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Rescue Radio, because there's a war for your soul.
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Yes, Father God, indeed, and the war rages. So we thank you,
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Father, for protection.
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We thank you for mercy. We thank you for judgment and justice.
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And we also thank you that you are the Lord God and that we declare that your
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will be done, O God, on earth, in and through us, as it's being done and declared in heaven.
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We are your heavenly agents on earth to do and execute your will.
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So we declare thy kingdom come thy will be done we serve you and you are our
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king and lord and we thank you father for sending Jesus
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we thank you for coming voluntarily to come
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and lay down your life for us that we might be set free you gave your life in
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exchange for ours through that salvation revelation and redemption Lord I pray
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that and you said whosoever will call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved
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so call upon the name of the Lord and receive that salvation.
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And deliverance that you long for.
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I thank you, Jesus, for also giving us power over all the power of the enemy,
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power to loose, power to bind, power to forgive and love even our enemies.
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I thank you for giving us authority.
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You said you shall tread on serpents and scorpions and over all the power of
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the enemy, nothing shall by any means hurt you.
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So Lord God, cause us to be able to use that power because we believe in you.
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We have faith in you, in your word and in your promises.
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I also thank you that you've promised us that no weapon formed against us will prosper.
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So we thank you for divine protection, healing, direction, Father, wisdom.
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You said if any man likes wisdom, let him ask of God. We ask for favor and blessing
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and justice and truth and mercy upon us and upon those who work for us and pertain
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to us, our families, those who are depending upon us, Lord God.
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May your word go forth. And Jesus Christ, we thank you.
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You are the faithful witness. You are the wonderful counselor.
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Now guide us by your Holy Spirit, Father, in Jesus' name. Amen.
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Well, today we're going to be talking about justice, and I'm talking about it
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with you all by myself. So let's have a discussion. Open your eyes and get some
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understanding here of what justice and injustice have done to us in this world.
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Many of us, when we see all the things that are wrong, obviously we have a built-in
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innate radar or understanding for justice.
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And when things are not just, we get upset and we get angry.
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You know that was never we were never
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taught what is right what is wrong and fair
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and just it just seems like we just know when something's not fair by
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the time you're two years old you know if your brother or sister's gotten a
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bigger cookie than you i mean it's just like nobody sits you down and says okay
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here's what justice looks like we just know this because that is part of the
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divine design for us in our spirits to recognize truth and justice and so this
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world is not full of god's justice.
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It's full of demonic oppression because the ruler of this world,
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the God of this world, who runs the snake pit, is anything but just.
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He's treacherous and deceptive.
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So we are living in this world where there's nothing but danger unless we are
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secured and sheltered in the love of God.
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So there are many times the psalmist would cry out, David especially,
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where is your justice, oh God, you know, we see it every day.
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We see it all around us. The righteous, the good people are pushed down, the helpless,
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the needy, the honest people, and are pushed down, persecuted,
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and they perish, while the godless mock and boast and pursue the innocent.
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So we have the same conditions that David is writing about in his Psalms,
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especially, I'm going to read some of these today to you, just to kind of refresh,
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encourage you that justice is in the hands of God and he is fair and he is righteous.
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So in Psalm 7 verse 1, we have David's complaint.
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And you know, he was maligned, he was attacked, he was chased,
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he was threatened, he was, there were many assassination attempts put on his
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life as well. But God protected him.
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And in Psalm 7 verse 1,
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the lord my god oh lord my
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god in you i put my trust save me
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from those who persecute me and deliver me lest they tear me like a lion rending
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me in peace as while there is none to deliver and then he goes on to say lord
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if i have done this if there's iniquity in my hands if i have repaid evil to
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him who was at peace with me if i've plundered my enemy without cause i
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and then let the enemy pursue and overtake me.
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He says, if I'm doing things wrong, then let the enemy trample my life to the ground.
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But then he says, arise, O Lord, in your anger.
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Lift yourself up because of
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the rage of my enemies. Awake for me to the judgment you have commanded.
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Our whole hope and ultimate survival depends upon God's willingness to defend
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us and walking in the justice and the truth that he is and has provided for us.
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And so we understand that there's a lot of relationships in this world that
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are filled with wickedness, injustice, bitter words, accusations, all kinds of things.
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And all of these things can really affect us physically, emotionally,
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spiritually if we do not get all this set up in the right context.
