"Stand Firm" 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, you're getting our attention. We thank you for speaking to

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us, Lord God, even through the weather, the wind, the rain, the tornadoes,

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the floods, the hurricanes, you're speaking to us.

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And you said everything that can be shaken is going to be shaken.

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And basically, you're shaking the elements so that your people will wake up.

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And so I thank you, Lord, that you will be done, O God, on earth,

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in and through all of us this day, that you'd wake up your people,

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get them standing upright on their feet and recognizing what's going on.

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I thank you, Lord, that your will be done.

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Your kingdom come. Your kingdom is coming.

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Your kingdom is here. And you are returning. So, Lord, can we even comprehend that?

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We did not comprehend your first coming when you actually came and died on the

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cross as the sacrificed lamb of God who takes away the sins of the world.

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We didn't comprehend that.

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It was almost totally missed except by a few.

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And still to this very day, you send messages of love and peace and reconciliation and salvation.

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So help the people today to get the word. Get the word out, Father God.

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And I pray also that you'd continue to give us your power and authority,

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direction and wisdom to walk in this way and to know which way to go.

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And that you'd also give us the power and to continue to bind and loosen,

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forbid and permit and to forgive even our enemies, Lord God.

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Love our enemies. I thank you, Lord, for the power that you gave us. You are real.

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You are real in all of this. Make yourself real and apparent to the hearts and

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souls and minds, even of those who are sleeping and under the slumber and the enchantments.

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Wake them up, Father God. And I thank you now that you give us your divine protection

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as you have, that no weapon formed against us will prosper.

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No word 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. Cover us.

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Cover our families, those who work for us, pray for us, and love us.

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Cover those things that pertain to us, the things that you've called us to do.

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May you protect the work and the assignments that you've given us,

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that we might complete your will in our lives, all of us, Father God,

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that we will not grow weary and will not grow slack in these days,

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Father, but be more diligent and even more aggressive in the Spirit, in Jesus' name. Amen.

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Amen. Well, you know, who can stand in this shaking?

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Yeah. You know, God said he's going to shake everything that can be shaken,

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that the things that are not able to be shaken may remain.

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And we're talking today about a time of shaking.

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And lack of revelation. In Proverbs 29, today's the 29th, so read Proverbs 29.

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18, it says, where there is no revelation, the people cast off restraint,

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but happy is he who keeps the law.

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Casting off that restraint matches what was being said in Hosea.

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Chapter 4, verse 6, where he says, my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge,

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because they have rejected knowledge, I will also reject them from being priests for me.

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So this lack of knowledge, lack of revelation, is critical to where we're at.

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And it also, you know, that's how people wake up when they're shook,

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shake them awake, right?

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Yeah, some people, you know, wake up when they're shaking, some don't.

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The shaking comes, they said, hey, leave me alone. I want to keep doing what

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I'm doing here. But let's look at the Old Testament prophet Hosea.

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He was ministering to the northern kingdom of Israel.

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Of God were divided into the northern kingdom Israel, the southern kingdom Judah,

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and he is a prophet to the northern kingdom.

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And basically— What was happening in the northern kingdom? What was happening?

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They were breaking away first.

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They were committing so much idolatry and adultery and all this stuff with sticks

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and stones and everything else.

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So they were the first ones to be cut off. They were the first ones to be sent

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into exile. Yeah, and basically, so it's basically when Hosea starts his ministry,

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it's basically a time of prosperity.

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They're thinking, oh, everything is going well. You know, we're going to have

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a peace and prosperity and everything.

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And then God says, okay, Hosea— A change in plans here. Yeah,

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okay, I want you to marry a harlot.

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Marry a harlot, and you're going to have some kids from her.

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And it's like, wait a minute. Is this God's will? How could this be the will of God?

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I know, I know. To marry, you know, an ungodly person. God was having him do

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a prophetic act in marrying this woman to show, to kind of display God's position.

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He's got a wife who is a harlot basically running around worshiping idols,

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sticks and stones, like I said.

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And God is just using Hosea as

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a way to, you know, demonstrate his own predicament, his own relationship.

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Not only, yeah, demonstration, and he's really experiencing that personally

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with having an unfaithful wife that's running after other guys.

