You can visit Jerusalem today and see the impact that has Akaya made because of the threat of an enemy.

So even under that threat, God used it to bring good things to the city.

And I would tell you that if you're under threat tonight, physical threat, emotional threat, financial threat, if we will turn our hearts to the Lord, God will use what the enemy means for destruction to bring about, not just an overcoming, it will bring blessings that will continue for decades and decades to come.

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We're working through a study under the title of shaping culture.

And this session is very much a continuation of what we did in the previous two sessions.

So if you've missed those, it would be worthwhile to go back and listen.

It's all been taken from our reading from last week when we were working our way through Second Chronicles,

the end of Second Chronicles.

In this particular session,

I wanna talk not only about shaping culture,

but Satan's responses to that.

You know, in the opening chapters of the Bible,

Satan challenges God's purposes.

He tries to disrupt them.

He's still doing that.

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