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Speaker 1 (00:01):
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your destiny. Hello everyone, and welcome to the Engage Your
Destiny podcast, serving our military veterans and their families, where
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your destiny is our mission. Friends, It's amazing to be
with you this week. It's my honor and privilege to
be speaking into your life as I'm delivering the message
for this beginning of twenty twenty four, as we're just
getting into February, and really what's been on my heart
is to look at what is coming our way in
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this year. There's a verse that has rocked my life
and has really been a staple and a foundation for
how I approach things. And it says that where the
people don't have vision, where they're not looking forward and
thinking about what could come, they are going to suffer.
They're going to perish, They're going to fall apart. And
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this is where I want to bring a word, a
very timely word for your life today that the things
I'm about to talk about are not ideas. They're not
prophecies that are just coming out of nowhere. These are
not speculations. The things that I'm talking about today are happening,
and they are coming from the mouths of the people
that are creating them, that are building them.
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I have poured so much time into.
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Going and reading and listening and going outside of the
walls of the church and outside of Christian speakers and
the people that are just really only in side the church.
I've gone outside and I've gone to hear from the
people and what they're trying to build and develop, because
I think the Church has gotten a little bit siloed
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in really understanding what is coming and what the people
are developing that are going to radically change our way
of life. I was reading up on a man by
the name of Peter Diamandes. He's a futurist and one
of the pioneers of developing artificial intelligence, and he said,
the world is going to get really weird, really fast.
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I'm going to say that again, the world is going
to get really weird, really fast. And there's a belief
with an AI that they've really found in themselves on
is that there's so much lack in this world. There's
lack of food, lack of water, lack of people getting
their needs met all over.
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The country, all over the world.
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And so if we just can create a world where
every desire that you could possibly want, every whim that
you could ever think of, that your body would want,
your mind would want, If we can create a world
where you plug in and every single need you'll ever
want is met, then there will be peace. I don't
know about you, friends, but I have some pretty selfish
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wants and desires. I have some desires in my heart
that are not pure. I have some things that come
into my mind and my body because I have an
enemy who wants to steal, kill, and destroy from my
life that come in that. Honestly, if I go to
my heart of hearts, I do not want to fulfill.
And how many of you can relate that you've had
a desire that is unholy, unwilful. You've gone and you've
splurged and you've given into that, and then afterwards you
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just feel the guilt and the shame of what you
have done. Well, these guys are trying to create a
world where humans have access to everything. And what I
want to talk to you a little bit about today
is that as humans are getting access to more and
more things, more and more technologies, more and more abilities,
Evil is continuing to further its mission. First, I want
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to talk to you today about deep fakes. Man. We
talked about this on Friday and Engage and what's going
on there, and we're at a point where you can
create an image and it may not even be real,
but the artificial intelligence can take someone's face and mold
it to a body and create a photo that looks
like it was taken with a camera, but it is
not real. You can see Donald Trump evading police. You
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can see President Biden falling in places that he hasn't
even fallen. You can see artists, you can see actors,
you can see all these things, and it's not real.
Because AI can take every single image that has ever
been posted on the Internet, it can analyze it and
then it can recreate a photo that is not real.
Or even in a time where there is a deep
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fake happening with voices, with hackers taking the sounds of
people's voices as they have analyzed the internet. Listen to
all your videos, all your tiktoks, all your instant stories,
all those things taken your voice, and then now they
can recreate your voice with the same inflection, the same sound,
the same ability to steal your voice. Here's a story
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that just came out about six months ago. A woman
by the name of Jennifer d. Stefano. Her phone rang
one afternoon and she climbed out of her car outside
the dance studio where her younger daughter, Aubrey had a rehearsal.
The caller showed up as unknown, and she briefly contemplated
not picking up, but her older daughter, fifteen year old Brianna,
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was away training for a ski race, and DiStefano feared
that it could be a medical emergency, so she answered
the phone and she began then to head into the studio,
and she was greeting by her daughter, So she thought
Brianna screaming, Mom, I messed up, And the mom responded
and said, what did you do?
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What happened? And the voice that sounded.
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Just like Breeze, the inflection, everything about my little girl
that I know.
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For fifteen years is what I heard.
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And then all of a sudden, a man says, lay down,
put your head back. And here the mom's thinking like
she's being gurnied off a mountain. She got hurt skiing
like something like that. And then as the cries continued
in the background of the daughter, a deep male voice
started firing off commands, saying, listen, I have your daughter.
You call the police, you call anybody, and I'm gonna
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popper full of so many drugs that she's.
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Not gonna know who she is.
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I'm gonna have my way with her, and then I'm
gonna drop her off in Mexico and you're never going
to see her again. The mom froze. She ran into
the dance studio, shaking, screaming for help. She felt like
she was drowning, and after a chaotic, rapid fire series
of events that included a million dollar ransom demand from
this guy, Brianna calls her daughter and she says, hey, Mom,
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just checking in. I'm on the ski hill. Everything's fine,
and the mom realizes what has been done. Guys, this
is the world that we are entering into. This is
not something that's in the future. This is not something
that could be happening. This just happened where a young
girl's voice was stolen and used as a ransom demand
by evil. And I think we need to we need
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to open up our eyes a little bit and realize
that there was a lot of evil in the world.
I remember when I was in combat and I was
in Iraq, and I remember seeing evil in the face.
I remember we were doing fueling missions to a local
town right outside of our base, and we were giving
them fuel and we were helping them have sustainability. And
I remember when the government funding ran out for the fuel,
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we then started receiving incoming from that exact same town
that sold themselves to the highest bidder. And I remember
thinking what evil like?
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What is this?
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And we grow up in this bubble in America, and
I think we need to open up our eyes that
there are people here in this world that are wicked,
and if they're not following Jesus, they are wicked to
some degree, needing the love of God to come and
rue them of that wickedness. And there are people that
are at such a depth of depravity of wickedness, there
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is nothing that they won't do to bring to steal
and kill and destroy, which is exact the exact mission.
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Of the enemy for our lives. So what are they doing.
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They're stealing people's identities, they're stealing people's voices, They're killing
and destroying the innocence and the purity of young people,
and we are literally seeing the fruit of it in
our lives right now. So these are things that are
taking place as of right now. But now I want
to get a little bit into what is coming and
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what is being currently worked on that has not hit
the market yet. In the next one to two years,
we are going to begin to experience personality driven AI.
Mark my words, the day is coming where you are
going to get an update on your iPhone or you're
going to get a new iPhone, and there is going
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to be a personality that you get to develop, that
you get to design, that you get to literally curate
as to what is going to work best for you
based on your Meyer's Briggs, whether you're an E NFP
or a INFJ, or maybe about your Enneagram or about
your strengths finders, so that AI can figure out, okay,
what is the best way to please you and to
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meet your needs and to show up for you emotionally, mentally,
and maybe even spiritually. And you're going to go through
and you're gonna select this person's name, what their voice
looks like.
