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Covenant Requirements For Long Life

Creflo Dollar

February 16, 2021

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Creflo: We're going toteach tonight on "Covenant
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Requirements for Long Life."
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In other words, what is itthat's stated in the covenant of
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God that you have a right towhere long life is concerned?
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And I'd like to go toPsalm 91:1 through 16.
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I'm gonna look at this in the--let's look at it in the NLT.
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I wanna pick out somepoints here in Psalms 91
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that will help us toreally understand
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what we need to dowhere this is concerned.
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Let's read 1 through 16.
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And some of you, you know, weread it every morning in our
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morning confessions.
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And then let's look at somethings that I believe will
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help you out.
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Psalms 91 verse 1 says, "Thosewho live in the shelter of the
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Most High will find rest inthe shadow of the Almighty.
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This I declare about theLord: He alone is my refuge,
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my place of safety;
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he is my God, and I trust him.
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For he will rescue you fromevery trap and protect you
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from deadly disease.
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He will cover youwith his feathers.
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He will shelteryou with his wings.
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His faithful promises areyour armor and protection.
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Do not be afraid of the terrorsof the night, nor the arrow that
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flies in the day.
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Do not dread the disease thatstalks in darkness, nor the
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disaster that strikes at midday.
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Though a thousand fall at yourside, though ten thousand are
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dying around you, theseevils will not touch you.
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Just open your eyes, and seehow the wicked are punished.
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If you make the lord yourrefuge, if you make the Most
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High your shelter, noevil will conquer you;
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no plague willcome near your home.
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For he will order his angelsto protect you wherever you go.
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They will hold you up with theirhands so you won't even hurt
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your foot on a stone.
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You will trampleupon lions and cobras;
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you will crush fierce lionsand serpents under your feet.
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The lord say, 'I willrescue those who love me.
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I will protect thosewho trust in my name.
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When they call onme, I will answer;
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I will be with them in trouble.
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I will rescue and honor them.
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I will reward themwith long life
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and give them my salvation.'"
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Now, from this, I wannapick out some key issues
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that, if we'll begin to operatein, it begins to lead us to this
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place of long life, andthe first one is in verse 1.
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Number one, lay hold of secrets.
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Lay hold of secrets.
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And when you layhold of secrets,
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that's called revelation.
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It's important that welay hold of secrets
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or we gain revelation.
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Verse 1, says, "Those who livein the shelter of the Most High
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will find rest in theshadow of the Almighty."
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What is it that you canlay hold of, living in
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the shelter of the Most High?
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What is it that you can layhold of, resting in the shadow
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of the Almighty?
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You know, John 8, verse 32,says the truth you know on long
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life--you know, the Bible says,"The truth will make you free."
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Well, the truth that you know onlong life is what determines the
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freedom you enjoy fromthe harassment of death.
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I believe the truth thatyou know about long life.
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We've been sharingtruth concerning long life.
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I believe the more truth thatyou begin to understand about
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long life, it beginsto set you free from
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the harassment of death.
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You know, Luke 10 and 19says something about the enemy
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because--you know, it'simportant: "Faith cometh by
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hearing, andhearing the Word of God."
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Faith for long life cometh byhearing, and hearing the Word of
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God concerning long life.
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You're not gonna have--you'renot gonna be able to release
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your faith for somethingthat you're ignorant of.
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You're not gonna be able toloose your faith for something
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that you don't know.
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I can't tell you how imperativeit is for a Christian to
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understand how vital it isto get in the Word of God.
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This is a part of your life.
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It's who you are.
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It's something that you do, andyou've chosen to do, communing
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with God and communingwith the Word of God.
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I believe that strengthensyou to live long life.
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We saw that in oneof our sessions.
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Look what he says in 10,verse 19, Luke 10:19, "Behold,
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I give unto you power to treadon serpents and scorpions,
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and over all the power ofthe enemy: and nothing shall
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by any means hurt you."
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Now, look, thisfirst word, "power."
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"Behold, I give untoyou authority--"
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that's the right to command.
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You have the authorityor the right to command.
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You can command long life.
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"I give unto youauthority to tread
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on serpents and scorpions,"
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you have authority to haveabsolute mastery over
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serpents, over scorpions, oranything that comes from Satan,
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"and you have authorityover all of the power--"
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now, this word, second power,it's translated "ability."
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You have authority over all ofthe ability of your enemy, all
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of the ability of your enemy.
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You have authority, or theright to command over all of the
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ability of your enemy,and watch this:
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"and nothing shall byany means hurt you."
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That's a Scripture youtake and you lay hold of.
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Death is an enemy, and it wantsto cause you to operate in those
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things that produce death.
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It wants to cause youto think and to talk
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and to act a certain way.
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Death is an enemy, and it wantsto kill, steal, and to destroy.
