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Episode 141 - Direct Divine Intervention · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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  Speaker 1: God is our refuge and strength. He is our very
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  Speaker 1: present help in the time of trouble. Therefore we will
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  Speaker 1: not fear, We will not live in fear. We will
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  Speaker 1: not a man fear what man can do unto us,
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  Speaker 1: because we dwell in the secret place of the Most High,
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  Speaker 1: and we shall abide under the shadow of His wings,
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  Speaker 1: and we have his divine protection a man with us always.
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  Speaker 1: God is providentially at work in the affairs of men.
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  Speaker 1: And this is what we're going to continue with today
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  Speaker 1: as we welcome you into a brand new calendar year,
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  Speaker 1: the year twenty twenty five. We thank God that he
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  Speaker 1: has allowed us, Amen, a man, the ability to wake
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  Speaker 1: up each and every morning. Amen, every day that we live.
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  Speaker 1: It is because in Him we live and move and
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  Speaker 1: have our activity, a sound mind direction. Protection, again, a man,
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  Speaker 1: help that comes from the Lord. He's the Guy, the
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  Speaker 1: God who provides all of our needs, and he's the
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  Speaker 1: God who watches over us and keeps us from day
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  Speaker 1: to day. So therefore we, a man, as all men should,
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  Speaker 1: as all men are called to do, give thanks to
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  Speaker 1: the Lord, a man for his wonderful works, for his
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  Speaker 1: wonderful and marvelous goodness to all of us, a man
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  Speaker 1: who breathe his breath, a man his spirit of life,
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  Speaker 1: a man that all emanates from him. And so we
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  Speaker 1: thank God again for this opportunity to first and foremost
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  Speaker 1: again see another calendar year a man. On this third
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  Speaker 1: day of January twenty twenty five, a man, We welcome
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  Speaker 1: you to another edition of the first podcast of twenty
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  Speaker 1: twenty five, End Time Revival Minishes USA Podcasts. And I
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  Speaker 1: am your host, of course, Pastor al Zachary, and today
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  Speaker 1: again we're going to continue in a series that we've
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  Speaker 1: begun just a few weeks ago. God, Government, Church and State,
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  Speaker 1: God Government, Church and State. Those of you who are
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  Speaker 1: already subscribing to our podcast, we thank God again for you,
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  Speaker 1: and we certainly a man invite you to, of course, amen,
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  Speaker 1: share it with someone else and those of you who
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  Speaker 1: also view us by way of our YouTube channel podcasts
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  Speaker 1: entitled One Voice in the Wilderness is the title of
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  Speaker 1: that podcast or the name of that podcast, One Voice
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  Speaker 1: in the Wilderness. You can easily find it in the
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  Speaker 1: YouTube search at one viitw. That is our handle, one
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  Speaker 1: VITW one Voice in the Wilderness. Amen, and we thank
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  Speaker 1: God again for allowing us the privilege to speak on
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  Speaker 1: his behalf, the oracles of God, the truth of God.
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  Speaker 1: God trusts the truth of his word a man to men,
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  Speaker 1: mere mortal men. And that's what we all are, just simple,
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  Speaker 1: mere mortal men, and trusted with the Divine, with the Holy,
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  Speaker 1: a man with the Sacred, a man with the word
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  Speaker 1: that proceeds out of the mouth of the Lord. A man.
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  Speaker 1: And that is what we all, a man must live by.
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  Speaker 1: And that's why God has a man, given to us
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  Speaker 1: his word a man, and again entrusted it to a man,
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  Speaker 1: those whom he hath called a man to preach it,
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  Speaker 1: to teach it a man without compromise, a man, and
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  Speaker 1: without a man partiality, a man, because God has no
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  Speaker 1: respect persons. And therefore we are a man certainly to
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  Speaker 1: be fankful. Amen, disseminating word of the Lord, a man
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  Speaker 1: before we begin. And by the way, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: gwen a little bit later to go to the Book
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  Speaker 1: of Genesis, So if you have your Bible you can
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  Speaker 1: prepare to go there with us. Amen. Want to open
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  Speaker 1: with prayer. Amen, just a brief word of prayer, and
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  Speaker 1: again thank God for allowing us to see. Amen. Another
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  Speaker 1: calendar year. Father, we stretch our hands. To you. You
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  Speaker 1: are the help and the hope, Amen, that we all
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  Speaker 1: live in and cleave too. And Lord, we know that. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: you are the God of all flesh, and there's nothing
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  Speaker 1: too difficult for you. So Lord, even today, we pray
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  Speaker 1: that someone somewhere will hear the voice of the Savior. Lord,
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  Speaker 1: that you will bring conviction to their hearts, and Lord,
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  Speaker 1: that you would open their eyes to see and their
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  Speaker 1: ears to hear, and Lord, and their understanding Lord, to
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  Speaker 1: come to see and know that you are the true
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  Speaker 1: living God, and there's none like you. Thank you for
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  Speaker 1: all of your blessings that you've bestowed upon us. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you for keeping each and every one of our families
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  Speaker 1: and household Amen, friends and neighbors. Lord, a man, even
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  Speaker 1: up until this present time, our lives are in your hands.