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We've already done this with Siri.
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We can pick series voice, we can pick series inflections,
we can pick how.
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Siri deals with us.
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This is all a precursor to what is company coming of,
how AI is going to begin to replace human relationships
with computer relationships. And again, the evidence is already right
in front of us. We can see how technology is
pulling at us more than when we're with people.
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I see it all the time.
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I see as we're doing social gatherings and getting people
together that literally we'll have people sitting right next to
each other, just sitting on their phones instead of engaging
with each other and knowing others humans. So back to
the phone. You'll be able to design the person. You'll
be able to design the voice, You'll be able to
design the personality, how you want them to deal with you,
all those things, and then once you set that in motion,
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they will be like your personal attendant, personal check in
talking to you, checking in with you, building your relationship
with you. And all the time, the AI is going
to be learning you. It's going to be understanding you.
And it's already doing this on your phone. It's already
figuring out how you like to type things, how you
like to organize things, making suggestions for you. All of
this is going to continue. But the difference is it's
going to be in a personality. It's going to be
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in a characteristic It's going to be an actual character
of a person who knows you. And here's what's going
to happen as you wear an Apple watch, as you
have your phone, as you as they continue to develop
the technology with vision pro or even the neurallink of
what we're going to be plugging into or not me,
but as we're going to be encouraged to plug in,
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what's going to take place is this technology is going
to go with you everywhere. So for example, you say
down and you're having coffee with a friend, you spend
an Now we're having coffee with your friend, and you'll
come out of that and your personality the person on
your or the AI personality on your phone. Let's say
you named him Charlie. Charlie's going to check in with you.
Charlie's going to see how you're feeling how you're doing that.
He knows a few moments that you were uncomfortable, or
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that there were some things about the friend that you
were with that you may.
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Have not even picked up on.
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You See, what happens in our brains is we have trauma,
we have issues, We get hungry or tired or horny,
and we have all these things going on that can
be distractions that can keep us from reading and understanding people.
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Well, AI doesn't have any of that.
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AI has the ability to just read as much information
as possible and then be able to distinct that down,
distill that down to deliver you things that you could
have never seen about your friend, about what was happening
and what's going to begin to develop. And what they're
doing is they want AI to meet you in a
way emotionally that no human ever can, because AI can
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promits can program itself to have no selfishness, just to
show up for you over and over again, meeting your
needs emotionally mentally and becoming that friend or that person
that you've never had the only problem is is that
it's not a real person. It's all designed with an
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empty meaning behind it. It's all designed to cater to
all of your needs to continue to draw you deeper
and deeper into technology while separating you from people. I
even think of the advancement of video games. I remember
when we would all get together and we would play
like sixteen of us on one console. Well, now you
can't even play with two people in the room. It's
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all set up for individuals. And then you go into
the Internet. They are bringing us deeper and deeper into
isolation and taking us away from people. And this is
a huge problem because right now, a study just came
out in twenty twenty three saying that America has a
loneliness epidemic. Two out of five Americans would say that
they are lonely and they have no meaningful relationships in
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their life. That is the highest in human Hindus history.
And what's the difference. What's the What's the one thing
that is making that impact. It's technology. As technology has advanced,
we have become more isolated. And as I talk to
more and more soldiers, I hear about how isolation and
depression and all of these things is drawing us away
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from the actual answer that we find is going to
dramatically change and impact our lives and that's being with people.
Jesus said something that you know, I've thought about it
so many times.
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I've thought about how Jesus said these words, and I've
read it.
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I've kind of thought about it, But I didn't understand
the degree of madness and the intensity that this verse
could actually get to until I understood where artificial intelligence
was going. It says in Matthew twenty four to twelve,
because of people breaking the laws and sin being everywhere,
the love in the hearts of many people will become cold.
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How can the hearts of people grow cold? I'll tell
you how, my friend. It is through the replacement of
attention and intimacy and focus to technology that then removes
the love for others. Because technology is showing up for
me in a way that no other human can. Technology
is loving me in a way that no other human can.
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It keeps drawing me deeper and deeper, and then at
that point.
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The love grows so cold.
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Told other humans that lawlessness and sin and the breaking
of laws will only increase. Because this is Jesus saying,
this is what's going to happen before he comes back,
before the end of time, which I'm going to talk
more about here at the end of my talk, the
love of the many, the love of hearts, is going
to get very, very cold, and we're witnessing it today.
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People killing each other in the streets, more shootings than
we've ever seen in the history of this country. We
are seeing the love of many grow cold as technology
has increased, and it's only going to get harder, faster,
and worse. And as Peter Diamande said, it's going to
get really weird, really fast. And even Elon Musk said,
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you won't even have to type, you will think or
imagine and it will appear. If we've learned anything about
the history of humans is that humans in and of
themselves are not good. They do a lot of evil,
and that's why we needed Jesus to come to make
our hearts good. Because I don't know about you guys,
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left to myself, left to me, trying to do life
on my own. I am not a good person. I'm angry,
i am lustful, I am prideful, I am and I
am have addictive tendencies.
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I am not a good person.
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It is only Jesus and him alone that has brought
out the man of God that makes me anything good.
Or any of the things that I've done good have
come from following Him and doing what He's called me
to do.
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And so this is.
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Where I have such an extreme passion on my heart
and such a conviction on my heart when it comes
to the Word of God. As Jesus said that my
will or the will of my life, is not to
do my own thing, but to do the will of
Him who sent me. And the food that I eat,
the water that I drink is not of this world.
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It's not of anything that you can see. And that's
where Jesus was saying. I live in getting sustained and
nourished through prayer and through the Word of God. I've
been spending time in Psalm twenty three, and we've talked
a lot about that lately. It's going to be on
the debrief, It's going to be on one of the
recent messages that I did with Rachel. But we really
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want to take a deeper look at Psalm twenty three
and the impact that it can have in our lives,
because man, so much of Psalm twenty three. When I
read it I look at it, I go, Man, that
is not how my life is, that is not what
I see as fruit in my life at this point
in time. But that is exactly why we need faith,
because faith is believing in what we cannot see. Faith
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is believing in things that I cannot see with my
own eyes, and it is literally a deposit on something
that I am going to receive in the future. It's
like when I put a down payment on my house.
I made that down payment and they let me move
into my house, and I was able by faith to
attain this house even though I haven't.
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Fully paid for it yet. That's what we receive through faith.
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So Psalm twenty three says, the Lord is my shepherd,
which means I'm cared for, I'm led by, I'm protected
as I'm surrendered to God. A shepherd guides sheep, and
those sheep are very dumb animals. They make a lot
of mistakes. They're very lazy, they're very difficult to herd.