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And the context is that God is with us.
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God sees everything and there is a judgment coming.
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So in Psalm 10, I'm just going to read that whole Psalm to you because it's
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very, it really prays our prayer, you know, and a lot of times when you go into
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the Psalms, you're praying prayers of David, but you're also finding words for
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your own prayers, for your own thoughts.
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And that's why I think they're really excellent in terms of putting words and
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expressions to our emotions. Sometimes it's hard to speak out,
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say out, put into words what you're really feeling, but the Psalms are great for that.
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Psalm 10, verse 1. Why do you stand afar off, O Lord? Why do you hide yourself in times of trouble?
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How many times have we asked the Lord this? Where are you? Why are you letting
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all this bad stuff happen? We prayed. Why didn't you answer? Where were you?
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Why didn't you stop it? Verse 2. the wicked
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in his pride persecutes the poor and let
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he said so they're ignorant they have no idea of
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the judgment that's coming they have no idea that god is
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watching and recording and and there's nothing hidden in his from his sight
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and all of actually now as we see it beginning to unfold in our political systems
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and in our world systems the hidden works of darkness are being unfolded and
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exposed so that we, the righteous,
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have a right or an opportunity to choose whom we're going to serve.
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He says, let them, verse 2, be caught in the plots which they have devised. There you go.
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The things that have been hidden and buried are being brought to the surface.
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It says in verse 3, the wicked beats a boast of his heart's desire.
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He blesses the greedy and...
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And or not, renounces the Lord. He has no fear of God. That's actually the problem.
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The wicked in his proud countenance does not seek God.
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God is in none of his thoughts. This is amazing how that you can live in this
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world and have God in none of your thoughts.
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You can absolutely be so sedated, seduced, demoralized, programmed,
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that there is no thought of God, no fear of God, no revelation of God in your life.
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This wicked, he is always prospering. Your judgments seem to be far out of his sight.
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As for all of his enemies, he sneers at them. Here's what he says.
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He says in his heart, I shall not be moved. I shall never be in adversity.
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His mouth is full of cursing and deceit and oppression.
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Under his tongue is trouble and iniquity. Who do you suppose is giving him this
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boldness, this arrogance, this rebellion to speak against God like this?
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Is it coming from himself or is it coming from the one who controls him?
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It says he sits in the lurking places of the village. In the secret places,
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he murders the innocent.
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How many people have been murdered in dark places, deep places,
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in the hidden places where no one sees what's going on?
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His eyes are secretly fixed on the helpless.
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He takes advantage of the helpless. He uses their resources,
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their lives, their blood, their breath for his own purposes and to enhance his own life.
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He lies in wait secretly like a lion in his den.
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He lies in wait to catch the poor. He catches the poor when he draws them into
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his net. So he crouches and he lies low.
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Then the helpless, that the helpless may fall by his strength.
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He has said in his heart, God is forgotten. He hides his face. He will never see it.
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How arrogant and blind and stupid are we to think that God does not see or we
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can live outside of his comprehension or his awareness of us.
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Arise, O Lord, God, lift up your hand. Do not forget the humble.
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Why do the wicked renounce God? He has said in his heart, I will,
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you will not require an account.
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So they're, they're, they're seeing this. They're going to get by with this. There's no judgment.
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There's no day of reckoning, so to speak, but you have seen it talking about
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God, where you observe trouble and grief to repay it by your hand.
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The helpless commits himself to you.
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You are a helper of the fatherless break the arm of the wicked and in the evil man.
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How many of us have personal experiences with very wicked and evil people in
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our lives, whether they've slandered us, accused us, taken us to court,
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maligned us, stolen our stuff, went after us to kill us.
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And he's saying, seek out his wickedness until you find it. The Lord is king forever and ever.
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The nations have perished out of his hands. The nations are going to have to
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recognize that Jesus Christ is Lord and the Lord is king over all and over all the nations. And.
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He says, Lord, you have heard the desire of the humble. This is a key to getting
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justice, to getting health, to getting healing, to getting restoration,
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is humility, confessing your
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own faults so that you don't get caught up in them and be judged by them.
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And he says, you will prepare their hearts. You will cause your ear to hear,
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to do justice to the fatherless and the oppressed, that the man of earth may oppress no more.
