Hello and welcome
to 3ABN Worship Hour.
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We're so glad you decided
to spend this time with us.
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You know, I might mentioned
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as the church doors
are being closed right now,
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we'd say even locked temporarily
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that, you know, God's
people have been crying out,
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they want to worship
service and a very special one.
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So I'm very
grateful and thankful here
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to say 3ABN has
stepped up to the plate
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and they want to make sure
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that you can have
worship service in your home,
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they brought it to you.
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And you know it's quite a cost,
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lot of hundreds of man
hours and certainly expense.
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But this shows how
much 3ABN loves you
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and we're glad
to meet that need.
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Praise God for that.
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Our subject for today
is our weapons of warfare.
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Before we get into that,
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Brother Tim Parton's
going to have something
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I know that's
going to bless our heart
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that the Lord has
laid on his heart.
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So open your ears
and open your heart
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as Brother Tim does
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what God has laid
on his heart today.
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Amen.
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Brother Kenny,
thank you very much.
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I'm here with a PSA, a
public service announcement,
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reminding you to pray.
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I know
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that no matter
where you are in life,
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we have things
that we can pray about.
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We have people in our
lives who need prayer.
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And we have situations
that we need God to move in.
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Throughout the Bible,
we are encouraged to pray.
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In Luke 18, Jesus said,
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"Men are always to
pray and not lose heart."
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And in Luke 21,
"Watch and pray always."
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In Romans, "Continue in prayer."
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Ephesians,
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"Praying always with all prayer
and supplication in the spirit,
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watching with all perseverance."
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In Colossians,
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"Continue in prayer
and watch in the same."
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1 Thessalonians,
"Pray without ceasing."
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1 Peter, "Watch unto prayer."
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What an awesome
opportunity we have to pray,
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to call out to the
creator of the universe.
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I love the verse that says...
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Oh, what peace
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We often forfeit
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Oh, what needless pain
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We bear
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All because we do not carry
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Everything to God in prayer
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What is your go to
when you have concerns,
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questions in life or a need?
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Do you call out to God?
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I encourage you to
do so. So let's pray.
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Father God, we thank You so much
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that You are always listening.
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Father, thank You
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that You are always
ready to move on our behalf.
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Father, forgive us
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when we don't
come to You in prayer.
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Forgive us
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when we talk
about our situations
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with each other
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and we would rather
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just,
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I don't know,
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seek each other's advice
than seek Your mighty hand.
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Lord, maybe it's
because we lack faith.
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Father, I pray O God
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for those who are
lacking faith today.
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Lord, I pray
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that You would
help our unbelief.
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Lord, we know that
You can do all things,
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nothing is impossible for You.
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So, Father, I just ask
that You would let faith
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arise in those who are listening
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and having trouble with faith.
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Father,
whatever the need may be,
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I pray that we
will reach out to you.
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Father, thank You
for hearing our prayer.
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Thank You for loving us so much.
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Thank You for caring so much.
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Hey, you left
your room This morning
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Did you think to pray?
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In the name of Christ
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Our Savior
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Did you sooth for loving favor
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As a shield today?
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And when you've met
With great temptation
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Did you think to pray?
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By his dying love and merit
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Did you claim His Holy Spirit
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As your guide
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And stay?
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Oh, how praying rests
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The weary
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Prayer will change your night
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To day
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So, when life
seems dark And dreary
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Saint, don't forget
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To pray
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When your heart
is filled With anger
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Do you think to pray?
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Do you plead for
grace, My brother?
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That you might forgive another
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Who may cross your way
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Oh, how praying rests
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The weary
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Prayer will change your night
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To day
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So, when life seems dark
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And dreary
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Don't forget
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To pray
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Thank you, Brother
Tim. Praise the Lord.
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I love that you know
that a couple of words just,
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you know, stuck out in my
head, prayer turns night to day.
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Isn't that what
we're looking for today?
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Today's subject is
our weapons of warfare.
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What does that really mean?
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Well, we'll get into
that in just a moment.
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Want to give you just,
maybe pose a few questions
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and then maybe make
a couple of comments
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before we pray again.
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They can't pray enough
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for the power
of the Holy Spirit.
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Just suppose, let's
start with a question.
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Just suppose that
today Christ came,
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just suppose He came today,
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how many would
be ready to meet Him
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just as we are
without any changes?
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Are we working for God or
are we working against Him
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because it's one
way or the other.
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Are we helping
others to find Jesus?
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Are we helping
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as it were those in our own home
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or in our own neighborhood?
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Are we getting
ready to meet the King?
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I guess it's easy
for us to be overwhelmed.
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You know, in our world today,
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especially with what's
going on with the pandemic,
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we call it the,
you know, a virus.
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It's staring us in the face
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and many of us don't know
where to turn or what to do.
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We are concerned,
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we're concerned
about the future,
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we're concerned about our job,
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we're concerned
about feeding our families.
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And how are we
going to pay the bills
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if we don't have a job?
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We can be stressed to the limit.
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And there are a lot of
people that are stressed.
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God has some answers for
us. I know He does in His Word.
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So how can this
situation be handled?
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Remember, God's
eye is on the sparrow.
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And I know He watches me.
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I'm going to ask
that you pray with me,
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you're not maybe able to kneel,
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but I'm going to kneel as
we pray and ask once again,
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God's blessing.
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Our kind loving Heavenly Father,
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we ask now as we
pour our soul out to You.
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Prayer does change things.
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Prayer does change night to day.
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Lord, we ask for the
anointing of thy Holy Spirit.
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Lord, not only upon the
words that are spoken here,
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but on the ears and the minds
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and the hearts of Your
children around the world today,
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they so desperately
are seeking Your face.
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May they find it today
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in the word that
will be presented,
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because the
unction of the spirit
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and the power of the living God,
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not what man might say or do
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but because of the
Spirit of the Living God.
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Forgive me of my sins,
mistakes in any way, Lord,
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that would somehow hamper
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our
communication with You today.
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May we see Jesus in a real way,
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in His precious name
we pray and for His sake.
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Amen.
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Again, the
sermon title is simply,
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Our Weapons of Warfare,
and God does have somewhere,
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we are in a warfare
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I believe that
with all of my heart
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and soul.
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I love this passage,
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I always have
from a young person,
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you know, in growing up.
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It's a passage
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that has blessed
my heart in the past,
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it's blessed it right now
in time that we're living in.
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And I know
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it's going to
bless me in the future
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and I pray that it
will bless your heart also,
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when you've memorized
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is very, very
short in Psalms 34:7.
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Already you know it,
right? You already have it down.
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It says, "The angel of
the Lord encampeth," what?
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"About them that fear
Him," notice it, and what?
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"And He delivers them."
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What a promise that is,
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the angel of the Lord
encampeth around about them
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that fear that, what?
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That reverence and respects Him,
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willing to be
obedient to what He says,
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and I like this word deliver.
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So if you're
looking for the mess
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that's going on
in the world today
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and you're
looking for deliverance,
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we look to God's Word.
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Now this word I will
just think about for a moment
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in the original language,
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it talks about
equips us for battle.
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He delivers us. What does He do?
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Delivering us, equips us
for the battle that lays ahead.
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Strengthens us, He
arms us for this battle.
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So you're not in it by yourself.
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Praise God. I'm
not in it by myself.
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I love the book
The Great Controversy
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and page 632 says this.
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Notice, it says,
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"Stand fast to your allegiance."
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Notice, what is
it? "Help is coming."
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What's happening?
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Stand fast to your allegiance
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because the Bible
says help is coming.
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Spirit of Prophecy
says help is coming.
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Why?
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Because Jesus says,
"Lo, I'm with you always,
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even to the end of the world."
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Jesus says, "I'm
acquainted with your sorrows,
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I'm acquainted
with your griefs."
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That would be something
in Isaiah 53 wouldn't it?
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He said, "I borne your griefs.
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I fought the battle,"
notice this, "in your behalf.
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And in my name," notice,
"you are more than conquerors."
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I love it in the
Bible, Romans 8:37,
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"We're more than conquerors
through Jesus Christ."
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So why should we lay down,
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why should we act
like that we're defeated
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because we're in
kind of a situation here.
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We don't know which
way it's going to go,
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how we're going
to come out of it,
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but we know the one
that can bring us out of it.
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We're more than
conquerors through Jesus Christ.
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Precious Savior, precious Jesus,
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there's
something about that name.
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That's all there is to it.
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When you say the
name of Jesus, or just,
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there's just power in that name,
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there's no doubt about it.
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And you know
what's going to happen
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in this situation?
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Just when we need it,
just in the nick of time,
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Jesus, when we need help,
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He's going to be
right there for us.
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He sends it
just exactly on time.
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There's a passage of scripture
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I remember, I
think it's in Psalms 116.
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We won't have it on the screen.
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But I want you to
just think it with me,
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it says when I, notice
this, when I was brought low,
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You were there to help me.
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If you feel like
you've been brought low
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with circumstances
and things in this life,
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it seemed to
have brought you low.
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Why not, Jesus is
going to be there.
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He's going to be
there to help you
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and to encourage you.
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After all, this world
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needs
encouragement, does it not?
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Surely, it does.
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It needs people
to talk about hope.
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There's hope in Jesus Christ,
there's hope in His Word.
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And we need to be claiming that
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even during this
time of the COVID-19,
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which many people are
throwing up their hands
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are running scared,
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they're looking for
some place to run to,
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and there's no place
for them to hide, it seems.
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But we need encouraging words,
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but we also need the
reality of what's happening.
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So we need to put
those two together
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by the grace of God.
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And some of the facts
that's being presented,
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you know, from
program to program.
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These facts as it were,
today can change tomorrow.
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They can change
because they're ever changing.
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But yeah, I'll
tell you this right now,
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the principle of
God's Word never changes.
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I'm happy about that.
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The principle, what?
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Good, of God's Word
never, never changes.
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Well, you say, well,
I don't know about that
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because I keep
hearing about changes.
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You know why I know it
because the Bible says so.
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Hebrews 13:8, the Bible said,
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for he says, "He
is the same, " what?
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"He's the same
yesterday, and today and," what?
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"And for ever."
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He's the same
yesterday, today and for ever.
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So God does not change, we
change, God doesn't change.
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And then if we could just
add Malachi 3:6, it simply says,
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"For I am the
Lord, and I change not."