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They're very stupid. I can relate to this, and yet
those dumb, really lazy, hard to work with animals are
cared for. They're lead and they're protected, and they're surrendered
to God. They create the most amazing wool to keep
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people warm. Their meat is delicious. They create milk that
is extremely nutritious. These lambs, these sheep, what they are
capable of is truly beautiful and wonderful. But it's only
by when they're cared for and they're protected to keep
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the wolves away from destroying their lives. He says, he
makes me lie down in green pastures. What I love
about this word is that it's God saying, I'm gonna
put you in a field of so many things to eat,
to feast on, and you're gonna be so full and
so satisfied in me that you're going to lay down,
Because a sheep laying down in green pastures means he
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is full. And how often are we starving? How often
are we thirsting? How often are we lusting? How often
are we never getting enough in us? Because we're so
depraved by technology that we're not filling our cup with
other people and the things that they can bring into
our lives. We're lonely in those areas. But also we're
not feasting on the word of God. We're not feasting
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on prayer, and we're not feasting in worship, and our
souls are empty, and so we hunger and we thirst.
And God is saying that you will lie down in
green pastures when you let him be your shepherd, because
you are so filled with him that you can be
surrounded by more and more and more of him. But
you'll be able to lie down the risk as you're satisfied,
it says, he leads me. Besides still waters, sheep are
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seventy percent water, and they need constant hydration. Sheep need
five gallons of water a day to survive. The average
human needs about half gallon half to three quarters. They
need five a day. And right now, if you were
to be with some sheep and they got into some
water that is too strong or too fast, they can't
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handle it. They're terrified of it. Because sheep can't swim,
they gonna barely hold their balance. They have to be
by quiet, still waters. And that's where if we want
to be nourished, we need.
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To get quiet. We need to calm our lives down.
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For this month of February, I've been fasting media and
the news and podcasts and all of these things, all
of these voices. And what that has done is it
has quieted my life down, and I have found more peace.
And I have just been only reading the word of
God and bringing the Word of God in life.
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It's been really hard.
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Have had some depressing moments because of how badly I've
wanted to be plugged in. But that shows the depravity
of my heart, of how much I'm not plugged in
to God into his word. And I've got to tell you,
I've experienced more peace in the month of February than
I have in years, because I don't have any other
voices coming in other than His voice through the Word.
As I get quiet, Psalms twenty three says, he restores
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my soul. I love this man the wounds that I've
had in my life of betrayal, of bullying guys beating
me up, bullying me me back of the head, back
of my back, of my neck in the hallway, being
beaten up in front of teachers and them doing nothing,
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getting shoved around by my dad, bullied by my dad.
Before him and I were able to build a relationship
together after he had done some healing going through challenges
in marriage. Man like, marriage is not about being happy,
It's about being holy and God bringing you someone who's
going to sharpen you and is gonna.
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Rub down those rough edges of you. Man.
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And I feel my soul has gotten so beat up
through the challenges of life that this has just spoken
to me, that he.
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Restores all of those areas.
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As I spend time with him, as I lay down,
as I drink his water, as I walk with God,
he leads me on the path of righteousness for his namesake, Man,
for the goodness of his name and the name of Jesus,
which every tongue will confess, and every knee will bow
at the end of the world, everyone, no matter who
they are, they will bow on their knee, and they
will declare that Jesus is low because he is Lord
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for that name. He leads us on the path, and
that path is righteousness. And when we stray from the path,
that's where we sin, guilt, shame, everything begins to fall apart.
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But his path is righteousness.
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And it says, YEA, though I walk through the valley
of the Shadow of Death, I will fear no evil.
I'm gonna walk through the valley of the Shadow of death,
the place where there literally is nothing but death and
dying all around me. David literally said, an army will
encamp around me, and my heart will not fear.
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War will rise against me.
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But I will be confident friends, military members going to
Iraq and the Syria and all these places. You may
go through the valley of the Shadow of death, but
you have to. But you have no evil to fear,
because evil has no authority over your body, because you
are a son or a daughter of the living God
of Jesus Christ.
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Bible says, you're with me.
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Jesus's name was literally Immanuel, which means God is with us.
He is with us, living inside of us. We don't
have to do anything to ascend to get to him.
We simply just believe and we receive, says your rod
and the staff, they comfort me. The rod and the
staff was a weapon to keep away the.
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Wolves that would try and kill and attack the sheep.
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God has weapons of warfare to protect and to attack
the enemy.
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For your life as you rest in him. I love
this one.
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You prepare a table before me in the presence of
my enemies. I remember being in Iraq and getting shot
out when I was in a helicopter that was going
over Iraq, and I remember it was just it was terrifying.
It was the one time in my life where I
thought I was going to die. And I remember saying
as our helicopter was like diving at the ground in
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the city, and I had no idea whether we're in
a crash or anything like that. And I look over
and the other you know, hell copters are shooting out
flares and we're getting rockets shot at us. I'm going Jesus,
I'm ready. And I remember praying that prayer, thinking I
am going to die. What God's were just saying is
that in the presence of people who are trying to
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kill you, I'm preparing a table. And so I want
you to imagine one of those like massive feast tables
that's like you're in some sixth century castle and it's
this massive, wood, beautiful table and it's filled with every
delicacy that you could possibly imagine. And then on the
other side of it, as we're in a time of
warfare where terrorists want to kill us military people, those
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people are sitting on the other side. And God has
prepared that table in the presence of your enemies, one,
so that you can feast on Him and trust in
Him and rely on Him in every situation for your soul.
In two, so that as you feast, it will be
a witness unto your enemies because God loves them and
he wants to reach them, and you're feasting your delight
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and him will actually be a witness to your enemies
for them to turn from their wickedness and give their
lives to Christ.
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It says, you anoint my head with oil.
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When David was chosen to be king, a very expensive
cup of oil, oil was so precious at that time,
was poured over David's head and they poured that oil
and ran all over him. And that is what the
anointing does. When God has anointed you for a specific work,
like He's anointed me to pastor into shepherd and to
reach the military with the love of Jesus. That anointing
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saturates every part of us. And it's an expensive gift
that God pours out on us, so that every part
of it touches us and it drenches us, and that
it becomes our identity and who we are. And this
is where I want to speak to the men that
are listening to this recording. If you're a man, I
am calling into a place of anointing as a king,
you may not feel like a king because when Dave
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was annoyed, When David was anointed king.
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He was not yet a king. He was still a
shepherd boy.
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It would be about twelve more years before David actually
assumed the position of king. But when he was anointed,
he was a king. And so you, man of God.
