[SPEAKER_00]: Let's please turn, the math you chapter six.
[SPEAKER_00]: Math you chapter six, which we read off, versus not all the time, but math you chapter six versus nine through 13.
[SPEAKER_00]: And once you find that, if you could please, I'll give you a second or two.
[SPEAKER_00]: One.
[SPEAKER_00]: to, that was more than the two, but I'm being not.
[SPEAKER_00]: So, okay, so Matthew chapter six verses 9 through 13.
[SPEAKER_00]: If once you let all have just butterflies or stood up, okay, in that nice, okay, so here we go.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is about how to pray.
[SPEAKER_00]: In case you want to know, the very last of chapter 13, I've verse 13, excuse me.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not in all the versions of the Bible.
[SPEAKER_00]: Some put it in there, because it was in the King James and not in some of the others.
[SPEAKER_00]: So if you're reading the versions and you don't see it, you're not lost, yours is a kingdom in the power of the glory for every event.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's not an every version.
[SPEAKER_00]: I personally like to have it in there, but I'm just letting you know that so either way.
[SPEAKER_00]: So here we go, verse 9.
[SPEAKER_00]: Therefore, pray in this manner.
[SPEAKER_00]: Father, who is in heaven, how it'll be your name?
[SPEAKER_00]: Your kingdom come, your will be done.
[SPEAKER_00]: on earth as it is in heaven, give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our deaths as we forgive our debtors and lead us not in a temptation but deliver us from evil for you as it's the kingdom and the power and the glory forever.
[SPEAKER_00]: Amen.
[SPEAKER_00]: You may be seated.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're will be done.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're
[SPEAKER_00]: That's the most important part of that reading, at least, as we're going through this today.
[SPEAKER_00]: Last week, we celebrated the Fourth of July, even though it was the Fifth of July.
[SPEAKER_00]: We celebrated that, and we spoke, and off a lot about it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you might wonder, well, why are you wearing that?
[SPEAKER_00]: It's extremely hot shirt.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, obviously you're hot, yes, I am.
[SPEAKER_00]: But enough about my looks.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, in all reality, we're sitting here once again is me wearing this hot shirt, the red white blue.
[SPEAKER_00]: I enjoy it, not the heat of this shirt, but I love my country.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love being a patriotic individual, I really do, I love this country, this country was founded on the gospel of Jesus Christ.
[SPEAKER_00]: You will be lied to by so many people.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're going to be lied to by the history channel.
[SPEAKER_00]: I like the history channel, some of the stuff they say is true, but they will miss teach young people, they will miss teaching them at school, by the way, it's not a tack on any of the teachers or anything like that, but a lot of the, it's not like it used to be.
[SPEAKER_00]: They don't want you to believe that it was found on the gospel, but it was.
[SPEAKER_00]: They were Christians, most of them more.
[SPEAKER_00]: Every one, every one of the people who founded this nation believed in God, even if they were Christians.
[SPEAKER_00]: And every single one of those men believed.
[SPEAKER_00]: And
[SPEAKER_00]: We'll get to this gentleman.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let me go through this a little bit.
[SPEAKER_00]: So we celebrated the Fourth of July and it was called the Great Freedom Celebration.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, let's take a look at our flag for many here.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know the flag, the American flag, but I have this flag right here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let me just tell you about this flag.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's an important flag.
[SPEAKER_00]: I usually keep it in that side or I might just move it to my office because I don't have it up in there.
[SPEAKER_00]: But you've ever seen my office.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know that's not true, but I love this flag.
[SPEAKER_00]: This flag is made from the old type.
[SPEAKER_00]: type of material, the real good old flag material.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now I like it because Jeremy and I used to use this flag in the old days when we were teaching the youth.
[SPEAKER_00]: This was in the old church from long long ago when I was five years old, we used to use this flag.
[SPEAKER_00]: We also had a Christian flag.
[SPEAKER_00]: Whatever happened that, they probably feared the way I don't know.
[SPEAKER_00]: I would say no about I would have taken that too, but it's the old type of flag.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I love it.
[SPEAKER_00]: We used to stand up and pledge allegiance to it.
[SPEAKER_00]: The kids loved it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I loved it.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's been around since I was an 80-bit child.
[SPEAKER_00]: I love that flag.
[SPEAKER_00]: But what does the flag mean?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, red on the flag means bravery and courage.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what the color means.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, I know the stripes stand for the original states and all that.
[SPEAKER_00]: The white as well, but the white color means purity and innocence.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what it meant.
[SPEAKER_00]: And when you start studying about how this country was founded, there was a lot of hard work.
[SPEAKER_00]: A lot, and there's a lot of bravery and courage too.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, there was purity in a specific heritage today.
[SPEAKER_00]: That doesn't mean everything was right and good, but it was a good country and still is.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's just that people try to change what the country means.
[SPEAKER_00]: So this week we're going to go a little more into about America, but that's not all the serving.
[SPEAKER_00]: But let's just take a look at what God allows the happen.
[SPEAKER_00]: And God allows happens.
[SPEAKER_00]: So many things that God allows the happen that we don't understand sometimes.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not just for this country, but all the world.
[SPEAKER_00]: God allows leaders.
[SPEAKER_00]: Kings, in kingdoms, in governments, in presidents, famous and healthy people and wealthy people, their leading generations that have led generations and powers in ways and sometimes they go against God's will.
[SPEAKER_00]: But by going against God's will, I don't mean that God didn't allow them and put them there.
[SPEAKER_00]: He put them there, but they don't want to teach his ways.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we want to know why?
[SPEAKER_00]: Why does God allow this?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, we don't know why.
[SPEAKER_00]: But God does.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we have to remember that.
[SPEAKER_00]: So let's take a look at the presidents of the United States of America.
[SPEAKER_00]: There have been 45 so far.