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And just violating their relationship. But the whole point in the end is to

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show how God was continuing to bring her back, bring back his wayward, renegade wife, Israel.

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And so this, so Hosea is just kind of using all of that.

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But the thing is, this is a serious problem today with all of us,

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too, in this place where, you know, not many, not everybody in this nation or

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in the world professes to know God. or love God or the one true God.

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That's to say they all have gods, but not a lot of them.

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But the thing is, those of us who do know God professed Jesus Christ has come

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in the flesh, is born in Bethlehem, died on the cross for our sins.

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It's this group that God is married to.

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We're the bride, and we're basically renegade.

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I believe we're off base right now.

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For the most part, we're coming back, not just be negative. We don't want to

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be negative, but we have to understand that God has got to do some things to bring, to wake us up.

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And in Hosea, he talks a lot about.

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Well, a lot of it is about idolatry. And in Hosea 4, verse 1,

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it says, Hear the word of the Lord, you children of Israel, for the Lord brings

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a charge against the inhabitants of the land. What's the charge?

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There is no truth or mercy or knowledge of God in the land. That charge means

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like a legal complaint against you. So they have broken the covenant.

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The covenant God made with them was, I will be your God. My things are your

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things. Your things are my things. Follow me.

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And we will, you know, work this out together, walk this out together.

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And it's interesting. How many times in the Old Testament, in the times of Ezra,

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Nehemiah, and Joshua, judges, they said, oh, yes, yeah, we're going to follow the Lord.

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We're no more idolatry. We're going to follow the Lord. and they go back into

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the same thing over and over and over again.

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This is why we have to understand there is a real...

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War, a battle, a conflict that's going on constantly between God and Satan.

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And we're just like the little ping pong ball is caught in the middle of it sometimes.

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But the thing is, we also have to make a decision. We can't just blame it on

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the devil or say, you know what, I didn't know, because you do know.

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And so for those of you who are listening today, that you're kind of in a lukewarm, mediocre,

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take it or leave it kind of position, that's not going to last much longer because

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there's going to be a shaking in your life, whether it's the treetops breaking

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off and falling on your lawn like it did for us, or it's something more radical.

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But going back to Isaiah chapter 4, he says in verse 2, at first finish of 1,

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there is no truth or mercy or knowledge of God in the land.

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By swearing and lying and killing and stealing and committing adultery.

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They break all restraints with bloodshed after bloodshed.

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Just that one verse, that so describes our society. Yeah, America pretty much.

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Bloodshed and lying and stealing. Bloodshed after bloodshed.

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And we hear every day, every day, you hear some of the most horrific,

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you know, stabbings, shootings, abortions, all kinds of stuff going on.

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Bloodshed, blood touching blood. But see, the thing is that we cannot,

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avoid that. We try to isolate, hide out, get our own little safe place. Deny.

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Yeah, deny too. But the thing is, it's going to take over, you know,

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but don't let it take over your soul.

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This is going to happen. Do not be afraid. When this stuff comes to happen,

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you know, when then God says in his Bible, look up for your salvation,

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your redemption draws night.

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Jesus Christ is coming back. The elements, the earth.

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The climate, the trees, the deer, everything, creation is longing and groaning

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for the return, for the establishment of re-establishment of truth and justice in the earth.

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But human beings, we're the ones who made the decisions to worship the sticks

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and stones. I think we get to that a little bit later.

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He says, yeah, verse 12 of Hosea, 4.12, he says, the people ask counsel from

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their wooden idols, and their staff informs them, for the spirit of harlotry

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has caused them to stray.

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Think of how much uncleanness, perversion, idolatry, pornography,

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perversion, pedophilia, sexual abuse, rape, violence, just in that one arena alone.

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And they have played the harlot against their god.

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They offer sacrifices on the mountaintops and burn incense on the hills,

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under the oaks, the poplars, and the terrapins, because their shade is good.

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Therefore, your daughters commit harlotry and your brides commit adultery.

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So there's this uncleanness, this perversion,

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it's perversion it's beyond you know what happens when people do these horrific

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things Jerry and they can't they're so perverted they can't you can't even hardly

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speak about it it's so vile we have to have an explanation for that it's just

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not that the people themselves are.

