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Thou Prepared
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| Pastor, you wrote a book years ago, Thou Prepared. | |
| Be Thou Prepared. | |
| Be Thou Prepared. | |
| Why should we be prepared during this time? | |
| Yeah. | |
| Well, listen, all the way back to the first church, to the early church, they were instructed to be prepared in so many different ways. | |
| And look at the world they lived in. | |
| A world of famine, a world of disease, a world of earthquakes, a world of persecution, governmental persecution, religious persecution, a world where people were losing their jobs because of their faith in Christ and because of their connections and relationships to maybe some of their Orthodox Jewish families that were putting them out of the family and out of business. | |
| So that's why the early church got together a group called servants or deacons to take care of the widows in the church and others that were hurting. | |
| That's why the church went and brought things that they had and began to share amongst themselves because people were in need, desperate, desperate times. | |
| So this is not something that's just apropos for our age, for our day and time. | |
| It's something that the early church learned early on. | |
| You had better prepare for tough times. | |
| It's just called life. | |
| Listen, the people that settled our country, it hasn't been that long ago that they were living this way. | |
| They were canning food, growing their own food, raising their own food, storing their own food, storing up their own food and water and supplies. | |
| Why? | |
| Because life can get tough sometimes. | |
| Absolutely. | |
| So that's why. | |
| I mean, there are biblical commands, there are biblical examples, there are historical examples. | |
| And now the world we live in, the most prophetic time since the first coming of Jesus Christ. | |