December 3, 2025 • 63 mins
The Porch explores the biblical theme of the Kingdom of Light versus the kingdom of darkness, emphasizing the ongoing spiritual battle between God’s truth and the deceptive works of Satan. The ultimate call for Believers is to “arise and shine,” becoming agents of God’s light and truth in anticipation of the Lord’s return and the final battle between Light and darkness.
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Speaker 1 (00:21):
Hello, Welcome to the Porch on Firefall Talk Radio. I'm
Richard Ground. This is when we get back to basics.
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The Porch is a non denominational, full gospel approach to
the Bible. It's based on the example of the Book
of Acts Church, and it aims to restore the priesthood
of the believer and regain the world shaking influence of
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as children. There are family, always have been. Pray for
our persecuted brothers and sisters around the world who are
being slaughtered for their faith, being tortured and set on fire,
and the homes destroyed and the places of worship destroyed.
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As we get closer to the end, and pray for
the peace of Jerusalem because the Bible tells us to,
because I believe that means the return of the Prince
of Peace, because there can be no peace without him. Father,
Abah Papa Daddy, we come to you right now in
the name of Yashua, the name above all names. There
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is no other name in heaven and earth by which
we might be saved. So we approach him as broach you, Lord,
boldly approach that throne of grace and mercy, saying, Abah
Papa Daddy, we love you, We thank you, We want
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to be near you, We want to be where you are.
Thank you for making a way where there was no way,
in sending you shore to shed every drop of blood
so that we could be reconciled to you. So Lord,
we thank you for what you endured, the pain, the shame,
and being nailed to a cross, and having evil men
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do what they did. You forgave them because they didn't
know what they were doing. But that doesn't mitigate how
horrible it was. But without that we're not free. Without
every drop of blood, we're not free. So thank you
for setting us free. Thank you for sending back the
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Holy Spirit through our Kakodesh to walk with us, to
teach us, to guide us, to comfort us, to empower us.
So we ask for that. Right now, we pray over
the technology, pray over each and every one of us.
Are homes, our families, our pets, our possessions, no interference
of the enemy, no attacks, no illness, no injury, no disease,
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no distractions. Let this word go forth, Holy Spirit, do
whatever it is you want to do this day. We
give you complete control and complete say and I pray
all these things, and you show his name, and if
you agree with me, say amen.
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In this manner, therefore we pray our Father in Heaven, Halload,
be your name, your kingdom. Come, Your will be done
on earth as it is in heaven. Give us to
stay our daily bread, and forgive us our deaths, as
we forgive our debtors. And do not lead us into temptation,
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but deliver us from the evil one. For Yours is
the Kingdom and the Power and the glory forever. Amen,
as Matthew six nine through thirteen. If you don't already know,
God's kingdom is one of light. And I always put
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a capital L when I write about that light. It's
a divine light. And we are in a battle against
the kingdom of darkness. Hour in the glory of God
exposes and overcomes the kingdom of darkness. God said, let
there be light made man in his image in the garden,
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and Satan said, let's fight two kingdoms, the Kingdom of
Light versus the Kingdom of darkness. The ongoing spiritual battle
between God's truth and the destructive, deceptive works of Hacatan
Satan the adversary Glossians starting verse nine. For this reason,
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we also, since the day we heard it, do not
cease to pray for you and to ask that you
may be filled with the knowledge of His will in
all wisdom and spiritual understanding, that you may walk worthy
of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every
good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God, strengthened
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with all might according to His glorious power, for all
patience and long suffering with joy, giving thanks to the
Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the
inheritance of the saints in the light. He has delivered
us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into
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the Kingdom of the Son of His Love and whom
we have redemption through His blood the forgiveness of sins
as verses nine through fourteen. But I want to reread
thirteen and fourteen the amplified version, for He capital h
has rescued us and has drawn us to himself from
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the dominion, from the control, from the power of darkness,
and has transferred us eight minutes in and I'm jacked already. Folk,
Oh Holy Spirit, have you away transferred us to the
kingdom of His beloved Son, in whom we have redemption
because of his sacrifice, resulting in the forgiveness of our
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sins and the cancelation of sins penalty. Living in the
light means we are his agents of change and disclosure
of the workings of the enemy, and we don't. The
others who are lost in darkness like we were, cannot
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find their way out. So the kingdom of the Sun
is the Kingdom of light. A kingdom has parameters and boundaries,
it has rules. The Kingdom of Light is empowered. It's
been established to dispel darkness. I've said this is a
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revelation I had many years ago. I repeated all the time.
Darkness cannot dispel light cannot overwhelm light. You flip the
light on, the darkness disappears. Light dispels darkness. That's how
it works. Turn on the light, the darkness flees John
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three pot nineteen. And this is the condemnation. That the
light has come into the world, and men loved darkness
rather than light because their deeds were evil. So the
basis of the judgment, the indictment, the test by which
men are judged, the grounds for the sentence that they
get lies in this that the light capital l has
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come into the world and people love the darkness rather
then and more than the light, because their deeds, their works,
their actions were evil. So the word tells me people
love darkness more than the light. I mean, look at
the world now, nothing has changed. What do you see
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in social media? What do you see in entertainment? What
do you see in the news? What do you see
everything going on in the world. Doesn't matter how many
people claim to be believers, doesn't matter how many people
are registered in a denomination, in a building or whatever.
The darkness is growing. And when people live in spiritual darkness,
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they don't desire to be enlightened by your shue of
the light of the world and see evil when darkness.
Don't ignore the light, they wage war against it. Sounds
like the church who has gone to sleep. The kingdom
of darkness never does that. It's always trying to bring
the Kingdom of Light, the Kingdom of God down, But
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it can't. It can't extinguish the light. It only can
convince us to turn the light off. In the end,
their sins will be exposed. John twelve forty eight Read letters,
Lord speaking. He who rejects me and does not receive
my words, has that which judges him the word that
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I have spoken will judge him in the last day.
Doesn't matter what you believe. It doesn't matter what you think.
The rules are in place. This is what God said,
This is how it shall be done. There can be
no hindrance or dimmer. Switch on this light, flip it on,
leave it on, burn, For you are the light of
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the world. A city that is set on a hill
cannot be hidden. Nor do they light a lamp and
put it under a basket, but on a lamp stand,
and it gives light to all who are in the house.
Let your light so shine before men that they may
see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.
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Matthew five fourteen through sixteen. The Lord is telling us
you are the light of Messiah to the world. Because
of that, Let your light shine before men in such
a way that they may see your good deeds and
your moral excellence, and recognize and honor and glorify your
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Father who is in heaven. Isn't that what we pray
for yours as the kingdom and the power and the
glory forever. Or we need to embrace that, We need
to embrace our origins, We need to embrace our maker's
intentions one Peter two, verse nine. But you are a
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chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, his own
special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him
who has called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. You, yes,
every one of you that is listening, every one of
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you that leaves, every one of you that has had
their name written in the Lamb's Book of Life, are
a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a consecrated nation of
special people for God's own possession, so that you may
proclaim the praises, the wonderful deeds, and the virtues and
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the perfections of Him who called you out of darkness
into his marvelous light. It's a marvelous light. I came
out of a very deep darkness and stepped into a
glorious light. Physically, figuratively, spiritually. I know what it feels like.
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So does everyone who comes out of that kind of darkness.
The Believer's Bible Commentary says Peter turns again to the
privileges of believers. They are a chosen generation, a royal priestood,
a holy nation, God's special people. God promised these very
privileges to the nation of Israel if they would obey
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him Exodus nine, starting verse five. Now, therefore, if you
will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, then
you shall be a special treasure to me above all people,
for all the earth is mine, and you shall be
to me a kingdom of priest and a holy nation.
These are the words which you speaking to Moses, shall
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speak to the children of Israel. Unfortunately, they didn't live
up to the requirements. They didn't answer the call and
accept the invitation. So believers today are the chosen generation,
chosen by God before the foundation of the world to
belong to Messiah. At least that's what Ephesians one four
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tells me. But instead of just being an earthly race
with the common ancestry and distinct physical characteristics, believers are
a heavenly people. We're in this world, but not of
this world, but a divine parentage and spiritual familial connections.
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We're also a royal priesthood. This is the second priest
had mentioned in this chapter and verse five. Believers are
described as a holy priest offering up spiritual sacrifices. Now
they are said to be royal priest proclaimingly excellencies of God. Well.
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As holy priest, we can enter the sanctuary of Heaven,
the Holy of Holies by faith to worship. There's no vail.
As a royal priest, we go out into the world
to witness, to show His glory to others. The difference
in the priesthood can be seen in the imprisonment of
Paul and Silas at Philippi. As holy priest they sang
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praises and worship to God at midnight. As royal priests,
they preached the Gospel to the jailer and his family
and set them free. As believers, we are a holy
nation called out set apart. God intended that for Israel.
At moments they have honored it, but sin has interrupted
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that plan. They have really not lived up to the agreement.
