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Episode 152 - The Taking Of Jesus · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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  Speaker 1: We welcome you once again to this another edition of
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  Speaker 1: End Time Revival Ministry us a podcast for those of
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  Speaker 1: We are grateful to the Lord again for this beautiful Friday, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: the last Friday in the month of March, in the
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  Speaker 1: year of our Lord, twenty twenty five. Amen. Thank God
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  Speaker 1: for Amen a seat another year going by rapidly, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, as we approach the coming of the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: That is what we are looking forward to as the
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  Speaker 1: people of God. But we're again grateful to the Lord
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  Speaker 1: for allowing us to have a man one more opportunity
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  Speaker 1: to speak for the truth of God, Amen, in such
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  Speaker 1: in the Wilderness. A man, we are simply amen, proclaiming
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  Speaker 1: and Amen, seeking to prepare men and women everywhere for
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  Speaker 1: the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. Cry out, spare
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  Speaker 1: not lift up your voice like a trumpet in Zion,
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  Speaker 1: the Lord says to the mouth and through the mouth
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  Speaker 1: of his prophet, show my people their transgressions in the
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  Speaker 1: house of Israel, their sins. Amen. So we are here Amen,
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  Speaker 1: in such a time as this two a man speak
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  Speaker 1: forth the word of Lord, truthfully, with boldness, with simplicity, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: so that men and women everywhere can come to know
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  Speaker 1: that Jesus indeed is the Christ, the Savior of all
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  Speaker 1: them that believe. Amen. So before we begin, we're in
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  Speaker 1: a series, by the way, for those who may be
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  Speaker 1: joining us for the first time. This podcast series is
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  Speaker 1: focused on God, government, church and state. God government, Church
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  Speaker 1: and State. And today we're going to Amen. Look at
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  Speaker 1: this from the perspective of the taking of Jesus the
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  Speaker 1: Taking of Jesus. Before we begin, as always, let's take
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  Speaker 1: a moment to amen, invoke, and welcome the presence of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord Father. Again. We love you, We praise you.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for your providence always at work on our behalf,
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  Speaker 1: your provision, your promises, your divine protection. Thank you that
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  Speaker 1: every day, every moment of amen, week, and our that
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  Speaker 1: we exist. It is in you that we live, movement,
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  Speaker 1: have our being. We just want to give you praise
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  Speaker 1: and glory for all of the blessings that you a man,
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  Speaker 1: spoken and granted unto us, and all of your goodness
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  Speaker 1: toward each and us. Your reign falls on the just
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  Speaker 1: and the unjust. Thank you that you are a good God,
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  Speaker 1: holy God, a righteous God, and one that is soon
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  Speaker 1: to return for your people. So help us to be ready.
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  Speaker 1: Hope we pray that someone today will hear your voice,
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  Speaker 1: come to know that you are the true living God,
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  Speaker 1: repent of their sins, and walk in the light of
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  Speaker 1: your glory. Got be magnified today in the midst of
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  Speaker 1: your people everywhere in this world. In Jesus thing, we pray,
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  Speaker 1: Amen and Amen. All right, the Taking of Jesus, as
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  Speaker 1: we have already in this series, examined a man, a
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  Speaker 1: man the intervention of God in governments in the Old Testament,
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  Speaker 1: and now in the New Testament, where we see Jesus
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  Speaker 1: coming down into the world, a man, this world that
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  Speaker 1: he made man for his glory and honor. He comes
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  Speaker 1: down a man, and not in the mind of some,
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  Speaker 1: in the opinion of some, to be a passive kind
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  Speaker 1: of one who would avoid a man the government, who
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  Speaker 1: would avoid the leaders of this world, who would seek
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  Speaker 1: to maybe have perhaps just kind of work his ministry
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  Speaker 1: on the side. No, no, no, ladies and gentlemen, Jesus
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  Speaker 1: came to overthrow Amen again in a very wow. And
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  Speaker 1: we talked about this. The way that he did it,
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  Speaker 1: it was so beyond our ability to comprehend that we
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  Speaker 1: didn't even see it. They didn't see it, We didn't
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  Speaker 1: see it. And even now there are those who would
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  Speaker 1: view the world and what's happening in our world today
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  Speaker 1: and have this idea in their minds that things out
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  Speaker 1: of control, and that the government of God, the sovereignty
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  Speaker 1: of God, the rule of God, a man is not
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  Speaker 1: in existence. And far be it, lad gentleman, Far be it.