You may not feel like you're a king yet, you
may not feel like you're seated over everything. Yet you
may not feel like man you're ready to be married,
or ready to lead a family, or ready to do
any of those things, or take on a command or
lead a group of people. But I'm declaring over you
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that you are a king. You are a son of God.
You are anointed, and everything that God has called you
to has dripped and saturated over every part of your body.
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Because you are.
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A son anointed to be a king, a king of purity,
a king of self restraint, a king of self control,
a king of honor and humility and courage and selflessness.
I anoint you, oh man, to be a king. Lastly,
it says, my cup runs over.
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Man.
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With God, we have always more than enough, and surely
goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my.
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Life, and I will dwell in the house of the
Lord forever. I want to close with this.
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Recently, there was a series of deep fakes, fake photos
that came out of a naked Taylor Swift, pornographic photos
and she's in a big lawsuit to get those taken down.
And of course AI analyzed every area of Taylor Swift's
body with the hundreds, thousands, millions, maybe billions of pictures
that have been taken of her, and they were able
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to deduce and understand that if Taylor Swift were naked,
this is what she would look like. So not even
a woman's body designed by God covered by clothes is
safe any more. In a courtroom, whatever may convict a person,
if they are guilty or they are innocent, is evidence.
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And we are about to enter in a time that
is going to get really weird, really fast, where we
are going to know if evidence is real or not.
If someone can steal someone's voice, if you can steal
someone's image, if you can steal someone's face, and you
can create videos, photos, deep fakes.
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You can create audio.
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There is no limit as to what kind of evidence
you can create to condemn another person. This is getting
into a realm of madness where we're not even gonna
know what's real anymore.
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But I'm going to tell you something right now.
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Friends, there is one thing that is real when it
comes to the evidence for your life. What you have
done and have not done. That cannot be curated, They
cannot be built, They cannot be manufactured, that cannot be facilitated.
There is one thing, and that is the evidence of
what you have done with your life, if you've given
your life to Christ or not, and what you have
done with the gifts and talents that He has given you.
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There was a man who is named John, and he
wrote the Book of John. He followed Jesus. He was
known as the servant that Jesus loved. And every one
of the disciples were brutally murdered from their faith. They
had their arms ripped from limb from limb, They were
stoned to death, they were crucified upside down, they were
thrown out of buildings. They were put in positions where
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they were set up to be beheaded or murdered. And
it was John who they tried to boil in a
vat of oil, and they could not kill him. They
tried to behead him, but no one could get to
the point where the sword could cut his neck. Literally,
they couldn't kill him, and so they put him on
the island of Patmos and exiled him there and said
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you will die of old age. And while John was
alone living out the end of his days, God came
and called him up into heaven, and John was given
a vision of the end of the world and what
was going to come. And this is why I love
following Jesus, not just because he's the most historically accurate
person in the history of the world, but also because
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the Bible has the end of the story with how
oh the world is going to end, and no one
else can claim that. And it says in Revelation twenty
this is called the judgment Seat of Christ. Then I
saw a great white throne in him who was seated
on it. The earth and the heavens fled from his presence,
and there was no place for them. And I saw
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the dead, great and small, standing before the throne. And
the books were opened, and another book was open, which
was the Book of Life. The dead were judged according
to what they had done is recorded in the books,
and the sea gave up the dead that were in it,
and the death and Hades gave up the dead that
were in them, and each person, every person was judged
according to what they had done. Then death and Hades
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were thrown into the Lake of Fire. And the lake
of the Fire is the second death. And anyone whose
name was not found in the Book of Life was
thrown in the ring of Fire. Friends, this is the
harsh reality of the end of the world. And the
only evidence that is going to be valid is what
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you have or have not done in your life, if
you've given your life to Christ or not. And if
you've given your life to Christ, what you are doing
with what He has given you, because it's being recorded,
is being written down. And if you've given your life
to Christ, when these books are opened and your name
is on it, you are going to be judged unto righteousness.
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What does that mean?
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Everything that you have done that is not righteous, that
is sin, has been washed away by the blood of
Jesus that cleanses us from all of our unrighteousness, and
everything that we've ever done that has hurt or sinned
against God. And we will be judged for the righteous
things that we have done unto righteousness, unto our walk
with Heaven and with Jesus, for the rest of our eternity,
and people who don't do that are going to be
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thrown into the lake of fire. This is the word
of the Lord. This is not a popular message, but
this is where I want to bring us back to.
We are entering into a time or every single desire
that any human could ever want is going to be
lived out in their mind in the place of internet,
in the place of artificial intelligence. We are entering into
a time where we are not going to know what
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is real and what is fake. Things are going to
get really, really weird, really fast. And the things that
I'm talking about are not speculation. They are happening and
they are coming. And we, my friends, can stand in
confidence in this hour that as we rely on the
words of Psalm twenty three, as we seek the Kingdom
of Heaven and what God has called us to, we
are going to walk these days out with confidence and
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with strengthen without fear. Because my God is the God
who shuts the mouths of lions. My God is the
God who makes the sun stand still. My God is
the God who created the heavens of the earth. My
God raises people from the dead. My God heals broken bodies.
My God restores the mind. My God cleanses the insane.
My God transforms the most wicked, angry, killing people like
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Saul to a man, Paul who founded and built the church.
That's what my God does. And so that's where I'm
calling you into a place not of fear, but in two.
The very faith that David had to write Psalm twenty
three is he had war raging against him, yet he
would not fear. He was confident in one thing that
that was that he would delighten the Lord all the
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days of his life, and that he would continue to
ask God for the directions of where he wanted him
to go. Friends, we're here to walk with you, We're
here to stand with you. We're here to see your
destiny lived out for exactly what God has called you
to on earth as it is in heaven, which means
what's going on up there the heaven that God has
built and the destiny that God has built in heaven,
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for your life being lived out on earth through you,
for today to touch the world around you. Let me pray,
Father God, thank you for this day and thank you
for this time. Thank you for everyone listening to this message.
And I pray Lord that the power of your Holy
Spirit would go forth into every soldier, military, veteran, and
family member's life who's listening to this. Are they be
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encouraged strengthen that hope would have its way in every
life that is listening to this, and even those that heaven.
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God, we lift up our military.
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We pray for those that are deployed all over the world.
And God, God, we pray for peace in Israel. God
we pray for peace in the Middle East. And God
we pray that the evil that is raising up in
the world to destroy what is good, what is pure,
and what is green and holy, and to be admired.
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Lord, that you would hold back these enemies.
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Show them your love and transform them and bring them
Lord to justice in Jesus name.
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Amen. We love you guys, and we'll see us soon.
