1 00:00:00,100 --> 00:00:01,500 Hi. This is Dave Olson. 2 00:00:01,600 --> 00:00:04,700 I'm the senior leader of Hartman church located in Ankeny Iowa. 3 00:00:05,100 --> 00:00:08,000 I hope the following message, challenges and courage's and 4 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:11,200 ultimately changes you thanks for joining us. 5 00:00:13,900 --> 00:00:20,000 This is July 4th weekend. And so man, I tell you what it, 6 00:00:20,500 --> 00:00:24,600 I love our nation. And so I just wrestling with 7 00:00:24,600 --> 00:00:28,500 what to preach on because we are technically in a series. 8 00:00:28,700 --> 00:00:29,900 So you got to find a way to adjust. 9 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:33,000 Justify getting off track. You know, I'm pulling it in but 10 00:00:33,500 --> 00:00:36,500 I want to talk about this morning, I want to talk about 11 00:00:36,500 --> 00:00:39,000 praying for our nation. I want to, I want us to 12 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:41,600 understand the responsibility that we have. 13 00:00:41,900 --> 00:00:46,100 I believe that as Believers we have, we all have a general 14 00:00:46,100 --> 00:00:50,000 responsibility, but I would propose to you that as heart, 15 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:52,700 Landers that. We have a specific 16 00:00:52,700 --> 00:00:57,600 responsibilities that God has called this church specifically 17 00:00:57,600 --> 00:00:59,900 to stand in the gap for this nation. 18 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:02,900 The nations of the earth and there is a there is an 19 00:01:02,900 --> 00:01:07,200 intercessors mandate on this church to contend for the 20 00:01:07,200 --> 00:01:11,000 purposes of this nation. So I want to, I want to hit face 21 00:01:11,000 --> 00:01:14,500 on this thing. That says that patriotism is at 22 00:01:14,500 --> 00:01:18,600 best a distraction and at worst idolatry because there's people 23 00:01:18,600 --> 00:01:21,900 that will tell you that, you know, patriotism is simply, you 24 00:01:21,900 --> 00:01:25,000 want to Define patriotism. It means a love for your country 25 00:01:25,000 --> 00:01:28,700 and affection for your particular country. 26 00:01:28,900 --> 00:01:31,400 And people will say Well, we're supposed to love all people, and 27 00:01:31,400 --> 00:01:32,800 that's true. And we're supposed to love all 28 00:01:32,800 --> 00:01:35,700 countries, and that's true. God is a global God. 29 00:01:35,700 --> 00:01:38,600 He did. He has the nation's in his heart 30 00:01:38,600 --> 00:01:41,100 and King, Jesus will not be satisfied. 31 00:01:41,100 --> 00:01:43,900 Until every tribe. And tongue has heard, and 32 00:01:43,900 --> 00:01:48,300 there's worship in his Endeavor under every tongue of his name. 33 00:01:48,300 --> 00:01:54,800 And so, God is a global God. He desires that every nation, be 34 00:01:54,800 --> 00:01:58,900 presented, the gospel and every nation be won by him scriptures. 35 00:01:58,900 --> 00:02:05,700 Clear psalm for the Nations are his the world is his However, 36 00:02:06,200 --> 00:02:08,900 God gives us certain things to Steward. 37 00:02:09,100 --> 00:02:12,100 I'm supposed to love all families, but I got a favorite 38 00:02:12,100 --> 00:02:17,500 one. I love all families and I want 39 00:02:17,500 --> 00:02:20,300 all children to be fed, but I've got responsibilities for certain 40 00:02:20,300 --> 00:02:24,500 ones. And scripture says, I'm worse 41 00:02:24,500 --> 00:02:28,600 than an Infidel, if I don't fulfill that responsibility. 42 00:02:28,700 --> 00:02:31,500 Matter of fact in the gospels, there was a time where Jesus 43 00:02:31,500 --> 00:02:35,400 rebuked the Pharisees because they what they've done they 44 00:02:35,400 --> 00:02:38,200 called it Corbin. They said, what was supposed to 45 00:02:38,200 --> 00:02:40,900 go to my parents? I dedicate I devote to God. 46 00:02:41,100 --> 00:02:44,300 Therefore I'm relieved of that responsibility and for you to 47 00:02:44,300 --> 00:02:48,600 say that distraction that to contend for the nation that on 48 00:02:48,600 --> 00:02:52,600 which you were to Citizen the place where you live to say, 49 00:02:53,300 --> 00:02:55,300 That is a distraction from Devotion. 50 00:02:55,300 --> 00:02:58,400 To God, is a form of what Jesus rebuked him for. 51 00:02:58,700 --> 00:03:02,300 What I'm saying is this Jesus rebuked the Pharisees because 52 00:03:02,300 --> 00:03:06,300 they would say, the, the law said they had responsibilities 53 00:03:06,300 --> 00:03:09,100 to their parents but they said, well I'm going to give that to 54 00:03:09,100 --> 00:03:10,400 God. I'm going to devote that to God 55 00:03:10,400 --> 00:03:13,400 and that relieves me of my responsibility to my parents and 56 00:03:13,400 --> 00:03:16,600 the Lord said that is a false teaching. 57 00:03:17,600 --> 00:03:19,900 That they still had an obligation to care for their 58 00:03:19,900 --> 00:03:25,200 own. Paul said that God has chosen 59 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:29,100 the times and the places in which men should live now we've 60 00:03:29,100 --> 00:03:32,200 touched on this before, but this is a very, very important 61 00:03:32,200 --> 00:03:36,200 principle that two of the parameters of your calling is 62 00:03:36,200 --> 00:03:39,100 the location in which you live and the generation in which you 63 00:03:39,100 --> 00:03:41,600 live, Matthew chapter 11 matter of fact. 64 00:03:41,600 --> 00:03:43,300 Let's turn there. I want you to see this for 65 00:03:43,300 --> 00:03:45,600 yourself. So, you know I'm not making it 66 00:03:45,600 --> 00:03:49,800 up. Matthew Chapter 11 This is a 67 00:03:49,800 --> 00:03:52,500 very interesting thing, I heard the Lord speak this to me one 68 00:03:52,500 --> 00:03:54,500 day up. In the balcony before service, I 69 00:03:54,508 --> 00:03:58,700 was praying up there and I had never heard anybody say this and 70 00:03:58,700 --> 00:04:02,400 it just so took me back. And he then he took me to 71 00:04:02,400 --> 00:04:06,700 Matthew 11 and showed me that indeed, this is what the word 72 00:04:06,700 --> 00:04:12,600 teaches. Look at Matthew 11, Verse 20, 73 00:04:13,300 --> 00:04:18,500 Jesus is speaking of Jesus, then he began to denounce the cities 74 00:04:18,700 --> 00:04:21,899 where most of his mighty Works had been done because they did 75 00:04:21,899 --> 00:04:28,200 not repent, woe to you chorazin, woe to you bethsaida for. 76 00:04:28,200 --> 00:04:32,400 If the mighty Works done in, you had been done in Tyre or sidon, 77 00:04:32,600 --> 00:04:36,500 they would have repented long ago in sackcloth and Ashes, but 78 00:04:36,500 --> 00:04:40,400 I tell you, it will be more bearable on the day of judgment 79 00:04:40,400 --> 00:04:46,600 for tyre and sidon, then, for you, And for and you Capernaum, 80 00:04:47,500 --> 00:04:51,700 will you be exalted to heaven? You will be brought down to 81 00:04:51,700 --> 00:04:54,600 Hades for. If the mighty Works done in you 82 00:04:54,600 --> 00:04:59,300 had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until this day but 83 00:04:59,300 --> 00:05:03,500 I tell you that it will be more tolerable on the day of judgment 84 00:05:03,700 --> 00:05:06,400 for the land of Sodom than for you. 85 00:05:07,600 --> 00:05:12,300 Now, what's fascinating to me is that the Lord is addressing and 86 00:05:12,600 --> 00:05:18,000 the population of a city. He's not talking to an 87 00:05:18,000 --> 00:05:22,200 individual here. He there's a corporate rebuked 88 00:05:22,500 --> 00:05:25,200 because there's corporate responsibility. 89 00:05:26,500 --> 00:05:31,300 In other words, as an occupant of that City, they bore 90 00:05:31,300 --> 00:05:34,400 responsibility for which they would give an account. 91 00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:37,900 Let me say it again, as an occupant of that City that 92 00:05:37,900 --> 00:05:42,100 rejected Jesus, they bore a responsibility for, which they 93 00:05:42,100 --> 00:05:46,800 would give an account. So their location was part of 94 00:05:46,800 --> 00:05:49,300 their stewardship. You understand what I'm saying? 95 00:05:49,600 --> 00:05:53,400 The fact that they lived their gave them a level of 96 00:05:53,400 --> 00:05:56,900 responsibility. There should have been somebody 97 00:05:56,900 --> 00:05:59,900 in that City that would have stood up and say Jesus, I'm 98 00:05:59,900 --> 00:06:03,900 staking my claim, I receive you, I bless your ministry. 99 00:06:03,900 --> 00:06:08,100 I'm getting the I believe and stake the claim for that entire 100 00:06:08,100 --> 00:06:13,500 city, God is looking for representatives in cities and 101 00:06:13,500 --> 00:06:19,100 nations of the earth so that he can, he can bless those cities 102 00:06:19,100 --> 00:06:22,000 and nations of the earth. It's called an intercessor. 103 00:06:22,600 --> 00:06:27,100 If you remember Abraham When God said he was going to destroy 104 00:06:27,100 --> 00:06:31,300 Sodom, but the the city that Jesus is speaking of here, 105 00:06:31,700 --> 00:06:34,200 Abraham stood in the Gap and said, what, if you find this 106 00:06:34,200 --> 00:06:38,000 many Believers and this many and this many he was he was dealing 107 00:06:38,000 --> 00:06:41,000 with the principle. The very real principle that we 108 00:06:41,000 --> 00:06:44,900 are Salt and Light and God will withhold, his hand of judgment 109 00:06:45,000 --> 00:06:48,500 for the sake of a small amount of righteous people in a city or 110 00:06:48,500 --> 00:06:54,400 a nation. So here we have the location, 111 00:06:54,400 --> 00:06:58,300 our city. You have a stewardship of the 112 00:06:58,300 --> 00:07:02,200 city, or the nation in which you live, you bear a greater 113 00:07:02,200 --> 00:07:05,600 responsibility for what happens in the United States of America, 114 00:07:06,500 --> 00:07:10,200 as someone who lives here, then you do for what happens in the 115 00:07:10,200 --> 00:07:12,300 Ukraine. Now, some of you may have 116 00:07:12,300 --> 00:07:16,200 Ukrainian blood, you may be a Ukrainian Citizen and you, there 117 00:07:16,200 --> 00:07:19,100 is a level of responsibility that you retain. 