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What I Learned from Reading the ENTIRE Old Testament · truthunedited

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  Speaker 1: What if I told you that the stories you've heard
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  Speaker 1: since childhood, Adam and Eve, Noah's Ark, the Exodus, David
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  Speaker 1: and Goliath were never just stories, that they were divine patterns, warnings,
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  Speaker 1: and revelations that still affect your life right now. What
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  Speaker 1: if the battles fought by Israel weren't just historical events
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  Speaker 1: but blue prints for your own spiritual warfare. What if
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  Speaker 1: the rise and fall of kings weren't just political shifts,
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  Speaker 1: but a reflection of what happens when people obey or
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  Speaker 1: reject God. In this video, I'll share ten of the
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  Speaker 1: most powerful lessons I discovered after completing in depth explainer
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  Speaker 1: videos on all thirty nine books of the Old Testament.
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  Speaker 1: By the end of this video, you won't just understand
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  Speaker 1: the Old Testament better, you'll see it in a way
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  Speaker 1: that will transform how you walk with God. If you've
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  Speaker 1: ever struggled with understanding the deeper meaning behind these ancient texts,
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  Speaker 1: this video is for you, and by the end, we
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  Speaker 1: will pray together for wisdom, understanding, and revelation so that
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  Speaker 1: these lessons become alive in your own life. So stay
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  Speaker 1: with me, because what you're about to hear will completely
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  Speaker 1: shift how you see the Bible forever and if you
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  Speaker 1: Bible to help you go deeper in your faith and
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  Speaker 1: to break down scripture in a way that is simple, clear,
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  Speaker 1: and deeply impactful. It is our hope and prayer that
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  Speaker 1: this video and every message we share will awaken something
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  Speaker 1: The first and most important lesson we got from going
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  Speaker 1: through all the Old Testament is this God is in
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  Speaker 1: control always, from Genesis to Daniel, from the rise of
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  Speaker 1: kings to the fall of nations, from the deliverance of
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  Speaker 1: Israel to their exile. God's sovereignty is woven through every story.
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  Speaker 1: He is not distant, he is not uncertain. He is
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  Speaker 1: the ruler of everything. And when it looks like chaos
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  Speaker 1: is winning, even when wicked people seem to have the
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  Speaker 1: upper hand, God is still on the throne. Think about this.
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  Speaker 1: The same God who spoke creation into existence is the
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  Speaker 1: same God who raised up Joseph from slavery to the palace.
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  Speaker 1: The same God who led Israel through the wilderness with
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  Speaker 1: a pillar of fire is the same God who stood
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  Speaker 1: in the flames with Shadrak, Mishak and Abtnago in Babylon.
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  Speaker 1: He has never lost control, not once. But let's bring
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  Speaker 1: this into today. Look at the world around you. The
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  Speaker 1: nations are in turmoil, Governments rise and fall, wars break out,
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  Speaker 1: morality is shifting, Chaos seems to rule the headlines. People
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  Speaker 1: are more anxious than ever, wondering if things will ever
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  Speaker 1: get better. But the lesson from the Old Testament is this.
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  Speaker 1: Nations may plot, leaders may scheme, people may rebel, but
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  Speaker 1: God's will always prevails. Proverbs nineteen twenty one says many
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  Speaker 1: are the plans in a person's heart, but it is
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  Speaker 1: the Lord's purpose that prevails. Look at Daniel's story. Babylon
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  Speaker 1: was the most powerful empire on earth. Nebucad Neza thought
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  Speaker 1: he was untouchable. He conquered nations, enslaved kings, and even
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  Speaker 1: destroyed Jerusalem itself. But what happened. One dream from God
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  Speaker 1: humbled him, One act of pride sent him into the
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  Speaker 1: wilderness like an animal. And when he finally realized who
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  Speaker 1: was really in control, he declared in Daniel four thirty
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  Speaker 1: four his dominion is an ever lusting dominion, and his
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  Speaker 1: kingdom endures from generation to generation. How often do we
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  Speaker 1: forget this? How often do we live as if the
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  Speaker 1: world's chaos is bigger than God's sovereignty. How often do
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  Speaker 1: we panic at the news, fear the economy, or worry
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  Speaker 1: about the future, as if God has somehow lost control.
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  Speaker 1: The Old Testament is proof that no matter what happens,
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  Speaker 1: God is not surprised, he is not panicked. He's not
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  Speaker 1: struggling to keep up. He's moving every piece, allowing seasons
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  Speaker 1: to shift, raising up and tearing down, all to fulfill
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  Speaker 1: his ultimate plan. But here's where it gets personal. God's
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  Speaker 1: sovereignty isn't just about nations. It's about you. The same
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  Speaker 1: God who orchestrated history is the same God orchestrating your life.
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  Speaker 1: Think about Joseph, betrayed by his brothers, thrown into a pit,
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  Speaker 1: sold into slavery, falsely accused, and left in prison. If
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  Speaker 1: you looked at his life from the outside, it would
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  Speaker 1: seem like God had abandoned him. But what was really
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  Speaker 1: happening God was positioning him. Every setback was a set up,
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  Speaker 1: Every betrayal was part of a bigger picture. Because in
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  Speaker 1: Genesis fifty twenty, Joseph finally understood it. What you meant
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  Speaker 1: for evil, God meant for good. This means that the
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  Speaker 1: struggles you are facing right now are not random. The heartbreak,
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  Speaker 1: the disappointments, the unexpected detours. God is still in control.
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  Speaker 1: Just because you don't see his hand doesn't mean he
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  Speaker 1: isn't working. He's setting you up for something greater. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: you feel like Israel in the wilderness, wandering, waiting, I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure if you'll ever reach the promise. Maybe you feel
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  Speaker 1: like Daniel in Babylon, surrounded by a culture that opposes
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  Speaker 1: everything you believe. Maybe you feel like Joseph in the pit, forgotten, betrayed,
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  Speaker 1: wondering why God allowed this to happen. But listen carefully.
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  Speaker 1: God is still writing your story. His sovereignty means that
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  Speaker 1: everything the enemy meant for evil, he will turn for good.
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  Speaker 1: His sovereignty means that even when people fail you, even
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  Speaker 1: when doors close, even when life doesn't make sense, he
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  Speaker 1: is still leading you toward his purpose. The world can shake,
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  Speaker 1: but his kingdom cannot be shaken. Governments can collapse, but
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  Speaker 1: his throne is established forever. People can betray, but his
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  Speaker 1: love is unchanging. Circumstances can shift, but his plan is
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  Speaker 1: still in motion. Look at the current events happening right now.
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  Speaker 1: How often do people panic over what they see in
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  Speaker 1: the news. How often do people act as though the
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  Speaker 1: world is falling apart forgetting that God is the same yesterday,
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  Speaker 1: today and forever. Wars, rumors of wars, economic crashes, global instability,
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  Speaker 1: It's all in his hands. The same God who controlled
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  Speaker 1: the rise and fall of Egypt, Babylon, Persia, Greece and
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  Speaker 1: Rome is the same God who holds the nations in
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  Speaker 1: his hands. Today nothing is out of place. And here's
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  Speaker 1: where faith comes in. The question is do you trust him?
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  Speaker 1: Do you trust that even in the waiting he is working.
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  Speaker 1: Do you trust that even in the storm, he is
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  Speaker 1: steering the ship. Do you trust that even when life
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  Speaker 1: looks like it's falling apart, God is actually putting the
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  Speaker 1: pieces together. Because the first and most powerful lesson the
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  Speaker 1: Old Testament teaches us is this God is sovereign over nations,
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  Speaker 1: over history, over your life, and no matter what happens next,
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  Speaker 1: he will not fail. This is the God of the
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  Speaker 1: Old Testament, the God who has never lost control, and
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  Speaker 1: he never will. The second most important lesson we got
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  Speaker 1: from going through all the Old Testament is that faith
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  Speaker 1: is never passive. It always requires action. When God calls someone,
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  Speaker 1: he doesn't just ask them to believe. He asks them
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  Speaker 1: to move step act. From Abraham to Moses to Elijah.
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  Speaker 1: The most powerful moves of God didn't happen in the
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  Speaker 1: comfort of certainty, but in the risk of obedience. Faith
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  Speaker 1: is not just believing that God can, it's stepping forward
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  Speaker 1: as if He already has. Look at Abraham, God told
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  Speaker 1: him in Genesis twelve, one go from your country, your people,
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  Speaker 1: and your father's household to the land I will show you.
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  Speaker 1: But notice something. God didn't give him details, no map,
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  Speaker 1: no destination, no time line, just a command go. Can
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  Speaker 1: you imagine leaving behind everything you've ever known to walk
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  Speaker 1: toward a promise that hasn't even been explained yet? Abraham moved,
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  Speaker 1: He packed up his life and stepped into the unknown
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  Speaker 1: without seeing the full picture. And that is faith, obedience
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  Speaker 1: before understanding. Hebrews eleven eight says by faith, Abraham, when
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  Speaker 1: called to go to a place he would later receive
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  Speaker 1: as his inheritance, obeyed and went, even though he did
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  Speaker 1: not know where he was going. How often do we
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  Speaker 1: hesitate because we're waiting for more clarity? How often do
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  Speaker 1: we delay obedience because we want more proof before we act?