[SPEAKER_00]: Wait a minute, Pastor.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're on the 47th present.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, that's true.
[SPEAKER_00]: But two of them, two of them.
[SPEAKER_00]: Two of them had to go back and do it again.
[SPEAKER_00]: In other words, two have come back non-conceptively, not a real effect.
[SPEAKER_00]: Two of them, one of them is our president, president, our president, president, that's hard to say.
[SPEAKER_00]: Our president, president, which is, of course, Donald J. Trump, he's president 45 and 47.
[SPEAKER_00]: The other one is Grover Cleveland.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's the president 22 and 24.
[SPEAKER_00]: They had or non-conceptive presidents.
[SPEAKER_00]: So there's 45 presidents and all 45, all 45 of these presidents have said that they are Christians.
[SPEAKER_00]: All 45 of them have said they are Christians.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, I'm not gonna say they are.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not gonna say they're not.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not gonna say that.
[SPEAKER_00]: We will look at a few of them here in a moment.
[SPEAKER_00]: But some of them,
[SPEAKER_00]: said it didn't necessarily live it or it didn't show at least.
[SPEAKER_00]: And some showed it more than the others, whether they did or not, that's even the Lord.
[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, I'm not going to get into it too much because there's some that kind of scared me a couple of them at least, said that they believed in Jesus, but they didn't believe that he was had deity.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sadly, that means that they were not saved.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because Jesus is the Lord.
[SPEAKER_00]: If you don't believe that he had deity, that means you didn't believe that he was the savior.
[SPEAKER_00]: And if you did believe that, then you're not going to have it.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I won't say who they were because I don't want you to think on that either way.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes we just can't seem to understand it.
[SPEAKER_00]: We asked the big question.
[SPEAKER_00]: We asked the big age old question, how can any of this be guys well?
[SPEAKER_00]: When we watch these people, and we see when these how these things happen,
[SPEAKER_00]: and it's difficult to understand.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've been watching a lot of documentaries, and I see what a lot of these presidents do, see what a lot of the kingdoms do, and I have to ask them these questions too.
[SPEAKER_00]: How can God allow this happen?
[SPEAKER_00]: When you go to the Bible, it's the nice of my asker too.
[SPEAKER_00]: Only God knows.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so the title today's sermon is God's will and leadership.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's difficult sometimes.
[SPEAKER_00]: These are questions to get asked all the time and all it's have.
[SPEAKER_00]: So let's go to the first part.
[SPEAKER_00]: Who's will will I feel?
[SPEAKER_00]: That was hard to write down.
[SPEAKER_00]: Who's will will I feel?
[SPEAKER_00]: But everyone has free will.
[SPEAKER_00]: We have to remember that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Everyone has free will.
[SPEAKER_00]: God's given that to us, okay?
[SPEAKER_00]: So there's God's will and he has a plan for your life.
[SPEAKER_00]: His will is a plan for your life.
[SPEAKER_00]: God's will will always be done.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now we hear that all the time, right?
[SPEAKER_00]: And so is that true?
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes?
[SPEAKER_00]: And no, so let's, let's look into that.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's two types of guys will.
[SPEAKER_00]: God's will number one.
[SPEAKER_00]: That could be a whole sermon on its own, but we won't go into that.
[SPEAKER_00]: God's will number one is his main will.
[SPEAKER_00]: That means his universal plan is universal will.
[SPEAKER_00]: Nothing's gonna stop it.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's God's main already written down plan.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it's gonna be done.
[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, I'm gonna give you some scriptures to go with that.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's God's will number one.
[SPEAKER_00]: His universal plan, universal will.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're going to read John 3 16 through 18.
[SPEAKER_00]: I think you know, John 3 16, the most well-known scripture of all.
[SPEAKER_00]: For God's so love the world, he gave his own and been gotten son.
[SPEAKER_00]: The whosoever believes in him shall not perish but have everlasting life.
[SPEAKER_00]: For God did not send his sentence to the world to condemn the world, but the world through him,
[SPEAKER_00]: might be saved.
[SPEAKER_00]: He who believes in him is not condemned, but he who does not believe is condemned already because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten son of God.
[SPEAKER_00]: This shows that God has a universal plan.
[SPEAKER_00]: He always had a plan, even before they said, he knew what was gonna happen, but he had a plan.
[SPEAKER_00]: He knew that was his plan.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's his will and nothing's gonna change it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Nothing can change it.
[SPEAKER_00]: He took care of it when he came as a son.
[SPEAKER_00]: He took care of it.
[SPEAKER_00]: So that's God's will number one.
[SPEAKER_00]: God's will number two is God's personal will, personal plan for you.
[SPEAKER_00]: God's personal plan for you.
[SPEAKER_00]: My father used to tell me that he had all sorts of wonderful plans for us.
[SPEAKER_00]: He had all these, my dad wrote a plan things out, vacations, all sorts of ideas and things.
[SPEAKER_00]: Different gifts and things he wanted to do for us, because he loved being a daddy.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was really good.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's like God made him to be a pastor.
[SPEAKER_00]: But he made it be a daddy.
[SPEAKER_00]: If he was a good daddy, too, a really good daddy.
[SPEAKER_00]: But one of the things that I'd like to do was give us a prizes.
[SPEAKER_00]: He would sometimes just be from a garage cell, you know, he was a garage cell for a daddy.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was so good at it, but he would love to get surprises.
[SPEAKER_00]: And sometimes he said, us kids would read it for him, because we were being so naughty and amnoxious about it, that he said, come on, just do the, and he would try, he would try to bargain with this.
[SPEAKER_00]: As I have a surprise where he wouldn't tell us this, but he's like, I have a surprise for you, but you're ruining it.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're ruining it.
[SPEAKER_00]: He said we'd be so disobedient that he couldn't give us the surprise.
