We're in an election cycle, I suspect you've noticed.

And there will be hundreds of millions of dollars raised.

It's not wrong, it's part of our system, but political candidates collect these significant amounts of money from persons.

And then the reason the money changes hands isn't just so somebody gets elected,

but there's a desire

for favorable policies and treatments from that office. It's a quid pro quo. It's the nature of the

system. Well, imagine if you change your orientation a little bit, and you made your life goal

to please a king whose kingdom will never end.

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Now it's on to Pastor Allen.

Be blessed.

I really want to continue the series I was doing a couple weeks ago,

so I don't really expect you to remember the last verse we read together.

But it is linked to an idea that is settled inside of me,

and I'm going to continue, whether it's in a series or some other ways,

I think it's important.

For the moment, it'll get a new title, but for the moment it's lessons and listening.

One of the most consistent characteristics of the people of God in the Bible from Genesis to Revelation

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