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Episode 182 - Reverence The Son · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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  Speaker 1: All praises be to the King of Kings and the
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  Speaker 1: Lord of Lords. He alone is worthy. Blessed be the
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  Speaker 1: name of the Lord who is our Savior, Redeemer, and
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  Speaker 1: soon coming King. We welcome you once again to this
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  Speaker 1: another edition of End Time Revival Ministries USA podcast. I
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  Speaker 1: am your host, Pastor al Zachary, and today we continue
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  Speaker 1: in Amen All About Jesus Series All about Jesus. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: That's who is Amen. Our. He alone is our Lord
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  Speaker 1: and Savior, and he alone is the mediator between God
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  Speaker 1: and man. By him we must be saved. It is
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  Speaker 1: by his grace, it is by his love, it is
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  Speaker 1: by his sacrifice, by his atonem a man, that we
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  Speaker 1: are even allocated, if you will, This opportunity to come
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  Speaker 1: a man into the presence of God and to be
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  Speaker 1: found faultless before His presence, to be found blameless in
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  Speaker 1: the sight of God is all through the righteousness of
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  Speaker 1: Jesus the Christ. So all is about Jesus Christ, our
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  Speaker 1: Lord and Savior. And today we're going to focus on
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  Speaker 1: this a man matter of reverencing the Son, reverence, respect,
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  Speaker 1: honor the Son, who is of course the savior of
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  Speaker 1: all them that believe. And before we begin We as
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  Speaker 1: always want to thank each and every one of you
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  Speaker 1: who pray for support and listen to, if you will,
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  Speaker 1: this ministry. We are grateful to the Lord for this
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  Speaker 1: a man opportunity, this privilege in such a time as this,
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  Speaker 1: to Amen, speak forth the word of the Lord in
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  Speaker 1: truth and boldness and with clarity, with plainness of speech,
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  Speaker 1: and with the expectation of God working in the heart.
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  Speaker 1: We pray always that the word of the Lord will
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  Speaker 1: have free course, not only Amen, and we know it.
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  Speaker 1: I believe it, I trust it. I stand on the
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  Speaker 1: word of God that it will continue to flow. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Not only a man with us, but with many, many,
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  Speaker 1: many others. God is not short of witnesses at all. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: He will never be without a witness. And so we
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  Speaker 1: pray that the word of the Lord Amen, will go forth,
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  Speaker 1: will prosper, it will work in the heart of men
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  Speaker 1: and women everywhere, and that people will come to see
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  Speaker 1: and to know that Jesus the Christ is the Savior,
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  Speaker 1: the only way, the only hope of salvation. Amen. And
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  Speaker 1: so we pray that each and every day. Amen. All
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  Speaker 1: right again, Before we commence our podcast on today, we
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  Speaker 1: want to pray and ask God Amen, for his a
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  Speaker 1: man divine intervention, a man with all that we say
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  Speaker 1: and do. Father, Again, great is your faithfulness, Great is
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  Speaker 1: your goodness and mercy toward us, the children of men.
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  Speaker 1: What is man that thou art mindful of him, the
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  Speaker 1: son of man, that you would visit him? But thank you,
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  Speaker 1: thank you, thank you for coming down from glory, making
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  Speaker 1: yourself of no reputation, coming to tabernacle amongst men, to
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  Speaker 1: give yourself a ransom, so that we would have life,
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  Speaker 1: and have it more abundantly. Blessed be your name. From
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  Speaker 1: this time forth and even forever more. We pray even now,
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  Speaker 1: that eyes will be open, ears will be unstopped, and
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  Speaker 1: that hearts will be changed for the glory of your
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  Speaker 1: kingdom and majesty. We pray, Amen and Amen. All right.
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  Speaker 1: Reverence the Son, Reverence the Son, the Son of God,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus the Christ. The Gospel of John chapter number five
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  Speaker 1: is where we're going to read. And also if you
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  Speaker 1: have your Bibles, please follow along with us as we
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  Speaker 1: go of just a few moments to the Gospel of
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  Speaker 1: Mark chapter number twelve. And Amen, we will again focus
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  Speaker 1: on this topic. If you will, Reverence the Son, Reverence
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  Speaker 1: the Son, for as the Father verse number twenty one
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  Speaker 1: of John's Gospel, Chapter five. This is Jesus speaking, for
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  Speaker 1: as the Father raises the dead and gives life to them,
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  Speaker 1: even so the Son gives life to whom he will.