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  Speaker 1: But the Old Testament reveals something profound. God doesn't give details,
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  Speaker 1: He gives direction, and those who trust him walk even
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  Speaker 1: when the path is unclear. Now look at Moses when
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  Speaker 1: God called him to lead Israel out of Egypt. Moses
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  Speaker 1: gave every excuse in the book. Who am I to
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  Speaker 1: do this? What if they don't believe me? I am
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  Speaker 1: not a good speaker Exodus three to four. And what
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  Speaker 1: did God say? Go? Not wait until you feel ready,
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  Speaker 1: not go when the circumstances are perfect, Just go. Moses
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  Speaker 1: had no idea how it would work. He didn't know
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  Speaker 1: that the Red Sea would part. He didn't know that
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  Speaker 1: Pharaoh's heart would harden over and over. He didn't know
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  Speaker 1: that Manner would fall from heaven. But he went and
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  Speaker 1: the miracles came after the obedience, not before. That's the key.
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  Speaker 1: Too many people are waiting for miracles to give them confidence,
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  Speaker 1: when God is waiting for them to obey so he
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  Speaker 1: can release the miracle. Think about your own life. How
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  Speaker 1: many times has God told you to step out, take
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  Speaker 1: a risk, obey, trust him, but fear held you back.
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  Speaker 1: How many doors never opened because you refused to walk
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  Speaker 1: toward them. How many miracles were waiting on the other
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  Speaker 1: side of obedience that never came because you never took
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  Speaker 1: the first step. Then there's Elijah, one of the boldest
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  Speaker 1: prophets in history. He stood alone against four hundred and
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  Speaker 1: fifty prophets of Baal calling down fire from heaven in
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  Speaker 1: one of the most dramatic showdowns of the Old Testament.
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  Speaker 1: First Kings eighteen. But what came first faith? Before the
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  Speaker 1: fire fell? He built the altar before the miracle, He
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  Speaker 1: prepared the sacrifice before the breakthrough. He poured water over everything,
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  Speaker 1: making it humanly impossible. That's what faith does. It doesn't
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  Speaker 1: just wait for God to act, It prepares as if
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  Speaker 1: the answer is already on the way. How does this
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  Speaker 1: connect to today? Look around. We live in a world
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  Speaker 1: that is paralyzed by fear. People are waiting for the
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  Speaker 1: right moment, the perfect conditions, the guaranteed outcome before they act.
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  Speaker 1: But faith doesn't work like that. Faith moves first. To
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  Speaker 1: think about Noah. God told him to build an ark
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  Speaker 1: when it had never rained before. Imagine how foolish he
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  Speaker 1: must have looked building a massive boat in the middle
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  Speaker 1: of dry land. People mocked him, they called him crazy,
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  Speaker 1: but he obeyed. He acted on what God said, not
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  Speaker 1: what he saw. And when the flood came, the difference
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  Speaker 1: between those who survived and those who drowned was who
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  Speaker 1: moved in faith before the storm arrived. This is the reality.
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  Speaker 1: We're all standing in front of a choice right now.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe God has been telling you to take a step,
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  Speaker 1: make a move, start something, leave something, trust Him in
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  Speaker 1: a way that makes no sense, and you've been waiting
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  Speaker 1: for more confirmation, more certainty, more proof. But the Old
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  Speaker 1: Testament teaches us that God honors movement, not hesitation. So
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  Speaker 1: here's the real question. What has God been asking you
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  Speaker 1: to do that you've been afraid to step into. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: it's a business, but you're scared to start. Maybe it's
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  Speaker 1: a relationship but you're afraid of getting hurt. Maybe it's
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  Speaker 1: ministry but you feel unqualified. Maybe it's a lifestyle change,
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  Speaker 1: but you're afraid of failure. Listen. Faith doesn't remove fear,
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  Speaker 1: it overrides it. Faith doesn't wait for perfect conditions, it
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  Speaker 1: creates them. Faith doesn't sit back and hope for change.
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  Speaker 1: It moves forward and makes change inevitable. This is why
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  Speaker 1: James two twenty six says faith without works is dead. Dead.
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  Speaker 1: Faith believes but does nothing. Real faith acts, and that
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  Speaker 1: is the lesson we must learn from the Old Testament.
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  Speaker 1: Every person who saw God's power had to step out
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  Speaker 1: in faith before they saw the results. Abraham had to
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  Speaker 1: walk before he knew where he was going. Moses had
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  Speaker 1: to face Pharaoh before the plagues came. Noah had to
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  Speaker 1: build the ark before the rain started. Elijah had to
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  Speaker 1: build the altar before the fire fell. God is asking
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  Speaker 1: the same thing of us today. Move before you see it,
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  Speaker 1: act before you understand it, trust before you know how
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  Speaker 1: it ends. Because faith is not a feeling, it is
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  Speaker 1: a decision. The third most important lesson we got from
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  Speaker 1: going through all the Old Testament is this disobedience always
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  Speaker 1: has consequences. It doesn't matter how blessed, chosen, or favored
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  Speaker 1: you are. If you turn away from God, you will
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  Speaker 1: face the results of that decision. The story of Israel
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  Speaker 1: is one of repeated rebellion, ignored warnings, and devastating consequences.
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  Speaker 1: And the scary thing, their story is still happening to day.
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  Speaker 1: Look at how it all started. God pulled them out
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  Speaker 1: of slavery, rescued them from Pharaoh, and led them toward
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  Speaker 1: the promised land. But what did they do? They complained,
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  Speaker 1: They doubted. They rebelled in numbers fourteen. After all the miracles,
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  Speaker 1: after seeing the Red Sea, part, after receiving food from heaven,
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  Speaker 1: they still refused to trust God. They sent spies into
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  Speaker 1: the land he had already promised them. And when ten
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  Speaker 1: of those spies came back afraid, the entire nation panicked.
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  Speaker 1: They wanted to go back to Egypt, back to slavery.
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  Speaker 1: And what happened. God said, not one of you will
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  Speaker 1: enter the land I swore with uplifted hand to make
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  Speaker 1: your home, except Caleb and Joshua, numbers fourteen thirty. That
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  Speaker 1: entire generation, except for two men, died in the wilderness,
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  Speaker 1: forty years of wandering, forty years of regret because they
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  Speaker 1: refused to obey God didn't reject them, They rejected him.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what we have to understand. God's promises don't disappear,
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  Speaker 1: but our disobedience can delay or destroy them. How many
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  Speaker 1: people today are wandering in their own wilderness because they
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  Speaker 1: refuse to trust God. How many people are standing on
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  Speaker 1: the edge of their breakthrough but can't move forward because
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  Speaker 1: fear is louder than faith. But the rebellion didn't stop there.
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  Speaker 1: Joshua led the next generation into the promised land. Israel
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  Speaker 1: fell into a cycle that repeated for centuries. God would
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  Speaker 1: bless them, they would get comfortable, then they would turn away,
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  Speaker 1: chase idols, mix with sinful cultures, and ignore God's commands.
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  Speaker 1: And what happened every time they suffered. The Book of
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  Speaker 1: Judges describes this brutal cycle perfectly. Israel prospers under God's protection,
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  Speaker 1: they become comfortable and turn to sin. God removes his
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  Speaker 1: protection and they are attacked, enslaved, or oppressed. They cry
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  Speaker 1: out for mercy. God sends a deliverer, they repent, obey
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  Speaker 1: for a time, and the cycle repeats. Sound familiar. Look
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  Speaker 1: at the world today. When people turn to God in desperation,
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  Speaker 1: he answers, but when things get comfortable, obedience fades. Look
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  Speaker 1: at history. Every time a nation has rejected God, moral
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  Speaker 1: corruption in cres race, families break down, and destruction follows.
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  Speaker 1: It's not about punishment, It's about cause and effect. Sin
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  Speaker 1: always leads to destruction. Take King Saul. He was chosen
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  Speaker 1: by God, anointed as Israel's first king. But what happened?
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  Speaker 1: He disobeyed. He was supposed to wait for Samuel before
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  Speaker 1: offering a sacrifice, but he got impatient and did it himself.
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  Speaker 1: For Samuel thirteen eight to fourteen. One moment of disobedience
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  Speaker 1: cost him his throne. Then later God commanded him to
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  Speaker 1: completely destroy the Amalekites, but he spared the best livestock
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  Speaker 1: and their king. For Samuel fifteen. God's response, because you
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  Speaker 1: have rejected the word of the Lord, he has rejected
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  Speaker 1: you as king. Now think about your own life. How
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  Speaker 1: many times has God asked you to do something but
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  Speaker 1: you hesitated? How many times have you justified partial obedience
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  Speaker 1: thinking it was Saul thought he was obeying because he
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  Speaker 1: mostly followed God's command, but partial obedience is still disobedience.
