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Today on from his heart with Pastor Jeff Shreeve, learn
how to be delivered from the evil one just in
the nick of time.
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I don't care what happens in your life.
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If you know God is good and God loves you,
you can get through anything, and your heart doesn't get bitter.
You just keep praising him, You keep blessing him, you
keep praying to him. Say, Oh God, I need your deliverance,
but I'm gonna praise you. And if deliverance never comes
in this life, I'm gonna still praise you because I
know deliverance is coming in the next.
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With real truth, realme.
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In the Old Testament, Job said man who is born
of woman is short lived and full of trouble. Well,
maybe you've experienced some trouble in the last week or two,
maybe even in the last day, maybe every day. Even
though David was a man after God's own heart, he
too experienced lots of trials and troubles in his life,
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and he tells us in Psalm thirty four how to
handle the troubles of life. This is from his heart
with Pastor Jeff Shreeve, who today will reveal the power
of learning to trust the deliverer, the God who saves
and rescues his own from trouble. The message is called
deliver Us from Evil. We're in part two of the
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message today. It's from Pastor Jeff's eight lesson series roller Coaster,
Facing the ups and downs of life. Have you missed
any that we've aired this month from this series or
the first half of this message, Then you can go
to fromishart dot org click the listen tabs catch up.
You can also download at MP three of any broadcast
and the sermon outlines from Pastor Jeff. But hold off
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on that first. Turn to the Book of Psalms. Starting
in chapter thirty four. Here's Pastor Jeff again illuminating the
prompt us from God that he will deliver us from evil.
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Here's the question, how are we to handle the many
troubles of life by trusting in the Deliverer, the God
who saves and rescues and delivers from trouble. Bible says
in Psalms sixty eight, Verse twenty, God is to us
a god of deliverances, and to God the lord belong
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escapes from death.
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So in ps I thirty four.
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David is going to give us a threefold action plan
of what to do when you're going down, when you're
experiencing the value, the trouble, the tragedy, the misery, the evil,
and it's all around you. Threefold action plan Action number one.
In your trouble, take time to praise the Lord Psalm
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thirty four, Verse one. David said, I will bless the
Lord at all times. His praise shall continue be in
my mouth. My soul shall make its boast in the Lord.
The humble shall hear it and rejoice. Oh magnify the
Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together.
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Notice he says, I will bless the Lord. His praise
shall continually be in my mouth. My soul shall make
its boast in the Lord. Oh magnify the Lord with me,
and let us exalt his name together. David was saying
all those things of how he wanted to kneel before
the Lord and bless the Lord and exalt the Lord
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because the Lord was worthy of his praise. He realized
that his deliverance came from God. Praise is always appropriate
in any and every situation. I will bless the Lord
at all times. His praise shall continually be in my mouth.
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Praise is always appropriate. Because circumstances change, they go up
and down. Circumstances can change on a dime, but the
Lord never changes, and he's always worthy. And the thing
that praise does praise changes our outlook by providing an uplook.
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So in your trouble, as hard as it might be,
take time to praise him. I will bless the Lord
at all times, and his praise shall continually be in
my mouth. Second action, not only to praise him, but
in your trouble, take time to pray to him.
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To pray to him. Verse four.
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I sought the Lord, and he answered me and delivered
me from all my fears. This poor man cried, and
the Lord hurt him and saved him out of all
his troubles. The eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous,
and his ears are open to their cry to their
for help. I sought the Lord, David said, and he
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answered me and delivered me from what from my fears?
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From my fears? Isn't that wonderful?
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It's wonderful to know that David, who was a guy
who could stand up to the giant when everyone else
was afraid of him, who stood up before nine foot
nine inches Goliath.
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He still got afraid, and he cried out to the Lord.
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And the Lord heard this poor man, and the Lord
heard his prayer, and the Lord delivered him from all
his fears.
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The Lord says, I'm listening to your voice. Some one sixteen.
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The Pslma says this, I love the Lord because he
hears my voice and my supplications, because he has inclined
his ear to me. Therefore I shall call upon him
as long as I live. He's inclined his ear. He's
listening for your voice. God forbid that he should hear
white noise from you or from me. Well, we need
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call upon him, because God is listening. And the God
who listens will be faithful to deliver if will be
faithful to pray. God says, well, if you had just
call upon me, I will answer you. Jeremiah thirty three three,
call to me, and I will answer you and show
you great and mighty things which you do not know.
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But if you don't call, I'm not going to show you.
If you don't come to me, that's not gonna happen.
Jonah was sent to Nineveh. He gave him a message.