118 00:07:21,000 --> 00:07:24,100 But I'm talking about those of us right now, who live in this 119 00:07:24,100 --> 00:07:27,300 nation and especially as Citizens, there's a level of 120 00:07:27,300 --> 00:07:31,200 authority and there's a level of responsibility that we have. 121 00:07:32,500 --> 00:07:36,100 So when Jesus said, God chose the times and places are when 122 00:07:36,100 --> 00:07:39,600 Paul said that he said, God chosen chooses the times and 123 00:07:39,600 --> 00:07:43,000 places in which men should live, it wasn't just some kind of 124 00:07:43,000 --> 00:07:45,000 arbitrary, kind of an interesting fact. 125 00:07:45,000 --> 00:07:47,200 It wasn't like trivia. Hey isn't this interesting? 126 00:07:47,300 --> 00:07:51,400 There was a reason behind his saying that he was saying that 127 00:07:51,400 --> 00:07:56,300 God appointed you to a place and a generation, a location and a 128 00:07:56,308 --> 00:08:00,200 generation and you will give an account for both now. 129 00:08:00,300 --> 00:08:02,100 So we see in this one here. Jesus is. 130 00:08:02,300 --> 00:08:07,100 Thing that he will call to account those people who lived 131 00:08:07,100 --> 00:08:09,400 in those cities. Now, look at later on. 132 00:08:10,900 --> 00:08:16,400 And chapter 12. Look at verse 41 of chapter 12. 133 00:08:19,700 --> 00:08:25,600 The men of Nineveh Nineveh will rise up at the Judgment with 134 00:08:25,600 --> 00:08:31,200 this generation and condemn it. So now he's talking about a 135 00:08:31,200 --> 00:08:37,700 generation a people who lived within a season of time a unique 136 00:08:37,700 --> 00:08:42,100 season of time in human history and God said that the people of 137 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:46,900 the, the generation of Nineveh would rise up in witness against 138 00:08:46,900 --> 00:08:50,300 the people who lived in that unique period of time in which 139 00:08:50,300 --> 00:08:54,600 Jesus lived, because they had, there was a unique opportunity 140 00:08:54,700 --> 00:09:00,400 that they allowed to pass them by And I am here to tell you 141 00:09:00,400 --> 00:09:04,300 this morning, that this is not an anomaly. 142 00:09:06,100 --> 00:09:08,600 This is true of every generation. 143 00:09:09,700 --> 00:09:13,100 There are purposes. Two seasons. 144 00:09:15,000 --> 00:09:16,400 We talked about it, I don't know. 145 00:09:16,400 --> 00:09:17,900 It was probably about seven years ago. 146 00:09:17,900 --> 00:09:22,100 Now, I was the Lord spoke to me one day and he said, I want you 147 00:09:22,108 --> 00:09:25,900 to do a series on wisdom, but I don't want you to pull out your 148 00:09:25,900 --> 00:09:28,200 old material, you know, sometimes the Lord has to tell 149 00:09:28,200 --> 00:09:32,700 the preacher that because you do it so you can lean on what you 150 00:09:32,700 --> 00:09:35,200 used to know. Bill Johnson has this wonderful 151 00:09:35,200 --> 00:09:38,600 phrase what you know can keep you from what you need to know. 152 00:09:39,200 --> 00:09:43,500 That's a sobering thought. Because if you think the little, 153 00:09:43,500 --> 00:09:47,500 you know, is the whole, then you won't be over open to the rest. 154 00:09:48,600 --> 00:09:51,300 And so the Lord dealt with me and I began to ask him about 155 00:09:51,300 --> 00:09:53,200 wisdom, and he took us on a journey. 156 00:09:53,500 --> 00:09:56,600 And one of the things he really began to talk to me about was 157 00:09:57,100 --> 00:10:01,600 wisdom and time. That time. 158 00:10:03,200 --> 00:10:08,300 From, from a Divine perspective, is not the way you, and I think 159 00:10:08,300 --> 00:10:11,500 of it. You and I think of time as 160 00:10:11,500 --> 00:10:18,600 minutes on a clock and days on a calendar, but to God time and 161 00:10:18,600 --> 00:10:22,100 you can see this throughout scripture from the Divine 162 00:10:22,100 --> 00:10:27,100 perspective in the economy of Heaven, time is a period 163 00:10:27,100 --> 00:10:33,500 pregnant with purpose, it's launched by fresh Revelation and 164 00:10:33,500 --> 00:10:38,000 it's consummated by the Fulfillment of the purpose of 165 00:10:38,000 --> 00:10:42,000 that revelation. Let me say it again that when 166 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:46,800 God launches a new time or season and Daniel, Daniel 167 00:10:46,800 --> 00:10:50,900 chapter 2 is very clear. God sets the times and the 168 00:10:50,908 --> 00:10:55,700 seasons, God changes the times and the seasons. 169 00:10:56,300 --> 00:11:01,700 And one of the primary ways in which God, shifts Humanity or a 170 00:11:01,700 --> 00:11:07,700 church, there are big enormous blocks of seasons and times. 171 00:11:08,700 --> 00:11:12,200 That are Global and historical in nature. 172 00:11:12,600 --> 00:11:16,700 There's also that's also true of us as individuals in your life. 173 00:11:16,700 --> 00:11:20,100 There are times and Seasons that God has for your life. 174 00:11:21,200 --> 00:11:24,700 It's true of churches times and seasons and we don't have time 175 00:11:24,700 --> 00:11:27,400 to get, I'm getting pulled into something. 176 00:11:27,400 --> 00:11:29,500 I didn't intend to talk about. So let me just make a couple 177 00:11:29,500 --> 00:11:32,000 comments about Daniel chapter 2, okay? 178 00:11:32,200 --> 00:11:34,200 Because the Lord has been speaking to me about this for 179 00:11:34,200 --> 00:11:37,900 three weeks now. In prayer, Daniel chapter 2, 180 00:11:37,900 --> 00:11:41,300 it's very clear. Daniel, praise out this prayer 181 00:11:41,800 --> 00:11:44,800 and he prays out. He's thanking God because God 182 00:11:44,800 --> 00:11:48,100 had given him a Divine download about what Nebuchadnezzar's 183 00:11:48,100 --> 00:11:50,700 dream is, and Nebuchadnezzar had made a neat. 184 00:11:51,100 --> 00:11:55,100 That all the wise men would be killed because they could not 185 00:11:55,100 --> 00:11:57,200 only could they not interpret his dream. 186 00:11:57,300 --> 00:11:59,600 They first couldn't tell him what the dream was that they 187 00:11:59,600 --> 00:12:03,100 were supposed to interpret Nebuchadnezzar wasn't gambling 188 00:12:03,100 --> 00:12:06,500 that this he could be manipulated, he said you're not 189 00:12:06,500 --> 00:12:08,000 only going to tell me what my dream meant. 190 00:12:08,000 --> 00:12:09,400 You're going to tell me what my dream was. 191 00:12:09,400 --> 00:12:10,600 I'm not going to tell you what it was. 192 00:12:10,600 --> 00:12:14,100 And if you can't tell me, I'll kill you because you claim to be 193 00:12:14,100 --> 00:12:19,000 these diviners these wise men, these Magi and you're a fraud 194 00:12:19,400 --> 00:12:20,800 and they're like, there's not a man on Earth. 195 00:12:20,900 --> 00:12:23,800 That can do this and their knees were shaking and I he said 196 00:12:23,800 --> 00:12:26,700 you're just you're waiting for the time to change. 197 00:12:26,700 --> 00:12:29,300 That's what he said. It's an interesting phrase. 198 00:12:29,500 --> 00:12:32,600 What he was insinuating, his you're waiting for my time on 199 00:12:32,600 --> 00:12:35,400 the throne to be up so that you can manipulate the next guy. 200 00:12:35,400 --> 00:12:39,000 You think you're hoping you can Outlast me so that you can start 201 00:12:39,000 --> 00:12:41,200 manipulating the next guy because you know I won't be 202 00:12:41,200 --> 00:12:48,500 manipulated So Daniel is in his second year of its in the second 203 00:12:48,500 --> 00:12:53,300 year of Nebuchadnezzar's rain that this happens and Daniel and 204 00:12:53,300 --> 00:12:56,100 the three Hebrew children, Shadrach Meshach and Abednego, 205 00:12:56,100 --> 00:12:57,800 or make the bed, and shake the bed. 206 00:12:57,800 --> 00:12:59,100 And into bed, you do you tell your kids? 207 00:12:59,300 --> 00:13:06,100 But he says these four, they were they were captured by 208 00:13:06,100 --> 00:13:10,800 Nebuchadnezzar and it says they were inducted into a three-year 209 00:13:10,800 --> 00:13:15,500 training as wise men. But chapter 2 says in the second 210 00:13:15,500 --> 00:13:18,700 year of Nebuchadnezzar's rain. So at best they were only 211 00:13:18,700 --> 00:13:20,200 sophomores. Okay. 212 00:13:20,400 --> 00:13:23,500 They were in the second year of their training and Daniel gets 213 00:13:23,500 --> 00:13:25,400 word, he's dead. He's going to get killed, they 214 00:13:25,400 --> 00:13:28,200 come to pick him up and to kill him and he says, wait, wait, 215 00:13:28,200 --> 00:13:32,800 wait, why are we in such a rush? Let's not be Hasty here. 216 00:13:33,100 --> 00:13:37,000 He said there is a God in heaven and so he says give me three 217 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:39,300 days. I'm going to fast and pray and 218 00:13:39,300 --> 00:13:41,500 God is going to give me the dream and then he tells his 219 00:13:41,500 --> 00:13:45,500 buddies no more even worse. Trouble and they go on this fast 220 00:13:45,500 --> 00:13:47,400 and the Lord gives them a download. 