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  Speaker 1: Then there's King Solomon, the wisest man who ever lived,
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  Speaker 1: the wealthiest, most successful ruler in Israel's history, and yet
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  Speaker 1: he ignored God's warnings. He married foreign wives who worshiped
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  Speaker 1: other gods, and eventually his heart turned away First Kings
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  Speaker 1: eleven one to eleven. The result the kingdom was torn apart.
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  Speaker 1: After his death, generations suffered because of one man's compromise.
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  Speaker 1: This is the truth. Sin doesn't just affect you, It
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  Speaker 1: impacts your family, your children, your entire legacy. Look at
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  Speaker 1: the world to day. We celebrate rebellion, We glorify sin,
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  Speaker 1: We ignore consequences. We treat obedience like an option, not
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  Speaker 1: a command. But here's the reality. God hasn't changed. He
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  Speaker 1: is merciful, but he is also just what you sow,
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  Speaker 1: you will reap Galatians six seven. What's happening right now
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  Speaker 1: the same pattern we see in the Old Testament. People
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  Speaker 1: pushing God out of schools, government, entertainment, culture, and then
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  Speaker 1: wondering why everything is falling apart, Families breaking down, violence,
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  Speaker 1: increasing corruption everywhere. It's not random, it's the natural result
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  Speaker 1: of disobedience. So here's the question. Are you repeating Israel's mistakes?
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  Speaker 1: Has God been asking you to do something, but you
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  Speaker 1: keep resisting. Have you ignored his voice because obedience feels
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  Speaker 1: too hard? Are you living in delayed promises because fear
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  Speaker 1: has kept you stuck? The Old Testament is a warning
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  Speaker 1: not just for Israel, but for us. Obedience brings blessing,
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  Speaker 1: Rebellion brings consequences. There are no exceptions, but the hope.
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  Speaker 1: God never abandoned Israel completely, even in their darkest moments.
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  Speaker 1: He left a way back. Every prophet, every judgment, every exile,
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  Speaker 1: all of it was God calling his people to return,
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  Speaker 1: and he's doing the same today. Your story isn't over.
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  Speaker 1: Your disobedience doesn't have to define you. There's still time
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  Speaker 1: to turn back. But don't wait until you've lost everything
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  Speaker 1: to realize that God was right all along. Repent now,
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  Speaker 1: obey now, move now, because what you do today doesn't
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  Speaker 1: just affect you, It shapes your future, your family and
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  Speaker 1: generations to come. The fourth most important lesson we got
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  Speaker 1: from going through all the Old Testament is this, God
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  Speaker 1: doesn't choose the obvious. He doesn't pick the strongest, the richest,
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  Speaker 1: or the most qualified. He picks the overlooked, the underestimated,
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  Speaker 1: and the unworthy. Over and over again, God has used
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  Speaker 1: the most unlikely people to accomplish the great his things.
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  Speaker 1: And that truth should shake us because it means that
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  Speaker 1: no matter how weak or unqualified you feel, God can
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  Speaker 1: still use you. Think about Gideon, a man who was
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  Speaker 1: literally hiding from his enemies when the Angel of the
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  Speaker 1: Lord appeared to him, calling him a mighty warrior. Gideon
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  Speaker 1: looked around like who me, judges six twelve. He was
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  Speaker 1: the weakest in his family, from the weakest tribe, and
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  Speaker 1: yet God chose him to lead Israel into victory. But
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  Speaker 1: notice how Gideon responded with doubt. He asked for signs,
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  Speaker 1: He hesitated, He tested God again and again, but God
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  Speaker 1: didn't give up on him. Why because God doesn't see
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  Speaker 1: us as we are, He sees us as we were
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  Speaker 1: created to be. How many of us do the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: How many times has God asked you to step out
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  Speaker 1: in faith but you let fears stop you. Gideon's story
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  Speaker 1: proves that God is patient, but eventually you have to
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  Speaker 1: stop doubting and start moving. And here's the crazy part.
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  Speaker 1: God intentionally made Gideon's army smaller from thirty two thousand
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  Speaker 1: soldiers to just three hundred Judges seven two to seven.
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  Speaker 1: Why because God wanted the victory to be about his power,
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  Speaker 1: not Gideon's strength. Then there's David, the forgotten son. When
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  Speaker 1: the prophet Samuel came to Jesse's house to anoint the
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  Speaker 1: next king, David's own father didn't even invite him to
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  Speaker 1: the line up First Samuel, sixteen eleven. Imagine that your
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  Speaker 1: own father not even considering you as an option. The
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  Speaker 1: world saw a shepherd boy, God saw a king. David
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  Speaker 1: wasn't the tallest, he wasn't trained for battle, but when
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  Speaker 1: Goliath came against Israel, none of that mattered. While trained
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  Speaker 1: soldiers cowered in fear, David stepped forward with nothing but
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  Speaker 1: a sling, five stones, and unshakable faith. First Samuel seventeen
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  Speaker 1: forty five to forty seven. This is what God looks for, faith,
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  Speaker 1: not credentials. The Bible is filled with these stories. Moses
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  Speaker 1: had a speech problem, yet God chose him to confront
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  Speaker 1: Pharaoh Exodus four ten to twelve. Rahab was a prostitute,
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  Speaker 1: yet she saved Israelite spies and became part of the
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  Speaker 1: lineage of Jesus, Joshua two, Matthew one five. Esther was
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  Speaker 1: an orphan, but God positioned her to save an entire
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  Speaker 1: nation Esther four fourteen. Over and over again, God picks
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  Speaker 1: the ones no one expects. And here's the truth. He's
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  Speaker 1: still doing it today. Look at the world right now.
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  Speaker 1: Society celebrates the powerful, the famous, the influences. But God
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  Speaker 1: God is raising up, namely faceless warriors who are hidden
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  Speaker 1: right now but will be used mightily when the time comes.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe that's you. Maybe you feel unseen, forgotten, unqualified good
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  Speaker 1: That means you're exactly the type of person God loves
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  Speaker 1: to use. Think about this, who would you have picked
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  Speaker 1: to lead the early church, a religious scholar, a respected leader.
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  Speaker 1: Number God chose Paul, a man who literally persecuted Christians,
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  Speaker 1: Acts nine one to sixteen. If God can take a
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  Speaker 1: murder and tournament to one of the greatest apostles in history,
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  Speaker 1: don't tell me he can't use you. The only question
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  Speaker 1: is will you let him? Or will you keep making
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  Speaker 1: excuses like Gideon? Will you keep disqualifying yourself because of
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  Speaker 1: your past? Will you keep thinking I'm not ready, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not strong enough, I don't have the right skills. Because
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  Speaker 1: here's the truth. God doesn't call the qualified, He qualifies
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  Speaker 1: the called. Look around the world is getting darker. God
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  Speaker 1: is raising up people who will stand boldly for him,
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  Speaker 1: but most of them don't even realize it yet. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: you're one of them. Maybe your calling is bigger than
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  Speaker 1: you can imagine. But here's what you need to know.
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  Speaker 1: If God is calling you, he will equip you. If
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  Speaker 1: he has chosen you, no one can stop what He's
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  Speaker 1: about to do. So stop doubting, stop hesitating, stop waiting
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  Speaker 1: for the right time, because God is looking for the
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  Speaker 1: ones who will say, here I am Lord, Send me
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  Speaker 1: Isaiah six eight. The fifth most important lesson we got
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  Speaker 1: from going through all the Old Testament is this, No
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  Speaker 1: one is too far gone for God's mercy. No sin
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  Speaker 1: is too great, no failure is too final. The power
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  Speaker 1: of repentance can restore even the worst sinners. The Bible
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  Speaker 1: is filled with people who messed up, not just small mistakes,
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  Speaker 1: but life altering, kingdom shaking failures, and yet every single
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  Speaker 1: time someone turned back to God with a sincere heart,
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  Speaker 1: he restored them. Take David, for example, the man after
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  Speaker 1: God's own heart, the chosen King, the warrior who killed Goliath.
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  Speaker 1: But what happened He let sin creep into his life, lust, deception,
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  Speaker 1: murder Second Samuel eleven. If David lived to day, his
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  Speaker 1: scandal would be front page news. A king stealing another
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  Speaker 1: man's wife, then sending that man to his death to
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  Speaker 1: cover it up. That's not just sin, that's betrayal, corruption,
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  Speaker 1: and evil at the highest level. David had every reason
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  Speaker 1: to believe God was done with him. But then we
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  Speaker 1: see something that separates David from so many others. He
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  Speaker 1: didn't make excuses, he didn't justify it, he didn't try
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  Speaker 1: to cover it up In dead When the prophet Nathan
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  Speaker 1: confronted him, David broke down and repented Psalm fifty one,
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  Speaker 1: and because of that God forgave him. Now did David
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  Speaker 1: escape the consequences number His actions had ripple effects, His
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  Speaker 1: family suffered, his kingdom faced turmoil, But he is the key.
