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Rescue Radio, because there's a war for your soul.
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Yes, Father God, indeed, the war goes on, and we praise you,
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Lord God, that you are coming back.
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And we thank you, Lord God, that you came the first time, Lord Jesus,
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to die for us, and now you're coming back to finish the work.
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And so we ask that you give us encouragement, courage, wisdom,
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counsel, fortitude, the ability to stand and having done all to stand in these
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very evil and wicked days.
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And we thank you Lord Jesus too that you have shown us
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you've given us your commandments you've given us the church you've given us
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your word you've given us the Holy Spirit you said I will never leave
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you or forsake you so Lord we thank you for your being in the very midst of
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us now and giving us your wisdom may this be your counsel to us Father today
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in Jesus name and we thank you also that no weapon formed against us will prosper
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that no word said no deed done no action taken will be able to be used by the
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enemy to come against us to destroy,
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divide He hurt or hindered the work of God in our lives, in our families,
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in our health, in any place, anything that has anything to do with us.
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Lord, you are faithful to keep us, Father, in Jesus' name.
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Amen. Hey, we're talking about a very controversial subject today. Oh. Yeah.
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Politics and religion. Yeah, yeah. You know, they say you want to avoid at family gatherings.
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Yeah. Like at Christmas, Thanksgiving, you don't want to talk about politics
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and religion because it brings division and confusion. No offense,
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and that's the whole point of it, isn't it?
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Well, we could call it, you know, not only politics and religion,
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but God and government. Right, same thing.
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But so the people, you know, they say, like you said, they can't mix them.
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You shouldn't mix them, you can't mix them.
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But the enemy has done everything he can to separate the church and the state,
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just cause us to see them as separate.
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That's a big lie that we've perpetrated in the public realm.
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And in the church. In schools, in the church.
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Separation of church and state. And it's a division. Again, Satan is in the
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dividing thing, so he wants to set us up against ourselves in our own institutions.
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The Bible is full of nothing but examples about the intervention or the interactions
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between God and his people, the prophets and the kings.
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You know, in Jeremiah and the courts of the kings, God set up Saul to be the
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king at the request of the people.
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Jeremiah was in the court of the king. You know, Daniel was in the Babylonian court.
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Josiah, the king, restored the altar and the temple.
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All of these things are just constant mingling of the state and the church working
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together to do God's will.
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So God raised up these kings, and some of them were really good kings,
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some of them were very evil kings.
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But the prophets were right there to bring the word of the Lord and the correction
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to the government. Yeah.
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And so today, but even in the founding of our founding fathers in the Constitution.
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Yeah, let me address that a little bit. The founding fathers of our Constitution
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here in the United States, their intention never was to separate church and state.
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But it was that the state was not to dictate to the church.
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There was not to be any kind of state religion.
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So there was the freedom to operate without the state control.
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Right, right, exactly. They wanted to make sure that the same thing that had
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happened in England and that the European countries didn't happen here.
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Didn't happen in the United States. Yeah, exactly.
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So we see lots of examples in the Bible, Old Testament and New Testament,
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where God intervened through his prophets to deal with the kings,
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the countries, the nations, bring him into warning, bring him into correction,
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bring him back to the righteousness of the word of God.
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Yeah, Isaiah chapter 1, verse 23, God is speaking to the nation, to the leaders.
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He says, your princes are rebellious and companions of thieves.
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Everyone loves bribes and follows after rewards.
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They do not defend the fatherless, nor does the cause of the widow come before
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them. And that sounds typical of the day and age in which we're living.
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Yes, we've degenerated again. We're in another cycle of degeneration.
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We're at almost the end of that cycle of...
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Depravity or whatever you want to call it where the Lord has to bring in,
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captivity, a judgment of some sort like he did in
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the Old Testament but this time I believe we're heading for
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revelations and that's the final cycle here but you
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know when you separate the church and the state and we work to get those things
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separated out like for example taking the Bible out of the school and then in
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comes the shooters we take the prayer out of the But it's like the old saying
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that we took the Ten Commandments off the walls,
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now we have to have policemen in the halls.