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  Speaker 1: For the Father judges no one, but has committed all
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  Speaker 1: judgment to the Son, that all should honor the son,
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  Speaker 1: just as they honor the Father. He who does not
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  Speaker 1: honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.
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  Speaker 1: This is the sad reality. This is the sadness of
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  Speaker 1: the deception of religion that is in our world. Many
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  Speaker 1: who profess a fear and reverence for God are in
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  Speaker 1: denial and delusion about who Jesus is. He is God incarnate,
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  Speaker 1: as he himself testified. I am in the Father and
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  Speaker 1: the Father in me. If you have seen me, you
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  Speaker 1: have seen the Father. I and my Father are one.
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  Speaker 1: There is one Lord, there is one faith, there is
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  Speaker 1: one God. There is one baptism into the one Church
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  Speaker 1: of the Living God. And that is by Jesus, the
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  Speaker 1: Christ of Nazareth, who came and gave himself a ransom
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  Speaker 1: to deliver us from this evil and wicked world. And
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  Speaker 1: if you don't believe this is the words of Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Now He said, if you don't believe that I am He,
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  Speaker 1: you will die in your sins. You cannot climb up
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  Speaker 1: any other way. There is no other way to honor God.
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  Speaker 1: When you dishonor the Son, we must reverence the Son
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  Speaker 1: of the Living God, who is the savior of all
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  Speaker 1: them that believe. In the Gospel of Mark, Jesus spoke
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  Speaker 1: this parable to the Jews of that day, and he
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  Speaker 1: spoke many parables, But this particular parable was directly a
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  Speaker 1: man appointed, if you will, aimed at his own people,
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  Speaker 1: first number one, and he began to speaking to them
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  Speaker 1: my parables. A certain man planted a vineyard and set
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  Speaker 1: a hedge about it, and digged a place for the
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  Speaker 1: wine fat, and built a tower, and let it out
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  Speaker 1: to husbandmen, and went into a far country. And at
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  Speaker 1: the season he sent to the husbandman a servant, that
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  Speaker 1: he might receive from the husbandman of the fruit of
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  Speaker 1: the vineyard. And they caught him and beat him and
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  Speaker 1: sent him away empty. And again he sent unto them
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  Speaker 1: another servant, and at him they cast stones and wounded
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  Speaker 1: him in the head, and sent him away shamefully handled.
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  Speaker 1: And again he sent another, and him they killed, and
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  Speaker 1: many others beating some and killing some. Having yet therefore
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  Speaker 1: one son, his well beloved, he sent him also last
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  Speaker 1: unto them, saying, they will reverence my son. But those
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  Speaker 1: husbandmen said among themselves, this is the heir. Come, let
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  Speaker 1: us kill him, and the inheritance shall be ours. And
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  Speaker 1: they took him and killed him, and cast him out
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  Speaker 1: of the vineyard. And then this question Jesus puts forth
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  Speaker 1: at the end of this parable, what shall therefore the
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  Speaker 1: lord of the vineyard do? And the answer is given.
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  Speaker 1: He will come and destroy the husbandmen, and will give
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  Speaker 1: the vineyard unto others. And have you not read this scripture,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus says, the stone which the builders rejected is become
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  Speaker 1: the head of the corner. This is the Lord's doing,
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  Speaker 1: and it is marvelous in our eyes. And after hearing
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  Speaker 1: this parable, knowing that Jesus spoke this word against them,
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  Speaker 1: listen what the Bible says. They sought to lay hold
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  Speaker 1: on him, but they feared the people. They knew the
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  Speaker 1: Bible says that he had spoken the parable against them,
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  Speaker 1: And they left him and went their way. One of
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  Speaker 1: the most egregiously wicked sin of our world has been
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  Speaker 1: the irreverence of mankind. For his maker, the very one
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  Speaker 1: by whom we have our being and our subsistence. It
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  Speaker 1: is in him, Jesus said, it is in me that
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  Speaker 1: we live and move and have our being. He said,
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  Speaker 1: without me, apart from me, that is, you can do nothing.
