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Episode 132 - What A Shame · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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  Speaker 1: Blessed be the name of the Lord. Blessed be the
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  Speaker 1: name of the Lord. From the rising of the sun
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  Speaker 1: unto the going down thereof his name is worthy to
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  Speaker 1: be praised. Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Thank God again for this beautiful, glorious day that He
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  Speaker 1: has a man given to us to breathe the breath
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  Speaker 1: of life, and to honor Him in all that we
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  Speaker 1: say and do. We thank God for this calling, for
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  Speaker 1: this ministry, for this grace and love and peace and
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  Speaker 1: mercy that we have received this day. This is the
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  Speaker 1: day that the Lord has made, and we shall rejoice
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  Speaker 1: and be glad in it. Amen. Thank God again for
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  Speaker 1: all of his blessings. Amen. His peace a woo man. Peace, priceless,
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  Speaker 1: peace is priceless. Thank God for his peace that surpasses
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  Speaker 1: all understanding. It keeps me day to day. It keeps
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  Speaker 1: my mind. Amen, It gives me that great heart that
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  Speaker 1: the Bible speaks of, so I can make my pilgrimage
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  Speaker 1: through this world, through this life with all of the adversities,
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  Speaker 1: all of the trials, all of the temptations and tests
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  Speaker 1: that comes our way, the troubles that come. The Bible
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  Speaker 1: says man that this vulnerable woman is a few days
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  Speaker 1: and full of troubles. We will all have trouble in
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  Speaker 1: this life. But thank God again that we have a
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  Speaker 1: blessed hope in and through Jesus Christ, our Savior. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: We're in the fifteenth chapter of First Corinthians Pau's letter
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  Speaker 1: to the Corinthian Church where we're dealing with this subject
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  Speaker 1: of the resurrection. Amen, from the dead. So we'll go
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  Speaker 1: there just a moment. But we again welcome you to
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  Speaker 1: this another edition of End Time Revival Ministries USA Podcasts.
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  Speaker 1: v IW one Voice in the Wilderness. Amen, we are
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  Speaker 1: here to cry aloud. Spare not lift up our voice
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  Speaker 1: like a trumpet in Zion, as the Lord spoke to
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  Speaker 1: the prophet, show my people their transgressions in the House
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  Speaker 1: of Jacob their sins. Amen. So amen. That is our
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  Speaker 1: endeavor to speak the truth of God in love, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: so that someone somewhere will hear and come to know
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  Speaker 1: that Jesus Christ is the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So today we delve into this fifteenth chapter of the
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  Speaker 1: Letter of the Apostle Paul to the Corinthians, and we're
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  Speaker 1: going to be dealing with verses twenty eight through thirty
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  Speaker 1: four on today. And I want to take a topic,
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  Speaker 1: if you will, from the last verse that we're going
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  Speaker 1: to be viewing. Verse thirty four, Paul speaks to the
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  Speaker 1: church with these words, I speak this to your shame.
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  Speaker 1: I speak this to your shame. So amen. Our little
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  Speaker 1: topic that we're going to take a title today is
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  Speaker 1: going to be what a shame, What a shame, What
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  Speaker 1: a shame? Shame, shame, shame. We'll get to that final
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  Speaker 1: verse do time here, But we begin, of course, with
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  Speaker 1: just a word of prayer. Again, Lord, thank you for
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  Speaker 1: new mercy when we all rose this morning. We thank
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  Speaker 1: you for supplying every one of our needs, food, clothing,
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  Speaker 1: and shelter. We bless your name. We thank you for
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  Speaker 1: your goodness toward us. We don't deserve any of it. Lord,
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  Speaker 1: It is because you are good God, mercy for God,
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  Speaker 1: faithful God, a God of compassion, God of love, a
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  Speaker 1: God of tolerance. Lord, we thank you. Bless your name.
