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Episode 194 - If You Believe In God · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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  Speaker 1: Great as the Lord, and he is greatly to be praised.
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  Speaker 2: God is an awesome God, mighty in his power and kingdom, majesty, dominion.
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  Speaker 2: Forever and ever, we thank him, We bless him, we
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  Speaker 2: honor him who is the King of kings and Lord
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  Speaker 2: of lords. Blessed be the name of the Lord. From
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  Speaker 2: this time forth and even forevermore, we welcome you once
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  Speaker 2: again to this another edition of End Time Revival Ministries
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  Speaker 2: USA podcast, where it is all about Jesus Christ, the
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  Speaker 2: Savior of the Redeemer, the one who has given himself
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  Speaker 2: for us, to redeem us from all iniquity, from all unrighteousness,
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  Speaker 2: and to purify to himself a people, a bride, a
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  Speaker 2: church that will be presented to him without spot or
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  Speaker 2: wrinkle or any such thing. And we want to be
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  Speaker 2: in that number. We want to be.
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  Speaker 1: A part of that great hope.
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  Speaker 2: Amn, this great salvation that comes to us by way
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  Speaker 2: of the blood that was shed Jesus to Christ, who
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  Speaker 2: gave himself a man again so that we would have
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  Speaker 2: life and have it more abundantly. All Right, this beautiful
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  Speaker 2: day that the Lord has made, we certainly are grateful
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  Speaker 2: to him for allowing us this opportunity one more time
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  Speaker 2: to proclaim the liberty that is to be found in Christ,
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  Speaker 2: Jesus our Lord, a man. And so we want to
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  Speaker 2: first of all again as always, thank each and every
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  Speaker 2: one of you who pray for and support this ministry,
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  Speaker 2: this podcast ministry.
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  Speaker 1: Again.
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  Speaker 2: It's all about disseminating the truth of God, the Word
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  Speaker 2: of God.
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  Speaker 1: A man.
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  Speaker 2: We want to see the people of God a man
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  Speaker 2: strengthened and a man emboldened to stand in such a
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  Speaker 2: time as this, a man.
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  Speaker 1: We are living in the last of the last.
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  Speaker 2: Days, and we want to a man be ready when
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  Speaker 2: the trumpet sounds, when the Lord descends from heaven, when
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  Speaker 2: he comes back for his people, Amen, those that look
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  Speaker 2: for him. The Bible tells us to them that look
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  Speaker 2: for him, shall he appear the second time without sin
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  Speaker 2: unto salvation. So we are looking and in anticipation of
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  Speaker 2: the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ for his church. Amen.
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  Speaker 2: And we want to be ready. We want to be watching. Amen.
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  Speaker 2: We want to be again in.
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  Speaker 1: Anticipation of his soon return. Amen.
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  Speaker 2: All right, if you have your bibles, I want to
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  Speaker 2: direct your to the Gospel of John chapter fourteen. We
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  Speaker 2: have been a man in the past, a man few months,
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  Speaker 2: if you will again directing our focus on Jesus. Amen,
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  Speaker 2: It's all about him. It's all about Amen. This great hope,
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  Speaker 2: this great salvation, this great gospel. Amen, this way that
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  Speaker 2: He has made for us to escape. Amen, the wrath
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  Speaker 2: of God that is to come. And before we begin
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  Speaker 2: John chapter fourteen, want to take just a moment, Amen,
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  Speaker 2: to a man speak a word of prayer.
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  Speaker 1: Amen. Father again, thank you for being.
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  Speaker 2: The good God, the Great God, the God who loved
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  Speaker 2: us with an everlasting love, the God who saw fit
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  Speaker 2: to redeem us from all of our transgressions and iniquities
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  Speaker 2: and sins, to keep us from evil, to give us.
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  Speaker 1: A mind and a heart to serve you, Lord.
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  Speaker 2: And we just want to be a man, good stewards
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  Speaker 2: of that which you have entrusted to us. So help
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  Speaker 2: us Lord, to speak faithfully your word to Lord, to
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  Speaker 2: live by it. Amen, to be living epistles and only
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  Speaker 2: read of men. And Lord, we want to be a
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  Speaker 2: man servants that are a man found worthy. Amen, to
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  Speaker 2: bear your name, to a man be called by your name.