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  Speaker 1: It is not as though man is irreligious or has
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  Speaker 1: no regard for higher power, because he knows, both instinctively
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  Speaker 1: and logically from observation, the things that are clearly seen.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible says, he knows from knowledge, and he knows
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  Speaker 1: from God's self revelation that the God of creation exists.
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  Speaker 1: The irreverence of man for his creator shows in his
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  Speaker 1: everyday conduct and his disregard for the law of God
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  Speaker 1: that has been written within his heart. And again, it
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  Speaker 1: is not as though man does not know. It is
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  Speaker 1: that we choose not to know. We choose ignorance. We
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  Speaker 1: choose to disregard. We choose to cast the knowledge of
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  Speaker 1: God out of our hearts and minds. We choose not
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  Speaker 1: to give God the glory that is due to him.
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  Speaker 1: We choose to exile, as it were, God out of
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  Speaker 1: our thoughts, and in so doing the Bible speaks of this.
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  Speaker 1: This is the indictment again in the Romans chapter one.
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  Speaker 1: This is the indictment against man. He becomes vain in
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  Speaker 1: his imaginations, and his foolish heart becomes darkened because he
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  Speaker 1: professed himself to be wise, when he is in fact
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  Speaker 1: a fool. Because the Bible says, the food says in
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  Speaker 1: his heart that there is no God, and the darkness
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  Speaker 1: feels his heart. And Jesus testified and said, men love
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  Speaker 1: the darkness rather than light. The light exposes. But on
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  Speaker 1: the other hand, Jesus said, those who come to the light,
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  Speaker 1: they are willing if you will, to confess, to have
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  Speaker 1: their deeds known, to be cleansed, to be renewed, revived, restored,
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  Speaker 1: deliver freed from bondage. But the irreverence of man leads
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  Speaker 1: him to blasphemy. When men are irreverent of the Sun,
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  Speaker 1: of his words, of his presence, of his knocking at
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  Speaker 1: the door of their heart, it leads man to derision.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible says, there's a way that seems right unto
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  Speaker 1: a man, but the end thereof is death. Then he
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  Speaker 1: as a fool. He is flippant in his words and
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  Speaker 1: his thoughts. He turns to heresy. He insults the very
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  Speaker 1: god of creation. There is mockery profaneness that spews out
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  Speaker 1: of his mouth. There's ridicule, rudeness, lewdness, sacrilege, scoffing. The
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  Speaker 1: Bible speaks of scoffers, even in the last days. Talking
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  Speaker 1: as it were, as Peter said about the coming of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord, where is they would say, in that mockery
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  Speaker 1: the promise of his coming? For since the fathers fell asleep,
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  Speaker 1: all things continue as they were since the creation, And
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  Speaker 1: goes on to say this, they are willingly. See there's
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  Speaker 1: wilful ignorance, ladies and gentlemen, they are willingly ignorant. One
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  Speaker 1: day is with the Lord is a thousand years. A
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  Speaker 1: thousand years is one day the Lord is not slack.
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  Speaker 1: People were going to say, concerning his promise, the day
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord will come, and it will come as
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  Speaker 1: a thief in the night. See, there is wilful ignorance.
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  Speaker 1: There is wilful exiling of God out of the hearts
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  Speaker 1: and minds. There's wilful irreverence for Jesus the Christ, the Savior.
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  Speaker 1: And even though we, as fallen creatures, are born into
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  Speaker 1: sin and our inheritors, if you will, of a sinful nature,
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  Speaker 1: we still retain in us the image and likeness of God,
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  Speaker 1: and we also have the knowledge of both good and evil.
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  Speaker 1: We know what we ought to do, the Bible says.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible teaches it furthermore in the Old Testament, he said,
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  Speaker 1: he has shown you, old man, what is good. And
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  Speaker 1: then in the New Testament, the Bible says, the grace
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  Speaker 1: of God that brings salvation has appeared to all men,
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  Speaker 1: teaching us to deny ungodliness and worldlyness, and that we
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  Speaker 1: should live soberly, righteously and godly. Where right here in
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  Speaker 1: this present world, it is not as though we don't
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  Speaker 1: know what we know to be right. What we know
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  Speaker 1: to do and what we desire to do instead is
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  Speaker 1: where we began to be irreverent to the law of
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  Speaker 1: God and to the Son of God, who has come
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  Speaker 1: down from above, spoken to us, been an example for us,
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  Speaker 1: gave himself for us, rose again for our justification, and
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  Speaker 1: has ascended on high and sent the Holy goss down
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  Speaker 1: from heaven to help us, to keep us, to guide us,
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  Speaker 1: to direct us, to usher us into His presence eternally
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  Speaker 1: greater love have no man than this, but the man
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  Speaker 1: would lay down his life for his friend. That's exactly
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  Speaker 1: what Jesus did and God sent his servants. As he
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  Speaker 1: spoke in that parable, he was speaking of the prophets
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  Speaker 1: and his servants who had sent to the nation of
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  Speaker 1: Israel time after time after time after time. And what
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  Speaker 1: did they do? They killed the prophets, They killed his spokesman. Listen, listen, listen, listen, listen.