So what did Jashua have to do? He died and
born again. Believers, both you and gentile are now God's
holy nation. They're the ones that I believe He will
snatch out of here. Believers are people that God chose.
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They're his own. They belong to him in a unique way,
and we are special value to him. And the last
part of verse nine describes the responsibility of God's new race,
his priesthood, his nation. As people, our responsibility is to
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proclaim the praises of Him who called us out of
darkness into his marvelous light, the light of the glory
of His only begotten Sun. And once we were groping
on in darkness, we were lost in sin and shame,
And by an amazing deliverance, we have been transferred into
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the kingdom of His son. And the light is as
clear and brilliant as the darkness was oppressive. That's why
we shout the praises of Him, of the one who
did this for us. That's why I have always proclaimed
what he did for me. That phrase, but you means
it's the contrast between those who believe and those who don't,
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those who obey and those who do not. You've been
transferred from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of
God's light. It was a divine rescue operation. What keeps
this light on? The Holy Spirit power company bills been paid.
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It's perpetual energy. It won't go out. The dunibus of
the Holy Spirit is self replicating power. Once it's on,
it stays on. And isn't it funny how man has
always looked for that energy and that power for light,
and it's God, It's the Lord. He is the power.
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Some one nineteen one oh five says, your word is
a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
That word keeps the fire burning inside of you, so
that you radiate the light. Miracles, signs, and wonders are
a byproduct of his word, which brings light into the
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darkness of this world. It is a statement, It is
a signature, like dropping a bomb in the darkness and
illuminate everything, getting someone free, delivering them of demonic bondage,
healing them in the name of Yashiahamashir, Jesus the Messiah.
Watching people go I've never seen anything like this before. Well,
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this is Jesus, this is your shure, assure. Pure word
is the source of true Kingdom of God light. Unfortunately,
that's not the only thing in the church right now.
Two Corinthians eleven thirty, verse fifteen, Paul talks about people
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who are false apostles, deceitful workers who disguise themselves as
apostles of Messiah. But I'm not surprised, he says, even
Satan disguise himself as an angel of light, so it's
no wonder that his servants also disguise themselves as servants
of righteousness. In the end, they will get the punishment
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their wicked deeds deserve. So these false teachers, these false apostles,
he's clearly saying or serving Satan. Satan inspires false teachers
and ministers to imitate what the Lord said, to imitate,
if you want to call it Christianity, even to do miracles.
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And the Lord warned us about lying signs and wonders
Matthew twenty four to twenty four, for false messiahs and
false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders
to deceive, if possible, even the elect, Which means that
these deceptions, these signs and wonders will be so great
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that if you are not filled with the spirit, if
you don't have eyes to see and ears to hear,
if you're not plugged in, you're going to be deceived.
As many people are, false teachers can deceive the church
on occasion because they pretend to be the very apostles
of Messiah. This shouldn't surprise mature disciples, didn't surprise Paul,
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didn't surprise the other disciples, because we already know about
Satan's most destructive efforts are accomplished when he transforms into
an angel of light. He transforms himself, a literal metamorphosis.
But the thing is, he's not light. It's a false light.
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It's like turning on your little Haligen flashlight and thinking
you're seeingless sun. It's bright enough to blind you, but
it's not the sun. It never will be Two Corinthians, eleven, Stenty,
verse thirteen. For such are false apostles, deceitful workers falls
making it really clear who they are, and if they
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were then in the church, then just think about now.
The enemies had a long long time to plant them,
to build them up, to deceive many. They transforms themselves,
they change in appearance, they disguise, they masquerade. It's all counterfeit.
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And now it's social media. Everybody has a pulpit, everybody
has a microphone, everybody has a camera. And the amount
of bad teaching, false teaching, dangerous teaching that is out
there that doesn't line up with the word, that isn't
coming from the throne room is overwhelming. And I don't
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think the people are doing it maliciously. I think what
they're repeating, what they think is of the Lord, a
new revelation outside thinking, outside the box. Unfortunately, they're outside
the book. It's a counterfeit appearance to what is actually
on the inside. False teachers who do that will follow
Satan's lead. They'll face the same just and that Satan
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in his kingdom faces, namely destruction. Paul says, then, no wonder,
it's no surprise if we call Satan the Prince of darkness.
Then even if he says, hey, I'm an angel of light,
he's lying. He can't be light. Darkness cannot be light.
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His main tool is deception. He's a liar and the
father of lies, and there's never been any truth in him.
Their deeds are wicked, all that serve him, and their
punishment is sure. So to expose this shape shifting of
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the Bible, we need to be transformed out of his world,
his kingdom, into the Kingdom of God, into the Kingdom
of Light. That's why Paul says in Romans twelve two,
do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed
by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove
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what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
Be transformed, have a metamorphosis. Don't be the way you were,
have a complete overhaul of the mind, of your beliefs,
of the character inside of you. That a word overhaul
means to refit, refurbished, revamp, and you're revamping the natural
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mind into a spiritual mind, from a fallen mind to
a redeemed mind. We can't think like we did before.
We cannot think like the world thinks. The transformation, the
metamorphosis is an ongoing process done in a flow of
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perpetual change through the power of the Holy Spirit, who
never changes, always going, always glowing, always moving. Just like
the Lord said to Nicodemus, you don't know where the
Holy Spirit's been. You don't know where it's going. It's
like the wind. It's always moving. It's always there. Cures things,
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it dries things out, it heals things, it changes things.
That's what the message of Pentecost was. It was a
message of the Kingdom of God power that had come
into the world for this very thing, because you can't
have that kind of light without a power source. Pentecost
was God's way of lighting a way out of the
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darkness from mankind. It was his way of empowering the
church that he had just established in that upper room,
the one hundred and twenty into the thousands. The prophet
Isaiah said in Chapter nine, verse two, the people who
walked in darkness have seen a great light, and those
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who'd wealth in the land of the shadow of death
upon them a light has shine. But here's the problem.
If the Church is absent or abdicates its position of power,
the enemy is glad to fill it in. See, when
there's a vacuum created, something stronger will fill it. So
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when the church removes itself, when the Church stops doing
what it's supposed to be doing, it creates a spiritual opening,
a spiritual emptiness that the enemy is glad to fill.
So that vacuum will be filled by various influences, worldly
influences and invite unhealthy beliefs or practices that if not
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filled with the Holy Spirit, if positive spiritual growth or
a relationship with God doesn't happen, and it makes people
easier to just That's how when the Lord says said
before Matthew twenty four of US twenty four and twenty five,
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false messiahs and false prophets will rise up. This a
vacuum and great signs and wonders, so as to deceive
and possibly even deceive the elect God's chosen ones to see.
I've warned you about this ahead of time. He's warned us. Yeah,
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we still fall for it. He told us in Revelation
thirteen fourteen, that false who's working in the power of Satan,
will deceive those who dwell on the earth by these
signs and wonders. He does, and he was granted to
do in the sight of the Beast, telling those who
dwell on the earth to make an image to the
beast who was wounded by the sword and lived Revelation
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sixteen fourteen. They are spirits of demons, performing signs which
go out to the kings of the earth and of
the whole world, to gather them to the battle of
that great day of God Almighty, Revelation nineteen twenty. Then
the Beast was captured and with him the false prophet,
who worked signs in his presence, by which he received
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those who received the mark of the Beast and those
who worshiped his image. These two were cast alive into
the lake of fire, burning with brimstone. So you have
the Antichrist, You have the beast, and then you have
the false prophet, and then you have Satan who gets
put into chains. He'll get thrown in later. All of
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this is happening during this period of time and revelation
when I believe the Church is not here. And I'll
explain why when we get to that point. The Church
can't be here because if the light and the power
of the Church is here, that kind of darkness cannot spread.
But He's declared to us who believed that we're special,
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and because of that, he desires a relationlationship with us.
That is always my focus, no matter what. That you
have an intimate relationship with the Lord and with Almighty God,
are of a father, because without that, none of this matters.
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Let me say that again. You can spout the word,
you can throw his name around, you can do all
these things, and they'll be a slight effect. The greatest
effect comes from those who have been changed from the
inside out, who have an act of ongoing relationship with Him.
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And I know this to be true that the enemy
can see those who have that because they glow brighter,
and if at all possible, they will avoid a confrontation
with that person because they know that they're going to
be defeated. Nelson's Study Bible says the chosen narration is
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that God has not left a chance those who will
be a part of the unique body of people, a
group who will serve him. He has reserved that decision
for himself. He made the choice. If you've been chosen,
he did it. You're special. You've been appointed to royalty
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and as a unified people, we are His children. And
where's this taking place? In His light in the Kingdom
of God. You see why it's so important to be
in the world but not of the world. Everything Satan
does to us is to get us to turn the
light down. There was a woman at the church we
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went to in Tallahassee. She had been raised in Yoruba, Santoia.
She had been dedicated as a priestess. When I first
met her, I was introduced to her. Her name was Annie.
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I talk about her in the Supernatural Battle that Deliverance.
