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Exodus 20: 6th Commandment Bible Study - Pastor Daniel Batarseh
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Chapter 20. Verse 13.
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You shall not murder one simple verse tonight.
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Let's pray together, father, you deserve reverence through your
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word even if it's one word and we stand in reverence of your
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worth tonight and Lord help us realize that these are not just
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commands given for argued. But these are the reflections of
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your character. They speak of who you are.
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And what we just pray that as we sit under your word, maybe be
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attentive as we just sang about. Midway, may we worship you with
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our minds and our hearts and our whole, being able to give you
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our attention. And as an act of worship the
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Lord, we pray also that we would live it and we would live these
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things that we hear of, that is what true worship is Father.
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You know, who here loves you and knows, you and has put their
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faith and trust in Jesus, you know, those that need to when we
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pray that for the save and the other state who could all leave
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your transformed father, we trust in you because your
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promises are true. And you're not a man that should
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lie. And so what we come in
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dependency as we pray, we say, we need you tonight more duties.
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Z Nation needs you going, you don't have a plan B, you know,
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planning, that's your church. And so we just pray that your
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church in this place would be edified equipped whatever need
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that we have or that it would be met so that we can serve you
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through greater degree. Lord, I'm weak.
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I need you tonight. What we need you tonight, close
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us with your presence leaders by your Holy Spirit, Lord, that
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every word be given with Precision of speech and Clarity
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either be no confusion, or may your work hard for me to bind up
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the wounds, or we need you each year, we can say that for
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another half an hour, we need to support guide us tonight.
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We pray the precious name of Jesus Christ.
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Amen. You may be seated in the
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presence of the Lord. Commandment number 6.
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We've dedicated a week for each commandment.
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And here we are. You shall not murder seems
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straightforward. We can probably touch on that
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her 15 minutes and walk out of your butt.
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Remember these commands are not just instructions for our
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well-being or how we should navigate through life.
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They speak concerning who God is his nature, his character, his
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attributes. And if we want our minds to be
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renewed, we must understand God's.
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If we want our thoughts to be transformed, if we want our
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worldview to be aligned with God's, we have to understand who
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he is. We have to understand how he
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thinks. We have to understand how he
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sees the world. We have to understand how he
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values human life. And so tonight, as we explore
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this commandment may, we understand who God Is, You shall
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not murder. I'm just going to open up her
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question right now. What does that even mean when
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you hear murder What does that command and fly?
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Physical act of taking someone's life.
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Sure. Unjustified killing.
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That's important. Well thank God that the Bible
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interprets, the Bible and all it takes is a little effort to see
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that the point. Two different references in
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order to have Greater Life, turn your Bibles to numbers 35 number
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35, I'm going to give you a heads up.
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This Bible studies going to be scripture heavy because of
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Point, Bible studies less preaching and more.
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Hey, look at these verses. Is see what these scriptures
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have to say for themselves. And that you would be equipped
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with the truths through these scriptures numbers. 35,
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beginning of verse 16, This is the law.
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Concerning the Cities of Refuge that would be established in the
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nation of Israel concerning actually those that would commit
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murder and how they work to respond to that.
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And this is just a portion but it helps us understand what God
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has in mind when he means murdered.
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Verse 16. But he struck him down with an
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iron object so that he died. He is a murderer, the murderer
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shall be put to death, and if you struck him down with a stone
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tool, that could cause death and he died, he is a murderer, the
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murderer shall be put to death or if he struck him down with a
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wooden tool that could cause that any die.
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He is a murderer. The murderer shall be put to
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death. Now, scroll down to verse 20 and
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if he pushed them out of hatred or hurled something at him lying
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in, Away. So that he died or an entity
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struck him down with his hand so that he died and he was struck,
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the blow shall be put to death. He is a murder the Avenger of
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blood shall be shall put the murder to death when he meets
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him. Okay.
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So based on those verses We understand that murder in.
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God's mind is a premeditated intentional act of violence
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intended to Take someone's life, take some 1 by mu.
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This is an important part in an unauthorized manner,
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unauthorized manner. Now, murder is not subject only
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to a meet immediate act of violence.
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It can manifest through what carelessness negligence.
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Murder can manifest in someone hiring.
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Somebody else to do the ACT, you think of somebody the Bible who
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did that, David did not kill your eye with a sort of killing
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with a pen. This one reference letter, put
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him in the front lines. That's murder when Nathan came,
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he accused them of murder. now I say in an unauthorized manner,
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why Because there is chilling in the scriptures.
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That is Justified. Can you think of ways that
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killing especially Old Testament, even in the New
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Testament is Justified? Turn to a couple of chapters of
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Exodus, 22 verse 2. Miss U's and hearts first, one
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or sheep, and kills it ourselves, it he shall prepare
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50 auction for, not stand for sheep, four sheep.
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If the thief is found breaking in and struck so that he dies,
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there shall be no blood feel for him, but at the sun has risen on
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him. There shall be blood good for
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him. So we see murder or killing
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rather is Justified in what? Self defense.
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How is it Justified? In just Wars first Samuel, 15
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Jesus, all destroy the amalekites, destroy the
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completely man woman. Child animals, all of it
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destroy. That was not in a bad mood that
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day. Was God's just feeling like, you
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know, I think I want to just I just want to have a genocide day
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today. We're going to learn something
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about God and home considering how he does these things.
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What other ways is killing justified in the scriptures?
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Sorry punishment punishment. Can we say specifically capital
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punishment? Yes, and that's all the way back
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from Genesis. We're going to talk about that
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as well. And so we understand that there
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is a authorized way of taking somebody's life.
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But what God has in mind with this command, is that there is
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an unauthorized way. That there is an unjust way that
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there's an Unholy way of doing it, and this is what he's
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speaking of. Why does God hate murder?
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I'm needing him not to do it. Why does God hate it?
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What comes to mind when you think of the Lord concerning his
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attributes that he would say Do not.
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Commit murder doesn't say here but it does say else word.
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This is a beautiful reason. Why God it's murder.
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Go back to Genesis. Go back to chapter 9 verse 6
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After the flood scene. God hates murder.
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God, hates the act of one man, taking the life of another.
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Why? When somebody goes to her six
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and you just read it really loud for us to hear Genesis 9:6.
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Whoever sheds man's blood by man in the image of God.
