"Our Relationship with God" RESCUE RADIO with Marjorie Cole

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Music.

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Rescue Radio, because there's a war for your soul.

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Yes, Father God, indeed there is a war for our souls, and we thank you that you have won that war.

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The battle has been won, and we thank you, Lord, for tucking each one today

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into the safety of the revelation of that truth and promise.

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We bind every spirit of anxiety and fear and discouragement,

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doubt, double-mindedness and confusion that would try to snatch away the revelation

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of your love and truth to us today.

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Give us eyes to see. Give us ears to hear. Give us a heart to receive that revelation

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and be encouraged in the truth of who you are.

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I thank you, Jesus, that you demonstrated your Father's love for us and that you came.

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And on our behalf, you laid down your life that we might be set free.

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You paid the price, the ultimate price, for our freedom and salvation.

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And yet, Father, there seem to be so many that disregard it,

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do not treasure it, or consider it as the ultimate.

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Act of love. So we pray, Father, for those people that their eyes would be opened,

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that the great awakening would happen, and that their great harvest would come

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in for the glory of God and in the name of Jesus Christ.

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We also thank you for giving us power over all the power of the enemy,

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power to bind and loose and believe.

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Believe in you, believe in your word, your promises, your coming again,

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not to go to the right or to the left or be discouraged, Father God.

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We thank We bind the powers of darkness that you've given us authority over

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to bind them from snatching, scattering, discouraging us. We rebuke them and

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send them back to the pit.

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Father, we ask that you release those who are bound in the grip of the terrible

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one today from that grip, that they will come into the revelation of your truth

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and surrender to you completely so that they can be free.

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And finally, we thank you for the promise of divine protection.

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That no weapon formed against us will prosper.

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No words said, deed done, action taken, will be able to be used by the enemy

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to bring forth any shame, trouble, or reproach that you release and protect

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those who are bound, who are being destroyed by the enemy, that you bring them

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back to freedom and goodness,

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Father God, hope and love in Jesus' name. Amen.

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Amen. Amen. Well, we're talking today about our relationship with God,

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which is one of the probably the most basic relationships.

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That we have. Yeah, it is. And I was just thinking about Abraham,

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and it talks about in James 2, it talks about he showed his faith by his works, by what he did.

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And verse 23 of James 2, it says, And the scripture was fulfilled,

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which says, Abraham believed God, and it was accounted to him for righteousness,

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and he was called the friend of God.

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The friend of God I know we talked a little bit about some of this stuff last

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week but we're kind of going to go on because there's so much to knowing and

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having a relationship with God and in Romans there's another,

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aspect of God's relationship with us and his role as the deliverer in Romans 11,

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26 and so all Israel will be saved as it is written the deliverer will come

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out of Zion, and he will turn away the ungodliness from Jacob,

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for this is my covenant with them, that I will take away their sin.

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Now, that covenant has been extended to whosoever will believe and follow Jesus.

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So, Jesus was the restorer of the covenant and the power behind the covenant.

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So, we're in covenant with God in that relationship. But what actually does

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determine my relationship with God?

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Well, I have an answer for that. Yes, and what would that be?

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What determines our relationship with God is our concept of who He is. Yeah.

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What is our idea about God and our idea about God, and it's basically our idea

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about ourselves, but our concept of God determines what our relationship with Him will be.

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Right, and that relationship and concept is filtered through our own lenses

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of experience and ideas, worldviews, and all kinds of programming that we have

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been submitted to or subjected to.

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So, yes, so the questions that are out there, and the biggest question,

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I think, when Satan is trying to frame and defile and separate us from the love

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of God through confusion and doubt is, is he good?

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Is he cruel? Is he kind? Is he sovereign?

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How, and here's the biggest issue that comes out all the time,

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just if God is so good, then why?

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And so Satan is using God's sovereignty, his omnipotence,

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his all-knowing, all-powerful attributes to lay charges at his feet that if

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God were there, if God was so good, so powerful, why if he's so good,

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does he let all these bad things happen to us?

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And this becomes the merry-go-round, the religious merry-go-round,

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I think, that a lot of people are riding on these days, and it's time to make

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a decision, get off the merry-go-round and take a stand.

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Well, oftentimes God is the last one to get the credit for something good,

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and he's the first one we want to blame. Yeah, exactly.

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For something that's gone wrong. And we don't understand the concept that there's

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an enemy here in this world.

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Satan is in this world. God is sovereign over him. So we're in this warfare. We're in this struggle.

