Jan. 23, 2025

They Built a Great City - And They are Still Building - (Enmity with the Seed– Part 1 - From Abel to Elijah), Episode 04

They Built a Great City - And They are Still Building - (Enmity with the Seed– Part 1 - From Abel to Elijah), Episode 04

Send us a text Uncover the spiritual warfare that spans across centuries, anchored in the eternal struggle between the forces of Christ and the Antichrist. This episode takes you through biblical narratives, starting with the enmity between the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent and tracing the sacred tradition of blood sacrifice from Abel to the crucifixion of Christ. Witness how early Christians, like Paul, understood these profound truths, while exploring the rise of Nimrod—a fi...

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Uncover the spiritual warfare that spans across centuries, anchored in the eternal struggle between the forces of Christ and the Antichrist. This episode takes you through biblical narratives, starting with the enmity between the seed of the woman and the seed of the serpent and tracing the sacred tradition of blood sacrifice from Abel to the crucifixion of Christ. Witness how early Christians, like Paul, understood these profound truths, while exploring the rise of Nimrod—a figure driven by works righteousness and man worship—and his pivotal role in challenging spiritual principles.

Experience the epic tale of the Tower of Babel through a modern lens, where human ambition for independence from God led to self-serving pursuits. Nimrod's influence pervades this story, driving people towards attempting to atone for Adam's sin through their own efforts. Compare the sociological impact of urban versus rural living, drawing on biblical narratives to emphasize how the environments shape our values and relationship with God. Dive into the consequences of centralization and human creativity when detached from divine guidance, and consider the implications of cultural and linguistic diversity post-Babel.

Engage in a thought-provoking dialogue on cultural assimilation, the unity under the gospel, and the exchange of God's righteousness for human deeds. How does the modern celebration of cultural diversity align with the biblical account of Babel, and what does it mean for true salvation and righteousness? Through storytelling and historical references, we question perceptions of cultural diversity, examine ancient attempts at "stargates," and challenge the exchange of divine righteousness for human works. Join us on this insightful exploration and embrace the faith of Jesus Christ as central to true salvation.

00:41 - Attack of the Antichrist in Babylon

06:35 - Man's World

18:28 - Urban vs Rural Living

36:52 - Tower of Babel and Unity

48:20 - Cultural Assimilation and Gospel Preaching

57:08 - Diversity and Language Confusion in Babylon

01:18:39 - Exchanging God's Righteousness for Works

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Praise God, hallelujah, praise the Lord.

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We're going to pick up today where we were the last time, talking about this attack that is focused in what would become Babylon.

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This attack by the Antichrist, specifically on the.

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When the Antichrist attacks in the way that we're talking about, it is an attack on a manifestation of the Christ, or of his work, or of his unique ministry, something that the Antichrist wants to block from manifesting and from becoming real upon the earth.

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Amen, this all came out of the curse that God put on Satan because of his interference with Adam and Eve, and he said that there's going to be enmity between your seed and the seed of the woman, between your seed and the seed of the woman.

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And because of that, ever since, the Antichrist, or the anti-seed, has been mounting different attacks against the work of Christ so that that work does not become part of the ministry of Christ in the earth.

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And man, if he can here's how it works.

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If he, if the antichrist, can convince all men that a blood sacrifice is not needed, then no matter if, if Jesus goes to the cross or not, nobody's going to pay any attention.

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But God was able to preserve through his of the cross or not, nobody's going to pay any attention.

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But God was able to preserve, through his people amen, the tradition of Passover, and that tradition led right up to the crucifixion of Christ, so that not only were the people of God, the Israelites, already prepared for a blood sacrifice, but people like Paul and others could understand the significance of it and explain it in the first generation after the Christ, so that we have retained the essence of that revelation.

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Even though we're not Jewish, even though we don't celebrate Passover, even though we don't have a blood sacrifice system around us, because of what Paul wrote, because of what John wrote and others, we have the reality of that, because the blood sacrifice was preserved by God through Abel, amen.

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And even on the other side of the flood, the first thing that Noah did when he got off the flood was offer up the blood, amen.

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That's why there were seven of clean animals as opposed to two of unclean animals, because on the other side of the flood, noah was going to need animals to sacrifice in addition to replicate Amen.

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So I just want to make that point, and so I just want to make that point that we understand that the motivation of the enemy is to do away with a certain aspect of the ministry of the Christ.

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In this case, what's at stake in Babylon is the doctrine of works righteousness, and and I'm going to say some things eventually maybe tonight or or the next time about how insidious and how widespread works righteousness is in the world amen, it.

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It would seem almost like this battle was won by the enemy, although we know that it's not.

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But this is what at stake works righteousness, and the thing that goes hand-in-hand with works righteousness is man worship.

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So this hat, this, is coming up.

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We've already established that Nimrod was a great grandson of Noah, and so there's not too many years that have transpired since Noah got off the ark and we have this man named Ninrod, who not only is exalting works righteousness and exalting man worship, but he has resurrected this abomination of a giant back on the earth, and he is the first of many giants who would live upon the earth and rule and reign for hundreds of years.

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Amen.

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I mean, here we are with Nimrod, probably somewhere around 2,000 years after creation.

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It meant it would be another 1,000 years before David shows up, and he's still fighting giants, and these giants are still rulers and people who reign on the earth.

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So this wasn't just something that was going to start up and disappear, but it started up and populated the earth with these, with these abominations.

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Praise God, hallelujah.

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So last time we were together, we ended up with verse four of chapter 11 in Genesis, where the people said come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower.

