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Route of Revival - 2/4/26 - Granville Branch - Meadows Baptist Church - Pastor Charlie Branch · Meadows Baptist Church Podcast

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  Welcome to the podcast of Meadows
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  Baptist Church of Walnut Cove, North
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  Carolina. We're so glad you joined us
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  today. If you enjoy today's message, be
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  sure to subscribe, follow, and share
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  with your friends. Now, let's join
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  Pastor Charlie Branch with a word from
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  God.
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  Amen. Amen. I appreciate each one of you
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  being here tonight and appreciate dad,
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  my pastor, coming to fill in for me
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  tonight and help me. And I need it.
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  Amen. And I tell you what, if there's
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  anything I've discovered in the last
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  year, a couple years of pastoring is I
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  need preaching more than I ever have in
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  my life. And uh I'm so thankful he was
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  able to come be with us. And I
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  appreciate his faithfulness. I
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  appreciate his wisdom and his humility.
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  And I don't just say that just because
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  he's my dad, but he's the realest
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  preacher I know. And I thank God for
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  him. I know he's got something for us
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  tonight. You pray for him. And Lord will
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  help us. And be attentive to the word of
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  God. And I tell you this, you'll listen.
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  God will give you something.
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  >> And uh there's never been a time that
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  I've sat down to a church service where
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  where he preached and I didn't get
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  something that helped me. And I can
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  promise you he'll do the same for you
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  tonight. And I don't not like I said,
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  I'm not trying to lift man up. He is my
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  daddy. Amen. But he's God's man. And I
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  appreciate him. So, Dad, you preach for
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  us tonight. That's your water. And uh
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  Amen. Thank you. Love you.
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  >> Amen. Well, thank the Lord. Amen. It's
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  good to be in church. Amen. And it's
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  good to see you guys tonight. Glad we
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  was able to be here uh with you this
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  evening. And always excited to get to go
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  to church. And and I seen some more
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  Jesus freaks coming down the road. Amen.
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  A few people that cleaned their parking
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  lot off and decided to go to church
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  tonight. So, God bless you. Thank you
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  for Amen. braving the elements and being
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  at church and and I like it. 2
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  Chronicles tonight 31. Uh if you have
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  your Bible, you'll turn there. I've been
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  studying this on our Wednesday night
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  services for I think since November um
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  there at the church. And I had another
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  message I was going uh to tonight.
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  Charlie, I talked with him this morning
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  and uh and he asked me to come and be
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  with you guys this evening and our
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  Wednesday our Wednesday night, our
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  midweek services are moved to Thursday
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  uh through this month. And so, Amen. and
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  was glad we was able to come be with him
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  uh tonight. Amen. Be with you guys and
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  and uh Lord willing to be a help to you.
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  That's our heart's desire. And again, I
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  I thought I was going to be somewhere
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  else. Lord, change that this afternoon
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  and just confirmed it as we sit there
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  studying and praying. Uh but 2
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  Chronicles 31 and you find your place.
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  Uh find your place in verse number 11.
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  And uh we'll read the text. Uh amen
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  tonight. And I invite you to stand when
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  you find your place and we'll honor
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  reverence to reading the word of God.
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  and we'll read this text and I'll go
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  back and give you some background on
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  this. I know we've been in study there
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  at our church for this for several weeks
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  and I'll go back and give you some
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  background. I'm I'm going to preach out
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  verses 20 and 21 tonight, but I want to
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  give you this kind of lead up to where
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  we're going to preach at tonight. The
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  Bible says, "Then Hezekiah commanded uh
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  to prepare the chambers in the house of
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  the Lord. And they prepared them and
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  brought in the offerings and in the
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  tithes and the dedicated things
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  faithfully over which Kayiah uh the
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  Levite was ruler and Shimi his brother
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  was the next. and Jial and Aziah and
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  Nahath and Ashel and Gerimoth and Jose
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  and Eliel and Ishmachiah and Mayath and
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  Beniah uh were overseers. I'm thankful
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  for John and Beal and Sue. Amen.
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  Somebody say amen right there. But
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  anyway, we'll move on here. It says,
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  "And there were overseers under the hand
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  of Kai Shimi's brother, at the commanded
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  of Hezekiah, the king, and Azerai, the
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  ruler of the house of God. And Core, the
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  son of Emna, uh, the Levite, the porter
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  toward the east, was over the free will
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  offerings of God, uh, to distribute the
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  oblations of the Lord, uh, and the most
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  holy things." The next him were Eden and
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  Minimum and Jeshua and Shemiah and
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  Amoriah and Sheckchaniah in the cities
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  of the priests in their set office to
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  give uh to their brethren by courses as
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  well to the great as to the small.
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  beside their genealogy of males uh from
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  three years old and upward, even unto
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  everyone that enterth in to the house of
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  the Lord, his daily portion uh for their
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  service in their charge uh charges
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  according to their courses, both to the
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  genealogy of the priests, by the house
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  of their fathers, and the Levites from
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  20 years old and upward in their charges
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  uh by their courses and to the genealogy
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  of all their little ones, their wives,
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  their sons, their daughters, through all
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  the congregation. And for there said
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  Alphas, they sanctified themselves in
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  holiness. Also the sons of Aaron uh the
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  priests which were in the fields of the
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  suburbs of their cities and every
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  several city the men that were expressed
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  by name to give portions to all the
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  males among the priests and to all that
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  were reckoned by the genealogies among
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  the Levites. Thus did Hezekiah
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  throughout all Judah and wrought that
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  which was good and right and truth
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  before the Lord his God. And in every
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  work that he began in the service of the
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  house of God, in the law and in the
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  commandments to seek his God, he did it
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  with all his heart and he prospered.
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  Heavenly Father, as we bow this evening,
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  I want to say thank you, God, for the
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  house of God. Thank you for letting us
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  uh be back, Lord. I know it's been a
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  while for us at Mountaintop to be at
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  church. And I know it's been a while for
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  the folks here at Metas, God. It's been
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  good, though, Lord, to be able to come
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  tonight, Lord. Just the anticipation of
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  getting to be in the house of God. I
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  appreciate your people that's faithful
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  uh to come, Lord, regardless of what's
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  going on on the outside. I know there's
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  times when it's not safe to come, Lord.
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  Lord, I'm glad for those that come,
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  Lord, and are faithful, God, when they
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  can. And Lord, give their uh themselves
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  to you, Father, to worship you, Lord,
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  and to receive of you what you have for
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  them. God, I pray you bless tonight and
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  bless every heart that's in a place,
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  Lord, the children classes, Lord, please
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  be with them and help them tonight, God.
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  if there's one here that's lost tonight.
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  I pray God they'd realize their need to
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  be saved. And Lord, for those dear
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  saints that are faithful, encourage them
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  and strengthen them, God. Uh Lord, to do
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  your work. And Lord, help us in these
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  days, God, just to magnify your name and
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  shine for you. And we'll thank you, God,
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  for that you do, Lord. Open our our our
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  mind and our ears, uh Lord, what you had
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  to say to us, God, in our heart most of
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  all, God, that we be helped tonight in
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  Jesus precious name we do pray. Amen.
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  And amen. You can be seated. and thank
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  you for standing. And uh I again I've
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  been preaching on this for some time and
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  and uh we we see here in the text we go
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  back in chapter number 29. I won't spend
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  a lot of time uh in this but chapter
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  number 29 we know that Hezekiah comes
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  into uh rule there in Judah uh after his
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  father Ahaz had ruled there uh 16 years
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  and he did that which was wicked in the
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  sight of the Lord. We see Hezekiah,
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  amen, comes into reign and he does the
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  opposite of what his daddy does. He he
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  turns things around for Judah and he set
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  his heart, amen, to serve the Lord. And
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  we believe it was because of his mama.
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  Praise God. You study about his mama.
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  Amen. You'll know that her name, Amen,
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  it means uh Jehovah is God. And and when
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  you look at that, Amen. You see that
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  most likely it was she, amen, that amen,
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  led him in the right way of the Lord.
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  And so, thank God for good, godly mamas.