221 00:13:47,500 --> 00:13:51,400 He gives him a dream of the dream and then interprets it for 222 00:13:51,400 --> 00:13:54,700 him. And as a response to this divine 223 00:13:54,700 --> 00:13:59,300 intervention, Daniel goes into this praising this worship and 224 00:13:59,300 --> 00:14:00,800 this prayer. And this is what he says. 225 00:14:01,300 --> 00:14:06,300 God, you change the times and the seasons you promote Kings, 226 00:14:06,300 --> 00:14:11,100 and you remove Kings, you give wisdom to the wise and knowledge 227 00:14:11,100 --> 00:14:13,300 to those with understanding three. 228 00:14:13,400 --> 00:14:18,700 Things he says God changes the times and Seasons times are 229 00:14:18,700 --> 00:14:23,200 smaller increments than these major transitions called seasons 230 00:14:23,200 --> 00:14:26,100 in the Hebrew. I want to say the word was Odin. 231 00:14:26,300 --> 00:14:29,000 I don't remember. I'd have to look again but then 232 00:14:29,000 --> 00:14:33,800 it's a small time as a smaller measurement and then the seasons 233 00:14:33,800 --> 00:14:37,900 are major shifts in human history and let me just pause 234 00:14:37,900 --> 00:14:41,700 here. And propose to you, we be in 235 00:14:41,700 --> 00:14:47,100 one, okay? We are in the shifting of a 236 00:14:47,100 --> 00:14:51,100 season in human history and when we get on the other side of this 237 00:14:51,100 --> 00:14:54,900 tumultuous shift, this hinge moment in human history. 238 00:14:55,100 --> 00:14:59,800 Nothing will look the same Financial systems will look 239 00:14:59,800 --> 00:15:03,500 different, the boundary lines of Nations will look different. 240 00:15:03,500 --> 00:15:06,600 There's going to be the rising and falling of Kings in this 241 00:15:06,600 --> 00:15:08,900 season. Because the second thing, 242 00:15:08,900 --> 00:15:11,600 Daniel, Says, is he removes Kings? 243 00:15:11,600 --> 00:15:16,500 And he promotes Kings. What he's saying is this that 244 00:15:16,500 --> 00:15:20,700 from God's perspective time is divided. 245 00:15:20,800 --> 00:15:25,800 Redemptive history is divided. Among the reign of men. 246 00:15:28,700 --> 00:15:32,100 It's where it says of David David served his generation and 247 00:15:32,100 --> 00:15:35,200 he was no more, and he was laid to rest with his father's. 248 00:15:35,900 --> 00:15:39,600 And then it went from being the time of the davidic rain into 249 00:15:39,600 --> 00:15:44,700 the solemn Reign, Solomon, reigned You can see this in 250 00:15:44,700 --> 00:15:46,500 person. Second Samuel, first and second 251 00:15:46,500 --> 00:15:49,900 Kings, and first and second chronicles, it's Redemptive 252 00:15:49,900 --> 00:15:52,600 history divided. Among the reins of men. 253 00:15:53,900 --> 00:15:57,200 What does that mean? See, it says of David David 254 00:15:57,200 --> 00:16:02,100 discerned that he was King, think, didn't take a lot of 255 00:16:02,100 --> 00:16:04,000 discernment. They poured the oil on your head 256 00:16:04,000 --> 00:16:06,300 and then put a crown and you sat on a throne, a lot of 257 00:16:06,300 --> 00:16:08,300 discernment. You got to read the rest of us. 258 00:16:08,300 --> 00:16:11,800 It says he discerned. He was King for the purpose of 259 00:16:11,800 --> 00:16:15,700 Israel. In other words, David leaned in, 260 00:16:15,700 --> 00:16:18,300 and ask God, for the reason for his anointing. 261 00:16:20,200 --> 00:16:22,200 We just let that one land for a moment. 262 00:16:23,700 --> 00:16:26,400 You better know the reason for your anointing. 263 00:16:27,900 --> 00:16:32,000 Because whether you understand it or not, you will give an 264 00:16:32,000 --> 00:16:36,100 account account for whether you fulfill it or not. 265 00:16:37,400 --> 00:16:40,600 And so you better press in and say God what was the purpose of 266 00:16:40,600 --> 00:16:44,300 my life? Because there's a reason God 267 00:16:44,300 --> 00:16:47,600 puts you on planet Earth and you will give an answer for that 268 00:16:47,600 --> 00:16:51,600 assignment whether you know what it is or not, it's on you to 269 00:16:51,600 --> 00:16:53,100 figure it out. That's why Paul said in 270 00:16:53,100 --> 00:16:56,600 Ephesians 5, he said don't be a fool. 271 00:16:57,700 --> 00:17:02,400 No, the will of the Lord, he said time is short know, the 272 00:17:02,400 --> 00:17:05,300 will of the Lord, he said, you are a fool. 273 00:17:05,300 --> 00:17:08,500 If you want walk through life, not knowing the purpose for your 274 00:17:08,500 --> 00:17:11,700 life. You are in danger of wasting 275 00:17:11,900 --> 00:17:16,200 what you have and then you'll come before heaven have to give 276 00:17:16,200 --> 00:17:18,099 an account for what you didn't do. 277 00:17:19,099 --> 00:17:22,300 God is more willing to show you than you want to know. 278 00:17:24,099 --> 00:17:26,300 But no, the purpose of your life. 279 00:17:26,599 --> 00:17:29,500 So God changes the times and Seasons. 280 00:17:29,500 --> 00:17:31,600 How does he do it? He moves people in and out. 281 00:17:31,600 --> 00:17:36,000 You can see this in churches. They'll be a leader in a church. 282 00:17:36,400 --> 00:17:40,700 And when that person's time is over there is a shift in the 283 00:17:40,700 --> 00:17:44,600 calling of that church. When there's a new leader and 284 00:17:44,600 --> 00:17:48,900 that's not always the senior leader, there are times and 285 00:17:48,900 --> 00:17:53,100 Seasons where influential people are in churches, and the Lord 286 00:17:53,100 --> 00:17:56,700 will move people around and it Dawns a new season in a church. 287 00:17:56,700 --> 00:17:59,500 When new people show up and there's an anointing on him, 288 00:17:59,500 --> 00:18:03,100 it'll thrust a church into a new Direction into a new season. 289 00:18:03,100 --> 00:18:05,700 If we're hearing the voice of the lord, we can cooperate with 290 00:18:05,700 --> 00:18:08,800 them and fulfill the corporate purpose of that church. 291 00:18:10,500 --> 00:18:15,800 So God changes the times and Seasons, he does it by removing 292 00:18:15,800 --> 00:18:20,400 Kings, and promoting Kings. And then he does this, he gives 293 00:18:20,400 --> 00:18:25,400 wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who have understanding. 294 00:18:25,700 --> 00:18:28,800 What he's talking about is Daniel's role in this whole 295 00:18:28,800 --> 00:18:31,400 thing. Nebuchadnezzar's role was that 296 00:18:31,400 --> 00:18:35,600 God had just appointed him. And so God inserted a prophetic 297 00:18:35,600 --> 00:18:40,200 Daniel at the Inception of Nebuchadnezzar's rule because 298 00:18:40,300 --> 00:18:44,600 God had plans for this Pagan King to rise him in power to 299 00:18:44,600 --> 00:18:50,200 shape human history. The nature of the, the necessity 300 00:18:50,200 --> 00:18:55,200 rather of the prophetic in times of transition is really 301 00:18:55,200 --> 00:19:00,200 important for us to understand. Because God has his plans in the 302 00:19:00,200 --> 00:19:03,200 enemy has his matter of fact. It says, okay, that's Daniel 303 00:19:03,200 --> 00:19:04,300 chapter 2. You know what? 304 00:19:04,300 --> 00:19:08,700 Daniel chapter 7 says it says the enemy attempts to manipulate 305 00:19:08,700 --> 00:19:12,800 the times. So in those moments of 306 00:19:12,800 --> 00:19:16,700 transition things are fragile, things can be taken off track, 307 00:19:16,800 --> 00:19:20,300 so God has his times, and the enemy has his. 308 00:19:20,500 --> 00:19:23,200 And so it's incumbent upon us to step in. 309 00:19:23,500 --> 00:19:26,200 And in cooperation, with the Lord, hear the word of the Lord, 310 00:19:26,200 --> 00:19:27,700 and fulfill the purpose of the Lord. 311 00:19:27,800 --> 00:19:31,200 Because what it does, is it will stretch the times. 312 00:19:35,000 --> 00:19:39,000 In God's economy. Time is not a date on a 313 00:19:39,000 --> 00:19:41,900 calendar. It's the Fulfillment of a 314 00:19:41,908 --> 00:19:45,300 purpose. That is why an eleven-day 315 00:19:45,300 --> 00:19:48,300 Journey out of the promised land can become 40 Years of 316 00:19:48,300 --> 00:19:52,400 wandering. They had to fulfill their 317 00:19:52,400 --> 00:19:55,800 purpose. That's why it says of Jesus in 318 00:19:55,800 --> 00:20:00,300 the fullness of time. God sent forth his son, born of 319 00:20:00,300 --> 00:20:04,200 a woman born under the law. God is wanting to bring the last 320 00:20:04,200 --> 00:20:08,800 season to fruition, so he can launch us into the next season. 321 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:13,400 And one of the ways, the enemy manipulates the times is keeping 322 00:20:13,400 --> 00:20:17,200 his God's children, fulfilling their calling. 323 00:20:18,400 --> 00:20:22,700 And it can seize the gears and keep it can prolong the season. 324 00:20:24,200 --> 00:20:27,600 And so we need to yield ourselves to the Lord and 325 00:20:27,600 --> 00:20:32,800 fulfill Our Calling. I don't we don't have time to go 326 00:20:32,800 --> 00:20:36,300 my goodness. This is very, very important. 327 00:20:37,500 --> 00:20:40,800 There have been people who have been prematurely pushed off 328 00:20:40,800 --> 00:20:45,300 their post. And we need to step in and pray 329 00:20:45,300 --> 00:20:49,500 that thing through because there are the purposes of God in God's 330 00:20:49,500 --> 00:20:54,300 economy, the time has to come to its fullness in order to lunch 331 00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:57,500 launches into the next season. And that is what Daniel was 332 00:20:57,500 --> 00:21:00,800 talking about. In that passage the true that 333 00:21:00,800 --> 00:21:04,500 the same is true of your life. There are people who move from 334 00:21:04,500 --> 00:21:07,300 season to season, they get saved. 