(198) “It Only Takes One”

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He wants to use you.

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You can make a difference in the earth,

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in your sphere of influence.

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Your intercessions can drill through that darkness.

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Your praise and your worship can drill through the darkness

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that is trying to keep heaven and earth separated.

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You can make a difference.

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God promises in Joel 2.28 to pour out his Spirit on all humanity.

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Welcome to Global Outpouring.

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Will we contend for that promised outpouring?

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Will we equip for that outpouring

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so that we may engage in that very outpouring?

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I'm Philip Bus.

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And I'm Sharon Bus.

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Welcome to the podcast today.

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Philip and I are going to talk about something

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that's very, very important.

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And it's very important for you

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to realize how important you are

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in the whole grand scheme of things

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that God has planned and prepared.

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He wrote a book about you before you were ever born.

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And it's important for you to understand

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that it only takes the obedience of one

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or the disobedience of one to make a difference.

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It's already started and you want to be ready

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Amen.

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Amen.

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So the subject today that the Lord put on my heart,

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and I've preached a message about this

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kind of a long time ago, but it just came up

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in my spirit again today.

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And it's about, it only takes one

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and it only takes one to goof things up.

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You know?

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Like there's a tremendous picture in the Bible

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about the disobedience of one

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in the story of the fall of Jericho.

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Jericho in Joshua chapter six,

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God tells Joshua all of the things

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that they're supposed to do

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and he makes it very clear in chapter six of Joshua verse 18,

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he says, keep yourselves from the accursed thing.

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That's what it says in the King James.

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Another way to say it would be the devoted things.

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And I think really what was in God's heart,

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I haven't seen it spelled out in scripture directly,

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but the principle of the first fruits belonging to God,

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I think is what we see here in the battle of Jericho,

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because Jericho was the first city that they conquered

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when the children of Israel were coming

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into the promised land.

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And so you see the principle of first fruits,

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that the first thing belongs to God.

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So this first whole city was to be dedicated

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and devoted to God, that they weren't to touch anything.

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They weren't to take any of the spoils.

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Now after that, all of the other cities,

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they could take spoils, but not this one, but Achan.

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Achan saw something and he coveted it.

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He wanted it.

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He was greedy and he couldn't keep himself obedient.

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And so he took.

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What did he take?

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A couple of Babylonian garments, I guess.

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Where did he think they were gonna wear him at?

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I don't know, but he thought it must have been

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really, really beautiful.

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He took a Babylonian garment and silver and gold,

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and he hid them in his tent.

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That must have been a very wealthy place,

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wherever he went into.

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Sure.

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Cause you read about the walls of Jericho,

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and we've been to Jericho a number of times,

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and the walls didn't fall down.

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Like we heard the walls came tumbling down,

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cause they found the walls.

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It's like the angels just pushed them down.

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Straight down.

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And the whole army, cause even Rahab and her family

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was in the wall.

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So think about that.

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If the walls all came tumbling down,

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everybody would have died for sure.

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Anybody that lived on the wall.

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And maybe the section of wall Rahab and her family was in

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didn't go down all the way.

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I don't know, but a lot of the walls are intact,

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and they say it's just like the walls went straight down.

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Pushed down.

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They didn't just fall over,

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cause that made it real easy for the army

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and the people just to come right across.

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So what does it say in your?

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Well, I've got an interesting note here in my Bible

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that I made at some point.

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Do you remember Roland Buck?

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Oh yeah.

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The man who talked with angels?

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Talked with angels, yes.

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The angels told him that they pushed the wall

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straight down.

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Pushed it straight down.

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Which is what the archeology shows.

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The walls are there, they're intact.

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Wow.

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That's very interesting.

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That is amazing.

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And imagine what that did to the army.

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All of a sudden the walls are down

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and here they're all coming in.

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Yeah.

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And what kind of weaponry did they have?

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The children of Israel.

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I don't know.

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They didn't have all the modern,

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or the stuff of the day.

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I mean, they just came out of the wilderness

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with what was on their back.

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Well, they had already had a few battles.

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They had battled Amalek

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and they had battled up on the Golan Heights.

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So they probably had gotten some kind of weapons

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from the enemy.

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But you know, God was fighting for them.

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So every battle they got into,

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they would have won and part of the spoils

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would have been weapons.

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Yeah, there's stories we won't know

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till we get to the other side of eternity.

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That's very true.

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But what happened, because Aachen took these things

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and they were all forbidden to take anything,

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when the next battle came along,

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the battle of Ai, or AI,

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different people pronounce it different ways.

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And...

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Yeah, it's a bad...

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Yeah, it's a, what is that?

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The initials for artificial intelligence today.

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And that's a battle too.

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Yeah, there's some battles with AI now.

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So anyway, they thought,

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okay, so this little town of Ai, or AI,

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it's just so small, we don't need to trouble everybody.

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Let's just take 3,000 men and go after them.

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And the people came out and the children of Israel,

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the soldiers of Israel fled before them.

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They turned tail and ran and 36 men died.

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Well, that wasn't what they were expecting.

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And Joshua was beside himself.

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He said, wait a minute, wait a minute.

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And he cried out to the Lord and he was weeping on his face

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and the Lord said,

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Get up.

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Yeah, get up, Joshua, there's sin in the camp,

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go deal with the sin.

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And they found out that Achan was the one

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that had done this.

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So my whole point is, this one man disobeyed God.

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And God said, Israel has sinned.

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He held the whole nation responsible for one man's sin.

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That's my point.

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The whole nation suffered.

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36 men lost their lives.

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And it didn't look good for the soldiers.

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Joshua was all worried that if our people have retreated,

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if they've run away from the enemy,

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the rest of the Canaanites are gonna hear about it

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and we're sunk, we're sunk, we're done.

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Yeah, well, I've got a question.

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So Achan sinned, but was it the sin

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that he just sinned what he did

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or was it because he took of a curse stuff into the camp?

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So it was probably a curse.

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That was the sin.

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The sin is the curse.

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The sin is that he was greedy

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and he stole something that belonged to God.

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And it's gold, and it's silver, it's gold.

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But it belonged to God.

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He stole something from God.

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Ooh, that's right because-

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Because it belonged to God.

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God said, this is mine, don't you touch it.

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Oh, wow.

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Robbing God.

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And so I think that you could call it the cursed thing.

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It was cursed because it didn't belong to anybody but God.

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But I think we misunderstand it.

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Other translations say it was devoted to God.

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It belonged to him.

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That gives a whole better explanation.

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Yeah.

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So the point is, if we touch something

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that doesn't belong to us,

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I mean, that's one of the 10 commandments.

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Thou shalt not steal.

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Okay, Achan stole, but he didn't just steal anything.

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He stole something from God.

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Yeah, and it doesn't matter, but look at that.

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It's just laying there, those gold pieces.

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Yeah.

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But if God said, don't do it, don't do it.

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So the point is, I mean, he paid for it with his life,

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but not only he, but also his children.

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His children and his family.

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It's assumed because God took the family as well.

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It's assumed that the family probably was in cahoots,

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that they saw him bring it into the tent

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because he didn't live by himself in the tent.

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Yeah.

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So, you know, they didn't fess up either.

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So it was a picture of what it does to you

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and what it does to your family when you disobey God.

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It's not only something that affects you,

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it affects your children.

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Remember what it says in the 10 commandments

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about idolatry in Exodus 20 verse five.

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This is about the sin of idolatry.

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You know, God is telling the children of Israel

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not to make a graven image and not to worship it.

