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Proverbs chapter 10 verse 25 Proverbs chapter 10
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20 I'm kidding with you online. I'm totally kidding. I
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Am totally kidding Proverbs 10 verse 25. I hope you're having a good time tonight. You gotta you gotta laugh or cry sometimes
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I choose to laugh
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the title of message tonight is a stone in a storm a
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stone in a storm I can just see brother Rick's blood pressure go up and his eye twitching when that happened I
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Tell you why this is a fantastic verse tonight. I
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Really enjoyed when I opened it up and I went to the next verse to see
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What I would be studying to expound tonight and I read that verse and it struck a beautiful chord in my heart
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And when I read it, I'm in awe
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Of the beauty and the comfort that this verse brings me
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The words are as poetic as they are powerful
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This verse I believe is worthy of us committing to our memory
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Because it's not only applicable for our particular day and time in general, but there's going to come times
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In our specific lives when we encounter
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situations
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And the Holy Spirit can bring this verse to our memory and give us something stable to stand on
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And and set our minds at ease as we're we're put back in that right frame of mind through the scripture
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Tonight Solomon again compares the righteous and the wicked. He does a lot of these comparisons
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And if you've taken the Genesis to Jesus class, then you may know the righteous and the wicked in a in a more familiar
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Term as like the serpent seed and the woman seed or the way of Cain the way of Abel
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Those who trust in their God and those who rebel against him those the two groups of people that
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Exist in this world some are more obvious
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to
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Point out than the others, you know to pick out others
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They're a little more subtle and you won't know until the day of judgment perhaps
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But these two groups are at odds with each other. They've been at odds with each other
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from the beginning and they've occupied the earth together in every
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Generation the righteous and the wicked and they'll continue to occupy the earth together
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Remember the parable that Jesus gave the tares and the wheat
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that was speaking of the righteous and the wicked and
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What did the the the owner of the the field say let them both grow together until harvest time?
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That's what happens now the righteous and the wicked continue to grow together
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until harvest time
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When you say when we think about them growing together, it means their time
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they sprouted in the beginning as
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History continues to pass as time continues to pass
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Not the individual
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Seed or the individual grain but the the righteous and the wicked as a whole it
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matures that time matures
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the Bible would call
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One of them the fullness of the Gentiles
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Okay, it's speaking of that maturity of time and then when the time that season comes
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When it's time for God to judge between the two to bring one to a wonderful
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Destination forever and the other to a terrible destination forever
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Depending on his judgment and what category of people they fall into
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But they're both going to continue to grow together
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In in the maturity of their particular class
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until the time of harvest
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When Jesus came the righteous people the wheat they wanted to follow him
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The wicked people the tears they wanted to crucify him stone him
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Not long ago. We watched homeowners
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stand outside to defend their home after a mob of unruly people broke into their gated community and
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And the mob was not prosecuted the homeowners were
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They weren't breaking into anyone's property. They weren't trespassing. They weren't scaring anybody
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Putting anyone in jeopardy of possibly losing their home or fear of it
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But but who prosecutes people like that the wicked do the wicked do
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Not too long ago we've seen American citizens
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Prosecuted
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For for refusing to to serve homosexuals because it violates their
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deeply held religious beliefs and
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We've seen the government
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Prosecuted its citizens over that issue
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We've seen them prosecuted them over
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Not making wedding cakes or not issuing marriage licenses and them losing their their jobs
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Just because they stood on God's Word
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Or they stood for law and order once again, that's the wicked persecuting the righteous
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They've been doing it ever since Cain killed Abel the wicked people are
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Destructive people they harm society they harm individuals
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they destroy themselves even and
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Because of that because they're so cruel and they're so fierce
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Solomon likens them tonight to a storm
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in
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Proverbs 10 25
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He says
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In verse 25 as the whirlwind passeth
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the whirlwind
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Boy in East Texas we might or Kansas they say that's a twister
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All right back in the day, but but he's caught a whirlwind here
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We could people Solomon said are like a whirlwind and a whirlwind is a hurricane like storm
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Yeah, if you're not near the ocean it'd be a tornado
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But that's the most powerful storm that we have is one that that gets into a cyclone
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And gets that that incredible
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Force of wind it's very devastating
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That's the type of storm that
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Solomon says the wicked are
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not a rain shower
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Not a gentle cool breeze on the summer's day
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But a tempestuous
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whirlwind kind of storm
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Hurricanes calls damage
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hurricanes wreak havoc
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Hurricanes bring fear in death
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And that's what the wicked do
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wicked wicked people destroy
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Societies they destroy
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Families you watch what they're doing to families today
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Never in my life when I was growing up what I have dreamt that the government would have taken a poor
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innocent child and
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allow two
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Homosexual men to adopt that child and pretend like they're that baby's parents
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Never in my life would I have a dreamt that but they destroy homes. They're destroying children
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They're destroying the minds of of our society
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They will destroy you if you stand in their way if they get the chance
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It's the wicked leaders in our land that are oppressing their citizens
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It's the wicked citizens who are breaking into houses looting stores
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lying
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insulting
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defrauding in killing their fellow man
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It's the wicked who are burning down churches that's going on right now in different parts of the world in
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Persecuting Christians in different parts of the world the wicked are like a hurricane. They're like a whirlwind
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Hurricanes cause damage they wreak havoc and bring fear in death, but take your pins now
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Get ready for a blessing and underscore these three
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beautiful words
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the whirlwind passes
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Isn't that good?
