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Glory to God, hallelujah.
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Thank you, lord.
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Turn with me, please, to Psalm 31.
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Before we move into another aspect of this study on the Antichrist's persistent attack on the body of Christ over the centuries, going all the way back to Cain and Abel and back to the rebellion of Adam, I want to insert this one thought, and that is if you're going to believe in this God, that is the truly awesome God, god that is the God of all power and all infinity and all eternity and all of this creation and all creations to come.
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If this God is that God, then for all of these things that we've been talking to, that every time the enemy comes in like a, a flood, the spirit of God raises up a standard against him.
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If that's what you want in your life, then this truly awesome and almighty God needs to be your God.
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He just can't be a God that you've heard about.
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He has to be a God that is your God, and David says in verse 14 of Psalm 31,.
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But as for me, I trust in you, o Lord.
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I say you are my God.
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Hallelujah, glory to God.
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I'm believing that these next few verses in the book of Psalms are a prophecy concerning how the body of Christ, has to have this personal, revelatory relationship with God so that this almighty God that is Let me just back up a little bit this God that Romans, the first chapter, says all men are accountable to give honor to this God as the almighty God, the all-powerful God, the eternal God.
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All you have to do is look up anytime you want to, just look up, and there is a continual witness to the infinite power of God, the eternity of God, the fact that he created everything that you see and all of those things.
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Everybody is accountable to give glory to God, for he has put it in every man.
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At least, when you get here, amen.
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You can at least look up and see that this God did that, amen.
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But there's only one way, and only one or always will be.
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Only one way that that God can become your God, and that is to know that he came to earth in the form of a man whose name was Jesus, and Jesus took on your form and all of who you are, so that you could be transformed into the image of this awesome God.
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Now, that is the essence of the New Testament.
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It is not very often taught, it is almost considered to be blasphemous in some circles, but that still is the bottom line amen of all of it that.
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Paul said this I am in birth pangs until Christ be formed in you, hallelujah.
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If he's not your God, he is not God in your life.
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He's just the guy that hung the stars out there.
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Amen.
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For him to become your God is a totally different process.
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David said this I trust in you.
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The essence of trust is to say you are my God.
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Amen.
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I have made, I have.
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I have made you my God because you have made me to trust in you.
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Something happened.
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Something happened, something happened to everybody in this room that made you start this path of not trusting yourself and trusting your God.
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Something happened.
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Everybody's different, every occasion is different.
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Amen.
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We were all people who were fairly confident in trusting in our own abilities.
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Amen.
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We were all people who were fairly confident in trusting in our own abilities amen, to get things done, until we were confronted with some issues about God that made us realize that there were some things that we couldn't take care of.
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You can't take care of the sin issue.
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You can't take care of the inadequacy issue.
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You can't take care of your frailty.
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You can't take care of death.
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You can't take care of sickness.
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Amen, all of these things.
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You had to come up to the limits of what you could do.
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Now, man, in his wisdom, has come up with a lot of stopgaps.
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You're sick, take a pill.
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If You're sick, take a pill.
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If you're more sick, take a shot.
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You know, if you're poor, take a loan.
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If you're real poor, take out a credit card.
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You know, man has come up with a lot of alternatives that our parents didn't have.
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I mean, when they got sick, if God didn't heal them, they just got sick and then they got well.
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Because what they understood, and what people who know this God understand, is that this body is made for healing.
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You didn't hear me, see, most people will tell you in this day and age that this body was made to get sick.
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No, this body was made to heal.
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It was not made to be sick.
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Somebody help me.
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Don't look at me like I'm crazy.
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Sickness is a curse.
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Sickness is what.
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Sickness is what came.
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Because adam sinned before, before Adam sinned, this body was designed to heal.
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Amen, glory to God.
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Why would you need to get healed if you never got sick?
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Well, you might get cut.
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You might fall down and scrape your knee, you might twist your ankle.
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You know there's all kinds of things on this planet that can happen.
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Glory to God, hallelujah.
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So if you got sick, you just wait until your healing came.
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Your healing didn't come, you just go to heaven.
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Man life was simple.
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Glory to God, hallelujah, praise God.
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We need to have a personal revelation now I'm.
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This stuff is not going to be new news, new to you, but you need to have your pure mind stirred up by way of remembrance, because these things I've been talking to you about your god, that he always raises up a standard, that he's always victorious, that there is no way he's going to that.
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There is no way he's going to be defeated.
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There's no way he's going to lose this next battle that's coming.
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There is absolutely no way that he does anything but kick some major league.