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Not only a city, but a tower, Amen, and a tower, not only some rum-dum tower, but a tower whose top extends into the heavens.

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They wanted to exalt themselves against God, just the way the Antichrist does to be his equal, and they said let us make a name for ourselves, let our works establish our name and not the name that God has given us.

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Amen.

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These people wanted to make a name for themselves.

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They weren't content to have a name that God had given them, but they wanted to make a name for themselves.

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They weren't content to do what God had commanded them to do.

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They wanted their works to establish their righteousness, and not God.

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You have to understand that at this time, nimrod's appeal to these people was that God did not do right by you by destroying the earth with the flood.

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And we're going to get back at this, god.

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We're going to make our own name.

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We're going to make our own city, we're going to make our own tower, amen.

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And we're going to get back at this God for destroying the earth, hallelujah.

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So what if they can build a tower that extends up to heaven?

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Man, this is, this is the ultimate thing that they can do to please God, to show that they are capable of atoning for Adam's sin and that their name will endure forever.

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So all of these things they're thinking they're going to do on their own strength.

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Now, the next thing that they say is very illuminating Let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face of the whole earth.

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So there was a motivation they wanted to build a city, they wanted to build a tower, they wanted to make a name for themselves.

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And the purpose for all three of those things of building a city, building a tower and building a name was to keep them from being scattered over the face of the earth.

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Now I'm going to give you just a little bit of what would be the phrase here sociology, how people join together and what they do, the strength of man-centeredness.

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The strength of man-centeredness If you look at man-centeredness, man-worship, man-attention, man paying attention to himself.

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Okay, you've got.

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I mean, if you look at that concept, the strength of that concept is cities.

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The more that people are congregated into smaller areas, more compact, more at look at, look at houses today.

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Even if, if you live out in this neck of the woods, you know if you go into a housing area that has been built in the last, you know, 20 years, um, you know people are um not very far away from each other.

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You know just a few feet.

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You know they're packed in really densely.

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They're close to each other, the the, the fascination of cities.

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When men moved to cities, what happens is that there are so many people so densely packed away, it's easy to be invisible.

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It's easy to be invisible.

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It's easy to be hidden.

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There's much less independence.

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You don't have to live by your own wits.

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Somebody's always figuring out some way for you to live.

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Everybody's figured out how you can get food.

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Do you know that unless you make an effort if you live in a city and unless you make an effort to train your children about the realities of food gathering and how food is produced and stuff like that, people will grow up and not know where their food comes from?

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If you ask, you know you ask where did that meat come from?

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They'll say, well, it came from the grocery store, because that's as far as they went.

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They went with mom.

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They got to the grocery store, she bought some meat.

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She brought it home.

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Nobody's ever talked about where that meat comes from.

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You know, in the day that they get shocked and they go out in a car, ride out in the country and you see a cow and you go, that's where our hamburgers come from.

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I mean, it's going to be culture shock, they're going to go.

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You know how does that work?

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Because culture shock, they're going to go.

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You know how does that work?

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Because when you're in a city, that event of raising a cow, slaughtering the cow, processing the cow, selling the meat, bringing it to the city and wrapping it up in cellophane and putting it on the market is something that you don't do.

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That's just nothing that you do.

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You care less.

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You just go to the store and buy it right.

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So people are invisible, they're easily hidden, they're not very independent, they're dependent on each other.

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Now here's one of the main things that happens is that man's cleverness, man's inventiveness and man's cleverness, man's inventiveness and man's control is on maximum display.

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I'm going to say that again, man's cleverness, man's inventiveness and man's control is on maximum display.

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Just think of all the things that have been invented just because people live in cities subways, elevators, elevators you know how many.

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How motivated would you be to live on the 90th floor of some place?

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I mean, could be the neatest, swankest, you know just most beautiful place, but if there weren't any elevators, you'd get flat tired.

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Most beautiful place, but if there weren't any elevators, you'd get flat tired of going up and down and up and down, and up and down and up and down.

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Our elevators were broken and there was only 10 floors.

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You'd get tired.

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Yeah, you get tired.

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Yeah, yeah.

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But all of these inventions and all of these controls and all of these ways that we have to conduct our lives because we are living in such close proximity with other people Amen, in such close proximity with other people, amen all of these things start people to thinking that this is normal, this is how, this is how people should live.

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This is, you know, because and what it does is it teach, teaches people to to become increasingly enamored and fascinated by what men do.

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So, you know, you all can remember when four-lane highways began to be built.

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You know well, they were already building eight-lane highways out in Los Angeles.

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We just didn't know it because we never went out there.

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You know, but they were already building them.

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You know, in some of the bigger cities they were.

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They were taking the four lane thing and making it into these.

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You know, I don't know if you've ever, if you've ever, had the distinct pleasure of driving in Los Angeles, but you know, if you don't know where you're going and you don't get in the right lane, you may never get where you're going.

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And if you do get where you're going, you're going to go way, way out of your way before you can turn around and get back to where you're going.

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It's insane, because the whole thing is about getting in the correct lane, just like that in Dallas and certain places.

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But anyway, be that as it may, what it all boils down to is that cities create an environment where men live in men's world.

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I'm going to say that again Men live in man's world and Men live in man's world.

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And because they live in man's world, the ideas, thoughts, inventions, cleverness and control of man gets elevated.

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And you know at whose expense that gets elevated?

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It gets elevated at the expense of God.

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So, man, because we live in man's world, man gets elevated and God gets less paid attention to.