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Well, they are taken over, but there's something that's taking them over inside

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because God did not create them at all like this.

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So, yeah, people have yielded, you know, some people are just born into— Mess, a mess, spiritual mess.

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Into a mess, into a horrible, horrible situation. They have no godly training.

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They have no godly examples. And then, of course, the enemy is right there to

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say, okay, I'm just going to basically rape your mind.

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Rape your life with all kinds of lies, with all kinds of virtual reality, with drugs.

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You're going to be in pain. Here's some pain reliever.

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You can have these drugs. You can have some fentanyl. You can do this. You can do that.

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But they're so taken up that they cannot, they can't turn back.

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Yeah, don't see it. And so Hosea, his role was to say, okay, people, wake up.

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Because basically he was saying, he was one of the prophets that was really

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giving Israel or the northern kingdom.

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It's also referred to as Ephraim in the Bible because that was the largest tribe in Israel at that time.

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He's saying, basically, this is your last chance. and I would say in our world today there there's,

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God is giving us a last chance. We're to the point where, you know, our DNA,

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even, our DNA is not going to be able to survive the onslaught that comes from every direction.

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Yeah, I think this spiritual understanding, for those of you who love the Lord

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and are going through hard things, very, very hard things personally in your

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relationships, in your finances, in your situations, very difficult things.

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This is, hold on, just hold on. This is a time of shaking.

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This is a time of testing. This is a time of severe trial, even for the righteous.

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And, you know, you can't avoid this by being good because you can't,

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because the enemy is after those who are good.

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So it's going to be like, okay, God's going to have to keep us.

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We're going to have to secure ourselves in him.

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But don't be in that place where the devil has something against you,

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where he can actually bring a demonic judgment against you.

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He says, going back to 4.6 again, my people are destroyed for lack of knowledge,

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because you have rejected knowledge.

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I will also reject you. Well, what have we rejected?

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The truth, the counsel of the Word of God.

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We've gone with the counterfeit versions of the Word of God and the gospel of Jesus Christ.

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We've gone with the mixture of grace and good works,

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mixing those together and becoming, it becomes worthless and pointless because

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you cannot work to earn yourself a way to heaven, but you can abide in the vine

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and bring forth good fruit,

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which may include awesome good works, but they're not coming out of you.

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They're coming out of our relationship with Jesus Christ.

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So in this, again, with everything who can stand, you know, God is,

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He judges us by what he knows of us.

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And let him know the truth. Let us walk in the power of the counsel of the Holy

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Spirit that lives inside of us and not grow weary in well-doing.

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He says, God says, the more they increase, think about the nation,

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the more they sinned against me. Now there's many, we say, well, it's turning around.

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There's good things happening. People are, the truth is coming out.

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Yes, the truth of the horror of what has happened, what some of us have known

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for 15, 5, 6, 7, 12 years is coming out.

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But at the same time, where's the, you know, we say, well, where's the justice?

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Well, the justice is coming, but at the same time, God is slow in bringing this

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justice so that you and I who have a need yet to repent or get on the right

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side of this whole thing, have time to do that.

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God often withholds his justice or his judgment and

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because of his mercy and it's like sometimes we look at situations we think

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these guys are absolute horrible criminals but because they've got all their

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money and their political influence.

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They're just going to get keep getting by with it they get bought out they they

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buy people off and and they they continue in their evil doings and some are

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responsible for the deaths of millions and millions of people.

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And the justice, there's mercy.

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The fact that they're still alive is the mercy of God. Well, that's right.

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And yet God, we have to go back to you and I, we cannot take up the cause of

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the injustice and let that burning inflammation destroy us.

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We are not the judge. We know righteousness.

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We know what justice should look like because God put that in us and we hate

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injustice. We're made by God and God hates injustice and so do we.

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So we get that, but we can't, let the devil use our hatred of iniquity.

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Use even that as a bait on the hook.

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I cannot, I'm not, I have what God says to do with those people is forgive them

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and turn them over to his court.

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You can't be the judge and be the plaintiff at the same time.

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So if you've got some ought against someone, a human being, person,

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your best thing to do is forgive. That means you release them from your judgment.

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You step out of the judge's bench, off the bed. You do not judge them.

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You do not take on, that's not your job.