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  Amen. And that we're reading about a man
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  here that done a great work uh in Judah
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  because of his mama. Praise God. And I
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  appreciate that. But we come here and we
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  see that that Hezekiah uh has brought
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  revival into the land of Judah. We see
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  that the first thing he did was open up
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  the house of God. Amen. When it' been
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  closed up, when his daddy had closed the
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  doors on it. And man, they went out. Uh
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  they was worshiping in the hills and the
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  groves at the rock and at the stump and
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  you know the all the names that we could
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  go on and say tonight. BUT HE OPENED UP
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  THE HOUSE OF GOD AGAIN. AMEN. Got those
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  priests and Levites. Amen. Told them to
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  clean themselves up and and man, they
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  started cleaning themselves up and those
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  servants of God got right with God and
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  they and then we seen that he said that
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  THEY CONSECRATED THE HOUSE of God. IN
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  OTHER WORDS, THEY THEY SET it back in
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  order and and then he called for the
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  Passover and they sent letters out by
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  the post all over Judah and uh the
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  southern kingdom. Then he told them,
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  "Hey, SAY GO INTO ISRAEL AND INVITE
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  THEM, AMEN, TO COME TO THE PASSOVER.
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  WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A meeting here." And
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  and man, WE WANT TO GET THINGS BACK IN
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  ORDER AND and we see that there's many
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  that come and many that made fun of him
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  and mocked at him, but many come and you
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  remember that first Passover, man, it
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  was so good. They went seven days, you
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  know, the Passover. Amen. That uh Amen.
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  It wasn't the uh the first uh uh uh or
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  the the the 14th day of the first month
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  they did, but it was the the in the
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  second month that they was able to do it
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  because it WAS GETTING THE HOUSE OF GOD
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  RIGHT. AMEN. In that first month, in
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  that second month, amen, they had that
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  Passover, man. It was so good. AND
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  PEOPLE GOT SO RIGHT WITH GOD, THEY
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  DECIDED TO GO SEVEN more days. Amen. And
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  man, they just had a meeting, man.
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  People got right. And where we come to
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  in our text here and what we read
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  tonight, uh, there in chapter number 31
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  is there's been 14 years of the glory
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  there in Judah.
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  >> Amen.
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  >> 14 years. I'm not talking about, you
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  know, a twoe meeting and then everybody
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  goes back to doing the same old thing
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  that they've always been doing. I mean,
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  14 years. You You remember that we we
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  look back in verse number 12. Amen. THAT
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  THEY HAD SET THE HOUSE OF GOD IN ORDER.
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  AMEN. THAT BROUGHT THE TITHES IN AND MAN
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  THAT'S SERVING GOD AND DOING THE WORK OF
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  GOD. AMEN. LOOK AT THAT VERSE NUMBER 12.
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  IT SAYS, "AND THEY BROUGHT THE OFFERINGS
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  AND THE TITHES AND THE DEDICATED
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  THINGS." LOOK AT THAT WORD FAITHFULLY.
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  >> RIGHT,
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  >> MAN. God did a work.
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  >> They did it faithfully. And then and I
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  may have told you it wasn't 14 years.
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  It's not till chapter 32. I was into
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  another study, but in chapter number 32,
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  between chapter 31 and chapter 32 is 14
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  years. Amen. And they continued doing
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  that, you know. And that's what real
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  revival looks like. Amen. When it
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  changes you and that change, listen,
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  takes a a a place in your heart and man,
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  you become a different creature. Listen,
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  and you're not INTERESTED IN GOING BACK
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  TO THAT OLD WAY OF LIFE. YOU'RE NOT
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  INTERESTED IN IN GOING BACK TO THAT
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  HOHAM CHRISTIANITY AND JUST DOING,
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  LISTEN, just enough TO GET BY. YOU KNOW,
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  THAT'S WHERE people live today. Most
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  people that are saved got just enough
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  Jesus to make them miserable. Right.
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  >> I mean, man, they got in AND THEY WAS
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  EXCITED ABOUT THE LORD. AMEN. AND THEY
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  WANTED TO GO TO CHURCH, MAN. THEY WANTED
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  TO SERVE GOD.
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  >> I MEAN, IT WASN'T just something THAT WE
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  DID. IT WAS WHO WE ARE. AMEN. And and we
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  see that's who THESE PEOPLE ARE. AND AND
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  WE'RE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT Hezekiah in
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  this in the verses 20 and 21 tonight.
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  And and and I want to I want to preach
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  on this thought tonight on the on the
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  root of revival. I'm talking about the
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  root r o t but the root r o u t e like
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  root 66 you know the the way of revival
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  I guess that would be better understood
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  but the root of revival and and we
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  understand that revival is divine we
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  know that only God sends it right I mean
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  and God sends it but but we look right
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  here in this text and we come to these
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  two verses here in verses 20 and 21 of
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  this text and we CAN SEE HOW GOD BROUGHT
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  REVIVAL TO JUDAH
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  We can see it. We can track it. We can
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  trace it. Amen. Right here. And I'm not
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  saying listen that we can do certain
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  things and usher in revival. But because
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  these things are not just something that
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  you do, Amen. physically. These are
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  things, listen, that you do spiritually.
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  And everybody listening here THAT'S
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  SAVED TONIGHT KNOWS that it's the
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  spiritual man, amen, that gets in touch
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  with God, THAT SEEKS GOD, THAT WANTS
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  GOD, AMEN, MORE THAN THE CARNAL MAN. AND
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  LISTEN, FRIENDS, WHEN YOU FOLLOW HIM
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  THAT WAY, FRIEND, HE'LL BE RIGHT THERE
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  WITH YOU. AMEN.
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  >> I PROMISE YOU THAT. I CAN'T PROMISE you
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  much tonight, but I can promise you if
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  you do these things, man, personal
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  revival will come into your life. And
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  when personal revival comes into YOUR
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  LIFE, YOU KNOW WHAT IT DOES? It trickles
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  into those around you.
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  >> Amen. And when it trickles into those
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  around you, amen, you're experiencing
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  something, AMEN, THAT A LOT OF PEOPLE
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  ARE DESIRING. AMEN. BUT THEY'RE NOT
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  WILLING TO give to get. Okay. We see
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  here these things here about Hezekiah on
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  this route in which this revival came.
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  And I want you to notice a few things
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  with me tonight. Number one, uh, here in
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  this text in verse number 20, let's look
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  at the character of Hezekiah for just a
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  few moments. The character of Hezekiah.
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  Now we see in the latter part, amen, all
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  listen, all this this groundwork and
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  everything that was done, amen, here in
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  the house of God and how these uh these
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  uh Levites and how these priests and how
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  these servants of God uh was holding
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  their positions, MAN, IT WAS LOOK WHAT I
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  READ TO YOU TONIGHT BEFORE we got to
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  verse number 20. Amen. It's like a
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  welloiled machine running. That's what
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  that looks like. If you go and STUDY
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  THAT TONIGHT, YOU EVER STOOD BACK AND
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  JUST LOOKED at a machine maybe in a
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  factory or maybe a piece of farm
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  equipment, you just SCRATCH YOUR HEAD.
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  HOW DOES THAT THING even work? Amen. You
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  know, AND I MEAN, IT'S BECAUSE EVERY
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  PART IS DOING ITS PART. AMEN. WHAT YOU
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  read here in THIS TEXT IS EVERY PART
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  DOING ITS PART. YOU KNOW, THAT'S THE WAY
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  THE CHURCH NEEDS TO BE TONIGHT. AMEN.
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  EVERY PART NEEDS TO BE DOING ITS PART.
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  AMEN. AS PAUL SAID, THE BODY FITLY
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  JOINED TOGETHER, COMPACTED BY THAT WHICH
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  EVERY JOINT SUPPLIED. AMEN. THAT'S YOU
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  AND THAT'S ME. AMEN. AND WE ARE WE'RE TO
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  DO OUR PART. AND FRIENDS, THE ONLY WAY
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  THAT WE CAN DO OUR PART IS TO BE RIGHT
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  WITH GOD.
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  >> AMEN. We can show up. Amen. To be like a
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  baron that's out ON A PIECE OF
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  EQUIPMENT, RIGHT? YOU KNOW WHAT? YOU RUN
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  THAT BARON, THAT THING LONG ENOUGH,
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  IT'LL SET THE WHOLE THING ON FIRE, WON'T
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  IT? AMEN. WELL, YEAH, I won't charge you
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  nothing for that. Well, anyway, look at
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  the character of Hezekiah here tonight.
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  Look at verse number 20. And Bible says,
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  "Thus did Hezekiah." Okay? And and and
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  they're not attributing all this to him.
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  Amen. Because we don't puff man up. But
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  but they're using he listen in a sense
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  OF SHOWING WHAT ONE MAN CAN DO. AMEN.
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  When he sets his sight upon God and
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  doesn't take it off,
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  >> right?
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  >> Okay. Now, watch what your Bible says.