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  Speaker 2: So Lord, help us to a man speak the truth
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  Speaker 2: and love and walk in love and a man love
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  Speaker 2: even our enemies. And pray for them that despitefully use
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  Speaker 2: us so that we can be called the children of God.
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  Speaker 1: Be glorified in your people everywhere.
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  Speaker 2: And we pray your blessings upon amen, those who a
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  Speaker 2: man call upon your name. And we certainly underseede even
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  Speaker 2: now for those who need to come to the saving
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  Speaker 2: knowledge of You, the savior of all them that believe,
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  Speaker 2: and your name we praying give thanks for all things.
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  Speaker 1: Amen and Amen, all right.
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  Speaker 2: The title of our podcast for today is if you
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  Speaker 2: believe in God.
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  Speaker 1: If you believe.
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  Speaker 2: In God, and certainly we have a question that follows this.
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  Speaker 1: Amen. If you believe.
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  Speaker 2: In God, let not your heartbeat trouble. Verse one, John
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  Speaker 2: Chapter fourteen. You believe in God, believe also in me.
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  Speaker 2: In my Father's house are many mansions. If it were
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  Speaker 2: not so, I would have told you I go to
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  Speaker 2: prepare a place for you. And if I go and
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  Speaker 2: prepare a place for you, I will come again and
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  Speaker 2: receive you to myself, that where I am, there you
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  Speaker 2: may be also. And where I go, you know. And
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  Speaker 2: the way.
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  Speaker 1: You know.
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  Speaker 2: John's Gospel chapter fourteen, verses one through four.
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  Speaker 1: We've just read and you're hearing.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus, of course, is continuing in preparing his disciples for
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  Speaker 2: his imminent departure from this world.
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  Speaker 1: This is the last night. This is.
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  Speaker 2: The time when Jesus of course institutes amen the new
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  Speaker 2: Covenant of the what we now partake in as the
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  Speaker 2: Church communion, the last Supper that Jesus has with his
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  Speaker 2: disciples on this night.
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  Speaker 1: And and in just a few hours he would be betrayed.
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  Speaker 2: He would be put on trial, be convicted on bogus accusations,
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  Speaker 2: delivered up to the Roman soldiers, to be brutally beaten
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  Speaker 2: almost beyond recognition, and murdered by those who envy Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: who hated Jesus all because, as he said, he testified
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  Speaker 2: to the truth, He testified of their evil deeds. He
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  Speaker 2: testified against the wickedness of this world. You will be hated,
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  Speaker 2: Jesus warned us, by the way, because they hated me,
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  Speaker 2: They're gonna hate you. You're gonna be hated of all
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  Speaker 2: men for my namesake. But he that endures, thank you, Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: to the end, the same shall be saved. Jesus knows
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  Speaker 2: that the reality of his crucifixion and his of course
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  Speaker 2: later ascension back up to Heaven would be disturbing to
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  Speaker 2: the heart and to the hopes of these men who
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  Speaker 2: had been with him, following him faithfully for three and
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  Speaker 2: a half years during his earthly ministry. And of course,
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  Speaker 2: his earthly ministry is now culminating in what he was predetermined, predestined,
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  Speaker 2: and purpose to do, That was to die for the
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  Speaker 2: sins of his people in order to redeem their souls
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  Speaker 2: from death, hell and the grave sin, the wages of
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  Speaker 2: sin is death a man. But Jesus said, of course,
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  Speaker 2: I've come that you might have life, and have it
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  Speaker 2: more abundantly. God so loved the world that he gave
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  Speaker 2: his only begotten son, that whosoever believed in him should
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  Speaker 2: not perish, but have everlasting or eternal life. And so
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  Speaker 2: Jesus again is preparing his disciples because they are saddened,
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  Speaker 2: they are troubled, and still in perhaps shocking unbelief that
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  Speaker 2: this is coming to an end as far as they
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  Speaker 2: could see from their natural perspective. So he says these
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  Speaker 2: words to them, Let not your hearts be troubled about this.
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  Speaker 2: You believe in God. So the question is, do you
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  Speaker 2: believe in God? Do you believe what God has spoken?
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  Speaker 2: Do you believe what God has promised and purposed to do?