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The whirlwind passeth if we stopped right there
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That would be enough to say a man on praise the Lord go home hide that in your heart and say alright
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but the whirlwind
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passeth
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No matter how bad it is. I've seen a lot of storms
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You guys here in May Bank y'all seen a lot of tornadoes come through
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And no matter how bad that storm is no matter how big it is you can pull it up on the map
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You can watch that radar come and whoa. That's a big one
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No matter how big and powerful that storm is every storm
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passes
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It has the whirlwind passes
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The Bible says look back in your text now. So is the wicked no more
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So is the wicked no more
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sometimes when a when a storm comes on it covers the entire sky overhead I
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Mean every now then you know you can see the Sun shining in one place and you can see you know rain in another place
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But but but most of the time and especially if it's a large storm it covers the entire sky
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You can't see anything but clouds
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You can't feel anything, but when you can't hear anything but thunder and rain
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or hail
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And it blocks out any appearance of the Sun
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And when this happens it looks like the storms completely in control where you are
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And you can see that storm coming on you can feel that wind you can hear that lightning coming on and if
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everybody in the city of May Bank
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Were to join hands together and get out in the edge of town and stand there to protest the storm
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There's not a thing you can do about it. It's gonna bulldoze right on through and
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It won't care about your feelings at all
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You get a big old hurricane come through man we watched
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I've seen some of the damage going there working for the state and man it just rips
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Houses right from the neighborhoods, and there's nothing left
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nothing left
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But maybe a slab if they had one or the little little stilts little pieces of stilts
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Left that the house was built on if they had that type of foundation
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And it just wreaks havoc and there's not a thing you can do about it
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The only thing you can do in a storm like that comes is flee
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And if you can't flee the only thing you can do is try to find shelter and
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Just watch the damage happen
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Because you can't stop it
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Can't stop it
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But the next thing you know
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the storms no more
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And in the same way
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The wicked sometimes they seem like they're in such control
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It's like they've covered the sky
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There's little hope of justice right now in our nation I hear people saying oh
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They've discovered this so they discovered that or they've got this or that going on and you just think man
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I have no confidence in judicial system at all anymore
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They're not you and you know if it's somebody they're not going to prosecute them if it's somebody else you know they will I
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mean, it's just obvious it's in your face and
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And you watch all of that happen
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And you feel so helpless
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You watch what they're doing to your nation
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In in it's the same way as the storm
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You just crawl inside your little Christian house
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You take shelter in it and all you can do is helplessly watch as they're destroying your land
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As it is drawing the nation you grew up in
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It's a it's a really hard thing to watch and we're watching that
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today
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But once again the wicked may seem like they're in complete control today
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It may seem like there's nothing you can do but sit back and watch the damage as it happens
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and
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For the most part at this time that's true
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I
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Growing up in the era. I did the United States. It's hard for me to watch the wicked spread across the sky I
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Can preach against wickedness
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Don't dare comment against it on Facebook man. You'll have everybody get on you. They'll think you're crazy
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They'll call you bad names. They'll get angry at you I
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Can't stop the wickedness happening in our nation
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Sadly I've had to take shelter inside my Christian house for several years now and watch the damage occur, but the good news is
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Once again
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One day these wicked people are going to pass away and be no more
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The storms going to be over
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One day the Sun's going to be shining
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The birds are going to be singing praises to our God and
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The eternal rainbow will be seen in the sky and his name's Jesus
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The time of the wicked is coming to an end and the day of the Lord will soon come
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One day there's going to be no place the Bible says in that day the knowledge of the Lord will cover the earth
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There's the water covers the seas
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You put all that together, you know what that's saying
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It's saying one day there'll be no place where God is not known
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And there'll be no sign of the wicked wherever here
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Can you imagine a day like that?