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This is basically the reading of Psalm 10. But then we can go into another place
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in Psalm 66, where we have a kind of a confusion about justice.
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And he says in verse eight, he says, he says that, let's see where,
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come and see the works of the Lord.
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He is awesome in his doings towards the sons of men. He turns the sea to dry land.
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He went through the river on, they went through the river on foot.
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So he's ruling by his power. His eyes observe the nations.
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Do not let the rebellious exalt themselves.
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Oh, bless the Lord, you, his people.
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Make his way known among the earth.
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Who keeps our soul among the living. Who does not allow our foot to be moved.
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For you, O Lord, listen to this.
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For you, O Lord, have proved us. You have refined us as silver is refined.
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You've brought us into the net. You've laid affliction on our back.
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You've caused men to ride over our heads. We went through the fire and through the water. Okay?
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So what's going on here? It says, it sounds like God is doing all this stuff to us.
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And we get confused. Like, why is God letting all this bad stuff happen?
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What did I do wrong? And then we get confused about God. You know,
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you're letting, you've proved us, you've refined us.
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In other words, if you don't put the devil, the enemy in this equation called
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life, you're going to have to make God either bipolar, crazy.
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Untrustworthy, or someone that creates anxiety.
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Because God, what's he doing? Is he creating us, blessing us,
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redeeming us, taking care of the needy and the helpless and the fathers?
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And now he's proving us and afflicting us and refining us and laid affliction
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on our back. This is where we get,
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This is the true test of faith. Are you going to believe what it looks like?
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Are you going to believe what God said? And are we going to understand that
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if we go back to the story of Job, we do have a very good explanation for all of these things.
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Many people avoid that book because it seems to be overwhelming.
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Long, tedious, hard to understand.
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But the gist of it is in the beginning, Job was, by God's own words, a righteous man.
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And Satan saw how God had blessed Job.
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I mean, financially, children, property, et cetera.
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And so Satan had a bone to pick with God.
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He said, you know, Job just loves you because you give him, give him,
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bribe him, give him all this stuff.
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Well, that's exactly what Job, the devil does. He bribes everybody to get them
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to do what he wants. But he was accusing God of doing that.
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And he said to God, he said, Let me test him, and I will prove to you that he is not loyal to you.
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He simply serves you for the things you give him.
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And God didn't say, go ahead and test him. God just said, you cannot touch his body.
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So with that implication, Satan ran off and destroyed all of Job's financial
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blessings, his flocks, his servants, and had the tornado or windstorm or whatever,
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collapse the roof of the house where his children were. So all his children died.
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And so all of this, the family, the finances, all taken out in one fell swoop.
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This is a major test. I mean, some of us have a bad day when our tire goes flat
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or we run out of toothpaste, but this is really big.
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You know, this is like the end of it all.
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But Job sat there and did not curse God.
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He cursed the day he was born and was confused, but he did not get bitter against God.
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He didn't shake his fist against God and say, why God, why did you do this to
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me? I was righteous. us. What is this?
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But this is what God says. He refines us as silver is refined.
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He brings us into the net. He lays affliction.
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He causes men to ride over us.
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Why do we call God? Why do we accuse God of bringing us through the fire?
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Because God permits it. Why does he permit it?
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Because he's the one taking the test.
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Satan didn't challenge Job. He challenged God to be able to keep Job and Job's
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loyalty and love to God in the midst of this cataclysmic, traumatic setbacks in his life.
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And Job did not curse God. He did not even, he did, basically,
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he just was silent. He was patient, you know, the patience of Job.
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And then Satan came back in chapter two and he said, and God says,
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have you seen my righteous servant Job, who you have incited me against?
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And he still calls him righteous. And the devil says, yeah, yeah,
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but you didn't let me touch his body.
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Let me touch his body, bone for bone, skin for skin. I will get him to curse
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you and prove to you that he doesn't really love you.
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How many of us are in those kind of physical afflictions right now?
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Our bodies are all tied up in knots. We're in pain. We don't understand.
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We're being tormented. They can't find a reason.
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The medical community is baffled. We are hung up on all these things.
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You know our finances are dwindling away our
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hope is dwindling away and Satan says
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you let me touch his body and I will get him to curse you and
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die and God says do another line he says you cannot kill him you cannot take
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his life so with that Satan ran off taking an implied consent permission to
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go and touch Job's body so he was filled with all kinds of anxieties histamine reactions boils.
