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Episode 163 - Special Agent Arrested · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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  Speaker 1: Oh, bless the Lord, Oh my soul, all that is
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  Speaker 1: within me, bless his Holy name. God is worthy. He
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  Speaker 1: is worthy to be praised at all times. Everything that
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  Speaker 1: has breath is duty bound to praise the Lord. That's
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  Speaker 1: the only qualification of praise you owe God. Praise. The
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  Speaker 1: breath of life that is in you comes from Him,
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  Speaker 1: and apart from him, without him, none of us exists.
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  Speaker 1: We can do nothing. Heyman, it is in Him that
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  Speaker 1: we live, move and have our existence. We welcome you
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  Speaker 1: once again to this another edition of End Time Revival
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  Speaker 1: Ministries USA podcast. I am your host, Pastor al Zachary,
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  Speaker 1: and today we are continuing in our or longed as
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  Speaker 1: now it has been a few months series on God, Government,
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  Speaker 1: Church and State. Nevertheless a man, we are still a
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  Speaker 1: man forging ahead because it is important for us to
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  Speaker 1: understand that God reigns and rules in the kingdom of men.
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  Speaker 1: It is God who has established and ordained government. But nevertheless,
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  Speaker 1: no king, no ruler, no prince, no power, no governor,
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  Speaker 1: mayor president, prime minister, none, none. None can stay the
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  Speaker 1: hand of God. None can a man defy what He
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  Speaker 1: has decreed to come to pass. And as we have
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  Speaker 1: already seen old Testament, and now into the New Testament,
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  Speaker 1: a man. There have been rulers throughout history, government agents,
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  Speaker 1: those who have again been raised up into power, who
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  Speaker 1: have opposed the people of God, whoever opposed God himself,
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  Speaker 1: and find themselves and have found themselves rather a man
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  Speaker 1: fighting against God. And certainly this is not a place
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  Speaker 1: that you want to be. A man on the losing side.
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  Speaker 1: It's guaranteed defeat. A man God cannot will not be defeated.
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  Speaker 1: His plan, his purpose, everything that He has decreed from
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  Speaker 1: eternity pass, it shall come to pass. Amen. The will
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord will be done. Amen. So we are
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  Speaker 1: a man confident in the word of God, confident in
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  Speaker 1: the power of God, confident a man in what God
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  Speaker 1: has spoken. Because a man, he cannot lie, he cannot
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  Speaker 1: deny himself. God cannot change, God cannot die. Amen. We
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  Speaker 1: understand that there are some things that God cannot do.
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  Speaker 1: He cannot lie, he cannot change, he cannot die, he
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  Speaker 1: cannot deny himself. Amen. And we certainly have our faith
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  Speaker 1: and trust and confidence in the power of the Sovereign Almighty,
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  Speaker 1: King of Kings and Lord of Lords. We continue today
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  Speaker 1: in the Book of the Acts, chapter number nine, if
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  Speaker 1: you have your Bible, you can go with us. There. Again,
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  Speaker 1: we welcome you those of you who are listening to
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  Speaker 1: us by way of our audio podcast, End Time Revival
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  Speaker 1: Ministries USA podcasts. Amen. It can be found through many
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  Speaker 1: many different streaming outlets End Time Revival Ministers USA podcast
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  Speaker 1: audio podcasts, and for those of you who view us
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  Speaker 1: by way of our YouTube channel, One Voice in the Wilderness. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Where again our purpose and goal is to plainly declare
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  Speaker 1: the whole Council of God. Amen. And today we're again
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  Speaker 1: going to be in the Book of the Acts of
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  Speaker 1: the Apostles, chapter number nine. Before we begin, let's take
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  Speaker 1: a moment to amen, invoke the presence of the Lord
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  Speaker 1: Father again. We are grateful to you for all of
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  Speaker 1: your blessings that you're bestowed upon us, For the peace
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  Speaker 1: of God that rules and reigns in our heart. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you for the joy of the Lord that gives us
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  Speaker 1: strength from day to day. We have boldness and confidence
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  Speaker 1: in you because your word is steadfast and sure, because
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  Speaker 1: you are faithful, and you cannot and will not deny yourself,
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  Speaker 1: your word, Your people God, We are your people, the
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  Speaker 1: sheep of your pasture. We come through these gates this
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  Speaker 1: day with thanksgiving in our hearts. Our hearts are filled
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  Speaker 1: with gratitude, Lord, because of your great love for us.