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And so now you've gotta get arevelation and an understanding
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that you cannot allow the enemyto come in and motivate you and
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move you to, again,speak things that will
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cause self-destruction,think things that will
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cause self-destruction--certain ways that you could
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go that'll causeself-destruction.
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You know, the Bible says, "Thereis a way that seems right unto a
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man, but the endthereof is destruction."
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And so we've got to understand,let's get into the presence
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of God, let's communewith the Word of God.
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Let's lay hold ofrevelation knowledge.
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Let's know the truth about longlife, and when we know the truth
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about long life, then we put aend to the harassment of death.
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So that's the first thingthere, lay hold of secrets.
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Here's a second thing that wedo, and we've been talking about
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this for the last couple ofsessions: speak long life.
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Psalms 91, verse 2,speak long life.
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Here's what he says in verse 2,he says, "This I declare about
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the Lord: He alone is my refuge,
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he's my place of safety;
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he's my God, and I trust him."
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He says that--theydeclared this about the Lord.
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See, you got to declareabout the Lord long life.
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Long life, yougotta speak long life.
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I will say, you know,what you don't say--
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listen, if you don't sayit, you'll never see it.
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If you don't say it--what youdon't say, don't expect to see.
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They declared about theLord, "He alone is my refuge.
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He is my fortress.He's my safety."
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Why would they say that?
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Because they know if you don'tsay it, you don't get to see it.
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And so that is so powerful.
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And there are so many Scripturesthat bear witness with this
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throughout the Word ofGod, and hopefully--
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I'm really praying thatyou get a revelation on
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making confessionsand saying things.
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If you don't sayit, you don't see it.
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Let's look at someScriptures here: Mark 11:23,
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he says, "For verilyI say unto you, That whosoever
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shall say unto this mountain,Be thou removed, and be thou
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cast into the sea; shall notdoubt in his heart, but shall
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believe that thosethings which he," what?
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"Saith shall come topass; he shall," what?
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"Have," what?
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"Whatever he saith."
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So, you know, you speaklong life, you have long life.
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You have what you say.
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And then we've already looked at
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Proverbs 18:21,let's do it again.
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Proverbs 18:21 says,"Death and life is in
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the power of the tongue."
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So if you want life, youput life in your mouth.
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You want death, you'llput death in your mouth.
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Look at Numberschapter 14 and 28.
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Just giving you some Scripturesto understand that speaking long
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life is very important.
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Speaking long life.
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You have a right to it, butspeaking long life is important.
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He says in verse 28, "Say untothem, As truly as I live, saith
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the Lord, as you have spoken inmy ears, so will I do to you."
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"As you have spoken to myears, so will I do to you."
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It's just over and over again,bearing witness to, "Well, if
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you speak long life,you're gonna have long life."
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Look at Matthewchapter 12, and verse 36.
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Matthew 12:36.
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I pray these Scriptureswill convince you to be more
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sensitive to what you areallowing can come out of
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your mouth--deathcoming out of your mouth
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or life comingout of your mouth.
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Verse 36 says, "But I sayunto you, That every idle word,"
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every empty word, "that menshall speak, they shall give an
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account thereof inthe day of judgment."
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Are you being judged bythe words that you speak?
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Are you being judged--you don'twanna give an account of not
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having a long life becauseyou're being judged of always
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talking about, you know,death, and you're being
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judged by alwaystalking about those things
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that go against long life.
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Psalms 34, verses 12 through 13.
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Psalms 34--and getthese Scriptures down
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and meditate on 'em.
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12 through 13, he says,"What man is he that desireth
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life, and loveth manydays, that he may see good?"
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Verse 13, "Keep thy tonguefrom evil, and thy lips
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from speaking guile."
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All right, now, weread that over in the
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New Testament, butyou see it here.
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Go back to verse 12,'cause notice what he says.
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If you desire thesethings, this is how you get it.
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He says, "If you desire life, ifyou love many days and you wanna
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see good," he says, "allright, you gotta get your tongue
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right," verse 13, you gottamake sure that you keep your
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tongue from evil and thatyour lips from speaking guile,
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or deceit or lies.
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Now look at Psalms 81, verses10 through 14, Psalms 81.
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See, when you don't know thesethings and you don't recognize
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the truths of the gospel,and, you know, you could be--
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because you don't know howpowerful your mouth is, then,
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you know, you could bekilling yourself and don't even
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know it, don't even know it.
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You know, you're a part of theworld, and "This Christian stuff
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sounds ridiculous, and there'sno way that by just saying it
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something happens," and you're,you know--and you just don't
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understand how you've chosen togo down to a path that's gonna
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lead to destruction,and you can change that.
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Verse 10 through 14, says, "I amthe Lord thy God, which brought
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thee out of the land of Egypt:
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open thy mouth wide,and I will fill it."