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  Speaker 1: And Lord, we pray your blessings upon your people everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: And Love, we again look to you, the author in
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  Speaker 1: the finish of our faith, Amen, to keep us from
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  Speaker 1: falling and present us faultless before your presence with exceeding joy.
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  Speaker 1: You are the only wise God. You are our Savior.
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  Speaker 1: To you belong the majesty, dominion and power, both now
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  Speaker 1: and forever. A man thank God again for making us
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  Speaker 1: partakers of this great salvation. Again, we've already been in
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  Speaker 1: our series on this subject of God, government, church, and state.
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  Speaker 1: We've already a man set forth a man the factual
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  Speaker 1: that God, a man, without doubt, intervened in the affairs
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  Speaker 1: of men, and certainly one wise American, a man statesman,
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  Speaker 1: came to that understanding. It's not something that he did
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  Speaker 1: not or could not rather observe, but it's something that
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  Speaker 1: he had to confess once he, by clear observation, had
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  Speaker 1: no other explanation for a man God, a man intervening.
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  Speaker 1: Benjamin Franklin said, as long I have now lived long
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  Speaker 1: enough to now and I'm just paraphrasing, Amen, I've lived
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  Speaker 1: long enough to now know that God does indeed intervene
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  Speaker 1: in the affairs of men. No nation can rise, no
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  Speaker 1: nation can fall without His hand being involved. And again
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  Speaker 1: I am a man emphasizing in this series that there
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  Speaker 1: is absolutely no question and what we're going to see today, heymen,
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  Speaker 1: there's no question from the biblical perspective, from the Biblical
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  Speaker 1: accounts that we can read in the Bible itself and
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  Speaker 1: understand and know. And also not only that we can
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  Speaker 1: certainly know from even secular history, that this could leave
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  Speaker 1: any doubt, should leave any doubt in the minds of
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  Speaker 1: anyone about the God of Creation intervening in the governments
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  Speaker 1: and in the affairs of this world. Amen. Not only
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  Speaker 1: does he intervene, though, and this is where a lot
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  Speaker 1: of people may jump off of the wagon. But not
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  Speaker 1: only does God intervene, but he sovereignly orchestrates, and he
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  Speaker 1: uses both the good and the evil of man, of
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  Speaker 1: demonic of Satan himself. Amen. He uses both the good
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  Speaker 1: and the evil a man to fulfill what he has
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  Speaker 1: already purposed, what He's already predestined to come to pass. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: We may not see it as it is unfolding. We
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  Speaker 1: may not understand it. We certainly cannot know it a
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  Speaker 1: man from the divine perspective, because we don't have the
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  Speaker 1: thoughts of God. We don't have the mind of God.
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  Speaker 1: We have not a man ascended to that level, nor
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  Speaker 1: will we ever a man. Our thoughts are not his thoughts,
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  Speaker 1: Our ways are not his ways. Amen. So far as
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  Speaker 1: the Heaven is above the earth, higher, higher is the
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  Speaker 1: thought and ways of the Lord above ours. Amen. But
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  Speaker 1: there's no denying a man God's direct divine intervention, amen
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  Speaker 1: and providential power being at work in our world today,
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  Speaker 1: as it was not only yesterday, but also and centuries
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  Speaker 1: pass and again it is still a man at work,
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  Speaker 1: because God is not finished, a man with his plan
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  Speaker 1: of redemption. The Bible tells us. For those of you
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  Speaker 1: who may a man again be in doubt about God
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  Speaker 1: intervening in governments. The Bible tells us in Proverbs twenty
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  Speaker 1: one one, this is a king who was one of
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  Speaker 1: the wisest men who ever lived, who wrote these words.
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  Speaker 1: We believe Solomon. He says, the king's heart Proverbs twenty
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  Speaker 1: one and one is in the hand of the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: like the rivers of water. He turns it wherever he wishes.
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  Speaker 1: The heart of the king, the heart of the governor,
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  Speaker 1: the heart of the president, the heart of the mayor,
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  Speaker 1: the heart of the whoever a man ruling official is
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  Speaker 1: in the hand of the Lord. And it does not
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  Speaker 1: mean by the way that they always do what is right,
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  Speaker 1: that they govern in righteousness, they always make the right decision. No.
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  Speaker 1: But it does mean even when they make the wrong decision,
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  Speaker 1: even when they do what is a man ungodly, unlawful,
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  Speaker 1: a man contrary to the will of God. God is
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  Speaker 1: still orchestrating again both the good and the evil to ultimately,
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  Speaker 1: as the Bible teaches, work together for our good and
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  Speaker 1: certainly to His glory. A man the word of the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: and what we're going to see today, a man is
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  Speaker 1: replete with instances a man where God interacted or intervened,
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  Speaker 1: if you will, directly a man, or indirectly with kings
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  Speaker 1: of this earth, kings of this world, in order to
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  Speaker 1: turn them from their way in some instances of destruction,
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  Speaker 1: or in some instances to perhaps bring upon them divine judgment.
