When God Manifests His Presence

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Welcome to A Word in Season with Doug Stringer and friends.

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What happens when God manifests His presence in those suddenly dunamis moments?

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In the darkest of times, He calls us to be lighthouses that can guide the way.

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Now let's join our host, Doug Stringer.

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Like all of you, on that Saturday, October 7th, I began to get text messages and messages

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and emails and calls from Israel and from others saying, have you seen the news?

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When we turned the TV on, we were just so overwhelmed because we felt helpless in some

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ways.

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And so we went to our knees and we prayed.

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And one of the prayers that I've been praying for years out of Isaiah 37 is that when King

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Hezekiah was going through major threats and the nations around were trying to come and

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take over and destroy Israel and Judah and that region and the Jewish people, and he

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cried out to God, he took the letters because he said this is a day of trouble, contempt

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and blasphemy.

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It's overwhelming.

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And now all of us individually have gone through times where we've been overwhelmed by stress

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and anxieties in our lives.

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And then you compound that with what we saw in the news last Saturday morning, October

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7th.

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I often like Hezekiah and I take those petitions before the Lord and the accusations of the

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enemy and on behalf of Israel and the peace of the Middle East and the peace for Jerusalem

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as we're commanded to pray.

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It's not a request, it's a command to pray for the peace of Jerusalem.

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We just go to our knees, we begin to pray and said, Lord, even as Hezekiah prayed in

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a time of distress, in a time of blasphemy, in a time of tension, in a time of threats

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of attack by the enemy.

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And he said, Lord, this is a day of trouble and distress for the children have come to

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birth but there's no strength to bring them forth.

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God, you have birthed Israel and you gathered them after these thousands of years, gathered

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them Lord, back into their land that you had promised them by covenant promise.

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Lord that even the United Nations acknowledged in 1948, the reestablishment of the land that

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belongs to the state of Israel.

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And yet every sense Lord has been constant attack of the enemy spiritually and literally

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by those who hate the Jews and hate Israel and want to destroy them.

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And yet Lord, you've always been faithful to protect them and look out for them and

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for those of us who pray for the peace of Jerusalem.

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So Lord, as you see these threats and attacks even now, God, I pray and cry out that we

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would help give strength through intercession and prayer and in practical ways to stand

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for Israel and to pray for peace in the whole Middle East Lord.

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Realizing where these threats come from, it comes from generations of jealousies and envies

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and generations of wanting to take by force a covenant promise you gave to Abraham, Isaac

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and Jacob and yet others have been trying to get and take by force the Father's blessing.

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So Lord, I pray like Hezekiah Lord and I pray that we would give strength for the birthing

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and for the health and the strength of Israel.

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And now Lord, I pray as Hezekiah came before you and placed the petitions of threat before

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you and he said, Lord, you alone are God.

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You alone are God.

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Open your eyes to see, incline your ears to hear.

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Lord, so we pray the same.

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We acknowledge that there is no other gods but you.

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You are the only God.

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You are the creator of the heavens and the earth.

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You are the same yesterday, today and forever.

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You are a God of covenant promise.

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God, you are a God that through your Son of love, through Jesus Christ, we have been grafted

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in even as believers, we've been grafted in, God, and I pray that you would help us to

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give strength to deliver through our intercession and standing for your covenant promises for

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Israel.

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And we prayed like that.

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I'm reminded of even in Nehemiah chapter 8, verse 1 and 2, it says that on the first day

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of the seventh month, and I thought that was July because I think in Gregorian ways, but

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if you look at Nehemiah chapter 8, it's talking about the first day of Tishri, the ecclesiastical

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year in the Jewish calendar, the first month of Tishri.

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But it's on the first day, in other words of Rosh Hashanah, the new day, the new year

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in the Jewish calendar, on the first day, Nehemiah had Ezra get up and stand before

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the people as they were preparing to restore Jerusalem and restore the temple.

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But to do that, you have to first restore the altar of worship.

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And you have to also offer ourselves as those living worshipers that we would see in Romans.

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It starts with us that worship, and the first time we read it in scripture, is not in the

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context of singing in instruments.

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That's the external expression.

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But the first time the word worship is ever used in scripture is in the context of obedience

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to God.

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So we are the living worshipers.

