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Episode 159 - Threatened Governments · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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  Speaker 1: This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him and
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  Speaker 1: delivered him from all of his fears. Old taste, and
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  Speaker 1: see that the Lord is good. Blessed is the man
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  Speaker 1: who puts his trust in the Lord. Trust in the
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  Speaker 1: Lord with all of your heart. Please do not lean
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  Speaker 1: to your own understanding. We welcome you once again to
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  Speaker 1: this another edition of End Time Revival Ministers USA Podcasts.
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  Speaker 1: For those of you who are listening to us by
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  Speaker 1: VIITW at one VITW for one voice in the wilderness.
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  Speaker 1: And certainly we are grateful to the Lord having a
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  Speaker 1: man given to us, granted unto us, a man this
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  Speaker 1: express privilege to serve the Lord in speaking for this
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  Speaker 1: truth with plainness, boldness, clarity, and a man confidence in
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  Speaker 1: such a time as this. And we are again thankful
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  Speaker 1: for another day that the Lord has allowed us to
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  Speaker 1: see to breathe the breath of life. All life is
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  Speaker 1: from Him, and it is, as the Bible teaches, in Him,
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  Speaker 1: that we live and move and have our being. Our
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  Speaker 1: very existence is in God of God and always will be.
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  Speaker 1: Because he lives a man. Life emanates from him, and
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  Speaker 1: we are forever grateful to the Lord forgiving us life,
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  Speaker 1: not only this natural life, but a new birth. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: If any man being Christ, he becomes a new creation.
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  Speaker 1: The cademus, Jesus said to him, you must be born again,
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  Speaker 1: born again a man. Otherwise you cannot see the Kingdom.
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  Speaker 1: You cannot experience all that God has a man for
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  Speaker 1: you without being born again. So we thank God again
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  Speaker 1: as always for this new birth. Amen. We continue in
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  Speaker 1: our series on God, government, church and state, and today
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  Speaker 1: we're going to kind of focus in on threatened government.
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  Speaker 1: Government that is threatened a man, threatened by what, threatened
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  Speaker 1: by the Church, of course, threatened by the power of God,
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  Speaker 1: threatened by the rule of God, threatened by a man
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  Speaker 1: the law of God. But before we begin this, take
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  Speaker 1: this quick moment, Amen, to invoke the presence of the
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  Speaker 1: Lord again. Great is your faithfulness to us, and we
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  Speaker 1: pray even now that your word would go forth with
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  Speaker 1: power that someone somewhere we hear the voice of the
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  Speaker 1: Savior and come to know that you are the truly
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  Speaker 1: living God. We give you praise, glory and honor for
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  Speaker 1: this day for all of your blessings, for your keeping power,
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  Speaker 1: for your promises that are yeay and amen. In Christ Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: we praying your thanks, Amen and amen. All right. Threatened government,
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  Speaker 1: threatened government in the aftermath of Jesus coming down to
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  Speaker 1: this earth during his earthly visitation, coming indeed to his
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  Speaker 1: own people, to disrupt, as it was the status quo,
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  Speaker 1: and also of course to upset the powers that be Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Shortly thereafter, of course, as we spoke about and examined
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  Speaker 1: in the acts of the Apostles on the the of Pentecosts,
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  Speaker 1: there was a Pentecostal disturbance that really a man put
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  Speaker 1: the rulers of the world, a man, the government of
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  Speaker 1: that day, and even now up until this present time
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  Speaker 1: on notice that this crucified Christ, a man, was risen,
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  Speaker 1: just as he promised, a man before he was, a
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  Speaker 1: man given over, betrayed, murdered, a man before he surrendered
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  Speaker 1: himself as it were, a man. Certainly he said, no
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  Speaker 1: one takes my life from me. I lay it down willingly.
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  Speaker 1: I have the power to lay it down and have
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  Speaker 1: the power to take it up again. But this same Christ, Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: whom they crucified, was risen indeed, just as he had promised,
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  Speaker 1: and his presence through the power of the Holy Spirit,
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  Speaker 1: was now at work and was here to stay, and
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  Speaker 1: is even now operating in the world, building the church,
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  Speaker 1: as Jesus promised that he would do so. The powers
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  Speaker 1: that the certainly were mistakingly resting a man in a
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  Speaker 1: false sense of security and the belief that they had
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  Speaker 1: written themselves of this Jesus, who, of course for three
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  Speaker 1: and a half years had been thrown in their side.
