Jan. 23, 2025

Eradicating Institutional Idolatry - (Enmity with the Seed – Part 1 - From Abel to Elijah), Episode 15

Eradicating Institutional Idolatry - (Enmity with the Seed – Part 1 - From Abel to Elijah), Episode 15

Send us a text Uncover the untold stories of biblical battles against idolatry and redefine your understanding of personal spiritual warfare. From Elijah's fiery confrontation on Mount Carmel to the apostolic missions of Paul and John in cities steeped in idol worship, we promise a journey through history that mirrors our struggles of our modern world. Join us as we connect these ancient narratives to a 1993 prophecy warning about the idolatrous tendencies in contemporary America, igniting a ...

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Uncover the untold stories of biblical battles against idolatry and redefine your understanding of personal spiritual warfare. From Elijah's fiery confrontation on Mount Carmel to the apostolic missions of Paul and John in cities steeped in idol worship, we promise a journey through history that mirrors our struggles of our modern world. Join us as we connect these ancient narratives to a 1993 prophecy warning about the idolatrous tendencies in contemporary America, igniting a sense of urgency and relevance for today.

Witness the transformative power of apostolic leadership as we explore how figures like John Wesley reshaped worship practices, pioneering a shift from rigid traditions to spirited expressions led by the Spirit. Through the lens of Elijah's rebuilding of the altar with 12 stones, we highlight the bold leadership necessary for effecting meaningful change and eradicating idolatry These stories remind us to embrace God's vision for transformation, urging us to move beyond past limitations and awaken to new spiritual possibilities.

Finally, we delve into the profound importance of living an ordered, God-centered life. Through the biblical examples of Elijah and Abraham, we illustrate the need for precision in our spiritual sacrifices, warning against even the smallest forms of idolatry. The purifying fire of God, as depicted in Malachi, serves as a powerful metaphor for eradicating impurities and empowering believers. This episode is a call to action: maintain spiritual order, eradicate idols, and keep the fire of faith burning brightly in a world often clouded by distractions.

00:00 - The Battle of Carmel and Idolatry

13:17 - Transformation of Worship Through Apostolic Leadership

23:42 - Maintaining an Ordered Life for God

35:03 - Igniting the Fire of God

53:48 - The Call to Eradicate Idolatry

58:44 - The Fire of God's Purification

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Glory to God, praise the Lord.

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We have been talking about this great battle of Carmel, amen.

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That was the next thing after David and Goliath, where the spirit of Antichrist just raised up its head and threatened the people of God and threatened the prophet of God, amen, and had to, had to be dealt with, had to be dealt with.

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I'm going to lay just a little bit of the background of this, because we've talked about it a lot.

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But at the point of time that Elijah shows up in the Northern kingdoms of Israel, the kingdom of the kingdom of Israel had split in two.

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It had stayed unified during the reign of David and it had been unified during the reign of Solomon.

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But when Solomon died, one of his servants named Jeroboam decided he was going to start off his own kingdom and he split from the kingdom of David and formed his own kingdom with the 10 northern tribes.

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I wish I had a map.

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You have a map in your Bible.

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You can see how all this stuff works.

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There are 10 tribes that are in the north amen, starting with Ephraim and Manasseh and going forward, and then in the southern kingdom around Jerusalem, there was Judah and there was Benjamin.

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That was it, and Judah and Benjamin stayed faithful to the house of David, the northern kingdom broke away and formed their own nation with their own king and with their own religion.

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This is what's so important, because when Jeroboam split away, he knew that the and this was happening.

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So many people left the northern kingdom and came down and became inhabitants of Judah because they wanted to continue observing the feasts and being faithful to the God of Abraham, isaac and Jacob.

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I mean by the multiplied tens of thousands they came out of the north and came to live in Judah.

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Documented fact Amen.

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But many didn't.

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And Jeroboam said you don't have to go to Jerusalem anymore.

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I'm going to build a temple in Shechem, in Samaria, in Ephraim, and I'm going to build another one in Dan, in the north, and I'm going to raise up a golden calf to Baal and you can come and worship in these places, so you don't have to go to Jerusalem.

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Amen.

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They raised up the same idol.

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That was the idol that they raised up in the wilderness in Sinai in the days of Moses, when Moses went up to receive the law.

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They made a golden calf.

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They did the same thing again, only this time they made two Praise God.

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Do you think that God was going to let this go.

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Amen.

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This is such rebellion against God and what I want to talk, what we're talking about in this, this battle, this is such rebellion against God and what we're talking about in this battle.

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Every battle has had a place of attack.

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It has had an aspect of Jesus' ministry that is placed under attack.

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Amen, amen.

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And if the battle's not won, then that way of attack can spread and cause the message of Christ not to be received.