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On the first day of Tishri, they gather together, and Ezra takes the word, and he begins to

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declare the commandments of God, the word of God, and he just reads it to the people.

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And as they're listening to the word, because it is written, how many know that God's word

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is living and powerful and sharper than a two-edged sword?

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When we just get under the word, faith cometh by hearing, hearing by the word of God.

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So the more we hear it, the more we realize, wow, I am so untethered from what God wants.

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And the conviction of the Holy Spirit comes.

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We speak the truth in love, season it with grace, but we speak the truth nonetheless.

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And when we hear the truth and we hear the word of God and we hear the grace of God even

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in His word, it brings us to deep conviction.

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It's that place of preparing our hearts.

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So on that first day of Tishri, when he's declaring the word and speaking, people realize

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how far they had become untethered to God and His will, and they began to weep.

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And out of that then comes a place of rejoicing, because as we get our hearts ready and right,

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then God begins to do a work.

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So it is written, He begins to declare that.

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But it was interesting, over the years, I felt like the Lord spoke to me years ago to

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do a teachings over again on Haggai chapter two.

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And that talks about the 21st day of Tishri.

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And on the 21st day of Tishri this year happened to be October 7th.

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And here's the correlation, and I believe this is the enemy, because when light gets

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lighter, dark gets darker.

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We're to be those lighthouses in the midst of the storms of life and the darkness and

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the storm is in the seas and the raging wars.

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We should be that light.

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But to do that, we have to make sure we get tethered back to God's word and to that relationship

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with the Lord.

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So it's interesting on the 21st day of Tishri that I was already processing for 21 days

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from the beginning of Tishri, because I like to pray that and to say, God, you're going

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to restore things, you're going to do things.

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But here's what he says in Haggai chapter two.

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He says to Haggai, speak to Zerubbabel, speak to Joshua, and speak to all the people.

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Now I pray in the context, that means I get to pray and speak over in the seen and unseen

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realm to pray that God would open the eyes of politicians and governmental authorities,

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that God would speak to the royal priesthood, which is we are a holy nation, a royal priesthood,

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that God would open up the eyes and awaken the church for an authentic outpouring of

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revival that we need like never before.

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And that all the people would hear the word of God through his people and through the

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manifestations of the manifest presence of God.

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In fact, the other day we were a part of a Stand With Israel gathering an elderly woman.

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She comes up to me after the gathering of rabbis and Jews and Jewish leaders and pastors

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and leaders, and I had shared some things out of Haggai and the promise of standing

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with Israel and praying for Israel.

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And as your pastor said, it doesn't mean you have to agree politically.

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This is not a political thing of what we saw, the horrendous, atrocious things that Hamas

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has done, hiding behind a people.

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But there's an ideology, and there always has been in seen and unseen realms to destroy

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Israel and also to hate and destroy the church.

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We see that in the book of Jude, and I won't get into that now because there will be a

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blatant attack on the word of God and on the Lord himself.

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And we see that being lived out.

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This woman comes up to me and she wanted me to hug her and she's just like, I've been

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going to synagogue for 35 years and what I've been Jewish my whole life, but tonight because

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what I've seen displayed, I sense the ruach, I sense the spirit.

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I've been to other gatherings to stand with Israel.

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There's something about being facilitated and by you Christians and things I didn't

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realize and hearing from your heart for Israel, for the Jews, I feel closer to Christians

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tonight than ever before because she felt the ruach.

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And we know the ruach means the Holy Spirit.

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It means the spirit, the breath, the fire, the wind of God.

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We look at Acts chapter 2, it was the tongues of fire like a rushing mighty wind.

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It's the ruach of God.

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And some things we don't have to convince people if they sense the presence of the ruach,

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the Holy Spirit in our lives.

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And that's what we need more than ever.

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That's why we have to be tethered.

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But he says to Haggai to speak to Zerubb, the governmental authorities of the day, to

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speak to Joshua the priesthood and speak to the people.

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And he says, I want you to be strong, keep working because my spirit is with you.

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And then he says, I don't want you to be afraid, don't walk in fear, but remember my

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covenanted promises with you.

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And then he says again, because my spirit is with you.

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Now he's saying that and you think, well, why would he say that on the 21st day of Tishmul?