For the first time we met, she looked at me
and turned her head away and put her hand up
and says, can you stop looking at me? Your eyes
are hurting me. They're so bright. That's the way we
should be all the time. They see the light that
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is inside of us. But if we turn it down,
if it's been muddied, if it's been compromised, or if
it's gone out, we're of no use. He called us
to him to walk with him in that way, in
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a way that the world cannot understand. So why do
you expect them to in a place a world that
doesn't want its eyes opened? The blind lead the blind,
and they fall into a ditch That just makes no
sense to me. I can't see, so I'm gonna follow
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you who also can't see what? But the world walks
in darkness by choice. Their darkness is ignorance, it's rebellion,
and it's their spiritual condition. It's a dwelling place now
and if something doesn't happen, it will be forever in judgment.
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That should motivate you for your loved ones, for your friends,
for the people that you care about. First John one,
starting verse five, This is the amplified. This is the
message of God's promised revelation, which we have heard from
him and now announced to you. And God is light,
he is holy, his message is truthful. He is perfect
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in righteousness, and in him there is no darkness at all.
No sin, no goodness, no imperfection. Let me stop there.
I forget to verse six. You're telling me that you're
born again, If you're telling me that you're a spiritfual believer,
but you are willfully involved in sin and rebellion and
things that you know are wrong, I can only assume
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one of two things. Because I know the word is true.
I can only assume that either A You're not born again,
or B you're in serious demonic bondage and you're no
longer in control of your actions. Verse six. If we
say that we are we have fellowship with Him, and
yet walk in the darkness of sin, we lie, and
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we do not practice the truth. But if we really
walk in the light that is livy each and every day,
in conformity with the precepts of God, as He himself
is in the light, we have true, unbroken fellowship with
one another. He with us and we with him. And
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the blood of your shoe, his son cleanses us from
all sin by erasing the stain of sin, keeping us
cleansed from sin in all its forms and manifestations. Now,
the reason I threw that example in there came to mind. Well,
I was reading the scripture. There was somebody that I
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was asked to mentor and ministered too, been saved, supposedly
for many years, had taught Bible classes, had led a
ministry who was an alcoholic, who lied about being an
alcoholic every time he was confronted, who refused to get help,
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would go into rehabs and then check them out self out, saying,
God told me to leave that place. It was never
God that told him to leave that place. It was
him and the voices inside of him. And the more
he lied and the more he denied, the worse he got,
until finally in a confrontation where it had enough, and
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I called out all the sins that God had revealed
to me and confronted him and gave him the opportunity
to repent. His response came back. You know, God had
sent him to someone else. And I prayed about it,
and this had gone on for many years, and the
Lord released me and said he's not going to listen
to you. I have no idea what happened to that person.
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But this is somebody who was being held up as
a leader. This is somebody that had prayed with people
led him to the Lord, had gone through all the motions,
but was not free, was living a lie, was walking
in darkness, claiming to be in fellowship with the Lord.
He called us out of darkness into his marvelous light.
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Let's not go back. God is light. The Lord himself
exists and lives in the light because He is the light.
To live out our walk with him, we must be
in that light as well as believers. We've been transferred, translated,
remember the Angel and filled up with the Eunuch, took
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him from one place to another, transferred from darkness into
God's marvelous light, into the Kingdom of Light through the Cross,
through Messiah's redemptive work, and that made us a chosen generation,
a royal priesthood. Let's not just say those words. Let's
think about it. As a royal priest wearing the garments.
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Would you walk into a place of sin? Would you
walk in a way that embarrassed your heavenly Father. No,
we're chosen, We're royal, and we've been called to reflect
and proclaim his glory. Now. I know we make mistakes,
and I know things happen, and I know we're still
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in process, and we're still made a flesh. It's one
thing to fall it's another thing to live in that sin.
If you're in that place, then you need to repent,
and you need to find somebody that is called can
see and is anointed to do deliverance. And again, as
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somebody reach out to me recently and say, I hear
you have a deliverance ministry, and there's something about that
always roused me up. No, I have a Jesus ministry.
I have a you Shoa ministry. And one of the
things he happened to do is deliverance. And yes, because
I came out of the occult and went through deliverance,
he has used me to help others like that. But
I've grown beyond that one aspect of the facet of
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the jewel that is your shure. But we've been transferred
out of darkness. Let's stay out of it. Walking in
the light of His presence should be our ultimate goal.
And how do we do that with stay in God's word?
For those of you that come here every week, to
those that had listen, those that download, even those that
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reach out and want to discuss and understand something better,
because I serve a lot every week. And that's because again,
if you've read my book, I was trained by somebody,
my spiritual father and mentor that has gone on to
be with the Lord. Robert Shelley. Shelley laid out a
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banquet every week, a Smrgesborg a buffet, and you could
eat as much as you wanted. And I gorged myself
on the word. I was never done. I never wanted
him to stop. And people were like a nibble here,
let me try this a little bit over here, let
me take that dessert. Time to go. No, no, no,
no no. I wanted to feast. I wanted more. It
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was never enough. Darkness is defeated by obeying God's word
and having it inside of you. So to walk safely
in the woods at night, we need we need a
light so that we don't trip over the roots or
fall into holes or shows us if there's predators around. Well,
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we're living in a forest of evil. That's what this
world is. But the Bible, the Word of God is
our light to show us the way ahead so that
we st't don't stumble as we walk the same thing
with the light and the revelation of the Holy Spirit
to show us that it reveals all the entangling roots
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of false values and worldly philosophies and false teachings. So
if you study the word, if you listen to the word,
you get the word inside of you. You will know
a lie when you hear it. Somebody will bring you
a revelation or post the video, and your first thought
will be, that's really interesting. But it doesn't line up
with the word, and it doesn't line up with what
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I know about the Lord and my heavenly Father. To
study the word, get this word inside of you, and
then that way you'll have that lamp to keep you
on the right path. And that's what the word is,
the lamp to your feet, and it shows the way ahead.
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The thing about the darkness was seeing in the world
right now. It is a warning of his impending judgment.
And I know many generations of people that have said it,
and we hear it all the time. But when the
signs of the times and the sins of the times
begin to line up in such a way that the
darkness grows at the same moment, it's an indication to
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me that judgment is coming. At thirteen thirty verse fifteen,
hear and give ear. Do not be proud, for the
Lord has spoken. Give glory to the Lord your God,
before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on
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the dark mountains, and while you are looking for light,
he turns it into the shadow of death and makes
it a dense darkness, a double darkness. That's how dense
it is. But if you will not hear it, my
soul will weep in secret for your pride. My eyes
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will weep bitterly and run down with tears, because the
lord's flock has been taken captive. Jeremiah could be speaking
to the church right now that if you will not hear,
my soul will weep in secret for your pride. My
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eyes will weep bitterly and run down with tears, because
the Lord's flock, his sheep, have been taken captive, taken
captive by darkness, taken captive by sin, taken captive by
the world. He that's the great thing about what SRT
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has done over all these years, is to go into
the darkness to rescue the lamb out of the lion's mouth,
to redeem the land, to shut down the ways that
the enemy has gotten in. But then a while ago
he said stand down. And I never understood why, And
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it was very frustrating and I think I have a
sense why. And I don't say this with any arrogance,
but just as it has been prophesied, when the Church
rejects him and what he's doing, he lets things happen.
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I don't think we're done. I know we're not done.
I know the time is coming when the Lord will
say go. You know, think about Special Op Soldiers, And
I'm this is all coming as I'm saying it. And
I know this just for my own studies and from
my associate and brother and Lord Larry, being a retired
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Navy Seal founding member of Seal Team six, Teams two
and four and even Red Cell, so we talk about
this a lot. Those kind of speck Op warriors, they
have a go back by the door, and back then
they had a pager and now it's a phone, but whatever,
and when it goes off and you know it's time
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to go, you don't say a word, you don't tell anybody.
You take it and you go and you go do
the mission, and nobody hears from you two you come back.
That time has come when SRT will get that go message.
But until then, we shine the light, we sound the alarm.
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We know that the prophecy for Israel at the end
of the age applies to the church because we have
been grafted into the vine. It applies to us. Don't reject,
don't listen all these people that talk about the church
in Israel being separate, and we have replaced Israel. Paul
makes that really clear in Romans, and I think when
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he was speaking to the church in Rome, he was
beginning to address the replacement theology that wouldn't engulf the
church in Rome. God has given us a warning he
will come, and he will judge. We have an opportunity
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before then to shine the light into the darkness. They
rejected you should and we know that going to reject
some of what we say. But there were people out
there like I was, who in our heart knew what
we were doing was wrong and had an emptiness that
only He could fill. And they need a second chance
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as I got before the King returns. But the pervasive
sin we're seeing right now is bringing darkness upon people.
Paul talks about it in Romans One, starting verse eighteen,
for the wrath of God is revealed from Heaven against
all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth.
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In unrighteousness. Think about that, and think about what's going
on in the world and shutting down the Gospel and
telling people that can't teach it or believe it or
preach it. Because what may be known of God has
manifest in them. For God has shown it to them.
