Bobby Chandler - When You Feel Trapped (Part 2)

February 5, 2026 | 29:54

Pastor Bobby Chandler has found hope in Jesus and wants as many people as possible to experience that exact same freedom.

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Bobby Chandler: Authentic Church | Bobby Chandler - When You Feel Trapped (Part 2) | February 5, 2026
  • She. and you've been criticized
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  • Over and over and over again, to the point where now
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  • You feel like your identity is a mess up
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  • And you're never going to get there.
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  • So you've literally traded out for your confidence
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  • In god and what god can do through you
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  • Because of the criticism of other people.
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  • Let me encourage you today.
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  • Even when you're doing the right things, there will be critics.
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  • I want to ask you a very real question today.
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  • Are you struggling with fear?
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  • I mean, when you wake up in the morning,
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  • Do you feel like you're having panic attacks
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  • Just to get through the day?
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  • Is it just weighing on you
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  • All this weight and it feels like
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  • You just keep giving over to the enemy.
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  • Let me give it over to the enemy,
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  • And then maybe it will get better.
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  • But listen, when you let fear lead,
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  • You start giving to the enemy what belongs to god.
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  • And it's very easy to judge hezekiah, right?
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  • Because we know the ending of the story.
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  • Or at least you're about to.
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  • But in our own life system, we do the same thing.
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  • Let me show you some examples of this.
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  • There have been times in your life
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  • Where you have handed over peace because worry demanded it.
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  • You have handed over peace to the enemy
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  • Because the worry and stress of assignments, subprojects
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  • Of work, of your family, of just pleasing people
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  • Has overwhelmed you so much that you've given away your peace.
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  • What about your purity?
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  • Have you given away your purity
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  • Just because the world thinks it's foolish to hold on to it?
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  • From every movie that you see or the songs that you listen to.
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  • You've given it away because people have laughed at you.
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  • The world is trying to steal the holiness.
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  • The blessings
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  • That god has placed on you.
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  • Have you
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  • Handed over your worship just because life's got painful
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  • Experience and pain right now, i don't know if i could worship.
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  • Don't let the pain steal your worship away.
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  • It's in pain that we worship
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  • Because he is a good god.
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  • Maybe you handed over your confidence
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  • Because criticism is all you know.
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  • And you've been criticized over and over and over again,
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  • To the point where now
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  • You feel like your identity is a mess up
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  • And you're never going to get there.
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  • So you've literally traded out for your confidence
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  • In god and what god can do through you
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  • Because of the criticism of other people.
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  • Let me encourage you today,
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  • Even when you're doing the right things, there will be critics
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  • No matter what you do in life.
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  • There will be critics.
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  • In fact, more critics will come when you're living for jesus.
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  • Because when you live for jesus, people love to talk
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  • Because you're upsetting the demons, by the way,
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  • You're setting people free and you're showing people
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  • There's a better way than all the junk
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  • That this world is trying to offer people.
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  • There is a better way.
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  • Something eternal.
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  • Do not hand over to the devil.
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  • What god has trusted to place in your hands.
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  • What god has placed inside of you.
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  • Because listen to me.
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  • What you hand over and in fear
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  • You will have to fight by faith to get it back.
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  • What you have handed over to the enemy because of his demands.
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  • And listen.
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  • The devil is a thief, right?
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  • He's a liar.
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  • Do you really think the devil
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  • Is going to come into your life and be like, hey, hey,
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  • Hand over that one thing and we'll be god.
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  • Hand over that one part of
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  • Your life to me and we'll be good.
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  • Just add one thing and i'll leave you alone.
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  • Do you think the devil is going to leave you alone?
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  • Listen, if you got a little bit of peace, he wants to take you.
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  • If you got a little bit of joy, he wants to take you.
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  • If your marriage is good. he wants to take you.
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  • If your family is good. he wants to take it.
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  • If there's something good in your life,
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  • He wants to take it
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  • Because he wants you
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  • To be miserable and destroyed, just like him.
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  • And so what do you think this king did?
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  • So hezekiah gives everything over to the assyrian king
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  • Because he demanded it and he moved by fear.
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  • But now the king of assyria is like, you know what?
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  • I like getting paid,
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  • And i think we can use some more.
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  • And so the demands kept coming.
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  • And now he sends his little spokesperson.
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  • Rabbi sucker is his name.
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  • And he delivers a threatening message
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  • To the people of jerusalem and to king hezekiah.
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  • Now, here's where the enemy really gets inside of your head.
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  • I want you to hear the words that he says,
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  • And we're going to break it down. okay?
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  • Second kings 1825.
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  • Here's the spokesperson of assyria.
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  • He said, what's more, do you think we have invaded
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  • Your land without the lord's direction?