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At the same time, we have to come to a place where we receive a revelation of him as to who he is.

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Well, you know, you're right, absolutely. If we don't put the devil in the equation,

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God plus me equals all the trouble I see out there.

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If you don't put the enemy in there, you will never solve the problem for wickedness

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and evil and the presence of evil in the world.

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But if our relationship, you know, if our concept of God is wrong,

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and you can really only grasp that from the Bible and rightly dividing the Word

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of God, because a lot of the Word of God is used to misguide people,

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and through the revelation, like you said, of the Holy Spirit.

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So our concept, our relationship with God, which is what He wants,

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He doesn't just want us to know about Him or to, you know, be awestruck with

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all of His wonderful things He's done.

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He wants us to be in a relationship with Him.

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But if our concept of Him is wrong or skewed, you know, then our relationship will never be right.

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Because if we feel abandoned, betrayed, unloved, if we become angry and unforgiving,

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if we feel like, and so many do, that we are on our own.

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And, you know, there was an interesting thing when Esau, you know.

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Traded his birthright for a bowl of lentil stew because he thought he was going to die anyway.

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So he, you know, gave Jacob, his brother, who was the younger,

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gave him the birthright to be the oldest.

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God comments on that later in Hebrews, and he said he despised his birthright, and which allows,

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when we despise our birthright, which is being born as sons and daughters of

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the Most High God, when we treat that lightly and trade it for a bowl of soup, so to speak,

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what's the price of your soul? What are you willing to give in exchange for your soul?

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When we exchange that for a meager pittance, we despise the most incredible

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thing we have, the most precious thing we have is our identity and our being

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sons and daughters of the Most High.

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And so when that happened with Esau, he says in Hebrews, it's a root of bitterness

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springs up and causes many to be defiled.

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So the poison of bitterness defiles many of our relationships,

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human relationships on earth, because we have despised our birthright with God in heaven.

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I'm talking about our birthright. How do we gain our, as a child.

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Growing up, how do we gain our concept of God? How has God determined that that would happen?

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That is to be the job of parents. Well, yeah. The parents.

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But if the parents don't know who they are, it's pretty hard.

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If the parents don't know who they are and are not able to decipher or realize

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who their children are and who God is,

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Then we're just kind of left to chance and just floundering and just kind of

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interpreting God through our life experiences.

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Well, you know, the thing is, too, and part of that is, you know,

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understanding the relationship God has with us is the same as a parent would

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have with his child, although we are flawed and inferior,

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and so it's very unfair in a way to compare our relationship with His with us,

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but that, you know, we think about things like improving our relationship,

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becoming better, more lovable, more deserving, that we grow in our love for Him, for each other.

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That promotes a concept of trying harder to be good or get God to love us,

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And that becomes based then on our worthiness, our behavior, or accomplishments.

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And that makes God not a God of love then.

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He cannot be a God of love if it's the conditional.

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Because by definition, love is unconditional.

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But in our human definition, love is always based on performance,

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believing, I mean, receiving, and being worthy.

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And so this just feeds right into Satan, just this feeds right into his plot

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and plan that we have to earn our salvation.

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We have to earn God's love, which then it actually is the actually contrary to the truth of God.

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We cannot, God cannot love us anymore.

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We cannot do anything to get him to like us anymore.

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He already loves us, likes us, and we're his. Well, how many people spend a

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good share of their lives to try to make themselves lovable?

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So people will like me, or so God will like me.

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We talk about Romans 5, verse 6, For when we were still without strength in

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due time, Christ died for the ungodly, for those who were really against him.

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And then verses 7 and 8, for scarcely for a righteous man will one die,

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yet perhaps for a good man someone would even dare to die.

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But God demonstrates his own

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love toward us in that while we were still sinners, Christ died for us.

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So he loves us, and he died for us in our state of rebellion.

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Lostness, just really out of touch with God, enslaved.

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But then he commends his love. He says, you don't have to make yourself lovable.

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I love you the way you are, despite all the evil that's been going on in your life.

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Well, sin does not change our identity. it

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just changes our location because you know

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you can be held captive in a concentration camp and

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you're still the daughter of your father and your mother whether that

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man or woman is great or not you know but your position

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is being enslaved so we're not depraved as

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paul talks that the difference between depraved and enslaved but the thing is

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going back to your original statement there why don't people get it is because

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they don't know they need it they people don't know the most important thing

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they need is a deep and holy and powerful and ongoing,

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lively, dynamic relationship with God.

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They think that everything is as it appears.