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Now there may be a church on every corner, amen but as soon as you walk out from church, you step out of that environment and into an environment that man has created.

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And because man has created it, the ideas of man, the concepts of man, the things that men do, become elevated to an almost religion, government, education and all of those things, entertainment and all the things that we do in big cities.

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It's elevated to this status.

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Cities gets elevated to this status, and what happens is that, if you, if you look at the way things are run in this country, this is not something that you would.

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You might know this, but you may not know this.

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If you go to the state, government level, senate and House of Representatives, you may have a.

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You may have a state like Texas that has 25 million people in it, okay, and you may think that you know people in Lubbock have an equal say just like everybody else, but that's not true.

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The government is run on the basis of the big cities, and that's true in almost every state, with the exception of a few states that don't have big cities, montana, for example.

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You know their cities are.

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You know the population of Montana is so small I mean, it's not even the size of Fort Worth, you know.

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And so if you have a big city, it's not a very big city and their government isn't run by big city politics the way it is here.

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Amen, the domination of cities controls the policies that villages and towns have to obey.

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Because, why?

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Because the ideas of men and they can pass rules that make absolutely no sense to people who live out in the country.

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But that makes sense to them because in their world, man's ideas are paramount.

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Now, on, the contrast of that is that if you have population distributed into small towns and villages, amen, you're going to be living in some place where everybody knows you, everybody knows you, everybody knows you, everybody knows your family, everybody knows where you live, everybody knows if you're doing something that you shouldn't be doing.

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And it's not that that way of living is not based on man's ideas.

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Amen, you go to church on Sunday there is not based on man's ideas.

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Amen, you go to church on Sunday there, and you may take now I'm just talking in terms of time you may take your little buggy and go home and you may not see anybody until next Sunday to go to church.

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Everything about what you do is out there, between you and God, and whatever else you're doing out there, you know.

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There's nobody telling you what to do.

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There's nobody telling you when to get up in the morning to go to work.

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There's nobody telling you that you've got to get your kids in and go to school.

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It's too far to take kids to school.

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You can't do that every day.

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Nobody's telling you what to do Amen.

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You're deciding yourself what you have to do and I guarantee you that in those cultures God is going to play a greater part.

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Because there's no insurance.

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In a city there's all kinds of safety nets.

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You know, if your house catches on fire, you've got a fire department.

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If somebody breaks into your house, you've got a police department.

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If you want to read a book, you can go to the library.

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You follow what I'm saying.

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There's all these kinds of things that if you don't have it, the city's going to provide it.

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If you don't have the protection, city's got the police.

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You don't have water, city's got plumbing.

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If you can't deal with your sewage issue, we're going to fix it for you.

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We're going to put in, put in a sewer system.

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Amen, if you have a sewage problem out in the country, you get to dig a new hole.

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Hello, if you run out of water, you get to dig a well.

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Glory to God.

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Villages, almost by definition, and small towns.

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People tend to live simpler, more independent lives.

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When they live in cities big cities they tend to live more dependent lives and their lives are more complicated.

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Amen, that's just a way of life.

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Now, the first thing Nimrod did listen to me very carefully as part of his transformation into a giant and into a ruler, was he started to build cities.

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Why?

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Because his rule and his authority could be more concentrated.

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The first thing that God's people did in the person of Abraham was he got out of that environment and started to move someplace where the cities weren't that big.

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Hallelujah, the Bible says repeatedly.

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You know that Abraham lived in tents.

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He didn't have a city.

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If he'd have wanted a city, he could have returned to the city he came back from, but he was looking.

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Wanted a city.

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He could have returned to the city he came back from, but he was looking for a city.

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See, we get so enamored with songs.

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That's the only thing we can think of when we hear that.

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You know that if he'd have wanted a city, he could have returned back to the city that he came from.

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But he wasn't looking for a city that was made by hands.

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He was looking for a city whose builder and maker hands.

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He was looking for a city who's builder and maker is God, amen.

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And we just start singing the song right Cause that's all we know.

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But in the context of what I just said, that Nimrod was a builder of cities and but Abraham was looking for another city You're not hearing me.

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He got out of Nimrod's cities and went to a place where the cities weren't that greatly defined.

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They were there, but he didn't live in them.

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Hallelujah, hallelujah, them, hallelujah.

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In small towns and villages, the people live in God's world.

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They live, you know, they live out in the country.

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They live with animals.

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You know you don't have to ask that person where does a hamburger come from?

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He knows where they come from.

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If he wants a hamburger, he's going to have to take, you know, the pet cow jersey and you know, take it out the back and dress it up and we're not having a hamburger, we're going to have jerky because, I mean we've got to preserve this somehow, right, but they know that this is how they live.

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They live in God's world.

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They didn't create the cow.

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God created the cow.

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They didn't create the rules for procreation and you know, I'm going to work with my neighbor and get the bull to come over here and we're going to do this and I'm going to start.

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They live in God's world, with God's rules and how these things work.

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Amen.

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You take the same people and move them to the city and in a generation they won't know any of that stuff.

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They'll think that you get your meat down at the butcher shop, and the butcher is the only person that's connected with reality.

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You want to know how he's connected with reality.

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He's connected by the blood Over to God.

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Now, the thing about living in small towns and villages is that you have to be the people, have to be mutually responsible.

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You know how this works.

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I'm going to give you an example.

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If you live in a city, if you live in a city, if you live in a modern city, okay, and your children and your child does something at school that they're not supposed to do, and you get called up, and you get called up to come in in this world.