335 00:21:07,300 --> 00:21:10,700 And in five years there well down the road in their walk with 336 00:21:10,700 --> 00:21:15,200 God going from season to season. From glory to glory and then 337 00:21:15,200 --> 00:21:20,000 there's others who go to Glory. And they stay on the same level 338 00:21:20,000 --> 00:21:21,800 of Glory till they literally go to Glory. 339 00:21:23,500 --> 00:21:27,400 Because they never learned to cooperate with God and fulfill 340 00:21:27,400 --> 00:21:31,600 the purpose for their life. God wants to take you from glory 341 00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:33,900 to glory. He wants to move you through 342 00:21:33,900 --> 00:21:38,900 times and seasons in your life. But again, the times and seasons 343 00:21:38,900 --> 00:21:43,800 of your life, are not dates on a calendar, it's the Fulfillment 344 00:21:43,800 --> 00:21:47,200 of the purpose of that season. So, we've got to discern. 345 00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:48,800 Lord. What is the purpose for this? 346 00:21:48,800 --> 00:21:50,700 What are the lessons? You're trying to teach me. 347 00:21:51,200 --> 00:21:53,400 Their isn't the old-timers? Used to say, don't take laps 348 00:21:53,400 --> 00:21:58,000 around Mount Sinai. Okay, I don't want to spend 40 349 00:21:58,000 --> 00:22:00,200 years walking around Mount. Nigh. 350 00:22:01,300 --> 00:22:03,400 There's an old song. Don't take another lap around 351 00:22:03,400 --> 00:22:06,400 Mount Sinai till you learn your lesson. 352 00:22:06,700 --> 00:22:09,100 I don't remember the rest of it but I can hear it in my it was 353 00:22:09,100 --> 00:22:16,400 kind of a One of those songs, you know, I'm not sure what that 354 00:22:16,400 --> 00:22:17,800 was. It just came over me. 355 00:22:20,300 --> 00:22:25,000 Lily, it was kind of a he ha song but it had a good message 356 00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:29,200 okay? Yes yes it's why I'm not up here 357 00:22:29,200 --> 00:22:30,900 with a mic in my hand during worship. 358 00:22:31,400 --> 00:22:33,100 God told me, I'm on the worship team. 359 00:22:33,100 --> 00:22:35,000 He just wants me down there when it happens. 360 00:22:35,500 --> 00:22:39,400 Okay. But this thing at this is a 361 00:22:39,408 --> 00:22:42,900 crucial thing. And two of the parameters of 362 00:22:42,900 --> 00:22:45,800 your purpose, to of the parameters of your calling are 363 00:22:45,800 --> 00:22:48,400 the generation of the location in which you live. 364 00:22:48,400 --> 00:22:51,100 God has purposes for every generation. 365 00:22:51,300 --> 00:22:53,100 There are things. God is moving. 366 00:22:53,100 --> 00:22:57,700 His story along history is his story, and he's moving things 367 00:22:57,700 --> 00:23:00,400 along and you have a part to play. 368 00:23:00,800 --> 00:23:06,100 Don't Paul said, let no man, steal thy crown. 369 00:23:07,800 --> 00:23:11,800 Don't have God. Don't Make God assign someone 370 00:23:11,800 --> 00:23:16,300 else to your assignment. What are you called to do? 371 00:23:16,900 --> 00:23:22,900 Fulfill that calling. The the enemy loves to get us to 372 00:23:23,300 --> 00:23:26,800 either neglect, are calling out of a sense of unworthiness or 373 00:23:26,800 --> 00:23:29,800 Des get us distracted. So we don't do it. 374 00:23:30,500 --> 00:23:32,800 Sometimes the way we're distracted and we get our eyes 375 00:23:32,800 --> 00:23:35,400 on somebody else's calling. And we think if I don't do what 376 00:23:35,400 --> 00:23:38,200 they're doing, I'm not--that's I'm really not doing something. 377 00:23:38,900 --> 00:23:44,500 If you are called to be a garbage man, That's a good 378 00:23:44,500 --> 00:23:46,200 living. Okay, that I'm not I don't mean 379 00:23:46,200 --> 00:23:49,600 that as a denigration of a form of employment. 380 00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:53,300 If you're called to be a garbage man and you become a pastor, you 381 00:23:53,300 --> 00:23:55,900 will give an answer for Disobedience to God. 382 00:23:57,100 --> 00:24:00,400 Because you need to fulfill the purpose of your calling because 383 00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:02,900 there's people you would face on your garbage route. 384 00:24:02,900 --> 00:24:04,600 You're never going to face in the pulpit. 385 00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:08,400 And God put it on you. So this is a very important 386 00:24:08,400 --> 00:24:12,500 phrase idea. So it's our generation and our 387 00:24:12,500 --> 00:24:16,400 location and God has purposes for every generation purposes. 388 00:24:16,400 --> 00:24:19,900 For every time and season in our life, as individuals in our 389 00:24:19,900 --> 00:24:23,200 corporate Life as a church and you in the life of your family, 390 00:24:23,400 --> 00:24:26,300 there are seasons. And if we are quick about it, we 391 00:24:26,300 --> 00:24:33,600 can learn those lessons and move on or we can stretch em out. 392 00:24:36,300 --> 00:24:44,400 It's up to us. So, part of the assignment on 393 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:50,900 your life, is the fact that you live where you do. and part of 394 00:24:50,900 --> 00:24:56,200 that is that you live in the United States of America, And 395 00:24:56,200 --> 00:25:00,900 you live here now. During this tremendously 396 00:25:00,900 --> 00:25:04,800 tumultuous time. You need to ask yourself. 397 00:25:04,800 --> 00:25:09,400 God, what were you thinking? Not in the way I just said it, 398 00:25:09,400 --> 00:25:13,500 but believe me. I've asked it both ways. 399 00:25:15,100 --> 00:25:17,700 But ask God, what? What's on your heart? 400 00:25:17,700 --> 00:25:23,600 Why am I here during this hour of human history, God saw fit, 401 00:25:24,100 --> 00:25:29,500 he perfectly formed you and equipped you for this 402 00:25:29,700 --> 00:25:35,100 challenging season in human history. and I'm telling you, 403 00:25:36,900 --> 00:25:44,800 That God placed you here in this nation, to contend for his 404 00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:50,600 purposes. I love this nation, I love a lot 405 00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:54,100 of things about it. I love that we are afforded the 406 00:25:54,100 --> 00:25:57,800 moat, the greatest prosperity, and the greatest freedom of Any 407 00:25:57,800 --> 00:26:01,000 Nation in all of human history. And, you know what? 408 00:26:01,000 --> 00:26:03,600 I pray that in the future, there's other nations pass this 409 00:26:03,600 --> 00:26:06,000 up. I don't want to go back, but I 410 00:26:06,008 --> 00:26:09,700 don't have a problem with them passing this up and the that 411 00:26:09,700 --> 00:26:15,900 they disciple us. I don't love this nation because 412 00:26:15,900 --> 00:26:20,700 I think we're more worthy because I don't I don't think 413 00:26:20,700 --> 00:26:23,700 that we're any more special to God's heart, but I think the 414 00:26:23,700 --> 00:26:29,600 purposes of God for this nation are that crucial and we need to 415 00:26:29,600 --> 00:26:32,900 contend for that. We are the Guardians de Steward 416 00:26:32,900 --> 00:26:40,800 of his purposes for this nation. Those of you in this room, there 417 00:26:40,800 --> 00:26:43,400 are a number of you who are immigrants that have come to 418 00:26:43,400 --> 00:26:49,500 this nation, realize that God sent you here for a reason that 419 00:26:49,500 --> 00:26:53,100 is an amazing thing. Most of us can discount. 420 00:26:53,100 --> 00:26:55,800 It will always just born. Here, it was a, you know, how 421 00:26:55,800 --> 00:26:58,600 was a twinkle in my mom's eye one night and you know, here I 422 00:26:58,600 --> 00:27:01,200 am. That'll take a minute. 423 00:27:01,400 --> 00:27:05,300 But so you know here we are some of you. 424 00:27:05,300 --> 00:27:08,300 God moved, you across the world to come here. 425 00:27:10,600 --> 00:27:14,900 Yes, Hallelujah. And you know what that needs? 426 00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:18,600 You need to feel that that is that's a holy calling Unholy. 427 00:27:18,600 --> 00:27:22,100 Entrustment God puts you in this nation. 428 00:27:22,300 --> 00:27:26,600 Such for such a time as this. We have a responsibility. 429 00:27:28,100 --> 00:27:33,600 Turn with me to Exodus 32. I've Been In this passage since 430 00:27:33,600 --> 00:27:37,800 4 a.m. this morning, I just love this passage. 431 00:27:39,100 --> 00:27:44,200 Because it's the story of a man who saves a nation through 432 00:27:44,200 --> 00:27:49,400 prayer. God willing in the days to come. 433 00:27:49,400 --> 00:27:55,000 We're going to go into a series on how we got where we're at. 434 00:27:56,100 --> 00:27:58,000 I'm talking about the mess, we're in. 435 00:27:59,500 --> 00:28:03,400 How many of you hear people on TV or read things that people 436 00:28:03,400 --> 00:28:05,500 say? And you're wondering what in the 437 00:28:05,500 --> 00:28:08,400 world are these people thinking? Where are they? 438 00:28:08,500 --> 00:28:15,600 They have they lost their minds. There is a logic by which they 439 00:28:15,600 --> 00:28:20,700 are navigating life that you and I need to understand if we're to 440 00:28:20,700 --> 00:28:23,700 engage these people, we need to understand where they're coming 441 00:28:23,700 --> 00:28:26,700 from. And it doesn't do us any good to 442 00:28:26,700 --> 00:28:29,600 just sit back and laugh and say they're losing their mind or get 443 00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:33,000 mad and yell at the TV. Throw your slipper, you know, 444 00:28:34,000 --> 00:28:38,000 I've often said my poor family, I don't watch TV, I talk to TV 445 00:28:39,000 --> 00:28:40,700 so I just kind of stay away from the news. 446 00:28:40,700 --> 00:28:45,100 I do my news by reading because I can't handle the TV. 447 00:28:46,200 --> 00:28:48,300 I'm just I know my weaknesses. Okay. 448 00:28:52,000 --> 00:28:55,300 But we need to understand and God willing in the end soon. 449 00:28:55,300 --> 00:28:57,900 In the coming days will go through a series on this. 450 00:29:01,400 --> 00:29:05,100 We are this close to losing this nation. 