Episode Transcript
Proverbs chapter 10 verse 30 tonight. Proverbs chapter 10 verse 30.
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Everybody's going through something. It's always that way.
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Constant reminder this world's not our home.
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These tabernacles that we live in, they break. We're going to put them off and we're going to go see Jesus.
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The title of the message tonight is "I Shall Not Be Moved."
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A very good title for a lot of the terrible circumstances that people are requesting prayer for tonight.
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And tonight's verse, Solomon gives us another comparison between the righteous and the wicked.
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And I want you to think with me for a moment about a trend that we've been seeing here in our study of Proverbs.
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We've been seeing over and over again the way of the Lord. The way of the Lord.
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Talking about the road of the Lord.
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If you'll look with me in last week's verse, verse 29, Proverbs 10, 29 says,
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"The way of the Lord is strength to the upright, but destruction shall be to the workers of iniquity."
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And we've seen that over and over again. The way of the Lord is this or is that.
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And now we come to verse 30 tonight and there's no mention of the way.
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Rather there's a distinction given once again between the righteous and the wicked.
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And how many times have we seen that in our study? Over and over again.
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You see the way of the Lord over and over again.
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You would think, "Well, okay, well maybe they should, you know, Solomon should have had the way, all of the way of the Lord's put in one place.
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And all of the comparisons put in one place. He kind of divided up like that, but he didn't.
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They're sporadic and they're spread across the collection as a whole.
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And by doing that we're constantly reminded there's a road that God has established for the righteous.
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There's roads that the unrighteous have established for themselves.
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And then when we're looking here at the distinction between the righteous and the wicked,
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we're constantly reminded that those roads separate so far that they distinguish one from the other.
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So when you think of the way of the Lord, think of the path that the righteous travel.
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Believers always travel the narrow road that God has laid out for us in his word.
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Unbelievers, they take the broad road of their own godless thinking like all the other unbelievers.
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And so when you read about the way of the Lord, think of the path that the righteous travel.
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And then when you read about the comparisons between the righteous and the wicked, as we see here in verse 30 tonight,
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think of the two different distinctions, how they fork away from each other.
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They may seem so similar and one not seem so different than the other.
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They all will all lead to the same place, but the further you go, the further they separate.
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And I want you to think of the two different distinctions, the destinations where those paths lead to.
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Having each chosen a different road to travel, they're going to arrive at two different destinations.
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And that's the beauty of these proverbs, because a righteous person, they think far into the future. I do.
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I have always, since I was a kid, I've tried to think often to the future on some of my decisions.
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Jacob did before he was a believer. He's thinking of the birthright, you know, and he saw he's thinking of the here and now.
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Well, eventually that got applied to his spiritual sense, too, for Jacob.
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But the righteous, they're always thinking not just of the road they're on, they're thinking of the destination that road leads to.
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The unrighteous, all they're looking at is the smoothest road they can find, the best scenery it offers.
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Just like a lot, he was a righteous man, but he made an unrighteous choice when he chose Sodom.
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But the righteous is thinking, considering eternal consequences to the path that he takes or she takes.
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Well, an unrighteous person doesn't consider the end of the road.
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And every living person today is traveling on a road, and every road is coming to an end.
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You may have riches on your road, you may have comfort on your road in health and popularity.
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I like looking at historical photos.
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I was looking at a historical photo recently of Clark Gable. He was almost as handsome as Brother Shepherd.
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Clark Gable and Will Rogers, they were playing golf together.
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Here they were, these young, handsome men walking on the golf course, carrying their bag, got their clubs in their hand.
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This was in the 50s. That was their day, man. That was their day.
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They had the money, they had the fame, they had the good life. Everybody knew them, they were something in the community.
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But that road ended, and it's going to end for me and you.
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So I love these comparisons because they describe the end of the road.
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And Proverbs 10.30 first describes the end of the road, look back in your text, for the righteous.
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Proverbs 10.30, the righteous.
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Who are the righteous? Because the first thing the devil wants to do is say, well, that's the people who do good.
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You don't live very good, so you're not righteous, this doesn't apply to you.
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Let me tell you who the righteous are. The righteous are those poor sinners who have been made right through the blood of Christ.
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That's who the righteous are. I'm so glad that I'm a righteous person.
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Brother Richard, you're presumptuous saying you're righteous. No, I'm not presumptuous.
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I'd be an unbeliever if I didn't say I was righteous. I'm agreeing with God.
