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Episode 171 - No Generic God · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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  Speaker 1: Blessings, Blessings, blessings to each and every one of you.
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  Speaker 1: We welcome you once again to this another edition of
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  Speaker 1: End Time Revival Ministries us A. I am your host,
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  Speaker 1: Pastor al Zachary, and today we are continuing in a
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  Speaker 1: series that we've just begun simply entitled all about Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: A man, All about Jesus, and that is a man
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  Speaker 1: from Genesis of revelation. What the revelation of God is
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  Speaker 1: all about is all about Jesus, a man coming down
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  Speaker 1: to redeem us, a man to save us, to deliver us,
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  Speaker 1: to set us free.
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  Speaker 2: A man.
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  Speaker 1: We know the a man the beginning of the creation
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  Speaker 1: of man and the garden of Eden. Adam and Eve,
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  Speaker 1: of course, rebelled and disobeyed God and brought sin into
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  Speaker 1: the world. The first Adam, a man fell short, transgressed
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  Speaker 1: a man the word of God, and brought sin into
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  Speaker 1: the human family. But God, who is rich in mercy,
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  Speaker 1: did not leave us in that condition. He made the
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  Speaker 1: way for us to escape. And that is what our
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  Speaker 1: focus is going to be on today.
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  Speaker 2: A man, this.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus, a man is our way of salvations.
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  Speaker 2: All about Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Now, the problem that we have in our world today,
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  Speaker 1: and we're going to get to this in just a moment.
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  Speaker 2: And by the way, I.
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  Speaker 1: Want you, to a man, be attentive to the scriptures
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  Speaker 1: that we're going to be reading from today. We're going
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  Speaker 1: to be a multitude of them, several of them. Brother,
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  Speaker 1: let me just put it that way, that we're going
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  Speaker 1: to be reading from today that make reference to, of
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  Speaker 1: course a man, the deity, the oneness, the manifestation of
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  Speaker 1: a man God in Christ Jesus. Amen. And before we begin,
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  Speaker 1: before we dive in, I'm just ready to go. I'm
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  Speaker 1: reving to go. Let's take just a moment, amen, as
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  Speaker 1: we invoke the presence of the Lord and thank him
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  Speaker 1: for all of his.
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  Speaker 2: Goodness toward us.
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  Speaker 1: Again, Father, we love you because you first loved us,
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  Speaker 1: and you have given to us life more abundantly, and
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  Speaker 1: it has come to us through Jesus Christ, our Lord,
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  Speaker 1: grace and truth and mercy and peace.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. Unto us, Amen, because you loved us.
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  Speaker 1: And you would not again leave us in the state,
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  Speaker 1: in the condition, the fallen world of sin that we
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  Speaker 1: were a man born in two. So we thank you
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  Speaker 1: Lord for your love and your kindness, and we pray
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  Speaker 1: even more now than ever before that your spirit will
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  Speaker 1: move up on the hearts of men and women everywhere,
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  Speaker 1: that eyes will be open, that ears will be attentive,
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  Speaker 1: that hearts will be changed to come to know that
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  Speaker 1: you are the truly live in God. And there is
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  Speaker 1: none beside the nun like n to the God would
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  Speaker 1: give you praise and glory today. It's in the name
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus, the Christ of Nazareth. We praying give thanks
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  Speaker 1: for all things. Amen and amen, all about Jesus. But
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  Speaker 1: our focus today is going to be on the fact
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  Speaker 1: that there is no generic God, no generic God. And
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  Speaker 1: this is troublesome in our world today to me at least, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: because you hear bandit about the use of kind of
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  Speaker 1: a generic title using the word God. In a sense,
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  Speaker 1: it is saturated throughout our culture and it is very misleading,
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  Speaker 1: and it can certainly be deceptive in a very devious
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  Speaker 1: manner by those who deliberately again, in my opinion, deny
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  Speaker 1: the deity, the lordship, the kingship, and the manifestation of
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  Speaker 1: God in Christ Jesus as the one true Savior.
