Sermon
Plumb Line - Kingdom Character
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Jeremiah 1/4 through 12 says this.
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Now the word of the Lord came to me, saying, Before I formed you
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in the womb I knew you, and before you were born I
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consecrated you. I have appointed you a prophet
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to the nation's. Verse 6.
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Then I said, Alas, Lord God, behold, I do not know how to
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speak, because I'm a youth. But the Lord said to me, do not
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say I'm a youth, because everywhere I send you, you shall
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go, and all that I command you, you shall speak.
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Do not be afraid of them, for I am with you to deliver you,
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declares the Lord. Then the Lord stretched out my
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hand, or stretched out his hand and touched my mouth.
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And the Lord said to me, Behold, I have put my word in your
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mouth. Now you know most people today
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wish that's the same way that the Holy Spirit would just touch
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your mouth in this context, you know, and it's instantly there.
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Well in this in this dispensation even more so we are
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to study to show ourselves on approved unto God.
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If you want the Holy Spirit to put things in your mouth, you're
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going to have to be in the word of God.
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Hallelujah. Are you hearing me?
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This is not by osmosis or by some magic wand.
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It's by discipline and study because the teachers on the
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inside of you glory to God. Verse 10, He says, see, I have
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appointed you this day over the nations and over the kingdoms to
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pluck up the breakdown, to destroy, to overthrow, to build
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and to plant man. I could just camp on that one
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verse again. He's appointed you this day over
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the nations and over the kingdoms.
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What is he going to do? He's going to pluck up and to
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break down, which means every prophetic utterance is not
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always positive and the and the gift of the prophet is not just
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to bring you good news, but also to bring correction.
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It goes on to say to destroy and overthrow.
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Wow Hallelujah. But then to build into plant
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verse 11. The word of the Lord came to me
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saying now here it is very clear.
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He said, what do you see Jeremiah?
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And he says, I see a rod of an almond tree and then the Lord
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says this. Then the Lord said to me, you
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have seen what for? I am watching over my word to
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perform it. Now this is 1 particular case
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specifically. I'm going to give you another
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case here and that is with the gift of the prophet.
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There is a training of seeing and knowing.
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Jeremiah has this. God says what do you see?
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What is He doing? He's training him how to see in
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the Spirit. Just because he's put the word
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in his mouth doesn't mean he is trained enough to be sensitive
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to accurately interpret everything.
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And the Lord has done this with multiple prophets.
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He did this with Isaiah. He did this with Ezekiel.
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He says, what do you see? And he would ask that question
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and they would say, well, I see this.
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And he said, OK, you've seen correctly.
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You're perceiving right? You're getting what I you're
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you're you're peering into what I'm doing by the spirit.
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Now let me give you an interpretation of what that is.
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Are you hearing me? Another one is Amos.
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Amos Chapter 7 says this. Amos says this thus he showed
Amos 7 chapter mention
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me, and behold, the Lord was standing by a vertical wall with
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a Plumb line in his hand. And the Lord said to me, What do
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you see, Amos, what do you see? And I said, IA Plumb line.
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Then the Lord said to him, Behold I am, I'm about to put a
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Plumb line in the midst of my people Israel, I will spare them
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no longer. Let me show you a Plumb line.
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So the Lord in the spirit had a Plumb line that Amos saw a Plumb
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line is what Masons used to be able to build a wall so that it
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would be straight. And so it's obviously waited the
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line here. And so when they build the
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foundation and have their footer, then they begin to stack
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the rocks up is to keep it straight.
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That way nothing can bulge out or come in, nor do we build it
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in a way that it would start to lean that when it got it gets
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taller, it's going to topple over.
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So in essence, this is true. This is straight.
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The wall doesn't dictate what straight is, the line does.
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Are you hearing me? Which means then when the Mason
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is working, if, and again, we're talking about rocks here, not
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just brick, but let's talk about rocks as they begin to do that.