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Faith has been counted to him for righteousness.
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Ask the scripture, I'm righteous. Now I'm not self-righteous because in my flesh, as the apostle Paul said, dwells no good thing.
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I don't have the righteousness of God's law because I am guilty of violating God's law.
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But I do have the righteousness which is of God by faith unto all of them that believe in the Lord Jesus Christ.
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I'm not righteous based on the 10 commandments that were given on Mount Sinai.
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But I am righteous based on the 10 commandments that were in the tabernacle, that were covered by the mercy seat,
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that was covered by the blood that was shed for the guilty sinners.
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Those 10 commandments, those tables of stone, I am righteous by.
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I think it's amazing that Moses broke the first tables.
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All those first tables, they didn't make it. It had to be second tables.
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The tables on Mount Sinai? No, I'm not righteous by those.
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But once they got in that Holy of Holies and once they got put under that mercy seat and once that blood got placed there,
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those are the ones that I'm righteous by because when they're looking up, they got to see through that blood to see me.
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And when God looks at them, he's got to look at the blood to see the commandments.
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And I'm covered by them because I believe in Christ.
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That's the righteous that God's speaking about here tonight.
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Those whose sins are covered by the blood of Jesus, our great high priest who died for us.
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And these righteous people, the Bible says, if you'll look back in your text, shall never be moved.
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We have grieving people here tonight. We have grieving people who are watching online tonight.
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We have some heavy prayer requests tonight and people going through difficult things.
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And this is a scripture you should take tonight and chew on and meditate on and swallow it down.
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The righteous shall never be moved. The Hebrew word translated, sorry, removed.
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The Hebrew word translated removed here has the idea of something being removed from its God-ordained position.
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And the righteous shall never be removed from it.
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If I don't dwell forever in the kingdom of God, then I am removed from my eternal citizenship.
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The righteous shall never be removed.
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This verse is a panacea to everybody that will take it down and swallow it.
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You know what a panacea is? You know what a panacea is? A cure-all. It's a cure-all.
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I don't care what struggle you have. If you'll take this verse down, it will heal your broken heart.
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It may not fix the problem for now. The gospel fix all problems in the end.
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But it will heal your broken heart.
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The righteous shall never be removed. Never be put out of their God-ordained position.
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Again, if I don't dwell forever in the kingdom of God, then I have been removed from my citizenship in God's kingdom.
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That will never happen. If the love of God fills me, then I am removed from my eternal sonship in Jesus Christ.
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That's never going to happen. If I perish in my sin, then I am removed from my eternal salvation in Jesus Christ.
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That's never going to happen. If I am ultimately defeated by sin, Satan, and death, then I am removed from my eternal victory in Jesus.
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That's never going to happen. The righteous shall never be removed.
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The list goes on and on and on.
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The righteous shall never be removed from anything afforded to them to God's redeemed in the gospel covenant.
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Not going to happen. This proverb is so vast, so powerful, and so encouraging.
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Once again, it's a cure-all for all worries to the child of God.
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Now, if you want a blessing tonight, and I know you do, or you wouldn't have come here.
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If you want a blessing tonight, I want you to listen to the following Bible verses,
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where this Hebrew word, the same Hebrew word translated "removed," is used and translated in different ways
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to catch the concept of its meaning. Again, follow me here on this camera.
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Follow me here on this camera. Look over here now.
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There was a designer for this piano, and the designer put a hinge that goes all the way across right here.
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Uh-oh. Here we go. My goodness, I have to get on this side.
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Mama, I'm sorry. Don't sweat it. I will not break it, I promise.
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Is it locked? How do you unlock it? Well, honey, get up here.
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Huh?
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The designer did put a lock on this piano. How about that? I never knew.
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All right, maybe it's down here again. All right, go back to my original place.
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I've never seen that. Look at that. It's a good thing I didn't apply all my strength.
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I would have lifted this thing off the ground. It would have been bad.
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But look at that hinge. The designer ordained that that hinge would go right here.
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Now, if it went somewhere else, this wouldn't work.
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If it stuck on the side right here, it would have no purpose.
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But this is where the designer placed that hinge.
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God -- make sure I lock that up when we get through now --
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God has placed us in the covenant of His grace.
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He's placed us in His God-ordained eternal plan, just like that hinge.
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We're in the exact right place where God put us,
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just like your joints in your elbow, in your knees, and your shoulders,
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how your arms all connect in that socket. That's your God-ordained place.
