December 31, 2025 • 63 mins
As the year draws to a close, The Porch reflects on the biblical idea of times and seasons. According to this perspective, God sets beginnings and endings throughout life. The way we live between these moments is shaped by God's guidelines for us. God has instilled in our hearts a sense of eternity—a desire for something beyond this world and for a deeper relationship with Him.
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Speaker 1 (00:22):
Hello, and welcome to the Porch. I'm Richard Grund. This
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Thank you for the emails and the concern and the care.
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this week. We had a bunch of prayer requests. They
went out, newsletter went out last week. I guess everyone
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I'll send it to you who start out with praise,
reports and prayer requests and for me, I praise the Lord.
There it is twenty twenty five. I praise the Lord
each and every day. I praise them for my home,
for my wife, our family, sons, daughter in law's, grandchildren,
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furry kids. Everything we have comes from him. My salvations
began at all. Actually he began it all on the cross,
and I praise him for saving me and giving me
back everything that I had thrown away. I praise him
for his provision protection over us, for the dreams and
the visions and the promises of Joel to twenty eight
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being fulfilled in our life. I praise him for divine
health and healing that he's given us, for his abiding favor.
I praise him for the continuing revelation of the Holy
Spirit each and every day, dreams and visions and revelations
and just the things that he's been doing that I
look forward to twenty twenty six because I think he's
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shown me what he wants me to do and to
teach and to get out there to you, because he
has made me a new creation, and he has allowed
me to live in these prophetic times to serve him.
So now let's pray someone twenty two. Verse six is
pray for the peace of Jerusalem. May they prosper who
love you. You don't have to like the politics. You
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don't have to like anything. But Jerusalem is and always
will be the apple of His eye that has not changed.
So pray for them. Pray for their peace and their protection.
Pray for a Jewish brothers and sisters that are being
attacked in every country, including ours, and are believing brothers
and sisters who are being persecuted for their faith. Pray
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for America. Pray that God would shed his grace upon us,
that he would forgive us, and he would guide us
in the days ahead, because we desperately need him. I
pray for all the people that are being victimized by
their leaders, by those that are supposed to be in
charge over them. I pray for the fatherless and the widows,
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the persecuted and the martyred, the innocent and those that
are victims of in jil justice. I pray against the
slaughter of the innocence in and out of the womb,
human and animal. I pray for the victims of human trafficking,
human sex trafficking. It goes on. It's never ended. All
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you have to do is watch the news. I pray
for the growing religious persecution that we're seeing jew and
Christian and everything that's happening right now I believe is
the spirit of the Antichrist in him, manipulating the unrest
and the chaos and the violence. So let's pray against
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the plans and the effort of the spirit of the Antichrist,
that he will stay where he is until the Lord
deems otherwise, that as long as the Church is here,
he cannot come out. I pray for divine holeness, health
and healing in me in each one of you. If
you are sick in heart, mind, body, soul or spirit,
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this is your time to thank Him for you for
speaking healing, not sickness, not death, not disease. His promises
are still yay and amen, and he still heals. I
pray for protection, for inspiration for the divine Psalm ninety
one covering to be upon us. I pray that the
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remnant would wake up, that they would hear the alarm
clock and they would answer the call. And I pray
for the open doors to the projects and the plans
that the Lord has given us, including the finances and
the provisions to do so so, Father, Abah Papa, we
come to you in the name above all names that
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come to you, in the name of your son Y
show almashiak Jesus, the Messiah, King of King's, Lord of Lords,
we boldly approach your throne of grace and mercy. We
thank you for saving us. We thank you for loving us.
We thank you for wanting us back and being able
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to come home to be with you when our time
is done. Thank you, Lord for doing that, for being
the one that paid our debts, that covered our sins,
that allow us this access to the throne room, to
our heavenly Father. We thank you for the love that
held you on the cross until every drop was shed
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and the lamb was slain. Thank you for sending back
the Holy Spirit to walk with us, to teach us,
to guide us to open our hearts and our minds,
our eyes and our ears. And that's all we ask
right now, Holy Spirit, have your way. Do whatever it
is you need to do this night, this day, this time,
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times and seasons were in it. We thank you for it.
Protect the technology, protect us from the evil one, and
protect us Lord, and whatever it is you want to do.
I pray all these things and you eshee his name,
and if you agree with me.
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So open those bibles or apps, or however you follow along.
We have a lot to cover, so much so that
I can tell you that there will be a part
two to this, because the Lord has given me enough
notes for next week as well. Tonight we're gonna cover
half of this to set us into the new year,
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and then we'll pick it up in the new year.
Ecclesiasts three, starting verse one, to everything, there is a season,
a time for every purpose under heaven. A time to
be born and a time to die, a time to
plant and a time to pluck what is planted. A
time to kill and a time to heal, a time
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to break down and a time to build up. A
time to weep and a time to laugh, a time
to mourn and a time to dance. A time to
cast away stones and a time to gather stones. A
time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing,
a time to gather, a time to lose, a time
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to keep, a time to throw away, a time to tear,
time to sew, a time to keep, silence and a
time to speak, a time to love and a time
to hate, a time of war and a time of peace.
Ecclesiastes three one through eight. There is a time and
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appointed time for everything, and every time for every delight
and event or purpose under heaven. This text is describing
a life that has lived in relationship with God. That's
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what it's all about. That's what it's always been about.
Restoration of our relationship and the continuation of that intimate
relationship with Almighty God, from you to Him, not through
somebody else, not through any religion, not through any hierarchy.
It's directly from you to him, your heart to his heart.
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The writer of Ecclesiastes it says the preacher, Well, that's Solomon.
We know it's Solomon. And he's saying that all the
events in our lives are in the hand of God,
who makes everything happen in the time he judges appropriate.
You can make plans, but it all depends upon what
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he wants to do. Vine's expository note says, at one
time in Solomon's life he had a vital connection with
the God of heaven. But Solomon broke that relationship and
began to live from an earthly perspective. I would add
from a sinful, sensual perspective. Having searched for happiness and
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meaning and that kind of life, he wrote this book
show us how a back slidden believer can come back
to God and enjoy the things of the Lord once again.
Soon and messed up big time. He had it all,
he had wisdom, he had favor, and he got caught
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up in a lot of things he should have, and
he did a lot of things he shouldn't have. I
would spend the rest of the time for this session
of the porch listing all the things he did. Maybe
someday we'll talk about it from a spiritual, supernatural perspective.
What he brought upon himself and what he brought upon Israel.
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Solomon's saying here, if you want life to be beautiful,
look upward. Colossians three to two tells us set your
mind and keep focused habitually on the things above, the
heavenly things, and not on the things that are on
the earth, which have only temporal value. So Solomon took
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the upward look Verse one under heaven, Everything under heaven,
every event in life, everything has its purpose, and the
God who created time, is involved in the activities of
our lives, every person's life. Now, the modern scientific secular view,
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it does not believe that. It holds that the universe
is a closed system operating based on fixed scientific law,
and therefore having no need for God. Well, the Word
tells us otherwise, Coussians one, verse sixteen. For by Him
capital aged, by Yushuah, by Jesus, all things were created
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that in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible,
whether thrones or dominions, or principalities or powers. All things
were created through Him and for him, And He is
before all things, and in him all things consist. So
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by him all things were created in heaven and on earth,
things that are visible, things that are invisible, whether the
thrones or dominions, or rulers, or authorities natural or supernatural,
All things were created and exist through him, that is,
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by his activity and for him, and he himself existed
before all things, and in him and through him everything
is held together. He is the controlling, cohesive force of
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the universe. All creation, natural and supernatural, is held together
by Him, by his very nature, by his essence, by
his will. Well, that means even the mundane, ordinary activities
of our life do not happen apart from the providence
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of God and outside the purview and control of the Lord.
Psalm thirty one, Verses fourteen fifteen, David says, but as
for me, I trust confidently in you and your greatness,
O Lord, I said, you are my God. My times
are in your hands. Well, until we understand that, until
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we understand that God is in control and there's a
time and meaning to every event in our life, we
can never see the beauty of our life. We'll only
see the bad things. We'll only see the shadows. So
when we look upward, when we set our mind on Him,
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we see the balance in life. That's what Verses two
through eight are about balance. A time to be born
and a time to die, a time to plan, the
time to harvest, time to kill, the time to heal,
a time to tear down, time to build up, a
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time to cry and a time to laugh, a time
to grieve, and a time to dance, a time to
scatter stones and a time to gather stones. Time to embrace,
a time to turn away, time to search, time to
quit searching, a time to keep and a time to
throw away. Time to tear and a time to mend.
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Time to be quiet and a time to speak. Time
to love, a time to hate, a time for war
and a time for peace fourteen opposite pairs of natural
events having to do with the affairs of life. And
then it starts right where it should. A time to
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be born and a time to die, totally and completely
in control of the living God in his hands. You
had nothing to do with coming into this world, and
don't try to mess up your departure. God shaped you.