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So, there's that capital punishment verse right there.
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That is a man sheds. The blood of another man, then
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his blood shall be shed. This is is a new law that God
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instituted After the flood which says something about what the
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pre-flood these are like. When he saw the wickedness and
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he was grieved, that he made, man, this law concerning the
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violence, this large shed by the fact that there must have been
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bloodshed. That reach the heavens.
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So God says, okay Fresh Start the flood and all those things.
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And the recruitment of Adam, it's like a creation of the
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World Part to the world started with a flood so to speak.
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It was covered by the waters and chaos and here it is again.
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The flood covers the waters again and so we're starting over
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again yet. Adam in the beginning.
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Now he has no unfortunately no I fell into the same type of sin,
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Adam did. He was naked and he said with a
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fruit, Which shows that even a flood combat cleanser, um, only
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the blood can only the blood of Jesus in the heart of man can
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cleanse him. But he says something I'm going
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to do something in this world again and I'm going to say this,
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if you shed the blood of another, it's going to cost you
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your life. Why what's my reason?
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Because man is created in God's image?
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That's why. And theologians are still
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debating today. What is that?
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Really mean? Man?
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Is created in God's image, but for the sake of discussion,
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let's open it up. When you think of is support,
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listen, the doctrine of the image of God concerning man is
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vitally important vitally important because if we do, not
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understand that we will not understand the value of
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humanity, and if we don't understand the value of
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humanity, we can make statements, like many people who
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today that you are no more valuable than your dog.
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And I remember listening to an interview with those who hold to
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an atheistic worldview, and they were challenged with the
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question. If your dog and your neighbor
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were drowning in a river. Who would you save?
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And then he said my dog. We're just all product of
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evolution. We're just we're just different
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species. So, this doctor is important.
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What is the image of God? What does it mean to be created
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in the image of God? Yes.
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And like the attributes that concern to be able to hold
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yourself. Okay.
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So we have moral reasoning, right?
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Yes brother. You got something.
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Your hand up. Same characteristics of God.
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Yes sir Russian Russian, Al rational reason.
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Anything else? Compassion and love and
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compassion. Yes.
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What else? So self-aware.
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There's an ultimate purpose that we carry.
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One of the things come to mind when you think of it, you've got
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I'm creating that image of God. What does that mean?
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The reflections of like, the heart of God.
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No, it wasn't that those aspects of, it's not the full picture,
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but you're getting a, you know, some.
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So, when I look at man, I see something of God.
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Yes, we see that through our attributes.
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We see that to our capacity of loving and showing compassion.
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We see that in the fact that we carry a purpose, I think one
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important aspect of it is that we are relational beings that
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God himself is relationship. He was not in need Humanity,
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when he created him, he was alone in heaven.
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He was community in perfect, love with the Trinity.
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And so when he created us in His image, what that did to us is we
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now have this innate desire for relationship.
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We want to deal with other people, we want to be with a
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mate, not only that, but we have the capacity to relate to God
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and to have communion with God and to enjoy God.
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I believe Free Will as a part of it.
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I believe again reason has apart, I believe the fact that
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we are intelligent beings. That we have a capacity to
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reflect yes his moral attributes.
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All those things essentially we can just generalize it is this
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that we have we are even mirrors of God.
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Here's the thing. When the fall happened.
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Did it destroy the fact that man is created in God's image?
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No. What did it do that?
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It deformed, it, it distorted it, damaged it.
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How do we know that? Well, Genesis 9 is after the
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fall and God says, he gives the same reason the reason why I
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don't want you to murders. His man is still no, it's
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deformable. There's mud on the mirror.
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He still created in my image. There's still something that
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carries. It's very, very different from
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any other form of creation. And so we can go to say this
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when we come in Christ, we begin a process of being restored to
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the phones of the image of God. That's the beauty.
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That's the beauty of the Gospel that we enter into now a process
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in which God were finds us and changes us and restores with the
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intended from the beginning. so, in light of that, when the act
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of murders committed against another, what does it say?
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I believe it is an assault to the Pinnacle expression of God's
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creation, which is humanity. It is a vicious statement.
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A vicious violation against what God intended to be precious.
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And if you beautifully distinct from all the rest of his
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creation, God, put so much value in US.
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He elevated us above all creation and when man, violates
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that if Islands were God, considers to be precious and
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holy and separate from everything else, There's
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something or that you hold or someone that, you know, that
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it's more precious than anything.
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Somebody coming in violating that there is a nerve that is
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struck concerning that object that you've placed so much value
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in and that's what happens with the Lord.
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But I would say this is to that murder is an assault or an
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attack upon God himself. Upon God himself.
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Not just what he Treasures on us, but for yes, why.
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Because we are created in His image meaning we represent God.
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And so whether one knows it or not, when he comes to attack or
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destroy a man in a sense, he's making a declaration of
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attempting to destroy God saying, why what do you mean?
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I mean that the same way a person from a different country,
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maybe he hates our present or hated presence in the past and
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they know that they can't access him, but make a statement, will
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take a picture of him and they'll burn it for the figure
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frame of him and stop mind spit on it.
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Knowing that they can't access. And it's a statement of I wish
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you would. I wish you would come to the
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ground. I wish you would be buried
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alive. That's why I see them loves
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murder. He loves murder.
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Because he knows he himself as powerful as he is, cannot touch
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The Fringe of His Garment. Can I you come into His
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presence, right? Not breathing on him killing
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him. They'll do the next closest
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thing. Destroy His image.
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Destroy anything that represents him.
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That's why you loves gang violence.
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That's why you loves unjust Wars.
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That's why he loves suicide. Or you thought murder was just
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attacking somebody else. No murder is taking your own
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life because God gave it to you as a gift.
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It doesn't belong to you. That's why he loves.
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Abortion. because he has a perfect hatred towards God, and
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even the image of God, Entices him to satisfy the itch, on
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wanting to destroy and Dethrone God.
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And so I want to destroy His Image wherever I can find it.
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So murder number one. Is totally wrong eyes about
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because we're creating this image.
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And number two, murder is wrong to the next one because it
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advances the agenda of Satan We know the famous verse in John
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8:44. Rang, what is Johnny?
