Sermon
A Baptism of Fire!
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You're listening to the Cross Kingdom Sermon of the Week,
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we hope you enjoy this message from Justin Carpenter.
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If you all recall last week I mentioned about I
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don't remember exactly what day it was, but it was
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before Sunday, obviously, because it was last Sunday, I believe
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I mentioned this.
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And it was either Friday night or Saturday night a week.
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Ago, where the Lord put Asbury's Revival in front of
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me in the night, and I was reminded of Asbury,
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and I thought, huh, that's interesting.
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And then.
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After hearing Charlie Kirk's wife's press release, there's a couple
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of things she said that I really believe could truly spark.
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A movement in a way.
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You know this, We've been talking forever about revival and
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the church and awakening to the nation.
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But I really believe that the Lord's response is going
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to be outpouring with all my heart. I believe that's
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his response.
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See, God does not repay evil with evil, otherwise evil advances.
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So we move in righteousness in spite of evil when
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we bless those that curse us. So but I was
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reminded of that Asbery outpouring and I've been pondering that
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and obviously praying and asking the Lord to do that
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here locally, in the high schools and universities, and because
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we are in need of a desperate.
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Move of God in this nation.
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But his wife said this, the evildoers responsible for my
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husband's assassination have no idea what they've done. They killed
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Charlie because he preached a message of patriotism, faith, and
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of God's merciful love.
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They should all know this.
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If you thought my husband's mission was powerful before, you
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have no idea. You have no idea what you just
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have unleashed across this entire country and this world.
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You have no idea.
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You have no idea the fire that you have ignited
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within this wife, The cries of this widow will echo
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around the world like a battle cry. You know, moves
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of God have absolutely been built on.
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The blood of martyrdom.
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And I know that's not an easy statement or a
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light one. Interestingly, since Charlie's untimely death, there's been over
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thirty two thousand and Turning Point USA flooded with new
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campus chapter request thirty two thousand requests for Turning Point campuses.
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You know, for years I've.
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Told the church that persecution was coming to the United States.
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There was no way around it that it would come.
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And I've also mentioned that we have not had a
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healthy theology on the sufferings of Christ. We have been
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so blessed and so fortunate in the Western Church, but
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we were not able to steward that prosperity properly. So
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therefore the church has grown weak. It's starting to wake up.
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It's not going to get easier, y'all.
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I'm not going to.
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Say here and tickle your ears, but things have shifted
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and there is no going back to the old normal.
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So you need to understand that the times and seasons
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we're in are turbulent. They're not going away, and God's
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calling his bride to a higher standard.
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I can't think of a of a time that.
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Or a need at least in this time that we
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need a move of God. See, I don't think the
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Lord's gonna move because we're so amazing. I think for
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his namesake and his covenant that he's cut with us,
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and for his namesake, he's.
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Going to react.
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I want to encourage you do not buckle the fear
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in this hour. There are two very important things in
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this moment that you need to hear. If you don't
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hear anything else I say today, and that is lawlessness
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will harden your heart if you're not careful, and the
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spirit of lawlessness is loose, all sin is lawlessness according
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to the scripture, and we are seeing lawlessness. You can
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choose to believe that this is a political situation, but
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it's not.
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It is about good and evil.
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It is about.
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Principalities and powers. It's about a fight of the enemy
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trying to slow things down. See many times when we
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talk about spiritual warfare, we really don't understand spiritual warfare.
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The enemy is not fighting God. It's not even a contest.
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He's coming after us to try to inflict pain to
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the Lord's heart.
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Secondly, the enemy.
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Is doing everything he can to keep you sound asleep,
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because if you're asleep, the kingdom is not advancing. And
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if the Kingdom is not advancing, then the Great Commission
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is not being fulfilled. And if the Great Commission is
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not being fulfilled, then he has more time. Why because
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he knows the reality that when the fullness of the
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gentiles comes in the incomes, he knows his time is short.