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Don't bow down to it.

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Don't bow down yourselves to them, to other gods,

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nor serve them for I, Yehovah, your God,

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am a jealous God, visiting, catch this,

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visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children

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unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me.

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So one of the rules that God gave the children of Israel

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was love the Lord your God with all your heart,

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with all your soul, with all your mind,

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with all your strength.

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It's the number one.

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I mean, it's not a part of the 10 commandments,

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but it is the one that Jesus said

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is the most important commandment of all.

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And it's part of the Shema.

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It's part of the-

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Hero Israel.

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Yeah, hero Israel, the Lord your God, the Lord is one,

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and you shall love the Lord.

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It has his name, okay?

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Yehovah, you shall love Yehovah your God

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with all your heart, with all your soul,

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with all your mind, with all your strength.

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If you bow yourself to other gods,

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if you're serving other gods,

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you're showing God you don't love him.

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Okay?

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And what happens when you turn away from God

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and worship something else, something happens.

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Sin gets into your DNA.

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Remember, the wages of sin is death, okay?

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So death comes because of sin.

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Adam and Eve showed us that

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and started the whole ball rolling.

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And what happens is that it affects your DNA

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and it affects the people around you, your family, okay?

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So I pondered this third and fourth generation

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for a long time, and then I felt like the Lord showed me

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that the people that are around you,

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you have an effect on your children.

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So you're one generation.

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Then your children would be the second generation.

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Your grandchildren would be the third generation.

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Most folks see their grandchildren.

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And sometimes you get to see your great grandchildren.

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Okay, so I knew two out of eight great grandparents.

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So I was affected by third and fourth generation.

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I knew my grandparents

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and I knew some of my great grandparents.

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And so, you know, here we are

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and we have a child and we have grandchildren.

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And you know, there's the potential

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that we'll have great grandchildren at some point.

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So the stories that we tell, the lifestyle that we have,

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the way that we deal with our children

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and our grandchildren affects their lives.

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I mean, think about the stories

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that you know from your grandparents, right?

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You know lots of stories from your grandparents

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and that has affected your life.

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So I think this is where

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that third and fourth generation comes from.

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So if you're a big sinner,

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that's going to affect your children

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and your children's children

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and your children's children's children.

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And as DNA goes, like an alcoholic, right?

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There's a tendency.

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There's a tendency for the children

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to follow in the parents' footsteps.

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And the grandchildren, each generation has the opportunity

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to say yes or no to the sins of the fathers.

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Yeah.

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So you're really responsible for your own sins,

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but the bent to sin is available in your DNA

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from your parents or grandparents or great-grandparents.

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It's affecting those generations.

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So Aiken and his family,

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we don't know how many family members there were.

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We don't know if there were children and grandchildren.

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We don't know who all they were.

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But my point is that when we make a conscious choice

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to walk in sin and do things that we should not be doing,

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it doesn't just affect me.

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It doesn't just affect you, listener.

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It doesn't just affect you.

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It affects others around you.

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So you're making a choice that is affecting

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more than just you.

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So pay attention.

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It's really important.

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Yeah, it's really important hearing the voice of the Lord.

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It reminds me of a story of a missionary that was in India

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and he was scheduled to come home.

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And I think the Lord spoke to him,

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your time is up, time to go.

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Yeah, I think he was even supposed to go home early.

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Yeah, and he stayed.

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I don't know if it was more invitations or something.

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He stayed, came back,

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and someone showed us a picture of him.

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And behind him, behind his head a little ways back

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was this demonic looking thing

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that followed him all the way from India.

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I mean, because he broke what God said,

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so he gave a legal right to lose protection.

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I mean, that may sound like,

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well, I've never heard that before,

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but you're seeing it here, the children of Israel.

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It's not just New Testament we're in.

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I mean, the New Testament fulfills the old.

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I mean, God's protection was here on Israel

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as long as they obeyed.

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I mean, when you go through Chronicles,

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first and second kings and Chronicles,

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and you look at the story of all the kings,

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and I have a Thompson chain Bible,

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and in the back it has a graph,

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up and down, up and down.

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Whenever you had a good king, Josiah, Asa,

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things prospered and did well.

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And then when you got a bad king like Manasseh,

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or, and all of a sudden it go down,

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and it was Israel went into captivity first, wasn't it?

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Yes, the 10 Northern Treasures.

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They had like three bad kings in a row.

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They only had bad kings.

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Only had bad kings.

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They never had any captives, not one.

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Oh my.

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Remember the first one?

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The first one brought the golden calf.

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Yeah, okay.

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Put two golden calves, one in the North, one in the South,

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so nobody has any reason to go to Jerusalem.

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That was Rehoboam, wasn't it?

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Jeroboam.

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Jeroboam, Jeroboam, okay.

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Yeah, so right from the get-go, they're idolatrous.

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And they were the first ones to go into captivity.

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Right.

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Right, from idolatry.

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But God would always give a space to repent.

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Oh yeah, it was hundreds of years.

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It wasn't like God slammed them immediately.

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It was, every generation has an opportunity to obey.

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Yeah, it's like the Lord God, He's slow to anger.

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I can't quote right where that is off the top of my head,

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but He's slow to anger.

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He's slow to anger, but when He's very patient, you know.

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Long suffering.

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But when His time is up with you, it's up.

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Yes, yes, He gives you chance after chance after chance.

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And that's why I think one of the reasons why we get kind of,

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I don't know that upset is the right word,

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but we bewildered maybe at why it's taking God so long

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to judge sin.

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But it's because He's giving chance after chance

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after opportunity after opportunity.

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You know, how many people do you know

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that are running from God and they've gotten into

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car accidents or situations where they've gotten

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really, really deathly ill and somehow they recover

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or somehow their life is spared.

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It's because God keeps giving them a chance

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because He wants them to come to Him.

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It's the mercy of God.

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Mercy, mercy, mercy.

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And He's not willing that any should perish,

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but that all should come to the knowledge of Christ.

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So we really want to see people get saved.

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And that's why we intercede for them.

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Remember what Dean Braxton said, it's almost impossible

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for someone to go to hell if someone is praying for them.

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So it's important that we pray for people who,

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you know, we might even think,

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that one is so sinful.

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God, get them, just take them to hell.

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You know, I mean, you might just get that offended sometimes,

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but that's not our Father's heart.

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He wants us to be interceding for them and praying for them

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because it's the obedience of one that turns things around

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because of the disobedience of one.

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I mean, look at Romans 5 verse 17.

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What does it say in the passion?

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I think maybe even more than 17.

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What was that one that you were reading earlier?

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Romans 5, it's at least 17.

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Yeah, it was 17.

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Okay.

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Death once held us in its grip,

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and by the blunder of one man,

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death reigned as king over humanity.

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But now, how much more are we held in the grip of grace

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and continue reigning as kings in life,

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enjoying our regal freedom

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through the gift of perfect righteousness

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and the one and only Jesus, the Messiah.

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Amen.

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I like how the King James puts it.

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It says, for if by one man's offense,

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and we know that one man is Adam,

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and Adam and Eve together are one,

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remember when you're married, you're one.

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So, for if by one man's offense, death reigned by one,

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much more they which receive abundance of grace

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and of the gift of righteousness

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shall reign in life by one Jesus Christ.

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In other words, Jesus' obedience

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canceled out the disobedience.

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Yeah.

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So obedience transforms the world

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in amazing ways as well.

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So, let's just look at one individual people

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that have made a difference in the world by their obedience.