Yet forty days and Nineveh will be destroyed. And the
Ninevites heard that message, and they responded to that message,
and they faceted and put on sackcloth and called upon
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the Lord. And God relented concerning the evil that he
was going to do to them. Because God responds to
repentance and humility and prayer.
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He responds, and if we don't, he doesn't.
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King Aesa was a good king in the Old Testament,
king of Judah, and Asa did some good things. But
it's very very interesting what it says about Asa. It
says when Aesa got old, toward the end of his reign,
he became diseased in his feet, and he sought the physicians,
but he did not seek the Lord. He called upon
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the physicians, but he didn't call upon God, and he
didn't see deliverance.
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He didn't see healing.
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Little boy three years old, he was playing in the sandbox.
His dad was watching him, and he was playing with
his trucks in the sandbox. And there was a big
rock in the sandbox and it was messing up the
little boy's playtime, and so he tried to move this rock,
but the rock was too big and he couldn't move it.
And he tried with all his might to move the rock,
and he couldn't move it. And finally he just broke
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down and started to cry. And his dad said to him, son,
what's the matter. And he said, Daddy, I've tried with
all my might to move this rock and I can
can't move it. And his daddy said, have you used
all your strength? And he said, yes, Daddy, all my strength.
He said, no, you haven't because you haven't asked me
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for help. Some of us are like that. We sit
and cry because life is so hard, and we hadn't
called upon the Lord. We hadn't praised him, we haven't
prayed to him. This poor man cried and the Lord
heard him and saved him out of all and delivered
him from all his fears and saved him out of
his trouble. Listen, God will be faithful to deliver if
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we will be faithful to pray. There's a story in
the Old Testament about Hezekiah.
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Hezekiah is being he is the king of Judah.
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Now he came sometime after Aesa, and he's king and
the Assyrians are coming against him. Nineveh was the capital
city of the Assyrians. You know why Jonah didn't want
to go to Ninevah. It's because Ninevah is the capital
city of the Assyrians. In the Assyrians or the enemies
of God, and Jonah hated those people. You and I
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probably would have had trouble with those people too. God
loved the Assyrians well. In the story of Hezekiah, the
Assyrians are coming against Judah and the capital city of Jerusalem,
and they send one hundred and eighty five thousand soldiers
and they're surrounding the city. And the king of Assyria
his name is Sanakarib, he sends the letter and he
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has one of his heralds read the letter to Hezekiah,
and it says you better not trust in your God
and thinking your God is going to deliver you from
my hand?
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He said, what nation has been delivered from my hand?
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Have the gods of all the other nations been able
to deliver from my hand? You better just go ahead
and surrender, otherwise we're going to wipe you out. Loose paraphrase,
But that's what came about. And Hezekiah, the scripture says,
and second king said this. Then Hezekiah took the letter
from the hand of the messengers and read it. He
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went up to the house of the Lord and spread
it out before the Lord. And Hezekiah prayed before the
Lord and says, now watch his praise, O Lord, the
God of Israel, who are enthroned above the chair of them.
You are the God, you alone, of all the kingdoms
of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.
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Incline your ear, O Lord, and hear.
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Open your eyes, O Lord, and see and listen to
the words of Snakarib, which he has sent to reproach
the Living God truly, O Lord. The kings of Assyria
have devastated the nations and their lands, and have cast
their gods into the fire. For they were not God's
but the work of men's hands, wood and stone.
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So they have destroyed them.
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Now, O Lord, our God, I pray deliver us from
his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may
know that you alone, O Lord, are God. Then Isaiah,
the son of Amos, sent to Hezekiah, saying, thus says
the Lord. Now watch this, Thus says the Lord, the
God of Israel, because you have prayed to me about Sanakib,
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king of Assyria, I have heard you. And Verse thirty
five says, Then it came about that night that the
Angel of the Lord went out and struck one hundred
and eighty five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians.
And when men rose early in the morning, behold, all
of them were dead. Because you prayed, I heard you,
and because you prayed, I'm going to deliver you. God
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is faithful to deliver when you and I are faithful
to pray. Hey, in your trouble, take time to praise
Him in your trouble. Take time to pray to him.
And action number three. In your trouble, take time to
press in to him. To press in to the Lord.
Now Here is what happens to us when we face
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the downs in life. We're on a roller coaster because
life is a roller coaster got ups, and it's got downs.
When you face a down in life, and maybe it's
a down down down in life, it's a.
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Down doo be doo down down.