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Why do we say that to Haggai to say to all these people?

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Because he says, because when I shake heaven and earth, sea and dry land, if you remember

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those things I just said, then the circumstance won't dictate to you your response.

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Because you have to know that be strong, keep doing what I called you to do.

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Don't be afraid, don't walk in fear.

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We are a people of faith, not of fear.

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We don't want to be overwhelmed by anxiety and stress.

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We need to make sure that ours are fixed on Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith

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as believers, if we're going to be strong and keep doing what God's called us to do

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because his spirit is with us and that we don't walk in fear, but we walk in faith.

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We don't walk by fear, but we walk by what we believe God has already promised.

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So we remember his covenanted promises with Israel and to those of us that are grafted

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in and even individually because with the gleaning principles that there are things

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as we pray on the corporate context, God wants to do for us individually.

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There are breakthroughs that you need.

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Your personal needs is not too big for God.

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God's not just worried about the global crisis.

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He's also concerned about you and for me and how we come together because with one fishing

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pole I can catch a fish, but together in agreement together and focused on Jesus, we can do a

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whole lot more together because it's about being a mended net and not being a lone ranger.

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Right now more than ever, it might be nice going windsurfing and surfing by yourself,

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but during the storms of life, we better be connected to the ocean liner, to the congregation

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that we flourish where we're planted.

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We need to be connected, become part of something bigger than ourselves.

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And this is a time more than ever not to disparage people being in the congregation and being

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a part of church, but it's a time we need to gather together more than ever and to quit

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fighting each other.

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Put aside our weapons of warfare, it says in Micah.

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Put aside your weapons of warfare, turn them into harvesting tools together.

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Then the outcast, the lame and the sick will become a strong nation.

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Now he's speaking literally of Zion, he's speaking literally of Israel, but it's also

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a spiritual context for us that we need to take those principles and apply them even

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in the church if we're going to be strong and to give strength to bring forth what God

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has wanted to do in his promises.

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So he says all those things because I'm going to shake heaven and earth.

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We see in Hebrews chapter 12, the New Testament correlation that everything is going to be

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shaken.

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Well, we've been seeing that going on and on.

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In fact, at the end of 2022, I was crying out to God, I kept getting a reoccurring awakening

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from the Lord and kept hearing it over and over.

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And one of the things I kept hearing was three distinct words from the Lord.

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I'd go back to sleep, I'd get these three words and get up and it's like this overwhelming

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sense of trepidation in some ways.

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Because God says I'm about to expose and to spotlight.

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Expose what is done in darkness in my church, expose what is done in darkness in the halls

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of politics.

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I'm going to begin to expose things all around, but I'm going to also spotlight what is being

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done correctly after my righteousness.

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To those who thought that they were serving God and nobody cared, God would say, you don't

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worry about that, I'm going to expose darkness, but I'm going to spotlight my righteousness.

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And the second word I kept getting was implosions.

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That God was going to let things be so imploded in things that we put our trust in, in institutions

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and structures in the church and outside the church.

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Politics from the pulpit to political offices, from preachers to politicians, all in between.

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Banking systems.

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There's going to be an implosion because people have leaned on structures more than on the

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Lord.

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But out of that, God says, when all that is taking place, I'm about to pour out explosions.

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Explosions in two ways.

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Literal explosions would begin to take place.

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We'd see things that would overwhelm us.

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So God says, but my dunamis presence, my suddenly dunamis explosion will also take place.

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Then we began to see in January, God's dunamis manifestation at Asbury.

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Dunamis explosions of God's presence that during the time of Asbury, things were happening

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in College Station, in Waco, at Baylor, in universities across America.

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It was not just a suddenly in one spot.

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God was doing something in multiple places.

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That tells me God knows.

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God is still God.

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He knows things are going on and he's in control.

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The synchronicity of God, what I mean by that is not synchronicity with the religions of

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the world, but God has a way of taking what seems to be unrelated in a moment and to bring

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them all connected together for a moment.

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If we look at over 80 something times, the word suddenly is used in scripture, but it's

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not suddenly to God.

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It's suddenly to us.

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wind and tongues of fire.