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44, Audrey be here. You received the Pharisees Jesus
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are of your father, the devil. And your will is to do your
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father's desires. He was a murderer from the
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beginning. Now, this is in light of Johnny
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37. When you said you want to kill
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you, I know what you're thinking, you want to kill me,
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and then he calls them out and he says, you're just like your
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father and probably thinking on Abraham right now, the devil
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because you want to murder and he's been murdering for the
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beginning. You know, the first murder is is
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that Kane? It's Satan.
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How did he murder from the beginning?
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How did Satan murder? He sent it to the beginning.
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So we could go back to the beginning to see what he did,
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Adam and Eve. The day that you eat of the tree
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of the knowledge of Good and Evil the day you do it, you
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shall surely die. Here's some sound wisdom and
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some sound advice. I hope that will help you
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against your fight of saying. I don't care what this thing is
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whenever you're faced with the immediate pleasure or the
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immediate somewhat result, that would produce some kind of join
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your life, stop Halt and think of a consequence that might come
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after that. Is it safe and voice did?
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His voice is so loud and so deceiving the only way that you
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can counter-attack. His voice is by filling yourself
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with God's voice. So when he says it's gonna feel
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good, you'll know through the promises and the consequences in
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the warnings of scripture. Oh my feel good about that
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pleasure is fleeting but in his presence is the fullness of joy.
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No, thank you. Say that I'm going to sleep with
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God's presence. But unless you get your heart in
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your mind and mine with this word is voice with all the more
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get louder side note. And we come back here, Satan was
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a murderer from the beginning of his safe and murdered the entire
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human race. Though, Adam was held
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responsible Satan was the one that tempted him and Usher him
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towards that direction. So although Adam, yes sir, we do
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receive, the imputed and inherited, Sid from Alan in some
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sense. He did cursed, the serpent as
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well, he's a murderer. he's a murderer from the beginning
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saying you're like your father And this is important for us to
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understand. Because murder and whatever form
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is manifested in. If it's unjust this Unholy, that
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unrighteous is satanic in nature.
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The shooting in Chicago. This isn't about Anything other
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than the fact that it's satanic? It's satanic.
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It's demonic. He loves it.
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He serves it up. And I'm going to stick on a
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little Point here. I'm going to talk about abortion
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for a little bit. I remember watching a
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documentary of this ministry that dedicated himself to
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preacher friend, abortion sending the Florida region in
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Orlando and in doing so compassionately.
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And they've seen fruit from it, where people have turned their
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backs on that abortion. Abortion Mill and they gave
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birth to their beautiful babies and gave God the glory.
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Yes. But created those ministers for
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saving them. But I remember this why?
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I was trying to find it. I could not find it.
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This is a few years guy we're in Orlando.
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There was one specific abortion clinic that had free abortion
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day. So, you want to have a free
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abortion, you could come and apparently, in that day, there
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was 100 abortions and I want location alone.
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Now, think about this, this is what these ministers testified
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on that as they were there preaching.
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And pleading, with women to turn their backs on this Sim on this
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act of murder. They said by a certain time in
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the late afternoon, a woman. Came out of that clinic and she
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was not a woman that came in for abortion.
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She was a woman that performed abortion, she was one of the
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nurses. She had walked out frankly she
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walked out looking distraught. She had walked out saying, I'm
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going home. And one of these ministers
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stopped and said, why are you leaving what's going on at?
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This is what she said. Not a Believer.
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This is not a Believer. This is what she said herself.
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We reach number 87 with these babies, over these pieces,
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whatever you want to call. And I can tell you that in that
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room, I felt Satan. Staying there himself There is
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such an evil presence in that room that I had to ask to leave
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because it was so overwhelming. I fit that into theology how you
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will but this is not coming from somebody who is not a believer.
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What is God saying? His word Proverbs 16 says,
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there's seven things that I hate you can turn with you on going
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to be the first three, there are six things that the Lord hates.
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Six things of the Lord hates seven.
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That are Abomination, M 7 things that are two things that God
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hates whether things that he's absolutely disgusted by.
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There are things that are so beyond him and he said that in
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Jeremiah moment of surgery. Look what he says here.
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The first three haughty eyes, Notice the first thing is pride
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haughty eyes a person that elevates self and looks at
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others with a degree and look and I'm more Superior than you.
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It's in the eyes and manifests in the eyes a lying tongue.
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In fact, if you read through these seven you'll notice that
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lying or false witness comes up more than once and hands that
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shed innocent blood. And the same book, The Book of
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Proverbs chapter 31 verse eight. It tells us open your mouth for
Proverbs 31 chapter mention
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the mute. Open your mouth for the mute for
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the rights of all. Who are destitute.
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We, as Believers have a command, we have been given instruction
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to speak for those who cannot speak for themselves to speak
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for the rights of those who cannot defend their own rights.
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Open your mouth with a new and that's what we're going to do in
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the next few moments. There is a staggering verse
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found in Jeremiah 19:5. God's commentary on a people
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that were living in a consistent lifestyle of false worship that
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involved. Human child sacrifice.
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This is what he says in Jeremiah 19:5.
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And that built the high places of Baal to burn their sons and
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daughters in the fire as burnt offerings to Bill.
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Look what he says here, which I did not command or decree nor
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did it come to my mind. Like it didn't even, it didn't
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even occur to me. You vile tons of iron would come
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up with such an act. That you would take these babes,
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the babes that I took the time. Two beautifully form and put
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together in the mother's womb. Inside, Vice didn't come.
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It's so, you know, in Revelation, it talks about
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concerning one of the churches that they have tapped into the
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deep things of Satan. there are some things that are satanic and
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there are some things that the BBC coverage He says he's
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sneezing. I can't even register.
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I can't even really process what you're doing right now.
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He hates the hands. Who have shed, innocent blood?
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I encourage you to do just a simple research on reasons why
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women have abortions and you're going to find something
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staggering What you will find without a nationwide level or
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state level. Is that a majority of the
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reasons why abortions are performed?
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You're the reasons ready? I just don't feel like I'm ready
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to be a mom. I feel like this child will
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interfere with my school or work.
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I'm afraid to raise this child alone.
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I'm free this child, coming into the world will affect my
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relationship with it with with that partner with others.
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And here are the less frequent reasons.
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I mean, very minimal talking about statistics.
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You're not talking about just saying, I found my stats like
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numbers. The least the number one, these
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rhaegar incest. Isn't that funny because that's
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one of the main arguments for abortion.