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  Speaker 1: A man, because of their wickedness, evil and refuse to repent.
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  Speaker 1: God always gives space to repent. Never forget that a man.
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  Speaker 1: We look at God in the Old Testament, particularly bringing
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  Speaker 1: all of the divine judgment upon people in nations, civilizations,
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  Speaker 1: but we forget that God gives all men space to repent.
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  Speaker 1: And I believe we've already looked briefly, of course, at
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  Speaker 1: the a man judgment of God upon the Noah's generation.
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  Speaker 1: But keep in mind that God gave these people one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and twenty years and twenty years to a man
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  Speaker 1: return to turn from their wickedness, to turn from their evil,
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  Speaker 1: to turn from the imaginations of their heart being only
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  Speaker 1: evil continually, and to a man do what is right,
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  Speaker 1: to do what is just, and to come no less
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  Speaker 1: into the ark of safety and be saved. But they
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  Speaker 1: did not, and so therefore the judgment of God fell
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  Speaker 1: upon that generation. And oftentimes can see in the Bible
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  Speaker 1: also where God would be merciful, Amen, and not bring
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  Speaker 1: severe punishment upon a ruler and or his people. And
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  Speaker 1: one example that we are going to explore today, We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna look at two of them very quickly. But one
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  Speaker 1: of the examples we're gonna find is in the Book
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  Speaker 1: of Genesis, chapter number twelve. Amen. And I'm gonna pick
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  Speaker 1: it up reading at verse number nine. This is in
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  Speaker 1: the life of Abraham, whom God called to go forth
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  Speaker 1: from his father's house into a land that he would
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  Speaker 1: show him. And early on in Abraham's pilgrimage a man,
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  Speaker 1: he is setting out. He's not yet there, but he's
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  Speaker 1: on his ways. In the very first chapter of his
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  Speaker 1: journeyings chapter twelve of Genesis, after God had called him
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  Speaker 1: to leave. And so we pick it up at verse
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  Speaker 1: number nine, the Bible says, an Abram journey going on
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  Speaker 1: steal toward the south, and there was a fan in
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  Speaker 1: the land, and Abram went down into Egypt. The sojourn
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  Speaker 1: there for the family was grievous in the land. And
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  Speaker 1: it came to pass when he was come near to
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  Speaker 1: enter into Egypt, that he said to Saraha, his wife, behold.
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  Speaker 1: Now I know that thou art a fair woman to
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  Speaker 1: look upon. Therefore, it shall come to pass when the
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  Speaker 1: Egyptians shall see thee that they shall say, this is
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  Speaker 1: his wife, and they will kill me, but they will
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  Speaker 1: save thee alive. Say I pray thee thou art my sister,
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  Speaker 1: that it may be well with me for thy sake,
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  Speaker 1: and my soul shall live because of thee And it
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  Speaker 1: came to pass that when Abram was coming to Egypt,
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  Speaker 1: the Egyptians beheld the woman, that she was very fair.
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  Speaker 1: The princes also of Pharaoh, this is the government of Egypt.
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  Speaker 1: The princes also of Pharaoh saw her and commended her
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  Speaker 1: before Pharaoh. And the woman was taken into Pharaoh's house,
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  Speaker 1: and he entreated Abram well for her sake. And he
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  Speaker 1: had sheep and oxen, and he assis and men servants,
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  Speaker 1: and made servants, and she asses and camels, and the
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  Speaker 1: Bible says, and the Lord plagued Pharaoh and his house
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  Speaker 1: with great plagues because of Sarah, Abram's wife and Pharaoh.
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  Speaker 1: Then the Bible says, called Abram and said, what is
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  Speaker 1: this that thou hast done unto me? Why Didst Thou
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  Speaker 1: not tell me that she was thy wife? Why didn't
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  Speaker 1: you tell me, Abraham the truth? Why Saidst Thou, she
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  Speaker 1: is my sister, so I might have taken her to me,
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  Speaker 1: to wife. Now therefore, behold thy wife, take her and
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  Speaker 1: go thy way. And Pharaoh come ended his men concerning her,
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  Speaker 1: concerning him brother, and they sent him away and his
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  Speaker 1: wife and all that he had. Now clearly, without any question,
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  Speaker 1: here in the text, the Lord intervened in a very
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  Speaker 1: direct way, a man in a very direct way with
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  Speaker 1: the King of Egypt, with Pharaoh, with his house. Pharaoh
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  Speaker 1: is the king of Egypt, the head of the government,
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  Speaker 1: the head of the state, if you will, a man
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  Speaker 1: of that nation. And God sends a clear discernible message
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  Speaker 1: from Heaven by way of his divine power, intervening Amen
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  Speaker 1: in the lives of Abram and Sarah his wife, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: letting the king know under no circumstances, he understood it Oh,
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  Speaker 1: he got the message and he knew where it came from. Oh. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: because when he came to Abraham, he says, why did
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  Speaker 1: you do this to us? Why didn't you tell me? Amen?