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The genetic code that's in your body, the DNA that
we talk about in the c conference, and the other thing.
It has been given to you by God, a divine
design in your conception. Psalone thirty nine fourteen. I will
praise you for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous
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are your works, and that my soul knows very well
you are marvelous work. You are designer goods. And if
your soul doesn't know it, you need to get it.
To understand it, you need to speak that scripture out
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loud over you every day. I am fearfully and wonderfully made,
and I praise you, O Lord, because marvelous are your works,
which is me, and that my soul knows very well.
Only God has the right to your life, to tamper
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with birth and death, which unfortunately means abortion is wrong,
and so is euthanasia. It's not within our rights to
do that. I get it. Some people are suffering tremendously
and they don't wish to prolong their life, but they
don't know the end from the beginning. They don't know
what plan he has. They don't know if he's gonna
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heal or he's going to do something with them to
heal someone else. We have no right to take a
human life, and if we believe in God, then we
believe our life is his. The details of living, the
details that Solomon gives us, shows us balance. He's saying,
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you should be aware that the ordinary activities of life
operate under the providence of God. You're not in control.
What a lesson that is. It's a tough lesson to learn,
but when you learn it, relief comes, and that means
even the bad things. Romans eight twenty eight tells us,
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and we know that all things work together for good
to those who love God and to those who are
called according to His purpose. And we know how do
we know? We know it with great confidence because we
know it's his nature, and we know it's in the
word that God, who is deeply concerned about us, causes
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all things to work together as a plan for good
for those who love God and to those who are
called according to His plan and purpose. And that means
even the bad stuff. Only He can put together the
chunks of our life, and sometimes they feel like chunks,
the chunks of our life, to work it out for good.
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Look at Joseph, his brothers sold them into slavery. And
then in Genesis fifty, verse twenty, while he's ruling over Egypt,
his brothers show up. They're hungry, there's a famine going on,
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and he says to them, as for you, you meant
evil against me, but God meant it for good in
order to bring about this present outcome. That many would
be kept alive as they are this day if they
don't sell him into slavery, if they don't do the
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despicable thing they did. He's not there. He's not there
to help. He's not there to save Egypt during the
famine and his brothers and those from Israel that came
to Egypt for help. God set him in a place
that he needed to be for a specific time such
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as this evil didn't control the outcome. Satan was not
in control of the outcome. God was, and he could
see what no one else could. He's outside of time.
Isaiah forty six ten, declaring the end and the result,
from the beginning and from ancient times, the things which
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have not yet been done, saying, my purpose will be established,
and I will do all that pleases me and fulfills
my purpose. The Lord says in Revelation chapter one, verse eight,
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and
the end. Who is and who was, and who is
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to come the Almighty. Later on, as he ends it
and closes it out and Revelation twenty one six, he says,
it is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega,
the beginning. In the end, I will give the fountain
of the water of life freely to him who thirst.
Now where is John when he hears these things? When he
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writes down what happens in revelation. We find that answer
in chapter one, verses nine and ten. He says, ay,
your brother and companion, and the tribulation, kingdom, and patient endurance,
which are in Yeshuah was on the island of Patmos,
exiled there because of my preaching of the Word of
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godard uarding the eternal salvation and the testimony of Jesus
the Messiah. I was first ten. I was in the spirit,
which he means in special communication with the Holy Spirit,
and empowered to receive and record the revelation from the Lord.
I was in the spirit on the Lord's day, and
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I heard behind me a loud voice, like the sound
of a trumpet. So the answer to where he was
at that moment was he was in a vision outside
of time. I know it's hard for us to grasp that.
I know I've shared this, but throughout my life I've
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had many moments of deja vu. Never understood what they were.
Thought I was seeing the future. Well I actually wasn't
seeing the future. I was just seeing time. It happened
not too long ago, maybe less than a year ago,
as I was driving down a road here, all of
a sudden, I saw myself having been on this road
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at another time. Luckily there was no one else on
the road, and it was a momentary, maybe in a second,
everything shifted in and out, and I realized I was
having a DejaVu moment of seeing myself driving on that
road before I actually was there at that moment, driving
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on the road. And I thought about it, and it
was like the Lord just dropped into my spirit that time,
to him is not linear, and at those moments of
the dejevu experience I was having, he was showing me
a time in time. So for him, time just is.
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He's the beginning of the end. He's outside of time.
There is no beginning, there is no end. Time just
is everything is happening at once. He sees the past,
the present, and the future simultaneously. And of course we
can't grasp that, and our mind just goes and crashes.
Well maybe yours doesn't make that noise. Mind us some
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ninety verse two tells us before the mountains were brought
forth or ever, you had formed the earth and the world.
Even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God. So this
concept of time, and we're talking about times and seasons.
It's something that if we can grasp it, we can
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have a better understanding of God and of the Lord,
and a prophecy, and of eschatology, and all these things
that we deem important the Home and Bible dictionaries as
time is the chronological sequence of life, and its significance
in Biblical teaching, see the Biblical God is not governed
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by time, because he is the Lord of time. God
is in time in the sense that he is sovereignly
present in all the events of time, confronting his people
with his warnings and his promises. However, it's not the
same thing as saying God is caught up in time
or governed by it. Humankind cannot bind him to such measurements. Rather,
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He encounters us and each moment of our temporal existence,
offering each new day as an opportunity, whether it's for
blessing or judgment, whether it's for guidance that whether we
are redeemed, or whether we are stubborn, or whether we repent.
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He's encountering each of us in that moment, and through
His Holy Spirit we are being guided. That may have
been a little too out there and esoteric for some,
just bear with me. Let it sink in. Listen to
it again. Both the Old New Testaments speak of God
is everlasting. They don't. This isn't abstract, This isn't philosophical,
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This isn't anything more than the recognition that He lives
in eternity, and he's not in isolation. That's the other thing.
He's not some distant, cold, disconnected God. He's everywhere all
the time. Psalm ninety three, verses one and two. This
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is about the eternal reign of the Lord. The Lord reigns.
He is clothed with majesty. The Lord has clothed, he
has girded himself with strength. Surely the world is established
so that it cannot be moved. Your throne is established
from old. You are from everlasting. The Lord reigns. He
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is everlasting. And the Hebrew words that are translated eternal
and eternity, along with the New Testament Greek equivalents, are
of endlessness, of perpetuity, the absence of temporal conditions. Every
finite creature is marked by as I said before, he
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is past, present, and future simultaneously. That's why there's nothing
you can tell him. He doesn't already know. There's nothing
you've done that He has already seen you do, and
you are going to make mistakes that he knows you're
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going to make, repent, Say you're sorry, Move forward. First
Chronicle sixteen thirty six. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel,
from everlasting to everlasting. And all the people said, Amen,
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and praise the Lord. Why don't we try that, Blessed
be the Lord God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting.
Your response, Amen, and everyone praise the Lord. What do
he praise him for? As twenty twenty five comes to
a close, I'm sure you can think about all the
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things that you need and all the prayers that you've had,
But what do you praise them for? I know I
start out always I praise him for my starvation, my family,
my wife, my son's daughter in law's grandchildren, furry kids.
I praise them for each and every day that I
wake up. I praise them for considering me and sharing
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things with me and wanting to spend time with me.
Take the time in twenty twenty six to praise him,
to love on him, and to let him love on you.
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So in thinking about this, to say that God is
eternal From a biblical standpoint means that his very existence
brackets cosmic time. There's an image I use at the
CA Conference of the Universe and imposed upon an image
of Him with his hands outstretched holding it all together.
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It's all him. The essence of the universe, the energy
of the universe, the black matter, all the things they
say that hold it together, all the particles. It's him.
He was there at the beginning and created all things,
and he will be there when time and reality ends.
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He's present in every moment in between. That's the true
meaning of eternity, before, above and beyond and all earthly
creaturely existence. God is And what does that say in Hebrews?
I think it's eleven six that we have to believe
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that He is, that he is God. That's where your
faith is, That's where your hope is. Your hope is
in who he is, that he hears you, that he knows,
that he's seen. He's intimately involved even in our temporal existence,
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and not just passively sitting back on his throne, you know,
the old man with the white beard and lording over. No. No, no,
he's actively involved. He's governing all creatures. He's making heartspeats
and eyes open and babies to be born. And he's
sending the Holy Spirit to guide you. He's sending angels
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to protect you, and he's speaking to you, and he's
given you free will, free choice to obey and believe
or to disobey and walk away. Time, the creation of
God just it's the duration of life, and it's always
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measured by the creations and the changes. Excuse me, I'm
starting to get a little fired up, little jacked up here.
It's measured by the changes in his creative order. What
do you say? Genesis one fourteen, God said, let there
be lights in the firmaments of the heavens, to divide
the day from the night, and let them be for
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signs and seasons and for days and years. So life,
the duration of life is measured by the created order
he has been put into place. The flow of time
is directed by God in particular times, within his unfolding purposes.