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So we know that God spoke to Noah to build an ark

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because he was getting ready to destroy the world

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because of the terrible disobedience that was going on

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and horrific, it was just horrific.

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Kind of like what's going on today,

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but without the technology.

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Yeah, but we don't know what technology they had.

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Some of this technology comes straight from the pit.

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So I think we've got some of that kind of technology

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going on too.

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So anyway, Noah was obedient.

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God said, build an ark and Noah built the ark.

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In other words, Noah had a walk with God

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and his walk with God caused him to obey.

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I just heard a story recently of somebody we know,

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she heard an audible voice to put something away

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that would be dangerous, hide it, hide this thing.

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And she didn't understand why,

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but she had heard the voice of God enough

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that she knew to obey.

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And she did what the voice told her to do with that thing.

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And then this person attacked her.

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And if she hadn't put that thing away,

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she might not be alive now,

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but she obeyed because she heard the voice.

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It saved her life.

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And so-

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How did it save her life?

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Because the person couldn't find that thing

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that she had put away.

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Oh, okay.

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That he would have used.

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He would have used it on her.

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Okay, he knew it was there.

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He knew there was something somewhere

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and he wasn't able to find it.

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Wow.

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Because she had obeyed the voice of the Lord.

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So my point is, listen to the voice of the Lord.

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Your walk with God can save your life.

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Your intimacy with God can save your life

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and save the life of others.

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Noah heard, build an ark.

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And he built an ark.

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It took him a while.

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Yeah.

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He and his sons.

530
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Maybe they hired the local guys to do it

531
00:22:50,920 --> 00:22:52,760
and they preached to them and the local guys went,

532
00:22:52,760 --> 00:22:54,640
ha ha ha, ha ha.

533
00:22:54,640 --> 00:22:57,080
But you're paying us, so I guess we'll do it.

534
00:22:57,080 --> 00:22:58,120
I mean, it may have been that way.

535
00:22:58,120 --> 00:22:58,960
We don't know.

536
00:22:58,960 --> 00:23:01,000
I mean, the crazy man's given us money to do this.

537
00:23:01,000 --> 00:23:02,200
Yeah, what a nut.

538
00:23:03,080 --> 00:23:04,880
What a nutcase.

539
00:23:04,880 --> 00:23:05,760
Till.

540
00:23:05,760 --> 00:23:10,760
So, you know, the obedience of one saved the human race.

541
00:23:11,840 --> 00:23:12,960
The righteousness, yeah.

542
00:23:12,960 --> 00:23:14,880
Yeah, Noah's obedience.

543
00:23:14,880 --> 00:23:16,480
God brought the animals.

544
00:23:16,480 --> 00:23:18,600
Saved not only mankind,

545
00:23:18,600 --> 00:23:20,680
because every single human being,

546
00:23:20,680 --> 00:23:23,680
everybody with a belly button is related to Noah

547
00:23:23,680 --> 00:23:24,760
through one of his sons

548
00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:26,560
and maybe more than one of his sons.

549
00:23:26,560 --> 00:23:27,400
Yeah.

550
00:23:27,400 --> 00:23:28,240
Okay?

551
00:23:28,240 --> 00:23:31,240
And all of the animals that are on the planet now

552
00:23:31,240 --> 00:23:36,240
are on the planet because God brought those kinds of animals

553
00:23:36,320 --> 00:23:37,160
to the ark.

554
00:23:37,160 --> 00:23:38,200
They came in the ark.

555
00:23:38,200 --> 00:23:39,720
Noah took care of them.

556
00:23:39,720 --> 00:23:44,720
And we have animals today because of the obedience of one.

557
00:23:45,400 --> 00:23:46,240
Yeah.

558
00:23:46,240 --> 00:23:47,080
Okay?

559
00:23:47,080 --> 00:23:49,000
Now let's look at Abraham.

560
00:23:49,000 --> 00:23:51,880
Abraham, God told him,

561
00:23:51,880 --> 00:23:55,960
get up out of your country from your father's house

562
00:23:55,960 --> 00:23:57,960
to a land that I will show you.

563
00:23:57,960 --> 00:24:00,760
He gets there and God promises this land to him

564
00:24:00,760 --> 00:24:02,600
and his descendants.

565
00:24:02,600 --> 00:24:05,800
And one thing after another thing after another thing,

566
00:24:05,800 --> 00:24:07,800
God tells him what to do and he does it.

567
00:24:07,800 --> 00:24:08,640
He does it, yeah.

568
00:24:08,640 --> 00:24:10,920
He did some other things that God didn't tell him to do.

569
00:24:10,920 --> 00:24:12,280
And that got him in trouble

570
00:24:12,280 --> 00:24:14,320
and we're still having trouble because of it.

571
00:24:14,320 --> 00:24:17,680
But because Abraham was God's friend,

572
00:24:17,680 --> 00:24:21,360
again, Abraham's walking with God.

573
00:24:21,360 --> 00:24:26,360
He's obeying God and his obedience is creating a nation,

574
00:24:29,160 --> 00:24:30,600
actually creating many nations.

575
00:24:30,600 --> 00:24:33,360
God said, you're gonna be the father of many nations.

576
00:24:33,360 --> 00:24:34,920
So there's lots of nations

577
00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:38,480
that are the result of Abraham's obedience.

578
00:24:38,480 --> 00:24:40,040
So he obeyed.

579
00:24:40,040 --> 00:24:41,520
And here's another one, take your son,

580
00:24:41,520 --> 00:24:43,440
your only son that you love

581
00:24:43,440 --> 00:24:45,440
and take him up to the mountains of Moriah

582
00:24:45,440 --> 00:24:46,440
and do what I tell you.

583
00:24:46,440 --> 00:24:51,440
So that created the opportunity on earth as it is in heaven

584
00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:54,760
because of Abraham's obedience

585
00:24:54,760 --> 00:24:57,200
to be willing to sacrifice his son,

586
00:24:57,200 --> 00:25:01,080
expecting resurrection in that very same place

587
00:25:01,080 --> 00:25:04,720
on Mount Moriah is where our father was able

588
00:25:04,720 --> 00:25:08,520
to sacrifice his own son and resurrect him.

589
00:25:08,520 --> 00:25:11,720
I just think that's so amazing.

590
00:25:11,720 --> 00:25:13,240
But it was because of obedience

591
00:25:13,240 --> 00:25:17,000
and obedience because of a walk with God,

592
00:25:17,000 --> 00:25:18,920
a love walk with God.

593
00:25:18,920 --> 00:25:19,760
A love walk.

594
00:25:19,760 --> 00:25:21,600
A love walk, okay.

595
00:25:21,600 --> 00:25:23,320
So now let's look at Moses.

596
00:25:23,320 --> 00:25:27,120
Here's one man, very special man,

597
00:25:27,120 --> 00:25:30,360
special from the moment he was born, okay.

598
00:25:30,360 --> 00:25:33,480
They could see that he was a very special child

599
00:25:33,480 --> 00:25:36,800
and they hid him even though Pharaoh had ordered

600
00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:39,000
all the babies to be thrown in the Nile.

601
00:25:40,520 --> 00:25:42,360
The crocodiles had a feast.

602
00:25:42,360 --> 00:25:43,760
Nile crocodile, yeah.

603
00:25:43,760 --> 00:25:45,200
Yeah, they had a feast.

604
00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:50,200
And so Jacobet, Moses' mother, did what she was told.