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Now you can read
all of that verse,
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but I like this,
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"For I am the
Lord, I change not."
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So, when people come and say,
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the Lord has changed
the situation to change.
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The Bible said
God does not change,
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that gives me hope,
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that gives me
encouragement in these hours
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that we are living in,
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that our God shall
supply all of our needs,
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according to His
riches in glory, for sure.
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So because of these promises,
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I believe this that
each of us as Christians
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that you've accepted
Christ as your Lord and Savior.
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Now does that mean all is well?
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Maybe we're still
struggling, God still,
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He's still working on me,
but we professed His name,
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we've asked Him to
come into our hearts,
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into our life and
changes are being made.
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But because of these promises,
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He's the same
today and for ever.
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I may come boldly to
the throne in Hebrews 13:6.
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Notice what the
Bible said in Hebrews 13:6.
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It simply says, I love
it, "The Lord is my helper."
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The Lord is, what?
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"The Lord is my helper,
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and I will not fear
what man shall do to me."
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Isn't that beautiful?
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I'm not going to
worry about what man says.
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I can listen to the news
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on one channel and it says this,
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and I listen to news on another
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and it says
something else different.
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I'm not going to fear
what man may be threatening
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or man may be saying
is going to take place,
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because my God is
the same every day.
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He loves you, He loves me.
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Now, isn't it good
news to think about it?
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We're not too
worry, He's my helper.
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What does that
mean, He's my helper?
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That simply means,
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He's going to be there to
help us in our time of need.
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I pray this gives
you some encouragement.
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It just gives me
some encouragement,
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it gets me so excited.
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I don't know
what to do some time,
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just read the Word of God
to say, when you need help,
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I'm going to be there for you.
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The only way that He won't
be is if you don't ask Him.
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I'm going to help you,
I'm going to meet this need,
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and a lot of
times He meets the need,
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not how you think
that it ought to be met,
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but how He sees
fit for it to be,
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to working out your
salvation and my salvation.
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I'm going to be
there in your time of need.
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He said, I'm going
to come to your aid.
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Did you notice it, I'm
going to come to, where?
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To your aid.
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That means when
you, what you need help,
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'cause God says
I'm going to be there.
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I might just ask a
question. Are you a Christian?
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Why that's such a big word.
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Are you
Christian, to be a Christian?
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Most of the world,
many of them say, yes,
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I am, I am, I'm a Christian.
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But remember a
Christian is to be
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and simply put is
to be like Christ.
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Are we a
Christian? Are we like Christ?
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Listen, if you
are a Christian today,
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and that you profess
Jesus as your Lord and Savior,
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listen carefully,
people are watching you.
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People are
watching you more than ever.
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They're always watching,
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but they're watching
you more than ever right now
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to see how
you're going to handle
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this dilemma that's
going on in the world today.
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So how are we going to act?
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Let me just
read something to you
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that's found from
the Manuscript 61,
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written in 1907.
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My, that's a long time ago.
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But you know if it's
truth it's still good,
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it never
changes, isn't that right?
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It's always good for us.
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It says all about us,
everywhere, in front of us,
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back, round all about us.
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There are those
who are watching us.
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There are those
who are doing, what?
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Watching us
closely to see how we
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who profess to believe in
the truth conduct ourselves.
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Isn't that interesting?
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They're watching you to see
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how you're going
to conduct yourself
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if you really have
faith or you're just a talker,
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if you're just blowing hot air.
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There's a lot of hot air
Christians, as you well know,
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as I well know.
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But are we, are more than just,
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you know, hearing, but
we're doers of the Word,
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we're putting it into action.
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They're watching those
who believe and saying,
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we have the truth for this hour,
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we have the message
to give to the world.
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So if you are a child of God,
I think maybe we need to be.
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If we are a child of God,
we need to be, notice this,
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waging a
valiant war against sin.
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After all, this
is the big issue,
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is it not?
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Sin is the big issue,
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talk about all
these other things
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day in and day out
that's going on all the time.
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And we're trying to
blame this one and that one,
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but listen, we'll
go right back down.
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The great issue is,
what? Is the sin issue.
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There's three words
I want to just come out
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and jump out when I say this,
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waging a
valiant war against sin.
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Three words simply says valiant.
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What does it
mean, a valiant war?
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That means you're strong,
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that means God's
looking for strong people.
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He's looking for brave people.
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Not within ourselves, we
have none of these things.
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He's looking for the courageous.
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Looking for those
who dare to be a Daniel,
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those who are willing
to face death if necessary.
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Oh, none of us feel like that,
00:20:15.08\00:20:16.41
but we can by the
grace of God, can we not?
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We can be exactly
what God wants us to be
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if we submit ourselves to Him.
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That's the good news.
00:20:21.95\00:20:23.28
But He's looking for
people like this today,
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He's looking for
those who realize
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that we are in a warfare.
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We are in a battle royale.
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And as for your very soul,
00:20:33.29\00:20:35.56
oh, if we can only realize this,
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if we only just accept.
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Oh, I know, I know, people say,
00:20:38.77\00:20:40.10
but do you
really, really realize
00:20:40.14\00:20:42.47
this is about eternal life here.
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And we talk about warfare.
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It's the action of waging war
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or it's simply about
the conflict of any kind.
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Are you going through
00:20:53.75\00:20:55.08
some kind of a
conflict right now?
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Oh, I think so.
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Almost every household
00:20:59.29\00:21:00.62
is going through
some kind of a conflict.
00:21:00.66\00:21:01.99
Do I have this or
am I going to get this
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or you know friends
00:21:03.83\00:21:05.16
or, right, people
going to hospital right now,
00:21:05.19\00:21:07.53
bless their heart, they
can't even have visitors.
00:21:07.56\00:21:09.46
When people pass away,
00:21:12.53\00:21:13.94
they're going to be a
few that attend the service.
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Well, these are
troublesome times.
00:21:17.51\00:21:20.21
We need to wage
that war, valiant war,
00:21:20.24\00:21:22.28
we need to have
courage and faith
00:21:22.31\00:21:23.65
and strength right now
against this thing called sin.
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You know, you can
look in a dictionary,
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sin, what is sin?
00:21:28.55\00:21:30.12
Well, Webster's
dictionary simply defines sin
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as a breaking of one
of the moral law of God.
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Oh, man,
00:21:36.49\00:21:37.83
that's a pretty
good answer, isn't it?
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I love to go to the
Word of God, don't you?
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Because in the Word of God,
00:21:40.76\00:21:42.10
you can find a real
definition of what sin is.
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1 John 3:4, the
Bible says sin is what?
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Very good.
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Sin is a transgression of what?
00:21:48.50\00:21:50.67
Of God's law, also
notice this, is law.
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For sin is the
transgression of the law.
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What is sin?
00:21:59.21\00:22:00.55
Sin's the
transgression of God's law
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is what it says,
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This is the issue.
00:22:03.32\00:22:04.65
We push God out of
everything, the sin issue.
00:22:04.69\00:22:07.19
God's trying to wake up a people
00:22:07.22\00:22:08.92
to be prepared for His coming.
00:22:08.96\00:22:10.66
And this thing called sin
is somehow getting in the way.
00:22:10.69\00:22:13.86
And God said,
this thing needs to go.
00:22:13.90\00:22:15.76
It is the
transgression of my law.
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Yet people say, "Oh,
well, with the law is no law.
00:22:18.37\00:22:20.57
Bible says in Romans 6:23,
00:22:20.60\00:22:23.51
we will know that the
wages of sin is, what?
00:22:23.54\00:22:27.01
Good, the wages of sin is death.
00:22:27.04\00:22:29.84
That's what the wages of sin is.
00:22:29.88\00:22:31.95
Sin is a
transgression of God's law.
00:22:31.98\00:22:35.95
That makes good sense to me.
00:22:35.98\00:22:38.05
But people tell me, well,
00:22:38.09\00:22:39.42
the law of God's done away with.
00:22:39.45\00:22:41.66
Romans 3:20,
00:22:41.69\00:22:43.26
the Bible said by
the law is the, what?
00:22:43.29\00:22:46.09
By the law is
the knowledge of sin.
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Notice this is a
knowledge of sin.
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Now, Ephesians 6:12, 13.
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We have come up on the
screen, maybe we'll do it again.
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We're going to read that.
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Ephesians 6, I've
turned in my Bible.
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I want you to make sure,
you turn in your Bible too,
00:22:59.21\00:23:01.01
it's very, very important.
00:23:01.04\00:23:02.38
We're going to
read these two verses,
00:23:02.41\00:23:03.75
Ephesians 6:12, 13.
00:23:03.78\00:23:06.82
And then we'll
make a few comments
00:23:06.85\00:23:08.18
on down if you don't mind.
00:23:08.22\00:23:09.58
Notice these verses,
they're very, very powerful.
00:23:09.62\00:23:12.79
Because we're talking
00:23:12.82\00:23:14.16
about putting
on some armor here,
00:23:14.19\00:23:15.66
something that we
so desperately need
00:23:15.69\00:23:17.69
in this hour that we live in.
00:23:17.73\00:23:19.76
Notice what the Bible
says and starting with verse,
00:23:19.79\00:23:22.36
we start with verse 12.
00:23:22.40\00:23:23.80
The Bible said,
00:23:23.83\00:23:25.17
"For we wrestle not
against flesh and," what?
00:23:25.20\00:23:27.64
"Flesh and blood, good,
00:23:27.67\00:23:29.00
but against
principalities, " and what?
00:23:29.04\00:23:30.87
"Against powers, and
against," notice this,
00:23:30.91\00:23:33.58
"rulers of
darkness of this world,
00:23:33.61\00:23:35.28
against spiritual
wickedness in high places."
00:23:35.31\00:23:38.68
Verse 13,
00:23:38.71\00:23:40.05
"Wherefore take unto
you the whole armor of God."
00:23:40.08\00:23:43.15
You say, oh, we
know that, we know that.
00:23:43.18\00:23:44.85
You know the problem, a
lot of times in this world
00:23:44.89\00:23:46.22
that we live in.
00:23:46.25\00:23:47.59
Every time you
mention something,
00:23:47.62\00:23:48.96
somebody already knows it.
00:23:48.99\00:23:50.83
We realize that
truth is progressive.
00:23:50.86\00:23:53.56
We realize that we need to
be able to listen to truth.