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Fetal issues, or the mother being sick of some sort of.
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Effectively, those are the least reasons why our fortunes are
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performed. So the number one reasons why
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abortions are performed is because of inconvenience.
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Inconvenience. And we look at a verse like
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Jeremiah 19. If you look at that context, we
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go back to insane. That's insane.
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That parents would take their children.
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And sacrifice them to an item called bail.
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Let me tell you something. It's no different today.
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That people are still giving up their children, but to a
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different type of idol. It's called themselves.
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It's about my convenience, it's about my life.
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If this child will interfere with what I want to do, I'm
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willing to kill it. What's a fetus?
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Call it. What you want?
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Is it different when it comes out of the womb?
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Yes, so the whole matter of it being a human is a matter of
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location then. Oh no.
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You want to go further and to see how vile this is.
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I encourage you. I encourage you.
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If you have the stomach to hold it, look up.
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How a first trimester abortion is performed. if you really want
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to be able to, Quote, Jeremiah 19:5 for yourself.
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Look up a second. Trimester abortion.
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Let me just give you a few descriptions.
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His you're probably hearing something else on your campus.
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You're probably hearing different arguments, but I
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believe one of the strongest arguments is just to know how
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the ACT is performed itself. You will be convinced.
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Otherwise I'm sure unless you've gone to a place like these
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Israelites have We'll talk about the consequence of the nation,
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who sheds innocent blood. It is not pretty first trimester
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Babies. Small enough for a woman to take
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a certain type of pill. That will essentially there's a
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generalize it. Allow that baby on her next or
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not next but one of her bathroom trips for that baby.
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Be flushed down the toilet. And if that is not successful,
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they'll find a way to put a vacuum suction machine to suck
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out that baby. And if you really stare close
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enough, you'll still be able to see that baby's fingers and
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toes. But perhaps we're delaying on
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your decision to have such a abortion at an early stage so
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you wait until the second trimester so what do they do?
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That babies now too big For that little vacuum to suck it up. and
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so, what they do is they suck out the amniotic fluid, And then
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the going with a client and they can't do this visibly, they
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can't do this with with the knowledge of sight so they do it
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blindly they begin to just chop away at the baby.
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And they begin to pull up different body parts.
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But see the head is too big even for that to be pulled out.
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So what they'll do is they'll crush the baby skull in the
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mother's room. And it take out pieces at a
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time. In order to ensure that every
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piece of it taken out, whether doctor will do is resembled that
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be to make sure that there's no body parts missing.
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And then they'll go in and clean out the rest.
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Of the mess. As Christians, we have to
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understand that the Lord, the Lord sees the womb, it family
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has Jeremiah 1:5. God says, before I formed you in
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the womb, I knew you, Jeremiah even as mr.
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Jeremiah no. Before I formed you.
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So who forms? God, warns, we're in the womb
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before that even though I knew you.
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And before you were born, I consecrated you for what I
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appointed you a prophet to the nation's.
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See when one commits an abortion, the reason why Satan
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loves this act of murder is because not only does he kill a
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person who kills a destiny. Isn't kill a little body.
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Also, kills a calming. Ephesians 2:10 tells us that
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we've been created in Christ Jesus for good works, which he
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prepared beforehand and when one comes in Christ, not only does
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he give you salvation, he gives you service, he gives you a
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purpose in this world. And so, Satan says, in light of
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Jeremiah 1:5 because I know that he forms you.
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And because I know that in the womb, he consecrates, you, I'm
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going to kill you in the womb before you even have a chance of
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a breath of fresh air. Because murder.
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Especially at that level of life.
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And the enemy's mind. Is hindering any opportunity or
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possibility of God's program on the earth advance.
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Think about that too masculine. So they were or not necessarily
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abortions. Think of the two masterminds
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concerning babies in the scriptures.
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Moses Jesus. To delivers.
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And Jesus being ultimately one, right?
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And I wonder what the enemy has in mind with the fact that we
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are. I think reaching 60 million
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since 1973 babies in America alone, what is he thinking?
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It's not what's going on within sight.
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Does he have Who's going to be the next revivalist?
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I don't know, but I'm not willing to take the chance to
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find out. Who's going to be the next
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Jonathan Edwards? I don't know, but I'm going to
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kill that chance even from the womb.
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Who knows what's going on is mine?
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I want to say this boldly. And I pray that you would stick
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by the end of this Bible study to kill the full thing.
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If you have committed an abortion, if you have convince
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somebody to commit abortion, if you've paid for an abortion, you
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are in Murder. There's innocent blood stains.
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but, of course, Of course, people don't take heed to the
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warning, sound in scripture, of course, people.
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Don't want to hear what God has to say.
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So, there are consequences when blood is shed.
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Back in numbers, 35 and you can turn there.
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Numbers, 35, verse 33. This is at the end of the
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chapter concerning God's laws and commands regarding murder.
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Look what he says about murder. You shall not pollute the land
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in which you live. For blood pollutes, the land.
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And no atonement can be made for the land for the blood.
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That is shed in except by the blood of the one who said it.
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I can somebody read the next verse.
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You shall not defile. The land in, which you live in
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the midst of which, I dwell for, I the lord.
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Well in mid to the people of Israel, in which I used well and
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not just where you dwell. Blessed is the nation whose God
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is the Lord. Psalm 33:12 powerful verses in
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it blessed is the nation. Not just Israel.
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Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.
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There's blessing of all when a nation acknowledges God is,
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they're gone. But in light of this verse,
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there is a danger because just like a single individual that
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professes Jesus to be Lord, my lips, contrary to it, we can
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write on our money. In God, we trust, we can have
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all the right speeches and our politics.
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We can have all of those things, but if her confession does not
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match our practice, we're in trouble, whether on an
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individual level or national level.
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And what blood does is it pollutes, the Lang and God says,
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I will unless you want me to call you man, you want my
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protection, you want my presence.
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You want my blessing. Don't pollute the land because I
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can't stand blood shed. I can't reside in a place that
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celebrates this. I can't stay here because I am
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Holy and you be holy as I am. Holy if you don't want to be
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holy and here's a first consequence, I withdraw my
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presents from your nation. I withdraw my protection from
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your schools. I withdraw my protection from
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your government and from everything that you can think of
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I'm moving out because the land is polluted.