451 00:29:07,900 --> 00:29:10,900 We would have never thought that there are people in our Halls of 452 00:29:10,900 --> 00:29:15,300 Congress. Literally voting along the lines 453 00:29:15,300 --> 00:29:18,600 of those. We were defending ourselves from 454 00:29:19,100 --> 00:29:27,400 four decades in the Cold War, There is a demonic seduction 455 00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:31,100 going on in our nation and we need to understand the 456 00:29:31,100 --> 00:29:33,600 philosophical underpinnings to that thing. 457 00:29:35,800 --> 00:29:37,900 But it's going to take more than us understanding. 458 00:29:37,900 --> 00:29:39,400 It's going to take much more than us. 459 00:29:39,400 --> 00:29:41,300 Just being able to engage people and talk. 460 00:29:43,200 --> 00:29:48,200 We need heaven to sweep in, we need God to withhold, his hand 461 00:29:48,200 --> 00:29:52,800 of judgment. Because our biggest danger is 462 00:29:52,800 --> 00:29:56,500 not Russia or North Korea or China or any other Nation. 463 00:29:56,800 --> 00:29:59,700 Our biggest concern needs to be heaven. 464 00:30:02,400 --> 00:30:10,600 How are we with heaven? And this is a story of a nation 465 00:30:10,600 --> 00:30:15,400 that was on the eve of its own destruction, and didn't even 466 00:30:15,400 --> 00:30:19,600 realize it, but there was one godly man who was in the pocket 467 00:30:19,600 --> 00:30:24,500 of intercession one, man saved a nation. 468 00:30:26,000 --> 00:30:31,400 Want you to think about that. One man who found favor with 469 00:30:31,400 --> 00:30:36,500 God. Leveraged that favor to save a 470 00:30:36,500 --> 00:30:39,900 nation. It's an amazing thing. 471 00:30:39,900 --> 00:30:44,700 Look at Exodus 32 verse 1, when when people saw that Moses 472 00:30:44,700 --> 00:30:47,300 delayed to come down from the mountain of people gathered 473 00:30:47,300 --> 00:30:53,200 themselves together to Aaron and said up, well up make us Gods 474 00:30:53,200 --> 00:30:56,700 who shall go before us. As for this Moses, the man who 475 00:30:56,700 --> 00:30:58,500 brought us up out of the land of Egypt. 476 00:30:58,500 --> 00:31:01,700 We do not know what has become of him because Moses had been on 477 00:31:01,700 --> 00:31:03,700 the mountain for like 40 Days by this time. 478 00:31:04,200 --> 00:31:07,700 And so they just went to Aaron said, hey we you know, he walked 479 00:31:07,700 --> 00:31:10,800 up into that. All during cloud, with peals of 480 00:31:10,900 --> 00:31:13,900 thunder and lightning. And, and man, he's not come 481 00:31:13,900 --> 00:31:16,100 back, we think he's gone. We're not sure. 482 00:31:16,100 --> 00:31:17,700 They acted. Like, they didn't even know this 483 00:31:17,700 --> 00:31:20,800 guy anymore, so they said make us new God. 484 00:31:21,600 --> 00:31:23,900 So Aaron said to them, take off the rings of gold that are in 485 00:31:23,900 --> 00:31:26,300 your ears and the ears of your wives, your son's, your 486 00:31:26,300 --> 00:31:29,000 daughters, and bring them to me. So, all the people took off the 487 00:31:29,000 --> 00:31:31,300 rings of gold that were in their ears and brought them to Aaron 488 00:31:31,300 --> 00:31:34,100 and he received for the gold from their hand and fashion it, 489 00:31:34,100 --> 00:31:37,500 and carving tool made a golden calf and then said, these are 490 00:31:37,500 --> 00:31:40,900 your God's o Israel. Who Brought you up out of the 491 00:31:40,900 --> 00:31:43,100 land of Egypt. When Aaron saw this, he built an 492 00:31:43,100 --> 00:31:46,300 altar before and Aaron made a proclamation and said tomorrow 493 00:31:46,300 --> 00:31:49,200 shall be a feast for the Lord. And they rose up early the next 494 00:31:49,200 --> 00:31:51,300 day, offered burnt offerings and peace offerings. 495 00:31:51,300 --> 00:31:53,900 In the people sat down to eat and drink and Rose up to play. 496 00:31:56,300 --> 00:32:01,000 They got into Pagan revelry as the old way of saying it, and 497 00:32:01,000 --> 00:32:05,200 the Lord said to Moses go down for your people. 498 00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:09,900 Whom you brought out of Egypt have Up to themselves. 499 00:32:09,900 --> 00:32:13,500 Isn't that interesting? That's that's exactly what the 500 00:32:13,508 --> 00:32:16,900 Lord said to him. Moses your people who you 501 00:32:16,900 --> 00:32:20,900 brought out God is kind of washing his hands of them later 502 00:32:20,900 --> 00:32:25,000 on the next chapter, got Moses say God your people who you 503 00:32:25,000 --> 00:32:30,500 brought out That's an interesting Dynamic I would 504 00:32:30,500 --> 00:32:34,200 propose to you. That was very very important in 505 00:32:34,200 --> 00:32:36,600 this interchange between Moses and God. 506 00:32:37,600 --> 00:32:41,600 Because what God was doing his God was provoking that 507 00:32:41,600 --> 00:32:46,200 investment that Moses had already made Listen to what he 508 00:32:46,200 --> 00:32:50,400 goes on to say. They have turned aside quickly 509 00:32:50,400 --> 00:32:51,800 out of the way that I've commanded them. 510 00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:54,100 They have made for themselves at golden calf and have worshipped 511 00:32:54,100 --> 00:32:56,700 in sacrifice to it. And said, these are your God's o 512 00:32:56,700 --> 00:32:59,200 Israel brought you up out of the land of Egypt and the Lord said 513 00:32:59,200 --> 00:33:01,600 to Moses, I have seen this people and behold it is a 514 00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:07,600 stiff-necked people. Now, therefore, let me alone 515 00:33:08,400 --> 00:33:13,400 that my wrath may not may burn hot against them and I may 516 00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:17,800 consume them in order that I may make a great nation out of you. 517 00:33:20,500 --> 00:33:23,800 That that passage just makes me shudder. 518 00:33:26,600 --> 00:33:29,600 Behind what God was saying. There was something he was 519 00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:32,700 trying to provoke out of the heart of Moses. 520 00:33:33,300 --> 00:33:36,800 He said, those people your people, you brought him out and 521 00:33:36,800 --> 00:33:40,400 they have they have made me angry and my wrath is going to 522 00:33:40,400 --> 00:33:43,800 burn hot against him. Leave me alone, so that my wrath 523 00:33:43,800 --> 00:33:46,300 may burn. And then I will make a nation 524 00:33:46,300 --> 00:33:48,600 out of you. You see Moses had found favor 525 00:33:48,600 --> 00:33:51,800 with God. This was a man who had great 526 00:33:51,800 --> 00:33:54,100 favor. He touched things in. 527 00:33:54,100 --> 00:33:57,400 God. That are just I'm blowing to me. 528 00:33:59,100 --> 00:34:02,700 He would God would speak to him as a man speaks to a friend face 529 00:34:02,700 --> 00:34:05,800 to face so much. So that Moses would come down 530 00:34:06,000 --> 00:34:10,699 and his flesh, his skin absorbs glory and he would come down 531 00:34:10,699 --> 00:34:16,300 like a glow worm. And then Moses he would speak to 532 00:34:16,300 --> 00:34:20,500 them and it says, then he would put a veil over his face so that 533 00:34:20,500 --> 00:34:22,300 they would not see that. It was fading. 534 00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:26,199 See a lot of people believe that Moses wore a veil because the 535 00:34:26,199 --> 00:34:29,699 people couldn't handle it. That's not what it was that glow 536 00:34:29,699 --> 00:34:33,100 was his credibility day. What if I showed up on Sunday 537 00:34:33,100 --> 00:34:36,000 morning and I said, hey I've got a real hard message for you and 538 00:34:36,000 --> 00:34:40,100 I showed you my face and that'll get you know you'd be a little 539 00:34:40,100 --> 00:34:42,600 more inclined to listen to Pastor Dave that morning. 540 00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:48,400 He would cover it up so they wouldn't see that it was fading. 541 00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:53,500 Because he wanted to minister from the glory. 542 00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:57,200 So he would go get some Glory talk to the people, cover his 543 00:34:57,200 --> 00:34:59,900 face back up, and go get some more before it faded. 544 00:35:01,000 --> 00:35:04,000 That's good preaching. That's good policy. 545 00:35:04,400 --> 00:35:06,600 We need preachers. Who stay in the glory? 546 00:35:07,100 --> 00:35:09,200 Amen. Speak from the glory. 547 00:35:09,700 --> 00:35:11,600 Pray for your preachers. Amen. 548 00:35:12,100 --> 00:35:16,600 Hallelujah. But God told him, he said I'm 549 00:35:16,600 --> 00:35:18,300 going to make a great nation out of you. 550 00:35:19,900 --> 00:35:22,300 You see? The Lord was testing, Moses. 551 00:35:22,300 --> 00:35:24,000 Heart. Moses. 