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Spiritual Foundations Pt.4

Let's go ahead and turn to Hebrews, chapter 11. We were talking about spiritual foundations and we were dealing with the biblical principles of faith, the spiritual foundations. "Without faith it's impossible to please God" (Hebrews 11:6). So I would say that becomes a basic foundation then, if without faith you can't please God, then we need to understand what it means to walk in faith. The bible says we're a people that walk by faith and not by sight, and yet it's kind of interesting that when the sin nature manifested itself, we actually became a people that walked by sight and not by faith. Our eyes were "opened" thanks to Father Adam and Mother Eve. And now, to the natural man, we're so dependent upon our senses. Trust in these, and in the new wisdom of the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, is the dominant force in natural man and controls man with the exception of those that are regenerated, born-again. The spirit man has been recreated and brought to prominence and is able to dominate that dependence of the natural realm. And so, only born-again men are free to walk from that power of depending on the natural senses; only born-again men can walk by faith, can follow the invisible God, can see a city whose builder and maker is God with the invisible foundations. Those that are around us can't see it and they think we're fools. These things are spiritually discerned, the Scripture says, and the natural mind cannot receive the things of the Spirit of God; they are foolishness.

Now think about what I'm saying. Any place you go in the world for advice, they're going to call you a fool when you tell them what you're praying about doing, or what you're really trusting in. Now, we do know that we're in the world, and that there are certain laws that we're governed by unless God chooses through the miraculous to supercede them. We live in the realm of time and space, but we're not of the world. We believe that there is a spiritual realm, spiritual foundations that can take us above the natural. We believe that when disease is in our body--spiritually--because of the stripes of Jesus, we can be healed. We believe that we can lay our hands upon the sick and see them recover. We believe that we can cast out devils. We believe that we can pray and God will open the windows of heaven and pour out blessings that we can't contain. So we're different; we're a unique people. Or are we? How much have we been seduced by the world's system? How much have we come to rely upon man's methods and not God's promises? And so that's why we're going over this study, the spiritual foundations. To where we're now stirring up the gift that is in us with the laying on of hands. And we're in a position now of wanting to renew our minds and let that refreshing of praying in the spirit energize us and prepare us for what God has ahead.

And so we were looking in Hebrews chapter 11 and we saw that "without faith it's impossible to please [God] for he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him" (Hebrews 11:6). And we talked about the diligence factor--earnestly, zealously, and quickly, hastily. Seeking God first. A people that are diligent in their pursuit of God. And so we search our own hearts and we ask ourselves the question, how diligent am I now in my pursuit of God? Am I coming to Him believing that it's His good pleasure to give me the kingdom or do I think I'm going to have to make it on my own? Do I really believe God wants me healed? Do I really believe that God wants me to be at peace? "I'm so bound by fear and everybody else in the world--here I am a Christian, born again, saying that God is my source, and I'm just as fearful as everybody around me." Where does that come from? Where is that peace and that rest that belongs to the people of God?

You see, what we're asking ourselves in this study is do we really have a foundation, because if you don't, Jesus says you've built on the sand and the day is coming to where the wind and the waves are going to beat vehemently upon your life. Are you going to stand? And what are we teaching our children, the next generation? Let me ask you something, are your children living by faith or VISA? What do they trust in? Have your children been taught that we serve a God who will open the windows of heaven, or do they see the stock market as the windows of heaven? What's their life being built upon, and what example are we setting? Where are the memorials that are to be built by our generation so that our children can remember that we were a people in bondage but God brought us out of Egypt and brought us into a land that flows with milk and honey, praise God. And here's the proof of His provision. What have you done to cause your kids to be excited and to be able to live beyond the natural? Some of us not only have not prepared our children; some of us have tried to hinder our kids. "Now don't get out there. You'll get hurt out there. You need to be sure that you've got everything covered, man; make sure that you have twice the insurance, twice the--you know, here it is, you can't leave home without it." I want to tell you something tonight, beloved, you can leave home without it, but you can't leave home without faith, amen? Is your God able?