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  Speaker 2: And redeemer of mankind.
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  Speaker 1: People will use the generic title or word God, But
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  Speaker 1: what God is it that they are referring to. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: you hear people again say God this and God that.
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  Speaker 1: But where is this God? And who is this God
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  Speaker 1: that they are referring to. It's very generic in a sense.
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  Speaker 1: And many religions, of course, if not all of them,
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  Speaker 1: all of them really well, I'll just say, but many
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  Speaker 1: of them relegate Jesus to the status of a generic
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  Speaker 1: kind of religious leader.
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  Speaker 2: If that who is.
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  Speaker 1: Only one amongst many other exalted beings or persons of notoriety,
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  Speaker 1: in their in their in their opinion, in their in
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  Speaker 1: their assessment, if you will. But the word of God,
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  Speaker 1: which is God's self revelation of himself to man, is
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  Speaker 1: all about Jesus being revealed in the flesh, coming down
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  Speaker 1: to earth in the flesh to redeem lost man, in
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  Speaker 1: saving us from the ravages of sin, saving us, delivering
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  Speaker 1: us from the penalty of death, of death that was
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  Speaker 1: again brought on us by the disobedience of Adam, a man,
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  Speaker 1: when he, of course grasped for autonomy and in essence
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  Speaker 1: just simply rebelled against God. Now, the problem that exists
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  Speaker 1: for those who confess or profess a belief in God,
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  Speaker 1: this God that they say, even when they say or
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  Speaker 1: even when they are talking about the God of the Bible,
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  Speaker 1: the God of Creation. By the way, and before I
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  Speaker 1: say this, this belief in God, this profession of God,
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  Speaker 1: a man, confession that he exists, that's just a basic beginning,
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  Speaker 1: because the Bible tells us Romans chapter one, that God
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  Speaker 1: has revealed himself. I mean, his godhead is clearly seen,
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  Speaker 1: and the things that are made his eternality a man,
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  Speaker 1: his self existence is clearly seen. So simply acknowledging the
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  Speaker 1: God of Creation, the God of the Bible, is the
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  Speaker 1: basic fundamental foundational first step, if you will, a man
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  Speaker 1: in acknowledging that a man, that.
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  Speaker 2: There is the one and true living.
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  Speaker 1: Being, the God of Creation by which we all have
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  Speaker 1: our being an existence. So again that's just the beginning.
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  Speaker 1: But again let me go back to the problem. The
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  Speaker 1: problem for those who confess or profess is that they
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  Speaker 1: cannot be saved from the sinful state that they are
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  Speaker 1: in simply by a profession in God in a generic
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  Speaker 1: way a man, when the God of Creation has spoken
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  Speaker 1: to us in no uncertain terms that he was sending
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  Speaker 1: into this world our only hope for salvation, which is
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  Speaker 1: Christ Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: In other words, you cannot.
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  Speaker 1: Give lip service to God while denying Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: You cannot be saved.
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  Speaker 1: Honoring God with your lips while denying the deity, the lordship,
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  Speaker 1: the kingship a man, the Savior, whom the God that
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  Speaker 1: you profess, that you believe in, the one He sent
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  Speaker 1: into the world to save you, you cannot be saved
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  Speaker 1: any other way.
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  Speaker 2: Salvation is only through Jesus Christ. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, the salvation of mankind before the
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  Speaker 1: creation of.
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  Speaker 2: The world was purposed in the lamb of God.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible teaches us, who was slain from the foundation
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  Speaker 1: of the world. God is indeed our savior. But that's salvation.