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  Speaker 1: When you know the word of God and you know
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  Speaker 1: a man what God has spoken a man prior to
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  Speaker 1: the coming of Jesus, and everything that transpired during his ministry,
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  Speaker 1: and what is yet to come. You will have blessed
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  Speaker 1: assurance and the faith and the peace of mind to
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  Speaker 1: know that there is nothing that is transpiring in our
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  Speaker 1: world at this very moment that is not in the
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  Speaker 1: purview of God, that is not in the permissiveness of
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  Speaker 1: His will, as it were, not in the plan and
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  Speaker 1: purpose of God. Everything that happens, everything that transpires, a man,
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  Speaker 1: the sovereign God of the world, a man has orchestrated,
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  Speaker 1: and is even now orchestrating all things that come to pass.
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  Speaker 1: And so the coming down of Jesus, a man, the
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  Speaker 1: Holy One of God, into a world of darkness and evil,
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  Speaker 1: is provocative, to say the least, a man for the
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  Speaker 1: powers that be, a man who would love for the
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  Speaker 1: status quo to continue even now again. And we had
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  Speaker 1: in the day of Jesus, and certainly they are still
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  Speaker 1: reaking have it today demonic forces, A man of the darkness,
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  Speaker 1: who were not ready to be overthrown, who were not
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  Speaker 1: ready to be cast out, who were not ready to
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  Speaker 1: be banished as it were to the abyss. And I
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  Speaker 1: can give you a quick example. In the Gospel of Matthew,
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  Speaker 1: chapter number eight. Let me read a couple of verses there.
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  Speaker 1: This is Jesus, a man, the Bible says, when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to the other side, to the country of the
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  Speaker 1: Gergysans that met him, two demon possessed men coming out
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  Speaker 1: of the tombs, exceedingly fierce, so that no one could
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  Speaker 1: pass that way. And suddenly they cried out, who is they?
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  Speaker 1: The demons? The demons inside of these men cried out, saying,
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  Speaker 1: what have we to do with you, Jesus, you son
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  Speaker 1: of God? Have you come here to listen what they say?
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  Speaker 1: Torment us before the time? Whoa That verse is pregnant.
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  Speaker 1: That verse is swelling with all kinds of Amen. If
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  Speaker 1: we have the understanding, and we know and they knew.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, the demons know who Jesus is. They
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  Speaker 1: know who it is, a man who kicked them out
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  Speaker 1: of heaven as it were. They know who Jesus is,
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  Speaker 1: and they say, Amen, you son of God. They know him. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And the Bible says, by the way, James Ray writes,
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  Speaker 1: I believe in his epistle, Amen, the demons tremble. The
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  Speaker 1: demons believe and tremble. Amen. They know, Amen, they know
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  Speaker 1: who he is. And so they say, have you come
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  Speaker 1: here to torment Us before the time? Now what does
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  Speaker 1: that mean? Of course, if you understand what the Bible
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  Speaker 1: is spoken, you believe the word of the Lord, man,
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  Speaker 1: you understand as they understand demons, now, principalities and powers,
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  Speaker 1: the rulers of the darkness of this world understand that
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  Speaker 1: their time is limited. They understand that there is an
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  Speaker 1: appointed day when they will be forever banished to the
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  Speaker 1: lake of fire, eternal damnation, eternal punishment. They're already under judgment,
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  Speaker 1: They're already under divine judgment. They're already condemned. They're already
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  Speaker 1: a man sentenced, as it were. But they know that
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  Speaker 1: the day of the Lord, when it comes, Amen, And
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  Speaker 1: when that time has come, a man, they will forever
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  Speaker 1: be banished, a man to the abyss. And so they say,
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  Speaker 1: have you come here to torment Us before the time?
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  Speaker 1: So they know what's ahead. Now, the demons know. Why
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  Speaker 1: don't we know? Why doesn't that man know what lies ahead?
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  Speaker 1: Because the Bible, the word of God, Jesus himself, told
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  Speaker 1: us what's going to happen. The problem is we don't believe.
