right, God bless you, God bless you. We welcome you once
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  more and again to this another edition of End Time Revival Ministries USA podcast.
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  And I am your host, Pastor al Zachary, and we are again,
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  as always grateful to the Lord for all of his blessings, for his a
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  man goodness and all of its benefits toward each and every one of us.
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  And today we're going to continue with part two of this short series and it's
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  based upon my personal prayer request that I have to the Lord a Man,
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  and it is entitled free me, Favor Me. And this is part two,
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  Free Me, Favor Me. And before we began, let's just briefly,
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  as always, we want to acknowledge the Lord and thank him and ask
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  his a man bountiful blessings upon us. Father, we thank you for this
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  blessed day that you have allowed us to see. And Lord, we pray
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  that your words of wisdom will penetrate within our hearts. And Lord, let
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  us not be forget for hear us, but let it work in us.
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  Let your word work in us to shape us, to form us, to
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  mold us, to make us more into the image of Jesus the Christ.
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  Lord, let someone today be liberated by the power of your word, as
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  you get the glory out of every life. In the name of Jesus,
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  we thank you for all things a man and a man. All right,
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  Free me Favor me seven things that I came up with when I was thinking
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  about this a little bit of a month or so ago, and I began
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  to note this, and I want the Lord to free me from these four
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  things, and then, of course favor me with three things. Lord,
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  free me from number one fear, free me from number two folly, free
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  me from number three faltering, and free me number four from foolishness. And
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  concurrently, I also want the Lord to favor me with these number one,
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  faith, number two focus, and number three fruitfulness. So I want to
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  be free from fear, folly, faltering, and foolishness, but I certainly
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  want to be favored with faith, focus, and fruitfulness. We cover it
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  in our first session, if you will the subject title of fear, Lord
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  free me from fear, and today I want to focus on Lord, free
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  me from folly, Free me from folly, Psalm number eighty five. I'm
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  going to read a couple of verses there, seven and eight from the King
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  James version, and it reads, show us thy mercy, O Lord,
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  and grant us thy salvation. I will hear what God the Lord will speak,
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  for he will speak peace unto his people and to his saints. But
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  let them not turn again to folly. Let them not turn again to folly.
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  Amen, hopefully, prayerfully, Oh, we pray that we will hear
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  what God the Lord will speak to his people, so that we do not
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  return or turn again to folly. And as much as I desire of the
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  Lord to be free from fear, I most certainly have the same earnest desire
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  to be delivered from folly. In the King James version of the Bible,
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  we find the word folly used thirty seven times. And there is nothing good
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  to be said about folly. There's nothing to be gained from being a person
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  of folly. And we do not use that word very often in our daily
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  conversations and dialogue. It's not in our vernacular of today, but it is
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  very much the defining characteristic of a large portion of the populace in our world
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  today. It is disc inserting, and it is certainly disheartening whenever we have
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  folly taking place in the household of faith. In the Church of the Living
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  God. It is something that ought not once be named amongst the people of
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  God. As we are his saints, we are his people, We are
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  the sheep of his pasture. We are his disciples, we are his followers.
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  A man, we are living epistles, known and read of men.
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  We are to be the city set up on the hill, the light,
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  a man, that men may see that there is a difference, that there
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  is a savior, that there is hope a man, and deliverance from the
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  folly, that is a man permeating a man every aspect of our existence in
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  this world and man. Nevertheless, Amen, and and tragically, sadly,
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  folly can and does creep into the minds and into the hearts, even in
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  the Church, and must be rooted out and banished, expelled, canceled from
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  our dwelling. In the Law of Moses, folly was dealt with in some
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  instances, with the penalty being death. But thank God, Amen for his
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  grace, his mercy, and his compassion towards us, even when we are
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  in our own folly. And it is as the Psalmist said, I remind
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  you so aptly that God has not rewarded us. According to what we deserve.
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  That's the very essence of mercy and grace, Amen, that God has
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  shown toward us. Amen. Folly. By way of definition, I'll give
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  you three definitions from the dictionary, the state or quality of being foolish,
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  lack of understanding or sense. Number two a foolish undertaking, unwise investment or
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  expenditure, folly, and number three These two words that I want to take
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  the latter one and focus on just a little bit. Folly is also defined
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  as wickedness, wantonness, w A N t O N is the root word
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  wanting, and that word means, of course, to be deliberate and without
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  motive or provocation, uncalled for. Mostly, of course, almost always in
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  the negative sense. This is something that is wicked, evil, Amen,
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  ungodly wanting, meaning also without regard for what is right, just humane,
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  being careless, reckless. Number three. Wanting defined also as sexually lawless or
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  unrestrained. Oh my god, is this not rampant in our culture today?