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It pollutes the land. It makes it filthy, there's a
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stench to it and God is Holy and he will not stay very long in a
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place that the files is character Psalms 106.
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Psalms 106 verse, 37 to 38, you don't have to turn that, I'll
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just read it. This is a commentary on the
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people of Israel, and look what it says.
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They sacrifice their sons and their daughters to the demons.
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Demons. Not wooden statues or bronze,
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sculptures demons. they poured out innocent blood, the blood of
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their sons and daughters whom they sacrificed to the idols of
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Canaan and the land was polluted With blood.
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So, we talked about initially in numbers, 35, that when I land is
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polluted with blood, God warns and Hey, listen, I want to dwell
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here, I want to be in the midst. I want my protective presence
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for you, but if you're going to defile the land, I'm moving out.
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My hand is with John. And Chaos will reign. and
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Satan's domain and activity will enhance as a natural result of
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the absence of God's protection and presence whether in a home,
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whether in your life, whether a Nation Weather wherever, but the
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second thing happens according to Psalms 106 verse 37 and 38,
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we have to go to 42, find out. Then the anger of the Lord was
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kindled against his people and he aboard his Heritage.
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Look what happens in verse 41, the nation that has eluded their
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language blood. He gave them into the hand of
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the Nations so that those who hated them ruled over them, CS
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Lord withdraws. His presence.
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But somebody else comes in. They open themselves up to
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judgment. And if you really study the
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Bible carefully, what you will realize Is that many ways?
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God, judges a nation is through another Nation.
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Many ways. God judges a nation is by using
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another Nation as an instrument of that judgment.
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Can you think of instances in the scripture where that's
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happened? Israel.
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And listen, it's not like after one murder after one case, after
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one act of worship to bail. It was hundreds of years before
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Babylon came in and took over Judah, hundreds of years.
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Remember Genesis 15. When God made that Covenant with
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Abraham and he gave him an inside.
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Hey, listen, your people are going to be enslaved.
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For 400 years until something happens, what happens?
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Given the amalekites and are completed, the sins of another,
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a very close of the amorites is not yet complete.
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So we think about Israelites, invading Canaan and we go.
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That's kind of weird. I mean, that's kind of unjust.
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There's a people group already there.
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Lord. Why would you have the
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Israelites move in and just kick him out?
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Not only kick him out but killing.
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That's But in light of this verse, that's not what God did
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in light of this word. Is a two-fold purpose.
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Yes, Israel needed a land but God could have created a land.
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The, the second purpose was to bring judgment upon the
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Canaanites. And he says, Israel You're not
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moving in just yet. Why?
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Because the iniquity of the amorites has not reached its
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limit yet, wouldn't you? And I want to know what that
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limit is. He doesn't give us a limit, you
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know why? Because humanity is so wicked.
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We will find that limit and we will go just to the place before
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we cross it and we might be track.
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In fact, we're so Wiki we might just cross that.
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Anyway, So he doesn't give us a limit that we don't know.
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It's not like 400 years of it and then I'm going to come or
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200 years of it. And then I'm going to come.
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He did it with Canaan. He did it with the nation of
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Israel. He did it with Babylon.
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In one moment, Daniel Comes Rizza writing on the wall and he
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goes, bad news, man. The medes and the Persians are
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coming in and they're taking over.
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And so here we are 2018 and you know, how will you?
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And I might think or you know how this nation might think.
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If you have any spiritual Insight at all, I won't happen
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to us. Look at it.
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Look how young this nation is. Look how powerful we are.
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Look at all the world where the World Police.
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Everybody looks for our word. Everybody looks for instruction.
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Everybody wants her involvement. You know who talk like that?
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Nebuchadnezzar. Look what I've done.
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Look what I've created. Look at the nation's we've
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invaded. Look at all the gods that we've
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taken over. Look at Rome, you know what Rome
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is right now? A museum.
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Roam. This Unthinkable to even imagine
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in their day that it would be what it is today.
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Pay 20 bucks for a little tour. You know what?
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That can happen to America. This command murder is not.
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A light thing. It's very prophetic.
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Murder has prophetic implications.
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God is clear. If you did it with Israel, if he
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did it. With Babylon, if you did it with
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the Canaanites. disagree with me, if you like, You can do with
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America. Why?
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Because the voices of the spilled blood of individuals can
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only cry out for so long. The first murderer was Satan,
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who is the first human murderer? Cain, Genesis 4.
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And there's this one verse that should terrify us and verse 10.
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Genesis, for the Lord said. What have you done the voice of
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your brother's blood is crying to me from the ground.
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Blood has a voice Spilled blood has a voice. and he's saying, A
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cane. Your brother is talking to me,
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in fact, he's crying out to me. And that's not just true of
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Abel. Wouldn't you like to know what
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it sounded like? Or whether it does sound like
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for spilled blood to be crying out to God we don't have to
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guess there's a host of people that cry out to God and I will
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crowd the got in Revelation 6, 10.
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Look what they say. These are the martyrs They cried
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out with a loud voice o Sovereign Lord!
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Holy and true how long before you will judge and avenge our
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blood on those who dwell on the Earth.
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That's what it sounds like. Your holy you're just my blood
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has been spilled in an unjust manner.
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God, how long will you withhold your judgment upon those who
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dwell on the earth who have performed this vicious act
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against the image of God? And I want you for a moment to
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just imagine in America alone, never mind, the murders that
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happened, through shootings, and homicides and all these
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different things. I want you to just Zone in, on
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the 58. I believe million babies.
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And what it sounds like in the ears of God as they all cry out,
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holy and just one, when will you avenge our blood against
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America? I'm sure that God can only bear
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it for so long. And the only reason why he
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hasn't done something already is because of his Mercy.
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Is because he desires all to reach repentance, even in the
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midst of the Bloodshed and the pools of blood that are reaching
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the heavens. Because there's an important
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verse concerning blood to Hebrews 12 24, that Jesus blood
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ho, this is powerful Jesus's, blood speaks a better word than
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able, sort of says, the blood of Jesus speaks a better word than
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Abel. Meaning what?