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  Speaker 1: God still used him. God still called him a man
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  Speaker 1: after his own heart. Why because true repentance doesn't just
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  Speaker 1: mean feeling guilty, It means turning back to God no
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  Speaker 1: matter how far you've fallen. Then there's Manassa, one of
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  Speaker 1: the most wicked kings in Judah's history. He led the
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  Speaker 1: nation into idolatry, witchcraft, even child sacrifice. Second Kings twenty
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  Speaker 1: one to one through nine. If anyone deserved judgment, it
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  Speaker 1: was him. But after years of rebellion, God allowed him
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  Speaker 1: to be captured by the enemy. In prison, humiliated, broken
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  Speaker 1: and stripped of everything, Manassa finally cried out to God,
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  Speaker 1: and the most shocking thing happened. God forgave him not
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  Speaker 1: only that, but God restored him to his throne. Second
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  Speaker 1: Chronicles thirty three, twelve to thirteen. The worst king in
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  Speaker 1: Judah's history repented and God gave him a second chance.
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  Speaker 1: Now think about Jonah. God told him to go to
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  Speaker 1: Nineveh and preach repentance. But Jonah he ran. He didn't
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  Speaker 1: just run, he booked the first boat going in the
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  Speaker 1: opposite direction. Jonah won one to three, and when God
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  Speaker 1: sent a storm, Jonah still refused to obey. He told
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  Speaker 1: the sailors to throw him overboard. He would rather die
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  Speaker 1: than do what God asked, But even in the depths
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  Speaker 1: of the sea, God didn't let him go. Instead, he
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  Speaker 1: sent a giant fish to swallow Jonah and give him
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  Speaker 1: time to repent. Jonah two one to ten, and once
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  Speaker 1: Jonah finally did God gave him another chance. The Old
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  Speaker 1: Testament is filled with these stories. Samson lost everything because
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  Speaker 1: of his sin, but in his final moment, he turned
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  Speaker 1: back to God and God used him one last time
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  Speaker 1: Judges sixteen, twenty eight to thirty. The entire city of
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  Speaker 1: Nineveh was on the brink of destruction, but when they repented,
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  Speaker 1: God spared them Jonah three four to ten. Now let's
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  Speaker 1: bring this to to day. How many people think they've
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  Speaker 1: messed up too much for God to forgive them. How
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  Speaker 1: many people believe they've crossed a line where there's no
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  Speaker 1: turning back. That is a lie straight from the enemy.
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  Speaker 1: Because if God can forgive murderers, adulterers, and idle worshipers,
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  Speaker 1: he can forgive you. Look at the world right now.
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  Speaker 1: Sin is everywhere. People mock God. They call evil good
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  Speaker 1: and good evil Isaiah five twenty. Many think they don't
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  Speaker 1: need repentance at all. But here's the truth. Without repentance,
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  Speaker 1: there is no restoration. Without turning back to God, there
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  Speaker 1: is no healing. But here's the good news. The same
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  Speaker 1: God who restored David, Jonah and Manassah is still in
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  Speaker 1: the business of restoring people today. He still forgives, He
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  Speaker 1: still redeems, and he is still waiting for people to
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  Speaker 1: turn back to him. The only question is will you.
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  Speaker 1: The sixth most important lesson we got from going through
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  Speaker 1: all the Old Testament is this. The prophecies written thousands
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  Speaker 1: of years ago are not just history. They are unfolding
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  Speaker 1: right before our eyes. When Isiah, Ezekiel, and Daniel spoke
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  Speaker 1: of kingdoms rising and falling, of nations rebelling against God,
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  Speaker 1: of a world on the brink of judgment, they weren't
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  Speaker 1: just talking about the past. They were warning us about now.
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  Speaker 1: Think about it. Isaiah described a time when people would
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  Speaker 1: turn truth upside down, calling evil good and good evil
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  Speaker 1: Isaiah five twenty. Are we not living in that very reality?
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  Speaker 1: Look around. The things that were once shameful are now celebrated.
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  Speaker 1: The things that were once sacred are now mocked. It's
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  Speaker 1: not just a shift in culture. Its prophecy coming to life.
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  Speaker 1: Isaiah saw it, Ezekiel saw it, Daniel saw it, and
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  Speaker 1: now we are living it. Ezekiel's vision of dry bones
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  Speaker 1: coming to life. That was a prophecy of Israel being
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  Speaker 1: reborn as a nation after centuries of exile Ezekiel thirty
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  Speaker 1: seven one to fourteen, and in nineteen forty eight, that
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  Speaker 1: very prophecy was fulfilled. For nearly two thousand years, Israel
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  Speaker 1: did not exist as a sovereign nation. But just as
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  Speaker 1: Ezekiel saw, God brought them back from the dead, the
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  Speaker 1: nation was reborn in a single day, just as Isaiah
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  Speaker 1: sixty six eight foretold. Tell me, what are the odds
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  Speaker 1: that an ancient people scattered across the world for two
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  Speaker 1: millennia would return to their homeland speaking the same language,
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  Speaker 1: reviving the same faith. That's not coincidence, that's God and Daniel.
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  Speaker 1: He saw the rise and fall of world empires with
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  Speaker 1: stunning accuracy. He predicted Babylon's fall to Persia, Persia's fall
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  Speaker 1: to Greece, and Greece's division into four parts, all before
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  Speaker 1: it happened. Daniel two, Daniel seven, Daniel eight. But what
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  Speaker 1: about his final visions, the ones about the last kingdom,
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  Speaker 1: the rise of a global leader, and a world that
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  Speaker 1: turns against God. That hasn't fully happened yet, but it's starting.
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  Speaker 1: Look at the push for a one world system, digital
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  Speaker 1: currencies replacing cash, nations forming alliances that mirror Daniel's profit
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  Speaker 1: of a final empire built on iron and clay. Strong
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  Speaker 1: yet unstable Daniel two forty one to forty three. Look
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  Speaker 1: at the wars, the conflicts, the shifting of global power.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think this is random? Or do you see
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  Speaker 1: what the prophets warned us about. Jesus himself pointed back
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  Speaker 1: to Daniel's prophecies when talking about the last days. He said,
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  Speaker 1: when you see the abomination that causes desolation spoken of
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  Speaker 1: by the prophet Daniel standing in the Holy Place, let
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  Speaker 1: the reader understand Matthew twenty four fifteen. That means we
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  Speaker 1: are supposed to study Daniel. We are supposed to understand
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  Speaker 1: the times we are living in. But the biggest prophecy,
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  Speaker 1: the one that ties everything together, that would be the
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  Speaker 1: one given in Zechariah twelve three, where God says that
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  Speaker 1: in the last days, Jerusalem will become a burdensome stone
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  Speaker 1: for all nations. Look at the world to day, Look
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  Speaker 1: at how much of global politics revolves around Israel and Jerusalem.
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  Speaker 1: Why does a tiny country the size of New Jersey
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  Speaker 1: carry so much weight because God said it would. Because
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  Speaker 1: the battle for Jerusalem is not just political, it's spiritual.
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  Speaker 1: And here's the chilling part. All of this is only
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  Speaker 1: the beginning. Isiah spoke of a time of deep deception,
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  Speaker 1: when people would reject God's truth in favor of lies.
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  Speaker 1: Daniel spoke of an Antichrist figure who will rise to
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  Speaker 1: power through deceit and global influence Daniel eight twenty three
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  Speaker 1: to twenty five. Ezekiel spoke of a great war where
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  Speaker 1: nations will rise against Israel, only for God to supernaturally
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  Speaker 1: intervene Ezekiel thirty eight to thirty nine. Are we on
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  Speaker 1: the edge of these events? Many believe we are. The
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  Speaker 1: signs are everywhere. The world is being prepared for something huge.
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  Speaker 1: So what does this mean for us? It means we
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  Speaker 1: cannot afford to be asleep. The prophecies of the Old
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  Speaker 1: Testament are not ancient warnings for a long gone world.
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  Speaker 1: They are a road map for today. Jesus said, when
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  Speaker 1: these things begin to happen, stand up and lift your heads,
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  Speaker 1: because your redemption is drawing near Luke twenty one, twenty eight.
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  Speaker 1: That means we don't panic, We don't live in fear.
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  Speaker 1: We don't bury our heads in the sand. Instead, we prepare,
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  Speaker 1: We stay spiritually awake. We spread the truth while there
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  Speaker 1: is still time. Because here's the final reality. Prophecy is
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  Speaker 1: not meant to scare us. It's meant to wake us up.
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  Speaker 1: God gave us these warnings so we would not be
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  Speaker 1: caught off God. So the question is are you paying attention.
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  Speaker 1: The seventh most important lesson we got from going through
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  Speaker 1: all the Old Testament is this spiritual warfare is not
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  Speaker 1: just a metaphor. It is the hidden battle behind everything.
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  Speaker 1: Every war, every kingdoms rise and fall, every moment where
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  Speaker 1: people turned away from God, there was always something deeper happening.
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  Speaker 1: The forces of darkness have been working since the beginning,
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  Speaker 1: and the Old Testament reveals how they operate. But more importantly,
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  Speaker 1: it reveals how God wins. This is not just about
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  Speaker 1: ancient battles. It's happening right now. Look at the chaos
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  Speaker 1: in the world, the deception, the corruption, the moral decline.