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So he's actually doing everything he can to slow this
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process down, and he does it by getting us deceived.
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He does it by getting us to be unwilling to
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surrender our lives fully to the Lord Jesus, and that
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slows things down. He wants us entertained, he wants us happy,
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he wants us ignorant, and he wants us fighting with
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each other. And guess what, y'all look around the Big
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C Church in the United States when we are literally
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living in a moment where people think the rapture is
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gonna happen September twenty second. That is complete ignorance of
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the scriptures. How many times do we have to be
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reminded that no one knows the hour or the day.
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And if you have come under the delusion that you're
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gonna take your helmet off and get raptured out of
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here on the twenty second and the kindest way possible,
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that's not going to happen. I could totally go off
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on an end Times teaching right now, but I'm not
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going to that's what That's not where I want to head.
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But I will say this. It wasn't until the late
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eighteen hundreds.
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A young lady by the name of McDonald had a
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vision of which she called the Rapture Schofield I have
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a hold of this teaching and made it very popular.
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Up until the late eighteen hundreds, no one ever separated
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Jesus's return into two parts.
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It was always the Second Coming.
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Now.
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I know some of you all want to throw tomatoes
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at me right now because the pre tribe, pre millennial
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position has been so big in the Western Church.
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But what if there is no rapture?
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Yeah, what if there's only the Second Coming? But what
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if our understanding of the tribulation period a.
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Lot of it's already happened.
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What if a lot of the stuff that we're fighting
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over right now doesn't actually even change your commission, but
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the enemy would rather have you distracted arguing with each
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other over things that don't change your commission.
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That's my pastoral smile.
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My teeth aren't quite as.
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Sparkly because I drink lots of coffee. But y'all, we
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need to understand the times and seasons we're in now.
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If all you just heard was Justin doesn't believe in
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a rapture, he's going to hell, then you're wrong. But
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what I'm saying is I think when Jesus puts his
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literal foot.
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Down on the Mount of Olives. When he shows up,
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we're all going to be shocked on the way it
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played out.
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So regardless of your end Times perspective, it does not
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change your commission. You're to be making disciples of all nations,
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and you start building in your backyard, and when you're
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able to actually stewart what's in your backyard, then you're
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found worthy with that talent to actually increase and have
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more responsibility in the kingdom. The disciples response to persecution was, Lord,
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look at this. Would you stretch forth your arm and
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signs and wonders and tick them off more? That's my paraphrase.
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Their response was, give us more power to bring more persecution.
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Do you understand Paul when he's talking about persecution, he
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was filling up in his physical body what was lacking
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in the sufferings of Christ with the church. He was saying, listen,
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some of y'all aren't living a life that's worth being persecuted.
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So I'm standing in the gap and I'm filling up
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the sufferings of Christ in my physical body on your behalf,
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because you have grown asleep or fallen asleep. You're either
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a target or a victim, and there is no difference,
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and there is no middle ground. If you think you're
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in the fence, the enemy owns it. Jesus said, when
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I come back, will I find faith? Listen, if he
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comes back on the twenty second, awesome, I'm ready let
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her rip. Like I know, I know him, and I'm
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doing what he's called me to do. Whether I like
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it all the time or not. I mean, I know
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y'all always like everything you do every day. It's just
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I'm telling you my part. But the reality is, it
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says judgment starts first with the House of God.
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So pay attention. What are we seeing.
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We're seeing the elders judged. We're seeing the leaders judged.
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And I'm not talking about the wrath of God. There's
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no condemnation in Christ. I'm talking about his correction, his
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loving compassion and correction. He's correcting his leaders. But it
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starts first.
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There. Understand something.
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When you see a nation begin to come under attack
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and lose what some would call divine protection, this is
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what happens. Here's God, here's his protection over our nation.
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Proverb says righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a
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reproach to any people. So as a nation collectively chooses lawlessness,
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they begin to pull out from underneath his protection because
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sin separates, and to the degree of separation allows.