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The blood of Abel. Says vengeance, but the blood of
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Jesus screams Mercy. The blood of Abel shouts for
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Rath, the blood of Jesus, please for salvation, the blood of Abel
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says judge. The blood of Jesus says save,
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it's a better word than able. And the only way that the voices
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that are coming from the pools of blood that has been shed and
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America is if America cries out for the blood of Jesus to speak.
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Speak on their behalf. The only way these voices that
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are crying out for judgment. To be muted in a sense and for
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God to turn his ear away from that is if the blood of Jesus
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covers this nation from coast to coast and a mighty sweeping Holy
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Spirit. Revival the only way that
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Bloodshed, whether an individual level, Whether somebody has
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performed this act of abortion themselves or have contributed
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to anyway, guess what that act is not outside of the blood of
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Jesus to cleanse. In the only way that you and I
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can have Bloodshed and the stain of that blood removed from us is
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if we applied the blood of the Lamb, there's no other way.
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The blood of Jesus speaks a better word than Abel's.
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The blood of Jesus is America's only hope.
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The blood of Jesus must be preached.
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In light of the fact that sin is filthy and vile.
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Because if people don't understand the filthiness of
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sin, why would they want the blood to wash them?
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I don't need the blood. I'm clean.
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No, you're not. You have guilt on your hands.
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Seek his blood. Only, it can wash. but in the
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New Covenant, Jesus categorises murder in a different way not
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that he removes murder the violent Act.
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From the understanding of what it is, but he adds to it and I'm
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sure our minds are going somewhere.
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Does anybody know where he speaks of this?
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Sermon on the Mount, Matthew 5 21 to 23.
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What did he say? You have heard that it was said
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to those of old. That's what we just covered to.
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Those of old, you shall not murder and whoever murders will
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be liable to judgment. but I say to you, We're in Grace, right?
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We're in the Covenant of Grace, right?
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Grace is two miles ahead of law. What does he say?
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But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother
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will be liable to judgment. Whoever insults his brother will
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be liable to the council and whoever says you fool raka, will
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be liable to the hell of Fire. So Jesus, identifies anger.
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Insults. And later in the book of First
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John hatred as a manifestation of murder.
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This anger is not a reactionary anger to something that has been
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done unjustly Jesus. Manifested that anger in the
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temple. We got to see everything in
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light of the whole counsel of God.
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Nor is it a righteous? Indignation, that is sense.
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When something like what? We just spoke of abortion is
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performed on a daily basis like those who have dinner it's an
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anger that is Created from an unjust cause and it's an anger
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that swirls in our hearts, that produces these thoughts that
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would defame or seeking the unfortune of another It's an
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unrighteous anger, it's an anger that lingers long enough and if
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you just feed it, long enough will turn into hatred.
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Why is he saying this? Because God, even in the old
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Covenant. He's making it very clear in the
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New Covenant. The Lord is concerned with our
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Inner Man, the Lord is concerned about our heart, he's concerned
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about our thought life. See, you will know somebody who
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really fears God. A person who doesn't fear God is
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not concerned about their inner man or not, they can be eaten up
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by lust and envy and pride and all they're concerned about is
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how people see them? Oh praise God, hallelujah.
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Oh yeah, and they quote the verses but inside their vile and
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filthy and I know we fight Temptation not talking about
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sinless perfection here but a person who does fear God as a
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person that in their prayer. Doesn't just say, Lord make me
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look wholly outside. I pray that you clean me on the
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inside because though nobody else can see what's in the
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inside. You can see my thought life.
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And God, I want Jesus to be the theme of my thought, life God,
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don't nobody else sees my motive.
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When I preach, when I sing, when I served you see my motive Lord
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cleanse me. So Jesus saying, listen in this
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cup and I really want to understand, this is about
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relationship and though, nobody else can see what's an inside I
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can. And when you're angry unjustly
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and when you have hatred, it's murder in my sight.
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You think I'm exaggerating first?
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John 3:15, makes it very clear. You can highlight that you can
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put it right beside Matthew. 5:21 everyone who hates his
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brother is a murderer. I love all the Bible's so
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Direct. He's a murderer.
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This is the same epistle. The top tells us God Is Love by
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the way. Everyone who hates his brother
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is a murderer and you know that no murderer has eternal life
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abiding in him. So again he's talking about
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hatred being on the same level of somebody killing somebody.
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You know what? The sermon of the mount is
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producing NS, Jesus, I Need You. That's what it's producing in
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us. I need Grace, I need the
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indwelling of the Holy Spirit. I wonder how many murders we
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have here today? I never killed anybody.
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Do you hate the person that you're sitting beside or the
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person that's on the other side of the room?
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Do you meditate on thoughts of Misfortune and somebody being
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destroyed or somebody something happening in somebody else's
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life, that would even kill them? Is that that how you ease the
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pain that you have in your heart?
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The Bible tells us You're a murderer.
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Hatred insults. Anger and Jesus eyes are
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manifestations of murder. Can you think of another one in
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the New Covenant? It's in the old to, but it's
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really clear in the New Covenant that this is the same level as
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murder. You might be shocked.
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Who is familiar with John 10:10? The thief comes to what steal
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kill and destroy. Who's the thief Satan who says
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Satan. Any other thoughts?
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In the context, it's not Satan. Turn to John chapter 10.
John 10 chapter mention
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Though, those qualities can be attributed to Satan, Jesus
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speaking in a different context here.
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And he says something about the thief.
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And before we go to that verse, we have to go to verse 1 of John
John 10 chapter mention
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chapter 10. Truly truly, I say to you, he
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who does not enter the Sheepfold by the door.
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But climbs in, by another way, that man is a thief and a
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robber, stop there. So Jesus talked about how he is
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the door. He's talking about how he's the
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Good Shepherd. He's talking about how salvation
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is only through him. And what he's saying here is if
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anybody comes in by another door, climbs in another way,
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that man is a thief. Okay, go to verse 8.
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What does verse 8 tell us? All who came before me are
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thieves and robbers, but the Sheep did not listen to him.
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So, based on these two verses that thief in John 10:10 is not
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speaking about safe. And speaking about false
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teachers, And that Thief kills. Four steals kills, then
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destroys. So anybody, according to verse
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1, that tells you that salvation is outside of Jesus Christ.
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Is that Thief, anybody that mixes the gospel with good
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works, Grace and good works. Not just Grace is a thief.