552 00:35:24,300 --> 00:35:27,900 Will you tolerate the destruction of the people whose 553 00:35:27,900 --> 00:35:31,600 genetic code you share? Will you tolerate the 554 00:35:31,600 --> 00:35:35,000 destruction of the nation that you've invested so dearly? 555 00:35:35,000 --> 00:35:39,200 And and I'm going to entice you I'm going to I'm going to give 556 00:35:39,200 --> 00:35:41,800 you an opportunity. I'll make a nation out of you 557 00:35:41,800 --> 00:35:46,000 Moses. Now, some people say that God 558 00:35:46,000 --> 00:35:50,100 was speaking anthropomorphic Lee, that's just a big way of 559 00:35:50,100 --> 00:35:52,400 saying he was trying to relate with Moses, so we were didn't 560 00:35:52,400 --> 00:35:54,300 really mean it. He was just trying to engage 561 00:35:54,300 --> 00:35:57,500 with Moses. God is not capable of 562 00:35:57,500 --> 00:36:01,100 insincerity. There is no shadow of turning 563 00:36:01,100 --> 00:36:03,500 its in him. If he said it, he meant it. 564 00:36:03,900 --> 00:36:06,900 He would have, he would have made another Nation out of 565 00:36:06,900 --> 00:36:08,100 Moses. But you know what, it would have 566 00:36:08,100 --> 00:36:10,200 done. It would have pushed the 567 00:36:10,200 --> 00:36:15,700 purposes of God back decades, if not Generations, because he 568 00:36:15,700 --> 00:36:19,100 would have had to produce an entire nation out of Moses. 569 00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:25,500 But there was something in Moses that was owning this thing. 570 00:36:25,500 --> 00:36:29,700 God said, they're your people and Moses said, yes, they are 571 00:36:30,500 --> 00:36:32,900 and he stepped in and he owned this thing. 572 00:36:33,900 --> 00:36:36,100 You see. Intercession can only happen 573 00:36:36,200 --> 00:36:40,500 when we own this thing. It's not some disconnected way. 574 00:36:41,200 --> 00:36:44,100 I can't just say, well, God, I hope you move in mind on my 575 00:36:44,100 --> 00:36:46,300 nation because I know I'm going to be okay. 576 00:36:46,300 --> 00:36:50,600 And you know what, I know I am. God's going to take care of me 577 00:36:50,600 --> 00:36:52,700 and my family. God's going to take the worst 578 00:36:52,700 --> 00:36:54,500 case scenario. I just go to heaven sooner. 579 00:36:55,800 --> 00:37:00,600 I can't lose but there's a lot of people who can, if I don't 580 00:37:01,100 --> 00:37:03,000 carry my heart right before the Lord. 581 00:37:04,500 --> 00:37:07,900 And the Moses said, Lord, you can't let this happen. 582 00:37:08,800 --> 00:37:12,800 Lord, he begins to appeal to the Lord on their several points in 583 00:37:12,800 --> 00:37:15,000 Moses prayer. That are very important for you 584 00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:19,000 and I to understand you see, Moses owned this thing, he's 585 00:37:19,000 --> 00:37:21,900 saying yes, Lord, they are my people but they're yours as 586 00:37:21,900 --> 00:37:25,800 well. And they kept as long as God had 587 00:37:25,800 --> 00:37:27,700 a man on Earth. That said, yes, they're my 588 00:37:27,700 --> 00:37:30,700 people and God in heaven said, yes, they're my people, this 589 00:37:30,700 --> 00:37:35,700 thing's gonna work, but as soon as God losses, An intercessor on 590 00:37:35,700 --> 00:37:38,500 earth, when there's no one that will say no, they're my people, 591 00:37:39,200 --> 00:37:43,300 then God's got a scrap, his plan and start all over again, and he 592 00:37:43,300 --> 00:37:47,600 would have done it. John Wesley was famous for 593 00:37:47,600 --> 00:37:50,400 saying, God, does everything through prayer and nothing 594 00:37:50,400 --> 00:37:54,400 without it, not because God's, not sovereign, but because he 595 00:37:54,400 --> 00:37:58,000 has chosen to exercise his sovereignty, through his 596 00:37:58,000 --> 00:38:05,000 delegated authority called, man. God delegates his authority to 597 00:38:05,000 --> 00:38:07,900 us and we will give an account whether we fulfill his purposes 598 00:38:07,900 --> 00:38:12,500 or not. And so, again, you and I need to 599 00:38:12,508 --> 00:38:16,600 understand that God chose that you and I would live in this 600 00:38:16,600 --> 00:38:20,800 generation in this location. I believe there's something 601 00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:25,700 highly significant about Iowa. I'm just crazy enough to think 602 00:38:25,700 --> 00:38:29,500 that the fact that we choose the president presidential 603 00:38:29,500 --> 00:38:33,200 candidates. First is prophetic, there's 604 00:38:33,200 --> 00:38:37,700 something about us that we have a say and the removing and the 605 00:38:38,000 --> 00:38:43,300 removing of leaders and the Of leaders, there's something about 606 00:38:43,300 --> 00:38:47,700 our role in intercession that God wants to use. 607 00:38:49,200 --> 00:38:52,000 There's a weight of responsibility we need to carry 608 00:38:52,200 --> 00:38:54,900 and When God says, this is your nation. 609 00:38:55,000 --> 00:38:58,400 This is your state. This is your situation. 610 00:38:58,500 --> 00:39:01,600 There needs to be something that rises up with us within us and 611 00:39:01,600 --> 00:39:05,400 says, yes, Lord, I agree. I'm going to own this thing. 612 00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:07,100 I'm going to pray this thing through. 613 00:39:10,400 --> 00:39:14,500 When God said, leave me alone that my anger May burned, he was 614 00:39:14,600 --> 00:39:19,700 deadly serious. But Moses red in there and 615 00:39:19,700 --> 00:39:24,000 invitation because he understood what God was saying, is that if 616 00:39:24,000 --> 00:39:27,600 I'm not left alone, then I will withhold my wrath. 617 00:39:29,000 --> 00:39:32,800 And Moses inserted himself in there and he cried out for the 618 00:39:32,800 --> 00:39:36,100 children of Israel. Listen to Moses prayer. 619 00:39:36,100 --> 00:39:40,900 This is very significant, but Moses implored the Lord, his God 620 00:39:40,900 --> 00:39:45,300 and said, oh Lord, why does your Rathburn hot against your people 621 00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:48,300 whom you have brought out of the land of Egypt with great power? 622 00:39:48,300 --> 00:39:50,200 In your Mighty hand, isn't that interesting? 623 00:39:50,600 --> 00:39:52,100 God said I'm going to kill the people. 624 00:39:52,200 --> 00:39:54,600 They're your people and you brought him out. 625 00:39:54,600 --> 00:39:58,000 God said Moses said, but God, why are you so angry with these 626 00:39:58,000 --> 00:40:01,400 people, your people that you brought out and they're kind of 627 00:40:01,400 --> 00:40:04,500 expect, you know, giving each other ownership there. 628 00:40:04,600 --> 00:40:09,200 Reminding each other. Why should the Egyptians say 629 00:40:09,200 --> 00:40:11,700 with evil intent? Did he bring them out and kill 630 00:40:11,700 --> 00:40:14,400 them in the mountains and consume them from the face of 631 00:40:14,400 --> 00:40:16,600 the Earth. Turn from your burning anger, 632 00:40:16,600 --> 00:40:19,000 and relent from This Disaster against your people. 633 00:40:19,200 --> 00:40:22,600 So, the first thing Moses does, is he appeals on the basis of 634 00:40:22,600 --> 00:40:26,400 God's character and reputation reputation again among the 635 00:40:26,408 --> 00:40:31,100 nations of the Earth. He's concerned with God's 636 00:40:31,100 --> 00:40:35,300 reputation and he cries that out, not not for the sake of the 637 00:40:35,300 --> 00:40:39,300 people, because the people did not deserve it, but he was 638 00:40:39,300 --> 00:40:43,000 saying God for your namesake among the nations of the earth 639 00:40:43,900 --> 00:40:48,700 Lord, turn from your wrath. And then he says this, remember, 640 00:40:48,800 --> 00:40:52,500 Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, your servants to whom you swore your 641 00:40:52,500 --> 00:40:56,700 own self and said to them, I will multiply your Offspring as 642 00:40:56,700 --> 00:41:02,000 the stars of the sky. He was reminding God. 643 00:41:03,900 --> 00:41:08,900 Of his Covenant with Abraham. There's something about 644 00:41:08,900 --> 00:41:12,200 reminding God of his past promises and prayer. 645 00:41:13,700 --> 00:41:15,900 I'm telling you, it'll move God's heart. 646 00:41:18,300 --> 00:41:20,400 I always think of this illustration, it's not the 647 00:41:20,400 --> 00:41:24,000 greatest one, but it's it's like when I pull out Kathy and eyes 648 00:41:25,400 --> 00:41:28,700 wedding, pictures, Kathy could still fit in the wedding, dress 649 00:41:28,700 --> 00:41:31,200 me, not so much. I never wore a wedding dress, by 650 00:41:31,200 --> 00:41:35,200 the way, but I couldn't fit in the tux either. 651 00:41:35,900 --> 00:41:40,700 I'm like, 50 pounds heavier. And I had, I had color in my 652 00:41:40,700 --> 00:41:43,600 beard and I had two big windshields called glasses. 653 00:41:43,600 --> 00:41:46,800 They're huge glasses back then and there we are standing there. 654 00:41:47,200 --> 00:41:50,900 And I remember Day that I entered into Covenant with this 655 00:41:50,900 --> 00:41:53,800 woman and it stirs my affections. 656 00:41:53,800 --> 00:42:00,000 Once again, the day that I made my vows, it's good for us to 657 00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:02,600 remind ourselves. There's a reason that the Bible 658 00:42:02,600 --> 00:42:08,000 speaks of the wife of your youth, reminding yourself of 659 00:42:08,000 --> 00:42:10,900 When you entered into that Covenant relationship. 