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  And and Bible says, "And thus did
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  Hezekiah through all Judah and wrought
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  that which was good and right and truth
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  before the Lord his God." So, let's look
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  at his character uh tonight and the
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  attributes of his work. Number one, we
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  see here in the text, he did that which
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  was good. Do you see that right there in
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  your Bible? I'm not going to preach deep
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  tonight, but just look right there. He
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  did that which was good. That word
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  wrought there in your text. That that
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  means a working a a mending if you will
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  like a raw iron fence is is as a person
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  has took some steel. AMEN. AND THEY'VE
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  APPLIED THE HEAT TO IT. AMEN. And they
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  have molded that steel. THAT'S RAW IRON.
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  AMEN. AND WE SEE THAT HE WROUGHT LISTENS
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  IN IN AND ALL JUDAH and he wrought that
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  which was good. He did a good work. And
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  the word good used right here uh is that
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  which is good in the eyes of the Lord.
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  >> That's what we've got to understand.
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  That's what's going to separate Amen.
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  listen those that Amen. spiritual from
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  those that's carnal. You know, things
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  can be good. Amen. But are they good in
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  the eyes of the Lord? That's what we got
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  to ask ourselves. Again, do that we can
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  do that which is good for us personally
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  and we can even do that which is good
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  for others. But that's not necessarily
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  good concerning, think about this now.
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  the will of God. Amen. There's a lot of
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  humanitarian aid. There's a lot of
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  that's been done over the last little
• 15:35
  bit. Man, I'm thankful for people that
• 15:37
  come and pushed out the driveways. Amen.
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  I had a neighbor come pushed mine out
• 15:40
  while I was uh pushing everybody else's
• 15:42
  out. Thank God for it. Amen. Amen.
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  That's the ones that always suffer the
• 15:46
  most is the ones that serve him. Right.
• 15:48
  Amen. But uh but but you know, we can DO
• 15:50
  THAT WHICH IS GOOD, BUT NOT NECESSARILY
• 15:52
  IS IT good concerning the will of God.
• 15:55
  And the reason that Judah was in such a
• 15:58
  mess is because folk took to the
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  leadership of Ahaz, Hezekiah's father,
• 16:03
  because what he was doing, listen to me
• 16:06
  now, they thought was good.
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  >> He closed up the house of God.
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  >> That's tired of going anyway.
• 16:13
  >> Okay, let's be honest. Let's Let's just
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  be real honest. Amen. Have we not missed
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  Amen. the last two weeks of church? Have
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  we not listen you know uh being absent
• 16:25
  from this place would your zeal to be
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  HERE TONIGHT BE AS IT IS TONIGHT THOUGH
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  WE'VE MISSED IT LISTEN IF THE DOORS OPEN
• 16:32
  EVERY TIME YOU KNOW WHAT HAPPENS TO US
• 16:34
  IN THE FLESH WE GET TO WHERE AMEN IT
• 16:36
  BECOMES JUST SOMETHING THAT WE DO AND
• 16:38
  IT'S NOT SOMETHING THAT WE DESIRE do
• 16:41
  >> right
• 16:42
  >> and that's the way they had gotten I
• 16:44
  mean you can go back and study through
• 16:45
  the kings and you can see it just it's
• 16:47
  escalating comes in there and you know
• 16:49
  and he's looking at a people listen
• 16:51
  That's that that well, let's just put it
• 16:53
  this way. They need something different.
• 16:55
  You know, that's what the modern day
• 16:56
  church is doing today.
• 16:57
  >> Amen. That they'll dim the lights. Amen.
• 16:59
  They'll bring in the rock bands. Listen,
• 17:01
  they'll change the Bible and we'll have
• 17:03
  a 10-minute session. We'll go eat pizza
• 17:05
  and donuts. Amen. Watch the ball game.
• 17:07
  Hey, look, friend. Listen, I'm tell you
• 17:09
  what, there's no substitute, amen, for
• 17:12
  preaching out of that book right there.
• 17:14
  Amen. Hey, listen, friend. You got to
• 17:15
  understand that YOU CANNOT CHANGE THAT.
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  AND MY FRIENDS, WHEN AHAZ CHANGED IT,
• 17:20
  WHEN HE CLOSED UP THE HOUSE OF GOD,
• 17:21
  FRIEND, THAT'S WHEN THE ENEMY STARTED
• 17:23
  COMING IN. YOU'LL GO BACK AND READ IN
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  CHAPTER NUMBER 28 OF THIS TEXT AND
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  YOU'LL FIND, AMEN, THERE WAS NO KING
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  during the the reign OF JUDAH WHERE AS
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  MUCH DESTRUCTION WAS DONE TO THE PEOPLE
• 17:33
  OF GOD AS IT WAS UNDER AHAZ BECAUSE HE
• 17:36
  CLOSED UP THE HOUSE OF GOD. AMEN. THE
• 17:38
  ENEMY CAME AND YOU CAN GO BACK AND READ
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  THE NUMBERS. AMEN. 120,000 VALIANT MEN,
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  AMEN, WERE SLAIN OUT OF JUDAH. That's a
• 17:47
  lot of people,
• 17:48
  >> right?
• 17:49
  >> But think about this. 120,000 valiant
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  men. It didn't just say men. It said
• 17:55
  valiant men. It means men of spiritual
• 17:58
  uh uh character. Men listen like himself
• 18:02
  >> like Hezekiah. MEN THAT THAT THAT LOVED
• 18:04
  GOD AND AND AND LOVE THEIR WIVES AND AND
• 18:07
  LOVE THEIR FAMILY. COULD YOU IMAGINE
• 18:09
  LOSING 120,000 of them? Amen.
• 18:13
  But then not only that, but 200,000
• 18:15
  women and children during Az's reign was
• 18:18
  taken captive by Israel to the north.
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  That's a picture of the liberal modern
• 18:23
  day church.
• 18:25
  >> 200,000 women and children. Most of
• 18:27
  them, listen, was mamas and BABIES FROM
• 18:30
  THOSE 120,000. AMEN. VALIANT MEN THAT
• 18:33
  WAS KILLED IN BATTLE. AMEN. AND WHEN
• 18:35
  THERE WASN'T A MAN TO LEAVE THE HOME,
• 18:36
  AMEN, THE THE THE WOMEN AND CHILDREN
• 18:39
  WENT A DIFFERENT WAY.
• 18:40
  >> RIGHT.
• 18:41
  >> RIGHT. And that happened under his reign
• 18:43
  when he closed the house of the closed
• 18:45
  the doors of the house of God when it
• 18:46
  wasn't listen like it needed to be
• 18:48
  closed it up enemy came amen listen
• 18:51
  every enemy that was against Israel come
• 18:54
  against them during his reign 16 years
• 18:57
  every enemy that was against Israel Amen
• 18:59
  laid their hand on the nation of Judah
• 19:02
  AMEN AND LEFT HIS MARK I MEAN THE
• 19:03
  PHILISTINES COME AND THEY JUST MOVED in
• 19:06
  >> right
• 19:07
  >> I mean they didn't come and JUST TO TO
• 19:08
  TO HURT THEM THEY COME AND MOVED IN THEY
• 19:11
  THEY TOOK THEIR GROUND. AMEN. BACK THAT
• 19:13
  GOD HAD given them, you know. So, so but
• 19:17
  here's here's where this started when
• 19:19
  when Ahaz started this. Amen. And you
• 19:22
  know, listen, they they like that carnal
• 19:24
  stuff.
• 19:26
  They like that carnal worship, you know,
• 19:27
  and this this worshiping this son god
• 19:30
  Molech where they offered their
• 19:31
  children. Amen. You know, they they give
• 19:34
  their kids listen to everything but God.
• 19:37
  >> Amen. I mean, YOU KNOW, I COULD GO ON
• 19:40
  AND ON ABOUT THAT TONIGHT, but but but
• 19:42
  he but he did that. YOU KNOW, THEY WAS
• 19:43
  ENJOYING IT. THEY LIKE GOING TO THE BALL
• 19:45
  FIELD. THEY LIKE GOING TO THE RACETRACK.
• 19:47
  HEY, THEY LIKE GOING HERE AND GOING
• 19:49
  THERE. AS LONG AS IT WASN'T THE HOUSE OF
• 19:50
  GOD WOULD GO DO THAT.
• 19:53
  >> But they enjoyed that. They enjoyed
• 19:55
  those idols. There's not a person on the
• 19:58
  planet that does not enjoy what he's
• 20:00
  interested in.
• 20:02
  >> Right.
• 20:03
  >> But it's not listen, THERE'S NOTHING
• 20:05
  WRONG WITH THINGS, OKAY? as long as
• 20:07
  things don't possess you. All right?
• 20:10
  >> But here what I'm GOING TO SAY TONIGHT.
