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Welcome to the Holiness Foundation podcast, a place where we
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believe in Jesus, stand for the word of God, and
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proclaim the timeless message of holiness. Our foundation is Jesus Christ.
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Our authority is the word of God, and our desire
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is to see lives transformed by his truth. You're listening
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to the Holiness Foundation podcast. Now here is a new
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sermon from a minister of the Pentecostal Holiness Fellowship.
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Then I heard him from within. He who died for
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my sins He spoke my name Then I saw His face.
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Yes, I've seen His eternal glory.
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I felt His hand when I was astray I never
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knew until then What his love truly meant. I was
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lost but now I'm found by his grace.
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By his grace.
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By his grace.
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I've been saved by the grace of my Lord By
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His grace, by His grace I've been saved by the
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grace of my Lord He is the Lamb and He
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is the Shepherd.
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He's the burning flame within my soul.
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It's good to see you this morning. Appreciated that wonderful
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preaching on the cross. Tanya was kind of nudging me
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and said, well, you ought to tell your story. So, uh,
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cause I've told it a number of places, but I
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was here one morning, probably two or three o'clock in
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the morning praying. And, um, It's dark, no lights were on,
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and I'd just been seeking the Lord and felt like
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the enemy was just thundering in my spirit, and I
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just couldn't get over top of it. I prayed promises
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and prayed through the Psalms, different passages, and I just
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stopped in between these altars and was just looking around
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and was drawn to the cross. It wasn't beautifully framed then,
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but I just.
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Spoke audibly out.
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And I said, devil, everything you're thundering in my spirit
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may be true. But one thing I know, I'm saved.
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And I just looked at the cross. And in that moment,
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I felt victory. And I felt the Lord touch me
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in a special way. And I can say that the
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cross has only become more beautiful to me, even that cross.
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And isn't this a wonderful sanctuary, the work they've done?
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Man, it is overwhelming. Wow, just how beautiful this is.
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And I give Brother Roger and Sister Brenda honor and
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just love and appreciate them and Brother Travis and Sister Angel.
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Don't you appreciate the work they're doing here, just materially
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but also spiritually? Just what God is doing is just tremendous.
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I want to go to the book of Numbers.
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And chapter 23.
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Numbers chapter 23.
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23.
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And verse 21. I'll borrow a phrase from this passage
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for a title. The shout of a king is among them.
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The shout of a king is among them. Verse 21.
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He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob. Neither hath he
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seen Jacob. perverseness in Israel. The Lord his God is
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with him, and the shout of a king is among them.
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God brought them out of Egypt. He hath, as it were,
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the strength of a unicorn. Surely there is no enchantment
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against Jacob.
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Notice this.
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Neither is there any divination against Israel. According to this time.
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It shall be said of Jacob and of Israel. What
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hath God wrought? Now that's not a question. That's an exclamation.
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There's an exclamation point behind that. What hath God wrought?
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Look what God has done.
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In other words.
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So this is an extraordinary extraordinary story. I know that
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you're familiar with it but this is a story of
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how the wicked.
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King of Moab Balak.
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Tried to destroy the people of Israel by hiring a
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soothsayer to curse them. The reason that he's searching for
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someone to stop them or curse them is because that
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they are moving forward and defeating every enemy within their path.
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It wasn't that they didn't have obstacles. It wasn't that
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they didn't have difficulties. It wasn't that they didn't have enemies.
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It's just that they could not be stopped.
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And in the first few verses of chapter 22, the
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Bible said the children of Israel set forward and pitched
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in the plains of Moab on this side, Jordan by
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Jericho and Balak.
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He saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.
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The Bible said Moab was so afraid of the people
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because there were many and Moab was distressed because of
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the children of Israel. And then he got some folks
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together and said, this company, they're just going to take
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up everything that's round about them. Literally, he said, they're
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just going to lick it up. It appears that there
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is nothing that we can do to stop them. And
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so he is reduced to extreme measures.
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And the Bible goes on to let us know that
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he sends messengers unto Balaam. And he is asking if
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there is basically something that can be done against them.
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And he says, come now, I pray thee, curse me
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this people. For they are too mighty for me. Peradventure,
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I shall prevail that we might smite them, that I
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might drive them out of the land. For I want
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that he whom thou blessed is blessed, and he whom
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thou cursest is cursed. In other words, I've heard that
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whoever you bless is blessed, and whoever you curse, well,
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they're cursed. And the elders of Moab and the elders
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of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand.
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They came unto Balaam.
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And spake unto him the words of Balak. Now, the
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book of Numbers introduces us to Balaam.
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And he is a.
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Very strange Old Testament prophet, but he is a prophet
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for hire. He was not an Israelite, but he was
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a well-known priest, diviner, or prophet in this case.
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A false prophet, you might say.
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Balak thought that this man could put curses on others
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by influencing them. The will of gods. That's a small g.
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The will of gods and the will of false spirits.
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So Balak turned to Balaam's knowledge of sorcery, incantations, and
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mysterious manipulations. Balaam may at one time... had been a
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true follower of God. But it goes without saying that
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he somewhere along the line departed from the faith and
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became a diviner. And like all false prophets, he really
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had no concern, at least no genuine concern, for God's
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honor or the holiness of God's people. And so when
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Balak sins for Balaam, He thinks, well, if I can
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give him enough money, then he will curse the people
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of God.
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And so whenever.
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This scenario begins to play out, you can read in
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chapter 22 that God speaks unto Balaam. And says thou
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shalt not go with them. Thou shalt not curse the people.
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For they are blessed. And so it appears that God
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stays Balaam. And he says I'm not going to go.