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Because why human life is brief, so time should be
used properly, making the most of every opportunity. My time
is temporary, yours is temporary. Someday it'll be eternal when
we get the new bodies, and all of this has changed.
But right now we were created from the dust of
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the earth, and we are finite in nature Genesis two seven.
And the Lord God formed man from the dust of
the ground. He breathed the breath of life into man's nostrils,
and man became a living person. What was part of
the curse after they fell? Genesis three nineteen. By the
sweat of your brow? Will you have food to eat
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until you'd return to the ground from which you were made.
You were made from dust, and to dust you will return.
We're finite, We're limited. We have a predetermined time. We
have a set time, which is why Paul says in
Colostions four or five, walk in wisdom towards those who
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are outside, redeeming the time. Don't waste time. What does
the world want you to do? It wants you to
waste time? Oh? Look at this read that Does any
of that have any e turnal value? No? Or relax, Richard,
calm down. I don't have time to calm down. I
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just don't. The end is coming, and I don't know
when my time will come. I know what I believe,
I know what he has shown me in dreams and
visions and prophecies. But I'm in his hands my life
is in his hands, so I need to get the
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job done. The other thing about the passage of times,
this is seasons. They give us a measured duration, and
you know what, our clock watching and tight scheduling. That
wasn't something they lived with. That wasn't a part of
the plan. The early people, even the Church itself, they
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experienced time much more holistically. There's no evidence to indicate
the Israelites counted seconds and minutes or even hours. It
wasn't until the Jews during Roman times began to count ours.
Their time units were based on observation and experience. The
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day was divided up into sun up sundown. It was
also measured in watches by the observation of the position
of the sun and the sky. And you've talked, you've
heard me talk about it. How I used to pray
a Christian heritage on Saturday nights, where I would go
there and pray and so Shelley can concentrate on the Word,
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and I'd stay outside and pray and prayer and covering
and protection, and then go inside and pray over the sanctuary,
and so the Lord said go home. Sometimes I always
got there at six, sometimes it was nine. Sometimes it
was twelve. Sometimes I didn't go. He didn't release me
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till three in the morning. Mark thirteen thirty five said
your shoe, says watch therefore, for you don't know when
the master of the house is coming in the evening,
at midnight, at the crowing of the rooster, or in
the morning. In Eamiah, chapters four and seven, we see
that they had to set watches upon the wall that
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they were working on and repairing, which meant either armed
persons or just citizens. Now they had three watches, the
beginning of the watch, the middle watch, in the morning watch.
Lamentations two nineteen says, arise, cry out in the night
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at the beginning of the watches, Pour out your heart
like water before the face of the Lord. Lift your
hands towards him, for the life of your young children,
who faint from hunger at the head of every street.
The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia takes us a little further.
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The watch a watch was a division of the night.
Now we don't know the limits of the Jewish watches,
the three watches. We do know that the middle watch
started two hours before midnight and two hours after, so
we know it was four hours long. Later on it
became a fourfold division of the Roman system three to six, six, twelve,
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twelve to three, three to six. That was it, those
four watches. I begun to believe that, even though I
know is a physical reason for it. When he wakes
me up in that watch of three to six, it's
the prey. It's also probably one of the most active
times for the kingdom of darkness Psalm sixty three, verse six.
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When I remember you on my bed, I meditate and
thoroughly focus on you in the night watches. We've lost this,
We've lost this understanding. We've lost this care and consideration
of time. We need to understand. We need to arise
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and cry out aloud in the night at the beginning
of the night watches, pouring out our hearts like water
before the presence of the Lord, lifting up our hands
to him for the life of our little ones, for
our sons and our daughters. When he wakes me up
in the night, and I know he wants me to pray,
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first thing I do. I cover myself, my home, my family,
our pets, our possessions. I intercede for Larry and his
family and for the porch community. And then I listen
for the voice of the Lord, for the name that
he wants me to pray for. Who does he want
me to intercede for? Who does he want me to
stand in the gaff for? What does he want me
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to attack? And sometimes he'll let me go back to sleep,
and other times sleep won't come till six am. If
you make yourself available to him, he will use you.
So the Jews of the day. They they counted years
according to cycles of seasons, by the sun's return by
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the annual orbit, so months will not based on an
arbitrary number like thirty days or whatever. But they were
counted from one new moon to the next, which means
to make up for it, they had to add time
days to get that full rotation of the sun. And
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Jews continued that method for a very long time with
their seasons. When the new beginning came September October. So
the key unit of time to the Israelites. The key
measure for them was from morning to evening and one
morning to the next. That's why they had lunar festivals.
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That's why they counted the shift from evening onward, which
they still do, and the measure of the day gives
us significant events, a day of rejoicing, a day of salvation,
a day of trouble, a day of judgment, and a
final day, the day of the Lord. Isaiah thirteen, starting
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verse six. Well, for the day of the Lord is
that hand. It will come as destruction from the Almighty.
Therefore all hands will be limp. Every man's heart will melt,
and they will be afraid. Pangs and sorrows would take
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hold of them. They will be in pain as a
woman in childbirth. They will be amazed at one another.
Their faces will be like flames. Behold, the day of
the Lord comes cruel, with both wrath and fierce anger,
to lay the land desolate. He will destroy its sinners
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from it. Zephyniah one seven says, be silent in the
presence of the Lord God, for the day of the
Lord is at hand. For the Lord has prepared a sacrifice.
He has invited his guests. Who you're talking about, ZEPHYNI,
you talking about Messiah, You're talking about Yashua. You're talking
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about the lamb that was slain before the foundation of
the world, and the marriage supper of the lamb and
the bridegroom and the guests how would you know that
Cephanyah except by the Holy Spirit, twenty twenty six, And
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I'll do a video tomorrow. It's going to try to
do it today, but I couldn't fit it in and
my priority was this Bible study. Do a short video
of course for me. When I say short, it might
only be a day and a half. But we'll see.
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Talk about what's coming to talk about twenty twenty six,
to talk about what I believe the Lord expects from
me the porch from firefall from SRT in twenty twenty six,
because we're entering a new season, a new time, a
new day. But the day of the Lord will come
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like a thief. Then the heavens will vanish with a
mighty and thunderous roar, and the material elements will be
destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and the works
that are on it will be burned up. Since all
these things are to be destroyed in this way? What
kind of people ought to be in the meantime and
holy behavior, in a pattern of daily life that sets
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you apart as a believer and in godliness, displaying profound
reverence toward our awesome God. Well you earnestly look for
and await the coming of the Day of God. For
on this day the heavens will be destroyed by burning,
and the material elements will melt with intense heat. But
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in accordance with His promise, we expectantly await a new
heavens and a new Earth in which righteousness else a
second Peter three ten through thirteen, the amplified version. And
if you saw the sea conference we did where I
explained all that, how that'll happen, and what it means,
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and what to look for. But what I want you
to grasp is this. The night is far spent. The
day is at hand. So we need to awake. We
need to put on the armor of light. We need
to arise and shine. We need to make a decision.
Are we going to be present? Are we going to
be absent? What are we going to do? I know
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what I've decided, I know what Larry's decided, But what
are you going to do? I know what the Lord wants?
But what are we going to do? Are we going
to take the signs of the time seriously? Are we
going to understand the season that we're in? And we're
each in different seasons, We're each going through something different.
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He has an expectation of planting and reaping of our season,
bringing forth a harvest in our life and for the kingdom.
Only you know what season you're in. I've been in
a season of resting, allowing the land to be restored.
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The problem in the church is we're constantly forcing a
crop out of a vineyard. We're constantly forcing the land
to produce, and what we wind up doing is drying
it out and killing it. So what He's had to
do for us, for SRT, for me, for even firefall.
Outside of the Bible studies, I've done nothing. I've not
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done many videos. Actually I haven't done any in a year,
many teachings. I haven't done any seminars in seven years,
coming up on eight. It's time for new beginning, a
new season, a new time. There's been a time of rest.
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So if you want to make a sense, you make
a sense. They forget about it. If you want to
make sense of your life of life period, Solomon says,
you got to you gotta look inward. See the inward
look that is realizing that God can, he can do,
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and everything he does is beautiful. Ray Stevens, everything is beautiful.
No I'm not going to say in its own way,
find your place, find your peace. Some of you, I
know what you're going through, praying with you, prayed with you,
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standing with you. But you need to find your peace.
You need to find your ground and stand. See. God
has made us in such a special, special way. You
are fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are his works, and
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this your soul knows well. You may not know it intellectually,
but your soul knows it. It also knows that there's
nothing in this world that can permanently satisfy you. God
has made it so that there's nothing in this world
that can permanently satisfy us. We can't be happy with
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the things under the sun. Solomon had to learn that
he wasn't happy with the gold. He wasn't happy with
the riches. He wasn't happy with the buildings. He wasn't
happy with all the wives and the concubines and all
the sex and everything that went with it. He wasn't
happy because He has put inside of each of us
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a god consciousness. That eternity is in the heart. That's
where your life dwells. And I'm not talking about the
beating of the heart. I'm talking about you who you are.