605
00:25:50,200 --> 00:25:53,880
She put him in the river, but she put him in a basket

606
00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:57,680
and Pharaoh's daughter found him and raised him as her own.

607
00:25:57,680 --> 00:26:00,680
And I won't take time for the whole story.

608
00:26:00,680 --> 00:26:01,960
It's a very, very long story.

609
00:26:01,960 --> 00:26:03,080
It's in the book.

610
00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:05,160
Go and read the book of Exodus.

611
00:26:05,160 --> 00:26:06,800
It's an amazing story.

612
00:26:06,800 --> 00:26:11,080
But Moses was selected by God

613
00:26:11,080 --> 00:26:15,800
and he went through a whole lot of stuff to learn obedience,

614
00:26:15,800 --> 00:26:19,400
but he obeyed when God said,

615
00:26:19,400 --> 00:26:22,640
go and tell Pharaoh, let my people go.

616
00:26:22,640 --> 00:26:27,640
Well, he had some excuses and he had to overcome his fear

617
00:26:28,120 --> 00:26:30,320
of going back to Egypt.

618
00:26:30,320 --> 00:26:32,680
That wasn't an easy thing.

619
00:26:32,680 --> 00:26:36,720
He was a wanted man, but he obeyed.

620
00:26:36,720 --> 00:26:39,840
And God used him in a powerful way

621
00:26:39,840 --> 00:26:42,200
to save an entire nation.

622
00:26:42,200 --> 00:26:46,080
So the obedience of one, this is an amazing thing,

623
00:26:46,080 --> 00:26:48,000
the obedience of one.

624
00:26:48,000 --> 00:26:49,960
Then we have the intercession of one.

625
00:26:49,960 --> 00:26:51,880
So Moses was an intercessor.

626
00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:56,240
When the children of Israel, immediately after

627
00:26:56,240 --> 00:26:59,680
they get the 10 commandments and the one commandment

628
00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:03,840
that at the very beginning is, have no gods before me,

629
00:27:03,840 --> 00:27:06,320
and they get impatient.

630
00:27:06,320 --> 00:27:09,160
Moses is up there in Mount Sinai with this fire

631
00:27:09,160 --> 00:27:11,320
and who knows if he's been burnt to a crisp?

632
00:27:11,320 --> 00:27:14,840
Come on, Aaron, make us some gods so that we can,

633
00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:16,040
we can live by these things.

634
00:27:16,040 --> 00:27:20,520
And so Aaron, his excuse was he just threw the gold

635
00:27:20,520 --> 00:27:21,360
into the fire.

636
00:27:21,360 --> 00:27:22,200
Out came this calf.

637
00:27:22,200 --> 00:27:24,120
Yeah, all by itself, right?

638
00:27:24,120 --> 00:27:25,880
Right, yeah.

639
00:27:25,880 --> 00:27:30,880
So Moses interceded for the children of Israel

640
00:27:31,640 --> 00:27:36,360
and the intercession of one because of his walk.

641
00:27:36,360 --> 00:27:40,280
He had a walk with God that he could say,

642
00:27:40,280 --> 00:27:43,120
but Father, this isn't gonna look good for you

643
00:27:43,120 --> 00:27:45,120
if you kill everybody like you wanna kill.

644
00:27:45,120 --> 00:27:47,720
You know, he was angry.

645
00:27:47,720 --> 00:27:50,720
The wrath of God is ready to be poured out on these people

646
00:27:50,720 --> 00:27:54,480
that broke the covenant just days after they said,

647
00:27:54,480 --> 00:27:57,240
oh yes, oh yes, we will do exactly what you say.

648
00:27:58,520 --> 00:28:00,960
After they saw everything, all the miracles of Egypt,

649
00:28:00,960 --> 00:28:01,800
to get them out.

650
00:28:01,800 --> 00:28:03,760
Yeah, all that stuff they saw.

651
00:28:03,760 --> 00:28:08,120
That just shows how deep embedded sin is.

652
00:28:08,120 --> 00:28:09,960
When someone turns their life to Jesus,

653
00:28:09,960 --> 00:28:12,200
there's times you get instant deliverance.

654
00:28:12,200 --> 00:28:13,040
Right.

655
00:28:13,040 --> 00:28:15,440
But there's other times, there's things you have to,

656
00:28:15,440 --> 00:28:18,360
it's just like you're cleansed of your sins,

657
00:28:18,360 --> 00:28:23,120
but your walk, it's gonna take a while to stay above

658
00:28:23,120 --> 00:28:25,880
all that stuff that used to pull you down.

659
00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:27,440
You have to unlearn some things.

660
00:28:27,440 --> 00:28:29,200
You have to unlearn stuff.

661
00:28:29,200 --> 00:28:30,520
It's like it was my rock records,

662
00:28:30,520 --> 00:28:32,720
I had to destroy them all.

663
00:28:32,720 --> 00:28:34,920
Instead of saving them and selling them.

664
00:28:34,920 --> 00:28:37,800
So they were not in my position anymore, I destroyed them.

665
00:28:37,800 --> 00:28:38,880
Yes.

666
00:28:38,880 --> 00:28:40,920
And it was like a cut, clean cut.

667
00:28:40,920 --> 00:28:45,480
Yes, and there are things that the Lord will show you to do

668
00:28:45,480 --> 00:28:48,160
in obedience if you'll obey.

669
00:28:48,160 --> 00:28:52,880
It might be very difficult, but it will be worth it all.

670
00:28:52,880 --> 00:28:57,040
And it can save your family and it can save your nation.

671
00:28:57,040 --> 00:28:58,480
It can save all the nations.

672
00:28:58,480 --> 00:29:00,640
It can save people groups.

673
00:29:00,640 --> 00:29:04,400
Your obedience, your walk with the Lord,

674
00:29:04,400 --> 00:29:09,400
you, you, one person can make a difference.

675
00:29:09,880 --> 00:29:11,080
That's the whole point here.

676
00:29:11,080 --> 00:29:12,840
Yeah, I don't know right where the scripture is,

677
00:29:12,840 --> 00:29:15,440
but what comes in me, it's where if you are willing

678
00:29:15,440 --> 00:29:18,000
and obedient, you'll eat the good of the land.

679
00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:18,840
Exactly.

680
00:29:18,840 --> 00:29:20,880
If you're willing and obedient.

681
00:29:20,880 --> 00:29:25,240
If you look, take your time, it's Deuteronomy 28,

682
00:29:25,240 --> 00:29:26,440
I believe, isn't it?

683
00:29:26,440 --> 00:29:27,920
The blessings and cursings.

684
00:29:27,920 --> 00:29:28,760
Right.

685
00:29:28,760 --> 00:29:31,400
And I don't know if you're going there, but you read through,

686
00:29:31,400 --> 00:29:32,640
we'll do another podcast.

687
00:29:32,640 --> 00:29:35,600
I think that would be an excellent thing to do.

688
00:29:35,600 --> 00:29:36,440
Let's do that.

689
00:29:36,440 --> 00:29:37,520
You know, on Deuteronomy.

690
00:29:37,520 --> 00:29:38,360
Yes.

691
00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:40,240
So we'll let you know when that happens.

692
00:29:40,240 --> 00:29:41,320
Okay.

693
00:29:41,320 --> 00:29:42,720
So think about Daniel.

694
00:29:42,720 --> 00:29:44,840
Daniel was another intercessor.

695
00:29:44,840 --> 00:29:47,920
The children of Israel had gone into the land.

696
00:29:47,920 --> 00:29:51,160
They had taken over the land of Canaan immediately.