[SPEAKER_00]: He had to say for us in the cause of our way of reals, because we're being so naughty.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what God's like.
[SPEAKER_00]: God has all these gifts hidden for you in your life, but you're being set to spoil little brat that you won't let him give it to you.
[SPEAKER_00]: and you get mad at God because you're ruining his plan.
[SPEAKER_00]: You get mad at God because you're the little jerk who won't let him do it for you.
[SPEAKER_00]: And you say, why is God so mean?
[SPEAKER_00]: He's not mean you're mean.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're mean because you're not letting God's will be done in your life.
[SPEAKER_00]: So his God's will always then know.
[SPEAKER_00]: God's main will is always then that's God's will number one.
[SPEAKER_00]: And God's will number two.
[SPEAKER_00]: isn't always done because you won't let him do it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, it's done if you're being obedient to him.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's the guy's personal plan for you.
[SPEAKER_00]: His personal will for you.
[SPEAKER_00]: You can only you can change and alter it through obedience or disobedience.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay?
[SPEAKER_00]: I think you can understand that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, let me give you a scripture for it.
[SPEAKER_00]: John, first John, one nine.
[SPEAKER_00]: If we confess our sins, I'm gonna say again, first John, one nine.
[SPEAKER_00]: If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse us from all the monoritisness.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now why am I saying that to you?
[SPEAKER_00]: Because listen to those first words.
[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, it's just the first five words.
[SPEAKER_00]: If we confess our sins,
[SPEAKER_00]: if we confess our sins.
[SPEAKER_00]: He is faithful and just to forgive us all, what if you took those sins, those words out, those first five?
[SPEAKER_00]: It was just, he is faithful and just to forgive us, our sins and cleans for all of our righteousness.
[SPEAKER_00]: But he's not gonna do that if you're not going to confess your sins.
[SPEAKER_00]: So it takes you being obedient to him and coming to him and asking for forgiveness.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what it takes for us.
[SPEAKER_00]: God's will to be done in your life.
[SPEAKER_00]: So God's say his son for all,
[SPEAKER_00]: and die for all, and a rose for all, not all know or follow God, but God knows them.
[SPEAKER_00]: In other words, God knows everybody in the world, but not everyone in the world knows God.
[SPEAKER_00]: You understand?
[SPEAKER_00]: They don't all have a relationship with them.
[SPEAKER_00]: So one last scripture to go with this, first John 2, 16 is 17.
[SPEAKER_00]: For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eyes, and the
[SPEAKER_00]: but is of the world.
[SPEAKER_00]: I gotta get up the world and its desires are passing away.
[SPEAKER_00]: But the one who does the will of God lives forever, I'll say it again.
[SPEAKER_00]: But the one who does the will of God lives forever.
[SPEAKER_00]: you understand?
[SPEAKER_00]: God has a will for us.
[SPEAKER_00]: We must do the will of God to get what God was for us.
[SPEAKER_00]: So his will will be upon our lives.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what we must do.
[SPEAKER_00]: God wants us to follow him.
[SPEAKER_00]: So he can lead us and give us what he was.
[SPEAKER_00]: Who I'm getting worked up now.
[SPEAKER_00]: Here we go.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's now move on.
[SPEAKER_00]: to the second part, God can use the obedient to do his will, giving blessings beyond compare.
[SPEAKER_00]: As I've talked about while ago, my dad, oh, he'd love to give us things.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, it feels so good.
[SPEAKER_00]: God's the same way.
[SPEAKER_00]: He wants to be your father, God, and give you blessings beyond compare.
[SPEAKER_00]: All you have to do is be obedient and follow him.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let me give you some scriptures.
[SPEAKER_00]: As mentioned in Peter earlier, how much I love him.
[SPEAKER_00]: Here we go.
[SPEAKER_00]: First Peter, 2015.
[SPEAKER_00]: Fact, I've mentioned Peter and Zod, remember?
[SPEAKER_00]: We're gonna go through Peter and Zod right here.
[SPEAKER_00]: Peter and Zod went to pray, okay, here we go.
[SPEAKER_00]: First Peter, 2015.
[SPEAKER_00]: For is the will of God, back to the will of God again, for is the will of God that by doing right, you may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men.
[SPEAKER_00]: All we live in a world, we live in a world full of stupid people.
[SPEAKER_00]: Why do I call them stupid?
[SPEAKER_00]: Because I'm trying to be mean, no.
[SPEAKER_00]: But they are stupid.
[SPEAKER_00]: What do I call them stupid?
[SPEAKER_00]: Because they're foolish.
[SPEAKER_00]: They don't know Jesus.
[SPEAKER_00]: But boy, they think they're smarter than you.
[SPEAKER_00]: They sure do.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're gonna call you dumb.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're gonna call you old school.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're gonna call you ignorant.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're gonna call you foolish.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're gonna call you one who believes in fairy tales.
[SPEAKER_00]: And all this superstitious stuff.
[SPEAKER_00]: The truth is, they're the foolish one because it says in the Bible, is the fool who says there is no guy.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're the fool.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not you.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're wise enough to know that God is smarter than you.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's the creator of all.
[SPEAKER_00]: In the end, you don't have to listen to your neighbor.
[SPEAKER_00]: In the end, I'm talking about the end times, you're not going to have to answer to the President of the United States, or the people who are down the street, or the people who are even driving on the highway right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're not going to have to answer them.
[SPEAKER_00]: You're going to have to answer to him.
[SPEAKER_00]: But what if there
[SPEAKER_00]: Here's the thing, I don't want to take that chance, and I don't have to, because I know God, I know Him personally, but personal relationship with Him through Lord Jesus Christ.
[SPEAKER_00]: First Peter, three, 16 is 17.