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"Open your mouth wide,and I will fill it."
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Verse 11, "But my people wouldnot hearken to my voice; and
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Israel would none of me.
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So I gave them up unto their ownhearts' lust: and they walked in
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their own counsels.
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Oh that my people had hearkenedunto me, and Israel had walked
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in my ways!
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I should soon have subdued theirenemies, and turned my hand
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against theiradversaries," but they wouldn't
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do the simple thing.
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They wouldn't do the thing'cause it just seemed like it
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didn't make sense in theworld--just seemed like, you
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know, "Who in the world wouldbelieve something like that?"
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All right, it's importantnow that we understand
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how powerful these things are.
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Look at Genesis chapter 8, in22, and then Galatians 6, in 7.
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Why do we need tosay these things?
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Why is it important forus to begin to do this--
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speaking long life?
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Why is that important?
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He says, "While the earthremains, seedtime and harvest,
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cold and heat, summer, winter,day, and night shall not cease."
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Now, the part I want you to seeis that "seedtime and harvest
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will not cease."
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And so one of the reasons youspeak the Word is because, by
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speaking the Word on long life,you're sowing seeds concerning
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long life, and "While the earthremains, seedtime and harvest
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won't cease," so thatbegins to come to pass.
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And look at Galatians chapter6, in verse 7: "Be not deceived;
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God is not mocked," or made afool of, "for whatsoever a man
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soweth, that shallhe also reap."
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Look at this in theNew Living Translation.
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So, again, he's talkingabout "What are you sowing?"
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When you speak words,it's like a farmer who sows
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seed into the ground.
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You're speaking words, and thosewords are like seeds that are
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being sown, you know,into the ground of life.
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He said, "Don't be misled."
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And that's what happens whenpeople are telling you, "Well,
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that doesn't make any sense,"and, you know, "That's just
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tomfoolery for you to expectthat you can speak things, and
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they can come to pass."
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You know, the Bible says you'llhave what you say, not having
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any doubt in your heart.
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So he says here, hesays, "Don't be misled--
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you cannot mockthe justice of God.
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You will alwaysharvest what you plant."
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And there are people, they'retrying to mock the justice of
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God, and he just wants to makeit clear, you're gonna always
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harvest what you plant.
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You're gonna harvest what youplant, and you're gonna harvest
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what you say, and thisis so very important.
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Now, go to Isaiah 44, and Irealize I'm giving you lots of
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Scriptures, but, like I said, itis so important that we get the
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Word of God on each of thesethings, especially when we talk
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about victory over death, sothat you can have something to
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go back and just really feed onso you can build your faith
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where these thingsare concerned.
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Look at verse 24 through 26.
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This is so powerful 'causeyou're saying something so God
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can perform something.
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Look at--he says, "Thus saiththe Lord, thy redeemer, and he
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that formed thee from the womb,I am the Lord that maketh all
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things; that stretchethforth the heavens alone; that
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spreadeth abroad the earth bymyself," 25, "That frustrateth
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the tokens of the liars, andmaketh the diviners mad; that
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turneth wise men backwards, andmaketh their knowledge foolish,"
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26, "That confirmeth the word ofhis servant, and performeth the
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counsel of his messengers; thatsaith to Jerusalem, Thou shalt
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be inhabited; and to the citiesof Judah, You shall be built."
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What's going on here?
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You're saying it to giveGod something to perform.
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You are saying it to giveGod something to perform.
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You saying that "I have longlife, I'm gonna live long
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life," you are saying it togive God something to perform.
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Now, if you say somethingnegative and something that's
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not in the Word of God, he's notgonna perform that, so you may
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be saying some things to giveSatan something to perform.
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And so, again, you're right backwhere this choice is concerned.
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You're gonna haveto make a decision.
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You're gonna have to make thechoice on what kind of harvest
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you want to come outof the ground of life.
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Psalms 18, verse 44through 45, check this out.
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Psalms 18, 44 through 45, hesays, "As soon as they hear of
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me, they shall obey me:
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the strangers shallsubmit themselves unto me."
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Verse 45, "The strangers shallfade away, and be afraid out of
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their close places."
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There's something powerfulthat's getting ready to happen,
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but I'm telling you rightnow, there's something so strong
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about you understanding howto declare the Word of God.
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There are things in your lifethat will fade away when you can
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learn how to speak God's Word.
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There are things in your lifethat won't even think about
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coming your way because youare speaking out God's Word.
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Look at Psalms 103, in 20.
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Psalms 103, and verse 20.
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He says, "Bless the Lord, Oyou his angels, that excel in
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strength," now watch this,"that do his commandments,"
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watch, "hearkening untothe voice of his word."
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Now notice, he didn't say thatthey hearken just to the Word
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but to the voice, so someone'sgotta give voice to his Word.