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  Speaker 2: What God has a man written, if you will to
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  Speaker 2: us through the mouth of his prophets, and a man
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  Speaker 2: chosen vessels that he used to a man pen his
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  Speaker 2: word his self revelation about himself, a man. Do you
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  Speaker 2: believe in God? Now, there are a lot of people
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  Speaker 2: who profess to be believers in God, profess to believe God,
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  Speaker 2: believe there is a God. That's not the same as
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  Speaker 2: believing what God has spoken, believing what God has said
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  Speaker 2: that He's going to do is going to come to pass.
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  Speaker 1: A man, do we believe God?
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  Speaker 2: That's again quite different from saying I believe that there
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  Speaker 2: is a God. Well, what God is it that you
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  Speaker 2: believe in? What God is it that you have faith in?
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  Speaker 2: A man? The Bible says he that comes to God
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  Speaker 2: must believe that he is a man. He is whom
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  Speaker 2: he said. Amen. He is the God of creation. He
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  Speaker 2: is the God who sustains. He's the God who has spoken.
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  Speaker 2: He's the God who has purposed. He's the God who
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  Speaker 2: has decreed. He's the God from everlasting to everlasting. Amen.
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  Speaker 2: The first to last, the Alpha they o make at
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  Speaker 2: the beginning the end a man. He is the Redeemer,
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  Speaker 2: the Christ, God in Christ who came down from heaven
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  Speaker 2: and is now again preparing to ascend back up into heaven.
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  Speaker 2: And so Jesus is preparing his disciples. If you believe
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  Speaker 2: in God, then by extension, you must believe in Me.
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  Speaker 2: If you believe in God, believe also in Me. And
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  Speaker 2: by the way, of course, God spoke audibly from Heaven
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  Speaker 2: at the baptism of Jesus a man, when he was
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  Speaker 2: baptized by John the Baptist, a man, Jesus a man,
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  Speaker 2: and all those who were a man around at this
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  Speaker 2: baptism a man heard the voice of God from Heaven,
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  Speaker 2: testifying that this is my beloved son, in whom I
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  Speaker 2: am well pleased. And not only that, ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 2: I don't have We don't have the time, at least
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  Speaker 2: at least it's what we've allotted for this podcast.
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  Speaker 1: Have a long that may be we certainly a man.
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  Speaker 2: Could go scripture by scripture, beginning in the book of Genesis,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, and continuing all the way through the
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  Speaker 2: Old Testament into the New Testament a man and see
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  Speaker 2: all of the a man words that have been spoken
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  Speaker 2: a man, what has been written concerning Jesus. More so
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  Speaker 2: in the Old Testament, foretelling of his coming into the world.
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  Speaker 2: And so when he came into the world, he was
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  Speaker 2: identified by God himself, speaking audibly from heaven, that this
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  Speaker 2: is my son, this is the one. He is the Messiah.
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  Speaker 2: He's the one that I have foretold of through the
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  Speaker 2: mouth of the prophets, through a multitude of prophets, a man,
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  Speaker 2: that he was coming into the world, that he was
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  Speaker 2: coming with a purpose. A man. And there are many
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  Speaker 2: again who make a profession to believe in God, say
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  Speaker 2: that they believe that there is a God. Yet they
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  Speaker 2: do not believe what God has spoken concerning the Messiah,
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  Speaker 2: the Redeemer. Who is this Jesus the Christ, A man
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  Speaker 2: that again he clearly identified as his well beloved son.
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  Speaker 2: The prophecies begin, of course, with God himself. If you
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  Speaker 2: go back again to the book of Genesis, the book
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  Speaker 2: of the beginnings. A man in the immediate aftermath of
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  Speaker 2: the sin of Adam, the transgression of Adam, when a
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  Speaker 2: man he failed, a man to uphold what God had
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  Speaker 2: spoken to him, A man in the garden of Eden,
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  Speaker 2: a man, a man the Lord spoke these words, a man,
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  Speaker 2: a man and foretelling, prophesying a man of the seed
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  Speaker 2: of the woman that would come to crush to bruise
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  Speaker 2: the head of the serpent, who, of course had deceived
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  Speaker 2: the woman eve. Prophet after prophet after prophet, a man
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  Speaker 2: was sent by God. Amen. Was a man given divine
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  Speaker 2: revelation by God. Amen. And again they spoke on behalf
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  Speaker 2: of the God had a man to prepare. Amen, our
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  Speaker 2: hearts to receive this Jesus and to believe in him. Amen. Amen.