For since the creation of the world, his invisible attributes
are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made,
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even his eternal power in Godhead. So that they are
without excuse. Because although they knew God, they did not
glorify him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile
in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Professing
to be wise, they became fools and changed the glory
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of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible
man and birds and four footed animals and creeping things.
We don't need images of men, we don't need statues
of people. We were told not to do that. I
have one person I worship, he hung on the cross.
I know where he sits Verse twenty four. Therefore God
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also gave them up to uncleanness and the lust of
their hearts to dishonor their bodies among themselves who exchanged
the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and
served the creature rather than Creator, who was blessed forever
a man remember this statean the fallen are creations. They
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are creatures. We have the power of the Creator inside
of us, picking up verse twenty eight. And even as
they did not like to retain God in their knowledge,
God gave them over to a debased mind to do
things which are not fitting, being filled with all on righteousness, sexual, immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness,
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full of envy, murders, strife, deceit, evil mindedness. They are whisperers, backbiters,
haters of God, violent, proud boasters, inventors of evil things,
disobedient to parents, undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful, who, knowing
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the righteous judgment of God that those who practice such
things are deserving of death, not only do they do
the same, but also approve those who practice them. Sin
increases darkness. Therefore darkness is the result of sin. The
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darker it is, the more sin present, and sin will
bring a response from God first and offer of mercy,
and then judgment won't be emotional but it will be necessary.
His word is his word. He cannot go against himself,
and he won't go against his word because he is
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a holy God, our father, who is in heaven hallowed,
Holy will be your name. That's what we say. That's
why we are warned repeatedly not to go back to Egypt,
not to go back to our lifestyle. So darkness then
becomes a choice, a very bad choice. Doctor doctor. It
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hurts when I do this. Don't do this. Oh, that's it,
that's it. Pay the receptionist on the way out. God's
presence in the Word, in worship, or whatever it is.
God's presence brings light and deliverance, while choosing darkness results
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in judgment and bondage. Why would we do that? Proverbs
two thirteen. From those who leave the paths of up
brightness to walk in the ways of darkness, why would
you go back? The way of the wicked is like darkness.
They don't know what makes them stumble Proverbs four nineteen.
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I didn't know. I thought I was a good person.
I really did. That's what I had been told. I
was made the image of God. I'm a good person.
I was dunked, I was slapped I was. I went
to all the religious rituals of my upbringing. I'm okay. No,
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I wasn't okay. So as the day of the Lord approaches,
Isaiah A twenty two should come to mind, then they
will look to the earth and see trouble in darkness,
gloom of anguish, and they will be driven into darkness.
When the church leaves, the light leaves with it. So
when the sin is too great, he allows the darkness
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to grow, and he calls his children out of it.
Think about that Phesians five, starting verse eight. For you
will once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord.
And again I am speaking to you as a group,
for everybody that's listening, and I am speaking to you personally.
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You were once darkness, but now you are light in
the Lord. Walk as children of light. For the fruit
of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness and truth.
Finding out what is acceptable to the Lord. And have
no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather
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expose them. How do you expose them by being light
in those situation? Verse twelve. For it is shameful even
to speak of those things which are done by them
in secret. But all things that are exposed are made
manifest by the light. For whatever makes manifest is light. Therefore,
he says, awake you sleep, arise from the dead, and
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Messiah will give you light. See then that you walk circumspectully,
not as fools, but as wise redeeming the time, because
the days are evil, making the very most of the time,
buying up every opportunity to shine that light, because the
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days are evil, to walk righteously as a way witness
and a testimony to the living God and to your
Lord and Savior. The life and the light of men
is the opposite of the life of death, which is darkness. Therefore,
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if they're in darkness, shouldn't you want to lead them out?
Shouldn't you want to shine a light? Shouldn't you want
to tell them as someone who was once transferred from
the darkness and transformed. I know that, I know that,
I know you are capable of being light in the Lord.
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All knew it, the disciples knew it. And this divine
correction that is happening right now with a remnant. I
don't I'm gonna say this. This may of found you.
I'm sorry. I don't mean to, but the truth is
the truth. The corporate church is a mess. It's compromised.
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He's working with the remnant right now. The corporate church
will fall for the lie. They will fall for the Antichrist.
I'm seeing it happen already. They're aligning with beliefs that
they should reject and should be willing to stand up again.
And it's amazing how in other countries and other parts
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of the world people are doing that at the expense
of their lives, their livelihoods, their homes, their families. But
here in the Western world, here in America, I guess
we have too much and we don't want to give
it up. But divine correction is coming, and it'll occur
before his return, and we're in process and our calling,
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you're calling. My calling is to remain pure and undefiled
and to shine Philippians two, verse fifteen. That you may
show yourself to be blameless and guileless, innocent and uncontaminated,
children of God, without blemish, faultless, unrebukable, in the midst
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of a crooked and wicked generation, spiritually perverted and perverse,
among whom you are seen as bright lights, stars are beacon,
the shining out clearly in the dark world are sixteen
holding out to it and offering to all the word
of life, so that in the day of Messiah, I
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may have something of which exultantly to rejoice in glory
in that I did not run my race in vain,
would spend my labor to no purpose. Light represents what
is good and pure and holy and reliable. Darkness represents
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sin and evil. Once we're called into the light out
of the darkness to have a relationship with God, we
have no choice but to put aside all our sinful ways.
That's why the story I told you about that person
I ministered two for years, walked with for years, took
their call them anytime they called. It was very sad
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to have to let go. They just never let go
of their sin. They never let go of the setting sin.
They justified it, They made excuses for it, They covered
it up, they dressed it. I'm sorry. You can sprinkle
sugar and spices on manure, it's still manure. So to
claim that we belonged to him. We must live a
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life when we're not hypocrites, or the Lord's going to
expose our deceit. Those who sat in darkness and in
the shadow of death, bound in affliction and irons, because
they were built against the word of God and despies
the counsel of the most High. Therefore he brought down
their heart with labor. They fell down, and there was
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none to help. Then they cried out to the Lord
in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.
He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death.
He broke their chains in pieces. Oh, that men would
give thanks to the Lord for his goodness, for his
wonderful works, to the children of men. For has broken
the gates of bronze, and he's cut the bars of
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iron into Psalm one oh seven, Verses ten and sixteen.
And every time I hear that, I think of my bondage,
I think of my chains. I think of my bars,
and he broke them. He set me free, not because
I deserved it, but because of his love. So once
the church age is over, that light that shines down
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His glory, that illuminates a path of peace and redemption,
will be removed, plunge the world back into the darkness
that it so desires. So listen to me as we
close out here. Spiritual darkness is and passive don't think
that it is. It is actively opposing the light, and
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false teachers and preachers. They may imitate righteousness to deceived believers,
but if you have eyes to see and ears to hear,
you'll see it. You'll see the truth. Therefore, as believers,
we are urged to remain vigilant, rooted in God's word,
and to shine as beacons to a world overshadowed by
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sin and spiritual ignorance. From It's thirteen twelve, the night,
this present evil age is almost gone, and the day
of Messiah's return is almost here. So let us fling
away the works of darkness and put on the full
armor of light. I see just like flinging it the
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east is from the west as far as you can
possibly get it away from you, and putting on the
full armor of light, saying I'm going to arise and shine.
I'm gonna live in the light. I'm gonna embrace the truth.
I'm going to expose the darkness and set the captives free.
And I'm going to allow the Holy Spirit to transform
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me and mind and character so that they can be
transformed as well. So a rise and shine, brothers and sisters,
be radiant with the glory and the brilliance of the Lord.
For your light is calm, and the glory and the
brilliance of the Lord is risen upon you. For in fact,
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darkness will cover the earth, and deep darkness will cover
the people. But the Lord will rise upon you, and
his glory and brilliance will be seen on you. If
you are reflective of his glory, if you shine the
way you should be shining right now, pure gold, no dross,
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no sin. You'll set them free, You'll show them the way.
So the necessity of living as children of light, putting
aside all the things we did in the past, absorbing
and manifesting the character and the power of God in
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a world that so desperately needs illumination, is vital in
this ongoing war. Don't get me wrong. I know that
we win. I know the battle's already been won. But
we're dealing with a terrorist enemy that will not submit,
will not agree, and will not do what it's been
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told to do. So we will arise and shine. We
will become agents of change in anticipation of the Lord's
return and the final battle between light and darkness. Lord,
you are the light of the world, and we desire
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to be your beacons. You have redeemed us, you have
transferred us, you have changed us. Help us right now,
each and every one of us, myself included. Whenever I
pray these prayers, Lord, I am included. But I'm praying
for all of us. If there is anything in us
that is diminishing your light, that is hindering what you
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desire from us, burn it out of us through the
fire of the Holy Spirit. Let us arise and shine.
Let us be radiant with your glory and your brilliance,
that people can look at us and say, you're different.
What is that light I see on you? What is
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that light? Come from your eyes? And we can tell
them who you are. Lord, changes right now, empower us,
release us. We thank you for the provision, We thank
you for the direction, We thank you for the inspiration.