00:23:53.60\00:23:56.83
Truth
transforms us and change us
00:23:56.87\00:23:58.97
regardless of how
many times we've heard it.
00:23:59.00\00:24:01.90
But it said, we need to put
00:24:01.94\00:24:03.27
the whole armor of
God and notice this,
00:24:03.30\00:24:04.64
because we're able to
withstand the evil day,
00:24:04.67\00:24:08.14
having done all, to stand.
00:24:08.18\00:24:09.88
Man, I could just do
the bottom line right here
00:24:09.91\00:24:11.75
and saying, have
we done all the stand?
00:24:11.78\00:24:13.92
Have you done
everything that, you know,
00:24:13.95\00:24:15.65
by the grace of
God to be able to stand
00:24:15.68\00:24:17.82
during this
troublesome period of time?
00:24:17.85\00:24:21.86
Have you done
everything that you know
00:24:21.89\00:24:23.59
based on the Word of God
00:24:23.63\00:24:25.09
that you may be able to
fight the good fight of faith,
00:24:25.13\00:24:28.40
become more than a
conqueror through Jesus Christ.
00:24:28.43\00:24:31.43
And the Bible goes on,
00:24:31.47\00:24:32.80
we're not going to
spend much time on it
00:24:32.83\00:24:34.17
but the Bible goes
on to say, therefore,
00:24:34.20\00:24:35.54
that we need to have
00:24:35.57\00:24:36.91
we need to have our
loins gird with what?
00:24:36.94\00:24:38.94
With truth,
00:24:38.97\00:24:40.44
feet shot with the
preparation of the gospel,
00:24:40.48\00:24:43.24
we had that shield of faith.
00:24:43.28\00:24:44.61
Why?
00:24:44.65\00:24:45.98
Because although fiery
darts from the old enemy
00:24:46.01\00:24:47.35
is coming at us
every moment, every day.
00:24:47.38\00:24:50.19
You might be asleep at
night, the devil's not asleep.
00:24:50.22\00:24:52.99
He knows exactly
what you're up to,
00:24:53.02\00:24:54.42
what you like to do and
what you don't like to do.
00:24:54.46\00:24:56.79
And he's laying a
trap just for you.
00:24:56.83\00:24:59.56
He's laying a trap just for me,
00:24:59.59\00:25:01.26
he knows the
strong areas of your life.
00:25:01.30\00:25:03.10
He knows the weak
areas of your life,
00:25:03.13\00:25:04.97
and that's where
he's going to punch you.
00:25:05.00\00:25:07.27
So we need to put
on the whole armor.
00:25:07.30\00:25:08.77
The Bible said, our feet shod
00:25:08.80\00:25:10.64
with the
preparation of the gospel.
00:25:10.67\00:25:12.61
Man, how we need
the gospel preach.
00:25:12.64\00:25:14.41
Jesus said,
00:25:14.44\00:25:15.78
"If I be lifted
up from the earth
00:25:15.81\00:25:17.35
will draw all men," where?
00:25:17.38\00:25:18.71
"Unto Me."
00:25:18.75\00:25:20.08
Are we lifting
up the name of Jesus
00:25:20.12\00:25:21.55
or we spent all of our
time on something else?
00:25:21.58\00:25:23.65
We say that
really doesn't matter.
00:25:23.69\00:25:25.35
Or just giving some information
00:25:25.39\00:25:26.72
and then bring it back to Jesus,
00:25:26.76\00:25:28.32
then bring it back
to the cross of Calvary.
00:25:28.36\00:25:30.29
Bring it back to the cross
00:25:30.33\00:25:31.66
where I need to be
going every day of my life.
00:25:31.69\00:25:33.46
I need those
great drops of blood
00:25:33.50\00:25:34.96
as it were falling on me
00:25:35.00\00:25:36.36
to cleanse me from
all unrighteousness
00:25:36.40\00:25:38.17
so that I might be
material for heaven.
00:25:38.20\00:25:40.87
Boy, I want to be
material for heaven
00:25:40.90\00:25:42.40
but I need the cross.
00:25:42.44\00:25:44.24
I need Jesus Christ in
my heart and in my life,
00:25:44.27\00:25:46.78
I need this shield of faith.
00:25:46.81\00:25:48.51
Now I need the feet shod
00:25:48.54\00:25:49.88
with the
preparation of the gospel.
00:25:49.91\00:25:51.31
I need the helmet of salvation
00:25:51.35\00:25:53.11
because the devil
is trying to pound you
00:25:53.15\00:25:54.48
right in the head, ain't he?
00:25:54.52\00:25:55.85
He's trying to take
your brain away from you.
00:25:55.88\00:25:57.49
He's trying to take
that power of choice
00:25:57.52\00:25:58.85
where you can't make
a good choice anymore.
00:25:58.89\00:26:02.26
And then it says praying always,
00:26:02.29\00:26:03.89
pray without ceasing.
00:26:03.93\00:26:05.26
That's always,
Brother Tim was talking
00:26:05.29\00:26:06.63
about in the beginning here,
00:26:06.66\00:26:08.00
we need to be praying,
praying more than ever before,
00:26:08.03\00:26:09.83
we'll receive power
00:26:09.86\00:26:11.20
from the very
throne room of God.
00:26:11.23\00:26:14.94
I'm going to go to a Manuscript,
00:26:14.97\00:26:16.30
here's something,
00:26:16.34\00:26:17.67
it's real good
food for thought here,
00:26:17.71\00:26:19.04
Manuscript 32, written in 1900.
00:26:19.07\00:26:21.61
Now remember,
00:26:21.64\00:26:22.98
we just said there
was a battle, what?
00:26:23.01\00:26:24.45
Battle royale, if I
may say that going on.
00:26:24.48\00:26:26.92
There's a battle
00:26:26.95\00:26:28.28
for each and every
soul on this planet.
00:26:28.32\00:26:30.89
And the devil is not happy,
00:26:30.92\00:26:32.25
happy as long as you
are trying to be a follower
00:26:32.29\00:26:34.16
of Jesus Christ.
00:26:34.19\00:26:35.72
And so, this battle goes on.
00:26:35.76\00:26:37.83
We have to realize what it says,
00:26:37.86\00:26:39.19
notice what it says here,
00:26:39.23\00:26:40.56
if the curtain
could be rolled back.
00:26:40.60\00:26:42.46
"If the curtain
could be rolled back,
00:26:42.50\00:26:44.17
we would see the armies
of heaven are in continual, "
00:26:44.20\00:26:47.10
what?
00:26:47.14\00:26:48.47
"Warfare with satanic agencies."
00:26:48.50\00:26:51.04
What is it?
00:26:51.07\00:26:52.41
If the curtain
could be rolled back?
00:26:52.44\00:26:55.31
There's a
battle that's going on.
00:26:55.34\00:26:56.75
Heaven is
battling in your behalf.
00:26:56.78\00:26:58.85
Man, oh man, why don't we start
00:26:58.88\00:27:00.32
battling by the grace of God?
00:27:00.35\00:27:02.15
You can't expect
heaven do all the work for you
00:27:02.18\00:27:04.02
and do all the work for me.
00:27:04.05\00:27:05.72
We go back, heaven
is fighting for us.
00:27:05.75\00:27:09.66
And by the grace of
God, we need to fight.
00:27:09.69\00:27:12.03
As we're on our knees with God,
00:27:12.06\00:27:13.63
we need to put on
the whole armor of God.
00:27:13.66\00:27:16.10
This is the
weapons of our warfare,
00:27:16.13\00:27:18.23
it's a spiritual.
00:27:18.27\00:27:20.04
We can't handle it on
our own, we know that.
00:27:20.07\00:27:23.94
The battle going on.
00:27:23.97\00:27:26.44
It's just a couple of
thoughts after, you know, Satan,
00:27:26.47\00:27:29.34
and the evil angels
were cast out of heaven,
00:27:29.38\00:27:31.65
we know that they
were, the Bible tells us so.
00:27:31.68\00:27:34.52
What did they do?
00:27:34.55\00:27:35.88
Notice it, they bound
together in this thing
00:27:35.92\00:27:38.45
called all the word
00:27:38.49\00:27:39.82
that we don't want to hear
all the time is confederacy.
00:27:39.85\00:27:43.63
I think more you
don't want to hear it,
00:27:43.66\00:27:44.99
more I want to say it.
00:27:45.03\00:27:47.20
In a confederacy
because there's nothing wrong
00:27:47.23\00:27:49.00
with the word that
people try to use it,
00:27:49.03\00:27:50.70
you know, and
maybe the wrong way
00:27:50.73\00:27:52.47
and there are some
things that's going on, is not,
00:27:52.50\00:27:54.30
that's why we have
to know the Word of God,
00:27:54.34\00:27:55.74
hide it deep within our heart.
00:27:55.77\00:27:57.67
But what the devil mean,
there's confederacy here.
00:27:57.71\00:28:00.18
Is it just the uniting
of some group of people
00:28:00.21\00:28:03.35
on some kind
of, listen to words,
00:28:03.38\00:28:05.15
common, common purpose.
00:28:05.18\00:28:08.95
We're hearing an
awful lot about this saying,
00:28:08.98\00:28:10.49
coming together
for the common purpose
00:28:10.52\00:28:12.35
for the good of the country.
00:28:12.39\00:28:14.39
My, my, you think
there's something going on
00:28:14.42\00:28:16.22
that maybe we're not realizing
today for the common good.
00:28:16.26\00:28:20.03
The enemy said,
well, we've come together
00:28:20.06\00:28:22.06
all the evil angels
for this common good,
00:28:22.10\00:28:24.10
that we might do,
00:28:24.13\00:28:25.47
oh, listen to it carefully,
00:28:25.50\00:28:26.84
we might do all the evil
00:28:26.87\00:28:28.20
that we can
possibly do to mankind.
00:28:28.24\00:28:31.67
Now why,
00:28:31.71\00:28:33.04
why does the devil
want to do everything,
00:28:33.07\00:28:35.74
you know, the evil that
he can to a human being?
00:28:35.78\00:28:38.48
You know why?
00:28:38.51\00:28:39.85
Listen, my Bible
tells me in Zechariah 2:8,
00:28:39.88\00:28:42.65
because God
said, you the people,
00:28:42.68\00:28:44.75
you are the apple of my
eye, isn't that beautiful?