[SPEAKER_00]: Have a good conscience so that evil doers who speak evil of you and falsely,
[SPEAKER_00]: For his better, if it is the will of God, once again, the will of God, here we go, for it is better, if it is the will of God that you suffer for doing good, then for doing evil.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, look, I gotta stand up again.
[SPEAKER_00]: Here's the thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: The people are going to mock you.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're going to make fun of you.
[SPEAKER_00]: They're going to call you dumb like we said, well, they're going to say, oh, look at that idiot doing all these things.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't even know that there is a guy.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, but you know, and you know what's right, and you know what's wrong.
[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, God, do his will.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because again, you don't have to pay attention to them, but you do need to pay attention to him.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do his will.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do his will by following his will by following his word, by praying to him and knowing him personally, and doing listen to all the naysayers who are listening to the ways of the world.
[SPEAKER_00]: You remember when you were a kid, you know, I've been talking about it personally, I should be with my father, your father, your mama.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, you remember if the neighbors, you had nothing to do with your home, but they're like, how come you're doing the laundry that way?
[SPEAKER_00]: How come you do the dishes that way?
[SPEAKER_00]: We don't do it that way.
[SPEAKER_00]: My mama, it doesn't matter what your mama says.
[SPEAKER_00]: Your mama and your daddy, they don't matter.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is about my relationship with my daddy.
[SPEAKER_00]: My dad could beat up your dad.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, let me just tell you something.
[SPEAKER_00]: When it comes to the one, my dad has already beaten up your dad.
[SPEAKER_00]: Your dad is gonna burn forever in the lake of fire.
[SPEAKER_00]: My dad is one.
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't tell me about your daddy.
[SPEAKER_00]: Your daddy's dumb.
[SPEAKER_00]: My daddy, the Lord God Jesus Christ says, what on the battle?
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm listening to him not you.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's the truth.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what we need to remember.
[SPEAKER_00]: Don't listen to them.
[SPEAKER_00]: They may think their daddy is the Lord God, but when they're going against the Bible, they're not listening to God.
[SPEAKER_00]: They just think they are.
[SPEAKER_00]: First Peter 419, so then that those who suffer according to the will of God, entrust their souls to a faithful creator while continuing to do good.
[SPEAKER_00]: In other words, do what's right and follow God, the Father, the Creator of all.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, John chapter 7, if we have time, we're going to try to go through that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not the whole chapter, but I don't have time for that.
[SPEAKER_00]: John chapter 7, 14 through 18, John chapter 7, 14 through 18.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now keep in mind, I love all these chapters here.
[SPEAKER_00]: This was where the Lord Jesus starts speaking to the Pharisees in the sad disease and put them into place.
[SPEAKER_00]: But listen, when he says here, verse, or my here, 14 through 18,
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, about the middle of the feast, Jesus went up to the temple and began teaching.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's Jesus' marble saying, how has this man become educated?
[SPEAKER_00]: Having never been taught, Jesus answered that, my teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.
[SPEAKER_00]: If any man desires to do his will come out of God now, is daddy.
[SPEAKER_00]: If anyone deserves to do his will, he shall know whether the teaching is from God.
[SPEAKER_00]: Or whether I speak on my own authority, he who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true and no unrighteousness is in him.
[SPEAKER_00]: We are to follow God and God's way.
[SPEAKER_00]: The eye will be done on earth as it is in heaven, the eye will be done, God as well, not ours.
[SPEAKER_00]: So we talked about being obedient, so let's talk about being disobedient.
[SPEAKER_00]: God can use the disobedient to do his will too, even though they don't realize it.
[SPEAKER_00]: they've been used to follow his plan or to be an example of what it's like not to follow God's plan.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's take a look at a few of them here.
[SPEAKER_00]: I'm just gonna name some.
[SPEAKER_00]: Here's a list of disobedient or unbelievers, sometimes both.
[SPEAKER_00]: And sometimes the unbelievers have come to follow God because they knew they could see the power God in their life.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's take a look.
[SPEAKER_00]: the people of Nineveh.
[SPEAKER_00]: The people of Nineveh saw that God was coming down upon them and they changed.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is what the time of Jonah, you remember.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, here's the problem.
[SPEAKER_00]: They did change, but then about a hundred years later, they went back to being able again, and then they got destroyed.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then we see Ray have the Canaanite prostitute.
[SPEAKER_00]: She could see the power of God and she brought them in.
[SPEAKER_00]: And she changed.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then we got to see Baylor, Baylor men, numbers 23.
[SPEAKER_00]: God used a donkey.
[SPEAKER_00]: A donkey had to tell him to do God's will.
[SPEAKER_00]: Nowadays, many of times, it takes a real man of God to tell the dockies to do God's will.
[SPEAKER_00]: But either way, we have a lot of people who had to be told that they saw this donkey, God had to talk to him through a donkey.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's Bailum for you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Bailum, I hate to tell you this.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was so proud when I was young, and I read this about Bailum, who was spoken to from a donkey.
[SPEAKER_00]: and I was so excited then later on we get to find out sadly bailing it right back to fall on the ways of the world and end up in kill because of it in that terrible but that's what happened then we see Cyrus Simon was a Roman satirian in an Isaiah 45 he ended up uh not uh he ended up listening though he wasn't very obedient he followed out to never can answer and Daniel's chapter four never can answer we know that he was uh
[SPEAKER_00]: a wordly man, a man of Babylon.
[SPEAKER_00]: He did also to things worse than false gods, doing also to things, however, in chapter 4 I believe it is, he ended up following God eventually, because he found out that God was in charge of not him and he used the King of Kings Lord God is.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's so many others, oh yes, Pontius Pilate, Pontius Pilate, he was used of God.
[SPEAKER_00]: Even though it was against his own will and want to, as Pontius Pilate, you saw he watched his hand to the whole ordeal.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let me tell you something, he may have watched his hands.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was still used of God to get God's will done.