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And the point of attack here is institutional idolatry.

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When a nation state embraces idolatry as its foundation, amen, it will.

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If it's unchecked, it will keep the message of the gospel from being spread.

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Amen, that institutionalized idolatry has to be dealt with.

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Watch the ministry of Paul.

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Paul leaves the security of Israel, where he was known, where he had a ministry.

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All of the apostles were there and they left at the instruction of God and they moved to Antioch.

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From Antioch, once they had trained some people, they started to move out.

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And where Paul had to go I don't have time to go over this again, we've been over this several times when he went were centers of institutionalized idolatry, were centers of institutionalized idolatry, and in every place he had to raise up a church and come against that idol.

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He had to go to Ephesus.

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He had to go to Colossae.

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He had to go to Corinth.

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He had to go to Pergamos, he had to go to numerous places where it was institutionalized idolatry.

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In other words, remember what happened in Philippi.

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They said this man is going to disrupt the very core of how we make our money here.

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If he casts the devil out of this fortune-telling woman and she's how we make our money then we can't do what we've been doing.

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In other words, the whole city was given under the spell.

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And here comes Paul and Silas, you know, and they just rip it.

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They said well, you can't do that, this is how we do it.

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Paul said not on my watch, we're not.

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Praise god, he was sent everywhere.

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The apostle there, the.

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The stories are of apostle john going into the temple of diana in in ephesus and cursing that that-foot statue and it fell over at his feet with its head cut off.

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Paul went in a few months after that and set up a church and set up a house-based church and set up a school to train Christians Amen.

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After that spirit had been dealt with by the Apostle John, glory to God, hallelujah.

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Are we hearing any of this?

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This spirit of idolatry had to be dealt with, amen, because it was a rebellion against the kingship of David.

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David's kingship was given to Israel by God and he expected them to obey it, when they did not.

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I mean, he gave David the plan, he gave David the money, he gave Solomon the method of building the most beautiful building in the world.

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And over that beautiful building, if that wasn't enough, hovered the cloud by day and the fire by night.

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And the 10 tribes of Israel decided they had a better way.

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Insane.

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In 1993, if you don't think, this applies to today in 1993, god gave me a prophecy over a three-day weekend.

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In 1993, god gave me a prophecy over a three-day weekend and in that prophecy he said that the United States has raised up two golden calves, one on each coast, and on the East Coast it's a golden calf of government and education and on the West Coast it's a golden calf to sports and entertainment, he said.

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And the entire nation has gone after these idols.

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So if you don't think that these things reoccur, they do reoccur when a nation abandons the ways of God and goes after false gods and goes after systems of idolatry Amen, amen, and makes idols out of created things, so that the people are led away from the true and the living God and taught to follow after these false gods that have no power.

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So after this had been going on for a while, god sent Elijah to the northern kingdoms during the days of the kingship of Ahab, and he told Ahab he said I want you to gather all of the people of Israel and I want you to gather all of the prophets of Baal and I want you to gather all the prophets of Asherah and I want you to meet me at Mount Carmel.

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Now, the amazing thing was that Ahab, the king of Israel, did what the prophet said, because he had already learned that the man of God had the power to shut up the heavens.

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They were in the middle of a three and a half year drought.

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Amen, they had been.

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They had been, they had been suffering because of this guy.

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When he met, when he met Elijah, he called him a troubler.

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He said you are the one that troubles Israel.

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And Elijah looked at him and said no, sir, I'm not the one that troubles Israel, you are Glory to God.

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Now bring these people to the mountain.

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And he gathered all these people there at a place where there had been an altar built to Yahweh.

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Now, we don't know whether that altar was built back in the days of Abraham, maybe the days of Isaac, maybe the days of Jacob, or maybe other days that were closer to the time of Elijah, before Jerusalem was built.

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I don't know, I don't know, nobody else really knows but it had been laid to disuse, it had been laid waste, it had been not used properly, it had been misused, or perhaps the prophets of Baal had come over and just torn it all up.

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Whatever the case was, there was just an unused pile of rocks there that at one time had been an altar to Yahweh.

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And that's where we're going to pick up our story today, because I'm not going to go back over some of the things we've talked before and I'm not going to go over some of the things that were mentioned earlier, but I do want to mention these two things, praise God.

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One of them is that Elijah commanded the altar to be rebuilt.

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Elijah commanded the altar to be rebuilt.

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There are some things and this is why apostles and prophets have been restored to the church.

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There are some things that apostles and prophets have to do, and they're authorized to do that the other three offices are not.

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And one of those things is the rebuilding of altars In the church.

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There are times when God gets in and changes the fabric of worship and changes the fabric of worship, amen.

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He changes the way people sing, he changes the way they worship.

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They change the way that they assemble.