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  Lawlessness when it comes to sexual conduct, unrestrained, loose, lassidious, lude,
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  ladies and gentlemen. This is dictionary definition of folly and wanton Psalm number
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  forty nine. I'm almost finished. Gives us a crystal clear picture word of
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  wisdom, insight, understanding something that should be and is really known to us,
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  whether we acknowledge it or not. And that's again we're going to see,
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  which is what is the folly of man refusing to consider these things in
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  his every day comings and goings, if you will. But this psalm aptly
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  and succinctly speaks directly to the foolishness, the futility, the folly of the
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  person who ignores the wisdom of God, the reality of his very being,
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  because that's really what it comes down to. As we're going to see,
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  you are refusing to come to grips with the reality of your finality, if
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  I may put it that way. Let's hear the words of this psalm.
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  I'm reading again from the King James version a psalm for the Sons of Cora.
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  Verse number one, hear this, all ye people, give ear,
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  all ye inhabitants of the world, both low and high, rich and poor
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  together. Verse three he says, my mouth shall speak of wisdom, and
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  the meditation of my heart shall be of understanding. I will incline mine ear
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  to a parable I will open my dark sayings upon the harp. Wherefore should
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  I fear in the days of evil, when the iniquity of my heels shall
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  compass me. About they that trust in their wealth and boast themselves in the
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  multitude of their riches. None of them can by any means redeem his brother,
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  nor give to God a ransom for him. For the redemption of their
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  soul is precious, and it ceases forever that he should still live forever and
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  not see corruption. For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool
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  and the British person, even their wealth to others Verse eleven. Their inward
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  thought is that their houses shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to
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  all generations. They call their lands after their own names. But nevertheless Verse
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  twelve sells us man being in honor, abideth not he is like the beasts
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  that perish. This their way is their folly. Yet their posterity approve their
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  sayings. Oh help us, Jesus, help us, Jesus, help us,
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  Jesus, Lord, free me from folly. Here ye hear ye the
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  word of the Lord. Hear ye, hear ye, the wisdom of the
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  word of the Lord. By the way, this is why again the Lord
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  told these people in antiquity, that man shall not live by bread alone,
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  but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. God's word
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  is here has been given, has been imparted unto us to save us,
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  to deliver us from oh, so many things, but from ourselves from a
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  sure and certain death, the wages of sin is death. Amen, and
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  and and and and it has been given to us to deliver us from the
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  foolishness and the folly of the way of man, of the way of this
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  world, this fallen world. So the Psalmist understands this, and he says,
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  here is everybody, all people, all the inhabitants of the world,
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  every man, men of low degree, men of high exting, men of
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  wealth and means. Hear ye, every poor man of no means, hear
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  these words of wisdom, so that you will gain real understanding, and so
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  that folly will not take you down to the grave in hopelessness. Hear ye,
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  hear ye, every one of you who trust in your wealth, those
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  who boast yourselves in the multitude of the abundance of the things that you possess.
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  Those of you who trust in your own righteousness, your own abilities,
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  your own goodness. None of you, the Bible says, the word,
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  these are words of wisdom from God himself. This is God speaking. None
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  of you can by any means redeem your brother. You cannot give to God
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  a ransom for his soul, let alone yours. There is no man,
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  the Bible says. This is so crystal clear. And we know this.
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  We know this, even though we ignore this. There is no man who
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  is going to live forever, who will not see death and his body suffer
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  the corruption of this mortality, this state of mortality in which we live.
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  And again, it's because of sin, and the Lord pronounced us from the
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  time that Adam sinned, from the dust you came, and to the dust
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  you shall return. Listen on, Listen on again, what the summon says,
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  All wise, men, even it doesn't matter. Now, let me
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  just point out by the way that there is only two known exceptions biblically,
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  and a third exception that is yet to come. Two men that did not
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  see death, Enoch and the prophet Elijah. The third exception is going to
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  be those who are alive and remaining at the rapture of the church, the
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  saints that will be caught up as the Bible teaches with the bid in Christ
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  to meet the Lord in the air. They are the only exceptions to the
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  sure death sentence. That is a put it. The Bible says to every
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  man, the only exceptions all wise men die. The Bible tells us here
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  psm. Forty nine. Likewise, the fool, amen, the fool even
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  listen, the wise man, the fool, amen, they will all perish.