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  Speaker 1: We praise you, We bless you, and we pray even
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  Speaker 1: now that you will open someone's eyes, ears and heart
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  Speaker 1: a man to see, to hear, and to believe that
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  Speaker 1: you are the true in the living God, and there
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  Speaker 1: is none beside THEE. Be glorified in your people, be
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  Speaker 1: glorified in the world today, and Jesus thing we praying
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  Speaker 1: if thanks, Amen and Amen, special agent arrested. How about
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  Speaker 1: that special agent gets arrested. Amen. That's what our focus
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  Speaker 1: is on today. A special agent that got arrested. How
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  Speaker 1: about that, Amen, Acts Chapter number nine Saul. Those of
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  Speaker 1: you who know your Bibles already know that he was
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  Speaker 1: yet later named Paul the Apostle Paul, but before his conversion,
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  Speaker 1: prior to his amen arrest, as it were, as it
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  Speaker 1: were going to see, he was an enemy number one
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  Speaker 1: enemy in fact of the early Church, and he was
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  Speaker 1: consenting to the death of Stephen. We covered that briefly
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  Speaker 1: in our session previous session on Stephen. How he was
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  Speaker 1: the first martyr one murdered for the name of Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: A man murdered for the name of Jesus. Stephen. Saul
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  Speaker 1: was at that a man, murder, execution, stoning of Stephen,
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  Speaker 1: held the colts of those and consented to him being
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  Speaker 1: put to death. And Saul, the Bible tells us, now
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  Speaker 1: in Acts chapter number nine, he is yet breathing out threatenings.
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  Speaker 1: This is how the devil operates. He loves to try
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  Speaker 1: to threaten the people of God and intimidate. And if
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  Speaker 1: that doesn't work again, as we've already shown, pattern after pattern,
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  Speaker 1: time after time, he will ultimately resort to murder, steal, kill, destroy.
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  Speaker 1: That's what the devil has come to do. Still, kill, destroy,
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  Speaker 1: And so first of all he tries to intimidate the
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  Speaker 1: people of God, threatening the people of God. And so Saul,
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  Speaker 1: now a man, the number one enemy of the Church
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  Speaker 1: ch now is breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the
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  Speaker 1: disciples of the Lord. He now goes, the Bible says
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  Speaker 1: in verse number one to the High Priest. Now he
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  Speaker 1: a man makes his way to the government, a man
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  Speaker 1: the government, the rulers, the officials, And the Bible tells
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  Speaker 1: us in verse number two he desired of him. The
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  Speaker 1: High Priest letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if
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  Speaker 1: he found any of this way and in the way
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  Speaker 1: that he's talking about, or the Bible is refer Luke,
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  Speaker 1: the author it's referring to, of course, is a man.
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  Speaker 1: The way of Jesus Christ, the faith of Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 1: discipleship following the Lord. Before it was called Christianity, it
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  Speaker 1: was called the way. And Jesus, by the way said
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  Speaker 1: that I am the way a man, So you're in
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  Speaker 1: the right way if you're following Jesus. And saw not
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  Speaker 1: yet aware of this, being ignorant of it. This is
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  Speaker 1: his own testimony that he would say later he desires
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  Speaker 1: letters from the high priests that if he found any
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  Speaker 1: of this way, whether they were men or women, he
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  Speaker 1: did not care a man, he might bring them bound
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  Speaker 1: unto Jerusalem. Now, please understand, as we've already forestated, that
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  Speaker 1: those who oppose the Church and despise and reject the
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  Speaker 1: gospel of Jesus Christ, in their zeal to destroy the Church,
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  Speaker 1: they will almost certainly make their way to the government
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  Speaker 1: a man of the land, in order to seek authorization
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  Speaker 1: to change the laws, to get approval from the powers
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  Speaker 1: that be, as it were, in order to lend credence
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  Speaker 1: to their devilish desires. And if the government is under
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  Speaker 1: the authority of rulers who are like minded, and most
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  Speaker 1: of them are nonstake about that, then those who are
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  Speaker 1: the haters of the people of God, those who despise
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  Speaker 1: the name of Jesus Christ, those who are opposed to
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  Speaker 1: the Church of Jesus Christ, they will get their permission slips, amen,
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  Speaker 1: if you will, to go about their mission of malice
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  Speaker 1: and murder. And it's happening right now, hey, right here
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  Speaker 1: in the good old United States of America, the Land
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  Speaker 1: of the Free and the Home of the Brave, a
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  Speaker 1: nation that was supposedly, as it were, founded on Christian
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  Speaker 1: values Christianity. Amen. Nevertheless, in our day you have we have, brother, amen,
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  Speaker 1: people who are obstinate, who are haters, who absolutely detest
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  Speaker 1: and despise the name of Jesus, the Church of the
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  Speaker 1: Living God. They're not opposed to religion, as we've already
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  Speaker 1: forestated on multiple occasions. They're not against religion. They're not
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  Speaker 1: anti religion. They're anti Jesus. Amen. They're not anti God
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  Speaker 1: in the name in a title sense, because they think
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  Speaker 1: of themselves as being God. Amen. So they're not opposed