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It seemed like a suddenly, but watch this, it wasn't suddenly to God because all the

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nations of the world had to be represented in Jerusalem on that Pentecost because they

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were there celebrating the feasts of what God had told them to celebrate of their wilderness

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journey and God's word that was given at Mount Sinai, God's promises over the years.

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It was their way of coming and to have celebration of what God had done and if God had been faithful,

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then God would be faithful now.

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So all the religious folk of every known nation of the world was represented in Jerusalem.

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What a great time to get 120 people with thousands of people there, but he took 120 people in

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an upper room focused in worship, restoring the altar of worship and in a suddenly to

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them but not a suddenly to God, in a place that everything had already been put together

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because God had already established his synchronicity.

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He had already put all these things together, seeming unrelated, and he thought this is

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a good time.

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Upper room, 120, worshiping me, pour out my Holy Spirit in Acts chapter 2, but as he does

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that in a city that had every known nation represented, thousands came to the Lord within

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a day.

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Every revival, every awakening comes in the midst of something that is going on in the

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world that is not easy to comprehend.

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Our hearts are overwhelmed, but God says that's a good time for me to show up and that's

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what we're praying that God will do the same.

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So it says that be strong, keep working because I'm with you.

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Don't walk in fear.

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Remember my covenant promises.

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If God's been faithful then, be faithful now because my spirit is with you.

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See in dry land, heaven and earth, everything being shaken, but when all that takes place

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and you've got your focus, he says the glory of the latter house shall be greater than

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the former.

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So the 21st day of Tishri is a reminder to the Jews but should be a reminder to us that

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no matter how much things are being shaken, all that is being shaken, there is something

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we can hold on to in Hebrews 12 that we are part of an unshakable kingdom.

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Everything can be shaken.

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There can be exposures, implosions, but we're part of an unshakable kingdom.

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And this is our moment, I believe it's our dunamis moment, it's our kairos moment where

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we need to be strong in the Lord and remember his covenant promises.

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Don't walk in fear but in faith because God's spirit remains with us.

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And so it was also the Friday night, October 6th was the ending of Sukkot, the Feast of

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Tabernacles which also was a reminder for the attendees of all then the Feast of Tabernacles

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that they were the representation of how God provided even in the desert.

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Even when they were murmuring and complaining, God took care of them for 40 years.

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And so it was interesting how when the spirit of death and hatred that came from Hamas that

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in their charter says death to the Jew, they teach their children from the time they're

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young that Jews are like animals.

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You can kill them, stab them, mutilate them, do whatever you want to them and death to

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America?

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Really what they're saying is death of the church because up until now the church has

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been the greatest influence in America that has stood with Israel and the church has been

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those who stood for the Bible but we find more and more that even professing Christians

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don't even believe the word of God anymore.

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God's calling us to say it is written, get back to my word because on the day of Yom

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Kippur it starts out Tishri 1, the first day it is written, 10th day Yom Kippur and they

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say it is sealed.

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They say what happens in those first 10 days of Tishri really set the tone for the future

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for the rest of the year.

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God is trying to set the tone in us that no matter what's going on in the world that we

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can remind ourselves it is written, get in His word and remember that it is sealed.

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We've been sealed by the spirit of adoption by which we call God Abba Father.

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I'm going to read out of something I wrote back in 2000 after being in Israel during

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Intifada having 1500 people that were part of an all nations convocation.

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It was a beautiful picture of Micah chapter 4 that all the nations were gathered in Israel

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at the Mount of the Lord in Zion but we were there to pray for the peace of Jerusalem,

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pray for the peace of the Middle East.

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We were gathering in the convocation leaders from all over the world 1500 of us and all

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of a sudden Intifada started.

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We could see from our tower at the hotel we could see Bethlehem and the rockets and the

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fires and the conflicts going in and out and we began to see and Bethlehem was taken over

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by the radicals and now it's no longer a Christian community it's a Muslim community.

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We saw from old city Jerusalem we could see there, we could see what was happening there

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and it could be overwhelming.

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We decided no let's not let the fear overtake us by the flesh.

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Let's get back into God's world.

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We're here and we have the authority to pray for the peace and the manifestation of God's

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presence like the Bible says right now.