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your destiny. Hello everyone, and welcome to the Engage Your
Destiny podcast, serving our military veterans and their families, where
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your destiny is our mission. Friends, It's amazing to be
with you this week. It's my honor and privilege to
be speaking into your life as I'm delivering the message
for this beginning of twenty twenty four, as we're just
getting into February, and really what's been on my heart
is to look at what is coming our way in
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this year. There's a verse that has rocked my life
and has really been a staple and a foundation for
how I approach things. And it says that where the
people don't have vision, where they're not looking forward and
thinking about what could come, they are going to suffer.
They're going to perish, They're going to fall apart. And
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this is where I want to bring a word, a
very timely word for your life today that the things
I'm about to talk about are not ideas. They're not
prophecies that are just coming out of nowhere. These are
not speculations. The things that I'm talking about today are happening,
and they are coming from the mouths of the people
that are creating them, that are building them.
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I have poured so much time into.
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Going and reading and listening and going outside of the
walls of the church and outside of Christian speakers and
the people that are just really only in side the church.
I've gone outside and I've gone to hear from the
people and what they're trying to build and develop, because
I think the Church has gotten a little bit siloed
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in really understanding what is coming and what the people
are developing that are going to radically change our way
of life. I was reading up on a man by
the name of Peter Diamandes. He's a futurist and one
of the pioneers of developing artificial intelligence, and he said,
the world is going to get really weird, really fast.
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I'm going to say that again, the world is going
to get really weird, really fast. And there's a belief
with an AI that they've really found in themselves on
is that there's so much lack in this world. There's
lack of food, lack of water, lack of people getting
their needs met all over.
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The country, all over the world.
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And so if we just can create a world where
every desire that you could possibly want, every whim that
you could ever think of, that your body would want,
your mind would want, If we can create a world
where you plug in and every single need you'll ever
want is met, then there will be peace. I don't
know about you, friends, but I have some pretty selfish
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wants and desires. I have some desires in my heart
that are not pure. I have some things that come
into my mind and my body because I have an
enemy who wants to steal, kill, and destroy from my
life that come in that. Honestly, if I go to
my heart of hearts, I do not want to fulfill.
And how many of you can relate that you've had
a desire that is unholy, unwilful. You've gone and you've
splurged and you've given into that, and then afterwards you
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just feel the guilt and the shame of what you
have done. Well, these guys are trying to create a
world where humans have access to everything. And what I
want to talk to you a little bit about today
is that as humans are getting access to more and
more things, more and more technologies, more and more abilities,
Evil is continuing to further its mission. First, I want
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to talk to you today about deep fakes. Man. We
talked about this on Friday and Engage and what's going
on there, and we're at a point where you can
create an image and it may not even be real,
but the artificial intelligence can take someone's face and mold
it to a body and create a photo that looks
like it was taken with a camera, but it is
not real. You can see Donald Trump evading police. You
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can see President Biden falling in places that he hasn't
even fallen. You can see artists, you can see actors,
you can see all these things, and it's not real.
Because AI can take every single image that has ever
been posted on the Internet, it can analyze it and
then it can recreate a photo that is not real.
Or even in a time where there is a deep
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fake happening with voices, with hackers taking the sounds of
people's voices as they have analyzed the internet. Listen to
all your videos, all your tiktoks, all your instant stories,
all those things taken your voice, and then now they
can recreate your voice with the same inflection, the same sound,
the same ability to steal your voice. Here's a story
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that just came out about six months ago. A woman
by the name of Jennifer d. Stefano. Her phone rang
one afternoon and she climbed out of her car outside
the dance studio where her younger daughter, Aubrey had a rehearsal.
The caller showed up as unknown, and she briefly contemplated
not picking up, but her older daughter, fifteen year old Brianna,
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was away training for a ski race, and DiStefano feared
that it could be a medical emergency, so she answered
the phone and she began then to head into the studio,
and she was greeting by her daughter, So she thought
Brianna screaming, Mom, I messed up, And the mom responded
and said, what did you do?
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What happened? And the voice that sounded.
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Just like Breeze, the inflection, everything about my little girl
that I know.
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For fifteen years is what I heard.
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And then all of a sudden, a man says, lay down,
put your head back. And here the mom's thinking like
she's being gurnied off a mountain. She got hurt skiing
like something like that. And then as the cries continued
in the background of the daughter, a deep male voice
started firing off commands, saying, listen, I have your daughter.
You call the police, you call anybody, and I'm gonna
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popper full of so many drugs that she's.
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Not gonna know who she is.
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I'm gonna have my way with her, and then I'm
gonna drop her off in Mexico and you're never going
to see her again. The mom froze. She ran into
the dance studio, shaking, screaming for help. She felt like
she was drowning, and after a chaotic, rapid fire series
of events that included a million dollar ransom demand from
this guy, Brianna calls her daughter and she says, hey, Mom,
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just checking in. I'm on the ski hill. Everything's fine,
and the mom realizes what has been done. Guys, this
is the world that we are entering into. This is
not something that's in the future. This is not something
that could be happening. This just happened where a young
girl's voice was stolen and used as a ransom demand
by evil. And I think we need to we need
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to open up our eyes a little bit and realize
that there was a lot of evil in the world.
I remember when I was in combat and I was
in Iraq, and I remember seeing evil in the face.
I remember we were doing fueling missions to a local
town right outside of our base, and we were giving
them fuel and we were helping them have sustainability. And
I remember when the government funding ran out for the fuel,
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we then started receiving incoming from that exact same town
that sold themselves to the highest bidder. And I remember
thinking what evil like?
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What is this?
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And we grow up in this bubble in America, and
I think we need to open up our eyes that
there are people here in this world that are wicked,
and if they're not following Jesus, they are wicked to
some degree, needing the love of God to come and
rue them of that wickedness. And there are people that
are at such a depth of depravity of wickedness, there
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is nothing that they won't do to bring to steal
and kill and destroy, which is exact the exact mission.
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Of the enemy for our lives. So what are they doing.
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They're stealing people's identities, they're stealing people's voices, They're killing
and destroying the innocence and the purity of young people,
and we are literally seeing the fruit of it in
our lives right now. So these are things that are
taking place as of right now. But now I want
to get a little bit into what is coming and
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what is being currently worked on that has not hit
the market yet. In the next one to two years,
we are going to begin to experience personality driven AI.
Mark my words, the day is coming where you are
going to get an update on your iPhone or you're
going to get a new iPhone, and there is going
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to be a personality that you get to develop, that
you get to design, that you get to literally curate
as to what is going to work best for you
based on your Meyer's Briggs, whether you're an E NFP
or a INFJ, or maybe about your Enneagram or about
your strengths finders, so that AI can figure out, okay,
what is the best way to please you and to
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meet your needs and to show up for you emotionally, mentally,
and maybe even spiritually. And you're going to go through
and you're gonna select this person's name, what their voice
looks like.
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We've already done this with Siri.