660 00:42:12,000 --> 00:42:15,300 And a very similar thing is going on here with Moses. 661 00:42:15,300 --> 00:42:19,200 He's saying, God remember Abraham, remember this man who 662 00:42:19,200 --> 00:42:23,000 found favor with you Lord for the sake of Abraham and then 663 00:42:23,000 --> 00:42:27,000 remember Isaac Lord that he he also secured favor for you with 664 00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:31,000 you and Jacob who secured favor with you and you made promises 665 00:42:31,000 --> 00:42:34,900 to them and he would use that in prayer to move the heart of God 666 00:42:35,100 --> 00:42:39,700 and God loved it. It's what Solomon was doing in 667 00:42:39,800 --> 00:42:45,500 Psalm, 132 where he says, oh Lord, remember David? 668 00:42:45,500 --> 00:42:49,800 And the sufferings he endured, I'm going to remind you my dad 669 00:42:49,800 --> 00:42:51,900 went through. If you look later on in the 670 00:42:51,908 --> 00:42:55,800 passage, it says, oh Lord now remember David make good on your 671 00:42:55,800 --> 00:42:58,000 promise. As you said you'd always have 672 00:42:58,000 --> 00:43:00,200 one of his sons on the throne. This is Solomon. 673 00:43:00,200 --> 00:43:01,600 Speaking, you see what he's doing? 674 00:43:02,100 --> 00:43:04,700 He's leveraging. His dad's favor on his own 675 00:43:04,700 --> 00:43:09,300 behalf. He's saying Lord Me if not for 676 00:43:09,300 --> 00:43:16,300 me for the sake of my dad. Moses is leveraging his favor in 677 00:43:16,300 --> 00:43:20,400 the favor of other Patriarchs to move the house, the heart of God 678 00:43:20,400 --> 00:43:26,700 to preserve an entire nation. Lou, Engel years ago, he wrote a 679 00:43:26,700 --> 00:43:30,800 book, read digging, the wells of Revival, it's a great book. 680 00:43:30,800 --> 00:43:34,600 I would highly recommend it. And in that book, he was talking 681 00:43:34,600 --> 00:43:38,700 about how one time the Lord began to speak to him, about how 682 00:43:38,900 --> 00:43:43,900 he's going to revisit America, because of Jonathan Edwards. 683 00:43:44,300 --> 00:43:47,000 Jonathan Edwards. The who was a colonial 684 00:43:47,000 --> 00:43:51,500 revivalist, a brilliant philosopher, and a very Godly 685 00:43:51,500 --> 00:43:55,400 revivalist. And he was the primary leader of 686 00:43:55,400 --> 00:43:59,400 the first Great Awakening. And God began to speak to who I 687 00:43:59,400 --> 00:44:02,300 will revisit America for the sake of Jonathan Edwards. 688 00:44:03,300 --> 00:44:06,000 And so as he was just processing, as he writes about 689 00:44:06,000 --> 00:44:09,900 that the those principles in that book and he writes about 690 00:44:09,900 --> 00:44:13,200 this episode, he said, so he was invited to speak at a youth 691 00:44:13,200 --> 00:44:16,500 conference that night. So he went and the title of his 692 00:44:16,500 --> 00:44:19,400 message was going to be God is going to save America because 693 00:44:19,400 --> 00:44:21,900 we're the great, great great, great grandkids of Jonathan 694 00:44:21,900 --> 00:44:24,700 Edwards, that was his title. It's hard to fit on a cassette 695 00:44:24,700 --> 00:44:27,700 tape. So, he's sitting on the front 696 00:44:27,700 --> 00:44:30,300 row, cassette tape for you younger. 697 00:44:30,300 --> 00:44:33,500 That was a little plastic thing that you listen to sermons and 698 00:44:33,500 --> 00:44:36,400 music on. Okay, I'll get you can Google 699 00:44:36,400 --> 00:44:41,100 it. So he's sitting on the front 700 00:44:41,100 --> 00:44:44,100 row, just worshiping and getting ready. 701 00:44:44,100 --> 00:44:46,600 Just meditating saying Lord, you know, just use me tonight. 702 00:44:46,600 --> 00:44:49,500 I want to speak to these young people at which time a young 703 00:44:49,500 --> 00:44:52,600 man, sat down next to him and bumped him and said Lou, I got 704 00:44:52,600 --> 00:44:55,800 to share something with you. He said I just found out 705 00:44:56,000 --> 00:44:58,900 Something today, I am the great. Great. 706 00:44:58,900 --> 00:45:01,900 Great. Great grandchild of Jonathan 707 00:45:01,900 --> 00:45:04,700 Edwards. And it was God's Little 708 00:45:04,700 --> 00:45:10,300 prophetic kiss on lose message. I'm telling you, God will honor 709 00:45:10,300 --> 00:45:12,200 the covenants of our forefathers. 710 00:45:12,500 --> 00:45:16,000 It still moves, the heart of God, there are men and women who 711 00:45:16,000 --> 00:45:19,900 gave their life, and intercession and fasting and 712 00:45:19,900 --> 00:45:23,600 sacrifice for the gospel to be established America. 713 00:45:23,600 --> 00:45:28,100 The United States of America is He's a rare experiment in human 714 00:45:28,100 --> 00:45:34,600 history, it is one nation. That was established on biblical 715 00:45:34,600 --> 00:45:36,600 principles. Do you know that in the founding 716 00:45:36,600 --> 00:45:39,800 of our nation early on in our nation's history Congressman 717 00:45:39,800 --> 00:45:43,400 would stand up and Congress and argue the scriptures when they 718 00:45:43,400 --> 00:45:44,700 were legislating one would stand it. 719 00:45:44,700 --> 00:45:45,700 Wait a minute. Wait a minute. 720 00:45:45,700 --> 00:45:49,000 You forgot about Exodus 42. Literally read it weathers. 721 00:45:49,000 --> 00:45:51,400 No 42. Hopefully they didn't said 722 00:45:51,400 --> 00:45:56,600 Exodus 32 they turn to that Nick, they would argue this. 723 00:45:56,600 --> 00:46:00,100 Yeah, but what about Deuteronomy 7 that was a safe one. 724 00:46:00,300 --> 00:46:02,000 Got to go low numbers. Don't go hide. 725 00:46:02,100 --> 00:46:03,900 Birds, when you're speaking publica it. 726 00:46:04,000 --> 00:46:07,400 So they're arguing the scriptures, they based our whole 727 00:46:07,400 --> 00:46:10,800 thing of the three, you know, the judicial branch the 728 00:46:10,800 --> 00:46:14,400 executive branch and legislative branch, that was based on the 729 00:46:14,400 --> 00:46:18,500 Trinity. And that there was a tension of 730 00:46:18,500 --> 00:46:22,100 power between the three branches of government based on the 731 00:46:22,100 --> 00:46:26,300 fallenness of, man because they understood that power corrupts 732 00:46:26,300 --> 00:46:28,200 and absolute power corrupts. Absolutely. 733 00:46:28,200 --> 00:46:30,900 So let's create a tension within the government. 734 00:46:33,500 --> 00:46:36,600 Three unique thing, and all the Earth, and we are a nation of 735 00:46:36,600 --> 00:46:38,300 immigrants. It's a Melting Pot, it's an 736 00:46:38,300 --> 00:46:45,000 amazing thing. And there have been people who 737 00:46:45,000 --> 00:46:50,100 have given their life. So that God would Bless America. 738 00:46:53,400 --> 00:46:56,700 But perhaps what we need to be asking is not God Bless America 739 00:46:56,700 --> 00:47:02,800 but God make us a people who are blessed oil, Lord, make us a 740 00:47:02,808 --> 00:47:08,800 people that you can bless for God is a being of integrity and 741 00:47:08,800 --> 00:47:13,400 he will not violate his own principles and answer prayers 742 00:47:13,500 --> 00:47:16,000 that are contrary to his own nature. 743 00:47:17,100 --> 00:47:20,700 He has to find righteousness. There has to be a remnant of 744 00:47:20,700 --> 00:47:24,800 people that are crying out. And God is looking for 745 00:47:24,800 --> 00:47:29,300 intercessors who are living righteously and have found favor 746 00:47:29,300 --> 00:47:32,000 with God and then we'll get in the secret place and they'll 747 00:47:32,000 --> 00:47:35,100 say, God, I'm not going to leave you alone until you give me a 748 00:47:35,100 --> 00:47:37,800 promise. I remind you of my forefathers. 749 00:47:37,800 --> 00:47:40,800 I remind you of Jonathan Edwards and his prayers. 750 00:47:41,000 --> 00:47:46,100 I remind you of Charles Finney and father, Nash and the Second 751 00:47:46,100 --> 00:47:50,900 Great Awakening and the thought the tens of thousands of really 752 00:47:50,900 --> 00:47:53,700 hundreds of thousands of souls that were Wrapped into the 753 00:47:53,700 --> 00:47:56,000 kingdom in the Second Great Awakening. 754 00:47:56,200 --> 00:47:59,900 Lord, I remind you of these other intercessors down through 755 00:47:59,900 --> 00:48:03,000 our history. Lord, remember their prayers. 756 00:48:03,200 --> 00:48:07,000 They still come before the throne Lord, I add my prayers to 757 00:48:07,000 --> 00:48:14,400 theirs. You have a responsibility for 758 00:48:14,400 --> 00:48:20,000 this tumultuous moment in human history and you have a 759 00:48:20,000 --> 00:48:24,300 responsibility. It is not idolatry and it's not 760 00:48:24,300 --> 00:48:27,400 a distraction to pray for this nation. 761 00:48:27,600 --> 00:48:30,400 In fact, it's your responsibility for which you 762 00:48:30,400 --> 00:48:33,400 will give an account and don't let anybody tell you any 763 00:48:33,400 --> 00:48:38,500 differently, we will give an answer for this moment in human 764 00:48:38,500 --> 00:48:44,000 history in this nation. And there is a strategy of foot 765 00:48:44,200 --> 00:48:48,300 by the enemy to erase our history and to cause us to come 766 00:48:48,300 --> 00:48:51,500 on the side of the accuser and curse this nation. 767 00:48:53,500 --> 00:48:56,800 Do you know that there's there was a large group in the 768 00:48:56,800 --> 00:49:01,100 Democrat Party? That just put out this ad over 769 00:49:01,100 --> 00:49:08,800 the holiday weekend, F, the fourth That is a demonic thing 770 00:49:08,800 --> 00:49:10,700 now that that's not true of every Democrat. 