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  • For the lord himself has told us to attack
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  • This land and destroy it.
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  • You know what he's saying.
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  • Your own god sent us.
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  • Your god is blessing us, not you.
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  • Your god has sent us into the land to conquer it.
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  • Your god is with us.
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  • He has abandoned you.
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  • He's no longer with you. he's with us.
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  • It's a mental game.
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  • Do you ever go through a trial?
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  • In the first thought you hear is god is abandoning you.
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  • God's within now with you.
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  • You messed up too many times.
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  • God's. god's over there.
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  • But he's not over here.
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  • He's. he's allowing you to be defeated.
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  • See, he's
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  • Trying to get into his head because this man is a liar.
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  • Now, listen to this.
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  • Second kings 1828 235
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  • Then the chief of staff stood and shouted, now,
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  • Now, not only is he
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  • Speaking in his own language, but he starts to speak in hebrew
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  • Because they're at jerusalem.
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  • So he wants the people in the wall to be able to hear
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  • And their own language, what he's stating here.
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  • So we start speaking in hebrew, and here's what he says.
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  • Listen to the message from the great king of assyria.
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  • This is what the king says.
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  • Don't let hezekiah deceive you.
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  • He will never be able to rescue you from my power.
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  • This is not right there.
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  • He will never be able to rescue you from my power.
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  • Now, here's the big one.
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  • Don't let him fool you into trusting
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  • The lord god
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  • By saying, the lord will surely rescue us, and the city
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  • Will not fall into the hands of the assyrian king.
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  • Okay, so notice what he's doing here.
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  • He's using god's name like god is on their side.
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  • Did you know that's also using the lord's name in vain?
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  • That's what it also means to use the lord's name in vain.
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  • It means that you're using god's
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  • Name to manipulate the situation or manipulate a person.
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  • Maybe you've had a conversation like that
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  • Where somebody was clearly off,
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  • But they kept telling you, no, no, no.
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  • God told me to do this.
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  • God is on my side.
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  • And clearly it goes against god's character
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  • And it goes against the word of god did not come from god,
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  • Okay? it's demonic.
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  • That's what he's doing here.
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  • But he's also stating, don't hold on to hope.
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  • So the first tactic of the enemy here, okay, is to doubt god.
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  • God's not going to come through this time.
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  • God's not going to help you in this situation.
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  • You've gone too far.
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  • So listen to what he says next here.
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  • Then he stated, don't listen to hezekiah,
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  • For these are the terms of the king of assyria is offering.
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  • Oh, this is nice.
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  • Make peace with me.
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  • Open the gates.
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  • Come on, open them up.
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  • Come on out.
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  • Let's hang out a little bit.
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  • Did each of you can continue eating?
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  • I know you're hungry
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  • From your own grapevine and fig tree.
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  • And drinking from your own well. and by the way, i got.
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  • I got a blessing for you.
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  • I'm going to arrange something
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  • And i'm going to take you to another land.
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  • Like this one.
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  • But it's a land of grain and new wine, bread and vineyards,
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  • Olive groves and and honey.
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  • And then he states it like this.
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  • Why don't you choose life instead of death?
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  • So if you just open the door and come on out,
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  • Then we can get this over with quickly.
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  • Do not believe hezekiah, for he is going to kill you
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  • And have you die.
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  • Choose life today.
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  • Listen to the manipulation.
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  • If you doubt god and believe that doubt.
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  • The second thing is this just surrender.
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  • Stop guarding your heart.
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  • Stop guarding your mind.
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  • Open the door.
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  • Let me overtake you.
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  • I'll bring you to a new land as slaves,
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  • As captives within bondage.
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  • This is deceiving.
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  • But this is what the enemy does.
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  • He says i'll give you the relationship
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  • You've always wanted, but it will only break your heart.
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  • And it will cause you to never trust anybody again.
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  • Satan always gives you a i.
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  • Gives us a package that looks beautiful on the outside.
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  • Looks like everything
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  • That you've ever wanted, but on the inside
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  • It will destroy your soul and break your heart.
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  • Now listen to this after surrender, verse 33.
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  • Then he also stated this have the gods of any of the
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  • Nations ever saved the people from the king of assyria?
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  • Verse 35.
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  • What god of any nation has ever been able
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  • To save its people from my power?
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  • So what makes you think that the lord can rescue jerusalem
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  • From me?
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  • Now, the last
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  • Tactic is this to discredit god's power
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  • By causing them to compare with false gods.
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  • He is bragging about
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  • Overtaking these idols, these false gods.
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  • But let me make it very clear.
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  • He's never dealt with the one true god, yahweh.
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  • He has never dealt with god, the god of israel,
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  • Of abraham, jacob, and isaac.