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Everything that happens is either my fault or your fault or somebody else's

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fault, and it's our job to try to be perfect, to fix it, to stay safe, to be righteous.

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But understanding our relationship with God is not that hard.

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It's really, for those of you who are parents, it's very second first nature,

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whatever, that how do you want to be understood by your children?

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What would you do for your children if they were in trouble?

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Would you truly, I mean, as some parents, and we can't compare those vile people

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who are filled with demons and whatnot,

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but the people who love their children bring forth their children for the purposes

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of bringing forth children to love and to have as they're in a relationship with them,

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how do we then go forward in not transferring that same intention, motivation,

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life, energy to our relationship with God as our Father?

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Because He is our Father, and we are fathers and mothers.

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So if you want your children to be afraid of you and always have to be perfect

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for you to get to like them, you're going to be frustrated with them because

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they're never going to realize that you just love them for who they are.

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And this is kind of, I think, God's position.

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So we're always testing God, not believing Him, taking the devil's solutions

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to our problems, and therefore we go off the track.

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Well, yeah, off the track starts with parents that aren't really being godly

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parents, fathers that aren't being godly fathers.

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God is intended. You know, there's that chain of command.

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There's God the Father, the Son, you know, and the Holy Spirit really working

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with them, and then the Father, the Mother, the children.

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So there's a hierarchy there of— Order. An order, and when that order is messed,

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and the order gets really messed up when it comes to parents.

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Fathers being not fathers or fathers being non-existent in their relationship with their kids.

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Yeah, but the thing is, going back to being Father God, being understood.

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The enemy really has tried to redefine him to us through the circumstances,

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even through the interpretations of the Old Testament, the wars,

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the bloodshed, the sacrifices, the deluge,

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all the things, predicaments that God was put in as a father,

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as you as a father might be put in, to rescue your children,

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to restore them, to teach them, train them, and raise them up in righteousness.

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And at the same time, all these obstacles and resistances and other influences

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are in their life, You are trying to continue to promote your love for them.

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And so, again, our problem is we don't know we need a father.

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We don't know we're in a snake pit. We don't believe the spiritual warfare is real.

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And so, therefore, we're very turned upside down for the most part in our concept

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of God and in our pursuit of God.

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Well, the Old Testament word for God was considered too holy to even pronounce.

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And then, so God is, I mean, he's perfectly holy. There's no question about that.

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But Jesus came to reveal this holy God as Father.

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And he said to pray, our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.

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So what a father means is a progenitor. In other words, it's someone who gives life, gives you life.

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He's your source of life. God is our source of life. He's our protector.

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He's here to protect us. He's not here to destroy us.

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And he's here to provide for us. So a father is to be a progenitor,

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a protector, and a provider.

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And so this is the concept Jesus came to bring.

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Clarify. Clarify this. So when we kind of look at that,

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Father is basically our source of who we are.

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Where did we come from? We came from Him. Well, right, and that's the problem.

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Most of us have not been introduced to that concept until much later in our

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lives because we're thrown into the textbooks of evolution and evolving and

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all of these kinds of things so that we're just here existing for no purpose

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or no reason and we don't come from anywhere.

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And so this is going back to Esau. So he despised his birthright and it opened the door to bitterness.

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We have got the same problem going on. Now we blame God for almost everything

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because, you know, for example, when something goes wrong, I mean,

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is it funny that we don't give God any credit?

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We don't usually thank him or rejoice or look forward and pray and ask for help.

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But when something goes wrong, the first one we shake our fist at is God.

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Why me, God? Where were you? Why did you not stop this?

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So inside, there is a knowing of the power of God, and yet, at the same time,

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Satan twists that to become more of a rebellion or a bitterness against God.

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So many people are bitter against God.

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That's their real problem, but it manifests as bitterness towards others,

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towards, you know, injustice, not fair, attitude, buried anger.

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Bitterness is swallowed anger, so it's been seething for a long time inside,

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and that creates inflammation, by the way, in your body.

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But so this bitterness, it comes from not acknowledging who we really are as

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sons and daughters created by the Most High God deliberately and for His purpose.

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And so Satan wants to turn us away from that, keep us from knowing that,

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and to block our relationship with God by making God to blame for the bad things

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that happen, when in fact...

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Satan is the author of all of that confusion. And when people curse God and

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take the name of the Lord in vain, you know, cursing God, when do they do that?

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When things are bad, things don't go the way that we think they should go,

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and then we take his name in vain. That's one of the ways we take his name in

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vain. We use it as a curse word.