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You're going to get in trouble if you do because the devil's going to judge you for judging them.

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So get out of the way, turn it over to God, forgive them and say,

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God, you know the truth and let Jesus Christ...

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Testify to the truth of what's really going on before the Father,

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and bring your case before God. You have to look at the ultimate judgment.

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You can't, you know, very, very seldom is there accurate, truthful judgment.

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Because there's so many layers of things. You know, there's so much on,

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you don't, there's nothing as straightforward.

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Don't count on justice in this world. Right. But you can be righteous, and you can be just.

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Right. You can know the justice of God. And as you walk in the righteousness

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and the peace of God. We don't have to come under the damnation.

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However, it's like we're all in this, and what happens to one may happen to another as this earth.

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We're all sharing the earth. We're all sharing the resources of this earth.

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So we are going to go back to God. God says Israel is stubborn.

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Ephraim has joined himself to idols. Their drink is rebellion.

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They commit harlotry continually. The rulers love dishonor.

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The wind has wrapped her up in its wings, and they're all ashamed because of their sacrifices.

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So the wind, see, yeah, the wind, the rain, the horrible natural disasters that

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are coming on this earth are not accidents.

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They're not coincidences. They are, they're contrived and they're engineered

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and they're also, but God is permitting them.

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God is permitting them because why? Because here's the deal.

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God is a perfect will for our life. And that perfect will is righteousness,

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peace, justice, truth, blessing, goodness, joy, prosperity, you know, things going well.

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That's God's perfect plan and will for our lives.

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But the enemy has seduced us into using our free will to choose what looks like a better deal.

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So with God, the bottom line is whose report are you going to believe?

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Are you going to believe what God says, what the Bible says,

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and take that and use that as your foundation, as your operating principle?

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Or are you going to believe what it looks like and feels like,

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and that you can make a fast buck and make a quick move and do a quick shortcut,

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and you can get out of some of this stuff by taking matters into your own hands, it will not work.

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The only way life works is to surrender every bit of that life to Jesus Christ.

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So God is calling him to order.

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He says, your deeds, they do not direct their deeds towards turning to their God.

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Again, he says, spirit of harlotry. So the whole book of Hosea is about idolatry,

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fornication, harlotry, sleeping with people you're not rightfully to sleep with.

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Yeah, and that's a part of it.

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And then along with that, it's the spiritual idolatry. Spiritual. Yeah, yeah, exactly.

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Spiritual idolatry. In other words, we have other gods.

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Perfect, yeah, you're right. You know, in Timothy, 2 Timothy,

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Paul told Timothy, he says, in the last days people will be lovers of pleasures

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more than lovers of God. Oh, yeah. We see that.

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All you have to do is go around on a weekend. Yeah, well, you know,

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they're all looking for a way to escape. Yeah, I mean, there's nothing wrong with enjoying.

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Things in life, but when you love your pleasures more than you love God.

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And, you know, how many people that you know that really find pleasure in the Lord?

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I do. I do. Yeah, good. Well, that's good. There's a couple of us here that

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find that. You ask the question, I answer the question.

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We enjoy, you know, that in his Proverbs, Psalm 16, 18, in his presence,

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there's fullness of joy in his right hand.

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There are pleasures forevermore. But Satan has used that idea of pleasure and

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beauty. He's actually used that from the very beginning when he set up the enchantments

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and the root cuttings. Spells.

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Incantations, sorcery, drugs. And yeah, because we don't like it down here that much.

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We like heaven. We like beauty. We like beauty. We like pleasure.

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We like things sweet and good.

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And that's why that becomes a bait on the hook, too, for people who are looking

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for that. But he who seeks to save his life is going to lose it.

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And he who loses his life for my sake will keep it. Look at the disciples,

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the apostles, the followers of Jesus Christ.

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Not one of them tried to save their life back after they finally got converted.

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They were all in this for the long haul, which is eternity.

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They were counting the afflictions of this present age as nothing for the glory

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of being with God and forever.

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And this forever is real. Heaven is real, people.

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Jesus is real. The coming, you're going to, we're all going to die or rapture,

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but we're all going to have to stand before the Lord someday,

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however we get there. and we're going to have to give an account of ourselves.

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And God knows that He wants us to be in a place where He can actually bless us.