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I mean, you're really going down, and you're you're there
for a long time. You know, we can handle downs
as long as they're brief.
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But what if you have a.
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Sustained, prolonged illness and it's very, very tough. What if
your spouse says, I don't want to be married to
you anymore. I'm out of here. I found somebody else
and just crushes your heart and you're living through that.
It's so difficult, and there's a tendency now what we
end up doing when bad things happen. We cry out
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pretty good about God help me, God.
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Save me, God, get me out of this.
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God, I'm in the hot water here, and deliver me
from that.
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And we want God to do it.
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Like that, and maybe God doesn't do it that fast.
Oftentimes God doesn't do it that fast, and then we say.
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Well, forget God. God doesn't answer my prayer. Just just
forget God.
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And what we do in the difficult times, instead of
pressing into God, we pull away from God. Instead of
running to God, we run from God. What did David
say in Psalm thirty four, verse eight, Oh, taste and see.
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That the Lord is good?
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How blessed is the man who takes refuge in him
in trouble? You need to taste and see that the
Lord is good. You need to take refuge in the Lord.
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Now, when it.
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Says taste and see, he's not talking about taking a
nibble or taking a sip.
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He's talking about dig in.
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You sit at the table and you dig in, and
you feast on the Lord, and feast with the Lord,
and spend time with him, and you'll find that he
is good. See, if you feast on him, you'll find
he is good. You'll find he is good. Oh, taste
and see that the Lord is good. Circumstances aren't good.
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Problems aren't necessarily good.
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We don't like them. God uses them for good in
our lives.
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But those things aren't things we say, Oh Lord, can
I have some trouble?
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Lord? Things have been going so well for me. I
just wish there were some problems that could come about.
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Nobody ever does that. Sometimes we pray for patience. Oh God,
I'm struggling with patience. Lord, can you help me with patience?
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What does God do? So I'll help you with patience.
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I'll give you something that will try your patience, that
will test your patience, testimony.
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I love Dick Gouch. He was praying that God would make.
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Him a man of faith, and he said he was
praying that prayer, and then he said, in a short
period of time, he got sick, and then he lost
his job, and he somehow fell out of fellowship with
the guys at his church, and he said he was praying,
and praying is confessing his sin since the War of
eighteen twelve, and said, Oh God, what have I done
to you? And God said to him, Dick, aren't you
the guy that prayed? God make me a man of faith?
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He said, how do you suppose I go about doing that?
Andre Crouch has that great song through it all. Through
it all, I've learned to trust in Jesus. I've learned
to trust in God. Ever had a problem, I wouldn't
know that he could solve them.
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I wouldn't know what faith in God could do.
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And so God allows us to go through these things,
so not so we run from him, but so that
we run to him, and that we find our refuge
in Him.
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And we taste and see that He is good.
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One of my favorite verses in the Old Testament, Second
Chronicles seven, verse three, Oh taste, I'm sorry. Truly He
is good. Truly, his loving kindness is everlasting.
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Those are two.
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Things that every Christian has to have as foundation in
their hearts. God is good and God loves me. God
is good and God loves me. I don't care what
happens in your life if you.
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Know God is good and God loves you.
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You can get through anything, and your heart doesn't get bitter.
You just keep praising him, You keep blessing him, you
keep praying to him. Say, Oh God, I need your deliverance,
but I'm gonna praise you. And if deliverance never comes
in this life, I'm gonna still praise you because.
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I know deliverance is coming in the next.
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Somebody as well said, and it's so true, it is
better to die in faith than to live in doubt.
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It is better to die.
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In faith, never realizing the things that you are trusting
God for believing God. For it's better to die in
faith and to live in doubts. Oh taste and see
that the Lord is good. If you feast on him,
you'll find he is good. And if you feast on him,
you'll find he is more than enough. Oh fear the Lord,
he says in verse nine, you his saints, For to
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those who fear him there.
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Is no want. The young lions do lack.
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And suffer hunger, But they who seek the Lord shall
not be in want of any good thing. That's exactly
what it says in the New Testament Matthew six thirty three.
Seek first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness, and
all these things shall be added to you, all these
things that you worry.
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About and you fret about, if you'll seek.
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Me firstung young lions do lack and suffer hunger. But
those who seek the Lord shall not be in want
of any good thing. When you feast on the Lord,
you find that not only is Jesus necessary, but Jesus
is enough, and he's more than enough to handle all
your problems and to meet the inner longings of your heart.
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I have some friends who went through a terrible, horrible tragedy.