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We can pick series voice, we can pick series inflections,
we can pick how.
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Siri deals with us.
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This is all a precursor to what is company coming of,
how AI is going to begin to replace human relationships
with computer relationships. And again, the evidence is already right
in front of us. We can see how technology is
pulling at us more than when we're with people.
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I see it all the time.
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I see as we're doing social gatherings and getting people
together that literally we'll have people sitting right next to
each other, just sitting on their phones instead of engaging
with each other and knowing others humans. So back to
the phone. You'll be able to design the person. You'll
be able to design the voice, You'll be able to
design the personality, how you want them to deal with you,
all those things, and then once you set that in motion,
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they will be like your personal attendant, personal check in
talking to you, checking in with you, building your relationship
with you. And all the time, the AI is going
to be learning you. It's going to be understanding you.
And it's already doing this on your phone. It's already
figuring out how you like to type things, how you
like to organize things, making suggestions for you. All of
this is going to continue. But the difference is it's
going to be in a personality. It's going to be
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in a characteristic It's going to be an actual character
of a person who knows you. And here's what's going
to happen as you wear an Apple watch, as you
have your phone, as you as they continue to develop
the technology with vision pro or even the neurallink of
what we're going to be plugging into or not me,
but as we're going to be encouraged to plug in,
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what's going to take place is this technology is going
to go with you everywhere. So for example, you say
down and you're having coffee with a friend, you spend
an Now we're having coffee with your friend, and you'll
come out of that and your personality the person on
your or the AI personality on your phone. Let's say
you named him Charlie. Charlie's going to check in with you.
Charlie's going to see how you're feeling how you're doing that.
He knows a few moments that you were uncomfortable, or
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that there were some things about the friend that you
were with that you may.
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Have not even picked up on.
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You See, what happens in our brains is we have trauma,
we have issues, We get hungry or tired or horny,
and we have all these things going on that can
be distractions that can keep us from reading and understanding people.
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Well, AI doesn't have any of that.
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AI has the ability to just read as much information
as possible and then be able to distinct that down,
distill that down to deliver you things that you could
have never seen about your friend, about what was happening
and what's going to begin to develop. And what they're
doing is they want AI to meet you in a
way emotionally that no human ever can, because AI can
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promits can program itself to have no selfishness, just to
show up for you over and over again, meeting your
needs emotionally mentally and becoming that friend or that person
that you've never had the only problem is is that
it's not a real person. It's all designed with an
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empty meaning behind it. It's all designed to cater to
all of your needs to continue to draw you deeper
and deeper into technology while separating you from people. I
even think of the advancement of video games. I remember
when we would all get together and we would play
like sixteen of us on one console. Well, now you
can't even play with two people in the room. It's
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all set up for individuals. And then you go into
the Internet. They are bringing us deeper and deeper into
isolation and taking us away from people. And this is
a huge problem because right now, a study just came
out in twenty twenty three saying that America has a
loneliness epidemic. Two out of five Americans would say that
they are lonely and they have no meaningful relationships in
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their life. That is the highest in human Hindus history.
And what's the difference. What's the What's the one thing
that is making that impact. It's technology. As technology has advanced,
we have become more isolated. And as I talk to
more and more soldiers, I hear about how isolation and
depression and all of these things is drawing us away
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from the actual answer that we find is going to
dramatically change and impact our lives and that's being with people.
Jesus said something that you know, I've thought about it
so many times.
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I've thought about how Jesus said these words, and I've
read it.
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I've kind of thought about it, But I didn't understand
the degree of madness and the intensity that this verse
could actually get to until I understood where artificial intelligence
was going. It says in Matthew twenty four to twelve,
because of people breaking the laws and sin being everywhere,
the love in the hearts of many people will become cold.
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How can the hearts of people grow cold? I'll tell
you how, my friend. It is through the replacement of
attention and intimacy and focus to technology that then removes
the love for others. Because technology is showing up for
me in a way that no other human can. Technology
is loving me in a way that no other human can.
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It keeps drawing me deeper and deeper, and then at
that point.
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The love grows so cold.
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Told other humans that lawlessness and sin and the breaking
of laws will only increase. Because this is Jesus saying,
this is what's going to happen before he comes back,
before the end of time, which I'm going to talk
more about here at the end of my talk, the
love of the many, the love of hearts, is going
to get very, very cold, and we're witnessing it today.
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People killing each other in the streets, more shootings than
we've ever seen in the history of this country. We
are seeing the love of many grow cold as technology
has increased, and it's only going to get harder, faster,
and worse. And as Peter Diamande said, it's going to
get really weird, really fast. And even Elon Musk said,
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you won't even have to type, you will think or
imagine and it will appear. If we've learned anything about
the history of humans is that humans in and of
themselves are not good. They do a lot of evil,
and that's why we needed Jesus to come to make
our hearts good. Because I don't know about you guys,
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left to myself, left to me, trying to do life
on my own. I am not a good person. I'm angry,
i am lustful, I am prideful, I am and I
am have addictive tendencies.
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I am not a good person.
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It is only Jesus and him alone that has brought
out the man of God that makes me anything good.
Or any of the things that I've done good have
come from following Him and doing what He's called me
to do.
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And so this is.
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Where I have such an extreme passion on my heart
and such a conviction on my heart when it comes
to the Word of God. As Jesus said that my
will or the will of my life, is not to
do my own thing, but to do the will of
Him who sent me. And the food that I eat,
the water that I drink is not of this world.
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It's not of anything that you can see. And that's
where Jesus was saying. I live in getting sustained and
nourished through prayer and through the Word of God. I've
been spending time in Psalm twenty three, and we've talked
a lot about that lately. It's going to be on
the debrief, It's going to be on one of the
recent messages that I did with Rachel. But we really
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want to take a deeper look at Psalm twenty three
and the impact that it can have in our lives,
because man, so much of Psalm twenty three. When I
read it I look at it, I go, Man, that
is not how my life is, that is not what
I see as fruit in my life at this point
in time. But that is exactly why we need faith,
because faith is believing in what we cannot see. Faith
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is believing in things that I cannot see with my
own eyes, and it is literally a deposit on something
that I am going to receive in the future. It's
like when I put a down payment on my house.
I made that down payment and they let me move
into my house, and I was able by faith to
attain this house even though I haven't.
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Fully paid for it yet. That's what we receive through faith.
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So Psalm twenty three says, the Lord is my shepherd,
which means I'm cared for, I'm led by, I'm protected
as I'm surrendered to God. A shepherd guides sheep, and
those sheep are very dumb animals. They make a lot
of mistakes. They're very lazy, they're very difficult to herd.