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We thank you for all that you've done in this regard.
You did it on the cross, but you're still at work.
You're going to finish it, and then you're going to
leave the throne and you're going to fix everything that
Adam and Eve did in the garden and Satan inspired.
But until then, we will go, we will do, we
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will shine and we will fight in this war between
light and darkness as victorious in your shoe. And I
pray all these things in your shoe his name. And
if you agree with me, you say amen with intention
and belief and acceptance a man. May the Lord bless
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to shine upon you and be gracious to you. May
the Lord, I don't know you, su a Hamasiah Jesus
the Messiah, lift up his countenance upon you and give
you peace. Give you shall oam. I'm Richard Grund. This
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do what they did. You forgave them because they didn't
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every drop of blood, we're not free. So thank you
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In this manner, therefore we pray our Father in Heaven, Halload,
be your name, your kingdom. Come, Your will be done
on earth as it is in heaven. Give us to
stay our daily bread, and forgive us our deaths, as
we forgive our debtors. And do not lead us into temptation,
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but deliver us from the evil one. For Yours is
the Kingdom and the Power and the glory forever. Amen,
as Matthew six nine through thirteen. If you don't already know,
God's kingdom is one of light. And I always put
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a capital L when I write about that light. It's
a divine light. And we are in a battle against
the kingdom of darkness. Hour in the glory of God
exposes and overcomes the kingdom of darkness. God said, let
there be light made man in his image in the garden,
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and Satan said, let's fight two kingdoms, the Kingdom of
Light versus the Kingdom of darkness. The ongoing spiritual battle
between God's truth and the destructive, deceptive works of Hacatan
Satan the adversary Glossians starting verse nine. For this reason,
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we also, since the day we heard it, do not
cease to pray for you and to ask that you
may be filled with the knowledge of His will in
all wisdom and spiritual understanding, that you may walk worthy
of the Lord, fully pleasing Him, being fruitful in every
good work, and increasing in the knowledge of God, strengthened
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with all might according to His glorious power, for all
patience and long suffering with joy, giving thanks to the
Father who has qualified us to be partakers of the
inheritance of the saints in the light. He has delivered
us from the power of darkness and conveyed us into
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the Kingdom of the Son of His Love and whom
we have redemption through His blood the forgiveness of sins
as verses nine through fourteen. But I want to reread
thirteen and fourteen the amplified version, for He capital h
has rescued us and has drawn us to himself from
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the dominion, from the control, from the power of darkness,
and has transferred us eight minutes in and I'm jacked already. Folk,
Oh Holy Spirit, have you away transferred us to the
kingdom of His beloved Son, in whom we have redemption
because of his sacrifice, resulting in the forgiveness of our
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sins and the cancelation of sins penalty. Living in the
light means we are his agents of change and disclosure
of the workings of the enemy, and we don't. The
others who are lost in darkness like we were, cannot
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find their way out. So the kingdom of the Sun
is the Kingdom of light. A kingdom has parameters and boundaries,
it has rules. The Kingdom of Light is empowered. It's
been established to dispel darkness. I've said this is a
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revelation I had many years ago. I repeated all the time.
Darkness cannot dispel light cannot overwhelm light. You flip the
light on, the darkness disappears. Light dispels darkness. That's how
it works. Turn on the light, the darkness flees John
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three pot nineteen. And this is the condemnation. That the
light has come into the world, and men loved darkness
rather than light because their deeds were evil. So the
basis of the judgment, the indictment, the test by which
men are judged, the grounds for the sentence that they
get lies in this that the light capital l has
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come into the world and people love the darkness rather
then and more than the light, because their deeds, their works,
their actions were evil. So the word tells me people
love darkness more than the light. I mean, look at
the world now, nothing has changed. What do you see
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in social media? What do you see in entertainment? What
do you see in the news? What do you see
everything going on in the world. Doesn't matter how many
people claim to be believers, doesn't matter how many people
are registered in a denomination, in a building or whatever.
The darkness is growing. And when people live in spiritual darkness,
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they don't desire to be enlightened by your shue of
the light of the world and see evil when darkness.
Don't ignore the light, they wage war against it. Sounds
like the church who has gone to sleep. The kingdom
of darkness never does that. It's always trying to bring
the Kingdom of Light, the Kingdom of God down, But
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it can't. It can't extinguish the light. It only can
convince us to turn the light off. In the end,
their sins will be exposed. John twelve forty eight Read letters,
Lord speaking. He who rejects me and does not receive
my words, has that which judges him the word that
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I have spoken will judge him in the last day.
Doesn't matter what you believe. It doesn't matter what you think.
The rules are in place. This is what God said,
This is how it shall be done. There can be
no hindrance or dimmer. Switch on this light, flip it on,
leave it on, burn, For you are the light of
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the world. A city that is set on a hill
cannot be hidden. Nor do they light a lamp and
put it under a basket, but on a lamp stand,
and it gives light to all who are in the house.
Let your light so shine before men that they may
see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven.
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Matthew five fourteen through sixteen. The Lord is telling us
you are the light of Messiah to the world. Because
of that, Let your light shine before men in such
a way that they may see your good deeds and
your moral excellence, and recognize and honor and glorify your
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Father who is in heaven. Isn't that what we pray
for yours as the kingdom and the power and the
glory forever. Or we need to embrace that, We need
to embrace our origins, We need to embrace our maker's
intentions one Peter two, verse nine. But you are a
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chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, his own
special people, that you may proclaim the praises of Him
who has called you out of darkness into his marvelous light. You, yes,
every one of you that is listening, every one of
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you that leaves, every one of you that has had
their name written in the Lamb's Book of Life, are
a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a consecrated nation of
special people for God's own possession, so that you may
proclaim the praises, the wonderful deeds, and the virtues and
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the perfections of Him who called you out of darkness
into his marvelous light. It's a marvelous light. I came
out of a very deep darkness and stepped into a
glorious light. Physically, figuratively, spiritually. I know what it feels like.
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So does everyone who comes out of that kind of darkness.
The Believer's Bible Commentary says Peter turns again to the
privileges of believers. They are a chosen generation, a royal priestood,
a holy nation, God's special people. God promised these very
privileges to the nation of Israel if they would obey
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him Exodus nine, starting verse five. Now, therefore, if you
will indeed obey my voice and keep my covenant, then
you shall be a special treasure to me above all people,
for all the earth is mine, and you shall be
to me a kingdom of priest and a holy nation.
These are the words which you speaking to Moses, shall
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speak to the children of Israel. Unfortunately, they didn't live
up to the requirements. They didn't answer the call and
accept the invitation. So believers today are the chosen generation,
chosen by God before the foundation of the world to
belong to Messiah. At least that's what Ephesians one four
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tells me. But instead of just being an earthly race
with the common ancestry and distinct physical characteristics, believers are
a heavenly people. We're in this world, but not of
this world, but a divine parentage and spiritual familial connections.
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We're also a royal priesthood. This is the second priest
had mentioned in this chapter and verse five. Believers are
described as a holy priest offering up spiritual sacrifices. Now
they are said to be royal priest proclaimingly excellencies of God. Well.
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As holy priest, we can enter the sanctuary of Heaven,
the Holy of Holies by faith to worship. There's no vail.
As a royal priest, we go out into the world
to witness, to show His glory to others. The difference
in the priesthood can be seen in the imprisonment of
Paul and Silas at Philippi. As holy priest they sang
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praises and worship to God at midnight. As royal priests,
they preached the Gospel to the jailer and his family
and set them free. As believers, we are a holy
nation called out set apart. God intended that for Israel.
At moments they have honored it, but sin has interrupted
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that plan. They have really not lived up to the agreement.
So what did Jashua have to do? He died and
born again. Believers, both you and gentile are now God's
holy nation. They're the ones that I believe He will
snatch out of here. Believers are people that God chose.
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They're his own. They belong to him in a unique way,
and we are special value to him. And the last
part of verse nine describes the responsibility of God's new race,
his priesthood, his nation. As people, our responsibility is to
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proclaim the praises of Him who called us out of
darkness into his marvelous light, the light of the glory
of His only begotten Sun. And once we were groping
on in darkness, we were lost in sin and shame,
And by an amazing deliverance, we have been transferred into
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the kingdom of His son. And the light is as
clear and brilliant as the darkness was oppressive. That's why
we shout the praises of Him, of the one who
did this for us. That's why I have always proclaimed
what he did for me. That phrase, but you means
it's the contrast between those who believe and those who don't,
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those who obey and those who do not. You've been
transferred from the kingdom of darkness into the kingdom of
God's light. It was a divine rescue operation. What keeps
this light on? The Holy Spirit power company bills been paid.
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It's perpetual energy. It won't go out. The dunibus of
the Holy Spirit is self replicating power. Once it's on,
it stays on. And isn't it funny how man has
always looked for that energy and that power for light,
and it's God, It's the Lord. He is the power.
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Some one nineteen one oh five says, your word is
a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.
