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Rescue Radio, because there's a war for your soul. Yes, indeed.
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We are in the war, Father God, and you already know this. You've already prayed
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for us, Lord Jesus, that we be delivered from the evil one.
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And so we thank you that you get your prayers answered. Hallelujah.
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So we can rest in the faithfulness that this is already done.
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And we thank you, Jesus, that your will be done on earth, in and through us,
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even as it's being done and declared in heaven. And we look for the day when
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we can rejoice together with you for its completion.
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And in the meantime, Lord God, we thank you that Jesus Christ.
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Our Savior, your Son, came down to deliver us, rescue us from this wicked world,
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this snake pit, Lord, by giving us eternal salvation, dying in our place.
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Thank you, Jesus, for doing that, Lord. Thank you for being courageous and not being afraid.
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And thank you for giving us power over all the power of the enemy,
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that nothing shall by any means hurt us, Lord God, and that we would use that
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authority and that power, Lord God, to do what you've called us to do,
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to heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, raise the dead, cast out demons, and preach the gospel.
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And I thank you, Lord Jesus, too, that we take authority over the strong man,
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the familiar spirits that would torment the people who are listening today,
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those that would have held them hostage in their lives,
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and wrap them up in bondages, whether it's in relationships or circumstances,
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Father, that you'd release your people into the fullness of freedom and joy
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and the knowing of the love of God.
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We thank you also for the divine promise that no weapon formed against us will
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prosper, that no practices of witchcraft, no spells, sorceries,
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incantations, no words sent against us will prevail.
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Lord God, we break every argument and every word that's been sent against us
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and lead us not into temptation.
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Cover those words with the blood of Jesus. Help us to forgive our enemies,
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Lord God, and help us to love, even love them.
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And that you'll guide us now in this time together, Father, as we speak about
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the fear of the Lord. Amen.
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Amen. Well, Ecclesiastes chapter 12.
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Verse 13, it says, well, we'll read 13 and 14. Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter.
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Fear God and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man.
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For God will bring every work into judgment, including every secret thing,
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whether it is good or whether it is evil.
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So Solomon, the human author of this book of Ecclesiastes.
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Under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, after 12 chapters,
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he said, Okay, he talks about the vanity of life and all the ebbs and flows
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of life, the righteous and the wicked and so forth.
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And he says, finally, he says, all that really matters is to fear God and keep his commandments.
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But unfortunately, Marjorie, the fear of the Lord is something that is not talked
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about very much these days. And it's basically non-existent even in the lives of many believers.
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Well, I think he says it's the conclusion of all things, and we're in the middle of the process,
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and I don't think we've read and understood that all of what we go through is
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for the very purpose of creating in us that healthy reverence for God.
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And so it's like the fear of what's happened. Why are there so many obstacles,
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or why is the fear of the Lord so non-existent in our world today?
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Well, let's talk about the fear of the Lord. What is the fear of the Lord? It's a foreign concept.
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It sounds so negative when people start talking about, are we supposed to be
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afraid of God? And eek, oh, here comes God. I want to run away from God.
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That's not what we're talking about. We're talking about a holy reverence for God.
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Respect. For who he is as creator of the universe, as sustainer of the universe,
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as holy, as just, as righteous, and everything like that. That he is God.
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He's greater. He's over everything. Overrides everything.
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But basically, it's a reverence for him. It's a respect for him.
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It's an awe of him. And out of that comes obedience to him.
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Out of that comes loving what he loves, hating what he hates.
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Becoming more like God. And we're realizing, too, with the fear of the Lord,
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that we are accountable to him.
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So we're not just sitting out here and doing our deal, and there's no accountability.
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We are, all of us, every believer, Paul says, are going to stand before the judgment seat of God.
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So I think people wonder, well, what is this in my life? What does this mean,
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fear of the Lord? I have enough trouble just putting bread on the table.
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You know, what's this? This is so spiritually, you know, above me.
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But really, this is very basic.
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It's absolutely the fiber of our being. But the fear of the Lord,
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really, what it does, and we can look at some of the scriptures and where it operated in the Word,
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it begins to clean off the corruption, the corrosion of sin in our relationships.
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When something's corroded, corrupted, it doesn't conduct clearly the signals,
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the electricity, the power, whatever it's supposed to conduct.