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  Speaker 2: And and and I want you, I want you to
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  Speaker 2: see something that Jesus himself spoke a man in the
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  Speaker 2: same Gospel of John chapter number five. If you will
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  Speaker 2: go back to John again again, because and I want
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  Speaker 2: I want to, I want to a man. I'll point
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  Speaker 2: this out because again there are those who profess to
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  Speaker 2: believe God, to believe in God, to believe there is
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  Speaker 2: a God, or whatever or whatever whatever it is, that
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  Speaker 2: they profess a man again to say that you believe God,
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  Speaker 2: that you believe in God, and yet you don't believe
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  Speaker 2: what God has said concerning Jesus. Incompatible incompatible, John chapter five,
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  Speaker 2: I want to begin reading that verse number sixteen. Now,
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  Speaker 2: this is in the aftermath of a healing that was
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  Speaker 2: performed on a man who had been crippled a man
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  Speaker 2: and could not walk a man, and he was laid
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  Speaker 2: at the pool, a man of Bethesda, and for he
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  Speaker 2: had been there for a long time in that condition.
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  Speaker 2: In Jesus on the Sabbath day told this man to
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  Speaker 2: take up his bed and walk. The man believed Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: a man believed in divine healing that could be performed
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  Speaker 2: by Jesus of Court. Now he didn't quite know who
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  Speaker 2: Jesus was, but he believed enough. He had enough faith
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  Speaker 2: to believe a man that God could heal him, and
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  Speaker 2: that he could be healed. And so he obeyed Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: A man took up his bed, and he began to walk.
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  Speaker 2: Pharisees saw the man with his bed and said, why
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  Speaker 2: are you carrying your bed on the Sabbath day?
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  Speaker 1: It is unlawful for you to do this. And the
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  Speaker 1: man went.
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  Speaker 2: On to tell the Jews that the one who made
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  Speaker 2: me whold told me to take up my bed and walk.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, the Jews were not elated about Jesus healing
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  Speaker 2: the man. They were only concerned with their legalism and say,
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  Speaker 2: and they therefore say, to this man, who is it
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  Speaker 2: that said to you take up your bed and walk? No, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: They were not rejoicing in the fact that this man
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  Speaker 2: who had been crippled I believe the Bible tells us
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  Speaker 2: for thirty eight long years. No, no, no, they were
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  Speaker 2: not rejoicing that this man has been made whole.
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  Speaker 1: Amen. No, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 2: Who is it?
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  Speaker 1: Who is it? Who is it that told you to
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  Speaker 1: break the Sabbath day? The Bible says the man told
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  Speaker 1: him that it was Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: Once he found out it was Jesus, he said, he
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  Speaker 2: came back and reported to the Jews that it was
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  Speaker 2: Jesus who told him, the Bible tells us verse sixteen.
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  Speaker 2: I pick it up there. Therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus,
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  Speaker 2: and they sought to slay him because he had done
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  Speaker 2: these things on the Sabbath day. Now listen carefully to
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  Speaker 2: what Jesus is going to say here verse seventeen. But
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  Speaker 2: Jesus answered them. In other words, he now responds to
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  Speaker 2: these haters, Amen, these legalists, Amen, these who don't believe
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  Speaker 2: in him, who refuse to believe him despite all of
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  Speaker 2: the miracles, signs, and wonders that he has performed in
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  Speaker 2: their midst. Amen, he responds to them. Listen, what he says,
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  Speaker 2: my father worketh hitherto and I work my father. Who
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  Speaker 2: is he talking about God? God? Now? Watch that? No
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  Speaker 2: and no, now you may not believe that just because
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  Speaker 2: you don't believe, Please don't misunderstand that the Jews misunderstood
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  Speaker 2: what Jesus was saying. They absolutely did not misunderstand at
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  Speaker 2: all what Jesus was saying when he said, my father,
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  Speaker 2: look at Look at verse number eighteen. Listen, listen, listen
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  Speaker 2: what he said. Therefore, the Jews sought the more to
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  Speaker 2: kill Jesus because he had not only broken the Sabbath,
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  Speaker 2: but said also that God was his father, making himself
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  Speaker 2: equal with God. In other words, Jesus claimed to be God,
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  Speaker 2: God manifested in human flesh. The Jews understood perfectly what
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  Speaker 2: Jesus was saying when he said, God is his father,
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  Speaker 2: all right?
