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Episode 70: No Need To Fear · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised. Father, we thank
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you for this great and beautiful and glorious day that you have made. You
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are the king of kings and the Lord of lords. Lord, we honor
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you, we praise you, We bless you, Lord, for you alone
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are worthy of all the glory and all the praise. Worthy is the Lamb
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who was slain to receive riches and glory and honor and power, both now
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and for evermore. God be glorified in your people to day. Open our
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eyes, to see our ears, to hear our hearts, to receive your
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ingrafted word, which is able to save us and to keep us from falling.
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Lord, we thank you now in advance for all of these blessings and
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what we shall even receive eternally that you have almost in your word. We
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give you the praise today in Jesus name. Amen and Amen. All right,
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God bless you again. We welcome you once more to this another edition
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of In Time Revival Ministries US A broadcasting podcasts. I am your host,
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Pastor al Zachary, and today Amen, we're going to continue, Amen with
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encouraging, Amen, encouraging the people of God. Amen. God has an
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affirmative action program that is fully enforced, always has been, always will be
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a man for his people. And we need not live in fear, need
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not live in doubt. A man need not live beneath our privileges. A
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man that God has Amen predetermined for us a man. And all we have
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to do is walk by faith and not by sight, lean not to our
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own understanding. Amen, Fear God and keep his commandments. Amen. That's
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the blessing plan that God has a man for his people. If we would
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diligently hearken to the voice of the Lord, our God, no good thing
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will he withhold. The Bible says from them that walk up right before him,
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we will be blessed in the city, blessed in the field, bless
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when we go out, bless when we come in. Because God a man
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is in the business, a man of fruitfulness and prosperity, a man,
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and he is expecting a return on his investment in us, a man.
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If we are unfruitful and unprofitable, a man not bearing and bringing forth fruit.
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Amen. The trees that do not produce Amen, every good tree a
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man will be pruned, a man and purged a man, And Amen,
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a man corrected that it may bring forth, excuse me, more good fruit.
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But every bad tree a man would be cut down and thrown into the
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fire. We want to be a man, fruitful and multiplying, as God
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has purpose for us to do, a man in this present world. Amen.
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So today we want to a man encourage your hearts, a man with
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these words, a man with this understanding that we have nothing, a man
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to fear, nothing, nothing to fear. Amen. So go with us,
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if you have your bibles to Psalm number twenty seven, Psalm number twenty
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seven. We will be coming from that very familiar a man Psalm of David
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on today. And again we welcome you Amen to this a man broadcast,
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and we certainly thank God again for all of you who pray for and support
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the work of this ministry. A man. Our endeavor is to preach and
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to proclaim the truth of God, a man, and be faithful amen to
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the word of God, knowing that a man God has purpose. God has
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ordained. God has decreed a man and his counsel shall stand forever. His
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kingdom is an everlasting kingdom. His dominion is to all a man generations and
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throughout all generations. A man and so we have courage a man, we
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have confidence, we have boldness a man in the word of God, in
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the God who is sovereign, a man, and again who is in complete
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control. Even though things may be seeming in at least from our perspective,
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our narrow a man of point of view or a man angle that we may
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have. We may seem to see things only in that narrow or from a
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narrow perspective. But God is in complete control. A man of all things
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that are transpiring, have transpired, that will transpire. Man. Nothing takes
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him by surprise. And we can have confidence and not live in fear,
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not living doubt, not living unbelief, a man, because God has spoken
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his word. Amen, and we are standing on the word of God.
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else. Amen. All right, to the word of the Lord. Amen
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today, So I'm number twenty seven. There will be many seasons. Please
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understand a man as a child of God. There will be many seasons in
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the life of every believer. Amen, when he or she must encourage themselves
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in the Lord. Amen. And the encouragement that we need it comes from
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the Lord himself. Amen. This is why the Lord has spoken Man,
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so that we can hear a man. And remember the Bible tells us,
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teaches us faith comes by hearing hearing a man by the word of the Lord.
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So God has spoken so that we can first of all here then of
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course we can believe, and then, of course absolutely essential that we have
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faith, and as Jesus said, have faith in God, have the faith
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of God. We can have faith and trust and confidence in the promises of
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God that cannot be retracted, that cannot return unto God void a man,
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and so on the strength a man of the confidence that we have in God.
