Sermon
Integrity Counts
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Transcript
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Good evening. Welcome to Voice in the Wilderness. I'm Don
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Noble of Pure Heart Ministries, and I welcome you today
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with exceedingly abundantly and overflowing joy. I received quite a
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surprise recently in the mail someone anonymously sent me a
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financial seed that will pay for November and part of December.
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I mentioned the last three weeks that I was going
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off the air due to lack of financial support from
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my listeners, and that I never hear from you. You see,
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if you have never been on the radio, it's really
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a different animal because I never see my audience and
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I have absolutely no idea who is listening to me.
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The few people that have sent finances and written a
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note to me are the only ones I know that listen.
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That leaves me to come to a conclusion since there
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have been no emails or notes in the mail, or
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no financial support, I probably should select another outlet. So
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this was not a gimmick. It was a reality that
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came to the forefront. So I need to make a decision,
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and I certainly do think the anonymous donor, who was
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exceedingly generous, This is my humble request if you would
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like me to stay on the air. I'm asking you
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to please let me know, either by email or by
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regular mail, if you can plant a financial see that
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would be much appreciated. I'll give it to the end
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of November to make my final decision. Now to tonight's program.
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I've titled Tonight's program Integrity Counts. But I want to
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share something lighthearted because we've been kind of under this
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cloud of assault from all the media. You know, newspapers, Facebook, x,
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you name it, newspapers, television ads, radio ads. So I
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thought i'd make you chuckle to begin with. Yesterday, the
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clocks were turned back an hour, which I love. Daylight
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saving time, and it's called daylight saving time. It's not
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daylight saving time, although everybody says that, including me. Ben Franklin, oh,
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the great genius that he was, wrote in seventeen eighty
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four the earliest known proposal to quote save end quote daylight.
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Called an economical Project, it was whimsical in tone, advocating
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laws to compel citizens to rise at the crack of
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dawn to save the expense of candlelight. This is what
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he wrote. And before even say that, you know, just
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to think for a moment what it would be like
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to live with just candlelight, no electricity, just candlelight. Oh.
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I can honestly say I would not want to go
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back to those days. But this is what he wrote.
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Every morning, as soon as the sun rises, let all
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the bells in every church be set ringing, And if
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that is not sufficient, let cannon be fired in every
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street to wake the sluggards. Effectually oblige a man to
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rise at four a m. And it is probable that
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he will go willingly to bed at eight in the evening.
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Oh that Ben Franklin. Let's fire cannons, they'll wake every
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one up. I like that slogan. Let's fire cannons toill
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wake every one up. You know, if that's what it
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would take to wake up American citizens to the plight
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of our nation, I would fire those cannons right now.
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I just recently read that Gerald President Gerald Ford's daughter.
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President Gerald Ford's daughter is voting for Kamala. Now, President
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Gerald Ford, if you don't recall, was a Republican president.
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So his daughter is voting for Kamala because she said
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Kamala has so much integrity. Whow that is not only laughable,
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it's delusional. Now, Gerald Ford's son the brother of this
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woman's the sister. On the other hand, he and his
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grandson are voting for Trump. To him, it was so
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obvious because he lives in San Diego, a border city.
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Asked what he thought his father, the former president would say,
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the son was quick to reply, he would vote for
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Donald Trump. Now, the irony of his sister claiming such
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integrity for Comala was this President Gerald Ford's aircraft carrier,
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the U. S. S. Gerald R. Ford. The motto is
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integrity at the helm. I find that prophetic. Newsflash, we
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have not had integrity at the helm of this administration
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in any form, be it the Department of Justice, the
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Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Secret Service, the Central Intelligence Agency,
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the IRS, and certainly no zero integrity in the White House.
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There is probably no other prophet in the Old Testament
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who suffered so much for shouting the truth from the rooftops.
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Jeremiah was emotionally and physically assaulted by his enemies, the
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people of God. Yes, it was the people of God
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that were enemies of Jeremiah. They refused to listen to
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his warnings about their future, and he wept over God's
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people because their hearts were so hardened. Jeremiah was a
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man of integrity. He obeyed the Lord's commands, even to
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his own sorrow and detriment, trying desperately to keep God's
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people from going into captivity, which did not happen because they,
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as you know, went into Babylonian captivity. They mocked him,
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they scorned him, and at one point Jeremiah said he
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wished he had died at birth. I mean, that just
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rips it my heart to think that a person devotes
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their life. I mean, he's devoted his life to speak
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God's word, God's truth, to shine a light, to let
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the people of God know what the truth was. Where
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they were in their spiritual walk, which was full of idolatry,
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full of sin. And what did he get out of it?
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I mean, he said, Jeremiah said in his book Jeremiah fifteen,
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verse ten, he said, I am hated everywhere where I go.
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Oh my, that is sad. Nobody wants to be hated, nobody.