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That's exactly right. So taking prayer out of public gatherings,
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taking prayer and wisdom out of government meetings, taking the Ten Commandments,
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like you said, off the walls. What it brings is rioting.
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We're reaping the effects, the fruits of this rebellion.
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We have the riots, we have the drugs, we have the homelessness in our streets.
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Poverty, and political atrocities are allowed to rule and reign in the lives
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of us, our children, and the unborn even.
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So you see, when you start to separate them, it brings division,
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and it removes the moral codes, and it opens the door for immorality, for perversions.
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So we see that actually the fruit of what we've tried to do,
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separating church from state, or politics from religion.
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It's like casting God and his law out of our laws, out of our lives,
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out of our laws, has made us lawless.
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And so here's the deal. We pass legislation that is contrary to God's rule and
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law, the law of love, which makes abominations and things that are unlawful before God,
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legal and acceptable. Yeah. And Isaiah said, woe unto those who call good evil and evil good.
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This is what we have, that murdering of innocent children is women's health care.
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It's legal. It's lawful. We call it women's health care.
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And the old saying that- But that doesn't make it right. No,
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nothing that is morally wrong is ever legally right, right?
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So in Isaiah chapter 9, verse 16, it says, the leaders of this people caused them to err.
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In other words, the leaders are wrecking the country.
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The leaders are ruining the country and leading them in the wrong way.
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And those who are led by them are destroyed.
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You follow the advice and the flow and the rule of godless politicians.
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The more God goes out, the more the devil comes in. You're going to be destroyed.
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We're going to be destroyed. The nation's going to be destroyed and is being destroyed.
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It's like Satan wants to separate, divide, divide, divide. She sets the church
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up in opposition to the state. And so, you know what?
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We have to have a moral law and order society in order to be able to promote
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God's goodness in the gospel and safety. And who is to do that?
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It's the church. It's not the government that's to do that.
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The church is supposed to be a voice not under the control of the government,
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but a voice to the government to the voice of God, the voice of God to the government. Now.
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And the prophets of the Old Testament, like Jeremiah said, you're going to speak
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against the princess, against the kings.
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Right, to correct them. You're going to correct them. Warn them. And he did that.
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They didn't receive it very well. In Isaiah's day, they didn't receive it very
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well for the most part. Well, they rejected the prophets, yeah. Same way today.
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But you can say, now, where are the prophetic voices? We call them whistleblowers now.
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And the whistleblower, basically, if you're a whistleblower calling something into existence,
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warning somebody about what's going on in government or other places,
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you're putting your life in your hands.
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Well, we understand that the separation of the church and the state is the enemy's
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intention to, God never intended for that separation.
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His divine guidance and counsel should be our first consideration in governing
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and walking and keeping society and culture and nations on the right track.
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So human government is necessary for law and order, and God knows that.
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And he's provided ways for us to protect us and our inalienable God-given rights
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to life, liberty, and the freedom to pursue our happiness.
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So rejecting the counsel of God in this matter in human affairs,
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pushing God out, rejecting his counsel, you stay over here, God,
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on this side, because we're going to do what we want over on this side.
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We don't want your judgment. We don't want your interference with what we're doing.
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So we reject the counsel of God in our human activities and lives.
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And that has left the door open for the entrance and the involvement,
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total involvement of the evil one.
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Either we're going to be listening to God or we're going to be listening to the enemy.
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Here's a contradictory It's kind of a conundrum right here In Romans 13.
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Let every soul be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority
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except from God, and the authorities that exist are appointed by God.
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That is hard to believe in this day and age.
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Well, God appoints them, honey, but the thing is that there is rejection of that.
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We go back to Romans where it says that they rejected the acknowledgement of
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God even at the level of thanksgiving and gratitude.
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The basic levels of thankfulness, And that opened the door to what we're dealing
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with, and the devil has gotten pulled into the whole mix.
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So God, you know, back in the day, you've got this ammunition of Paul to render
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to, you know, obey the laws of the land, so to speak.
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Yeah, let me read the rest of that. Therefore, whoever resists the authority
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resists the ordinance of God, and those who resist will bring judgment on themselves.