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You know what, in the form of the Antichrist?
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There's just no way it's not going to happen.
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It has happened consistently since Adam.
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There's just no way it's not going to happen.
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It has happened consistently since Adam.
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The Bible is a history of those things, punctuated with the kind of miracles that are the fabric of our everyday living.
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You know, everybody said well, that's just like crossing the Red Sea.
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That's like David and Goliath, that's like Daniel in the lion's den.
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That's like the handwriting on the wall.
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These things that we've been talking about as miraculous manifestations of God raising up a standard against antichrist amen, are the way that history is described.
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But nobody ties the dots together to say, okay, this is just one continuous battle.
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And here we are again.
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Hallelujah, and I'm going to say this.
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I'm going to say it real plain.
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If you think that what's happened this past week is the end of the battle, you are nuts.
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It's really just the beginning.
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It's going to get a lot worse before God raises up the final standard, but it's coming, hallelujah.
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And what you need to have is you need to have a personal revelation and a fresh revelation of how great this God is.
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This is why I'm taking nearly a year to go through all of this again, so that our minds are stirred up and you've got a fresh revelation of how great this God is.
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Listen, where have we been over the past few weeks?
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The greatest military force that has ever been assembled on the planet Over 250,000 men descended on a little country called Hungary and was going to wipe Europe off the face of the map.
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Amen.
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Until what?
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Until?
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A king got drunk.
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A rainstorm turned the horse's pasture land into a marsh and the bubonic plague broke out.
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A simple disease, a rainfall and a drunk king brought that 250,000-man army to its knees.
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God didn't even have to break a sweat, not like God sweats.
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But you know, I mean, that was not a big thing to God, that's how great he is.
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A 250, look at me, say everybody, say this 200.
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That's a two and a five and four zeros.
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That's how many men they had.
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That's how many men turned around and went home and a lot of them without their horses because they were stuck in the mud over there.
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Glory, think of it this way.
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That's two or three cities of Arlington.
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You know, I don't like to throw numbers at you without giving you some context, because that's too easy.
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You got to think about these things.
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Praise God, hallelujah.
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You need to have a personal revelation.
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Everybody say a personal revelation.
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That means that God teaches me, that means that God demonstrates to me, he shows me, he has been faithful to me, he has been there for me and you need to have that personal revelation of his awesome power.
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Amen.
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You need to know that in the darkest hour, your God's going to show up.
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Amen, hallelujah.
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It's too listen.
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When you're under attack, it's too late to get the faith together and get the experience together to do serious battle.
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When you're under serious attack, you better be trained, amen.
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How many of you have seen the movies?
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You know where the, the army's coming in and the only people left are the, are the old men and the boys with pitchforks, you know?
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And they're going out with clubs and and and and stones and they're going to whip this army.
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That's well-trained and you know that ain't going to happen.
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It has never happened.
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It's not going to happen.
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Amen.
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It didn't happen on on on April, the 15th of the 15th of 1775 either.
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Amen.
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The militia men were gathered together on the green of Lexington, massachusetts, and they were going to take on the baddest military force in the world.
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There was about 80 to 100 of them and they were gathered there.
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They were farmers, they were plowmen, storekeepers, and they had their muskets.
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One shot apiece was about all they were going to get and they stood their ground because their orders were a delay action.
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The military didn't know that.
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The Redcoats didn't know that, so they stood their ground and they lost men.
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They weren't going to beat anybody, they weren't even dressed the part.
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They just looked like a bunch of farmers out there with guns.
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And that's how the British took them Just a bunch of farmers protecting the guns.
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And they just didn't want us to get the powder kegs.
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And so they had a little skirmish, the first bloodshed, amen.
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And the British went on because they were after.
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What was really important was an arms cache in a little town called Concord.
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But the Americans weren't stupid.
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They ran a delay action in Lexington, just hoping to suck them in and tire them out.
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So by the time they got to Concord they had them right where we wanted them Strung out from their supply lines, strung out from their command centers and having to cross a very narrow bridge.
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And when they got to that bridge, I've stood right there.
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You should see it.
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It was genius.
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The Americans were coming down this hill from a high position.
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Coming down this hill from a high position, fully uniform, fully equipped, marching in array, marching like an army, and the British were trapped on this bridge and they freaked out and they were sitting ducks for that aspect of the military.
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They just started to pick them off.
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They went into retreat, away from the bridge and back to Boston.
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But the same guys that they thought were just a bunch of ragtag farmers on Lexington Green were now scattered in the bushes all along the road all the way back.