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  Speaker 1: Do you really think all of this is just random
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  Speaker 1: or is there something deeper, an unseen war influencing what
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  Speaker 1: happens in the visible world. From Genesis to Malachi, the
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  Speaker 1: Bible gives us a pattern. It reveals the tactics of
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  Speaker 1: the enemy, the strategies of spiritual war, and how God
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  Speaker 1: calls his people to stand firm. And if we don't
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  Speaker 1: understand this, we will walk blindly into battles we are
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  Speaker 1: not prepared for. Look at the first battle, the Garden
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  Speaker 1: of Eden. Most people think it was just about Adam
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  Speaker 1: and Eve eating forbidden fruit, But this was the first
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  Speaker 1: recorded spiritual attack in human history. It was deception. The
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  Speaker 1: serpent didn't force them to sin. He planted a lie.
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  Speaker 1: Did God really say? Genesis three one. That is how
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  Speaker 1: the enemy works. He makes you question truth, He twists
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  Speaker 1: God's words. He makes rebellion look like freedom. And once
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  Speaker 1: the deception is accepted, the destruction follows. Now fast forward
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  Speaker 1: to the book of Exodus. Pharaoh was not just an
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  Speaker 1: evil ruler. He was a pawn in a greater war.
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  Speaker 1: The gods of Egypt were demonic. The plagues weren't just
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  Speaker 1: natural disasters. They were direct attacks on Egypt's false gods.
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  Speaker 1: The Nile turned to blood, a judgment on Happy, the
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  Speaker 1: Egyptian god of the river. The plague of darkness a
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  Speaker 1: strike against Ra, the sun god. Exodus seven to twelve.
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  Speaker 1: This was not just about freeing Israel. It was about
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  Speaker 1: proving that God alone is supreme. And then there's the
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  Speaker 1: story of Job, a man who lost everything, but not
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  Speaker 1: because of chance. The entire book pulls back the curtain
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  Speaker 1: and shows us a conversation in heaven Satan asked for
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  Speaker 1: permission to attack Job Job one six to twelve. That's
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  Speaker 1: the pattern spiritual battles manifest in the physical world. Job's
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  Speaker 1: suffering wasn't random. It was part of a much bigger war. Now,
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  Speaker 1: think about Israel's battles. The Canaanites, the Philistines, the Babyloneians.
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  Speaker 1: These nations weren't just political enemies. They were filled with
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  Speaker 1: demonic practices, child sacrifice, sorcery, idle worship that involved unspeakable rituals.
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  Speaker 1: And when Israel followed God, they had supernatural victory. Walls fell,
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  Speaker 1: armies fled, But when Israel turned away, they became weak.
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  Speaker 1: Why because battles are won or lost spiritually before they
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  Speaker 1: manifest physically. Look at the story of Elisha in Second
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  Speaker 1: King six, the King of Aram sent an army to
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  Speaker 1: capture him. His servant panicked when he saw the soldiers
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  Speaker 1: surrounding them, but Elisha, he wasn't afraid. He prayed open
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  Speaker 1: his eyes, Lord, so that he may see, and suddenly
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  Speaker 1: the servant saw the truth. God's army of fiery chariots
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  Speaker 1: was surrounding them. Second Kings six seventeen. The physical battle
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  Speaker 1: looked hope, but in the spiritual realm, victory was already secured.
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  Speaker 1: This is still true to day. Right now, people are
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  Speaker 1: fighting the wrong battles. They think their enemy is a person,
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  Speaker 1: a political party, a system. But the Bible says we
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  Speaker 1: wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers,
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  Speaker 1: against the rulers of the darkness of this world Ephesian
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  Speaker 1: six twelve. Look around. There is a war on truth,
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  Speaker 1: a war on identity, a war on families, a war
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  Speaker 1: on faith. This is not just social change, It is
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  Speaker 1: a spiritual agenda. The same deception that tricked Eve is
• 41:44
  Speaker 1: now tricking entire generations. The same spirits that led nations
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  Speaker 1: into destruction are still active to day. But here's the
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  Speaker 1: good news. The Old Testament doesn't just expose the enemy's tactics.
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  Speaker 1: It reveals how to overcome. First, know the word. When
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  Speaker 1: Satan attacked Eve, he twisted God's words. When he attacked
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  Speaker 1: Jesus in the wilderness, he did the same thing. But
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  Speaker 1: Jesus fought back with scripture Matthew four one to eleven.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't know truth, you can't recognize a lie. Second,
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  Speaker 1: stay in obedience. Every time Israel fell into sin, they
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  Speaker 1: lost battles. Every time they turned back to God, they
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  Speaker 1: saw victory. Holiness is not just about morality, it is
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  Speaker 1: about spiritual strength. Third, understand authority. David didn't fear Goliath
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  Speaker 1: because he knew something the army didn't. Goliath was not
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  Speaker 1: just a giant. He was an uncircumcised philistine, which meant
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  Speaker 1: he had no covenant with God. David knew that spiritual
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  Speaker 1: authority mattered more than physical strength. First Samuel seventeen twenty six. Fourth,
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  Speaker 1: pray with power. Daniel prayed and and an angel was
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  Speaker 1: sent immediately, but for twenty one days that angel was
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  Speaker 1: blocked by a demonic prince. Michael. The archangel had to
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  Speaker 1: come and fight to get the answer through Daniel ten
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  Speaker 1: twelve to thirteen. This means your prayers are not just words,
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  Speaker 1: they are weapons. The Old Testament proves this over and
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  Speaker 1: over again. Battles were not just fought with swords, but
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  Speaker 1: with faith, obedience, and prayer. The greatest victories came when
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  Speaker 1: God's people aligned with his will. The greatest losses came
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  Speaker 1: when they didn't. And today the war has not stopped
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  Speaker 1: the battlefield has just changed the deception is stronger, the
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  Speaker 1: distractions are greater. The enemy is no longer hiding. He
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: is operating in plain sight, But so is God. His
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  Speaker 1: power has not changed, his promises have not weakened. And
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  Speaker 1: the same way he fought for his people in the
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  Speaker 1: Old Testament, he is still fighting for us to day.
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  Speaker 1: So here's the question. Are you aware of the battle
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  Speaker 1: around you? Are you fighting the right enemy? Are you
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  Speaker 1: using the weapons God has given you? Or are you
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  Speaker 1: walking blindly thinking the attacks in your life are just
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: random circumstances. Because the lesson of the Old Testament is clear,
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  Speaker 1: this is war and the only way to win is
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  Speaker 1: to stand with God, know his word, and walk in
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  Speaker 1: his power. Stay alert, stay equipped, stay in the fight.
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  Speaker 1: The eighth most important lesson we got from going through
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  Speaker 1: all the Old Testament is this, the fear of the
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  Speaker 1: Lord is the foundation of true wisdom. The world may
• 44:47
  Speaker 1: offer knowledge, but only God gives wisdom. And here's the difference.
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  Speaker 1: Knowledge fills your mind, but wisdom protects your life. Knowledge
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  Speaker 1: can make you smile, but wisdom keeps you from destruction.
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  Speaker 1: Proverbs nine to ten makes it clear the fear of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord is the beginning of wisdom and knowledge of
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  Speaker 1: the Holy One is understanding. But what does it mean
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  Speaker 1: to fear the Lord? Is it terror? Is it dread? Number?
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  Speaker 1: The fear of the Lord is not about being afraid
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  Speaker 1: of God. It's about having the right posture before him.
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  Speaker 1: It is about reverence, awe and understanding that he's holy,
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  Speaker 1: he is just, and his ways are higher than ours.
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  Speaker 1: It means that we take him seriously, that we obey
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  Speaker 1: his word, that we do not treat him casually. And
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  Speaker 1: when we truly fear the Lord, wisdom follows. Look at
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  Speaker 1: the Book of Proverbs written by Solomon, the wisest man
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  Speaker 1: who ever lived. God gave him wisdom beyond human understanding.
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  Speaker 1: Yet over and over again Solomon emphasizes this one thing.
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  Speaker 1: The fear of the Lord is where all wisdom begins.
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  Speaker 1: Why because if you do not honor God, if you
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  Speaker 1: do not seek him first, everything else falls apart. Think
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  Speaker 1: about it. We live in a world that chases knowledge
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  Speaker 1: but rejects wisdom. We have access to more information than
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  Speaker 1: any generation before us, technology, science, education, It's all at
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  Speaker 1: our fingertips. But are we wiser number? If anything, we
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  Speaker 1: are more lost than ever. Depression is rising, confusion is spreading.
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  Speaker 1: People know more but understand less. Why because knowledge without
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  Speaker 1: God leads to pride, but wisdom with God leads to life.
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  Speaker 1: Now let's bring this into the Old Testament. Look at
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  Speaker 1: the lives of those who feared the Lord versus those
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  Speaker 1: who didn't. The difference is staggering. Take Joseph. He was
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  Speaker 1: sold into slavery, falsely accused, thrown into prison, yet he
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  Speaker 1: never wavered in his fear of God. When Potiphar's wife
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  Speaker 1: tried to seduce him, Joseph didn't just refuse, He ran.