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The enemy to legally come in.
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Because Proverbs also says that a curse cannot fall without
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or take flight without a right. And so as a nation,
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we start pulling away from the Lord. We tell him
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to leave us alone, We kick him out of our schools.
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We do all these things under the watch.
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Of the church.
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Because we were too comfortable to get get too involved
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into the mountains of influence to actually bring transformation. And
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now we're walking through the consequences as a nation and
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the consequences of the big Sea Church being asleep. Are
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y'all you with me? I don't want to lose you
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Stay with me, but I'm going Can moves of God
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happen without persecution? Yes, but I don't know how many
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times I've seen it, especially sustained move. I think the
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Lord in this hour is challenging many believers if they're
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going to give up their American dream for His dream
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so they can actually see the harvest. Do was again
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a man who gains the whole world and loses his
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own soul. Or what shall a man give an exchange
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for his soul? Hebrews twelve twenty nine says, for our
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God as a consuming fire.
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He's a jealous god.
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So when you stepped into the kingdom, there was a
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holy jealousy over your life that he refuses to back
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off of. And anything or anyone that becomes a threat
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to that he puts his righteous arms around.
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Them out of his love and jealousy.
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And then we sometimes don't have the discernment to know
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the difference, and all of a sudden, we lose relationships,
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people are taken out of our lives, and we are
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earthly focused and we miss the bigger picture.
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Jesus said, do you love me more than these?
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What is it that God has taken his big creator,
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pointer finger and pointing on in your life this morning?
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What's he asking you for? Ane for a divine exchange
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over The worst thing in the world for anybody in
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this room would be to stand before the Lord Jesus
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at the end of your life and he says, hey,
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I just want you to know you're here by my blood.
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You made it, but let me show you everything you
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didn't get because you wouldn't surrender, And then he plays
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it before you of what he longed to do through
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your life, what you could have seen him do.
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But then it's too late, because you have one life
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to live in. Your life's a vapor.
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See, the enemy wants you demoralized, scared to death, and
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full of hatred right now in this moment. He wants
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you to respond with evil with evil, but he wants
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to deceive you in thinking that it's righteous.
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Matthew three eleven.
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John the Baptist says, I baptize you with water for repentance.
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But he who is coming after me is mightier than I,
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whose sandals I'm not worthy to carry. He will baptize
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you with the Holy Spirit and fire. Actodus three two.
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And the Angel of the Lord appeared to him in
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a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush.
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He looked, and behold, the bush was burning, yet it
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was knocking over and over and over. We see God
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showing up with fire, fire falling from heaven, consuming sacrifices,
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cloven tongues of fire, a pillar of fire leading Israel out.
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You know, the hotter a flame burns, it actually begins
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to disappear. It goes from orange to blue to well, literally,
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you won't even see it when it gets that hot.
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What are you holding on to this morning that you
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won't let God burn up? What are you petting this morning?
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What have you named? What are you pacifiring this morning?
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Because you think it's a better option than surrender, totally
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violating the kingdom principle that if you don't lose your life,
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you don't find it. So to the agree you surrender,
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you actually find life. Yeah, we can play church, y'all.
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You can come in here and sing a bunch of
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amazing songs and have your soul feel good, and then
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the moment you leave here, you're left with your heart untouched, unchanged, untransformed.
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The weapon of intimacy is so important right now. You
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gotta fight for your intimacy with the Lord, and the
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crazier things get, you're gonna have to fight even harder
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to protect your relationship with Jesus. You gotta You're gonna
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have a million things pulling at you. You're gonna have
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people falling away. You've got people falling away like crazy.
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Right now.