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  Speaker 1: As it were, he was terribly disruptive in his ministry,
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  Speaker 1: a man to their religious a man ceremonial, hypocritical, a
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  Speaker 1: man actions that they did before God, honoring him with
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  Speaker 1: their lips, but their hearts, as Jesus testified, even against them,
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  Speaker 1: their hearts being far from God, with their traditions of men,
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  Speaker 1: A man that they led the blind people with a man.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus spoke about that the blind leading the blind, and
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  Speaker 1: you both will fall into the ditch. And so these
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  Speaker 1: that were in the ruling class, particularly who wielded the
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  Speaker 1: power over the people, they were very much threatened by Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: and Jesus had to be eliminated, at least in their minds.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus had to be eliminated. Please please understand, make no
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  Speaker 1: mistake about it. The governments of this world are threatened
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  Speaker 1: by the existence, amen of the Church of Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 1: And when I say the Church of Jesus Christ, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not talking about a religious institution Christianity. Christianity, I'm talking
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  Speaker 1: about biblical Christianity is not a religion. Amen. Governments of
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  Speaker 1: this world are not threatened by religion, as I've already forestated. They,
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  Speaker 1: as a matter of fact, for the most part, embraced religion.
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  Speaker 1: Many of them are religious, and by the way that
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  Speaker 1: they operate a man and rule, it is religion based
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  Speaker 1: in most of these governments of this world. So they're
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  Speaker 1: not anti religion. They are anti Christ. They are anti Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: the name of Jesus, the True Church of Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 1: Government leaders and rulers have, therefore, because of their inability
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  Speaker 1: and powerlessness to stop the True Church of Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 1: They have therefore a man resorted to using guile, deceitfulness,
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  Speaker 1: a man to co opt the church by integrating it
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  Speaker 1: and regulating it. And certainly we're going to touch on
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  Speaker 1: that a little bit later in the future. But the
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  Speaker 1: first attempt of the adversaries and enemies of the church,
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  Speaker 1: first and foremost is to use threatening an intimidation in
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  Speaker 1: order to cause the church to break the church. And primarily,
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  Speaker 1: of course, they go after the leadership, the leaders of
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  Speaker 1: the church. As we see in the book of the
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  Speaker 1: Acts of the Apostles. They go after the leaders, cut
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  Speaker 1: off the head, as it were, and the rest of
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  Speaker 1: the body will die. And so they have practiced this
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  Speaker 1: throughout history Church history. Amen. And the first order of business, though,
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  Speaker 1: the first strategic move, and it's all satanic, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: is to threaten and intimidate. Now, their ultimate desire, of
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  Speaker 1: course for the Church is for it to be completely destroyed.
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  Speaker 1: They are greed by the existence of the Church, and
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  Speaker 1: their hatred of truth and righteousness compels them to act
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  Speaker 1: to their own detriment to their own eternal demise. And
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  Speaker 1: certainly in our previous podcasts, we saw that the Church
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus Christ burst forth, burst forth, on to the
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  Speaker 1: world scene, as it were, and it immediately on the
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  Speaker 1: very first day, by the way, became a megachurch. The
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  Speaker 1: Bible teachers, of course, in Acts chep. Number two, after
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit came and as a rushing mighty wind
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  Speaker 1: filled the house where the one hundred and twenty were
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  Speaker 1: gathered a man. The people that heard the noise, that
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  Speaker 1: heard all of the commotion, came to see what was transpiring.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, Peter preached the first sermon as it were
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  Speaker 1: on that day of Pentecosts, and the Bible tells us
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  Speaker 1: that about three thousand souls were added to the church.
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  Speaker 1: A Pentecostal Pentecostal disruption took place on that Jesus burst
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  Speaker 1: onto the scene, as it were, a man now a man,
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  Speaker 1: having supposedly again in their minds gotten rid of Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Now they are grieved by the existence of the Church
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  Speaker 1: and their hatred for the truth, hatred for the Gospel,
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  Speaker 1: hatred for the name of Christ, Jesus, and again a
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  Speaker 1: man they are now having to contend with these Jesus
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  Speaker 1: prepared apostles who had been with the Lord a man
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  Speaker 1: during his three and a half year disruptive ministry. That
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  Speaker 1: he came a man into the world to do again,
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  Speaker 1: as I said in many of these previous episodes amen
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  Speaker 1: in this podcast series, that Jesus did not come to
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  Speaker 1: be docile to get along with the world. He on
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  Speaker 1: many occasions challenged them, called them out for their hypocrisy.
