"God IS Faithful!" RESCUE RADIO with Marjorie Cole

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I have an emergency. What is your location?

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Rescue Radio.

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'Cause there's a war for your soul.

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Yes, indeed there is. Thank you, Lord God, that you have defeated the

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enemy and won the war. Thank you that thy kingdom come,

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your kingdom come, Lord God, your kingdom within us. That's where

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the kingdom battles are fought, inside of us, inside of our

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minds and our souls. So God, release your victory into our lives

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today, that we will walk in the fullness of your love and your goodness and

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your faithfulness. I thank you, Jesus, that you demonstrated the way to

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believe when you died on the cross. You went to the cross in obedience

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to your Father, and you knew and believed he was faithful to raise

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you from the dead, which he did. And I thank you, Lord God,

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that you put yourself in that position for us,

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dying in our place, that we might have your resurrection,

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your life, your atonement. Lord God, thank you for giving

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us your salvation, and thank you for giving us wisdom and power over

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all the power of the enemy. You said whatever you bind is bound, whatever you

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loose is loosed. Whoever sins you forgive, they're forgiven them.

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And so I thank you that we forgive those who have offended and taken chances

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and risks and assaults against your kingdom, against each other,

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against themselves, against you, Father God. And we thank you,

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Lord God, for the mercy that endures forever. Thank you for your

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faithfulness. Thank you for helping us, giving us eyes and ears today to see

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and to hear and to comprehend with what,

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with your word, within your word, what it means for your, for us

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to know your faithfulness, your goodness, and your love, because there's so many arguments

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against your goodness, against your love, against your faithfulness. So Lord God, also for divine

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protection over our families, that no weapon formed

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against us will prosper, that no word said, deed done, or action taken will be

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able to be used by the enemy to bring forth any shame, trouble, reproach,

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separation, discouragement, death, or destruction, Father God,

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those who pray for us, those who come here for help and prayer, those who

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work for us, those who love us, all those who are attached to us in

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any way. Father, we pray that you bless them this day with your protection

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and your love. In Jesus' name, amen.

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Hey, you know what we're talking about today? I get— could you pick it up

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in the prayer? I picked it up. Okay. I'm pretty sharp.

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I'm telling you, God is faithful.

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God is faithful. When we're talking about God being faithful,

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that means he is He is fully dependable.

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He is trustworthy.

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Yes, he is trustworthy. In Deuteronomy chapter 7 and

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verse 9, it says, therefore know that the Lord your

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God, he is God, the faithful God who keeps covenant

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and mercy for a thousand generations with

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those who love him and keep his commandments. And then if we're looking also at

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1 Corinthians chapter 1, verse 9,

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we read there, God is faithful, by whom you were called into

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the fellowship of his Son, Jesus Christ our Lord.

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God is faithful. 1 Corinthians 10:13

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says, God is faithful. He will not allow us to be tempted

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above or beyond that he's able to keep us, but with every temptation he also

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makes a way of escape. So, God is anticipating that we are going to be

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tempted and attacked. And so he wanted to assure us in many,

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many places that he is with us. And like

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you said, he is the God of the covenant. He keeps the covenant in Deuteronomy.

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What that means is God is keeping his promises to us,

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those who follow him, those who've responded to his call.

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You know, he's calling everyone, not just a few of us to

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be saved. He calls everyone. He's not willing that any should perish in Romans.

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So he calls everyone, but only those who answer the call can come. And so

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he's saying, He is faithful to keep his covenant with those.

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And Psalm 36 says his faithfulness reaches unto

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the clouds. But all of this kind of depends upon

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our ability to know the goodness of God. I mean, because here's

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the problem. God is faithful. He's faithful

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to us. His faithfulness reaches to the clouds and he's

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good. His mercy endures forever.

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Uh, in Lamentations it says, but the Lord's mercy is his mercy that we're not

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consumed because of his compassions. They fail not. They're new every

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morning. Great is his faithfulness. Um,

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and then in 2 Thessalonians it says, but the Lord is faithful who shall establish

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you and keep you from evil. Um,

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he is faithful to keep his words to us. He cannot deny himself. So God

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is really trying to establish his faithfulness here. Why, why is he taking so much

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time to impress us with his goodness and faithfulness? Do you

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suppose? Well, because the just shall live by faith.