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Deconstructing I love what Bill Johnson said. You can only
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deconstruct what you built. You can't deconstruct God's kingdom. You
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can't deconstruct truth. You may not like it, and you
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may you may heap on doctrines of demons. By seducing
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spirits so that you feel better, so that you feel
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that you actually deceive yourself and believing that you're spiritual
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without true transformation, which is one of the key things
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of a religious spirit, will absolutely make you feel spiritual,
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holier than everybody else, and yet full of pride and
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judgment and condemnation and bitterness. Mark nine forty nine says,
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for everyone will be salted with fire. Psalms twenty nine
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seven says the voice of the Lord flashes forth flames
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of fire.
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Psalms one O.
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Four four says he makes his messengers wins his ministers
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a flame of fire.
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And Deuteronomy four twenty.
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Four for the Lord, your God is a consuming fire,
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a jealous god. Y'all we ought to be so on fire.
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When people touch us, they get burned. Hey, he's looking
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for a bride that's pure and spotless, without compromise. He's
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looking for a bride with oil in their lamp. What
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does it take to offend you and turn you away?
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Right?
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Now, and I'm seriously asking this question, what will it
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take to offend you and turn you away from God?
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Because I promise you, if that is in your heart,
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if there is something that can offend you and turn
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you away from the Lord the days we're.
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In, it will happen. So will you live unoffendable?
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Because the falling away is a real thing, y'all Scripture
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talks about there will be a falling away?
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So what will it take in this moment for you
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to fall away?
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And you need to ask that question, honestly, you need
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to say, Jesus right now, in this moment, what's in
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my heart that could cause me to fall away? Because
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the ting of your faith, it will be tested, guaranteed,
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and it will be tested even greater our faith.
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Will in the days ahead.
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Years ago, the Lord, I was at my dining room table,
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probably ten years ago, somewhere around there, and the Lord
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began to show me and let me feel the weight
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of future words that I would have to give, and
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felt the weight of it, and I remember buckling over
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at the dining room table by myself, crying. Solomon said,
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with much knowledge comes much grief two Samuel twenty two
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eight to thirteen. Then the earth reeled and rocked, the
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foundations of the heavens trembled and quaked. Because he was angry,
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Smoke went up from his nostrils, and devouring fire from
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his mouth. Glowing coals flamed forth from him. He bowed
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the heavens and came down. The thick darkness was under
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his feet. He rode on a cherub and flew. He
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was seen on the wings of the wind. He made
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darkness around him his canopy. Thick clouds are gathering of
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water out of the brightness before him. Coals of fire
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flamed forth. Can I tell you that anyone that claims
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to have gone to heaven and had a throne room encounter,
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and they tell you they did anything but.
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Fall flat on their face, they are a liar. Period.
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You don't stand before this God, this creator.
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With this holiness and this race and go in there
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and high five them like he's grandpa.
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The fear of the Lord is coming and it's moving.
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You cannot sustain intimacy with the Lord without it. You
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cannot see him move through your life in a mighty way.
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Without holiness.
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Turbulent times, I sit there and think of what we're
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going through the shakings that have happened that seem to
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be increasing.
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And I think of what my own boys.
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Have gone through in the last five years, and I
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think about their future and what they might have to face. Y'all,
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we cannot afford to have a mindset like Hezekiah. Well,
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at least there's peace in my day. No, that is
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not a kingdom mindset. Our mindset needs to be us
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leaving a legacy and this generation, as we move into
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a sage stage of our life, we need to be
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very focused on raising up that next generation for people.
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To know the Lord.
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The only way we're going to see something sustained is
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if we steward it with righteousness and holiness, and that
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this upcoming generation sees it. You understand that, Charlie Kirk,
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more than anything. If you think this.
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Was just political, you've already lost.