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We're going to look at a man, this confidence, a man from
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the perspective of this Old Testament type of saint. A man, David,
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a man who a man was, a man after God's own heart, a
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man's Bible tells us a man, and he had to learn we all again,
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we go through all kinds of seasons in our life. And David certainly
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went through many different seasons in his life, especially immediately in the aftermath of
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him being a man anointed to be the next king over the nation of Israel.
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A man, and certainly he went through that season a man when Saul
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was trying to kill him, and even after he rose to power and authority,
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he had trouble in his own house, and again much of that was
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of his own doing. A man. But we don't have time to go
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through all of that now. But he went through several seasons in his life
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a man, when a man, he had to encourage himself in the Lord,
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a man, and he grew, I believe, without a shadow of
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doubt. David grew to understand intimately who God was. A man. He
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had an intimate relationship ship a man with the Lord, a man, and
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he even through all of his faults and failures, a man, his ups
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and downs, his highs and lows, his ins and outs, and God
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would allow these things to happen a man. He does allow a man these
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trials and tribulations and tests a man in our lives, a man, in
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order to show himself strong, a man, and to show us a man,
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that we a man can depend upon a man every and live by every
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word that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord a man. And so
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David, I believe again, grew to this level of confidence. And it's
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not just David, Amen, by the way, a man, all of
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the old patriarchs of old, in any child of God, a man who
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has truly lived through a man enough a man seasons in their lives a man.
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And some of you may be new to the faith. You may be
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a man just coming into the faith. And if you live long enough in
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the faith, a man, and it doesn't take long a man, it
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doesn't take long. I don't mean you have to be in it for years,
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in decades, and and and and half a century a man. Before
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you come to a man, grow in the Lord and understand a man the
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faithfulness of God, Amen, and the goodness of God. Amen. This
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is something that can be acquired a man in a short amount of time a
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man. And you can make this same declaration that we're gonna see a man
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that David makes a man, having a man again, gone through a man
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all of these seasons a man in his life Verse number one of some twenty
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seven. I'm gonna read it, and it's an entirety. Then I'm gonna
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come back a man and expound a man upon this magnificent sum of encouragement.
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Amen. The Lord, he says, is my light and my salvation.
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Whom shall I fear? Lord, It is the strength of my life,
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of whom shall I be afraid? When the wicked came against me to eat
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up my flesh, my enemies and foes, they stumbled and fell though an
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army may encamp against me, my heart shall not fear the war may rise
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against me. In this I will be confident. One thing I have desired
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of the Lord. That will I seek, that I may dwell in the
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house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty
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of the Lord, and to inquire in his temple. For in the time
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of trouble, he shall hide me in his pavilion, in the secret place
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of his tabernacle, he shall hide me. He shall set me high up
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on a rock. And now my head shall be lifted up above my enemies
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all around me. Therefore I will offer sacrifices of joy in his tabernacle.
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I will sing, Yes, I will sing praises to the Lord. Hear,
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O, Lord, when I cry with my voice, Have mercy also
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upon me, and answer me. When you said seek my face, my
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heart said to you your face, Lord, I will seek. Do not
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hide your face from me. Do not turn your servant away in anger.
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You have been my help. Do not leave me, nor forsake me,
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O, God of my salvation. When my father and my mother forsake me,
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then the Lord will take care of me. Teach me your way o
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Lord, and lead me in a smooth past path because of my enemies.
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Do not deliver me to the will of my adversaries, for false will have
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risen against me, and such as breathe out violence. I would have lost
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heart unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the Lord in
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the land of the Living. Wait on the Lord, be of good courage,
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and he shall strengthen your heart. Wait, I say, on the
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Lord, Oh my God, what a powerful, what a powerful psalm of
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encouragement. A man that God has preserved, a man for us in his
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A man, a man magnificent, a man word a man, every word,
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every word of God is pure. A man God breathed out a man.
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This a man word of encouragement through his prophet and King David. Amen.
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And the Bible tells us the things that are written afore time or for
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our learning, that we, through patience and the comfort of the scriptures,
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might have hope. Amen. And here we find Amen that David state three
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definitive declarations of who the Lord is to him and for him. Not only
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is this to David, but it is also for David. Number one,
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he says, the Lord is my Light. Amen. The Lord is my
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light. Number two, he says, the Lord is my salvation. Amen,
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the Lord is my light. Number one, The Lord is my salvation.