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  Speaker 1: And so Amen, he understood that there would be dire
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  Speaker 1: consequences unless he and his people a man, turned from
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  Speaker 1: the error of their doings. And I can hear some
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  Speaker 1: people howling, I can hear some people squealing, I can
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  Speaker 1: hear some people screaming. Ay man, wait a minute, Wait
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  Speaker 1: a minute, Wait a minute. It wasn't even fair, because
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  Speaker 1: first of all, Abraham lied. Abraham deceived the man, and
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  Speaker 1: the man didn't know that Sarah was his wife. He
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  Speaker 1: told her a man, and she told him, and they
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  Speaker 1: concocted and and and conceived together this Amen, devious plan,
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  Speaker 1: Amen to deceive people into believing that they were brother
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  Speaker 1: and sister, And of course they were and didn't sense.
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  Speaker 1: I believe in deven to that right now. But the
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  Speaker 1: fact of the matter is, ladies and gentlemen, always go
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  Speaker 1: back to the beginning Pharaoh, that Pharaoh and his people
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  Speaker 1: were living in sin. Pharaoh himself was living in sin. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And not only was he living in sin, and then
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  Speaker 1: they were living in direct contradiction to the law of God.
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  Speaker 1: They were serving idle gods. And this one reason God
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  Speaker 1: called Abraham out to establish him as a man God
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  Speaker 1: fearing a man, man who served the True and the
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  Speaker 1: Living God. Who also would a man order his children
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  Speaker 1: after him, a man to keep the way of the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: Amen and soul, and a pharaoh and his people are
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  Speaker 1: a wicked and evil people. Amen. And Abraham knew it.
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  Speaker 1: He understood what he was walking into, going into, and
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  Speaker 1: that's why he amen. And again this does not excuse
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  Speaker 1: Abraham's conduct, but again it shows you God's divine intervention
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  Speaker 1: to protect his people even when hold on, hold on
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  Speaker 1: to your seatbelts. Even when we sin and fall short
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  Speaker 1: of the glory of God, God does not and will
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  Speaker 1: not and never will leave us nor forsaken. So I'm
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  Speaker 1: talking about those who are truly His and I'm talking
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  Speaker 1: about people who have professed to be, who never amen,
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  Speaker 1: were redeemed, never have been, and who are clearly as
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  Speaker 1: Jesus said, I never knew you. They're in that crowd.
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  Speaker 1: A man they make a profession of faith, but they
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  Speaker 1: would never work. But I'm talking about the people of
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  Speaker 1: God and Bible. Again, when you're talking about the Bible
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  Speaker 1: being replete with examples of God's people, Amen, sinning and falling.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm mean leaders that God shows, even the man Abram,
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  Speaker 1: Isaac Jacob, I mean, you can go all the way
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  Speaker 1: down the line, David. Amen, there's none that have sinned,
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  Speaker 1: a not sin brother, and falling short of the glory
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  Speaker 1: of God. All have sinned, the Bible makes clear, and
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  Speaker 1: falling short of the glory of God. But God intervenes
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  Speaker 1: because he loves us, because he is going to protect
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  Speaker 1: his word. Is that we're going to see here. He's
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  Speaker 1: going to ensure that what he has spoken, what he
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  Speaker 1: has purposed, what he is to creed, will come to pass.
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  Speaker 1: And we can't mess it up with our sinful ways.
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  Speaker 1: And so God was not going to allow the sin
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  Speaker 1: of Abraham, the deception of Abraham and Sarah, a man
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  Speaker 1: to mess up his plan. God does. And by the way,
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  Speaker 1: there's another. Let me have just intervene real quick and
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  Speaker 1: say this. Interject brother this, I'm so stuck on intervention here,
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  Speaker 1: but let me interject this. Amen, God does need our help.
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  Speaker 1: God does not need our assistance in order to protect us,
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  Speaker 1: in order to preserve our lives, in order to keep
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  Speaker 1: alive what he has spoken concerning us. Remember at the
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  Speaker 1: very outset of chapter twelve, when God calls Abraham commands
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  Speaker 1: him to leave his house, he makes to Abraham a
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  Speaker 1: sevenfold promise covenant. Amen. Amen. And so that covenant of
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  Speaker 1: promise that God makes to Abraham also contains within it
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  Speaker 1: God's protection. And again God, Amen, if we're gonna believe,
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  Speaker 1: and this is a journey of faith, so we're not
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  Speaker 1: picking on Abraham. This is a journey of faith in
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  Speaker 1: certainly by the time Abraham Amen, comes to Amen, the
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  Speaker 1: birth of Isaac and going forward, Amen, he is strong,
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  Speaker 1: super strong in his faith. Amen. He is not wavering.
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  Speaker 1: He's not attempting to help God out. To understand that
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  Speaker 1: God is his shield and exceeding great reward, and that
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  Speaker 1: God is his help and God is his protection. God
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  Speaker 1: is his fortres. Amen. That's how we all are to
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  Speaker 1: live by faith. Amen. God has commanded it for all
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  Speaker 1: of us to live by faith. And so God intervened
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  Speaker 1: in this particular case a man for Abraham and Sarah.