00:28:44.79\00:28:47.79
You are the apple of my eye,
00:28:47.82\00:28:49.62
and the only way that
the devil can strike God
00:28:49.66\00:28:52.46
is to strike you and me.
00:28:52.49\00:28:54.40
Does that make sense?
00:28:54.43\00:28:56.40
He can't strike God,
00:28:56.43\00:28:57.77
but he can strike
you and strike me.
00:28:57.80\00:28:59.13
God allows him to
do certain things.
00:28:59.17\00:29:01.70
But God said, O My people,
they're the apple of My eye.
00:29:01.74\00:29:04.67
Man, what encouragement
that should give us today.
00:29:04.71\00:29:08.24
Until the passage
00:29:08.28\00:29:09.61
we just read there in Ephesians,
00:29:09.64\00:29:10.98
we won't read them
again Ephesians 6:12, 13.
00:29:11.01\00:29:12.75
It just simply said,
00:29:12.78\00:29:14.12
there's a real
battle that is going on.
00:29:14.15\00:29:17.55
Somebody is going to win
and somebody is going to lose.
00:29:17.59\00:29:21.49
What is it going to take?
00:29:21.52\00:29:23.89
What will it take that
we can win this battle?
00:29:23.93\00:29:28.46
I like the
passage in Proverbs 3:5.
00:29:28.50\00:29:31.37
Just a couple of
words here, it says,
00:29:31.40\00:29:32.73
"Trust in God with all," what?
00:29:32.77\00:29:35.44
"Trust in the Lord
with all thine heart,
00:29:35.47\00:29:37.17
and lead not to your own," what?
00:29:37.21\00:29:39.01
Good, "to your
own understanding."
00:29:39.04\00:29:40.71
So first of all, we need to come
00:29:40.74\00:29:42.08
into right
relationship with God.
00:29:42.11\00:29:44.41
See a lot of people just,
00:29:44.45\00:29:45.78
they see the
conditions of the world,
00:29:45.81\00:29:47.15
they don't know what to do,
00:29:47.18\00:29:48.52
they're throwing their hands up.
00:29:48.55\00:29:49.88
They're saying I surrender,
00:29:49.92\00:29:51.25
I give up
00:29:51.29\00:29:52.62
rather than surrender your heart
00:29:52.65\00:29:53.99
and your life to Jesus Christ,
00:29:54.02\00:29:55.36
begin a relationship with Him,
00:29:55.39\00:29:56.73
begin to experience with
Him and begin to trust Him.
00:29:56.76\00:30:00.50
I find it it's a
shame even myself.
00:30:00.53\00:30:02.63
I tell my, sometimes,
00:30:02.66\00:30:04.00
well, I wonder
what God's going to do,
00:30:04.03\00:30:05.37
kind of doubt God sometime.
00:30:05.40\00:30:06.74
Hasn't God been faithful?
00:30:06.77\00:30:09.84
Hasn't He been
faithful over the years?
00:30:09.87\00:30:13.68
Has He ever let you down?
00:30:13.71\00:30:15.04
I can honestly
say in my own life
00:30:15.08\00:30:16.41
regardless of
all the consequences
00:30:16.44\00:30:17.78
and all the seed that sown.
00:30:17.81\00:30:19.28
You know, God has been faithful.
00:30:19.31\00:30:22.15
He's never give up on me.
00:30:22.18\00:30:23.62
You, you may
have given up on me,
00:30:23.65\00:30:25.32
but God's never given up on me.
00:30:25.35\00:30:27.09
He's never given up on you.
00:30:27.12\00:30:30.13
That means we come to the point
00:30:30.16\00:30:31.49
where we trust God
with all of our heart.
00:30:31.53\00:30:34.36
In other words,
there's nothing else left,
00:30:34.40\00:30:35.73
there's no reservations,
00:30:35.76\00:30:37.10
there's nothing that I
keep to myself anymore.
00:30:37.13\00:30:39.13
I've just thrown it all
out at the feet of Jesus.
00:30:39.17\00:30:42.90
1 Timothy 4:10,
00:30:42.94\00:30:45.34
because we trust
in the living God.
00:30:45.37\00:30:48.38
We don't trust in the, right,
we don't trust in a dead God,
00:30:48.41\00:30:51.95
we trust in a living God, a
God who rules this universe,
00:30:51.98\00:30:55.55
a God who speaks, right?
00:30:55.58\00:30:57.55
And the animals listen,
00:30:57.59\00:30:59.99
we're the only
species on this planet,
00:31:00.02\00:31:02.86
we're the only, the people
00:31:02.89\00:31:04.23
is the only one
that's not listening.
00:31:04.26\00:31:06.23
Everything else
listens to God, they obeys God.
00:31:06.26\00:31:11.73
We trust in the living God
00:31:11.77\00:31:14.07
that He's going
to take care of us.
00:31:14.10\00:31:16.20
We trust in the living God
00:31:16.24\00:31:17.57
that He's going to
make the house pay.
00:31:17.61\00:31:18.94
I don't know how.
00:31:18.97\00:31:20.51
Man, I can
remember over the year
00:31:20.54\00:31:22.11
has God ever let down.
00:31:22.14\00:31:23.48
Really have you
ever gone hungry?
00:31:23.51\00:31:24.85
Oh, my, no, not really.
00:31:24.88\00:31:28.78
I remember growing
up on Warden Street
00:31:28.82\00:31:30.15
where we had very little food
00:31:30.19\00:31:31.52
and some time
we were out of food
00:31:31.55\00:31:32.89
and mom said, well,
00:31:32.92\00:31:34.26
I just don't really have
anything left in the cupboard.
00:31:34.29\00:31:36.26
I don't know what
we're going to do.
00:31:36.29\00:31:38.69
She said, we just pray.
00:31:38.73\00:31:40.30
Pray that God
somehow will answer,
00:31:40.33\00:31:41.76
today we say, as
young kid you say well,
00:31:41.80\00:31:43.13
I don't know
00:31:43.16\00:31:44.50
how's God going to
answer this prayer.
00:31:44.53\00:31:45.87
Man, everybody's
kind of short on food.
00:31:45.90\00:31:47.64
And then there'd be
a knock at the door.
00:31:47.67\00:31:50.51
And a neighbor would come
over a little sack of groceries
00:31:50.54\00:31:52.57
whatever and say, you know what,
00:31:52.61\00:31:53.94
we just had some extra
00:31:53.98\00:31:55.74
and we just felt like
maybe we ought to share it
00:31:55.78\00:31:57.11
with our neighbors.
00:31:57.15\00:31:58.48
God is faithful.
00:31:58.51\00:32:00.62
This is what we
need to be looking
00:32:00.65\00:32:01.98
and searching at
right now, He is faithful.
00:32:02.02\00:32:07.02
But we need to put on
the whole armor of God.
00:32:07.06\00:32:12.16
Now, let me just say this.
00:32:12.19\00:32:13.53
Why are we talking about
00:32:13.56\00:32:14.90
putting on the
whole armor of God?
00:32:14.93\00:32:16.26
You know why we're
putting on God's armor?
00:32:16.30\00:32:18.20
Because we don't
have any armor of our own.
00:32:18.23\00:32:22.30
Did you get that? We
don't have any armor.
00:32:22.34\00:32:23.87
Oh, I'm just going to
put my armor on, right?
00:32:23.91\00:32:25.81
You're going to go to the closet
00:32:25.84\00:32:27.18
and you're going to
reach and get something
00:32:27.21\00:32:28.54
you're going to put up.
00:32:28.58\00:32:29.91
It's not that way at all.
00:32:29.94\00:32:31.28
We put on God's armor. Why?
00:32:31.31\00:32:34.52
Because God has prepared it
especially for you and for me.
00:32:34.55\00:32:39.55
It has your name on it.
00:32:39.59\00:32:41.49
They're special armor,
00:32:41.52\00:32:42.86
it's not just
everybody has the same piece,
00:32:42.89\00:32:44.86
but it's different.
00:32:44.89\00:32:46.56
And what do you, what
do we mean by different?
00:32:46.59\00:32:49.80
Remember, it says to put
it on, so there's one catch,
00:32:49.83\00:32:53.07
and this thing working.
00:32:53.10\00:32:54.50
We must by faith
put on the armor of God.
00:32:54.54\00:33:00.28
Remember, He's
prepared it for us.
00:33:00.31\00:33:02.64
It's especially made
for us to repel temptations
00:33:02.68\00:33:07.82
that maybe we are,
00:33:07.85\00:33:09.18
maybe more subject to
that, maybe it's someone else,
00:33:09.22\00:33:12.75
or any trick or any
deception of the enemy.
00:33:12.79\00:33:17.56
And so, we put it on so
that we might be able to,
00:33:17.59\00:33:20.50
whoo, might be able to stand.
00:33:20.53\00:33:22.90
Today is the time
00:33:22.93\00:33:24.27
that we need to
be able to stand.
00:33:24.30\00:33:25.63
This is the time
we need to hold out.
00:33:25.67\00:33:27.97
This is time where the
patience of the saints come in.
00:33:28.00\00:33:30.67
This is the time
we need to overcome
00:33:30.71\00:33:32.61
by the grace of God.
00:33:32.64\00:33:34.24
God can help us to do that.
00:33:34.28\00:33:35.81
Have confidence
and trust and faith.
00:33:35.84\00:33:38.21
Have faith in God.
00:33:38.25\00:33:40.02
See, the enemy
has thousands of ways
00:33:40.05\00:33:43.15
to fool or to trick us.
00:33:43.18\00:33:45.85
You don't want
00:33:45.89\00:33:47.22
the easiest
individuals to trick.
00:33:47.26\00:33:50.86
Let me just call it
here, we're not calling names,
00:33:50.89\00:33:52.83
but with the unstable soul.
00:33:52.86\00:33:56.26
Now what do we mean
about the unstable soul?
00:33:56.30\00:34:00.34
I think the word is
pretty good within itself.
00:34:00.37\00:34:02.10
Unstable soul is just
mean, one who is easily upset.
00:34:02.14\00:34:07.08
Do you have friends and family,
relatives or sometimes it just,
00:34:07.11\00:34:10.45
it didn't take hardly
anything and all of a sudden
00:34:10.48\00:34:12.18
we call their
feathers are ruffled.
00:34:12.21\00:34:14.92
They just get all upset,
they're blown out of shape,
00:34:14.95\00:34:17.12
and they don't act
right, they're fickled,
00:34:17.15\00:34:19.75
they become
unbalanced so easily.