That's also in that sea conference I did. And if
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you never saw the video, you let me know. I'll
send you the link. And if you did, it was
a while ago. Maybe you don't remember. Solomon had tried
it all. He had tried luxury, learning, wisdom, g noses, eat,
eating and drinking, and be marrying, labor, working, building, chasing
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wealth and pretty things, some of them female. And what
he found out was he still had a horrible longing
beyond anything this world had to offer him. He discovered
that only God alone could satisfy the human soul, and
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that's how he found his way back. That's why Ecclesiastes.
Speaker 2 (49:14):
Is the.
Speaker 1 (49:17):
Cry of a man who's come to his senses Ecclesiastes
three pin fourteen. I know that whatever God does, it
endures forever. Nothing can be added to it, nor can
anything be taken from it. For God does it so
that man will fear and worship him with awe filled reverence,
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knowing that he is God. The other day, day before last,
I woke up hearing a song in my head, a
song that my paison Carmen used to do, called Great God,
I've listened to it a couple of times since then.
That's a declaration that he's a great God, mighty king,
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ruler over everything. He's eternal, he's our abba father, and
even though he is, we need to have an off
awfield reverence of him. That's where that olf that our
father comes in. And don't make it a ritual like
it it is with some hallow'd be your name, holy
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is your name. The only reason I can come into
your presence is because of the blood of the Lamb,
because of what your shoeer did on the cross that
has given me access to you. Otherwise, in my sin,
I would be destroyed, and I would be unworthy. Who
can ascend his holy ill? Only a man with clean hands,
a righteous man made righteous by the Lord. Find your
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intimacy with him in twenty twenty six and you say, well,
I've got it. Get closer. Hear his whisper, hear the
beat of his heart, feel the beat of his heart,
Smell the incense of the throne. Room all Richard, you
get out there now. Well, I'm sorry, I am out there.
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I'm not in this world. I'm not even of this world.
I'm here. Yeah, yeah, I'm tangibly physically here sitting in
this chair. But you know where my heart, my mind
is with it. It's with him. It's wanting to please him,
it's wanting to be in his presence to feel his love.
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And I know someday I'll have that permanently, and right
now I have it moment to moment. He's eternal, but
we're temporary. We're partial. What he does last in is complete.
Nothing we do is last. It all falls apart, it
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all goes away. Life is temporary, except he gave us
a different kind of life, didn't he. He gave us
an eternal life. You're gonna spend eternity somewhere. He's made
your soul in such a way that it can't be destroyed,
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so it's gonna exist somewhere. It's either gonna exist with
him in paradise or it's gonna exist in darkness, internal torment.
But he's given you and me eternal life through faith
in his son, through you sure, and that makes us complete,
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which takes me to this last part here that we're
gonna cover right now. The other thing. Solomon encourages to
look onward into the future to understand Ecclesiastes three, starting
verse fifteen, the amplified version that which is has already been,
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and that which will be has already been. And God
seeks what has passed by, so that history repeats itself.
And God that it's Gosh that is so mind boggling,
just to dwell upon verse fifteen, basically saying he forces
history to repeat itself. Moreover, I've seen that under the sun,
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that in the place of justice there is wickedness, and
in the place of righteousness there is wickedness. And I
said to myself, God will judge both the righteous and
the wicked, for there is a time appointed for every matter,
for every deed. And I said of myself regarding the
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sons of men, God is surely testing them in order
for them to see that by themselves, without God, they
are only animals. For the earthly fate of the sons
of men, and the fate of animals is the same.
As one dies, so dies the other. Indeed, they all
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have the same breath. And there is no pre eminence
or advantage from man in that and of himself over
an animal, for all his vanity, all go to the
same place. All came from the dust, and all return
to the dust. It's our destiny, our appointment for judge,
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just judgment. I'm sorry. I don't know whether I want
to laugh and dance or cry or weep or mourn.
It's like I'm all those things at once, because I
know where I'm going to be, I know the life
I'm going to have, I know the experience I'm going
to have for eternity, and I know some of you
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will be with me. But I also know many of
the people I love and I care about won't. Because
judgment has been appointed and established by God Hebrews nine
twenty seven. And just as it is appointed and destined
for all men to die once and after this comes
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certain judgment. God's locked that in place. His word makes
it clear we have two appointments in the future, death
and judgment. And that's what Solomon had begun to understand,
that there's a future accountability and a judgment for our
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actions actions. I'm sorry, and even intelligent people that are
unsaved and lost, they share Solomon's dilemma about justice and judgment.
They see the end injustices and human courts and elsewhere.
It was seeing a whole lot of that now, people
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being caught in crimes and doing things and not being
punished for it and getting away with it. So why
doesn't God deal with it right now? Why doesn't he
slap him down right now? Why doesn't he deal with
obvious offenses? Because Solomon says in verse seventeen, God will
judge both the righteous and the wicked, For there is
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a time appointed for every matter and for every deed.
Though this world has evil an injustice, in God's own time,
he will judge all the wrong. He will take care
of it all. There is a time for that. I
believe that time is coming. I don't know how close
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it is, but it concerns me for those I care about.
But you, beloved, remember the words which were spoken before
before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus the Messiah.
How they told you that there would be mockers in
the last times, who would walk according to their own
ungodly lusts. But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your
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most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves
in the love of God, looking for the mercy of
our Lord Jesus the Messiah, unto eternal life and on.
Some have compassion, making a distinction, but others, save with fear,
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pulling them out of the fire, hating even the garment
defiled by the flesh. Have compassion on some, and save
others with fear. But whatever it is, save them from
what's coming. Cry out to them, Share with them, Share
the Gospel with them, Tell them your story. If you
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believe they should know what you believe that would do
seventeen eighteen, twenty and twenty three. You're gonna stand. We're
all gonna stand before God one day. And if your
name is written in the Lamb's book of life and
your sins have been blotted out, it's already covered. The
death's been paid. There's nothing for God to see. But
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if not, when he opens the book of your life,
it's your book of your life, and at that moment
he sees everything, every sin, everything you've ever done. And
I think about that not for me, because when I
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mess up and I do, it goes right under the blood.
I go right to him. Lord, I'm sorry, Holy Spirit,
help me. We need to pour out our hearts to him.
We need to pour out our hearts to the sun,
to the Lord on behalf of those that don't know him,
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those that are about to go back to the dust.
We've been given eternity in our heart. We have an
upward dimension. God has made everything beautiful in its time,
and he put eternity in their hearts. Except that no
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one can find out the works that God does from
beginning to end Ecclesiastes three eleven. The work that God
does from beginning to end. If he started a good
work in you, he will finish it. So whatever's going
on in your life, he's working something in you. Whatever
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season you're in. Out of those fourteen pairs, he's working
something in you. Because we have been made for another world.
Eternity is in our heart. The Bible teaches us that,
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and our hearts confirm it that there's more. And I
long for more. I long to see his face. I
long for that time, but I know that things have
to be done before then. But when it is done,
I'll rest in his presence, even just to stare at him,
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to be close to him wherever he is I'm going
to be. I don't know what the rules exactly are
about all of that, but I think he kind of
knows that already. I guess it's going to be a
lot like John. If he's there I'm going to be
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there because I wasn't made for this world, was made
for another world. I was made to be with him.
Habah Papa, you made us this way, You made Adam
and Eve eternal, and sin stole that from them and
therefore from us. But you gave us away, whether there
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was no way. You gave us the cross, you gave
us the empty tomb, you gave us the upper room,
You gave us Yeshia and your Holy Spirit. So as
this year comes to a close, we set aside those things,
We let go of, those things which were not good
for us. If we haven't said we're sorry for some
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of it, we do so right now, whether there's sins
of commission or omission, whether we know we did him
or we don't know what we did, Lord was sorry.
Forgive us for failing you, forgive us for letting you down,
forgive us for not living up to your expectations of us.
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But I believe that you can take what the enemy
did for bad and use it for good In the
coming year. I pray that you'd speak to us, Holy Spirit,
each and everyone who's listening. Speak. Let us have years
to hear, a heart to feel, and Lord blessing. I
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just want to say, is I love you. I love you. Lord.
I pray all this and you see his name in
the name of Jesus the Messiah. Amen. May the Lord
bless you and keep you. This is my blessing. I
know give it to you every week, but this is
for twenty twenty five, the ironic blessing. May the Lord,
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May I don't I bless you and keep you. May
the Lord I don't know you, shoe Amasiah, make his
face to shine upon you and be gracious to you.
