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Thanks for checking out the 
Anchor Faith Message podcast 

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from St. 
Augustine, FL. 

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Now enjoy this message. 
Well, it's good to be home. 

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Sorry, my voice didn't want to 
come home with me, apparently, 

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so you'll just bear with my 
raspy. 

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Voice tonight. 
I appreciate it. 

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I had a little bit of. 
Sinus starting to. 

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Drain a little bit when I was in
Albania and it kind of got 

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caught in my lung, so here I am.
I feel. 

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Good. 
I just sound horrible. 

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So that's kind of how this is 
y'all doing. 

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All right. 
I just want to thank our team 

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who went to India. 
I know y'all have already seen a

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video with that, but you know, 
we did a phenomenal thing over 

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there and flipped everything 
pretty quick and the team was 

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amazing. 
We're already making plans for 

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next year to be able to go back 
and do some leadership training 

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and while we're doing that, we 
want to be able to remodel the 

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children's home. 
So another opportunity to be 

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able to go over and do some 
construction to be available as 

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well. 
We'll figure out when those 

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dates will be. 
But now that we have an 

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aggravated church in India, 
we'll be traveling there 

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annually now. 
Hallelujah. 

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So the Lord's good. 
Well, if you have any bibles. 

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Turn to Deuteronomy Chapter 2. 
Deuteronomy Chapter 2. 

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Y'all doing all right. 
Yeah, I know. 

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Praise the Lord. 
I kind of like the Deep Boys, 

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but I don't like the coffin 
that's been with it. 

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That's the problem. 
Anyway, everybody's been trying 

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to give me honey and tea and all
that and it's not working, so 

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I'm sure I'll be all good come 
Sunday. 

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If not, I'll have Pastor Marcy 
preach so it won't matter. 

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Anyway, Deuteronomy. 
Chapter 2 verse 24 to 25 it says

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this arise. 
Set out and pass. 

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Through the valley and. 
Look, I've given you. 

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This. 
King of Amorites and. 

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His land into your hand, begin 
to take possession, and contend 

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with him in battle. 
This day I will begin to put the

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dread and fear of you upon the 
peoples everywhere under 

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heavens, under the heavens, who,
when they hear. 

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The report of you. 
Will tremble. 

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And be in anguish. 
Because of you. 

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Now this is really. 
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A lot of times. 
We don't want to get in a 

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battle. 
But the reality is, God needs us

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to. 
Get in a battle. 

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Because God wants the fear of 
you in the land. 

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That you're supposed to 
influence and. 

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So sometimes, you know, we're 
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into some battles. 
Here. 

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That may seem uncomfortable, but
again, it's the Lord that's with

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you, right? 
If we went ahead and read the 

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rest of this particular passage,
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actually said, look, we just 
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You know, we're not going to 
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Right. 
Just like we've done in another 

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part, we just stay straight on 
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If we get anything anywhere, 
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In essence, it was like great 
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Super nice walking in peace, but
the king was like, you're not 

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coming. 
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battle to try to stop him again.
A lot of times we find the path 

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of least resistance when we're 
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and we're like, man, it's just 
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But sometimes the Lord is 
positioning things because he 

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needs something bigger than you 
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Are you hearing me? 
It's not that peace doesn't come

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with you and go with you. 
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that God needs to do more 
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to those in the land whose God 
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Are you hearing me? 
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influence in the land, we must 
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It's just going to have to 
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And as we continue to grow in 
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city, impact the nation, and 
influence the world, there will 

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be different things that we will
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You will face some things 
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We'll face things as a church 
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But those things are only so 
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up in the community. 
In essence, they'll come to the 

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point like not sure I want to 
engage them. 

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Because God's with them. 
Are you hearing me? 

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Because you know, in these last 
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difficult times, as tough as 
it's going to get, as as, as the

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scripture line lays out, the 
reality is, no matter how much 

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the enemy yells, you are still 
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You're in the position of power.
So we should never want to run 

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from a battle. 
Come on, stay in. 