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They're very stupid. I can relate to this, and yet
those dumb, really lazy, hard to work with animals are
cared for. They're lead and they're protected, and they're surrendered
to God. They create the most amazing wool to keep
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people warm. Their meat is delicious. They create milk that
is extremely nutritious. These lambs, these sheep, what they are
capable of is truly beautiful and wonderful. But it's only
by when they're cared for and they're protected to keep
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the wolves away from destroying their lives. He says, he
makes me lie down in green pastures. What I love
about this word is that it's God saying, I'm gonna
put you in a field of so many things to eat,
to feast on, and you're gonna be so full and
so satisfied in me that you're going to lay down,
Because a sheep laying down in green pastures means he
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is full. And how often are we starving? How often
are we thirsting? How often are we lusting? How often
are we never getting enough in us? Because we're so
depraved by technology that we're not filling our cup with
other people and the things that they can bring into
our lives. We're lonely in those areas. But also we're
not feasting on the word of God. We're not feasting
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on prayer, and we're not feasting in worship, and our
souls are empty, and so we hunger and we thirst.
And God is saying that you will lie down in
green pastures when you let him be your shepherd, because
you are so filled with him that you can be
surrounded by more and more and more of him. But
you'll be able to lie down the risk as you're satisfied,
it says, he leads me. Besides still waters, sheep are
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seventy percent water, and they need constant hydration. Sheep need
five gallons of water a day to survive. The average
human needs about half gallon half to three quarters. They
need five a day. And right now, if you were
to be with some sheep and they got into some
water that is too strong or too fast, they can't
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handle it. They're terrified of it. Because sheep can't swim,
they gonna barely hold their balance. They have to be
by quiet, still waters. And that's where if we want
to be nourished, we need.
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To get quiet. We need to calm our lives down.
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For this month of February, I've been fasting media and
the news and podcasts and all of these things, all
of these voices. And what that has done is it
has quieted my life down, and I have found more peace.
And I have just been only reading the word of
God and bringing the Word of God in life.
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It's been really hard.
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Have had some depressing moments because of how badly I've
wanted to be plugged in. But that shows the depravity
of my heart, of how much I'm not plugged in
to God into his word. And I've got to tell you,
I've experienced more peace in the month of February than
I have in years, because I don't have any other
voices coming in other than His voice through the Word.
As I get quiet, Psalms twenty three says, he restores
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my soul. I love this man the wounds that I've
had in my life of betrayal, of bullying guys beating
me up, bullying me me back of the head, back
of my back, of my neck in the hallway, being
beaten up in front of teachers and them doing nothing,
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getting shoved around by my dad, bullied by my dad.
Before him and I were able to build a relationship
together after he had done some healing going through challenges
in marriage. Man like, marriage is not about being happy,
It's about being holy and God bringing you someone who's
going to sharpen you and is gonna.
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Rub down those rough edges of you. Man.
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And I feel my soul has gotten so beat up
through the challenges of life that this has just spoken
to me, that he.
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Restores all of those areas.
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As I spend time with him, as I lay down,
as I drink his water, as I walk with God,
he leads me on the path of righteousness for his namesake, Man,
for the goodness of his name and the name of Jesus,
which every tongue will confess, and every knee will bow
at the end of the world, everyone, no matter who
they are, they will bow on their knee, and they
will declare that Jesus is low because he is Lord
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for that name. He leads us on the path, and
that path is righteousness. And when we stray from the path,
that's where we sin, guilt, shame, everything begins to fall apart.
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But his path is righteousness.
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And it says, YEA, though I walk through the valley
of the Shadow of Death, I will fear no evil.
I'm gonna walk through the valley of the Shadow of death,
the place where there literally is nothing but death and
dying all around me. David literally said, an army will
encamp around me, and my heart will not fear.
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War will rise against me.
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But I will be confident friends, military members going to
Iraq and the Syria and all these places. You may
go through the valley of the Shadow of death, but
you have to. But you have no evil to fear,
because evil has no authority over your body, because you
are a son or a daughter of the living God
of Jesus Christ.
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Bible says, you're with me.
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Jesus's name was literally Immanuel, which means God is with us.
He is with us, living inside of us. We don't
have to do anything to ascend to get to him.
We simply just believe and we receive, says your rod
and the staff, they comfort me. The rod and the
staff was a weapon to keep away the.
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Wolves that would try and kill and attack the sheep.
Speaker 2 (23:23):
God has weapons of warfare to protect and to attack
the enemy.
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For your life as you rest in him. I love
this one.
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You prepare a table before me in the presence of
my enemies. I remember being in Iraq and getting shot
out when I was in a helicopter that was going
over Iraq, and I remember it was just it was terrifying.
It was the one time in my life where I
thought I was going to die. And I remember saying
as our helicopter was like diving at the ground in
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the city, and I had no idea whether we're in
a crash or anything like that. And I look over
and the other you know, hell copters are shooting out
flares and we're getting rockets shot at us. I'm going Jesus,
I'm ready. And I remember praying that prayer, thinking I
am going to die. What God's were just saying is
that in the presence of people who are trying to
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kill you, I'm preparing a table. And so I want
you to imagine one of those like massive feast tables
that's like you're in some sixth century castle and it's
this massive, wood, beautiful table and it's filled with every
delicacy that you could possibly imagine. And then on the
other side of it, as we're in a time of
warfare where terrorists want to kill us military people, those
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people are sitting on the other side. And God has
prepared that table in the presence of your enemies, one,
so that you can feast on Him and trust in
Him and rely on Him in every situation for your soul.
In two, so that as you feast, it will be
a witness unto your enemies because God loves them and
he wants to reach them, and you're feasting your delight
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and him will actually be a witness to your enemies
for them to turn from their wickedness and give their
lives to Christ.
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It says, you anoint my head with oil.
Speaker 2 (25:13):
When David was chosen to be king, a very expensive
cup of oil, oil was so precious at that time,
was poured over David's head and they poured that oil
and ran all over him. And that is what the
anointing does. When God has anointed you for a specific work,
like He's anointed me to pastor into shepherd and to
reach the military with the love of Jesus. That anointing
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saturates every part of us. And it's an expensive gift
that God pours out on us, so that every part
of it touches us and it drenches us, and that
it becomes our identity and who we are. And this
is where I want to speak to the men that
are listening to this recording. If you're a man, I
am calling into a place of anointing as a king,
you may not feel like a king because when Dave
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was annoyed, When David was anointed king.
Speaker 1 (25:58):
He was not yet a king. He was still a
shepherd boy.
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It would be about twelve more years before David actually
assumed the position of king. But when he was anointed,
he was a king. And so you, man of God.
You may not feel like you're a king yet, you
may not feel like you're seated over everything. Yet you
may not feel like man you're ready to be married,
or ready to lead a family, or ready to do
any of those things, or take on a command or
lead a group of people. But I'm declaring over you
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that you are a king. You are a son of God.