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When something's removed out of that place, it's not good.
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It causes pain. It causes dysfunction. It causes disruption.
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It causes failure.
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The redeemed of God by God's Spirit, by His preordained plan for the elect --
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don't interpret elect as Calvinism, but as the biblical elect --
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God's preordained plan for His elect, the righteous will never be removed from it.
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Nothing can take them out of place.
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And I'm glad that was locked, because it's locked by God's eternal providence.
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As I couldn't get that thing open, the devil can't get you out of God's position.
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He has for you. Sin can't do it. You can't do it.
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Jesus said, "No man can pluck them from my Father's hand."
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But here's a blessing for you tonight.
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Listen to the following Bible verses where this Hebrew word is translated in these different ways,
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and you'll get a good taste of what this word means and how to apply it in your life.
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You'll see what the righteous are promised in Jesus.
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Psalm 55.22, and what I'm going to do when I get to this word, this Hebrew word that's translated,
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"removed" in Proverbs 10.30 tonight, I'm going to emphasize it so you'll know which word it is.
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Psalm 55.22, "Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee;
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he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved."
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How about that? They're not going to be moved.
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That hinge isn't going to be moved. This man's not going to be moved.
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Move from what? Move from God's eternal plan for your life in Christ Jesus.
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And you know what that is? To conform you to the image of his Son.
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And that means to take away every imperfection you have.
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That means to take away every problem you have.
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Take away every burden you have and make you whole forever in Jesus Christ.
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"So cast your burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain you;
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he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved."
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There is nothing in this world that can move the righteous from the place that God has ordained them to be.
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I like the old song that says, "My anchor holds, though the ship is tattered."
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I tell you what, my ship has gone through some stormy weather.
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I tell you what, but my anchor holds in Jesus Christ.
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Nothing in this world can blow the righteous from the gracious providence of Almighty God.
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My ship may have some holes in the sails, but it's never going to be lost at sea.
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My ship may have a tired sailor on board, and it does, but I will never be cast overboard.
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My ship may be assaulted by the enemy, and it is.
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But my ship's going to land on God's eternal shores, for he shall never suffer the righteous to be moved.
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Here's another one, Psalm 94, verse 18. Psalm 94, verse 18. I'm having fun.
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"When I said, 'My foot slippeth, thy mercy, O Lord, help me up.'"
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Oh, man. Now, you're talking about a visual here.
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Here's someone. Anyone fallen down recently? You? You? You?
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Well, you're a boy. You all fall down all the time. All right.
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You all play hard. When you slip and you fall, the reason...
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I know this is oversimplified, but just think about it.
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The reason you fall is because your foot loses contact with the surface.
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That's why. It slips, and it loses contact with that surface that's holding you up, and so you fall.
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And the psalmist is saying, "When I said, 'My foot's slipping.'"
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He said, "You hold me up." You know what that idea is? Come up here, sugar. Come up here.
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Here's the Christian. This Christian's going through some hard times,
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and the hard times are illustrated by a slippery surface.
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You got water coming on. You got oil coming on. You got wind blowing her, whatever.
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She's walking, and there's a slippery surface. The enemy's putting all that down,
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and she feels her foot starting to slide. She feels herself starting to fall back and go over,
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and she's about to fall. Go ahead. You're about to fall.
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But then someone loving and strong holds them up so they don't fall.
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Now, thank you, sugar. Look back in this text again. "When I said, 'My foot's slippeth.'"
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"Thy mercy, O Lord, held me up."
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Our feet are going to slip, but they won't slip to our fail here. They can't. Why?
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"Because your mercy, God, held me up." Now, what do we learn about mercy?
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Well, the mercy seat teaches us about mercy.
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And who put the blood on the mercy seat to make it merciful? The high priest did.
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It's all his work. "When I said, 'My foot's slippeth.'"
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"Thy mercy, O Lord, held me up."
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"A person slips when their feet lose contact with what they're standing on."
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And Solomon says tonight that the righteous shall never slip. Why?
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Because our feet will never lose contact with what we're standing on.
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And it's the rock, Jesus Christ, never lose contact.
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The mercy of God keeps our feet standing on the rock,
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no matter what happens when we say, "I'm slipping."
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Man, I remember old Miss Leota.
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Miss Leota, to me, she was a giant of a Christian. I loved Leota magnets.
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And I went to go see her one time in the nursing home,
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and her brains messed up, and she couldn't...
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Her sense of balance was all messed up.