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For rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil.
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Do you want to be unafraid of the authority? Do what is good and you will have praise of the same.
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So he says, talks about these government leaders, for he is God's minister to you for good.
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But if you do evil, be afraid for he does not bear the sword in vain for he
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is God's minister and avenger to execute wrath on him who practices evil.
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But now we have crossed the line.
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The government has crossed the God line. And so they're trying to afflict,
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inflict, enforce, legislate.
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Passed laws that would legislate abomination and evil.
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And at that point where they crossed the line, where they crossed God's laws
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to that place of murder and violence and rage and bloodshed,
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that's when we must stand and
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take our stand. And I think this is where people get a little confused.
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We like peace. We like law and order. We don't like chaos.
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We're trained to kind of be submissive and obedient. But at the point,
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we must give an account to God. So we have to be more aware of God's desire and his heart.
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And we must legislate or stand for what God wants rather than at this point,
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we're in that place where we're going down the slide of depravity.
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Yeah, well, it says here that these, this is in the general sense,
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in the ideal sense regarding human government.
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He says, rulers are not a terror to good works, but to evil.
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Now they're a terror to good works. they are
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because things are tipped upside down it's it's backwards it's
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upside down this is the state that we've gotten into
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but go way back back back to romans 1 this is
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romans 13 but in romans 1 paul is talking about the rejecting of the acknowledgement
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of god even at that most level basic level of gratitude and thankfulness but
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that has opened the door for god to have to he's obligated to give us our desires
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which because we have a free will and god doesn't force us to do the right thing.
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So he's obligated to give us what we want. And at the end, what we're getting.
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God has turned them over or allowed them to get what they want,
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which is a debased mind and the pursuit of vile passions.
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And so that we have come to the place now where the endorsement of every kind
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of vile abuse and perversion happens.
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Including all of the abominations and assaults against human life,
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are being promoted as acceptable.
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So we can see now the fruit of what we've done has opened the door for these
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abominations to become normal and seen as normal.
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As you said, in Isaiah 1, he talks about political bribery.
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Isaiah talks about bribery, political bribery, which causes theâand they're
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not listening to the wisdom of their counselors.
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They're not defending the fatherless Daniel of
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course was a very high political figure in the position in
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many governments three or four I think Babylonian the Persian and and and Cyrus
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so and and and we see Jeremiah again as you said earlier commanded by God to
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declare his word to the kings and the pre and the princes and so this is our
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duty to be the messengers the administrators,
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of God, the truth of bringing the truth of God into our situation.
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In general, like Romans 13, in general, we're to be submissive to the government.
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And Jesus said, he paid his taxes, right? Yeah, he did.
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And Paul goes on in Romans 13 to say, okay, pay taxes in a lot of our...
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He didn't say it was good.
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He just said he had to do it. It's like, oh my goodness, really? Do we have to?
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I mean, sometimes we can look at it We're paying taxes to support and undergird so much immorality.
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It's like, oh, where's the line here? Is there a line that we cross?
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There is a line, and the line has been drawn now, and it's getting much more
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obvious, the good and the bad, the righteous and the unrighteous,
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because we're going to be able to see it now, but the fruit is coming into full maturity.
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In the beginning, it was just a little plant. We didn't know really what it
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was going to bring forth.
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But the devil wants us to believe that the
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government is our god and many people rely upon that
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they think oh he's that's where i get my hand out so we
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are you know and so we are the here's here's how it kind of goes down so if
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the government is god and we are the government then we are god and we have
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the the power to do and shape and whatever we want because i think ultimately
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that the devil's plan is for us to shake off the shackles of morality and truth to become our own gods.
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And so, you know, we're slaves to this government. At the same time,
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there's a twist in the backside of that is that we can throw off God's word,
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God's laws, and we can do what we want.
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You know, evolution was kind of like that too. Evolution, you know,
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to ascending or evolving was actually descending to decide and declare that
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we come from monkeys, which allowed us to circumvent or get around the requirements
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of submitting to our creator.
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So everything here in the devil's order is to get us.
