Why do Preachers Lie? by Carter Conlon

I want you to turn with me to second chronicles chapter 18 please if you will I was really torn as to what kind of a title to give this but I've ended up calling it why do preachers lie why do preachers lie the father I ask you for the touch of heaven Oh God help me Lord to speak this word expand the borders of my mind and my heart give me a heart Lord for the people that are going to hear your word this morning and for the preachers even that we're going to be speaking about today I pray God that that I not stand as any man's judge help me God to reach those that profess to preach the gospel in this generation who have fallen by the wayside for whatever reason and have opened their hearts to something that they will deeply regret for eternity I pray God that in this church will be servants to the body of Christ and bridge builders not destroyers and so it's in this spirit I ask you for the grace to speak this message I'm only doing this in obedience to you God so I'm asking in Jesus name that there be great fruit born in our hearts and that we be a cunning people in the days ahead and I ask it in Jesus name why do preachers lie second Corinthians chapter 18 the second chronicles rather that would not be good if I was reading from second chronicles chapter 18 beginning at verse 18 then my calf said therefore hear the word of the Lord I saw the Lord sitting on his throne and all the hosts to have been standing on his right hand and on his left and the Lord said who will persuade a hab king of Israel to go up that he may fall at Ramnath Gilead so one spoke in this manner and another spoke in that manner then a spirit came forward and stood before the Lord and said I will persuade him the Lord said to him in what way so he said I will go out and be a lying spirit in the mouth of all his prophets and the Lord said you shall persuade him and also prevail go out and do so therefore look the Lord has put a lying spirit in the mouth of these prophets of yours and the Lord has declared disaster against you then Zedekiah the son of Chane I went near and struck my K on the cheek and said which way did the spirit from the Lord go from me to speak to you my Keo said indeed you shall see on that day when you shall go into an inner chamber to hide then the king of Israel said take my Kia and return him to am on the governor of the city and to johast the king's son and say thus saith the king put this fellow in prison and feed him with the bread of affliction and water of affliction until I return in peace but my chaos said if you ever return in peace the Lord has not spoken by me and he said take heed all you people now verse 33 now a certain man drew a bowl at random and struck the king of Israel between the joints of his armor so he said to the driver of his chariot turned around and take me out of the battle for I'm wounded the battle increased that day and the king of Israel propped himself up in his chariot facing the Syrians until evening and about the time of sunset he died now I know this is an Old Testament story but it is relevant to uni today for Paul says in the book of first Corinthians in chapter 10 that all of these things that happened to God's people in the Old Testament were messages to us upon whom the ends of the world have come and they're there for our instruction in the Old Testament they were living at a time when battle was ahead of them and the battle that they were considering entering into they were going to lose there was no strength in them they weren't walking in truth there was a king of Israel called Ahab and he was a man who had come to the point where his ears were now closed God couldn't speak to him he had had sporadic minor awakenings along the way but ultimately he would always cower down and go back to a lie even though he knew he knew somewhat what the truth was but he had come to the point now where he was so mixed the truth could no longer be spoken to this man tragically I've seen that in my lifetime I've seen people live in the mixture I've had them sit before me and a darkness had come into their minds and they could not be reached with truth anymore it's a scary thing when you see that when the Bible talks in the book of Romans chapter one of handling the truth of God and righteously not holding to it not not embracing and not letting the truth of God begin to challenge and change our hearts and God then releasing that type of a person to what their heart really wants and they end up with a twisted view of God and even though you read clearly Scripture they can't hear it anymore they can't see it can't embrace it can't understand it it is a fearful thing to see people who have come into that kind of a place and there was another kind of a man the king of another portion of a divided Israel his name was Jehoshaphat he was a good man the scripture declares him to be so but he was a mixed man he had a love of truth but he also had a love of wandering into that which wasn't true there are people here like that today you you come to this church on Sunday morning and maybe Tuesday night or some other night because you do recognize in your heart that truth is spoken here but there's still another kind of a message you still gravitate to you've still got tapes in your house you shouldn't have there and DVDs and CDs and you still listen on television to things you shouldn't listen to you you come to one place as Jehoshaphat did because you instinctively know truth but then you go to another hoping that somehow maybe there's some truth over here that I haven't considered yet and so here are these men can thinking about going into a battle a hab wants to go and fight against this particular king that's invaded or at least a threatening ization and he's got this other man with him says let's go into battle and Jehoshaphat says I am as you are my are my armies are as your armies we're brothers we're gonna go in this together now