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  Speaker 1: But God is also intervening, keep in mind to protect
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  Speaker 1: what he has promised, because his word goes forth out
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  Speaker 1: of his mouth and it does not return unto him
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  Speaker 1: void its So I want you to see again a man,
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  Speaker 1: another example, the same man, the same woman, with another
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  Speaker 1: king at a different time. Chapter twenty, Genesis twenty. A
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  Speaker 1: man where God again will intervene, a man with a government,
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  Speaker 1: with a king, with its people in the man's house,
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  Speaker 1: the king's house. Amen to again protect that which he
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  Speaker 1: has promised to bring to pass. The Bible says in
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  Speaker 1: verse one of Genesis twenty, I want to read quickly
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  Speaker 1: hear Abraham journeyed from Thence toward the south country, and
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  Speaker 1: dwelled between Katish and Sure, and sojourn in Ghar. And
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  Speaker 1: Abraham said of Sarah his wife, she is my sister.
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  Speaker 1: And Abimelech, king of Ghar, sent and took Sarah. But
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  Speaker 1: God came to Abimelech in a dream by night. Oh
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  Speaker 1: this is see there. It is direct divine intervention, direct
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  Speaker 1: divine intervention. God comes to the king, who is the king.
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  Speaker 1: He's the head of the state, he's the head of
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  Speaker 1: the government, he's the ruler, he's the leader of that nation,
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  Speaker 1: of that people. Rather, and so God comes to this man,
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  Speaker 1: the government head, intervening directly to him in a dream.
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  Speaker 1: And he says to him. Look what the Bible says. Behold,
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  Speaker 1: thou art but a dead man, for the woman which
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  Speaker 1: thou hast taken, for she is a man's wife. Now, oh,
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  Speaker 1: let me and by the way, I'll get to that.
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  Speaker 1: Hopefully i'll get to that. I'll get to that just
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  Speaker 1: a moment. Ah. But Amelec, the Bible says verse four,
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  Speaker 1: had not come near her. And he said, Lord without
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  Speaker 1: also slay with our slay also a righteous nation. In
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  Speaker 1: other words, will you bring divine judgment upon all of
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  Speaker 1: the people because of my actions? Said he not unto me?
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  Speaker 1: Now a be Malec is protesting to God a man
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  Speaker 1: about Abraham's actions, about Abraham's deception Abraham and Sarah said,
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  Speaker 1: he not unto me. She is my sister. And she
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  Speaker 1: even she herself, said he is my brother in the
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  Speaker 1: integrity of my heart and innocency of my hands. Have
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  Speaker 1: I done this again? God is intervening. Watch it, watch it,
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  Speaker 1: Look what the Bible says verse six. And God said,
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  Speaker 1: unto him the king, the leader, the government, the head
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  Speaker 1: of the state. God says to him in a dream, yay,
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  Speaker 1: I know that thou this in the integrity of thy heart,
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  Speaker 1: For I also, uh, oh, watch the intervention again, I
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  Speaker 1: also with hel Thee from sinning against me. Therefore suffered
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  Speaker 1: I thee not to touch. Oh, I gotta stop. I
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  Speaker 1: got a pause, right, yah, Oh God help us. Okay,
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  Speaker 1: so listen, please understand, Yes, I be molect not know. No,
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  Speaker 1: the king of Pharaoh did not know. They believed what
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  Speaker 1: Abraham spoke to them, that Sarah was his sister, and
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  Speaker 1: dicourse he would go on to explain. We'll get to
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  Speaker 1: that in this moment. But please understand, ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 1: from the very beginning, from the very beginning, go back
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  Speaker 1: to the beginning. How many wives did Adam have? How
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  Speaker 1: many wives did God give him? God gave Adam one wife,
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  Speaker 1: one woman. Therefore, shall a man leave his father and
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  Speaker 1: mother and cleave to his wife, his one wife, and
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  Speaker 1: they too shall become the two of them shall become
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  Speaker 1: one flesh. Now, in the case of the Pharaoh of Egypt,
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  Speaker 1: in the case of a Bimelech, both of them. And
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  Speaker 1: this is very common practice, by the way, and it
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  Speaker 1: started very early in the book of Genesis, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: where you had a man men taking unto themselves multiple wives.