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  A man, the brutish person will also perish. And listen what the
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  Bible says. They will leave their wealth to others after them, who will
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  also, by the way, meet the same fate again that is appointed to
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  all men. You're going to die. Listen. Let me take you pause
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  just a second. Let me just go to Ecclesiastes, chapter number two.
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  From the wisest man, the preacher, the King of Jerusalem, Solomon,
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  who prayed to the Lord and ask the Lord for wisdom, and the Bible
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  way, by the way, the Bible says, if any man lacks wisdom,
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  let him ask of God. This is what the Psummons has given us,
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  by the way, this wisdom, this discretion, this understanding, so
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  that you can avoid living your life in folly. And that's what my prayer.
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  I'm telling you that's my prayer. Lord, deliver me, free me
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  from folly. Amen. This is what the Bible says. Ecclesiastes two,
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  verses eighteen through twenty. I'm reading again from the King James verse and yay,
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  I hated all my labor which I had taken under the sun, because
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  I should oh listen to this did Why did Solomon write these words? Why
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  did he contemplate this? Why did he ponder all of these things? And
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  he had put all of this time and effort and energy and exercised himself,
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  and all kinds of works he had, all kinds of projects that he did
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  and completed, I mean wonderful, wonderful works he did. And he said,
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  I hated all my labor which I had taken under the sun, because
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  listen to what he says, I should leave it unto the man that shall
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  be after me. And who knoweth verse nineteen, whether he that is this
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  man, this person who is going to inherit all that I have done,
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  all that I have accomplished, all that I've achieved. Who knoweth whether he
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  shall be a wise man or a fool? Yet shall he have rule over
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  all my labor? Wherein I have labored, and wherein I have showed myself
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  wise under the sun, Solomon, Oh cad he says, this is vanity.
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  Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labor
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  which I took under the sun. Oh, Oh ladies and gentlemen, Church
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  of the Living God, rich and poor, wise man, foolish man,
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  men of lower extreme, men of high extreme. Here here hear ye the
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  word of the Lord. Hear ye the wisdom of God. Free me.
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  Every one of us should pray, free me, Lord from folly, Oh,
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  the folly of man in his feudal thinking. Even though they know this,
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  they know that they're going to die, They know that they're not going
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  to live forever. They know their days are numbered. Even though they know
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  this, even though they see it, they witness it literally every day in
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  this nation, by the way, every year, just in the United States
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  alone, I believe over two million people die every year. We see it,
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  we know it, and we cannot deny it. But yet for far
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  too many people, far too many of us, and even sadly again in
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  the Church of the Living God, folly is their way of thinking. It's
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  their way of living because as the Bible says, here their inwood thought is
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  this is this is we're thinking foolishly because folly it's ruling. Folly is reigning.
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  Folly is in control of their mind, blotting out reality, turning them
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  from the truth. Their inwood thought is. The Bible says that their houses
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  shall continue for and their dwelling places to all generations. Folly, folly,
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  folly, foolishness, foolishness, foolishness, feudal, futile, futile. Is
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  that kind of thinking. They call their lands after their own names. Heppas
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  Jesus, Oh heppess. I hear, I mean again, I hear even
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  in the church people talking about legacy, legacy, my legacy, legacy.
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  The Bible says, even though man honors himself, exalts himself, seeks his
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  own posterity, and seeks this so called legacy that will endure, it is
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  folly. Folly has been forsted upon him. Because the Bible says, man,
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  being in honor abidith not, he is like the beasts that perish.
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  This their way is their folly. Lord, deliver me. That's my prayer.
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  That is, that is my prayer, Lord, free me from folly.
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  Lord, we thank you again for your word. Your word is true,
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  your word is wisdom, your word is light. Lord, Let someone
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  today hear and be obedient to your word, to your voice calling unto them
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  to hear the wisdom of God and live and get understanding and get this discretion
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  in all of their ways. God be glorified in Jesus' name. We thank
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  you again, Amen and Amen,