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That is about the last thing you want to have happen, because the parents are going to come in there and say what right do you have in disciplining my child?

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What right do you have in saying that this child did anything wrong at all?

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My child never does anything wrong and they'll just carry on and carry on.

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Next thing you'll know you'll have a lawsuit.

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That this child did anything wrong at all.

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My child never does anything wrong and they'll just carry on and carry on.

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Next thing you'll know you'll have a lawsuit.

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Next thing you know you'll lose your job.

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It just goes on and on and on.

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But in a mutually responsible environment.

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This is how that scenario plays out.

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If Alan does something at school and he gets some form of discipline, the question never even gets discussed.

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Alan never gets a chance to say but Alan never gets a chance to say but Alan never gets a chance to say he hit me first.

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Whatever the teacher decides is the appropriate punishment.

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It gets doubled as soon as I walk through the door, because they will have picked up the phone and called my mother and said we had to do this today because this happened.

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She'd be waiting, and if it was something more serious than she wanted to deal with.

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She'd say you're going to sit right here until your dad gets something.

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Well, that was the worst thing could ever happen.

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I mean, you're imagining all of these things that are going to happen, and most of them did, because the standing rule in my house was you don't get to open your mouth, you don't get to explain.

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I don't even care If you got in trouble there, you're going to get in trouble here Because my parents assumed that those people were responsible.

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Those people assumed that my parents were going to take responsibility for my action and deal accordingly.

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And then it all came around to we're going to teach you how to be responsible, because this is what we expect.

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If I went over to my neighbor's house, they had boys my age and the mother over there said y'all just sit down and be quiet.

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You know, we didn't watch television all that much.

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Sit down and be quiet, play a game or something.

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Quit running around the house.

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I was expected my parents had already covered that.

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If she tells you what to do, you do it.

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If I hear something different, here comes rule number one You're going to get double Glory to God.

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Hey, that way of living produced a lot of quality people.

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They're depending on the ways of God to establish the dynamics of how people interact.

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I'm not saying everybody was a Bible thumper.

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I'm not saying everybody just beat the doors down at church every Sunday.

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But we didn't have churches closing left and right all the time.

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Have churches closing left and right all the time.

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We had we had multiple generations of p of family in church in the same church and had been doing that for a long time.

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You know they, this is just how it was done.

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And even if you didn't go to church, amen the influence of that in a small community, because everybody knew everybody, because you can't be transparent in a small town as a kid you'd think you are, but I mean, everybody knows what you're doing.

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Yeah, so that's you know the reason.

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I'm just saying all this to get you to understand it.

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When the bible says that they, they wanted to build themselves a city, there was a reason for that.

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Antichrist had a reason for that because in, in, in cities, we can start to eat away at this fabric.

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That God's right and we're not, because in cities, men have to be right in order to establish control and steal money from you to build the things that they have to do to operate cities.

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Cities are expensive operations.

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Have you not noticed about what they do?

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I mean, fort Worth has annexed property all along I-35, all the way to Denton.

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What in the world business does Fort Worth have in Denton Taxes?

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You know what's going to build up all along that 35 corridor Businesses.

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They don't care whether they go five miles deep, they just want to go one mile on either side, because they're going to get all of that business revenue, because cities are expensive operations to run and if we don't do it that way, we're going to tax our people into poverty.

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Where have we seen this picture?

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What were they talking about?

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Hey, this is an old story and it was invented by giants who learned it from Antichrist.

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Why are we shocked?

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Oh, we did, god.

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Let's go on.

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Verse 5.

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But the Lord came down to see the city and the tower which the sons of men had built.

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I'm going to show you, not tonight, but probably next time Huh, 11.5.

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I'm going to show you some pictures of towers.

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I'm going to show you some pictures of towers.

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All over the planet there are towers that reach up into heavens.

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They're building one now in Saudi Arabia.

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That's going to be one kilometer high 3,200 and something feet high, that's six-tenths of a mile high.

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All over the planet they're building these towers and most of them are built by the sons of Ham.

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That was the family that Nimrod was of and they would make.

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They would make the Tower of Babel look like an erector set toy.

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These towers were building towers.

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We're building.

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We're still building them.

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I'm going to bring some pictures and I'm going to prove to you that how, that, what we think.

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I'm not going to get a hold of it because I need to lay the groundwork for that.

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I'm going to leave that one there.

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Praise God, we're still building towers, because towers are an identifying mark of cities, even in the days when there weren't elevators.

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If you look at the landscape of London, for example, you can tell that most of London was built before elevators were invented, but there were still towers.

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Same way in Paris.

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Paris is a city that was built before elevators were invented, but there are still towers.

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Glory to God.

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And the Lord said indeed, the people are one and they all have one language.

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So, at this time on the earth, when they came out, for the three or four generations that were on the planet after Noah.

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They still all spoke one language and they had one purpose.

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And by this time, except for the sons of Seth and some of the sons of Japheth, amen most of the people on the planet were anti God because they were being taught that by Antichrist and the population of giants and others that Antichrist was bringing to lead the people astray.

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The people are one and they had one language.

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And God noted this.

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He said and this is what they begin to do.

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So he said I want you to see how God is seeing this, because this is important, because we need to understand.

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If we're going to understand what's really happening, we have to understand it from God's point of view and not from a storybook point of view.

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That's why I'm taking the time to go through this.

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These things are very important.

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God's very specific in what he tells us.

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He said they wanted to build a city.