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And it says here, The Lord has turned His back because they dealt treacherously

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with the Lord, for they have begotten pagan children.

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God has had to kind of turn His back on this thing and let it run its course,

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which is basically what you and I have willed or wished for or wanted or voted

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for in a way, not politically,

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but in your choices every day, every day, every decision you make will either

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make you one step closer to God, not that you're far away, but I mean one step more secure in Him,

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in His will, or pull you back away from His will.

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So every decision, every choice that we are set, that's set before us,

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even the food we, every choice we make will draw us more or into the blessing

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of God, or into the trouble that the enemy has planned for us.

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Yeah, full of choices, you know, that choose you this day who you will serve.

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God told that to, Joshua told that to the people of Israel.

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So what choices, now the thing is, we have choices. Sometimes we have decisions that are made for us.

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Certain things happen. We didn't choose them. We didn't seek them.

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But they happen, we could say, to us, despite our desires to not have those things happen.

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So, I mean, stuff just comes our way.

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Stuff happens. But God has given us grace. And some of it's the most hurtful kind of stuff.

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And I just think of, I mean, even believers that we know of now that are just,

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they're just suffering.

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I just think of so many people that are just going through so many hard,

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hard things. And it's not because they're so wicked, it's just because there's

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wickedness in others, in a sense, that has come against them.

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Well, you know, in the wonderful, beautiful verse in Hosea, again,

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you might want to read this little book, chapter 6, verse 6, 6-6.

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For I desire mercy and not sacrifice, and the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

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But like men, they transgress the covenant. They have dealt treacherously with me.

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So, you know, when we sin against one another, we're actually dealing treacherously against God.

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And God says he would rather have mercy and pardon us than to have us do all

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these good works and try to buy his favor and get him to like us.

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God already likes us, but he wants to have mercy. But to have mercy,

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and he wants the knowledge of God more than burnt offerings.

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He'd rather have you seek him, you know, take that time to cry out,

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pray, read your Bible, memorize some verses, meditate, meditate.

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Think on whatsoever things are pure, lovely, honest, just, and good report.

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I know this doesn't sound very positive, but in your heart, you're going to

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have to start meditating on the pure, lovely, honest, just, and good report

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things, or this overwhelming overwhelming.

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External stuff, you know, the suffering, the tragedy, will try to take you out.

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Because Satan will say, well, where is God? Why did God do that?

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Where was he when you prayed?

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And on and on, the devil will rage, trying to bring you, get you to bring God

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into judgment, like where was God when all this was happening?

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God sits on the throne. God is love. God desires mercy rather than sacrifice.

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God wants to be favorable to you. And he will, and he is.

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He's actually being favorable and kind and merciful and gracious to all of us

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right now, because we don't understand how much God has invested in us.

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His whole life, his son, his everything, creation, everything was created for us.

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He has invested all of his handiwork in us that we might know him,

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that he might have a family, that we might come through this.

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This is not it, people, this world, whatever you can build down here,

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whatever kingdom, whatever little palace, whatever big palace,

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five castles you may have in your name, but the thing is some have nothing but a street corner.

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Father, there's just so much to, you know, so much...

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You know, discrepancies, disparity, is that a word?

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Disparity, that's it, yeah. Difference between the conditions of men,

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some so well off it would appear and some not.

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But Lord God, this day is the day that you have made. It's the day the sun has

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again been given to us to shine.

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It's a day that you have made. Let each one today who's listening be encouraged. Just settle down.

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Just get small for a minute. Just go in the moment. Don't go back to,

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oh, no, what's going to happen tomorrow or, oh, no, what happened yesterday.

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Don't do the oh, no's and what of. Just be quiet.

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Settle down. Start talking. If you have to start talking out loud to God so

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that you can keep your focus and your concentration, because it's really hard

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to talk to the Lord without opening your mouth. I mean, really, literally.

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You can meditate maybe in your soul, in your heart, your mind for maybe five

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seconds, and then you're off on something else. So you need to pray out loud

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to God, to talk to God, have a conversation with God.

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Then you can hear your own self saying and praying, and you can maybe even hear

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what God has to be saying back to you.

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And the other thing that's very super helpful to anchor you in all of this mess is the Word of God.