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  Speaker 1: That's the problem. The problem is unbelieved. And so the
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  Speaker 1: government rulers also of this all in world, who are,
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  Speaker 1: as we've already pointed out on numerous occasions, they are
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  Speaker 1: opposed a man to the sovereignty of God's government of
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  Speaker 1: justice and liberty. That's what God's government is all about,
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  Speaker 1: justice and liberty. Amen. They were not then, nor are
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  Speaker 1: they now Amen even now at all, welcoming Amen to
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  Speaker 1: the arrival of Jesus. They're just like these demons. Oh
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  Speaker 1: wait a minute, Jesus, have you come to disturb our power,
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  Speaker 1: our authority, our government that we've set up, that we've decided,
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  Speaker 1: the laws that we put in place, the things that
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  Speaker 1: are even against your law, against your amen precepts, against
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  Speaker 1: your amen commands. No, no, no, Jesus, have you come
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  Speaker 1: to a man disturbed what we've got going on? No, rulers,
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  Speaker 1: they did not welcome Jesus. Remember Herod Amen feignly in
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  Speaker 1: his fear. And then this is one thing, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: that all almost all, I won't say all, almost all
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  Speaker 1: of the rulers of this world, especially those who are tyrannical, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: they live in a fear of losing their power losing
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  Speaker 1: their grip, losing their control, losing their authority. And so
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  Speaker 1: Herod feigned, as it were, that he would want to
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  Speaker 1: come to worship this king, the one who had been born,
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  Speaker 1: the king of the Jews. And what their Herod didn't
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  Speaker 1: understand was that Jesus didn't come to put a put
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  Speaker 1: a knife and put a dagger. A man into Herod
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  Speaker 1: can take out here at any time he want, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: he could overthrow. Listen, God has the power and the
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  Speaker 1: authority to even now completely annihilate all rebels out of
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  Speaker 1: this world. That's not what he's going to do, not now.
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  Speaker 1: The time will come, but he can do it anytime.
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  Speaker 1: But he's going to do it at his appointed time. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: When the governments of this world, the kingdoms of this
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  Speaker 1: world a man, have run their course as he has ordained,
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  Speaker 1: as he has predestined, and when all of that takes place, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: in his predetermined plan, then all of the kingdoms of
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  Speaker 1: this world will topple. They will they will crumble, they
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  Speaker 1: will be driven away. Amen. And again, as we've already
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  Speaker 1: observed in a few of the recent episodes in this
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  Speaker 1: series on God, Government, Church, and State, Jesus came to
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  Speaker 1: provoke to repentance. That's always the plan of God, the
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  Speaker 1: purpose of God first and foremost. Amen, to call men,
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  Speaker 1: to persuade men, to provoke men to righteousness, to holiness,
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  Speaker 1: to godliness, to sanctification. Amen, to serve the True, the
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  Speaker 1: Living God, to turn from evil. Amen. So Jesus came
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  Speaker 1: first and foremost to provoke to good work. Amen to
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  Speaker 1: as the Bible says, by his goodness, by his Amen virtue,
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  Speaker 1: lead us to repentance. Amen. And so for those who
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  Speaker 1: would hear and obey, Hey, all good and well, and
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  Speaker 1: the Bible says, to as many as received him, to them,
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  Speaker 1: he gave the power to become the sons of God. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: as many as who would believe on his name. But
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  Speaker 1: on the other hand, this is a double edged sword. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Those who would not hear and obey a man, judgment
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  Speaker 1: comes upon them. Amen, all who would not receive his testimony.
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  Speaker 1: And a mere courtesy reading of the Gospels, Amen, concerning
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  Speaker 1: the ministry of Jesus, and in it, you, of course,
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  Speaker 1: would see all of the confrontations that Jesus had with
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  Speaker 1: the government leaders of the Jews. And it makes evident
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  Speaker 1: clear plain to the reader just how perturbed a man
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  Speaker 1: the rulers were with the popularity of Jesus, with the
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  Speaker 1: ministry of Jesus, they disregarded, They had no care, no
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  Speaker 1: concern for all of the good that he was doing
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  Speaker 1: healing people. And we pointed out, for example, how Jesus
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  Speaker 1: deliberately healed people on the Sabbath day to provoke a
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  Speaker 1: response from these people. And instead of them a man
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  Speaker 1: giving glory to God acknowledging Jesus for who he was
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  Speaker 1: and is Amen, they were contentious, they were hostile. They
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  Speaker 1: accused him of violating the Sabbath day when they, in
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  Speaker 1: their own hypocrisy, a man did all kinds of deeds
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  Speaker 1: and things on the Sabbath day, and Jesus again did
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  Speaker 1: not shy away from calling them out for their hypocrisy.