let's bring us some prophets to stand before us and to confirm the direction we feel to go in and so Ahab had four hundred prophets that spoke to him can you imagine four hundred they all come into this court where the two kings are their armies are making ready most likely on the outside and they say give us a word from the Lord and all of the prophets every one of them McKay Assad he was the only voice left that was telling to tell this King Ahab and Jehoshaphat that course Iran is going to lead to your death you're going to be defeated on this course but nobody will listen they're in a frenzy now everything is on the up-and-up everything is bigger and better and they're putting on quite a display false prophets can be exciting you know oh my goodness sakes man they're building Horton's of iron and they're putting on a skit saying with these you're going to push the king of syria into the sea and all one is building upon nobody's hearing from God at all but one is building upon another they're borrowing them messages if they had the internet they'd all be on the Internet diggity clickety click waiting for their turn who's saying what now and how can I add another paragraph to it and 400 of them this thing must have gone on all day all day confirming a direction that is destined for defeat but Jehoshaphat is a righteous man Bible declares him to be so he had a weakness for mixture but he was still a righteous man and you imagine how incredulous they have must have been with Jehoshaphat after 400 prophets have told him go and prosper you're going to be victorious be your best you in your chariot this is going to be incredible today you're going to come home in victory people are going to dance all around you everybody be telling them some little embellishment - the last person who'd spoken for hundred of them you imagine how tall this tale must have gotten by the end of the afternoon Jehoshaphat turns to have his says there anybody else they have says there's only one more but I hate him because he never tells me the truth the way I want to hear it so they sent from Ikea and the person who was ambassador sent to get him and said my calf for goodness sakes for once in your life there's 400 prophets all saying one thing two kings are about to take the nation of Israel into battle would you please just for once in your life agree with everybody else my case says I can only speak what God gives me then the most marvelous thing happens my care comes into the Kings Court he looks at the entourage and he he sees them he can feel the lying spirit in the room and he knows that they have is already bent on going into this battle and jehosophat's gonna go with him he knows they're not going to listen to him and so finally ahab says the ever word from the lord for me my kisses go prosper he said the same thing as the other 400 and then a half looks at him and says how many times have I told you not to lie to me but tell me the truth is that amazing then he quotes what I read in the opening text he said I saw a lying spirit come down and touch the mouths of these that are supposed to be your spiritual leaders and you are destined for defeat the next thing Makia has to endure is a slap in the face and that's always what will come from the religious community to those who stand for truth in a perilous time there'll always be a violent reaction from those who are not speaking for God 400 voices and the question that comes to us is what opened the hearts of these spiritual leaders to lies you have to assume that some of them may have been called at one time most were religion it's just religions it was just a good idea and they just got involved in it and aspiring to be seen aspiring to be known they got into leadership roles that happens in every church age but there's something that opened their hearts to lies especially when it's evident that perilous times are just before them and you see that's why it's so important you better know who you're listening to my friend you better be careful because we are living in perilous days right now there is darkness on the horizon I don't know the full measure of what it's going to look like it could be worse than anything we've ever anticipated in our lifetime for all we know I don't know that for a certainty but I do know that as Paul said to Timothy pare as times have come this is a difficult hour we're living in and you and I had better be careful it's no longer optional for you to play the religious lottery and hope it works out okay you better know that who you're listening to is speaking for God make up your mind now what opens the hearts and leaders to lies firstly their hearts are open to it when they've they have a nun surrendered inner longing for prestige and power Matthew 23 6 it says they love the best seats at feasts in the best seats in the synagogue's I had occasion several years ago to be in Washington I was invited there by our former president before our present one to talk about some social and charitable issues and there were 60 pastors there I was shocked at the behavior of many of these not all but many of these men of God their behavior was shocking the disregard of authority and the authority but their own remember going into the White House getting a special tour and the agents speaking on behalf of the president said please because we're at a time of difficulty in our nation we would appreciate no pictures as soon as the agents left they were lining up to take pictures of one another absolutely bit disobedience to authority fought for the front seats when the president came in and I watched pastors literally push women out of the way to get closer to the president it was embarrassing to be there I was embarrassed honestly to be associated with some that were in this group seemingly representing the biggest ministries in the country the hearts are open to lies when there's an inner longing for prestige and power the hearts are opened