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Number two and number three, the Lord is my strength. God is
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my strength. He is my light, my salvation, and He is my
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strength. With the confidence of these convictions, firmly rooted, a man I
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believe in his heart, David boldly stands on a kind of blessed assurance.
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Amen. And we all need that, all blessed assurance. A man,
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when you have confidence, this kind of confidence in God, it gives you
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assurance. And David, I believe, was boldly now standing on this assurance,
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a man that he needed not fear any man, nor be afraid of
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anyone. Amen. Again, that's not because he was a great warrior,
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because he was a great conqueror, because he had slain his thousands or ten
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thousands. Oh no, no, no, no, no, no,
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no no. This all has to do with the fact, with the confidence,
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with the assurance that God had anointed him, that God had appointed him,
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that God was with him, that God was for him, that God
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was his light, that God was his salvation, that God was his strength.
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Amen. And when you know these things, Amen, as David did.
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He knew that the Lord was his shepherd. He knew that his shepherd
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loved him. He knew that his shepherd was the one who was saving him
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or delivering him and keeping him. He knew that God was the one who
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strengthened him. Amen. And see, when you know these things, Amen,
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it gives you the confidence a man to Amen. Not look down upon
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man necessarily, but know that the God who made you, the God who
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made them a man, reigns and rules, and his sovereign and is in
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control. And there is nothing Amen. When your life is in his hand.
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And when you know that, when you understand that, Amen, and
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their life is in his hand is also in his hand. Also when you
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have this confidence, Amen in the Lord. Amen, even when you go
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through the darkest of times, even when the shadow of death is all around
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you. Amen, you need fear no evil, as the Psalmist David said,
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also Psalm twenty three. Because God is what with you. Amen,
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He is with you. He will even prepare the Bible says a table before
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you, in the presence of your enemies. David had already been anointed,
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He had already been appointed. Amen. But he also, as it is
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with any and all of us. We will go through these seasons in our
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lives. Amen. We will have these weeping nights. Amen. It may
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endure for a night, the Bible tells us, but joy comes in the
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morning. And David has learned that God is his light, that God will
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keep him from the darkness, that God would keep him Amen in the midnight
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hours. Amen. And that God is also his salvation, and that God
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is his strength. Amen. Now the darkness, if you understand and you
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know the word of the Lord, the darkness belongs in the camp of the
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enemy. That's where the darkness is, even in the night season. For
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us a man, those of us who are on the Lord's side, there
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is a pillar of fire, the Bible tells us, because our God is
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a consuming fire that will burn up the adversary, that will burn up everything
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that is not like God a man, the pillar of fire is burning bright
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in the camp of the people of God. Go back to the book of
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Exodus and read a man, how God a man divided and separated a man
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the light from the darkness. And he did this long ago by the way
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an eternity passed a man. Even at the creation story that we have.
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In Genesis chapter one, there is a division of light from darkness. God
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long ago divided the light from the darkness, and David says, God is
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my light. Amen. He is the light of the world. And that's
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what Jesus said when he came one of the seven I Am statements in the
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Gospel of John. Amen, I am the light of the world in him
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there is the Bible says, no darkness at all. Amen. And when
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the Lord brought these people out of Egypt, he placed a definitive division,
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separating his people from their past, which was in the darkness. Amen,
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from their enemies, who dwell in the darkness. Amen, and who were
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now in pursuit of them. But God placed a man again, definitive division
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between light and darkness. Amen. And when you have been delivered out of
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the hand of the enemy, out of Egypt, Amen, out of the
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darkness, Amen, out of sin, Amn and deprivation. Amen. The
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enemy listen, he will pursue who after you, just like he did the
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children of of of Israel coming out of Egypt. He pursued after them,
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Amen, because he desires to bring you back into the darkness. When Jesus
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called the disciples Amen of course, Peter was among them, Amen, and
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was to be a man the chief to chief spokesperson. Amen. Listen what
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the Lord said to Peter. Satan has desired to have you. He wanted
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Peter back. Amen. But Jesus had already appointed him. Jesus had chosen
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him. Jesus called him. Jesus had predestined a man, a calling that
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Peter had to fulfill. But that doesn't stop the enemy from coming back,
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Amen, from coming after you. Pharaoh was a type, a man of
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the devil. Amen. He's gonna pursue after you. He's in the darkness.