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about leaders a man who were blind, leaders
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  Speaker 1: leading the blind, as Jesus again said, amen and causing
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  Speaker 1: the people to air. Amen. And so we go now
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  Speaker 1: in continuation to Acts chapter number four, to examine here again, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: why the government, why the rulers were so grieved with
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  Speaker 1: the church. This is what happens, you know. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: let me back up a little bit for those of
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  Speaker 1: you who may not have listened to her heard our
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  Speaker 1: previous podcast episode. Of course, ACTU chapter three deals with
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  Speaker 1: the healing of a crippled man who had been at
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  Speaker 1: the gate of the temple for many, many years, receiving
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  Speaker 1: alms handouts a man from the people as they came
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  Speaker 1: and went from the temple, and on that day in particular,
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  Speaker 1: on this day in particular, rather Peter and John went
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  Speaker 1: up to the temple the Bible tells us about the
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  Speaker 1: ninth hour to pray, and as they were about to enter,
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  Speaker 1: the man fastened his eyes on Peter and John and
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  Speaker 1: asked alms of them. And so Peter, along with John,
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  Speaker 1: spoke to the band and said to him that seal
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  Speaker 1: and gold we don't have, but what we do have
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  Speaker 1: we give to you in the name of Jesus Christ
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  Speaker 1: of Nagariths Nazareth, rise and walk. And the Bible says,
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  Speaker 1: Peter reach down, took the man by the hand, and
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  Speaker 1: immediately his feet and ankle bones received strength, and he
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  Speaker 1: leapt up on his feet and began to walk. And
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  Speaker 1: not only would did he begin to walk, he began
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  Speaker 1: to run. And he was leaping and running and embracing
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  Speaker 1: the disciples, the apostles, and was so glad that God
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  Speaker 1: had healed him of his crippling, a man that was
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  Speaker 1: from his birth, the Bible tells us. And so with
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  Speaker 1: all of this commotion going on, the chief priests, the rulers,
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  Speaker 1: the religious sect, as it was a man, heard all
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  Speaker 1: of this. They were in charge of the temple. They
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  Speaker 1: were in charge of the sacrifice. You remember when Jesus
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  Speaker 1: by the way again, I told you Jesus came to
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  Speaker 1: disrupt when he went to the temple his house, which
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  Speaker 1: he said shall be called a house of prayer, but
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  Speaker 1: you made it a den of thieves. He went there
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  Speaker 1: and overturned the tables and all of the corruption that
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  Speaker 1: was going on there. Jesus came and disrupted it. And
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  Speaker 1: they were not happy about what Jesus was doing. And
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  Speaker 1: so now here here comes another commotion. Here comes some
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  Speaker 1: more uh, a disruption to their you know, way of
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  Speaker 1: doing things. And government don't doesn't like that. Government doesn't
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  Speaker 1: doesn't like disruption. They don't like, uh, the status quo
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  Speaker 1: being disturbed. And so as it were, UH, with this
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  Speaker 1: healing of this cripple man, there's a disturbance that's happening
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  Speaker 1: in the UH with the normal order of things. And
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  Speaker 1: so they come to see what's happening. The Bible tells
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  Speaker 1: us acts chapter them before we pick it up in
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  Speaker 1: verse number one, as they spake unto the people, who
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  Speaker 1: is they? These the apostles, the church representatives, the leaders,
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  Speaker 1: those who had been with Jesus, those who had been
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  Speaker 1: a man taught by Jesus, commanded by Jesus, prepped by
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  Speaker 1: Jesus to go and do exactly what they are doing.
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  Speaker 1: They are speaking to the people, preaching the Bible, teaches
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  Speaker 1: the Gospel, preaching the Word being instant in season out
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  Speaker 1: of season. A man, it's a Bible, a man commands
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  Speaker 1: the minister of God to do. So, they speak unto
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  Speaker 1: the people. And as they are speaking, the priests and
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  Speaker 1: the captain of the Temple and the Sadducees. The Bible
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  Speaker 1: tells Us came upon them being grieved that they taught
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  Speaker 1: the people and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead. Now, why,
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  Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, are they grieved? Why are they grieve's?
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  Speaker 1: What's the problem here? Jesus is dead. Y'all crucified him,
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  Speaker 1: He's gone. What's the big deal about preaching, uh Jesus
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  Speaker 1: when Jesus no longer exists. Are y'all threatened by a
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  Speaker 1: dead man? Are y'all threatened by this man that y'all crucified,
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  Speaker 1: the man that was put to shame, a man that
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  Speaker 1: was humiliated? Hey, man, are you threatened by him? The
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  Speaker 1: Bible says they were grieved that they taught the people
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  Speaker 1: and preached through Jesus the resurrection from the dead. Now
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  Speaker 1: the Saddes don't. They don't even believe in the resurrection
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  Speaker 1: of the dead. Now again, if you're really convinced, and
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  Speaker 1: you're really persuaded in your mind that something does not exist,
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  Speaker 1: and why are you troubled by it? Why would you
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  Speaker 1: be disturbed by it? Why are you grieved about it?
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  Speaker 1: You just dismiss it? All. I don't believe in that.