They tried so hard to get pregnant, and when they
got pregnant, just weeks before the baby was due, there
were complications and the baby was lost, and the wife
almost lost her life in the complications, and it was very,
very difficult coming back from all of that.
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What was she going to do? What were they going
to do?
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You know, the statistics say it's about seventy five percent
when a couple loses a child. You know what they do,
They divorce, They can't make it. And so here you
have these two people going through such a terrible hard time,
such a hardship, such a tragedy, and what did they do?
The wife told me, she said, I had a choice.
I could get bitter, or I could press into the Lord.
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I could pull away from him and say, what kind
of a god are you? We tried so hard to
get pregnant, so long to get pregnant, then we get pregnant,
and then what happens?
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You'd take our child? Well, she could.
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Have done that, but then she would say with Peter,
when Jesus said to Peter, you don't want to go
away too, do you?
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When everyone was bailing out in Jesus and Mark John.
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Chapter six and all, they were saying, you speak hard words.
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Who can follow that?
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And Jesus said to the twelve, you don't want to
go away too, do you? And Peter said, Lord, where
are we to go? You have words of eternal life?
And my friend said, in the midst of her grief,
She's like, well, if I walk away from.
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God, where am I gonna go?
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A walk away from God is just a walk into
the darkness.
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I have to come to him.
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Because he's good and because he loves me, and he
makes sense of the censes I don't understand. And she
and her husband may never understand this side of heaven
why those things happened.
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But I'm gonna tell you something.
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You know one word you'll never hear in heaven that
is never uttered in the throne of Heaven. It's the
word oops. God never says oops. God never makes a mistake,
and God works all things together for good and bad
things happen. But listen, nothing comes into your life or
my life that doesn't first filter through God's fingers of love.
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You can trust him.
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And she and her husband have chosen to trust him
even with the questions and even through the hurts, because
they know that He is good and his loving kindness
is everlasting.
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Hey, God's a deliverer. Do you need deliverance today?
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Some of you are here, and you know what you
think in terms of God delivering you from things in
this life because all we just kind of think in
terms of our life span, and we don't think in
terms of what happens.
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After our life.
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But the thing that the Lord wants to deliver most
of all, is not from the trial, the test that
you're in right now, although he does do that because
God is a god of delverances. God wants to deliver
you from the main enemy, and that enemy is sin,
and that enemy wants to take you down, down, down,
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all the way to a christless hell, forever and ever
and ever. And Jesus came to deliver us from sin.
He came to die upon the cross and rise again
from the dead to make it possible for us to
have a relationship with him. And the key is found
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in Psalm thirty four, verse eighteen. It says the Lord
is near to the broken hearted, and he saves those
who are crushed in spirit. He saves those who are
contracte in spirit.
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He saves those who are aware of their sinfulness.
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As blind Bartimaeus was aware of his sinfulness, Jesus, son
of David, have mercy on me. I was seventeen years
old when God made me aware of my sinfulness. And
I saw that I was a sinner, and I was lost,
and I was on the highway to hell, and there
was no.
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Escape for me. And I got down on my knees
in my bedroom, and I said, Jesus, would you save me?
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And the Divine Deliverer came into my life, and he
forgave all my sins, and he changed me from the
inside out, and he saved me, and he delivered me
and He wrote my name in the Lamb's Book of Life,
and he gave to me eternal life. And I will
never perish because of what Jesus Christ did for me. Listen,
has that ever happened to you? He wants to deliver
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you from the ultimate evil, and that is separation from
Him forever.
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And if you will cry out as.
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A poor man from a crushed heart, aware of how
sinful you are and how holy he is.
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If you'll cry out, Jesus, save me, deliver me. I
want to know you and I want you to live
inside of me. You'll do it, and your life never
be the same.
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And there's no better time than right now. The Lord
offers you forgiveness of your sins and freedom to live
for him. Ask him to come in and to save
you and to be the lord of your life. He'll
do it. That's a promise from God, and you'll be
a child of God and he will never, ever, ever,
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ever let you go. Now, if you've received Christ, you'll
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Today on from his heart with Pastor Jeff Shreeve, learn
how to be delivered from the evil one just in
the nick of time.
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I don't care what happens in your life.
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If you know God is good and God loves you,
you can get through anything, and your heart doesn't get bitter.
You just keep praising him, You keep blessing him, you
keep praying to him. Say, Oh God, I need your deliverance,
but I'm gonna praise you. And if deliverance never comes
in this life, I'm gonna still praise you because I
know deliverance is coming in the next.
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With real truth, realme.