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He wants you in the darkness. Amen. He wants you to go
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back to Egypt. Amen, to eat at the table of the devils.
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Amen. And to be in servitude and to be in bondage. Amen.
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But everybody who is in Jesus, Amen, we live in the light,
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and we walk in the light, and there is no darkness here. Amen.
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That's why David could say this. The Lord is my light, he
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is my salvation, he is my strength. Everyone in Christ Jesus needs to
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make these same declarations. Amen. You gotta do it with confidence. You've
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got to do it with conviction. You gotta do it with boldness that he
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is your light. You gotta make it personal. David made it personal.
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The Lord is my shepherd. I shall not He make it me to lie
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down. He restored my soul. Is there, this is this is personal
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with you. Amen, this is personal. Amen. You've got to make
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this declaration for yourself. Amen. You gotta believe it. You gotta stand
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on it, you gotta live by it. Amen. The Lord is my
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light in a world of darkness, in a world of crookedness, lies and
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deception and delusion. The Lord is my life. He will not leave me
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in this darkness. He would he would guide my feet, he would direct
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my path, he will order my steps. Amen. You've got to make
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that declaration for yourself. You got to have that confidence. You got to
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have that faith. You gotta have that belief. Amen. He's my salvation.
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He is my strength, the strength of my life. And his strength
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is made perfect even in my weakness. Oh, that's the beauty of this
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God that we serve. Amen, even in our human frailty and weakness,
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God's strength is made perfect. Oh, thank you Jesus, Oh, thank
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you Jesus. I will will not live in fear. I will not be
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afraid of what the enemies of the Cross can do to me. Oh no,
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when the wicked decided to come for me, Oh and they will.
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Oh yeah, Pharaoh, Pharaoh's never gonna give up. The Pharaoh's don't give
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up. Amen. These demons are not not gonna stop. Amen. They
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are living in delusion. Amen. The devil is living in delusion, and
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he's gonna keep coming for you. But you gotta live in the light,
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walking the light, trusting the light, believing the premises of God. Stand
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on this word. Know who to whom you have been amen, appointed and
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called, and who and whose you are? You gotta know this for yourself.
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Amen, I know in whom I have believed, as the Bible tells
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us. And I am persuaded that he is able to keep that Paul says,
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which I have committed unto him against that day when the wicked, when
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the wicked decides to come for me, Listen to what David says. When
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the wicked decided to come for me, what happened to them? They stumbled?
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They failed, They stumbled. Why did they stumble? Because they're in
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the darkness. You can't see in the darkness. They think they know,
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they think they gotta figure it out. They think they have a perfect plan.
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They think they know what they're doing, They think they know what the
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outcome is gonna be. Amen. They have plotted, they have plan,
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they have skiing. Amen. When the wicked come, Amen for the righteous.
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Amen. The Bible tells us they stumbled and fail. They stumbled because
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they're in the darkness. They fell F E L L and they failed I
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A I L ed. Oh, yeah, they can't. There is no
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there is no success on the side of the darkness. There is no triumph.
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There's no victory. Amen. There's no hope. There's no future.
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Amen. The only future is doom and destruction and weeping and gnashing of teeth.
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They came, and they do come, with their no good intentions,
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with their schemes, with their deception. But the Lord who knows everything,
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the omnipotent, almighty God, who is sovereign, who reigns and ruses in
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the kingdom of men, he knows the thoughts are far off, even before
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they know it. Amen, And he turns the wickedness of the wicked on
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their own heads. Let me give you just a few Amen. Uh.
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Scriptures in the Old Testament, a book of Psalms a man first of all,
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in verse number sixteen of chapter nine a Psalm number nine brother Psalm number
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nine. The verse number sixteen, the Lord is known by the judgment he
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executes. Here the Sarma says, the Lord is known by the judgment he
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executes. God is the one who execute. God is the judge. Amen.
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We got all these little judges on the earth. And I'm not disparaging
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in any way, Amen, the judges of the earth God appointed and ordained
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governments. Amen. I'm not disparaging in any way. But God sees,
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and he his justice, his system. Amen. His court reigns and rules
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over all of the judges of the earth. Amen. And the Lord is
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known by the judgment he executes. The wicked. Listen what the Bible says.