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If one of the rocks bowls out too much, then they will carve
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that off because if they want it flat and straight to the Plumb
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line, there's going to be things they have to remove.
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They have to adjust. They have to constantly be
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coming back and looking at the line.
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Are you hearing me? And the line doesn't lie.
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The line doesn't lie. The line always shows the
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imperfection because when the Mason goes down, says, ah, man,
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that brick has gotten too close. Is is push the line.
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You know, they can get going long and don't realize one
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touches it and the next thing you know, they go along, they're
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building. They're like, oh, it's not, it's
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not hanging. Oh, we're off.
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So they have to go back, tear down what is out to get it back
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Plumb or they begin to build up and they don't pay attention.
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They were off now and they're like we're leaning in.
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We're not even close to the line.
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Once again we have to tear down in order to get us back on
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point. Are you hearing what I'm saying?
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So Amos saw a Plumb line that was in whose hand come on?
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Whose hand was it in? It was in the Lord's hand.
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Do you understand? The Lord is your Plumb line.
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So in these cases, the gift of the prophet, if anything is
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communicating to you, are you straight?
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A true prophet is going to ask you, are you straight?
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You understand there were kings that didn't want certain
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prophets to show up because there were false prophets who
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had no care for the plum line. In fact, Amos is not even
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technically a prophet or come through a line of prophets or
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study to be a prophet. He actually says, listen, I am
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just a farmer, but the Lord came to my field.
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And because none of the prophets that had the ability to function
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that way, we're no longer paying attention to the Plumb line of
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God. He has now called me to come and
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speak on his behalf. Are you hearing me?
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And so there's a Plumb line that is associated with the walk of
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God. Because at the end of the day,
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the most sure prophecy we have is not what flows through the
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gift of the prophet, but it is the Word of God.
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And the word of God is our plum line.
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It's not your opinion. It's not how you want to do it.
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It's not What you think's best because Amos is letting us know
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as we could Fast forward into this dispensation, is that the
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church itself is not. It is susceptible of getting off
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the Plumb line as well if it does not keep first the Kingdom
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of God and his righteousness of which they seek to study,
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rightly dividing the word of truth, not having an opinion of
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their all. But what does the word say?
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A congregation can get off, can get off.
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Now I'm not here to talk about those.
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I'm here to talk about we want to stay with a Plumb line, 11
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scholar said. This.
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God tests the character of it, a Plumb line in his hand.
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The Mason used Plumb line to determine the straightness of
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the wall and thus God tests the character of human action.
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What is God's Plumb line number one?
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His law as inscribed upon the human conscience.
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By this he tries all men. In fact Paul wrote in the book
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of Romans chapter 2 I believe it was where he says listen the
Romans 2 chapter mention
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Gentiles function in a law even though it's not written and
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based upon it they are tried. The Jews had a law of which was
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their Plumb line to be able to stay straight.
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The Gentiles didn't even have a written law, but their
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conscience had them live in a straight enough line that then
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would bear witness against them. So all men because as as Paul
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said, creation itself testifies of the glory of God and his
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reality that he exists Are you hear me?
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And that all of us are without excuse, Jew and Gentile alike.
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The second thing is God's law as written in the Scripture.
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By this he tries all who possess the revelation.
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Do you understand revelation is very important.
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Most people want to be known as knowing, but they don't really
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want to have revelation. But here's the thing, revelation
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is what God will try you. His Plumb line is on that.
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This is why Paul said, listen, I have to live to what I've
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attained to. I have to live to that I have
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through the years of 21 years of planting Anchor Faith Church
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here specifically, there are multiple times I've asked the
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Lord Lord, if all that really matters is just a priest, that
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Jesus Christ died on the cross and rose from the grave, That's
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all that really matters. Then I will no longer minister
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on the other stuff. Just tell me because I'm not
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here to minister to where an individual would come in and
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struggle with the baptism of the Holy Spirit.