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Boom, boom, boom, boom, shoot and run, shoot and run, shoot and run, shoot and run.
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They decimated.
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By the time that the British were in retreat.
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They were in these heavy wool uniforms, they were sweating, they were hot, they were itchy, they were tired, they were thirsty and they were getting mowed down like sheep to the slaughter Glory to God, hallelujah, hallelujah, praise the Lord.
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Because they knew how to act militarily and they prepared themselves, because they had, they have been trained, they had been through it, they had, they knew what they could do, they had confidence in their officers.
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I'm saying all that to say, when God shows himself mighty on your behalf, amen.
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You have learned how to deal with the pressure.
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You have learned how to deal with the persecution, with the trials, with all of the things that are going to come and they will come, but you've already learned how to deal with it, and you've learned that, in every situation, your God is more than enough.
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Your God is more than enough.
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Your God is going to stand by you.
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Your God is going to keep you.
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Your God is going to protect you.
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Your God is going to speak to you.
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Your God is going to tell you things to come.
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This Holy Ghost is going to show you things to come.
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He's going to speak to you the truth of this gospel and he's going to reinforce you with the word of God.
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He's going to reinforce you with the power of God.
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You need to know this more than you know what the back of your hand looks like Amen.
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You need to know that this God is never going to fail you.
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He's never going to relinquish his hand on you.
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You belong to him.
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You are married to him.
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You are one with him.
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You've been joined to him.
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To turn his back on you would be to turn his back on himself, and that is not possible.
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But you can listen.
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You can only get there by being taught of God.
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I don't care how many times you read this stuff.
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You know and you need to read it, but you need to be reading it with the Holy Ghost's eyes and not your eyes.
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Part of making God your God is to let God be the one who reads this word for you.
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It's his word.
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You try to interpret it the way you're equipped to interpret it, and you're always going to interpret it wrong.
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You have to let God be your eyes and let him his eyes be your eyes and let him sit there with you and speak to you about what this means.
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This is how revelation works.
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I mean, some of it is just sitting there and meditating.
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And let God talking to you.
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A lot of it is sitting here reading it, but not with your eyes, with his eyes.
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You've had this experience.
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I've had this experience a lot.
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You know where I'm reading and he says read it again, read it again, read it again.
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Like I'm stupid, like I didn't read it the first time.
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It's not about my ability to read, it's about my eye ability.
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I'm using the wrong eyes and then, all of a sudden, I realize.
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I realize that something's got to change.
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I don't know how that happens, but all of a sudden it's like a light goes off.
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You've had that happen.
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You know exactly what I'm talking about, amen, and what that is is, all of a sudden, his eyes that were always in there anyway, amen have just jumped into your eyeball sockets and you're seeing what he wrote and you understand this about the word of God, that it's not just up and down and back and forth, but it is deep and it goes off in every direction.
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There's more dimensions to it than you can possibly get and you'll understand this.
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You can come back tomorrow and read that same scripture with his eyes and there's going to be something entirely different for you to know.
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Hallelujah, I've had this happen.
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This just tells you exactly what you know.
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I've preached, I've been into a church, you know I'm going to preach today and tomorrow, the next day, that sort of thing.
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You know, and I've had God have me preach the same text and three days in a row, three different, entirely different messages come out of that one text.
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It's like we never even went to the first one.
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It was just like we got started and off we go.
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That's because the word of God has multiple dimensions to it, and when you're confined to just one thing, this is what it means, hallelujah.
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If you're confined to that, you're going to miss those dimensions.
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And then, when the enemy comes in in a dimension that you haven't looked at yet, you won't know it's him.
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Hallelujah, god is faithful.
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You won't know it's him.
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Hallelujah, god is faithful.
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Everybody say God is faithful.
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He's faithful to keep you.
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When you start to think that he's not able to keep you, you need to remember this.
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You need to go read Hebrews 13 5.
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I'll never leave you nor forsake you.
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What is it about never?
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That you don't understand.
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That is a promise to keep you.
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It's a promise to be with you.
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Lo, I will be with you always.
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If he was just talking to his disciples, we're in trouble, amen.
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But he wasn't just talking to them.
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He was just talking to his disciples we're in trouble, amen.
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But he wasn't just talking to them.
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He was talking to you.
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Lo, I am with you always.
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He is faithful to keep you and he is faithful to keep his promise to you to reveal himself to you In Luke the eighth chapter, himself to you.
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In Luke the eighth chapter, he said that it is the will of God to reveal himself to you.
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Amen, praise God, hallelujah.
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Just think about that.