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He appears to stand.
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Firm at first.
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But how many remembers that his heart was greedy for gain.
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And eventually the Lord would allow him. To go and
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meet the king with one condition. You can go and
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you can meet the king. But you can only say
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what I will say unto you. And you can only
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do what I tell you to do. And so I
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want you to think about it for a moment. There
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is the Israelite army in the tents clustered together on
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the plain.
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Totally unaware.
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Of the dark conspiracy that is brewing. There is no
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way that they could have known what was going on.
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And there on the hills above them was Balak feverishly
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leading Balaam from one vantage point to the other. Trying
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to get a glimpse of the people of God. Trying
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to convince Balaam. to use his magic and enchantments to
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cast a spell on the people of God so that
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they could ultimately be destroyed. They are seeking to look
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upon Israel... Not just with an evil eye, but with
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also evil intent. And Balak is hoping and praying that
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Balaam will just flash down curses. That he'll just cast
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down curses upon the people of God. And every time
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they look, it seems that the heart of Balaam is gripped.
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And he realizes, I just can't curse them anymore. But
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Balak is determined. They must be cursed. And I want
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to say again that in all probability, Moses and the
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people of God knew nothing at this time about the
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conspiracy that was brewing in the mountains. Some of them
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are resting. Some of them are sleeping. Some of them
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are visiting with their family. They have no idea what
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is taking place. Obviously, some of them are scurrying around
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the city of tents there, busy doing things, but totally
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oblivious to what's taking place into the mountains. I want
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to tell you folks, it is wonderful to know that
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you and I have a God who is always aware
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of what's going on even in those moments when we
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are not. It was the psalmist that said, I will
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lift up mine eyes unto the hills from which cometh
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my help, my help cometh.
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From the Lord.
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Even though there was a dark conspiracy. That was brewing
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on those hills. There was a people that knew. That
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their help always came. From even beyond those hills. I
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will lift up mine eyes. Even beyond the hills. From
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which cometh my help. And the writer said. He will
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not suffer thy foot to be moved. He that keepeth thee.
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Will not slumber. He that keepeth Israel. Shall neither slumber
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nor sleep. The Lord is thy keeper. Even while Israel
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was unaware of what was transpiring on those mountaintops. You
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could rest assured that God was faithful to keep his people.
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And so think about it if you will. From one
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vantage point, Balaam speaks after Balak is pressing him and
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bribing him to curse the people. He says, How shall
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I curse whom God hath not cursed? Or how shall
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I defy whom the Lord hath not defied? From the
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top of the rocks I see him, and from the
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hills I behold him. Lo, the people dwell alone and
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shall not be reckoned among the nations. Who can count
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the dust of Jacob and the number of the fourth
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part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous.
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And let my last end be like his. Think about it.
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He had been hired to curse the people of God.
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And when he goes to the mountain to curse them.
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When he looks on them. He longs to be what
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they are. He longs to have what they have. And
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he said, oh, let me die the death of the righteous.
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And let my last end be like his. He didn't
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want to curse them. He wanted his end to be
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like theirs.
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He wanted to live the life.
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That they were living. And so Balak says. Well maybe
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if we move on across. On another ridge. And you
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can get another vantage point. Maybe you can look on
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them from that direction. And you'll curse them. And so
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a few verses down. After Balak brings him to another
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vantage point, Balaam says, God is not a man that
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he should lie, neither the son of man that he
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should repent. Hath he said, and shall he not do it?
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Hath he spoken, shall he not make it good? Behold,
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I have received commandment to bless, and he, God, hath
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blessed me. And I cannot reverse it. He hath not
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beheld iniquity in Jacob. Neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel.
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The Lord his God is with him.
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Amen. And the shout of a king is among them.
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And then he begins to testify to that old wicked king.
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God brought them out of Egypt. He's got the strength
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of a unicorn. And I've got some bad news for you, king.
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There is no enchantment that's going to work against Jacob.
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There's no divination there.
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That's going to work against Israel. According to this time
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it shall be said of Jacob and Israel, what hath
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God wrought? Look what the Lord has done. And then
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he goes a step further and says, this people is
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going to rise up like a great lion.
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He'll not lie.
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Down until he eat of the prey of And drink
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of the blood of the slain. In other words, there
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ain't a thing you can do to stop the people
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of God. Even though Balak had badgered that old prophet.
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Even though he had bribed that old prophet. Even though
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he had probably offered him more money. Than he had
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ever seen. In his life. The old prophet said. I
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cannot do it. King or no king. Bribe or no bribe.
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I cannot and will not curse. What God has blessed.
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There is no necromancy ever invented that can reverse a
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divine decree. Not by one jot. Not by one tittle.
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Can I change it? Not for all the silver. Not
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for all the gold that you can offer me. You're
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not dealing with a man here, king. You're dealing with
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a God. And Balaam said, God is not a man
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that he should lie to.
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Neither the Son of Man, that he should repent.
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Behold, I have received commandment to bless, and he is blessed,
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and I cannot reverse it. Balak, there's not a spell.
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There's not an incantation. There is nothing that can be done.
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To stop this people. And here's the reason why. For
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the Lord their God is with them. And the shout
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of a king is among them. Here he is moving
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around the mountains. Trying to find a vantage point. That
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he can hurl a curse down upon the people of God.
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But Balaam, after all of the looking, after all of
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the conspiring, after all of the blessing, he could only
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come to one conclusion.
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They're blessed, and there's nothing I can do to reverse it.
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They are invincible because God is their king, and he
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is among them.
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And Balak said... But I don't see a palace. Wait
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a minute.