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What evidence is speaking in tongues the authority of the
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believer that healing is now that the Kingdom of God is in
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function and operation today that the Bible's about a king
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his Kingdom and the world lost Ram There's all kinds of gamuts
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of things that that we say that that that run against the
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tradition of US Christianity. So Lord, if that's it we if if
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Pat if everybody's just packing out because they're talking
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about the death burial and resurrection of Jesus.
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Just let me do it and in 21 years.
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Do you know how he replies to me silence.
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He won't he, he already knows that I know and it always shows
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back up in the Philippian letter when Paul says I must live to
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what I have attained to. I do not turn back.
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I do not go backwards in revelation.
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I do not let go of revelation and, and, and just walk in what
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I started in. I must live to what I attained
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to. This is why again, I'm just
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going to communicate a little bit.
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Why? Because we have a Plumb lot, and
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our Plumb line is not based solely on the death, burial,
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resurrection of Jesus of which that opened the door to all the
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other revelation we have. But we have to acknowledge that
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Christ is the healer. We have to acknowledge that He's
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given authority to the believer. We have to acknowledge that He's
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made us kings in this earth today.
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We have to acknowledge that the enemy is at our feet.
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We have to acknowledge that our soul realm does not dominate us
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nor our emotions, and we are not led by them, but we are led by
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the spirit. Which means then song sung in
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certain congregations are based upon the revelation they have.
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But if that song came to this house, it becomes a problem
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because I can't just sing about how I feel because I'm not moved
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by how I feel. I'm moved by His word.
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So that's why, well, how do we sing this in the revelation we
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have? And this is not saying you're
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better. It's knowing what you have
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attained to. But I'm amazed again at the
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Saints is they will let singing run through their ears even
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though they know doctrinally it is off.
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Which tells me, what else will you compromise to accommodate?
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But I'm thankful that the prophetess said there'll be a
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new sound out of this house. Whoo Hallelujah, I said a new
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sound. Amen.
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Because there's revelation and you understand it's easier to
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just use somebody else's stuff and not actually stop and pray
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and get a song in your own spirit.
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I mean, it's easier to let somebody else do the work of
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mining out of truth and just sit and receive the effort of their
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time and their their sacrifice to be close with God.
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The third thing is God's law has embodied in Christ by this, he
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tries all who have the gospel. You understand we live in a new
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and better covenant and so we have to keep things in line with
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that covenant. This is why a lot of times songs
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in our in our church services do not have a new covenant
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perspective because they're dabbling in old covenant
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feelings. But the same thing as with
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preaching, and this is a holistic approach that when we
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do not keep context of Scripture from Genesis 11 to Revelations
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2221, then in essence, what we do is we miss out on the big
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picture of what God is saying. And there is a Plumb line that
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is based upon the revelation. You have Reverend Randy and I
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have said on multiple times that when people have been exposed to
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the Kingdom of God and, and, and it's seen the Kingdom and walked
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and then to turn away and go back into churches that don't
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even mention it. It's like what is happening.
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I mean, it's no different than someone who has put their hand
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to a plow of a a particular revelation and now has looked
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back. What are we doing?
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We're trying to accommodate our opinion of God and how we want
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to live with him instead of his truth about himself.
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God's always trying to raise us up, always trying to perfect us,
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always trying to. Because here's the thing, God,
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God never wanted to be like man. And we preached that Jesus
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became a man and he did. Don't get me wrong, he did.
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And he suffered on our account. He was tempted on all accounts.
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He could sympathize with our weaknesses, but God never wanted
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that. See, we like say, wow, God loved
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us so much, he became a man. No, the reason he became a man
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and so we could be like him because originally he said let
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us make man in our image according to our likeness and
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let them rule and have dominion. God's plan for man was always
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that man would be like God, not that God would be like man, but
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we want to identify with God through our humanity.
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And I really wish God would release this word I have
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concerning God is not a man, so we cannot approach him from our
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human aspect, even though we know he can identify with our
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humanity because he became a human, because he gave dominion
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to a human that lost the dominion in the first garden
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where Jesus gained it in the ladder garden.