697
00:29:51,160 --> 00:29:54,800
As soon as Joshua died and that generation died,

698
00:29:54,800 --> 00:29:58,080
they fell into idolatry with their neighbors

699
00:29:58,080 --> 00:30:01,280
because they didn't obey the Lord

700
00:30:01,280 --> 00:30:04,600
who had told them to wipe out all the neighbors.

701
00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:07,280
Deal with these people, wipe them out

702
00:30:07,280 --> 00:30:12,000
because they came from the seed that Noah had cursed.

703
00:30:12,000 --> 00:30:13,800
You remember the curse that Noah put on

704
00:30:13,800 --> 00:30:17,720
because Ham had walked in on him when he was naked

705
00:30:17,720 --> 00:30:21,000
and drunken and fallen asleep in his drunkenness

706
00:30:21,000 --> 00:30:23,000
and something happened.

707
00:30:23,000 --> 00:30:26,560
And he woke up and found out what his younger son had done.

708
00:30:26,560 --> 00:30:28,280
And he cursed Canaan.

709
00:30:28,280 --> 00:30:29,960
Yeah, cursed to be Canaan.

710
00:30:29,960 --> 00:30:30,800
Right.

711
00:30:30,800 --> 00:30:35,720
So the children of Canaan had inhabited this land

712
00:30:35,720 --> 00:30:39,000
that God wanted to give to the descendants of Abraham.

713
00:30:40,080 --> 00:30:45,080
And if you'll notice, it was somehow in that family line

714
00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:47,360
that there were still giants.

715
00:30:47,360 --> 00:30:51,600
Remember David had to deal with Goliath who was a giant.

716
00:30:51,600 --> 00:30:53,880
And I've been meditating on this recently

717
00:30:53,880 --> 00:30:57,120
and I don't have any scripture to back it up,

718
00:30:57,120 --> 00:30:58,560
but I have a theory, okay?

719
00:30:58,560 --> 00:31:01,120
This is just my theory, don't build a doctrine on it,

720
00:31:01,120 --> 00:31:05,080
but I have a theory that in Ham's wife,

721
00:31:05,080 --> 00:31:09,760
there must have been some seed of the Nephilim

722
00:31:09,760 --> 00:31:11,360
in her family line.

723
00:31:11,360 --> 00:31:14,160
And when you look at ancestry,

724
00:31:14,160 --> 00:31:17,360
you'll find that even among siblings,

725
00:31:17,360 --> 00:31:20,360
there will be different genes that come

726
00:31:20,360 --> 00:31:22,920
from different ancestors.

727
00:31:22,920 --> 00:31:26,240
Like the German gene might show up in one

728
00:31:26,240 --> 00:31:29,240
and the Native American might show up in another

729
00:31:29,240 --> 00:31:32,120
and not show up in all of the children,

730
00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:35,800
even though they're children of the same parents,

731
00:31:35,800 --> 00:31:39,280
because each parent gives one chromosome

732
00:31:39,280 --> 00:31:42,120
and each parent has two chromosomes from their parents.

733
00:31:42,120 --> 00:31:45,360
So my father's gene might come out in one child

734
00:31:45,360 --> 00:31:48,160
and my mother's gene might come out in another child.

735
00:31:48,160 --> 00:31:51,000
All these different possibilities of combinations.

736
00:31:51,000 --> 00:31:56,000
So I feel like there must have been Nephilim seed

737
00:31:56,360 --> 00:32:01,360
that came through Ham's wife that came into Canaan.

738
00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:03,440
That it was expressed in Canaan

739
00:32:03,440 --> 00:32:06,040
and it didn't go into the other children necessarily,

740
00:32:06,040 --> 00:32:07,480
but it went into Canaan.

741
00:32:07,480 --> 00:32:12,080
And that's why Noah's mouth spoke that word from the Lord

742
00:32:12,080 --> 00:32:16,720
that Canaan would be cursed because this Nephilim seed,

743
00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:20,880
this seed that God was trying to destroy in the flood

744
00:32:20,880 --> 00:32:24,120
had survived in the line of Canaan.

745
00:32:24,120 --> 00:32:24,960
Yeah.

746
00:32:24,960 --> 00:32:26,640
So that's just a theory,

747
00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:28,840
because here's these giants already in the land.

748
00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:31,440
So I'm thinking that's how it happened.

749
00:32:31,440 --> 00:32:32,600
Don't build a doctrine on it,

750
00:32:32,600 --> 00:32:35,160
but I think that's what happened.

751
00:32:35,160 --> 00:32:38,360
So anyway, the children of Israel took over

752
00:32:38,360 --> 00:32:39,880
the land of Canaan.

753
00:32:39,880 --> 00:32:43,480
They were supposed to follow these instructions

754
00:32:43,480 --> 00:32:45,640
that God gave them, the 10 commandments

755
00:32:45,640 --> 00:32:47,840
and the other commandments that God gave to Moses

756
00:32:47,840 --> 00:32:49,240
in the Torah.

757
00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:50,480
They were supposed to follow them.

758
00:32:50,480 --> 00:32:51,560
They didn't.

759
00:32:51,560 --> 00:32:55,880
Hundreds of years later, hundreds of years later,

760
00:32:55,880 --> 00:32:59,200
like from Saul until the carrying away of captivity

761
00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:01,160
was over 400 years.

762
00:33:01,160 --> 00:33:02,000
Yeah.

763
00:33:02,000 --> 00:33:06,760
Okay, so it wasn't a fast coming of the wrath of God.

764
00:33:06,760 --> 00:33:11,080
He was very patient, but there came a time.

765
00:33:11,080 --> 00:33:13,880
And according to Jeremiah, the prophecy of Jeremiah,

766
00:33:13,880 --> 00:33:18,840
they were gonna be in Babylon for 70 years.

767
00:33:18,840 --> 00:33:22,640
So when Daniel realized that 70 years had come,

768
00:33:22,640 --> 00:33:25,880
he got on his knees and he began to intercede.

769
00:33:25,880 --> 00:33:27,960
He pled for the children of Israel.

770
00:33:27,960 --> 00:33:30,080
He asked for God to forgive them.

771
00:33:30,080 --> 00:33:33,240
He confessed their sins and he fasted.

772
00:33:33,240 --> 00:33:34,360
Fasted 21 days.

773
00:33:34,360 --> 00:33:35,200
Yeah.

774
00:33:35,200 --> 00:33:38,280
And so he was an intercessor.

775
00:33:39,320 --> 00:33:41,360
And God uses intercessors.

776
00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:45,320
And there's intercessors now that are making a difference.

777
00:33:45,320 --> 00:33:47,440
And you think of the lion's den.

778
00:33:47,440 --> 00:33:48,280
Oh yeah.

779
00:33:48,280 --> 00:33:51,200
Daniel was thrown into the lion's den.

780
00:33:51,200 --> 00:33:53,720
He had an angel of the Lord there.

781
00:33:53,720 --> 00:33:55,120
He had protection.

782
00:33:55,120 --> 00:33:57,080
Right, because of his walk.

783
00:33:57,080 --> 00:33:58,120
Because of his walk.

784
00:33:58,120 --> 00:34:01,320
His walk of obedience with God.

785
00:34:01,320 --> 00:34:04,120
And it's not just about obeying on the outside.

786
00:34:04,120 --> 00:34:06,360
It's obeying on the inside.