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  Speaker 1: And this is what a man provoked these people because
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  Speaker 1: of their heartness of heart. This is what provoked them Amen,
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  Speaker 1: to decide that they had to get rid of Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: And let me give you a crystal clear example, John
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  Speaker 1: chapter eight. I'm sorry, John, chapter eleven, The Gospel of
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  Speaker 1: John chapter eleven. I'm going to show you a few verses,
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  Speaker 1: in a few verses here, how that these rulers of
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  Speaker 1: the Jews, who were so hostile a man towards Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: a man, they came to the conclusion that it was
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  Speaker 1: in their best interests that Jesus be eliminated. That's what
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  Speaker 1: they decided. And so John chapter eleven, let me show
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  Speaker 1: you real quickly, beginning verse forty five. Then many of
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  Speaker 1: the Jews who had come to marry and had seen
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  Speaker 1: the things Jesus did, believed in him. A lot of
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  Speaker 1: the people, the common people, more or less a man.
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  Speaker 1: They were coming to Jesus, they were following Jesus. They
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  Speaker 1: were believing in Jesus. And of course this occasion that
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  Speaker 1: we are a man. In the immediate context we're looking
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  Speaker 1: at here is in John chapter eleven, is the raising
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  Speaker 1: of Lazarus from the dead a man. So they come
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  Speaker 1: to marry the sister of Jesus. I'm sorry of Lazarus,
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  Speaker 1: whom Jesus had raised from the dead. The Bible says,
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  Speaker 1: when he had seen the things Jesus did, believed in him.
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  Speaker 1: And I listen what happens. But some of them went
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  Speaker 1: away to the Pharisees, who are the Pharisees, a leading sect,
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  Speaker 1: if you will, of the Jews. They were part of
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  Speaker 1: the leadership, the government rulers of the Jews. So some
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  Speaker 1: of them, the Bible says, went away to the Pharisees
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  Speaker 1: and told them the things Jesus did. Then the chief priests,
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  Speaker 1: the government, and the pharisees. The government gathered a council
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  Speaker 1: and said, what shall we do? For this man works
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  Speaker 1: many signs if we let him alone. Listen to what
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  Speaker 1: they said that if we do nothing, In other words,
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  Speaker 1: if we let him alone like this, everyone will believe
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  Speaker 1: in him. Now listen to this, and the Romans will
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  Speaker 1: come and take away both our place and nation. That
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  Speaker 1: was this. I'm still I'm still in my mind trying
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  Speaker 1: to understand what they really meant by that. I know
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  Speaker 1: there are some commentaries and people. I thought they were
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  Speaker 1: already on the subjugation. I thought they were already under
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  Speaker 1: the Roman rule, had quite a bit of liberties and
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  Speaker 1: all of that. But but but, but, but but listen
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  Speaker 1: what they say. The Romans will come and take away
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  Speaker 1: both our place at nation. I'm confused, Okay, verse fifty three,
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  Speaker 1: let me skip down. Then from that day on, this
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  Speaker 1: is what happened. They plotted to put him to death. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus no longer walked openly among the Jews. Not that
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  Speaker 1: he was afraid, not that he was in fear of
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  Speaker 1: his life, ladies and gentlemen. But he was waiting for
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  Speaker 1: the appointed time. There was a time that was already set. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: There was a day that was already set from an
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  Speaker 1: eternity past, when Jesus would a man die. Okay, So
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't he was hiding because he was afraid or
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  Speaker 1: he was fearful. Amen. So the Bible says he no
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  Speaker 1: longer walked openly among the Jews, but went from there
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  Speaker 1: into the country near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim,
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  Speaker 1: and there remained with his disciples. And the passover of
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  Speaker 1: the Jews was near, and many went from the country
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  Speaker 1: up to Jerusalem before the passover to purify themselves. Then
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  Speaker 1: they sought Jesus and spoke among themselves as they stood
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  Speaker 1: in the temple. What do you think that he will
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  Speaker 1: come or not come to the feast? Brother? Now, listen,
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  Speaker 1: listen to this. Listen to the government. They've issued a
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  Speaker 1: decree verse fifty seven. Now, both the chief priests and
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  Speaker 1: the Pharisees had given a command that if anyone knew
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  Speaker 1: where he was, he should report it that they might
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  Speaker 1: seize him. Ladies and gentlemen, alcohol for these people, For them,
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  Speaker 1: it was political, it was pragmatic from their personal I
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  Speaker 1: would say, perverted perspective, again, refusing to know who Jesus is,
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  Speaker 1: refusing to acknowledge what he had done, refusing to a man,
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  Speaker 1: as Jesus even said, if you don't believe me, why
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  Speaker 1: don't you believe? For the very word sakes, for the
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  Speaker 1: rare work sakes one of their own. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: again the Gospel of John chapter three. Nicodemus, who was
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  Speaker 1: a ruler of the Jews, a member of the Sanahedrin,
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  Speaker 1: he came to Jesus by night, and he said, we
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  Speaker 1: know that you are come from God, because no one
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  Speaker 1: can do these miracles, these signs, these wonders, no one
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  Speaker 1: can perform these kinds of things that you are doing.