00:34:19.79\00:34:22.69
And so, if we say
that they're unbalanced,
00:34:22.72\00:34:24.33
that means
they're not stable at all.
00:34:24.36\00:34:26.29
They're
changeable, unstable soul.
00:34:26.33\00:34:31.13
And let me tell
you what happened,
00:34:31.17\00:34:32.50
an unstable soul is blown about,
00:34:32.53\00:34:34.54
the Bible said
in Ephesians 4:14.
00:34:34.57\00:34:37.31
"They're blown about
by every wind of," what?
00:34:37.34\00:34:40.84
"By every wind of doctrine."
00:34:40.88\00:34:43.21
Man, we see that more and more.
00:34:43.24\00:34:44.58
Somebody say,
well, the preacher said,
00:34:44.61\00:34:45.95
the evangelist said,
how about what God said,
00:34:45.98\00:34:48.55
what did God say?
00:34:48.58\00:34:52.22
What did God say in His Word?
That's where we go to, why?
00:34:52.25\00:34:56.99
We shouldn't be unstable.
00:34:57.03\00:34:58.36
This is the hour that
God's looking for, what?
00:34:58.39\00:35:00.06
Stable people.
00:35:00.10\00:35:01.53
God's looking for people, why?
00:35:01.56\00:35:02.90
Because Christ is our
rock, Christ is our foundation.
00:35:02.93\00:35:09.00
Christ is our hope.
00:35:09.04\00:35:10.71
Christ is our power.
00:35:10.74\00:35:12.17
Christ is our victory.
00:35:12.21\00:35:14.71
I love that old song.
00:35:14.74\00:35:16.08
Whoo, I think it's
an evangelistic song.
00:35:16.11\00:35:17.68
There's victory in Jesus.
00:35:17.71\00:35:19.35
I love that song.
There's victory in Jesus.
00:35:19.38\00:35:21.95
In other words,
00:35:21.98\00:35:23.32
He sought me and He bought
me by His redeeming, what?
00:35:23.35\00:35:26.76
Blood.
00:35:26.79\00:35:28.12
I may not know all the song
00:35:28.16\00:35:29.49
but I don't know
the word or whatever.
00:35:29.52\00:35:30.86
I'm just going to,
I'm going to hum it.
00:35:30.89\00:35:32.23
I'm telling you
because this is good, why?
00:35:32.26\00:35:34.06
He sought me, He sought
me while we were yet enemy.
00:35:34.10\00:35:37.87
He bought me by
His redeeming blood.
00:35:37.90\00:35:40.94
He never gave up on me
00:35:40.97\00:35:42.30
and He's not
going to give up on you.
00:35:42.34\00:35:44.97
Man, He bought you, you're His.
00:35:45.01\00:35:47.71
Commit yourself to Him.
00:35:47.74\00:35:50.45
We must stand against the enemy
by the grace of God right now.
00:35:50.48\00:35:54.62
There's no backing
down or backing up.
00:35:54.65\00:35:56.48
We've got to move
forward right now.
00:35:56.52\00:35:58.19
Now let me say why?
00:35:58.22\00:35:59.65
Why stand against the enemy.
00:35:59.69\00:36:02.06
My Bible says there
in 1 Chronicles 21:1.
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Now notice this, in 1
Chronicles 21:1 tells me
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that Satan is
going to stand up, what?
00:36:09.53\00:36:12.90
He stands up against us.
He stands up against Israel.
00:36:12.93\00:36:16.64
He stands up
against God's people.
00:36:16.67\00:36:18.14
So the enemy saying to you,
00:36:18.17\00:36:19.51
I'm going to stand in your face.
00:36:19.54\00:36:21.58
I'm going to tell you
how the hog ate the cabbage,
00:36:21.61\00:36:23.85
did you get that one?
00:36:23.88\00:36:25.48
I'm going to tell you how it is
00:36:25.51\00:36:26.85
and what you're
going to be doing.
00:36:26.88\00:36:28.22
But you know what?
00:36:28.25\00:36:29.58
God says His people
00:36:29.62\00:36:30.95
need to stand fast in the faith,
00:36:30.99\00:36:32.32
stand fast in His
love and in His strength,
00:36:32.35\00:36:34.89
stand against the enemy.
00:36:34.92\00:36:36.32
Notice this, why?
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So that we need
not, notice this.
00:36:37.73\00:36:39.73
So right now, we
need not back away at all.
00:36:39.76\00:36:42.00
Right now, we need
to stand up for Him.
00:36:42.03\00:36:44.23
We need to set up for Him.
00:36:44.27\00:36:46.67
We need to keep up
with Him and not shut up.
00:36:46.70\00:36:50.87
It's time to keep up.
00:36:50.91\00:36:52.77
It's time for God's
people to have a voice and what?
00:36:52.81\00:36:55.88
The voice is
against evil and things
00:36:55.91\00:36:57.65
that are going on in the world.
00:36:57.68\00:36:59.18
Don't sit back and remain quiet.
00:36:59.21\00:37:03.12
We're to fight
against the evil one
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and who is evil one?
00:37:05.42\00:37:06.76
Certainly, the
evil one is Satan.
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Absolutely.
00:37:08.16\00:37:09.49
His kingdom is
the kingdom of, what?
00:37:09.52\00:37:11.16
Of sin.
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You're going to have to
choose one or the other.
00:37:12.56\00:37:16.16
Therefore,
because we recognize this,
00:37:16.20\00:37:18.10
we need to strive against sin
00:37:18.13\00:37:21.04
that the Bible talks
about in Hebrews 12:4.
00:37:21.07\00:37:25.14
That means we need
to resist unto blood.
00:37:25.17\00:37:28.84
Guys, I say this every
time and I can't help it,
00:37:28.88\00:37:30.81
we talked about
resist and the blood strive,
00:37:30.85\00:37:33.55
strive against sin.
00:37:33.58\00:37:34.92
That means listen very simply,
00:37:34.95\00:37:36.69
that we need to by the grace
00:37:36.72\00:37:38.55
and power
strength of Jesus Christ,
00:37:38.59\00:37:41.22
that we had rather die
than knowingly commit sin.
00:37:41.26\00:37:46.03
That's where God's
bringing His people.
00:37:46.06\00:37:48.73
God is bringing His people
00:37:48.76\00:37:50.10
to the point of
victory over sin in our life,
00:37:50.13\00:37:52.93
that we might repopulate heaven.
00:37:52.97\00:37:54.70
If you think you're
taking that old stuff
00:37:54.74\00:37:56.24
that down here on this
earth after heaven with us,
00:37:56.27\00:37:58.24
we need to rethink the issues.
00:37:58.27\00:38:01.64
He's coming after people
00:38:01.68\00:38:03.01
who have given
up all these things
00:38:03.04\00:38:04.71
by His grace and strength.
00:38:04.75\00:38:06.08
I can't give up
one thing on my own.
00:38:06.11\00:38:08.65
By the grace of God,
certainly He can do it.
00:38:08.68\00:38:10.95
Jesus is our example, is He not?
00:38:10.99\00:38:13.66
As it were, Jesus put
on the whole armor of God,
00:38:13.69\00:38:16.59
the weapons of warfare,
to fight against the enemy.
00:38:16.62\00:38:20.26
So we need to come to
that point that we resist.
00:38:20.30\00:38:22.86
Remember what?
00:38:22.90\00:38:24.23
Resist means
that we'd rather die
00:38:24.27\00:38:25.60
than commit a, what?
00:38:25.63\00:38:26.97
Knowing sin.
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How many of us done that?
00:38:28.74\00:38:30.51
The Bible have
several illustrations
00:38:30.54\00:38:32.21
for sure
00:38:32.24\00:38:34.08
that when sin
came, you see some,
00:38:34.11\00:38:35.54
they may had to get
up and run some time,
00:38:35.58\00:38:37.61
but a lot of time we get
up and run in that direction,
00:38:37.65\00:38:40.15
to participate rather than say,
00:38:40.18\00:38:41.92
I don't want to participate,
I don't want to work,
00:38:41.95\00:38:44.59
I don't want God
to be disappointed.
00:38:44.62\00:38:46.25
I don't want to sin against God,
00:38:46.29\00:38:47.62
I don't want to sin
against my fellowman.
00:38:47.66\00:38:50.66
So really think
about this with me.
00:38:50.69\00:38:52.56
We just talked
00:38:52.59\00:38:53.93
about holding back
the winds of strife.
00:38:53.96\00:38:57.37
Man, that's repeated
so often, but you know,
00:38:57.40\00:39:00.30
you can't help but
feel what's going on
00:39:00.34\00:39:02.14
in the world today
00:39:02.17\00:39:03.54
that the winds of strife
that angels holding back that,
00:39:03.57\00:39:06.71
you know, four
angels in Revelation 7:1-3,
00:39:06.74\00:39:10.31
they're starting to
let go of these winds
00:39:10.35\00:39:12.95
or the forces of this world.
00:39:12.98\00:39:14.45
They're ready to let it go.
00:39:14.48\00:39:16.99
Man, where would that put
us what's going to take place?
00:39:17.02\00:39:21.46
If they don't hold it
back just a little bit longer.
00:39:21.49\00:39:26.23
And we're praying they do
00:39:26.26\00:39:27.60
because the Bible said
they're going to hold it back
00:39:27.63\00:39:29.56
until the people of God
are sealed in their foreheads
00:39:29.60\00:39:33.13
or till they're made ready
to receive the latter rain,
00:39:33.17\00:39:38.47
the preparation for it,
00:39:38.51\00:39:41.04
so that we might go through
that great time of trouble
00:39:41.08\00:39:43.71
as outlined in Scripture
00:39:43.75\00:39:45.08
and certainly in
the Spirit of Prophecy.
00:39:45.11\00:39:49.58
If we hold on to this thing,
00:39:49.62\00:39:51.35
and you see
what's going on here,
00:39:51.39\00:39:52.72
we're going to
see day by day by day
00:39:52.75\00:39:55.39
that our freedoms
are taken away from us.
00:39:55.42\00:39:58.99
Our freedom of
choice is being taken.
00:39:59.03\00:40:01.93
Everything you call
freedom, freedom, freedom,
00:40:01.96\00:40:05.17
you have no freedoms.
00:40:05.20\00:40:07.77
Only free freedom that
we have is in Jesus Christ.