When I even talk about these things, do you feel a little twinge going off inside? "No insurance!" Now remember, I'm not advocating not having insurance. That's not what I'm saying. I'm saying don't trust in it. I'm saying that if it's available fine, and if it's not, praise God, because He's well able, amen? Does that make you nervous? How much do you have to have in excess put away somewhere to where you're comfortable? How well would you sleep at night with nothing in reserve? And be able to say, "Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof (Matthew 6:34). Having food and raiment let us be therewith content" (1 Timothy 6:8). How comfortable are you tonight praying the prayer, "There's nothing in excess, there's nothing set aside, and I see nothing tomorrow. "Give us this day our daily bread" (Matthew 6:11). Now we're a people that aren't living there. We're a people that are living in affluence, and because of that, the Word of God--if we're not careful--can be choked out of our hearts. It doesn't have to be; you can serve God and be in faith and have all kinds of stuff set aside. The question that we're asking in this study is, what are you trusting in? And you say, "Well Pastor, how do we know, I mean, how do I know what I'm trusting in?" Well, where your treasure is, is where your heart is. What do you find yourself talking about, what excites you? Does it excite you when the market goes up or are you more excited about wisdom that's dropped in your heart when you're here in prayer and God gives you a little bit of revelation and insight into yourself and you say, "What a treasure, praise God!"

I want to tell you something. There's no greater treasure than hearing the Word of God, hearing the Father speak into your heart and saying, "It's my good pleasure to give you the kingdom. Enter in, good and faithful servant." What are you working toward? What's your energy being expndeded toward in the building of our lives? Because see, there's a foundation that has to be laid. Now we know what it is--it's faith--and we know what it's based upon--it's Jesus Christ as the chief cornerstone, the apostles and the prophets, their lives and their testimonies as they're the great cloud of witnesses that we follow and are emulating. Are we serving the same God, are we serving with the same intensity, are we pursuing the same treasures? If we're not, then we're not building the same house and it's not built upon the same foundation. And yet so many people today are assuming that they're building their lives spiritually. You hear this said about people, "They're such a spiritual person." You hear that said a lot of times. Usually they're talking about somebody who's in the occult. And there is a rise in the Satan church how, it's rising, the eastern religions are on the rise, all of these stupid things that are on TV, these fortune-tellers and stuff. Get on there with a Jamaican accent and choke a chicken and you can make a lot of money, man. Because these are the people that can "look" into the spirit realm. I want to tell you something: we don't serve dumb idols; our God speaks. Amen? He's a God that speaks, as we saw in our recent study. Through the gifts of the spirit He ministers to us; He's a God that speaks through that still small voice that's internalized; He's a God that speaks to us through the more sure word of prophecy of this Bible that we hold in our hands. God wants to talk to you tonight; are you hearing what He's saying?

Only if our foundation is sure, can we hear. Otherwise there's too much interference, because there's a lot of communication going on in the world today. And if you don't still yourself, and you don't steal away and spend some time to diligently seek Him--He's a rewarder of those that diligently seek Him--if you don't take that time, if you're not jealous for it, if you don't understand that you can't hear from God being plugged into the world. God doesn't use the world's transmitters. He doesn't come through their switchboard; He will never call you on a cell phone! You need to put that thing away and get quiet and hear from God. What is it with people and these pacifiers that flip open today? Always got to be talking to somebody. I want to get away from people so I can hear from God! I want to hear what the Spirit of God is saying to me. Are you jealous for that; are you diligently seeking Him? "...For he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him." Diligently, earnestly, early, zealously. How jealous are you for that time with God? And so we saw that the men of old had this kind of spirit within them; and we talked about our father Abraham, the father of faith; and we saw what faith was. It's "...the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen" (Hebrews 11:1). It's spiritual reality, which is the most real thing; it precedes the natural. Faith comes by the Word of God. You read Hebrews and you see that faith is what created everything that exists in the natural. It's a greater force; it precedes the natural. God spoke everything that we call real into existence. So what's "real" is what was its source--God--and its method, the spoken Word of God. And the minute God says it's finished, there will be a judgment of all that we perceive as real, as it's bathed in the fire of God's presence and purged and He establishes a new heaven and a new earth where the original sin has been purged away by the blood of Jesus and this world has been redeemed and purified. And then we'll know as we are known, praise God. And God will be all in all, the Scripture says, but until that time, you're going to have to steal away. That's going to be the dominant force then, but until that time you're going to have to steal away because we're in a parallel kingdom, the spirit kingdom, the kingdom of God that's running parallel with the kingdom of this world. And all of the residual effects of the God of this world, and all of the different religions, and all of the worship of humanity and technology is vying for our hearts and our minds. And they're doing a good job; they're almost there.