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  Speaker 1: A man comes by the atoning sacrifice of Jesus Christ, exclusively,
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  Speaker 1: without the shedding of blood. The Bible says, there is
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  Speaker 1: no remission of sins, and without the shedding of His
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  Speaker 1: pure and undefiled blood, we have no forgiveness. We have
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  Speaker 1: no remission, We have no atone. We have no sacrifice
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  Speaker 1: of any of our transgressions, any of our sins, any
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  Speaker 1: of our iniquities, past, present or future. Now listen to
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  Speaker 1: this Hebrews Chapter one. The Bible teaches God verse number
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  Speaker 1: one Chapter one of Hebrews, who at various times and
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  Speaker 1: in various ways, spoke in time past to the fathers
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  Speaker 1: by the prophets, has in these last days spoken to
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  Speaker 1: us by his son, whom he listened with.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible says, whom he has appointed air of.
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  Speaker 1: All things, through whom also he made the world. And
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  Speaker 1: by the way again we take you back in our
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  Speaker 1: opening session. Last week we began this podcast series the
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  Speaker 1: Gospel of John Chapter one. In the beginning was the Word.
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  Speaker 1: The word was with God. The word was God. All
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  Speaker 1: things were made by Him, and without him, or apart
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  Speaker 1: from him, was not anything made that was made.
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  Speaker 2: That is crystal clear scripture.
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  Speaker 1: Amen, that Jesus was in the beginning, as he said
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  Speaker 1: to the Jews before Abraham, was I Am And the
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  Speaker 1: Jews knew perfectly what Jesus was saying when he made
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  Speaker 1: that statement. And that's why the Bible tells us when
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  Speaker 1: he said those words to him to them, brother, they
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  Speaker 1: took up stones.
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  Speaker 2: To try to kill him.
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  Speaker 1: Amen, because they knew that he was saying, I am.
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  Speaker 2: God, I always was, I always will be.
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  Speaker 1: And again when you go to the Book of Revelation,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm just now, I mean this is all that
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  Speaker 1: There are so many scriptures.
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  Speaker 2: There are so many scripture references.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus is the beginning and the end, the first and
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  Speaker 1: the last.
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  Speaker 2: He says Alpha and Omega. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: He says, I am the Almighty, He is God. So
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  Speaker 1: the Bible tells us that God has in Christ, Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: through Christ, Jesus spoken to us Amen. Verse number three
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  Speaker 1: in the first in this first chapter of Hebrews, verse
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  Speaker 1: number three, this last verse I'm going to read here. Now,
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  Speaker 1: it's again, who is the writer talking about Jesus, Who
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  Speaker 1: being the brightness of his glory, the glory of God.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, when you speak of the brightness
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  Speaker 1: of the glory of God, remember Peter, James and John
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  Speaker 1: saw him in the transfiguration on the mount of Transfiguration.
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  Speaker 2: They saw him in all of his gold.
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  Speaker 1: He was transfigured right before their faces.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: He is the very brightness of God. He is the
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  Speaker 1: very essence of God, because he is God.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So the Bible tells us here, who being the brightness
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  Speaker 1: of his glory and the express image of his person,
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  Speaker 1: and upholding all things by the word of his power.
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  Speaker 1: When he had by himself purged our sins, sat down
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  Speaker 1: at the right hand of the Majesty on high. That
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  Speaker 1: is what Jesus did, and this is what God purpose
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  Speaker 1: to happen, and it did happen. And a man again,
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  Speaker 1: the only way for our sins. And this is what
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  Speaker 1: the Book of Hebrews, by the way, is all about,
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  Speaker 1: a man. In detail, the writer explains to us that
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  Speaker 1: there is no remission of sins by the blood of
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  Speaker 1: bulls and goats, pigeons and turtle doves.
