Jan. 20, 2025

Miracles: The Enduring Standard Raised in Spiritual Conflict - (Enmity with the Seed – Part 4 – From Indwelling to Quickening) – Episode 48

Miracles: The Enduring Standard Raised in Spiritual Conflict - (Enmity with the Seed – Part 4 – From Indwelling to Quickening) – Episode 48

Send us a text Discover the ultimate spiritual showdown as we explore the timeless conflict between Christ and the antichrist, a war that has spanned over 6,000 years. Learn how God has unfailingly raised a standard against the enemy's schemes and why the current era is believed to be the period of the final battle. Despite the resurgence of age-old strategies by the adversary, we share compelling historical examples of God's miraculous interventions and the promise of even more profound divi...

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Discover the ultimate spiritual showdown as we explore the timeless conflict between Christ and the antichrist, a war that has spanned over 6,000 years. Learn how God has unfailingly raised a standard against the enemy's schemes and why the current era is believed to be the period of the final battle. Despite the resurgence of age-old strategies by the adversary, we share compelling historical examples of God's miraculous interventions and the promise of even more profound divine acts today.

Ever wondered about the transformative power of blood sacrifice in Christian salvation? We'll unpack the critical theological distinction between forgiveness and the remittance of sin, drawing insights from biblical practices like the scapegoat ritual to the ultimate sacrifice of Jesus Christ. The conversation calls for a rejuvenation of the modern church's teachings to highlight the profound impact of Christ’s sacrifice, encouraging believers to move beyond sin consciousness into a life of righteousness consciousness.

Travel through biblical history as we trace the increase of unrighteousness from Abel to Noah, and discuss how the exaltation of works over faith continues to impact us today. We’ll examine the rise of kings against God's people, both in ancient times and in modern geopolitical dynamics. Finally, we underscore the importance of tithing, recounting Abraham’s victory and his honor before Melchizedek, as a pivotal practice for honoring God and safeguarding believers from worldly influences. Join us as we reveal the enduring strategies of spiritual warfare, equipping you with wisdom for today's battles.

00:00 - Battle Between Christ and Antichrist

06:38 - The Importance of Blood Sacrifice

24:06 - Decline of Righteousness in Society

39:57 - Exaltation of Works Over Faith

52:37 - Rise of Kings Against God's People

58:55 - Power of Tithing for God's People

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Well.

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Praise the Lord, hallelujah, Glory to God.

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We give praise to Jesus today.

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We thank the Lord.

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Hallelujah, praise God forever.

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Blessed be the name of the Lord.

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We have spent many, many weeks, many, many meetings, talking about this ongoing battle between the Christ and the Antichrist and how, in every situation that we have studied, the Lord raised up a standard and came against this spirit.

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Time and time again, against some of the most daunting odds, some of the most fearsome enemies, some of the most contrary power, god raised up a standard and saw it from one end of the Bible to the other.

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What I want to minister with you for today, maybe going into the next meeting, depends on how far we get.

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Is that here we are?

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Some?

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What 6,000 years?

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When it all started, when God told the enemy that I will put enmity between her seed and your seed, most people think that that refers to Eve, but actually it refers to the body of Christ, the church who was at that meeting, praise God.

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And ever since then, the enemy has been adamantly against, positioned against the manifestation of the seed in whatever form, and all of the attacks over these past 6,000 years have been against one or several of the specific manifestations of the seed and trying to do something to cancel that out.

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Okay, and the thing that's happening now, at this time, is that, because this is the last battle, the last battle is upon us, and what the enemy is doing, instead of trying to do something new, the enemy is bringing out all of the point of attacks that have happened before, put a little bit of a new twist on them, but bring them all at the same time.

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So, instead of spreading them out over centuries, as we saw, there would be centuries between Abel and Noah, there would be centuries between Noah and Abraham, there would be centuries between Noah and Abraham, there would be centuries between Abraham and Moses, and so forth, and so on.

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Now, all of those points of attack, the enemy is coming in and bringing new, refined, polished off, dusted off, but the same things that he did before.

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He's going to bring them all out at one time, and the intent of that is to so weaken the body of Christ that they'll be almost non-important and he can say that he won.

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Now, if you think that god has won in all of the other battles and he's not going to win this battle, then you don't understand what he's been trying to teach you over the, teach the body of christ over the past 6 000 years, that there is no weapon formed against us that's going to prosper.

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When the, the enemy comes in like a flood, the Spirit of God raises up a standard against it and that's just how it is.

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That's how it's going to be.

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There's nothing really the devil can do about it except continue pursuing.

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He can't really quit because he hates God.

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So he's going to try to do everything possible to stop what God's doing.

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But everybody, including most of the church, has forgotten how powerful God is, and that's why, when I started this thing, we spent several weeks just talking about how powerful God is.