00:40:07.80\00:40:10.81
All these things are
going to be taken away
00:40:10.84\00:40:12.31
because the Bible
says so before it's over.
00:40:12.34\00:40:14.28
So we're just
entering into a phase
00:40:14.31\00:40:17.98
to where we need
relationship with Christ,
00:40:18.01\00:40:19.85
maybe many of us
do not have right now.
00:40:19.88\00:40:23.35
If our economy
example, if our economy,
00:40:23.39\00:40:27.36
you know, continues to crumble,
and that's what it's doing,
00:40:27.39\00:40:31.39
under the weight
of this global crisis,
00:40:31.43\00:40:34.10
or the, you know, the COVID-19.
00:40:34.13\00:40:38.03
It's pretty easy.
00:40:38.07\00:40:40.00
And I think most
people can see this,
00:40:40.04\00:40:41.47
it's easy to see how
those who will be faithful
00:40:41.50\00:40:44.74
and faithful to God will not
00:40:44.77\00:40:47.21
and maybe a
short period of time,
00:40:47.24\00:40:49.14
will not be able to buy or sell,
00:40:49.18\00:40:50.68
say they have the
mark of the beast.
00:40:50.71\00:40:53.58
Surely God is opening
00:40:53.62\00:40:55.15
these things up to you and to me
00:40:55.18\00:40:56.72
so that we can know
beyond a shadow of a doubt
00:40:56.75\00:40:59.65
the way things are
all lined out here.
00:40:59.69\00:41:01.29
This could
happen, it's a reality.
00:41:01.32\00:41:04.03
And where do you
stand? Where do I stand?
00:41:04.06\00:41:07.36
Revelation 13:17,
00:41:07.40\00:41:09.00
if you want to look at
and talk and pray about it,
00:41:09.03\00:41:11.30
read about it.
00:41:11.33\00:41:13.57
Maybe if we look
at this scenario,
00:41:13.60\00:41:16.71
maybe if we look at this
time, we begin to realize,
00:41:16.74\00:41:20.08
now let me just throw this out,
00:41:20.11\00:41:21.44
my, my, Lord, have mercy on us.
00:41:21.48\00:41:23.45
Just throw it, throw it out,
00:41:23.48\00:41:24.81
and you do what
you want to do with it.
00:41:24.85\00:41:26.18
But maybe, maybe we
might begin to realize
00:41:26.21\00:41:28.58
what we're talking about here
00:41:28.62\00:41:29.95
by those who refuse of
this new COVID-19 vaccine
00:41:29.98\00:41:36.52
when it comes out.
00:41:36.56\00:41:38.36
There's going to be one
that's going to come out,
00:41:38.39\00:41:39.76
you know that.
00:41:39.79\00:41:41.13
And so, what if they
say that it's mandatory
00:41:41.16\00:41:44.97
and that you have to
take it if you don't,
00:41:45.00\00:41:47.20
and you have to have papers,
00:41:47.24\00:41:48.57
if you don't,
you're not able to travel?
00:41:48.60\00:41:50.51
Oh, do you think
that it will quit at that?
00:41:50.54\00:41:53.01
Now, whether it does
or whether it doesn't,
00:41:53.04\00:41:54.38
I want you to think
what's going on here?
00:41:54.41\00:41:56.98
How easy it's
going to be for the other
00:41:57.01\00:41:58.35
to be implemented
00:41:58.38\00:41:59.71
if there is any kind of disaster
00:41:59.75\00:42:01.48
that's going on in the world?
00:42:01.52\00:42:03.55
And what if, we say,
well, we've kind of got one.
00:42:03.59\00:42:06.22
Somebody said they're mutated,
00:42:06.25\00:42:07.59
we talked about
this virus already
00:42:07.62\00:42:09.22
mutate about
eight times already.
00:42:09.26\00:42:13.16
What if we have
several different disasters
00:42:13.19\00:42:15.20
in the world all at one time?
00:42:15.23\00:42:17.07
It could crumble so
quick and make your head swim,
00:42:17.10\00:42:19.33
make my head swim.
00:42:19.37\00:42:22.10
And you know what
it's doing right now?
00:42:22.14\00:42:23.47
It's getting the attention
of the religious leaders
00:42:23.51\00:42:27.48
of the world
00:42:27.51\00:42:28.84
and which we realize
00:42:28.88\00:42:30.21
that the attention of
the religious leaders,
00:42:30.25\00:42:31.85
you know that
they're going to focus
00:42:31.88\00:42:33.21
on this thing,
00:42:33.25\00:42:34.58
and they're
going to look around,
00:42:34.62\00:42:35.95
they're going to
say, what's going on here?
00:42:35.98\00:42:37.62
Who is it to blame?
00:42:37.65\00:42:39.85
Who is it and you
know what they just said,
00:42:39.89\00:42:41.89
that heard saying this,
00:42:41.92\00:42:43.26
when their religious
leader said this thing there.
00:42:43.29\00:42:45.46
Lord, You have our attention.
00:42:45.49\00:42:49.53
What? Lord, You
have our attention.
00:42:49.56\00:42:52.63
What might that,
00:42:57.77\00:42:59.11
what that might
that be saying to us?
00:42:59.14\00:43:01.38
Lord, You have our attention.
00:43:01.41\00:43:03.11
That means they're
going to be willing
00:43:03.14\00:43:04.48
to make some necessary
changes, wouldn't that need be?
00:43:04.51\00:43:06.88
The Lord wants your attention.
00:43:11.35\00:43:14.06
The Lord wants my attention.
00:43:14.09\00:43:16.99
Should we not give it to
Him rather than give it to the,
00:43:17.03\00:43:18.93
you know, the
things of this world,
00:43:18.96\00:43:20.66
things of the world that
has all of our attention.
00:43:20.70\00:43:23.30
We're too interested
in all these other things
00:43:23.33\00:43:25.00
over than be worried
about the coming of Jesus.
00:43:25.03\00:43:26.94
Oh, come on.
00:43:26.97\00:43:29.90
We have to be waging this
war against the sin issue.
00:43:29.94\00:43:33.88
Why?
00:43:33.91\00:43:35.24
Because we have to
realize what's ahead of us.
00:43:35.28\00:43:37.71
Now, again, we're
trying to be positive,
00:43:37.75\00:43:39.18
but we also have to look
00:43:39.21\00:43:40.72
at what the Bible says about it,
00:43:40.75\00:43:42.45
so that we might be
prepared rather than say,
00:43:42.48\00:43:44.25
we won't have to go through it.
00:43:44.29\00:43:46.86
Bible talks about
here in Ephesians 5:16,
00:43:46.89\00:43:50.29
Ephesians 5:16.
00:43:50.33\00:43:53.50
Talks about the
days, the days are evil,
00:43:53.53\00:43:55.80
redeeming the time
because the days are, what?
00:43:55.83\00:43:59.27
Because the days
are evil, notice that.
00:43:59.30\00:44:02.77
This is the time
that we're living,
00:44:02.80\00:44:04.14
these are the days.
00:44:04.17\00:44:06.47
Manuscript 95, 1903.
00:44:06.51\00:44:09.61
Manuscript 95,
00:44:09.64\00:44:12.15
written in 1903 says this,
00:44:12.18\00:44:13.88
I think it's
very, very important.
00:44:13.92\00:44:16.25
"Unless we are
constantly on guard,
00:44:16.28\00:44:19.92
we shall be overcome."
00:44:19.95\00:44:23.22
What is the word?
00:44:23.26\00:44:24.59
Oh, the Bible is
clear throughout,
00:44:24.63\00:44:25.96
Spirit of Prophecy
is clear throughout.
00:44:25.99\00:44:27.33
Unless we are
constantly on guard,
00:44:27.36\00:44:29.70
we cannot afford to lift
our guard for one moment,
00:44:29.73\00:44:32.07
the devil is going to
take you, he's watching you.
00:44:32.10\00:44:35.24
We have to be
constantly on guard
00:44:35.27\00:44:37.61
or we're going to be
overcome, don't miss this point.
00:44:37.64\00:44:39.94
Our minds
00:44:39.97\00:44:42.54
are given either to the control,
00:44:42.58\00:44:44.05
given to the control of God
00:44:44.08\00:44:45.41
or to the, we know this
to the control of the enemy
00:44:45.45\00:44:47.88
and how often we fight this.
00:44:47.92\00:44:49.68
It's one or the other.
00:44:49.72\00:44:52.25
God's controlling your mind
00:44:52.29\00:44:53.62
or the enemy is
controlling your mind.
00:44:53.66\00:44:57.56
Jesus said, "That
he who is not with Me
00:44:57.59\00:44:59.53
is against Me, "
00:44:59.56\00:45:00.90
so let's not fight this thing.
00:45:00.93\00:45:02.76
Either you accept
Christ as your Lord and Savior,
00:45:02.80\00:45:05.13
and you've accepted Him.
00:45:05.17\00:45:06.50
He's come into your heart
and your life or you have not.
00:45:06.53\00:45:08.24
If you have not,
00:45:08.27\00:45:09.60
you know where your mind
and who has control of it.
00:45:09.64\00:45:12.74
Why not be honest about it?
00:45:12.77\00:45:15.88
It might be well for
us today to check out.
00:45:15.91\00:45:19.55
We need some self-examination,
there's no doubt about it.
00:45:19.58\00:45:22.55
Check out where we stand.
00:45:22.58\00:45:25.09
Where do you stand with God?
00:45:25.12\00:45:26.45
I think that is such a
simple but good question.
00:45:26.49\00:45:31.19
Where do I stand with God?
00:45:31.23\00:45:32.56
Where do you
stand with God today?
00:45:32.59\00:45:36.06
You're going to be standing
in one place or the other,
00:45:36.10\00:45:37.93
you're going to be standing
under the blood-stained banner
00:45:37.97\00:45:40.80
of Jesus Christ
00:45:40.84\00:45:42.17
or you're going to be
standing under the black banner
00:45:42.20\00:45:44.21
of the devil, the
prince of this world.
00:45:44.24\00:45:46.94
So it's one or the other today.
00:45:46.98\00:45:48.84
You have to choose,
00:45:48.88\00:45:50.51
you get to choose and
there's time to choose
00:45:50.55\00:45:53.28
but when the
day is going to come
00:45:53.31\00:45:54.65
that there's not
going to be time,
00:45:54.68\00:45:56.25
probation is going
to close, that's it.