That word keeps the fire burning inside of you, so
that you radiate the light. Miracles, signs, and wonders are
a byproduct of his word, which brings light into the
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darkness of this world. It is a statement, It is
a signature, like dropping a bomb in the darkness and
illuminate everything, getting someone free, delivering them of demonic bondage,
healing them in the name of Yashiahamashir, Jesus the Messiah.
Watching people go I've never seen anything like this before. Well,
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this is Jesus, this is your shure, assure. Pure word
is the source of true Kingdom of God light. Unfortunately,
that's not the only thing in the church right now.
Two Corinthians eleven thirty, verse fifteen, Paul talks about people
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who are false apostles, deceitful workers who disguise themselves as
apostles of Messiah. But I'm not surprised, he says, even
Satan disguise himself as an angel of light, so it's
no wonder that his servants also disguise themselves as servants
of righteousness. In the end, they will get the punishment
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their wicked deeds deserve. So these false teachers, these false apostles,
he's clearly saying or serving Satan. Satan inspires false teachers
and ministers to imitate what the Lord said, to imitate,
if you want to call it Christianity, even to do miracles.
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And the Lord warned us about lying signs and wonders
Matthew twenty four to twenty four, for false messiahs and
false prophets will rise and show great signs and wonders
to deceive, if possible, even the elect, Which means that
these deceptions, these signs and wonders will be so great
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that if you are not filled with the spirit, if
you don't have eyes to see and ears to hear,
if you're not plugged in, you're going to be deceived.
As many people are, false teachers can deceive the church
on occasion because they pretend to be the very apostles
of Messiah. This shouldn't surprise mature disciples, didn't surprise Paul,
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didn't surprise the other disciples, because we already know about
Satan's most destructive efforts are accomplished when he transforms into
an angel of light. He transforms himself, a literal metamorphosis.
But the thing is, he's not light. It's a false light.
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It's like turning on your little Haligen flashlight and thinking
you're seeingless sun. It's bright enough to blind you, but
it's not the sun. It never will be Two Corinthians, eleven, Stenty,
verse thirteen. For such are false apostles, deceitful workers falls
making it really clear who they are, and if they
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were then in the church, then just think about now.
The enemies had a long long time to plant them,
to build them up, to deceive many. They transforms themselves,
they change in appearance, they disguise, they masquerade. It's all counterfeit.
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And now it's social media. Everybody has a pulpit, everybody
has a microphone, everybody has a camera. And the amount
of bad teaching, false teaching, dangerous teaching that is out
there that doesn't line up with the word, that isn't
coming from the throne room is overwhelming. And I don't
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think the people are doing it maliciously. I think what
they're repeating, what they think is of the Lord, a
new revelation outside thinking, outside the box. Unfortunately, they're outside
the book. It's a counterfeit appearance to what is actually
on the inside. False teachers who do that will follow
Satan's lead. They'll face the same just and that Satan
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in his kingdom faces, namely destruction. Paul says, then, no wonder,
it's no surprise if we call Satan the Prince of darkness.
Then even if he says, hey, I'm an angel of light,
he's lying. He can't be light. Darkness cannot be light.
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His main tool is deception. He's a liar and the
father of lies, and there's never been any truth in him.
Their deeds are wicked, all that serve him, and their
punishment is sure. So to expose this shape shifting of
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the Bible, we need to be transformed out of his world,
his kingdom, into the Kingdom of God, into the Kingdom
of Light. That's why Paul says in Romans twelve two,
do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed
by the renewing of your mind, that you may prove
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what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God.
Be transformed, have a metamorphosis. Don't be the way you were,
have a complete overhaul of the mind, of your beliefs,
of the character inside of you. That a word overhaul
means to refit, refurbished, revamp, and you're revamping the natural
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mind into a spiritual mind, from a fallen mind to
a redeemed mind. We can't think like we did before.
We cannot think like the world thinks. The transformation, the
metamorphosis is an ongoing process done in a flow of
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perpetual change through the power of the Holy Spirit, who
never changes, always going, always glowing, always moving. Just like
the Lord said to Nicodemus, you don't know where the
Holy Spirit's been. You don't know where it's going. It's
like the wind. It's always moving. It's always there. Cures things,
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it dries things out, it heals things, it changes things.
That's what the message of Pentecost was. It was a
message of the Kingdom of God power that had come
into the world for this very thing, because you can't
have that kind of light without a power source. Pentecost
was God's way of lighting a way out of the
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darkness from mankind. It was his way of empowering the
church that he had just established in that upper room,
the one hundred and twenty into the thousands. The prophet
Isaiah said in Chapter nine, verse two, the people who
walked in darkness have seen a great light, and those
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who'd wealth in the land of the shadow of death
upon them a light has shine. But here's the problem.
If the Church is absent or abdicates its position of power,
the enemy is glad to fill it in. See, when
there's a vacuum created, something stronger will fill it. So
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when the church removes itself, when the Church stops doing
what it's supposed to be doing, it creates a spiritual opening,
a spiritual emptiness that the enemy is glad to fill.
So that vacuum will be filled by various influences, worldly
influences and invite unhealthy beliefs or practices that if not
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filled with the Holy Spirit, if positive spiritual growth or
a relationship with God doesn't happen, and it makes people
easier to just That's how when the Lord says said
before Matthew twenty four of US twenty four and twenty five,
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false messiahs and false prophets will rise up. This a
vacuum and great signs and wonders, so as to deceive
and possibly even deceive the elect God's chosen ones to see.
I've warned you about this ahead of time. He's warned us. Yeah,
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we still fall for it. He told us in Revelation
thirteen fourteen, that false who's working in the power of Satan,
will deceive those who dwell on the earth by these
signs and wonders. He does, and he was granted to
do in the sight of the Beast, telling those who
dwell on the earth to make an image to the
beast who was wounded by the sword and lived Revelation
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sixteen fourteen. They are spirits of demons, performing signs which
go out to the kings of the earth and of
the whole world, to gather them to the battle of
that great day of God Almighty, Revelation nineteen twenty. Then
the Beast was captured and with him the false prophet,
who worked signs in his presence, by which he received
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those who received the mark of the Beast and those
who worshiped his image. These two were cast alive into
the lake of fire, burning with brimstone. So you have
the Antichrist, You have the beast, and then you have
the false prophet, and then you have Satan who gets
put into chains. He'll get thrown in later. All of
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this is happening during this period of time and revelation
when I believe the Church is not here. And I'll
explain why when we get to that point. The Church
can't be here because if the light and the power
of the Church is here, that kind of darkness cannot spread.
But He's declared to us who believed that we're special,
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and because of that, he desires a relationlationship with us.
That is always my focus, no matter what. That you
have an intimate relationship with the Lord and with Almighty God,
are of a father, because without that, none of this matters.
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Let me say that again. You can spout the word,
you can throw his name around, you can do all
these things, and they'll be a slight effect. The greatest
effect comes from those who have been changed from the
inside out, who have an act of ongoing relationship with Him.
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And I know this to be true that the enemy
can see those who have that because they glow brighter,
and if at all possible, they will avoid a confrontation
with that person because they know that they're going to
be defeated. Nelson's Study Bible says the chosen narration is
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that God has not left a chance those who will
be a part of the unique body of people, a
group who will serve him. He has reserved that decision
for himself. He made the choice. If you've been chosen,
he did it. You're special. You've been appointed to royalty
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and as a unified people, we are His children. And
where's this taking place? In His light in the Kingdom
of God. You see why it's so important to be
in the world but not of the world. Everything Satan
does to us is to get us to turn the
light down. There was a woman at the church we
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went to in Tallahassee. She had been raised in Yoruba, Santoia.
She had been dedicated as a priestess. When I first
met her, I was introduced to her. Her name was Annie.
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I talk about her in the Supernatural Battle that Deliverance.
For the first time we met, she looked at me
and turned her head away and put her hand up
and says, can you stop looking at me? Your eyes
are hurting me. They're so bright. That's the way we
should be all the time. They see the light that
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is inside of us. But if we turn it down,
if it's been muddied, if it's been compromised, or if
it's gone out, we're of no use. He called us
to him to walk with him in that way, in
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a way that the world cannot understand. So why do
you expect them to in a place a world that
doesn't want its eyes opened? The blind lead the blind,
and they fall into a ditch That just makes no
sense to me. I can't see, so I'm gonna follow
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you who also can't see what? But the world walks
in darkness by choice. Their darkness is ignorance, it's rebellion,
and it's their spiritual condition. It's a dwelling place now
and if something doesn't happen, it will be forever in judgment.
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That should motivate you for your loved ones, for your friends,
for the people that you care about. First John one,
starting verse five, This is the amplified. This is the
message of God's promised revelation, which we have heard from
him and now announced to you. And God is light,
he is holy, his message is truthful. He is perfect
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in righteousness, and in him there is no darkness at all.
No sin, no goodness, no imperfection. Let me stop there.