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We just, in a sense, when we're saying, you know, Jesus Christ or God damn as something like that,

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we are basically saying we're blaming him for what's going on.

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But the truth is, if you look at it, just stop going with your feelings and

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go with what the Lord is showing you.

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Jesus in the Gospel, he says, God sends the rain on the just and the unjust.

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God gives breath, even to those who are using that breath, to curse his name.

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God gives food and shelter to the people who are actually working contrary to his purposes.

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Satan is rewarding and blessing people for rejecting God, but at the same time,

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if God would take away their breath, they'd be done.

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So God is very long-suffering, not willing that any should perish, and he is impartial.

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At this point,

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There are consequences to our sin, but most of those consequences,

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if not indeed all of them, are coming out of demonic judgments because the enemy

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himself is setting us up to believe the lie, use his solution to the problem.

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And then when we take his solution, he punishes us because we are disobeying the law of love.

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And so he justifies punishing us before the Father because he says,

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well, look, God, they're not listening to you.

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And so therefore I have a right to bring this punishment upon them.

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So all of this judgment that we're going through right now, a lot of it is not

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yet even God stepping into the arena to do these things.

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All those terrible acts of God, the earthquakes, the this, the that.

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Most of that is a result of rebellion, disobedience, and God's attempt to correct the direction.

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For example, in the Tower of Babel, when they were all of one accord,

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building this high ziggurat to re-communicate, reconnect with the fallen angels

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who were in the second heaven.

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And they were just going at it, great guns, and everything was going good.

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And God came down, looked at us, says, hey, there's nothing that's going to stop them.

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We're going to have to stop this ourselves. And so what he did is he didn't

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hurt anybody, didn't throw a brick at anybody. He didn't kill or strike down dead anybody.

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What he simply did was confuse their languages, which really didn't hurt anybody at all.

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Perfect solution. but it stopped the project. And so that became the beginning

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of the nations of the earth.

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And interesting enough, all nations, it doesn't matter the color of your skin,

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all have the same blood, the human DNA blood that came from the original creation

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of Adam and Eve, and then through Noah as well.

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So all these things are even being now proven that we are of one race,

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basically, and yet Satan has divided us over colors and creeds and ethnicities

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and all kinds of things just to create the division, just to create the crazy

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circus that makes God look bad.

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So, we cannot base our...

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Concept and relationship with God based on the perceptions of what we see going

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on around us, because the only way is to—and another problem with that is in

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the Old Testament, and even now, people are worshiping God out of fear.

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Fear becomes their idol.

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They've got to take care of themselves. They can't trust in God.

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They have to be their own gods.

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And so— Yeah, and part of it is that, you know, what can we do to pacify God?

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We want to make God like us.

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The idea is that God is against us. That's right.

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God is against us, and we've got to do something.

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You know, we have to walk through coals of fire, crawl over broken glass,

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or come up with some kind of action, religion.

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Well, what they did was they had another God. They came up with idols.

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To appease him. And so what happens is then, if you have that concept of God that's wrong,

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that God is angry and against us, what happens is that people build idols to

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try to classify their God that's against them.

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And the Bible says that God is for us.

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He said, Romans chapter 8, he says, verse 31 and 32,

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what shall we say then to these things, All these things that,

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what are these things that God has, he's predestined us, he's called us,

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he's justified us, he's glorified us in verse 30 for those who have come to faith in him.

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What should we say then to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

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He who did not spare his own son but delivered him up for us all, all.

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How shall he not with him also freely give us all things? Yeah.

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So the problem has become, you know, all of these confusions and questions and

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the theological debates to cloud and confuse and exhaust the pursuit of truth.

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So we have many people just give up. They get weary of this whole thing.

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They don't even want anything to do with it. They're just going to go out and mind their business.

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And then we have the verses in the Bible that says God sends peace and creates calamity.

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He has mercy on whom he will have mercy, and he hardens whom he will harden.

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So people, when they don't understand the rules of consent or the rule of control,

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whom you yield yourself, servant to obey, that's who's slave you become.

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We are first off tempted.

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You know, we're put in this position. We're in the snake pit now.

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We were in the paradise before, and now the same rule applies.

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Whom you yield yourself, servant to obey, his slave you become. Romans 6.16.

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And because we have a free will, we obviously can go back and forth between,

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I trust God, I'm going to do it myself.

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But so when God is the ultimate, buck stops here, God, so that he's going to

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take responsibility and fix everything.