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  Speaker 1: And so that in itself is sin, because you are
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  Speaker 1: committing adultery, You're committing sin against God. And so God
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  Speaker 1: in both of these instances intervenes with these leaders of
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  Speaker 1: their respective nations to let them know that He still
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  Speaker 1: reigns and rules and his law still prevails over their
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  Speaker 1: carnal desires and lust of the flesh, that they can
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  Speaker 1: snatch up and take into their house any woman that
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  Speaker 1: they see and desire to have. Helpus, Jesus, Now, may
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  Speaker 1: I ask this question, what if God intervened today in
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  Speaker 1: such a way to stop all of the adultery and
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  Speaker 1: fornication and incests and molestation. I shudder to think how
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  Speaker 1: many of us would still even be alive. And if
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  Speaker 1: it even went so far as to what Jesus said,
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  Speaker 1: the one who looks on a woman to lust after
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  Speaker 1: her in his heart, Oh oh, how many of us
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  Speaker 1: would even still be breathing the bus Why the Bible
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  Speaker 1: says the salmon is understood it. If God would mark iniquity,
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  Speaker 1: who would be able to stand? And so God, a man,
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  Speaker 1: graciously by the way, intervened to prevail further sinning. What
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  Speaker 1: did he say, I stop you from sinning against me
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  Speaker 1: by not allowing you to touch this woman. Now, God
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  Speaker 1: didn't stop him from all of the other women that
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  Speaker 1: he had. He didn't stop him. He didn't stop Pharaoh
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  Speaker 1: from all the other women that he had, all of
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  Speaker 1: that adultery. Oh, God help us, Jesus, boy, y'all see
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  Speaker 1: we look at things the wrong way. We failed to
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  Speaker 1: see a man. The grace of God, the goodness of God,
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  Speaker 1: the long sufferings of the long suffering of God, forbearings
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  Speaker 1: of God, how much God tolerates and puts up with.
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  Speaker 1: But there comes a time that God will not allow
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  Speaker 1: any man to overthrow. Uh. Oh, God will not allow
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  Speaker 1: anyone to disrupt noll to set it. Not what He
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  Speaker 1: has already decreed to come to pass. And so God
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  Speaker 1: had already made a promise to Abraham and to Sarah,
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  Speaker 1: to Abraham and Sarah now that they were going to
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  Speaker 1: have a son in her old age. And by the way,
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  Speaker 1: Sarah at this time is eighty nine years old. God
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  Speaker 1: had already visited them and made this promises, these promises
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  Speaker 1: to them. Amen. And they said, at the set time,
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  Speaker 1: at this time next year, you're gonna have a son.
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  Speaker 1: And so now she's in, she's in, she's in the
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  Speaker 1: land of Girl with her husband. And and this king
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  Speaker 1: has taking her into his house, and God is about
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  Speaker 1: to do a miraculous thing with the birth of Isaac,
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  Speaker 1: and and he's going to allow this king to perhaps
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  Speaker 1: possibly put his ungodly seed in her. Oh see, y'all,
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  Speaker 1: we ain't seeing it. We ain't seeing it all, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: I don't see it all. Say God, listen, let me
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  Speaker 1: tell you God. Do you think God? God intervenes. He said, no,
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  Speaker 1: you are not listen what he says. You are not
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  Speaker 1: going to sin against me. That's what God says. This
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  Speaker 1: is what I did. Listen verse six again. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: read it again, and I'm gonna read on. God said
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  Speaker 1: unto him in a dream. Yay, I know that you
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  Speaker 1: did this in the integrity of your heart. For also
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  Speaker 1: withhell THEE from sinning against me. Therefore suffered I THEE
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  Speaker 1: not to touch her. Now. Therefore, look what the Bible says,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus the Lord is still talk is Jesus too, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: the Lord is still speaking to him. Now. Therefore restore
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  Speaker 1: the man his wife, for he is a prophet, and
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  Speaker 1: he shall pray for THEE. And thou shalt live. And
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  Speaker 1: if thou restore her not in other words, if you don't.
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  Speaker 1: You're the government, you're the head of the state. If
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  Speaker 1: you don't do what is right, Oh, my God, government, government,
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  Speaker 1: help us Jesus. If thou restore her, not know thou
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  Speaker 1: that thou shalt surely die, thou, not only you, but
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  Speaker 1: all that are thine, everybody in your house. And perhaps
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  Speaker 1: he may have been speaking of the entire kingdom to
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  Speaker 1: that extreme. God would go to that extreme dessert to
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  Speaker 1: save his own people, to save his yes, yes, to
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  Speaker 1: preserve what he has spoken, to protect his word, his name,
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  Speaker 1: his holiness, his integrity. Oh yes, he will. Either you
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  Speaker 1: repent hm hm a be milech, or you're gonna die.
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  Speaker 1: And not only you, you and all your folk. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: the Bible says Abemelec will early in the morning called
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  Speaker 1: all the servants, told all these things, and there is
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  Speaker 1: and the Bible says the men were sore afraid they knew. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: let me tell you something. Let me tell you something.
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  Speaker 1: All of these nations, by the way, this is not
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  Speaker 1: only a nation of sins of the flesh, of Bemelech
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  Speaker 1: involved in the sins of the flesh. But again, all
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  Speaker 1: these were pagan nations serving of the gods. But there's
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  Speaker 1: something about the true and the living God. When he speaks, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: you know it's him. When he comes down, when he
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  Speaker 1: comes down, and you know is him. You cannot we
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  Speaker 1: cannot deny his hand at work. It's providence at work.
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  Speaker 1: When the hand of God is at work, there is
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  Speaker 1: no denying. Bom knew that this is the God of creation,
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  Speaker 1: This is the God of all flesh. This is this
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  Speaker 1: sovereign God. This is not just the God of Abraham.