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  Speaker 1: It has to be the power of God. It is
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  Speaker 1: the finger of God. It is the hand of God.
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  Speaker 1: God is if you, God is in you. They knew it.
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  Speaker 1: But ladies and gentlemen, the rulers of this world, even
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  Speaker 1: though they know privately and just tell I'm telling you,
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  Speaker 1: they know these things privately. But the pride and the
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  Speaker 1: arrogance and the deceitfulness that is in their heart refuses
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  Speaker 1: and rebellion. Again. I can go back to Pharaoh, the
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  Speaker 1: Pharaoh of the Exodus. He knew, although initially he may
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  Speaker 1: not have known. Amen, But he came to know. He
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  Speaker 1: came to know, and he came to admit that he
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  Speaker 1: and his people were wicked, and that he had sinned
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  Speaker 1: against the God of Heaven. And in the heartness of
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  Speaker 1: his heart, he still refused to fully release the people
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  Speaker 1: of God. Amen. This is there's a Listen, what did
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  Speaker 1: Jesus say about the heart of man? What does the
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  Speaker 1: Bible say about the heart of man? Desperately wicked? Desperately wicked?
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  Speaker 1: And so when pride, when pride swells up in the
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  Speaker 1: heart of man, this is why so many people will
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  Speaker 1: not repent. I mean, we're not even talking about government rulers. Nevertheless,
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  Speaker 1: we're not talking about people who are lifted up in
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  Speaker 1: pride and arrogance, who are swollen up, who are successful,
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  Speaker 1: who are wildly popular, who are in demand, who are
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  Speaker 1: leaders of industry, and again rulers of governments and nations
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  Speaker 1: and so forth. So no, no, no, just common to
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  Speaker 1: people who are filled with pride refuse to repent, refuse
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  Speaker 1: to acknowledge, because again, Amen, the heart of man is
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  Speaker 1: desperately wicked, and so from from their personal perverted Amen, perspective. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: at at how they saw the world, in the way
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  Speaker 1: that they view their own nation and their own status,
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  Speaker 1: and so forth and so on. Amen. And of course,
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  Speaker 1: what we all have is our own self interests at
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  Speaker 1: heart first and foremost for many of us. Amen. And
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  Speaker 1: this is something that the Gospel. Amen. Is by the way,
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  Speaker 1: the call of the Gospel, the call of Jesus is
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  Speaker 1: self denial. Oh man, that that is, that is not
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  Speaker 1: something that we, in our nature are willing to do. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: We're not We're not willing to put someone else before us, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: no other human being, and not even another God. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: we are our own God. Amen. And so for them,
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  Speaker 1: for these leaders, for these rulers of the Jews, and
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  Speaker 1: by the way, these different factions, Amen, they were at
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  Speaker 1: odds with each other, but they, for the purpose of
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  Speaker 1: eliminating Jesus, came together. And this is what the Bible
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  Speaker 1: speaks about us. Adnos Him, I appointed you to Somn
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  Speaker 1: number two. Read it. Please, Amen, they come together, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: they will come in unison, They will come Amen, in agreement,
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  Speaker 1: they will come and collude together, because it is more
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  Speaker 1: pragmatic in their minds for them to read this world
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus than to have him, than to have his
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  Speaker 1: kingdom and his authority and his sovereigntyquarranty to reign and
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  Speaker 1: rule over them. They will not have it. Amen. So
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  Speaker 1: all of this animus Amen towards Jesus finally culminated in
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  Speaker 1: their seizure of him by the government rulers Amen, the
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  Speaker 1: government rulers of the Jews, who sent Amen, their police,
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  Speaker 1: as it were, a man, to lead him bound eventually
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  Speaker 1: to the Roman government for execution. So Jesus Matthew chapter
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  Speaker 1: twenty six, was with his disciples on that fateful night.
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  Speaker 1: He was there. He had gone into the garden of
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  Speaker 1: the semity, where he would be praying. Amen. And you know,
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  Speaker 1: part of the prayer Father, if it be possible, if
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  Speaker 1: there's any other way, that this cup passed for me, nevertheless,
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  Speaker 1: not my will, but noting to be done. But again
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  Speaker 1: here again, Jesus was not dreading death. He was not
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  Speaker 1: dreading the persecution, the beating that he was about to suffer. No, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: the torture, the agony, no that's not what Jesus was dreading,
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  Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, the Holy One of God. The cup
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  Speaker 1: that he was about to drink was vile, nasty, filthy, grotesque, abominable.