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In the Old Testament, Job said man who is born
of woman is short lived and full of trouble. Well,
maybe you've experienced some trouble in the last week or two,
maybe even in the last day, maybe every day. Even
though David was a man after God's own heart, he
too experienced lots of trials and troubles in his life,
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and he tells us in Psalm thirty four how to
handle the troubles of life. This is from his heart
with Pastor Jeff Shreeve, who today will reveal the power
of learning to trust the deliverer, the God who saves
and rescues his own from trouble. The message is called
deliver Us from Evil. We're in part two of the
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message today. It's from Pastor Jeff's eight lesson series roller Coaster,
Facing the ups and downs of life. Have you missed
any that we've aired this month from this series or
the first half of this message, Then you can go
to fromishart dot org click the listen tabs catch up.
You can also download at MP three of any broadcast
and the sermon outlines from Pastor Jeff. But hold off
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on that first. Turn to the Book of Psalms. Starting
in chapter thirty four. Here's Pastor Jeff again illuminating the
prompt us from God that he will deliver us from evil.
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Here's the question, how are we to handle the many
troubles of life by trusting in the Deliverer, the God
who saves and rescues and delivers from trouble. Bible says
in Psalms sixty eight, Verse twenty, God is to us
a god of deliverances, and to God the lord belong
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escapes from death.
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So in ps I thirty four.
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David is going to give us a threefold action plan
of what to do when you're going down, when you're
experiencing the value, the trouble, the tragedy, the misery, the evil,
and it's all around you. Threefold action plan Action number one.
In your trouble, take time to praise the Lord Psalm
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thirty four, Verse one. David said, I will bless the
Lord at all times. His praise shall continue be in
my mouth. My soul shall make its boast in the Lord.
The humble shall hear it and rejoice. Oh magnify the
Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together.
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Notice he says, I will bless the Lord. His praise
shall continually be in my mouth. My soul shall make
its boast in the Lord. Oh magnify the Lord with me,
and let us exalt his name together. David was saying
all those things of how he wanted to kneel before
the Lord and bless the Lord and exalt the Lord
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because the Lord was worthy of his praise. He realized
that his deliverance came from God. Praise is always appropriate
in any and every situation. I will bless the Lord
at all times. His praise shall continually be in my mouth.
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Praise is always appropriate. Because circumstances change, they go up
and down. Circumstances can change on a dime, but the
Lord never changes, and he's always worthy. And the thing
that praise does praise changes our outlook by providing an uplook.
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So in your trouble, as hard as it might be,
take time to praise him. I will bless the Lord
at all times, and his praise shall continually be in
my mouth. Second action, not only to praise him, but
in your trouble, take time to pray to him.
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To pray to him. Verse four.
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I sought the Lord, and he answered me and delivered
me from all my fears. This poor man cried, and
the Lord hurt him and saved him out of all
his troubles. The eyes of the Lord are toward the righteous,
and his ears are open to their cry to their
for help. I sought the Lord, David said, and he
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answered me and delivered me from what from my fears?
Speaker 2 (05:08):
From my fears? Isn't that wonderful?
Speaker 3 (05:10):
It's wonderful to know that David, who was a guy
who could stand up to the giant when everyone else
was afraid of him, who stood up before nine foot
nine inches Goliath.
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He still got afraid, and he cried out to the Lord.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
And the Lord heard this poor man, and the Lord
heard his prayer, and the Lord delivered him from all
his fears.
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The Lord says, I'm listening to your voice. Some one sixteen.
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The Pslma says this, I love the Lord because he
hears my voice and my supplications, because he has inclined
his ear to me. Therefore I shall call upon him
as long as I live. He's inclined his ear. He's
listening for your voice. God forbid that he should hear
white noise from you or from me. Well, we need
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call upon him, because God is listening. And the God
who listens will be faithful to deliver if will be
faithful to pray. God says, well, if you had just
call upon me, I will answer you. Jeremiah thirty three three,
call to me, and I will answer you and show
you great and mighty things which you do not know.
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But if you don't call, I'm not going to show you.
If you don't come to me, that's not gonna happen.
Jonah was sent to Nineveh. He gave him a message.
Yet forty days and Nineveh will be destroyed. And the
Ninevites heard that message, and they responded to that message,
and they faceted and put on sackcloth and called upon
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the Lord. And God relented concerning the evil that he
was going to do to them. Because God responds to
repentance and humility and prayer.
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He responds, and if we don't, he doesn't.