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Because when this all-powerful God says that he's going to do miracles during this battle that have never been seen on the planet before, you better hold on to your hat, because we're talking in comparison to some of the most major miracles that have been described in the Bible.

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Amen, god's going to do greater than that, because he can.

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Now the enemy?

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All the enemy can do is stack up a whole bunch of stuff that he's already tried and see if that'll work.

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But we know that if God could beat those things individually, he's going to beat them collectively Praise God.

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So what we're going to do for a while is just look, review this and just see what I'm talking about, because this battle goes all the way back to Cain and Abel and the point of attack at that time was against.

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The first point of attack was against the most important, one of the most important manifestations of the Christ, and that is blood sacrifice.

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Without the shedding of blood, there is no remittance of sin.

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Amen.

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How many of you know this?

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That there is a difference between forgiving sin and remitting sin?

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A forgiveness of sin is a pardon.

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The remitting of sin is saying that it never happened.

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The pie priest could lay his hands upon the scapegoat okay, and transfer, because the lord told him to do this.

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Then it would be effective transfer the sins of the people onto the scapegoat.

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Those sins would be forgiven.

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But until they sent the scapegoat out in the wilderness, they weren weren't remitted.

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They weren't gone, they were still there, they were just someplace else.

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They weren't on us but they were on the scapegoat.

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But when I send the scapegoat out into the wilderness, that was a type of the remittance.

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Now I know that none of there was no real forgiveness and no real remittance under the law.

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I understand that, however you get the point.

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Amen.

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He said I will forgive their sins, but he also said I will not remember their sins and I will separate their sins as far as the east is from the west.

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Amen.

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And Jesus, by the Apostle Paul, said that without the shedding of blood there is no remittance.

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So the blood sacrifice was absolutely important to the ministry that Jesus was going to bring upon the earth.

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Amen.

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And that was the forgiveness and remittance of sin.

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You can be forgiven and not enter into the realm of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus, but if your sins are remitted, then you can come into that life of the Spirit and live in a different realm than everybody else whose sins are not remitted.

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Are we following this?

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Amen.

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The blood sacrifice, amen is absolutely at the very foundation of what Jesus came to do.

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Amen.

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There could not be a bringing forth of a new creation unless the remittance of sin had been dealt with.

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Yes, both yes, yes.

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And those two things are absolutely essential for the new creation to come forth through his resurrection.

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Amen.

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You never want to think that, just because Jesus was raised from the dead, that the blood sacrifice at Calvary was kind of an unfortunate way that he got there.

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It was absolutely necessary that he die and shed his blood so that his blood could be both the atonement for the sin that had been committed and the remittance, in other words the payment by which the sins were carried away.

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And so, even if you don't understand what this one verse of Scripture means, that verse of Scripture can still be true.

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And that verse of Scripture is in 1 John, where it says that they that are born of God have God's seed in them and they sin not.

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Now, that is a functional definition of what remittance is.

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But the remittance has several parts.

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Amen, not only is it a done deal.

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When Jesus died on the cross and he said forgive them, lord, for they know not what they do.

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Amen.

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That made forgiveness available.

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Amen.

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But the remittance comes because of forgiveness and it comes because of the new creation.

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Those that are what Born of God have God's what Seed in them and they do not what Sin.

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That means that they've come out of Adam and into Christ, and in that life of Christ, sin is not imputed, but righteousness is imputed.

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Hallelujah.

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Now, I said all that at the very beginning.

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I said you may not understand that.

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I'm not sure I understand it, because we live in a world that is dominated by sin consciousness.

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It's a real, everyday, all-day battle to continue to live in righteousness, consciousness where sin is not imputed.

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Blessed is the man whose sins are forgiven, whom the Lord does not impute iniquity Over to God.

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So what's happening today?

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Why are we bringing that up?

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Because the church, not everybody, not all churches, not all ministries.

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I'm not saying that.

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But by and large, the blood sacrifice is not talked about.

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Calvary is not the center of what people, of their relationship with Christ.

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It's not something that is taught, it's not something that's discussed.

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It's unpleasant, it makes people feel guilty, it makes them feel uneasy, it's judgmental, it's all these kinds of things.

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I've heard all kinds of stuff talked about, but the point of fact is it should be uncomfortable.

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It should be.

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Point of fact is it should be uncomfortable.

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It should be when you reflect back on what Jesus suffered for you.

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It should make you well in your present state.

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It should make you undyingly grateful, but until you accepted him, it should make you very uncomfortable.

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It should make you very aware of your sins.

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It should, it should be a vehicle by which the holy ghost continually convicts you of sin, of righteousness, of judgment.

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Amen, because that's what.

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That's what the blood is supposed to do.

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It's supposed to remind you of the goodness of God, amen, and bring you into this relationship with God that only comes by the blood of the Lamb.

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Hallelujah, praise God.

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That's why trying to scare people out of hell and into heaven never quite works.