I forget to verse six. You're telling me that you're
born again, If you're telling me that you're a spiritfual believer,
but you are willfully involved in sin and rebellion and
things that you know are wrong, I can only assume
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one of two things. Because I know the word is true.
I can only assume that either A You're not born again,
or B you're in serious demonic bondage and you're no
longer in control of your actions. Verse six. If we
say that we are we have fellowship with Him, and
yet walk in the darkness of sin, we lie, and
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we do not practice the truth. But if we really
walk in the light that is livy each and every day,
in conformity with the precepts of God, as He himself
is in the light, we have true, unbroken fellowship with
one another. He with us and we with him. And
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the blood of your shoe, his son cleanses us from
all sin by erasing the stain of sin, keeping us
cleansed from sin in all its forms and manifestations. Now,
the reason I threw that example in there came to mind. Well,
I was reading the scripture. There was somebody that I
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was asked to mentor and ministered too, been saved, supposedly
for many years, had taught Bible classes, had led a
ministry who was an alcoholic, who lied about being an
alcoholic every time he was confronted, who refused to get help,
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would go into rehabs and then check them out self out, saying,
God told me to leave that place. It was never
God that told him to leave that place. It was
him and the voices inside of him. And the more
he lied and the more he denied, the worse he got,
until finally in a confrontation where it had enough, and
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I called out all the sins that God had revealed
to me and confronted him and gave him the opportunity
to repent. His response came back. You know, God had
sent him to someone else. And I prayed about it,
and this had gone on for many years, and the
Lord released me and said he's not going to listen
to you. I have no idea what happened to that person.
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But this is somebody who was being held up as
a leader. This is somebody that had prayed with people
led him to the Lord, had gone through all the motions,
but was not free, was living a lie, was walking
in darkness, claiming to be in fellowship with the Lord.
He called us out of darkness into his marvelous light.
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Let's not go back. God is light. The Lord himself
exists and lives in the light because He is the light.
To live out our walk with him, we must be
in that light as well as believers. We've been transferred, translated,
remember the Angel and filled up with the Eunuch, took
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him from one place to another, transferred from darkness into
God's marvelous light, into the Kingdom of Light through the Cross,
through Messiah's redemptive work, and that made us a chosen generation,
a royal priesthood. Let's not just say those words. Let's
think about it. As a royal priest wearing the garments.
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Would you walk into a place of sin? Would you
walk in a way that embarrassed your heavenly Father. No,
we're chosen, We're royal, and we've been called to reflect
and proclaim his glory. Now. I know we make mistakes,
and I know things happen, and I know we're still
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in process, and we're still made a flesh. It's one
thing to fall it's another thing to live in that sin.
If you're in that place, then you need to repent,
and you need to find somebody that is called can
see and is anointed to do deliverance. And again, as
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somebody reach out to me recently and say, I hear
you have a deliverance ministry, and there's something about that
always roused me up. No, I have a Jesus ministry.
I have a you Shoa ministry. And one of the
things he happened to do is deliverance. And yes, because
I came out of the occult and went through deliverance,
he has used me to help others like that. But
I've grown beyond that one aspect of the facet of
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the jewel that is your shure. But we've been transferred
out of darkness. Let's stay out of it. Walking in
the light of His presence should be our ultimate goal.
And how do we do that with stay in God's word?
For those of you that come here every week, to
those that had listen, those that download, even those that
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reach out and want to discuss and understand something better,
because I serve a lot every week. And that's because again,
if you've read my book, I was trained by somebody,
my spiritual father and mentor that has gone on to
be with the Lord. Robert Shelley. Shelley laid out a
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banquet every week, a Smrgesborg a buffet, and you could
eat as much as you wanted. And I gorged myself
on the word. I was never done. I never wanted
him to stop. And people were like a nibble here,
let me try this a little bit over here, let
me take that dessert. Time to go. No, no, no,
no no. I wanted to feast. I wanted more. It
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was never enough. Darkness is defeated by obeying God's word
and having it inside of you. So to walk safely
in the woods at night, we need we need a
light so that we don't trip over the roots or
fall into holes or shows us if there's predators around. Well,
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we're living in a forest of evil. That's what this
world is. But the Bible, the Word of God is
our light to show us the way ahead so that
we st't don't stumble as we walk the same thing
with the light and the revelation of the Holy Spirit
to show us that it reveals all the entangling roots
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of false values and worldly philosophies and false teachings. So
if you study the word, if you listen to the word,
you get the word inside of you. You will know
a lie when you hear it. Somebody will bring you
a revelation or post the video, and your first thought
will be, that's really interesting. But it doesn't line up
with the word, and it doesn't line up with what
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I know about the Lord and my heavenly Father. To
study the word, get this word inside of you, and
then that way you'll have that lamp to keep you
on the right path. And that's what the word is,
the lamp to your feet, and it shows the way ahead.
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The thing about the darkness was seeing in the world
right now. It is a warning of his impending judgment.
And I know many generations of people that have said it,
and we hear it all the time. But when the
signs of the times and the sins of the times
begin to line up in such a way that the
darkness grows at the same moment, it's an indication to
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me that judgment is coming. At thirteen thirty verse fifteen,
hear and give ear. Do not be proud, for the
Lord has spoken. Give glory to the Lord your God,
before he causes darkness, and before your feet stumble on
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the dark mountains, and while you are looking for light,
he turns it into the shadow of death and makes
it a dense darkness, a double darkness. That's how dense
it is. But if you will not hear it, my
soul will weep in secret for your pride. My eyes
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will weep bitterly and run down with tears, because the
lord's flock has been taken captive. Jeremiah could be speaking
to the church right now that if you will not hear,
my soul will weep in secret for your pride. My
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eyes will weep bitterly and run down with tears, because
the Lord's flock, his sheep, have been taken captive, taken
captive by darkness, taken captive by sin, taken captive by
the world. He that's the great thing about what SRT
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has done over all these years, is to go into
the darkness to rescue the lamb out of the lion's mouth,
to redeem the land, to shut down the ways that
the enemy has gotten in. But then a while ago
he said stand down. And I never understood why, And
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it was very frustrating and I think I have a
sense why. And I don't say this with any arrogance,
but just as it has been prophesied, when the Church
rejects him and what he's doing, he lets things happen.
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I don't think we're done. I know we're not done.
I know the time is coming when the Lord will
say go. You know, think about Special Op Soldiers, And
I'm this is all coming as I'm saying it. And
I know this just for my own studies and from
my associate and brother and Lord Larry, being a retired
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Navy Seal founding member of Seal Team six, Teams two
and four and even Red Cell, so we talk about
this a lot. Those kind of speck Op warriors, they
have a go back by the door, and back then
they had a pager and now it's a phone, but whatever,
and when it goes off and you know it's time
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to go, you don't say a word, you don't tell anybody.
You take it and you go and you go do
the mission, and nobody hears from you two you come back.
That time has come when SRT will get that go message.
But until then, we shine the light, we sound the alarm.
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We know that the prophecy for Israel at the end
of the age applies to the church because we have
been grafted into the vine. It applies to us. Don't reject,
don't listen all these people that talk about the church
in Israel being separate, and we have replaced Israel. Paul
makes that really clear in Romans, and I think when
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he was speaking to the church in Rome, he was
beginning to address the replacement theology that wouldn't engulf the
church in Rome. God has given us a warning he
will come, and he will judge. We have an opportunity
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before then to shine the light into the darkness. They
rejected you should and we know that going to reject
some of what we say. But there were people out
there like I was, who in our heart knew what
we were doing was wrong and had an emptiness that
only He could fill. And they need a second chance
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as I got before the King returns. But the pervasive
sin we're seeing right now is bringing darkness upon people.
Paul talks about it in Romans One, starting verse eighteen,
for the wrath of God is revealed from Heaven against
all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth.
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In unrighteousness. Think about that, and think about what's going
on in the world and shutting down the Gospel and
telling people that can't teach it or believe it or
preach it. Because what may be known of God has
manifest in them. For God has shown it to them.
For since the creation of the world, his invisible attributes
are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made,
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even his eternal power in Godhead. So that they are
without excuse. Because although they knew God, they did not
glorify him as God, nor were thankful, but became futile
in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened. Professing
to be wise, they became fools and changed the glory
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of the incorruptible God into an image made like corruptible
man and birds and four footed animals and creeping things.
We don't need images of men, we don't need statues
of people. We were told not to do that. I
have one person I worship, he hung on the cross.
I know where he sits Verse twenty four. Therefore God
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also gave them up to uncleanness and the lust of
their hearts to dishonor their bodies among themselves who exchanged
the truth of God for the lie, and worshiped and
served the creature rather than Creator, who was blessed forever
a man remember this statean the fallen are creations. They
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are creatures. We have the power of the Creator inside
of us, picking up verse twenty eight. And even as
they did not like to retain God in their knowledge,
God gave them over to a debased mind to do
things which are not fitting, being filled with all on righteousness, sexual, immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness,
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full of envy, murders, strife, deceit, evil mindedness. They are whisperers, backbiters,
haters of God, violent, proud boasters, inventors of evil things,
disobedient to parents, undiscerning, untrustworthy, unloving, unforgiving, unmerciful, who, knowing
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the righteous judgment of God that those who practice such
things are deserving of death, not only do they do
the same, but also approve those who practice them. Sin
increases darkness. Therefore darkness is the result of sin. The
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darker it is, the more sin present, and sin will
bring a response from God first and offer of mercy,
and then judgment won't be emotional but it will be necessary.