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We should never want to run from
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We will always want to be able 
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In fact, we fight the good fight
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good fight of faith, that means 
there's going to be some 

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challenges. 
We're going to see some things 

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that you know are seen. 
That's contrary to what we're 

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believing for. 
But we must continue the process

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now, because they did this and 
they routed them, they destroyed

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them. 
Look what it says in Deuteronomy

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Chapter 11. 
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Deuteronomy 1122 to 25. 
It says, For if you are careful 

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to keep all this commandment 
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to love the Lord your God, to 
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hold fast to him, then the Lord 
will drive out all these nations

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before you, and you will 
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mightier than you. 
Every place on which the sole of

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your foot tread shall be yours, 
your border will be from the 

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wilderness to Lebanon, and from 
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as far as the western sea. 
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be able to stand before you. 
The Lord your God will lay the 

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dread of you and the fear of you
on all the land on which you set

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foot. 
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obviously there's a condition 
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you got to obey the commands of 
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At the end of the day, if you're
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God, and you're going to obey 
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all your soul, with all your 
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then God will allow you to do 
great exploits, even though the 

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things that you're conquering 
are greater and mightier than 

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you. 
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things in our world systems you 
understand, that are extremely 

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large and powerful and you 
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yourself, well, how could the 
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Well, the church is the most 
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period. 
I mean it is the the most 

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powerful thing in the earth 
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Jesus Christ from the scene 
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It doesn't always look like 
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And what he says here, he says, 
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right? 
Because you're going to obey me,

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because you're going to do as I 
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Well then, no matter what you 
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I'll help you conquer it. 
Now when I say I'll help, that 

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doesn't mean God doesn't 
independent of you or without 

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you. 
I mean these guys went in and 

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they actually had to conquer. 
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conquered this first king before
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River, they had to actually do 
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But God allowed their strategies
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enemy to fall apart. 
He puts the the enemies camping 

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to confusion and allows you to 
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And you understand when even 
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swords today, as far as natural 
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because we have the word of God,
we can really confound people in

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the world because of the wisdom 
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Ghost. 
So he says he wants to put the 

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dread or fear of you before the 
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In our city, people, when they 
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they're not right with God, it 
should have a fear of there 

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should be a fear of us towards 
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What I mean by that is you don't
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want to come against that. 
Because anyone who's ever tried 

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to come against that church, 
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Are you hearing me? 
Because, again, it's not about 

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me. 
It's about him anyway. 

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But God will cause the fear of 
you to be seen in the land 

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because he's working through 
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Are you hearing me? 
So that when you walk into a 

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place of business or you walk 
somewhere and people know who 

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you're associated with, they'll 
say, ah, they're with that 

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church. 
And no matter what we're facing 

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our community, we can show up. 
This is why Pastor Angie's 

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message was so important on 
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Is because God did not place us 
in this in this city so that we 

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could sing Kumbaya inside his 
building and then hold hands 

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until Jesus takes us up, you 
know, and then we go let people 

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in on it when they walk through 
our doors. 

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Now the reason he put us in this
community is because he needs us

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to conquer territories. 
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territories, you actually got to
go into the land, you got to go 

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in these places of business, you
got to go into those 

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governments, you got to go into 
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You have to go into those 
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And in doing so, it allows you 
then not because of who you are,

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but because of who he is and 
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Then all of a sudden you can win
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And then the community 
themselves says we need Anchor 

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Faith Church to be on our side. 
Because we sure don't want to be

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against them. 
Are you hearing me? 

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So we want to be people that 
don't want to go in and take 

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possession and territory and 
take the land to do some fairly 

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phenomenal things because we're 
able to fight the good fight of 

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faith. 
Again, God is dealing with this 

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nation that's already been 
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In fact, this was the first king
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If you go to Deuteronomy 3, they
conquer another one, who happens

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to be a giant in the 1st place. 
And so the ones that complained 

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that we couldn't defeat the 
giants, God made them defeat a 

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giant on the other side. 
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Now you're living 40 years 
knowing you could have conquered

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a giant. 
That's where God was with on 

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this thing. 
Oh, you're not going to go in? 

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Fine, but watch. 
I'll conquer a giant with you on

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this side. 
So because of these exploits, of

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what God has done with them is 
created a reputation. 

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And you want to have the 
reputation that you have been 

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with God. 
Amen. 

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And that you're always obeying 
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You're keeping his command. 
Joshua's message on Sunday about

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honor. 
I mean, the highest thing he 

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values is his word. 
And if you're going to honor 

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God, then you have to keep His 
word. 

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If you're not keeping his word, 
there's no honor. 