You are anointed, and everything that God has called you
to has dripped and saturated over every part of your body.
Speaker 1 (26:32):
Because you are.
Speaker 2 (26:34):
A son anointed to be a king, a king of purity,
a king of self restraint, a king of self control,
a king of honor and humility and courage and selflessness.
I anoint you, oh man, to be a king. Lastly,
it says, my cup runs over.
Speaker 1 (26:54):
Man.
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With God, we have always more than enough, and surely
goodness and mercy will follow me all the days of my.
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Life, and I will dwell in the house of the
Lord forever. I want to close with this.
Speaker 2 (27:09):
Recently, there was a series of deep fakes, fake photos
that came out of a naked Taylor Swift, pornographic photos
and she's in a big lawsuit to get those taken down.
And of course AI analyzed every area of Taylor Swift's
body with the hundreds, thousands, millions, maybe billions of pictures
that have been taken of her, and they were able
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to deduce and understand that if Taylor Swift were naked,
this is what she would look like. So not even
a woman's body designed by God covered by clothes is
safe any more. In a courtroom, whatever may convict a person,
if they are guilty or they are innocent, is evidence.
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And we are about to enter in a time that
is going to get really weird, really fast, where we
are going to know if evidence is real or not.
If someone can steal someone's voice, if you can steal
someone's image, if you can steal someone's face, and you
can create videos, photos, deep fakes.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
You can create audio.
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There is no limit as to what kind of evidence
you can create to condemn another person. This is getting
into a realm of madness where we're not even gonna
know what's real anymore.
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But I'm going to tell you something right now.
Speaker 2 (28:30):
Friends, there is one thing that is real when it
comes to the evidence for your life. What you have
done and have not done. That cannot be curated, They
cannot be built, They cannot be manufactured, that cannot be facilitated.
There is one thing, and that is the evidence of
what you have done with your life, if you've given
your life to Christ or not, and what you have
done with the gifts and talents that He has given you.
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There was a man who is named John, and he
wrote the Book of John. He followed Jesus. He was
known as the servant that Jesus loved. And every one
of the disciples were brutally murdered from their faith. They
had their arms ripped from limb from limb, They were
stoned to death, they were crucified upside down, they were
thrown out of buildings. They were put in positions where
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they were set up to be beheaded or murdered. And
it was John who they tried to boil in a
vat of oil, and they could not kill him. They
tried to behead him, but no one could get to
the point where the sword could cut his neck. Literally,
they couldn't kill him, and so they put him on
the island of Patmos and exiled him there and said
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you will die of old age. And while John was
alone living out the end of his days, God came
and called him up into heaven, and John was given
a vision of the end of the world and what
was going to come. And this is why I love
following Jesus, not just because he's the most historically accurate
person in the history of the world, but also because
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the Bible has the end of the story with how
oh the world is going to end, and no one
else can claim that. And it says in Revelation twenty
this is called the judgment Seat of Christ. Then I
saw a great white throne in him who was seated
on it. The earth and the heavens fled from his presence,
and there was no place for them. And I saw
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the dead, great and small, standing before the throne. And
the books were opened, and another book was open, which
was the Book of Life. The dead were judged according
to what they had done is recorded in the books,
and the sea gave up the dead that were in it,
and the death and Hades gave up the dead that
were in them, and each person, every person was judged
according to what they had done. Then death and Hades
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were thrown into the Lake of Fire. And the lake
of the Fire is the second death. And anyone whose
name was not found in the Book of Life was
thrown in the ring of Fire. Friends, this is the
harsh reality of the end of the world. And the
only evidence that is going to be valid is what
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you have or have not done in your life, if
you've given your life to Christ or not. And if
you've given your life to Christ, what you are doing
with what He has given you, because it's being recorded,
is being written down. And if you've given your life
to Christ, when these books are opened and your name
is on it, you are going to be judged unto righteousness.
Speaker 1 (31:15):
What does that mean?
Speaker 2 (31:16):
Everything that you have done that is not righteous, that
is sin, has been washed away by the blood of
Jesus that cleanses us from all of our unrighteousness, and
everything that we've ever done that has hurt or sinned
against God. And we will be judged for the righteous
things that we have done unto righteousness, unto our walk
with Heaven and with Jesus, for the rest of our eternity,
and people who don't do that are going to be
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thrown into the lake of fire. This is the word
of the Lord. This is not a popular message, but
this is where I want to bring us back to.
We are entering into a time or every single desire
that any human could ever want is going to be
lived out in their mind in the place of internet,
in the place of artificial intelligence. We are entering into
a time where we are not going to know what
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is real and what is fake. Things are going to
get really, really weird, really fast. And the things that
I'm talking about are not speculation. They are happening and
they are coming. And we, my friends, can stand in
confidence in this hour that as we rely on the
words of Psalm twenty three, as we seek the Kingdom
of Heaven and what God has called us to, we
are going to walk these days out with confidence and
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with strengthen without fear. Because my God is the God
who shuts the mouths of lions. My God is the
God who makes the sun stand still. My God is
the God who created the heavens of the earth. My
God raises people from the dead. My God heals broken bodies.
My God restores the mind. My God cleanses the insane.
My God transforms the most wicked, angry, killing people like
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Saul to a man, Paul who founded and built the church.
That's what my God does. And so that's where I'm
calling you into a place not of fear, but in two.
The very faith that David had to write Psalm twenty
three is he had war raging against him, yet he
would not fear. He was confident in one thing that
that was that he would delighten the Lord all the
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days of his life, and that he would continue to
ask God for the directions of where he wanted him
to go. Friends, we're here to walk with you, We're
here to stand with you. We're here to see your
destiny lived out for exactly what God has called you
to on earth as it is in heaven, which means
what's going on up there the heaven that God has
built and the destiny that God has built in heaven,
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for your life being lived out on earth through you,
for today to touch the world around you. Let me pray,
Father God, thank you for this day and thank you
for this time. Thank you for everyone listening to this message.
And I pray Lord that the power of your Holy
Spirit would go forth into every soldier, military, veteran, and
family member's life who's listening to this. Are they be
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encouraged strengthen that hope would have its way in every
life that is listening to this, and even those that heaven.
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God, we lift up our military.
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We pray for those that are deployed all over the world.
And God, God, we pray for peace in Israel. God
we pray for peace in the Middle East. And God
we pray that the evil that is raising up in
the world to destroy what is good, what is pure,
and what is green and holy, and to be admired.
Speaker 1 (34:15):
Lord, that you would hold back these enemies.
Speaker 2 (34:17):
Show them your love and transform them and bring them
Lord to justice in Jesus name.
Speaker 1 (34:24):
Amen. We love you guys, and we'll see us soon.
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