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  • He's never
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  • Dealt with that. god.
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  • This is how the enemy speaks.
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  • Because, listen,
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  • If he can get inside of your head,
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  • He will always get through your walls.
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  • And maybe you've maybe going through this right now
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  • Where somebody in your life
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  • Is constantly speaking these things.
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  • They are speaking accusations.
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  • They're speaking intimidation.
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  • They're speaking lies.
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  • And they make you question the very god who has delivered you,
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  • Who met you,
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  • Who changed you, who restored you.
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  • I and i'm telling you, it's a spiritual fight.
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  • It's over the mind.
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  • This is why paul says in ephesians chapter six verse 11,
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  • Put on all of god's armor
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  • So that you will be able to stand firm
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  • Against all the strategies of the devil.
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  • Are you protecting your mind?
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  • As i was writing this sermon, though,
  • 00:10:45.002 --> 00:10:47.371
  • A heaviness kind of came upon me
  • 00:10:47.371 --> 00:10:50.340
  • Because i know that we all know this feeling.
  • 00:10:50.340 --> 00:10:53.544
  • We all know this feeling of somebody tormenting you,
  • 00:10:53.544 --> 00:10:57.014
  • Hurting you, and sometimes their words
  • 00:10:57.014 --> 00:10:59.950
  • Can just strike and rise up, fear on the inside.
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  • And you feel like your life is falling apart.
  • 00:11:03.253 --> 00:11:05.723
  • And the hardest part about that
  • 00:11:05.723 --> 00:11:07.057
  • Is that sometimes you will look up to the sky
  • 00:11:07.057 --> 00:11:09.259
  • And you will question everything.
  • 00:11:09.259 --> 00:11:10.928
  • God, where are you?
  • 00:11:10.928 --> 00:11:14.765
  • Right.
  • 00:11:14.965 --> 00:11:15.999
  • How come they're getting away with everything?
  • 00:11:15.999 --> 00:11:17.801
  • How come my enemies are blessed?
  • 00:11:17.801 --> 00:11:19.703
  • How come they have everything that i've ever wanted?
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  • How come they had the life
  • 00:11:22.039 --> 00:11:23.507
  • That i've always wanted for myself and do not have?
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  • The wealth, the health, the family.
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  • They don't honor you.
  • 00:11:32.116 --> 00:11:33.217
  • They mocked you.
  • 00:11:33.217 --> 00:11:34.151
  • Yet they have everything.
  • 00:11:34.151 --> 00:11:38.255
  • There's an answer
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  • That the lord gave me a long time ago.
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  • And it's written by a psalmist
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  • Named asaph.
  • 00:11:45.963 --> 00:11:48.499
  • He's one of the original worship pastors
  • 00:11:48.499 --> 00:11:51.301
  • To king david.
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  • And he is very real.
  • 00:11:54.338 --> 00:11:55.472
  • And he says this.
  • 00:11:55.472 --> 00:11:56.707
  • He says pretty much in ministry he struggled with jealousy.
  • 00:11:56.707 --> 00:11:59.810
  • He was discouraged and there was a time in his life
  • 00:12:00.811 --> 00:12:03.213
  • Where he questioned god because of these exact reasons.
  • 00:12:03.213 --> 00:12:06.550
  • Listen to this.
  • 00:12:06.550 --> 00:12:07.885
  • Psalm 73, verses 2 to 5.
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  • But as for me, i almost lost my footing.
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  • My feet were slipping
  • 00:12:14.958 --> 00:12:17.127
  • And i was almost gone. why?
  • 00:12:17.127 --> 00:12:19.630
  • For i envied the proud
  • 00:12:19.630 --> 00:12:22.866
  • When i saw them prosper despite their wickedness.
  • 00:12:22.866 --> 00:12:26.336
  • Now listen to this.
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  • For they seem to live such a painless life.
  • 00:12:27.337 --> 00:12:30.808
  • Their bodies are so healthy and strong.
  • 00:12:31.675 --> 00:12:34.511
  • And it doesn't seem like
  • 00:12:34.511 --> 00:12:35.512
  • They had the troubles like other people.
  • 00:12:35.512 --> 00:12:37.381
  • They're not plagued with problems like everyone at house.
  • 00:12:37.381 --> 00:12:41.919
  • Verse 11 to 14.
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  • But is god known?
  • 00:12:45.422 --> 00:12:47.324
  • They ask,
  • 00:12:47.324 --> 00:12:48.926
  • Does the most high even know what's happening right now?
  • 00:12:48.926 --> 00:12:52.129
  • Does god even know what's happening?
  • 00:12:52.129 --> 00:12:54.765
  • Look at all these wicked people enjoying a life with ease
  • 00:12:54.765 --> 00:12:57.768
  • While the riches multiply.