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I mean, we live in a culture now where people
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just to not be hated will say things that they
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don't even believe in, but they don't want to be disliked,
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and they don't want to be bullied, so they go along.
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To go along, But not Jeremiah, not this prophet baby.
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He said what God told him to say. Period. At
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one point, the Lord told Jeremiah to no longer intercede
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for the people. Can you imagine God tells him stop
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praying for these people. So I want you to listen
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to what the Lord said to Jared Jeremiah. I'm going
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to be reading out of the New Living trans Translation NLT,
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and we're in the Book of Jeremiah chapter fourteen. I'll
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be reading verses eleven through twenty two, So if you
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want to follow. Then the Lord said to me, do
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not pray for these people anymore. When they fast, I
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will pay no attention. When they present their burnt offerings
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and grain offerings to me, I will not accept them. Instead,
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I will devour them with war, famine, and disease. Then
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I said, oh, Sovereign Lord, their prophets are telling them
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all is well, no war or famine will come. The
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Lord will surely send you peace. Then the Lord said,
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these are telling lies in my name. I did not
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send them or tell them to speak. I did not
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give them any messages. They prophesy of visions and revelations
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they have never seen or heard. They speak foolishness made
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up in their own lying hearts. Therefore, this is what
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the Lord says. I will punish these lying prophets, for
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they have spoken in my name, even though I never
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sent them. They say that no war or famine will come,
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but they themselves will die by war and famine. As
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for the people to whom they prophesy, their bodies will
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be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem, victims of
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famine and war. There will be no one left to
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bury them. Husbands, wives, sons, and daughters. All will be gone,
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for I will pour out their own wickedness on them. Now, Jeremiah,
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say this to them night and day. My eyes overflow
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with tears. I cannot stop weeping for my virgin daughter,
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My precious people has been struck down and lies morally wounded.
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If I go out into the fields, I see the
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bodies of people slaughtered by the enemy. If I walk
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the city streets, I see the people who have died
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of starvation. The prophets and priests continue with their work,
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but they don't know what they're doing. Lord, have you
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completely rejected Judah? Do you really hate Jerusalem. Why have
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you wounded us past all hope of healing. We hoped
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for peace, but no peace came. We hoped for a
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time of healing, but found only terror. Lord, we confess
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our wickedness and that of our ancestors too. We all
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have sinned against you for the sake of your reputation. Lord,
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do not abandon us, Do not disgrace your own glorious throne.
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Remember us, and do not break your covenant with us.
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Can any of the worthless foreign gods send us rain?
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Does it fall from the sky by itself? No? No,
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you are the one, Oh, Lord, our God. Only you
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can do such things. So we will wait for you
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to help us. I want to read that last verse,
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verse twenty two. I want to read that out of
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the amplified Classic version, it says this, are there any
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among the false gods of the nation who can cause rain?
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Or can the heavens of their own will give showers?
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Are you alone not? He? O Lord, our God? Therefore
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we will wait expectantly for you, for you have made
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all these things, the heavens and the rain. Wow. I mean, well,
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let me just say this, How haughty have we become?
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How prideful? How arrogant have we become, folks. We need
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to humble ourselves. We need God in our own personal lives,
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and our nation needs God. The Lord told Jeremiah to
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separate the vile from the precious. At a recent Kamala
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Harris rally, two young men shouted, Jesus is Lord and
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he is king. Kamala quickly replied, you at the wrong rally.
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Her true motives were exposed. All of Jeremiah's prophetic ministry
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was really to separate the vile from the precious. And
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don't you know that that's exactly what the Lord is
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doing in us personally and in our nation. At the
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same time. God wants to separate the vile from the precious.
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He wants to rid our lives of anything that's vile,
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anything in everything that's vile, because He's bringing us into
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a place of holiness. You watch and see what happens
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in twenty twenty five. The body of Christ is gonna
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the whole thing is gonna shift. It's the body of
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Christ is really gonna come together, and the Body of
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Christ is going to begin I mean I'm talking the
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majority of the Body of Christ is going to begin
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to separate the vow from the precious Yeah. So it
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really exposed Kamala's real motives. You're at the wrong rally.
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You need to be at the one down the street.
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She said. Hmm. You see, Jeremiah endured intense persecution really
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just because of his boldness for God. And he was bold,
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I mean he shouted it from the rooftops. The people.
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God's people not only launched verbal attacks against Jeremiah, they
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plotted to kill him. Then he was put on trial,
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and he would have received the death penalty, but he
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was spared because an official happened to intervene on his behalf. Now,
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Donald Trump is certainly no profit, but he has stood
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for what is right. And I remind you, I remind you,
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remind you, remind you of James four seventeen. It says,
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if you know to do what is right and you
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don't do it, it is sin that goes for you,
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and it goes for me, and it goes that scripture.