May the Lord I don't I your sure Hamashiah, Jesus
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the Messiah, our Lord and Savior, lift up his countenance
upon you and give you peace. Give you shallam. I'm
Richard Grund. This has been the Porch on Firefall Talk Radio.
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I'll send it to you who start out with praise,
reports and prayer requests and for me, I praise the Lord.
There it is twenty twenty five. I praise the Lord
each and every day. I praise them for my home,
for my wife, our family, sons, daughter in law's, grandchildren,
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furry kids. Everything we have comes from him. My salvations
began at all. Actually he began it all on the cross,
and I praise him for saving me and giving me
back everything that I had thrown away. I praise him
for his provision protection over us, for the dreams and
the visions and the promises of Joel to twenty eight
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being fulfilled in our life. I praise him for divine
health and healing that he's given us, for his abiding favor.
I praise him for the continuing revelation of the Holy
Spirit each and every day, dreams and visions and revelations
and just the things that he's been doing that I
look forward to twenty twenty six because I think he's
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shown me what he wants me to do and to
teach and to get out there to you, because he
has made me a new creation, and he has allowed
me to live in these prophetic times to serve him.
So now let's pray someone twenty two. Verse six is
pray for the peace of Jerusalem. May they prosper who
love you. You don't have to like the politics. You
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don't have to like anything. But Jerusalem is and always
will be the apple of His eye that has not changed.
So pray for them. Pray for their peace and their protection.
Pray for a Jewish brothers and sisters that are being
attacked in every country, including ours, and are believing brothers
and sisters who are being persecuted for their faith. Pray
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for America. Pray that God would shed his grace upon us,
that he would forgive us, and he would guide us
in the days ahead, because we desperately need him. I
pray for all the people that are being victimized by
their leaders, by those that are supposed to be in
charge over them. I pray for the fatherless and the widows,
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the persecuted and the martyred, the innocent and those that
are victims of in jil justice. I pray against the
slaughter of the innocence in and out of the womb,
human and animal. I pray for the victims of human trafficking,
human sex trafficking. It goes on. It's never ended. All
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you have to do is watch the news. I pray
for the growing religious persecution that we're seeing jew and
Christian and everything that's happening right now I believe is
the spirit of the Antichrist in him, manipulating the unrest
and the chaos and the violence. So let's pray against
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the plans and the effort of the spirit of the Antichrist,
that he will stay where he is until the Lord
deems otherwise, that as long as the Church is here,
he cannot come out. I pray for divine holeness, health
and healing in me in each one of you. If
you are sick in heart, mind, body, soul or spirit,
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this is your time to thank Him for you for
speaking healing, not sickness, not death, not disease. His promises
are still yay and amen, and he still heals. I
pray for protection, for inspiration for the divine Psalm ninety
one covering to be upon us. I pray that the
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remnant would wake up, that they would hear the alarm
clock and they would answer the call. And I pray
for the open doors to the projects and the plans
that the Lord has given us, including the finances and
the provisions to do so so, Father, Abah Papa, we
come to you in the name above all names that
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come to you, in the name of your son Y
show almashiak Jesus, the Messiah, King of King's, Lord of Lords,
we boldly approach your throne of grace and mercy. We
thank you for saving us. We thank you for loving us.
We thank you for wanting us back and being able
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to come home to be with you when our time
is done. Thank you, Lord for doing that, for being
the one that paid our debts, that covered our sins,
that allow us this access to the throne room, to
our heavenly Father. We thank you for the love that
held you on the cross until every drop was shed
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and the lamb was slain. Thank you for sending back
the Holy Spirit to walk with us, to teach us,
to guide us to open our hearts and our minds,
our eyes and our ears. And that's all we ask
right now, Holy Spirit, have your way. Do whatever it
is you need to do this night, this day, this time,
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times and seasons were in it. We thank you for it.
Protect the technology, protect us from the evil one, and
protect us Lord, and whatever it is you want to do.
I pray all these things and you eshee his name,
and if you agree with me.
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So open those bibles or apps, or however you follow along.
We have a lot to cover, so much so that
I can tell you that there will be a part
two to this, because the Lord has given me enough
notes for next week as well. Tonight we're gonna cover
half of this to set us into the new year,
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and then we'll pick it up in the new year.
Ecclesiasts three, starting verse one, to everything, there is a season,
a time for every purpose under heaven. A time to
be born and a time to die, a time to
plant and a time to pluck what is planted. A
time to kill and a time to heal, a time
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to break down and a time to build up. A
time to weep and a time to laugh, a time
to mourn and a time to dance. A time to
cast away stones and a time to gather stones. A
time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing,
a time to gather, a time to lose, a time
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to keep, a time to throw away, a time to tear,
time to sew, a time to keep, silence and a
time to speak, a time to love and a time
to hate, a time of war and a time of peace.
Ecclesiastes three one through eight. There is a time and
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appointed time for everything, and every time for every delight
and event or purpose under heaven. This text is describing
a life that has lived in relationship with God. That's
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what it's all about. That's what it's always been about.
Restoration of our relationship and the continuation of that intimate
relationship with Almighty God, from you to Him, not through
somebody else, not through any religion, not through any hierarchy.
It's directly from you to him, your heart to his heart.
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The writer of Ecclesiastes it says the preacher, Well, that's Solomon.
We know it's Solomon. And he's saying that all the
events in our lives are in the hand of God,
who makes everything happen in the time he judges appropriate.
You can make plans, but it all depends upon what
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he wants to do. Vine's expository note says, at one
time in Solomon's life he had a vital connection with
the God of heaven. But Solomon broke that relationship and
began to live from an earthly perspective. I would add
from a sinful, sensual perspective. Having searched for happiness and
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meaning and that kind of life, he wrote this book
show us how a back slidden believer can come back
to God and enjoy the things of the Lord once again.
Soon and messed up big time. He had it all,
he had wisdom, he had favor, and he got caught
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up in a lot of things he should have, and
he did a lot of things he shouldn't have. I
would spend the rest of the time for this session
of the porch listing all the things he did. Maybe
someday we'll talk about it from a spiritual, supernatural perspective.
What he brought upon himself and what he brought upon Israel.
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Solomon's saying here, if you want life to be beautiful,
look upward. Colossians three to two tells us set your
mind and keep focused habitually on the things above, the
heavenly things, and not on the things that are on
the earth, which have only temporal value. So Solomon took
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the upward look Verse one under heaven, Everything under heaven,
every event in life, everything has its purpose, and the
God who created time, is involved in the activities of
our lives, every person's life. Now, the modern scientific secular view,
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it does not believe that. It holds that the universe
is a closed system operating based on fixed scientific law,
and therefore having no need for God. Well, the Word
tells us otherwise, Coussians one, verse sixteen. For by Him
capital aged, by Yushuah, by Jesus, all things were created
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that in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible,
whether thrones or dominions, or principalities or powers. All things
were created through Him and for him, And He is
before all things, and in him all things consist. So
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by him all things were created in heaven and on earth,
things that are visible, things that are invisible, whether the
thrones or dominions, or rulers, or authorities natural or supernatural,
All things were created and exist through him, that is,
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by his activity and for him, and he himself existed
before all things, and in him and through him everything
is held together. He is the controlling, cohesive force of
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the universe. All creation, natural and supernatural, is held together
by Him, by his very nature, by his essence, by
his will. Well, that means even the mundane, ordinary activities
of our life do not happen apart from the providence
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of God and outside the purview and control of the Lord.
Psalm thirty one, Verses fourteen fifteen, David says, but as
for me, I trust confidently in you and your greatness,
O Lord, I said, you are my God. My times
are in your hands. Well, until we understand that, until
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we understand that God is in control and there's a
time and meaning to every event in our life, we
can never see the beauty of our life. We'll only
see the bad things. We'll only see the shadows. So
when we look upward, when we set our mind on Him,
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we see the balance in life. That's what Verses two
through eight are about balance. A time to be born
and a time to die, a time to plan, the
time to harvest, time to kill, the time to heal,
a time to tear down, time to build up, a
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time to cry and a time to laugh, a time
to grieve, and a time to dance, a time to
scatter stones and a time to gather stones. Time to embrace,
a time to turn away, time to search, time to
quit searching, a time to keep and a time to
throw away. Time to tear and a time to mend.
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Time to be quiet and a time to speak. Time
to love, a time to hate, a time for war
and a time for peace fourteen opposite pairs of natural
events having to do with the affairs of life. And
then it starts right where it should. A time to
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be born and a time to die, totally and completely
in control of the living God in his hands. You
had nothing to do with coming into this world, and
don't try to mess up your departure. God shaped you.
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The genetic code that's in your body, the DNA that
we talk about in the c conference, and the other thing.
It has been given to you by God, a divine
design in your conception. Psalone thirty nine fourteen. I will
praise you for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous
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are your works, and that my soul knows very well
you are marvelous work. You are designer goods. And if
your soul doesn't know it, you need to get it.