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Air quotes, free from the control of God so that we can be our own gods.
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And yet with that decision to follow our freedoms, to reject God,
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throw off the shackles of righteousness, truth, and justice,
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to be our own gods, we have actually stepped right into the devil's cage.
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We've become his servants. So Jesus said, by their fruits, you shall know them.
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And by this time, we ought to see the fruit. It's pretty clear.
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We don't want to make it something it's not. We don't to say this is good when
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it's not. Don't call evil good and good evil.
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So what is this kind of rejection, removal of God from and religion and his
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morality and his justice from our lives? What is the fruit of that?
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It's anarchy. It's danger. It's loss of safe spaces for our homes,
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our schools, our government, our children.
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Everything is up for grabs. So the separation of church, which is God,
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and state, which is, of course, you know,
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the God of this world, causes the moral decline of every government system of human interaction,
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from the small businesses to the corporations to the top-line levels of government and politics.
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Yeah, in Psalm chapter 2, verse 1, verses 1 through 2.
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Why do the nations rage and the people plot a vain thing?
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The kings of the earth set themselves and the rulers to take counsel together
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against the Lord and against his anointing,
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saying, let us break their bonds in pieces and cast away their cords from us.
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And then God says, he who sits in the heavens shall laugh. The Lord shall hold them in derision.
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He shall speak to them in his wrath and distress them in his deep displeasure.
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So ultimately God is still going to be God no matter what we think we can do.
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He rules the nations. Yeah, he does.
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According to Isaiah also, it says the government shall be upon his shoulders.
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We're talking about Isaiah 9, 6 and 7. The government shall be upon the shoulders of the Messiah.
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But there's just so much of this restraint being cast off,
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thrown off, and then morality and disorder and injustice are trampled in the
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streets and it opens the door, like we said, for wickedness.
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Their leaders, Isaiah 9, 16, cause them to error.
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So the Constitution, going back to the Constitution and then the rules,
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the laws that we were first set up under, according to our righteous forefathers,
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The Constitution was never intended for the church to rule the state or for
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the state to rule the church.
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So it wasn't set up for either to rule the other, but for an honorable pursuit
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of truth and justice to be their mutual endeavor for the safety and the righteousness,
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the liberty, the freedom of the people.
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The church is really to be the conscience of the government.
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Yeah, that's a good idea. Let's do that. the conscience of the government,
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to set forth the standard. Moral standard, righteousness.
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Not to rule human government, but to make sure human government is really according to,
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God's will. God's will. But the more that we follow moral judgment within us,
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the less laws we have to have because we're already going to be guarded and
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guided by those laws of moral judgment from within.
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Well, the thing is, it's an indictment against our country is that we need so
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many laws. That's right.
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The laws are for the rebellious. The Bible says the laws are for the lawless.
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Yes, and so what happens? That's why we've got lots of laws.
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Okay, so but back to the separate, to separate the church and the state,
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you know brings a death blow
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to both to this and in
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this consideration and in processing this
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we must apply uh with diligence and
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responsibly the thing that is required of us at this time and
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that is you know bottom line and basic and simple is
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to vote that's you know at this point that's
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our duty that's our right our responsibility our obligation do and here's here's
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my my thing jerry i think a lot of christians you know they we think that we're
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exempt from these lowly endeavors because we're so superior yeah so superior
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spiritually that's to such a duty.
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But you know don't do that don't believe that this is too low for you or you
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don't want to mess with politics or you don't want to get involved because it's
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too messy or you might get in trouble with your friends or your government because
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you so you just take no stand But when you take no stand,
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you've made a passive agreement with what's going on right now because you have
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not resisted it. The Bible says, submit to God, resist the devil.
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And if you're taking no stand, and I'm not saying, you know,
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you will know if you're following God, you will know what to do.
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But we're just saying exercise your right, your God-given right that many people died.
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Soldiers, battles, wars died to give you this right.
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And you're going to throw it back in their face. say, oh, this is a small thing.
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I don't have time to vote today. I've got, you know, too many things to do.
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Please, for the sake of your walk with God, do your divine public duty and exercise
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your right and your responsibility to vote.