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I saw firsthand some of the things I began to process it and I just want to read something

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I wrote in one of my books in the aftermath of that and my book called In Search of a

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Father's Blessing in that particular book and I said when the Intifada began we began

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thinking about the conflict in relation to the reasons we were there to worship God.

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But I go on to say in fact the conflict dates all the way back to Abraham and is rooted

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in much woundedness and bitterness.

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So I want to give context to what we're seeing right now and let me just say this the land

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and what's happening in Gaza I get messages from friends that are Arabs and Jews and Christians

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because there is a large Arab population that works and lives in Israel.

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Gaza was given over to the Palestinians and then Hamas took over and never left.

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Hamas is funded by along with Hezbollah in Lebanon.

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Lebanon by the way was a Christian nation at one time.

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Got taken over because people began to think oh it's not that bad and then all of a sudden

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once radical people take over like Hezbollah or Hamas they will never give it back over

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without fighting and conflict.

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Lebanon once a Christian nation I have a lot of friends in Lebanon a lot of people from

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Lebanon it used to be a Christian nation to see what it is today is a stark contrast to

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what it once was just a few decades ago.

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And so everybody needs to point the fingers they want to blame Israel and blame America

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and ultimately blame the church.

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Conflict goes way back it's rooted in bitterness in fact let me just say this that when people

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look at the land of Palestine there was never a people group called Palestinians and I have

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friends that say they're Palestinian I know people there I know many have come to Christ.

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I have friends in Arab sectors of the Middle East and they love the Lord and that's where

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the answer comes from that we need to make sure that we represent Christ in the midst

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of these things because the only thing that will change generations of bitterness and

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wilderness and hatred will come through the Son of God's love and Colossians 1 because

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we all have an inheritance that has been given to us through God through the Son of his love.

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And so we see that the history here because Islam did not even get started till over 600

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plus years after Jesus.

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The land of Palestine is a land but it's not a people group called Palestinians many come

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from other nations they're nomadic and if you look at the land of Israel today what

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it once was under the nomadic influence of people that just lived there nobody wanted

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to live it was desert there was no vegetation there's nothing lush about it but when Israel

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came back and began to come after the Balfour Declaration in 1917 and the scripture says

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Jesus said that when you see the budding of the fig tree know that the time is coming

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near the budding forth is up until 1907 there was no Israel in the sense of Israel having

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its land because they had been booted out and destroyed by Babylon by Rome by so many

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others over the years so they were scattered the four corners of the earth so you saw the

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Holocaust the hatred that even when they didn't have their own homeland they were being hated

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and sent to the gas chambers and killed because people hated the Jews there's something deeper

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than just a people group they hated the Jews for a reason.

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But in 1907 then of course 19 to 48 we see that finally the United Nations acknowledged

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that this land belonged to the Jews that is the homeland of Israel so it's not something

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they took from anybody else it was already God's promise in fact if you look in the book

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of Amos chapter 9 verse 15 it actually says that I will plant them in their land and no

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longer shall they be pulled up from the land I have given them says the Lord your God.

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Now Amos when he wrote that was probably around 560 BC and then around 2000 BC when Abraham

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was there and the blessing came Abraham Isaac and Jacob who Jacob became Israel God gave

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a promise in about almost nearly 2000 BC we're talking about over 4000 years ago.

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So we can look at history and you can look that up and but I want to give you some context

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it is not a land that was taken from anybody it's a land that was given by God and they

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were able to regather there and in fact when they move back in now you see vegetation so

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many things that we are beneficiaries of is because God has blessed Israel amen but I

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wrote this down Abraham had one son Ishmael was Sarah's servant Hagar one son was Isaac

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and that was a Sarah his wife and he had six sons with someone named Keterah the concubine

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he married after Sarah's death so in other words he had more children through Keterah

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than he did with Hagar or Sarah but yet God gave a promise that my covenant promise will

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be through your son Isaac.

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In Genesis 21 14 Hagar and Ishmael are sent away to live in the desert but God promised

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Hagar that a great nation would come from Ishmael his descendants are the modern-day

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Arabs Abraham also sent away the sons of Keterah and historians say they settled in Persia

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which is now modern-day Iran, Syria which includes the regions of modern-day Lebanon,

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Iraq, Iran, Syria, northern Jordan and parts of western Afghanistan and parts of northern

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India.