• 20:12
  LISTEN. And and we SEE THAT THIS THIS
• 20:14
  THIS THIS GRIP this nation. It brought
• 20:16
  the enemy UPON THEM. IT DESTROYED THEM.
• 20:18
  AND HEZEKIAH COMES IN. AMEN. WITH A
• 20:20
  HEART FOR GOD, A HEART FOR THE PEOPLE TO
• 20:22
  SEE WHAT THEY NEED. AMEN. AND HE STARTS
• 20:25
  DOING THIS good work.
• 20:28
  Okay. I promise you it was not seen good
• 20:30
  by all.
• 20:31
  >> You're right.
• 20:32
  >> All right. Even though they had
• 20:33
  suffered, they had struggled. I mean,
• 20:37
  they had seen loss. Many of them had
• 20:38
  lost their fathers. Many of them had
• 20:40
  lost their daughters and their
• 20:42
  grandchildren.
• 20:43
  Amen. But yet, they were still hung on
• 20:46
  this on this this this carnal worship
• 20:50
  stuff.
• 20:51
  >> Amen. And I promise you, they give him a
• 20:53
  hard time. Amen. When he says, "Hey,
• 20:55
  we're going to open up the house of
• 20:56
  God." You're
• 20:57
  >> right.
• 20:58
  >> What you going to do that for?
• 20:59
  >> We got the groves. We can worship just
• 21:01
  as good over here under the tree stump.
• 21:03
  They run under the tree. No, I guess you
• 21:05
  worship under a stump. But anyway,
• 21:08
  you dig a hole like a groundhog and get
• 21:09
  under. You know what I'm talking about.
• 21:12
  But they didn't see it as good. Amen.
• 21:14
  But he did. And God recognized good. And
• 21:17
  you SEE WHEN WE SEE THAT RIGHT THERE.
• 21:18
  AMEN. THUS DID HEZEKIAH THROUGHOUT ALL
• 21:21
  JUDAH AND HE WROTE THAT MEANS IT WAS
• 21:23
  WORK.
• 21:24
  >> IT WAS WORK. AMEN. IT WASN'T JUST SHOW
• 21:27
  UP AND SMILE. IT WAS WORK. AMEN. AND HE
• 21:30
  WORKED. AMEN. AND HE DID THAT WHICH WAS
• 21:33
  GOOD IN THE eyes of the Lord. Notice
• 21:35
  number two. Look. He did that which was
• 21:37
  right. Look at your Bible. Verse 20. And
• 21:40
  And he he he wrote that which was good
• 21:42
  and right. And right. Now think about
• 21:44
  this.
• 21:46
  This has to do with the motive behind
• 21:48
  the work.
• 21:49
  >> Right.
• 21:49
  >> Right. For it to be good in God's eyes.
• 21:52
  Amen. That means it's for God's glory.
• 21:55
  >> It's not for Hezekiah. It's not for
• 21:57
  Amen. So he can have his name put on the
• 22:00
  Amen. ON THE PEW OR THE SIDE OF THE PULL
• 22:02
  PIT OR WHATEVER. AMEN. IT WAS FOR GOD'S
• 22:04
  GLORY. HE DID IT IN THE RIGHT WAY. HE
• 22:07
  DID IT. HE DID THAT WHICH WAS RIGHT.
• 22:09
  AMEN.
• 22:09
  >> AMEN.
• 22:10
  >> You know, and think about this. It
• 22:12
  wasn't for personal gain. I mean, he had
• 22:14
  great wealth. But if you study up what
• 22:16
  the these chapters before this from 29
• 22:19
  up to where we're at, you'll see he give
• 22:22
  and give and give. If you've ever heard
• 22:23
  the term give till it hurt. This man did
• 22:25
  it.
• 22:26
  >> Amen. He give of his time. He give of
• 22:29
  his talent.
• 22:30
  >> And he give of his treasure.
• 22:32
  >> Amen. In every aspect of that, he give
• 22:34
  till it hurt.
• 22:36
  >> Amen. And it was working. Amen. Because
• 22:38
  listen, he had a he had a heart for God.
• 22:41
  Amen. Which ultimately leads to a heart
• 22:43
  for people.
• 22:44
  >> Amen.
• 22:45
  >> A person says he loves GOD AND HATES HIS
• 22:47
  NEIGHBORS. BIBLE SAYS HE'S A LIAR.
• 22:48
  >> You're right.
• 22:49
  >> Okay. I mean, listen, just be honest.
• 22:51
  And we know we boy, they do better if
• 22:54
  they just quit this. BUT YOU HAVE A LOVE
• 22:55
  FOR THEM. OKAY. AND AGAIN, HE DIDN'T DO
• 22:58
  IT FOR PERSONAL GAIN. HE WASN'T for
• 22:59
  political pop or popularity because we
• 23:02
  know that good work he was doing. Hey,
• 23:03
  listen friend. If if this if he was in
• 23:06
  this position to get voted in, he
• 23:08
  wouldn't get voted in.
• 23:10
  >> Okay, listen. He was there because Amen.
• 23:13
  he was an heir
• 23:15
  >> to that throne.
• 23:16
  >> And and you see, friends, he didn't do
• 23:18
  it for that popularity or pump. Amen. Or
• 23:20
  for praise, any of that stuff. He did it
• 23:24
  simply unto God. And you know, having
• 23:26
  the right motive, watch this now, and
• 23:28
  we'll move on. Having the right motive
• 23:29
  will determine the outcome of your labor
• 23:31
  in the Lord.
• 23:33
  >> Amen. If it's all about you, Amen,
• 23:34
  you're going to run up to the end, amen,
• 23:36
  and you're going to have the same thing
• 23:37
  that you started with.
• 23:39
  >> Amen. But if it's for the Lord, Amen.
• 23:41
  And you're doing it for the Lord. Amen.
• 23:43
  Listen, YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO
• 23:44
  HAVE AT the end OF IT, FRIEND? YOU'RE
• 23:46
  GOING TO HAVE SOMETHING TO GIVE BACK TO
• 23:47
  HIM.
• 23:48
  >> AMEN. You're going to have something,
• 23:49
  listen, to give to him, friends, that do
• 23:51
  he did it, he did that which WAS RIGHT.
• 23:53
  AMEN. AND HE DID IT IN THE RIGHT MOTIVE.
• 23:55
  HE DID IT THE RIGHT WAY. AMEN. He didn't
• 23:58
  try to compromise AND AND COME UNDERMINE
• 24:00
  THE WORD OF GOD. HE DID IT, NOTICE THIS
• 24:02
  NEXT THING. He did it in truth. Look at
• 24:04
  your Bible. Verse 20.
• 24:05
  >> He did it which was good and right and
• 24:08
  truth before the Lord is God. Now, this
• 24:10
  was this is when I study this is
• 24:13
  absolutely amazing to me how that
• 24:15
  Hezekiah
• 24:17
  stood on the truth throughout this
• 24:19
  campaign. I mean, he didn't have much to
• 24:22
  work with,
• 24:23
  >> right?
• 24:24
  >> You study through this, you find when he
• 24:26
  started and he started, he went to those
• 24:27
  priests AND LEVVIS, HE HAD TO GO THROUGH
• 24:30
  his mind. Amen. And think, man, there's
• 24:33
  no way. I mean, here's some guys that
• 24:36
  ain't been to church in 16 years. I
• 24:39
  mean, they're supposed to be servants,
• 24:41
  you know? I mean, IT'S KIND OF LIKE THE
• 24:43
  BAD NEWS BEARS TEAM. AMEN. He come to
• 24:45
  say, "LOOK, WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO WIN
• 24:46
  the World Series with this crowd."
• 24:48
  >> You understand what I'm talking about? I
• 24:50
  mean, HE WENT TO THEM. AMEN. THEY WERE
• 24:52
  OUT OF SHAPE SPIRITUALLY. I MEAN, THEY
• 24:54
  WAS NOT IN LINE WITH GOD WHATSOEVER. AND
• 24:56
  HE SAID, "LOOK, GUYS. HEY, LOOK, GOD'S
• 24:58
  PUT IT ON MY HEART. HE CAN BRING REVIVAL
• 25:00
  TO THIS NATION. BUT YOU KNOW WHAT YOU'RE
• 25:02
  GOING TO HAVE TO DO?" AMEN. YOU'RE GOING
• 25:03
  TO HAVE TO GET UP. YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE
• 25:05
  TO GET WITH IT. AMEN. BECAUSE GOD HAS
• 25:07
  PUT IT ON MY HEART. AMEN. THAT THE ONLY
• 25:09
  FIX FOR OUR NATION, FOR OUR HOMES, FOR
• 25:12
  OUR FAMILIES, AMEN. IS IF THE CHURCH
• 25:14
  GETS RIGHT.