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Okay. You know, because he is worthy of our trust.

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You know, that there's— in the Old Testament particularly,

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we hear about all these different idols. You know, they're looking to their idols

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for their rain and their crops and their prosperity and all

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that stuff. Yeah. And he shows over and over again how these, these things will

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fail. They're trusting demons and not God. God is—

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that's— it's just his character. He is faithful.

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He is dependable. He is trustworthy. He is worthy

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of our trust. Yes. He says in Psalm 37:25,

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I have been young and now I am old, yet I have

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not seen the righteous forsaken nor his descendants begging bread. He is ever

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merciful and lends, and his descendants are blessed. So God is

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faithful for the long haul. Yeah. Right. He'd say,

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well, you know, and it's like, well, he doesn't— he's not a hit-or-miss

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God. And I'm just thinking, Marjorie, too, in 1 Thessalonians chapter

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5, verses 23 and 24, now may the God

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of peace himself sanctify you completely,

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and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved

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blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. He who calls

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you is faithful, who will also do it.

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So, well, I mean, here's— dependent— he's worthy of our

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dependence. Yeah, we're not going to just— he's not going to leave us hanging.

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He says in Hebrews, what is it,

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13:5 or 6, he says, I will never

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leave you, I will never forsake you. He told Joshua that— be

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strong— he, the writer to the Hebrews, is quoting from Joshua 1:5.

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God told Joshua, he said, when you go into this promised

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land I will not fail you. I will not forsake you.

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So you can trust me. And Joshua was going into a land filled

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with giants, hostility, unmarked territory. They didn't know what

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they were up against, but he knew God and God gave them tremendous victories.

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You say, well, that was Joshua. That was the Old Testament. I'm not even

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sure that really happened. You know, we have all kinds of ways the enemy tries

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to put in our mind that, oh, that's not, that's not about me. But how

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do I apply God's goodness and his faithfulness to my situation?

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How does that work? Uh, it says in the Bible, Galatians, faith works

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by love. God says he will never leave us or forsake us, but do

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we know that we're loved? I believe the root of

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panic, the root of anxiety, the root of fear is

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the opposite of fear is love. So people are struggling with the

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faithfulness of God because they don't know the love of God. They don't

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know the goodness of God. They don't know that God is more committed to us

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and the journey than we are to the journey. Um, so we become

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fearful and anxious and stressed out because we do not have faith in the

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faithfulness of God. Well, the thing is, God is faithful even if

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we're not faithful. You think of— he cannot not be faithful because

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that's who he is. He can't be anything other than who he is, and he

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is faithful. And we think of in the Old Testament,

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you know, where the children of Israel for 40 years, they were wandering in

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the desert Basically most every one of them except

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probably 2, or, you know, Moses— well,

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Moses, Joshua, and Caleb. Basically they were

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complaining, they were dying, they were grumbling all the time. But what happened?

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God still provided them water. He provided them manna.

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Exactly. I mean, he was faithful in that desert 40 years.

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40 years. They never had to cook, or they just—

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I mean, he was faithful even to the unfaithful. Yeah. The Bible says that he

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makes his sun rise on the just the unjust. He makes his

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rain fall on the just and the unjust. The problem is not— because he's

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good. Well, he's good and he's faithful and he's love. But the problem is not

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what God is. The problem is who we are. And I

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believe that we have slipped into that position where we judge God.

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We judge God. We judge his faithfulness, his goodness, his love. We judge him

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by the things that he must permit because

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he is honoring— many times we say, well, why did God let that happen?

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And God, where was God? And blah, blah, blah. But God, he is permitting,

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he has to honor our free will, the use of our free

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will, even though, you know, we sometimes choose and often choose things

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that we take the bait, believe the lie, make the excuses,

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use our free will to our own detriment. And, uh, and even,

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um, but even when we deny him and we're in this mess because of

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the mess we made and we say God's not faithful, Where's God?