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To read it to yourself, to read it to others, to read it out loud,

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to read it every day, to read it several times a day, and then to begin to memorize

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it so that the Holy Spirit can bring back to you the anchoring,

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the words, the anchoring of your soul in the Word of God.

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And so as we, today, I just want to pray for people who are caught up in the

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whirlwind of their lives and suffering and don't know which way to go, where to turn,

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and that the Lord God will secure you and anchor you in His love and give you

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wisdom and give you that knowledge, to give you that revelation so you don't perish,

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that you'll have the revelation and you'll go forward in that revelation.

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And you will not then cast off restraint because you will know that the end is coming.

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Yeah, another thing, too, thinking of Hosea. Hosea fulfilled the calling that God gave to him.

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You know, despite the fact that he had a very, you know, super unfaithful wife,

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and he had all kinds of suffering.

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He was suffering personally. He was suffering in the way that God was suffering

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because of his people who were turning away from him into idolatry,

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into spiritual harlotry.

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And natural idolatry, harlotry as well.

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So basically, all these things were going wrong.

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You know, there was all this resistance and people were not turning away from

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their sin when Hosea was speaking.

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Yet, despite his personal suffering, you know, with his unfaithful wife,

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despite, you know, if we have kids that are straying away or we have an unfaithful

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spouse or we have a sickness or disease, despite all that that's going on in our lives, in your life,

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you are able, by God's grace and mercy, to have compassion on other people,

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to live in God's mercy, to live in God's grace, to fulfill the call that he's placed on your life.

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And you might not feel like you have much of a call or anything.

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But just every day, step by step, day by day, what is God giving you to do?

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What is God saying to you? What God is saying to you, do it.

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Hear the word of the Lord like Margie is saying. And what God is saying to you

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specifically day to day, even in your most mundane duties, just keep doing that.

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Keep on doing it. And you can't be just overwhelmed by all the wickedness of the world. Amen.

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But just keep your focus on the Lord. Yes, and let the joy of the Lord be your strength.

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In Ezra, if you want to read a little extra, Ezra 9, Nehemiah 9,

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Ezra 9, Daniel 9, all those chapters, he's bringing, he's repenting for the people.

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Three nines, how about that? Yeah. And so he says, now for a little while,

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grace has been shown from the Lord to leave us a remnant to escape and to give

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us a peg in his holy place that our God may enlighten our eyes and give us a

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measure of revival in our bondage.

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I think that's the way we're going to wrap it up today. He's going to give us a measure of revival.

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The harvest is still out there, and Satan is trying to destroy the harvest,

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just like you have a crop out there that's almost ready to harvest,

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and the wind comes and tries to flatten the grain, lodge the grain,

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so it cannot be harvested.

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This is Satan blowing these winds to try to lodge the harvest.

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And so God is going to give us a measure of revival in our bodies as we repent.

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He's going to extend mercy to us.

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So, Father God, we thank you for that mercy, that extension, Father, in Jesus' name.

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Yeah, and all of us who are called to you, Lord, everyone listening here that

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knows you is called to be a harvester in some area of the harvest field.

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Father God and Lord, we just thank you, Lord, that you give us grace and encouragement.

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And Lord, we know that Satan right now is busy attacking the harvesters.

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Trying to interfere with the harvest he doesn't want.

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He wants, Satan wants his harvest to hell and to the lake of fire to bring with him.

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God wants his harvest to be, you know, people to come into the,

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excuse me, into the abundant life here on earth and to be with him forever.

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So Father God, I pray that you would encourage the harvesters, Lord.

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Each of us who know you are called to share your love, to share your truth,

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you know, in some fashion. Let us be a light.

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And don't be discouraged by you think you don't have a whole much,

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you know, a lot that you're doing.

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But if you're doing something that the Lord is speaking to you about, just do it.

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And even if it's the most mundane thing, just do it as unto the Lord.

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And that's your part for now in the harvest. And God, in His timing and in His

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grace, He'll increase the opportunities that He's given you.

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Be faithful in that which is least, and you'll be faithful in greater things. Amen.

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It's also available on our website. We encourage you to stay encouraged by reading

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the Word of God and meditating on the good things of God. Amen.

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Thanks for joining us. Talk to you soon.

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