His word is his word. He cannot go against himself,
and he won't go against his word because he is
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a holy God, our father, who is in heaven hallowed,
Holy will be your name. That's what we say. That's
why we are warned repeatedly not to go back to Egypt,
not to go back to our lifestyle. So darkness then
becomes a choice, a very bad choice. Doctor doctor. It
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hurts when I do this. Don't do this. Oh, that's it,
that's it. Pay the receptionist on the way out. God's
presence in the Word, in worship, or whatever it is.
God's presence brings light and deliverance, while choosing darkness results
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in judgment and bondage. Why would we do that? Proverbs
two thirteen. From those who leave the paths of up
brightness to walk in the ways of darkness, why would
you go back? The way of the wicked is like darkness.
They don't know what makes them stumble Proverbs four nineteen.
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I didn't know. I thought I was a good person.
I really did. That's what I had been told. I
was made the image of God. I'm a good person.
I was dunked, I was slapped I was. I went
to all the religious rituals of my upbringing. I'm okay. No,
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I wasn't okay. So as the day of the Lord approaches,
Isaiah A twenty two should come to mind, then they
will look to the earth and see trouble in darkness,
gloom of anguish, and they will be driven into darkness.
When the church leaves, the light leaves with it. So
when the sin is too great, he allows the darkness
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to grow, and he calls his children out of it.
Think about that Phesians five, starting verse eight. For you
will once darkness, but now you are light in the Lord.
And again I am speaking to you as a group,
for everybody that's listening, and I am speaking to you personally.
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You were once darkness, but now you are light in
the Lord. Walk as children of light. For the fruit
of the Spirit is in all goodness, righteousness and truth.
Finding out what is acceptable to the Lord. And have
no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness, but rather
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expose them. How do you expose them by being light
in those situation? Verse twelve. For it is shameful even
to speak of those things which are done by them
in secret. But all things that are exposed are made
manifest by the light. For whatever makes manifest is light. Therefore,
he says, awake you sleep, arise from the dead, and
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Messiah will give you light. See then that you walk circumspectully,
not as fools, but as wise redeeming the time, because
the days are evil, making the very most of the time,
buying up every opportunity to shine that light, because the
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days are evil, to walk righteously as a way witness
and a testimony to the living God and to your
Lord and Savior. The life and the light of men
is the opposite of the life of death, which is darkness. Therefore,
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if they're in darkness, shouldn't you want to lead them out?
Shouldn't you want to shine a light? Shouldn't you want
to tell them as someone who was once transferred from
the darkness and transformed. I know that, I know that,
I know you are capable of being light in the Lord.
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All knew it, the disciples knew it. And this divine
correction that is happening right now with a remnant. I
don't I'm gonna say this. This may of found you.
I'm sorry. I don't mean to, but the truth is
the truth. The corporate church is a mess. It's compromised.
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He's working with the remnant right now. The corporate church
will fall for the lie. They will fall for the Antichrist.
I'm seeing it happen already. They're aligning with beliefs that
they should reject and should be willing to stand up again.
And it's amazing how in other countries and other parts
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of the world people are doing that at the expense
of their lives, their livelihoods, their homes, their families. But
here in the Western world, here in America, I guess
we have too much and we don't want to give
it up. But divine correction is coming, and it'll occur
before his return, and we're in process and our calling,
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you're calling. My calling is to remain pure and undefiled
and to shine Philippians two, verse fifteen. That you may
show yourself to be blameless and guileless, innocent and uncontaminated,
children of God, without blemish, faultless, unrebukable, in the midst
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of a crooked and wicked generation, spiritually perverted and perverse,
among whom you are seen as bright lights, stars are beacon,
the shining out clearly in the dark world are sixteen
holding out to it and offering to all the word
of life, so that in the day of Messiah, I
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may have something of which exultantly to rejoice in glory
in that I did not run my race in vain,
would spend my labor to no purpose. Light represents what
is good and pure and holy and reliable. Darkness represents
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sin and evil. Once we're called into the light out
of the darkness to have a relationship with God, we
have no choice but to put aside all our sinful ways.
That's why the story I told you about that person
I ministered two for years, walked with for years, took
their call them anytime they called. It was very sad
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to have to let go. They just never let go
of their sin. They never let go of the setting sin.
They justified it, They made excuses for it, They covered
it up, they dressed it. I'm sorry. You can sprinkle
sugar and spices on manure, it's still manure. So to
claim that we belonged to him. We must live a
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life when we're not hypocrites, or the Lord's going to
expose our deceit. Those who sat in darkness and in
the shadow of death, bound in affliction and irons, because
they were built against the word of God and despies
the counsel of the most High. Therefore he brought down
their heart with labor. They fell down, and there was
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none to help. Then they cried out to the Lord
in their trouble, and he saved them out of their distresses.
He brought them out of darkness and the shadow of death.
He broke their chains in pieces. Oh, that men would
give thanks to the Lord for his goodness, for his
wonderful works, to the children of men. For has broken
the gates of bronze, and he's cut the bars of
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iron into Psalm one oh seven, Verses ten and sixteen.
And every time I hear that, I think of my bondage,
I think of my chains. I think of my bars,
and he broke them. He set me free, not because
I deserved it, but because of his love. So once
the church age is over, that light that shines down
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His glory, that illuminates a path of peace and redemption,
will be removed, plunge the world back into the darkness
that it so desires. So listen to me as we
close out here. Spiritual darkness is and passive don't think
that it is. It is actively opposing the light, and
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false teachers and preachers. They may imitate righteousness to deceived believers,
but if you have eyes to see and ears to hear,
you'll see it. You'll see the truth. Therefore, as believers,
we are urged to remain vigilant, rooted in God's word,
and to shine as beacons to a world overshadowed by
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sin and spiritual ignorance. From It's thirteen twelve, the night,
this present evil age is almost gone, and the day
of Messiah's return is almost here. So let us fling
away the works of darkness and put on the full
armor of light. I see just like flinging it the
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east is from the west as far as you can
possibly get it away from you, and putting on the
full armor of light, saying I'm going to arise and shine.
I'm gonna live in the light. I'm gonna embrace the truth.
I'm going to expose the darkness and set the captives free.
And I'm going to allow the Holy Spirit to transform
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me and mind and character so that they can be
transformed as well. So a rise and shine, brothers and sisters,
be radiant with the glory and the brilliance of the Lord.
For your light is calm, and the glory and the
brilliance of the Lord is risen upon you. For in fact,
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darkness will cover the earth, and deep darkness will cover
the people. But the Lord will rise upon you, and
his glory and brilliance will be seen on you. If
you are reflective of his glory, if you shine the
way you should be shining right now, pure gold, no dross,
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no sin. You'll set them free, You'll show them the way.
So the necessity of living as children of light, putting
aside all the things we did in the past, absorbing
and manifesting the character and the power of God in
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a world that so desperately needs illumination, is vital in
this ongoing war. Don't get me wrong. I know that
we win. I know the battle's already been won. But
we're dealing with a terrorist enemy that will not submit,
will not agree, and will not do what it's been
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told to do. So we will arise and shine. We
will become agents of change in anticipation of the Lord's
return and the final battle between light and darkness. Lord,
you are the light of the world, and we desire
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to be your beacons. You have redeemed us, you have
transferred us, you have changed us. Help us right now,
each and every one of us, myself included. Whenever I
pray these prayers, Lord, I am included. But I'm praying
for all of us. If there is anything in us
that is diminishing your light, that is hindering what you
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desire from us, burn it out of us through the
fire of the Holy Spirit. Let us arise and shine.
Let us be radiant with your glory and your brilliance,
that people can look at us and say, you're different.
What is that light I see on you? What is
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that light? Come from your eyes? And we can tell
them who you are. Lord, changes right now, empower us,
release us. We thank you for the provision, We thank
you for the direction, We thank you for the inspiration.
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We thank you for all that you've done in this regard.
You did it on the cross, but you're still at work.
You're going to finish it, and then you're going to
leave the throne and you're going to fix everything that
Adam and Eve did in the garden and Satan inspired.
But until then, we will go, we will do, we
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will shine and we will fight in this war between
light and darkness as victorious in your shoe. And I
pray all these things in your shoe his name. And
if you agree with me, you say amen with intention
and belief and acceptance a man. May the Lord bless
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you and keep you. May the Lord make his face
to shine upon you and be gracious to you. May
the Lord, I don't know you, su a Hamasiah Jesus
the Messiah, lift up his countenance upon you and give
you peace. Give you shall oam. I'm Richard Grund. This
has been the Porch on Firefall Talk Radio.
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