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None. 
And so we want to keep him 

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because God will honor you when 
you honor him by keeping His 

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word, he said. 
If you'll keep my commands when 

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you get up in there, then I'll 
help you dispossess all these 

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individuals and the fear of you 
wherever you go, wherever you 

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go. 
Well, let's see what happened in

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Joshua chapter two. 
Was it true what God said in 

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Joshua chapter 2, starting in 
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he said to the men, I know that 
the Lord has given you the land 

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and that or actually they had 
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spying out the land and so 
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OK. 
And so this is what she's saying

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to him. 
She says Now I, she said to the 

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men. 
I know that the Lord has given 

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you the land. 
And that the terror of you has 

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fallen on us. 
So they're in the most fortified

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city. 
Nobody supposedly impenetrable 

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can't be breached yet instead of
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outside, they look like a strong
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But really, what are they? 
They're a city full of fearful 

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people. 
And the problem is a lot of 

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times when we see the big 
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We think it's taunting us when 
the reality is it's actually 

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afraid of us and don't want us 
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Because when you keep the word 
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God is actually afraid of you. 
Which then tells me the devil is

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actually afraid of you because 
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And if you do the word of God, 
then He's in fear of you because

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he knows there's nothing He can 
do to stop you. 

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So she goes on and says the 
terror of you have fallen on us,

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and that all the inhabitants of 
the land, all the inhabitants of

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the land have melted away before
you. 

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For we've heard what do they 
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water of the Red Sea before when
you came out of Egypt. 

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I mean, that was 40 years ago. 
And what you did to the 2 Kings.

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So not only did he do something 
40 years when he brought you 

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out, but then you conquered on 
the other side. 

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And we've heard about it. 
I mean, people need to hear 

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about your wins. 
You need to get some faith 

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battles underneath your belt so 
that people know that's right, 

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that you've heard from God and 
you can conquer. 

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Are you hearing me? 
Now we know what this is about. 

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We'll talk about it here in a 
minute. 

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It says. 
It says the 2 kings says that 

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you whom you utterly destroyed 
when we heard it, when we heard 

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what of the two kings you 
utterly destroyed, our hearts 

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melted, and no courage remained 
in any man any longer because of

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you. 
For the Lord your God He is gone

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in heaven above and on earth 
beneath. 

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Now, therefore, please swear to 
me by God. 

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Since I've dealt kindly with 
you, that you also would deal 

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kindly with me and my father's 
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of truth. 
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Because they were willing to 
face a battle, even though it 

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seemed like they were bigger, 
tougher, stronger, because they 

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were willing to, it actually 
created a reputation for them 

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that when they went into another
battle, in fact the the law, the

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most fortified one in the 
promised land. 

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That they were afraid of them. 
I mean, it should be that when 

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we come somewhere on assignment 
from God that it would strike 

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fear in them, that man, these 
people get what they say. 

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Because Church was never 
designed for you to just hear a 

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message that didn't change you, 
nor was it designed for you not 

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to go out and fight the good 
fight of faith. 

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These are not nice little 
stories to lull you asleep until

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you die and go to heaven or till
Jesus returns. 

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They're here to empower you to 
conquer. 

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Because God has given us 
dominion, and because He's given

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us dominion, then we need to 
take dominion cause the devil 

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has stolen a lot of territory 
and God wants to dispossess 

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things. 
Because, you know, there's a 

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whole transfer of wealth that 
wants to come to the church, for

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the wealth of the wicked is laid
up for the for the righteous. 

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Well, you're not going to get 
into those things unless you're 

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willing to face the battle. 
Are you hearing me? 

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That's why it's not uncommon for
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battles as a church, that God 
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things. 
One of the first battles we had 

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was when we were over at the our
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came in and said we couldn't be 
there. 

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Well, now you got the whole 
county telling you you're in the

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wrong spot and then they're 
telling you how they interpret 

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their zoning. 
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We went to battle. 
I mean, we were like, no, this 

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is where we're supposed to be. 
I didn't miss God on that. 

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So you're going to have to 
change. 

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And so when they read me, you 
know why they interpreted it 

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that way, I said, well, 
according to this, you can 

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interpret it a different way. 
And they said, well, we never 

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done it that way. 
Well, I'm in the business of 

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changing people's thinking. 
That's what we do. 