To understand it, you need to speak that scripture out
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loud over you every day. I am fearfully and wonderfully made,
and I praise you, O Lord, because marvelous are your works,
which is me, and that my soul knows very well.
Only God has the right to your life, to tamper
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with birth and death, which unfortunately means abortion is wrong,
and so is euthanasia. It's not within our rights to
do that. I get it. Some people are suffering tremendously
and they don't wish to prolong their life, but they
don't know the end from the beginning. They don't know
what plan he has. They don't know if he's gonna
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heal or he's going to do something with them to
heal someone else. We have no right to take a
human life, and if we believe in God, then we
believe our life is his. The details of living, the
details that Solomon gives us, shows us balance. He's saying,
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you should be aware that the ordinary activities of life
operate under the providence of God. You're not in control.
What a lesson that is. It's a tough lesson to learn,
but when you learn it, relief comes, and that means
even the bad things. Romans eight twenty eight tells us,
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and we know that all things work together for good
to those who love God and to those who are
called according to His purpose. And we know how do
we know? We know it with great confidence because we
know it's his nature, and we know it's in the
word that God, who is deeply concerned about us, causes
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all things to work together as a plan for good
for those who love God and to those who are
called according to His plan and purpose. And that means
even the bad stuff. Only He can put together the
chunks of our life, and sometimes they feel like chunks,
the chunks of our life, to work it out for good.
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Look at Joseph, his brothers sold them into slavery. And
then in Genesis fifty, verse twenty, while he's ruling over Egypt,
his brothers show up. They're hungry, there's a famine going on,
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and he says to them, as for you, you meant
evil against me, but God meant it for good in
order to bring about this present outcome. That many would
be kept alive as they are this day if they
don't sell him into slavery, if they don't do the
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despicable thing they did. He's not there. He's not there
to help. He's not there to save Egypt during the
famine and his brothers and those from Israel that came
to Egypt for help. God set him in a place
that he needed to be for a specific time such
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as this evil didn't control the outcome. Satan was not
in control of the outcome. God was, and he could
see what no one else could. He's outside of time.
Isaiah forty six ten, declaring the end and the result,
from the beginning and from ancient times, the things which
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have not yet been done, saying, my purpose will be established,
and I will do all that pleases me and fulfills
my purpose. The Lord says in Revelation chapter one, verse eight,
I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and
the end. Who is and who was, and who is
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to come the Almighty. Later on, as he ends it
and closes it out and Revelation twenty one six, he says,
it is done. I am the Alpha and the Omega,
the beginning. In the end, I will give the fountain
of the water of life freely to him who thirst.
Now where is John when he hears these things? When he
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writes down what happens in revelation. We find that answer
in chapter one, verses nine and ten. He says, ay,
your brother and companion, and the tribulation, kingdom, and patient endurance,
which are in Yeshuah was on the island of Patmos,
exiled there because of my preaching of the Word of
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godard uarding the eternal salvation and the testimony of Jesus
the Messiah. I was first ten. I was in the spirit,
which he means in special communication with the Holy Spirit,
and empowered to receive and record the revelation from the Lord.
I was in the spirit on the Lord's day, and
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I heard behind me a loud voice, like the sound
of a trumpet. So the answer to where he was
at that moment was he was in a vision outside
of time. I know it's hard for us to grasp that.
I know I've shared this, but throughout my life I've
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had many moments of deja vu. Never understood what they were.
Thought I was seeing the future. Well I actually wasn't
seeing the future. I was just seeing time. It happened
not too long ago, maybe less than a year ago,
as I was driving down a road here, all of
a sudden, I saw myself having been on this road
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at another time. Luckily there was no one else on
the road, and it was a momentary, maybe in a second,
everything shifted in and out, and I realized I was
having a DejaVu moment of seeing myself driving on that
road before I actually was there at that moment, driving
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on the road. And I thought about it, and it
was like the Lord just dropped into my spirit that time,
to him is not linear, and at those moments of
the dejevu experience I was having, he was showing me
a time in time. So for him, time just is.
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He's the beginning of the end. He's outside of time.
There is no beginning, there is no end. Time just
is everything is happening at once. He sees the past,
the present, and the future simultaneously. And of course we
can't grasp that, and our mind just goes and crashes.
Well maybe yours doesn't make that noise. Mind us some
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ninety verse two tells us before the mountains were brought
forth or ever, you had formed the earth and the world.
Even from everlasting to everlasting, you are God. So this
concept of time, and we're talking about times and seasons.
It's something that if we can grasp it, we can
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have a better understanding of God and of the Lord,
and a prophecy, and of eschatology, and all these things
that we deem important the Home and Bible dictionaries as
time is the chronological sequence of life, and its significance
in Biblical teaching, see the Biblical God is not governed
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by time, because he is the Lord of time. God
is in time in the sense that he is sovereignly
present in all the events of time, confronting his people
with his warnings and his promises. However, it's not the
same thing as saying God is caught up in time
or governed by it. Humankind cannot bind him to such measurements. Rather,
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He encounters us and each moment of our temporal existence,
offering each new day as an opportunity, whether it's for
blessing or judgment, whether it's for guidance that whether we
are redeemed, or whether we are stubborn, or whether we repent.
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He's encountering each of us in that moment, and through
His Holy Spirit we are being guided. That may have
been a little too out there and esoteric for some,
just bear with me. Let it sink in. Listen to
it again. Both the Old New Testaments speak of God
is everlasting. They don't. This isn't abstract, This isn't philosophical,
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This isn't anything more than the recognition that He lives
in eternity, and he's not in isolation. That's the other thing.
He's not some distant, cold, disconnected God. He's everywhere all
the time. Psalm ninety three, verses one and two. This
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is about the eternal reign of the Lord. The Lord reigns.
He is clothed with majesty. The Lord has clothed, he
has girded himself with strength. Surely the world is established
so that it cannot be moved. Your throne is established
from old. You are from everlasting. The Lord reigns. He
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is everlasting. And the Hebrew words that are translated eternal
and eternity, along with the New Testament Greek equivalents, are
of endlessness, of perpetuity, the absence of temporal conditions. Every
finite creature is marked by as I said before, he
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is past, present, and future simultaneously. That's why there's nothing
you can tell him. He doesn't already know. There's nothing
you've done that He has already seen you do, and
you are going to make mistakes that he knows you're
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going to make, repent, Say you're sorry, Move forward. First
Chronicle sixteen thirty six. Blessed be the Lord God of Israel,
from everlasting to everlasting. And all the people said, Amen,
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and praise the Lord. Why don't we try that, Blessed
be the Lord God of Israel, from everlasting to everlasting.
Your response, Amen, and everyone praise the Lord. What do
he praise him for? As twenty twenty five comes to
a close, I'm sure you can think about all the
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things that you need and all the prayers that you've had,
But what do you praise them for? I know I
start out always I praise him for my starvation, my family,
my wife, my son's daughter in law's grandchildren, furry kids.
I praise them for each and every day that I
wake up. I praise them for considering me and sharing
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things with me and wanting to spend time with me.
Take the time in twenty twenty six to praise him,
to love on him, and to let him love on you.
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So in thinking about this, to say that God is
eternal From a biblical standpoint means that his very existence
brackets cosmic time. There's an image I use at the
CA Conference of the Universe and imposed upon an image
of Him with his hands outstretched holding it all together.
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It's all him. The essence of the universe, the energy
of the universe, the black matter, all the things they
say that hold it together, all the particles. It's him.
He was there at the beginning and created all things,
and he will be there when time and reality ends.
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He's present in every moment in between. That's the true
meaning of eternity, before, above and beyond and all earthly
creaturely existence. God is And what does that say in Hebrews?
I think it's eleven six that we have to believe
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that He is, that he is God. That's where your
faith is, That's where your hope is. Your hope is
in who he is, that he hears you, that he knows,
that he's seen. He's intimately involved even in our temporal existence,
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and not just passively sitting back on his throne, you know,
the old man with the white beard and lording over. No. No, no,
he's actively involved. He's governing all creatures. He's making heartspeats
and eyes open and babies to be born. And he's
sending the Holy Spirit to guide you. He's sending angels
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to protect you, and he's speaking to you, and he's
given you free will, free choice to obey and believe
or to disobey and walk away. Time, the creation of
God just it's the duration of life, and it's always
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measured by the creations and the changes. Excuse me, I'm
starting to get a little fired up, little jacked up here.
It's measured by the changes in his creative order. What
do you say? Genesis one fourteen, God said, let there
be lights in the firmaments of the heavens, to divide
the day from the night, and let them be for
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signs and seasons and for days and years. So life,
the duration of life is measured by the created order
he has been put into place. The flow of time
is directed by God in particular times, within his unfolding purposes.
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Because why human life is brief, so time should be
used properly, making the most of every opportunity. My time
is temporary, yours is temporary. Someday it'll be eternal when
we get the new bodies, and all of this has changed.