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And so that we can have the life that He originally gave us in
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the garden in the 1st place, and that we would be like God we are
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children of, and He wants us to revel in that.
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Hallelujah. So man's character of this Plumb
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line may be compared to masonry in several aspects.
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It has one foundation. Walls are built not upon 2, but
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upon one foundation. So is every man's character.
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There are some one principle on which it is organized.
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That principle is the paramount affection of the man.
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Whatever he loves most governs him.
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If he loves pleasure most, his character is sensual.
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If he loves money most, his character is worldly.
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If he loves wisdom most, his character is philosophic.
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If he loves God most, his character is divine.
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Hallelujah. And our character is to be that
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which is divine. It is our Plumb line.
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Isaiah 2816 and 17 says this. Therefore, thus says the Lord
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God, Behold, I am laying in Zion a stone, a tested stone, a
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costly cornerstone for the foundation, firmly placed.
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He who believes in it will not be disturbed.
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Come on, who is the cornerstone? What's his name?
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Come on, what's his name? His name's Jesus.
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Jesus is the cornerstone by which God the Father drops from
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heaven his plum line of which he peers into the character of man
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and says to those who call on the name of Jesus to be saved,
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He says, now it's within you the ability to be straight.
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The new birth gives you the ability to be straight.
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Now what do I mean? Righteous, holy, just in
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alignment with God, no imperfections.
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Here's the thing, God knows that through the light, through your
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life and the renewing of your mod, in essence He is saying
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here's Christ, you're in Christ, this is out.
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I'm pushing it in or I'm cutting that off.
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This is too far, we're going to pull that back out.
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He's constantly looking at you and He's examining you according
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to this Plumb line in this dispensation and was awesome.
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Unlike the old dispensation with the nature of man could not
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change in ours, the nature of man does change.
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We become new creatures in Christ.
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We are set up on His foundation, and if we allow the Holy Spirit
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to renew our minds through the reading of the Word, the
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studying of the Word, and through the gifts associated
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with the Church, then we will cut things off.
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We will get things right, We will make adjustments.
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Why? Because when God's peering over
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it, He'll be able to say that is my servant or my child in whom
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I'm well, well pleased. Hallelujah.
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So again, you understand as an apostle or pastor or teacher of
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the Word, you understand a lot of times the gifts get attacked
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because God is using our voices to mess with your wall.
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And instead of you saying thank you, Lord Jesus, you just want
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me to be straight in every aspect of my life, Hallelujah.
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I mean, when the Lord spoke to me on a physical sense of
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alignment, he says, Son, you need to get your diet together.
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I'm like, Lord, I'm not overweight, you know, I work
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out, he says. You don't know what that food is
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doing to your insides. Later on when I had blood work
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years later, come to find out I had some vascular slug things
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within my vascular system that didn't show up on the outside,
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but on the inside. It was the steps towards heart
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disease. Just because I could burn things
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off didn't mean it wasn't leaving a residue.
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But by the spirit He spoke to me.
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Why? Because he wants me to be in
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alignment with him, spirit, soul and body, in order to accomplish
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the work that he's called me to do.
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And what he's called me to do requires me to be able to
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physically manage and move. In fact, one particular prophet,
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Kenneth E Hagin, he went from a teacher to a prophet later on in
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life. He himself admitted, He said, I
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wish I had taken care of my body better because he said on the
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inside I'm strong, vibrant, but my physical man just cannot stay
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up. There was a challenge.
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And you know, I get a little bit older every year and, you know,
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so things are different each year and I have to be very, I
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have to be more intentional. I could be less disciplined when
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I was younger, it seemed, however, I can't afford it as
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much. It shows up quicker.
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You're like, what's that right now again, somebody may look at
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me and say, what are you complaining about?
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It's all relative. Listen, I'm not judging my body
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against your body. I'm judging my body against his
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word and what I'm called to do period.