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For example, when he sent John Wesley to England and Wesley reformed the Church of England and came out the other side with the Methodist Church, it was not his intention to come out with a new denomination, but it was his intention to change the way to reform the Church of England so that they changed the way they sang, they changed the way they prayed, they changed the way they met, they changed the way they prayed.

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They changed the way they met, they changed the way they assembled.

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They changed the way they prayed and worshiped the Lord.

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And all of a sudden, instead of having these real boring things where the preacher did, preachers did not even know how to pray If they didn't have their prayer book.

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They didn't know how to pray.

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There were prayers for everything.

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You know you got bo-weevils in your something or other.

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You know there's a prayer for that.

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Glory to God.

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Turn to page 347.

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You know, but John Wesley came and he said we're not going to pray like that.

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We're going to pray led by the Spirit.

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We're going to let God tell us how to pray.

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Some of the things I teach you are not new.

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They're just new because we haven't been doing them.

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Amen.

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Church of England was as dead as a doornail, but they started singing enthusiastically.

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They started praying enthusiastically.

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They started worshiping in a way that had not been seen before.

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They started meeting in unusual places.

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They didn't have to have churches, they didn't have to have buildings.

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They met in homes, they met out and under trees.

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Glory to God, because God changed the fabric of what they were doing.

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Praise God.

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Apostolic leadership is necessary to do that, because if you start to do that as a pastor of a church, amen.

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All the rest of the churches are going to say you're crazy.

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But if you are an apostolic voice that has lots of pastors underneath your authority, amen.

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You can command that the altar be rebuilt.

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See, people will do what they're led to do and pastors that are obedient to apostolic authority will do what they're led to do Amen.

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But you have to have somebody that is bold enough to do it.

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Hallelujah, praise God that is bold enough to do it.

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Hallelujah, praise God.

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This altar had to be rebuilt according to the word of God.

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Look at verse 36 in chapter 18 of 1 Kings, and it says there that it came to pass, at the time of the offering of the evening sacrifice, that Elijah the prophet came near and said Lord, god of Abraham, isaac and Israel, let it be known this day that you are God in Israel and I am your servant, and I have done all these things at your word.

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In other words, the way that the altar was rebuilt was done at the word of God given to the prophet Elijah.

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Now I'm going to say this Elijah was the only prophet that we know of in Israel at this time that could hear the voice of God.

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So there wasn't anybody else that could have a plan as to how the altar was to be rebuilt.

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But God gave Elijah a specific plan in how to build the altar.

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There had to be 12 stones, one for each of the tribes of Israel, amen.

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There had to be a specific plan to follow, and so Elijah, speaking on God's behalf, gave the plan, and he gave the plan, and he gave the orders and he gave the direction, Hallelujah.

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And they needed to be 12 stones because, first of all, because God said so and, second of all, because everything that Elijah was doing that day was to remind the people of Israel that they had a God whose name was not Baal.

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They had a God whose name was the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel, amen.

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But Elijah was very careful that day to make sure that Israel heard that they had a God whose name was the God of Israel, amen.

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He wasn't celebrating watch this.

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He was not celebrating the name of who Jacob was, but he was celebrating the name of who God had made him to be a prince, a prince of nations, amen.

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Just the same way that he had changed the name of his grandfather from Abram to Abraham, the father of many nations, he changed Jacob's name from supplanter and cheat to the prince of nations, amen.

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And Elijah had come to tell Israel that this God still had a claim on them, but not in the way that they were, but in the way that he was making them to be, which was under David's kingship.

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What were they calling?

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So, elijah?

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Let them know that.

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Read it God.

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So, elijah, let them know that.

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He said you're not the guy.

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The way I'm building this altar is to remind you that there are not 10 tribes in the northern kingdom, there are not two tribes in the southern kingdom.

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There are 12 tribes in the kingdom of which David is the king and, furthermore, that you are the descendancy, in this 12 tribe arrangement, of the man that God made by breaking his hip and causing him to limp, and gave him another name because he ascended the ladder up to heaven.

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Glory to God.

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I wish I could preach this Amen.

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He didn't abandon.

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He didn't abandon his God and go after another God the way that Esau did.

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He took his heritage and held on to it and let God form him into a different man.

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And of that different man there are 12 tribes.

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They're not 12 unique tribes, they're not 12 separate tribes, they are all 12 of him.

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Of who?

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The name of that country today is not Jacob, hello, it never has been Jacob.

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It's always been Israel.

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Hallelujah, praise God.

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So, instead of see, we need to learn something here.

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We need to learn that when we go to God, we appear before His altar.

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To learn something here we need to learn that when we go to God, we appear before His altar.

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Amen.

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We need to quit this business of trying to get Him to bless the person with the old name.

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See, we all have old names.