the lies when they love and need the praise and admiration of men Jesus said of the false religionists in his day in method 23 7 they love greetings in the marketplaces and they love to be called by men rabbi rabbi teacher teacher they love it folks you better hope that I love God more than I love you I speak that for all the pastor's of this church because if I love you more than I love God my heart will be open to something of deception I have to be willing to challenge you I have to be willing to do it lovingly you have to be willing to stand here when even my own flesh doesn't want to do it I have to be willing in obedience to God because I'm not fighting for your admiration I'm fighting for your soul and fighting for your families fighting for your future you might get mad at me and walk out today and say I'm never going back there but as long as I see you at the gate of heaven when I get there I'm happy about that thank God for that preaches hearts are open to lies when they're not called of God we're living in a generation like that I spoke at a pastors conference a few years ago and God gave me an unusual message and I spoke to the pastors who were dried disillusioned disaffected have never heard from God don't get a living word and I said many of you got into ministry because it was a good idea it was in a peacetime and when you graduated from school it was all just what Bible college are you going to and when you graduated from Bible College it was what church are you going to pastor and you never really thought about whether or not you're actually called of God it was just a good idea and you went but you don't get a word you don't get a message you're constantly frustrated I said for the sake of the kingdom of God have the courage to admit that you're not called of God if you aren't it was most unusual pastors message that ever preached in my lifetime but I an altar color was filled with weeping men many of whom in their hearts are saying finally somebody said it what I've been thinking all along I think I missed it I think I took a wrong turn somewhere it was a good idea but it wasn't God's idea Jeremiah chapter 23 verses 21 and 22 God said to the Prophet I've not sent these prophets yet they ran I've not spoken to them yet they prophesied but if they had stood in my counsel if they had caused my people to hear my words they would have turned them from their evil way and from their evil of their doings if they had stood in my presence they would have challenged every behavior that was taking them away from the life that his problems not just eternally but on earth that abundant life that Jesus Christ spoke about preachers lie when people want them to Jeremiah 530 and 31 the Prophet says an astonishing and horrible thing has been committed in the land the prophets prophesied falsely and the priests bare ruled by their means that means that they're leading in the flesh and my people love to have it so but what will you do in the end in other words what will you do when the battle comes and God is not with you what will you do when the days get dark and you don't have light oil in your lamp you don't have light to stand I warn every preacher that ever steps in this pulpit every guest speaker we have do not be drawn by the applause of the people if you let yourself be drawn you'll end up preaching exactly what they want you to and I thank God I'm not suggesting you don't take moments when messages are preached and agree but a preacher must not ever be drawn by the praise or the applause of man or we will all end up preaching exactly what you want to hear preachers lie when they live to preserve themselves Jesus said in John 10 I'm The Good Shepherd and the Good Shepherd gives his life for the Sheep hireling one who is not the Shepard one who does not own the sheep sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees and the wolf catches the sheep and scatters them the hireling flees because he is a hireling and does not care about the sheep sheep are just cordwood to be counted the sheep are just something so he can go to a conference and say I want to tell you how big my church's that's all the sheep are too many the people of God pastures must never live to preserve themselves and you pray that God help us you pray if you're visiting today god help your pasture if you're listening online not to live to preserve himself or herself pastors lie when they live secretly defeated lives that can't see a way out and they begin to preach peace compassion inclusion tolerance to make their own inner defeat more acceptable John Jeremiah 6:14 says they say peace peace when there is no peace Matthew 5:15 14 Jesus calls the blind guides and they leave both themselves and those who follow them into a ditch I want to encourage any pastors that might be listening to me there is victory for you this victory for you and your private life there's victory for you in that place that nobody else sees even in your despair and discouragement depression whatever it is you struggle with this victory for you don't live the defeated life because if you do you'll end up preaching that defeat to others and beginning to pretend is victory now contrast this to the New Testament Paul the Apostle was a genuine Shepherd of God I want you to listen to his words remember he told the New Testament church I love you though it seems the more I love you the less I be loved he had a heart for God's people and every true ambassador of cry how's that heart in them a heart for you a heart to see you stand the heart to see you grow a heart to see you become everything that God's destined you to be a heart to see you free from captivity free from besetting sin free from despair free from fears about the future free from the constant grinding of the past and the lies of the devil telling you you'll never amount to anything true pastor of God has a heart to see you free because Jesus said just another truth and the truth