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  Speaker 1: What was this cup our sins, ladies and gentlemen, He
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  Speaker 1: who knew no sin, would become the most vile of sinners. He,
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  Speaker 1: in that moment, would be the substitute. He would take
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  Speaker 1: our place. He would be cursed of God, he would
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  Speaker 1: be forsaken. Amen. And this is what Jesus is, if
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  Speaker 1: there if there be any other, but the Bible says,
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  Speaker 1: he became obedient, and to death. He humboled himself. He
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  Speaker 1: became obedient to death, the death of the cross. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So he was there in the garden, the Bible says, praying, Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And again part of that prayer was let this cup
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  Speaker 1: passed for me. But nevertheless he says, not my will,
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  Speaker 1: but thine be done. So he left them Verse forty four.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible says his disciples, Peter, James and Johnny had
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  Speaker 1: taken them, if you know the account. And he went
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  Speaker 1: a little further with the three of them, and he said,
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  Speaker 1: watch and pray, I'm going a little further. They were
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  Speaker 1: heavy with sleep, they went to sleep, and Jesus would
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  Speaker 1: come back, and he would find them sleeping. He said,
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  Speaker 1: watch and pray unless you into temptation. The spirit is willing,
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  Speaker 1: the flesh indeed is weak. And oh Lord, how we
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  Speaker 1: know that. Amen. So he left them, the Bible says,
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  Speaker 1: went away again and prayed the third time, saying the
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  Speaker 1: same words. And he came to his disciples and said
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  Speaker 1: to them, are you still sleeping and resting? Me? Old?
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  Speaker 1: The hour is at hand, and the son of Man
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  Speaker 1: is being betrayed into the hands of sinners. Rise, Let
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  Speaker 1: us be going. See my betrayer is at hand. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: knew what was ahead, He knew what was happening. He
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  Speaker 1: knew what was coming. He didn't run from it, he
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  Speaker 1: didn't shy away from it. Amen. He went into it.
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  Speaker 1: He surrendered himself. He yielded himself. Amen. He had already
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  Speaker 1: a man again prayed to the Father, not my will,
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  Speaker 1: not as I will. A man bedigned. But we've already determined.
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  Speaker 1: But we've already predestined. Let it be, Let it be,
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  Speaker 1: the Bible says, while Jesus was still speaking, Behold Judas,
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  Speaker 1: one of the twelve with a great multitude with swords
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  Speaker 1: and clubs came from the chief priests and elders of
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  Speaker 1: the people. Here they come now for the taking of Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: to take it by force. Now it's betrayer, that's Judas,
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  Speaker 1: the son of Tradition, the Bible says, had given them
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  Speaker 1: a sign saying, whomever I kiss, he is the one
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  Speaker 1: seize him immediately when he went up to Jesus and said, greetings, Rabbi,
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  Speaker 1: and kissed him. But Jesus said to him, friend, why
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  Speaker 1: have you come. Then they came and laid hands on
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  Speaker 1: Jesus and took him. They took Jesus, the taking of
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  Speaker 1: Jesus by the hands of sinners into the hands of sinners.
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  Speaker 1: And suddenly, the Bible says, one of those who were
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  Speaker 1: with Jesus stretched out his hand and drew his sword,
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  Speaker 1: struck the servant of the high priest and cut off
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  Speaker 1: his ear. But Jesus said to him, put your sword
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  Speaker 1: in its place, for all who take the sword will
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  Speaker 1: perish by the sword. Or do you think verse fifty
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  Speaker 1: three that I cannot now pray to my father and
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  Speaker 1: he will provide me with more than twelve legions of angels.
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  Speaker 1: How then, could the scriptures be fulfilled, that it must
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  Speaker 1: happen thus, and that our Jesus said to the multitudes,
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  Speaker 1: have you come out as against a robber with swords
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  Speaker 1: and clubs to take me? I sat daily with you,
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  Speaker 1: teaching in the temple, and you did not seize me.
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  Speaker 1: But all this was done that the scriptures of the
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  Speaker 1: prophets might be fulfilled. Then all the disciples forsook him
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  Speaker 1: and fled, and those who had laid hold of Jesus
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  Speaker 1: led him away to Caiaphas. The high priests, the government,
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  Speaker 1: the government, the government, where the scribes the government, and
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  Speaker 1: the elders the government were assembled. Please note that it
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  Speaker 1: was not an uprising of the people, the common people,
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  Speaker 1: as it were in a vigilante mob moment that sought
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  Speaker 1: to rid themselves of Jesus from their nation. No, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen. It was the government. It was the leaders.