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And I think that's what happens when we don't have the fear of the Lord.
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The conduction, the relationship, the connections between us and God,
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God's blessings, healing, power, and things is weakened, if not indeed broken.
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You know, I think people have lost the fear of the Lord because we don't recognize
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what's happening to us down here in the snake pit, that we have been seduced,
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we've been enchanted, we've been enhanced.
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We live under the programming of the God of this world and do not even consider the will of the Lord.
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It's just like a kind of a foreign concept because it's all about you and what
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you want and follow your heart and do your thing and take control of your life
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and all these kinds of things that just talked to us about.
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It's up to me to do and be what I want to be.
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Yeah, and sometimes too, you know, we've had people that deny the existence
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of God or they make him, you know, just like, just all he is is human.
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He's just like us. Or like other gods. Yeah, like other gods.
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Or we've denied the existence of God.
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Proverbs 14, I'm sorry, Psalm 14, verse 1 says that the fool has said in his heart, there is no God.
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And another thing, too, is that we misinterpret the nature and character of
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God, that he's a holy God.
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We make him like us. We kind of fashion him in our own image.
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Rather than allowing God to fashion us in his image. Yeah, right.
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So this is the backwards process the devil is trying to get us to make us be
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like gods, think that we're gods. Yeah.
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Ecclesiastes chapter 8, verse 11, because the sentence against an evil work
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is not executed speedily.
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We don't just get knocked out and judged for it right away.
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Therefore, the heart of the sons of men is fully set in them to do evil.
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And then verse 12 says, though a sinner does evil a hundred times and his days are prolonged, yet,
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I surely know that it will be well with those who fear God, who fear before him.
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So some people think, well, you know, I got by with it this time,
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so no big deal. I can just keep going on with my behavior.
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Well, you know, the story of Ananias and Sapphira in the Bible,
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I think it's chapter 5 of Acts.
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There was a shocking intervention when they lied to God about the property that
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they had sold, and they lied to Peter, and they dropped down dead.
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And, you know, but that didn't and doesn't happen now. And I was wondering,
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why doesn't that still happen?
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Well, it doesn't reallyâ If all the liars in the church would not get knocked
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down dead, we wouldn't have a church. No, that's not what I was thinking.
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I was thinking that, you know, if God threatened every time we did something
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wrong and he just was instant in his judgment.
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The revelation of love and relationship of love for him would not happen because
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we would be serving him out of fear and terror.
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And so that's why he's really allowed us to exercise our free will.
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But there is a problem when people get by with stuff, when injustice prevails, like it is nowadays.
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Well, maybe not so much right this minute, but when evil has prevailed and rules,
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and no one suffers the consequence from evil actions, killing other people with
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their greed and their covetousness. People get by with it. Yeah.
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As it seems. That kind of destroys the fear of the Lord because we always think
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of the Lord as bringing justice or judgment.
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And when we don't see that happening, we think, oh, well, you know,
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he's not paying any attention today or he's not looking.
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Right. And we get by with this. If I have enough money and I have the right
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position and I have the right lawyer, I'm going to get off scot-free.
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Except for the time comes when every one of us are going to give ourselves to God.
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They do not think of the day of reckoning. They don't understand there's a day
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of reckoning and that there are eternal consequences for every action.
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And many people, they just make their choices based on the path of least resistance,
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popular persuasions, easy something, quick fix, shortcuts to God, and all kinds of things.
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And so they don't really, it's not a, you know, they don't consider their life very important.
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It's just get through it, get by, whatever you can. And, you know,
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what's the point of that when God's whole purpose is to refine and define us
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and make us in the image of Jesus
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Christ, His Son, and create in us mighty warriors, sons and daughters?
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So, you know, people see their lives as just something I have to get through.
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I have to get through it. But when you're getting through it and you get to
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the end of it, what do you got?
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What were you planning on receiving? I mean, we need to know the end from the
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beginning and that there are consequences to disobedience and unbelief.
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Choices that we make, they do not consider the long-term effects or the far-reaching
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effects of what their decisions are.
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And this makes people very, very naive, vulnerable to the seductive and very
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insidious and deceptive and diabolical plots and plans of the enemy.