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We can relate that scripture to things in our home,
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things with our family, things with our neighbors, things in
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the workplace, whatever, in the church. If we know to
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do what is right and we don't do it, it
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is sin. Donald Trump has been vilified, put on trial,
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not just once, multiple times, and there have been two
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plots to kill him. Both were unsuccessful. Fortunately, now I'm
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reminding Christians, Donald Trump is not running for the lead
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pastor of a church, so stop pointing your finger at
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him in your self righteous behavior. He's a man fallible
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like all of us, but he is someone who wants
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to bring back everything that is good about America. I
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am so tired of hearing the lies that come out
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the Harris campaign. I heard I Every time I hear
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these lies, I just want to scream. This man we
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lived under the four years. Did you forget he wanted
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to do good for all the citizens. He didn't he
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didn't choose and pick. Well, I'm gonna I'm gonna okay
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this race over here, I'm gonna help them more. Uh No,
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I like this race better, not at all even playing field.
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He wanted to help every American citizen, and you know
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that we've lived under it. So please don't set this
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vote out. Please don't cross your arms and say I
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can't vote. He doesn't hold to my standards. Realize, just realize,
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Just sit back, take a deep breath, and realize the
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democratic agenda. I told you this last week. I'm gonna
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tell you again because tomorrow is November fifth, election day.
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What did they do? They removed God from their agenda.
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They want nothing to do with God. Get God out
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of this at all costs. I mean that should be
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you know, even if you didn't know that, you can
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see it in all the things that they have done.
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I mean, look at all the people that have stood
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up for life, legally stood up for life at these
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abortion clinics, and the DOJ came handcuffed him, put him
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in prison. It's outrageous, it's egregious, it's it's unspeakable. So
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I'm gonna remind you again. A vote for Kamala Harris
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is a vote for anti Christ, an anti christ agenda.
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She's shown you who she is. How people think that
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she's a person of integrity like Gerald Ford's daughter is
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beyond me. Listen. They want nothing to do with the
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Ten Commandments. They want nothing. They do not want prayer
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reinstituted in schools. They do not want prayer at abortion clinics,
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even if you're within the prescrib prescribed boundaries. No, no,
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let's let mills of the illegal aliens into our country,
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many of which you are murders, rapists, mentally ill and
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do very heinous things, and have already done heinous things
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and killed people, killed our citizens. How about this? How
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about this? You want to vote for Kamala, Let's kill
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babies at full term? Can you live with yourself if
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you vote for the Democratic choice for president? Can you
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really lay your head on your pillow at night as
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a born again believer in Christ and have peace in
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your mind and heart? There is no greater time to
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be awake spiritually. Listen. I'm not about disparaging people, but
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i have to make it clear to you. I have
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to make the distinctions between these two people running for
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the highest office in our nation. And I'm pleading with you,
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those of you who refuse to vote, we could win
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this thing if you voted. Yeah, if all the millions
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and I mean millions of Christians who plan to sit
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at home and not vote, we could win this election easily,
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hands down. So I'm going to plead with you and
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pray that those of you who refuse to vote, I'm
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asking you to please rethink your position. I'm just asking
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you to rethink your position. I'm really not trying to
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give you a hard time, but I am trying to
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make it clear biblically. That's my calling. I'm gonna be
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like Jeremiah. I'm gonna be bold as a line. I'm
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gonna tell you the truth according to God's truth. It's
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not my truth, it's not my opinion. I'm standing firm
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on God's word and I'm just asking you to rethink
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your position. America needs your vote. So I'll close with this,
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God bless the citizens, every citizen of this great nation.
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God shed your grace on us. Let's make that city
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on the hill shine one more time with God's glory. Amen. Well,
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this is Don Noble. You can go to www dot
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pureheart dot today and listen to this podcast. You can
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download the iHeartRadio app, go to Pure Heart Ministries podcast
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and listen twenty four to seven. And as I mentioned
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early in my message, would you please email me. My
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email address is all lowercase letters, all one word, no spaces.
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Don Dawn Don at Pureheart dot Today. I really am
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looking forward to hearing from you, and I would encourage
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you to help me stay on the radio. And you
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can send a check to Pure Heart Ministries po Box
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eighty five Valley Grove, West Virginia to six oh six. Oh.
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That's Pure Heart Ministries, Po Box eighty five, Valley Grove,
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West Virginia two six o six oh. And I do hope,
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As I said, I can't see your face, I don't
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know who you are, but I sure do hope that
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you have been praying for me and this ministry. Well,
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this is Don Noble. I look forward with great anticipation
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because when I come back on the radio next week,
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we may have a new person in the White House,
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and I can only hope and pray. Well, you know
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who I want, So God bless you. I look forward
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to being with you again next week. This is Don
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Noble saying Shilloam, Shilloam, Peace be unto you.