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  Speaker 1: It was the rulers who would later also a man
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  Speaker 1: rouse the people at the trial as it were of
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  Speaker 1: Jesus before ponte Is Pilot. But it was the rulers,
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  Speaker 1: It was the leaders. It was the government, the government
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  Speaker 1: soldiers who came fully armed with weapons in an overwhelming
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  Speaker 1: show of force, for the taking of Jesus into their custody.
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  Speaker 1: Here again the description by the apostle John, who was
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  Speaker 1: an eyewitness of these events. Those who came for the
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  Speaker 1: taking of Jesus. They came with a great multitude, the
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  Speaker 1: Bible says, with swords, with clubs, and they were sent
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  Speaker 1: by who the chief priests and elders of the people,
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  Speaker 1: the government, and Peter, of course, it was he in
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  Speaker 1: his zeal to protect Jesus. Let me tell you, love, folks,
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  Speaker 1: let me tell you we have we have a responsibility,
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  Speaker 1: We have a duty to earnestly contend for the faith.
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  Speaker 1: But God doesn't need our assistance to protect his word,
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  Speaker 1: to protect his kingdom, his power, his sovereignty. Oh no,
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  Speaker 1: his promises, well, doesn't need our help. Peter. Peter said,
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  Speaker 1: I'm delivered you Jesus. So he in his zeal to
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  Speaker 1: project to protect Jesus and to prevent Jesus from being taken.
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  Speaker 1: He drew his sword and he took a swipe at
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  Speaker 1: the head of one of the company, one who was
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  Speaker 1: a man companion servant of the high priest. Peter took
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  Speaker 1: a swipe at his head, and the Bible tells us
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  Speaker 1: he severed the ear. He cut off the ear of
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  Speaker 1: the man, and Jesus, in that moment, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: would perform one of the most under rated, under reported
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  Speaker 1: at least from all of the miracles that I have
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  Speaker 1: ever heard us, and that includes me talk about. In
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  Speaker 1: that moment, Jesus performed a miracle picking up the man's
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  Speaker 1: ear and reattaching it back to his head. Now, in
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  Speaker 1: that very moment, you would think, seeing this, witnessing this,
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  Speaker 1: that the government, rulers, the soldiers would say, this is
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  Speaker 1: the son of God, this is the Messiah, he is
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  Speaker 1: the one to save us. But they took him even
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  Speaker 1: after he performed this final miracle before going to the cross,
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  Speaker 1: because Jesus would say to Peter, this is not the way,
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  Speaker 1: this is not the way that I am going to
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  Speaker 1: defeat the powers of the darkness of this fallen world.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus who would later stand before Pontius Pilot, he would
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  Speaker 1: testify and he would inform Pilot, a man that his
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  Speaker 1: kingdom is not of this world. It is not from
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  Speaker 1: this world, but it is from and it is of
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  Speaker 1: an eternal existence that the princes of this world do
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  Speaker 1: not know of, are not aware of, do not believe in.
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  Speaker 1: So Jesus at that moment of being taken, had within himself,
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  Speaker 1: as he said, the power, the authority, the prerogative a
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  Speaker 1: man to summon legions of angels. And for those of
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  Speaker 1: you famil with the Old Testament, it's the same God,
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  Speaker 1: It's the same God. One occasion, for example, when the
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  Speaker 1: enemies of the Jews had surrounded them, I believe it
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  Speaker 1: was during the time of the Nacareman king. I believe
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  Speaker 1: it was the Assyrians who had seiezed a besieged rather Jerusalem,
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  Speaker 1: And the Bible tells us in the Old Testament, I
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  Speaker 1: believe it was not a legion of angels, ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 1: but one angel, one angel that went into the camp
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  Speaker 1: of the enemy, and in the morning there were one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and eighty five thousand dead bodies. Jesus says to Peter,
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  Speaker 1: it's not the way I could take them. I could
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  Speaker 1: overthrow right now, I could bring another flood. I could
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  Speaker 1: wipe out all of these rebels right now. This is
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  Speaker 1: not what I'm doing, Peter, put up your sword. I
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  Speaker 1: could summon legions of angels right now to come to
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  Speaker 1: my aid, to come to my defense. But again he
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  Speaker 1: had in the garden of Vinsemite. He had already prayed,
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  Speaker 1: not my will, not as I will, fordying be done.
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  Speaker 1: You see the predetermined plan of God to save us.