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So what happens is oftentimes we get caught up in our idols.
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Now, an idol is not a statue of wood or stone or metal that you bow down to. It is in many places.
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But it's just something that anything in your heart that you place above the
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Lord in your affections, in your thoughts, and it can be your job,
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it can be your money, it can be another person,
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it can be even your pets, you know, all that sort of thing.
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And this takes us away from the fear of God because we become under,
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we become mesmerized. we become under the spell of our idolatry.
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And we don't even realize it's idolatry.
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You know, that's an issue there. I think that's the big problem is the fear
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of the Lord comes from, the lack of fear of the Lord comes from idolatry.
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Because in idolatry, worshiping other things, putting fear in front of God,
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you know, you're going to try to take care of yourself and manage your life
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and manipulate things so that you'll be okay,
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rather than knowing that the Lord God is God and we worship Him and He is so
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unfaithful and committed to keeping us.
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When we put ourselves in that position of, it's up to me, that's called witchcraft,
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by the way, we have made ourselves our gods, or we've made other people's opinions our gods.
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So we have really, really got all screwed up. We've lost our way, which was a simple path.
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Just have no other gods before me, worship me, follow me, obey me,
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because if you don't obey God, it's not like he's demanding that we obey him,
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because he's a killjoy and a control freak.
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He is actually looking out for our best interest because he knows the rule that
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if you yield yourself, servant, to obey the devil by disobeying God,
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you're obeying the devil, then you become the devil's servant and slave.
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And so therefore, this is a very straightforward, either or,
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in or out, God or the devil kind of deal.
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But the devil has made his deal to look like me instead of him.
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I don't think of myself as serving the devil and making choices to serve the
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devil right away. in the beginning, I am looking out for myself.
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And I'm thinking, I don't believe God.
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God isn't interested. He's disinterested. He's distant.
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And another thing, because we don't understand the other part of this snake
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pit paradigm is that we are here.
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This is a place of conflict and a place of difficulty, a place of a cauldron,
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and we're being refined.
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And it's not fun to be in that place of refinement. And we think,
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I've got to just survive somehow, keep myself safe, not realizing that it is
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God who is faithful and who is responsible to keep us in the midst of these fiery trials.
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And so we judge God by saying, well, where was he?
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You know, he wasn't there. You know, and we're more mad at God than we are fearful
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of God or respecting God.
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If we respected and reverenced the Lord, we would begin to believe God's got this. I'm still fine.
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He is, he gets the last vote. He's for me. I'm for him. I vote for him.
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I trust in him. I follow him. I obey him.
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And the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom. And so we really do need
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God's wisdom when we walk through this valley, which is conflicted and full
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of counterfeits and deception and every terrible thing, whether it's a trauma,
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a tragedy, or a calamity.
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Many people are just swallowed up with these things, and they are terrified.
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And yet they don't go back to saying, God, have mercy upon me. You are my Father.
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You're my Creator. You're the faithful one. I need you to get me out of this mess.
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No, they try some other way to get out of the mess, and it makes it worse.
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So a lot of it has to do with our worldview. You know, some people say that
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the world is supposed to be just for fun.
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Or they want it to be that way anyway. They want it to be fun,
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or it's a torture chamber.
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Or we're abandoned down here. Or it's just, it is what it is.
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Or survival, you know. Survival.
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So this is the thing, too. is our worldview, our short-sighted vision of what
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life is about, and even who God is,
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it's like we've got blinders.
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You know, on the horses, they'd put blinders on the sides of them so they wouldn't
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be distracted by the other things.
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But what happened, we focus so much on our life, our problems,
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what's going on, our experiences, all that stuff.
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Instead of God. All that is part of what's going on here.
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But we don't have the perspective that God is working in the midst of all this,
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and that we have to look beyond the circumstances in which we find ourselves,
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our experiences of living.
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We have to look beyond that to see the greatness of God.
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And we see that greatness of God.
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Well, through creation. Yeah, through creation. Through the creation.
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But we don't see it enough. We don't see it enough. We don't see the big acts
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of God come swooping down and saving people and fixing things.
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I mean, God is very diligent and He's very persistent and He's very aware of
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everything that's going on down here.
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But God is also very aware of our free will.