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This is about good and evil, and this is about
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a man who the Lord was using to wake up
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the next generation all across this nation and through the
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universities and beyond. He was a threat to the evil one,
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a major threat. But I promise you once again, God
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will have the last word. So now you have thirty
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two thousand applications to have turning point offices or however
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they call them chapters. All the enemy did was poke
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at a bride that's not that asleep. Now, Watchmen on
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the Wall, let me tell you months ago when we
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started the watch at six pm on Sundays, it was
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from a burden that we needed to be watchmen on
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the wall in this time and things that all of
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these shakings that are taking place, it's only proving that
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we need to watch and pray. Jesus said, watch and pray,
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Watch and pray. And what I say to you, I
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say to everyone, watch and pray. Luke twelve forty nine
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to fifty says, I came to cast fire on the
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earth and would that it were already kindled. I have
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a baptism to be baptized with, and how great is
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my distress until it's accomplished.
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Y'all? Do you understand this? God wants you so happy?
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And then if there's any discomfort that it's not his
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will show me that in the scripture, please, because I
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mean I would love for that to be true.
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He says.
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If you want to follow me, deny yourself, take up
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your cross daily, and let's go a daily dying to
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your flesh. Do you understand God will absolutely call you
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to do things you don't want to do. That's called
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baring your cross. He's not nearly as concerned about your comfort.
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As your transformation. Sorry not sorry.
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In fact, some of you are headed down a path
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of comfort and personal dream that the Lord has nothing
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to do with because you've been sold the American Gospel.
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You're welcome one Kings eighteen thirty eight.
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Then the fire of the Lord fell and consumed the
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burnt offering and the wood and the stones and the dust,
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and lit up the water that was in the trench.
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Y'all.
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There was nothing left. When the fire of God came.
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They drenched that was This was the literally right before
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he ran from Jezebel. This was the big showdown, y'all.
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I've said this and I'll say it again. We are
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heading in two days where you say, you go ahead
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and call on your God and I'll call on mine.
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And the one that answers by fire, he's the Lord.
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And you better understand that there are those showdowns coming.
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The Enemy's not hiding. While we were busy.
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Trying to perfect Sunday morning services, our children were being
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discipled by the evil one. I thank God for a
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town that has schools that let people pray in the
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name of Jesus.
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I would pray in his name anyways because I don't care.
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But it's but it's.
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Encouraged in our schools, y'all. Kim and Kylie and who's
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the third and Chay. Yeah, the very first week they
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for the Bible study, they had.
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Almost fifty kids. This is the next generation.
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How do we want to leave our How do we
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want to leave this nation to the next generation. Our
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fighting's not done, y'all. We're just getting started. We cannot
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leave this mess to our kids.
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Period.
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We cannot leave this mess to our kids. See a
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lot of people thought when the Orange Man got into
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office again that somehow our fighting was done, and it's not.
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We don't wrestle against flesh and blood. Okay, I'm gonna
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start descending. You can take your oxygen mask off here
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in a minute. Leviticus nine twenty three to twenty four,
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And Moses and Aaron went into the tent of meeting,
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and when they came out, they blessed the people, and
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the glory of the Lord appeared to all the people,
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and fire came out from before the Lord and consumed
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the burnt offering and the pieces of the fat on
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the altar, and when all the people saw it, they
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shouted and fell on their faces. Do you think for
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a moment that encounters like that don't mark you for life?
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I shared this last year. I think it was when
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it happened. My wife and I were just simply sitting
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in the backyard talking about the glory of God and
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talking and dreaming together of what it's going to be
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like as the Lord begins.
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To increase his intentional.
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Presence, and literally we look over and there is a
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glory cloud over our garage in the natural race light,
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and it literally grew and grew and grew in front
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of our eyes, and then poof disappeared. I don't need
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to write that down. That's a spiritual tattoo like that
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that we were just and then we just sat there. Now,
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I wish things like that happened, like when you asked
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him to all the time. Last time I checked. We
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don't get to vote on that, right, You don't get to.
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Vote on your encounters with the Lord.
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But what you do get to do is when you
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are humble, hungry and teachable, position yourself in a place
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for him to encounter you. However, he sees fit, so
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he let him with a cloud that covered by day,
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in the appearance of fire by night. And in Deuteronomy,
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the Lord spoke with you face to face at the
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mountain out of the midst of the fire. Now watch this,
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We're gonna dive really deep for a couple of minutes.