  • 00:12:57.768 --> 00:12:59.636
  • Now, this is a very real moment right here.
  • 00:12:59.636 --> 00:13:01.638
  • Did i keep my heart pure for nothing?
  • 00:13:01.638 --> 00:13:05.042
  • Did i keep myself innocent for no reason?
  • 00:13:05.876 --> 00:13:09.079
  • Because i get nothing but trouble all day long.
  • 00:13:09.079 --> 00:13:12.216
  • Every morning brings me pain.
  • 00:13:12.216 --> 00:13:15.686
  • What i love about the psalmist said he's
  • 00:13:15.686 --> 00:13:17.788
  • Being real with his feelings, but also he's telling us
  • 00:13:17.788 --> 00:13:20.657
  • That he's trying to understand logically.
  • 00:13:20.657 --> 00:13:23.527
  • He's trying to understand with his feelings.
  • 00:13:23.527 --> 00:13:25.729
  • And because he's trying to understand the situation
  • 00:13:25.729 --> 00:13:27.464
  • With his feelings, he's becoming more frustrated.
  • 00:13:27.464 --> 00:13:30.734
  • He's becoming more jealous.
  • 00:13:30.734 --> 00:13:32.369
  • He's becoming more discontent with everything in his life.
  • 00:13:32.369 --> 00:13:36.640
  • But that's not the end of the story.
  • 00:13:37.441 --> 00:13:40.477
  • Let's continue verse 16 through 19.
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  • I tried to understand why the wicked prosper.
  • 00:13:43.614 --> 00:13:45.749
  • It is a difficult task.
  • 00:13:45.749 --> 00:13:48.585
  • Then i went into your sanctuary.
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  • Underline that right there.
  • 00:13:51.488 --> 00:13:53.190
  • If you're looking at the text, i.
  • 00:13:53.190 --> 00:13:54.524
  • Then i went into your sanctuary.
  • 00:13:54.524 --> 00:13:56.693
  • Oh, god.
  • 00:13:56.693 --> 00:13:57.794
  • And i finally understood the destiny of the wicked.
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  • Truly.
  • 00:14:01.598 --> 00:14:02.299
  • You put them on a slippery path
  • 00:14:02.299 --> 00:14:04.801
  • And send them sledding over the cliff to destruction.
  • 00:14:04.801 --> 00:14:07.771
  • And an instant they are destroyed,
  • 00:14:07.771 --> 00:14:09.740
  • Completely swept away by terrors.
  • 00:14:09.740 --> 00:14:13.577
  • He was frustrated with his feelings
  • 00:14:13.577 --> 00:14:15.812
  • Until he came into the presence of god
  • 00:14:15.812 --> 00:14:19.016
  • As he prayed, as he worshiped.
  • 00:14:19.616 --> 00:14:21.618
  • He started to understand the things that they have.
  • 00:14:21.618 --> 00:14:24.821
  • The success that they have is slowly or quickly.
  • 00:14:24.821 --> 00:14:28.392
  • I mean quickly fading away.
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  • It's all falling apart.
  • 00:14:31.695 --> 00:14:33.096
  • Eventually, everything that they have
  • 00:14:33.096 --> 00:14:35.232
  • Will end because they trust in themselves and not the lord.
  • 00:14:35.232 --> 00:14:38.135
  • But what you have with the righteous have will be eternal.
  • 00:14:38.135 --> 00:14:43.507
  • To be content with jesus.
  • 00:14:44.074 --> 00:14:47.377
  • Are you struggling?
  • 00:14:47.844 --> 00:14:50.681
  • And listen?
  • 00:14:50.681 --> 00:14:51.615
  • As a pastor, i hear all kinds of things.
  • 00:14:51.615 --> 00:14:52.849
  • There are some really difficult things when it comes to this
  • 00:14:52.849 --> 00:14:56.753
  • Pastor.
  • 00:14:56.987 --> 00:14:57.654
  • I've always wanted a child.
  • 00:14:57.654 --> 00:15:00.490
  • How come they can have children and i can't?
  • 00:15:00.490 --> 00:15:04.027
  • Pastor, i've been trying for years
  • 00:15:04.027 --> 00:15:05.395
  • Just to get my life right.
  • 00:15:05.395 --> 00:15:06.396
  • How come i keep fighting with addiction? but
  • 00:15:06.396 --> 00:15:09.800
  • They have it too.
  • 00:15:10.233 --> 00:15:11.201
  • And they just get everything that they want.
  • 00:15:11.201 --> 00:15:15.005
  • It's a slippery slope.
  • 00:15:15.472 --> 00:15:18.842
  • God is still with you.