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Well, it didn't just, they 
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They continue to push an agenda.
But we just kept showing up and 

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just kept showing up and just 
kept showing up. 

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And we continue to keep 
building. 

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We kept meeting because why if 
God be for us, right? 

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What's the psalmist say in 
Psalms 118 verse six? 

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It says the Lord is for me. 
I will not fear. 

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What can man do to me? 
This is why it's so important 

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that this key here is that when 
I obey God at his word and I'm 

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doing exactly what he's called 
me to do, then I have No Fear. 

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And what can man do to me? 
He can't stop me. 

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He can't, cannot stop me. 
Now very significant thing took 

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place during that first little 
battle. 

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Is that when we went up, you 
know, had to go before the Board

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of county commissioners and then
we had to go before the planning

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and zoning agency. 
All ten of those said you 

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should, you know, get added to 
the list. 

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And then we came back to the 
county commissioners. 4 out of 

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five said we should be added to 
the list, although it didn't 

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have to be added to the list 
anyway. 

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It was all semantics, you 
understand. 

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But with that being said, the 
one. 

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That voted against us being in 
that location six months later, 

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went to jail for embezzlement. 
Well, he didn't realize he can. 

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He wasn't coming against me. 
He was coming against the 

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church. 
And you don't want to come 

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against the church. 
You don't want to do it. 

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I mean, I've seen more people 
fall into calamity because they 

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come against the church. 
Are you hearing me? 

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And so we won that battle and 
that from then on, every time I 

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engage the county, all of a 
sudden they knew who I was. 

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Now that worked in my favor 
because when I needed permits to

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build stuff, I didn't get a big 
run around. 

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They could help the process. 
So I didn't. 

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You got to understand, sometimes
the battles you're in is bigger 

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than you and it sets you up for 
something later so that what 

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you're going to have later, you 
can move through a little 

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easier. 
Because now all of a sudden, and

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I'll never forget, I walked in 
there one time. 

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I had to get a little clearance 
sheet or something, so I went by

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this one particular desk. 
And the lady, you know, when I 

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sat down to start filling out, 
she says you're Pastor Earl. 

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I said, yeah, she goes, man, I 
remember the first time you came

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in here and that Interesting. 
I'm like, you got y'all see a 

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lot of people coming through the
county. 

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Why you going to Remember Me? 
Right? 

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Well, because of how I handled 
the situation. 

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According to what I heard God 
say to do, it's in a shockwave 

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through the whole county system 
because all of a sudden 

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someone's not just eating the 
runaround. 

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Now you know there's two ways to
go through the county fast. 

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The 1st way is have money. 
Just I'm telling you like it is.

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I'm not telling you that our 
county's crooked. 

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I'm just saying money gets 
things moving. 

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That's all I'm saying, OK? 
I mean, if you're dropping 

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millions into this county, 
they're going to help move you 

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along. 
But then there's another way to 

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get through the county, and 
that's be on a God agenda. 

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Are you hearing me? 
Now they initially will try to 

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slow it down, but once you win, 
once the Lord gets the battle 

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for you, well, then you can 
continue to navigate and it sets

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you up for future events. 
For me, it set me up for all 

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kinds of things, especially with
the Fire Marshall. 

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Thank God for it. 
In hindsight, I'm like I I'm 

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glad it went this way because of
the interaction I ended up 

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having with the Fire Marshall 
office based upon different 

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things. 
It allowed me to be at the top 

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of my game, man, whenever I was 
engaged, were engaged by them 

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and they knew who I was. 
So it gave me favor to be able 

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to navigate certain situations. 
Are you hearing me? 

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It says this in Isaiah 4054. 
Verse 17 says no weapon that is 

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formed against you will prosper 
in every tongue that accuses you

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in judgment you will condemn. 
This is the heritage of the 

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servants of the Lord and their 
vindication is from me, declares

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the Lord. 
Aren't you glad God is with you 

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Now you can always know that 
God's with you because you're 

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always doing His word. 
At the end of the day, that is 

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the key. 
The key is I'm a keeper of the 

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word because I'm a keeper of the
word. 

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I'm talking about. 
I ain't talking about partial. 

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I'm talking about the whole 
thing. 

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Everything you know in 
Revelation, you keep it. 