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  Speaker 1: to religion. They're opposed to Jesus, the name of Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: the Way, Amen, that is the true Amen, way of
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  Speaker 1: salvation for man. And all of this is by the
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  Speaker 1: way being controlled by the devil, who knows, Amen that
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  Speaker 1: Jesus is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And so amen, these haters of the people of God,
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  Speaker 1: they'll get their permission slips from like minded government officials, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: to carry out their mission of malice and murder against
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  Speaker 1: the Church. And such was the case with for example,
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  Speaker 1: if you go back again in the old test Smith
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  Speaker 1: Annis might Haymon a man in the days of Esther
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  Speaker 1: when she was the queen, a man of Persia, a man,
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  Speaker 1: and he sought to uh destroy all the Jews, destroy
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  Speaker 1: all the people of God. And why he's simple, simple hatred, devil, evil, wicked, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: full of the devil. That's what he was, demonically possessed
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  Speaker 1: and driven to wipe out the people of God. And
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  Speaker 1: so this is exactly the same kind of pattern that
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  Speaker 1: people in our day are still following, going to the
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  Speaker 1: government seeking to outlaw worship, outlaw preaching out I mean,
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  Speaker 1: there are laws that people have tried to enact and
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  Speaker 1: have enacted to outlaw preaching. Again, I mean what the
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  Speaker 1: Bible speaks. We cannot preach certain things out of the
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  Speaker 1: Bible in certain places. I'm talking about in America where
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  Speaker 1: they were having people arrested just for preaching against homosexuality. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: If you speak out against certain things, Amen, in certain places,
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  Speaker 1: you will be persecuted and prosecuted Amen, for preaching the truth.
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  Speaker 1: And so this is how the devil operates. First and
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  Speaker 1: foremost intimidation, threatening, and if that doesn't work, then he goes,
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  Speaker 1: of course to the government to get approval. And this
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  Speaker 1: is exactly what happens here. Amen. In the case of Saul,
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  Speaker 1: he was consenting. Amen. And by the way it there
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  Speaker 1: have been many others throughout history, world history who have
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  Speaker 1: followed this same pattern of evil, devious planning and plotting
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  Speaker 1: and scheming a man again to against God. And that's
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  Speaker 1: what they're doing. They're fighting against God. And Saul ignorantly
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  Speaker 1: was consenting, of course to the murder of Stephen. And
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  Speaker 1: he is persecuting the Church in his zeal as a
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  Speaker 1: guardian supposedly of the law, as a pharisee of the Pharisees.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, he would later testify and so again he
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  Speaker 1: follows in the footsteps of others who have foolishly opposed
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  Speaker 1: God by means of mere mortal men's government, government of
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  Speaker 1: man by man, a man. Again, even though God is authorizing,
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  Speaker 1: sanctioned government, ordained the government, God is the one who
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  Speaker 1: instituted it a man. Yet men, in their rebellion act
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  Speaker 1: in their obstinates against God. And again Psalm number two,
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  Speaker 1: you can read it there a man, how the kings
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  Speaker 1: of this earth, a man, are in alliance, in allegiance
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  Speaker 1: against God, a man in his government and his authority.
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  Speaker 1: They don't want the rule of God, the law of God,
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  Speaker 1: the word of God to over a man see their
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  Speaker 1: lives and their actions and their activities. And so they
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  Speaker 1: rebel in coalition against God. And so foolishly men will
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  Speaker 1: go to government. People will rise up to go to
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  Speaker 1: the government in order to get authority for the rubber stamping,
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  Speaker 1: if you will, of their demonic schemes that they have
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  Speaker 1: dreamed up in order again to stamp out to wipe
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  Speaker 1: out the Church of the Living God. And so in
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  Speaker 1: this particular case, Saul is deputized as a government special agent.
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  Speaker 1: He's given special permission by the high priests letterszation from
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  Speaker 1: the government to go to Damascus and arrest, apprehend, bind
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  Speaker 1: up a man dragged back to Jerusalem. Anybody, a man
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  Speaker 1: who was in the way, in the way of Christ,
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  Speaker 1: in the way of the Faith, in the way of
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  Speaker 1: one Lord, one faith, one Baptism, one God, one Father. No, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: they could not have any opposition to a man judaism
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  Speaker 1: as it were a man. And again the apostle Paul,
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  Speaker 1: as he would later testify, in his ignorance, he thought
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  Speaker 1: that he was doing a man the work of God.
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  Speaker 1: And so he gets himself deputized again as a special
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  Speaker 1: agent of the government, a man on a special mission
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  Speaker 1: to a man, stamp out the church and bind up
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  Speaker 1: again and tossing the prison anybody who was calling on
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  Speaker 1: the name of Jesus, a man in Saul. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: of course, he has no idea whatsoever that he himself
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  Speaker 1: is about to be arrested. How about that the Bible
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  Speaker 1: tells us, look at verse number three. I'm in Acts
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  Speaker 1: chapter number nine. As he journeyed, he came near Damascus.