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I have an old name.

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My old name is Alan, but I also have a new name.

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Amen, you have a new name.

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You try to get God to bless your old name.

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He has a hard time doing that because he is constantly busy about forming you into this person that has this new name.

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He has a hard time remembering who that old name belongs to, because he never gave you that name, amen.

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He gave you a new name.

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Everybody say new name.

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The Bible says you got a new name, hallelujah.

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And when you try to get him to bless everything that belongs to that old name, he's just going to go what?

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Why are we doing that?

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I'm not about your old name, I'm about the new name.

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Praise the Lord, praise God.

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Do you know why?

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Oh glory to God.

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Why God is known throughout the Old Testament and New Testament as the God of Abraham, isaac and Jacob is because Israel never accepted the new name.

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They lived under the curse of being separated.

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The ten tribes continued on their way until about 200 years later, they were totally dissolved and carried off.

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They weren't there anymore.

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Praise the Lord.

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Then, when they brought the sacrifices to be slaughtered and the sacrifices placed on the stones amen the Bible says that those sacrifices had to be cut into pieces.

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Now, you have to know that if they were serious about how they arranged the stones, they were serious about how they arranged the sacrifices, amen.

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And so, over here, on Elijah's sacrifice, the pieces were cut precisely and they were ordered precisely on the stones.

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What does this speak of?

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This speaks of the sacrifice not being a one-time thing, amen.

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It speaks that you know the pieces were going to be placed into the fire in a certain order so that they could be completely burned.

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If you just dump a whole bowl on a fire, it's going to take a while for that to be burned, amen.

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But it'll be burned up.

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But if you break it into pieces, you can put those pieces on over and over and over and over and over again, because sacrifice is a process, not a one-time event.

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Amen.

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God is going to call on you to sacrifice unto him.

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Make your bodies a living sacrifice, holy and acceptable unto God, amen.

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He's expecting you to do this over and over and over again, just not one time, just not a few times, just not every once in a while when it's convenient.

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See, while Elijah was making this well-ordered altar and a place of sacrifice over here, you just had a bunch of stones.

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You had a bunch of wood.

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You threw a couple of animals on it and they were.

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They were wanting to lay a torch to it, but not on Elijah's side, not on the prophet's side, not on the apostle's side.

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You don't do things like that.

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It's well-ordered, it's structured.

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Amen, glory to God.

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And there's a reason for that structure.

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Everything.

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The wood had to be in order, amen.

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And this happened also.

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Listen, this happened not only with Elijah, but it happened with Abraham, when Abraham offered Isaac up.

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You remember the story?

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Amen.

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The Bible says the exact same words he placed the wood in order.

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Amen, same words he placed the wood in order.

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Two of the most important sacrifices in the Old Testament, abraham's and Elijah's and the exact same words are used he placed the wood in order.

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Now, if you think that's a coincidence, there's no hope for you.

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I just don't know what to tell you.

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Glory to God, amen.

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Of all the sacrifices that were done in the Old Testament, amen.

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Here's two of the most important and they both emphasize this one thing we're going to put the wood in order.

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What does that mean?

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If you want to avoid any type of idolatry in your life and I'm confident that if I go to your house I'm not going to find gold calves and statues to idols I'm not talking about that kind of idolatry.

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That's what they did back then.

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I'm not talking about that.

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I'm talking about what John said little children, keep yourself from idols.

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He was not talking to unbelievers, he was talking to Christians.

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Keep yourself from idols.

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You want to keep yourself from idols.

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Keep your wood ordered properly on the altar.

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Amen.

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If you're going to be free from idolatry, your life needs to be ordered.

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You need and you know what I mean by that.

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I mean you need to inspect your life.

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You need to.

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You need to look at things that's going on in your life.

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You need to.

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You need to look at it and say, okay, is this even getting close to being so important?

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It's getting an inordinate amount of attention.

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I don't care what it is, I don't care what it is, I don't care if it's living or dead, I don't care if it has two legs, four legs, six legs, eight legs.

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I don't care if it's this, I don't care if it's that, I don't care if it has two legs, four legs, six legs, eight legs.

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I don't care if it's this, I don't care if it's that, I don't care if it's something that you turn on, I don't care if it's something that you turn off, I don't care what it is.

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But you need to keep that wood in order and keep revising.

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Revising is not the one thing in Spanish.

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You need to keep inspecting your life and keep it properly ordered before the Lord so that nothing gets out of balance and you keep everything in front of the Lord, who gets all of your attention.

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See, you still got to deal with this scripture.

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I've got to deal with this scripture.

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I've got to deal with this scripture that a sinner is a man in whom are his thoughts are not all about God.

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You think about that for a second.

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See, that's what God.

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That's what God expects.

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You say, well, that's just crazy.