[SPEAKER_00]: And there are so many others, there's only one more I'm going to mention.
[SPEAKER_00]: Pharaoh, the Pharaoh from the days of Egypt, the days of Exodus, but I'm not going to read you from Exodus.
[SPEAKER_00]: We know what he did.
[SPEAKER_00]: Some people get confused and they say, you have a God made him do it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, God allowed him to do it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I can understand why people think that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because it does say special in King James, it says that God forced him and means that he God made of heart-headed to do such a thing.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, God still gives him free will and he's a hard-headed idiot.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was and he said, I'm going to do this.
[SPEAKER_00]: God let him do it.
[SPEAKER_00]: But let's sort of says in Romans 9 17 through 18, Romans 9 17 through 18, for the scripture says to Pharaoh,
[SPEAKER_00]: for this little or speaking, for this very purpose, I have raised you up that I may show my power in you and that my name may be proclaimed in all the earth.
[SPEAKER_00]: Therefore, he has mercy upon whom he wills, and he hardens whom he wills.
[SPEAKER_00]: God allowed the Pharaoh to be there.
[SPEAKER_00]: He knew what the Pharaoh was gonna do.
[SPEAKER_00]: God didn't make him do it.
[SPEAKER_00]: He gave him free will, but God used them, even in his stubbornness for God's power to be seen and for the people to be free.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Ephesians 5, Ephesians 5, 15 through 17, says this.
[SPEAKER_00]: So then that you walk carefully, not as fools, but as wise men, making the most of the time, because it days are evil.
[SPEAKER_00]: Therefore, do not be unwise, but understand that the will of the Lord is.
[SPEAKER_00]: We need to know God's will in a following.
[SPEAKER_00]: There are a lot of unwise people.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now it's time to talk.
[SPEAKER_00]: about this.
[SPEAKER_00]: The God calls leaders, sometimes they're obedient, and sometimes they're disobedient, like we just said.
[SPEAKER_00]: And these leaders are meant to be used for his will, rather we can understand it or not.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm going to mention quite a few here.
[SPEAKER_00]: We often can't see why or understand why God allows it to happen.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes it's kings, sometimes it's impairs.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes government judges, parliament, lawyers, managers, bosses, principles, presidents, coaches, pastors, teachers, ministers, police chiefs, chairs.
[SPEAKER_00]: Officers, military commands, etc., etc., etc., yes, even parents.
[SPEAKER_00]: We don't understand why these people have been put in charge.
[SPEAKER_00]: Here's the truth.
[SPEAKER_00]: Everyone, everyone has a position of willpower, and everyone leads at some point in their lives.
[SPEAKER_00]: Even if it just means leading yourself, you have the ability and the position of leading.
[SPEAKER_00]: It could just be that you're going to be an example for other people around you.
[SPEAKER_00]: or not to do, so we need to choose wisely to follow God.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's take a look at Romans chapter 13 and one, through two, one and two, and it says this.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let every person be subject to the governing authorities.
[SPEAKER_00]: For there is no authority except from God.
[SPEAKER_00]: And those who exist are appointed by God.
[SPEAKER_00]: Therefore, whoever resist the authority, resist what God has appointed, and those who resist will incur judgment.
[SPEAKER_00]: Daniel, chapter 221 talks about, too.
[SPEAKER_00]: He talks about the Lord.
[SPEAKER_00]: He says, it is He, about God, is He who changes the times and the seasons.
[SPEAKER_00]: He removes kings, he sets up kings.
[SPEAKER_00]: He gives wisdom to the wise and knowledge to those who know understanding.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've got one more for you.
[SPEAKER_00]: First, that's Selonians by VAT.
[SPEAKER_00]: And everything gives things for this is the will of God and Christ Jesus concerning you.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's difficult when you see power coming in and you think you're evil, you think you're bad.
[SPEAKER_00]: You don't like them, you don't have to like them.
[SPEAKER_00]: But you do have to love them.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't like the present of the United States so one might say, it doesn't matter if it was someone in your lifetime or someone before.
[SPEAKER_00]: You might have seen a documentary about them and think, well, they were jerk, well, maybe.
[SPEAKER_00]: But God, a lot of them being in that position,
[SPEAKER_00]: but I didn't like this president or that president or that president.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, fine, but you need to love me anyway.
[SPEAKER_00]: But they did this and this and this was unbiblical.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, but you need to love nonetheless.
[SPEAKER_00]: God loved him.
[SPEAKER_00]: He may not love everything they did or everything they do now or say now, but you need to love and pray for him every single day.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mentioned Nebuchadnezzar water though.
[SPEAKER_00]: What happened to Nebuchadnezzar?
[SPEAKER_00]: This man who's worse being false gods and all these different things, he changed and came to the Lord.
[SPEAKER_00]: So you never know what's gonna happen, but you do know what thing there's one Lord, one leader and one will of the Lord God.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we need to pray that that individual will follow God's will and not their own.
[SPEAKER_00]: So let's go through all these different presents.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's 45 of them.
[SPEAKER_00]: We're not gonna go through all 45 by promise.
[SPEAKER_00]: I promise.
[SPEAKER_00]: I've been watching a lot of documentaries and a lot of movies, a lot of things and reading an awful lot about them all.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm not going to mention them all, but I'm going to mention 10, 10 true, deep followers of faith.
[SPEAKER_00]: All of them are with the Lord now, and I did that intentionally.
[SPEAKER_00]: I intentionally did not choose any of them who are living right now.
[SPEAKER_00]: I don't want to get into any controversy.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I didn't want anyone to think that I was choosing Neppotism or favoritism.
[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't want to do that.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I didn't, I decided purposely not to do it where it looks like I'm choosing anyone.
[SPEAKER_00]: So what I decided to do, there was a choose presence who were no longer with there.