• 25:15
  >> RIGHT.
• 25:16
  >> RIGHT. What if a president sent you a
• 25:19
  letter sent a letter to your pastor?
• 25:21
  >> Amen. He says, "God's put it on my heart
• 25:22
  to revive this nation." Amen. But it's
• 25:24
  up to the house of God. And my friends,
• 25:26
  he knows that's by the truth of the word
• 25:28
  of God. He would send that here. And
• 25:29
  he'd say this. He say, "But it's up to
• 25:31
  you guys TO GET IT DONE. IT'S UP TO YOU
• 25:34
  GUYS, LISTEN, TO GET RIGHT WITH GOD. HE
• 25:36
  CAN'T DO ANYTHING BY HIMSELF. HE CAN
• 25:38
  HAVE THE VISION. HE CAN HAVE THE HEART."
• 25:41
  AMEN. BUT IF HE AIN'T GOT THE HELP, HE
• 25:42
  CAN'T get it done.
• 25:43
  >> Right.
• 25:44
  >> Right. And so we see that he he did it
• 25:47
  in the truth. He stood on the truth. I
• 25:49
  mean, he called God's men to sanctify
• 25:51
  themselves, to sanctify the house OF
• 25:53
  GOD. THEN HE CALLED for the Passover to
• 25:55
  be kept. We talked about that
• 25:56
  introduction. AND KNOWING, LISTEN, GOD'S
• 25:58
  WORD, WATCH THIS. I MEAN, WHEN WHEN THE
• 26:01
  PASSOVER DATE WAS PASSED, HEZEKIAH KNEW
• 26:03
  ENOUGH ABOUT THE WORD OF GOD THAT GOD
• 26:05
  SAID, "IF YOU CAN'T KEEP IT IN THE FIRST
• 26:07
  MONTH, YOU CAN DO IT IN THE SECOND
• 26:08
  MONTH." SO, WHAT DID HE DO? HE SAID,
• 26:10
  "GET IT RIGHT SO WE CAN DO IT ON THIS
• 26:12
  DATE THAT GOD said we could do it."
• 26:14
  Right.
• 26:15
  >> Well, I bet some of them guys looked at
• 26:17
  him and said, "Can we do it on the
• 26:18
  second month?"
• 26:20
  Yeah. Go read the Bible. You'll find out
• 26:22
  you can. Right. Can we do that? Right. I
• 26:26
  mean, he was he he did it in truth. Then
• 26:29
  beyond that, you know, there was there
• 26:31
  was when it come to kill the Passover,
• 26:34
  Amen. And you can study this back in the
• 26:36
  text. Amen. That some of those people,
• 26:38
  Amen. They wasn't clean. They couldn't
• 26:40
  kill the Passover. I mean, you had to be
• 26:43
  right with God to do this.
• 26:44
  >> So, Hezekiah sent those Levites that had
• 26:47
  got right with God, had got cleansed
• 26:49
  themselves to go kill the Passover for
• 26:51
  them. Listen, he knew this had TO BE
• 26:52
  DONE. THERE WAS NO EXCUSES,
• 26:55
  >> RIGHT?
• 26:55
  >> AMEN. And then there were some, you
• 26:58
  study there that ate of the Passover
• 26:59
  that went right with God,
• 27:01
  >> right? You study that in the scripture
• 27:03
  and they ate of the Passover as God's
• 27:05
  going. He said, "Dear God, he forgive
• 27:09
  them. If her heart's right, God forgive
• 27:11
  them. Don't kill him.
• 27:13
  >> Amen. And you know what that is? Listen,
• 27:14
  that's grace in the Old Testament.
• 27:16
  >> That's right.
• 27:17
  >> He knew God enough, listen, to know be
• 27:19
  know HIM BEYOND THE LAW. AMEN. TO KNOW
• 27:21
  HIM BEYOND THE RULES AND REGULATION. HE
• 27:23
  KNEW GOD IN A RELATIONSHIP. AND THAT'S
• 27:25
  WHERE TRUTH SETS IN YOUR HEART. THAT'S
• 27:28
  WHERE TRUTH LEADS YOU. IF YOU DO this
• 27:30
  thing just because you have to, it'll
• 27:31
  never amount anything to you. But if you
• 27:33
  do it BECAUSE OF A RELATIONSHIP THAT YOU
• 27:36
  HAVE WITH GOD, FRIEND, IT'LL BE THE BEST
• 27:38
  THING THAT'S EVER HAPPENED to you.
• 27:39
  >> Amen. He did. This is the way he did it.
• 27:41
  He did it in truth. Amen.
• 27:44
  Then think about this.
• 27:46
  He called for the offerings to keep the
• 27:48
  house of God going. Right? All he got in
• 27:52
  their pocketbook,
• 27:54
  >> right? Called for the offerings. Now
• 27:56
  listen, friend, you need to be up here
• 27:58
  when when it's time to preach on
• 28:00
  tithing. Okay? Right? How cold it gets
• 28:02
  in the church sometimes.
• 28:04
  >> Amen. I've I preached on for three
• 28:06
  weeks. I that's what brought in the
• 28:07
  snowstorm. Okay?
• 28:10
  But listen to me, friend. I mean, you
• 28:12
  got to be right with God and know know
• 28:15
  of a truth that it's it's God's word to
• 28:17
  proclaim that to a people. Hey, look,
• 28:19
  it's your duty to keep this thing up.
• 28:21
  >> You're right.
• 28:21
  >> It's your duty to give, Amen, to this
• 28:24
  house. Amen. To keep this thing up, to
• 28:26
  keep the servants where they can do what
• 28:28
  they're supposed TO DO. AND YOU KNOW,
• 28:29
  THOSE LEVITES HAD TO GO GET THEM A JOB.
• 28:31
  THOSE PRIESTS HAD TO GO GET THEM A JOB.
• 28:33
  BUT YOU'LL FIND IN THE SCRIPTURE, AMEN,
• 28:34
  THAT WHEN GOD, LISTEN, GOT IN THE HEARTS
• 28:37
  OF THOSE PEOPLE, WHEN HEZEKIAH
• 28:38
  proclaimed to them to keep the tithe,
• 28:40
  BRING THE OFFERINGS INTO THE HOUSE OF
• 28:42
  GOD. AMEN. THOSE PRIESTS AND LEAVE US TO
• 28:44
  BACK SAID, "MAN, WE AIN'T HAD THIS MUCH
• 28:46
  IN A long time, king."
• 28:48
  >> Good was able to move and do the work of
• 28:52
  the Lord. And friends, he did that
• 28:53
  according to the truth. It had nothing
• 28:55
  to do with him.
• 28:57
  >> He didn't take one penny of it.
• 29:00
  >> It was all for God's glory. Amen. And
• 29:02
  and friends, that's that's his
• 29:04
  character.
• 29:05
  Okay? And friends, that's the that's the
• 29:08
  root that revival rides in on is that
• 29:10
  kind of character doing that which is
• 29:12
  good, which is right, and according to
• 29:14
  the truth,
• 29:15
  >> revival rides on that. You say,
• 29:17
  "Preacher, that just does that just
• 29:18
  sounds too simple." Amen. Well, that's
• 29:20
  kind of like salvation,
• 29:22
  >> right? Salvation sometimes people try to
• 29:24
  make it complicated,
• 29:26
  >> right? Got to do this, this, this. If
• 29:28
  you don't do this, you'll lose it.
• 29:29
  >> Wouldn't you hate to live like that?
• 29:31
  >> Amen. Amen,
• 29:33
  >> man. Jesus said, "It's finished."
• 29:35
  >> Praise God. When he when he come out,
• 29:37
  listen, when you hang on that cross,
• 29:39
  Amen. those last words, HE SAID, "IT IS
• 29:41
  FINISHED. ALL THAT'S LEFT FOR YOU TO DO
• 29:43
  IS confess him
• 29:44
  >> AND BE SAVED, FRIEND, AND AND TRUST HIM
• 29:47
  AND FOLLOW HIM." AND REVIVAL, LISTEN, I
• 29:49
  BELIEVE SOMETIMES we make it so
• 29:51
  complicated.
• 29:52
  >> Amen.
• 29:53
  >> Amen. We we we make it look so way out,
• 29:55
  y'all. Listen, if if you'll just do that
• 29:57
  which is good and do it the right way
• 30:00
  and do it in the truth, personal revival
• 30:02
  will come into your life. Number two, I
• 30:04
  want you to see this. Look at his
• 30:05
  commitment. We've seen his character,
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  but look at his commitment. Look at your
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  Bible. Verse 21.