00:45:56.28\00:45:58.39
He says righteous
be righteous still,
00:45:58.42\00:45:59.85
he's filthy
will be filthy still.
00:45:59.89\00:46:03.86
If you realize this,
00:46:03.89\00:46:05.76
and I'm trying to
learn this with all my heart,
00:46:05.79\00:46:07.96
I'm trying to learn
that if I, you know, if I,
00:46:08.00\00:46:11.47
if I'm left to my own strength.
00:46:11.50\00:46:14.47
If I'm here to deal
00:46:14.50\00:46:15.84
with all these issues by myself,
00:46:15.87\00:46:17.21
I'm sure to fail.
00:46:17.24\00:46:19.07
I can't handle all
these issues that's going on.
00:46:19.11\00:46:21.41
I can't fight
the enemy by myself.
00:46:21.44\00:46:23.24
I can't fight
the virus by myself.
00:46:23.28\00:46:25.28
I can't fight disease by myself.
00:46:25.31\00:46:27.18
I can't fight
unrighteousness by myself.
00:46:27.22\00:46:29.38
I can't fight
pestilence by myself.
00:46:29.42\00:46:32.35
I can't fight the
plagues by myself.
00:46:32.39\00:46:33.76
I can't fight the
economy by myself.
00:46:33.79\00:46:37.09
I can't fight
anything by myself,
00:46:37.13\00:46:38.73
I need Christ.
00:46:38.76\00:46:40.66
If we were left to fight
00:46:40.70\00:46:42.10
all of these
things by ourselves,
00:46:42.13\00:46:44.10
we would surely fail
00:46:44.13\00:46:45.50
and many of you
are going to fail.
00:46:45.53\00:46:47.00
Many of you are going to
die and go to Christless graves
00:46:47.04\00:46:49.00
because you won't
make that decision
00:46:49.04\00:46:50.54
that choice today.
00:46:50.57\00:46:52.14
What is it in this
world that you love so much
00:46:52.17\00:46:55.28
that separates us from God?
00:46:55.31\00:46:56.75
What is it?
00:46:56.78\00:46:59.55
What lies ahead?
00:46:59.58\00:47:01.52
My, what lies ahead?
00:47:01.55\00:47:05.39
What we, will we need
00:47:05.42\00:47:06.96
in order to
make heaven our home?
00:47:06.99\00:47:10.39
What do we really
need in our lives?
00:47:10.43\00:47:13.40
I found a little
article that I like,
00:47:13.43\00:47:15.10
Review and Herald 12/31/1901
00:47:15.13\00:47:19.90
makes this statement.
00:47:19.93\00:47:22.70
Notice it says,
"Unless the people of God
00:47:22.74\00:47:24.77
wage a valiant warfare,"
00:47:24.81\00:47:26.21
we were talking about,
00:47:26.24\00:47:27.58
"against every species of sin,
00:47:27.61\00:47:29.58
they will never pass
00:47:29.61\00:47:30.95
through the
portals of the Holy City.
00:47:30.98\00:47:33.98
We shall have no second trial."
00:47:34.02\00:47:37.85
We have one shot,
00:47:37.89\00:47:39.69
we have one go around here.
00:47:39.72\00:47:43.43
Unless we put up a warfare
against every species of sin,
00:47:43.46\00:47:47.73
that's every kind of sin
00:47:47.76\00:47:49.80
we will never make it
through the portals of heaven.
00:47:49.83\00:47:53.84
We'll never make it to
heaven with one unconfessed sin.
00:47:53.87\00:47:56.84
You want the robe of
Christ righteousness,
00:47:56.87\00:47:58.67
you're praying
for the latter rain.
00:47:58.71\00:48:00.18
We know the latter
rain cannot fall upon anyone
00:48:00.21\00:48:02.58
with sin still in their life.
00:48:02.61\00:48:03.95
We need to be praying to
God forgive us of our sins
00:48:03.98\00:48:05.71
and give us
victory over those sins.
00:48:05.75\00:48:08.55
So that we can
receive of the latter rains.
00:48:08.58\00:48:10.45
So we can go through the
times that's just before us.
00:48:10.49\00:48:14.16
Things that are
happening right now.
00:48:14.19\00:48:15.62
We need Jesus.
00:48:15.66\00:48:17.19
See, when Christ
walked this earth,
00:48:20.50\00:48:23.57
lived on this earth,
00:48:23.60\00:48:25.00
He was engaged in
constant warfare every,
00:48:25.03\00:48:29.30
may I say every second,
every moment of His life.
00:48:29.34\00:48:32.17
And God's people, you see,
walking in Christ's footsteps,
00:48:35.68\00:48:40.55
you're going to be going
through some of these things.
00:48:40.58\00:48:44.75
There's a warfare.
00:48:44.79\00:48:46.99
Let me give you an
example of Martin Luther.
00:48:47.02\00:48:49.12
You remember
Martin Luther, for sure.
00:48:49.16\00:48:50.49
Yeah.
00:48:50.53\00:48:51.86
He was engaged in warfare.
00:48:51.89\00:48:54.96
He was engaged in a warfare
00:48:55.00\00:48:56.33
where he recognized
the carnal nature of man.
00:48:56.36\00:48:59.27
See, this is
what we're fighting.
00:48:59.30\00:49:01.40
We can't win the battle
over our carnal natures,
00:49:01.44\00:49:04.77
unless we have help.
00:49:04.81\00:49:08.51
He spoke about it. Oh,
I can't live in the flesh.
00:49:08.54\00:49:11.25
You can't live
in the flesh either.
00:49:11.28\00:49:13.05
I can't live in the flesh,
we're going to be defeated.
00:49:13.08\00:49:16.28
Living in the flesh simply means
00:49:16.32\00:49:17.92
we living for the devil.
00:49:17.95\00:49:19.52
See, none of us wants to say,
oh, I'm living in the flesh.
00:49:19.55\00:49:21.76
We might say
that but you don't say
00:49:21.79\00:49:23.12
I'm living for the devil.
00:49:23.16\00:49:24.49
Why don't we just go
ahead and call what it is.
00:49:24.53\00:49:27.26
Living for the enemy.
00:49:27.30\00:49:31.27
Living in the flesh,
00:49:31.30\00:49:33.13
then is an opposition
to living in the gospel.
00:49:33.17\00:49:37.27
Man, we did not
only hear the gospel,
00:49:37.31\00:49:39.01
understand the
gospel, but live the gospel.
00:49:39.04\00:49:43.28
Satan works in and through man.
00:49:43.31\00:49:46.85
Things like as you will know,
00:49:46.88\00:49:49.58
lust, fear, uncertainty,
00:49:49.62\00:49:54.82
vain
imaginations, carnal reasonings,
00:49:54.86\00:50:00.40
wrong thoughts,
pride, jealousy in the world.
00:50:00.43\00:50:06.40
The list goes on and on and on.
00:50:06.43\00:50:09.50
These things that
we just mentioned,
00:50:09.54\00:50:10.87
just a few.
00:50:10.91\00:50:12.24
They exalt
themselves above the knowledge
00:50:12.27\00:50:13.98
of the living God.
00:50:14.01\00:50:16.11
They keep man from faith,
00:50:16.14\00:50:19.05
they keep men
from being obedient
00:50:19.08\00:50:20.85
to the Word of God.
00:50:20.88\00:50:24.39
These are the
strongholds of the enemy.
00:50:24.42\00:50:28.32
The enemy has some strongholds,
00:50:28.36\00:50:29.86
and he's bound and determined
to keep those strongholds.
00:50:29.89\00:50:33.93
We can only
break those strongholds
00:50:33.96\00:50:36.16
as we come to Jesus Christ.
00:50:36.20\00:50:37.80
He breaks those things for us.
00:50:37.83\00:50:41.34
The strongholds of the
enemy, my brother and sister,
00:50:41.37\00:50:44.57
they must be pulled down now.
00:50:44.61\00:50:48.04
He's got his walls up,
00:50:48.08\00:50:49.41
he's got us in there as
the sinner as in prison.
00:50:49.44\00:50:51.91
And these things have
to come down right now.
00:50:51.95\00:50:54.22
The good news, the gospel,
00:50:54.25\00:50:55.92
the good news of Jesus Christ
00:50:55.95\00:50:57.75
by the grace and power of God,
00:50:57.79\00:51:01.19
these are our
weapons of warfare.
00:51:01.22\00:51:03.73
God said I'm going to pull
these Satan's strongholds down.
00:51:03.76\00:51:06.90
You know, Satan's doing,
00:51:06.93\00:51:08.26
you know what
he's doing right now?
00:51:08.30\00:51:09.63
I know what he's doing.
00:51:09.66\00:51:11.00
He's trying to keep this message
00:51:11.03\00:51:12.37
from going around the world.
00:51:12.40\00:51:13.74
He's trying to shut 3ABN down.
00:51:13.77\00:51:15.10
He's trying to shut
down other ministries.
00:51:15.14\00:51:16.84
He doesn't want
the truth of God's Word
00:51:16.87\00:51:18.97
hitting into the
hearts and the minds
00:51:19.01\00:51:20.34
and lives of people right now.
00:51:20.38\00:51:21.71
He's doing all he can.
00:51:21.74\00:51:23.55
But God said these last days,
00:51:23.58\00:51:24.91
I'm not going to let the
enemy put up any strongholds
00:51:24.95\00:51:26.65
'cause I'm going
to pull him down.
00:51:26.68\00:51:28.02
I'm going to let the
gospel go into all the world.
00:51:28.05\00:51:31.95
Isn't that wonderful?
00:51:31.99\00:51:33.32
Isn't that
talking about good news?
00:51:33.36\00:51:36.32
We need heaven's help.
00:51:36.36\00:51:39.66
My, how we need
heaven's help and we need it now
00:51:39.69\00:51:42.10
by the grace of God.
00:51:42.13\00:51:43.47
Weapons of our
warfare are not carnal,
00:51:46.20\00:51:49.20
we realize that,
00:51:49.24\00:51:50.57
2 Corinthians
10:4 talks about it.
00:51:50.61\00:51:52.31
I've time to read
all 2 Corinthians 10:4,
00:51:52.34\00:51:54.84
"The weapons of
our warfare are," what?
00:51:54.88\00:51:57.95
"Not carnal, but
they're mighty through God."