  • 00:15:18.842 --> 00:15:19.910
  • It is not abandon you. it's not going to leave you.
  • 00:15:19.910 --> 00:15:21.712
  • And there are some promises that are still coming.
  • 00:15:21.712 --> 00:15:23.747
  • Let me encourage you with that.
  • 00:15:23.747 --> 00:15:26.049
  • There are some promises that are still coming.
  • 00:15:26.049 --> 00:15:29.820
  • Just because it hasn't happened yet doesn't mean it's not
  • 00:15:29.820 --> 00:15:31.755
  • Going to.
  • 00:15:31.755 --> 00:15:32.689
  • And so let's get back to the story of hezekiah,
  • 00:15:33.623 --> 00:15:35.359
  • Because again, the first time he responded with fear.
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  • But they come back okay.
  • 00:15:38.328 --> 00:15:40.998
  • And the second time.
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  • Now listen to this a second time, hezekiah
  • 00:15:41.932 --> 00:15:45.002
  • Responds differently and he prays.
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  • Second kings 19, verse one.
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  • When king hezekiah heard the report,
  • 00:15:50.240 --> 00:15:52.009
  • Now he tore his clothing and he put on burlap,
  • 00:15:52.009 --> 00:15:55.879
  • And he went into the temple of
  • 00:15:55.879 --> 00:15:57.447
  • The lord to be in god's presence and to pray for wisdom.
  • 00:15:57.447 --> 00:16:01.218
  • And the lord speaks
  • 00:16:01.218 --> 00:16:02.319
  • To the prophet isaiah and isaiah gives him a warning.
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  • Second kings 19 six and seven.
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  • The prophet replied.
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  • Say to your master, this is what the lord says.
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  • Do not be disturbed by the blasphemous speech
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  • Against me from the assyrians kings, messengers.
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  • Listen, i myself will move against him,
  • 00:16:22.305 --> 00:16:24.908
  • And the king
  • 00:16:24.908 --> 00:16:25.942
  • Will receive a message that he is needed at home.
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  • He's going to return to his homeland.
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  • And there he will be killed by the sword.
  • 00:16:30.380 --> 00:16:33.383
  • Now all this happened.
  • 00:16:33.383 --> 00:16:36.119
  • Rubbish!
  • 00:16:36.386 --> 00:16:37.354
  • I ended up leaving jerusalem because of the,
  • 00:16:37.354 --> 00:16:40.657
  • Because of another battle.
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  • Rumors of another battle with ethiopia.
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  • It all happened.
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  • Sort of.
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  • Okay.
  • 00:16:47.631 --> 00:16:48.498
  • This is where faith gets really hard.
  • 00:16:48.498 --> 00:16:49.666
  • What did god say?
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  • All right.
  • 00:16:50.333 --> 00:16:51.001
  • You're going to be distracted.
  • 00:16:51.001 --> 00:16:51.768
  • They're going to leave you alone.
  • 00:16:51.768 --> 00:16:52.869
  • And the king is going to die by the sword.
  • 00:16:52.869 --> 00:16:55.038
  • Okay. all that happens.
  • 00:16:55.038 --> 00:16:57.874
  • But it doesn't happen right away.
  • 00:16:57.874 --> 00:17:00.610
  • This is why you cannot give up faith, okay?
  • 00:17:00.610 --> 00:17:03.346
  • Because they're distracted.
  • 00:17:03.346 --> 00:17:05.115
  • They all leave jerusalem.
  • 00:17:05.115 --> 00:17:06.950
  • They go fight this other battle.
  • 00:17:06.950 --> 00:17:08.985
  • The problem is, they send a letter back to king hezekiah.
  • 00:17:08.985 --> 00:17:12.756
  • Because the king of assyria has not died yet.
  • 00:17:12.756 --> 00:17:15.492
  • And they send king hezekiah a letter that says,
  • 00:17:15.492 --> 00:17:18.328
  • I'm coming back.
  • 00:17:18.328 --> 00:17:21.331
  • Don't get too comfortable.
  • 00:17:21.331 --> 00:17:23.366
  • I'm coming after you, and i'm coming after jerusalem.
  • 00:17:23.366 --> 00:17:27.104
  • I will not stop.
  • 00:17:27.504 --> 00:17:30.140
  • What do you do with that?
  • 00:17:30.140 --> 00:17:34.344
  • When you prayed
  • 00:17:33.410 --> 00:17:35.212
  • And you saw
  • 00:17:35.212 --> 00:17:36.279
  • Half of a miracle, but you didn't see the full thing.
  • 00:17:36.279 --> 00:17:39.015
  • And now the enemy is coming back.
  • 00:17:39.783 --> 00:17:41.718
  • Let me make it very clear.