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So hang in there and Acts two two to four.
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And suddenly there came from having a sound like a
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mighty rushing wind, and it filled the entire house where
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they were sitting, and divided tongues as of fire appeared
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to them and rested on each of them, and they
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were all filled with the Holy Spirit and begin to
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speak in other tongues of the Spirit gave them utterance.
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If all you do is read this scripture and focus
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on the baptism and tongues, you're missing a whole lot
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that is actually in this chapter, and specifically in these
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couple of verses. The word for divided tongues, the word
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the Greek word, means to divide, to distribute, to a portion,
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to partition, thoroughly, distribution, or dissension. Interestingly enough, it's the
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same word that is found in Deuteronomy thirty two seven
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to nine. Remember remember the days of old, consider the
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years of many generations. Ask your father, and he will
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show you your elders, and they will tell you. When
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the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance. When
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he divided mankind, he fixed the borders of the peoples
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according to the number of the sons of God. This
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is benigh aloheen. He's speaking of angels, not man. And
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he divided the nations unto these sons of God. And
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when did this happen. This took place in Genesis eleven.
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And the Lord said, behold, they are one people, and
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they all, and they have all one language. And this
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is only the beginning of what they will do. And
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nothing that they propose to do will now be impossible
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for them. Y'all, this was the power of the soul.
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All of their wills united together other for one purpose,
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and that was in the soul. Come, let us go
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down and there confuse their language so that they may
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not understand one another's speech. By the way, the new
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earpod threes that are coming out this week, they have
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language translation in them like any language.
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And if you.
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Have EarPods in the three air pod pros whatever. If
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I have them in and you have them in, it
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doesn't matter what languages we speak.
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As we begin to talk.
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To each other, it's automatically interpreted and you hear exactly
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what they're saying in your own language.
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Yeah.
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Remember, and Daniels said, knowledge will increase, man will run
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to and fro.
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So he goes, let us go down.
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And there confuse their language so that they may not
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understand one another's speech. So the Lord dispersed them from
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there over the face of all the earth, and they
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left off building the city. Therefore its name is called Babel,
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because there the Lord confused the language of all the earth,
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and from there the Lord dispersed them over the face
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of the earth. This is exactly what Deuteronomy thirty two,
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seven and nine is talking about when it says, when
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the Most High gave to the nations their inheritance, when
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he divided mankind, he divided mankind. In Genesis eleven, y'all
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with me.
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And then all of a sudden.
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In Genesis eleven, the Lord calls Abram to start the
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process of recovering the scattered nations. Genesis fifteen, the Lord
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tells Abram to look up in the night sky and
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try to number the stars.
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Genesis seventeen.
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The Lord promises to make Abraham the father of many nations.
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Many nations will come from you. So Tower of Babbel, division, divided, nations, scattered,
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put under the Divine Council Psawm.
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Eighty two.
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They begin to rule unrighteously, and God brings them into
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a council for judgment because they're no longer leading the
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nations towards righteousness, but nudging them towards lawlessness. See, if
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you don't understand the big picture of spiritual warfare, you
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really don't understand the fullness of the role of the
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Holy Spirit either.
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So what happens.
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You go back to Acts two, and suddenly there came
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from heaven a sound like a min and rushing wind
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fills the house. Divided tongues as of fire appeared on them,
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rested on each of them, and they were filled with
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the Holy Spirit and begin to speak.
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And other tongues.
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The gift of interpretation, the gift of tongues and the
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interpretation every language present heard them in their own language.
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It's part of the recovery of the nations. It's a
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part of Abraham's promise that he would be the father
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of many nations. And guess what on that day when
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Peter stood up and three thousand souls were saved, they
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dispersed back to their lands, and all of a sudden,
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now the Gospel of the Kingdom is being preached in
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multiple languages, and one New Man.
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Is beginning to be formed.