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He is not trying to interfere with or coerce us or intimidate us or bribe us
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or bully us like the devil does into choosing him because God doesn't want to
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be loved because we're afraid of him.
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God wants to be loved because we love him, because we're responding back to his love for us.
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He first loved us, and we're responding back to that love by loving him.
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This is a tall order Because when the world is all set up on fear and selfishness
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and survival, you're surviving and not thriving with the Lord God.
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You can actually live in this mess with joy and peace and not just survive,
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but actually do what God said to do. Thrive.
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He even says, I can leap over a wall. I can run through a troop.
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We can preach the gospel. And people don't, for the most part,
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you know, the despair, the depression, the defeat.
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And also, you know, we're crushed, suffocated under the weight of the wickedness
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because we're not made to live in this place. This is not our home.
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This is not the Garden of Eden. This is not paradise. This is not heaven.
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This is what paradise became when sin and Satan entered the world.
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And so we have to realize we're here, but we're called by God,
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appointed by God, created by God, chosen by God to be placed here,
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not to be destroyed, but to prevail.
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And the only way you're going to get to that place is to fear the Lord more than you fear fear.
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Many people are afraid, you know, they're afraid of losing, they're afraid of
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man, they're afraid of failing, they're afraid of the future,
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they're afraid of making a mistake, they're afraid of being left out,
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they're afraid of being rejected or alone or unloved.
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And so we live under the control of fear because we do not live under the fear of the Lord.
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Exactly. And so, I mean, we can, because what does fear say?
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Fear says something bad is going to happen.
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You know, that creates anxiety, that creates stress in the body.
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Then the body gets sick because it can't handle the stress because we're putting
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so much pressure on your body to protect you from things it wasn't built to protect you from.
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And so, you know, yes, it can protect us from some things, like maybe a few
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germs and antigens and things like that, but the body is not built to keep us from, you know.
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Insults and attacks and rejection and witchcraft and divorce.
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You know, you put that pressure on your body or injustices. I think the biggest.
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Biggest bitterness that comes between people and God is when God just lets things go.
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He just lets people get by with stuff. And we know, you know, we're created by God.
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And the two things that God hates really are sin and injustice.
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And, you know, really, we are built the same. We are built by God to love what
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He loves and hate what He hates.
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And we, when we sin, we feel guilty. And the funny thing is,
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nobody ever sat you down and told you to feel guilty.
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Some people might have scolded you and made you feel really bad for sinning,
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but feeling guilty for sinning, even when there's no one there to scold you,
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you're doing it in secret.
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There's still that fear on that feeling of guilt because we're doing something
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that's at cross purposes to our true identity.
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And the same with injustice. When things aren't fair, we get mad. God does too.
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And so when God is letting these things go and we are crying out,
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praying out, you know, whatever we do to freak out to try to get God to listen
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to us instead of just be and abide and know that God's got this.
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We get all stretched out and bent out of shape trying to get God to do something.
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And I think this becomes then another breakdown in our relationship with God
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because the fear of the Lord would say God is faithful.
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He is the one who began this. He says we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus unto good works.
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And if you look closely at that scripture, it's in Ephesians chapter 2,
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We are created by God as his workmanship, as an expression of him.
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He's created us as his children, and he said we are his workmanship.
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Now, that doesn't mean he's going to force us to do what he wants us to do,
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but it means that he is faithful to help us get to where he wants us to be if
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we're willing to let him and follow him. So he says.
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For we are his workmanship created in Christ Jesus for good works,
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which God prepared beforehand that we should walk in them.
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So God is the one who did this ahead of time.
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It's already been done since the foundation of the world. You've been created
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to walk in these good works that God has prepared for you to walk in.
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But most of us are not walking in the works God has prepared us to walk in,
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that he is actually doing through us, that we should walk in them.
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We're pretty much bound up and entangled in trying to do our own works and get
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out of our own traps and make things fair and just in our own world and getting mad.
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And it's just such a serious mess because we have lost our way because of the
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simple thing of going back to putting God in the right place,
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in his rightful place as the faithful one, as the one who's begun and will finish
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this work, as the one who loves us, as the one who's going to lead us through.