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I'm not too sure God's a big fan of cities, amen, because of the problems they have.

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Anyway, the people are all one, they have one language and this is what they begin to do.

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So as soon as they start to get together, as soon as they start to come under some form of strong, autocratic leadership.

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They're building cities, they're building walls, they're building fortifications.

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Next thing you know is there's going to be war.

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The thing that they're going to out of all of that is that they're going to build a tower that they think is going to reach up into heaven.

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Amen, this is what they begin to do now.

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This is what I explained before they begin to do Now.

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This is what I built and explained before why cities are so dangerous and why they cultivate and foster this man worship and man-centeredness.

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This is what God says.

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This is what they begin to do building cities, building walls, building towers.

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Now, nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them.

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That is the power that God has put into man's creativity, to man's creativity that, once they start on a certain path, just imagine what would have happened had they stayed decentralized and they had used their creativity to do the plan of God, which was prepare the earth for the coming of the Messiah.

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I'm here to tell you today that it was not God's best plan to have 12 guys named Peter and James and John and Matthew and the rest as the only ones that would accept Jesus as the Messiah, ones that would accept Jesus as the Messiah.

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He had a plan for millions to be waiting for him and accept him, and for those millions then to go forth out of Israel and convert the world to the one true God.

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This was his plan.

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He knew that.

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But he had a better plan.

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But the power of man's inventiveness and wickedness is great enough to not destroy the plan but to significantly alter it.

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Oh sure, we do it all the time.

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We do it all the time.

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We do it all the time.

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But man together can do more evil together than they can separately.

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And because they're in cities they can hide it.

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And because they're there they can say just like Romans says they not only invent ways of doing evil, but they congratulate each other for doing it.

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You know, instead of saying that's terrible, they go.

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That was a great idea.

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Let's do some more.

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How do you think we live, how do you think we live in this world that we live in?

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Because we're doing romans chapter one precisely we're inventing ways of doing evil and we're thumping each other on the back.

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One.

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That was a great job.

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Let's, let's see if we can't ratchet it up a little bit.

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Glory to God.

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So now, nothing that they propose will be withheld from them.

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So true unity what we gain from this verse right here is that true unity combined with true godly worship, is created by God.

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God created man to be one with one language, with one God, and for him, or for those, for those men, to do the opposite.

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So if the opposite ends up with God saying there's nothing, that they'll be stopped from doing.

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Now imagine what would happen if they had stayed focused on God, because God came off it.

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When God brought Noah off the ark listen to me very carefully and gave Noah an entirely new system of government.

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He gave him a new way to run affairs between men.

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And if men had stuck with that, with what God had given Noah, and been creative in the will of God concerning those things that he gave, all of this would have been avoided.

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But instead they ran after giants and ran after Antichrist, and so they created an Antichrist system, ran after Antichrist, and so they created an Antichrist system.

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And God said the only way to attack that is to attack the means of communication.

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Man-centered worship with unity is a disaster.

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Nazi Germany is a case in point.

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A man centered set of unity.

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Amen created a monster that almost destroyed western civilization.

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They had unity of purpose.

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Japan had unity of purpose.

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China today has unity of purpose.

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Do we have unity of purpose?

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We do not have unity of purpose.

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Man-centered worship with unity is a disaster.

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Amen.

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You're going to end up with monstrosities that you don't want to deal with.

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Now.

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I'm going to say this.

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This may not be the most popular thing to say in this day, but diversity of culture and language is counterproductive to the execution of God's will.

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I mean, what's the curse?

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What's the curse for what they did?

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Babylon erected a tower and built a city.

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God came down and did what city?

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God came down and did what you often see that the hand of God's coming down from heaven and destroying the tower and stuff.

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But there's no evidence that that happened, that happen.

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The Bible doesn't say that.

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All the Bible says is is that they ceased building the city.

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They just quit.

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They just stopped building the city because they didn't have the language to keep it going Amen.

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They couldn't keep building the tower.

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Confusion came in, amen.

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Confusion stuck came in Amen.

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But the main thing is that the that because they lost they lost the unity of the language, they lost their unity of their purpose and they quit building the city, let's go down there and confuse their language that they may not understand each other's speech.

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Now, wait a minute, I got it Diversity of culture and language.

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The result of what God did created diversity of culture and language.

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In fact, it works just the opposite.

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And language, in fact, it works just the opposite.

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What God did was that he created diversity of language and language defines culture and he created, he separated the languages and that separated the people into language groups and that separated the people into language groups.

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But that is counterproductive to what God wants to do.

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Watch this, you're going to love this.

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What's the first thing God did when he poured out the Holy Ghost?

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He restored unity of language and purpose.

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There is actually Jewish tradition on this that this happened on what in their calendar is Pentecost?

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That some years later, when Moses would celebrate Pentecost, amen by speaking to the people from the mountain in one language, amen.

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It was on the same day of the calendar year that he caused the division of the languages back in Babylon.

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Glory to God.

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So if he goes down and he confuses their language, what happens when you have confusion?

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James says in the third chapter it is earthly, it is sensual, it is demonic, there is confusion, there is envy, there is self-seeking and there is every evil work.

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So this diversity that we celebrate is a curse.

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It's a curse of confusion, it's a curse of sensuality, it's a curse of demonic influence, it's a curse of envy and self-seeking and every evil work.

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It's a curse.

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And here we are now, in our lives, we're celebrating this.

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We want people to be as diverse as possible.

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I might as well just dig myself a hole and just go right for it.

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Amen.