[SPEAKER_00]: So there are no presidents that I'm going to mention.
[SPEAKER_00]: They've not been in charge for the last,
[SPEAKER_00]: 30 years, all of these I'm going to mention, okay?
[SPEAKER_00]: But I'm going to go in an order, not an order of nepotism or favoritism, but an order of when they were in charge, okay?
[SPEAKER_00]: So number one is George Washington.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was the number one president, first one, and I'm going to his quote him, certain thanks he said.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, George Washington said this.
[SPEAKER_00]: Do not let anyone claim to be a true American that attempts to remove religion from politics.
[SPEAKER_00]: That was his statement.
[SPEAKER_00]: He also said this, it is impossible to rightly govern a nation without God in the Bible.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what he said.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was a good Christian man.
[SPEAKER_00]: He loved the Lord so very, very much.
[SPEAKER_00]: When he went into battle, he went into he didn't a lot of things for the Lord.
[SPEAKER_00]: But when he went into battle,
[SPEAKER_00]: It's a miracle he lived.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's times that bullets would be through his posts.
[SPEAKER_00]: And where shim it is hard.
[SPEAKER_00]: And there's holes in there.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's holes in his hat.
[SPEAKER_00]: He lived.
[SPEAKER_00]: God had a plan for him.
[SPEAKER_00]: And it started off, it's, I'm not saying he was perfect man, he didn't shake hands with people because people like all presidents don't do that.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was the first president.
[SPEAKER_00]: He didn't know what was meant to be to be, he started.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was the first one who stopped after two runs as president.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's eight years.
[SPEAKER_00]: He stopped.
[SPEAKER_00]: He decided to retire, it's a good thing he did because it's a couple of years later he died.
[SPEAKER_00]: And so, therefore, he didn't even get to make it to the 18th century.
[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, the 19th century, the 1800.
[SPEAKER_00]: So he didn't get to do that.
[SPEAKER_00]: He died in 1799.
[SPEAKER_00]: So the Lord knew what was gonna happen and he was the one who set the precedent of the presidents and he was a good man of God.
[SPEAKER_00]: Second one was not a very affable man, a likable man.
[SPEAKER_00]: But if it wasn't for this man, he's the second president, we wouldn't have the country that we have.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I'm talking about John Adams.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was a short man, he was a staunch man, and he was a Christian who looked out with all his heart.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, he wasn't the most likable guy, but he loved God.
[SPEAKER_00]: And let me tell you a lot of people miss quote him all the time.
[SPEAKER_00]: John Adams said in 1797, he said that we need to have separation of church estate.
[SPEAKER_00]: Why did he say this?
[SPEAKER_00]: He did not say that this is at the Treaty of Tripoli, by the way.
[SPEAKER_00]: He said this, as the government of the United States of America is not in any sense founded on the Christian religion, et cetera, et cetera.
[SPEAKER_00]: He did not say that we were not Christians, or we found it on gospel.
[SPEAKER_00]: He wasn't saying that.
[SPEAKER_00]: John Adams was telling the people who are of Muslim.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was telling that they did not have to be Christians in order to be an American citizen.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that would be like me saying that you can't be a part of the church unless you're tall and very, very, very good looking.
[SPEAKER_00]: No, I'm jobin', I'm just kidding with you, okay?
[SPEAKER_00]: No, the truth is, the truth is,
[SPEAKER_00]: We all we have to be saved by the blood Jesus to be a part of the family of God.
[SPEAKER_00]: The point of all this is to say he was saying that you don't have to be a Christian to be part of the United States of America.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what he was trying to tell them.
[SPEAKER_00]: And that's what he said.
[SPEAKER_00]: So people misuse the separates the church of state.
[SPEAKER_00]: They came from a country where the government was being controlled by this
[SPEAKER_00]: religion and the religious big trouble by the country.
[SPEAKER_00]: So he didn't want that again, but here's what he said.
[SPEAKER_00]: So you know, I'm going to to to basically, uh, he first of all, he didn't want there to be enforcement and controlling demand on people's beliefs.
[SPEAKER_00]: He wanted to have the freedom to choose what they want to do in their heart and soul.
[SPEAKER_00]: But let me quote to you something he said.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is what John Adams said.
[SPEAKER_00]: The destiny of America is to carry the gospel of Jesus Christ to all men everywhere.
[SPEAKER_00]: Those are his words.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was a believer.
[SPEAKER_00]: James Madison, who was the fourth president of the United States, and yes, his wife was daughter Madison, and a hostess to many people, that's where we got them, the Madison Cupcakes eventually.
[SPEAKER_00]: You know, we used to eat all those memories of that.
[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, so anyway, James Madison said this, we have staked the whole future of America civilization, not upon the power of government, far from it.
[SPEAKER_00]: We've staked the future
[SPEAKER_00]: of all our political institutions upon our capacity to sustain ourselves according to the King Commandments of God.
[SPEAKER_00]: Amen.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then the fourth one I'm gonna mention is the 16th president who I love dearly.
[SPEAKER_00]: 16th president, I've got three things to quote for you.
[SPEAKER_00]: First of all, some people ask, what's he really Christian?
[SPEAKER_00]: Well,
[SPEAKER_00]: Well, let's read three things.
[SPEAKER_00]: This is what he said.
[SPEAKER_00]: By earlier views on the unsoundness of the Christian scheme of salvation and the human origin of the scriptures have become clearer and stronger with advancing years and I see no reason for thinking I shall ever change them.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's when it was younger, listen to this.
[SPEAKER_00]: Listen to a second one, you're gonna like this.
[SPEAKER_00]: I asked the people to pray for me.
[SPEAKER_00]: I was not a Christian.
[SPEAKER_00]: When I buried my son, he's called Matt Willey.
[SPEAKER_00]: When I buried my son, the severest trial of my life, I was not a Christian.