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  Speaker 1: He almost made it to his destination. Amen, he almost
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  Speaker 1: made it to Damascus. And the Bible tells us, suddenly
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  Speaker 1: they'll shined round about him, a light from heaven, and
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  Speaker 1: he fell to the earth and heard a voice saying
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  Speaker 1: unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecuted thou me, my God man?
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  Speaker 1: Who let me? Let me tell you some Only God
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  Speaker 1: can do this kind of thing. Only God can do
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  Speaker 1: this kind of thing. And then later, of course, Paul
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  Speaker 1: would re recite his uh testimony and recount what happened
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  Speaker 1: to him on the road to Damascus on a couple
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  Speaker 1: of occasions in the Book of Acts, two or three occasions,
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  Speaker 1: and in fact, but on one of these occasions, he
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  Speaker 1: described the light from heaven, that being above the brightness
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  Speaker 1: of the sun, and it was around the noon, above
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  Speaker 1: the brightness of the noonday sun, when it's at its brightest.
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  Speaker 1: So bright was the light that it blinded him, And
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  Speaker 1: the Bible says this light caused him verse number four again,
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  Speaker 1: to fall to the earth, and he heard the voice
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord calling unto him, Saul, Saul, why are
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  Speaker 1: you persecuting me? God knows where you are, He knows
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  Speaker 1: who you are. He knows your motives, He knows your
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  Speaker 1: plans and schemes and thoughts and ideas, and he knows
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  Speaker 1: it all. Amen, And so now, amen, he says, Paul
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  Speaker 1: does Saul, I'm sorry, I'm dead, Paul, Paul, Paul. I
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  Speaker 1: just know him as Paul of course now, but Saul
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  Speaker 1: at the time, he responds to the Lord, to the
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  Speaker 1: voice from heaven, saying, who art thou? Lord? He knows
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  Speaker 1: it's it's it's the sovereign. He knows it's the divine.
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  Speaker 1: He knows he's a wait a minute, Who are you?
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  Speaker 1: Who are you? Lord? Amen? I've known you from the reading,
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  Speaker 1: I've known you from the Torah, I've known you from
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  Speaker 1: the learning my schooling. I've learned of you from the books.
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  Speaker 1: But now I'm encountering you face to face? Who are you? Lord?
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  Speaker 1: And the Lord says, I am Jesus. Wo, Lord, have mercy?
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  Speaker 1: Who this thing? Now? This is? Now? Please? Please don't
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  Speaker 1: I'm asktimate this moment. Oh. This man saw for the
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  Speaker 1: express and in I mean specific purpose of his mission
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  Speaker 1: as a special government agent is to oppose the name
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus and anybody who's calling on the name of Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: anybody who is at adhering to this new doctrine, as
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  Speaker 1: it were, a man and so and so, Now he says,
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  Speaker 1: who are you? Lord? He said I am, Oh, don't, mister,
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  Speaker 1: I am in there. I am Jesus. I am Jesus
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  Speaker 1: whom you are persecuting. Now keep in mind, oh, oh,
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  Speaker 1: I can't. I can't goss over that. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: when you persecute the church, you're person acting Jesus. When
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  Speaker 1: you persecute the church, when you come against the people
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  Speaker 1: of God, when you are harassing, martyring, amen, seeking to
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  Speaker 1: destroy the church, speaking against the church, blaspheming against the church. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: you're doing it to Jesus. You better understand that. People
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  Speaker 1: need to understand that they have But again we understand
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  Speaker 1: why there are people that do this. They don't have
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  Speaker 1: any fear of God. They don't believe God, they don't
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  Speaker 1: believe it's word. Amen. They don't believe the Bible. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: They don't believe that Jesus is Amen. And so he
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  Speaker 1: says to Saul, Amen, I am Jesus, whom thou persecutest.
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  Speaker 1: It is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.
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  Speaker 1: And he that is Saul, trembling and astonished, said, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: what wilt thou have me to do? Boy, that's the
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  Speaker 1: question right there. When you come face to face, when
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  Speaker 1: you come face to face with Jesus. That's the question.
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  Speaker 1: That's one of the questions you need to ask that.
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  Speaker 1: If not, if not, the question, Lord, what will well?
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  Speaker 1: What will? What? What? What? What? What is it? What is it?
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  Speaker 1: What will you have me to do? This is this
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  Speaker 1: is this is akin to uh what the people? On
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  Speaker 1: a day of Pentecost. A man said to Peter, men
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  Speaker 1: and brethren, what must we do now that you are
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  Speaker 1: under arrest? What do you do? Paul has Saul, brother again,
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  Speaker 1: I can't have it. I can't have it, I can't it.