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  Speaker 1: I don't. I don't. I don't buy it. There are
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  Speaker 1: certain things I know hill are not true. They trump,
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  Speaker 1: they don't trouble me, they don't bother me. And if
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  Speaker 1: they don't exist, it can't hurt me, It can't harm me.
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  Speaker 1: It can't help me either. So why would I be grieved?
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  Speaker 1: Why would I be worried? But the Bible tells us
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  Speaker 1: that they agreed, and it's something there's something about the
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  Speaker 1: conscience God, God, and God alone does a work Amen
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  Speaker 1: in the conscience of the man. Amen. And so this
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  Speaker 1: is what bothers them. They know that they have the responsibility.
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  Speaker 1: They even said it His blood be upon us and
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  Speaker 1: our children. And they are grieved that this Jesus is
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  Speaker 1: being preached on. The Bible tells us Verst. Number three.
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  Speaker 1: So they laid hands on them, put them in hold
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  Speaker 1: until the next day, for it was now even tied.
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  Speaker 1: How bid many of them which heard the word believed,
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  Speaker 1: And the number of the men was about five thousand.
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  Speaker 1: Now you add this to the previous number of at
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  Speaker 1: least three thousand, and again, as I said the previous session,
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how much time has transpired between their
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  Speaker 1: Pentecosts and this miracle healing event that took place. So
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  Speaker 1: we don't know what the true number of the church is,
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  Speaker 1: but that doesn't really matter here. The point is that
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  Speaker 1: God is building his church. The Church is on an
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  Speaker 1: unstoppable journey destination that cannot be contained, that cannot be hindered,
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  Speaker 1: that cannot be stopped by mere mortal man. Five thousand
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  Speaker 1: more people added to the church. The Bible says, so
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  Speaker 1: it came to pass one of the morrow, that is
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  Speaker 1: the next day, that they're rulers, elders, and scribes. These
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  Speaker 1: these this is, this is a government. This makes up
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  Speaker 1: the government. Part of the government of the of the
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  Speaker 1: people of the Jews. A man and and Us the
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  Speaker 1: high Priest, and Caiaphas, and John and Alexander, and as
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  Speaker 1: many as were of the kindred of the high priests
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  Speaker 1: were gathered together at Jerusalem. So now they have to
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  Speaker 1: reassemble themselves. They have to come back together again. They again.
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  Speaker 1: They did this in order to get rid of Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: You know, they they went through all of their shenanigans,
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  Speaker 1: mock trial, fate trial, unlawful trial of Jesus, trials of Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: and and now they've got to reconvene themselves, because these
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  Speaker 1: upstart fishermen, uneducated fishermen, blue collar, uneducated, uncultured ordinary men
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  Speaker 1: are now preaching about this Jesus that we rid ourselves
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  Speaker 1: us what's going on here? And so the Bible tells
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  Speaker 1: us in verse number seven, when they had set them
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  Speaker 1: in the midst In other words, all of these government imagine,
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  Speaker 1: if you will, the entire Congress of the United States
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  Speaker 1: of America, for example, along with the Supreme Court President
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  Speaker 1: of the United States, all of the Cabinet, every high
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  Speaker 1: government official of the federal government, assembled in one place,
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  Speaker 1: and they call into their assembly a couple of regular
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  Speaker 1: ordinary joes to testify, to give an answer as to
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  Speaker 1: why they are preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ. That
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  Speaker 1: is what the scene is like here, with all of
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  Speaker 1: the government officials gathered together at Jerusalem, sitting the apostles
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  Speaker 1: in their midst and asking of them verse seven, by
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  Speaker 1: what power or by what name have you done this? Then, Peter,
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  Speaker 1: the Bible says, filled with the Holy ghosts, said unto them, you,
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  Speaker 1: rulers of the people and elders of Israel, if we
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  Speaker 1: this day be examined of the good deed done to
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  Speaker 1: the impotent man, by what means he is made whole.
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  Speaker 1: Be it known unto you all and to all the
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  Speaker 1: people of Israel, that by the name of Jesus Christ
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  Speaker 1: of Nazareth, whom you crucified, whom God raised from the dead.
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  Speaker 1: Oh man, he's preaching. He's preaching. He's preaching. He's preaching
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  Speaker 1: even by him. Doth this man stand here before you? Hold?
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  Speaker 1: This man has been healed by the name of Jesus
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  Speaker 1: Christ of Nazareth. Same one that you know you brought
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  Speaker 1: before the council, the same one that you rejected, The
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  Speaker 1: same one that you refuse to hear and obey. This
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  Speaker 1: is the stone verse eleven, which was set at naught
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  Speaker 1: of your builders, which has become the head of the corner.