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  Speaker 1: This is the God of creation, the God who rules
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  Speaker 1: in the kingdom of men. So, when then Beemelecht rose
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  Speaker 1: up in the morning, he called all his servants and
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  Speaker 1: told these things. And there is and the Bible said,
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  Speaker 1: they were afraid as well. And you should tremble at
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  Speaker 1: the word of God, at the presence of God as
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  Speaker 1: the power of God. So the Bible says, called Abraham
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  Speaker 1: and said un to him, what have you done? What
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  Speaker 1: have you done? What have I offended you that you
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  Speaker 1: brought on me in my kingdom a great sin that
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  Speaker 1: has undeas unto me, that ought not to be done.
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  Speaker 1: And Bemelec said to Abraham, sost thou that thou hast
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  Speaker 1: done this thing? And Abraham said, because I thought, surely,
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  Speaker 1: the fear of God is not in this place. This
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  Speaker 1: is a place of wickedness, This is a place of vileness.
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  Speaker 1: This is a place that does not have any kind
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  Speaker 1: of law in order, nor concern about the sanctity of
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  Speaker 1: what God has established, what God has set forth, that
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  Speaker 1: a man is to have one wife. Oh, what are
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  Speaker 1: we in? Where are we? Abraham said that the fear
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  Speaker 1: of God is not in this place? Help us Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: and they will slay me for my wife's sake. In
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  Speaker 1: other words, they'll kill me and take my wife. And
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  Speaker 1: yet indeed she is my sister. She is the daughter
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  Speaker 1: of my father, but not the daughter of my mother.
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  Speaker 1: And she became my wife. And it came to pass
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  Speaker 1: when God calls me to wander from my father's house,
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  Speaker 1: that I said, unto her, this is thy kindness, which
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  Speaker 1: Thou's showing to me at every place whither we shall come,
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  Speaker 1: say of me, he is my brother. And so again
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  Speaker 1: you see the explanation, which by the way, does not
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  Speaker 1: excuse in any way Abraham's actions Sarah's actions. However, again,
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  Speaker 1: what we need to see and understand here is God
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  Speaker 1: intervening Number one, in spite of Abraham's failure to believe
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  Speaker 1: and trust God, failure to trust God to protect him.
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  Speaker 1: Hey man. And number two we need to understand and see.
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  Speaker 1: And there's a lot more that we can see and
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  Speaker 1: understand here, but the main thing here is that God
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  Speaker 1: intervened directly in both of these instances with the Pharaoh
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  Speaker 1: of Egypt with a Bemelec, the king of Goa, to
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  Speaker 1: prohibit them, to stop them. Listen, let me tell you something.
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  Speaker 1: You can have all the lust that you want. You
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  Speaker 1: can have all the desires that you want. You can
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  Speaker 1: have all the plans that you want. You can think
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  Speaker 1: that you're gonna go out and sow your seed all
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  Speaker 1: you want. Let me tell you something. If God has determined,
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  Speaker 1: if God has decided, if God does not want you
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  Speaker 1: to do that, you're not gonna do it. You don't
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  Speaker 1: even say it unless God allows. Oh oh woo. Now again,
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  Speaker 1: the Bible is clear about Now, since I said that,
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  Speaker 1: I guess I need to say this. The Bible is
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  Speaker 1: clear about God not being the author of sin. God
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  Speaker 1: cannot be tempted with evil, nor does he tempt any man.
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  Speaker 1: But every man is tempted when he's drawn away. James
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  Speaker 1: says of his own less and enticed, and sin when
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  Speaker 1: it is finished, it brings forth death, because the Bible
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  Speaker 1: teaches that the wages of sin is death. And this
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  Speaker 1: is why God was going to slay a Bimelech and
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  Speaker 1: his people. Had they not done what was right, You're
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  Speaker 1: not gonna mess up with God has already decreed. No man,
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  Speaker 1: no woman, no government, no people, nobody, no nation. Oh no,
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  Speaker 1: what God has already determined, it's going to come to pass.
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  Speaker 1: So Bible says verse fourteen. Bimelech took sheep, oxen, men
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  Speaker 1: servants and women servants, gave them to Abraham and restored him.
