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David Wilkerson delivers a powerful sermon on God's purpose and protection in the aftermath of 9/11.

David Wilkerson preaches just weeks after 9/11 to a city still trembling with fear, revealing that God's hedge of thorns around every believer was never just for their own survival but to produce a Joseph company of tested, proven people who carry exactly what a terrified world now desperately needs. Preached: October 21, 2001 Main Points: • The Hebrew word for preserve means to put a hedge of thorns around someone, to guard every coming and every going. Wilkerson stood before his congregation six weeks after 9/11 and said he had no gas mask and didn't intend to buy one, because God's covering is better than anything man can produce. • God did not preserve Israel through ten plagues, the Red Sea, snakes, and forty years of wilderness just so they could sit around a campfire telling their grandchildren stories. He brought them out so he could bring them in, and every trial had a destination attached to it. • Joseph is the clearest picture: sold by his brothers, falsely accused, laid in irons, forgotten in prison, his greatest test was not the suffering but the word of the Lord that seemed to contradict everything he was going through. • At 70, David Wilkerson looked back over…

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