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  Speaker 1: Either is there salvation in any other For there is
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  Speaker 1: none other name under Heaven given among men, whereby we
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  Speaker 1: must be saved. The Bible says, now you come aacine
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  Speaker 1: this again, Picture this, picture this seen in your mind,
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  Speaker 1: if you will, Here are two again, plain, old, ordinary men,
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  Speaker 1: who had been with Jesus for three and a half years,
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  Speaker 1: empowered by him, empowered by the presence of the Holy Ghost,
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  Speaker 1: emboldened a man by the fact that they saw the
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  Speaker 1: resurrected Savior. Again, we cannot dismiss that, we cannot minimize that.
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  Speaker 1: And this is why the apostles preached this over and
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  Speaker 1: over and over again. This Jesus, Peter pointed the finger
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  Speaker 1: at them. This Jesus, the same one that you crucified him,
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  Speaker 1: God raised from the dead. Yes, Sadducees, there is a
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  Speaker 1: resurrection of the dead. This is why again you remember
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  Speaker 1: with the raising of Lazarus from the dead by Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: my man who had been dead for four days. So
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  Speaker 1: this was not something that was on the order of
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  Speaker 1: the dead young girl that was raised who had just died,
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  Speaker 1: or the young man who was the son of his
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  Speaker 1: mother and she was on her way. They were on
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  Speaker 1: their way to bury him, and he had just died.
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  Speaker 1: So this was not something because again I believe the
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  Speaker 1: Jews had a belief, some of them had this belief
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  Speaker 1: that a man the spirit would hover over the body
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  Speaker 1: for a period of about seventy two hours. So in
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  Speaker 1: the case of Lazarus, a man, they could not deny
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  Speaker 1: that it was just, you know, all the spirit returned
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  Speaker 1: to the a body in a miraculous way. But because
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  Speaker 1: that in the case of Lazarus and man, he had
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  Speaker 1: been there for four days, and uh, the body had
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  Speaker 1: already started to decay, and and and even his sister said, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: by this time, uh, he stinks you're too late. M yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: So so because of this miraculous a man raising of
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  Speaker 1: Lazarus from the dead, they wanted to put again. They
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  Speaker 1: sought to kill Lazarus while they were seeking also to
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  Speaker 1: crucify Jesus again because they don't believe in the resurrection
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  Speaker 1: of that. And so this is this is how a government,
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  Speaker 1: in particular, when the rulers of the people are threatened
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  Speaker 1: by a man the church, by the power of God,
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  Speaker 1: the power that they are powerless to do anything about,
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  Speaker 1: they resort to these kinds of tactics. Intimidation, threatening and
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  Speaker 1: intimidation is what they do and will continue to do. So.
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  Speaker 1: Peter boldly stands there and says to them, be it
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  Speaker 1: known unto you all, it is by the name of
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ of natures, the same one that you hated
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  Speaker 1: and rejected and despised and crucified. It is by him,
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  Speaker 1: through him that this man has been healed of his
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  Speaker 1: crippling disease that he had his mother's womb. This is
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  Speaker 1: the stone that you rejected, Amen. And he is the
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  Speaker 1: head of the corner. And there is salvation to be
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  Speaker 1: had in none other. There is no other name heaven
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  Speaker 1: by which we must be saying Amen. Now look at
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  Speaker 1: verse thirteen when they saw the boldness. Where did they
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  Speaker 1: get that boldness? Number one? Again, Remember, they were cowering
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  Speaker 1: in fear until they got the news, and until they
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  Speaker 1: saw for themselves the resurrected Savior. That's number one. They
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  Speaker 1: saw the risen Jesus. Number two, they received the baptism
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  Speaker 1: of the Holy Ghost and fire. And if I might add,
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  Speaker 1: they also saw Jesus ascend up into heaven. So on
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  Speaker 1: the strength of all of that, in addition to the
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  Speaker 1: fact that they had been with Jesus for three and
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  Speaker 1: a half years, now this boldness, this boldness, this boldness, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: they have the word of God that has been brought back,
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  Speaker 1: is being brought back to their memory, all the things
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  Speaker 1: that Jesus taught them. He said, the Holy Spirit would
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  Speaker 1: bring these things to your remembrance, And the Holy Spirit
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  Speaker 1: is doing it. As a matter of fact, Jesus had
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  Speaker 1: already prepared them and told, don't even meditate about what
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  Speaker 1: you're going to say when you are brought up. He
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  Speaker 1: told them, he prepared them for the fact that this
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  Speaker 1: was going to happen, that they would be brought before counsels,
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  Speaker 1: that they would be persecuted, that they would be called
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  Speaker 1: to answer, to give an account, as it were, for
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  Speaker 1: preaching in his name. So the Bible says, when they
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  Speaker 1: saw the boldness of Peter and.