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  Speaker 1: Everything that we have, including our very existence, comes from God.
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  Speaker 1: It is of God, and it all belongs to God.
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  Speaker 1: All of the world is his. The earth is the Lord's,
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  Speaker 1: the fullness of the world, and day that dwell therein
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  Speaker 1: couttle up under thousand heels belonged to the Lord. We
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  Speaker 1: are here. We exist by the goodness of God, by
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  Speaker 1: the grace of God. Amen, by the love of God,
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  Speaker 1: by the mercy of God. And we, in our arrogance,
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  Speaker 1: our flippancy, our sacrilege, our blasphemy, our profaneness, we have
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  Speaker 1: in our world. It's always been this way, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: nothing new under the sun. In many respects, a total disregard,
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  Speaker 1: dishonor irreverence for the God of creation. He has spoken,
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  Speaker 1: he has come down, he has given himself, And now
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  Speaker 1: is the day of salvation. Now is the accepted time.
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  Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, The Bible speaks to us again in
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  Speaker 1: Hebrews chapter number one. God, who had sundry times and
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  Speaker 1: in divers manners, spake and time pass unto the fathers
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  Speaker 1: by the prophets. Again that parable that Jesus spoke. God
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  Speaker 1: sent his prophet, and he sent another prophet, and he
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  Speaker 1: sent another prophet, and he sent another prophet. What did
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  Speaker 1: they do? They disregarded, They dishonored, they persecuted, they martyred
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  Speaker 1: prophet after prophet. And by the way, let us not
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  Speaker 1: for a moment think within ourselves that, oh, no, this
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  Speaker 1: was just the Jews, This was just the Jews. No, no, No,
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  Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, all have sin. We are all guilty.
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  Speaker 1: We are all guilty of the blood of Jesus, all
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  Speaker 1: of us. We're all guilty of the blood of Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: God spoke time after time after time, And the Bible says,
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  Speaker 1: Hath in these last days verse two, spoken unto us,
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  Speaker 1: all of us, by his son, whom he hath appointed
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  Speaker 1: heir of all things, by whom also he made the world.
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  Speaker 1: You see, he is the creator. In the beginning, on's
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  Speaker 1: the word that works with God. The word was God.
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  Speaker 1: All things were made by him. And there is not
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  Speaker 1: anything that is made that was not made by Him.
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  Speaker 1: In Him we live and move and have our being.