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  Speaker 1: It was being fulfilled, just as it was predetermined, just
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  Speaker 1: as it was written, just as it was purposed in
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  Speaker 1: the mind of God, in the plan of God. Long
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  Speaker 1: before the foundation of the Word. The Lamb of God
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  Speaker 1: was slain in eternity, pasted. Jesus was a willing and
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  Speaker 1: submissive participant in what the government of the Jews conceived
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  Speaker 1: of in their minds, a man in their hearts, in plotting,
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  Speaker 1: in conspiring to eliminate this, as they saw it, foreign
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  Speaker 1: threat to their power over the people. They had to
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  Speaker 1: he has to go, they said. He has to be eliminated.
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  Speaker 1: We must rid ourselves of him. Otherwise we're gonna lose
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  Speaker 1: our nation. We're gonna lose our position, We're gonna lose
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  Speaker 1: our power, We're gonna lose our authority. Because this man
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  Speaker 1: is doing great things. He's overturning, he's overthrowing. He has
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  Speaker 1: to go. The proclamation of Peter. I'm closing here. Saint Peter,
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  Speaker 1: who was the sword wielding disciple, is now a preacher
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  Speaker 1: of the Gospel of Peace, and on the day of Pentecost, Acts,
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  Speaker 1: chapter two, he summed it up in these words. Beginning
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  Speaker 1: of verse twenty two, he says, Ye, men of Israel,
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  Speaker 1: hear these words, Jesus of Nazareth, a man approved of
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  Speaker 1: God among you by miracles, wonders, and signs, which God
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  Speaker 1: did through him in the midst of you. As you
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  Speaker 1: yourselves also know him, being delivered by the determinate will.
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  Speaker 1: And for knowledge of God you have taken, and by
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  Speaker 1: wicked hands have crucified and slain. But God has raised
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  Speaker 1: him up, having loosed the pains of death. Listen what
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  Speaker 1: Peter says. Because it was not possible that he should
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  Speaker 1: be held by it. Death had no claim, The grave
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  Speaker 1: had no claim on Jesus death, and the grave only
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  Speaker 1: have claim on sinners, those who have sinned. The wages
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  Speaker 1: of sin is death. And that is why every one
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  Speaker 1: of us have an appointment with death. But Jesus, I
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  Speaker 1: have come. Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you, that
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  Speaker 1: you might have life, and have it more abundantly. He
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  Speaker 1: that believes on the sun had life, he that believes
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  Speaker 1: not death. But in closing from our narrow human perspective,
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  Speaker 1: the taken of Jesus was carried out by the will
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  Speaker 1: of whimsical power hungry government officials, government rulers, government leaders,
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  Speaker 1: a man in their desperate quest again to control the
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  Speaker 1: times and the seasons and to shape the future of
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  Speaker 1: humanity to their own ill conceived imaginations, that this is,
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  Speaker 1: this is, this is, this is the way we see this.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus was taken taken by men who had the power,
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  Speaker 1: men who had the authority, men who were in charge
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  Speaker 1: as it were. No, no, no, no no. You see
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  Speaker 1: what they did not know in their ignorance, by the
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  Speaker 1: way of the prophecies concerning Jesus that was written by
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  Speaker 1: their own prophets. Of all is that the taking of
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  Speaker 1: Jesus by their wicked hands was predestined in the plan
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  Speaker 1: of God, and it was humbly submitted to by the
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  Speaker 1: will of Jesus, the Messiah of the Savior, who, in
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  Speaker 1: his triumph victory over the powers of the darkness and
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  Speaker 1: of the kingdoms of this world, he Oh yes he has,
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  Speaker 1: Oh yes, he has, He has forever shaped the future
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  Speaker 1: and the destiny of all of mankind and all of
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  Speaker 1: this world, both now and in the ages to come. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: the taking of Jesus was no accident, It was no
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  Speaker 1: haphazard event. It was all in the plan of God
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  Speaker 1: to save you, to save me, to save all who
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  Speaker 1: will believe. Father, we pray be, first of all again,
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  Speaker 1: thank you for Jesus, the Christ of Cavalry, coming down
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  Speaker 1: willingly yielding himself. You said, Lord, no one takes my life.
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  Speaker 1: You have the power to lay it down. You have
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  Speaker 1: the power to take it up again. And so as
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  Speaker 1: you yielded yourself, Lord, may we again, always and forever
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  Speaker 1: yield ourselves to you and say, as you said, not
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  Speaker 1: our wills, but your will be done. God be glorified.
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  Speaker 1: We thank you, we praise you in Jesus name. Amen
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  Speaker 1: and Amen.