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I don't see a throne. I don't see a man
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walking among them in royal robes or a crown upon
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his head. And Balaam said, Oh, my imagination. You don't understand.
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Their king cannot be housed in a palace. Earth is
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his footstool. Heaven is his throne. I'm not talking about
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an earthly king. I'm talking about one that sits on
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the throne. Their king is the king of kings.
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He is the Lord of lords.
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And he is the one that's in their midst. You
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think about it for a moment. All that went into
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trying to get them cursed. I was trying to put
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it together this morning just to figure out everything that
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had happened. You've got the wages of unrighteousness that was
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offered to this wicked, wicked prophet to try to somehow
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curse the people of God. You've got them scurrying for money.
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mountaintop to mountaintop. And at least three times, Balak trying
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to get Balaam to curse the people of God. He
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would spare no expenses. No effort was too great. From
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one high place of Baal to the high seats of Satan.
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From one place to another. They're moving, trying to find... A.
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Way in to curse the people of God. They offer
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multiple sacrifices. Is it not seven sacrifices? And there they
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are standing in the smoke of those sacrifices that's been
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offered to false gods. trying somehow to find a way
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to tear down the people of God. And all that
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old prophet can say is, the Lord their God is
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with them, and the shout of a king is among them.
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Do you realize what secured them, what safeguarded them? From
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the onslaught of the enemy. It was not their talent.
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It was not their ingenuity. It was not their ability
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to make war. It was not their finances. It was
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not their social standing. It was the fact that the
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Lord was with them. Balaam made a declaration of the
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divine presence of God. And that's always been the difference
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maker with the children of Israel and the people of God.
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It was not their legal system. It was not their
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genius for building. It was not their numbers or expert leadership.
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It was the very thing... that Balaam recognized... unwittingly as
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he was... he said the Lord... their God... is with them...
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and I want to tell you this morning... as long
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as that's the case... the people of God... are invincible...
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when he was with them... They would overcome. When he
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was with them, they were victorious. When his banners were
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unfurled and the winds blew through them, I want to
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tell you the children of God could not be stopped.
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And I want to preach to us for a few moments.
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This is exactly what's made the difference in the church
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of the living God. It's the presence of Almighty God.
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Not being able to keep up with the latest fad.
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That's not the answer. Not trying to keep up with
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the latest TikTok video. That's not the answer. Just one thing.
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The vitality of the presence of God. The absolute awareness
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that he exists.
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Is in our midst. He is among us. And the shout.
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Of a king.
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Is among the people of God. When his presence is lost.
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There is nothing. That can fill that void. Oh, there
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is nothing that can fill that vacuum. Church tradition cannot
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do it. Efficient organization cannot do it. Updated rituals cannot
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do it. Man-made ideas and traditions cannot do it. I
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think there's a conspiracy against the Pentecostal holiness people.
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In this hour, right?
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To try to shut us down, to try to push
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us down, to try to push us back.
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In a corner.
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And the only thing that's going to cause us not
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just to survive, but also thrive, is the presence of
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Almighty God.
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I said, oh God, let us have that presence.
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To where those who are without, when they look in,
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they see something they want. They see something they admire.
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They see something they covet. That's what got a hold
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of Balaam. Not all the gold, not all the silver
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that was offered him. Not the prestige of walking hand
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in hand with the king. But when he looked down
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on those people, And saw the way they lived. And
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saw the liberty they had. And saw the freedom they had.
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And saw the purity that they enjoyed. He said, that's
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what I want. I can't do a thing against that.
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I want to tell us this morning that the one
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thing that makes all the difference in the world is
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that supernatural element. We call it Pentecostal power. We call
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it the presence of Almighty God. And I just wonder
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when the world looks in, do they see something that
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grips their heart?
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I know what it is. It's the presence.
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Almighty God I remember having a gentleman visit our church
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and he was a part of a Pentecostal organization he
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just showed up very nice gentleman an elderly gentleman and
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he was a former missionary and I forget exactly what
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country it was but he was just a fine gentleman
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and statesman as it were and He was from England originally,
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so he had that English accent. And it just so
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happened that the day he showed up and visited our church,
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we really, it's not always that way, but we.
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Had a great move of the Spirit.
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And there was a lot of things that was happening
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that was just positive in that service.
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And he was visiting with me after the service.
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And I wish I could say it like he did
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in that English accent. But what he said was, I
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like the freshness of the old. And I tell you folks,
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that's what we've got to have. There is nothing new
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that will work. I said there is nothing new that
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will work. It is the freshness of the old. It
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is the presence of Almighty God. It is an awareness.
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I said it is an awareness of the supernatural. I
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feel like all around us there are multitudes that are
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restless and dissatisfied. They are hungering for help. They are
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looking for something that will offer them hope. They are
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groping in darkness. And there is a dissatisfaction with the
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current church world that is driving them.
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They're looking for something.
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And many of them don't even know what they're looking for.
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They don't know how to find it.
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They just know they're not finding it where they are.
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And there's an inner craving that says there's something more.
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There's something deeper. There's something more real. And there is
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a search. That's going on.
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Listen folks. I really believe.
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We're in the last of the last days. And there
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are those out there. That's looking in. They're looking in.
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And they're looking for something. That is real. And you
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know what I think? I'm not foolish enough to think.
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It's just our group that's going to be in heaven.
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I know there's others across planet earth. But I tell
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you what I do think. I think we've got something
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that's real. I think we've got something that's genuine. And
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I am not ashamed. I said I am not ashamed
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of it. I believe when they look in, they'll say
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it's real. I may not understand it, but God's with them.