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  Speaker 1: The Word was made flesh dwelt among us. Jesus. God
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  Speaker 1: has spoken to us by his son, the incarnation of
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  Speaker 1: God himself, who being the brightness. Look at verse number
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  Speaker 1: three Hebrews, chapter one, who being the brightness of his glory,
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  Speaker 1: He is the very essence of God. In the Gospels, Matthew, Mark,
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  Speaker 1: and Luke, you have the transfiguration where Jesus was seen
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  Speaker 1: in his glory, his form and his visit was changed
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  Speaker 1: right before their faces. Peter, James, and John. And they
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  Speaker 1: saw the brightness. They saw the glory. The apostle Peter
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  Speaker 1: I mean Paul brother on the road to Damascus, saw
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  Speaker 1: the brightness that was so illuminating above the brightness of
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  Speaker 1: the noonday sun. He would later testify that it blinded him.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus is the light, and that's what he testified by
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  Speaker 1: the way I am the light of the world. He
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  Speaker 1: is the light of eternity, the light that shines in
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  Speaker 1: the darkness, the light that shines in the hearts of men,
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  Speaker 1: to expel the darkness. Jesus. The Bible says verse three
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  Speaker 1: again being the brightness of his glory and the express
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  Speaker 1: image of his person, and upholding all things by the
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  Speaker 1: word of his power. When he had by himself purged
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  Speaker 1: our sins, sat down on the right hand of the
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  Speaker 1: majesty on high. That is the extreme to which God
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  Speaker 1: in Christ demonstrated himself, demonstrated his love, demonstrated his mercy,
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  Speaker 1: demonstrated his grace and compassion by coming down from glory
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  Speaker 1: in the person of his son, Jesus the Christ, to
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  Speaker 1: redeem us, to save us, to deliver us, to speak
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  Speaker 1: to us, to teach us. And the Bible says he
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  Speaker 1: has spoken to us by his son, He sent his servants,
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  Speaker 1: he sent his prophets to speak to us. But our
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  Speaker 1: hearts harden, our ears dull, our eyes closed. And so
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  Speaker 1: what did he do? Just as Jesus spoken at parable,
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  Speaker 1: He has sent to us his son, and he says,
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  Speaker 1: surely they will reverence my son. Now, ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 1: you can choose to reverence the son, to kiss the son,
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  Speaker 1: to embrace the son, and you will live. But if
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  Speaker 1: you ignore, if you don't believe the words of Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: now you just have listen, ladies, gentlemen, there is no
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  Speaker 1: end between. There is no patronizing Jesus, honoring Jesus saying, oh,
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  Speaker 1: he was a great prophet, he was a great teacher,
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  Speaker 1: he was this, he was that. Who the men say
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  Speaker 1: that I am. That's a question, ladies and gentlemen, that
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  Speaker 1: Jesus put forth to his disciples, knowing full well what
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  Speaker 1: men thought of him, what man said of him. That,
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  Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, is a rhetorical question that only has
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  Speaker 1: one answer. You don't get to form your own opinion
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  Speaker 1: or say, or change in any way. Who Jesus is.
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  Speaker 1: We talked about this already. He is the Christ and Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Upon Peter's answer, response, confession, Peter, flesh and blood did
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  Speaker 1: not reveal this to you, ladies and gentlemen, if you
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  Speaker 1: have an irreverence in your heart, in your mind for
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  Speaker 1: the Son of God, who is the Father incarnate? Who
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  Speaker 1: is the God that many so called religions they say
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  Speaker 1: God the title the Bible says, no one can say
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  Speaker 1: that Jesus is Lord except by the Holy Ghost, flesh
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  Speaker 1: and blood, religion, man's way, man's traditions won't give it
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  Speaker 1: to you. You can only come to know him by
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  Speaker 1: faith in him, and that comes by hearing the word,
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  Speaker 1: what word, the word that God has spoken. Faith comes
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  Speaker 1: by hearing hearing by the word of the Lord God,
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  Speaker 1: who had some hundred times in the divers manners spoke
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  Speaker 1: and time passed to the fathers by the prophets he
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  Speaker 1: has spoken by his son. Read the gospels. Hear what
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  Speaker 1: Jesus has spoken, and you must come to the conclusion
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  Speaker 1: that Jesus is who he said that he is, or
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  Speaker 1: that he is not. In other words, he is indeed truth,
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  Speaker 1: or he is a liar. He cannot be both he
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  Speaker 1: Brews chapter two. Therefore, we ought to give the more
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  Speaker 1: earnest heed to the things which we have heard, lest
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  Speaker 1: at any time we let them slip. For if the
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  Speaker 1: Word spoke and by angels, what's that fast, and every
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  Speaker 1: transgression and disobedience receives a just recompense of reward, How
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  Speaker 1: shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation which
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  Speaker 1: at the first begin to be spoken by the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: and was confirmed unto us by them that heard him.
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  Speaker 1: If reference, ladies and gentlemen towards the word of God
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  Speaker 1: causes the word of God to slip away out of
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  Speaker 1: the heart, I'm closing here, but let me just make
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  Speaker 1: quick reference to this. There's a parable, another parable that
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  Speaker 1: Jesus spoke that it is highly illustrative of what happens
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  Speaker 1: within the hearts of men. It's the parable of the sore,
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  Speaker 1: and it shows us clearly how men can have an
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  Speaker 1: irreverence towards the word of the Living God. Jesus spoke
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  Speaker 1: this parable, saying, the sore, and I'm paraphrasing, went out
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  Speaker 1: to soul seeds. Some fell on different kinds of ground,
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  Speaker 1: stony ground, thorny ground, shallow ground, good ground, The stony
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  Speaker 1: ground hard hearted, totally irre, irreverent, totally disrespectful, totally dishonoring.