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But when people don't understand the rules, they get.

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They think God has to be one or the other. They don't realize that truth is

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a coin and has two sides, heads and tails.

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He can bring peace, but he can also bring calamity. It depends on the time,

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the situation, what's going on in the hearts of the people, what needs to be addressed.

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Just like a father, you being a parent, you're not loving and kind and sweet

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and giving them ice cream combs 24-7 every day all the time.

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There are times when you have to stand up and say, no, you're not going to do

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that anymore. You can't wear that. You can't go there.

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Whatever all these things, especially when they're in that childhood stage.

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And so therefore, you know, you will look like a mean parent,

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you know, and the enemy, of course, will fill the child with all those ideas of you being unfair.

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You don't like me. Yeah. And whatnot. You're against me. But actually,

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and parents then are afraid to set up those kinds of expectations and boundaries

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and whatever you want to call them.

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So then, again, you have this wild, rebellious child who doesn't have any respect for their father.

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But the thing is, their relationship with their father was built on lies.

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And the father was working to do what he was supposed to do,

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supposedly, and sometimes not.

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I'd say most of the time the fathers don't know what they're doing.

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But this is not the case with our Father in heaven.

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He does know what he is doing.

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But if the bitter division and confusion that Satan has thrown into the mix,

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if things are taken out of context, if you read in the Old Testament about the

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deluge and you don't know the behind the scenes and the reasons was that the

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DNA had already been crossed and switched and hybridized and ruined and it was

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no longer able to bring forth humankind and Noah was the last one with good DNA and his bloodline,

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then you will realize that God had to take some extreme action.

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Otherwise, there couldn't have been the Savior.

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If all the DNA of all the human beings was modified, destroyed,

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corrupted by the fallen angels and the interbreeding between the fallen angels and human women,

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if there was no DNA pure yet destroyed,

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There would be no Savior. And if there'd be no Savior, then sin's claim would stand.

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Satan's claim on the human race, the soul that sin shall die,

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would have stood because there had been no intervention.

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The only intervention that could come had to come through human DNA.

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That's what God said in Genesis when he said, I will see to the woman.

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So the thing is, there's a bigger picture than just what first meets the eye.

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And then the Bible also says, don't strive about words to no profit.

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Many times these arguments and debates we discuss and we're embroiled are spearheaded

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really by doctrines of demons in 2 Timothy 4. That's what it's telling us.

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And in these last days, there's going to be more layers of confusion than ever before.

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I mean, it's just like everything is getting more convoluted.

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And so the only way you can stay anchored is to stay anchored in the Word of God, in the Holy Spirit,

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and seek to understand the deep and powerful relationship that not only you

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have with God, but that He wants to have with you.

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Look at the men and women of the Bible, like, for example, Daniel.

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And he's a good example, Joseph, you know.

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These men stayed true to God, true, true, true to God, and they grew in their relationship with God.

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They understood God's purposes and plans for them.

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And then, because of that, because they understood and followed God,

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he was able to complete their destinies. He used these men to do great things.

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Jeremiah, you know, these men that followed God, John the Baptist,

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they followed God, they completed their destiny.

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And that is really the ultimate reason we're here.

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And the reason that we will end up being able to celebrate some days because

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God was able to use us to bring forth his redemption.

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You know, we're all part of that. And we're called to be his representatives

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on earth, ambassadors for Christ.

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We're called to represent him. So listen, so look at it this way.

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The Father sent the Son, Jesus, to be fully God yet fully human,

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to represent, to really be a living, breathing, human,

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perfectly human, but a perfectly flawless life to represent who he really is.

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So we are here, we are flawed, but we're here to, as much as possible.

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Represent who God is really like.

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He said, you're the light, he said, Jesus said to his disciples,

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you're the salt of the earth, you're the light of the world.

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So when they be, Paul said, imitate me, Paul told Timothy, or the Corinthians,

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follow me as I follow Christ.

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If you want to know how to follow Christ, if you don't want to know what it's

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like, take a look at my life and follow what I'm doing.

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Well, you know, the fact is, you know, the ultimate bottom line is God is love. We all know that.

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And even, you know, and so, but many of the things that people have done in

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the name of God, think of it, they've burned people at the stakes,

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they've butchered people, they murdered and martyred and all kinds of things. in the name of God.

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But even today, we have this God and that God, and we're all doing this in the name of our God.

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But the thing is that the true God says, His commandment is that we were to love one another.

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And He tells us to forgive one another. And why would He tell us to forgive

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or love if He's not doing it Himself?