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  Speaker 2: A man, no animal can take away your sin.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, he said, if it was possible that
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  Speaker 1: these offerings, or these sacrifices for sins could take away
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  Speaker 1: a man, could wash away, and could also purge the conscience,
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  Speaker 1: then why would it be necessary for these people to
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  Speaker 1: have been coming back year after year after year after year,
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  Speaker 1: a man continually offering up sacrifices. If their sins had
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  Speaker 1: been purged, washed away, a man put away by the
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  Speaker 1: blood of that animal, It's not possible, amen, So please
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  Speaker 1: understand that the only salvation, the only a man removal,
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  Speaker 1: the only casting away of our sins, come through Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 1: And not believe it that Christ, Jesus is the propitiation
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  Speaker 1: for your sin debt. It leaves you without the one
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  Speaker 1: and the only acceptable sacrifice for sins. Again, the blood
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  Speaker 1: of bulls, the blood of goats, rams, nor lambs never
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  Speaker 1: atoned for the sins of any man. Otherwise it would
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  Speaker 1: not have been necessary for Jesus to come down from
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  Speaker 1: heaven to earth to die for our sins. First John
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  Speaker 1: three and five tells us that he was manifested to
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  Speaker 1: take away our sins. So the salvation of all men
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  Speaker 1: is through his sacrifice of his body and the shedding
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  Speaker 1: of his blood. And in order for any man to
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  Speaker 1: be saved, he must first believe in Jesus, and he
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  Speaker 1: must believe in what Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: Has accomplished on our behalf.
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  Speaker 1: And after the death, the burial, the resurrection, and the
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  Speaker 1: ascension of Jesus back up to Heaven after the Day
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  Speaker 1: of Pentecosts, that spokesman of the Church, the Early Church,
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  Speaker 1: Peter the Apostle, preached the exclusivity of salvation.
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  Speaker 2: In the name of.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus alone, Acts four. We now take you to verse
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  Speaker 1: number ten, Acts Chapter four Peter preaching Jesus to the people.
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  Speaker 1: Preaching the Gospel to the people. Verse number ten. He says,
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  Speaker 1: be it known unto y'all and to all the people
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  Speaker 1: of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth,
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  Speaker 1: whom you crucified, whom God raised.
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  Speaker 2: From the dead. Even by him, doth this.
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  Speaker 1: Man stand here before you? Hold he was referencing, of course,
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  Speaker 1: the man who was healed, a lame man who was
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  Speaker 1: at the temple. You can read about that in Acts
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  Speaker 1: chapter three, going into chapter four. This is the stone,
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  Speaker 1: Peter says, which was set at naught of you builders,
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  Speaker 1: which has become the head of the corner. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: the stone, this reference that Peter is now using, is
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  Speaker 1: in the Old Testament.
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  Speaker 2: All of this was prophesied beforehand.
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  Speaker 1: And so Peter picks this up and says, this is
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  Speaker 1: the stone, the stone, the stone that you builders neglected.
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  Speaker 1: It is he is. It's a person, is Christ, who
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  Speaker 1: is the stone? Who is the rock? Amen, he was
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  Speaker 1: the rock in the wilderness. He's the stone that was
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  Speaker 1: cut out of the mountain without hands, and the vision
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  Speaker 1: a man that was in the book of Daniel. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: this stone, Peter says, is become the head of the corner.
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  Speaker 1: Neither is there Look what he says verse twelve very important.
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  Speaker 1: Neither is there salvation in any other.
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  Speaker 2: Any other For there is none of the name.
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  Speaker 1: Under heaven given among men, whereby we must be saved,
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  Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, people of God people everywhere. Jesus Christ
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  Speaker 1: his name through him, because of his bloodshed, because of
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  Speaker 1: his atoning sacrifice. Salvation is exclusively in him, through him
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  Speaker 1: and by him. And I said, I believe in our
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  Speaker 1: last session that he alone is the disseminator of the
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit. You cannot receive the Holy Spirit any other way.
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  Speaker 2: He is the one who sends the Holy.
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  Speaker 1: Spirit, he told the apostles. He told the disciples, I
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  Speaker 1: will send the promise.
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  Speaker 2: Of my Father. I will, I will. Those who call
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  Speaker 2: upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. What name.