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  Speaker 1: Verse nineteen.
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  Speaker 2: Then answered Jesus and said, unto them, verily, verily, I
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  Speaker 2: say unto you. The son can do nothing of himself,
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  Speaker 2: but what he seeth the Father do. Now what Jesus
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  Speaker 2: is saying here basically, and I'm not going to belabor.
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  Speaker 1: This, there is no.
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  Speaker 2: Separation, if you will, between himself and God. I am
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  Speaker 2: in the father, the Father, and me. If you've seen me,
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  Speaker 2: you've seen the Father, he would later, of course, or
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  Speaker 2: say this to Thomas. How can you then say, show
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  Speaker 2: us the father?
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  Speaker 1: All right?
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  Speaker 2: So now when Jesus is speaking of himself, I am
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  Speaker 2: my father one again, there is no separation, Amen, there
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  Speaker 2: is a distinction. There is a manifestation of God. God
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  Speaker 2: has manifested himself many by the way. Oh my God,
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  Speaker 2: I'm gonna oh, I don't want to go down this
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  Speaker 2: trail because it's so much. So many instances in which
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  Speaker 2: Jesus showed himself came. It's why he said before Abraham
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  Speaker 2: was I am.
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  Speaker 1: I Am.
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  Speaker 2: We have all of these theophanies in the Old Testament. Jesus, Amen,
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  Speaker 2: he came to visit Abraham, for example, Amen, Abraham understood,
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  Speaker 2: Abraham knew who he was, and that's Jesus, said. Abraham
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  Speaker 2: rejoiced to see my day. He saw it was glad Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: It was Jesus, by the way, who stood there with Abraham.
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  Speaker 2: Three men came to visit Abraham, and it was the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: And Abraham knew it was the Lord. He bowed himself
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  Speaker 2: before him, he worshiped him, and he called him Lord
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  Speaker 2: he called him the judge of all the earth. Oh
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  Speaker 2: my God, I don't I don't have Okay, I gotta go,
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  Speaker 2: I gotta fight.
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  Speaker 1: Let's move, let's move, let's move.
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  Speaker 2: So now the Jews again understand what Jesus is saying.
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  Speaker 2: They understand perfectly that Jesus is saying that he is
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  Speaker 2: God and soil. Verse nineteen. Then answered Jesus and said,
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  Speaker 2: unto them. Verily, I said to you, the son can
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  Speaker 2: do nothing of himself. What do you see if the
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  Speaker 2: Father do, or for what thingsoever he doeth, these also
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  Speaker 2: doeth the Son. Likewise, in other words, he has the
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  Speaker 2: same power, the same authority, because it's the same God.
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  Speaker 2: He is God. Amen. So then answered Amen of Jesus again,
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  Speaker 2: that whatever the Son does, whatever the Father does, it's
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  Speaker 2: the same for the Father Verse twenty loveth the Son
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  Speaker 2: and showeth him all things that himself doeth, And he
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  Speaker 2: will show him greater works than these, that ye may marvel.
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  Speaker 1: For. Look at verse twenty one.
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  Speaker 2: As the Father raises up the dead and quickeneth them,
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  Speaker 2: even so the Son quickeneth whom he will. They end
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  Speaker 2: up again again, there is no difference in power and authority.
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  Speaker 2: Listen again, what Jesus says He's not finished for the Father.
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  Speaker 2: Judgeth no man, but Hath committed all judgment unto the Son,
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  Speaker 2: that all men this is very important Verse twenty three,
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  Speaker 2: last verse that all men should honor the Son even
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  Speaker 2: as they honor the Father. He that honeth not the Son,
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  Speaker 2: honoreth not the Father, which Hath sent him from the
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  Speaker 2: very beginning, ladies and gentlemen of his earthly ministry, all
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  Speaker 2: the way up to the very last hour, when again
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  Speaker 2: he will be brutally beaten, tortured, and impaled upon that cross.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus never recanted who he claimed to be. Jesus says
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  Speaker 2: that no man can claim to honor God. Believe, leave God,
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  Speaker 2: no God, and simultaneously dishonor the Son of God, the
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  Speaker 2: one whom God has certified, if you will and sent
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  Speaker 2: into the world to speak the words of God Hebrews,
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  Speaker 2: God who had sundry times and in divers manners and
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  Speaker 2: time pass spoke to the fathers by the prophets Hath
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  Speaker 2: in these last days spoken to us by his son.