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If He would be not doing it Himself, He would be a hypocrite to his own word.

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And so we understand that there's a time, you know, suffering.

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But even Paul, and he greeted in every epistle, he says, grace and peace to

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you from God, our Father, and the Lord Jesus Christ.

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So it's always grace, peace, mercy.

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So God wants us to have a relationship that is filled with his peace.

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And you know, believe it or not, that doesn't come from running all over the

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world trying to figure out what's the truth.

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The truth is already in us because God put the truth in your spirit,

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and it's right there. It just has to be uncovered, discovered, revealed.

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It's because if God wouldn't have put that, he says he lights every man that comes into the world.

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If he didn't do that, then he wouldn't have a right to require of us any kind

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of judgment or any kind of acceptance of him.

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And the lights are different. God also judges based on, I believe,

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the amount of light he's given us and how we followed him.

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But, you know, to stop and think, God did not need anything more.

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He had heaven, he had everything he needed or wanted, and yet,

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He chose to enter into, to create humankind, to have a relationship, to have a family.

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So God really did want one more thing.

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He wanted us. And so we have to recognize this is a, you know,

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if you stop and think, if you do any research on the chances that you got here

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as you, in the competition that you were going,

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that was against you in that first moments of the sperm and the egg coming together,

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The chances of you being brought together and being the one is absolutely, you're the winner.

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I mean, you won just by being conceived and born and getting through the birth

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canal, I mean, without being aborted.

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You're already more than a conqueror. And so this gives us privilege then to

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pursue with everything in us, everything God has put in you,

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your gifts, your talents, discerning of spirits, the gifts of the Holy Spirit,

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love, peace, giving, pursuing God with everything that you've got,

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and that is really the best way to live.

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And how we get into this bright relationship with God is through faith in Jesus Christ.

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And Jesus said, repent and believe in the gospel.

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He said, the good news, repent, change your mind, change your direction,

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and believe the good news.

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And he's called us, this is how we connect with God, is through faith.

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There's only one name under heaven where we must be saved, and that's through Jesus Christ.

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So we connect with him through faith in Jesus Christ.

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Then we read his word, we follow his word, we live in communication with him

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through the power of the Holy Spirit.

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And this is it right now, is that we are guided by God, guided by his word,

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guided by the Holy Spirit, which brings us into a right understanding of who

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he is and how we can actually.

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Like the old song says, we can walk with him and we can talk with him.

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He speaks to us, we listen to him, and he is guiding us.

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But it comes through that connection between us and this almighty God,

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this loving Heavenly Father, is through our trust, our trust in him.

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And Jesus Christ, our Savior and Lord, who has died on the cross,

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he's risen from the dead, and he's our Savior. Chosen us. He's returning soon.

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Yeah, and you know, not only that, but as we accept him, we become part of his

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bigger plan, which is the reconciliation and deliverance and healing and salvation

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of whosoever will. So it's an incredible plan.

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It's not just God doing all this. He's inviting us to work with Him,

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to subdue the pain and the injustices of the earth, to stand in having done

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all, to stand in the victory that He has already won.

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So it's not just about you. It's about Him inviting you,

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you accepting us, accepting the invitation to participate with Him,

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join with Him in this battle to redeem, rescue, reclaim the humankind for Jesus Christ.

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And so, Father, we thank you for this opportunity to not only be reconciled

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to you ourselves, but also to be used by you to work with you in this joint

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effort to reconcile whosoever will in this world, to preach the gospel,

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to bring the good news, to heal the sick, cleanse the lepers,

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raise the dead and cast out demons, and not to grow weary in well-doing,

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and not to fall short of the calling and the opportunities that you have set

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before us, even this day, to be encouraged, to know the truth. In Jesus' name.

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Well, you've written a book, Marjorie, called Doing Relationships God's Way.

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That's right. And I know there's much in there about our relationship with God.

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What can you tell us about that book? Read it.

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Get it and read it. Yeah, you can get it on Amazon.com, Our Relationship with

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God, because everything in your life comes out of and is based in our concepts,

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our relationships with God, with ourselves, with each other.

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And that one also discusses our relationship with difficult people.

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We'll get to that. I think we're going to continue this series and going on.

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But we're just skimming the surface of what's in there.

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So, again, doing relationships God's way, Amazon.com, or you can get it at liferecovery.com.

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And so God bless you and have a wonderful, powerful week walking in the purposes

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and plans of God for your life. Amen. Bye.

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Music.