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God is still there. So it's technically,

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um, uh, we have not realized how much we have been

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tangled in, estranged, programmed by the god

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of this world and compromised. Um, we're like children lost

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in the woods filled with wolves and we don't realize it, but we then judge

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God based on how he reacts to our

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bad behavior. So here's the deal. What would a good

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father, a good father do? What does he do when

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his child misbehaves or messes up or rebels or makes

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a really scary bad decision? Does he reward him for his rebellion

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or his carelessness or his, you know, or does—

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do we blame God for our disobedience and messing up?

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That's exactly— I've seen that over and over again over the years.

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People, you know, their behavior is very

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in rebellion against God. They're abusing their bodies. They're believing

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lies is what they're doing. And then when they get sick or

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when bad things happen to them, they blame God. Here's another thing. They don't regard

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God for almost their whole life. And then

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when they're reaping the consequences of their behavior,

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then they find him back. They blame God. Or they find him.

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Or they find him. Yeah. So here's the— here's an interesting question regarding

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all of that. How often have we thought of this question in our lives

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when we're checking out everybody's motives and everybody's

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and God's faithfulness and God's goodness and blah, blah, blah? How often do we think

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about how many times we have tempted God? You know, how many times have

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we got— if we, you know, we forced God to

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live within the parameters of our choices. That's really what's happening. We're forcing God,

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tempting God, you know, are you going to deliver me even though I'm drinking

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diet soda every day of my life? Are you going to deliver me from diabetes

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or whatever? I mean, I'm not saying those two are connected, but I'm saying we

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make choices and God is forced to live within the parameters of our choices.

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Um, so it's like, okay, you're jumping off the tower where

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you're, you know, having trouble with the faithfulness of God. Are you going to jump

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off the tower like Jesus was tempted? Satan says, well,

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jump off the high pinnacle and see if God will catch you. He says he's

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got his angels charged around you. So Jesus, what is his answer? He says,

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do not tempt the Lord your God. How many times are we in our foolishness

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or in our rebellion or in our ignorance, or whatever

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misleading, we're jumping off spiritual towers, physical towers

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all the time and putting God in a position where God

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has to decide, am I going to save them? Am I going to catch them?

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Or am I going to let them experience the crash? Yeah,

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and the mercy of God, and a lot of us that are hearing

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this today have— we've lived in rebellion,

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disobedience and stuff, and we've gotten into very troubled places.

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Yeah. Not on earth. Yeah. But God has rescued us.

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Yeah. But here's his mercy has kept us alive.

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Yeah. Kept us from a lot of worse things happening

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than would have already happened. Well, going back to the temptation of Jesus,

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Satan is saying, Satan is the one testing him, tempting him to say, well,

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if you're God, if God loves you, if God is good, if God

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says jump down off this tower, Uh, this high pinnacle.

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And so Satan is the one I believe who tests us,

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tempts us to live recklessly, carelessly,

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foolishly, complacently, um,

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and see if God will catch us. And so the question is, how many towers

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have we been tempting God on jumping on because of disobedience,

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because of unbelief, because of I got to see it to believe it kind of

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thing? Well, going back to seeing it to believe it kind of thing, you know,

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there's, there's an interesting thing. Jesus taught, you know,

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not to worry about your food, your clothing. Uh, God gave them

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manna in the wilderness. Um, God kept his promise to

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Eve to bring the head crusher and fulfill that promise of redemption.

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But many of us are like this. We have jumped on,

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um, the faith ride roller coaster,

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life faith ride roller coaster. And you know,

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on a roller coaster, you're, you're committed, you're, agreeing to

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get on it, you get on it, pay the ticket, whatever you do. And you

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know that that roller coaster is going to be full of ups and downs and

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scary tunnels and sudden turns and things

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popping up out of nowhere. But you stay

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in the car. You don't jump out because you know you

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have faith in, guess what? The designer of the roller coaster and

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the master of the carnival, because you believe that

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they're not trying to kill you. They're not going to set you up to

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kill you. So how many of us are on that life rollercoaster?