787
00:34:06,360 --> 00:34:09,760
Because before I got saved and there was times,

788
00:34:09,760 --> 00:34:14,200
yeah, I lived in Chicago's Southwest suburbs at the time

789
00:34:14,200 --> 00:34:16,080
and I was gonna go visit some friends

790
00:34:16,080 --> 00:34:18,240
up on the north side of the city.

791
00:34:18,240 --> 00:34:19,720
And this happened more than once.

792
00:34:19,720 --> 00:34:22,000
I was gonna get into the car.

793
00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:25,120
I thought, you know, if I die out there on the highway

794
00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:27,320
in a wreck, I know where I'm going.

795
00:34:27,320 --> 00:34:29,160
And I didn't go.

796
00:34:29,160 --> 00:34:32,760
And I really believe that was God protecting me.

797
00:34:32,760 --> 00:34:35,000
Because he knew there was a plan for my life

798
00:34:35,000 --> 00:34:37,920
that I had no idea about.

799
00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:40,640
Wasn't in my vision, but it was in his.

800
00:34:40,640 --> 00:34:41,680
Right.

801
00:34:41,680 --> 00:34:45,120
But you really knew deep down what the right thing was.

802
00:34:45,120 --> 00:34:48,240
You had just been going the wrong way.

803
00:34:48,240 --> 00:34:50,560
I mean, I was a good, I didn't do drugs.

804
00:34:50,560 --> 00:34:52,480
I've never smoked a cigarette in my life.

805
00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:53,320
Right.

806
00:34:53,320 --> 00:34:54,160
But I was backslidden.

807
00:34:54,160 --> 00:34:55,440
Exactly.

808
00:34:55,440 --> 00:34:57,640
So if you're backslidden, you know,

809
00:34:57,640 --> 00:35:00,280
it's like a little sin is a big sin.

810
00:35:00,280 --> 00:35:01,120
Exactly.

811
00:35:01,120 --> 00:35:02,320
If you don't, don't do it.

812
00:35:02,320 --> 00:35:03,320
That's true.

813
00:35:03,320 --> 00:35:04,880
That's very true.

814
00:35:04,880 --> 00:35:06,880
Daniel was an intercessor.

815
00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:11,880
And his intercession broke through the bondage

816
00:35:11,880 --> 00:35:16,880
that kept the children of Israel in Babylon.

817
00:35:16,880 --> 00:35:19,160
His intercession broke through the bondage

818
00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:21,360
that kept Israel in Babylon.

819
00:35:21,360 --> 00:35:24,400
And so we see that Paul was an intercessor

820
00:35:24,400 --> 00:35:25,560
in the New Testament.

821
00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:28,600
And I'm thinking about a couple of intercessors

822
00:35:28,600 --> 00:35:30,200
in more recent times.

823
00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:31,040
Yeah.

824
00:35:31,040 --> 00:35:36,040
In the 1800s, Charles Finney was an amazing evangelist.

825
00:35:36,040 --> 00:35:36,880
Yeah.

826
00:35:36,880 --> 00:35:38,840
And he has these fiery looking eyes.

827
00:35:38,840 --> 00:35:39,680
Oh yeah, yeah.

828
00:35:39,680 --> 00:35:40,520
Oh wow.

829
00:35:40,520 --> 00:35:43,680
Yeah, the portrait of him is almost scary.

830
00:35:43,680 --> 00:35:44,520
Scary.

831
00:35:44,520 --> 00:35:47,000
It's like he's looking right through you.

832
00:35:47,000 --> 00:35:48,280
Right, right.

833
00:35:48,280 --> 00:35:51,840
And God had prepared him as an evangelist,

834
00:35:51,840 --> 00:35:55,800
but it wasn't until he teamed up with a man

835
00:35:55,800 --> 00:35:57,160
they called Father Nash.

836
00:35:57,160 --> 00:35:59,920
Now he was father like as in daddy,

837
00:35:59,920 --> 00:36:02,360
not as in a Catholic priest,

838
00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:04,200
but he was an intercessor.

839
00:36:04,200 --> 00:36:07,880
And Charles Finney stayed in his home at one time

840
00:36:07,880 --> 00:36:09,640
and Charles Finney woke up in the night

841
00:36:09,640 --> 00:36:13,280
and he found that Father Nash was up and praying.

842
00:36:13,280 --> 00:36:14,520
And Father Nash told him,

843
00:36:14,520 --> 00:36:17,120
well, I just take a nap every night.

844
00:36:18,400 --> 00:36:21,360
And then I get up and I pray, I spend time with God.

845
00:36:21,360 --> 00:36:25,560
And this man became Charles Finney's intercessor.

846
00:36:25,560 --> 00:36:30,080
And he would go to places before Charles Finney got there.

847
00:36:30,080 --> 00:36:32,760
And he would intercede and he would deal

848
00:36:32,760 --> 00:36:35,080
with the strongholds in the spirit.

849
00:36:35,080 --> 00:36:37,000
And he would pray through.

850
00:36:37,000 --> 00:36:38,800
And when he prayed through,

851
00:36:38,800 --> 00:36:40,680
he would send for Charles Finney.

852
00:36:40,680 --> 00:36:43,800
And as soon as Charles Finney got within miles

853
00:36:43,800 --> 00:36:45,360
of the city.

854
00:36:45,360 --> 00:36:46,760
Holy Spirit was working.

855
00:36:46,760 --> 00:36:48,120
Holy Spirit was working

856
00:36:48,120 --> 00:36:50,720
and people were coming under conviction already

857
00:36:50,720 --> 00:36:52,920
before he even got there.

858
00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:55,040
The presence of God was there.

859
00:36:55,040 --> 00:36:58,040
And we need more intercessors, beloved.

860
00:36:58,040 --> 00:36:59,560
We need more intercessors.

861
00:36:59,560 --> 00:37:01,840
Maybe you're called to be an evangelist,

862
00:37:01,840 --> 00:37:04,400
but maybe you're called to be an intercessor.

863
00:37:04,400 --> 00:37:06,840
Whatever it is that God has called you to be,

864
00:37:06,840 --> 00:37:11,840
it's time for you to take up what God has planned for you.

865
00:37:12,920 --> 00:37:14,640
Another one was Reese Howells.

866
00:37:14,640 --> 00:37:15,920
Reese Howells, yes.

867
00:37:15,920 --> 00:37:19,640
Even more recently in the time of World War II.

868
00:37:19,640 --> 00:37:21,360
In a Bible school of Wales.

869
00:37:21,360 --> 00:37:22,200
Yes.

870
00:37:22,200 --> 00:37:24,000
And it was a day by day thing.

871
00:37:24,000 --> 00:37:26,560
If you read his book, Reese Howells Intercessor,

872
00:37:26,560 --> 00:37:29,160
it's a powerful book on his walk

873
00:37:29,160 --> 00:37:31,200
and where he got to where he is.

874
00:37:31,200 --> 00:37:33,160
But he talks about the war.

875
00:37:33,160 --> 00:37:35,960
It was a day by day thing for the whole Bible school.

876
00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:37,840
They would fast that day,

877
00:37:37,840 --> 00:37:40,440
or they would have classes or they would pray.

878
00:37:40,440 --> 00:37:42,840
And it was amazing.

879
00:37:42,840 --> 00:37:46,520
And the Holy Spirit would give him things to pray

880
00:37:46,520 --> 00:37:50,520
and Hitler would do them and it would backfire on them.

881
00:37:50,520 --> 00:37:52,600
And that was amazing strategy.

882
00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:53,440
Yeah, yeah.

883
00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:54,280
Amazing strategy.