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And I might even add that the ten nations that
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were scattered are being brought back through gentile blood, part
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of the mystery of the One New Man.
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So as we're in this moment.
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Seeing all of these crazy things happen, you know, in
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the Old Covenant, there's a scripture that says, you are
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killing people that should not be killed, and you are
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keeping alive people that should not be kept alive. And
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he's talking about the government, the authority of the nation,
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not just anybody doing whatever they want. It's Romans thirteen, right,
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that is a sovereign authorities were put into place by
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the Lord himself. Yeah, Jesus is not nearly as easy
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to get along with as we try to paint him.
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I've said this a couple of times in the last
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few months, but I love what Bobby Connor said that
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We're way too familiar with the God we barely know.
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And I don't know about you. But the closer I
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get to him, the.
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Less I know about him, because I recognize how much
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bigger he is than my Then remember that dot that
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Sean put on this timeline. If that's the dot and
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the timeline of eternity, where's your tiny little hind in
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and that thing? I want to do something that's probably
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gonna make everybody very uncomfortable, including me.
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But mister Micah, where we come. Get on the keys.
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We got a few minutes left, and I just want
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us to sit still and wait on the Lord. And
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I'm gonna do some identificational prayer of repentance, and we're
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just gonna ask the Lord in his mercy to move
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over us. We cannot twist God's arm, we cannot make
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him move, but we can posture ourselves in a place
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of humility and repentance that positions our hearts open to
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what He wants to do. And I believe with all
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of my heart the heavens, even the heavens, are the lords.
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But He's given the earth to the sons of men.
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We have a responsibility over this earth. We have a
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responsibility right now, in this hour, in this season, to
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be the light and assault. We have a responsibility to
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make disciples of all nations, regardless of your in time's perspective,
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Son of Day.
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Even have mercy. Father.
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We stand in the gap right now, in the midst
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of the ashes, sorrow, loss, trauma, grief.
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Lord, we mourn with a family who's lost a husband
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way too soon. Father, Our nation is to.
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And the evil one would love nothing more than to
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make it worse. Lord, Father, have mercy over us. Lord,
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awaken your sleeping beauty to the roar of your son,
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that the fear of the Lord would shaken us awake
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from slumber, that the lion of the tribe of Judah
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would roar. God, you are a consuming fire, and you've
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baptized us with your spirit and fire. Would you cause
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your spirit, your fire inside of us, Lord, to consume.
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Everything not of you.
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Would you forgive us for what we've made the gospel
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so many times?
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Lord?
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Would you forgive us for so many times preaching a
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narcissistic gospel making it all about us? Lord, Father, we
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stand in the gap and ask that you would give
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us righteous leader's Lord, we pray for those in authority
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over us, that they would rule with righteousness and justice. Lord,
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that you would pull down the fallen council members over
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our nation and put in righteous principalities Jesus, that you
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would put a fire inside of us for intimacy that
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could never be quenched no matter what. That you would
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remove the question marks out of our heart. Lord, that
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we would trust you.
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With the tension of mystery.
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That you would awaken the Church, that you would revive
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the nation, Lord, Father, that.
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You would pour out over this next.
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Generation through the School's Lord, that the Gospel, which is
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the power under salvation, would be preached by this next
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generation with love, boldness, power, signs and wonders, that Heaven
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would respond to truth, that the signs and wonders would
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follow after us. Lord, that they would run us down
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because we're running after you.
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Lord.
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That we wouldn't just rend our garments, that we wouldn't
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us look spiritual to others, but that you.
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Would break our heart for what breaks yours. God.
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Don't leave us this way, Lord, don't leave this nation
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this way.
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Don't leave this reason this way.
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Lord.
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Lord, We need.
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You, We need a fresh baptism of your spirit and
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fire like never before.
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Lord. So here we are. We're contending for you to
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do what only you can do. We're asking you.