771 00:49:10,700 --> 00:49:13,600 I know I know that many there's many Democrats that love the 772 00:49:13,600 --> 00:49:19,100 Lord but I'm telling you, there is a sweeping spirit that is 773 00:49:19,100 --> 00:49:24,300 trying to undermine this nation. There is a hatred for the 774 00:49:24,300 --> 00:49:28,800 history of this nation. They're rewriting history. 775 00:49:30,500 --> 00:49:33,500 A nation without history is like a person with amnesia. 776 00:49:33,500 --> 00:49:41,600 They don't know who they are. And God is calling us to step in 777 00:49:41,600 --> 00:49:47,200 and cry out for this nation. I'll never forget in 2008. 778 00:49:47,900 --> 00:49:55,100 I was up in Toronto, Canada. And John are not. 779 00:49:55,100 --> 00:50:00,000 We were up there at this celebration up at the Toronto 780 00:50:00,800 --> 00:50:04,400 Airport fellowship and John Wimber got up because it was the 781 00:50:04,400 --> 00:50:08,800 stock market was crashing and things were very tenuous and 782 00:50:09,400 --> 00:50:12,300 John got up and he said and these are people from all over 783 00:50:12,300 --> 00:50:13,700 the world. This is, you know, this wasn't 784 00:50:13,700 --> 00:50:17,700 an American Service, this was there, a lot of, you know, 785 00:50:17,700 --> 00:50:20,300 United States citizens are but people from all over the world 786 00:50:20,300 --> 00:50:22,800 and he said, we need to pray for the u.s. right now. 787 00:50:24,200 --> 00:50:26,800 And he made this statement and I was stunned. 788 00:50:26,900 --> 00:50:30,100 It just really hit me. He said, I don't know about you. 789 00:50:30,100 --> 00:50:33,800 He said, but I wouldn't want to live in a world in which the 790 00:50:33,800 --> 00:50:37,700 United States didn't exist. This is a man from another 791 00:50:37,700 --> 00:50:42,800 country saying this, about us. because he recognized the 792 00:50:42,800 --> 00:50:51,400 preservative of peace that the United States has been Now, we 793 00:50:51,400 --> 00:50:55,100 don't ignore those, we don't ignore the sins and there are 794 00:50:55,100 --> 00:50:57,500 things that we have found out about our nation. 795 00:50:57,700 --> 00:51:00,500 And the last number of years, that'll make your hair stand up. 796 00:51:02,300 --> 00:51:05,400 The more I know, the more I had a conversation with some of my 797 00:51:05,400 --> 00:51:08,900 dear Colombian friends. Last time, I was in Colombia, we 798 00:51:08,900 --> 00:51:12,200 need to pray for Colombia, they just voted in a former farc 799 00:51:12,200 --> 00:51:15,200 guerrillas. The president farc is a 800 00:51:15,800 --> 00:51:18,100 communist terrorist organization. 801 00:51:19,500 --> 00:51:22,200 We're living in a very tumultuous time in human 802 00:51:22,200 --> 00:51:23,800 history. I'm telling you, there is a 803 00:51:23,800 --> 00:51:27,300 battle at the gates for this door to swing. 804 00:51:28,800 --> 00:51:32,000 And if we don't pray this thing through, it'll set the to God. 805 00:51:32,000 --> 00:51:35,600 God will have his will eventually, but the timeline can 806 00:51:35,600 --> 00:51:39,100 be stretched. Depending on our obedience in 807 00:51:39,100 --> 00:51:42,300 our engagement, or it can be compressed. 808 00:51:44,200 --> 00:51:46,900 And I was telling them I said because they were talking about 809 00:51:46,900 --> 00:51:50,000 the corruption in their nation. And I said, I said, you know 810 00:51:50,000 --> 00:51:54,400 there's been a lot of naivety in the United States, definitely me 811 00:51:54,400 --> 00:51:59,300 included. Where I didn't realize how the 812 00:51:59,300 --> 00:52:02,400 level of corruption in the higher echelons of our 813 00:52:02,400 --> 00:52:09,100 government, it's been sobering to me, but I refuse to join the 814 00:52:09,100 --> 00:52:13,900 accuser of the Brethren and curse this nation because God 815 00:52:14,000 --> 00:52:19,100 has a purpose for this nation. I won't ignore the sins, I'll 816 00:52:19,100 --> 00:52:22,200 get under the load because I'm an intercessor. 817 00:52:22,400 --> 00:52:26,400 I will confess like, Daniel my sins and the sins of my I'll 818 00:52:26,400 --> 00:52:30,400 bear them before the throne, but I also refused to curse this 819 00:52:30,400 --> 00:52:32,400 nation. We're going to cry out for it 820 00:52:32,600 --> 00:52:38,000 and ask God to stay his hand. If we refuse to let God Alone, 821 00:52:39,000 --> 00:52:43,800 what seemed like a command to The Outsider to those on the 822 00:52:43,800 --> 00:52:46,100 inside. The one who was intimate with 823 00:52:46,100 --> 00:52:50,600 God, Moses, what sound would have sounded like a command 824 00:52:50,600 --> 00:52:52,800 everybody else? Leave me alone that my anger may 825 00:52:52,800 --> 00:52:55,700 burn. Moses because of his intimacy. 826 00:52:55,800 --> 00:52:58,500 Understood it as an invitation, God left. 827 00:52:58,500 --> 00:53:01,200 A crack in the door. He just told me. 828 00:53:01,800 --> 00:53:08,400 He can only let his Rathburn, if I leave him alone, and Moses dug 829 00:53:08,400 --> 00:53:14,100 his heels in and saved a nation. There is hope for United States 830 00:53:14,100 --> 00:53:18,000 of America. But we can't we can involve our 831 00:53:18,000 --> 00:53:21,000 self and charismatic bravado by just claiming. 832 00:53:21,000 --> 00:53:26,700 It's all it's already done. Early on in our intercession 833 00:53:26,700 --> 00:53:30,000 that we do every Tuesday through Friday here, early on a couple 834 00:53:30,000 --> 00:53:31,900 years ago. One of the first things, the 835 00:53:31,900 --> 00:53:36,000 Lord spoke to me during that season was as a very obscure 836 00:53:36,000 --> 00:53:40,000 verse and a very sobering verse when he said it to me, he said, 837 00:53:40,200 --> 00:53:43,600 one who puts on his armor should not boast his one who takes it 838 00:53:43,600 --> 00:53:47,000 off and it shook me because I knew what he was saying. 839 00:53:48,500 --> 00:53:51,500 It was a king of Israel. Rebuked, a pagan King when he 840 00:53:51,500 --> 00:53:57,500 said he's going to invade. And the Lord was saying, don't 841 00:53:57,900 --> 00:53:59,700 act like this thing is in the bag. 842 00:53:59,700 --> 00:54:03,300 At the outset, there's still a battle to be fought and won. 843 00:54:04,500 --> 00:54:07,700 We're in the middle of a battle for the Legacy and the 844 00:54:07,700 --> 00:54:09,600 perpetuate. The legacy of this nation. 845 00:54:09,600 --> 00:54:13,300 And the purposes of God for this nation, David perceived, he was 846 00:54:13,300 --> 00:54:17,000 made King for Israel, and you need to perceive that you were 847 00:54:17,000 --> 00:54:21,200 brought to the kingdom for such a time as this God's hand is 848 00:54:21,200 --> 00:54:24,800 upon you. So that we will contend for this 849 00:54:24,800 --> 00:54:32,200 nation and this generation. Amen, let's stand Want us to 850 00:54:32,200 --> 00:54:36,900 close. In prayer for this nation. 851 00:54:40,100 --> 00:54:42,300 If you would lift your hands to the Lord. 852 00:54:43,600 --> 00:54:48,800 Father, we thank you. We thank you Lord for the 853 00:54:48,800 --> 00:54:53,300 tremendous Prosperity that we have enjoyed. 854 00:54:55,300 --> 00:55:00,300 As US citizens. Lord, we thank you for the 855 00:55:00,300 --> 00:55:03,400 tremendous Freedom. The unprecedented Freedom that 856 00:55:03,400 --> 00:55:07,600 we've enjoyed. But Lord, we also understand 857 00:55:08,300 --> 00:55:10,900 that the sins of this nation have been grevious. 858 00:55:11,700 --> 00:55:16,100 Lord that we have discipled the nation's in pornography and 859 00:55:16,100 --> 00:55:19,700 other perversion, and it's only ramping up in this. 860 00:55:19,700 --> 00:55:25,300 Our Lord, we understand that our our federal money, our tax money 861 00:55:25,300 --> 00:55:30,500 have been used. To export abortion across the 862 00:55:30,500 --> 00:55:34,400 Earth and Lord we ask your forgiveness God, as your people 863 00:55:34,600 --> 00:55:38,700 Lord as representatives of this nation Lord we don't pick up 864 00:55:38,700 --> 00:55:43,600 stones to cast at them. We say we are sorry. 865 00:55:43,600 --> 00:55:51,400 Lord God we ask for mercy on this nation and Lord I ask that 866 00:55:51,400 --> 00:55:57,700 you would establish a beachhead of intercession in this house. 867 00:55:58,200 --> 00:56:02,900 Around these altars in this sanctuary and the prayer 868 00:56:02,900 --> 00:56:09,400 meetings in the mornings. Lord God find it us a friend 869 00:56:09,800 --> 00:56:15,300 like you found in Moses. Lord we ask preserve this nation 870 00:56:15,700 --> 00:56:17,900 God. We ask it for your namesake. 871 00:56:18,500 --> 00:56:25,900 We are zealous for the purposes. That you've placed within this 872 00:56:25,900 --> 00:56:30,900 nation to be realized Lord, your dream. 873 00:56:32,100 --> 00:56:35,800 The dream that you called the United States of America. 874 00:56:36,600 --> 00:56:39,000 Lord, let it be realized in this hour. 875 00:56:40,100 --> 00:56:44,800 God, visit this nation, send Revival. 876 00:56:45,600 --> 00:56:48,700 Send Revival. Lord, send Revival. 877 00:56:49,600 --> 00:56:53,400 Send Revival. In Jesus name. 878 00:56:55,400 --> 00:56:58,300 Amen. Thanks for listening to our 879 00:56:58,300 --> 00:57:00,000 podcast. If you'd like to help more 880 00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:02,600 people hear this message, you can get the word out by 881 00:57:02,600 --> 00:57:05,100 subscribing and sharing it on social media. 882 00:57:05,500 --> 00:57:08,200 If you'd like to support the Ministries apartment church, you 883 00:57:08,200 --> 00:57:09,700 can do. So at Heartland Church, 884 00:57:09,700 --> 00:57:11,700 online.com give