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Real Life presents the Jack Hibbs Podcast with intention and boldness to proclaim truth,

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equip the saints and impact our culture.

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A nation goes as a home goes, but a home doesn't know what to do unless the church steps up,

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it begins in the church. By the way, that's true in the Bible, it's true in sociology studies,

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and it's true in American history. Church has got to catch fire, that affects the family.

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Drunks stop drinking abusers, stop abusing, and womanizers and manizers, and Budwizers. Stop,

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doing that, and they make their homework, and then you know what happens? Then the community changes,

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and then the county changes, the state changes, and the nation changes. That's the only hope for America.

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You can get the outlines of this podcast by going to jackhibbs.com slash podcast.

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Today, if this podcast lifts you up and encourages you to live a more fulfilled life in Christ,

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then make sure you leave us one of those five star ratings. To us, that's like saying amen or yes,

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then that rating will encourage others to listen. Now, open your hearts to what God's word has

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to say to you. Here is jackhibbs. Sounds like Ezekiel 38. I see those people says,

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God, G-O-G, they dwell in safety. They're prospering. Look how stuck up they are. The word was

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confident they are. What drives hatred? Envy. When your heart's wicked, you're envious,

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and when you're envious, your heart's wicked, and people have killed over envy. The Bible says

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they crucified Jesus because they envied Him. Remarkable truth and power. The Bible tells us in

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Joel chapter 3, verse 1, behold, the days are coming, and at that time, when I bring back the

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captives of Judah and Jerusalem, I will also gather all nations, and I will enter into judgment with

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them on the count of my people, my heritage Israel, whom they have scattered among the nations,

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and they have also divided up my land. Are you kidding me? This is 2600-year-old prophecy, and it looks

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like we're talking about a UN decision last week in the news. Divide the land, divide the land,

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right there in the Bible. Zachariah chapter 12, verse 1, the word of the Lord concerning Israel,

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the Lord who stretches out the heavens and who lays the foundation of the earth and who forms

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the human spirit within man declares this, I'm going to make Jerusalem a cup that sends all the

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surrounding nations reeling. Judah will be as well as Jerusalem. On that day, when all the nations

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of the earth are gathered against her, I will make Jerusalem an immovable rock for all

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the nations, all who try to move her will injure themselves. The word in Hebrew injure themselves.

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It's a very sad thing. A lot of us can relate to this. The word means to go to something heavy,

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in this case it's a rock. Can you imagine? It means in Hebrew to pick up the rock, and you're so

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committed to picking up the rock that you pick up the rock, but you rip your guts. The word is to

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rip your insides. You tear yourself apart. Have you ever seen those Olympic weightlifting guys?

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Why? Can you imagine the world is going to have this mindset? We've got to deal with Jerusalem.

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We've got to do what's the fascination with Jerusalem? There's no oil there, there's no airport,

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there's no river, there's no really no nothing, but great food, great food. Think of it, it makes no

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sense. The world's going to go like this, try to move and get it out of sight. They just get it,

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push it into the Mediterranean, and they pick it up, and you can hear springs flying and gears popping,

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and rip yourself apart if you try to move it, God says. Don't mess with them. God's got a

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plan, a remarkable plan. So much so, watch this, so much. This part I get really excited. Up until now,

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I've been all right, right now I lose it over this. The only thing worse for me is to be in Israel

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when I teach this, what I'm about to say, I just lose control. It's amazing. Here it comes. On May 14,

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1948, Israel became a nation because President Truman, an American president, went against all the

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deliberation and all the counsel of the nations of the world, and Truman said, no, we're going to

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recognize Israel as a nation. On May 14, 1948, Israel had a birthday. Listen, Saturday morning,

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on May 15, Zionist proclaimed new state of Israel, Truman recognizes it and hopes for peace,

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Tel Aviv is bombed, Egypt orders an invasion. Happy birthday, attack! Wow, think of it. Next slide.

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Tel Aviv is bombed, US recognizes Jewish state. Read the print below. Israel is proclaimed

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Arab's March. Truman action stuns closing session of UN, battle in Jerusalem, Egypt orders

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invasion. Sounds like you're reading Ezekiel, except thank God, but the time Ezekiel rolls around

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in his prophecy, Egypt will be a friend of Israel. As it is today, by the way,

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Saudi Arabia, a friend, Jordan, a friend, Egypt, a friend exactly as the prophets foretold.