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  Speaker 1: Open someone's eyes today, Open someone's ears today, Open someone's
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  Speaker 1: heart today, to believe, to come to know that you
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  Speaker 1: are the truly living God, and there is none other
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  Speaker 1: by which by whom we can be saved. Blessed be
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  Speaker 1: your name for this time forth and even for evermore,
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  Speaker 1: Amen and Amen. What a shame, What a shame it
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  Speaker 1: would be, indeed, if there were no resurrection of the dead,
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  Speaker 1: What a shame. Shame on Jesus, who shame on the apostles,
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  Speaker 1: Shame on all the early Church, Shame on all of
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  Speaker 1: us who have, through the centuries, continued to perpetuate this
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  Speaker 1: false faith, as it would be, by persuading people to
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  Speaker 1: believe that there is eternal life after they die, and
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  Speaker 1: preaching also that there will be a judgment upon all
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  Speaker 1: those who do not believe and obey the Gospel. What
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  Speaker 1: a shame, What a shame, What a shame on us
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  Speaker 1: in that regard. What a shame, indeed, for we who
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  Speaker 1: are to be as the Apostle rights, of all men
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  Speaker 1: most miserable, we would, we should, and we would be
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  Speaker 1: of all men most miserable. Having believed in the resurrection,
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  Speaker 1: have and conducted our affairs, our lives, a man entire
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  Speaker 1: pilgrimage in this world with the hope of the resurrection,
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  Speaker 1: with the hope of heaven, with the hope of glory,
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  Speaker 1: a man with the hope of eternal life in and
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  Speaker 1: through and by Jesus Christ. When there is no resurrection
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  Speaker 1: of the dead, what a shame? Because, also Paul says,
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  Speaker 1: he argues that we are also then found false witnesses
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  Speaker 1: of God, because we have testified, he says that God
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  Speaker 1: raised Christ from the dead, who he didn't that if
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  Speaker 1: there is no resurrection of the dead. And then also
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  Speaker 1: what a shame, because the Apostle reminds us, informs us
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  Speaker 1: that we are indeed yet in our sins. If there
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  Speaker 1: is no riser direction of the dead, what a shame
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  Speaker 1: it is? Indeed, because even more egregiously, I guess it
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  Speaker 1: is for everyone who has died. And this is what
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  Speaker 1: the Apostle argues early on in this letter of what
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  Speaker 1: about all of those who have died in Christ who
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  Speaker 1: went down into the grave, died with the hope that
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  Speaker 1: they would a man not only be raised from the dead.
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  Speaker 1: But the promise of God is when we are absent
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  Speaker 1: from this body, we are present with the Lord. But
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  Speaker 1: if there is no resurrection of the dead, if there
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  Speaker 1: is no eternal life, if there is no a man
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  Speaker 1: life after this life, if all there is to it
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  Speaker 1: is what we are existing in the here and now,
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  Speaker 1: then what a shame, What a shame, What a shame,
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  Speaker 1: because we need just as we're going to hear the
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  Speaker 1: apostles say, just eat drink for tomorrow we die, eat
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  Speaker 1: drink and be marry. We perish, we go to nothingness,
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  Speaker 1: and our life is really meaningless. Because again, if there
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  Speaker 1: is no afterlife, if there is no accountability, if there
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  Speaker 1: is no judgment, if there is no equality or equity
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  Speaker 1: or righting of the wrongs. And this again, all of
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  Speaker 1: this is the hope that's bound up in the resurrection,
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  Speaker 1: that people who avoid or escape the justice that there
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  Speaker 1: is to do them. For example, in this life, you
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  Speaker 1: will not. But there is direction of the Dad. Then
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  Speaker 1: we can just do what we want to do. We
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  Speaker 1: can just live in complete anarchy. We can we can,
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  Speaker 1: we can, we can hope to escape. Maybe perhaps if
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  Speaker 1: we are of the criminal mindset, the judgment or the
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  Speaker 1: justice system of this world. But so what if we do,
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  Speaker 1: then wonderful, because if there is no resurrection of the dead,
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  Speaker 1: we will not have to answer ultimately for the things
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  Speaker 1: done in this body. But this is the very essence
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  Speaker 1: of the argument that the Apostle Paul is setting forth.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm going to First Corinthians fifteen. I'm gonna pick
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  Speaker 1: it up at verse twenty eight because I've just kind
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  Speaker 1: of given a little bit of a summation of what
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  Speaker 1: we've already been talking about. But this is the very
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  Speaker 1: essence of the argument, if you will, that the Apostle
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  Speaker 1: Paul is setting forth amen to the church. And it
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  Speaker 1: is so logical, and it is so irrefutable because you
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  Speaker 1: have to believe one of the other, and logic argues
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  Speaker 1: that if there is no resurrection of the dead, folks,
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  Speaker 1: please let's plea, let's just I mean, if you're going
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  Speaker 1: to be intellectually honest, if you're going to be a
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  Speaker 1: person of logic, a person of reason, if there is
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  Speaker 1: no life after and I'm not talking about reincarnation, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not talking about any other kind of religious belief. I'm saying,
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  Speaker 1: if there is no life, if there is no resurrection,
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  Speaker 1: if after you die, if after we die, that's it.