I like technology; I like all of the things that they're doing. I think it's fascinating. They're proposing the different propulsion methods of how we can travel through time and space in the future, and that's kind of intriguing; and now the genetic engineering and the things that they're saying they can do and create. Man can live forever, and all, and it's really kind of neat when you see man is capable of doing without God! This is all done without God; this is all done in defiance of God. This is all being done by man with God resisting him because God resists the proud. Do you all remember what happened when this initially started? It said, "And God saw that the working of man was wicked only, evil only, all of his imaginations." And he had to confound man at the Tower of Babel, there had to be the judgment of the day of Noah. They weren't even close, man! How close is God's coming today? How close is the judgment of God today if He had to intervene then and say, "There's nothing impossible to man."

What I'm trying to do is show you the reality--not only how good and effective what man is doing in the natural is--but to show you the power of the seduction that you're warring against, because I want to tell you something, you're drawn to that. You're of your father Adam, and you're drawn to that and you naturally gravitate toward that. And there's only one way not to be sucked into it, and it's to walk in the spirit. It's to become aware of the spirit reality and for the things that are not seen to become more real to you than the things that are. Are you there? How jealous are you for that? Do you understand that everything that man is saying they're doing for your good is to damn you? "It's for your good." And I don't want to get caught off into all the politics, and the fact that everything is being done for your "good," as all of your rights are being taken away, and the one-world government is being thrust upon us, where the worldwide cry is "tolerance." And the one target group of the whole world that is the least tolerant are Bible-believing Christians. And they want to take our rights--we talked the other day--they want to take our children. What are you doing to prepare? When the king finally erects the image and says, "You will bow and worship," you say, "Well, I don't believe that we're going to be here for the reign of Antichrist." I don't believe we are either. The spirit of iniquity is already at work. I personally believe in a pre-tribulation rapture, but I can live with a mid-tribulation rapture, doctrinally. The one thing I do know is that you have to be faithful to the end because he that endures to the end shall be saved.

Now, how are you going to endure if you're not walking in faith? It doesn't take a genius to read and figure out what this seduction is upon men. Now, I'm a little bit off-course but I want to share this. The first thing the enemy does to destroy your walk of faith is to pervert your doctrine, to bring you over into apostasy; to get you to step back from literal interpretation and application of the Scriptures. We've got mega-ministries in this nation that believe in literal interpretation of Scripture, but no application. And I want to tell you something: you are not literally interpreting this if you're not applying it. So it doesn't have anything to do with what you know, it has to do with what you're living. And so as we're looking at this, the first way that you're going to be seduced away from the foundation is to become a hearer of the Word and not a doer, because now you're a deceived man. "If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great is that darkness!" (Matthew 6:23) Amen? "Yeah, we believe that, we just don't do it. Amen. Until it's me, or mine." And you're a candidate for the "Church of Tolerance," the great whore of Babylon, the combining of religious thought without the preeminence of the exaltation of Jesus Christ as Lord of His Church, to where His Word is final, it's all in all.

Now as we left off in our study, if you remember, we were talking about Abraham and his faith and how it was easy for him to believe in faith as long as he had strength in his own body. You remember that? And he was encouraging Sara, "God's able Sara. Don't worry, honey, He's going to do it; we're believing God. He's going to heal you, God's able!" And now we see him stricken in years; and now his body is dead. It's one thing to encourage others and to stand and believe when it's not us. And now it's Abraham whose body is dead. And we see the final declaration of Romans 4 that says, "And being not weak in faith, he considered not his own body now dead, when he was about an hundred years old, neither yet the deadness of Sara's womb: He staggered not at the promise of God through unbelief; but was strong in faith, giving glory to God; And being fully persuaded that, what he had promised, he was able also to perform" (Roman 4:19-21). But we did see in reality how he did stagger, and he tried to bring forth in the natural on two occasions: his steward, and then the next thing you know Ishmael is born. And God said, "It's not going to be either one of those; it's going to be from your loins and Sara's womb" and Isaac, the child of laughter is born. And we showed you why he was named Isaac, because they both laughed at God. And God said, "I'm going to hold this up and remind you forever. Every time you call that child, you'll be reminded that you laughed at Me. Every time you speak his name you're going to be reminded that you answered the question that was asked of Sara, 'is anything too hard for the Lord?' and your answer was, yes, this is too hard." "Oh, that Ishmael might live before thee" (Genesis 17:18).