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Now, there may be some things 
you don't know to keep yet, but 

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I'm talking about what you do 
know. 

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To keep your keeper of that 
word. 

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And you keep that word. 
And when you do, then God will, 

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you can go into places of battle
and not be afraid of whatever is

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in front of you. 
I mean, This is why David had no

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issue with Goliath. 
Doesn't matter. 

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It looks bigger. 
Doesn't matter. 

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It's irrelevant. 
Again, there was another king 

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who went against a million man 
army and they routed them 

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because they trusted in the 
Lord. 

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Later on that king didn't trust 
in God like that and ended up 

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hiring another army. 
And the Lord got upset with him 

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and said seriously, you had 
nothing. 

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You had a million people coming 
against you. 

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You cried out to me and did I 
not deliver you? 

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And now you're going to go to 
natural. 

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Are you hearing me? 
The point is, is that you don't 

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have a battle that you win and 
then you get in pride thinking 

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you did it. 
Because at the end of the day, 

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anything, any victories we have 
is because God was with us and 

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you want God with you. 
You don't want to get out ahead 

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of him. 
You don't want to be trying to 

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do it in your own strength. 
You want to be in a be in 

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lockstep with God, because, 
again, when you're in lockstep 

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with God, he will fight with 
you. 

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Jeremiah 119 says it this way. 
And they will fight against you,

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but they will not overcome you. 
For I am with you to deliver 

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you, declares the Lord. 
Now, I'm going to be honest with

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you as a God in the realm of 
natural fighting. 

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I was not that God. 
I didn't care to get in fights 

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at all. 
Number one, I was small anyway, 

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OK? 
And then I didn't take any. 

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Unlike David, who, you know, 
Mackie, he was small, but he 

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beat everybody up. 
So it's really relevant. 

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Size doesn't matter. 
Ain't that right, David? 

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I get him. 
The point is, is I didn't train 

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myself to be that. 
So I avoided those conflicts as 

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much as I could. 
Period. 

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OK, Because I didn't trust 
myself. 

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And besides, it would hurt to 
get hit. 

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Let's just be honest. 
I mean, I don't look good. 

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I can't get this thing get 
messed up anymore. 

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I mean that's. 
I mean, I know I'm married up. 

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I mean, I get that, but at the 
end of the day, but when it 

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comes to battles with the Lord, 
I'm a terror. 

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Yeah, I mean, I'm like, in it. 
I mean, I'm, you're almost 

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picking. 
You almost want to pick a fight 

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because, you know, you realize I
should get this, you know, God's

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talking to me. 
So God picked some fights 

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because even in this account of 
Deuteronomy chapter two, he says

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to him, Now you go in there and 
I've given you this guy, the 

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land. 
Now Moses went in with a peace 

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treaty. 
We're. 

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Just going to pass through. 
We ain't going to look to the 

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left or right, We're going to 
just stay on the road. 

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But the Lord knew that guy's 
heart and God picked a fight 

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because he knew he's not going 
to let you do anything. 

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Now typically they wouldn't even
mess with Amorites because the 

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Moabites and Amorites came out a
lot and the Lord wouldn't let 

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them mess with them boys anyway.
But when it came to this guy 

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whose name was Warrior, he said 
you're going to take this guy 

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out and you're going to take his
land. 

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So God went and picked a fight. 
OK, now God will use us to pick 

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fights with the world so that he
can show us glory. 

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Or hear me, Because God sure 
picked a fight with Pharaoh, 

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right? 
Pharaoh put all of his trust in 

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all these other gods, definitely
were oppressing his people. 

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And so God said, I'm going to 
show you who your gods are. 

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So he says one guy on a peace 
treaty, Same guy, right? 

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Just let my people go. 
But God knew he was going to say

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no. 
And so in essence, you want you 

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want a piece of me, I'm going to
give you some. 

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And boy, God can give it. 
I said God can give it. 

451
00:29:01,560 --> 00:29:04,600
Are you hearing me again? 
When we came to purchase the 

452
00:29:04,600 --> 00:29:09,480
mall, at the end of the day 
we're just a church, right? 

453
00:29:10,000 --> 00:29:12,960
But yet we heard we're supposed 
to possess this land. 