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It might work temporarily, but it's not going to work long term, because what moves people out of the realm of sin consciousness into righteousness is the goodness of God expressed in the blood sacrifice of his son.

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And then, not only did he not just leave you there, washed in the blood, but he brought you up out of his resurrection and made you to sit together with him in heavenly places.

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Hallelujah.

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Now, that's a lot, but it is absolutely necessary that we teach and minister to people about this blood sacrifice, because it is the very substance of their salvation.

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Amen.

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He is a Savior, because he came to save you out of a realm of sin and sin consciousness.

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And the only way that happens is by the application of the blood and a belief in the resurrection.

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Hallelujah, praise God.

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So when the church and the world have taken the blood out of their doctrine and out of their religion and out of their practices and out of their songs.

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And that cannot be accidental, because when it is the foundation, what was the first thing that God did after Adam and Eve sinned?

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Well, he went and looked for them.

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He said where are you?

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Well, I'm over here.

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And they were covered up with fig leaves, remember?

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He said what are you doing?

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He said, well, we're covering up our nakedness.

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He said who told you you were naked?

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Have you been eating of that tree?

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Not me, lord.

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One of those things.

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What tree?

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Not me, lord.

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One of those things, what tree?

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But the very first thing that the Lord did was cover their nakedness by blood sacrifice, amen.

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The next thing we know, adam and Eve have skin coverings on their bodies to cover up their nakedness.

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And the obvious question is where did that come from?

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And the answer is without the shedding of blood.

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And so God was the first one to sacrifice the blood and make it important.

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So, god, listen how God sees it.

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God sacrificed the blood of animals and processed their skins and put them on Adam and Eve so that he did not have to look at the manifestation of their sin, and Adam and Eve didn't have to look at it Now.

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The next thing that happens fast forward a few years is that Cain and Abel are preparing sacrifices to the Lord, and Abel is doing the same thing.

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He's out sacrificing animals, he's bringing the blood, he's bringing the flesh, and Cain is not.

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Cain's bringing vegetables, which you know.

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If you've ever experienced the slaughter of animals compared to the harvesting of a few vegetables, you can judge for yourself which is the easiest thing to do.

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You know, go out and pick a few carrots and then dig up a few carrots and dig up a few potatoes and pick a few tomatoes.

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And you know, as opposed to, you know, trying to catch a goat and slit in its throat and then having to skin it and clean it and do all that kind of stuff, you know which one is more difficult, which one is messier, which one is.

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You know there's more to it.

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Cain was taking the easy way out and trying to peddle it off on God as an equal sacrifice to what Abel was doing.

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And the Bible says that Abel's sacrifice came up to God as a sweet-smelling savor.

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But he hated Cain's sacrifice.

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Not that he hates vegetables, although you could probably make a good case for that and just never eat another vegetable in your life.

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There you go I got a scripture for you on that but Roger's saying amen, hallelujah.

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But the fact of the matter is that it was not reflective of what God had done for Adam and Eve and it was not prophetic toward what Jesus would do for everyone.

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Adam's sacrifice didn't speak, but Abel's.

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The book of Hebrews said Abel's sacrifice spoke a better word than anybody else's word, until Jesus' sacrifice.

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And Jesus' sacrifice spoke a better word than Abel's.

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So that one thing just boggles my mind that from the time of Abel to the time of Jesus, which was 4,000 years, there was not a more definitive word prophetically spoken in that whole 4,000 years by all those great men of God than Abel's blood sacrifice.

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Abel's blood sacrifice spoke for man until Jesus's sacrifice came, came.

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I'm saying it was by Abel's blood sacrifice that Noah was judged to be righteous, because he believed what Abel had done, and then what Seth had done, and then what the, what the children of Seth had done, and all the way down to Enoch and Methuselah, and then Noah.

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And Noah had to carry the message of the blood sacrifice across the flood.

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What's the first thing he did?

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He stepped off of the ark, made an altar, built a fire and then, of the animals that were more than two by two, and there were several that he, he took those and sacrificed them.

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Praise god, hallelujah.

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This is important, foundational, and now you can go long and hard, find a church that will teach the blood the way it needs to be taught and minister the blood, amen.

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How do you do that?

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Well, for one thing, you start to elevate the significance of what the Lord's Supper is all about, because Jesus said this is my blood of the new covenant.

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So you can't minister about the blood and still treat communion as a celebration or as a memorial or something like that.

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It's more alive than that.

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It has the life of the blood of the Son of God, amen.

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And it is that life that is going to help you to communicate and appropriate what this blood sacrifice is all about.

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Amen.

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If we don't do it, who's going to do it?

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If we don't make it alive in our life, who's going to do it?

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We make a lot about the blood in this body.

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Amen, I'll sing the songs about it.

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I'll sing the songs about it.

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It doesn't bother me to put much stock in it because it is so foundational.

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Amen, praise God.