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The wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. The wicked
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is snared in the work of his own God sees it. Oh, he
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he knows what they're plotting. He knows what their scheming. Amen, doing
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the work of their father, the devil. Amen, look at what's some
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number ninety four, verse twenty three. He has brought on them who the
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wicked, He has brought on them their own iniquity, and shall cut them
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off in their own wickedness. The Lord, our God shall cut them off.
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Amen. Proverbs five and twenty two. Oh, I got plenty.
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I'm gonna just give you a couple more. I got plenty, though.
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Listen, what's Proverbs five and twenty two. His own iniquities and trap the
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wicked man, and he is caught in the courts of his sin. Oh,
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my God, the Bible tells us in the New Testament. Amen,
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the man who seeks to cover his sins, he won't prosper. Amen.
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All this scheming and conniving and lying and cheating and deceiving. Amen. And
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it has become a epidemic. It is of epidemic proportion like I've never seen
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it before in our world today. Amen. The lies and the deception.
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And these people are delusional, thinking that they're gonna get away with this kind
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of wickedness. God hates lying and liars. All liars, the Bible says,
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shall have their part in the lake of fire. His own iniquities and
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trap the wicked man, and he is caught in the chords of his sin.
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Proverbs eleven, verses five and six. This is a final one.
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Listen, what the Bible says us, tells us the righteousness of the blameless
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will erect his way aright, but the wicked will fall by his own wickedness.
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First number six. The righteousness of the upright shall deliver them, but
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the transgressors shall be taken in their own wickedness. God sees all of the
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plans, all of the schemes of the wickedness of wicked men, and God
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knows their end. Amen, God take no now, Please understand the Bible
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tells us. God takes no pleasure in the death or the demise of the
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wicked. God. God is, I mean, he is, He is
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patient, Aman, he is forbearing, He is long suffering. Amen,
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And he is calling men and women to repentance. Everywhere all of us have
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sin and fallen. Strongth of glory God, Amen. And God calls sinners
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to repentance. But if you insist, if you persist in going down the
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path of wickedness, of evil, of ungodliness, unrighteousness, of lying and
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deception and delusion, your wickedness will come back on your own head. God
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is he will forget, oh a broken heart and a contrite spirit. He
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said, I will in no wise despise. God sends correction to all men.
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He does. The Bible says, it is the goodness of God that
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leads us to repentance. But he said, I called, and you refuse.
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I stretched out my hand, and you did not regard. You said
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it in all my reproof, and you would none of my ways. Amen,
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God, listen, listen, listen. Please. God takes no pleasure
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in the death of the wicked. But he also absolutely will not leave the
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righteous at the mercilessness of ungodly and wicked men. God will not leave his
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people at the mercilessness, because they have no mercy of ungodly and wicked man.
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You see, God, in eternity, he has decreed that wickedness and
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evil shall not prevail. He said that about his church upon this rock,
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I will build my church, and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against
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it. Hell itself is not going to prevail against God's Church. God has
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spoken, and he has determined all all things to work together for the good
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to them that love him, those who are. The Bible says the called
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according to what God himself has purpose in himself. And since God cannot lie,
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he cannot die. He cannot fail. Every one of his children must
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have that same confidence that David was convinced of. And I believe this is
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the very same conviction, Amen, that the apostle Paul had that he wrote
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about that he said, I am persuaded of. Oh, this is so
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magnificent. I gotta, I gotta, I gotta, I gotta share it
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one more time, Amen, one of my favorite I mean and I'm all
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the word of I love all of the Word of God put in this Romans
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hate this chapter by I mean, my God. If just if I only
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just had this one chapter of all of the chapters, and the if I
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just had this one chapter, it is so rich, it is so full.
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But you know where I'm going Verse twenty eight. And we know that
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all things work together for good to those who love God, to those who
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are the called according to His purpose. Not about me, not my not
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my ideas, not my plans, not my goals, not my dreams,
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not my aspirations. Not no, no, no no, it's not me
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twisting and maneuvering and coercing and trying to change the mind of God, the
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plan of God, the purpose of God, to suit my ambitions and desires.
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No it's according to what God has purposed, what God has ordained.
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This is what the Bible says. For whom he foreknew. Oh my God,
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I who don't let me stop. Don't let me stop. Don't let
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me stop, let me let me come on, help me, Jesus.
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I'm just want to read it. I just want to read it. I
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just want to read it. For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to
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be conformed to the image of his son, that he might be the firstborn
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among many brethren. Moreover, whom he predestined, these he also called.