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And the shout of a king is among them. They're
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starving for the bread of life. They're thirsting for the
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water of life. They need something or somebody to revive
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their suffocating spirit.
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They need somebody. To worship.
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Other than a man. They need somebody to adore. Other
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than a preacher. They need somewhere to kneel. And find
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hope and help. And I believe it's in the church.
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Of the living God. Among the people. That can say
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the Lord. Is with us.
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And a shout.
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Of a king. Is among us. And I'll bring it
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to a close real quick. But listen, folks, if you will.
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Given the current situations that we're in, we have got
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to have the vital, vibrant, awesome presence of God above
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anything else. And I think we've got to have a
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shout of the King among us.
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That word shout, I was looking at it this.
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Morning, and it means a shout of alarm. It means
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a shout that calls for war. So there was something
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that Balaam recognized among them that says, man, it may
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be dark. And there may be a lot of them
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in their tents. And they may appear to be sleeping.
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But I hear something coming from that camp that lets
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me know at any moment.
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They're ready for war.
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There is a shout of a king. They're not going
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to roll over. And let us just march down there
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and take over. They are ready for war. But there
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was also something among them. It was a shout of rejoicing.
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It was a shout of praise. And I think there
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needs to be, if I can use this word, that buzz,
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that constant buzz among the people of God that when
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the world looks in, They see an excitement. They see
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an anticipation.
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They see an enthusiasm.
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I want to tell you folks, Brother Milliken, it would
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be impossible to improve on that kind of preaching. There
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is no theme that can go beyond what he preached on.
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And when the cross is preached among the Pentecostal holiness,
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Trinitarian people, there ought to be a shout of the
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king among us. I'm not here to hurt anybody's feelings,
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but it was not water that cleansed me and a
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formula that In that water that made me whole. It
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was the cross. It was the blood. And when we sing,
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I will cherish. There ought to be a shout. I
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said there ought to be a shout. Because we believe
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in the cross. I said we believe in the cross.
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We believe in the blood. I am not ashamed of
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the gospel of Jesus Christ. For it is the power
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of God unto salvation. I believe in what he preached.
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And when that kind of preaching is heralded from behind
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the sacred desk, there ought to be a shout of
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a king among the people of God. There ought to
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be something within us that says, oh, yeah, oh, yeah.
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I remember that. I remember when I went to the cross.
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I want to tell you in 2019, I got to
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go to Galgotha's Hill. I walked on that ridge and
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looked at that hillside that looked like a skull. I
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looked at that. That is now a bus station. I
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looked at it and I said, not loud, but I said,
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I've already been here. This isn't my first time. I
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came to that cross as a five-year-old boy. Oh, I'm
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telling you folks, there ought to be a shout of
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a king among us whenever we hear about the cross
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of Jesus Christ. Thank you, Brother Milliken, for reminding us
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that's where it all starts.
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That's where it all starts.
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Boy, I tell you what, it's not a, well, you
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got to check the box on A, and then you
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got to check it on B.
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And then you've got to check it on C. And
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then you're saved. It's at the cross where I first
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saw the light.
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And I realize, brothers and sisters, that there's a lot
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going on in this world. And especially social media that
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causes us as holiness people to somehow feel inferior to
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other Pentecostal groups. But I want to tell you something.
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I believe in the truth. And we ought not be
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ashamed of who we are. We are Bible-believing. We are Trinitarian,
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holiness people. And, brother and sister, there is a shout
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of a king among us. We don't have to be
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driven by music to worship. We don't have to be
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driven by symbols to worship. We don't have to be
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driven by... arpeggios on organs to worship. We don't have
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to have somebody pumping us.
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There's a shout of a king that is among.
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The people of God that knows that the Lord is
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with them. What about it? I want the world to
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look in and say God's with them. Listen to that.
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Listen to that noise. Listen to that worship. Listen to
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that praise. The Lord is with them. And the shout
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of a king is among them. Would you give him
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praise and glory?
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Hallelujah.
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Oh, the Lord, his God is with him. Look at that.
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I see something you don't see, King. I just can't
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reverse this. I can't stop this. There's nothing that's going
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to work. Oh, folks, do you ever feel like you're
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just running into something in this hour?
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Resistance. You know why?
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Because Satan, he doesn't fight error.
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He only fights truth. I realize you look at these
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other organizations, man, they're growing by leaps and bounds.
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I don't tell you why, because Satan doesn't fight error.
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He just fights truth. But, oh, when they look in,
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can they say God's with them?
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Listen to that.
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There is a shout of a king that is among them. Oh,
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there are so many scriptures that proclaim his kingship. But
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there is one that goes to mind, and it's found
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in Psalm 47. It says, Oh, clap your hands, all
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ye people, and shout unto God with a voice of triumph.
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For the Lord Most High is terrible, and he is
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a great king over all the earth. God has gone
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up with a shout, the Lord with the sound of
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a trumpet.
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How many knows?
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I didn't know that Brother Randy preached about the king today.
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But how many knows he's our king? I said, he's
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our king. And he's king of kings. And he's Lord
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of lords. And Isaiah said, cry and shout, thou inhabitants
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of Zion. For great is the Holy One of Israel
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in the midst of thee. want to tell you we've
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got something to shout about because the Lord is in
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our midst he is in the sanctuary and he's still
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working among the people of God in this hour Satan's.
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Not going to shut this down Satan's not going to
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stop the people of God he.
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Ain't got a chance As long as he's with us,
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we're invincible.
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How many knows that? Let's give the Lord praise and glory.
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Thank you for this honor. Thank you, brother. Praise the Lord.
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Thank you for listening to the Holiness Foundation podcast. To
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Until next time, may God bless you.