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Although God blessed all of Abraham's sons and provided for them Isaac was the son of

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promise the one who received Abraham's blessing and inheritance from God according to biblical

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scripture now when I think about that and you look at generational curses because of

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wounds of bitterness it's passed on if you carry a root of bitterness it's passed on

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to your children your children's children there's something in that kind of spiritual

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DNA that's passed on you may not even know why you may not know why you hate someone

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or a people group it's because you've allowed not the Spirit of God to dictate to us who

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we are and who people are we've allowed the bitterness and the wounds to begin to overtake

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even the Spirit of God in our lives that's why we can't walk in that room we have to

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uproot those things so we can be new creatures and creatures in Christ because we're no

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longer of the old man we're a part of the one new man the corporate body of Christ it

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doesn't have a dividing wall between us but we are now not divided with Israel but we're

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now grafted in because the promises of Abraham Isaac and Jacob but also we need to take that

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principle in our own personal lives so we don't carry those roots because it will be

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passed on to those around us and it affects others around us.

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So when you see what's happening right now it's more about an ideology of hatred Islamic

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radicalism in a form of hatred that it was carried on because again Islam didn't even

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start till six hundred something years after Jesus and it became out of trying to create

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a political religion and took some principles of Judaism principles of Christianity and

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created another religion and we look at the history of now two thousand years before Christ

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when the Abrahamic covenant through Abraham Isaac and Jacob and even though he had children

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that became the Arab nations and Keter became Iran and Persia and all these other places

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that all those years later you have older brothers which is Keter son one of the sons

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and then you have Hagar older brother hatred for younger brother who received the blessing

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and if you look at even Abraham Isaac and Jacob Jacob had a brother named Esau who became

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the Edomites because he married into his older brother Ishmael's heritage.

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So now you have the hatred of Ishmael who's jealous of his younger brother who got the

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blessing and then you have Esau who's angry and frustrated because his brother Jacob who

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became Israel got the blessing you take a double hatred compounded through the Edomites

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and that now has been transferred all these generations.

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So it's always been about woundedness jealousy envy and that's what we need to pray into

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as we cry before God.

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As a reminder the word says very clearly Isaiah sixty two verse one for Zion's sake I will

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not keep silent for Jerusalem's sake I will not remain quiet till her righteousness shines

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out like the dawn her salvation like a blazing torch Isaiah sixty two verse one but I love

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what verse six and seven say I have posted watchmen on your walls oh Jerusalem they will

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never be silent day or night you who call on the Lord give yourselves no rest and give

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them no rest till he establishes Jerusalem and makes her the praise of the earth.

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This anti-semitism it's a spirit of hatred Jesus says if you hate your brother it's

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like the spirit of murder there is literally a spirit of murder it will never be quenched

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or satisfied and then when you got people even our own country who profess to be Americans

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or even Christians who are protesting Israel and they believe a lie because they've listened

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to all these far left professors and educators trying to reshape history how many of us would

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ever say when we've seen the Holocaust we say oh if I was around then I would not let

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that happen but that's exactly what's happening today.

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It's Holocaust continued and it continues to open a wound and the only ally that Israel

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and the Jew has is for those of us to stand up for what is right to stand up against injustice

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so with the increasing resurgence of anti-semitism we Christians must not become complicit.

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What I mean is are we guilty of one of two things we can be those who are complicit by

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our acts against Israel or we can also be complicit by our omission so there is two

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sins commission and omission.

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Commission is to do something against omission is not to do right when you know it's right

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to do something right and to us that's sin.

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I think a lot of what we're seeing in our own country is a sin of omission people are

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afraid to say anything that should be canceled if you say anything people criticize you then

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at least if you don't want to say anything and it's okay if you're feeling that sense

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of pressure at the job or you know you don't want to say certain things social media is

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not a great place because it gets taken out of context but at least get behind those pastors

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who are courageous enough and get behind those who are courageous enough to say what you

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really want to say but can't so at least get behind them pray for them undergird them don't

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criticize it's a time to help lift each other up not tear each other down.

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So there is a sin of omission our silence that becomes a complacency and a compromise

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I was telling some leaders the other day the silence to me is deafening because during

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certain times during covid and we saw the rioting on the streets of America and under

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different labels it was okay to do that it's okay to go in in some places of our country

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to go into to stores and walmarts and steal everything and nobody can do anything evil

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has become good and good has become evil.