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  Speaker 1: Saul has been arrested, He's been arrested by Jesus. He's
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  Speaker 1: under arrest. And now he says, Lord, what will you
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  Speaker 1: have me to do? Mm mm hmmm. So the Lord says,
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  Speaker 1: unto him, arise, go into the city, and it shall
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  Speaker 1: be told thee what thou must do. Now, Jesus could
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  Speaker 1: have preached the word to him. He could have told
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  Speaker 1: him exactly what he must do. He could have preached
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  Speaker 1: or repent and be baptized. No, no, no, God has
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  Speaker 1: put it. God has placed it on the shoulders of
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  Speaker 1: men that he has called and ordained to preach the gospel. God,
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  Speaker 1: And if you looking and waiting for Jesus to come
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  Speaker 1: down from heaven, or an angel to come down from heaven,
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  Speaker 1: or some kind of great revelation or something of spectacular,
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  Speaker 1: miraculous intervention to happen from heaven. Your chances are slim
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  Speaker 1: to slim to slim to none that that's going to
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  Speaker 1: happen in the sense that God himself is going to
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  Speaker 1: come down and preach to you, and God himself is
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  Speaker 1: going to come down and minister to you, that the
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit, that Jesus himself is going to come down
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  Speaker 1: from heaven and read the word to you and speak
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  Speaker 1: a word to you, in the sense that he's going
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  Speaker 1: to bypass the agents that he is already authorized. Remembered
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  Speaker 1: you remember, remember by the way, let me give you
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  Speaker 1: give you an example. And I may not be saying
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  Speaker 1: this as crisply as it needs to be stated, but
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  Speaker 1: let me give you an example. You remember the story
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  Speaker 1: that Jesus told of the rich man in Lazarra, the
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  Speaker 1: rich man that died, and he went to Hell, and
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  Speaker 1: he was tormented in the flames, and he desired of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord of Abe, speaking of Abraham, Father Abraham, as
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  Speaker 1: it were, to send Lazarus back to his house, because
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  Speaker 1: he had five brothers. He had five brothers, and he
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  Speaker 1: didn't want them to come to that place. Gold, Will
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  Speaker 1: you please send Lazarus that he may testify to my
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  Speaker 1: brothers that they will not come to this place. What
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  Speaker 1: was Abraham's response? They have Moses and the law. God
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  Speaker 1: has given us revelation. God, and by the way, God,
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  Speaker 1: who had one hundred times in diaverst man, have spoke
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  Speaker 1: to the fathers by the prophets, half in these last days,
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  Speaker 1: spoken to us by his son Jesus. Christ has come once.
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  Speaker 1: He's not coming again until he comes back for the church.
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  Speaker 1: He's not coming specially for you. No, no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: no no. You got the preacher, you got the word,
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  Speaker 1: you got the law, you got the prophets, you got
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  Speaker 1: the divine, the whole revelation and counsel of God. And
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  Speaker 1: we in our day have zero excuse. Amen. We got
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  Speaker 1: Bibles everywhere, we got preaching everywhere, we got churches everywhere. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So don't think you wanna get some kind of special
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  Speaker 1: divine intervention from God. Jesus is gonna come down and
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  Speaker 1: part the sky and come especially for you. No, sir, no, ma'am.
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  Speaker 1: The likelihood of that. I'm not saying it's impossible that
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  Speaker 1: it won't happen, but it is probably next to zero
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  Speaker 1: O'Neil that it will happen, because He's placed it on
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  Speaker 1: the shoulders of men upon this rock I build my church.
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  Speaker 1: He sent his apostles, he started with twelve of them, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: and he sent them to go. And he hasn't been back,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, he hasn't been back for another visitation. No, no, no. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit is here. The Holy Spirit is at work.
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  Speaker 1: The Holy Spirit is knocking at the door of the
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  Speaker 1: hearts of men. The Holy Spirit is by the goodness
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  Speaker 1: of God, by the grace of God, by the love
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  Speaker 1: and compassion and long suffet and from barons of God, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: with men's heart, and tugging on the hearts of men,
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  Speaker 1: as it were pulling them, drawing them. Amen. The goodness
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  Speaker 1: of God, the Bible says, is what leads us to repentance. Yes,
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  Speaker 1: by the Spirit of God, he is at work. But
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  Speaker 1: for you to believe, or to think, or to hope,
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  Speaker 1: or anybody to a man, have the idea in their
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  Speaker 1: heart of mind that God is going to make some
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  Speaker 1: kind of special divine intervening for them. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: God has somebody. He's already commissioned. He's already commissioned the preachers.
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  Speaker 1: He's already commissioned his spokesman, a man to preach the word.
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  Speaker 1: Go into all the world and preach the gospel. He
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  Speaker 1: that believes and is baptized shall be saved. He that
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  Speaker 1: believes not will be condemned. Amen. And so God has
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  Speaker 1: already commissioned a man and put on the shoulders of
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  Speaker 1: men the gospel. The church has the responsibility a man.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible says, the Church of the Living God is
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  Speaker 1: the pillar and ground of the truth. Amen. And you'll
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  Speaker 1: know the truth, and the truth will set you free.