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Welcome to the Holiness Foundation podcast, a place where we
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believe in Jesus, stand for the word of God, and
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proclaim the timeless message of holiness. Our foundation is Jesus Christ.
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Our authority is the word of God, and our desire
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is to see lives transformed by his truth. You're listening
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to the Holiness Foundation podcast. Now here is a new
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sermon from a minister of the Pentecostal Holiness Fellowship.
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Then I heard him from within. He who died for
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my sins He spoke my name Then I saw His face.
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Yes, I've seen His eternal glory.
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I felt His hand when I was astray I never
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knew until then What his love truly meant. I was
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lost but now I'm found by his grace.
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By his grace.
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By his grace.
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I've been saved by the grace of my Lord By
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His grace, by His grace I've been saved by the
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grace of my Lord He is the Lamb and He
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is the Shepherd.
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He's the burning flame within my soul.
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It's good to see you this morning. Appreciated that wonderful
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preaching on the cross. Tanya was kind of nudging me
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and said, well, you ought to tell your story. So, uh,
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cause I've told it a number of places, but I
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was here one morning, probably two or three o'clock in
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the morning praying. And, um, It's dark, no lights were on,
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and I'd just been seeking the Lord and felt like
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the enemy was just thundering in my spirit, and I
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just couldn't get over top of it. I prayed promises
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and prayed through the Psalms, different passages, and I just
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stopped in between these altars and was just looking around
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and was drawn to the cross. It wasn't beautifully framed then,
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but I just.
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Spoke audibly out.
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And I said, devil, everything you're thundering in my spirit
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may be true. But one thing I know, I'm saved.
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And I just looked at the cross. And in that moment,
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I felt victory. And I felt the Lord touch me
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in a special way. And I can say that the
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cross has only become more beautiful to me, even that cross.
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And isn't this a wonderful sanctuary, the work they've done?
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Man, it is overwhelming. Wow, just how beautiful this is.
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And I give Brother Roger and Sister Brenda honor and
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just love and appreciate them and Brother Travis and Sister Angel.
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Don't you appreciate the work they're doing here, just materially
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but also spiritually? Just what God is doing is just tremendous.
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I want to go to the book of Numbers.
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And chapter 23.
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Numbers chapter 23.
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23.
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And verse 21. I'll borrow a phrase from this passage
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for a title. The shout of a king is among them.
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The shout of a king is among them. Verse 21.
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He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob. Neither hath he
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seen Jacob. perverseness in Israel. The Lord his God is
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with him, and the shout of a king is among them.
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God brought them out of Egypt. He hath, as it were,
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the strength of a unicorn. Surely there is no enchantment
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against Jacob.
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Notice this.
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Neither is there any divination against Israel. According to this time.
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It shall be said of Jacob and of Israel. What
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hath God wrought? Now that's not a question. That's an exclamation.
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There's an exclamation point behind that. What hath God wrought?
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Look what God has done.
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In other words.
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So this is an extraordinary extraordinary story. I know that
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you're familiar with it but this is a story of
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how the wicked.
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King of Moab Balak.
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Tried to destroy the people of Israel by hiring a
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soothsayer to curse them. The reason that he's searching for
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someone to stop them or curse them is because that
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they are moving forward and defeating every enemy within their path.
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It wasn't that they didn't have obstacles. It wasn't that
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they didn't have difficulties. It wasn't that they didn't have enemies.
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It's just that they could not be stopped.
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Bible said the children of Israel set forward and pitched
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in the plains of Moab on this side, Jordan by
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Jericho and Balak.
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He saw all that Israel had done to the Amorites.
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The Bible said Moab was so afraid of the people
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because there were many and Moab was distressed because of
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the children of Israel. And then he got some folks
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together and said, this company, they're just going to take
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up everything that's round about them. Literally, he said, they're
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just going to lick it up. It appears that there
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is nothing that we can do to stop them. And
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so he is reduced to extreme measures.
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he sends messengers unto Balaam. And he is asking if
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there is basically something that can be done against them.
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And he says, come now, I pray thee, curse me
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this people. For they are too mighty for me. Peradventure,
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I shall prevail that we might smite them, that I
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might drive them out of the land. For I want
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that he whom thou blessed is blessed, and he whom
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thou cursest is cursed. In other words, I've heard that
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whoever you bless is blessed, and whoever you curse, well,
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they're cursed. And the elders of Moab and the elders
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of Midian departed with the rewards of divination in their hand.
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They came unto Balaam.
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And spake unto him the words of Balak. Now, the
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book of Numbers introduces us to Balaam.
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And he is a.
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Very strange Old Testament prophet, but he is a prophet
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for hire. He was not an Israelite, but he was
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a well-known priest, diviner, or prophet in this case.
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A false prophet, you might say.
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Balak thought that this man could put curses on others
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by influencing them. The will of gods. That's a small g.
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The will of gods and the will of false spirits.
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So Balak turned to Balaam's knowledge of sorcery, incantations, and
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mysterious manipulations. Balaam may at one time... had been a
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true follower of God. But it goes without saying that
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he somewhere along the line departed from the faith and
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became a diviner. And like all false prophets, he really
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had no concern, at least no genuine concern, for God's
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honor or the holiness of God's people. And so when
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Balak sins for Balaam, He thinks, well, if I can
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give him enough money, then he will curse the people
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of God.
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And so whenever.
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This scenario begins to play out, you can read in
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chapter 22 that God speaks unto Balaam. And says thou
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shalt not go with them. Thou shalt not curse the people.
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For they are blessed. And so it appears that God
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stays Balaam. And he says I'm not going to go.
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He appears to stand.