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No, that's just God.

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He deserves that kind of attention.

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You go well.

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He deserves that kind of attention, you go well.

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You need to think again and you need to keep on thinking.

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You need to keep on thinking and you need to keep that wood well stacked and properly placed and exactly in the right place.

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Amen.

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Now I could talk to Roger about this.

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He would.

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He knows cause he camps.

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You know, you just can't throw a bunch of wood on there and expect to have a good fire.

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You got to build the wood, amen.

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Oh, you can.

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I mean it'll work, but it's not the same.

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There's a way to build a fire and there's a way not to Glory to God, hallelujah.

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You got to keep your life constantly being inspected and keep the wood constantly in order.

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When Abraham was going to offer up Isaac, he had to do that.

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Was going to offer up Isaac, he had to do that.

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Amen.

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When Elijah made his altar, he did that.

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Praise God Then.

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So here we've got an ordered group of 12 stones, we've got ordered wood, we've got an orderly cut sacrifice and now we're going to dig a trench.

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What does that mean?

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If you're going to avoid idolatry in your life, then you just need to dedicate yourself to being separated, amen.

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Without being separated.

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The Bible says 2 Corinthians, chapter 6, tells you to be separated unto God.

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Come out from among them and be ye separate, saith the Lord.

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Why?

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Because it's in that separation that he can be your God and your father, amen.

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But if you're so busy being normal and being just, you know, mr and Mrs America, you know, and you're just, you know, enjoying all the great things of life and all that kind of stuff, you're not going to have God in all your thoughts.

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It's almost impossible.

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Amen.

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And that's what he wants.

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He wants to be in all of your thoughts, he wants to take over your thinking, bring every thought captive to the obedience of Christ.

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Amen.

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See, paul knew what he was talking about.

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Paul knew exactly what he was talking about when he wrote that.

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He also knew what he was saying when he was quoting the prophet Isaiah come out from among them and be separate.

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Saith the Lord and I will receive you.

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And when Elijah dug that trench around the altar, he separated the altar from everything else that was around it.

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He separated it from the prophets of Baal, he separated it from the people, he separated it from the prophets of Ashtoreth, he separated it from Ahab.

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He separated it from Jezebel.

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He separated, he cut it off from everything that could touch it, amen, everything that could touch it, amen.

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I would suggest to you that you do.

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You develop a new revival in your life of separation for the next year, because it's only going to be in that separation that you're going to hear from God, and you're going to hear God tell you what you need to do, because this next year is just going to be absolutely insane.

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If you don't believe me, okay, I would suggest that you find some conveniently read book that is written at the time, during the Civil War, especially from somebody that lived in the South, and find out how insane their life became when the country was set on fire.

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Don't read it from the Northern's point of view, because they weren't impacted, unless you lived in Gettysburg.

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Amen, are you hearing what I'm saying?

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I'm not saying we're going to have a civil war.

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I'm just saying that somebody's going to light a fire that has never been seen before and you need to keep yourself separated.

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Everybody say separated.

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Amen, glory to god.

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Dig a trench.

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It doesn't do any.

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Listen, it doesn't.

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You have to do all these things.

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It doesn't do any good to order the wood if you don't order the sacrifice.

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Doesn't do any good to order the sacrifice if you don't order the stones.

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Doesn't do any good to order the sacrifice if you don't order the stones.

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It doesn't do any good to build the altar and put the sacrifice on it and order the wood.

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If you don't dig the trench, if you don't separate unto God, amen, you can do whatever you want to do and it won't make any difference.

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Listen, if you think you can just live life the way you've been living it, think again.

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It's time to dig the trench a little deeper.

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It's time to dig the trench a little wider.

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Glory to God.

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Then, finally, glory to God, then, finally, if that's not enough, then you've got to soak the entire thing in water.

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You've got to soak the entire thing in water so that the meat, the sacrifice, is soaked, the wood that is in order is soaked, the stones are soaked, the trench is filled, Amen.

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You no longer have a trench, you've got a moat.

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Somebody help me preach Amen.

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What's the purpose of a moat?

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The purpose of a moat is to keep out the enemy.

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Amen.

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And even like most of us, most listen, this is the way most of us live.

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We would dig the trench, we'd fill it with water, we'd stock it with catfish, amen.

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We'd go fishing in it.

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And you know what we would do.

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We put about 15 bridges over it and leave all of the bridges down all the time, because you know.

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Well, you never know when you might have to go out from the castle and go across the moat and go to one of your little convenience places and just feel good about yourself.

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Well, there might be one over here, and we don't want to walk all the way over here to this one single bridge.

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You know how many bridges they had across a moat at a castle?

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That would be one, amen.

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If you have two, you've just doubled your liability.