00:51:57.98\00:52:00.22
Did you like that?
00:52:00.25\00:52:01.58
"They're mighty through God
00:52:01.62\00:52:02.95
and the pulling
down of our, " what?
00:52:02.98\00:52:04.32
"Of the strong holds."
We're strong in Jesus Christ.
00:52:04.35\00:52:07.99
That's what the Bible
talks about pulling them down.
00:52:08.02\00:52:12.03
God is promising every one of us
00:52:12.06\00:52:14.30
the desires of our heart.
00:52:14.33\00:52:15.66
What is your desire today?
00:52:15.70\00:52:18.80
Is it gaining victory over
sins or those things that so,
00:52:18.83\00:52:21.87
oh, boy, easily Hebrews
12:1 talks about those things
00:52:21.90\00:52:26.91
which so easily beset us.
00:52:26.94\00:52:30.71
Boy, how we can
get blown off track.
00:52:30.75\00:52:33.15
Man, how we can get sidetracked.
00:52:33.18\00:52:36.99
But now's not a
time to get sidetracked.
00:52:37.02\00:52:38.45
Now's the time to focus.
00:52:38.49\00:52:40.59
Now's the time to recommit.
00:52:40.62\00:52:42.19
Now's the time to rededicate.
00:52:42.22\00:52:44.76
Now's the time to give our lives
00:52:44.79\00:52:46.23
fully and
completely to Jesus Christ
00:52:46.26\00:52:47.93
so that we might gain
complete victory through Him.
00:52:47.96\00:52:52.37
And I say again,
00:52:52.40\00:52:53.74
where the enemy has
set up his stronghold,
00:52:53.77\00:52:55.14
God's going to
pull them right down.
00:52:55.17\00:52:57.37
And maybe this plays a
little part where he said,
00:53:00.51\00:53:02.64
those of you who have
quit attending church,
00:53:02.68\00:53:05.68
those of you who
know what the truth is,
00:53:05.71\00:53:07.18
you know the
three angels' message,
00:53:07.22\00:53:08.62
you've given up,
00:53:08.65\00:53:09.98
you've walked out
the door many years ago,
00:53:10.02\00:53:11.49
God's calling you back.
00:53:11.52\00:53:12.99
You know that it's right.
00:53:13.02\00:53:14.36
Your conscience is
telling you it's right.
00:53:14.39\00:53:15.89
Everything you see,
it's telling you it's right.
00:53:15.92\00:53:18.03
It's time to get
back into, you see,
00:53:18.06\00:53:20.76
into the worshiping
God the way that you know
00:53:20.80\00:53:22.66
that you should,
00:53:22.70\00:53:24.03
instead of going
some counterfeit way.
00:53:24.07\00:53:26.67
This I believe we
can see in Hebrews 10:25.
00:53:26.70\00:53:29.20
This is a time
that we don't need to,
00:53:29.24\00:53:30.81
you know, forsake the assembling
00:53:30.84\00:53:33.07
of ourselves together as
we see the day approaching.
00:53:33.11\00:53:36.54
Do you see the day approaching?
00:53:36.58\00:53:37.91
Man, I see it,
00:53:37.95\00:53:39.28
I see the day is approaching.
00:53:39.31\00:53:42.25
And the more of the stuff
that we see in this world,
00:53:42.28\00:53:43.79
the more we want
heaven to be our home.
00:53:43.82\00:53:46.05
This world is not my
home. I'm just passing through.
00:53:46.09\00:53:51.26
I pray that you're
just passing through today.
00:53:51.29\00:53:55.63
You might think,
well, we've, you know,
00:53:55.66\00:53:59.07
things are so bad
00:53:59.10\00:54:00.44
that we seem to be so locked up.
00:54:00.47\00:54:02.40
Maybe there's nothing
else that we can do anymore.
00:54:02.44\00:54:04.47
You know how God
can take bad things
00:54:04.51\00:54:06.11
and turn them into good things?
00:54:06.14\00:54:08.41
Oh, absolutely.
00:54:08.44\00:54:09.78
I'll give a quick example
here before our time runs out.
00:54:09.81\00:54:11.65
Paul said in Philippians 1:12.
00:54:11.68\00:54:13.78
Notice these words, "I
would you should understand,
00:54:13.82\00:54:16.48
brother, the things
which happened to me,
00:54:16.52\00:54:18.62
" the things
that he went through,
00:54:18.65\00:54:19.99
you notice this, what he said,
00:54:20.02\00:54:21.36
"things that I went through here
00:54:21.39\00:54:22.72
and those have fallen out
00:54:22.76\00:54:24.46
rather unto the
furtherance of the gospel."
00:54:24.49\00:54:28.00
The things that happened to him,
00:54:28.03\00:54:29.36
he said, you look like
they're going to be bad,
00:54:29.40\00:54:30.73
but man, they've
turned around, praise God.
00:54:30.77\00:54:33.13
God takes those bad things
00:54:33.17\00:54:34.50
and he turns around
into something good.
00:54:34.54\00:54:36.34
Good. Good example, Paul.
00:54:36.37\00:54:37.71
Paul was in
prison for two years.
00:54:37.74\00:54:40.04
Oh, it seemed like
his usefulness was done.
00:54:40.08\00:54:41.94
You may seem
like you're in prison,
00:54:41.98\00:54:43.81
may the prison house of
sin and God's calling you out.
00:54:43.85\00:54:46.58
You may say,
well, it's too late.
00:54:46.61\00:54:47.95
It's not too late.
00:54:47.98\00:54:49.32
Paul was there in prison,
00:54:49.35\00:54:50.69
seemed like he
couldn't do any good.
00:54:50.72\00:54:52.32
But to all
appearances, but God came in,
00:54:52.35\00:54:54.76
he pulled down
Satan's strongholds.
00:54:54.79\00:54:57.16
Souls were gathered in,
00:54:57.19\00:54:58.56
Paul was able to
witness to kings and to princes
00:54:58.59\00:55:01.20
and to rulers and
countless others in prison,
00:55:01.23\00:55:04.30
which seemed impossible
under the circumstances.
00:55:04.33\00:55:06.67
God works in
impossible situations
00:55:06.70\00:55:09.20
with man.
00:55:09.24\00:55:10.57
Please remember this,
00:55:10.61\00:55:11.94
if you remember
nothing else today,
00:55:11.97\00:55:13.31
the efforts to
retard the progress of truth
00:55:13.34\00:55:18.41
will only serve to exalt it.
00:55:18.45\00:55:22.28
Remember Martin Luther
when he penned those...
00:55:22.32\00:55:24.72
on the doors of the
church, what did it do?
00:55:28.16\00:55:29.89
Just gave him
attention and the gospel went
00:55:29.92\00:55:32.03
and the message went.
00:55:32.06\00:55:33.90
I believe the
message is going right now.
00:55:33.93\00:55:37.40
Because of all these stop signs
the enemy is trying to put up,
00:55:37.43\00:55:40.27
God has given us the go sign,
00:55:40.30\00:55:42.24
He given us the green signal.
00:55:42.27\00:55:44.77
And He said, this
message is going to go
00:55:44.81\00:55:46.21
into all the world.
00:55:46.24\00:55:50.65
But we're bringing the
message that we understand
00:55:50.68\00:55:52.51
with all of our heart is
the message for this hour.
00:55:52.55\00:55:55.72
It's a message for this day.
00:55:55.75\00:55:58.75
And then God says,
"Will go into all the world."
00:55:58.79\00:56:00.72
Do you want to
be a part of that?
00:56:00.76\00:56:02.09
Man, I want to
be a part of that.
00:56:02.12\00:56:03.56
Regardless of what's
happening in the world,
00:56:03.59\00:56:05.53
regardless of what
you hear all the time,
00:56:05.56\00:56:07.86
God is still in control.
00:56:07.90\00:56:09.53
Worried about the
election, don't worry about it.
00:56:09.56\00:56:11.50
God sets up kings
and He takes them down.
00:56:11.53\00:56:13.64
You're worried
about who's in control,
00:56:13.67\00:56:15.00
God's in control.
00:56:15.04\00:56:16.37
He does sit on the
throne, you know that He does,
00:56:16.40\00:56:18.17
He rules this universe.
00:56:18.21\00:56:19.84
Have faith and trust in God.
00:56:19.87\00:56:21.81
He said I will meet your needs,
00:56:21.84\00:56:23.28
your bread and water
shall be sure, guaranteed.
00:56:23.31\00:56:26.82
You turn your life
over to Jesus Christ,
00:56:26.85\00:56:28.45
it will change.
00:56:28.48\00:56:29.88
You'll give God
permission as it were to come in
00:56:29.92\00:56:32.05
and to sup with
Him and Him with you
00:56:32.09\00:56:34.06
and to meet your needs.
00:56:34.09\00:56:35.99
Oh, friends, this is
the day, this is the hour,
00:56:36.02\00:56:38.79
don't wait to see
like some of us do,
00:56:38.83\00:56:40.56
before I buy gas,
00:56:40.60\00:56:41.93
I'm going to see if
the gas price goes down.
00:56:41.96\00:56:44.40
The price is never higher,
00:56:44.43\00:56:45.77
Calvary paid it all, all to him.
00:56:45.80\00:56:47.87
I'm going to pray for you
00:56:47.90\00:56:49.24
to making that decision
right now before we close.
00:56:49.27\00:56:51.01
Would you just
have a quick prayer
00:56:51.04\00:56:52.37
with me please?
00:56:52.41\00:56:54.24
Our kind loving Heavenly Father,
00:56:54.28\00:56:55.61
we approach Your throne
with gratitude and grace,
00:56:55.64\00:56:57.41
and we're thankful for
the love that You have for us.
00:56:57.45\00:56:59.85
Thanks for decisions
have been made right now,
00:56:59.88\00:57:01.98
for Your honor
and for Your glory.
00:57:02.02\00:57:03.79
Those are committing
their life into Your care
00:57:03.82\00:57:05.52
and You're keeping right
now, they've looked around,
00:57:05.55\00:57:07.02
there seems to be
no hope in the world,
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there's not but
there's hope in you.
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Lord, accept them.
We pray in Jesus' name.
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Amen.
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God bless each
and every one of you.
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Remember, this is the
hour that we don't look down,
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we look up.
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Why?
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Because our
redemption draweth nigh.
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God bless you. We love you.
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We'll see you another time.
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