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Firm at first.
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But how many remembers that his heart was greedy for gain.
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And eventually the Lord would allow him. To go and
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meet the king with one condition. You can go and
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you can meet the king. But you can only say
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what I will say unto you. And you can only
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do what I tell you to do. And so I
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want you to think about it for a moment. There
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is the Israelite army in the tents clustered together on
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the plain.
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Totally unaware.
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Of the dark conspiracy that is brewing. There is no
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way that they could have known what was going on.
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And there on the hills above them was Balak feverishly
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leading Balaam from one vantage point to the other. Trying
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to get a glimpse of the people of God. Trying
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to convince Balaam. to use his magic and enchantments to
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cast a spell on the people of God so that
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they could ultimately be destroyed. They are seeking to look
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upon Israel... Not just with an evil eye, but with
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also evil intent. And Balak is hoping and praying that
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Balaam will just flash down curses. That he'll just cast
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down curses upon the people of God. And every time
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they look, it seems that the heart of Balaam is gripped.
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And he realizes, I just can't curse them anymore. But
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Balak is determined. They must be cursed. And I want
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to say again that in all probability, Moses and the
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people of God knew nothing at this time about the
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conspiracy that was brewing in the mountains. Some of them
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are resting. Some of them are sleeping. Some of them
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are visiting with their family. They have no idea what
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is taking place. Obviously, some of them are scurrying around
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the city of tents there, busy doing things, but totally
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oblivious to what's taking place into the mountains. I want
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to tell you folks, it is wonderful to know that
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you and I have a God who is always aware
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of what's going on even in those moments when we
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are not. It was the psalmist that said, I will
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lift up mine eyes unto the hills from which cometh
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my help, my help cometh.
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From the Lord.
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Even though there was a dark conspiracy. That was brewing
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on those hills. There was a people that knew. That
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their help always came. From even beyond those hills. I
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will lift up mine eyes. Even beyond the hills. From
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which cometh my help. And the writer said. He will
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not suffer thy foot to be moved. He that keepeth thee.
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Will not slumber. He that keepeth Israel. Shall neither slumber
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nor sleep. The Lord is thy keeper. Even while Israel
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was unaware of what was transpiring on those mountaintops. You
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could rest assured that God was faithful to keep his people.
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And so think about it if you will. From one
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vantage point, Balaam speaks after Balak is pressing him and
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bribing him to curse the people. He says, How shall
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I curse whom God hath not cursed? Or how shall
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I defy whom the Lord hath not defied? From the
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top of the rocks I see him, and from the
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hills I behold him. Lo, the people dwell alone and
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shall not be reckoned among the nations. Who can count
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the dust of Jacob and the number of the fourth
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part of Israel? Let me die the death of the righteous.
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And let my last end be like his. Think about it.
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He had been hired to curse the people of God.
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And when he goes to the mountain to curse them.
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When he looks on them. He longs to be what
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they are. He longs to have what they have. And
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he said, oh, let me die the death of the righteous.
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And let my last end be like his. He didn't
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want to curse them. He wanted his end to be
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like theirs.
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He wanted to live the life.
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That they were living. And so Balak says. Well maybe
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if we move on across. On another ridge. And you
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can get another vantage point. Maybe you can look on
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them from that direction. And you'll curse them. And so
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a few verses down. After Balak brings him to another
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vantage point, Balaam says, God is not a man that
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he should lie, neither the son of man that he
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should repent. Hath he said, and shall he not do it?
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Hath he spoken, shall he not make it good? Behold,
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I have received commandment to bless, and he, God, hath
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blessed me. And I cannot reverse it. He hath not
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beheld iniquity in Jacob. Neither hath he seen perverseness in Israel.
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The Lord his God is with him.
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Amen. And the shout of a king is among them.
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And then he begins to testify to that old wicked king.
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God brought them out of Egypt. He's got the strength
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of a unicorn. And I've got some bad news for you, king.
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There is no enchantment that's going to work against Jacob.
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There's no divination there.
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That's going to work against Israel. According to this time
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it shall be said of Jacob and Israel, what hath
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God wrought? Look what the Lord has done. And then
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he goes a step further and says, this people is
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going to rise up like a great lion.
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He'll not lie.
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Down until he eat of the prey of And drink
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of the blood of the slain. In other words, there
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ain't a thing you can do to stop the people
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of God. Even though Balak had badgered that old prophet.
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Even though he had bribed that old prophet. Even though
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he had probably offered him more money. Than he had
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ever seen. In his life. The old prophet said. I
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cannot do it. King or no king. Bribe or no bribe.
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I cannot and will not curse. What God has blessed.
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There is no necromancy ever invented that can reverse a
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divine decree. Not by one jot. Not by one tittle.
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Can I change it? Not for all the silver. Not
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for all the gold that you can offer me. You're
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not dealing with a man here, king. You're dealing with
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a God. And Balaam said, God is not a man
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that he should lie to.
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Neither the Son of Man, that he should repent.
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Behold, I have received commandment to bless, and he is blessed,
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and I cannot reverse it. Balak, there's not a spell.
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There's not an incantation. There is nothing that can be done.
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To stop this people. And here's the reason why. For
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the Lord their God is with them. And the shout
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of a king is among them. Here he is moving
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around the mountains. Trying to find a vantage point. That
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he can hurl a curse down upon the people of God.
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But Balaam, after all of the looking, after all of
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the conspiring, after all of the blessing, he could only
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come to one conclusion.
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They're blessed, and there's nothing I can do to reverse it.
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They are invincible because God is their king, and he
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is among them.
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And Balak said... But I don't see a palace. Wait
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a minute.