  • 00:17:41.718 --> 00:17:42.886
  • This is a real battle. this.
  • 00:17:42.886 --> 00:17:44.821
  • The devil does not stop fighting you over one prayer.
  • 00:17:44.821 --> 00:17:50.093
  • Let me make that very clear.
  • 00:17:50.694 --> 00:17:52.162
  • The devil doesn't just leave you alone.
  • 00:17:52.162 --> 00:17:54.231
  • He doesn't just give up over one prayer.
  • 00:17:54.231 --> 00:17:57.100
  • So pray again.
  • 00:17:57.100 --> 00:17:59.069
  • And then pray again.
  • 00:17:59.069 --> 00:18:01.872
  • And then worship and pray again and give it over to the lord.
  • 00:18:00.604 --> 00:18:04.741
  • This is how you fight these battles,
  • 00:18:04.741 --> 00:18:08.111
  • Because the king of assyria sent a letter
  • 00:18:08.945 --> 00:18:11.748
  • In verse ten and chapter 19, it says, don't let your god and
  • 00:18:11.748 --> 00:18:14.317
  • Whoever you trust
  • 00:18:14.317 --> 00:18:15.852
  • Deceive you
  • 00:18:16.186 --> 00:18:16.820
  • With the
  • 00:18:16.820 --> 00:18:17.387
  • Promises that jerusalem
  • 00:18:17.387 --> 00:18:18.421
  • Will not be captured by the king of assyria.
  • 00:18:18.421 --> 00:18:21.024
  • We're coming after you.
  • 00:18:21.024 --> 00:18:23.360
  • And you know what hezekiah did with that letter?
  • 00:18:23.360 --> 00:18:26.429
  • He placed it at the altar of god.
  • 00:18:26.429 --> 00:18:29.900
  • The very thing that was meant to strike fear in his heart.
  • 00:18:31.067 --> 00:18:34.437
  • He said, god, i give it to you.
  • 00:18:34.437 --> 00:18:37.641
  • I'll place it at the altar.
  • 00:18:37.641 --> 00:18:39.576
  • Second kings 1914.
  • 00:18:39.576 --> 00:18:41.444
  • After hezekiah received a letter
  • 00:18:41.444 --> 00:18:43.146
  • From the messengers and read it, he went up to the temple.
  • 00:18:43.146 --> 00:18:46.249
  • The lord's temple. and he what?
  • 00:18:46.249 --> 00:18:47.717
  • He spread it out before the lord.
  • 00:18:47.717 --> 00:18:50.453
  • He didn't panic.
  • 00:18:50.453 --> 00:18:52.289
  • He didn't pay last time.
  • 00:18:52.289 --> 00:18:53.857
  • He prayed.
  • 00:18:53.857 --> 00:18:54.791
  • And let me make it very clear.
  • 00:18:54.791 --> 00:18:55.992
  • If you don't pray, you pray.
  • 00:18:55.992 --> 00:18:59.262
  • When you don't pray about it, you will always pray
  • 00:18:59.262 --> 00:19:01.731
  • And give over to the enemy what belongs to god.
  • 00:19:01.731 --> 00:19:04.467
  • But when you pray,
  • 00:19:04.467 --> 00:19:06.336
  • God will strengthen you.
  • 00:19:06.870 --> 00:19:08.271
  • Because let me also make this clear.
  • 00:19:08.271 --> 00:19:09.839
  • Satan is still using people to send letters of fear.
  • 00:19:09.839 --> 00:19:13.877
  • It just looks a little bit different this time.
  • 00:19:13.877 --> 00:19:15.345
  • Sometimes it's in a text message,
  • 00:19:15.345 --> 00:19:18.315
  • And it's that text that strikes fear on your heart.
  • 00:19:18.315 --> 00:19:21.017
  • Sometimes it's in the comment section.
  • 00:19:21.017 --> 00:19:23.286
  • Sometimes you send your emails
  • 00:19:23.286 --> 00:19:25.021
  • And all these things can weigh you down and they get heavy.
  • 00:19:25.021 --> 00:19:29.059
  • So guess what you can do?
  • 00:19:29.059 --> 00:19:30.026
  • You can place it at the altar of god.
  • 00:19:30.026 --> 00:19:33.530
  • God, take every bit of stress that i have.
  • 00:19:33.530 --> 00:19:38.335
  • Don't react.
  • 00:19:38.668 --> 00:19:39.836
  • Release.
  • 00:19:39.836 --> 00:19:41.838
  • Don't hold on to it.
  • 00:19:41.838 --> 00:19:43.773
  • Give it over to god.
  • 00:19:43.773 --> 00:19:45.242
  • Because here's the encouragement that i have for you today.