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I've heard this said the other day what we need is like the iron dome of civility we

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need to get back to that place of realizing we can strongly disagree but we can still

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be civil in our public discourse and even as Christians we have to be careful not to

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knee-jerk react when people are coming against us but realize that we have an authority that's

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higher than the things that people are doing in what we call compensatory facade they're

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compensating on the outside for the lack on the inside they're expressing frustration

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and anger because they don't have the Spirit of God leading them they don't have the ruach

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of God guiding them we need to be those who are led by the Holy Spirit.

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Zephaniah also reminds us that the Lord promises to restore his people and that he is in the

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midst of his people in fact Zephaniah chapter 3 verse 15 through 19 says do not fear now

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remember as we're praying for Israel for Zion God's speaking to us do not fear Zion let

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not your hands be weak the Lord your God is in your midst.

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Zechariah says that God is a wall of fire protecting Israel God is a wall of fire protecting

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us and he's in our midst but Zephaniah says the Lord your God is in your midst the mighty

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one will save he will rejoice over you with gladness he will quiet you with his love he

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will rejoice over you with singing I will deal with all who afflict you now watch this

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because God also reminds us through Zephaniah the prophet that God will deal with the nations

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or the gathering and leaders of the nations the assembly of kingdoms who have been unjust

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towards Israel.

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Zephaniah 3 8 says therefore wait upon me says the Lord until the day when I rise up

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for a witness because my judgment shall be on the gatherings of the nations to draw to

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me kings to pour out upon them all my fierce anger for the whole earth shall be consumed

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with the fire of my jealousy.

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God is saying I don't care if it's gathering of nations leaders or nations surrounding

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Israel like they try to do during the six day war it doesn't matter if they try to

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continue to come against them and try to create and terrorize them it doesn't matter God says

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that I will deal with that including the United Nations or any gathering of nations that is

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unjust towards the right of Israel to exist it's the only nation the only nation that

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has had to survive on a small strip of land after being scattered all over the earth and

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the ethnic cleansing against the Jews because of historical generational jealousy envy hatred

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that comes out in what we saw and some of these campuses trying to say it didn't happen

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it's just propaganda look you could look for yourself but some of that stuff was put up

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by the terrorists by the Hamas of what they did they are justifying what they do because

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of their common hatred and generational hatred for the Jew but if they come for the Jew they'll

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come for us because we stand as beacons of hope in a lighthouse in a world that's dark

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we stand for righteousness God will prevail he is still bigger than the Giants he's still

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bigger than the circumstances this is our moment in time for a time such as as Esther

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in Iran in Persia modern-day Iran when the spirit of Haman came was bold enough to stand

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up to do the right thing and God used her to turn the death and the decree of the spirit

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of Haman against a whole people group and ultimately has taught us lessons that we can

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be a part of a time such as this to stand for righteousness shot it from the rooftops

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that we are Christians that we're not afraid to stand with Israel and that we are those

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who are created for this moment at this time no matter what it looks like around us no

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matter what the world tries to do that we are preparing for the coming of the Lord we're

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closer than ever before may the glory of the latter house be greater than the former father

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I thank you that there's so much we can share and dates and history and all these things

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I just pray that you would minister to our hearts personally that we don't have to walk

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in fear that we can be strong we can keep doing what you've called us to do because

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we know your spirit your Ruach is with us we thank you we don't have to be in fear but

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we are people of faith we thank you you remind us of your written word and it's sealed your

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word is true that you're the same yesterday today and forever that Lord we know that in

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your covenant promises with Israel and with your promises to us through scripture that

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we are grafted in that we have a hope the hope of glory Christ in us in his Colossians

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one says that all things are made to through for and by Jesus and which every principality

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rulership kingdom and dominion is subject to you Jesus in the seen and unseen realm

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so we know if you are King of Kings and Lord of Lords which we believe that we don't have

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to cower to the spirits of this world or the kingdoms of this world if we see it or don't

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see them in the scene and unseen realm because we know we're part of an unshakable kingdom

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the kingdom of the Lord Jesus Christ in Jesus name amen.

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