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Welcome to the Plodcast this is episode 164 good to be with you again thank you

for joining me again hope we have a good time right I'm gonna have a good time, right? I'm going to have a good time. I don't know about you.

The thing I want to talk about is this year, 20, 20 that we're in. We are coming to the end of it.

And I'd like to set. we are coming to the end of it.

And I'd like to set out a principle for God's people

to think about it as we look at what a tumultuous year

it has been.

I've seen a lot of memes, a lot of Facebook jokes, a lot of references to what a, you know, what a year.

Well it says in Hebrew that when God shakes things, he does this so that what cannot be shaken may remain.

And he goes on to say that we Christians are receiving a kingdom that cannot be shaken. So our kingdom cannot be shaken, the church has

been established by God, the church is not going anywhere, the church is never

going to be eradicated, the church is going to be forever. In fact, out of the three governments

that God has established among men, civil government and family government and the government of the church,

only the church is going to be forever. The bride of Christ is forever.

Marriage will cease. It'll be whatever we have, it will be better than marriage. Better than marriage and better

than what we have here. But marriage and

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