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  Speaker 1: He said, how could I do such a wicked thing
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  Speaker 1: and sin against God? Genesis thirty nine nine. That is
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  Speaker 1: the fear of the Lord, and because of that God
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  Speaker 1: elevated him to second in command over all of Egypt.
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  Speaker 1: Now compare that to Pharaoh. He was the most powerful
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  Speaker 1: man in the world, yet he had no fear of God.
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  Speaker 1: Even after seeing the plagues, even after witnessing God's power,
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  Speaker 1: he hardened his heart. And what happened. His entire kingdom suffered,
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  Speaker 1: His son died, his army drowned in the Red Sea.
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  Speaker 1: The most powerful man on earth was brought to nothing
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  Speaker 1: because he refused to fear the Lord. Then there's Job,
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  Speaker 1: a man who suffered more than most of us could imagine.
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  Speaker 1: He lost everything, his wealth, his family, his health, And
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  Speaker 1: yet even in his lowest moment, he declared the fear
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord. That is wisdom, and to shun evil
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  Speaker 1: is understanding Job twenty eight. Twenty eight. Job understood something
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  Speaker 1: most people don't. Wisdom is not about what you know,
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  Speaker 1: it's about whom you trust. Now, let's talk about Solomon himself,
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  Speaker 1: the man who wrote Proverbs, the man who was given
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  Speaker 1: divine wisdom. What happened to him. He started with the
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  Speaker 1: fear of the Lord, but he didn't finish with it.
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  Speaker 1: He allowed his heart to be turned away by foreign
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  Speaker 1: wives and false gods. First Kings eleven one through four.
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  Speaker 1: He had all the knowledge in the world, yet he
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  Speaker 1: ignored his own wisdom, and in the end his kingdom
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  Speaker 1: was torn apart because he lost the fear of the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: This is the warning for us to day. It is
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  Speaker 1: possible to be wise and still fall. It is possible
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  Speaker 1: to know the truth and still ignore it. Wisdom is
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  Speaker 1: not just about learning, it's about applying what God says
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  Speaker 1: every single day. Now, look at the world around us.
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  Speaker 1: People think they are wise, They think they have outgrown God.
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  Speaker 1: They redefine morality. They mock truth, They chase after empty philosophies.
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  Speaker 1: But Romans one twenty two describes them perfectly. Professing themselves
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  Speaker 1: to be wise, they became fools. Think about current events.
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  Speaker 1: Look at how the world operates. Decisions are made without
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  Speaker 1: any regard for God. People live as if there are
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  Speaker 1: no consequences. Sin is celebrated, righteousness is ridiculed. And what
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  Speaker 1: is the result chaos, division, confusion. Because here's the reality.
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  Speaker 1: The fear of the Lord is the only thing that
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  Speaker 1: keeps a nation, a family, a person on the right path.
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  Speaker 1: Remove it and destruction is inevitable. Now let's make this personal.
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  Speaker 1: Do you fear the Lord? Do you honor him not
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  Speaker 1: just with your words, but with your actions. Do you
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  Speaker 1: seek his wisdom before making decisions or do you rely
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  Speaker 1: on your own understanding? Because Proverbs three five through seven
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  Speaker 1: gives us clear instruction, trust in the Lord with all
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  Speaker 1: your heart, and lean not on your own understanding in
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  Speaker 1: all your ways. Submit to Him and he will make
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  Speaker 1: your paths straight. Do not be wise in your own eyes,
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  Speaker 1: Fear the Lord, and shun evil. So let's break this down. First,
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  Speaker 1: wisdom starts with surrender. If you want to be truly wise,
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  Speaker 1: you must first admit that God knows more than you do.
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  Speaker 1: That means letting go of pride. That means submitting your plans,
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  Speaker 1: your desires, your decisions to him. Second, wisdom requires obedience.
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  Speaker 1: It's not enough to know what is right. You have
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  Speaker 1: to do it. Jesus said, everyone who hears these words
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  Speaker 1: of mine and puts them into practice is like a
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  Speaker 1: wise man who built his house on the rock Matthew seven,
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  Speaker 1: twenty four. Wisdom is not just listening to God, it's
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  Speaker 1: following through. Third, wisdom protects your life. Proverbs nineteen twenty
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  Speaker 1: three says the fear of the Lord leads to life,
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  Speaker 1: then one rests content untouched by trouble. This doesn't mean
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  Speaker 1: life will be easy, but it does mean that when
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  Speaker 1: you fear the Lord, you walk in his protection. So
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  Speaker 1: here's the final question. Are you living with wisdom or
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  Speaker 1: just knowledge? Are you making decisions based on what feels
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  Speaker 1: right or what God says is right? Are you building
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  Speaker 1: your life on temporary understanding or on the unshakable foundation
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  Speaker 1: of God's truth? Because the Old Testament makes one thing clear,
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  Speaker 1: those who fear the Lord will be guided, protected, and blessed.
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  Speaker 1: Those who reject him will eventually fall. So which will
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  Speaker 1: you choose. The ninth most important lesson we got from
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  Speaker 1: going through all the Old Testament is this Everything in
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  Speaker 1: it was leading to one person, Jesus Christ. Every story,
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  Speaker 1: every prophecy, every sacrifice, every symbol, it all pointed to him.
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  Speaker 1: The Old Testament is not just ancient history. It's the
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  Speaker 1: set up for the greatest moment in human history, the
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  Speaker 1: coming of the Messiah. But here's what most people miss.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus didn't just appear in the New Testament. He was
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  Speaker 1: there all along, hidden in the pages of Genesis, woven
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  Speaker 1: through the prophecies of Isaiah, revealed in the suffering of Job,
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  Speaker 1: foreshadowed in the sacrifices of the Temple. Jesus was present
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  Speaker 1: before the world even knew his name. Let's start at
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  Speaker 1: the very beginning, Genesis three fifteen, the first prophecy of
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  Speaker 1: the Messiah, Right after Adam and Eve sinned, right after
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  Speaker 1: the fall of humanity, God made a promise. He told
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  Speaker 1: the serpent, I will put enmity between you and the woman,
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  Speaker 1: and between your offspring and hers. He will crush your
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  Speaker 1: head and you will strike his heel. This was not
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  Speaker 1: just about snakes. This was the first declaration that a
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  Speaker 1: savior would come, a son born of a woman, who
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  Speaker 1: would be wounded but would ultimately crush the enemy that
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  Speaker 1: was Jesus. Move forward to Genesis twenty two Abraham and Isaac.
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  Speaker 1: God told Abraham to take his only son, the Son
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  Speaker 1: of Promise, and sacrifice him on Mount Moriah. Abraham obeyed,
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  Speaker 1: but at the last moment God provided a ram as
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  Speaker 1: a substitute. Sound familiar. Thousands of years later, on that
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  Speaker 1: same mountain, God provided another sacrifice, his own son, Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Then there's the passover in Exodus. The Israelites were in
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  Speaker 1: slavery in Egypt, and God sent plagues to break Pharaoh's hold.
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  Speaker 1: But the final plague, the death of the firstborn, required
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  Speaker 1: an act of faith. God commanded his people to take
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  Speaker 1: a lamb, a perfect lamb without blemish, and spread its
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  Speaker 1: blood on their doorposts. That night, when the Angel of
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  Speaker 1: Death came, it passed over every house covered in the
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  Speaker 1: blood of the lamb. Do you see it. Jesus is
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  Speaker 1: the ultimate passover lamb. His blood covers us, and because
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  Speaker 1: of him we are saved from death. Then there's the
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  Speaker 1: Day of Atonement in Leviticus. Every year the high priest
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  Speaker 1: would enter the Holy of Holies, bringing the blood of
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  Speaker 1: a sacrifice to cover the sins of the people. But
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  Speaker 1: this was temporary. It had to be done year after year.
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  Speaker 1: And then Jesus came the final high priest, offering himself
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  Speaker 1: as the perfect sacrifice, not just for one year, but
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  Speaker 1: for all eternity. Hebrews nine twelve confirms this. He entered
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  Speaker 1: the most holy place once for all by his own blood,
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  Speaker 1: thus obtaining eternal redemption. Look at number twenty one, the
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  Speaker 1: bronze serpent. The Israelites sinned and God sent venomous snakes
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  Speaker 1: among them. Many were dying, but then God told Moses,
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  Speaker 1: make a bronze snake and put it on a pole.
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  Speaker 1: Anyone who's bitten can look at it and live. Numbers
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  Speaker 1: twenty one eight. That might seem like a strange story
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  Speaker 1: until Jesus himself explained it in John three fourteen fifteen.
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  Speaker 1: Just as Moses lifted up the snake in the wilderness,
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  Speaker 1: so the son of Man must be lit up that
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  Speaker 1: everyone who believes may have eternal life in him. The
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  Speaker 1: serpent on the pole was a picture of the cross.