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It goes up, it goes down, it's sudden turns, unexpected things,

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things popping out all over the place. We've become freaked and panicked.

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But you know that the faith of God

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and his good intentions are there to really undergird

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us and carry us through. Life's rollercoaster ride.

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Um, but you can't do that if you don't know that God is

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good. You don't know God is for you. You don't know God loves you.

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You don't know God is faithful. Um, because that's the requirement. You have

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to— this whole walk is about whose report are we going

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to believe? So our faith has to be in the faithfulness of God.

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Yeah. And if the enemy can,

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he keeps most of us I'd say generally

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in the— on the planet, most of us are blinded to the

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goodness of God, to who the true living true God

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really is. He substitutes, you know,

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the enemy substitutes idols and demon worship all over the

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place. But when we come to the place of having

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our eyes open where we see that God is good,

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that God is wonderful, a true revelation of God. The enemy

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keeps our eyes blinded, yeah, that we don't see the

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goodness of God, we don't see the grace of God. Even, even when those of

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us who love the Lord, we go through times where it's like, God,

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what is going on here? This seems really crazy,

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really evil, and there doesn't seem to be much we can do about it.

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Well, there, you know, we have to realize that God is in

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a position We have put God in a position that not

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only tests his faithfulness,

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but also if you look in Romans 1, how that the

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human race was given over.

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It says, for the wrath of God, verse 16,

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is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men

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who suppress the truth in unrighteousness. Satan knew that

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God wouldn't put up with this reprobate mind,

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this, this divisive, uh,

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wicked, um, suppressing of the truth. He knew Satan was going to get

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after us. And God also knew that he could not permit that.

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So he was forced ultimately in Romans

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chapter 1, because of their unthankfulness, because they turned to the— they

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worshiped other gods. They worshiped creatures. Uh, they,

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they, they knew God, but they didn't glorify him as God. They were not thankful.

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They became futile in their thoughts. Their foolish hearts were darkened. Verse 21,

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that professing to be wise, they became fools.

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And so then they changed the glory of the incorruptible God that

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they were made in the image of God and his likeness into corruptible man,

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like birds and beasts and crazy stupid things like that. So God was

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also forced to give them up to uncleanness,

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to the spirit of vile passions. And he also had

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to give them up to a debased mind.

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So we see that God in Romans 1, is forced to give them

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up. Um, because they had chosen to believe the lies

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of the liar. So whoever's— whoever you believe, whoever you follow,

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that's who has power in your life. So people were giving power to seduction

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and enchantments and sorcery. But then in Romans chapter 9,

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we go through a whole lot more— or 8, I'm sorry— a whole lot more

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discussion. And we find again, um, that God is in

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chapter 8, verse 29, that God is

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again establishing his faithfulness to whosoever will. Those who

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come out of that stupor, those who come out of that enchantment, those who turn

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their lives over to him, those who believe Jesus died for their sins,

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those he's giving another opportunity to know his love and

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faithfulness. So, here's another expression of God's— this is the

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ultimate expression of God's faithfulness.

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Romans chapter 5, verses 6 through 8. For when we

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were still without strength— in other words, we're under this enchantment,

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we're under this evil of Romans chapter 1

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where God lets us go, he's given us the free will, we, we go

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into all kinds of evil and all kinds of darkness.

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Yet verse 6 of Romans 5,

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for when we were still without strength, in due time Christ died

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for who? The ungodly, those that are rebellious against him.

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For scarcely for a righteous man will one die, yet perhaps

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for a good man some wouldn't even dare to die. This is in human terms

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now. But verse 8, but God demonstrates his

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own love toward us in that while we were still

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sinners, Christ died for us. He didn't

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wait till we, you know, got better. Yeah,

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because there's no way we can get better, right, on our own. But we can

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come, we can come, we can ask. Yeah. And he says, going back

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to Romans 9, he says, for whom he foreknew, these he also predestined

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to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn

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among many brethren. So God's first goal,

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if you will, after he created us, he foreknew.

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Who did he foreknow? Everybody. So who did he predestine?