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And Jesus says, anybody who came before me wasn't talking about
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the prophets, I spoke on his behalf, he was talking about the
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false Messiahs. Those who came before me.
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They are thieves, why? Because they steal salvation
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from you, which is eternal life. They rob you and when they rob
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you of that that leads to not just death but destruction.
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So all those verses that Paul speaks about like an axe 20 26
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and 27, what does he tell the elders?
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Because there for I testify to you this day that I'm innocent
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of what the blood of all I'm innocent of the blood of all,
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why for I did not shrink from declaring to you, the whole
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counsel of God In other words, I'm not guilty of your blood.
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Why? Because I did not hold back from
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telling you. That there is only one way I did
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not hold back from telling you the whole counsel of God, I did
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not hold back from the things that are controversial, on the
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things that make you feel uncomfortable, or the things
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that are confrontational, know why?
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Because I don't want to be labeled as a murderer.
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I wonder how many murders are behind pulpits.
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Because they do shrink from declaring the whole counsel of
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God. Remember Ezekiel Ezekiel if you
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do not want a sinner about his sin, his blood and he dies, his
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blood shall be on your hands the same language.
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But if you do warn him and he dies in a sin, you are free from
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his blood. So week by week, right?
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We by a person whoever it is that comes here.
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It's a matter of life and death. It's a matter of life and death.
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So, false teaching isn't a matter of at their doctrines a
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little bit off. It's a matter of, he's a
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murderer. I'm not talking about secondary
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issues, I'm not talking about things that are non-essentials.
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I'm talking about clear distinct, foundational truths,
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that are opposed and preached against Because a thief steals
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for his own gain. I don't want blood on my hands.
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You may not like me. That's fine.
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There's a judge waiting. I have to talk to him at the
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end. False teaching.
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Oh, there's so much to say about this.
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Commandment, I'll end on OneNote Deuteronomy 13.
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Remember how there is authorized murder.
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There is authorized murder. In the Old Testament.
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Look What the Lord says in Deuteronomy 13.
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Verse 1. If a prophet or a dreamer of
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Dreams arises among you and gives you a sign or a wonder and
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the sign or wonder that he tells you comes to pass.
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That's scary. If somebody comes and performs a
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miracle, And if it comes to pass and if he says no, this is
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important part. Let us go after other gods,
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which you have not known and let us serve them.
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You shall not listen to the words of that Prophet or that
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dreamer of Dreams. That's a really good principal
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in life that even if somebody is a miracle worker.
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Even if somebody is impressive in their spiritual gifting,
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whatever it may be but their message does not line up with
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this message. What are you going to do?
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Not moment because so many people are so drawn to the
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supernatural these days. So much so that they're willing
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to compromise the message for the manifestation, you know
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what, God says, that kind of thinking.
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For the Lord your God is testing.
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You to know whether you love the Lord, your God with all your
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heart and with all your soul, Even if it's impressive, even if
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it's powerful, even if it's something that moves you do, the
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message is not the same. Are you willing to reject it?
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I'm in the end times there's going to be a false teacher.
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He's going to woo. A lot of people.
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But he is a different message. You shall walk after the Lord,
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your God verse 24 and fear Him, and keep his Commandments and
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obey his voice, and you shall serve him and hold fashion, but
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it doesn't stop there. Look at verse 6, not just a
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false prophet. If your brother, the son of your
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mother, or your son, or your daughter or the wife, you
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Embrace, or your friend. Who is as your soul entices you
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secretly let us go and serve other gods which neither you or
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your father's have known, some of the Gods of the peoples who
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are around you whether Or near you or far off from you from the
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one end of the Earth to the other, you shall not yield him
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or listen to him. Nor shall you?
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I pity him. Nor shall you spare him?
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Nor shall you conceal him but you shall kill him.
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So there was ways in the Old Testament on the no old
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Covenant. But I want to spiritualize this
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for a moment because the spiritual implication is true.
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The types of relationships you have in this life.
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Do you have people in your life that are obviously enticing?
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You Away from Devotion to God. Away from his Commandments away
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from his word. Those enticements, whether you
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believe it or not are intended to kill you.
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Not talking about physical death.
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I'm talking about your walk with the Lord, and I want to
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spiritualize this kill that relationship before it kills
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you. Kill that relationship.
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Yes, God is against murder, but there is authorized killing.
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And here's one of them, I believe, That if there are
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people in your life that are surrounding you and that you are
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surrounded with that are enticing, you away from this
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word and a holy Life Style, you have every right to kill that
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relationship and to frame it rightly.
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So they don't entice you because the Lord is testing you.
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To see whether you love him more.
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And we need wisdom. We need insight to know how to
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relate with people that have different viewpoints.
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I'm not talking about that, I'm talking about those that you
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know, you feel the pull to go into a certain lifestyle, you
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feel the pull of people taking you away from a wholehearted
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Devotion to the Lord those people.
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So many things, worse it tonight, concerning this
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commandment. I want us to be cat.
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Listen, God, hates murder in the physical sense because it
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defames, it destroys his image, its representation has been
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second, the advances the kingdom in advance of the agenda of the
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enemy. That is not isolated to those
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who are outside of the room. That is very much real.
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For those that are in the womb, there are consequences on the
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individual level and they're also consequences on a national
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level. And on that note of a national
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level listen, it is gone beyond reason when you really look into
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it, when you really study this understanding of abortion it
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goes beyond reason. I mean it just it's now we've
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entered into a place professing to be wise, they became fools.
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How can you tell me that in some states?
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It is considered double homicide, if a woman is murdered
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with a baby in her womb, yet at the same time.
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If that same woman gets it to her car goes to an abortion
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clinic and murders that be? Maybe it's called rights.
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But there is a blood that cleanses us even from murder,
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the blood of Jesus Christ. His blood cleanses us from all
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blood guilt, doesn't matter what it is.
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It doesn't matter the amount you've done it in.
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One drop one drop of the blood of Jesus.
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This Is the Scandal of Grace can cover the blood of 58 million
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babies. That's how powerful his Delight
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is. You saying, I don't like the
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sound. That sounds in, just welcome to
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the realm of Grace. The cross is an offense in that
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sense, but that's the power of the blood of Jesus if we don't
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have that hope. And that is not how powerful is
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blood as we are hopeless, because do me did not shed
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blood. We did so in our hearts, We've
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hated we become angry in an unjust manner.