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I'm telling you, we live in castles with moats that have about 20 bridges.

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Oh Jesus, help me, lord, you've got to saturate this thing with so much water.

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Word prayer, amen.

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Glory to God that the only way this thing's going to catch fire is by supernatural means.

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That's why Elijah did it.

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He said now watch this.

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He said you can do whatever you want.

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Just throw some stones out there, throw some wood out there, throw some meat out there, and then call on your God.

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He said but I'm going to do it this way over here, and then I'm going to dump all kinds of water on it, which was why he picked the spot, because there was a stream and a spring right down the hill a little bit and there was an entire ocean that he could pick from a few hundred yards away.

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He kind of kept putting water on it all day long.

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Glory to God.

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He made, and he made the prophets of Baal do it, jesus.

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So you know.

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You know the story the.

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The prophets couldn't get it, couldn't get the job done.

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So, god, so Abraham calls on the God of Abraham, isaac and Israel.

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He just rubs it into them.

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He said, look, you guys couldn't get it done, but I'm going to call on the God of Israel.

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You think just by erecting a couple of statues that you're going to change who the God of this place is?

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You think that.

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See, that's what they think around here.

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They think that if they can tear down some statues they can erase our history.

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They think if they change the names of forts, they're going to change our history.

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They think if they knock down some churches or they knock some preachers out of their pulpits, that they think they're going to change the name of the God that this country was founded on.

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I'm here to tell you today.

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It is in your Declaration of Independence, it is in your Constitution.

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We, the people in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, the people in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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It starts with we, the people.

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It ends in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, in the year of our Lord Jesus Christ, hallelujah.

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You can't take, you can't take God out of this country without taking this country off the planet.

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Oh, you may think you can, you may think you can raise up a couple of calves over here and over here.

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You may think you can lead people astray.

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You may think you can do that.

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Amen.

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But there's been too many people.

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I said there's been too many people praying over this earth, praying over this country, praying over your lives, when you didn't, you weren't even here yet.

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Glory to God.

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Let the Lord.

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He says, let the Lord who is God, let the Yahweh who is Adonai, elohim El Shaddai, let that God answer by fire.

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So we're going to add the fire of the Holy Ghost to the wood, to the word, to the prayer, to the water.

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We're going to add the fire of the Holy Ghost, amen.

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Because the fire has to come, just like it came at Pentecost.

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It has to come from God.

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People can work up prayer.

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People can work up separation.

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People can work up, you know, studying the Word, but they can't work up the fire.

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The fire came down from heaven and consumed everything that man can do.

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You see, man can arrange his stones.

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That talks about heritage, that talks about destiny, that talks about identity.

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The Jews were good at identifying with Abraham, isaac and Jacob.

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They were so good at it that they thought they were the only ones that God ever wanted to talk to.

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They thought that if you wanted to know God and all that, you had to become a Jew or else he wouldn't talk to you.

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The stones represented what that represented a definite tie to heritage.

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Men are good at that.

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The animal flesh speaks of something that's visible, that's real.

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You can touch it, you can's visible.

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That's real, you can touch it, you can smell it.

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It's real.

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Amen.

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It has real substance.

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The wood is a tangible Listen.

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Wood is a tangible source of fire.

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Now, the church is real good at giving you tangible substitutes for fire.

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Music is a big one.

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I have been around this kind of thing all of my ministry.

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I have been around guys who substitute shouting and a lot of noise and a lot of antics for fire.

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I mean, they'll shout it down, they'll slobber, they'll spit, they'll dance, they'll do all kinds of stuff, but there's no real fire.

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They've substituted something that's tangible for fire.

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See, you can't.

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If you want to have a fire, you better bring some wood.

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Amen, because the fire is in the wood.

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Unless you're dealing with god, then the fire that he's talking about is not the fire that it comes by kindling wood and releasing energy.

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It's the fire of the holy ghost, which is a entirely different thing.

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But hey, if you, if you can trick some of the people into thinking that they've just been touched by God because you move their emotions, I'm going to quit.

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I'm just going to go out here and just preach to somebody else.

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Y'all aren't listening.

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I said if you think that you can, if you think that that you can move people by pandering to their emotions Amen, you're in good company.

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They're on TV all day long.

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Glory their emotions.

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Amen, you're in good company.

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They're on TV all day long.

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Glory to God.

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Amen.

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But there's something I said, there's something that falls from heaven.

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On the day of Pentecost, when the day of Pentecost had fully come and they were in one accord and in one place, there came a sound from heaven like a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were seated and there appeared over them cloven tongues as of fire.

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Now, where did that fire come from?

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They didn't.

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They didn't have a, they didn't have a little oven over in the corner and they all just went to, stuck their heads in it and put their hair on fire.

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Amen, that fire came from God.