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  Speaker 2: John and perceived that they were unlearned, and.
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  Speaker 1: Then the Bible says, they marveled. But they also looked
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  Speaker 1: what the Bible says, took knowledge of them, that they
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  Speaker 1: had been with Jesus. Give me that in the day,
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  Speaker 1: over the foolishness of men, over the wisdom of this world, over,
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  Speaker 1: the education and doctrination of the institutions of this world.
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  Speaker 1: All give me time with Jesus. I'll take it. I'll
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  Speaker 1: take it. Paul, who was well educated in their system,
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  Speaker 1: as it were. Amen, he said of his own accord,
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  Speaker 1: after of course he had been converted. I count all
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  Speaker 1: that stuff as dung that I may win Christ. I
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  Speaker 1: want to know him fully even in the power of
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  Speaker 1: the resurrection. Amen. Again, this same resurrection that they were
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  Speaker 1: in denial of the Sadducees in particular, Amen. And of
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  Speaker 1: course all of them, none of them wanted to believe
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  Speaker 1: that Jesus. Even though the Pharisees believed in the resurrection,
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  Speaker 1: they didn't want to believe for a moment that Jesus
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  Speaker 1: was risen from the dead. No, sir, no, sir, no sir. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So now they see the boldness of Peter and John.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible says, they perceived that they were unlearned and
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  Speaker 1: ignorant men. In other words, again, they had not gone
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  Speaker 1: through the educational institutions of higher learning, under the auspices,
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  Speaker 1: under the control of those who were the indoctrinators, if
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  Speaker 1: you will. And so the Bible says, they marveled. And
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  Speaker 1: remember by the way those of you made with the
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  Speaker 1: gospels many they did the same with Jesus. How does
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  Speaker 1: this man know letters? Having never learned. He didn't come
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  Speaker 1: He didn't go through the system, you know, he didn't
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  Speaker 1: He didn't come through the institutions through our professors. Wow,
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  Speaker 1: they marveled at these men, took knowledge of them that
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  Speaker 1: they had been with Jesus didn't And and and here's
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  Speaker 1: the verse fourteen. And beholding the man which was healed.
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  Speaker 1: Standing with them, they could say nothing against it. But
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  Speaker 1: when they had commanded them to go aside out of
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  Speaker 1: the council. So now they they they say, you guys, hey,
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  Speaker 1: go uh step away, for we've we've we've got to
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  Speaker 1: confer among each other. That's what they did. The Bible
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  Speaker 1: says they conferred among themselves and discussed what they're going
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  Speaker 1: to do here, because we've gotten we got another problem. Guys,
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  Speaker 1: we got we got we got problems. This John the
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  Speaker 1: Baptist came, he was a problem. Well, Herod took him
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  Speaker 1: out for us, so that worked in our favor. Then
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  Speaker 1: Jesus comes right on his heels and we we finally
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  Speaker 1: got rid of him. And now where these up starts
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  Speaker 1: come from, these unlearned, ignorant men, what are now?
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  Speaker 3: What are we gonna do with them? They've already got
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  Speaker 3: a mega church going. We've already lost at least eight thousand.
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  Speaker 1: Out of our tradition, out of our religion.
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  Speaker 4: Oh man, what are we going to do? What are
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  Speaker 4: we gonna do about this? What are we gonna do
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  Speaker 4: with these men? What are we gonna do about this way?
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  Speaker 4: What are we gonna do about this?
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  Speaker 1: This? This, this Jesus that is being preached that we
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  Speaker 1: got rid of. Mm hmmm, mmm hmm. What shall we
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  Speaker 1: do to these men? For indeed, a notable miracle has
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  Speaker 1: been performed by them, and it is being manifest and
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  Speaker 1: it is being seen. It has been witness by all
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  Speaker 1: of them that dwell in Jerusalem. And look at what
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  Speaker 1: they say. We can't deny it. It's about love. She man.
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  Speaker 1: This is what I love about God. He does things
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  Speaker 1: in such a way. It just boxes you in a
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  Speaker 1: It just boxes you in. It boxes you in a corner.
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  Speaker 1: You know, if I if I can go back to Pharaoh, now,
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  Speaker 1: if I let the people go, Wait a minute, what
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  Speaker 1: are we gonna do? This is all entire workforce. We
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  Speaker 1: don't have anybody replace these people. What are we gonna do?
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  Speaker 1: I got building projects going on. I can't let I
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  Speaker 1: just can't let these people go. Then the plagues begin,
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  Speaker 1: Oh well, what are we gonna do? What are we
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  Speaker 1: gonna do? What are we gonna do? When Jesus came
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  Speaker 1: worse on the scene, as we again recently exam and they,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, Jesus boxed these people in all kinds of corners.