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  Speaker 1: We have a responsibility in the church. We certainly have
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  Speaker 1: the responsibility as preachers. A man of the gospel, a
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  Speaker 1: man to preach the Word, to be instant in season
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  Speaker 1: out of season, reproving, rebuking, exhorting with all long suffering
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  Speaker 1: and doctrine. The apostle Paul, the one who we're talking
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  Speaker 1: about here, a man later would say, a man through
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  Speaker 1: the a man prophetic utterance of the Holy Spirit. The
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  Speaker 1: time will come when men will not want to endure
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  Speaker 1: sound doctrine. Amen. So God has placed this up on
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  Speaker 1: the shoulders of men. Yes, he made a special, special
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  Speaker 1: divine a man, miraculous as it were, intervention for this man,
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  Speaker 1: Saul chief, because he was a now, appointing him, calling him,
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  Speaker 1: ordaining him to be a man, an apostle to the gentiles.
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  Speaker 1: So this was a special case, a special instance. But
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  Speaker 1: yet even in this instance, he did not preach the
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  Speaker 1: gospel to Paul. Saul. I cannot help it. I can't
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  Speaker 1: help it. I can't help it. He didn't preach the
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  Speaker 1: gospel to it. What will you have me to do?
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  Speaker 1: I got somebody that's gonna tell you what you must do.
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  Speaker 1: I got a preacher, I got a man, I got
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  Speaker 1: somebody already appointed. I got somebody that I'm sending you to. Amen. So,
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  Speaker 1: when God speaks to your heart, the day you hear
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  Speaker 1: his voice, do not harden your heart the day you
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  Speaker 1: hear the voice of the Lord speaking to you. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: When the preacher preaches, or when you hear the word
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  Speaker 1: of God, do not harden your heart. Amen. And so arise, Paul,
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  Speaker 1: saw I can't. He's Paul. He's Paul. Arise going to
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  Speaker 1: the city. And it shall be told thee what thou
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  Speaker 1: must do. And the men which journeyed with him. Luke
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  Speaker 1: tells us they stood speechless, hearing a voice, but seeing
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  Speaker 1: no man. Now they heard the voice, and by the
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  Speaker 1: way Saul would later again Paul, when he would testify
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  Speaker 1: about this, he said, we all fell to the earth.
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  Speaker 1: We all fell to the earth. Amen, every knee is
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  Speaker 1: gone about whoo at the voice of God? Are you
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  Speaker 1: kidding me? Huh man? And so they, the Bible says,
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  Speaker 1: the men who were with him, they stood speechless. They
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  Speaker 1: heard the voice, but they didn't see anyone. And Saul,
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  Speaker 1: the Bible says, arose from the earth, and when his
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  Speaker 1: eyes were open, he saw no man. Now he's blinded.
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  Speaker 1: He can't see. He opens his eyes, but he can't
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  Speaker 1: see the brightness of that light, the brightness of the
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  Speaker 1: glory of God, who this is why when we get
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  Speaker 1: to heaven, there will be no more sun, no more moon,
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  Speaker 1: no more Jesus, who the light of the world. There
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  Speaker 1: will be no need for the sun. The Bible tells us,
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  Speaker 1: a man, the brightness of his glory, his excellence is
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  Speaker 1: far above the brightness of the sun. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: which we can't even look into, it will blind us.
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  Speaker 1: So how much more blinding is the glorious light of
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  Speaker 1: the God of creation. The Bible says he could not see.
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  Speaker 1: His eyes were open, but he couldn't see, and they
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  Speaker 1: had to lead him by the hand, and they brought
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  Speaker 1: him into Damascus. And he was three days without sight,
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  Speaker 1: and neither did eat nor drink. And there was a
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  Speaker 1: certain disciple at Damascus. The Bible tells name Annius, And
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  Speaker 1: to him said the Lord in a vision, Annius, and
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  Speaker 1: that he said, behold, I am here, Lord. And the
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  Speaker 1: Lord said unto him, arise and go into the street
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  Speaker 1: which is called straight and inquire in the house of Judas,
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  Speaker 1: for one called Saul of Tarsus, for behold he prayeth.
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  Speaker 1: And have seen in a vision a man named Annius
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  Speaker 1: coming in and putting his hand on him that he
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  Speaker 1: might receive his saying, Oh, do y'all, Oh do we
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  Speaker 1: are we hearing this? Are we hearing this? How God
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  Speaker 1: is at work? God has already spoken to Saul. God
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  Speaker 1: is already revealed to Saul who is coming. Now. He
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  Speaker 1: reveals to Anonius, the man to whom he's sending him
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  Speaker 1: to amen. And he's telling Anonis, I've already shown Saul.