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So the ministry of the blood these days is being ignored, and that is a point of attack by the enemy, because the enemy does not want the body to know what its true foundation is.

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Amen.

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You do not have a relationship with God without the shedding of blood.

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It's as simple as that.

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And you don't have a relationship with God unless you come to believe that that blood was shed for you Hallelujah.

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In Romans 10, it says what If you believe that Jesus is Lord, if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the dead, that Jesus is Lord, and believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead See that phrase, raised him from the dead consists of the suffering, the death, the burial and the resurrection, all of those put together.

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The blood sacrifice the blood began to be spilt in Gethsemane sacrifice.

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The blood was.

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The blood began to be spilt in Gethsemane and the blood was spilt all over Jerusalem until he was actually taken down off the cross and put into the tomb and then raised up gloriously and took every drop of that blood and presented it to the father.

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That's what that phrase it.

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And believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead.

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So all of that has to be taught, or else your salvation is going to be a little shaky, amen, and your confession is going to be a little shaky.

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That Jesus is Lord.

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Well, what is he Lord of?

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Well, his Lordship began with the shedding of blood and it began with the going to the cross.

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And it began with the going to the cross and it began with the going to the grave and it began with the raising up from the dead and the ascension into heaven.

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All of those things and began with Pentecost.

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All of those things are what you believe in.

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Without this, without this ministry of the blood, amen, amen, your faith is going to be weak.

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Hallelujah, let's go on.

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The next place of Abel and Seth left on the planet.

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All of mankind had followed after Cain.

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I want you to understand that Now we're talking about 1,500, 1,600 years, so in our context, this would be back.

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This was like this years.

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So in our context, this would be back.

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This was like this Noah's today.

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And Seth and and Abel were back in 500 AD, about the time of the end of the Roman empire.

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So that's kind of the how much time has gone past and everybody on the planet has gone after the way of Cain, except for the line that came out of Abel and came out of Seth and moved through great men of God like Lamech and Enoch and Methuselah and down to Noah and his sons, amen.

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So it all rested on Noah, this legacy that had come from Abel and come through Seth, amen.

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God called him in the book of Genesis a preacher of righteousness, and it was given to Noah to stand up every day and declare the righteous requirements of God to a people who had followed after Cain, who had received the mark of God Amen when he had killed his brother.

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And so all of these people that had fallen after followed after Cain and had been corrupted by the seed of Satan, so that there was this offspring that was on the earth that was part human, part demonic, all crazy.

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Anything that they wanted to do could be done.

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Remember the one man that boasted that he had killed 10 men, or something like that?

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I mean, all of this sin was going on to the point that God had lamented the fact that he had even created man and he had this one man named Noah who was a preacher of righteousness but Antichrist had led all of the rest of the men in a rebellion against this righteousness, so that the righteousness of God on the planet was being ignored and scoffed at All right Now.

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Now, you don't have to be, you know, a great theologian to figure out that that didn't sit well with God for the whole planet to ignore him and a whole planet to ignore his prophet, amen.

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And so God said Noah, build an ark.

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We're going to make some changes.

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Amen.

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And so God said Noah, build an ark.

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We're going to make some changes.

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Amen.

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When the enemy comes in like a flood.

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There are two, two miracles in the Bible that that are totally off the chart this one and the one with Joshua and the day and and the stopping of the day and the stopping of the day, and you know, you can't even get your hands on how amazing.

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First of all, just understand this.

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The flood was not caused by rain.

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I've been in places where it rained for 40 days and 40 nights.

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We had floods, but it didn't cover the face of the earth, I mean, and our mountains were only 400 feet high.

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So you know it didn't.

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It just doesn't do that.

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Okay, it can rain a lot.

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I've been in places where it rained 24 inches in a day and would do that for several days in a row, and there would be, you know, serious flooding, but we didn't have covering the face of the earth.

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Floods won't do that.

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But God broke open.

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The Bible says he broke open.

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The deeps and the internal oceans that are underneath the surface of the planet, which have far more water in them than that's on the surface, broke out.

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The explosion was so great it rocked the earth out of its orbit.

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We used to have an orbit around the sun of 360 days.

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Now we have one of 365 and a quarter days.

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God doesn't do things by quarters.

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He didn't.

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He doesn't do that.

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Glory to god.

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We used to have the moon, used to go around the earth every 30 days.

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Now it goes around every 28.

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Point, something, something.

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Well, god doesn't do that either.

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Anyway, praise the Lord.

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Now we have this lack of righteousness.

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There is so little righteousness in the church, in the world, in government, in families, in cultures.

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Amen.

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Used to be when and I'm not being an idealist and saying that, you know, back in the day, you know it was a bunch of saints running around on the planet, because that just doesn't happen.

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But there was a godly consciousness, you know.

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Let me just give you an example.

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You've all seen this.