884
00:37:54,280 --> 00:37:56,120
God had them pray strategies

885
00:37:56,120 --> 00:37:58,760
and they would find out on the radio or the newspaper

886
00:37:58,760 --> 00:38:01,520
in the next day or two that what they had prayed

887
00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:03,800
was what took place on the battlefield.

888
00:38:03,800 --> 00:38:06,160
And God gave victory after victory.

889
00:38:06,160 --> 00:38:09,960
Yeah, it's amazing just being in obedience to God.

890
00:38:09,960 --> 00:38:12,360
Especially in days like today,

891
00:38:12,360 --> 00:38:15,360
where there's so much to distract you.

892
00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:17,360
I mean, it's easy to get distracted.

893
00:38:17,360 --> 00:38:20,560
I mean, you can get a post on your phone

894
00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:22,640
on a Facebook post or something.

895
00:38:22,640 --> 00:38:24,920
Oh yeah, so and so has a birthday today.

896
00:38:24,920 --> 00:38:27,120
Yeah, and you wish him happy birthday,

897
00:38:27,120 --> 00:38:30,200
then you school and all of a sudden you're caught.

898
00:38:31,360 --> 00:38:33,120
And maybe it's not a bad thing,

899
00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:35,520
but if it's robbing your time for something else.

900
00:38:35,520 --> 00:38:36,720
You're supposed to be doing something else.

901
00:38:36,720 --> 00:38:37,560
You're supposed to be.

902
00:38:37,560 --> 00:38:39,800
I mean, if you do have a thing that gives you birthdays,

903
00:38:39,800 --> 00:38:41,800
okay, you'll see it when it comes up.

904
00:38:41,800 --> 00:38:44,560
But if you keep surfing the Facebook,

905
00:38:44,560 --> 00:38:47,760
you're gonna find stuff that you wanna read and hear.

906
00:38:47,760 --> 00:38:49,360
And an hour later, maybe you're.

907
00:38:49,360 --> 00:38:50,800
Oops. Oops.

908
00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:52,760
I should have done that in the meantime.

909
00:38:52,760 --> 00:38:53,600
Yeah.

910
00:38:53,600 --> 00:38:54,760
Obedience.

911
00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:57,280
God is looking for obedience.

912
00:38:57,280 --> 00:39:00,520
He's looking for those who are going to walk in love

913
00:39:00,520 --> 00:39:05,320
with him that we love him and put our face in his book

914
00:39:05,320 --> 00:39:07,160
rather than Facebook.

915
00:39:07,160 --> 00:39:08,640
And it's something like, you know,

916
00:39:08,640 --> 00:39:10,560
it's kind of been a challenge to me too.

917
00:39:11,960 --> 00:39:14,680
It's like you can be sitting or waiting on somebody

918
00:39:14,680 --> 00:39:17,120
or this or that, you know, get on your phone

919
00:39:17,120 --> 00:39:18,640
and da da da da.

920
00:39:18,640 --> 00:39:22,000
You know, pull up, we have like blue letter Bible

921
00:39:22,000 --> 00:39:25,360
and you can just pull up the Bible in an app and read.

922
00:39:25,360 --> 00:39:27,360
You know, just read the Bible.

923
00:39:27,360 --> 00:39:30,280
That's what Smith Wigglesworth did.

924
00:39:30,280 --> 00:39:31,120
Oh yeah.

925
00:39:31,120 --> 00:39:31,960
Very frequently.

926
00:39:31,960 --> 00:39:33,920
Every 20 minutes he was in the word.

927
00:39:33,920 --> 00:39:34,880
Wow.

928
00:39:34,880 --> 00:39:37,480
And that's what began to give him his power

929
00:39:37,480 --> 00:39:41,080
in being in the word and he prayed in tongues a lot.

930
00:39:41,080 --> 00:39:45,000
So, you know, it's about your walk with our father,

931
00:39:45,000 --> 00:39:47,200
your walk with him, your obedience to him,

932
00:39:47,200 --> 00:39:50,520
learning obedience and learning to do things

933
00:39:50,520 --> 00:39:53,720
the way he wants it done, listening to his voice

934
00:39:53,720 --> 00:39:56,920
and obeying obedience.

935
00:39:56,920 --> 00:39:58,920
You know, the thing that's beautiful

936
00:39:58,920 --> 00:40:02,400
is that God has given each and every one of us

937
00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:06,120
our own calling, our own election,

938
00:40:06,120 --> 00:40:09,280
our own purpose in the earth.

939
00:40:09,280 --> 00:40:14,280
And I love what it says in Psalm 139 and verse 16.

940
00:40:15,480 --> 00:40:17,240
King James says it this way,

941
00:40:17,240 --> 00:40:21,560
thine eyes did see my substance yet being un-perfect

942
00:40:21,560 --> 00:40:25,040
and in thy book all my members were written

943
00:40:25,040 --> 00:40:27,040
which in continuance were fashioned

944
00:40:27,040 --> 00:40:28,840
when as yet there was none of them.

945
00:40:28,840 --> 00:40:31,760
Other translation, here's New International.

946
00:40:31,760 --> 00:40:34,640
Your eyes saw my unformed body.

947
00:40:34,640 --> 00:40:38,760
All the days ordained for me were written in your book

948
00:40:38,760 --> 00:40:41,200
before one of them came to be.

949
00:40:41,200 --> 00:40:43,840
What does it say in the passion, Philip?

950
00:40:43,840 --> 00:40:46,360
Start a little earlier, start with verse 13.

951
00:40:46,360 --> 00:40:48,480
You formed my innermost being,

952
00:40:48,480 --> 00:40:52,120
shaping my delicate inside of my intricate outside

953
00:40:52,120 --> 00:40:54,760
and wove them all together in my mother's womb.

954
00:40:54,760 --> 00:40:59,760
I thank you, God, for making me so mysteriously complex.

955
00:40:59,760 --> 00:41:03,120
Everything you do is marvelously breathtaking.

956
00:41:03,120 --> 00:41:05,760
It simply amazes me to think about it.

957
00:41:05,760 --> 00:41:08,080
How thoroughly you know me, Lord.

958
00:41:08,080 --> 00:41:10,080
You even formed every bone in my body

959
00:41:10,080 --> 00:41:12,440
when you created me in the secret place.

960
00:41:12,440 --> 00:41:14,920
Carefully, skillfully you shaped me

961
00:41:14,920 --> 00:41:17,400
from nothing to something.

962
00:41:17,400 --> 00:41:21,560
You saw who you created me to be before I became me,

963
00:41:21,560 --> 00:41:24,120
before I've ever seen the light of day

964
00:41:24,120 --> 00:41:25,920
the number of days you planned for me

965
00:41:25,920 --> 00:41:28,360
were already recorded in your book.

966
00:41:28,360 --> 00:41:30,240
Beautiful, beautiful.

967
00:41:30,240 --> 00:41:32,280
And then the Hebrew of that expression,

968
00:41:32,280 --> 00:41:36,800
before I became me, it could be translated as an embryo.

969
00:41:36,800 --> 00:41:38,040
Isn't that amazing?

970
00:41:38,040 --> 00:41:38,880
Yeah.

971
00:41:38,880 --> 00:41:39,720
Wow.

972
00:41:39,720 --> 00:41:40,640
And now you can see it.

973
00:41:40,640 --> 00:41:41,480
In a microscope.

974
00:41:41,480 --> 00:41:42,320
Microscope, yeah.