454
00:29:13,680 --> 00:29:19,760
So we have to now contend with 
an ownership that has 26 at the 

455
00:29:19,760 --> 00:29:23,960
time we bought 31 malls. 
I mean, in one sense, it's out 

456
00:29:23,960 --> 00:29:29,720
of your league, right? 
I mean, you start talking to 

457
00:29:29,720 --> 00:29:34,920
them concerning how to 
revitalize something. 

458
00:29:35,280 --> 00:29:37,640
You're like, if anybody knows 
how to revitalize, I'd be the 

459
00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:43,080
people that's running 31 malls. 
Are you hearing me? 

460
00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:46,360
But we revitalizing some stuff 
right now. 

461
00:29:46,360 --> 00:29:50,360
Hallelujah. 
The point is, God wanted us to 

462
00:29:50,360 --> 00:29:55,200
have it, and so we just had to 
here engage. 

463
00:29:56,440 --> 00:29:59,840
And no matter what took place, 
you don't yield to the left or 

464
00:29:59,840 --> 00:30:02,520
to the right. 
You just stay with the battle 

465
00:30:02,800 --> 00:30:05,280
because you know God's going to 
deliver you on the other side. 

466
00:30:06,880 --> 00:30:09,640
Always. 
And you know, in these last days

467
00:30:09,640 --> 00:30:15,600
we got to not be. 
How can I say this? 

468
00:30:17,080 --> 00:30:22,360
We don't want to be timid, OK? 
Because first of all, God did 

469
00:30:22,360 --> 00:30:26,720
not give us the spirit of fear, 
but of power, love and of sound 

470
00:30:26,720 --> 00:30:28,800
mind. 
We don't have a spirit of 

471
00:30:28,800 --> 00:30:32,480
timidity. 
I mean, we know how to go and 

472
00:30:32,480 --> 00:30:34,600
conquer. 
We have to be able to have the 

473
00:30:34,600 --> 00:30:39,280
audacity to drain big. 
And if God tells us to do 

474
00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:42,280
something that's beyond 
ourselves, we're able to say, 

475
00:30:42,360 --> 00:30:49,640
fine, let's go to war. 
And for some of you, some of 

476
00:30:49,640 --> 00:30:53,000
your greatest victories that'll 
be ahead of you are after this 

477
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:55,560
first one. 
Because at the end of the day, 

478
00:30:55,560 --> 00:30:58,280
not all of you've been here as 
long as some, and some of you 

479
00:30:58,280 --> 00:31:00,200
are just engaging in some 
battles. 

480
00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:02,800
And again, don't look at them as
negative. 

481
00:31:02,800 --> 00:31:08,160
In fact, Paul said, consider it 
all joy when you get into these 

482
00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:11,640
tests, these trials, these types
of conflicts. 

483
00:31:11,800 --> 00:31:13,520
Why? 
Because it's only going to make 

484
00:31:13,520 --> 00:31:17,200
you stronger. 
But then it'll show the world 

485
00:31:17,200 --> 00:31:19,880
you're strong and then they 
ain't going to want to cross 

486
00:31:19,880 --> 00:31:20,240
you. 
That's right. 

487
00:31:21,880 --> 00:31:25,400
Because at the end of the day, 
they know that God's with you. 

488
00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:34,200
Are you hearing me? 
Which brings me this last verse 

489
00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:37,640
I'm going to say today, which is
Romans Chapter 8, verse 31. 

490
00:31:39,560 --> 00:31:49,840
Excuse me. 
What then shall we say to these 

491
00:31:49,840 --> 00:31:56,800
things? 
If God is for us, who's against 

492
00:31:56,800 --> 00:32:03,650
us? 
Who's against us? 

493
00:32:08,370 --> 00:32:19,410
I don't care who it is, period. 
Now how do I know if God's for 

494
00:32:19,410 --> 00:32:21,690
me? 
I mean, because again, there's a

495
00:32:21,690 --> 00:32:30,000
if there that's not like God is 
For you see, this is the 

496
00:32:30,000 --> 00:32:34,280
challenge that I have with some 
of our worship songs is because 

497
00:32:34,280 --> 00:32:38,520
there's too much implication. 
The good news about preaching, 

498
00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:42,840
you know, Pastor Marcus and I, I
said, you know this, the 

499
00:32:42,840 --> 00:32:45,400
congregation hears 2 messages, 
the one that you sing and the 

500
00:32:45,400 --> 00:32:47,640
one that I preach. 
The problem with the ones that 

501
00:32:47,640 --> 00:32:51,240
he sings is he's constrained in 
the lyrics. 