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King Aesa was a good king in the Old Testament,
king of Judah, and Asa did some good things. But
it's very very interesting what it says about Asa. It
says when Aesa got old, toward the end of his reign,
he became diseased in his feet, and he sought the physicians,
but he did not seek the Lord. He called upon
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the physicians, but he didn't call upon God, and he
didn't see deliverance.
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He didn't see healing.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
Little boy three years old, he was playing in the sandbox.
His dad was watching him, and he was playing with
his trucks in the sandbox. And there was a big
rock in the sandbox and it was messing up the
little boy's playtime, and so he tried to move this rock,
but the rock was too big and he couldn't move it.
And he tried with all his might to move the rock,
and he couldn't move it. And finally he just broke
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down and started to cry. And his dad said to him, son,
what's the matter. And he said, Daddy, I've tried with
all my might to move this rock and I can
can't move it. And his daddy said, have you used
all your strength? And he said, yes, Daddy, all my strength.
He said, no, you haven't because you haven't asked me
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for help. Some of us are like that. We sit
and cry because life is so hard, and we hadn't
called upon the Lord. We hadn't praised him, we haven't
prayed to him. This poor man cried and the Lord
heard him and saved him out of all and delivered
him from all his fears and saved him out of
his trouble. Listen, God will be faithful to deliver if
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we will be faithful to pray. There's a story in
the Old Testament about Hezekiah.
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Hezekiah is being he is the king of Judah.
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Now he came sometime after Aesa, and he's king and
the Assyrians are coming against him. Nineveh was the capital
city of the Assyrians. You know why Jonah didn't want
to go to Ninevah. It's because Ninevah is the capital
city of the Assyrians. In the Assyrians or the enemies
of God, and Jonah hated those people. You and I
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probably would have had trouble with those people too. God
loved the Assyrians well. In the story of Hezekiah, the
Assyrians are coming against Judah and the capital city of Jerusalem,
and they send one hundred and eighty five thousand soldiers
and they're surrounding the city. And the king of Assyria
his name is Sanakarib, he sends the letter and he
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has one of his heralds read the letter to Hezekiah,
and it says you better not trust in your God
and thinking your God is going to deliver you from
my hand?
Speaker 2 (09:36):
He said, what nation has been delivered from my hand?
Speaker 3 (09:39):
Have the gods of all the other nations been able
to deliver from my hand? You better just go ahead
and surrender, otherwise we're going to wipe you out. Loose paraphrase,
But that's what came about. And Hezekiah, the scripture says,
and second king said this. Then Hezekiah took the letter
from the hand of the messengers and read it. He
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went up to the house of the Lord and spread
it out before the Lord. And Hezekiah prayed before the
Lord and says, now watch his praise, O Lord, the
God of Israel, who are enthroned above the chair of them.
You are the God, you alone, of all the kingdoms
of the earth. You have made heaven and earth.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
Incline your ear, O Lord, and hear.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Open your eyes, O Lord, and see and listen to
the words of Snakarib, which he has sent to reproach
the Living God truly, O Lord. The kings of Assyria
have devastated the nations and their lands, and have cast
their gods into the fire. For they were not God's
but the work of men's hands, wood and stone.
Speaker 2 (10:36):
So they have destroyed them.
Speaker 3 (10:38):
Now, O Lord, our God, I pray deliver us from
his hand, that all the kingdoms of the earth may
know that you alone, O Lord, are God. Then Isaiah,
the son of Amos, sent to Hezekiah, saying, thus says
the Lord. Now watch this, Thus says the Lord, the
God of Israel, because you have prayed to me about Sanakib,
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king of Assyria, I have heard you. And Verse thirty
five says, Then it came about that night that the
Angel of the Lord went out and struck one hundred
and eighty five thousand in the camp of the Assyrians.
And when men rose early in the morning, behold, all
of them were dead. Because you prayed, I heard you,
and because you prayed, I'm going to deliver you. God
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is faithful to deliver when you and I are faithful
to pray. Hey, in your trouble, take time to praise
Him in your trouble. Take time to pray to him.
And action number three. In your trouble, take time to
press in to him. To press in to the Lord.
Now Here is what happens to us when we face
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the downs in life. We're on a roller coaster because
life is a roller coaster got ups, and it's got downs.
When you face a down in life, and maybe it's
a down down down in life, it's a.
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Down doo be doo down down.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
I mean, you're really going down, and you're you're there
for a long time. You know, we can handle downs
as long as they're brief.
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But what if you have a.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
Sustained, prolonged illness and it's very, very tough. What if
your spouse says, I don't want to be married to
you anymore. I'm out of here. I found somebody else
and just crushes your heart and you're living through that.