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And so let's not think that we're exempt or superior or this is below us as citizens,
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it is our duty before God and our fellow man to vote for righteousness and for
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the restoration of peace and justice and morality and truth in this nation, which we call our home.
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So if we do not exercise our right, then don't complain with what happens.
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And so I believe that right now we have got, you know, we're in this final hours
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moments before this huge decision is made.
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And bottom line, ultimately, you know, we're not here to.
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To tell or predict what's going to happen.
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But we are here to declare that the Lord God sits as God on his throne and is
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over all of this and that the nations will answer to him.
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And ultimately, whatever happens at our election, I mean, I believe we are almost
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the flickering last hope for the world.
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But I don't think the world ultimately or us ultimately will figure this out.
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We may figure this out for another couple of years, but ultimately people,
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the Lord God is coming back to deal with our decisions and who we have allowed
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to rule us, which is basically many human beings that are put in place by the enemy.
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And we're heading to the book of Revelations.
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We are heading to the prophets, the words in the words of Zechariah and Daniel.
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We're heading there, not because of doom and gloom, but we're here because a new order is coming.
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And the new world order is God on his throne and Jesus Christ, his kingdom.
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He will rule for a thousand years in Jerusalem as the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.
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He will deal with his enemies. You can read it in the last book of the Bible.
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And I would encourage, if you haven't checked out Revelations lately,
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that should be on the top of your reading list in the next couple of days because
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this is all going to go down as the word of God says it will because God is
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sovereign over all the nations.
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He is sovereign and you want to be on God's side when this is all said and done
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and wrapped up and rolled up.
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You want to be on God's side. There's no other place you want to be.
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And it's important for you to do your due diligence on the candidates,
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the issues, not personalities.
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Don't just say, well, I just kind of like this one. I kind of like that one.
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Personalities, no, policies, you know, and we're not, human government is far
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from perfect, but you have to decide who is closest to.
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What God wants. What God wants. What God would, yeah.
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So again, yeah, let's pray, honey.
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That's a lot of stuff for them to think about and a lot is on our plate right
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now as a nation. Father, we just thank you for our nation.
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Lord, we're so sorry as a nation how we have rejected you. Yes, forgive us, Lord.
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And violated your word and twisted your word.
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Ignored it. Yeah, all of that. All of that, Lord.
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And we just pray that there would be in your mercy, in your grace,
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in your long suffering, that there would be a widespread national turning to righteous,
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not just turning to some religious system, but turning to you,
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Lord, and crying unto you.
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You're our only hope, Lord God. And I pray that we would do,
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you said, to render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's unto God,
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the things that are God's. We have the privilege of voting.
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Lord, we don't know how much corruption there is in the counting of the votes.
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And all that, but we have that responsibility to do that, Lord.
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Yes. And Lord, let it not be another atrocity where people who claim to love the Lord refuse to vote.
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Yes, Lord, forgive us. And yes, I agree that we will, as the righteous people of God.
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Do what you have called us to do in this hour, Lord God, to stand.
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And having done all to stand, as you said in Ephesians chapter 6.
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So again, forgive us, Lord. We repent. We ask for your mercy.
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We ask for your mercy instead of your judgment.
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And we ask for the extension of your grace, Father, over all of us because of
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the children, because of the grandchildren, because of those who have never,
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never known anything of evil or good.
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Lord, they don't even know the right hand from their left hand,
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as God said to Jonah in the book of Jonah.
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So Lord, help us now, Father God, to receive understanding, wisdom,
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courage, and do that which is right in your sight, in Jesus' name.
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Amen. Amen. Thank you for joining us today.
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And yes, we have some books. We have a lot of things we have written and talk about.
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Today, I think would be good to talk about spiritual warfare and how deliverance
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can change your life because a lot of lives need to be changed.
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It's been put together based, you know, on the Word of God, of course.
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The Word of God and based on Marjorie's experience with thousands and thousands
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of people and ministering to them and seeing how the enemy works and seeing how God works there.
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So this is a lot of truth. It's loaded with truth, loaded with experience.
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It's practical. Practical truth in operation.
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