502
00:32:51,440 --> 00:32:53,960
I'm not constrained. 
I can explain. 

503
00:32:55,960 --> 00:32:59,240
OK, so again, there's a lot of 
songs out there that say God is 

504
00:32:59,240 --> 00:33:03,840
for us. 
Well, do you meet the if 

505
00:33:03,840 --> 00:33:10,760
condition? 
Because if the if condition was 

506
00:33:10,760 --> 00:33:14,160
not a factor, then why did the 
Holy Ghost put it in? 

507
00:33:14,160 --> 00:33:20,360
And this is a new covenant. 
This is Paul's writing who wrote

508
00:33:20,360 --> 00:33:26,120
to, you know, over half of the 
New Testament, and he's writing 

509
00:33:26,120 --> 00:33:29,000
this under the unction of the 
Holy Ghost to let them. 

510
00:33:29,000 --> 00:33:33,200
Now, if God is for you, then who
can be against you? 

511
00:33:34,520 --> 00:33:38,960
But you got to be the if. 
And the Bible is very consistent

512
00:33:39,080 --> 00:33:41,040
in how you know that God is for 
you. 

513
00:33:41,520 --> 00:33:45,440
It's 'cause you keep His word. 
It's very easy. 

514
00:33:46,600 --> 00:33:51,120
I mean, it's simple. 
Yet it's amazing how many people

515
00:33:51,120 --> 00:33:57,160
struggle with keeping His word, 
because keeping his word is just

516
00:33:57,160 --> 00:34:00,200
something you do, period. 
That's your response. 

517
00:34:00,200 --> 00:34:03,560
It's your proof to God that you 
love Him. 

518
00:34:04,360 --> 00:34:08,400
You keep His word. 
Because again, Jesus says if you

519
00:34:08,400 --> 00:34:14,719
love me, then what? 
You'll keep my word. 

520
00:34:16,560 --> 00:34:19,159
That's how Jesus defined you 
loved him. 

521
00:34:20,239 --> 00:34:23,320
It's not how you know. 
Many Christians try to define 

522
00:34:23,320 --> 00:34:24,120
it. 
Well, I love God. 

523
00:34:24,120 --> 00:34:27,159
I have a personal relationship 
with him, you know. 

524
00:34:27,480 --> 00:34:30,320
Well, are you keeping his word? 
Because that's how he defined 

525
00:34:30,320 --> 00:34:33,480
it. 
And if you're not keeping his 

526
00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:34,880
word, then you're not loving 
him. 

527
00:34:34,880 --> 00:34:39,440
You're definitely not honoring 
him because he loves his word, 

528
00:34:40,080 --> 00:34:44,560
and he exalted his word above 
even his name, right. 

529
00:34:46,440 --> 00:34:50,679
And so if God is forced because 
we're keepers of the word and 

530
00:34:50,679 --> 00:34:55,199
says we're keepers of the word, 
we know he is forced, then who? 

531
00:34:56,239 --> 00:35:00,520
Doesn't matter. 
Now who's who now? 

532
00:35:00,520 --> 00:35:04,080
Who could be your friend? 
That's right. 

533
00:35:04,080 --> 00:35:05,840
But you think you could take 
them out anyway? 

534
00:35:06,560 --> 00:35:12,480
Who could be your government? 
Who could be a major 

535
00:35:12,480 --> 00:35:16,320
corporation? 
Who could be the most powerful, 

536
00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:17,920
influential person on the 
planet? 

537
00:35:17,920 --> 00:35:23,640
But it doesn't matter. 
That's right. 

538
00:35:23,640 --> 00:35:28,960
So there's no nothing that 
should create fear in you unless

539
00:35:29,720 --> 00:35:37,040
you're not keeping a word right.
So what God was trying to do 

540
00:35:37,040 --> 00:35:40,840
here is God's saying, listen, 
you're going to have battles, 

541
00:35:41,440 --> 00:35:42,880
and we have them in the New 
Covenant. 

542
00:35:43,400 --> 00:35:44,960
We fight the good fight of 
faith. 