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You've probably had it happen in your life, you know when.

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You know if you saw, if you were as an adult, saw somebody else's child and their parents weren't around and they were acting a fool, doing something they shouldn't be doing, you know, and none of the kids should be doing.

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Because there was a what's the word I'm looking for homogeneity.

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There was kind of a universal standard.

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You know that.

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You know you didn't act that way, you didn't do that, you know.

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So if you saw somebody doing that, you just say, hey, cut that out.

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Well, you can't do that now, you'll go to jail, they'll call the cops or they'll beat you up.

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You know.

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I mean that.

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You know that you can't correct their children, even though their children are doing something destructive, can't correct their children.

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Even though their children are doing something destructive, they can't be corrected by you, even though you're an adult in the room.

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You know well, you could say well, that's just.

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You know, stupidity gone to sea.

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No, that's a manifestation of the lack of righteousness in a culture that you know.

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If people who are adults and who demand who should be given respect by children.

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Amen can't correct children who are doing improper behavior because the parents are going to do.

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You know acts, you know as bad as the kids.

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That's just a lack of righteousness.

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You don't have to be.

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You don't have to be church going, bible thumping.

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You know prayer closet dwelling people to get a grip on this.

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You know I'm one man of God.

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I know he said he was in, uh, he was in a line at a grocery store and the woman and the kid in front of the kid was just being so obnoxious and yelling and screaming.

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He said, ma'am, would you like to have some help with that child?

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I said I have a belt that you can use if you'd like to Boy.

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She went ballistic on him and I'll grant you that probably in today's culture that probably wasn't the smartest thing to do, but you got to admire his courage.

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You know, say here, let me help you with that.

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You know glory to God.

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And you see it all the time.

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You see, I've gone through the stores and see kids beating on their parents.

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I mean, I'm not talking big kids, I'm seeing big kids do it.

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But I've seen little kids do it, just beating on their mother Don't hit me like that.

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Don't hit me like that.

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Oh my, that would just be about the last.

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I said go ahead, give it your best, best shot.

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That's going to be your last punch.

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More times than not, somebody in authority, somebody in authority or somebody embarrassed them and they know.

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That's the world.

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Yeah, but this righteousness, now we can see it that it almost does not exist anymore.

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I had a football game on the other day and it was halftime and I had kind of clocked out.

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I was doing something else.

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Sir comes in, he goes, what's that on the TV?

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I looked up I said I don't know it's halftime and I don't know what they're doing.

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You know it was, it was.

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It was unintelligible.

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It was.

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You didn't.

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You really didn't want to have your eyes captivated by it.

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It was unintelligible, you really didn't want to have your eyes captivated by it.

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It was probably lewd and indecent, but I really couldn't tell, because you couldn't tell what they were doing and it was supposed to be entertainment and I don't know who was being entertained.

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But if that's entertainment for this day and age, I mean we're in big trouble.

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I mean we're entertaining people with babble, with guttural sounds, with stuff that doesn't even make any sense.

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There's no righteousness in all of this.

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Not that we expect it to happen at halftime at a football game, but I mean, it's degraded to such just an extent that it reflects that in the world that we live in.

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You know, I look at some of the stuff that's going on as people are being vetted to be in the government and some of the things that they bring out and accuse them of and stuff that they know to be not true.

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They know that it is not true, they know it is blatantly a lie, and yet they're willing to subject that person and his family and his wife and and friends to ridicule and and all that stuff in in front of millions of people and don't even bat an eye.

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They just think, well, this is normal, this is what you, this is the price you have to pay to get this job.

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You got to sit here and be ridiculed and I'm thinking is there?

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No, there's no respect.

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There's no.

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There's no civility?

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There's no.

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You know, if you want to, if you really are concerned about that kind of stuff, you know, ask for a closed session, where it can be.

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It didn't have to be.

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You know, have some decency.

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But just don't drag that out.

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But that's just reflective that there's no righteousness.

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There's no righteousness in the laws.

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There's no righteousness in how we judge things, how we adjudicate things.

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How we judge things, how we adjudicate things, there's, you know.

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We've heard several times in the past few days that there, you know, people will.

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People will do no jail time for murder and they'll do jail time for for charges that are just made up out of thin air.

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You know, it's just that all that lumped together, is an indication of how little of God's righteousness permeates the world that we live in.

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And because God's righteousness is not allowed to be exalted and held up as a standard the way it was in Noah's day.

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Noah held up the standard, but nobody paid attention to it.

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Amen, judgment will come for that alone.

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But yet the Antichrist has infiltrated the entire world with this unrighteous doctrine.

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We have literally billions of people enslaved to false religions that push unrighteous doctrine as a cornerstone, and so the people are in bondage.

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Whether it be political systems, religious systems, however you want to call it, they're in bondage to unrighteous, ungodly systems of thought.