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You explode with anger to situations that do not deserve
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for you, to explode in Anger, you've committed murder.
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This is what Jesus is saying. Do you hate your brother?
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John says, You're a murderer. And you know, I don't murder has
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no everlasting life. False teaching is murder.
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There's No Escape, There's No Escape except one place the foot
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of the cross. That's our Escape, that's our
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hope. That's why we can sing.
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That's what we need to preach it.
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And that's why even for the next few moments, we have to pray for
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America. We have to pray for this nation.
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This, this conversation about abortion and this topic can
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become so frequent that we become so numb to it.
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And I have no idea whether this generation or the next.
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God will do something drastic. But may we be like Daniel Daniel
Daniel 9 chapter mention
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chapter 9. Remember Dana had no recorded
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fault in that book. There is nothing that you can
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pin on Daniel as you read those verses.
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But you know what, Daniel did in chapter 9?
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Forgive us of our sin, Forgive Israel.
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Forgive our fathers. Forgive us.
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He included himself. He humbled himself.
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What's amazing about Daniel was, he was recognized as the
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Beloved, and I believe one of the reasons why because he took
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it upon himself to pray for his Nation.
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I believe that's one of the characteristics that Daniel was
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so outside. He was so aware that he involved
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himself in intercessory prayer and it got the attention of
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Heaven. He got the attention of Heaven.
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So, just even being transparent. Just even studying this one
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command today. And last night, I was thinking
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to myself. God, this means so much to you,
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maybe it means so much to me. Don't let me take this lightly
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Lord, please don't let this just be a study where I connect and
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reconnect versus a oh, I never saw that verse that way.
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That's not the point of Bible study.
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The say, Lord, if this is so Grievous to your, if this is
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something that that you even said, I can't even think of the
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things that you're doing, Lord, I want that same righteous
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indignation, not to condemn, not to judge, not to do these
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things. But to be like, Daniel, Who
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prayed for his nation that was undergoing judgment.
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I wonder for undergoing judgment today.
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I wonder if all this chaos politically in our schools, I
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wonder if this is God. I wonder if this is just the
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first step where he just withdrew himself.
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Now, I want to be very careful with making statements here.
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But I don't want to wait long enough to discover what more can
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happen. But may we be a people really
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really really, I'm not trying to be inspirational and really be a
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people that can partner with the heart of God and say, Lord may
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my prayers somehow reverse this judgment and may we see Revival
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instead. They may people realize that
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there's only hope in the blood of Jesus Christ.
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To clean our record from all the Bloodshed that we see today.
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Let's pray together. I want to make this call very
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simple call as we've just gone through this Bible study.
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If there's murder in your heart at any level.
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I'm talking about abortion from abortion to hatred, whatever it
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may be. I want you to know tonight that
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there is grace and mercy and Jesus Christ.
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I want you to know the night that Jesus knew that he
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understands what happened, he saw it, he recorded it.
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In fact, there's blood crying out but there is a voice that
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can outcry the guilt in your life and that's the blood of
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Jesus. So what does it look like?
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It looks like you saying Jesus. I understand it only.
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Your blood can make me clean my own righteousness.
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My own efforts. It's cannot out.
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Do what I've done. Concerning my record of sin, I'm
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calling out to you and I'm asking wash me in your blood.
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Wash me in your blood. Cleanse my record.
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I bring it to you. I need Mercy.
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I need Mercy. and if you find it in your heart, even now before
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we worship this, a lord touch America, Touch our nation touch
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our laws. Lord you saying proverbs 31 8
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that I am called to open up my mouth for those that are mute.
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And Lord if I can open up my mouth. in a place that can be
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influenced to change their laws, I will open up my mouth and
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intercession and I will intercede for those that cannot
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intercede for themselves. And I said, Lord have mercy have
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mercy. Have mercy.
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Let's pray together. Father we come before you
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tonight in light of this one command that carry so much
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weight Lord. Perhaps we did not realize how
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much we are guilty of it. Lord.
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If there's anybody in here, that does not know you.
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They stumbled into this place and they realize that they don't
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have a relationship with Jesus Christ, and they are guilty of
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this sin of murder. By the power of your Holy
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Spirit. Would you reveal to them?
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The hope the Salvation that is found in Union with Jesus Christ
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and that if they call upon your name they shall be saved or may
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they find it within themselves to realize that there is no
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other door that they can enter into.
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There's only one door. There's only one way.
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There's only one. Good shepherd.
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That can recruit and save and shelter, us.
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But father together, we pray for America, we pray for this
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nation. And Lord, we just ask somehow
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some way, may we with our own eyes, see, a Revival met with
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our own eyes. See a change in our laws, Lord
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for the sake of these lives, God for the sake of these Destinies,
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Lord, that could have come about the good.
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That could have come the righteousness that could have
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spread Who knows? Lorde?
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Father, for those who may have committed that act of abortion,
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whether they're here or we don't know who they are.
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Lord, and they feel that guilt and that shame would you send
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laborers their way to hear the gospel and to know, the hope
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that is found in Christ and the Forgiveness that is available to
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them. And Lord, we just read how this
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means so much to you. Would it mean so much to us?
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Would you take these Truth by the Holy Spirit and brand them
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on our hearts? May they be something that bring
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us to our knees. May you give people here at
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prophetic voice that in wisdom. And in righteousness, defend the
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cause of those who cannot do it themselves.
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Birth Ministries out of this place that would rescue Souls.
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That would rescue people from making these wrong decisions.
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God, if there's anything in our hearts though, we've never shed
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blood. if we have cursed, if we meditate on the misfortune or
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the destruction, Of any other person, especially our brothers,
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our Sisters in Christ. Lord, take that heart of murder
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out of us and replace it with a Heart of Love, mercy and
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compassion. Lord, we thank you for your
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blood. And tonight we sing in light of
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its power. and we ask God, that we would be reminded of the
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power that it contains And Lord, maybe there's guilt from this
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week alone. That we need cleansing from.
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We bring are guilty before you in light of 1.
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John 1:9. that if we confess our sin, That you are faithful and
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just to forgive our sins and to cleanse us from all all.
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Not some Not some except murder, but all unrighteousness.
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And this is what we call upon you for tonight.
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In the name of Jesus, we pray.