It's so difficult, and there's a tendency now what we
end up doing when bad things happen. We cry out
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pretty good about God help me, God.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
Save me, God, get me out of this.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
God, I'm in the hot water here, and deliver me
from that.
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And we want God to do it.
Speaker 3 (12:36):
Like that, and maybe God doesn't do it that fast.
Oftentimes God doesn't do it that fast, and then we say.
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Well, forget God. God doesn't answer my prayer. Just just
forget God.
Speaker 3 (12:52):
And what we do in the difficult times, instead of
pressing into God, we pull away from God. Instead of
running to God, we run from God. What did David
say in Psalm thirty four, verse eight, Oh, taste and see.
Speaker 2 (13:09):
That the Lord is good?
Speaker 3 (13:12):
How blessed is the man who takes refuge in him
in trouble? You need to taste and see that the
Lord is good. You need to take refuge in the Lord.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Now, when it.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Says taste and see, he's not talking about taking a
nibble or taking a sip.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
He's talking about dig in.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
You sit at the table and you dig in, and
you feast on the Lord, and feast with the Lord,
and spend time with him, and you'll find that he
is good. See, if you feast on him, you'll find
he is good. You'll find he is good. Oh, taste
and see that the Lord is good. Circumstances aren't good.
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Problems aren't necessarily good.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
We don't like them. God uses them for good in
our lives.
Speaker 3 (13:57):
But those things aren't things we say, Oh Lord, can
I have some trouble?
Speaker 2 (14:01):
Lord? Things have been going so well for me. I
just wish there were some problems that could come about.
Speaker 3 (14:06):
Nobody ever does that. Sometimes we pray for patience. Oh God,
I'm struggling with patience. Lord, can you help me with patience?
Speaker 2 (14:14):
What does God do? So I'll help you with patience.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
I'll give you something that will try your patience, that
will test your patience, testimony.
Speaker 2 (14:22):
I love Dick Gouch. He was praying that God would make.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Him a man of faith, and he said he was
praying that prayer, and then he said, in a short
period of time, he got sick, and then he lost
his job, and he somehow fell out of fellowship with
the guys at his church, and he said he was praying,
and praying is confessing his sin since the War of
eighteen twelve, and said, Oh God, what have I done
to you? And God said to him, Dick, aren't you
the guy that prayed? God make me a man of faith?
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He said, how do you suppose I go about doing that?
Andre Crouch has that great song through it all. Through
it all, I've learned to trust in Jesus. I've learned
to trust in God. Ever had a problem, I wouldn't
know that he could solve them.
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I wouldn't know what faith in God could do.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
And so God allows us to go through these things,
so not so we run from him, but so that
we run to him, and that we find our refuge
in Him.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
And we taste and see that He is good.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
One of my favorite verses in the Old Testament, Second
Chronicles seven, verse three, Oh taste, I'm sorry. Truly He
is good. Truly, his loving kindness is everlasting.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Those are two.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Things that every Christian has to have as foundation in
their hearts. God is good and God loves me. God
is good and God loves me. I don't care what
happens in your life if you.
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Know God is good and God loves you.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
You can get through anything, and your heart doesn't get bitter.
You just keep praising him, You keep blessing him, you
keep praying to him. Say, Oh God, I need your deliverance,
but I'm gonna praise you. And if deliverance never comes
in this life, I'm gonna still praise you because.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
I know deliverance is coming in the next.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Somebody as well said, and it's so true, it is
better to die in faith than to live in doubt.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
It is better to die.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
In faith, never realizing the things that you are trusting
God for believing God. For it's better to die in
faith and to live in doubts. Oh taste and see
that the Lord is good. If you feast on him,
you'll find he is good. And if you feast on him,
you'll find he is more than enough. Oh fear the Lord,
he says in verse nine, you his saints, For to
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those who fear him there.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
Is no want. The young lions do lack.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
And suffer hunger, But they who seek the Lord shall
not be in want of any good thing. That's exactly
what it says in the New Testament Matthew six thirty three.
Seek first the Kingdom of God and his righteousness, and
all these things shall be added to you, all these
things that you worry.
Speaker 2 (16:48):
About and you fret about, if you'll seek.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Me firstung young lions do lack and suffer hunger. But
those who seek the Lord shall not be in want
of any good thing. When you feast on the Lord,
you find that not only is Jesus necessary, but Jesus
is enough, and he's more than enough to handle all
your problems and to meet the inner longings of your heart.
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I have some friends who went through a terrible, horrible tragedy.