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  Speaker 1: Sarah his wife, and the Mimelech said, behold, my land
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  Speaker 1: is before THEE, dwell where it pleases THEE. And until
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  Speaker 1: Sarah he said, behold, I have given thy brother a
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  Speaker 1: thousand pieces of silver. Behold, he is to the acovering
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  Speaker 1: of the eyes, and to all that are with THEE
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  Speaker 1: and with all other. Thus she was reproved. So Abraham
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  Speaker 1: look at verse seventeen and eighteen. Of the last two verses,
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  Speaker 1: Abraham prayed unto God and God, listen, listen, listen. God
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  Speaker 1: healed a Bimelech and his wife and his maid servants,
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  Speaker 1: and they bear children. For the Lord had fast closed
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  Speaker 1: up all the wounds of the house of a Bmelech
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  Speaker 1: because of Sarah, Abraham's wife. Oh fine, at Ah, I
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  Speaker 1: know some of you, some of you, some of you
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  Speaker 1: think you're in charge, that you have the power of
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  Speaker 1: a life, and you can produce life, and you can
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  Speaker 1: bring forth life whenever you want, whenever you desire. All
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  Speaker 1: you got to do is lie down with the man,
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  Speaker 1: lie down with the woman, and the two of you
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  Speaker 1: can Amen, procreate and bring forth life. No, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: God is the author of life, the giver of life,
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  Speaker 1: the creator of life. Amen. And so again the Bible
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  Speaker 1: tells us here that the Lord had fast shut up
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  Speaker 1: the wounds a man of a man of a bimelech,
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  Speaker 1: whole household because of Sarah. Amen, because of Sarah Amen
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  Speaker 1: being in that house. Amen. Amen, against the plan and
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  Speaker 1: purpose of God. Amen. And the Bible says, God shut
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  Speaker 1: up their wounds, and none of them could bear children,
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  Speaker 1: none of the women, as long as Sarah is in
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  Speaker 1: that house. That's you. Is that not divine intervention? Is
• 39:25
  Speaker 1: that not God intervening directly? Amen? God is watching over
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  Speaker 1: his word, his eternal purposes. Everything that he's decreed from
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  Speaker 1: the foundation of the world, and it's going to come
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  Speaker 1: to pass. God has a plan that he's already implemented.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, we're living on the back end of it.
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  Speaker 1: A plan of redemption, Amen, for an innumerable multitude of people.
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  Speaker 1: That was the promise that he made to Abraham. I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to make you a father many nations. Amen. And
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  Speaker 1: in these shall all the families of the earth be blessed.
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna bless them that bless you, and I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: curse them that curse you. And we are the children
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  Speaker 1: of Abraham by faith. Abraham is the father of the faith,
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  Speaker 1: the father of the faithful. Amen. He believed God, the
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  Speaker 1: Bible says, and it was imputed unto him for righteousness,
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  Speaker 1: and he was called the friend of God. And God
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  Speaker 1: said to his apostles, Amen, you are my friends. He
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  Speaker 1: said to his disciples, you are my friends. If you
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  Speaker 1: do whatsoever I have commanded you. And so God watches
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  Speaker 1: over his word, because he has implemented a plan of redemption. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And he would bring into the world through the promised
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  Speaker 1: seed Isaac. He told Abraham and Sarah, you, Sarah, You're
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  Speaker 1: gonna have a son you in your old age. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: and she did. And it was Isaac, and Isaac begot Jacob,
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  Speaker 1: and Jacob had got to twelve patriarchs, and of course
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  Speaker 1: you know the rest. The nation of Israel was born.
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  Speaker 1: David became the king, a man of Israel, and God
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  Speaker 1: made a covenant with him. Amen, and Jesus the Christ
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  Speaker 1: from the tribe of Judah, is the seed that was promised.
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  Speaker 1: Paul wrote about this in the Book of Relations. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: the seed, the promised seed that was promised by the
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  Speaker 1: way in the garden of Eden long before Abram was born. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: he would come to bruise the head of the serpent.
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  Speaker 1: And so what God was doing in both of these
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  Speaker 1: instances with Pharaoh with a Bemelech, with Abram and Sarah,
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  Speaker 1: Abraham and Sarah, what God was doing was protecting his
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  Speaker 1: word purpose, his promises. It's not going to fall to
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  Speaker 1: the ground. And guess what, ladies and gentlemen, Church of God,
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  Speaker 1: Church of the Living God, People of God. Because the
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  Speaker 1: God of Creation, he is the king above the kings
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  Speaker 1: of this world. And he is the Lord who sovereignly
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  Speaker 1: reigns and rules over the affairs of all of the
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  Speaker 1: princes and all of the rulers and governors and mayors
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  Speaker 1: and presidents and prime ministers, whatever. And he's done it
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  Speaker 1: throughout redempting history, by the way, and he's shown himself
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  Speaker 1: to be the supreme, potentate judge over mere mortal men
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  Speaker 1: ruling in their dominions, their domains temporary, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: their seats of power which have been granted unto them.
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  Speaker 1: Because this God has shown himself to be mighty, the almighty,
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  Speaker 1: we can certainly rest assured that this same God who
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  Speaker 1: has intervened and orchestrated, is still doing so in our day.
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  Speaker 1: Let not your heart be troubled about where we are
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  Speaker 1: headed and what will be on tomorrow. God ruse in
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  Speaker 1: the kingdom of men, and he will always. Oh, you
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  Speaker 1: can rest on this, do what is right, because he
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  Speaker 1: is the righteous judge who reigns and ruse forever. Love.
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  Speaker 1: We thank you, Love, We bless you, love, We glorify
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  Speaker 1: your name. Every knee boles, every time confesses you are Lord,
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  Speaker 1: you are God, and you reign forever and forever. Amen. M.