But right now we were created from the dust of
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the earth, and we are finite in nature Genesis two seven.
And the Lord God formed man from the dust of
the ground. He breathed the breath of life into man's nostrils,
and man became a living person. What was part of
the curse after they fell? Genesis three nineteen. By the
sweat of your brow? Will you have food to eat
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until you'd return to the ground from which you were made.
You were made from dust, and to dust you will return.
We're finite, We're limited. We have a predetermined time. We
have a set time, which is why Paul says in
Colostions four or five, walk in wisdom towards those who
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are outside, redeeming the time. Don't waste time. What does
the world want you to do? It wants you to
waste time? Oh? Look at this read that Does any
of that have any e turnal value? No? Or relax, Richard,
calm down. I don't have time to calm down. I
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just don't. The end is coming, and I don't know
when my time will come. I know what I believe,
I know what he has shown me in dreams and
visions and prophecies. But I'm in his hands my life
is in his hands, so I need to get the
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job done. The other thing about the passage of times,
this is seasons. They give us a measured duration, and
you know what, our clock watching and tight scheduling. That
wasn't something they lived with. That wasn't a part of
the plan. The early people, even the Church itself, they
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experienced time much more holistically. There's no evidence to indicate
the Israelites counted seconds and minutes or even hours. It
wasn't until the Jews during Roman times began to count ours.
Their time units were based on observation and experience. The
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day was divided up into sun up sundown. It was
also measured in watches by the observation of the position
of the sun and the sky. And you've talked, you've
heard me talk about it. How I used to pray
a Christian heritage on Saturday nights, where I would go
there and pray and so Shelley can concentrate on the Word,
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and I'd stay outside and pray and prayer and covering
and protection, and then go inside and pray over the sanctuary,
and so the Lord said go home. Sometimes I always
got there at six, sometimes it was nine. Sometimes it
was twelve. Sometimes I didn't go. He didn't release me
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till three in the morning. Mark thirteen thirty five said
your shoe, says watch therefore, for you don't know when
the master of the house is coming in the evening,
at midnight, at the crowing of the rooster, or in
the morning. In Eamiah, chapters four and seven, we see
that they had to set watches upon the wall that
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they were working on and repairing, which meant either armed
persons or just citizens. Now they had three watches, the
beginning of the watch, the middle watch, in the morning watch.
Lamentations two nineteen says, arise, cry out in the night
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at the beginning of the watches, Pour out your heart
like water before the face of the Lord. Lift your
hands towards him, for the life of your young children,
who faint from hunger at the head of every street.
The International Standard Bible Encyclopedia takes us a little further.
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The watch a watch was a division of the night.
Now we don't know the limits of the Jewish watches,
the three watches. We do know that the middle watch
started two hours before midnight and two hours after, so
we know it was four hours long. Later on it
became a fourfold division of the Roman system three to six, six, twelve,
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twelve to three, three to six. That was it, those
four watches. I begun to believe that, even though I
know is a physical reason for it. When he wakes
me up in that watch of three to six, it's
the prey. It's also probably one of the most active
times for the kingdom of darkness Psalm sixty three, verse six.
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When I remember you on my bed, I meditate and
thoroughly focus on you in the night watches. We've lost this,
We've lost this understanding. We've lost this care and consideration
of time. We need to understand. We need to arise
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and cry out aloud in the night at the beginning
of the night watches, pouring out our hearts like water
before the presence of the Lord, lifting up our hands
to him for the life of our little ones, for
our sons and our daughters. When he wakes me up
in the night, and I know he wants me to pray,
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first thing I do. I cover myself, my home, my family,
our pets, our possessions. I intercede for Larry and his
family and for the porch community. And then I listen
for the voice of the Lord, for the name that
he wants me to pray for. Who does he want
me to intercede for? Who does he want me to
stand in the gaff for? What does he want me
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to attack? And sometimes he'll let me go back to sleep,
and other times sleep won't come till six am. If
you make yourself available to him, he will use you.
So the Jews of the day. They they counted years
according to cycles of seasons, by the sun's return by
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the annual orbit, so months will not based on an
arbitrary number like thirty days or whatever. But they were
counted from one new moon to the next, which means
to make up for it, they had to add time
days to get that full rotation of the sun. And
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Jews continued that method for a very long time with
their seasons. When the new beginning came September October. So
the key unit of time to the Israelites. The key
measure for them was from morning to evening and one
morning to the next. That's why they had lunar festivals.
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That's why they counted the shift from evening onward, which
they still do, and the measure of the day gives
us significant events, a day of rejoicing, a day of salvation,
a day of trouble, a day of judgment, and a
final day, the day of the Lord. Isaiah thirteen, starting
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verse six. Well, for the day of the Lord is
that hand. It will come as destruction from the Almighty.
Therefore all hands will be limp. Every man's heart will melt,
and they will be afraid. Pangs and sorrows would take
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hold of them. They will be in pain as a
woman in childbirth. They will be amazed at one another.
Their faces will be like flames. Behold, the day of
the Lord comes cruel, with both wrath and fierce anger,
to lay the land desolate. He will destroy its sinners
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from it. Zephyniah one seven says, be silent in the
presence of the Lord God, for the day of the
Lord is at hand. For the Lord has prepared a sacrifice.
He has invited his guests. Who you're talking about, ZEPHYNI,
you talking about Messiah, You're talking about Yashua. You're talking
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about the lamb that was slain before the foundation of
the world, and the marriage supper of the lamb and
the bridegroom and the guests how would you know that
Cephanyah except by the Holy Spirit, twenty twenty six, And
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I'll do a video tomorrow. It's going to try to
do it today, but I couldn't fit it in and
my priority was this Bible study. Do a short video
of course for me. When I say short, it might
only be a day and a half. But we'll see.
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Talk about what's coming to talk about twenty twenty six,
to talk about what I believe the Lord expects from
me the porch from firefall from SRT in twenty twenty six,
because we're entering a new season, a new time, a
new day. But the day of the Lord will come
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like a thief. Then the heavens will vanish with a
mighty and thunderous roar, and the material elements will be
destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and the works
that are on it will be burned up. Since all
these things are to be destroyed in this way? What
kind of people ought to be in the meantime and
holy behavior, in a pattern of daily life that sets
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you apart as a believer and in godliness, displaying profound
reverence toward our awesome God. Well you earnestly look for
and await the coming of the Day of God. For
on this day the heavens will be destroyed by burning,
and the material elements will melt with intense heat. But
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in accordance with His promise, we expectantly await a new
heavens and a new Earth in which righteousness else a
second Peter three ten through thirteen, the amplified version. And
if you saw the sea conference we did where I
explained all that, how that'll happen, and what it means,
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and what to look for. But what I want you
to grasp is this. The night is far spent. The
day is at hand. So we need to awake. We
need to put on the armor of light. We need
to arise and shine. We need to make a decision.
Are we going to be present? Are we going to
be absent? What are we going to do? I know
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what I've decided, I know what Larry's decided, But what
are you going to do? I know what the Lord wants?
But what are we going to do? Are we going
to take the signs of the time seriously? Are we
going to understand the season that we're in? And we're
each in different seasons, We're each going through something different.
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He has an expectation of planting and reaping of our season,
bringing forth a harvest in our life and for the kingdom.
Only you know what season you're in. I've been in
a season of resting, allowing the land to be restored.
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The problem in the church is we're constantly forcing a
crop out of a vineyard. We're constantly forcing the land
to produce, and what we wind up doing is drying
it out and killing it. So what He's had to
do for us, for SRT, for me, for even firefall.
Outside of the Bible studies, I've done nothing. I've not
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done many videos. Actually I haven't done any in a year,
many teachings. I haven't done any seminars in seven years,
coming up on eight. It's time for new beginning, a
new season, a new time. There's been a time of rest.
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So if you want to make a sense, you make
a sense. They forget about it. If you want to
make sense of your life of life period, Solomon says,
you got to you gotta look inward. See the inward
look that is realizing that God can, he can do,
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and everything he does is beautiful. Ray Stevens, everything is beautiful.
No I'm not going to say in its own way,
find your place, find your peace. Some of you, I
know what you're going through, praying with you, prayed with you,
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standing with you. But you need to find your peace.
You need to find your ground and stand. See. God
has made us in such a special, special way. You
are fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvelous are his works, and
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this your soul knows well. You may not know it intellectually,
but your soul knows it. It also knows that there's
nothing in this world that can permanently satisfy you. God
has made it so that there's nothing in this world
that can permanently satisfy us. We can't be happy with
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the things under the sun. Solomon had to learn that
he wasn't happy with the gold. He wasn't happy with
the riches. He wasn't happy with the buildings. He wasn't
happy with all the wives and the concubines and all
the sex and everything that went with it. He wasn't
happy because He has put inside of each of us
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a god consciousness. That eternity is in the heart. That's
where your life dwells. And I'm not talking about the
beating of the heart. I'm talking about you who you are.