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And so that to me is what's important.
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Acts chapter 17, verses 30 to 31.
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It says. Therefore, having overlooked the
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times of ignorance, God is now declaring to men that all people
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everywhere should repent, because He has fixed today which
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he will judge the world in righteousness through a man whom
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he has appointed, having furnished proof to all men by
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raising him from the dead. Amos comes at a time that the
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nation of Israel has gone, has rebelled against God for
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generations. And let me just say it this way
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because I I've got another, I got a few things working.
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And when God delivered in Egypt, they took gods with them and
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they had them the whole time they were in the wilderness.
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And there were groups that were sacrificing to them the whole
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time they were in the wilderness.
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This bears out in. Other prophets words and in the
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New Testament specifically of the of the gods that they
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brought from Egypt, even though they watched, God himself
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delivered them. And I would say in.
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The new Covenant. When you know what God.
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'S done for you to give you life, yet you still have other
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idols in your life you keep carrying along.
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That you keep putting in. Front of God that becomes a
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decision first for you and churches later.
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Now, I say church because again, it's a little bit of
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controversy, you know, within the Saints world.
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But the reality is you need to get revelation that you are
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trying to amputate, are trying to decapitate Jesus every time
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you act like the church is not important or that it's
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secondary. Jesus is not the head of you.
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He's the head of the. Of which you're a part of once
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you're born again. Hallelujah and the body.
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Is where he assigns you, not where you pick.
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All right, First Timothy, chapter one, say Amen.
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Anyway, First Timothy, chapter one, verse 18 and 20.
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I'll be even more bold than that.
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This command I entrust to you, Timothy, my son, in accordance
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with the prophecies previously made concerning you.
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That by them. You fight the good fight how
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verse 19 keeping faith and a good conscience, which some have
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rejected and suffered a shipwreck in regard to their
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faith among them are and he names them Paul names them.
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You know who they are. Now.
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Now this is a. Letter to Timothy.
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I'm not telling you that it was a letter to the whole church
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body. All I know is it made it to the
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canonization. And as the church, we are aware
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of these two individuals and they have shipwrecked their
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face, so much of which Paul moves into a prayer life for
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them, that most believers are not praying for Saints this way.
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Whom I have. Handed over to Satan.
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So that they will be. Taught not to blasphemy, Paul
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was more concerned about these two people based upon the
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revelation and how they have function in the Kingdom of God
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that by turning now they are at risk of blasphemy of the Holy
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Spirit. And he is like, it's better that
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I would send them on over to darkness, pray that the enemy
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would go ahead and eradicate them, take them out of the
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planet where they could still be present with the Lord, than them
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to totally abandoned and reject Jesus, the one who saved them in
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the first place. And love does that.
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But what do we see? Out of this passive scripture,
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first and foremost, a word is spoken over Timothy and Paul was
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saying in order for you to accomplish that which was spoken
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to you, you're going to have to fight the good fight of faith.
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As we Pastor Mike ministered on Wednesday Apostle Marcy spoke in
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prayer today and last week prophet Doctor Mary Francis said
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contend for your destiny. And when she said that she
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wasn't talking about your personal destiny.
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She's talking about the destiny you have connected with the
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church because when she was praying for us, she was praying
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for the church, not just for us individually, although she was
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listening. That if God had something that
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she would be sensitive to move. And I'm just going to be honest
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with you, she had nothing on anyone except my wife and I
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because she knew us as the overseers and that's it.
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She did not know your name, did not know your circumstance.
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It was when she was in service, she was able to come over and
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talk to you about worship and your leadership because she saw
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something then or you hear me now, I'm not telling you that
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she couldn't have seen a face, couldn't have done that.
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But the majority time she's seeing it as she's with me and
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she's sensitive to that. On our occasion, she was.
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God spoke to her about us. And there were things mentioned.
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In at the Olive Garden that she didn't entirely mention to the
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whole church. So that's for my wife and I
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Hallelujah. And she just confirmed things
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that we already knew. And it let me know.