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Whom he called, these he also justified, and whom he justified, these
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he also glorified. Oh my God, help me, Jesus, help me.
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Jesus, help me. Jesus. Y'all know, I've been all through
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this. A man little short series on God's affirmative action for his people,
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this verse number thirty one. What then, shall we say to these things?
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The apostle Paul asked, hypothetically, If God is for not hypothetically,
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no, no, no. If God is for us, who can be
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against us? If God is for us, who can be against us?
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It's a foregone conclusion. The answer the answer is there, Amen, It's
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there, It's embedded. God is for if the sovereign, if the almighty,
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if the omnipotent, if the omniscient, if the one who created,
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If the one who has spoken, If the one who declared the end from
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the beginning, and his counsel stands forever. If the one who has spoken
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in his word is gone forth out of his mouth and cannot return to him
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void. If he has spoken good and decreed and determine good for you,
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And he is for you, who can be against you? Who? Rhetorical
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That's what I meant to say, Not hypothetical, rhetorical, It's a rhetorical
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question. If God is for you, who can be against you? The
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one he who did not spare his own son, but delivered him up for
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us. Oh, how shall he not with him also freely give us all
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things? Who shall lay a charge against God's elect It is God who justifies.
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Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died. And furthermore,
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it's also risen. The Bible tells us he was risen for our justification.
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Oh, oh, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank
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you, thank you. Jesus who is even at the right hand of God,
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who also makes intercession for us? Who shall separate us? This is,
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this is this is this is where it is. This is where Paul
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he's persuaded. See, he's all this. He's already deep in this persuasion
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already. That's why he's asking all these rhetorical questions. Who can, who
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can? Who can? What? Man? What's system? What kingdom?
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What earthly rem domain? Dominion? What? What? What? What?
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Demonic power? What devil? Who shall bring a charge against God's elect?
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God is the one who justifies. Who is he who condemns? Jesus is
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the one who died. He's the one who shed his blood. He's the
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one who paid the price. He's the one who went into the grave.
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He's the one who defeated death, hell, and the grave. He's the
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one who rolls triumphantly from the Great. No one, he said, takes
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my life from me. I have the power to lay it down, and
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I have the power to take it up again. Sin was not in him
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at all, and he not certainly was not subject to the law of death.
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Because he was not a sinner. He willingly became sin. The Bible
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says, he who knew no sin became he gave himself, He took on
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our sins, and as such he died the death of a sinner. But
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the grave could not hold him. Death could not hold him because he was
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never guilty of sin. The wages of sin is death, but the gift
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of God's eternal life. That's why Jesus died, the death that we deserve
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to die, so that we can live the life that only He can give.
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And it is Christ to die. Furthermore, who has also risen,
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who is even at the right hand of God and is making intercession for us,
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Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? This is this is,
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This is that persuasion that Paul has shall tribulation, no distress, no
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persecution, no Now, mind you if you know all of the adventures,
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if you will of the Apostle Paul, He's experienced all of this. Amen,
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many of us. Amen, we we we we cry and moan about
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the little light afflictions that we endure, which, by the way, which
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is what Paul wrote about. These are light afflictions which are but for a
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moment, But they dare not be compared to the glory that God, Amen
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has for us. I hasn't seen it ear hasn't heard it. Neither has
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it entered into the heart of man. The things that God has for them
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that love him. Amen, and so so so. Paul says, am
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I gonna allow tribulation or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness,
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or peril or sword, as it is written, it was already in
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our sake. We are killed all the day long. We are counted as
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sheep for the slaughter. But in all of these things, Oh My God,
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help us Jesus. Yet in all of these things, the Bible tells
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us we are more than conquerors. No matter how, no matter when,
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no matter what, we can't lose. That's what the Bible is speaking to
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you and me in all of these things. In any of these things,
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whatever the enemy might plot and plan or scheme up, God always turns it
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on the head of the enemy. They thought they were getting rid. They
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thought they were getting rid of Jesus. They thought by crucifying Jesus they would
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getting Little did they know. Little did they understand, Paul say, had
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they of this world known it, they would not have crucified the Lord of
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Glory. They didn't know, They didn't understand. They just thought they were
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getting rid of Jesus, like a lot of people today thinking I can just
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get rid of Jesus. Yet in all these things, we are more than
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conquerors through him. It comes through Jesus, Amen, our conquering, our
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victory, our overcoming. I was triumphing through all of what the enemy,
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through all of what, the scheming, through all of what the plans,
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the snares, and the traps, that they said, we are more than
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conquerors through Jesus who loved us. For I am persuaded. Oh, this
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is where David was, y'all. This is exactly what David was when he
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said, the Lord is my light, the Lord is my salvation, the
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Lord is my strength. This is exactly where where David was. This is
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exactly where Abraham was. This is I am your shield and your exceeding great
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reward, Abraham. The Lord was with Joseph. Oh, no, don't
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let me go. That, don't let me go. That, don't let
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me go. There I am persuaded. The apostle Paul says that neither death
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nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things,
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nor death nor any other creative thing shall be able to separate us, those
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of us who are in Christ Jesus, those of us who are called according
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to His purpose, those of us who are being conformed into the image of
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Jesus Christ. Nothing shall be able to separate us from the love of God
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which is in Christ. Jesus, our Lord, Oh my God, help
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us, Jesus, Help us, Jesus, help us to believe your report.