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  Speaker 1: The title the generic name of God or the generic
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  Speaker 1: title God. No, ladies and gentlemen, If you don't believe
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  Speaker 1: that Jesus said about that this is the words of him.
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  Speaker 1: These are not my words, he said. If you don't
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  Speaker 1: believe that I am here, you will die in your sins.
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  Speaker 1: Those who call upon the name of the Lord shall
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  Speaker 1: be saved. Roman Chapherd ten. How should they call on
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  Speaker 1: him whom they have not believed in? How can they
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  Speaker 1: believe in him of whom they have not heard? There
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  Speaker 1: is salvation in none other but Jesus, the Christ, no
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  Speaker 1: other way, no other name, no generic god. It is
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  Speaker 1: exclusively in by and through Christ Jesus that anyone can
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  Speaker 1: be saved. Now again, where does Peter, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: learn this exclusive truth? Well, first of all, of course,
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  Speaker 1: he was with Jesus during the entirety of his three
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  Speaker 1: and a half year ministry here on the earth. But Peter, also,
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  Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, received divine revelation from above.
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  Speaker 2: When did he get this divine revelation?
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  Speaker 1: Well, it was when, and by the way, you can
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  Speaker 1: turn to Matthew chapter sixteen.
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  Speaker 2: It was when he responded.
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  Speaker 1: To Jesus asking the disciples, whom do men say that
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  Speaker 1: I am? And then he turned to the disciples and said,
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  Speaker 1: but whom.
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  Speaker 2: Do you say that I am?
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  Speaker 1: Matthew sixteen sixteen Simon Peter spoke up and answered the
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  Speaker 1: Bible says and said, thou art the Christ, the son
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  Speaker 1: of the Living God, the Christ.
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  Speaker 2: What does that mean?
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  Speaker 1: The Messiah, the anointed One, the one whom the Jews
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  Speaker 1: were expecting looking for, the one who had been prophesied
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  Speaker 1: in the Old Testament, Amen, who was to come to
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  Speaker 1: redeem Israel, to save his people from their sins, Amen
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  Speaker 1: the Christ. Peter said, thou art the Christ, you are
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  Speaker 1: the Messiah.
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  Speaker 2: You're the one to whom we have been looking waiting expecting.
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  Speaker 1: Amen, Thou art the Christ, the son of the Living God,
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  Speaker 1: and Jesus watch it. Wait a minute, now, hold on,
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  Speaker 1: that's wonderful. Peter said that. But again, where did he
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  Speaker 1: get it from? Look what the Bible says, verse seventeen
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  Speaker 1: Matthew sixteen. Jesus answered and said, unto him, blessed art
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  Speaker 1: thou simon Barjona, For flesh and blood hath not revealed
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  Speaker 1: it unto thee, but my Father.
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  Speaker 2: Which is in heaven.
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  Speaker 1: Only, ladies and gentlemen, by revelation from God, the Father,
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  Speaker 1: who is in heaven, do we get the understanding that
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  Speaker 1: Jesus is.
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  Speaker 2: God manifested in the flesh.
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  Speaker 1: Those who do not get the revelation, those who do
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  Speaker 1: not get the understanding from above. In their confusion, they protest,
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  Speaker 1: some of them.
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  Speaker 2: That there is what we would ask again.
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  Speaker 1: Those of us who believe in Jesus and understand and
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  Speaker 1: have the revelation, they say, they protest that we are
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  Speaker 1: serving two gods or three gods. No no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: no no.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. And by the way.
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  Speaker 1: Even those who were following Jesus John chapter fourteen turned
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  Speaker 1: there very quickly. Many of those who were disciples of Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: they didn't get it. They didn't get it at first.
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  Speaker 1: It took and by the way, it took the Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 1: It took a man them seeing the risen Savior for
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  Speaker 1: many of them to finally have their eyes open. And
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  Speaker 1: by the way, you remember, after the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 1: he was on the road to Maya's with two who
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  Speaker 1: were traveling back, and the Bible says he had to
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  Speaker 1: open their eyes and he explained to them the scriptures.