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God knows. And what I've been praying.
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He's heard. Hallelujah.
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And he'll do exactly what he says.
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Amen. Praise the Lord, But let me tell
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you this, the Bible is full of prophecies about you already.
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The Bible prophecies. That all men would repent, which
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means there's a prophecy that you would be right with God and
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He wants you to fulfill that. There's a prophecy that you'd be
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in do with power from on high He wants you to fulfill.
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That there's a prophecy about you having the authority of a
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believer and walking as ruling in reign in this life.
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There's prophecies already about you about living by the Spirit
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and not according to the flesh. And if you would just fulfill
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those and fight the good fight of faith, you can accomplish
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your purpose. And the thing that is?
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What's so crazy is that Saints will abandoned church to get out
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in sectors of society, but you can't help sectors of society if
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you don't stay connected to the church properly.
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Because the reality is it is these two individuals that begin
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to peer back into society and separation.
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He Paul even wrote of another man by the name of Demas and
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said this he has abandoned me for he has love for the world
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has shown back up. In essence, he started to align
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his life with the Plumb line of the world.
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And let me tell you, we live in a world that is seen.
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And even though you may be born again, you can align yourself
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with the culture of the world and the way it does.
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And the devil is easy to accommodate you with scripture
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to get you out of alignment. You say I don't believe.
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He can do that. Really.
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He did it. Did you?
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He tried to do it to Jesus. Jesus said when he said, hey, if
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you're the Son of God, turn this stone into bread.
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He said, man shall not live on bread alone.
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But I have every word that proceed out of the mouth, right?
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It is written. So then the devil comes back and
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says, you know what else is written so.
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He used. Scripture to try to get Jesus
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out of alignment. And if you don't know.
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How to rightly divide? Guess what?
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He'll get you out of alignment using Scripture.
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He'll say, you know what? The Lord wants you to take this
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job and prosper you, so you're going to have to move.
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OK, man, because you know the Lord wants to prosper you.
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Well, yeah, he does. But yet the Lord doesn't want
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you to move. Because there's no church.
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That you're going to nor body he's planting you in.
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But we have to. Fight the good fight of faith to
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the things that were spoken to us, because if we do not, we can
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find ourselves suffering shipwreck.
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The Plumb line still exists today, even though the blood of
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Christ has been shed. Because the standard.
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Is the Lord. He never.
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Ever. Nor is it preached this way.
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To be born again gives you the ability to stay out of alignment
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in the world until you come home.
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Ecclesiastes 12. We're closing down now 13.
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And 14. Says the conclusion.
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When all has been heard. Is fear God keep his
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commandments? Because this applies.
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This applies 2 Come on, finish it. 2 Are you a person?
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It applies to you, for God will bring every act to judgment.
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How many acts? Who's this applied to Lost and
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saved? Now again in the.
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Church, because we're not rightly divine the word of
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truth. We're saying, oh, I'm born
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again. I'm free from judgment.
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No, you're not. You are free from.
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Eternal damnation. That's that's that's in.
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Existence OK, but judgment is there nonetheless for what
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you've done in Christ. He says so he goes on.
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For God will bring every act to judgment.
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Everything. Which is what?
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Whether it is doesn't matter. Now let me get you into the new
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covenant because again, I know I'm reading out Ecclesiastes,
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but King Solomon had insight into this because King Solomon
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started this thing out. Lord, give me wisdom to follow
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your people. And the Lord's like, man, that's
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pretty amazing. You're not asking about anything
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for yourself. She didn't.
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Ask for a long life. You didn't ask for the death of
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your enemy. You didn't ask for wealth.
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You. Asked for the.
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Wisdom from me to lead my people.
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You understand your responsibility.
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Man. I wish Saints would have that
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same responsibility today. That our first thought was not.
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About Lord Prosper me Lord, you know how they're attacking me.
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It's at work. Lord, I just want to live.