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Horrible things going on.
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And then, you know, the devil, as if it wasn't bad enough, he brought three
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friends along who were not friends, who were judgers, judgy.
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They were kind of sitting there trying to figure out what Job had done wrong
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to be able to prove that it was God who was doing this to Job because Job had sinned.
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So their theory was that we are suffering. You are suffering right now,
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because somehow you have sinned and God is punishing you. God is teaching you a lesson.
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And that is not true. Because in the end, when they examined Job's life for
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days, they came up with basically nothing.
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Finally, God stepped into the conversation and he said, you know,
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he says, Job, you know, were you there when I created the Leviathan and the
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this and the that? And Job said, no.
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And then Job realized that God was awesome, great, way beyond his little ideas
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of who God was and he asked God to basically you know like.
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Forgive him. And he thanked God for the new revelation of who he was.
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And then God said to him, now I want you to pray for your friends,
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because they have not spoken that which is right concerning me.
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So God told the friends, go get some offerings and go to Job and ask him to pray for you.
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Because he says, God said it twice, they have not spoke that which is right concerning me.
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In other words, what they were accusing God of doing, because Job had sinned,
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so they were accusing God of bringing these judgments upon him.
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According to God, was not correct.
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He hadn't started this fight and he wasn't here to punish Job.
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He was here to bless Job and ultimately in the end he did.
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He turned around and blessed him over and abundant more than he had before.
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And so this is the way we have to see God. God is good all the time.
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He's not just good when things are going good and then when things are going bad, it must be you.
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You're bad and God's punishing you yes we do sin and
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when we do sin on the other hand on the other side of that coin when you
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do open yourself up to lies fear iniquity taking matters into your own hands
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yeah then there are judgments that can come and who brings them the devil but
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who do you think is bringing them you think it's god so we're we're always actually
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in that position where we're tempted to judge God for being unfair,
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being unhappy,
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just waiting to see if we fall or fail, and just looking for a way to hurt us. That's not true.
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That's not God. And if you have that kind of a God, you are going to have a
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lot of fear and anxiety in this world, and you're going to have to be taking
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care of yourself because you can't trust anybody else, including God.
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It says in Psalm 9, verse 16, the Lord is known by the judgments he executes.
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The wicked are snared in the work of their own hands. We do bad things,
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but that doesn't mean we're wicked.
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When you repent of those things, you did those wicked things in the first place
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because you believe lies, you are listening to the counsel of fear,
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and you took matters into your own hands.
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And many times we take the matter of judgment and justice into our own hands too.
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But it says in verse 17, the wicked he turns into hell. The needy shall not always be forgotten.
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The expectation of the poor shall not perish forever. There is a judgment day coming. But,
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When God's justice is delayed, which it is right now, we are in a place of temptation.
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We're afraid that things won't get right, fixed or made right. So we get angry.
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Anger in your life, anger, if you're angry, anger is a symptom of injustice.
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It's energy. It's an emotional reaction to an injustice.
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So when you're angry, you're flying off the handle, you're getting upset, getting frustrated,
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irritated, whatever those things are with someone or even yourself or God,
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it is because you are taking your, there's an injustice.
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So the question is when you have this explosion, anger, manifestation,
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whatever, ask yourself, what is the offense?
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Go down, the carrot top explodes, but the root is where you need to go.
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What is the root of the offense? The offense is always, always a sin against
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the same thing, against the law of love.
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So when people are defrauding you or lying or maligning or accusing or disturbing,
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distressing, stealing, all
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of these things that they do, they're committing crimes against the law.
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God's one law, as all remains and is reduced into one thing.
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Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, soul, mind,
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and strength, and thy neighbor as thyself.
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And all the law is fulfilled in this, that you love your neighbor as yourself.
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And it's basically the golden rule, do unto others as you'd have them do unto you.
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But we get into that place where we think, okay, I'm going to settle these accounts
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ourselves. We take matters into our own hands.
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But then the lines get blurred. How is it okay for me to get even and defend
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my rights and not start looking like and acting like my enemy?
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Where's the line? How do I bring justice without.
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You know, the idea of an eye for an eye, tooth for tooth, they poke out your
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eye, you get to poke out their eye. That is not God's law.