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Everybody. He says, for whom he foreknew, he also predestined to

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be conformed to the image of his Son. So his goal is for us all

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that he knew, who he knew everybody, to be conformed to the image of his

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Son. And then it says in verse 30, moreover, whom he predestined,

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these he also called. So he called everybody that he foreknew.

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So God isn't picking out certain people to be saved

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and certain people to be lost. However, God is honoring our

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free will because he didn't want— he couldn't create us as robots. That's not

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love. You're not freely loving God at that point. You're just being forced to

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love him and that's not love. So he had to give us the free will.

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So that love would prevail so we could have our freedom to do or not

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do, to come or not come, to believe or not believe.

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And so those he called, he called everybody.

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It's like everybody gets the invitation to the wedding.

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Everybody gets, but not everybody shows up. Some people reject

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the invitation. They got other things, better things. They don't want to do it.

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It doesn't work in their schedule, whatever. So only those

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who show up at the wedding, can toast

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the bride and groom and eat the wedding cake. It's so, it's not that God

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is selecting people he doesn't want in heaven.

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He has given that opportunity to whosoever will, everybody. I mean,

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he died for everybody, but then the caveat is whosoever

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will. So he can't just automatically die for us and we're in because

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of the free will piece. And so people have got to know that they have

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even the tiniest little nod. I just heard

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yesterday a story of a guy who was, rejected God all of his life.

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His people were praying for him, praying, and he got to be old and he

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was laying on his deathbed and someone came, one of his people came

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in and again presented the gospel of salvation to him and

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they said, if you want this, if you believe, just squeeze our hand.

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He is already beyond the point of speaking. And he squeezed the hand.

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He got into heaven because he squeezed the hand and

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acknowledged the truth with that one tiny last gesture.

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God is not willing that any should perish. And that's why

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God puts so much urgency upon those who pray that you will,

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you'll pray that person in, but you have to pray against

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the demonic spirits that have gripped them almost all their lives. And these

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things get really entrenched. So, um,

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again, if we're having trouble with God's faithfulness,

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look at what we're doing. God is faithful. He doesn't change.

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He's the same yesterday, today, and forever.

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He loves us. He cannot not love us. He is good.

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He cannot not be good. If God is not good all the time,

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then he's not good at all. But sometimes he doesn't look good because like any

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earthly father doesn't always look good when he's bringing a correction

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or he's bringing instruction that's going against

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the will of the person who's just been rebellious. So, um, we— God

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is faithful. And so maybe we should look at,

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what we've been doing to tempt God, judging God,

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and ask God to forgive us for setting him in a position where

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he looks unfaithful when in fact it's we who are unfaithful.

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Yeah. And then getting back to that story of that man

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that gave his life to the Lord on his deathbed,

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sometimes I think of this as that way. You know, we eat the apple and

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we, at the end, we hand God the core of our life, of our life.

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It's like, Yeah, that's true. You know, it's better,

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better late than never, right? But in

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Ecclesiastes chapter 12, verse 1, remember,

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remember now your Creator in the days of your youth before the

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difficult days come and the years draw near when you say,

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I have no pleasure in them. So,

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and he concludes the whole matter is to fear God and

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keep his commandments. That's the conclusion of the whole matter. But a lot of us,

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you know, didn't come to the Lord when we were young. Some of us did.

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Uh, Margie and I did. We were fairly young, quite young,

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younger than we are now. Really? Imagine that.

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But anyway, 50 years later. Yeah. But anyway,

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still following Jesus, still following the Lord.

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And, uh, so that— remember, you— if you listen,

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if you're young, if you— a lot of— it's something somebody

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had, this little saying. It says, youth is a wonderful thing,

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too bad it's wasted on young people. Because you get wise

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later. You get wise, but it's okay. God's got you. God's got you.

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He's still got you. So today, right now, today is the

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day of salvation. So even though maybe you may have wasted a

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lot of your life in the days of your youth, or afraid or panicking,

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evil things, or whatever, start worrying. Start now.

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Don't let your past determine your future. Start now.