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And that comes through fear of the Lord, recognizing, respecting, reverencing him,
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not because he can kill us instantly, but because he's not killing us instantly
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because he's keeping us alive,
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allowing us to exercise our free will to the point where he keeps drawing us,
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drawing us, working and wooing with us to work us, to draw us into the fullness of his love for us.
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And some people get it and some people miss it.
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And this is the tragedy of many people's lives.
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The Bible says that God is working in us both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
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He says, you know, work out your own salvation with fear and trembling Becauseâ
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For it is God who works in you. So we have both.
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He's working in us in the midst of all the things that seem to be very blah,
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very hard, very vicious, very disturbing, tragic, undesirable, all that stuff.
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There is a destiny. There is a process that he is working.
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There's a purpose in the process, right? And a lot of times we get faked out by the process.
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We think, oh, man, if things should be easier, or why was this so hard?
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How come this happened? And all that stuff.
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But there is a process. He says, it's God, Philippians 2, 13,
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it is God who works in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
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So he says he's giving us the willingness and the ability to do what he wants us to do.
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In other words, he never sets us up in any situation where there's a predetermined
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failure that's going to happen to us.
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You know, we do not have to fail in any situation. I don't care where you're
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at right now, how tangled up and messed up, and whether it's in your marriage
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or in your corporation or in your
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relationship with your children or your grandchildren or your loved ones.
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God never sets us up to fail. But here's the deal. Satan does.
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And so Satan keeps going after God saying, let me test him. Let me test him.
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Let me test Peter. Let me test Job. I'll prove to you, God, that they won't
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be able to make it, that they won't be able to figure it out.
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Let me prove to them that you are not faithful to keep them.
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So the whole contest that you're going through is Satan's challenging God in
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God's ability to faithfulness to keep us in our trials.
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And what we have to do in the midst of the trial is really hold on to the fear of the Lord.
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And remember that God is faithful to complete the work he has begun in us.
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God is faithful. You know, it doesn't say you need to be responsible.
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You know, that word responsibility is really technically not even in the Bible.
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When Paul even said in Romans chapter 7, he says, if I'm doing what I do not
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want to do, it's not me doing it. It is the sin that dwells within me.
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The Bible doesn't respond to that statement by saying, Paul,
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you need to be responsible, take responsibility for what's going on in your life.
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There's no follow-up like that. The Bible just says, Paul just says,
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oh, wretched man that I am who will deliver me.
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So he's really going back to the fear of the Lord and saying, God, I can't do this.
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There's stuff going on in me that's not me, that's an entity,
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a craving, evil passion, or whatever you want to call it, that's causing me
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to continually opt out of the fear of the Lord.
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So when you would fear the Lord, Like, for example, in the story of Joseph in
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the Bible, where he was tempted by Potiphar's wife to throw everything away
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by just being seduced, allowing himself to go into her chambers.
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And even when she grabbed his coat, he said, I can't do this.
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How can I sin against the Lord?
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That was his motivation. Yeah.
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He says, you know, he could think. He said, how could I do this?
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He could say, well, look it, you got some moments of pleasure here.
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But he had a fear of God that was greater than his natural human desire as a young man.
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He overcame that temptation because of the fear of the Lord.
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He says, how could I do this great evil and sin against God?
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There you go. How many times do we worry about? We worry about a lot of things.
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But how do we? Maybe worry isn't the right word. They would consider,
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listen, God would be displeased with this. Yeah. I don't think we give it a thought.
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We don't really give it a thought. But going back to Joseph for just a second,
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I want to just say how important this little moment was in his life where he was tempted.
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It was just a big temptation for a little moment, but he ran from her and he said no.
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But he ended up then in prison because she blamed Potiphar.
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She told him. She said she made a false accusation. He practiced witchcraft
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against him by making this false accusation.
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Joseph ended up in prison for a long time, and he's 17 to 25 years old, not even.
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And he's in this prison for a long time. And the shackles hurt his ankles, and he was there.
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I mean, he did well there. I mean, he kind of moved to the top,
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and they gave him lots of jobs to do that he was good at.
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And finally, what got him out of prison, though, was the Lord himself,
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because he was able to interpret dreams.
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But the thing is, and then that ended up getting him into Pharaoh's house,
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And that ended up getting up into the second-in-command after he was in prison.