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That is not God's determination of justice.
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God's law and rule is this, love your enemy. Forgive those who hurt you.
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Pray for those who curse you and persecute you.
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So the law of they poked out my eye, I get to poke out their eye,
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is the devil's law of fairness. and it doesn't work because you just never,
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now you're the wicked one. Now you're the perpetrator.
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Now you're the one who's creating the offense. So getting justice for ourself does not work.
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So if I pursue it myself, I'm gonna have to answer to the judge.
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However, there is one way where I can get justice and resolve the injustices in my life.
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There's one way, there's one prescription for that. and it's not that complicated
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and it's not that hidden it is to forgive you know forgive that means what does
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forgiveness mean it means that you lay the injustice in the hands of the judge,
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you are not going to vindicate yourself you're going to give the matters over
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the crimes over to the one who judges who knows everything who is the author
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of justice you know as we said earlier righteousness and justice are the foundation of his throne.
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And he also encourages us in Hebrews 4, verse 12, to come boldly to the throne of grace and mercy.
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I would say that's the bench, to find help in time of trouble,
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to bring your grievances and offenses to him, to find justice and protection and vindication.
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However, you can't get into the judge's court as the judge.
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You have to come in as a plaintiff. You have to come in as a presenter.
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Present your case, the Lord God says in Isaiah.
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Make your requests known. lay the matter out before him, and then let the Lord be the judge.
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He will be the one who passes out the sins. If I take matters into my own hands, it's like this.
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How can I not get burned in trying to put out this raging fire of injustice myself?
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The only way I can keep from getting burned is to let the fireman deal with the fire.
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So forgiveness, releasing that person from your judgment, from your right to
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judge them, and turning the injustice of the crimes over to God,
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letting him pronounce the sentence.
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This is the first, this is the invitation from the Lord.
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You don't have to wait till you die to get justice. Matter of fact,
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some people stay mad all their life.
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They stay bitter against someone all their life because they think if I stay
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mad and all that, then when I see God, I'll be able to present my case and he'll get it fixed for me.
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You just ruined your whole life staying bitter and your body got sick and all kinds of things.
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You don't have to carry that injustice day after day after day,
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those crimes and injustices that make you so mad.
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You can cast them off. You can bring them before the court.
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You can bring them before God and present your case.
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And so forgiveness is releasing the person from your judgment so that you have
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a right to bring it before the judge.
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So he is then free to bring the pronouncement and the sentence.
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So forgiveness is, you say, well, I don't feel like I need to forgive.
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I don't feel like forgiving.
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It doesn't matter if you feel like it or not. It's a commission.
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It's a decision you make with your will.
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I decide, with my will, I declare, I decide, I give this wickedness,
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this crime, this injustice over to the Most High God. He's the only one who can really fix it.
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And so you, you step back from bringing sentence and punishment upon yourself
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as well, and you turn it over to God.
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So, and forgiveness doesn't mean you just, you know, oh, well,
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it's no big deal. They just raped me. It's no big deal.
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You know, they just assassinated my, my loved one. They just killed me.
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They just, you know, stole from me.
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No, it is bringing the crime full force. All you want to say about it to the
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Lord, present your case, the crime, and let God be the judge.
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He will judge it. And then the other thing that when we go to the court of heaven
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to present our case because we come in as the plaintiffs.
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The other thing we can ask the court to do, two more things,
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which people forget to do sometimes.
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You can ask the court to reverse or remove the demonic judgments that Satan
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has placed upon you when he got you to get pulled into the anger or the retaliation or the injustice.
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You ask God to remove the demonic judgments against your body,
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against your life, your family, because Satan is justifying his bringing those
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demonic judgments against you because you have stepped out of bounds.
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You have decided to be the judge.
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But when you ask God to forgive you, which means I asked you,
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Lord, to forgive me for believing lies, and you forgive the other person,
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I forgive the other person because you don't know how much of this is demons
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acting behind the scenes.
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Like with Job, it was a direct transaction that was made in heaven. Job had no idea.
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You have no idea what Satan has went to God and petitioned for you.
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Like Jesus said to Peter, Satan has desired to have you, to sift you as wheat,
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but I've prayed for you, and when you're converted, strengthen your brethren.
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So Jesus was in on Satan coming before the court of God and saying,
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I want to test Peter. I want to test him.