I want to tell you something, beloved, many of the things that you and I are trying to forget in this room tonight, are things we need to remember. "Oh, I just want to get that out of my mind. I failed God, and I just want to get that out of my mind." You need to remember that day and remember what got you there, and then also remember that God is faithful and He hasn't forsaken you, has He? And He's taken you up, and as a father pitieth his child so the Lord pities those that fear Him, we've shared with you. And the love of God is finally seen and we realize through that, "Hey! It doesn't depend upon me; I can fail but God's Word never fails, praise God." So what are you going to trust in? Are you going to trust in you again or are you going to trust in the Word that doesn't fail? I want to tell you something. Some of the greatest things that can help your faith is not to try to think about your victories; think about the times you failed and God didn't, because if He had, you wouldn't be where you are today. That's faith, beloved.

As you begin to move into that realm to where you can finally come to the perfecting of your faith, where James tells us, "Abraham's faith was perfected when he offered up Isaac" (James 2:21-22). Not when Isaac was born--that was great faith--but I want you to understand, perfect faith was when he was able to finally say, "Look man, I've blown this thing so many times there's no way I can rely upon myself. I don't understand what it is that God's doing. All I know is He spoke; the promise is here. My understanding is that this is supposed to be how the world is blessed. God wants me to kill him, I'm killing him." Are you there tonight? Can I ask you something? Can you--are you capable right now of taking your child, literally taking your child and raising that knife to cut their throat? If you answer, "Yeah, I can do it!" Be careful. But I want to tell you something; His grace is sufficient. And I want to tell you something else; if you obey Him to leave the camp, and you obey Him to gather the wood and have it put upon Isaac's shoulders, and you obey Him to tell the servants, "Wait here, my son and I are going to go and worship and we'll return unto you again." Faith comes by progressive obedience. Faith comes by obeying one step at a time. And God leads us into that place of grace to do the miraculous, the impossible. I want to tell you something. I can't kill my kids in the natural; I don't have that ability. I love my children. I know what my own natural tendencies are. I know my own weaknesses; I know my own selfishness. I see all of those areas, and yet through the years as God has asked us to take one step at a time and to leave the camp, to take up the steps to Mount Moriah, and to try to instruct them in the preeminence of our God, you just believe that everything He calls you do to from that point, He'll give you the grace and ability, if you've built foundations. And that's where we left off on our last study, into Hebrews chapter four, and we were talking about the foundation of obedience and resting from our own labors.

Go back to Hebrews 4, and remember we were talking about the children of Israel--at the very end of chapter 3--that couldn't enter into the promise because of their unbelief. Now what was the main source of their unbelief? "These ten times you've said...." What was it they were saying? God promised to bring them out of Egypt, to bring them into a land of promise, to give them houses they didn't build, wells that they didn't dig, and they continued to say about God, "You brought us out here [to what?] kill us." These people are lame. Can I ask you a question? When times get tough how many of you thought, "God's trying to kill me; God's forsaken me. I thought all I had to do was throw open my Bible and get a promise. And what things soever I desired when I prayed, God would give it to me, praise God." "Blab it, grab it." And you begin to find out that there's character that's being required in your life, and Christlikeness is what all the promises of God that are yea and amen are about. Maturing to be able to finish this course. James becomes a reality, that the trying of your faith works patience and that you need to let it come to fruition and have it's perfect work that you might be made perfect and entire, wanting nothing. And God is calling and saying, "No, it's not enough to just grit your teeth and get through these things; I want you to count it all joy, praise God, that I'm doing something in your life."