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So the tiny thing, if he would have notâ Blown it in that little moment.
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He would have never been able, never, never been able to be positioned as the
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second-in-command in Egypt.
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And God worked through him to save the nation of Israel, his family.
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And to save the nation of Egypt. Yeah. So the thing is, what you think is a
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little thing and a no big deal and nobody's going to see and it's just one more
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time and one more drink and one more look and one more this and one more.
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That is your Joseph moment. Come on.
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Because, you know, so many people nowadays say, oh, I can just do one, I can do one more hit.
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I can do one more, I can do one more, you know, drug. I can do one more whatever.
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And that becomes the fentanyl death. They die. And so I'm not just trying to scare people.
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Not everybody's going to be dying through fentanyl because a lot of people don't
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do fentanyl, but you don't realize the extreme consequences of a tiny,
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tiny, what looks like a tiny insignificant decision, and it becomes,
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my God, it becomes the turning point for the rest of your life.
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You may go down the wrong road for 80 years by you making a wrong decision,
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but at any point on the road, there's another part to this rule whom we yield
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ourselves, servant to obey, that spiritual rule of obedience.
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That's the one who's slave we become. There's also another part to that rule
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that we have a free will and we can change our mind at any time.
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At any time, you can change your mind and go back to God at any moment.
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God is there to give you the courage to repent so that you can go back to the fear of the Lord.
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He's giving you the courage to believe, believe that God is good and God is for you.
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God's not who everybody else makes him out to be.
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God is not an option down here in this planet, this naked. God is the solution to the problem.
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And Jesus Christ, his son, bought us the tickets of redemption and salvation.
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And he said, whosoever will call upon the name of the Lord will be saved.
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That's how you get saved, calling upon the name of the Lord.
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And basically, the fear of the Lord comes as a revelation.
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And sometimes, fear of the Lord sometimes just kind of comes upon a person.
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Like when we mentioned earlier about Ananias and Sapphira, They were struck
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dead because they lied to the Holy Spirit.
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People realized, oh, the fear of the Lord came upon people. And it's like God
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is not putting up with lying in this situation here.
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And another thing, too, is like when Saul of Tarsus, on the road to Damascus
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going out to imprison and kill Christians,
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The Lord Jesus himself appeared to him. Basically, Saul, who became Paul, was struck down.
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The fear of the Lord came upon him. And the fear of the Lord is something that
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can just actually come upon you.
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It comes upon you like, oh, I have a great respect for God.
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And the fear of the Lord, too, it grows.
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It's something that the more we get to be aware of God, his true nature, who he is, what he does,
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his care for us, and our accountability to him, that there's an increase in
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that revelation of this fear of the Lord.
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But I think sometimes our idea of the fear of the Lord is that kind of Ananias
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and Sapphira's sudden intervention of God.
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And because many people don't have that, never have had that,
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haven't heard the voice of the Lord, haven't seen a miracle,
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you know, maybe they prayed and didn't get a miracle, but so their experience
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of the fear of the Lord and His power is very limited or non-existent,
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and so they don't have any, you know, reverence or fear.
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It's not as dramatic. Right. So they're just more swept away with every day, every day.
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And so they don't, you know, seek that.
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But I really believe fearing the Lord and the fear of the Lord,
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it's another thing that you can ask for.
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You know, Jesus said, ask and you shall receive, seek and you'll find,
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knock and it will be open to you.
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And he says, greater works than these shall you do, because they go to my Father.
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And he says, if you have faith as a grain of mustard seed, you can say to this
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mountain, be cast into the sea, and this mulberry bush be cast into the sea.
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So these kinds of dramatic answers
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to prayer, we don't see them enough to create a real fear of the Lord.
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I think people want to see it. I think when you see a sudden,
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unexplainable miracle that cannot be explained through circumstances or coincidences,
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it just, you know, his hand just grew out or his eye just opened up or his,
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you know, he can walk and he couldn't walk. And it's been a long time.
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Jesus was doing miracles like that all the time, healing the blind man born
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blind and healing people 28 years at the Pool of Bethesda and,
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you know, just instant, powerful, power-packed miracles. and I really believe.
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At some point, you know, he had to do that to break into the ho-hum,
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the, I don't know, the doldrums of death.