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  Speaker 1: He explained to them all things concerning him.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And so even those who had been with Jesus, who
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  Speaker 1: were disciples, who were following him, many of them did
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  Speaker 1: not get it. They didn't get They said, you can
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  Speaker 1: only get the revelation from God that this is the
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  Speaker 1: way I am. What did Jesus say, I am the way,
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  Speaker 1: I am the truth, I am the life John fourteen.
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  Speaker 1: Thomas was one of the disciples of Jesus. We I
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  Speaker 1: mean Thomas has the.
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  Speaker 2: Doubting Thomas. That's what we called him. You know, because
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  Speaker 2: after the resurrection of Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: He wasn't among the disciples when Jesus first appeared, and
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  Speaker 1: he said, I won't believe until I see, until I touch,
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  Speaker 1: until I feel him. And so we refer to this
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  Speaker 1: Thomas as being doubting Thomas. But this Thomas in John
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  Speaker 1: chapter fourteen, this is before the Crucifixion, the bear, the resurrection.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Thomas says to Jesus verse number five, Lord, we do
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  Speaker 1: not know where you are going. Jesus was by the
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  Speaker 1: way preparing his disciples for his eventual departure. And so
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  Speaker 1: Thomas says to Jesus, Lord, we don't know where you're going.
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  Speaker 1: And how can we know the way? Jesus said to him,
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  Speaker 1: I am the Way, the Truth, and the life. No
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  Speaker 1: one listen what Jesus says. No one comes to the
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  Speaker 1: Father except through me. If you had known me. Now
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  Speaker 1: he's not finished, So we're not talking about to gods.
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  Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen.
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  Speaker 1: Listen carefully, Thomas, verse seven. If you had known me,
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  Speaker 1: you would have known my father also, And from now on.
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  Speaker 2: You know him and have seen him.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my god, you know what do you realize what
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  Speaker 1: Jesus is saying here?
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  Speaker 2: And I know you know, I know everybody yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, this is not this, ladies and gentlemen, this
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  Speaker 1: is not double speak double talk.
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  Speaker 2: Amen, I'm let me, Let me keep reading.
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  Speaker 1: So Philip said, unto him, Lord, show us the Father,
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  Speaker 1: and it is sufficient for us. Jesus said to Philip,
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  Speaker 1: have I been with you so long and yet you
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  Speaker 1: have not known me?
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  Speaker 2: Philip, he who has seen me has seen the Father.
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  Speaker 2: So how can you say, show us the Father?
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  Speaker 1: Do you not believe that I am in the Father
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  Speaker 1: and the Father in me. The words that I speak
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  Speaker 1: to you, I do not speak of my own authority,
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  Speaker 1: but the Father, who dwells in me does the works.
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  Speaker 2: Believe me.
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  Speaker 1: That I am in the Father and the Father in me,
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  Speaker 1: or else believe me for the sake of the works themselves.
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  Speaker 2: Now I'm almost finishing.
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  Speaker 1: All of the miracles, the signs, and wonders that were
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  Speaker 1: performed by Jesus. They all attested to his power, to
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  Speaker 1: his deity. Remember the conversation Jesus had with Nicodemus. How
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  Speaker 1: Nicodemus came to Jesus by night, and he said, we
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  Speaker 1: know that you came from God, because no one can
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  Speaker 1: do these miracles, these signs, these wonders that you are
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  Speaker 1: doing except God be with him in him, and that
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  Speaker 1: he is of God. We know that you came from God.