975
00:41:42,320 --> 00:41:45,760
And then soon you'll see it on a, what's the scan?

976
00:41:45,760 --> 00:41:46,600
Ultrasound.

977
00:41:46,600 --> 00:41:47,440
Ultrasound.

978
00:41:47,440 --> 00:41:48,280
Yeah.

979
00:41:48,280 --> 00:41:49,920
You can see it in an ultrasound now.

980
00:41:49,920 --> 00:41:52,680
It's remarkable, absolutely remarkable.

981
00:41:52,680 --> 00:41:57,680
But the point is that you were formed specifically

982
00:41:59,120 --> 00:42:02,400
by our Father using various parts

983
00:42:02,400 --> 00:42:05,000
of your ancestry from your parents.

984
00:42:05,000 --> 00:42:06,160
You were not a mistake.

985
00:42:06,160 --> 00:42:07,800
You were not an accident.

986
00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:12,120
You were created by our Heavenly Father

987
00:42:12,120 --> 00:42:14,520
in conjunction with your parents,

988
00:42:14,520 --> 00:42:17,600
working together to make you.

989
00:42:17,600 --> 00:42:20,160
And maybe you have had a rough go of it.

990
00:42:20,160 --> 00:42:22,840
Maybe you had parents that were abusive

991
00:42:22,840 --> 00:42:26,520
or absentee father or a harsh father or mother,

992
00:42:26,520 --> 00:42:28,920
or perhaps you've had wonderful parents.

993
00:42:28,920 --> 00:42:33,680
The point is that our Father has a path for you.

994
00:42:33,680 --> 00:42:38,080
He laid out all of your days, wrote them in his book

995
00:42:38,080 --> 00:42:42,320
so that when the time came for you to be on the earth,

996
00:42:42,320 --> 00:42:45,880
everything was prepared ahead of time

997
00:42:45,880 --> 00:42:48,080
so that all things would work together

998
00:42:48,080 --> 00:42:52,280
for good for you because he wanted you to love him.

999
00:42:52,280 --> 00:42:54,360
He wanted you to walk with him.

1000
00:42:54,360 --> 00:42:57,800
He wanted you to have relationship with him

1001
00:42:57,800 --> 00:43:01,080
so that your obedience would make a difference

1002
00:43:01,080 --> 00:43:03,360
in the world right here, right now.

1003
00:43:03,360 --> 00:43:07,800
You have a sphere of influence that no one else has.

1004
00:43:07,800 --> 00:43:11,040
You are surrounded by people in a different way,

1005
00:43:11,040 --> 00:43:14,280
even from your siblings, even from your parents,

1006
00:43:14,280 --> 00:43:16,040
even from your offspring.

1007
00:43:16,040 --> 00:43:21,040
You alone have that path, that assignment,

1008
00:43:21,760 --> 00:43:23,560
that thing that God has called you to do.

1009
00:43:23,560 --> 00:43:27,960
I remember one time I thought I was gonna volunteer to God

1010
00:43:27,960 --> 00:43:30,920
for something that I thought that I could do.

1011
00:43:30,920 --> 00:43:32,800
And I said, I know how to do that.

1012
00:43:32,800 --> 00:43:34,200
I've got a burden for that.

1013
00:43:34,200 --> 00:43:35,840
And the Lord spoke to me very clearly.

1014
00:43:35,840 --> 00:43:37,440
He said, there are plenty of things

1015
00:43:37,440 --> 00:43:38,760
that you are capable of doing

1016
00:43:38,760 --> 00:43:40,560
that I've not called you to do.

1017
00:43:40,560 --> 00:43:41,880
Mm-hmm, yeah.

1018
00:43:41,880 --> 00:43:44,760
And so I stopped my volunteering to do that thing

1019
00:43:44,760 --> 00:43:47,920
because it wasn't what God had called me to do.

1020
00:43:47,920 --> 00:43:48,760
Focus.

1021
00:43:48,760 --> 00:43:52,280
Stay focused on what he called you to do.

1022
00:43:52,280 --> 00:43:54,840
And Dean Braxton sent me a thing today,

1023
00:43:54,840 --> 00:43:58,960
and I think we can maybe put a link to it in the show notes.

1024
00:43:58,960 --> 00:44:02,360
It's just a little short or a reel or whatever you call it

1025
00:44:02,360 --> 00:44:05,840
that a man is preaching and he's talking about,

1026
00:44:05,840 --> 00:44:08,960
I am on my path with God.

1027
00:44:08,960 --> 00:44:10,920
And I'm not jealous of anybody else

1028
00:44:10,920 --> 00:44:13,720
because if I was jealous of somebody else,

1029
00:44:13,720 --> 00:44:15,520
it would be saying to God,

1030
00:44:15,520 --> 00:44:17,680
I don't value what you made me to be.

1031
00:44:17,680 --> 00:44:19,160
Oh, wow.

1032
00:44:19,160 --> 00:44:20,000
Isn't that powerful?

1033
00:44:20,000 --> 00:44:21,040
That'll keep you focused.

1034
00:44:21,040 --> 00:44:23,960
Yeah, stay focused on what he made you to be

1035
00:44:23,960 --> 00:44:27,000
because he made somebody else to be something else.

1036
00:44:27,000 --> 00:44:29,720
Don't compare yourself to anybody else.

1037
00:44:29,720 --> 00:44:31,920
He made you, you.

1038
00:44:31,920 --> 00:44:33,120
That's very good.

1039
00:44:33,120 --> 00:44:38,120
And he made you to be in fellowship with him,

1040
00:44:38,120 --> 00:44:40,000
in communication with him.

1041
00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:45,000
He made you to co-operate with him in the spirit.

1042
00:44:45,000 --> 00:44:46,760
And that's why it's so important for you

1043
00:44:46,760 --> 00:44:49,520
to be filled with the Holy Spirit

1044
00:44:49,520 --> 00:44:51,480
and be speaking in tongues,

1045
00:44:51,480 --> 00:44:54,400
like we talked about in episode 194

1046
00:44:54,400 --> 00:44:56,920
that we did not too awfully long ago.

1047
00:44:56,920 --> 00:44:59,480
So go back to that one if you didn't hear it

1048
00:44:59,480 --> 00:45:01,600
about the importance of praying in tongues

1049
00:45:01,600 --> 00:45:03,920
and how God wants to use you.

1050
00:45:03,920 --> 00:45:05,720
He wants to use you.

1051
00:45:05,720 --> 00:45:09,080
You can make a difference in the earth.

1052
00:45:09,080 --> 00:45:11,160
In your sphere of influence,

1053
00:45:11,160 --> 00:45:14,960
your intercessions can drill through that darkness.

1054
00:45:14,960 --> 00:45:16,760
Your praise and your worship

1055
00:45:16,760 --> 00:45:18,480
can drill through the darkness

1056
00:45:18,480 --> 00:45:23,480
that is trying to keep heaven and earth separated.

1057
00:45:23,480 --> 00:45:25,440
You can make a difference.

1058
00:45:25,440 --> 00:45:28,240
And your worship and your intercession

1059
00:45:28,240 --> 00:45:30,240
and your walk with God

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will impact the people around you.

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It will impact the society around you.

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You can change your neighborhood.

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You can change your family.

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You can change your city.

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You can change your nation and the world

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by your obedience to the Holy Spirit

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by letting him work through you.

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Yes, amen.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Until next time, this is Sharon Buss.

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And I'm Philip Buss.

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God bless you with his overwhelming, loving presence.

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God bless you with his overwhelming, loving presence.