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  Speaker 1: It's dangerous, dangerous, dangerous when you get a scared little
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  Speaker 1: demon boxed in a corner. That's what these devils they
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  Speaker 1: are now boxing to corners. And they said, what are
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  Speaker 1: we going to do for Indeed, this notable miracle has
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  Speaker 1: been performed, has been manifest to everybody. Everybody has seated,
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  Speaker 1: and we lost five thousand more people today by all
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  Speaker 1: of this that's happening. And we can't deny see that.
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  Speaker 1: See this is what they say among themselves. It's like
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  Speaker 1: when Nicodemus came to Jesus by Na, he said, we know,
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  Speaker 1: he said, I know, He said, we know that you
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  Speaker 1: are a or a teacher that came from God. Because
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  Speaker 1: no one can do the miracles that you're doing has
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  Speaker 1: to be the hand of God. What can this powerless
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  Speaker 1: government do? What can these leaders do? Well? Well, are
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  Speaker 1: they going to do what they always do? Attempt to
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  Speaker 1: siege or seize power if you will, it's a siege
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  Speaker 1: seizing of power by threat and intimidation. Now they're powerless.
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  Speaker 1: They're powerless, and so they don't know what to do
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  Speaker 1: it in this corner. This is a government that is
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  Speaker 1: threatened by the apostles preaching and teaching. Again, take note
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  Speaker 1: of this. They're preaching and teaching about a dead Messiah
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  Speaker 1: so called set proclaimed King of the Jews, that they
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  Speaker 1: got rid of. Why are you threatened by a dead again?
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  Speaker 1: Not only even was he killed, crucified, he was completely humiliated,
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  Speaker 1: and all the people went away shaking their heads. Remember that,
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  Speaker 1: if you are the they mocked him. If you're the Christ,
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  Speaker 1: come down, save yourself. I mean, he's dead, he's gone.
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  Speaker 1: What's the problem here, Oh man, oh man, old man,
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  Speaker 1: old man. They are threatened by the apostles preaching and
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  Speaker 1: teaching Jesus, and again they couldn't deny the miracle. All
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  Speaker 1: the people were rejoicing in it. We're powerless, but we
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  Speaker 1: gotta do something. Powerless, powerless people, powerless government. And by
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  Speaker 1: the way, I get to this a little bit more
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  Speaker 1: in the next session the next episode. Powerless and don't
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  Speaker 1: know that they are powerless. That's dangerous when you are
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  Speaker 1: powerless and you think you have power, you think you
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  Speaker 1: have the authority, you think you you think you are.
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  Speaker 1: And the Bible teaches, by the way, warns us, thank God,
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  Speaker 1: that we are to be a people of humility, of
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  Speaker 1: people who humble ourselves in the mighty under the mighty
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  Speaker 1: hand of God. A man the Bible says, a man
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  Speaker 1: think himself to be something where he is nothing, he
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  Speaker 1: deceives himself. These people are living in delusion. They're in
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  Speaker 1: a state of delusion. They think that they have the power,
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  Speaker 1: They think they have the control, They think that they
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  Speaker 1: can harness, regulate, Stay about put out this movement, this
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  Speaker 1: move of God. This is what they say verse seventeen.
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  Speaker 1: But that it spread no further among the people. Let
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  Speaker 1: us this is their strategy. This is what they came
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  Speaker 1: up with with all of these educated, wise men of
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  Speaker 1: the world, with their learning, with all of their entrained
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  Speaker 1: fears of government experience. This is what they come up
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  Speaker 1: with their conference, out of their conference, but that it
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  Speaker 1: spread no further among the people. Let us straightly threaten them. Wait,
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  Speaker 1: I mean it took all of y'all could just got
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  Speaker 1: got a brute off the street to do that come
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  Speaker 1: up with that. You could have got a bully off
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  Speaker 1: the street, that could have a third grade dropout, that
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  Speaker 1: could have came up with that solution. Let us straighten
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  Speaker 1: me threaten them that they speak henceforth to no man
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  Speaker 1: in this name. Stop the spread. Oh that sounds familiar.
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  Speaker 1: Let's stop the spread. Let's threaten them. That sounds familiar too.
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  Speaker 1: We must shut this down. Now, we must contain this,
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  Speaker 1: we must control this, stop the spread. So the Bible
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  Speaker 1: says verse eighteen, they call them and come them not
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  Speaker 1: to speak at all, nor teach in the name of Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Now they issue there government decreed, government command, government law,
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  Speaker 1: government ed, shut down the church. That's that sounds familiar,
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  Speaker 1: to stop the spread. In order to stop the spread,
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  Speaker 1: we got to shut down the church. We can't have
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  Speaker 1: these people coming together singing about Jesus, preaching about Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: teaching other people about Jesus. We got to stop the spread.