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I'm going to prove to you he's a bad choice in leading your army,
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leading the disciples, leading this church, and so let me test him.
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So God permitted the testing. So sometimes this is what's happening in your life.
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You didn't necessarily do anything wrong, but God is going to not only prove
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to the devil that he can keep you, but he's also going to use the devil's attack
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against you to qualify you,
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to strengthen you, to improve your work, his workmanship in you.
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So you're going to be made more like Jesus.
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That's the whole point anyways, to become more like him, not more like ourselves.
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And so when Satan is attacking you, coming against your body,
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coming against your mind, and some of these attacks are so absolutely insidious
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that you have no way of even...
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Trying to unravel. I mean, you're just overwhelmed with the symptoms.
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Maybe it's a physical illness and you're weary and it's too hard to resist or fight anymore.
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You just have to collapse into the hands of Jesus and say, you got it.
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You've got to take me. This is the place of surrender anyway.
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And that's where Peter had to go. He said, Jesus said, when I have prayed for
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you, Jesus knew about this. He prayed for him.
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He knew Peter was going to be tested. We're all being tested,
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you know, to qualify us for greater things, positions, responsibilities,
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whatever you want to call it, in God's kingdom.
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And so he said, I prayed for you. And when you're converted.
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That meant when you get out of yourself, when you stop trying to do it yourself,
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when you're converted, when you turn the thing over to me,
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when you surrender, when you humble yourself
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and surrender then then god
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will vindicate us bless us and we will
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be able then to convert our brethren this is the crucible this is the process
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and a lot of the injustices that we're suffering from are just a kind of a a
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cauldron they're kind of the the tech the context in which all of these things are set up.
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And so we have to look at the bigger picture.
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We can't look at what the way things look like, because the way things look
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like now are not always exciting, favorable, and they don't build faith.
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We have to keep our eyes on Jesus Christ, who
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is our faithful witness and the beginning and the author and finisher of our
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faith so when people are committing crimes against you be specific you know
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the your loss the corruption the false accusations the slander they're scoffing
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their contempt their violence um,
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Whatever it is, the bloodshed, the loss of your child, whatever it is,
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be specific before the Lord because God is, he knows it.
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And the good news is when you're in that court of heaven, you don't have to defend yourself.
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You don't have to get all up and explain yourself because Jesus Christ is standing
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right there and he is the faithful witness.
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He saw everything. He saw what the devil did. He saw what the evil one did.
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He saw how the enemy set you up. he saw all the enemies
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stole from you and just deceived or lied about you or tried to divide you or
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separate you from others or even take your own life he's he sees it all and
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so he is our faithful witness so he will present your case before the lord god
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and the court will receive.
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Jesus's presentation of your case without a
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doubt and so then when you get that favor you
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get that favorable ruling then you
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ask the lord to now remove the demonic judgments that
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satan has put upon your body unjustly or
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upon your finances or upon your business or upon your relationships these
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demons are the ones that we now want to turn
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around and get them judged so we say
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god will you judge the spirit of and then
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name them the ones that brought infirmity in inflammation infection
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accusation the patterns of destruction the
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patterns of loss whatever these demonic spirits
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are ask the lord name them and say lord these
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spirits of fear or illness or infirmity what lord judge them and remove them
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from my from me from my bloodline from my life and lock them up so you're asking
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the court for justice the restoration of your justice you're asking the court
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to remove the demonic judgments,
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and you're asking the court to lock up the liars. Does this make sense?
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This is the only way God's court works. And ultimately, ultimately, in the end.
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We do not know everything that God knows, but he knows everything about the
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enemy, everything, how he's tried to entangle himself and embed himself and
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schemed against us to destroy the children of God.
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God is not ignorant at all of what Satan has done in this snake pit to try to
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kill us on every level and in every venue he can.
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There's always been a war. Don't think this has been anything else ever but a war.
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You read the Bible. It's a conspiracy. It's a war between God and Satan for the souls of men.
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And evil has always been here since the fall.
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Satan's trying to divide the house, set you up in confusion, anger, frustration.
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Don't get pulled into that. Don't get baited by that. The desire for justice
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can be bait that Satan uses to hook, to set the hook for you because you want
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the justice so bad you don't even see that the bait,
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the justice you're wanting is bait that's covering the lie of he's going to
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pull you in so he can judge you for judging others,
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And it says, God is not, doesn't, he's not ignorant.