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  I love this. In every work that he began
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  in the service of the house of God and
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  in the law and in the commandments to
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  seek his God, he did it with all his
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  heart. His commitment. Think about that.
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  Look at the area of his commitment. The
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  area of his commitment. Number one, it
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  was the house of God. You see that? And
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  every work that he began, verse 21, in
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  the service of the house of God.
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  So his area of commitment was in the
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  house of God. And then notice number
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  two. Amen. And then the law and in the
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  commandments, in the word of God.
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  His commitment, his life revolved
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  around, listen, the word of God and the
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  house of God. That's what his life
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  revolved around.
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  >> Yeah. Say, "Preacher, I got a job. I
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  can't do that." Yeah, you can.
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  >> Come on.
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  >> You You can actually do your job better
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  >> if you put your commitment, Amen. to
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  God's work here on this earth, he'll he
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  listen, he'll he'll use you greater than
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  you've ever known.
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  >> Amen.
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  >> Amen. If you'll place your commitment
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  right there, that's the problem we have
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  today. You know, we we get our
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  commitment everywhere but the house of
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  God. You're
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  >> right.
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  >> Amen. if you'll commit yourself to the
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  house of God. But first of all, listen,
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  you will never be committed to the house
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  of God if you're not committed to the
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  word of God first.
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  >> Amen. You see that? Listen, he that that
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  was the area of his commitment. You
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  know, think about this. A man can be
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  committed to a lot of things, but true
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  spiritual revival only comes through a
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  man that is committed to these things.
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  >> Amen.
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  >> You'll never see a person, Amen,
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  experience revival that's, Amen, that's
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  uh not committed to the house of God.
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  may be faithful in attendance.
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  >> Come on.
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  >> But they're not they're not committed to
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  it.
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  >> Amen.
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  >> Right? They're not committed. Listen, in
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  praying for it,
• 31:51
  >> right? Praying for your pastor, praying
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  for the Sunday school teachers, praying
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  for the singing, praying for the
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  service, praying for souls to be saved.
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  That's commitment,
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  >> right?
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  >> That it means more to you listen than
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  than listening everything around you.
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  There's a dear old saint of God I used
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  to know that would pray listen for the
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  things of God uh be above and beyond her
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  own personal being. Sick laying in the
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  hospital dying. Preacher, how's the
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  church doing? How's the church doing?
• 32:18
  I'm praying for the church. She's laying
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  there dying with cancer, but she's
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  praying for the house of God. Praying
• 32:23
  for the work of God. You see what?
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  That's commitment. And she was committed
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  while she was there when she WAS GOT
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  SICK, LAYING ON HER DEATHBED. She was
• 32:29
  still committed to the house OF GOD, TO
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  THE WORK OF GOD, BECAUSE SHE HAD THE
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  WORD OF GOD all up in her heart.
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  >> Amen.
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  >> That was his commitment. We see THAT IN
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  SCRIPTURE. AND EVERY WORK THAT HE BEGAN,
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  meaning this, THE REASON THAT IT WAS
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  GOOD, THE reason that it was right, THE
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  REASON THAT IT WAS ACCORDED TO THE TRUTH
• 32:45
  WAS BECAUSE HE WAS COMMITTED TO THE
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  WORD. HE WAS COMMITTED to the house of
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  God.
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  >> His focus was upon doing it all
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  according to the word. Amen.
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  by the book.
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  >> Don't you hate to work around them
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  people that wants to do everything by
• 33:01
  the book, right? Some of you may be in
• 33:04
  construction, you know, and you know,
• 33:06
  and they got this saying, you know, some
• 33:07
  of these jack legs we work with. Amen.
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  Well, you can't see it from my house. I
• 33:11
  hate that.
• 33:11
  >> Amen.
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  >> Or I I can't stand that. And my my wife
• 33:14
  says I'm a perfectionist. I always think
• 33:16
  it can be done a little better.
• 33:17
  >> Amen. But but but listen, friend,
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  listen. But if you come to the house of
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  God and that's your that's your heart.
• 33:24
  >> Amen. Listen, you're not committed to
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  it. Amen.
• 33:26
  >> Right?
• 33:27
  >> But he was committed to it. And and and
• 33:29
  and and think about this. We'll move on.
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  When men com when men get committed to
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  the house of God and the word of God,
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  God will do a work in them.
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  >> Amen.
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  >> There's no doubt about it, friend. When
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  you get committed, when you set your
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  sights on God, friend. Amen. Bible says,
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  "Draw near to him." What does the Bible
• 33:46
  say? James said he'll draw near to you.
• 33:49
  >> Right,
• 33:50
  >> friend? God God so want you can't be
• 33:52
  around him and not be changed.
• 33:55
  >> Right? I mean, Moses was around him on
• 33:57
  the mount, man. He come down. He was
• 33:58
  glowing.
• 33:59
  >> Right.
• 33:59
  >> Right. Amen. Listen, friends. We We here
• 34:02
  in this earthly tabernacle had what he
• 34:04
  was trying to cover up that he lost.
• 34:06
  >> Right.
• 34:07
  >> Right. We've got it. Amen. Through the
• 34:08
  spirit of God dwells in us. Amen. And
• 34:10
  listen, IT COMES OUT WHEN YOU GET AROUND
• 34:12
  GOD IN THIS WORD. YOU KNOW WHAT I'M
• 34:14
  TALKING ABOUT. YOU CAN TELL IF
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  SOMEBODY'S BEEN IN THE BOOK, BEEN ON
• 34:17
  THEIR KNEES. AMEN. And seeking the Lord
• 34:18
  has committed to them. You can tell that
• 34:20
  kind of people, can't you? AMEN. MAN,
• 34:22
  THEY JUST GOT SOMETHING about them.
• 34:24
  Listen, it's just pleasure to be around.
• 34:25
  So, we see the area of his commitment.
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  Number two, look at the attitude of his
• 34:29
  commitment. Look at the attitude of his
• 34:31
  commitment. Bible says verse 21, latter
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  part, you with me? He did it with all
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  his heart and he prospered.
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  >> His attitude, I like good attitudes.
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  Amen.
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  You see, we read in his commitment
• 34:48
  again, he did it with all of his heart.
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  That's one of my favorite verses in this
• 34:54
  study that I've studied. I looked at it.
• 34:55
  I've looked at it. I've read it every
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  time that I've prepared a message here
• 34:59
  in this text. He did it with all his
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  heart.
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  >> Amen. And I look at sometimes I'm
• 35:04
  studying some things sometimes,
• 35:06
  preacher, and I look at him and I think,
• 35:07
  man, how did he do that?
• 35:10
  >> God takes me back to this text. He did
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  it with all his heart.
• 35:12
  >> Amen.
• 35:13
  >> Amen. This kind of reminds me a little
• 35:15
  boy. Amen. was uh in art class and he
• 35:19
  was drawing a picture. The teacher said
• 35:22
  uh give them all an assignment or draw a
• 35:24
  picture of something. Amen. And don't
• 35:26
  tell nobody what it is. When we get
• 35:28
  done, Amen. we'll see what you've drawn
• 35:31
  and we can, you know, define what you've
• 35:33
  what you have drew a picture of and
• 35:35
  colored it and all that. And so the
• 35:37
  teacher's walking around to all the
• 35:38
  children in the class and she goes to
• 35:40
  this one. He's drawing a picture of a
• 35:42
  house. This one's drawing a picture of a
• 35:43
  mountain scene. This one's drawing a
• 35:45
  picture of a bird. You know, anybody can
• 35:46
  draw birds, can't they?
• 35:48
  >> Right. But she come this one little boy.
• 35:50
  Boy, he was at work. He was at work. I
• 35:52
  mean, he you can tell them this at work,
• 35:55
  man. He was down. He was a drawing
• 35:57
  teacher come over there and laid his
• 35:58
  hand on. She says, "What are you
• 35:59
  drawing?" He said, "I'm drawing a
• 36:02
  picture of God."
• 36:03
  >> Amen.
• 36:04
  >> And she's like, "Nobody knows what God
• 36:06
  looks like." Little boy looked up there.
• 36:07
  He says, "You will when I get done."
• 36:09
  >> Amen.