They tried so hard to get pregnant, and when they
got pregnant, just weeks before the baby was due, there
were complications and the baby was lost, and the wife
almost lost her life in the complications, and it was very,
very difficult coming back from all of that.
Speaker 2 (17:32):
What was she going to do? What were they going
to do?
Speaker 3 (17:34):
You know, the statistics say it's about seventy five percent
when a couple loses a child. You know what they do,
They divorce, They can't make it. And so here you
have these two people going through such a terrible hard time,
such a hardship, such a tragedy, and what did they do?
The wife told me, she said, I had a choice.
I could get bitter, or I could press into the Lord.
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I could pull away from him and say, what kind
of a god are you? We tried so hard to
get pregnant, so long to get pregnant, then we get pregnant,
and then what happens?
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You'd take our child? Well, she could.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Have done that, but then she would say with Peter,
when Jesus said to Peter, you don't want to go
away too, do you?
Speaker 2 (18:11):
When everyone was bailing out in Jesus and Mark John.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Chapter six and all, they were saying, you speak hard words.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Who can follow that?
Speaker 3 (18:18):
And Jesus said to the twelve, you don't want to
go away too, do you? And Peter said, Lord, where
are we to go? You have words of eternal life?
And my friend said, in the midst of her grief,
She's like, well, if I walk away from.
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God, where am I gonna go?
Speaker 3 (18:33):
A walk away from God is just a walk into
the darkness.
Speaker 2 (18:36):
I have to come to him.
Speaker 3 (18:39):
Because he's good and because he loves me, and he
makes sense of the censes I don't understand. And she
and her husband may never understand this side of heaven
why those things happened.
Speaker 2 (18:50):
But I'm gonna tell you something.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
You know one word you'll never hear in heaven that
is never uttered in the throne of Heaven. It's the
word oops. God never says oops. God never makes a mistake,
and God works all things together for good and bad
things happen. But listen, nothing comes into your life or
my life that doesn't first filter through God's fingers of love.
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You can trust him.
Speaker 3 (19:17):
And she and her husband have chosen to trust him
even with the questions and even through the hurts, because
they know that He is good and his loving kindness
is everlasting.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
Hey, God's a deliverer. Do you need deliverance today?
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Some of you are here, and you know what you
think in terms of God delivering you from things in
this life because all we just kind of think in
terms of our life span, and we don't think in
terms of what happens.
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After our life.
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But the thing that the Lord wants to deliver most
of all, is not from the trial, the test that
you're in right now, although he does do that because
God is a god of delverances. God wants to deliver
you from the main enemy, and that enemy is sin,
and that enemy wants to take you down, down, down,
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all the way to a christless hell, forever and ever
and ever. And Jesus came to deliver us from sin.
He came to die upon the cross and rise again
from the dead to make it possible for us to
have a relationship with him. And the key is found
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in Psalm thirty four, verse eighteen. It says the Lord
is near to the broken hearted, and he saves those
who are crushed in spirit. He saves those who are
contracte in spirit.
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He saves those who are aware of their sinfulness.
Speaker 3 (20:49):
As blind Bartimaeus was aware of his sinfulness, Jesus, son
of David, have mercy on me. I was seventeen years
old when God made me aware of my sinfulness. And
I saw that I was a sinner, and I was lost,
and I was on the highway to hell, and there
was no.
Speaker 2 (21:09):
Escape for me. And I got down on my knees
in my bedroom, and I said, Jesus, would you save me?
Speaker 3 (21:18):
And the Divine Deliverer came into my life, and he
forgave all my sins, and he changed me from the
inside out, and he saved me, and he delivered me
and He wrote my name in the Lamb's Book of Life,
and he gave to me eternal life. And I will
never perish because of what Jesus Christ did for me. Listen,
has that ever happened to you? He wants to deliver
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you from the ultimate evil, and that is separation from
Him forever.
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And if you will cry out as.
Speaker 3 (21:46):
A poor man from a crushed heart, aware of how
sinful you are and how holy he is.
Speaker 4 (21:52):
If you'll cry out, Jesus, save me, deliver me. I
want to know you and I want you to live
inside of me. You'll do it, and your life never
be the same.
Speaker 1 (22:13):
And there's no better time than right now. The Lord
offers you forgiveness of your sins and freedom to live
for him. Ask him to come in and to save
you and to be the lord of your life. He'll
do it. That's a promise from God, and you'll be
a child of God and he will never, ever, ever,
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ever let you go. Now, if you've received Christ, you'll
want to find some Christian friends to help you grow
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