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  Speaker 2: Wo same devil. But Peter and John answered and said,
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  Speaker 2: unto them, whether it be right in the sight of
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  Speaker 2: God to hearken unto you more than unto God, judge ye,
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  Speaker 2: for we cannot but think the things which we have
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  Speaker 2: seen and heard verse twenty one. So when they had
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  Speaker 2: further threatened them, See they got nothing, they are powerless.
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  Speaker 1: They've got nothing but threaten and try to intimidate them.
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  Speaker 1: That's all the devil, that's all he has, that's all
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  Speaker 1: he can do.
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  Speaker 3: Mhm.
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  Speaker 1: Threaten. That's the first. That's the first. That's his first
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  Speaker 1: strategic step. Threaten.
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  Speaker 5: Let's threaten them, Let's threaten them. Let's let's beat them,
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  Speaker 5: let's kill them. Yeah, let's let's take away. Let's let's
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  Speaker 5: let's uh, let's take away their social media presence. Let's
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  Speaker 5: shut them down.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Yeah, we're gonna We're gonna threaten them, cut off
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  Speaker 1: there funding, threatened their parishioners. Yeah, let's threaten them. Bible says,
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  Speaker 1: when they had further threatened them, let them go, finding
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  Speaker 1: nothing how they might punish them because of the people.
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  Speaker 1: For all men glorified God for that which was not
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  Speaker 1: holy God. Oh my God, look what the Bible says. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, for the man was about forty years old,
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  Speaker 1: on whom this miracle of healing was shown. Only God
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  Speaker 1: can do this kind of stuff. Here's a man for
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  Speaker 1: the glory of God, for the building up of the church.
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  Speaker 1: This man had suffered for forty years, over forty years,
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  Speaker 1: not able to walk daily at the temple. This was
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  Speaker 1: no coincidence. This is the providence of God. This is
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  Speaker 1: the hand of God. This is the work of God.
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  Speaker 1: This is the plan of God. This is why governments
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  Speaker 1: are powerless against the God who declares the end from
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  Speaker 1: the beginning. Amen who is already predestined, predetermined, and already Amen,
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  Speaker 1: in eternity, he finished the work. We're living in the
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  Speaker 1: you know, the sphere of time. God has already finished
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  Speaker 1: the work. Amen. But nevertheless, you have a situation here
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  Speaker 1: where God used a crippled man who had been at
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  Speaker 1: the temple. Literally, perhaps I was suppose every day so
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  Speaker 1: that everybody saw this man, everybody knew this man, everybody
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  Speaker 1: knew that this man was crippled. Everybody, everybody recognized him,
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  Speaker 1: and so the miracle was undeeniable. Only God, only God,
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  Speaker 1: only God. Please understand, though I'm closing here, that the
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  Speaker 1: same spirit, ladies and John, that was threatening to the powers,
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  Speaker 1: then it's very much with us today. Nevertheless, that spirit
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  Speaker 1: of deception, that spirit of fear, is already defeated. That
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  Speaker 1: spirit is incapable of hindering the Holy Spirit from.
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  Speaker 6: Baptizing souls by the millions. As the Church of Jesus
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  Speaker 6: Christ will continue to grow until we are raptured, until
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  Speaker 6: we are taken.
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  Speaker 1: Up to forever be with the Lord. But until then,
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  Speaker 1: please understand, please know that we will. We shall continue
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  Speaker 1: with boldness, with confidence, with the truth of God, with
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  Speaker 1: the power of God. Amen. With the armor of the
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  Speaker 1: Lord fully equipped upon us. Amen, with the power of Heaven,
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  Speaker 1: with the power of the eternal decrees of God, to
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  Speaker 1: proclaim and to teach Jesus the Christ as the Way,
• 45:30
  Speaker 1: the Truth, the Life, the Light, the door, the Savior,
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  Speaker 1: the only hope of salvation for the lost souls of men.
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  Speaker 1: A man to the glory of God, we cannot we
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  Speaker 1: shall not be defeated. Father. We thank you for victory,
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  Speaker 1: thank you that we are more than conquerors. You declared it,
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  Speaker 1: you decreed it, you made it so. And we simply
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  Speaker 1: say amen to your will, to your way, to your word,
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  Speaker 1: and to what you have decreed that shall come to
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  Speaker 1: pass be glorified in your people everywhere. In Jesus' name,
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  Speaker 1: we pray give things. Amen, and a man