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  Speaker 1: That's what Nicodemus said to Jesus. And man again, Nicodemus
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  Speaker 1: in there the full revelation. Nicodemus did not have the
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  Speaker 1: full understanding because they went on to converse about certain things,
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  Speaker 1: and certainly it showed that he didn't have it a man,
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  Speaker 1: because Jesus said, are you a master teacher? And you
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  Speaker 1: don't understand? I'm speaking to you of earthly things and
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  Speaker 1: you don't understand. How then who you understand if I
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  Speaker 1: speak to you of heavenly things? And that's why people
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  Speaker 1: cannot understand, cannot get it unless God reveals it. It
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  Speaker 1: has to be revelation from God. Now, how do we
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  Speaker 1: get that revelation? Is it some special magical kind of
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  Speaker 1: you know? Something that we have to do?
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  Speaker 2: Is something? Listen?
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  Speaker 1: Listen to Bible again. The Word of God, and I'm
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  Speaker 1: talking about the living Word. The Word of God speaks
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  Speaker 1: clearly to all of us. Faith comes by hearing, by
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  Speaker 1: hearing the word of God. The more you hear of
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  Speaker 1: the Word of God, you must believe it or you
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  Speaker 1: will reject it. Faith comes by hearing you need the
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  Speaker 1: word of God. You need to hear the word of God.
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  Speaker 1: You need to hear the revelation of God, the Gospel
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  Speaker 1: of John.
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  Speaker 2: It's all about the deity of Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus with the we refer to these seven I am statements.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, those things are just so crystal clearly Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: I mean it is I mean, this is not even
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  Speaker 1: It's either he's.
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  Speaker 2: Telling the truth.
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  Speaker 1: Or he is just the most outrageous liar that ever existed.
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  Speaker 1: So there is no road middle ground, you know, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: no platitudes about Oh he was a good teacher, he
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  Speaker 1: was a good person, he was a good religious figure
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  Speaker 1: in all.
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  Speaker 2: No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no no, that's
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  Speaker 2: not what Jesus said of himself.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus says, I am before Abraham was I am?
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  Speaker 2: I am God. Have you seen.
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  Speaker 1: The Father, Thomas, If you've seen me, Philip, how can.
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  Speaker 2: You not know?
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  Speaker 1: Now, whatever generic God of the religions of this world
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  Speaker 1: that is in the minds of those who do not
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  Speaker 1: yet have the revelation, of those who do not yet
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  Speaker 1: have the understanding of the God of the Bible, the
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  Speaker 1: God of creation, the God who revealed himself in the
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  Speaker 1: person of Jesus Christ. Whatever generic God that they are
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  Speaker 1: referring to, it is not the.
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  Speaker 2: God of the Bible. It is not the God of creation.
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  Speaker 1: It is not the self existing God, who is eternal, immortal, invisible,
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  Speaker 1: who is the only wise God and Savior.
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  Speaker 2: It's not that God. Let me close with these.
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  Speaker 1: Words of the apostle Paul onverse Timothy, chapter three, verse sixteen,
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  Speaker 1: and without controversy, great is.
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  Speaker 2: The mystery of godliness. Listen carefully.
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  Speaker 1: God was manifested in the flesh, justified in the spirit,
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  Speaker 1: seen by angels, preached among the gentiles, believed on in
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  Speaker 1: the world, received up in glory, ladies and gentlemen. Who
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  Speaker 1: is the one and only being who fits this description.
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  Speaker 2: This verse Jesus, Jesus is God manifested in the flesh. Father.
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  Speaker 2: We pray now that somebody somewhere will come to.
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  Speaker 1: Know that you are the Way, the Truth, and the Life,
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  Speaker 1: and that there is no salvation in any other but
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  Speaker 1: through Jesus the Christ, the Son of the Living God,
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  Speaker 1: the Savior of all them that believe. So we pray
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  Speaker 1: that eyes will be open, ears will be attuned, and
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  Speaker 1: hearts will be converted, that you will be glorified in
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  Speaker 1: all things, and Jesus the Christ of Cavali's name.
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  Speaker 2: We pray and give thanks. Amen and Amen. M