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Your Let me, let me, let me move, let me move,
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Let me just give you one more quick amen, admonishment, encouragement.
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He Brews Chapter thirteen, verses five and six. He says, let your
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conduct be without covetousness, and I'm gonna get back to Psalm twenty seven.
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So if you have your bibles, go back with me to Psalm number twenty
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seven. Let your conduct be without covetousness, be content with such things as
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you have, for listen what the Bible says. For he himself, the
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Lord himself has said, I will never leave you nor forsake you. He
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can't be the light that lights the path you're on if he's not with you.
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He's with you, he lights the way for you to go. He
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is the light he amen. If he's not with you, how can he
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strengthen you. If he's with you, how can he not or how can
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he save you? If he's not with you, he can't save you.
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If he's not with you, he can't deliver you. If he's not with
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you, if he's not aware, if he's not cognizant a man, if
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he's not potent. He said, I'll never leave you, I'll never forsake
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you. Now that means also again, that also entails God's ability to deliver
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us and to keep us in any and all situations. Again, it doesn't
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mean that we're not going to have dark days and dark seasons and and and
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and and go through the valleys of the shadows of death. No, we're
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gonna have that. We live in a fallen world. Amen. But He
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is with us, Emmanuel, God with us. Listen. Verse six says,
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so we may boldly say, the Lord is my helper. I will
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not fear what can man do to me? Who, oh Lord, happens
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Jesus helpers Jesus. Let me let me get back to verse number two of
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Psalm twenty seven, when the wicked came against me to eat up my flesh.
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Listen, what the Bible says, my enemies and my foes. What
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happened to them? They stumble and fell? And even though an army may
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encamp against me, my heart shall not fear. Though war may rise against
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me, in this I will be confident. I'm reminded when I read this
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verse. I'm reminded of Elisha, the prophet Amen, when he was surrounded
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a man completely surrounded He and his amen's servant that was with him, just
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two, just two people, completely surrounded by the enemies, the whole army.
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Amen. And Elisha Amen had the audacity to tell his servant. I
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mean when the servant went outside and saw all the enemy, a man surrounding
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them, Amen, he was, oh, my God. His heart was
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filled with fear and doubt. Amen. And he said, oh my master,
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we're done, Aman, We're doomed. It's over. The enemy has
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a surrounded They are everywhere on every side. You know what, Elishah had
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the audacity to say, they that are with us are more than they that
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are with them. Oh. The servant was perplexed. He's like, man,
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have you been drinking. I'm just parafraed, that's me. Are you
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out of your mind? Amen? Elisha said, Lord prayed to simple prayer
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and I pray this all the time. Lord, open the young man's eyes,
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and I pray that God will open our spiritualize this so we can see
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our our our perception, so that we can perceive and understand. Amen,
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they that are with us are more than they that are with them. God
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open the young man's eyes, and he saw the host of Heaven. He
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saw the spiritual, invisible army of Heaven all around the enemy that was all
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around them. Oh God, help us, Oh Jesus, Oh God,
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help us, Oh God, help somebody right now, Help somebody right now,
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Help somebody right now. Jesus. Amen, though an army may encamp
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against me, my heart shall my fear. The war may rise against me,
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And this will I be confident because armis is one thing I've desired of
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the Lord. What is your desire? If there's one thing that you will
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desire of the Lord, what is it? And David said, That's what
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I'm going to seek. I want to be in the house of the Lord
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all the days of my life. I want to be in that number.