• 36:10
  >> Hey, look, friend. That's if you have
• 36:12
  that mindset. Listen, I'm telling you,
• 36:15
  FRIEND, THAT THAT THAT'S DOING IT WITH
• 36:16
  ALL YOUR HEART. THAT'S WHAT THAT IS,
• 36:18
  FRIEND. HOW MANY IT MAY LOOK LIKE A MESS
• 36:20
  to everybody else when he got done, but
• 36:21
  friend, IN HIS HEART, HE GIVE IT ALL
• 36:23
  THAT HE HAD, FRIEND. YOU KNOW WHAT? I
• 36:25
  LIKE TO GO TO CHURCH. AMEN. I LIKE TO
• 36:27
  WORSHIP WITH PEOPLE, AMEN, THAT COME AND
• 36:29
  DO IT WITH ALL THEIR HEART. AMEN. THAT
• 36:31
  SING WITH ALL their heart. Man, there's
• 36:33
  some people I've been in church with
• 36:34
  that can't sing a lick. I'm one of them.
• 36:37
  Amen. The sound guy back at Mountaintop,
• 36:39
  Amen, turns me off when I help the choir
• 36:41
  sing. Amen. says, "Preacher, that's
• 36:43
  tough." Amen. So, I just let Cody do it
• 36:46
  now. But, I mean, I love to be around
• 36:48
  people that just I don't care what they
• 36:49
  sound like. I just want to be around
• 36:52
  them. Amen. I It just rubs OFF ON ME. I
• 36:54
  I LOVE TO SEE HIM GIVE IT ALL THAT THEY
• 36:57
  HAVE. AMEN. HE DID IT WITH ALL of his
• 37:00
  heart.
• 37:01
  Think about this if you want to apply
• 37:03
  this to worldly standards.
• 37:07
  He started early and he stayed late,
• 37:10
  >> right? started early and stayed late.
• 37:13
  Think about that tonight. Amen. He
• 37:15
  didn't come in. Amen. 10 minutes after
• 37:17
  the service had started.
• 37:19
  >> Amen. He was here, but before he was
• 37:22
  here, he was here.
• 37:23
  >> Amen.
• 37:24
  >> You listening to me tonight?
• 37:26
  >> I mean, it was serious to him. Amen. It
• 37:29
  it was a matter Listen, this this this
• 37:31
  thing was a matter of life and death
• 37:34
  >> to him.
• 37:36
  >> I mean, it it meant the world to him.
• 37:38
  Amen. He He went, Think about this. He
• 37:40
  went above and beyond the expectation of
• 37:43
  those around him. You know, people had a
• 37:46
  had a had a deacon at a church I
• 37:48
  pastored. Just a young fella. Amen. Man,
• 37:50
  I I I I'm
• 37:53
  jealous of your pastor. Okay. Amen. I'
• 37:55
  I've worked hard and I still can't
• 37:57
  preach like he can. Right. But I
• 37:59
  remember, man, getting there to church
• 38:01
  and man that I I just I'd studied and we
• 38:04
  we I'd studied, man. I just dumped it
• 38:07
  out. I mean, I'd give him everything I
• 38:08
  had. A whole lot of didn't know. Amen. I
• 38:11
  just I mean, I plowed and I plowed deep.
• 38:14
  He come to me one day. He says, "I know
• 38:15
  you're supposed to feed the flock, but
• 38:16
  he said, but you don't have to give them
• 38:18
  the whole feed house at one one given,
• 38:21
  you know, and that but that's what I
• 38:23
  wanted to do." Amen. Because that was my
• 38:25
  heart.
• 38:26
  >> Amen. And you see, friends, that's I
• 38:29
  believe that was Hezekiah, man. He did
• 38:30
  he he went up above and beyond. Amen.
• 38:34
  The expectations. Listen, he give them
• 38:36
  listen something. listen that they
• 38:37
  really truly needed. They didn't even
• 38:39
  know that they needed.
• 38:41
  >> Amen. Brought revival BACK INTO A A DEAD
• 38:44
  NATION. FRIEND, IF WE DON'T get that
• 38:46
  here in this land, friend, we're going
• 38:48
  to be a hasb been quicker, amen, than
• 38:50
  you think.
• 38:52
  >> Amen. We are coasting downhill on a
• 38:55
  godly heritage right now.
• 38:56
  >> Amen.
• 38:57
  >> So, people don't get some vision from
• 38:59
  this book. I'm not talking about looking
• 39:00
  down the church, looking down the road,
• 39:02
  the church down the road, what they're
• 39:03
  doing when we're just as good as them.
• 39:05
  We're actually a little bit better than
• 39:06
  them. I know those thoughts that go
• 39:07
  through your mind. No, listen, friend.
• 39:09
  Amen. The Bible says when Isaiah saw the
• 39:11
  Lord, he said this, "Woe is me." Amen.
• 39:15
  He didn't look over at his neighbor and
• 39:16
  say, "Woe is me." He saw the Lord,
• 39:18
  friend. And that's what you and I do.
• 39:20
  Man, we look at this text and we seen
• 39:21
  what God did in this man, friend. He can
• 39:24
  do the same in you and me. Bible says,
• 39:26
  Paul said this to Colossians and 3 and
• 39:28
  23. He says, "WHATSOEVER YOU DO, DO
• 39:31
  HEARTILY AS TO THE LORD AND NOT UNTO
• 39:33
  MEN."
• 39:35
  Last thing I'm done tonight. Let's see.
• 39:38
  Look at the award that come with this.
• 39:40
  We see the area of his commitment, the
• 39:42
  attitude of his commitment. Amen. But
• 39:44
  the award that come along with it. The
• 39:45
  Bible says he prospered.
• 39:47
  >> You see that he prospered. Amen. I'm not
• 39:52
  Joel Ostein tonight, okay? I'm not
• 39:54
  talking about, listen, this foolishness,
• 39:56
  listen, of serving God so you can live
• 39:57
  your best life. No, I'm not talking
• 39:58
  about that. But the prospering that he
• 40:02
  prospered in was getting to see his
• 40:04
  heart's desire,
• 40:05
  >> amen,
• 40:06
  >> take place in the people of God. You
• 40:07
  know what the Bible says? And I wrote it
• 40:09
  down here in Psalm 37 verse number four.
• 40:12
  I love this verse. Uh the psalmist said
• 40:14
  this, "Delight thyself also in the Lord,
• 40:17
  and he shall give thee the desires of
• 40:19
  thine heart."
• 40:21
  >> Amen. That means when your delight is in
• 40:24
  him.
• 40:25
  >> Amen. You're going to be delighted.
• 40:27
  Amen. when he works in other people.
• 40:29
  >> You're right.
• 40:30
  >> Amen. When when them people you've
• 40:32
  prayed for walk an aisle and get saved.
• 40:34
  Amen. You might get up and run around,
• 40:36
  take a lap.
• 40:36
  >> Right.
• 40:37
  >> Hey, friend. That might set some people
• 40:39
  on fire. Listen. Hey, when those listen
• 40:41
  that you've been praying for step out in
• 40:43
  service for the Lord. Amen. Listen,
• 40:45
  you'll be excited about that. You'll be
• 40:47
  jealous. Hey, you'll be excited with
• 40:49
  them. Amen. Hey, look, friend. I'm
• 40:51
  telling you, that was the award. Amen.
• 40:53
  That listen, that was greater than
• 40:55
  anything that he could receive on earth.
• 40:57
  Amen. The Bible says when he prospered,
• 40:59
  he prospered in the Lord. He was full.
• 41:02
  >> Amen.
• 41:03
  >> He was full. Amen. Watching these people
• 41:06
  serve God. Amen. You see, think about
• 41:09
  this. Is it okay if Jesse plays
• 41:11
  something other? Amen. I don't whoever
• 41:13
  you pianist is count. I don't want to
• 41:15
  mess it up. But think about this. Think
• 41:16
  about this. when he was a boy,
• 41:20
  his daddy was reigning as king and he
• 41:23
  had closed up the doors of the house of
• 41:25
  God. I mean, listen, friend, it it was
• 41:28
  it was it was hell on earth for Judah
• 41:32
  >> for a lot of years,
• 41:34
  >> okay? I mean, they were struggling.
• 41:36
  Families was broke.
• 41:39
  Children were wewarded. Amen. Daddies
• 41:42
  were gone.
• 41:43
  >> Homes were busted up. friend. I don't
• 41:45
  know about you, but as a pastor, that's
• 41:47
  one of the hardest things that I watch
• 41:50
  and I see as a pastor is when sin enters
• 41:52
  into a home.
• 41:54
  >> Amen. And just bust it all to pieces.
• 41:57
  You know, as a kid, he watched that
• 42:00
  growing up. He watched that. He watched
• 42:02
  weward wayward uh children. Amen.
• 42:05
  Listen, doing things that his mama had
• 42:08
  taught him different about,
• 42:09
  >> right?
• 42:11
  >> Leading him in the word of God. And he's
• 42:13
  like, "Man, something's got to change."
• 42:15
  >> Amen.
• 42:16
  >> Something's got to change.