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  Speaker 2: If you Dishonor Jesus, you're dishonoring God.
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  Speaker 1: You cannot, you cannot.
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  Speaker 2: You can say it with your mouth. You can say
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  Speaker 2: it with your mouth, and you can say we can
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  Speaker 2: say anything without mouth. Now we can make our mouths
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  Speaker 2: to say a lot of things.
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  Speaker 1: You can say that you.
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  Speaker 2: Love God, no God, believe God, believe in God. But
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  Speaker 2: you cannot.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't.
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  Speaker 2: Know Jesus, Love Jesus, believe in Jesus, and honor Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: Because there is no difference, no separation. He is in
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  Speaker 2: the Father, The Father is in him. He is God
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  Speaker 2: manifested in human flesh. Great is the mystery of godliness.
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  Speaker 2: God was manifested in the flesh. That's what the Bible
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  Speaker 2: tells us. God was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus never recanted despite all of the persecution, all of
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  Speaker 2: the railing that they did upon him, the beating, the torturing,
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  Speaker 2: the pain and agony, the insults, and the opportunities that
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  Speaker 2: he had, many the opportunities that he had right up
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  Speaker 2: until the time that he would be nailed to that cross,
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  Speaker 2: he had the opportunity to recant, to say, you know what,
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  Speaker 2: I'm not who I said I was, I'm not the
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  Speaker 2: son of God. They even again while he was there hanging.
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  Speaker 2: The Bible says they reviled him. If you are the
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  Speaker 2: son of God, come down, show yourself to be. Of
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  Speaker 2: course they did not understand. They didn't know. So Jesus
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  Speaker 2: speaks these words of comfort, which we by the way
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  Speaker 2: still to this day.
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  Speaker 1: If you believe, if you believe, he said, let not
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  Speaker 1: your heart be troubled. Believer in God.
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  Speaker 2: And the question that we derive from this text, from
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  Speaker 2: these words of Jesus is in fact an inescapable question
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  Speaker 2: that must be answered. If you believe in God, then
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  Speaker 2: the question is do you believe in Jesus. Is Jesus
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  Speaker 2: who God said that he is?
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  Speaker 1: Is Jesus who Jesus said.
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  Speaker 2: That he is? Is he the son of God? Is
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  Speaker 2: he the Savior? Is he the Redeemer? Now, ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 2: I know we like to have options, duplicity, double mindedness.
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  Speaker 2: This is the kind of world we live in, this
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  Speaker 2: kind of culture that we have, especially in our day.
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  Speaker 2: But when it comes to Jesus, either he is or
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  Speaker 2: he is not, he cannot be telling the truth and
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  Speaker 2: lying at the same time. He cannot be both either
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  Speaker 2: he is or he is not?
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  Speaker 1: Who he and who God says.
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  Speaker 2: That he is? And then he's listen Listen, listen, listen,
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  Speaker 2: listen what we read from John chapter fourteen, and listen
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  Speaker 2: what he says in my father's house? Now? Who is
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  Speaker 2: he talking again? What you know I could say in
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  Speaker 2: my father's house? What what Father?
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  Speaker 1: I mean? You would think my birth?
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  Speaker 2: What is Joseph? Joseph is dead, by the way, what
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  Speaker 2: does he talk? What father is? He?
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  Speaker 1: They knew exactly.
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  Speaker 2: What the disciples, as he's conversing with at this particular time,
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  Speaker 2: they understood again, the Jews understood when he said father.
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  Speaker 2: They knew what father that he was talking about.
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  Speaker 1: Amen.