Can you see the trial as the hand of God conforming you into the image of Jesus and you being able to say, "I don't see it, but I see it, praise God. I'm not moved by the natural. I see what's right now being considered a trial, an adversity, a rough time, as God's love in conforming me into the image of Jesus, and I just want to say, thank you, Father. I can see Him who's invisible. And His hand is upon me and it's hard! But I just want to rejoice that God hasn't forsaken me; He loves me. Well, I don't think I'm there." Are you pursuing it, are you diligent after it? Or do you find yourself making the accusations, "Here I am, and I'm trying to obey God, and I said that I believe in the Word, and I've studied and I've prayed, and nothing seems to be working. God just doesn't hear my prayers. God just doesn't want to heal me." Ten times. I want to tell you that there's a limit to how many times you can indite God. I don't know what it is for you, but God will not always strive with man. You can run it out. Now, I don't think that you're capable of exhausting God's love or patience. Don't misunderstand me, I don't think God says, "I'm fed up with this guy! I'll tell you, I'm having a bad day, give me that lightening bolt, he's going down today! Man, I've had enough of this." God doesn't operate that way, okay? God's anger is not that way, God's anger is orge, anger, it's a calculated wrath and it's based upon His foreknowledge; it's based upon the wickedness of the hearts of man; it's based upon knowing whether you will or will not repent. He knows that, you don't. But I'll tell you something beloved, if He's striving with you today, and if He's still working on your heart and putting pressure on you today, and wanting to bring you out from under your own self-reliance and your pride, and your ego, I want to tell you something, it would be a good time to humble yourself. It would be a good time this time around the mountain to learn the lesson because number ten could be coming. "She'll be comin' around the mountain." And you don't want to come around that mountain the last time with a pale horse, and a black horse, and death having been pronounced upon you. Where are we tonight in our pursuit? The Scripture says in [Romans] chapter 3, verse 19, "...they could not enter in because of unbelief. Let us therefore fear." Can I ask you, are you fearing tonight? Paul feared, lest having preached to others he'd be cast away. I want to tell you something, every time I think about that it makes me shudder. How does that affect you? "Yeah, Paul had his problems but I'm super saint." If Paul was concerned about finishing this course, where are you tonight? Do you have this thing made? "Yeah, I've got all my little doctrine ducks in a row. I know the Pauline epistles better than he did." Paul understood the war of the mind and the need of emptying himself, this Hebrew of Hebrews, this man who stood above his contemporaries, and he understood that the strength needed to finish this course was the emptying of self. The more confidence and reliance you have in your ability, the weaker you are, the less apt you are of finishing this course.

"Though they all forsake you Lord, not me." Your day is coming; your heart will be revealed to you. You will drop your head and walk away sorrowful, having denied Him. I would encourage you to answer "Thou knowest, Lord." That's what the mature Peter answered. "Do you love me more than these?" "Thou knowest, Lord. I know that without You I can do nothing, and I want You to understand, that I know it's by grace that I stand here today. That a thousand have fallen at my side and ten thousand at my right hand, and the multitudes have fallen in the wilderness and died in their unbelief because their hard hearts were revealed and they believed that God was not able to deliver them and that God was not a compassionate father who desired to give them the kingdom, and they were more interested in their immediate comfort and prosperity and image than they were in pursuing the promise of God and enduring the manna that they might partake of the promise." And because of it they died. "Let us therefore fear, lest, a promise being left us of entering into his rest, any of you should seem to come short of it," the apostle says in chapter 4, verse 1. "For unto us was the gospel preached, as well as unto them: but the word preached did not profit them, not being mixed with faith in them that heard it" (Hebrews 4:2).

Now you and I have been given promises, whatever it might be tonight that you're drawing on. Those of you that are bound by fear: Fear not, "I will never leave thee or forsake thee (Hebrews 13:5). Be [fearful] for nothing, but in everything by prayer and supplication... (Philippians 4:6). You've not received the "spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind" (2 Timothy 1:7). You don't think the way the world does; we're not bound by all that causes them to tremble. Are you free tonight? A promise has been left to you to be free from fear. Are you free tonight? Are you free from the cares of the world, the deceitfulness of riches? Are you free from the lusts that are in all of our members? Oh, we can go on and get everyone of us, right? You say, "Actually you've been getting me with everyone of them, but you know...." Most of us could probably identify with that statement. And the question that the apostle is asking is this, are you diligently seeking God? Are you fearful that the promise being made, you've fallen short because it's not being mixed with faith? "Well how do I know if it's mixed with faith?" He answers that, doesn't he, and this is what we're trying to drive home in our last session. "For we which have believed [verse 3, do what?] do enter into rest" (Hebrews 4:3). And we saw that the rest was ceasing from our own labors. You're only as free as you are free from "helping" God.