• 42:18
  >> I mean, heartbroken. Little Hezekiah.
• 42:20
  AMEN. HAVING THE WORD OF GOD ALL IN HIS
• 42:22
  HEART. AND AT 25 YEARS OLD, I BELIEVE IT
• 42:24
  WAS WHEN he took THE THRONE OF JUDAH.
• 42:26
  AMEN. LISTEN, THE FIRST THING HE DID,
• 42:28
  AMEN, WAS UP THERE AND he repaired the
• 42:30
  doors of the house of God.
• 42:32
  >> Amen.
• 42:33
  >> He said, "If anything's going to happen,
• 42:34
  >> you're right.
• 42:35
  >> If anything's going to change, it's
• 42:36
  going to start right here."
• 42:38
  >> We're going to have to get the word
• 42:40
  >> in some people's hearts. You're right.
• 42:42
  >> Amen. And let God do some work in the
• 42:44
  hearts of the people. AMEN. AND CHANGE
• 42:47
  THEM AND LET THEM SEE. AMEN. LISTEN, HE
• 42:49
  WAS TIRED of seeing people whailing
• 42:51
  because of God. Because it was the
• 42:53
  judgment of God that they was living
• 42:55
  under.
• 42:56
  >> Right. Amen. Listen, you know, you can
• 43:00
  close this place up. I thought about
• 43:03
  this a lot this week. I've missed two
• 43:05
  Sundays in my own pull pit. Amen. I
• 43:08
  thought about this a lot this week. I I
• 43:10
  thought about this a lot, preacher. I
• 43:11
  thought, how many people really miss it
• 43:13
  in the house of God today?
• 43:14
  >> Amen.
• 43:16
  >> How many people are thinking in their
• 43:17
  mind, you know, preacher says, "Amen.
• 43:21
  You you miss it. You you know, you you
• 43:23
  just won't feel right. You won't be
• 43:24
  right." And they're sitting at the
• 43:26
  house, you know, and it's just been
• 43:28
  somewhere to go, and they're really not
• 43:29
  missing it. Amen. But here's here's the
• 43:32
  problem, okay? It don't happen just over
• 43:34
  one or two services.
• 43:35
  >> You're right.
• 43:36
  >> Amen. But over a series, a space of
• 43:39
  time, what happens is is you lay that
• 43:42
  down.
• 43:43
  >> You lay that down. The further away you
• 43:44
  get from that, the closer, amen, you get
• 43:46
  to the enemy.
• 43:48
  >> Amen. And then at that moment, listen,
• 43:50
  friend, when those standards, and those
• 43:51
  walls are broken down, the enemy comes
• 43:53
  in and destroys your home. Amen. You'll
• 43:56
  be welling because of God,
• 43:57
  >> right?
• 43:59
  >> Amen. You'll be wishing you could
• 44:00
  worship him again.
• 44:02
  >> Amen. And Hezekiah got to see a people
• 44:05
  that was whailing because of God start
• 44:07
  worshiping him again. Man, what greater
• 44:10
  joy, what greater honor, Amen, could
• 44:12
  anybody have, listen, than to be that
• 44:16
  light,
• 44:17
  >> amen,
• 44:18
  >> in a world that needs to hear the
• 44:20
  gospel.
• 44:21
  >> What greater joy could any of us have?
• 44:23
  Could say, listen, hey, look, I'm just
• 44:25
  going to go ahead and drive my steak
• 44:27
  down real deep.
• 44:29
  >> Amen. I know we need it. There's no
• 44:32
  question about it tonight. We need
• 44:34
  revival, right? We need it, don't we?
• 44:38
  >> Church needs it, man. I NEED IT FOR YOU.
• 44:40
  AND I NEED IT EVERY OTHER DAY, FRIEND. I
• 44:43
  MEAN, LISTEN, I'm a leaky vest. I get
• 44:45
  full one day, next day, listen, I'll be
• 44:47
  running on empty. We need to stay in
• 44:49
  close communion with God. Amen.
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  >> But here's the thing. Listen to me
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  tonight. Amen. It comes through a heart
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  just like that man right there.
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  Amen. Listen. The character.
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  Amen. Commitment. Amen. And listen,
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  friend, it'll come. It'll come. It's
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  divine. God will send it. But I promise
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  you, you get around him and you start
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  seeking that. Amen. And don't don't get
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  discouraged when you're doing the work
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  and it doesn't seem like anything's
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  happening because most of the time
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  that's when the greatest work is taking
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  place. Amen. I love you tonight. It's
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  good to be with you, preacher. You come.
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  Let's bow our heads tonight. Amen. As he
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  comes, give invitation tonight. Hey,
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  listen. You mind the Lord tonight. Love
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  you, preacher.
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  As we stand tonight all over the
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  building, heads bowed, eyes closed, you
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  need to come pray.
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  Come pray tonight.
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  Say, "Preacher, it's Wednesday night."
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  God knew exactly what we needed.
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  Fed my soul as much as any sermon I've
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  ever heard.
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  If every one of us would be honest
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  tonight, we're all lacking.
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  We're all lacking tonight
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  and our character, in our commitment.
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  And it shows cuz revival hadn't come.
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  But I'm thankful there's still an altar
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  that you can come pray.
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  You can have that character restored in
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  your life.
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  Get that commitment settled
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  and God can still send it.
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  He can still send it. Father,
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  thank you so much.
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  Thank you for your servant minding you
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  tonight.
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  Lord, I needed that so desperately.
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  God, I thank you,
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  Lord. You know the vision I have for
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  this church,
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  Lord, cuz you gave me that vision.
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  You know the heart, the desires that I
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  have, Lord, for this year. And
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  and God, the man of God just spoke my
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  heart tonight. And I thank you. I thank
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  you, God, for knowing what we need.
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  Thank you, God, for always being exactly
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  what we need. And God, I pray for every
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  heart in this building, Lord, as a
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  result of this service, God, I pray
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  right now, they're making new
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  commitments to you, Lord, restoring old
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  commitments, maybe that's been broken
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  down,
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  Lord, in spite of what others may say
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  and others may do toward them, Father,
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  about them, God, I pray that they'll
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  have a rock solid resolve tonight, Lord,
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  that they'll choose you in your way
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  and Give us strength, wisdom, and
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  boldness to do your will.
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  Lord, thank you for the house of God.
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  I thank you for a place on the side of
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  the road where the lights are still on,
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  people can still come and hear your
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  word,
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  >> and the Holy Ghost of God have free
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  course and reign in our hearts. Thank
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  you, oh God. Thank you for not leaving
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  us to ourselves.
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  Oh Lord, we'd be in a mess.
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  But God, you didn't leave us to
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  ourselves. And I thank you for that.
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  Thank you, God, for your word,
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  that lamp to our feet, light to our
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  path.
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  God, I pray you'll help us to be
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  obedient to you.
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  Help us do your will.
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  And I pray for every need tonight, Lord.
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  I pray, God, if there's somebody here
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  tonight not saved, I pray they wouldn't
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  leave this place.
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  God, they don't know anything about what
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  we're doing here tonight. If they're not
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  saved, God, I pray you deal with their
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  heart even now. And I thank you for
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  using your servant tonight.
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  I thank you for helping them. And God, I
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  pray you bless him. Bless their meetings
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  this month. Touch the men of God that'll
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  preach. And Lord, I pray you'll pour out
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  a fresh anointing, Lord, there at
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  Mountaintop. And Lord, here God, I pray,
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  Lord, the Holy Ghost of God would
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  continue to work, Lord, in this church,
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  God, that this be just a refreshing
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  time. God, I I really believe, Lord, I
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  know, Father, I told the church a few
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  weeks ago, and I believe that God, you
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  had to send these events of weather,
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  Lord, so we'd slow down. God, I think we
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  needed to just take some time.
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  And God, I pray Lord that we wouldn't
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  get so sped back up again that we miss
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  you, Lord. Help us to stay steady with
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  you.
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  >> Stay close to you. I pray
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  >> we'll give you thanks for what you do
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  because we ask it in Jesus' name.
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  Amen.
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  >> Thank you for joining our service today.
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  We'd love it if you'd join us in person
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  the next time you are able at Meadows
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  Baptist Church. Our physical address is
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  2988 Stewart Road in Walnut Cove, North
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  Carolina. Our service times are Sunday
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  school at 10:00 a.m., Sunday morning
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  worship at 11:00 a.m., Sunday evening
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  worship at 6:00 p.m., and Wednesday
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  evening Bible study at 7:00 p.m. For
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  more information, visit us at
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  meadowsbaptisturch.com.
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  Thanks again for tuning in.