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Now is the accepted time. Today is the salvation day of salvation,

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says Lord, let's go right now. We're going to go

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with you. We're going to go with your faithfulness. Lord, we lay down the worry,

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the anxiety, the panic, the fear, and judging God

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and asking the question and allowing Satan to present these questions in our mind.

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Where is God? What is God doing? Why isn't God here? Why isn't God faithful?

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I thought he was faithful. Look what he's doing. Lord God, we're going to stay

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with you. We're going to ride the roller coaster of faith with you all the

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way to the end because you are a faithful conductor and you know

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the beginning from the end. You know every moment You know every place

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on the road. You know every place where we are today where the enemy is

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trying to pull the rug out from under us, destroy us, take us

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down. Lord God, our life belongs to you. Our problems are actually

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your problems, and so we turn them over to you today. We let you

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be the God of our lives, of our day, of our breath, of our strength.

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You are the one who has died for us. You are the one who wants

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more than anything for us to know you. So forgive us,

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Lord. For judging you as unfaithful, as against

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us. Forgive us, Lord, for entertaining these thoughts.

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Forgive us, Lord, for entertaining the thoughts of the enemy who has caused many minds

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to become vile and debased. Father, forgive us as

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we forgive those who trespass against us, Lord God, and forgive us,

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Lord God, for judging you. And we ask now for a new mindset,

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a new reset, in our spiritual attitudes towards

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you this day and in the days ahead, that you'll put your joy in our

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hearts. And it's not just a feeling, it's a solid knowing. That's where the

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joy comes from. So God, help us now in Jesus' name to walk in your

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faithfulness. Amen. Here's another example of faithfulness.

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Oh, you know, there's examples all through scripture of God's faithfulness.

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And if you've walked with the Lord for a while,

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you can see when you honestly see that God has been faithful

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to you. You, even the times when you are not faithful. And really,

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I really believe that obedience to God really makes

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us aware of the faithfulness of God. You know,

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he's faithful to his people, who is people who

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even who those who rebel, but especially those who are

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trusting him and following him. It says at the

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end of, toward the end of the book of Joshua,

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in 21, chapter 21, verse 43. So the

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Lord gave to Israel all the land of which he had

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sworn to give to their fathers, and they took possession

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of it and dwelt in it. The Lord gave them rest

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all around according to all that he had sworn to their fathers,

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and not a man of all their enemies stood against

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them. The Lord delivered all their enemies to them

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into their hand. Not a word failed

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of any good thing which the Lord had spoken to

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the house of Israel. All came to pass. And then it's said again,

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right when basically Joshua was saying goodbye to

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Israel before he passed away. And in

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Joshua 23:14, behold, this day I'm going the

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way of all the earth, and you know in your hearts

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you know in all your hearts and in all

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your souls that not one good thing has failed

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of all the good things which the Lord your God spoke concerning you.

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All have come to pass for you. Not one word

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of them has— Hallelujah! Not one word of God

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has failed. Praise God. He said— Joshua said, you know that you've

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experience the faithfulness of God.

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And we have basically walked with him. Amen. Walk with

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him. Continue to walk with him. Amen. So let the courage and the strength of

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God cause us to be able to walk with him. In Jesus' name.

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Amen. Amen. Well, you've got a lot of books about God

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and his faithfulness. Um, Taking the Devil to Court is

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kind of a breakthrough book. It's like, uh,

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Well, not breakthrough, it was original,

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right? It was original. That's where, as the Lord was showing

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you a lot of truth there, that's the one that kind of came

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out first, right? And it's still— it's amazing that the truth

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is the truth. And doesn't change. When you— things that you wrote years ago,

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things that you taught years ago, you look at it now

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and it's still the same. The truth does not change.

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Yeah. So Taking the Devil to Court, a good place to begin.

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It's got a lot of, um, you know,

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examples, I believe. And it's also got a lot of teaching that

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is advanced beyond what most people get in their

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first instructions about God. So, and it's easy to understand. It's not

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complicated. So give yourself an opportunity to take ahold of it.

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Uh, you can get it as a PDF or you can get it as a,

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uh, a hardbound— not hardbound, a soft copy,

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um, In the Name of Jesus: Taking the Devil to Court.

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