543
00:35:44,960 --> 00:35:47,240
We call those things that be not
as though they were. 

544
00:35:47,240 --> 00:35:51,800
We're going to have to engage 
people that don't want anything 

545
00:35:51,800 --> 00:35:54,760
to do with what we're doing. 
And actually we'll try to stop 

546
00:35:54,760 --> 00:35:59,040
it. 
It happens. 

547
00:35:59,240 --> 00:36:04,760
It can even happen from within, 
and it does at times. 

548
00:36:05,720 --> 00:36:09,080
It happens from within. 
But at the end of the day, if 

549
00:36:09,080 --> 00:36:12,080
you're always maintaining your 
righteousness by keeping the 

550
00:36:12,080 --> 00:36:15,800
Word, then you know, you know 
without a shadow of a doubt 

551
00:36:17,520 --> 00:36:20,520
God's going to vindicate me. 
There it is. 

552
00:36:20,520 --> 00:36:24,240
I said God to vindicate me. 
He will vindicate me. 

553
00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:29,040
He will vindicate me. 
Because God's working with me. 

554
00:36:29,640 --> 00:36:33,000
He's working for me because I'm 
working His Word. 

555
00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:35,240
Yes. 
Amen. 

556
00:36:35,240 --> 00:36:36,560
And we're doing this thing 
together. 

557
00:36:37,440 --> 00:36:41,680
Hallelujah. 
Hallelujah. 

558
00:36:42,880 --> 00:36:46,960
Do you believe that? 
So God wants to place the fear 

559
00:36:46,960 --> 00:36:51,400
of you in spheres of influence 
that you have. 

560
00:36:55,000 --> 00:37:03,800
Meaning where people are knowing
that you're with God and they 

561
00:37:03,800 --> 00:37:08,080
don't want to cross that, they 
don't want to cross that. 

562
00:37:09,800 --> 00:37:11,400
Now that don't mean they won't 
try to battle. 

563
00:37:11,640 --> 00:37:16,720
Because again, Rahab said, we 
all are afraid of you, But it 

564
00:37:16,720 --> 00:37:18,600
doesn't mean we're not going to 
go down without a fight. 

565
00:37:19,040 --> 00:37:20,880
She was just smart enough to 
know I ain't fighting. 

566
00:37:20,880 --> 00:37:25,040
You see, she had Wisdom Man take
care of my household. 

567
00:37:25,040 --> 00:37:27,280
He said We'll get them all in 
this house and we'll leave them 

568
00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:31,240
alone because she's like, it's 
stupid to fight you. 

569
00:37:32,600 --> 00:37:36,600
So fearful people will fight. 
Just because someone's fighting 

570
00:37:36,600 --> 00:37:41,880
doesn't mean that they're brave,
because fearful people will 

571
00:37:41,880 --> 00:37:45,120
fight because self preservation 
kicks in. 

572
00:37:46,560 --> 00:37:52,040
But again, if you're fighting 
with the Lord, then you're 

573
00:37:52,040 --> 00:37:55,840
guaranteed you're going to win. 
Amen. 

574
00:37:55,840 --> 00:38:00,000
Amen. 
So no matter what we face, no 

575
00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:03,840
matter what opportunities come 
our way, let's don't run from 

576
00:38:03,840 --> 00:38:05,240
the battle, let's run towards 
it. 

577
00:38:07,000 --> 00:38:09,200
Because God is doing something 
great in your life. 

578
00:38:09,200 --> 00:38:10,920
Some of you man with your 
parents. 

579
00:38:11,640 --> 00:38:14,000
You just need to go ahead and 
fight that good fight of faith, 

580
00:38:15,360 --> 00:38:19,160
period. 
Because they are not well with 

581
00:38:19,160 --> 00:38:20,880
how you're living for God right 
now. 

582
00:38:25,240 --> 00:38:27,040
And they don't understand that 
they're really getting against 

583
00:38:27,040 --> 00:38:30,760
God when they get against you. 
But you need to stay with the 

584
00:38:30,760 --> 00:38:35,560
Lord because they may have 
birthed you or brought you into 

585
00:38:35,560 --> 00:38:39,040
natural but God saved your life 
and he's your Lord. 

586
00:38:42,840 --> 00:38:50,520
Amen. 
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587
00:38:50,520 --> 00:38:52,960
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