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And she's sitting in her comfortable recliner in the nursing home.
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And she grabs that recliner and she goes, "I'm falling!"
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It was sad. "I'm falling!"
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And her caretaker was there and she said, "You're in your chair. You're okay."
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And she looked at her and she said, "I'm in my chair. I'm okay."
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She repeated back what she was told.
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Christians are just like that in the spiritual sense.
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In our mind, we think sometimes, "I'm falling!"
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No, and then God, through His Word here, says, "No, you're in Christ. You're okay. You're okay."
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And then in faith, we respond to God, "I'm in Christ. I'm okay."
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"My foot slipped." "No, the mercy of God holds us up."
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The righteous have a sure footing because we're standing on the rock that will never let us go.
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We cannot slip and fall because we forever stand in Him.
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Next verse, Psalm chapter 60, verse 2.
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The Bible says, "Thou hast made the earth to tremble."
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Now, how many of y'all saw that in Akkadoches County, not too far from here,
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we had an earthquake this week? Anybody saw that? All right.
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Glad that I'm not the only one informed.
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We had an earthquake this week. How many saw that there was a big earthquake?
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Was it Taiwan? Where was it? Was it Taiwan today?
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Yeah, another earthquake in Taiwan.
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You know what that is? That's the earth trembling.
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The earth trembling. He says, "Thou hast made the earth to tremble."
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"Thou hast broken it." Then he says, "Heal the breaches thereof, for it shaketh."
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That's that same word removed. It's shaketh.
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You see what's happening here?
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The psalmist is saying, "Look, the earth trembles. You've made the earth tremble.
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You've broken it."
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Because of Adam's sin, God cursed the ground for Adam's sake.
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The ground has been cursed. It's been coughing up these weeds and thorns and thistles.
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It trembles. It shakes because the foundations thereof have been broken due to sin.
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Then the psalmist says to God in prayer, "Heal the breaches thereof, for it shakes."
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God's going to heal the breaches. He's going to take the broken places and heal this earth.
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He's going to make it new, just like He's made us new in Christ.
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He's going to make the earth new like He made us new.
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The curse where God cursed the ground for Adam's sake, He's going to bless the ground for Jesus' sake.
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It's all going to be made new.
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Jesus said, "Behold, I make all things new."
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So the earth shakes right now, many of us falling apart because of man's rejection of God.
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Listen to how the book of the Revelation describes this present world at the end of time.
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Shaken, moved out of its God-ordained place.
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Remember, that's what we're looking at here with this word.
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Revelation 6.13. Revelation 6.13.
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"And the stars of heaven fell unto the earth, even as a fig casteth her untimely figs,
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when she is shaken of a mighty wind."
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Here are these stars that God put in their place.
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But because of sin, they get cast out of their place. They get removed from their place.
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The earth is shaken. It's like a fig tree that gets shaken by a wind, and the figs fall, once again, out of their place.
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God put them in the branch, but because of sin, the figs fall.
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But when God puts you in Jesus, the wind can blow all it wants to.
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And you're not going to fall like a fig because you're in his body like a member.
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You're not going to fall like a star because you're seated together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus.
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This world is shaking right now, and listen, it's going to become even more shaky as we go.
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You get ready for it.
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"But the righteous shall never be shaken because we belong to a kingdom, a Savior,
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and a new heaven and a new earth that shall never fall apart."
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Here's the kingdom truth for you tonight.
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We are unshakable people living in a shaking world.
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We are unshakable people living in a shaking world.
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Just because the world's shaking, does that not mean you'll be shaken.
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You can't be shaken. You'll never suffer the righteous to be shaken.
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Now, notice that Solomon said, "We shall..."
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How often? "Be removed." What does it say?
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"Rise shall never be removed."
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See, the gospel, I've got this belt on, it's got a hundred-year warranty.
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It really does.
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But the people who gave the hundred-year warranty, they're not going to be here in a hundred years.
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I've got a car with a lifetime powertrain warranty.
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Some of you all have those.
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That insurance company that warranted that for a lifetime, they may go out of business next year.
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Listen, the gospel has a forever warranty.
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Forever. Never be shaken. Never be removed. Never slip.
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I have accepted Christ as my Savior, but what if this happens, Brother Richard?
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What if I do that or something else?
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God said you shall never be removed.
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There's nothing that can happen in the future that can remove you from your eternal position in Jesus Christ.
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The righteous shall never be removed from the gospel promises.