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And on the planet, he came in as the one who had the power to do these things.
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And he has given us that power, but that power will not happen in your life
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without the fear of the Lord.
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If you don't, you can't play with this kind of power and even expect to use
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it or wield it or have it working in your life. if you don't have a true fear of the Lord.
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Satan does have a lookalike power. He's got a counterfeit calling,
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you know, fire from heaven and things like that.
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He can do that, and Jesus said he will do that.
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Lying signs and wonders, he will do them, especially in the last days.
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To deceive, if possible, even the very elect, but most of all,
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already deceive those who are already confused and conflicted and drawn into
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the world's system and the snake pit.
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But, you know, really what you want to do for your life is cry out to God for basics here.
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Before we can do miracles and, you know, pull these people out of death's destruction
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and grow out limbs and blind eyes, we have got to have a reverence,
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a total fear of the Lord like Jesus had for the Father.
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It's a respect. It's a knowing that God can do this, and God probably wants
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to do this, and there's something in the way.
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And I might be the very thing in the way because I don't have that true fear of the Lord.
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So I would say, number one on your list this week, B, seek God for fear of the
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Lord, and ask Him what that means in your life and circumstances.
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And we can pray as it was prayed in Psalm 33, let all the earth fear the Lord.
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Let all the inhabitants of the world stand in awe of him. Wow,
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that's a pretty big prayer, right?
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This is something one of these days. The knowledge of the Lord is going to cover
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the earth as the waters cover the sea.
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And then for those of us who are believers, he said in 2 Corinthians 6 and last
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part of verse 16, I will dwell in them and walk in them.
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I will be their God, and they shall be my people.
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And verse 17, come out from among them.
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And be separate, says the Lord. Do not touch what is unclean,
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and I will receive you, and I will be a father to you, and you shall be my sons
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and daughters, says the Lord Almighty. And then chapter 7, verse 1.
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Therefore, having these promises, beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all
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filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of the Lord.
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Yes, Father God, we thank you for giving us your Holy Spirit.
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To lead us into all truth and to reveal to us the fear of the Lord,
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your greatness, your power, your intimacy with us, Lord God,
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in every moment, even to the point of knowing where we are, the hairs on our
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head and what's going on.
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Father, I pray that we would learn to trust you today.
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Rely upon him. Cast your care upon him, for he cares for you.
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Let the Lord and the fear of the Lord and his love for you take over where you
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have been fumbling and failing and can't seem to figure it out.
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Let God just surrender whatever it is to the Lord right now.
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Surrender that person, that circumstance, that health issue, that child.
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Surrender them again. I know we surrender probably 25 times a day, but surrender for good.
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Say, God, this is your problem. You are God.
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You've got this. And that's really what fear of the Lord is ultimately is saying,
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you know what, God, this is your problem. I'm your servant.
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Show me what you want me to do. I'll do it. But the rest is up to you.
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So, Father, help us to cast our care upon you and walk in the fear of the Lord. Amen.
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Amen. Well, talk a little bit about God on Trial.
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Okay. Well, God on Trial is a hidden thing.
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It is out in plain view on our website, liferecovery.com, on our store.
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God on Trial is a 28-episode audio drama of the war between God and Satan for
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the souls of men, characterized and told from the devil's point of view,
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which means that you're getting in on all the enemy's secrets and how he sets
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us up and tempts us and leads us.
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It's the story of Jesus Christ being led to the cross and his victory into the resurrection.
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It's also the story of God on trial when people judge God and they don't want
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him to be God so they find fault with him.
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And Satan is prosecuting God, pressing charges of criminal neglect of the universe,
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abuse of use of power, and conflict of interest against God,
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calling witnesses from the Old Testament to testify against the goodness of God.
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And this is a very powerful, and it's just, I mean, but I'll tell you something.
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Don't tell anybody about it, whatever you do, because it's a good.
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It's a secret. It's a secret.
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Yeah, you don't want to, don't go looking at it. Don't go telling anybody about
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it. God on trial. Don't show it to your kids because they will love it. Avoid it at all costs.
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Yeah, kids actually really, really get into this, you know. But don't tell anybody about it.
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And in the meantime, have a great day. We love you.
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