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Not only are the right nations lined up to invade, the right nations for the first time in history

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are lined up that support Israel in the region. That's not a coincidence. Here's the punchline.

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This is 2,740,750 years old. Isaiah chapter 66.

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Before the birth pains even begin, Jerusalem gives birth to a son. Who has ever seen anything

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as strange as this? Whoever heard of such a thing has a nation ever been born in a single day,

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has a country ever come forth in a mere moment? But by the time Jerusalem's birth pains begin,

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her children will be born. Would I ever bring this nation to the point of birth and then not

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deliver it? Ask the Lord? No. I would never keep this nation from being born,

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says your God. Israel was first born by being called out of Egypt

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in the wilderness wanderings and then eventually brought into the Promised Land by Joshua.

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Israel's second birth prophesied in the prophet Isaiah not only happened in 1948,

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it happened exactly as Isaiah said it would in a mere moment in one day the nation would be

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brought forth and an instant Jews from around the world would have a nation. That verse alone

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should dispel any doubt about the veracity and the ability of the God of the Bible to keep his

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word and when he says to you, trust me and I'll take you to heaven. Trust me. I'll forgive you

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your sins. Look to me. I don't have the cross for your grief and give you eternal life.

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Follow me and I'll take you straight into heaven. I'll give you purpose in meaning. I'm the God

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that made you and it's time to come to the God that says that is the exact same God that keeps his

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word keeps his promises. Exact same God. He's the same one. The Bible tells us in Ezekiel 34 verse 13

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and I will bring them out from the peoples or the nations and gather them from the countries

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and I will bring them to there. What is it? Own land. I will feed them on the mountains of Israel

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and in the valleys and in all the inhabited places of the country. This is Israel. God says so and

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then finally we end here. The number four argument is this and it's a short one. It's all eyes to

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war. All eyes to war. Look I struggle with this just as you do and that is what's happening next.

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Biblically we keep our Bibles open. I would stay tuned to Isaiah 17 and Ezekiel 38 at the same time.

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I'll be reading both those. It could happen tomorrow. Regarding the nation of Israel,

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it's been written. We know what happened to them. We know what's happening to them and we know

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from the Bible what's going to happen to them. America is nowhere mentioned in the Bible. That brings

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me great pain and it brings me great hope. Number one, it pains me because our nation was very much

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used as a big brother to Israel's establishment the second time. This is a Judeo Christian

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nation in its roots. This nation has been blessed in every category over every nation on earth

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in all of human history including Israel itself. Freest people, freest constitutional government,

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greatest technologies, greatest military, greatest achievements. Did you know that you're sitting

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in the most compassionate nation on the face of the earth? No nation. No nation citizens give more

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to disaster relief in suffering than the United States year after year after year. God used this nation.

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Once our federal budget of the United States government annually was to produce Bibles and ship

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them to nations in the world where there was no Bible. When soldiers went off to war and World War

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One, World War Two and the Korean War, they were given Bibles. I have one. Oh, how the mighty have fallen.

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Says the scripture. Where do we go from here?

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Watching what's happening. Is God waiting for his people to call out to him? Is God waiting? He's

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not waiting on any political party or some chest move by some political genius or some blunder to

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happen. He's not waiting for that. God is saying if my people, if my people, if my people,

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if my people, if my people will call out to me, if my people will repent, he's calling out to us.

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Why is everything in limbo the way that it is? He's calling out to us. What is so undetermined?

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What's so confusing? There's nothing but confusion. In light of this last year past,

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all the dynamic, how do you explain the most bizarre year ever and yet all around the world,

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record numbers of people coming to Christ? What's up? And what's up for America?

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Well, I'm not an Einstein, but I can tell you this based on God's word. There's no hope for America

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unless, no hope for America unless in this order. Number one, the church stops playing games,

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stops goofing off and starts teaching the Bible and living the life from the pulpit to the peel.

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Number two, number two, it affects the home. A nation goes as a home goes, but a home doesn't know

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what to do unless the church steps up. It begins in the church. By the way, that's true in the Bible.

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It's true in sociology studies and it's true in American history. The church has got to catch

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fire that affects the family. Drunks stop drinking abusers, stop abusing and womanizers and

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manizers and budwisers stop doing that and they make their homework and then you know what happens?

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Then the community changes and then the county changes, the state changes and the nation changes.

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That's the only hope for America. God is not going to sprinkle pixie dust over America without

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being true to his pattern. The church is the ground and pillar of all truths as the Bible.

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Why do you think churches are going through the struggles of their life right now?