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To move over us, in us and through us, that
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you would transform us, Lord, from glory to glory into
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your image. God, in the midst of being so blessed. Lord,
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help us steward our prosperity with the mind of Christ,
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with kingdom behavior, with heavenly thinking. Lord, forgive all the
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innocent bloodshed over this nation. Lord, through abortion, through murder, Lord,
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through assassinations, through trafficking. Lord, we plead your blood Jesus. Lord,
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you said you're close to the broken heart. That you
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restore our souls, that you heal our hearts, that you
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break us out of captivity and out of the prison.
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Lord.
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So would you stretch forth your.
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Arm Lord, even now in this moment, would you bring
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divine deliverance over strongholds in people's lives. Lord, Would you
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bring physical healing in people's bodies?
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Right now?
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Lord, Lord, we're asking that you would do these things
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for your name's sake.
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Lord, that you would.
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Look upon your bride and you would not be able
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to stay away from us. Lord, Holy Spirit, would you come,
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Would you bring confirmation to your word that's been preached.
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Would you cause fresh oil to come over this house
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and then ignite, ignite the fresh oil, that we would
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be burning ones for you, Lord, that we would be
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burning ones for you.
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Lord, here we are. Send us, Lord, he said, who
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will go send us?
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Lord, that we would be bold as lions, that we
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would have foreheads like flint, that we would not be
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quiet and allow your word to be shut up in
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our bones, but that we would proclaim your word, which
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is like a fire and like a hammer.
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Father, I asked that you would stir a hunger inside
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of us, Lord.
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That would lead us to seeking you in ways we'd
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never sought you before. And we would wake ourselves up
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praying and praising in the night. Lord, because it's so
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permeated and so transformed our very being. Lord, we got
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a hammer in one hand and a sword in the other,
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and you're raising up Nehemiah's Lord, release your fiery ones,
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commission your fiery ones. Lord, Shake us awake, Lord, shake
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and bake, purify your bride. But the fear of the Lord,
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which is pure, That the fear of the Lord would
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come more Lord, more Lord, rund our hearts and not
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our clothing cause the fear of the Lord, the conviction
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of the Holy One to come. Soften our soul's. Lord,
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give us eyes to see and ears to hear.
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Come with your authority and your power.
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Lord More, Lord, Holy Spirit, would you move mightily right
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now and draw us to the sun. Lord, cause your
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fire to come, or just a baptism of fire that
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would shut our hearts a flame for.
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You, Jesus, the Ancient of days.
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Eyes like fire, air like wool, the voice from the burning.
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Bush, the Angel of the Lord, the captain of the army.
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Before Abraham was. You are.
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The one that holds everything together by the power of
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his word.
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Worthy, Worthy is the one to open the scroll.
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Holy holy holy holy holy holy holy holy holy holy
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holy holy holy holy.
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Holy holy holy Holy.
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Are you Lord, just ask if the prayer team would come.
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M hm.
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Hm Father, we give up our right to be right.
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Lord, we give up our right to know why everything happens, and.
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Our hearts are postured to worship you in the midst
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of all of this, Lord and Spirit and.
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Truth, you are good. You are good. You're still good.
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After the loss of loved ones, the flood, assassinations. Lords,
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You're still good. Lor Do we proclaim your goodness. Lord,
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You're good, and your mercy endures forever, and you only
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give good gifts. Son of David, have mercy, Son of David,
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have mercy over us.
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We love you.
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Lord.
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It's m.
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B S.
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And that's.
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Bad. And let's.
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Let's start saying in praise the Lord's Spanish species.
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Father, we love you, We thank you, We thank you.
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That you are a rewarder of those that diligently seek
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after you. So, Father, we stand before you today.
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You're the author, You're the finisher, Lord.
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Of everything.
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That has purpose.
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Lord, light us up, Light us up, Lord, so we
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can be burning ones in this hour for your namesake,
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for your glory.
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Lord, sacrifice, Lord, sacrifice of praise. You are.
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Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
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