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He hears the sigh of the needy. He says, I will now arise. I will set him in
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the path of safety for which he yearns.
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The psalmist says, how long shall it go on like this? How long shall we move
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in this place of sorrow in my heart?
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But we have to understand ultimately and wonderfully
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that this is all going to come to an end
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and maybe sooner than we might think in revelations
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chapter 20 he says i'm
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going to read this verse starting with verse 10 and the devil this is the ultimate
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end this is the final judgment this is the place where everything is made right
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the devil who deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone where
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the beast and the false prophet are so they had already been sent there.
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And they will be tormented day and night forever and ever.
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He says in verse 11, Then I saw a great white throne and him who sat on it,
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from whose face the earth and heaven fled away, and there was found no place for them.
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And I saw the dead, small and great, everybody, standing before God.
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And the books were opened, and another book was opened, which is the book of life.
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And the dead were judged according to their works by the things that were written in the books.
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And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, and death and Hades delivered up
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the dead who were in them.
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And they were judged, each one according to his works.
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Then death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire.
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This is the second death, and anyone not found written in the book of life was
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cast into the lake of fire.
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Just a quick note here on the book of life. The book of life is the registry of heaven.
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When God created us, all of our names were written in that book.
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And therefore, we are all eligible to, you know, this is like our accommodations,
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our reservation for heaven, if you will.
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And then the books were opened. These books are the books that we write. We each write our story.
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There's a book with your name on it in heaven with all the things you did and didn't do.
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And many things hopefully are blotted out of that book because you've asked
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God to forgive you for the stupid things that you did and the sins and the unbelief and the lies.
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And so that the book is pretty much purged
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of that stuff by the blood of the lamb and by
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god's forgiveness because we repented and we
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can be judged and brought into the place of reward but
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the people who are not written in the lamb's book of life or who are or who
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were blotted out because they rejected salvation it's like the registry book
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is the the wedding list the guest list for heaven everybody's names are written
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in there everybody's invited to the married supper of the Lamb,
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the wedding feast, everybody that God created.
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Not those he didn't create, but everybody he created is in that book.
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And so the only way you can get cast out of that book is to refuse.
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To, you know, the invitation. And that invitation is the invitation of salvation,
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because salvation is the thing that God uses to reconcile and redeem and forgive
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and bring you back through the blood of Jesus Christ,
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because Jesus Christ is the one who has paid them for your sins,
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and they have been completely paid for.
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You are saved, you are deemed innocent, and you no longer have to pay for your own sins.
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So the registry of heaven, that book, our names remain in the book when we accept
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God in salvation and then sanctification or the process of becoming more like
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Jesus, that's the second step.
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And that's where the other books are written, where the information is enclosed,
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what we did with our life, how we used our time, how we squandered our time,
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how we served ourself or how we gave our lives and our resources and our energies to God.
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So judgment is coming. It is coming. Praise Jesus. Well, Father God,
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we thank you for your justice.
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Justice and righteousness are the foundation of your throne.
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Without justice, there would be no mercy. And so we thank you,
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Lord, that you are watching, you are recording. You know everything that's going on.
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Nothing is hidden from you. We have a testimony in Jesus Christ,
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our faithful witness, to declare before you, Lord God, our innocence.
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We thank you, Lord Jesus, for being our faithful witness. And we ask you now
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that anyone who does not know you
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is not sure of their eternal destiny and salvation would call upon you,
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surrender the fight to you, Lord God, and accept the payment of Jesus Christ,
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your blood shed for them in payment for their sins that they might be saved.
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And Father, we thank you for your generous gifts to us and your precious protection
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of us We thank you, Father, in Jesus' name. Amen.
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Well, one more thing for those of you who are interested. I've written a book
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called A Case for Justice.
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Very interesting book. And it
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has lots of answers in there to why the bad things happen to good people.
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I think that's the main, one of the main things people ask in this world is why?
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Why didn't God and where was God and why did this happen? So A Case for Justice,
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you can get it at Amazon.com.
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And I would encourage you, if you have that sort of a mind, to understand the
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legalities of life on this planet, justice, judgment, all of those kinds of
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things, retribution, demonic judgments, that you'd get a hold of that book.
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A Case for Justice. God bless you.
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