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Someone who was giving voice toGod's Word says the angels
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will hearken because the voiceof God's Word has been given.
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And then, Psalms 81, in10, just one more time here.
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I want you to just really getahold of what's happening here.
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Psalms 81, in 10, "I am theLord thy God, which brought
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thee out of the land of Egypt:
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open your mouth wide,and I will fill it."
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Open your mouth, Godsays, "I will fill it."
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So the second thing that Ibelieve will work where a long
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life is concerned, a covenantrequirement for long life:
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speaking long life,speaking long life.
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Number three: trust, trust.
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You wanna see long life?Trust is so important.
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It's relying--to"trust" means to rely
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confidently on the onethat you say you believe.
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In Psalms 91, 2 and 4, he says,"This I declare about the Lord:
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He alone is myrefuge, my place of safety;
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he's my God, and I trust him."
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And then look at verse 4.
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He says, "He will coveryou with his feathers.
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He will shelteryou with his wings.
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His faithfulpromises are your armor,
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and they are your protection."
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And so you've got decide,"I am going to trust him."
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Faith equals confidence.
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Trust equals commitment.
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Faith equals confidence.
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Trust equals commitment.
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So when I say you'retrusting in God, I'm looking
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at a level of commitment.
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How committed are youto the promises of God?
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How committed are you tothe instructions of God?
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Faith is about confidence.
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Trust is about your commitment.
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Say what you sayin absolute trust.
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Say what you sayin absolute trust.
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When you say it,"I'm committed to this,"
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and you're not just sayingit, but you're saying it
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as a declaration ofyour commitment.
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"I'm saying it, I amcommitted to this."
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Look at Psalms 125:1-3, inthe New Living Translation.
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Trust is a covenant requirementfor a long life, and so in
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Psalms 125:1-3, in the NewLiving Translation, he says,
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"Those who trust in the Lordare as secure as Mount Zion;
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they will not be defeatedbut will endure forever.
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Just as the mountains surroundJerusalem, so the Lord surrounds
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his people, bothnow and forever."
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Verse 3, "The wicked will notrule the land of the godly, for
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then the godly might betempted to do wrong."
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You know, this is so powerful tothe commitment that we make, and
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then we see God has made such acommitment to us and towards us.
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This is the securitythat they who trust
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in the Lord will enjoy.
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And then, in Mark chapter 11,and verse 23--when I trust God,
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there's no doubt.
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When I trust God, thereis no doubt, no doubt.
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Doubt will hinderyour declarations.
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And that's why the Bible saysin Mark 11:23, look at this,
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he says, "For verily Isay unto you, That whosoever
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shall say unto thismountain, Be thou removed,
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be thou cast in the sea," hesaid, do all of that, "and shall
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not doubt in his heart,but," do what in his heart?
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"Shall believe," he said,"then those things which
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he saith shall come to pass,"
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he shall have in possession whathe saith, but doubt will hinder
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your declarations.
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One moment of doubt willhinder your declaration.
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That's what fear is: fearis just a moment of doubt.
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Fear is just a moment of doubt.
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And so, when you trustGod, there's no fear.
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There's not thatmoment of doubt.
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The Bible says, "Believein your heart, no doubt
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in your heart, you'llhave what you say."
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Be determined thatyou're not gonna allow doubt
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to hinder your declarations.
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And then, finally, here's acovenant requirement for, you
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know, long life, and you beginto trust God for long life.
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You begin to speak theWord of God for long life.
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You begin to get in revelationand--for long life, but then,
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just what I just closedwith: don't fear, don't fear.
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Don't allow fear to come in.
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Psalms 91, verse 5, says this.
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He says, "Do not be afraidof the terrors of the night--"
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you know, you'rebelieving for long life.
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"Don't be afraid of the terrorsof the night, nor of the arrows
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that fly in the daytime."
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You know, one of theworst things people can have
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is the fear of death.
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We'll talk about that in amoment, but we cannot allow fear
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to rob us of long life.
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Job 3, verse 25.
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Job 3 and verse 25.Now watch this.
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He says, "For the thingwhich I greatly," what?
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"Feared," Job said, "it's comeupon me, and that which I was
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afraid of," he says,"it's come upon me."
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My goodness, the things you fearthe most will come upon you.
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If you fear that you're gonnadie at a early age, the thing
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you fear the mostwill come upon you.
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If you fear that, you know, "Oh,my goodness, I don't think I'll
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live past 50," then whateveryou fear will come upon you.
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Fear is just having,you know, doubts about
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whether what God--whether the word
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that was promised willcome to pass in your life.
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The number one fear that Satanthrows on God's people is the
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fear that what God said andwhat God promised won't happen,
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and you cannot do that.
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You cannot let thathappen in your life.
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