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That day is coming
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as the whirlwind passes
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So the wicked is no more look back in your text, but the righteous ah
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Here's the comparison, but the righteous now the righteous that's a whole different matter altogether
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Understand the righteous and the wicked once again, they occupied this world at the same time. Let them both grow together
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Now what does that mean?
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well if the righteous in the wicked dwell together in this world in
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The Bible says the wicked are
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the storm
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That means the righteous dwell among the storm you see we dwell among the storm
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Why is that so important?
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Well, there's nothing that would please the wicked more than to eradicate the righteous
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Just like a whirlwind wipes houses off their foundations
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I've never seen a house attack a whirlwind. I've never seen a house
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Attack a tornado or a hurricane. I've seen always the hurricanes in the tornadoes attacking the homes
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attacking the people
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We were no threat to the world
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If the world would leave the church alone man, we'd be the greatest blessing this world's ever seen
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Like Jesus
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The righteous aren't here to condemn the world but the world through the church might be saved
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Through his ministry through the preaching of the gospel
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But we dwell among the wicked which means we dwell among the storm
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We live where the storm is at
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The wicked are always trying to rid the world of us
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And so wickedness is a storm to the righteous
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It's a storm that we must endure
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You have to understand don't don't fluff your nest up here on this earth and expect everything to be nice for you
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It's not going to be
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Since the wicked and the righteous dwell together and since the Bible says
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That the wicked are like a whirlwind
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We have to understand Christians do not live under sunny skies
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They live under stormy skies
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That's what we're called to face. That's what we're called to endure. That's the atmosphere
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We're called to be faithful to God in but the storm will pass and the righteous will remain
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Here's the kingdom truth for you tonight
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The wicked pass like a whirlwind
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The righteous remain like a rock
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The wicked pass like a whirlwind
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The righteous remain like a rock
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Solomon said the wicked pass like a whirlwind, but the righteous look back in your text is an everlasting foundation
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Excuse me, here's a note you can make tonight
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Every believer understand the comparison the wicked are like a storm that passes
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The righteous is an everlasting foundation
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The wicked and the righteous dwell together
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That means the righteous dwells in the storm until the storm passes
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But they remain like a rock they're an everlasting foundation
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put all that together and here is something you can put in your heart and
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Bank on and it's that every believer
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Has temporary trouble in
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everlasting life
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Every believer has temporary trouble in
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Everlasting life
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We have temporary trouble because of the wicked world that we live in we have everlasting life because of the everlasting
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Foundation we're standing upon
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Deuteronomy chapter 33 verse 27 Deuteronomy chapter 33 verse 27
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the
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Eternal God is thy refuge now. What do we do in the storm?
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We seek refuge
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The eternal God is thy refuge and underneath are the everlasting arms
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Where are the everlasting arms?
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underneath
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What's underneath you the foundation you're standing on?
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How beautiful the scriptures harmonized together?
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When you're here you're called to live you're called to serve you're called to to be a witness for God
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Not under sunny skies, but under stormy skies
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With the knowledge
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That the storm will eventually pass away
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That you will remain and that in the meantime you have a refuge and that is
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your
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eternal God in
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Underneath you Oh above you
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there's stormy skies
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But underneath you there's everlasting arms and you stand on those everlasting arms and they hold you up
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So that you shall not be moved
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Everlasting arms he says and he shall thrust out the enemy
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From before thee and shall stay destroy them
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Man that's good
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So what do we have we have an eternal God that's our refuge in the middle of the storm underneath us
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We have everlasting arms you've heard that song leaning leaning leaning on everlasting arms
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That's where this comes from and he that is our eternal God who is our everlasting
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Foundation beneath us he shall thrust out the enemy from before us which means the storm will pass
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When the enemy is thrust out the storm is gone
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He was left after the storm I have never yet seen a hurricane or a tornado wipe away a slab
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Never
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You see the splintered wood you see the insulation you see sheet metal
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You may see bricks if it's a super big whirlwind
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But man you never see the concrete foundation pulled up and moved somewhere else
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When the storms gone those everlasting arms are there and those everlasting arms hang on to us
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Why we're part of that foundation
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We're part of that foundation
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Where are those everlasting arms are underneath us
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They're the foundation of Jesus Christ our rock
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That we've staked our hope upon
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Having heard the gospel. What do we do when we hear the gospel when we hear the gospel?
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Here we are. We're raised up in this world man. The gospel is so simple. We're raised up in the world and over here we realize
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Man I'm on sinking sand
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You ever watch those movies you got somebody in quicksand
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I thought there were quicksand everywhere when I was a kid because he had it in movies all the time
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You grow up you can't find it anywhere
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but anyway
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You're standing in sand
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And it's gonna wash away real easy and you realize it's only a matter of time because of my sin
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That my foundation is gonna be washed away by God's judgment
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On the matter of time because what did the Bible just say and do to run ami? He's gonna drive the wicked out
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In other words the storm is gonna face a bigger storm
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And God's gonna wipe them out
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and
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so
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What happens is you realize?