  • 00:19:45.242 --> 00:19:47.944
  • Lesson point number two. last point.
  • 00:19:47.944 --> 00:19:50.247
  • God humbles the proud.
  • 00:19:50.247 --> 00:19:53.617
  • God will always take care.
  • 00:19:54.184 --> 00:19:55.919
  • The arrogant, the proud, those that come after you.
  • 00:19:55.919 --> 00:19:59.322
  • Now listen to this.
  • 00:19:59.322 --> 00:20:01.024
  • As god answers, hezekiah through the prophet isaiah again.
  • 00:20:01.024 --> 00:20:04.894
  • But god's words are powerful and frightening all
  • 00:20:04.894 --> 00:20:07.030
  • At the same time.
  • 00:20:07.030 --> 00:20:08.398
  • Second kings 1922.
  • 00:20:08.832 --> 00:20:11.501
  • Listen to what the lord says.
  • 00:20:11.501 --> 00:20:12.769
  • Whom have you been defying and ridiculing?
  • 00:20:12.769 --> 00:20:16.506
  • Against whom did you raise your voice at?
  • 00:20:16.506 --> 00:20:19.576
  • Whom did you look with such haughty eyes?
  • 00:20:19.576 --> 00:20:22.445
  • It was the holy one of israel.
  • 00:20:22.445 --> 00:20:25.548
  • Verse 25.
  • 00:20:25.849 --> 00:20:27.751
  • But have you not heard?
  • 00:20:27.751 --> 00:20:29.919
  • I decided this long ago.
  • 00:20:29.919 --> 00:20:32.122
  • Long ago i planned it, and now i'm making it happen.
  • 00:20:32.122 --> 00:20:35.358
  • I plan now.
  • 00:20:35.358 --> 00:20:37.661
  • I plan for you to crush fortified
  • 00:20:37.661 --> 00:20:40.430
  • Cities into heaps of rubble.
  • 00:20:40.430 --> 00:20:42.499
  • The lord is saying assyria.
  • 00:20:42.499 --> 00:20:43.867
  • You didn't have all the power.
  • 00:20:43.867 --> 00:20:44.768
  • I gave you the power.
  • 00:20:44.768 --> 00:20:47.037
  • I allowed you to do this. why?
  • 00:20:47.037 --> 00:20:49.039
  • The reason why god was using the assyrian army
  • 00:20:49.039 --> 00:20:52.909
  • To destroy all the false idols
  • 00:20:52.909 --> 00:20:56.246
  • And the nation of israel.
  • 00:20:56.813 --> 00:20:59.115
  • God was using the assyrian army to tear down
  • 00:20:59.115 --> 00:21:03.253
  • And destroy all the idols.
  • 00:21:03.253 --> 00:21:04.954
  • All the demons that his people were choosing to worship.
  • 00:21:04.954 --> 00:21:09.359
  • So god is saying to assyria, you're not that strong.
  • 00:21:09.359 --> 00:21:13.296
  • I allowed this to
  • 00:21:13.730 --> 00:21:14.831
  • Happen to break the enemy's power.
  • 00:21:14.831 --> 00:21:17.934
  • Now listen to this.
  • 00:21:17.934 --> 00:21:18.835
  • Verse 27 and 28,
  • 00:21:18.835 --> 00:21:21.738
  • And let me also make this point, sometimes god will allow
  • 00:21:21.738 --> 00:21:24.274
  • Something in your life to fall apart, to reveal
  • 00:21:24.274 --> 00:21:27.077
  • That what you are leaning on could not hold you up.
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  • You're leaning on the wrong things.
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  • But verse 2728,
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  • Listen to the words of the lord here, but i know you will.
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  • I know where you stay.
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  • And when you come and go.
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  • And i know the way you have raged against me.
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  • And because of your raging against me and your arrogance,
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  • Which i've heard for myself. now listen to this.
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  • I will put a hook in your nose
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  • And my bit in your mouth, and i will make you return
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  • By the same road on which you came.
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  • Why would the lord speak in such a way?
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  • The assyrians were ruthless when it came to the captives.
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  • The city or the capital of assyria was nineveh.
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  • We've learned about this before.
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  • As they take in the captives, they would take hooks,
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  • And they would place it in their captives nose,
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  • And they would string them like a fish
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  • And pulled them into assyria.
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  • It shows you how much the
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  • Enemy will lie when he says, hey, i got a land for you.
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  • Open up your doors and just surrender.
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  • He's trying to hook you, string you, and pull you
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  • So you know what the lord says.
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  • He says, i know
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  • You try to do it to my people, but i'm going to do it to you.
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  • Instead, i'm going to hook your nose.
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  • I'm going to pull you, and i'm going to pull you back
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  • To where you came from, meaning the same pain
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  • The enemy used to control others.