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Look back in your text now as we begin to close.
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But the wicked, that is those who have rejected the grace of God,
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therefore they are not eternally established in God's Son,
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it says the wicked shall not inhabit the earth.
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Now that's pretty deep when you think on it.
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You think of every person right now who's rejected Christ as their Savior.
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They may own a ranch.
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They may have their name on the gate that opens automatically when they drive up.
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That may have been their family for years.
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They may all own the mineral rights.
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Not long from now, when Jesus comes back, they won't be here.
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They're not going to live here.
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They may be in the White House.
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They may have a castle somewhere.
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They may have the secret service around them or bodyguards or whatever else.
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They're not going to be here.
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Not if they reject Jesus Christ.
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They will not inhabit the earth.
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The word "inhabit" here has the idea of being placed where you're supposed to be,
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just like the hinge.
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Now the word "removed" that we looked at has the idea of being taken out of that place
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where you're supposed to be.
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This word has the idea of being where you're supposed to be.
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So while we'll not be removed from our ordained place in the Lord Jesus Christ,
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they'll never inhabit the place that we have.
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They'll never see it.
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They'll never see the kingdom of God.
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Jesus talked about that to those Jewish leaders.
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He said, "How sad they were going to be when they saw all these people enter into God's kingdom,
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and they themselves cast out."
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Why? They're not going to inhabit it.
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Now this word here "inhabit" is the same word where God put the cherubims there
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to guard the way of the tree of life.
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At the entrance to the Garden of Eden, God put them there.
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He made them inhabit that place.
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It was God's ordained place for them, and for all eternity,
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the wicked will not be where God designed them to be.
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Why? Because the only way, when Adam sinned, we all got out of that place.
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When Jesus came back and did what Adam should have done,
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then through Jesus we get put back in.
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So in Christ we get put back into place.
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We are now in Jesus. We are now in the Father.
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It will never be removed from there.
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We're in the hand of the Son, in the hand of the Father, sealed by the Holy Spirit of God,
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but those who never accept Christ never get put back into place.
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They're people out of joint. People separated from their God.
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So for all eternity, they'll never be where God designed them to be.
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They'll always be out of place.
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The people were never created to be separated from God and hell. Never.
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That's not God's ordained place for them.
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Why won't the wicked inhabit the earth?
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Because the wicked are part of the shaking world, which is passing away.
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God is going to replace this sinful, shaking world with a sinless, unshakeable one.
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And only unshakeable people can inhabit an unshakeable world.
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Brother Richard, why are you unshakeable? Because Jesus is unshakeable, and I believe on Him.
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Then you have in a new earth that Jesus is going to make.
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It won't allow sin to enter into it.
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Because sin would destroy it, just like it did this one.
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So the righteous shall never be removed from God's promised land for them.
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But the wicked shall never inhabit it.
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What distinct endings of those two roads.
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Here's a kingdom truth for you tonight.
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The righteous can't slip out of God's kingdom.
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The wicked can't slip in.
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Repeat that again.
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The righteous, those who trust in Christ, the righteous can't slip out of God's kingdom.
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The wicked can't slip in.
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The righteous shall never be removed.
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The wicked shall never inhabit it.
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With that, we'll go ahead and close tonight.
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Father, we thank you so much for your precious word.
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We thank you once again for these prayer requests that were mentioned tonight.
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And once again, we just bring them up to your throne.
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We leave them there.
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Pray for your mercy for the broken hearts.
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We thank you, God, that one day, the death,
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the children, Lord, who lose their lives,
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who reminds us, Father, of what it must feel like to you, Father,
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to have watched Adam and Eve, to watch so many others lose their lives
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as a result of their own choice.
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But Lord, one day all that's going to be over,
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and you're going to heal the breaches.
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The world's trembling.
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It's shaking.
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But in Jesus, you'll heal the breaches
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of our hearts and of your creation.
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And I want to thank you tonight, God.
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I want to thank you for that little baby, Lord,
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whose body is in his or her mother's womb right now,
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that their spirit is with you.
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And how wonderful it would be, I just wonder,
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if that child could listen to our message tonight,
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look down on his grandmother,
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and know, Father, that although she's brokenhearted,
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she doesn't sorrow without hope.
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And, Father, I thank you for taking that child to heaven.
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I don't know how old the other child was who passed away,
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but I thank you, the God of all the earth will do right,
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and we commit them to your hands,
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our great judge and coming king. Amen.
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