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I don't see a throne. I don't see a man
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walking among them in royal robes or a crown upon
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his head. And Balaam said, Oh, my imagination. You don't understand.
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Their king cannot be housed in a palace. Earth is
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his footstool. Heaven is his throne. I'm not talking about
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an earthly king. I'm talking about one that sits on
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the throne. Their king is the king of kings.
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He is the Lord of lords.
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And he is the one that's in their midst. You
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think about it for a moment. All that went into
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trying to get them cursed. I was trying to put
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it together this morning just to figure out everything that
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had happened. You've got the wages of unrighteousness that was
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offered to this wicked, wicked prophet to try to somehow
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curse the people of God. You've got them scurrying for money.
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mountaintop to mountaintop. And at least three times, Balak trying
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to get Balaam to curse the people of God. He
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would spare no expenses. No effort was too great. From
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one high place of Baal to the high seats of Satan.
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From one place to another. They're moving, trying to find... A.
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Way in to curse the people of God. They offer
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multiple sacrifices. Is it not seven sacrifices? And there they
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are standing in the smoke of those sacrifices that's been
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offered to false gods. trying somehow to find a way
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to tear down the people of God. And all that
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old prophet can say is, the Lord their God is
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with them, and the shout of a king is among them.
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Do you realize what secured them, what safeguarded them? From
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the onslaught of the enemy. It was not their talent.
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It was not their ingenuity. It was not their ability
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to make war. It was not their finances. It was
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not their social standing. It was the fact that the
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Lord was with them. Balaam made a declaration of the
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divine presence of God. And that's always been the difference
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maker with the children of Israel and the people of God.
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It was not their legal system. It was not their
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genius for building. It was not their numbers or expert leadership.
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It was the very thing... that Balaam recognized... unwittingly as
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he was... he said the Lord... their God... is with them...
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and I want to tell you this morning... as long
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as that's the case... the people of God... are invincible...
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when he was with them... They would overcome. When he
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was with them, they were victorious. When his banners were
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unfurled and the winds blew through them, I want to
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tell you the children of God could not be stopped.
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And I want to preach to us for a few moments.
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This is exactly what's made the difference in the church
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of the living God. It's the presence of Almighty God.
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Not being able to keep up with the latest fad.
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That's not the answer. Not trying to keep up with
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the latest TikTok video. That's not the answer. Just one thing.
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The vitality of the presence of God. The absolute awareness
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that he exists.
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Is in our midst. He is among us. And the shout.
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Of a king.
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Is among the people of God. When his presence is lost.
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There is nothing. That can fill that void. Oh, there
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is nothing that can fill that vacuum. Church tradition cannot
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do it. Efficient organization cannot do it. Updated rituals cannot
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do it. Man-made ideas and traditions cannot do it. I
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think there's a conspiracy against the Pentecostal holiness people.
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In this hour, right?
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To try to shut us down, to try to push
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us down, to try to push us back.
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In a corner.
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And the only thing that's going to cause us not
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just to survive, but also thrive, is the presence of
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Almighty God.
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I said, oh God, let us have that presence.
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To where those who are without, when they look in,
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they see something they want. They see something they admire.
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They see something they covet. That's what got a hold
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of Balaam. Not all the gold, not all the silver
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that was offered him. Not the prestige of walking hand
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in hand with the king. But when he looked down
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on those people, And saw the way they lived. And
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saw the liberty they had. And saw the freedom they had.
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And saw the purity that they enjoyed. He said, that's
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what I want. I can't do a thing against that.
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I want to tell us this morning that the one
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thing that makes all the difference in the world is
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that supernatural element. We call it Pentecostal power. We call
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it the presence of Almighty God. And I just wonder
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when the world looks in, do they see something that
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grips their heart?
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I know what it is. It's the presence.
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Almighty God I remember having a gentleman visit our church
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and he was a part of a Pentecostal organization he
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just showed up very nice gentleman an elderly gentleman and
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he was a former missionary and I forget exactly what
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country it was but he was just a fine gentleman
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and statesman as it were and He was from England originally,
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so he had that English accent. And it just so
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happened that the day he showed up and visited our church,
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we really, it's not always that way, but we.
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Had a great move of the Spirit.
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And there was a lot of things that was happening
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that was just positive in that service.
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And he was visiting with me after the service.
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And I wish I could say it like he did
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in that English accent. But what he said was, I
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like the freshness of the old. And I tell you folks,
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that's what we've got to have. There is nothing new
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that will work. I said there is nothing new that
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will work. It is the freshness of the old. It
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is the presence of Almighty God. It is an awareness.
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I said it is an awareness of the supernatural. I
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feel like all around us there are multitudes that are
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restless and dissatisfied. They are hungering for help. They are
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looking for something that will offer them hope. They are
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groping in darkness. And there is a dissatisfaction with the
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current church world that is driving them.
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They're looking for something.
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And many of them don't even know what they're looking for.
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They don't know how to find it.
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They just know they're not finding it where they are.
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And there's an inner craving that says there's something more.
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There's something deeper. There's something more real. And there is
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a search. That's going on.
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Listen folks. I really believe.
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We're in the last of the last days. And there
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are those out there. That's looking in. They're looking in.
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And they're looking for something. That is real. And you
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know what I think? I'm not foolish enough to think.
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It's just our group that's going to be in heaven.
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I know there's others across planet earth. But I tell
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you what I do think. I think we've got something
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that's real. I think we've got something that's genuine. And
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I am not ashamed. I said I am not ashamed
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of it. I believe when they look in, they'll say
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it's real. I may not understand it, but God's with them.