shall make you free we're to be a free people I've never been willing to pretend that I'm free I've never been willing to play a game in my own life you either are free or you aren't we don't have to pretend a game and play with God thank God the cross did buy our freedom the blood of Jesus Christ did defeat our enemies [Applause] Nepal is speaking to the Corinthian believers in the context of people I'm gonna read a scripture to you but he's speaking in the context of those who believe that they can have heaven and continue in certain behaviors certain lifestyles certain ways of thinking Paul says in 1st Corinthians chapter 6 beginning at verse 9 he says do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God do not be deceived in other words if you continue in certain practices heaven is not your home no matter what preacher tells you it is and there will be all kinds of compromise in this generation pastors are going to buckle under the pressures of this time and as Nebuchadnezzar's golden statue is raised and the music begins to play they will bend their knee to it they will redefine holiness they will redefine salvation you better be careful who you're listening to Paul said do not be deceived neither fornicators that's sexual relationships outside of the bonds of marriage between a man and a woman that's fornication [Applause] so make up your mind you either stop fornicating or get married make up your mind fault some are sitting here today say wow man he's tough on us this morning well [Music] you have to understand I bear responsibility for you before God I stand before God today and I answer for every one of your faces here this morning I answer for you there's a list gonna be presented to me and I will have to answer for you what did you do under the word that God gave me how did I present Christ to you was I honest with you did I encourage you to walk with God did I present a full balanced before you so you would actually see the benefit of walking away from sin and walking into the life that God has for you nor idolaters nor adulterers nor homosexuals that talks about the practicing homosexual nor sodomites nor thieves that's male prostitutes nor thieves nor covetous nor drunkards nor revilers nor extortioners will inherit the kingdom of God do not be deceived Paul says don't let any preacher deceive you don't let anybody stand there with horns of iron saying it's gonna be well going prosper don't let them deceive you then Paul goes on and says and such were some of you but now you're awash now you are sanctified it means you're given the power of God's Holy Spirit to be the person that God designed you to be now you've been given power now you're justified in other words yes you will fall yes you will fail but the true believer in Christ wants to live that full measure that God has revealed to them through the scriptures and when you fall you're justified because your heart is right before God you say God forgive me I don't want to do this I don't want to live this way I don't want to speak this way I don't want to think this way and while you are fighting that fight the Bible declares you justified covered covered in your failure covered in your struggle because you know and God knows you're not playing a game you are moving towards walking in the truth of God and you're sanctified all your life you're going to be changing from image to image and glory to glory even as by the Spirit of God yes you have struggles today but those struggles in your life will start losing their power the fuel source was put to death at the cross of Jesus Christ and you will begin to change so don't lose heart in this battle and don't start listening to somebody that tries to tell you all no just go ahead live this way everything's going to be fine when you get to the end that's what they were telling Ahab and Jehoshaphat 400 of them it's going to be well with you a hab it's going to be victory at the end you're going to come back to a parade it's gonna be awesome how are you going to glorify God in this battle you say I'm not a true Shepherd if I let you continue in sin that will ultimately destroy your soul it doesn't matter how I can sing doesn't matter how nice I might look or not look none of it matters if I let you continue in sin and you end up in hell I'm not a shepherd remember one time when we had sheep back on the farm in Canada my wife loves to tell this story but she came in the barn one day and I had a knife out and I was sharpening it and I was cutting the nose of a sheep open and she looked at me said why are you doing that poor sheep it's on it's sitting on its haunches and looking at me and they're so trusting and I'm cutting its nose open with a very very sharp knife and antiseptic and I said because there's a bug that's gotten under the skin of its nose there's this specific name for this bug and if I don't cut it out it multiplies goes into the in under the skin into the sinuses and things and eventually will drive the Sheep mad it will start running full-speed into walls and it will ultimately kill itself be driven insane and it looks so small it's only one bug it's only one little thing you know a false shepherd would intere I'll just leave it there I got 99 more what difference does it make if this one goes crazy and trust me they don't appreciate it when you're cutting their nose open that poor sheep was looking at me as scans for a long long time not only cut it open had to sew it up and that poor sheep is avoiding me and running to the sides of the barn not knowing I just saved her life it's not really what she wanted why can't you just leave me alone it's only a little bug why did you have to come at it so powerfully some are staying here this morning why are you speaking so hard I I only slipped once in a while it's like a man who comes out his door in the wintertime and falls on his walkway almost every day and his neighbor says well why don't you put salt on