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  • God will actually use it to correct them.
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  • Be careful what you say
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  • And how you hurt people.
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  • Be careful of these things
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  • And if you're going through something right now,
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  • I pray that this is encouraging to you,
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  • But god will correct them.
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  • Okay? in the story though, hezekiah,
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  • He hears this from the lord.
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  • His situation hasn't changed.
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  • The king of assyria is still alive.
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  • They're still surrounded, right?
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  • How do you sleep at night
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  • When something like that is happening?
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  • But it's in the middle of rest and trusting the lord
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  • That god would do something supernatural.
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  • That very night, god did the impossible.
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  • Listen to this.
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  • Chapter 19, verse 35.
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  • That night, the angel of the lord went out
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  • To the assyrian camp and killed 185,000 assyrian soldiers.
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  • When the surviving assyrians woke up in the next morning,
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  • They found corpses, dead bodies everywhere.
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  • Then king sennacherib of assyria broke camp
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  • And he returned back to his homeland.
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  • I bet he did,
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  • Waking up a bunch of dead bodies, 185,000
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  • Of his soldiers dead corpses laying on the floor.
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  • He went home to the capital of nineveh, and he stayed there.
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  • Now, this is powerful because this means that god
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  • Is always in your situation.
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  • He loves you so much.
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  • But when you give it over
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  • To god, what overwhelmed you yesterday can be over in
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  • One night.
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  • Hear me on that.
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  • What overwhelmed you yesterday
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  • Can be over.
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  • And one night.
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  • God was fighting for hezekiah
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  • While hezekiah was sleeping.
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  • You can rest tonight
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  • Because the things that you can't control
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  • And you can't force.
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  • God is already fighting for you
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  • While you sleep,
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  • While you rest,
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  • While you have joy.
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  • This is why david said, i have joy
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  • Even though my enemies surround me
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  • And want to kill me, i have joy
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  • For the lord is my strength.
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  • You know you want to know why.
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  • Because the same god
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  • Who sent one angel to kill 185,000 soldiers.
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  • It's the same god who's handling your situation today.
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  • You're all right, guys.
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  • That's all the time we have for today.
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  • But i pray that today's message bless your life.
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  • There is a reason you heard this word today.
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  • It's not by mistake.
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  • You're here for a reason, and god has a plan for you.
  • 00:25:28.785 --> 00:25:32.655
  • And listen, if you love this church
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  • And thinking about giving to this church, all you have to do
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  • Is visit our website at bobbie chandler ministries.com.
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  • And it's very easy to give.
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  • And once you give, listen,
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  • You're helping change lives because of your faithful giving.
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  • We're able to reach not only the nation but the world.
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  • We're bringing the gospel of jesus christ
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  • Into everyone's home as much as we can,
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  • So that they know the love of god.
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  • And listen, if you want to hear more sermons as well.
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  • So thank you for watching today
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  • And i can't wait to see you again very soon.
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  • All right.
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  • Before you go, i got one more announcement to make.
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  • And this one's a big one.
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  • Okay.
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  • This year
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  • We held our very
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  • First awaking conference in hickory, north carolina
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  • For authentic church and we saw people come out
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  • From everywhere, from all over the nation
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  • And even outside of the country
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  • To experience what god is doing here.
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  • So we're doing it again in 2026, from june 4th to june 7th.
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  • We would love for you to plan and be here with us.
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  • And if you want to look into more details
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  • Over the conference,
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  • All you have to do is click the link below.
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  • In fact, here's a recap video to show you what all god did.
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  • For me.
  • 00:27:03.780 --> 00:27:15.525
  • And the
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  • Reason i even bring it up tonight
  • 00:27:16.559 --> 00:27:19.495
  • Is because when it comes to you knowing jesus, the man.
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  • The gospel.
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  • Message is all about
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  • Your understanding of the message about the man
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  • Who informed your methods of getting to know the man
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  • From. me.
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  • This.
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  • This job doesn't work out for me.
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  • What if i move my life by faith and it all just
  • 00:28:07.944 --> 00:28:11.681
  • Crumbles to the ground? what if it works?
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  • What if god shows up and changes your life forever?
  • 00:28:14.584 --> 00:28:17.487
  • But i would rather move by faith
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  • And even fail and fail and fail and know that i follow god.
  • 00:28:19.322 --> 00:28:23.192
  • And i ended up exactly.
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  • Where i needed to be.
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  • You know what?
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  • Today is.
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  • Pentecost sunday.
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  • Pentecost sunday.
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  • We. you better
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  • Not ask a holy ghost preacher to preach on pentecost sunday.
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  • I came here to remind you
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  • You need the holy spirit.
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