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One of the most amazing things that has happened in this country is that we have opened our doors to people from all over the planet.

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I mean, first English people came.

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You know they were, they were the first ones.

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And then some of the, the, the, the people that live around England, like Scottish people and Irish people, and then northern European people who came from Germany, and then Italians came, and then Eastern Europeans came.

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You know, and it just you know, one after another, after another, after another, but you know what the common thing was in all of these people Was that within one generation, they left their mother language at home and assimilated themselves into English and into this culture.

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Until now, what this latest invasion is going to do is it's either going to establish a bilingual nation or it's going to eliminate English as the language of this country, and that has never happened before.

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In every wave of immigration, the first people that came across couldn't speak English worth a lick.

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But by the second generation I know this because I deal with it in translation the second generation can speak both languages but usually can only write in English because that's what they learn at school.

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By the third generation.

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If you know people here in Texas that are third generation Mexican immigrants, they sound like Texans and they can't speak Spanish.

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They maybe can communicate with grandma a little bit, but for the most part they can't.

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And that's called assimilation Assimilation they get assimilated into being Americans by living and learning the language.

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That's not being done now and as long as there is a diversion of language and a celebration of language differences and cultural differences Amen.

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As long as we're celebrating that stuff, we are giving ourselves over to what the Bible says is earthly, sensual, demonic, confusing envy, self-seeking, confusing envy, self-seeking and every evil practice, because we are given over to division and we're given over to this confusion in the language and in culture.

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Culture is a curse.

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Listen, you are not the first people I have preached this to.

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I've preached this everywhere I go, because, wherever you go, if you're going to preach the real gospel I'm not talking about going to Costa Rica and preaching a Costa Rican gospel, or going to Mexico and preaching a Mexican gospel, or going to Guatemala and preaching it, or Nicaragua and preaching it a local version there, or going to South Africa or any of the other places I've been Amen.

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This is one gospel.

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It fits everybody.

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If you're going to preach this gospel, amen, you've got to tear down this notion that it is a blank gospel.

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Amen, it is not a national gospel, it is a.

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It has nothing to do with that.

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It has nothing to do with your culture.

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I don't care if you like to do this and you like to do this and you like to do this, but if you think that's just because you like to do it, because you're of a certain nationality or a certain cultural group, amen, and you think that's the way it has to be done, you're crazy.

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This gospel is for all tribes, all people, all languages, all tongues, so that we can be one in him.

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Culture is a curse.

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Glory to God, you know, and immediately we think of other people's culture.

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But we've got a culture I'm afraid of God.

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I used to tell guys when I had church at three what time we have church Three o'clock in the afternoon on Sunday.

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I'd say y'all are real faithful to come to church in the afternoon on Sunday.

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I'd say y'all are real faithful to come to church in the summertime, but I want to see come September whether you're going to be faithful to the house of God or the house of Jerry.

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And I found out that was back in the days when I was a little bit more rambunctious than I am now and I had a.

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I had a styrofoam football.

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I would keep up at the pulpit and and uh, and I'd keep it teed up and when I'd get excited there I'd get, you know, get mad at the devil, or I'd get mad at somebody out there because they didn't come.

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I'd kick the football.

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Boom, somebody go get the football and bring it back, put it on the tee, getting ready for me to get mad again.

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I'd kick that football.

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And what I was doing I never explained this to anybody but I said what I was doing was I was kicking that culture every time.

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Glory to God, hallelujah.

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So the Lord.

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Verse 8.

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So the Lord, verse 8,.

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So the Lord scattered them abroad from there over the face of all the earth.

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So listen to me very carefully.

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Seth or Shem's offspring did not get scattered over the face of the earth.

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They concentrated right there, so that the bloodline would be right there, centered in Israel and right around that area.

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Japheth's bloodline got pushed into southern Asia or Southern Europe, but Ham's bloodline went all over the earth into Africa, into India, into China, into Southeast Asia, into, eventually over into the Americas.

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They got their bloodline.

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That's why can I get a witness?

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That's why every place where their seed went, they built towers.

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Can I get a single amen?

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You can't go into the jungles of Mexico, honduras, nicaragua.

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I've seen them, I've been there.

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Towers that are hundreds of feet high.

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They're finding new ones all the time, buried under jungle rot.

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You know what most of those are.

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You're not even going to believe this.

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You know what most of those are.

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You know what they were really building in Babylon.

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You know why God had to shut them down.

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They were building stargates.

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The name of the temple in Babylon was called the gates of the gods.

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They were building transportation devices into those places, focusing energy to create the power to transport demonic beings from one place to another.

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Glory to God, hallelujah, they ceased building the city and they got scattered everywhere.

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Now the next thing we're going to see is what happened to Abraham when he was moved over to Canaan, but that's several hundred years later.

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Okay, this, what God did to Babel, set the Antichrist back for centuries.

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Because of the confusion that it sent in all the people and the fact that he was going to work through the descendants of Ham, and Ham's descendants got dispersed all over the place.

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Now, in the long run, that worked out okay for Antichrist, but at the time it was a problem.

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Verse nine says therefore, the name of the town, or the name, is called Babel because the Lord confused the language of all the earth and from there, the Lord scattered them abroad over the face of all the earth.

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This is the source of all culture, all language differences, all diversities of cultures and peoples, all differences of appetites and food, all differences of how people get married, how people raise children.

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You can go to one place you can go to, you know, in a lot of countries.

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If the parents accumulate some property, in a lot of countries it's the rule of thumb that the property goes to the firstborn, right?