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  Speaker 2: And so now he says to the disciples, in my
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  Speaker 2: father's house, that's that's a mouthful. He's making a claim
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  Speaker 2: on something about his father's house. There's something in his
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  Speaker 2: father's house. Now, either he's imagining things or he knows
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  Speaker 2: what's in his father's house. Now, what does he say
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  Speaker 2: is in his father's house? He says, in my father's
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  Speaker 2: house are many mansions, not a few, but many mansions.
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  Speaker 2: And then he says, I go to prepare a place
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  Speaker 2: for you. And then he says, if I go to
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  Speaker 2: prepare a place for you, I will come again and
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  Speaker 2: receive you to myself. That where I am there you
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  Speaker 2: maybe also now again, if you believe in God, do
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  Speaker 2: you believe in heaven? Do you believe that Jesus has
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  Speaker 2: seen this heaven? Do you believe therefore, that Jesus came
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  Speaker 2: down from heaven? Is it so as Jesus said that
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  Speaker 2: it is that in his father's house? How many mansions
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  Speaker 2: do you believe that? What is it that you believe
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  Speaker 2: that Jesus is saying? Now you have to believe that
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  Speaker 2: Jesus is saying it is true, or you have to
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  Speaker 2: believe that what Jesus is saying is.
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  Speaker 1: Not true, it's fantasy.
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  Speaker 2: How does he know? How could he know this? There's
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  Speaker 2: only one way to know it, ladies and gentlemen, is
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  Speaker 2: that you've seen it. You've been there, and that's what
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  Speaker 2: he claimed. Also, he said, I am from above, you
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  Speaker 2: are from beneath.
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  Speaker 1: I am not of this world. My kingdom is not
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  Speaker 1: of this world.
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  Speaker 2: He stated with no ambiguity at all, Ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 2: where he came from. That's how he knows. He's seen it.
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  Speaker 2: He made it. It's his habitation. In fact, it is
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  Speaker 2: where he is right now, at the right hand of
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  Speaker 2: the Majesty on high again Jesus remained consistent with his
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  Speaker 2: claim of deity, and he remains consistent with these words
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  Speaker 2: that he's speaking to his apostles and preparing them. You
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  Speaker 2: believe in God, believe in me. In my father's house. Again,
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  Speaker 2: the Jews understood exactly what Jesus said. When you get
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  Speaker 2: it his father, you are God. You're making yourself equal
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  Speaker 2: with God. You're making yourself the same as God. So
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  Speaker 2: Jesus saying, in my house, in the place that I'm from,
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  Speaker 2: there are many mansions there. I'm going there. I've got
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  Speaker 2: to die this death. I'm going to be in the
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  Speaker 2: heart of the earth. I'm coming back up out of
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  Speaker 2: the grave. I'm going to ascend back up to where
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  Speaker 2: i came from. But when I return again, I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to receive you. I'm going to take you, because I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to prepare a place for you. I'm coming back.
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  Speaker 1: He's consistent.
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  Speaker 2: With his claim of deity, of power of authority.
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  Speaker 1: He never wavered about who, where, what, when?
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  Speaker 2: How? Believe me for who I say that I am.
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  Speaker 2: I am the Son of the Living God. I am
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  Speaker 2: the Christ, I am the Messiah, I am the Redeemer.
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  Speaker 2: I am the only mediator between God, and man. I
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  Speaker 2: am the Way, the Truth, and the Life. I am
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  Speaker 2: the door. I am the good Shepherd. I'm the light,
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  Speaker 2: I'm the life. I am the living water. I am
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  Speaker 2: the living brain. I am that I am. Believe me
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  Speaker 2: for who I say.
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  Speaker 1: That I am.
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  Speaker 2: Believe me for where I say I am from. I
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  Speaker 2: am from above. I came down from Heaven. Believe me for.
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  Speaker 1: What I say I have said.
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  Speaker 2: I've seen heaven because that's where I'm from. Believe me
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  Speaker 2: for when these things shall be. Because I'm going away,
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  Speaker 2: I'm coming back. When will these things be? Oh, let
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  Speaker 2: me tell you, ladies and gentlemen, what Jesus said. Sooner
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  Speaker 2: than you think in an hour that you think not, Oh,
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  Speaker 2: He'll be back.
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  Speaker 1: Do you believe? Do you believe? Do you believe? That's
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  Speaker 1: the question.
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  Speaker 2: Do you believe? If you believe in God, believe also
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  Speaker 2: in Jesus