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  Speaker 1: He's in prayer right now. I've already shown him that
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  Speaker 1: you are coming. Hey, man, he's already seen in a
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  Speaker 1: vision a man named Annius coming coming in, putting his
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  Speaker 1: hand on him, that he might receive his sighting an
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  Speaker 1: Anias is I mean Jesus. He's shocked here, So he says, Lord, Wait, wait, wait,
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  Speaker 1: ho ho, hold up, hold up, hold up, Wait a minute.
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  Speaker 1: I've heard by many of this man how much evil
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  Speaker 1: he had done to thy saints at Jerusalem. And here
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  Speaker 1: he has authority, that is government agent, special agent of
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  Speaker 1: the government. He has authority from the chief priest to
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  Speaker 1: bind all that call on your name. Lord. Wait a minute,
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  Speaker 1: Wait a minute, wait, wait, will are you sure about this?
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  Speaker 1: Are we talking about the same guy here, Saul of Tarsus,
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  Speaker 1: the one who's persecuting the church, the one who's arresting,
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  Speaker 1: the one who's seeking to destroy your people, who coming
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  Speaker 1: against your name, or we're talking about the same Saul.
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  Speaker 1: You want me to go to him. This is the
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  Speaker 1: man who has authority. This is the man who's a
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  Speaker 1: government agent. This is a man who is seeking to
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  Speaker 1: wipe out your church and your name. He's got authorization
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  Speaker 1: from the government. But the Lord said to Anonaius, go
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  Speaker 1: thy way, for he is. Oh, I love this, I
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  Speaker 1: love this, I love it. Oh, my God, he is
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  Speaker 1: a chosen vessel unto me to bear my name before
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  Speaker 1: the gentiles and kings and the children of Israel. For
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  Speaker 1: I will show him how great things he must suffer
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  Speaker 1: for my name's sake. Wow. Only God, only God, only
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  Speaker 1: God can do this. Only God can do this. But
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  Speaker 1: keep in mind, please, And I'm about to close here, uh,
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  Speaker 1: those who ignorantly and willfully oppose and wage warfare against
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  Speaker 1: the Church of Jesus Christ. Now Paul Saul, Paul Saw Saul, Paul,
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  Speaker 1: Paul Saul. He did it in ignorance and in unbelief,
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  Speaker 1: as he would later testify himself. I'm not choosing words
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  Speaker 1: for him. These are the words that he would relay
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  Speaker 1: later in his epistles about his you know, prior uh
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  Speaker 1: status before he was arrested by Jesus. He did it
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  Speaker 1: in ignorance, That's what he said. And there are people
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  Speaker 1: who are ignorantly and there are people who are willfully
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  Speaker 1: who are not doing any ignorance, but they are opposing
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  Speaker 1: the church and waging warfare against the Church. Because Jesus
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  Speaker 1: put it this way. It's very plain it's very simple.
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  Speaker 1: He that is not with me is against me. He
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  Speaker 1: who is not gathering with me is scattering abroad. So
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  Speaker 1: you're either with Jesus or you are against Jesus. There
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  Speaker 1: is no neutrality, there is no middle ground. You're either
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  Speaker 1: with him or against him. You are either in the
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  Speaker 1: kingdom or out of the kingdom. You're either helping, as
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  Speaker 1: it were, assisting as it were, to build the kingdom
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  Speaker 1: as it were. Again, God doesn't need us. It's pleased
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  Speaker 1: him to use us as vessels. But we're either with
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  Speaker 1: him in building history because Jesus said, I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: build my church. Amen. And again he uses us. He
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  Speaker 1: uses us, he uses us, and thank God, he uses us.
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  Speaker 1: Amen for his purpose, for his glory, for his honor,
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  Speaker 1: for his kingdom, for his majesty. But if you're not
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  Speaker 1: with him, you're against him. And again, those who ignorantly
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  Speaker 1: and or willfully oppose and wage warfare against the Church
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus Christ, they're fighting against God. They are fighting
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  Speaker 1: against God. Again, Gamelion, you remember this. We recovered this
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  Speaker 1: in a couple of sessions. Back had already warned these
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  Speaker 1: insistent ignoramusis in them. I'm talking about the government officials,
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  Speaker 1: the chief priests, and all of them the same counsel,
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  Speaker 1: The same folks who had put Jesus to death, the
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  Speaker 1: same people who had arrested Peter and John and apostles
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  Speaker 1: and tried to silence them, threaten them, beat them, commanded them,
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  Speaker 1: put out the new decrees in new laws. Don't speak no,
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  Speaker 1: teach no, no, no, no more in the name of Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Don't you do it. Don't you do it? Don't you
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  Speaker 1: do it? Uh. These same ignoramusis amen had been warned,
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  Speaker 1: had been counseled, as it were, by Gamalio, that if
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  Speaker 1: this work, if this counsel is of God, you will
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  Speaker 1: not be able to overthrow it. But the sais, oh,
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  Speaker 1: we're gonna keep on trying. That's the devil. That's the devil.