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Forever let me have a healthy life.
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Solomon didn't ask about himself.
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He said. Give me wisdom to lead others
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that are yours. That's a big picture.
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The problem is, as he was moving in that endeavor, and though the
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Holy Spirit could come upon him because he was a king, the
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reality is, is that he allowed his wives and he did not keep
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what was written from the law of Moses.
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That the king is supposed to have the law writ, writ, read
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before him, and he was to ride it out every year himself.
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And because he did not do it, he violated things that would have
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kept his soul. And then because of all.
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The treaties and things he did with women, then they brought in
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their gods from their countries and he began to appease them.
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And that the then this whole Ecclesiastes is how I started
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with God. Now I just went and tried to see
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what it was like for myself. And he has come to a conclusion
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and this is the conclusion. Fear God, keep his commandments
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because he's going to judge every act whether good or evil.
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Romans chapter 2 verse 16 says is on the day when according to
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my gospel, God will judge the secrets of men through Christ
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Jesus. And then the last scripture.
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Is this Second Corinthians 510 For we all, for we must, For we
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must all. Appear before the judgment.
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Seat of Christ Now not everyone appeared before the judgment.
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Seat of Christ because those that are never called on the day
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of the Lord, they'll go before the great white throne of God
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and Thrones are in kingdoms not religions and judgment has to do
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with a judicial system that the Kingdom of God is because the.
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Bible's actually about a. King his Kingdom in his royal
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offspring, of which God is the judge, and He is the only
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righteous one, of which he holds the Plumb line.
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And so we're all going. To appear before the judgment
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seat of Christ, so that each one may be huh, recompensed,
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rewarded for his deeds in the body according to what he has
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done, whether good or bad. So even as a believer, God will
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judge your motives. He knows what's in your.
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Heart. He knows what's going on.
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He knows why you do what you do. And all the while he's sticking
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out his Plumb line. He's saying now do this because
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of this, because if you do this because of this, you're out.
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You're not in alignment. You may be on the foundation of
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the rock, but your walls getting off.
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You're leaning one way. Or the other, and if you keep
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going in this direction, you'll lean either too far in or too
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far out and you'll fall and grade is the fall.
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But the foundation will stay steady.
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I said it'll stay steady. And This is why we've seen
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people that started the first few layers of their life on the
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wall straight, pure. They were in church serving God,
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hungry for the word, worshipping him, totally engaged.
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But then all of a sudden, somewhere along the line, some
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things got pushed out of alignment and they allowed those
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things to stay. And when the world was trying to
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make them adjustments they didn't do till eventually they
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got out and they fail and all this, they're back to the the
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few layers that were true. And I would much rather fall and
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get to a few layers that are true and rebuild of which God is
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a Redeemer of time, glory to God.
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See, the biggest lie the devil can tell you is that if you've
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gotten out or you've gotten in and you're leaning and you're
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falling and you can't get back in alignment, he's a liar.
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Not only can he get you, God get you in alignment, but he could
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double time to build into that wall and get you back to where
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you supposed to be before he returns.
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But there is a sliver of time coming.
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Just like with. Israel.
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Because what did he tell? He said I got my Plumb line out
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this time I will not pass over, which means he had come by
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before and he says that's out and that's out and that isn't in
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alignment and this isn't right. And that needs to be fixed.
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So prophet, you go and say this, and prophet, you go and say
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that, and prophet, you go and do that.
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Because all that's about getting them in alignment.
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But they did not heed the words of the prophet.
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In essence, what did they do? They put them in prison and they
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killed them and they persecuted them.
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And then finally he said, Amos, I'm pulling out the line.
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This time I will not go by. I'm tearing it all.
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Down. I'm going to get it straight.
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And in the last. Of the last days, he's doing
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that in the believer's life. He says the time of ignorance is
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there, but he's coming and you need to get it straight.
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You need your Kingdom character to produce.
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It's not your religion of. Jesus, it's the King and what he
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says.