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And because of that, amen, when a prophet stands up, when they get a television thing that comes in and a prophet stands up for righteousness, the righteousness of God, everybody mocks everybody's, you know.

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Nobody pays attention.

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And this is exactly foretold in the book of Revelation.

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When the two prophets come back, amen, and they're killed in the streets of Jerusalem and everybody sees it on worldwide television and everybody throws a party and they start celebrating and they start slapping each other on the back and they say, didn't we do a great job and aren't we glad these two guys are gone?

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And then three days later they're raised from the dead and all hell breaks loose on their heads because they would not honor the righteousness of God that came out of their mouths.

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Praise God.

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If you think this stuff is just Old Testament fairy tales and fables and that God's not really paying attention, god is paying attention.

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Glory to God.

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You can't ignore the righteous requirements of God when righteous prophets are making these things known.

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Praise the name of Jesus, Hallelujah, let's go on.

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The next place we stopped and saw this battle being worked out is when Nimrod came to power after the flood and began to build the city of Babylon and erect a tower that went to heaven, saying you know, we're going to go up to heaven and we're going to attack this God that brought the flood.

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See, they were still mad because God had wiped out the earth and wiped out all of their forebearers, and so they were still mad at God and they were trying to get back at God.

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And they gave Nimrod the authority and the power as a hybrid of the giants and man, amen.

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And he became this man who said I will ascend to heaven, hallelujah.

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The point of attack was on works, righteousness, amen.

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By your works you will ascend into heaven.

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This is a key, a key doctrinal position of almost everything that Satan, antichrist, jezebel, death and hell, all do.

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They do this.

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They teach people this amen, that by their works they'll be known.

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And God teaches by their faith they'll be known.

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It is by faith, not of works, lest any man should boast.

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But the devil teaches it is by works, not faith, so that all men can boast.

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Exact opposite.

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We've got denominations, we've got major denominations.

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We've got major religious movements who their whole way to eternity is by their works.

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Have I done enough good works?

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Have I been a good person?

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Have I been?

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Have I, when I get, when I get up there, is God going to say good job or lucky you.

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You did one more good work than bad, not, you know?

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Normally I would just kick you out, but since you did one last good work, I'm going to let you in.

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Or poor you.

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You know you almost made it, but you know that last cuss word you say is going to keep you out.

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You're done, you're toast, go to hell.

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And that's how people see.

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The vast majority of people on the planet see that as gospel.

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That's how they see God.

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They see God as a judger of works.

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But that's the only thing he does.

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He's just up there judging people.

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So when you have, when you let works, righteousness become the law of the land.

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It's going to become the law of government.

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It's going to become the law of thought systems.

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So let me show you how this has worked in the past 150 years, 160 years.

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Right around the latter half of the 1800s, they began a system of thought in German seminaries that questioned the authenticity of Old Testament writings.

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In other words, moses didn't write the first five books.

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Daniel can't possibly be authentic because it is too precise in its prophecies, so it had to be written after the fact, after they happened.

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You know just one thing after another.

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You know, questioning the authorship of Jeremiah and other kinds of technical things like that, and they began to train pastors in that.

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And so the churches in Europe who were trained in those doctrines began to get weaker.

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And because at that time all pastors by and large were still being trained in Europe to minister here in the United States, it got over here in the United States About the same time that came around.

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Here comes a guy by the name of Darwin and he writes a book called On the Origin of the Species and from that comes the whole concept of evolution, survival of the fittest, all those kinds of things.

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Out of that came a doctrine at the beginning of the 1900s called humanism, where man is no longer the center of God's creation but he's just like all other things, amen, he's just another form of life that has come through the evolutionary chain.

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And so you know, whatever you think is okay and whatever systems of thought you want to agree upon are all right, because we're not going to agree that God is right, because God said that man is just the ultimate of creation, but it's obvious that he's just a higher level monkey.

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And people began to buy this I mean in 1925, I believe, or 27, was a Scopes trial in Dayton, tennessee, very famous trial.

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It's made a movie out of it called Inherit the Wind.

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It's you know where.

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A teacher was brought on trial for teaching evolution and instead of finding him guilty, they found it.

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You know they.

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They found him innocent and you know.

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Just saying all this to say that that elevation of humanism and human thought and human ideas over the position of God is an extreme result of what happens.

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When works, righteousness is the law of the land, because when works, righteousness is the law of the land.

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It's about what I do, not about what God says.

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God says it is not by works, it is by faith.

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You've got the just shall live by faith, not by works, not by the things that you do or the things that you think you need to do or anything like that.

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It is about your faith in God.

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Paul said that I have been crucified with Christ.

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It is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me, in the life that I now live in the flesh.

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I live by the faith of the Son of God.

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Not the faith in the Son of God, but the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me, we live in a realm of faith where we are believing things that we cannot see.

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We are believing things that don't necessarily exist.