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  Speaker 1: Then life really ultimately has no meaning. Doesn't matter what
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  Speaker 1: I do. It doesn't matter what I achieve, It doesn't
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  Speaker 1: matter what I accomplish. It doesn't matter. If I'm good,
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  Speaker 1: that doesn't matter. If I'm bad, doesn't matter. If I'm rich,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter if I'm poor. Ultimately, in the end, yes,
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  Speaker 1: we could argue that, Okay, well, I lived a good life,
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  Speaker 1: and that was wonderful and great, and I enjoyed myself. Well.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus gave us a glimpse of that. With the rich
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  Speaker 1: man in Lazarus. Oh, he fared sumptuously every day. The
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  Speaker 1: poor beggar Lazarus barely had enough, if enough, to suffice
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  Speaker 1: him from day to day. He sat at the gate
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  Speaker 1: of the rich man, desiring the Bible says the crumbs
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  Speaker 1: that fell from the table. They both died, as all
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  Speaker 1: men will. But Jesus tells us that this rich man
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  Speaker 1: in hell, in torment, in the flames, he lifted up
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  Speaker 1: his eyes and he cried out for relief. Lazarus, on
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  Speaker 1: the other hand, was taken into Abraham's bosom. Now this
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  Speaker 1: does not mean Jesus is not teaching that all rich
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  Speaker 1: people are going to Hell and all poor people are
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  Speaker 1: going to heaven. Certainly not the case, Amen. But the
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  Speaker 1: bottom line is both of them will did taste etern
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  Speaker 1: no life on the other side of this life. So
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  Speaker 1: the logic is irrefutable. The argument is without opposition. You
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  Speaker 1: must believe one way or the other. There is nothingness
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  Speaker 1: if there is no resurrection. There's meaninglessness to life if
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  Speaker 1: there is no resurrection. But if there is the resurrection
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  Speaker 1: from the dead, then we all will be accountable for
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  Speaker 1: what we do in this life on this side of eternity. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So Paul writes to the church First Corinthians, chapter fifteen,
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  Speaker 1: verse twenty eight. Let's go there. If you have your bibles. Now,
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  Speaker 1: when all things are made subject to Him, then the
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  Speaker 1: son himself will also be subject to Him who put
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  Speaker 1: all things under him, that God may be all in all.
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  Speaker 1: Otherwise what would they do who are baptized for the
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  Speaker 1: dead If the dead do not rise at all? Why
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  Speaker 1: then are they baptized for the dead? And why do
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  Speaker 1: we stand in jeopardy every hour? I affirm by the
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  Speaker 1: boasting in you which I have in Christ Jesus, our Lord,
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  Speaker 1: I die daily. If verse thirty two, in the manner
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  Speaker 1: of men, I have fault with beasts at ephesis, What
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  Speaker 1: advantage is it to me if the dead do not rise,
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  Speaker 1: Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die. Do
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  Speaker 1: not be deceived, evil commune, evil company, corrupts good manners.
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  Speaker 1: Awake to righteousness and do not sin, for some do
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  Speaker 1: not have the knowledge of God. Paul says, I speak
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  Speaker 1: this to your shame. What a shame, What a shame,
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  Speaker 1: What a shame. Of course, in our previous couple of
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  Speaker 1: sessions we have reiterated the fact that a man there
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  Speaker 1: is an end that is coming. The end is coming.