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Well, you can go to Vietnam, and it's just the opposite In Vietnam, since the child is the youngest child and the parents will be the oldest when they stop having that children and this is going to be the last child and they're going to be the oldest.

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The property goes to the youngest child and he has the response he or she has the responsibility of taking care of the parents on the property and the property then passes to the youngest child of the youngest child, and it's almost the exact opposite.

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You go, well, you know.

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I mean, who cares?

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It doesn't make any difference.

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But it's just interesting that you know that cultures all over the world can have different ways of handling how to treat the parents, how to protect them, how to protect the property.

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How does it just disappear?

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How's that all going to work?

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You can see it here that when we don't have firm rules of that sort of thing, what happens?

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Dad's 2,000 acres gets divided up between five brothers and sisters who don't give a rip about ranching.

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And so what do they do?

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They fight about it in court until the court gives them a rendering, and then they just divide it all up and turn it into housing development.

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Or you see, you see places where there's one down the street here, the house is in disrepair, the lots and disrepair, and that's because, you know, some bunch of brothers and sisters can't, you know, figure out what to do with it.

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So it's just sitting there, going to.

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It's gonna look like a.

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They're gonna use it for a vampire movie background one of these days.

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I think before you got how they do you?

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Culture, language, diversity and differences all glory to God, hallelujah.

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Culture, language, diversity and differences all came out of Babylon.

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Now, see, you can't tell anybody this.

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They won't believe you, but I don't care, it's.

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This is what the Bible says.

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Every language, every tongue, every diversity, every culture, every difference of expression that has not, every language, every tongue, every diversity, every culture, every difference of expression that has not originated from God came out of Babylon.

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I'm going to say this, write it down there is one godly culture and it's not Texan, even though Brother Shipp always told me that you got to go to Fort Worth to get to heaven.

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Amen.

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I'm going to say that God says in the book of Genesis that there's one culture that's godly and all the rest of them came out of Babylon.

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Hallelujah.

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But these things, these diversities and these differences are highly esteemed among men.

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But what's the Bible say?

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That which is highly esteemed among men is.

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But what's the Bible say?

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That which is highly esteemed among men is an abomination to God.

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Now, men make a big deal out of it.

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Oh, you want to know how big of a deal they make.

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You know, if your niece that works over in Dubai, she has to dress conservatively and in some places keep her at least keep her head covered, amen, and dress like they do because they think their way of dressing is correct, they, they will.

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They think it's so much that when their people go to other places they still dress like that.

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So when they go to Dearborn, michigan, to live, they still dress like that.

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They're not going to assimilate Because their way is highly esteemed.

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So what we do?

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We give them names.

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We call ethnicities names, we call tribes names.

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We have names for skin color.

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We have derogative names for skin color.

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We have preferred names for skin color.

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We have names that change over time for skin color.

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You know they may have one name in the 50s, another name in the 60s, another name in the 70s, but we have the same name, you know it just has.

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I'm not going to go there.

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Praise God, we boast, we boast of of all of these differences, especially among languages, to such an extent that now the pride in language is having a a detrimental influence on understanding and on education.

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I don't have it.

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I don't have a clue how they're doing school these days, but I'm going to tell you this that if they're separating people because of language and having separate classes because of that, that's not going to work.

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That's not going to work, and the people that would insist upon that because we're being prejudiced if we make them learn English, are just crazy, because what's going to happen is that they're going to be systematically pushed down and pushed down, and pushed down and pushed down, because they're not being required to speak languages, to speak a language that is common to most people and where the vast majority of technical work is written in it.

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And if it was originally written in English and then translated into another technical stuff, these negatives are going to lose.

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It's going to lose.

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Yeah, it's meaning.

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It's going to lose, yeah, it's meaning.

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I'm concerned that, based on what we see in the Bible, that when we lose this unity of language and purpose, we immediately slip into a demonic and sensual world that has no chance of success in achieving what God wants to achieve.

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I'm not saying that English is the perfect language.

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What I'm saying is that when a people live side by side and they live together, they need to have a language.

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Language is what defines culture.

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It's not the other way around.

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Culture doesn't define language.

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Language defines culture.

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What is not?

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Communication between everything?

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Basically, you can't communicate because you, you're gonna see and you see this more and more and more and more like just like God told us the beginning of 2017 that you're gonna, and you're gonna enter into a time when it's going to be increasingly difficult to understand people, even though they're speaking your own language.

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How much more if they're not?

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The fact that language is fragmented and cultures exist is a curse against man worship and against works righteousness.

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What Nimrod did and what he did among the sons of Ham in Babylon caused God to bring a curse upon the earth that exists to this day, and it is a curse against man worship and against works righteousness.

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In other words, against worshiping Nimrod as a god and worshiping the tower that he built.

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In other words, if you think you can substitute somebody that man created or that fallen angels created for the one true God and you can substitute your works for his righteousness.

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I'll tell you, god has been dealing with that sin for over 4,000 years Through the destruction of unity of language and unity of purpose.

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So here comes a Seuss history.

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Here comes the outpouring of the Holy Ghost for the second time.

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What does God do?

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He tries to bring back a unity of language and a unity of purpose, and almost all of the established religions on the face of the earth rejected it.

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So what do you think God's doing now?

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He doesn't have to do anything.

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By their own sin, the sons of men have increased the penalties associated with these differences.

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Listen to me.

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We had people who were first cousins sitting on the throne of Germany and on the throne of England and on the throne of Russia in 1914.