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And the shout of a king is among them. They're
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starving for the bread of life. They're thirsting for the
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water of life. They need something or somebody to revive
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their suffocating spirit.
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They need somebody. To worship.
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Other than a man. They need somebody to adore. Other
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than a preacher. They need somewhere to kneel. And find
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hope and help. And I believe it's in the church.
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Of the living God. Among the people. That can say
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the Lord. Is with us.
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And a shout.
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Of a king. Is among us. And I'll bring it
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to a close real quick. But listen, folks, if you will.
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Given the current situations that we're in, we have got
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to have the vital, vibrant, awesome presence of God above
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anything else. And I think we've got to have a
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shout of the King among us.
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That word shout, I was looking at it this.
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Morning, and it means a shout of alarm. It means
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a shout that calls for war. So there was something
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that Balaam recognized among them that says, man, it may
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be dark. And there may be a lot of them
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in their tents. And they may appear to be sleeping.
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But I hear something coming from that camp that lets
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me know at any moment.
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They're ready for war.
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There is a shout of a king. They're not going
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to roll over. And let us just march down there
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and take over. They are ready for war. But there
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was also something among them. It was a shout of rejoicing.
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It was a shout of praise. And I think there
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needs to be, if I can use this word, that buzz,
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that constant buzz among the people of God that when
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the world looks in, They see an excitement. They see
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an anticipation.
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They see an enthusiasm.
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I want to tell you folks, Brother Milliken, it would
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be impossible to improve on that kind of preaching. There
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is no theme that can go beyond what he preached on.
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And when the cross is preached among the Pentecostal holiness,
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Trinitarian people, there ought to be a shout of the
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king among us. I'm not here to hurt anybody's feelings,
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but it was not water that cleansed me and a
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formula that In that water that made me whole. It
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was the cross. It was the blood. And when we sing,
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I will cherish. There ought to be a shout. I
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said there ought to be a shout. Because we believe
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in the cross. I said we believe in the cross.
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We believe in the blood. I am not ashamed of
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the gospel of Jesus Christ. For it is the power
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of God unto salvation. I believe in what he preached.
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And when that kind of preaching is heralded from behind
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the sacred desk, there ought to be a shout of
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a king among the people of God. There ought to
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be something within us that says, oh, yeah, oh, yeah.
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I remember that. I remember when I went to the cross.
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I want to tell you in 2019, I got to
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go to Galgotha's Hill. I walked on that ridge and
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looked at that hillside that looked like a skull. I
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looked at that. That is now a bus station. I
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looked at it and I said, not loud, but I said,
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I've already been here. This isn't my first time. I
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came to that cross as a five-year-old boy. Oh, I'm
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telling you folks, there ought to be a shout of
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a king among us whenever we hear about the cross
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of Jesus Christ. Thank you, Brother Milliken, for reminding us
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that's where it all starts.
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That's where it all starts.
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Boy, I tell you what, it's not a, well, you
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got to check the box on A, and then you
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got to check it on B.
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And then you've got to check it on C. And
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then you're saved. It's at the cross where I first
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saw the light.
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And I realize, brothers and sisters, that there's a lot
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going on in this world. And especially social media that
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causes us as holiness people to somehow feel inferior to
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other Pentecostal groups. But I want to tell you something.
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I believe in the truth. And we ought not be
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ashamed of who we are. We are Bible-believing. We are Trinitarian,
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holiness people. And, brother and sister, there is a shout
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of a king among us. We don't have to be
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driven by music to worship. We don't have to be
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driven by symbols to worship. We don't have to be
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driven by... arpeggios on organs to worship. We don't have
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to have somebody pumping us.
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There's a shout of a king that is among.
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The people of God that knows that the Lord is
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with them. What about it? I want the world to
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look in and say God's with them. Listen to that.
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Listen to that noise. Listen to that worship. Listen to
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that praise. The Lord is with them. And the shout
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of a king is among them. Would you give him
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praise and glory?
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Hallelujah.
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Oh, the Lord, his God is with him. Look at that.
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I see something you don't see, King. I just can't
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reverse this. I can't stop this. There's nothing that's going
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to work. Oh, folks, do you ever feel like you're
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just running into something in this hour?
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Resistance. You know why?
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Because Satan, he doesn't fight error.
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He only fights truth. I realize you look at these
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other organizations, man, they're growing by leaps and bounds.
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I don't tell you why, because Satan doesn't fight error.
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He just fights truth. But, oh, when they look in,
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can they say God's with them?
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Listen to that.
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There is a shout of a king that is among them. Oh,
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there are so many scriptures that proclaim his kingship. But
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there is one that goes to mind, and it's found
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in Psalm 47. It says, Oh, clap your hands, all
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ye people, and shout unto God with a voice of triumph.
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For the Lord Most High is terrible, and he is
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a great king over all the earth. God has gone
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up with a shout, the Lord with the sound of
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a trumpet.
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How many knows?
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I didn't know that Brother Randy preached about the king today.
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But how many knows he's our king? I said, he's
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our king. And he's king of kings. And he's Lord
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of lords. And Isaiah said, cry and shout, thou inhabitants
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of Zion. For great is the Holy One of Israel
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in the midst of thee. want to tell you we've
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got something to shout about because the Lord is in
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our midst he is in the sanctuary and he's still
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working among the people of God in this hour Satan's.
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Not going to shut this down Satan's not going to
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stop the people of God he.
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Ain't got a chance As long as he's with us,
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we're invincible.
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How many knows that? Let's give the Lord praise and glory.
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Thank you for this honor. Thank you, brother. Praise the Lord.
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Thank you for listening to the Holiness Foundation podcast. To
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