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Now we are believing and earnestly expecting a manifestation of God's power in our lives, even though we don't see it.

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We believe that it's coming because his word has told us this is true Men do not believe anything that they don't see.

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And then, if they don't see it and it doesn't fit their belief system, they'll make it up and say they see it, which is exactly what happens in evolution.

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There's no physical evidence for evolution in evolution.

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There's no physical evidence for evolution.

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But since they found some rocks that are supposedly, you know, five, six billion years old, then you know, the whole idea of creation must be phony, god must be phony, moses must be phony.

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You know, you can see how men think about that, rather than adjust your thoughts to what God has presented, Amen.

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We have created a world where people can think whatever they want, and it's as good as God talking.

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And that's how we get this crazy.

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We're in this crazy world where people can be dogs, people can be cars, people can be park benches.

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People can, you know, and we are bound to treat them that way, or else we're haters, when the compassionate thing to do would be to take the person and lock them up because they're going to get hurt.

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A person that thinks their car is about to be out in the middle of a freeway traffic, acting like a car I mean that is the ultimate result of that folly, amen.

00:46:58.532 --> 00:47:03.043
A person that thinks they're a dog is going to start interacting with dogs.

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Well, I don't know if any of you have been in third world countries where dogs are not pets.

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Dogs travel in packs, they are wild animals and they live in cities.

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And if you're and if you're not careful, you can find yourself surrounded by a pack of what would in it in what would, in a 200 years ago, be a pack of wolves.

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Now, you wouldn't be petting them, you wouldn't be saying I'm one of those and I want to get down there.

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And you know, because if you get down there and do that, the next thing you're going to be is eaten, because they don't see you as a.

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You know, I don't care whether you think you're a dog, they don't see you as a dog, they see you as dinner Human.

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When, when, when, when.

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Human exaltation.

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When this works, righteousness is exalted.

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It gets to a point where men cannot be judged by anyone because my works are.

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Let me see how you judge that.

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If my works are what's going to get me into heaven, then what kind of a level does that put my works on?

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And if my works are that good that they're going to get me into heaven, this is how it works in your mind.

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I'm not saying this is the right way to think, I'm just saying this is what happens to your mind.

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Amen, if my works are good enough to get me into heaven, then my works are.

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They must be holy, they must be good, they must be great, they must be wonderful.

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I don't know why everybody doesn't think like I do, because God has to.

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You know, he has to be proud of me for having all these wonderful thoughts and if I am going to do these wonderful things and he's going to take me into heaven.

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You know, this is just really.

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This is how people think.

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It is the inevitable result of putting a premium on works.

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Righteousness, the prime, the number one prime example of that is Nimrod.

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Nimrod said I'm going to be like God, I'm going to ascend into God's position, I'm going to go where God is and I'm going to take over his position.

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That's the ultimate expression of I am.

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I will Amen Anybody that thinks like that.

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Even if you think on the other side, well, I just don't know if I'm ever going to make it.

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You know, I, I'm just a worm, I'm just.

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You know, that's just the reverse side of it.

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There's, you know, humility doesn't factor into any of that.

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So you know it's not.

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That's not the point.

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The point is you have completely ignored what God says about all of that and you've embarked on a place where God doesn't have any say-so.

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As far as your acts, amen.

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As far as your works, you're allowed to exalt them to whatever level you want.

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And so this is what we see a world that's filled with all kinds of excesses because people do whatever they want to do.

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I mean, if you think, if you don't, you know this, and it doesn't have to be expressed in greed.

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You've got.

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You've got millions, untold millions of people in India that believe and repeat over and over and tell each other this and everything else, that the Ganges River is a holy river and so many times a year they have to go bathe in that river because they're going to acquire some level of holiness if they do that when really it has ceased to be a river a long time ago.

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It's just an open giant sewer and people I mean it passes through some of the largest I'm talking 20 to 30 million people's city in the world and it's their major sewage pipe and people go down and get in that river and die.

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That's the insanity of how this works, that you know I'm going to go bathe in this river and I'm going to live when in fact the river is so toxic you can't even put your little finger in it.

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But never mind that.

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Let's go jump in, let's plunge in, let's.

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You know.

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Insanity, I mean, it's all over the planet.

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Hallelujah, well, praise God.

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Let's do one more point Abraham.

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When Abraham went out and battled the five kings of the plain, they were kings from Babylon, they were kings from Shinar and they came over from Babylon, from Nimrod's domain, and they came over to do battle with the man who had become God's man in the land of the giants and they'd come over to do battle and join forces with the giants to exterminate Abraham off of the planet.

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Amen, and the kings, the five kings of the cities of Shinar, and Shinar is Babylon.

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So just say, the five kings from Babylon came over to join forces with the Amorites, which were the commingled descendants of giants, and they were going to just deal with Abraham.

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And while we're at it, we're probably going to deal with this guy, melchizedek.

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We're just going to get rid of all this.