the ice I said well no I just enjoyed the slip every once in a while and some people are like that they just enjoy the slip and then come back in and say well God you know I'm only human and if pastors like big it up and showing us their behavior then they go to somewhere where the behaviors not challenged with pastor enjoy the slip in the pulpit in the morning Paul stood on the deck of a perishing ship in journey in Acts chapter 27 and told the people takes a meet up to this point you've not eaten what you should and you're going to need strength for the future he knew the ship was going to fall apart he knew everybody was going to be cast into the sea and he knew it was going to be a long arduous swim to shore and he knew that when they got to shore it was going to be a land that were not familiar with and so he told them take some meat and I'm telling you this morning it's not time for pablum it's time for me it's time that we embrace the truth we love the truth we received the truth it might be palatable to go to certain places listen to certain messages but it's not going to get you through the coming storm when you need strength it's not going to be there when you want guidance you're gonna have forfeited it now it takes a meet it was strengthen you it will strengthen your family don't run from the truth remember Paul said to those who are pretending that they were off doing something but they were actually going to try to escape he said if you don't stay with the ship you're not going to survive stay with truth don't run from truth especially the men that are here it's Father's Day today for the sake of God for the sake of your family stand up and be a man don't run from truth run towards the truth and run towards it with all of your heart embrace the truth in your own heart don't try to teach others until you've embraced it yourself trust God for your own transformation trust God for the compassion the wisdom the ability you need to lead your family whether your children are still under your roof or whether they live a thousand miles away you still have influence trust God and make the decision to be a man of God make the decision to stand up and be counted with those that have stood for Christ all of these years and have never known him to fail them don't run from the hard things don't run from those areas where God is challenging your life and telling you it's gonna be a difficult journey but you're gonna need strength so take some meat now it's time for you to take some meat John chapter 3 Jesus himself talks about an invitation that God gives to come to the light you don't have to run from God God didn't come into the world to condemn you he came into the world though that you might be saved through him he came to get you he came to cover you he came to strengthen you he came to envision you he came to empower you he came to give you a new song and a new heart and a new mind he came to raise you up as a light sit upon a hill that cannot be hidden first in your home second in your marriage thirdly in this generation he came to give you strength not found in anything of this world so come to the light don't be afraid of the light don't be afraid of letting this book examine your heart it's not pleasant sometimes we all want to think that we're all doing better than we are thank God for the knowledge that I'm covered in Christ so I'm not afraid to go in I'm not afraid of meat I'm not afraid of truth I'm not afraid to have God challenged my heart [Applause] so in our opening text there's two types of warriors that go into the battle one who can still be reached and another who's no longer able to hear the true voice of God and when the battle comes the scripture says hey hab was struck between the joints of his armor and he said take me out of the battle for I'm wounded and the battle increased that day and the king of Israel propped himself up in his chariot facing the Syrians until evening and about the time of sunset he died so all this man could do in the battle is pretend like he was strong but he wasn't he had no inner strength the life was draining from him and it was draining because he made a choice somewhere along the line not to hear the voice of God see your days coming for everybody here it'll come sooner for some and later than others every one of us faces eventually a day of trial we might face one collectively but everyone faces their own struggle their own battle their own season their own time when we can't stand in our own strength the battle is too strong against us the enemies are raging too fiercely and for those who have shut their hearts to the voice of God the only thing will be left is to pretend that you're standing when actually you're wounded to the point where you're going to not make it the second man Jehoshaphat when they came and they surrounded him the scripture says he cried out and the Lord helped him one died and one cried don't be afraid to cry out for help he knew he was in a place where he couldn't win on his own and so he did what righteous people still do help me God help me Lord Jesus Christ forgive me for being where I shouldn't be forgive me for doing what I shouldn't do for you me for being paired up with a man I should have left a long time ago a partner that I should have walked away from forgive me God for listening to these voices that claim to speak in your name that allowed me to continue in a place where I was strictly in the flesh and is cut off from where true strength is God please forgive me and strengthen me that I might live to fight another day and the scripture says when he cried out the Lord diverted his enemies just drew their attention to something else and turned them away and so don't be ashamed to cry out for freedom for Direction for truth for God appointed victory turn your chariot around my friend and head to the cross wherever you're going whatever you're doing whatever's in your life that shouldn't be there