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  Speaker 1: And then there's David the shepherd who became a king
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  Speaker 1: the warrior who defeated a giant, the anointed one who
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  Speaker 1: suffered betrayal, rejection, and hardship, yet was chosen by God
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  Speaker 1: to rule. David's life was a shadow of the true
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  Speaker 1: king who was coming. Jesus was called the son of David.
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  Speaker 1: He would be the ultimate shepherd king, ruling not just Israel,
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  Speaker 1: but the entire world. The prophets spoke of him again
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  Speaker 1: and again Isaiah seven fourteen. The Virgin will conceive and
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  Speaker 1: give birth to a son, and will call him Immanuel.
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  Speaker 1: That was Jesus Isaiah fifty three. The suffering servant, wounded
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  Speaker 1: for our transgressions, crushed for our iniquities, bearing the sins
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  Speaker 1: of many, that was Jesus Micah five two. But you, Bethlehem,
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  Speaker 1: out of you will come for me one who will
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  Speaker 1: be ruler over Israel, Jesus Zechariah nine nine. See your
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  Speaker 1: king comes to you, righteous and victorious, lowly and riding
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  Speaker 1: on a donkey, Jesus. Over and over again. The Old
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  Speaker 1: Testament was pointing to one moment when Jesus would come, live, die,
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  Speaker 1: and rise again. Now let's connect this to to day.
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  Speaker 1: Why does this matter? Because people are still looking for
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  Speaker 1: answers everywhere except in Jesus. They search for purpose, but
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  Speaker 1: he is the meaning of life. They search for truth,
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  Speaker 1: but he is the Word made flesh. They search for salvation,
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  Speaker 1: but he's the only way. The Jewish leaders in Jesus
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  Speaker 1: time knew the Old Testament better than any one, yet
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  Speaker 1: they missed the very one it was pointing to. In
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  Speaker 1: John five point thirty nine, Jesus told them, you study
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  Speaker 1: the scriptures diligently because you think that in them you
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  Speaker 1: have eternal life. These are the very scriptures that testify
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  Speaker 1: about me. Imagine that, knowing every prophecy, every law, every tradition,
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  Speaker 1: and still missing Jesus. And today history repeats itself. People
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  Speaker 1: read the Bible as a book of rules, as a
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  Speaker 1: collection of stories, as an ancient text, but they miss Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: They look at religion, at good works, at self improvement,
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  Speaker 1: but they miss the one who stands at the center
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  Speaker 1: of it all. Here's the truth. Everything in the Old Testament,
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  Speaker 1: from Genesis to Malachi was preparing the world for the
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  Speaker 1: arrival of Jesus Christ, and to day everything is still
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  Speaker 1: leading to one moment his return. Because here's the final reality.
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  Speaker 1: Just as the Old Testament prepared the way for jesus
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  Speaker 1: first coming. Everything happening now is preparing the way for
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  Speaker 1: his second coming, and just like before, many people will
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  Speaker 1: miss it. So here's the question. Do you see him?
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  Speaker 1: Do you see Jesus in the pages of scripture, in
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  Speaker 1: the events of history, in the world around you, or
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  Speaker 1: are you missing him just like so many did before?
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  Speaker 1: Because the Old Testament isn't just about the past. It's
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  Speaker 1: about Him and if you truly see that, your life
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  Speaker 1: will never be the same. The tenth most important lesson
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  Speaker 1: we got from going through all the Old Testament is this,
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  Speaker 1: spiritual warfare is real. Every story, every battle, every act
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  Speaker 1: of rebellion, every moment of faith. It was never just
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  Speaker 1: about what was happening on the surface. Behind every event
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  Speaker 1: in the Old Testament, an invisible war was being fought,
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  Speaker 1: a war between light and darkness, between the Kingdom of
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  Speaker 1: God and the forces of the enemy. And that war
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  Speaker 1: is still raging today. But here's what most people miss.
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  Speaker 1: Spiritual warfare is not just about demons and angels fighting
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  Speaker 1: in the heavens. It's about what happens in our choices,
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  Speaker 1: in our minds, in our daily battles. The enemy is
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  Speaker 1: not always obvious. He doesn't always attack with swords and armies.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes his weapons are deception, temptation, fear, and distraction. Think
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  Speaker 1: about the very first story in the Bible, Genesis three.
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  Speaker 1: The fall of humanity wasn't just about a piece of fruit.
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  Speaker 1: It was an act of war. Satan didn't come with force,
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  Speaker 1: He came with a question, did God really say? That
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  Speaker 1: was the first spiritual attack in history, not with weapons,
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  Speaker 1: but with doubt. And when Adam and Eve believed the lie,
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  Speaker 1: Sin entered the world. From that moment on, the war
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  Speaker 1: intensified Cain and Abel. The first murder in history wasn't
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  Speaker 1: just about jealousy. It was the enemy whispering into Cain's heart,
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  Speaker 1: turning his anger into action. Fast forward to Job, a
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  Speaker 1: man who had everything, wealth, family, health, until one day
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  Speaker 1: it was all stripped away. But what was really happening
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  Speaker 1: a conversation in heaven, a challenge between God and Satan.
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  Speaker 1: The suffering of Job wasn't just about loss. It was
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  Speaker 1: about a battle in the unseen realm, a test of faith.
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  Speaker 1: Then there's Pharaoh and Egypt. The ten plagues weren't just
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  Speaker 1: about freeing the Israelites. Every single plague was an attack
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  Speaker 1: against Egypt's gods. The Nile turned to blood. That was
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  Speaker 1: against Happy, the god of the Nile. Darkness for three days,
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  Speaker 1: that was again Ra, the sun god, the death of
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  Speaker 1: the firstborn. That was against Pharaoh himself, who was worshiped
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  Speaker 1: as a god. Every plague was God, proving that no
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  Speaker 1: false god could stand against him. And then came the
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  Speaker 1: battles for the promised land. Israel wasn't just fighting human armies.
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  Speaker 1: They were fighting against strongholds of darkness. The Canaanites were
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  Speaker 1: deeply involved in demonic worship, child sacrifice, and occult practices.
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  Speaker 1: When God commanded Israel to drive them out, it wasn't
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  Speaker 1: just about land. It was about cleansing the land from
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  Speaker 1: spiritual corruption. Look at Daniel. One of the most shocking
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  Speaker 1: glimpses into spiritual warfare happens in Daniel ten. Daniel prayed,
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  Speaker 1: but for twenty one days his answer didn't come. Why
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  Speaker 1: because the angel bringing his answer was resisted by the
• 1:02:56
  Speaker 1: Prince of Persia, a demonic power ruling over that region.
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  Speaker 1: Think about that, a prayer was delayed because of a
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  Speaker 1: battle in the spiritual realm, and only when Michael, the
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  Speaker 1: archangel stepped in did the breakthrough come. Now, bring this to today.
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  Speaker 1: Do you think the enemy has stopped fighting? Do you
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  Speaker 1: think he only attacked in ancient times? Look at the
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  Speaker 1: world right now, Look at the rise of confusion, deception,
• 1:03:24
  Speaker 1: and moral decay. This is not just politics, this is
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 1: not just culture. This is spiritual war. Ephesians six twelve
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  Speaker 1: makes it clear, for we do not wrestle against flesh
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  Speaker 1: and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers
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  Speaker 1: of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in
• 1:03:45
  Speaker 1: high places. That means your real enemy is not your boss,
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  Speaker 1: not your co worker, not your family member. It's the
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  Speaker 1: spirit operating behind the scenes. How many times do we
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  Speaker 1: miss this? We fight the wrong battles, We waste energy
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  Speaker 1: attacking people when the real war is happening in the spirit.
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  Speaker 1: The enemy doesn't need to destroy you physically. He just
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  Speaker 1: needs to break your faith. We can your resolve, fill
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  Speaker 1: you with fear and distract you from your purpose. And
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 1: here's where it gets personal. The war is happening in
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  Speaker 1: your life right now. Ever, wonder why some prayers seem
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  Speaker 1: to take forever. Daniel's answer was delayed by demonic resistance.
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  Speaker 1: What if yours is too, Ever, Notice how the moment
• 1:04:30
  Speaker 1: you try to get serious about God. Everything goes wrong,
• 1:04:35
  Speaker 1: Distractions increase, doubts flood your mind. Attacks hit from every direction.
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  Speaker 1: That's not a coincidence that spiritual war Ever, feel like
• 1:04:47
  Speaker 1: the weight of the world is pressing on you, making
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  Speaker 1: you want to give up. That's the enemy trying to
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  Speaker 1: wear you down before your breakthrough comes. Look at the
• 1:04:57
  Speaker 1: battle over identity. Today more confused about who they are
• 1:05:02
  Speaker 1: than ever before. That is not random. It is a
• 1:05:06
  Speaker 1: war against God's design. Look at the war over truth.
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  Speaker 1: Lies are celebrated and those who speak the truth are silenced.
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  Speaker 1: That is not random. It is a war against the
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  Speaker 1: word of God. Look at the war over families. Marriages
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  Speaker 1: are breaking, children are being led astray. That is not random.