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My time is coming up the foundation. I'm standing on which is my
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My righteousness which is as filthy rags
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I'm not my guilt and everything. It's a foundation. That's surely gonna be swept away and blown away by the wrath of God
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I cannot last like this
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Then you hear the good news of what Jesus did for you
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You hear that he became righteousness for you. He obeyed the law on your behalf
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He took your guilt and died in your place
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And so what happens you realize there's another foundation laid for me
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Bible says there's no other foundation that can be laid except for Jesus Christ
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The foundation we're reading about in Proverbs is Jesus the foundation the everlasting arms are reading about in Deuteronomy
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That's Jesus. There's no other foundation that can be laid
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And we were here the news of the gospel realize man
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When that judgment day comes I don't want to be on this foundation. And so we make the choice
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to abandon
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The foundation we were born into our own righteousness
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Our sin our guilt our inheritance and Adam and we come over and we choose to stand
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On the foundation of the gospel
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It we're placing our hope on it by standing on it. We're we're trusting that that foundation is going to last
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That this is going to be swept away
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But what Jesus did it's not going anywhere
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God's storm will never blow it away. And since I'm standing on it, it won't blow me away
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Nobody's standing on the foundation of the gospel is gonna get blown away
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By the storm of God's judgment not going to happen
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If you have an everlasting foundation, you've got an everlasting life you've got everlasting people
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That's how it works
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You've got everlasting arms and everyone that goes and stands on the everlasting arms that built that foundation
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They have everlasting life. They shall not perish like that on that foundation. They'll have everlasting life
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It's a very beautiful thing. That's how come the wicked. I'm sorry the righteous are an everlasting foundation
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So we not only rest
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Upon the everlasting foundation
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but since
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We believe in Christ we become his bride
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Therefore we're members of his body of his flesh and of his bones
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which means
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His arms are our arms. We're part of his body
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The everlasting arms belong to us
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We're one and the same with Jesus our head
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And that means we're not only on the foundation but we are the foundation
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The righteous are
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The righteous is an everlasting
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Foundation
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The wicked are the storm that passes
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And we are the rock that remains forever long after the storm is gone and we'll close with this verse tonight
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Matthew chapter 7 verse 24 and 25
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Puts a nice neat bow on the biblical package
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Matthew 7 verse 24 and 25
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Therefore whosoever here at these sayings of mine Jesus said and doeth them
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I will liken him unto a wise man
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Which built his house upon a rock and the rain descended and the floods came
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They come all right, don't they but what happens to the rains and the flood is gonna pass
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in the winds blew and
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Beat upon that house why because you've got the righteous and the wicked in
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One's always against the other our house gets beat upon. But what does he say?
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And it fell not
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For it was founded upon a rock
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People I have people all the time I have people all the time
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Say
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Brother Richard, I don't know if I'm really trusting in Jesus. I don't know if I'm really believing in Jesus
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I'm not sure I know how to someone told me this week. I'm not sure I know how to trust in Jesus
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You'll look at me look at me standing here in this spot
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It was founded upon a rock that's how come the house stood
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Look here. Let's say that I'm on a rock right here
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Let's say I've got really poor posture
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I'm still on the rock
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Let's say I'm sick. I don't feel so good. I'm still on the rock
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Let's say I lean one side this way and I'm doing like this. Where am I?
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I'm on the rock
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If you're on the rock you're on the rock you're on the rock. It's not how
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You're on it's where you're on you see it's not how you stand. It's where you're standing
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Or where you're sitting or where you're lying down
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They brought a man paralyzed to Jesus he was on his bed I
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Didn't keep Jesus from saving them
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As long as you're on that rock
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As long as you've staked your hope your soul's eternity upon what Jesus has done
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You're on an everlasting gospel you've got an everlasting life
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Father we thank you so much tonight
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The wicked are here
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The tears are growing up with the wheat
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And Lord they're choking our space
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And they're grievous to us and we're watching them proliferate
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Your field and
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Like weeds do they grow awful fast
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But Lord very soon
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There'll be no more
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But the righteous will remain forever
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Because we've chosen dear Lord God to not build our hopes and dreams upon the foundation of Adam
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To not follow the way of Cain
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But to place our hope on the lamb who died for us
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And to wait for his kingdom to come and read every tear
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From the earth you created and you make all things new
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Thank you father for this wonderful promise of the storm does pass
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But the righteous remain forever in
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Jesus name we thank you amen
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