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I want to be in the ark of safety. I want to be under
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the shadow of the wings of the Almighty. I want to be in the
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secret place of the Most High. I want to be able to behold the
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beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple. I want access to
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the altar, to the throne room, to come boldly to the throne of
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grace, to obtain mercy. That's where I want to be for in the
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time of trouble. He says, he's gonna hide me. God is gonna
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protect me in his pavilion, in the secret place of his tabernacle. He's
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gonna cover me. He's gonna shield me. He's gonna set me high up
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on a rock, and my head is gonna be lifted up above my enemies.
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Amen, yep, they're all around me. That's what this army says.
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My enemies are all around me. But guess what, I'm lifted up
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above my enemies all around me. And therefore I'm going to offer sacrifices of
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joy in the tabernacle of God. I'm gonna seeing. I'm gonna sing his
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praises. So he says, here, Lord, when I cry with my
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voice, have mercy also upon me, and answer me. When you said
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seek my face, my heart said to you your face, Lord, I
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will seek. Do not hide your face from me. Do not turn your
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servant away in anger. You have been my help. Oh, thank you
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Jesus. Do not leave me, nor forsake me, Oh, God of
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my salvation, and he will not. Amen. But when my father and
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when my mother forsake me, Oh, guess what the Lord is there,
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He'll never leave me. The Psalmis knew this. This is old testament.
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Y'all, amen, Then the Lord will take care of me. I'll never
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leave you. I'll never forsake you. That what the writer Hebrew said to
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us, so that we may boldly say, the Lord is my help.
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All my help comes from him. The Salmas said, I lift up mine
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eyes to the hiss when which comes to my help, My help comes from
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the Lord. Amen. When my father, when my mother forsake me,
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the Lord would take care of me. Teach me your way, Oh Lord,
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lead me in a smooth path. I believe, the King James says,
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a plain path. Because of my enemies. Do not deliver me to
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the will of my adversaries. All thank you Jesus, and we CAP's confidence
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in that. God would not I said it earlier. God would I leave
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his people at the mercilessness of the wicked and evil man. No, do
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not deliver me to the will of my adversaries, for false witnesses have risen
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against me, and such as breathe out violence. Sarmon says, listen,
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I would have lost heart again, And King James just says, I would
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have fainted. I would have given up. I would have lost all hope.
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I would have despaired of life. I would have thrown in the tower.
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I would have quit. I would have gone back. My foot would
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have slipped. Unless I had believed that I would see the goodness of the
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Lord. Where not in heaven, but right here in the land of the
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Living, all things worked together for good to them who love God, who
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are the called according to His purpose. And then so Disarmis wraps this up.
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In verse number fourteen, he says, oh, listen, wait on
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the Lord. James wrote in his epistle, be patient, my brethren,
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until the comment of the Lord. The farmer. He waits. He knows
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he has to have the rain. He knows he has to have the sun.
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He knows he has to have the seasons we all go through before the
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harvest comes. And so he says, wait on the Lord. And while
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you're waiting be of good courage, good courage. Where am I going to
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get this good courage from? From the promises of God, From the Word
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of God, from the God who cannot lie, who cannot die, who
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cannot fail. Wait on the Lord, be of good courage, and he
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shall strengthen your heart. There will be times of your heart is gonna faint,
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your heart is gonna melt, fear will enter, fear will attack,
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fear is gonna come for you when you see the pharaoh and his army behind
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you pursuing you to overtake you. God will strengthen your heart. Wait,
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I say on the Lord. There's absolutely nothing, people of God, about
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mere mortal men, that the child of God should be reading and living in
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fear of We have been called to persevere impatience as the long suffering and the
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forbearance of God runs its predetermined appointed course. But in the meantime God is
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with you, and God is for you, and no man can Dishall know
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what God has spoken concerning and already determined concerning you. God, help us
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today, help somebody today, Help us all today, God, to stand
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on your word, to stand on your promises, to believe your report.
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A man in such a dark time as this, we know your word is
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true. Be thou magnified, Be thou glorified today in your people everywhere.
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In Jesus name, we pray, we thank you, a man and a man