That's also in that sea conference I did. And if
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you never saw the video, you let me know. I'll
send you the link. And if you did, it was
a while ago. Maybe you don't remember. Solomon had tried
it all. He had tried luxury, learning, wisdom, g noses, eat,
eating and drinking, and be marrying, labor, working, building, chasing
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wealth and pretty things, some of them female. And what
he found out was he still had a horrible longing
beyond anything this world had to offer him. He discovered
that only God alone could satisfy the human soul, and
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that's how he found his way back. That's why Ecclesiastes.
Speaker 2 (49:14):
Is the.
Speaker 1 (49:17):
Cry of a man who's come to his senses Ecclesiastes
three pin fourteen. I know that whatever God does, it
endures forever. Nothing can be added to it, nor can
anything be taken from it. For God does it so
that man will fear and worship him with awe filled reverence,
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knowing that he is God. The other day, day before last,
I woke up hearing a song in my head, a
song that my paison Carmen used to do, called Great God,
I've listened to it a couple of times since then.
That's a declaration that he's a great God, mighty king,
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ruler over everything. He's eternal, he's our abba father, and
even though he is, we need to have an off
awfield reverence of him. That's where that olf that our
father comes in. And don't make it a ritual like
it it is with some hallow'd be your name, holy
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is your name. The only reason I can come into
your presence is because of the blood of the Lamb,
because of what your shoeer did on the cross that
has given me access to you. Otherwise, in my sin,
I would be destroyed, and I would be unworthy. Who
can ascend his holy ill? Only a man with clean hands,
a righteous man made righteous by the Lord. Find your
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intimacy with him in twenty twenty six and you say, well,
I've got it. Get closer. Hear his whisper, hear the
beat of his heart, feel the beat of his heart,
Smell the incense of the throne. Room all Richard, you
get out there now. Well, I'm sorry, I am out there.
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I'm not in this world. I'm not even of this world.
I'm here. Yeah, yeah, I'm tangibly physically here sitting in
this chair. But you know where my heart, my mind
is with it. It's with him. It's wanting to please him,
it's wanting to be in his presence to feel his love.
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And I know someday I'll have that permanently, and right
now I have it moment to moment. He's eternal, but
we're temporary. We're partial. What he does last in is complete.
Nothing we do is last. It all falls apart, it
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all goes away. Life is temporary, except he gave us
a different kind of life, didn't he. He gave us
an eternal life. You're gonna spend eternity somewhere. He's made
your soul in such a way that it can't be destroyed,
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so it's gonna exist somewhere. It's either gonna exist with
him in paradise or it's gonna exist in darkness, internal torment.
But he's given you and me eternal life through faith
in his son, through you sure, and that makes us complete,
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which takes me to this last part here that we're
gonna cover right now. The other thing. Solomon encourages to
look onward into the future to understand Ecclesiastes three, starting
verse fifteen, the amplified version that which is has already been,
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and that which will be has already been. And God
seeks what has passed by, so that history repeats itself.
And God that it's Gosh that is so mind boggling,
just to dwell upon verse fifteen, basically saying he forces
history to repeat itself. Moreover, I've seen that under the sun,
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that in the place of justice there is wickedness, and
in the place of righteousness there is wickedness. And I
said to myself, God will judge both the righteous and
the wicked, for there is a time appointed for every matter,
for every deed. And I said of myself regarding the
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sons of men, God is surely testing them in order
for them to see that by themselves, without God, they
are only animals. For the earthly fate of the sons
of men, and the fate of animals is the same.
As one dies, so dies the other. Indeed, they all
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have the same breath. And there is no pre eminence
or advantage from man in that and of himself over
an animal, for all his vanity, all go to the
same place. All came from the dust, and all return
to the dust. It's our destiny, our appointment for judge,
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just judgment. I'm sorry. I don't know whether I want
to laugh and dance or cry or weep or mourn.
It's like I'm all those things at once, because I
know where I'm going to be, I know the life
I'm going to have, I know the experience I'm going
to have for eternity, and I know some of you
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will be with me. But I also know many of
the people I love and I care about won't. Because
judgment has been appointed and established by God Hebrews nine
twenty seven. And just as it is appointed and destined
for all men to die once and after this comes
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certain judgment. God's locked that in place. His word makes
it clear we have two appointments in the future, death
and judgment. And that's what Solomon had begun to understand,
that there's a future accountability and a judgment for our
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actions actions. I'm sorry, and even intelligent people that are
unsaved and lost, they share Solomon's dilemma about justice and judgment.
They see the end injustices and human courts and elsewhere.
It was seeing a whole lot of that now, people
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being caught in crimes and doing things and not being
punished for it and getting away with it. So why
doesn't God deal with it right now? Why doesn't he
slap him down right now? Why doesn't he deal with
obvious offenses? Because Solomon says in verse seventeen, God will
judge both the righteous and the wicked, For there is
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a time appointed for every matter and for every deed.
Though this world has evil an injustice, in God's own time,
he will judge all the wrong. He will take care
of it all. There is a time for that. I
believe that time is coming. I don't know how close
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it is, but it concerns me for those I care about.
But you, beloved, remember the words which were spoken before
before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus the Messiah.
How they told you that there would be mockers in
the last times, who would walk according to their own
ungodly lusts. But you, beloved, building yourselves up on your
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most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit, keep yourselves
in the love of God, looking for the mercy of
our Lord Jesus the Messiah, unto eternal life and on.
Some have compassion, making a distinction, but others, save with fear,
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pulling them out of the fire, hating even the garment
defiled by the flesh. Have compassion on some, and save
others with fear. But whatever it is, save them from
what's coming. Cry out to them, Share with them, Share
the Gospel with them, Tell them your story. If you
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believe they should know what you believe that would do
seventeen eighteen, twenty and twenty three. You're gonna stand. We're
all gonna stand before God one day. And if your
name is written in the Lamb's book of life and
your sins have been blotted out, it's already covered. The
death's been paid. There's nothing for God to see. But
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if not, when he opens the book of your life,
it's your book of your life, and at that moment
he sees everything, every sin, everything you've ever done. And
I think about that not for me, because when I
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mess up and I do, it goes right under the blood.
I go right to him. Lord, I'm sorry, Holy Spirit,
help me. We need to pour out our hearts to him.
We need to pour out our hearts to the sun,
to the Lord on behalf of those that don't know him,
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those that are about to go back to the dust.
We've been given eternity in our heart. We have an
upward dimension. God has made everything beautiful in its time,
and he put eternity in their hearts. Except that no
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one can find out the works that God does from
beginning to end Ecclesiastes three eleven. The work that God
does from beginning to end. If he started a good
work in you, he will finish it. So whatever's going
on in your life, he's working something in you. Whatever
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season you're in. Out of those fourteen pairs, he's working
something in you. Because we have been made for another world.
Eternity is in our heart. The Bible teaches us that,
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and our hearts confirm it that there's more. And I
long for more. I long to see his face. I
long for that time, but I know that things have
to be done before then. But when it is done,
I'll rest in his presence, even just to stare at him,
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to be close to him wherever he is I'm going
to be. I don't know what the rules exactly are
about all of that, but I think he kind of
knows that already. I guess it's going to be a
lot like John. If he's there I'm going to be
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there because I wasn't made for this world, was made
for another world. I was made to be with him.
Habah Papa, you made us this way, You made Adam
and Eve eternal, and sin stole that from them and
therefore from us. But you gave us away, whether there
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was no way. You gave us the cross, you gave
us the empty tomb, you gave us the upper room,
You gave us Yeshia and your Holy Spirit. So as
this year comes to a close, we set aside those things,
We let go of, those things which were not good
for us. If we haven't said we're sorry for some
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of it, we do so right now, whether there's sins
of commission or omission, whether we know we did him
or we don't know what we did, Lord was sorry.
Forgive us for failing you, forgive us for letting you down,
forgive us for not living up to your expectations of us.
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But I believe that you can take what the enemy
did for bad and use it for good In the
coming year. I pray that you'd speak to us, Holy Spirit,
each and everyone who's listening. Speak. Let us have years
to hear, a heart to feel, and Lord blessing. I
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just want to say, is I love you. I love you. Lord.
I pray all this and you see his name in
the name of Jesus the Messiah. Amen. May the Lord
bless you and keep you. This is my blessing. I
know give it to you every week, but this is
for twenty twenty five, the ironic blessing. May the Lord,
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May I don't I bless you and keep you. May
the Lord I don't know you, shoe Amasiah, make his
face to shine upon you and be gracious to you.
May the Lord I don't I your sure Hamashiah, Jesus
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the Messiah, our Lord and Savior, lift up his countenance
upon you and give you peace. Give you shallam. I'm
Richard Grund. This has been the Porch on Firefall Talk Radio.
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