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  Speaker 1: And then there's this thorny ground where the cares of
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  Speaker 1: this life. There are other things that are more important.
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  Speaker 1: There are other things that take precedence. There are other
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  Speaker 1: things that are prioritized more than the Word of God.
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  Speaker 1: There was someone in the Old Testament who said, I
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  Speaker 1: believe was the patriarch jokes, I esteem the Word of
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  Speaker 1: God higher than my necessary food. Thy word, the Psalmi says,
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  Speaker 1: I've hidden in my heart, wherewithal shall a young man
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  Speaker 1: cleanse his way by taking heed to the word. The
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  Speaker 1: word of God is a lamp un to my feet,
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  Speaker 1: and a light unto my path. The word belongs in
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  Speaker 1: our heart, that we might not sin against the living God.
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  Speaker 1: In the parable of the sword, the word is sown.
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  Speaker 1: The word has been given to us. And some of
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  Speaker 1: the word the Bible speaks of falls on shallow ground.
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  Speaker 1: There's no root. There's attention paid to it for a season,
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  Speaker 1: but there is no nurturing, there's no care of the word.
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  Speaker 1: And by and by again here comes that thief. Because
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  Speaker 1: the adversary of man, the devil, he certainly takes the
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  Speaker 1: opportunity to seek out our destruction. And the Bible says
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  Speaker 1: Jesus said this in explaining the parable, that the devil,
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  Speaker 1: the thief, he comes and steals away the word. The
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  Speaker 1: devil knows the potency of the word, he knows the
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  Speaker 1: power of the word, he knows the effectiveness of the word.
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  Speaker 1: He comes to steal the word out of the heart
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  Speaker 1: before faith can go into action. Again, where does faith
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  Speaker 1: come from? Faith comes by hearing the word of God.
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  Speaker 1: And so when the word is sown, and it's sown
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  Speaker 1: all in to the world. Even now the word is
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  Speaker 1: being shown, it is still being sown, it is still
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  Speaker 1: being broadcast. If you will into all the world. But
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  Speaker 1: the adversary, the devil is your adversary. The devil is
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  Speaker 1: a thief. He's a master deceiver. He is a master
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  Speaker 1: of distraction. And he knows again full well the potency
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  Speaker 1: and effectiveness of the living Word of God. So what happens.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible speaks of a way that seems right unto
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  Speaker 1: a man. Their people sometimes was supposedly, at least from
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  Speaker 1: their perspective, good intentions. Well, it's like the people who
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  Speaker 1: made those excuses when Jesus spoke about coming to follow him.
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  Speaker 1: Will let me first go and do this, Let me
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  Speaker 1: first go that, and then and then, and then, and
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  Speaker 1: then and then. And you hear people now, oh wait, well,
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  Speaker 1: let me get I gotta get myself to God. I
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  Speaker 1: can get my life together. I gotta, I gotta, I
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  Speaker 1: gotta get my career going. I gotta get this, I
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  Speaker 1: gotta do that. I gotta no. No, no, Ladies and gentlemen, Today,
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  Speaker 1: when you hear his boys, do not harden you harden
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  Speaker 1: your heart. Don't don't delay. Distraction and delay becomes disregard
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  Speaker 1: and disrespect. Today is the day to hear the word
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord. Today is the day to heed the
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  Speaker 1: call of the Spirit to repentance. Today is the day
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  Speaker 1: to reverence the Sun. And you reverence the Sun by
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  Speaker 1: reverencing the Word. Because there is no separation, there is
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  Speaker 1: no difference. He is the Word, the Word made flesh.
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  Speaker 1: All are commanded to honor the Son, just as they
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  Speaker 1: honor the Father. He who does not honor the Son
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  Speaker 1: does not honor the Father who sent him. There is
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  Speaker 1: no reverence of God if you do not reverence the Son. Father.
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  Speaker 1: Help us today again, we pray that you open eyes, ears,
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  Speaker 1: hearts as only you can do by the power of
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  Speaker 1: your spirit. In Jesus' name, we pray give things, Amen
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  Speaker 1: and Amen.