[SPEAKER_00]: But when I went to Gettysburg and saw the graves of thousands of our soldiers, I then and there consecrated myself to Christ.
[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, Abraham Lincoln is our brother in Christ, we will meet in heaven.
[SPEAKER_00]: Listen to this, listen what he says here.
[SPEAKER_00]: In regards to this great book, he's talking about the Bible.
[SPEAKER_00]: In regards to this great book, I have but to say, it is the best gift God has given to man.
[SPEAKER_00]: All the good, the Savior gave to the world was communicated through this book.
[SPEAKER_00]: But for we could not know right from wrong.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's say it again.
[SPEAKER_00]: But for it, we,
[SPEAKER_00]: For it, we could not know right from wrong.
[SPEAKER_00]: All things must, most desirable for man's welfare here and hereafter, are found and traded in it.
[SPEAKER_00]: He loved the Bible.
[SPEAKER_00]: Number five, Grover Cleveland, who I mentioned while ago, number 22 and 24 president.
[SPEAKER_00]: almost admit that the reception of the teachings of Christ result in the purest patriotism and the most scrupalist fidelity to public trust and in the best type of citizenship.
[SPEAKER_00]: And let me tell you something, Grover Cleveland, Grover Cleveland, went through very difficult times.
[SPEAKER_00]: He had lost his little daughter.
[SPEAKER_00]: You may have heard of her.
[SPEAKER_00]: Baby Ruth.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's what the candy bars named after, because they wanted to have a baby roof, but he wouldn't do it when let's get in a lot of money.
[SPEAKER_00]: So they named it after his daughter.
[SPEAKER_00]: But anyway, he focused specifically on the law through that difficult time of his life.
[SPEAKER_00]: Then there's Benjamin Harrison, who was the 23rd President in between River Cleveland's Presidencies?
[SPEAKER_00]: Benjamin Harrison said this, God forbid that the day should ever come when in the American mind the thought of man as a consumer shall submerge the old American thought of man as a creature of God endowed with unalatable rights.
[SPEAKER_00]: We are too, anyway, then is William McKinley.
[SPEAKER_00]: Our faith teaches that there is no safer reliance than upon the God of our fathers who has so singularly favored the American people in every national trial and who will not forsake us so long as we obey His commands and walk humbly in His footsteps.
[SPEAKER_00]: Woodrow Wilson who I love that name Woodrow Woodrow Wilson.
[SPEAKER_00]: America was born a Christian nation, America was born to exemplify that devotion to the elements of righteousness which are derived from the revelations of Holy Scripture.
[SPEAKER_00]: Jimmy Carter, number 28, are excuse me, number 39 president.
[SPEAKER_00]: And let's say something about Jimmy Carter.
[SPEAKER_00]: Jimmy Carter, he was one.
[SPEAKER_00]: You start coming up being born again.
[SPEAKER_00]: He got on TV many of the time, just how he was a born-again believer.
[SPEAKER_00]: Radio-like, as Pres are not, and same with all these other people.
[SPEAKER_00]: You have to respect the fact they love the Lord God.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he loved Jesus with all his heart and soul.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's now with the Lord.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I want to take this time to say, when he passed away to a Jimmy Carter, when he passed away, I felt so horrible bad.
[SPEAKER_00]: It was the middle of the winter.
[SPEAKER_00]: and the winter was horrible.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I felt terribly guilty because the winter had made it to where I could not get out there.
[SPEAKER_00]: The snow was so big over here by the flag.
[SPEAKER_00]: I wasn't able to get out there.
[SPEAKER_00]: We weren't able to lower the flag.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I felt terrible about it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I couldn't do it.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's like a mountain of snow.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I want to salute my brother and Christ Jimmy Carter because in my heart, I had lowered the flag for it.
[SPEAKER_00]: I just couldn't physically do it.
[SPEAKER_00]: But I say it to it now.
[SPEAKER_00]: of my life and has shaped my approach to the leadership and to leadership and service.
[SPEAKER_00]: He also said, to be a Christian is not only to believe in God, but to live as Christ did serving others, amen to that.
[SPEAKER_00]: And last but not least, in one of my all-time favorites, I love him.
[SPEAKER_00]: Number 10, who was the 40th president.
[SPEAKER_00]: Ronald Reagan, Ronald Reagan, I got three, you know, just give me two to it to quote here.
[SPEAKER_00]: He said this, we are never defeated unless we give up on God, amen.
[SPEAKER_00]: But one last one, without God, there is no virtue because there is no prompting of the conscience without God.
[SPEAKER_00]: There is no coursing of the society without God, democracy will not and cannot
[SPEAKER_00]: cannot long endure.
[SPEAKER_00]: We need God in this country and all over the world.
[SPEAKER_00]: This country was founded on the gospel.
[SPEAKER_00]: The Lord God is to be our leader, no matter where we are.
[SPEAKER_00]: God's will is to be done and no one else is.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, I mentioned to you the American flag.
[SPEAKER_00]: And as you can see, I'm wearing it now.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I love the American flag.
[SPEAKER_00]: Even more so I love the Christian flag.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I told you what the American flag means.
[SPEAKER_00]: I told you about the colors of bravery and courage for red, and the white is purity and innocence.
[SPEAKER_00]: And the blue is justice and watchfulness and hard work.
[SPEAKER_00]: But there are also other colors.
[SPEAKER_00]: Red, white, blue, we know.
[SPEAKER_00]: But the Bible has meanings for colors too.
[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, sometimes you can go on different sites, websites at all, and look up and see
[SPEAKER_00]: So let's take a look and the biblical definition of these colors.
[SPEAKER_00]: Before we do that, let's take a look at what Jesus Christ said about God's will.
[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus Christ was in the garden, the garden of the Simity.