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I said that fire came from God, glory.

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So the fire came down and consumed the wood, all this fake stuff, all this fake Holy Ghost stuff.

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The fire of God is going to consume it.

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It consumed the trench.

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Listen, one of the things that the church is really good at is defining man-made ways of separation.

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How long are your sleeves?

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How red is your lipstick?

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How long is your hair?

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How short your hair?

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You know what hymn book do you use.

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You know what prayers do you use.

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How many times a day do you pray?

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Which direction do you face when you pray?

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You know man's real good about this kind of stuff.

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I was in an airport one day and there was this.

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There was these, these folks of a particular belief system, and that person was underneath the staircase on their prayer prayer cloth and they were faced in a certain direction, because they can't pray unless they're faced in that direction.

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You know me If I thought I could get away with it.

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I would have snuck up there real quiet and turned that rug right around in a different direction.

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Now, what you going to do, well, I can't help it, I, I, when I see religion raising its head like that, I don't like it.

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Don't tell me, you got a face in a certain direction.

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You don't have to have your head up like this.

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Amen, there's nothing.

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Glory to God.

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Man has all kinds of ways to tell you how to be separated, but the only one who is qualified to tell you how to separate unto God is God.

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See, I can't tell you.

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You know you have to fast three times a month, or three times a week, or three times a day, or three times a year, or 30 times a year.

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Right, I can't tell you that.

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Oh, I could, and I could get, I could quote you a bunch of scriptures and I could put a real guilt trip on you.

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You know like you're not as fit fit trim like me.

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You know, because I fast a hundred times a year.

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You know, and all you know, I could do that.

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Have I ever done that?

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I've never done that.

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Why have I not done that?

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Because that's not my job.

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It is up to the Holy Ghost to tell you when to fast.

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And he will, and he will.

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You don't think for a second that you're the only person in the universe that he's never going to tell to pass.

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Don't even go there, that's impossible.

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He will because the Bible says that they will fast in those days.

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But it's up to Him to tell you, or else it's going to be a man-made sacrifice, amen, and the fire is going to consume that up, listen, it's going to even consume the water, amen, amen.

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It's going to consume any man-made or routine formulas of prayer.

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So if you think you know, if you've got whatever, I don't.

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You know if it's 5 o'clock in the morning or 5 o'clock in the afternoon or 5 minutes after 2 on alternate Tuesdays, or you know you don't have to face east but you got to face a little bit south-southeast, you know, because that's more toward you know.

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Just give it up, because when the fire comes, it's going to consume that.

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If you think that the Holy Ghost is going to be boxed in by your self-inflicted prayer times, you've got another thing coming.

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He may wake you up at 2.30 in the morning and say guess what?

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This isn't 2.30 in the afternoon, it was 2.30 in the afternoon.

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That was way too convenient.

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I'm going to wake you up on my clock and you better be happy, you better be rejoicing, you better be glad and you better be praying, because now you're on his time.

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The fire will reset your clock.

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The fire will reset your See.

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The Bible says.

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Jesus said nobody knows these things, they don't take it for what it's really said.

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Jesus said don't think you're going to be heard by your many words, so it's not going to get it done.

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Many words are not what God needs.

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Much faith is what God needs.

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Some of my best prayers have been no words.

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Think about that.

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Glory to God.

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And it sucked up the dirt.

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I love that the fire even burned up the dirt.

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I love that the fire even burned up the dirt.

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And it's going to burn up any association with death or with the things of death.

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So listen to what this fire is going to do.

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It's going to burn up any connection to heritage, destiny, identity, anything that's real, flesh, invisible, any tangible substitutes for the real fire, form of man-made separation, any form of routine and self-identified prayer routines, any association with death or the things of death.

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The fire, when it comes, it's going to burn up all of that.

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Are you hearing me and the people?

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When it happened, the people said this God, this God of Abraham, isaac and Israel, is the true God.

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Jehovah, he is God, yahweh, he is God, amen, as Sarah was mentioning earlier.

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We need to come back to that.

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I mean, we need to come back, like so many.

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I heard so many say when I heard this, I was reminded.

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So many said I'm not a spiritual person.

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But I'm not a spiritual person, but I'm not a spiritual person.

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But something spiritual happened two weeks ago, but God, but God.

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I'm not a spiritual person.

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But those weren't spiritual people out there on that hillside with Elijah, but when they saw the fire come down from heaven, I said when they saw the fire come down from heaven, at the word of the man of God, hallelujah.

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He said let the God, who is God, answer by fire.

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And the fire fell and consumed everything that was offered up.

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Praise the Lord Yahweh.

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He is God Yahweh, he is God.

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He is the God of Abraham, Isaac and Israel.