It's how you can evaluate where your faith is. Are you ceasing from your own labors? How many contingency plans do you have? What do you have for failure, what's the plan for failure? Now in the natural man, you have to have those plans, right? You can't wait. I know myself--how many of you, when you're driving down the road always have a plan? Do you? I do, always. I see a lot of drivers who don't. When I'm driving I am constantly saying, "You know what, that yo-yo is going to come over here, man, and when we he does I've got to see what that guy is going to do. I may have to stop, I may have to dive over here and get onto the shoulder of the road. I'm prepared." And you're saying, "How can you do that and eat snacks? How can you do that and be playing with your CDs or talking to the people in the back?" You know there are people that can't talk to you without looking at you? That's scary, man. They shouldn't even be driving. I mean, they can't walk and chew gum and we gave them cars to drive, man. And so it's natural, we make these plans to protect ourselves, and to preserve ourselves. And in the spirit-realm, and we're ending with this for this evening, "For we which have believed do enter into rest." Now the rest is defined, as we saw in our study, in the ceasing from our own labors. Look at verse 9, "There remaineth therefore a rest to the people of God. For he that is entered in his rest, [he that has entered into God's rest] he also hath ceased from his own works, [counting them finished, counting the promise sure, it's a done thing, as God rested after making His decree] as God did from his. Let us labour therefore to enter into that rest" (Hebrews 4:9). Now this rest then, isn't going to come easily. And this is where we'll pick up Sunday morning. There has to be a labor, a war against natural inclinations, self-reliance, personal agendas, confidence in our natural abilities, the boasting in our own tenacity. It never ceases to amaze me, people who are naturally disciplined and that are the type-A personalities, and many of these who look down and despise other Christians. "What's wrong with you, where's your character, where's your diligence?" As they say in pride, boasting in what they think is faith and character which is just self-reliance. As we go into Sunday's study we're going to look at some of these things and people who think they have faith are just trusting in their own ability and God will bring you to your limits so that you can learn what the real rest of God is, so that you can have foundations whose builder and maker is God.

Father, we thank You for the word and as we continue in this study of preparing our hearts to walk in the supernatural, to be children who walk by faith and not by sight; to become a generation who knows how to please their God because without faith it's impossible. It won't be without death to self, it won't be without a cost. The quick-fix faith of these last decades, the faith camp, "blab it and grab it" type. If you've heard any of them recently, they just continually get more perverted. As one of their most famous proponents, and his disciple get a dollar, a Creflo Dollar, proclaim themselves equal with God, and their ability is all-supreme. It's a sad end to those who have no foundation, and how great the fall will be. Labor to be free of your independence and become a slave to His lordship and His righteousness; obeying without thought of consequence because "faithful is He that calleth you, who also will do it." We thank You for it, Father, in Jesus' name. Amen.

Let's stand before the Lord tonight. Read Hebrews 3 and 4 between now and Sunday, and then go into Daniel and read the account of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego; read actually the first four chapters of Daniel and prepare yourself for Sunday's teaching and have your heart ready to hear what the Spirit is saying to us in this hour of freedom from our independence. Run the scenario and ask yourself what it is that you're trusting in today; and then get quiet and hear, for Hebrews 4 goes on and says, "For the word of God is quick, [alive] and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart" (Hebrews 4:12). God will tell you if you're resting or not. He'll put His finger on your very motives. Are you looking to be healed, are you looking to be at peace, or are you treasuring His presence? That's the rest.

As Gary plays for us for just a moment, we'll just spend a moment here and thank the Lord for His presence. You see, that secret power of lawlessness--and all lawlessness is, is self-will--is becoming the preeminent force as the spirit of Antichrist rises. Every man is doing what is right in his own eyes. There always has to be great chaos and turmoil before there can become a dictator; and it's at hand. And this time around we're going to be the ones like Esther, like Daniel, like Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego; like Stephen, that have to make a stand. How's your foundation? Let's sing it together. "In Thy Presence fullness of joy..." Let's sing it one more time and just rejoice in His presence. Hallelujah! Lord, we do thank You for the greatest gift, sonship, a legal right to the presence of our God. We come and cry, Abba, so thankful and so needful. Help us to finish this course, Father. In Jesus' name, amen, amen. Before you go, turn to somebody next to you and say, "Our faith is the victory." Go in peace, God's love go with you.

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