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They were first cousins, but because of differences of culture, differences of language, differences of heritage, differences of religion, differences of all sorts of ideas and everything, the cream of Europe's manhood was decimated on a million.

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In a day, when Britain probably had 30 to 40 million people, a million of their young men were killed and God knows how many more were maimed.

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Because this world is under a curse because of works righteousness.

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You can't imagine how insidious this is to God.

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You can't even get your hands on how much he hates this.

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He said it this way to the prophet Isaiah.

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He said all of your righteous acts, and he's talking to Israel.

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He's talking to the high priest.

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He's talking about the sacrificial system that he instituted.

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He's talking about the brazen altar.

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He's talking about the brazen labor.

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He's talking about the altar.

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He's talking about the showbread.

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He's talking about all of those things that we hold so dear.

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He says all of your righteous acts are as filthy rags to me.

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Go over there, god.

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Hallelujah, hallelujah.

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The sin of Nimrod and Babylon still reaches up into heaven as a stench off of this earth, as a stench off of this earth.

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Praise God, hallelujah.

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I'm going to say this.

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I'm going to pick it up back here Next time.

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We'll repeat this, but I just want you to hear this the sin of Nimrod and the sin of Babylon, in its essence, is the exchange of unity for doing the will of God for the unity in doing man's will.

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That was what they exchanged for the unity in doing man's will.

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That was what they exchanged.

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Think about it God had brought people off the ark and had formed a world that was based on this covenant that he gave to Noah.

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You want to know how I haven't talked much about the covenant of Noah.

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You want to know how powerful God's covenant with Noah is.

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If you're not under covenant with Abraham through Christ, you are in covenant with the covenant of Noah, because that's all that God has done.

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He brought a covenant with Noah.

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He brought a covenant with Abraham.

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The subset of Abraham's covenant through Moses was just to teach Israel and get them prepared to receive the Christ.

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But Christ was going to fulfill the covenant of Abraham.

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If you're not in covenant with Abraham or Moses or Jesus, you're back covenant with Noah, whether you like it or not.

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Amen, amen.

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And he was creating a race of men that would come out through Noah and serve him in this new covenant that he had given Noah.

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And here comes Antichrist and raises up Nimrod and exchange the unity that God had purposed to serve him under Noah's covenant and exchanged it for a covenant that was focused on doing man's will, for a covenant that was focused on doing man's will.

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They exchanged the true worship of the true God for the worship of man's creation.

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So here comes Nimrod.

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He's not content with just getting them to follow him, amen.

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He wants them to follow him and build a city.

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So now he's got them trapped.

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He wants them to build a city, and not only build a city, but build a tower.

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That will be an affront to God.

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He says I'm going to stick it right in God's face and I'm going to show these people who really is God.

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And he exchanged what God had purposed in these people for an adoration of him and what he wanted to do.

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These people exchanged the extermination of the seed of Satan for its resurrection.

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God, the major reason that God brought the flood was to exterminate the race of giants.

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And the first thing that happens is when Nimrod comes around, is they resurrect this race and start to worship it, start to pay homage to it, start to follow it, start to do what they say and then, finally, the last thing they do, we're going to repeat these.

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So if you don't get it today, you'll get it the next time.

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The last thing they do and we're going to repeat these so if you don't get it today, you'll get it the next time the last thing they do is they exchange God's righteousness, as expressed to Noah, as expressed in the flood, as expressed in the punishment of Cain, as expressed in the curse on Adam.

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All of God's righteousness.

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They just washed their hands of it and exchanged it for the righteousness of their works.

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Instead of worshiping a God that is higher than the heavens, they're going to build a tower that's going to get into the heaven.

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The essence of man, of works, righteousness.

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It's man's way to please God, it's man's way to atone for Adam's sin and it's man's way to provide his own way into eternity.

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I'm going to please God by what I do, I'm going to atone for Adam's sin by what I do and I'm going to earn my way into eternal life by what I do.

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But what it boils down to is that you know they're trying to please God in their own, by their own works, trying to atone for Adam's sin by their own works.

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Because if you can do that, you don't need Jesus.

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If you can, if you can, if you can cover Adam's sin by what you do, then you don't need Jesus.

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You don't need a second Adam.

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And the third thing that they try to do is they try to how are you going to get to heaven?

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I'm going to get to heaven by doing one more good work than bad.

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You know we think those things are foolishness, but I'm here to tell you that if you got out a list of the top 10 denominations in the United States, that comprise easily a very high percentage of all the Christians in the United States, they're all works, righteousness.

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See, look at what the books of Acts have some interesting things, you know, when they remember that Peter was called to pray over the woman that had died, and when he got there they were telling him about all the good work she had done.

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And when they were trying to get Jesus to come and pray for the centurion's servant, he'd done so many good works for our nation, but God wasn't moved by any of that.

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He was moved by their faith and praise God, hallelujah.

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Well, father, we just believe you to do great and mighty things with your word here tonight.

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Cause us to understand and see what you're saying to us.

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Cause us to see.

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Cause us to see.

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Cause us to see, hallelujah.

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Cause us to see Clearly, not with the lenses and the filters of emotion, but with the lens and the filter of the Holy Ghost.

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Let us see clearly what you're trying to say in Jesus name, hallelujah, if you can see that the earth is still under this curse and it has been for over 4,000 years then you will understand many things that have happened and are happening because of it, because that curse has not been lifted.

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It has not been lifted Because most people won't come to Christ.

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They prefer to live in the realm of exalting men rather than exalting God, and that's just how it is.