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It's an attack on one side and it's a trial on the other.

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That's the only hope for America. If that doesn't happen, it's over and God's showing us a little

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bit of hints what it's like when it's over. When He's left the building, it's a very critical time

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and it's going to lead to war. Every guy in this room knows that when there's somebody

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weak on the playground, the bully takes advantage of the weak kid. Every single time.

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You want to stop bullying? Teach every kid how to defend themselves.

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Because bully is in the heart. You can legislate it all you want. It's never going to change the

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thing. You got to change the heart. Until heart should change, your kids got to be able to protect

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themselves. Because a bully will find the weak kid because bullies are cowards and there's a lot

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of coward nations out there right now. They're lunatics. They've got nuclear weapons and a match

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and they don't know what to do but they feel like they should do something. Nobody cares about

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them so they want, they want to make you care about them. Others have religious aspirations.

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It's going to be, listen, I'm not a prophet. In fact, Jesus said this way, in Matthew 24-6,

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and you will hear of wars, in rumors of wars, see that you're not troubled by this.

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For all these things must come to pass. The end is not yet. But the end of the world is not yet.

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That same chapter, by the way, read it later, chapter 24, Jesus said, oh, and yes, there's

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going to be pandemics. Pandemics there is called pestilence, global sicknesses. Jesus said, oh,

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and yes, and there's going to be lawlessness. He said, in fact, when the disciples came to Jesus

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and said, tell us, when will these things be? What will be the sign of your coming? Three part

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question. And the end of the world. And listen, Jesus did not say this. He did not say this first.

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He did not say there's going to be wars and rumors of wars. He didn't say that first.

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Jesus did not say first. There's going to be earthquakes. Big ones all over the world. He didn't say

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that first. He did not say volcanoes. Keep your eye on volcanoes. He didn't say that first. He

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said that a couple of verses later. Volcanoes, earthquakes, pandemics. He said this too, but not first.

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Men will hate one another so much. Their love will grow cold for humanity. And because of that,

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lawlessness will rule. Lawlessness will prevail. Nobody fears the law. People do what's right in

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their own eyes. He didn't say that first. You when he said first, when they asked them, when

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are you coming back and what about the end of the world? Jesus said the most important thing first.

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He said, let nobody deceive you. Many false Christ and many false prophets are going to come and

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seek to deceive you. Listen to this. I love it. He says, and if it were possible to deceive even the

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very elect, he said, if one little word, he didn't say the elect are going to be deceived. He said

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the opposite. If it were possible, that means it's impossible. You ever look freshman logic course.

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First grade, first grade logic course. I'm not first grade, but maybe third grade.

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If it's not possible, then it's impossible. How could Jesus say that? It's easy.

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Because when this word is in you, this thing keeps you from being deceived by that invisible dark

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world. This is what does it.

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And God is so gracious with you and your journey because when you start out or if you have old

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season saint, they've been with Jesus for a long time. His grace sustains you through them.

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But to whom much is given, much is required. As you grow older in Jesus, much less feelings,

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much more faith, because you're growing up. But when you're a new believer, it's all feelings

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and a little bit of faith, but faith comes by hearing. And hearing by the word of God, Romans 10,

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17 says, so watch this. You love being around new believers. They're awesome. You know somebody

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who gets saved and says, well, I just love the Lord. That's great. That's awesome. Praise the Lord.

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Yes, praise the Lord. And they're so fine because they go, you know what? I'm going to pray.

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I'm going to pray because I don't have a job. You know, yeah, you pray. Lord, I need a job. I'd like

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to have a good one. Thank you, Jesus. Amen. And then you go, that's nice. And then they call you

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the next day. Hey, I got a phone call. Some company called me up. They asked me what my name was.

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Hey, who is this on the other end of the phone? It's Bill. Bill, we're going to give you a job.

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I'm going to pay you double. Okay. He hangs up. Praise the Lord. Have you noticed a new believer

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wherever they go? It's just like, they just, they pray. It's not, God just goes, there you go.

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Hang out with new believers. And they, I just sensed the Lord. In an old season,

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St. goes, well, sense, I don't sense anything. What are you sensing? What do you?

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God is working in the journey in different levels with his grace, but with there's more of the

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word. And he gives you time to know the word. So in the day of your visitation, you'll know it.

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You recognize the times and the seasons to build faith, to be strong. Because God keeps his word.

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And so the new believers covered the old season saints covered. Because God's faithful.

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