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Abraham's an invader.

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He got through our hands when he was living with Noah.

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We wanted him over there but couldn't get him.

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So we're going to follow him over here, amen.

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The point of attack here is to raise up a kingship level to continually plague and resist God's movement.

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Okay, every time God raises up a man like Abraham or anyone else, the Antichrist is going to raise up kingship against him.

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He's going to raise up a international monetary fund.

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He's going to raise up a United Nations.

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He's going to raise up a monarchy in England.

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He's going to raise up a monarchy and call it communism in China.

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He's going to raise up kings all over the earth that are going to continually and consistently come against the true move of God in his body on the planet.

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Now, it just so happened that, just like in the days of Noah, amen.

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Abraham was the only righteous man on the planet.

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He's the only one that God came and walked with and talked with.

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Amen.

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He is the equivalent of Abraham's day of Adam, except that he wasn't Adam, he was a type of Christ and his son, isaac, would be the most perfect type of Christ in the Bible.

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Are we following this Amen?

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This isn't all that deep, you just have to think about it a little bit.

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So here's Abraham, amen, and all of these kings come after him and they've got armies.

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And here's Abraham.

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And my question is how did Abraham get an army of 300 and some guys?

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Who told him to do this?

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Who told him how to prepare?

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Who taught him all of these things?

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But anyway, here comes these five kings of armies we're talking thousands of people, probably and all of the people that they were able to draw to them from the Amorites.

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And here's Abraham with his 350.

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Amen, because you can count on it.

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In the day of the manifestation of God's people, the earth will rise up kingships to come against it, and that's the point I'm trying to make.

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This, this is not an if, this is a will and a when it's going to happen, and it's just a question of where these things are going to pop up.

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We, for example, we have.

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We have part.

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You could, you could make a case for a large part of the history of the 20th century is a is a chronology of the creation of international government and how the United States was manipulated into being a part of it, first of all by the League of Nations and then by the United Nations.

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Amen, that's just kingship being raised up to confront the people of God.

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So we put all this money into the League of Nations and we give it all the support.

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We fight their battles, we do all that kind of stuff.

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And here's kings all over the earth popping up in that organization.

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To what?

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To come against Israel, to come against the United States, to come against the nations that lift up the Lord, amen, and have a destiny in God.

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But they will at not their own expense.

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What were they, god?

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They'll steal our money and do it against us.

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The kings of the earth are going to be raised up to resist the true man of God.

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Hallelujah, and we can see this everywhere that these kings get raised up.

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There's one in China, there's one in Russia, there's a kingship in England that's still one of the most powerful on the planet, there's kingships in Mexico and in Asia and South America, amen.

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And they're against us.

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How do I know?

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They're against us?

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Because they've been invading us, amen.

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And then there's not an Abraham in the land to stand up and take his army and defeat the kings Amen.

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But if God did it in Abraham's day, then the template is there.

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When the kings rise up, amen, there's going to be an Abraham and there's going to be an army.

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And there's going to be a resistance to these kings.

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And they may look to be invincible amen.

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But they are not.

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Because on that day, when they came to make war against Abraham, abraham defeated them.

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He took their crowns, he took their livestock, he took their women, he took their slaves, he took their gold.

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He took their slaves, he took their gold, he took their silver, he took all of their treasure and he took their armies and he chased the kings to where the kings were begging for mercy.

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And the most important took that he took was that he took a tithe of all and gave it to Melchizedek.

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And because Abraham defeated the kings and took a tithe to Melchizedek, we were introduced to Melchizedek at the first time in the book of Genesis, chapter 14.

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Glory to God.

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It was because Abraham had defeated the kings and brought the man of God to tithe.

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The church doesn't even know how to tithe.

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It's estimated that less than two to two, three percent at best, are tithers.

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When is a church going to learn how to tithe and give honor to God?

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Well, until it does, it's not going to see a manifestation of the destruction of the kings.

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The kings are going to be a thorn in our side until the church learns how to tithe.

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And if the church does not learn how to tithe, god is going to divide away from the man and woman of God who do know how and separate unto himself somebody that knows how to tithe and honor God so that he can manifest his righteousness and keep the kings of the earth off your back.

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See the kings of the earth off your back.

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See, the kings of the earth are operating under an economy that is demonically based, whereas the people of God have the opportunity to operate in an economy that is God-based, and that's one way that God is going to identify his people.

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Amen, praise the Lord, hallelujah.

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Well, glory to God.

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Let's stop here for this time.

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We'll pick it up the next time.

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Hallelujah.

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This is what's happening now.

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What we've studied so far up until this point, has pretty much been what has happened in the past.

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This is what's happening now, because the enemy is bringing out all the stops and all the artillery that he used in the past.

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He's going to use again, and we're studying this because, amen, if you don't know, you won't be able to recognize it.

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Hallelujah, praise God.