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  Speaker 1: That's the devil. That's the devil. Y'all. Just keep on
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  Speaker 1: kicking against the prick, kicking against the gold. You're not
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  Speaker 1: gonna win against the Church of Jesus Christ. You're not
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  Speaker 1: going to win. Oh, help him, Jesus, help him, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: help him, help him. Gamelia said to them very plainly,
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  Speaker 1: if this work, if this counsel is of God, you
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  Speaker 1: will not be able to overthrow it, because you're gonna
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  Speaker 1: find yourself fighting against God. But again, they just refused
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  Speaker 1: to give up. So they commissioned Saul as a special
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  Speaker 1: agent to go and you do our dirty work for us. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: They're refusing to take heed to this good counsel, and
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  Speaker 1: by gladly deputizing Saul Amen to carry out their heart's desire.
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  Speaker 1: Little did they know. I love you know, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I just love the way God just turns
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  Speaker 1: the tables, I mean, just turns the tables on the enemy.
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  Speaker 1: Little did they know that God would, astonishingly, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: to the surprise of the church, to the dismay of
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  Speaker 1: these government officials. They were, they were, they would, they would.
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  Speaker 1: They had no idea that God was. Again, see, this
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  Speaker 1: is the beauty of God, in his foreknowledge, in his sovereignty,
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  Speaker 1: and his wisdom and his power, in his ways. And
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  Speaker 1: my ways are not your ways, My thoughts are not
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  Speaker 1: you see, and and I is even again. Everybody is
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  Speaker 1: astonished at this, everybody and what has just happened here?
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  Speaker 1: What just happened. It's like, it's like, what just happened?
• 39:54
  Speaker 1: The number one enemy of the church has been converted?
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  Speaker 1: Are you kidding me Ah turned from being a destroyer.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, Saul, the name I believe means destroyer,
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  Speaker 1: he was turned from being a destroyer to being a
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  Speaker 1: fellow builder of the church. In his way down that
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  Speaker 1: path of personal destruction while seeking, of course, the destruction
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  Speaker 1: of the church. Saul, the special government agent is arrested
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  Speaker 1: by the Lord Jesus Christ himself, who then, oh, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, he places Saul under house arrests for a season,
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  Speaker 1: for at least three days. He was three days without sight,
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  Speaker 1: three days he didn't eat, three days he didn't drink.
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  Speaker 1: Under house arrest, a prayer, vigil, praying Who only God,
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  Speaker 1: only God, only God, only God, only God, Oh, My God,
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  Speaker 1: only God. Saul himself is completely astonished. His companions who
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  Speaker 1: were traveling with him, the band of men, the other
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  Speaker 1: special agents that were with him, they were all astonished
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  Speaker 1: at what had just happened. And a Naias is understandably astonished.
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  Speaker 1: The persecuted church is all all of them. They're all astonished.
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  Speaker 1: The government officials, they are all astonished. They're special agent
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  Speaker 1: has been apprehended. They're special agent has been arrested. To
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  Speaker 1: now do the exact impost of what they were hoping
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  Speaker 1: he would be able to do in taking down the
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  Speaker 1: Church of Jesus Christ. You see what they meant for evil? Oh,
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  Speaker 1: take me back to Genesis. Take me back to Genesis,
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  Speaker 1: Take me back to Joseph. What they meant for evil,
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  Speaker 1: God meant it for good. Who that was Jesus Ah.
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  Speaker 1: Only God, only God, only God can turn the wicked
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  Speaker 1: schemes and plans and plotting of even those who are
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  Speaker 1: again in their positions of power and authority and government,
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  Speaker 1: the rulers who think they are in control. Only God,
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  Speaker 1: only God can astonish them. Amen. Again. At the end
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  Speaker 1: of the day, every need is going about, every time
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  Speaker 1: that's going to come pass that He is Lord. And
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  Speaker 1: eventually everyone will be arrested one way or the other again,
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  Speaker 1: because every neeeds gone about. Every time, I's going to
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  Speaker 1: convince that He is Lord. Make your arrest on the
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  Speaker 1: right side. Let it be on the right side. Come willingly, surrender,
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  Speaker 1: give yourself up, come out with your hands up, get
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  Speaker 1: down on your knees, and surrender to His will and
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  Speaker 1: to His way. God be glorified in your people today.
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  Speaker 1: Help someone today to see and to know again, to
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  Speaker 1: come to the realization that you are God and God alone,
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  Speaker 1: and there is none besides you. May someone somewhere be arrested, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: for your namesake, for your kingdom, for your glory and honor.
• 43:57
  Speaker 1: In the Christ of Cavalry's name, we pray a man
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  Speaker 1: and a man m