[SPEAKER_00]: And he was distraught.
[SPEAKER_00]: He was about to die on the cross and he knew it.
[SPEAKER_00]: And this is after the last supper.
[SPEAKER_00]: Because the way to me, I thought Jesus was God and God is Jesus.
[SPEAKER_00]: But Jesus is still a man, and He still has emotions.
[SPEAKER_00]: And He didn't want to hurt.
[SPEAKER_00]: He didn't want to go through it, but He knew He had to.
[SPEAKER_00]: Listen, He says in Luke 22, 42, Father, if you are willing, remove this cup for me.
[SPEAKER_00]: Never the less, not my will, but yours be done.
[SPEAKER_00]: We should pray like this every day.
[SPEAKER_00]: The cup he's speaking of is not necessarily the fact that he is going to have that cup brought up to him, you know, with the vinegar and such, you're the wine.
[SPEAKER_00]: He's talking about pain and death and hardships.
[SPEAKER_00]: And every day we have hardships upon our life.
[SPEAKER_00]: We don't know God's will, but God knows, we don't know what we're gonna need to do, but God knows, we know that God's will needs to be done, not ours, and that's difficult.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes we choose to do, I don't know what my God's, which means we're gonna want to admit it, we are being our own God and our own leader, and God doesn't not need us to lead ourselves, what we need to let God lead us through the difficult times.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we need to say the words that Jesus said,
[SPEAKER_00]: But you will be done, amen, amen.
[SPEAKER_00]: So what do these colors mean in the Bible?
[SPEAKER_00]: Red is for the sacrifice.
[SPEAKER_00]: Sacrifice for humanity, for sin.
[SPEAKER_00]: White is for purity, for holiness and righteousness.
[SPEAKER_00]: and then there's blue.
[SPEAKER_00]: Blue is for heaven, it's for the law, which he fulfill.
[SPEAKER_00]: It's for his divine presence and God's holiness.
[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus is definitely the red white blue in our lives.
[SPEAKER_00]: There's so many people who are not patriotic anymore, towards a country and I can understand,
[SPEAKER_00]: When you look at all the negativity that goes on in our country and upon the line, but you know, you recently had people coming over from other lands, and they saw our country and they loved it.
[SPEAKER_00]: But here's the truth, we should always look towards how our country was founded upon the gospel of these to be paid throughout it for what it means, what it should be.
[SPEAKER_00]: Not what we sometimes see upon the the internet or upon on the news, but what God wanted it to be.
[SPEAKER_00]: It is not what you see around you, but what you make it to be in your own life.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let the red and white and blue stand for these things, for the sacrifice of Jesus, for the purity and holiness of Jesus Christ, for the divine presence of God in holiness and fulfillment of the law of Jesus.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let that be in your life.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let others see it.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let them see you, lead them as Jesus is leading you.
[SPEAKER_00]: That God's will be seen in your life.
[SPEAKER_00]: And as people ask that question as we said earlier, how can any of this be God's will?
[SPEAKER_00]: Here's the answer.
[SPEAKER_00]: Stop looking at man's imperfection and focus on God's perfection.
[SPEAKER_00]: That's the answer.
[SPEAKER_00]: But God's will and leadership be done upon your life.
[SPEAKER_00]: And with all that being said, I'm gonna close.
[SPEAKER_00]: With Hebrews 13, 2321.
[SPEAKER_00]: Now, may the God of peace, through the blood of eternal covenant, brought again from the dead, our Lord Jesus, the great shepherd of the sheep.
[SPEAKER_00]: Make your perfect, make you perfect and every good work to do his will, working in you that which is pleasing in his sight through Jesus Christ,
[SPEAKER_00]: And when you look at the people in this world, whether it be the presidents, every one of them, or the people in your life, people you have to answer to, who you have to answer to, or people who others are answering to, as we start to get upset and angry.
[SPEAKER_00]: Instead of wanting to know why they're not living the way we would, let's just pray for pray that they will answer to the true leader,
[SPEAKER_00]: and that we will too.
[SPEAKER_00]: Let's bound prayer.
[SPEAKER_00]: Lord Jesus Christ, I pray for your will upon our lives.
[SPEAKER_00]: Each and every one of us, not just those who are here, but those who are at home.
[SPEAKER_00]: And those Lord God, those who do not know you.
[SPEAKER_00]: I pray to Lord God that they will understand that there are two sets to your will.
[SPEAKER_00]: Your main universal will,
[SPEAKER_00]: and the will you have for their lives, that you have the ability to make them do things, what's you want?
[SPEAKER_00]: Because you love them too much.
[SPEAKER_00]: And I pray Lord God that they will give themselves over to you, be obedient to you.
[SPEAKER_00]: And for those who are saved, and yet this will be didn't run away, I pray Lord God that they will come back to you.
[SPEAKER_00]: I pray Lord Jesus Christ, that they will come back to your loving arms and realize that you haven't left them, that they will have you.
[SPEAKER_00]: I pray that they will allow you to lead them to do your will.
[SPEAKER_00]: Lord, perhaps there is even us here now who have certain parts of our lives that are not completely given to you.
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe it's certain habits.
[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe it's certain parts of our personalities even.
[SPEAKER_00]: And we make excuses to say, I can't help that, but we can.
[SPEAKER_00]: We can do it, Lord, because we know that you have the ability to change this.
[SPEAKER_00]: So I pray, Lord, Jesus Christ, that you will make these things clear to us, and that we will clearly hand it over to you, to let you change this.
[SPEAKER_00]: Each and every part of us.
[SPEAKER_00]: I pray this and your holy and precious name, Lord God, for your will to be done.
[SPEAKER_00]: And Jesus, holy name, amen.
[UNKNOWN]: Amen.
[SPEAKER_00]: Amen.
[SPEAKER_00]: Would you stand with me, please, and open