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He is the God of David, he is the God of Solomon and he is the God that's sending this Jesus by way of the tribe of Judah.

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And here we are in rebellion against that.

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Now I'm going to make one more point.

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It's time to be ruthless with any form of idolatry that is anywhere near you or yours.

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It's time to be ruthless.

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It's time, do you not remember back in the day when we used to take paintings off the wall and burn them?

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When we used to take records out and burn them?

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Don't you remember those days when we used to take paintings off the wall and burn them, when we used to take records out and burn them?

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Don't you remember those days when we used to do stuff like that?

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I can remember some paintings I had that I took out and burned them in a pile and I mean the most hideous smoke came up from them and the stench you know.

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Glory to God.

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When was the last time we did anything like that, or even had a thought like that that maybe there's something in my life that needs to be eradicated forcibly?

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Let me tell you what Elijah did that day.

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You know what Elijah did that day.

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He said capture those prophets of Baal, do not let them escape.

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And he took them down to the brook and exterminated them on the spot, before they had a chance to escape.

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I don't care what it is in your life that needs to be dealt with, but it needs to be exterminated.

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It doesn't need to be toyed with, it doesn't need to be played with, it doesn't need to be, you know, kind of moved off into the corner and petted every once in a while.

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Glory to God, it needs to be exterminated.

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It needs to be eradicated.

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It needs to be forced out.

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Amen, so that God can have everything.

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There wasn't the sacrifice that the prophets of Baal offered up was untouched, but over here, everything that Elijah had carefully put together was totally consumed.

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There was nothing left but a hole in the dirt.

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You don't think that's a stark contrast, and you don't think that whatever is left over here after this fire has fallen needs to suffer the same fate?

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It needs to go.

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It needs to be eradicated.

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These prophets of Baal had to be dealt with.

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This thing is such a powerful story that, a thousand years later, paul's writing about it in the book of Romans.

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A thousand years later, it's being talked about in the New Testament.

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Glory to God, hallelujah.

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What are the idols that can be in our life?

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And I don't know what they are.

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I'm not saying that anybody's in gross idolatry, I'm just saying that John said keep yourself little children from idols.

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If he knew something that maybe you don't know, that would not be surprising.

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I think the apostle John constantly amazes me in stuff that he knew 2,000 years ago, that we don't know yet.

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And he knew that.

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Oh yes, he did.

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Glory to God.

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Even Rachel, who was about to marry this Israel, ducked out of her homeland with an idol underneath her saddle.

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Oh, yes, they did.

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In the days of the, of the days when ie was captured and sacked, amen, achan had an idol buried under his tent and a plague broke out upon the people of israel.

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Why?

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Because of little idols, little foxes spoil the vine.

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Amen.

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Glory to God, hallelujah.

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Are we hearing this today?

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Are we hearing this?

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Praise God, this God, I said this God of Abraham, isaac and Israel Is still spreading fire on his people.

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Glory to God, hallelujah.

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He is still doing it.

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It is still the God.

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He is still the God who answers by fire.

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Oh, yes, he is the God.

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He is still the God who answers by fire.

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Oh, yes, he is.

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Praise God.

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You know, one of the signs, one of the clear signs that he had left Israel, was that the fire departed from over the mercy seat.

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In the book of Ezekiel you can read it, amen, that the cloud lifted up off of the temple and went out the eastern gate.

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Well, when the cloud went, the fire went.

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When the fire is lifted up, amen, and it's no longer coming.

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God has left the building.

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God does not leave your building.

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So if God does not leave your building, then you can know this.

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His fire is always falling on your life.

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His fire is always looking for things to burn up and that fire that is burning something up.

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If you don't know what that is, go back and reread what that altar was built out of and remember the things that were said here today about destiny, about the tangible fakes for the fire, remember the things that we said Amen, and remember that God's after those things with his fire.

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His fire does.

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His fire not only eradicates but it purifies.

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It is a purifying fire.

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Amen, hallelujah, praise God.

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Behold, the message of the covenant shall come and he shall be like a refiner's fire and a purifier's soap, and he shall purify the sons of Levi that they may offer a sacrificeifier soap, and he shall purify the sons of Levi that they may offer a sacrifice in righteousness.

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Now, that was the only context they had was for the sons of Levi, which you can substitute in there the sons of Melchizedek, and even have a better translation.

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Amen, hallelujah, that fire of God is falling on his priesthood now.

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Amen, because the prophets of Baal are running in the land and they're trying to deceive a nation.

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I'm not talking politics, I'm talking about the spirit.

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We don't wrestle against flesh and blood, but against powers and principalities, spiritual wickedness in high places.

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Glory to God, powers of darkness it's who we're fighting against.

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Glory to God, and it is the fire that is going to cleanse his people.

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Amen, praise to God, let's stand.