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  Speaker 1: It is a war against God's structure. This is what
• 1:05:30
  Speaker 1: the Old Testament teaches us. Every earthly battle has a
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  Speaker 1: spiritual reality behind it. Every major moment in history has
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  Speaker 1: a war in the unseen realm shaping it. And the
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  Speaker 1: biggest mistake we can make is pretending that we're not
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  Speaker 1: in a battle. So what do we do? First? Wake up,
• 1:05:49
  Speaker 1: recognize that spiritual warfare is real. The enemy wants you
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  Speaker 1: to be passive, distracted, unarmed. Don't let him win and
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  Speaker 1: put on your armor. Ephesian six gives us everything we need,
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  Speaker 1: the belt of truth, the breastplate of righteousness, the shield
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  Speaker 1: of faith, the helmet of salvation, the sword of the spirit.
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  Speaker 1: Are you using them or are you going into battle unprotected?
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  Speaker 1: A third fight back in prayer. If Daniel's prayer was
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  Speaker 1: delayed because of demonic resistance, how much more should we
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  Speaker 1: be persistent? How many blessings have gone undelivered because people
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  Speaker 1: stop praying too soon? Forth, Guard your mind. The battlefield
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  Speaker 1: is often in your thoughts. The enemy's greatest weapon is deception.
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  Speaker 1: If he can control how you think, he can control
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  Speaker 1: how you live. That's why Romans twelve two says, do
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  Speaker 1: not conform to the pattern of this world, but be
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  Speaker 1: transformed by the renewing of your mind. Fifth, stand firm.
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  Speaker 1: The enemy's goal is to make you quit, to wear
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  Speaker 1: you down, to convince you that God isn't moving be
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  Speaker 1: Galatians six nine says, let us not grow weary in
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  Speaker 1: doing good, for at the proper time we will reap
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  Speaker 1: a harvest if we do not give up. Listen carefully.
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  Speaker 1: The Old Testament is not just stories of war. It
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  Speaker 1: is a manual for how to fight. It is proof
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  Speaker 1: that the battle is real, but so is the victory.
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  Speaker 1: Every battle one in the Old Testament was one because
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  Speaker 1: of God's power, not human strength. The Red Sea didn't
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  Speaker 1: part because of Moses, it parted because of God. Jericho
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  Speaker 1: didn't fall because of Israel's military, it fell because of
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  Speaker 1: obedience to God's command. David didn't defeat Goliath because of skill.
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  Speaker 1: It was God's anointing. And here's the final truth. Spiritual
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  Speaker 1: warfare isn't about whether you're in the battle. You are.
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  Speaker 1: The question is are you fighting or are you losing
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  Speaker 1: without even realizing it, Because the enemy isn't waiting for
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  Speaker 1: you to engage, he's already attacking. The only way to
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  Speaker 1: win is to stand up, armor up, pray up, and
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  Speaker 1: fight back. Because the war is real, but so is
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  Speaker 1: the victory. We've gone through some of the most powerful
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  Speaker 1: lessons hidden in the Old Testament, lessons of faith, obedience,
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  Speaker 1: spiritual warfare, and prophecy. But here's the real question. What
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  Speaker 1: will you do with them? Because here's the truth. Most
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  Speaker 1: people will hear this, nod their heads and go back
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  Speaker 1: to life as usual. They'll forget that faith requires action.
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  Speaker 1: They'll ignore that disobedience brings consequences. They'll dismiss that God
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  Speaker 1: uses the most unlikely people, thinking it applies to some
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  Speaker 1: one else but not them. But you don't have to
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  Speaker 1: be like most people. You now know that God is
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  Speaker 1: sovereign over everything that no matter what happens in the world,
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  Speaker 1: he is in control. Will you trust him even when
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  Speaker 1: life feels chaotic. You now know that faith isn't passive,
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  Speaker 1: It requires movement, that miracles follow obedience, not hesitation. Will
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  Speaker 1: you step out even when you don't have all the answers?
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  Speaker 1: You now know that disobedience has consequences, that rebellion always
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  Speaker 1: leads to destruction. Will you take God's commands seriously or
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  Speaker 1: will you let comfort keep you from obedience? You now
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  Speaker 1: know that God chooses the unlikely, that he raises up
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  Speaker 1: people no one expects. Will you keep doubting yourself or
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  Speaker 1: will you step into the calling He has placed on
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  Speaker 1: your life. You now know that repentance has power, that
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  Speaker 1: no one is too far gone for God's mercy. Will
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  Speaker 1: you turn back to him or will you let shame
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  Speaker 1: and guilt keep you in the past. You now know
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  Speaker 1: that prophecy is unfolding, that the signs are happening right now.
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  Speaker 1: Will you stay asleep or will you wake up and
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  Speaker 1: prepare for what's coming. The Old Testament wasn't written just
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  Speaker 1: to be read. It was written to transform you, to
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  Speaker 1: show you who God is, to show you how He moves,
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  Speaker 1: to show you what happens when people trust him and
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  Speaker 1: what happens when they don't. And now you stand at
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  Speaker 1: a cross roads. Will you take these lessons and let
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  Speaker 1: them change you? Will you live differently because of what
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  Speaker 1: you've learned, or will you let them be just another
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  Speaker 1: message that fades away. This is your moment, your decision,
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  Speaker 1: your turning point. We've covered every book of the Old
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  Speaker 1: Testament in detail. If you want to watch each videos,
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  Speaker 1: check the playlist in the description. We've also turned our
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  Speaker 1: most popular videos into ebooks to help with your personal
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  Speaker 1: Bible study. And as we close, we will pray together,
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  Speaker 1: because without God's help, none of us can live out
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  Speaker 1: these lessons on our own. Father, we come before you
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  Speaker 1: with open hearts, knowing that we cannot walk this without you.
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  Speaker 1: We have seen the lessons from your word, lessons of faith, obedience,
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  Speaker 1: and trust. Now Lord, we ask for the strength to
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  Speaker 1: apply them for those who have been struggling to trust
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  Speaker 1: in your sovereignty. Remind them to day that you are
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  Speaker 1: in control, that no matter what is happening in the world,
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  Speaker 1: no matter how unstable things may seem, you reign above
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  Speaker 1: it all. Fill them with peace that surpasses all understanding,
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  Speaker 1: knowing that their future is secure in you. For those
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  Speaker 1: who have hesitated in their faith, waiting for certainty before
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  Speaker 1: they move, give them the boldness to step out. Let
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  Speaker 1: them be like Abraham, who obeyed even when he did
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  Speaker 1: not know where he was going, Like Moses who confronted
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  Speaker 1: Pharaoh despite his fears, Like Elijah who built the altar
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  Speaker 1: before the fire fell. Lord, break every chain of doubt, hesitation,
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  Speaker 1: and fear, and release them into radical obedience. For those
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  Speaker 1: who have walked in disobedience, who have ignored your voice,
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  Speaker 1: who have compromised, Lord, we repent. We ask for your mercy,
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  Speaker 1: just as you forgave David, just as you restored Jonah,
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  Speaker 1: just as you gave Israel another chance. Father, we ask
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  Speaker 1: for your grace over our lives. Turn us back to
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  Speaker 1: you before it's too late. For those who feel unworthy, overlooked,
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  Speaker 1: and unqualified, remind them to day that you choose the
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  Speaker 1: least expected, that you raised up Gideon when he was hiding,
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  Speaker 1: You called David when no one believed in him, and
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  Speaker 1: you used Paul when he was persecuting Christians. Show them
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  Speaker 1: that their weakness does not disqualify them. It is the
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  Speaker 1: very thing that makes them usable for your glory. For
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  Speaker 1: those who are facing spiritual battles, who feel the weight
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  Speaker 1: of attacks from the enemy, Strengthen them, Clothe them in
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  Speaker 1: the full armor of God. Remind them that they are
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  Speaker 1: not fighting alone. That just as you sent angels to
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  Speaker 1: protect Elisha, just as you fought for Israel when they
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  Speaker 1: were surrounded, you are still fighting for us to day.
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  Speaker 1: And Lord, as we see the prophecies unfolding, as we
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  Speaker 1: witness the signs of the times, we pray for discernment.
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  Speaker 1: Let us not be deceived, Let us not be blind
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  Speaker 1: to what is happening. Let us stand firm in truth,
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  Speaker 1: unwavering in faith, and unshaken by the world. Father, we
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  Speaker 1: surrender everything to you, our fears, our doubts, our failures,
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  Speaker 1: our dreams. We lay it all at your feet. Transform us,
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  Speaker 1: strengthen us, lead us in the way everlasting. We declare
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  Speaker 1: to day that we will not just be hearers of
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  Speaker 1: your word, but doers that we will not waste these
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  Speaker 1: lessons that we will walk in faith, fight in the spirit,
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  Speaker 1: and stand for truth no matter the cost. In Jesus
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  Speaker 1: Mighty name, we pray stay strong, stay obedient, stay close
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  Speaker 1: to God, stay blest,