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This is Pastor Daniel Stevenson with the Southside Life Station in New Heights Fellowship Baptist Church,

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and you're receiving this message because you opted in to be encouraged.

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In Isaiah 23 and verse 9, Isaiah writes,

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The Lord of hosts has planned it to defile the pride of all beauty,

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to despise all the honored of the earth.

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I'm here to tell you today that Isaiah believed, and I believe it as well, that God did this.

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He's made a plan, he has a method in place,

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and he will eventually knock down all the things that men set up to replace him.

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In order for a kingdom to grow, in order for a society to advance,

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they have to make room for the foolish.

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There has to be room for people who don't live right.

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They may be punished or go to prison or whatever,

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but societies grow by allowing people freedoms.

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When a kingdom leaves room for fools within its borders,

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that does not give it the right or should not equal building the kingdom in a foolish way.

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Clinging to godly values despite interlopers in our midst

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is the only way to truly endure and understand the passage of time.

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God alone can build a kingdom that endures.

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Many kingdoms that fell into decadence have long been wiped away by violence or just slipped into obscurity.

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God alone has built one true kingdom that endures forever,

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and he's asking you to join him in it through his son Jesus Christ.

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Believe in the Lord Jesus Christ and be saved.

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Be part of God's eternal kingdom.

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Find a local church near you to worship him this Sunday.

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God bless you as you serve the Lord.