turn around by the grace of God if you're going in the wrong direction turn around by the grace of God and head to where the real victory is and I can see Jehoshaphat when he realized that God had moved his enemies away from just steering those horses to the left or to the right whatever way he went and getting out of there there's some here you need to steer your horse and you need to get away from what you're doing head to the cross there's no victory anywhere else now there's no strength anywhere else but in the victory of Christ but I warn you there's no strength in mixture I don't care how much scripture you know there's no strength in the mixture pray because God promises we read it this morning when the children sang he promises through the Prophet Malachi a last day returning to discernment of knowing who speaks for God and who doesn't pray for that in your heart say God please give me away from voices I shouldn't be listening to and put me in a place where I can listen where I can hear where I can grow in grace where I can be made strong in Christ where I can know the truth of God that sets me free where I can be used to do God for the sake of others in the days ahead God put me in that place as your pastor I've pleaded with you today I've pleaded with you as Paul the Apostle said before his death I want it recorded that I'm free from the blood of all men I've declared to you as best as I know the full counsel of God in this service today and I plead with you in Christ's name walk with God walk with where God is walk under a word that's from God if you can't find a word from God those that are online then get it yourself open this book and read from the Gospel of Matthew to Revelation go back and read it again read it again read it again and read it again God will show you so I want to give an altar call this morning strictly for people who want to cry out for freedom God gives me strength God gives me freedom it's not an embarrassing thing to have to admit that especially those that are younger Christians in the early years the old things pass away but they don't pass away quite as quickly as we'd like them to but God will give you the victory on your part cry out on your part don't be ashamed to say Lord I can't do this I can't leave this person I can't escape this lifestyle I I can't stop this practice so god help me to not start seeking somebody who'll just agree with my sin help me God to love your word help me to become that which you've called me be help me to know the real victory of the cross help me to be a living vibrant standing witness for Christ get me through my present storm let me live Oh God let me live the Father I thank you Lord for this word I thank you God for the touch of your Holy Spirit in this sanctuary for where you are Lord there's a witness there's a witness in the spirit for those who can hear it so I'm asking your father in Jesus name that there be a cry of freedom in this house today and in the days ahead Lord that will stagger the casual seeker there will be such an evidence of victory here I pray that every man every woman every young person in this sanctuary will meet me at the throne of heaven God Almighty God Almighty God Almighty God Almighty God hear me don't let anybody die in their sin in the sanctuary today let these people live father I thank you for it with all my heart Jesus name if in North Jersey in the NX here time for church in the main sanctuary if this message has spoken to your heart and those that are listening online would you at home you can stand up where you are here in the sanctuary as we stand just just come just come we're going to pray together we're going to believe God for victory I'm gonna believe for you you're going to believe for you just join these that are coming please if you stand the balcony go to either exit and the main sanctuary slip out let's believe God for victory today you have reason to rejoice this morning because God is drawing us to himself in this hour in which we're living now he's drawing you he's drawing his people out of what would weaken us and into the freedom that he bought for us on the cross so you have reason to rejoice and remember jesus said ask and you shall receive seek you shall find knock it shall be open everyone who asks receives everyone who seeks finds and to everyone who knocks it shall be open the strength you need that the conviction the courage to do right God will give it to you God will give it to you and if all hell does break out in our society today you'll have the strength you will stand you will be a testimony of the life of God and the reality of God that's why he's calling you now out of all mixture out of everything that would take your strength away and father I thank you God with all my heart Lord for the honesty of these men and women to come forward and simply cry out in their heart Lord I need you I need you to be free I need you to have strength I need you to stop doing what I'm doing and start doing what I should be doing but Lord you told us that whoever asked receives and whoever seeks is going to find and whoever knocks the door will be open we will have a song we will have a testimony we will stand God thank you that will not be among those who fall in this generation thank you for speaking to our hearts this morning thank you for my brothers and sisters God Almighty thank you for giving them strength strength to do right strength to stand in a darkened time a song that can't be taken away because the world didn't give it and so father we thank you for these things God with all our heart we give you praise make all of us a testimony of your glory your name your victory your vision Lord in this time in which we're living make each of us a testimony of the fact that Jesus Christ is alive sitting at the right hand of God in all power and all authority in Jesus name hallelujah

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Published: Wed Jun 24 2015