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  Speaker 1: And then of course a man, after a man, we
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  Speaker 1: see the end of things. A man there is going
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  Speaker 1: to be the judgment, and a man all things will
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  Speaker 1: be restored a man as they were a man before
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  Speaker 1: a man, the fall of Adam, there's going to be restoration.
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  Speaker 1: God has promised this, and so all things at that
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  Speaker 1: time will be subject to God. And so this is
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  Speaker 1: a great hope. This is one of the great hopes.
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  Speaker 1: Let me just put it that way. This is only
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  Speaker 1: one of the great hopes of the resurrection a man
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  Speaker 1: in that all of the created order again that is
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  Speaker 1: now groaning and travailing. Romans Chapter eight speaks of this.
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  Speaker 1: The whole of creation is groaning and travailing in birth pains,
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  Speaker 1: waiting for the adoption, waiting for the redemption, Amen, waiting
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  Speaker 1: for the promise of God. We are now in that state,
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  Speaker 1: or in that position of anticipation where a man we
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  Speaker 1: long to be reunited in that fellowship, with that same
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  Speaker 1: kind of fellowship that Adam had originally with his creator
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  Speaker 1: before he a man fell into sin. And so it's
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  Speaker 1: going to be great, It's going to be glorious a man.
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  Speaker 1: It is going to be a time of eternal bliss,
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  Speaker 1: if you will, where sin and rebellion will exist no more.
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  Speaker 1: All of the opposition, all of the enemies of righteousness
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  Speaker 1: will be vanquished. They will be done away with Amen,
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  Speaker 1: they will be defeated. They all already are defeated, by
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  Speaker 1: the way. But the last enemy the Bible we always
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  Speaker 1: spoke about that prior session as well. The last enemy
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  Speaker 1: that's going to be destroyed is death. Therefore death is destroyed.
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  Speaker 1: That means everyone is alive. Everyone is gonna live, because
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  Speaker 1: there will be no more death. And if there is
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  Speaker 1: no more death, even those who are dead cannot live
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  Speaker 1: in death, because death is done away with. Amen. And
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  Speaker 1: if death is not going to be destroyed, if death
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  Speaker 1: is not going to be done away with, Amen, then
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  Speaker 1: those who are dead get to escape, Amen, the judgment
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  Speaker 1: of God. But death is going to be done away with,
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  Speaker 1: is going to be destroyed. A man, and so all enemies,
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  Speaker 1: all enemies, a man of the righteousness of God, the
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  Speaker 1: rule of God, the authority that he has, his rightful,
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  Speaker 1: sovereign rule a man over all of his creation. They
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  Speaker 1: will never again attempt to a usurp authority over him.
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  Speaker 1: He shall reign forever and ever. His kingdom is an
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  Speaker 1: everlasting kingdom. His death minion is an everlasting dominion. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Every need is going to bow, and every tongue is
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  Speaker 1: going to confess a man. The Bible promises that he
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  Speaker 1: is Lord. So when this time comes, this is what
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  Speaker 1: we're looking forward to, a man when all things will
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  Speaker 1: be subject to the God of creation. And then Paul
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  Speaker 1: speaks about those being baptized for the dead. Now, some
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  Speaker 1: have taken this verse to mean that there is something
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  Speaker 1: that the living can do those who are alive, something
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  Speaker 1: that they can do in baptism or by baptism to
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  Speaker 1: atone for those who have died, perhaps a friend or
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  Speaker 1: relative who did not receive baptism, who did not believe
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  Speaker 1: the gospel, who did not obey the gospel, a man
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  Speaker 1: while they were alive. This is not what the apostle
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  Speaker 1: Paul is teaching here. Now we can give you a
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  Speaker 1: more plausible conclusion a man and I believe that it
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  Speaker 1: was to two of them. I'll give you two more
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  Speaker 1: too plausible rationales for what the apostle here is saying.
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  Speaker 1: One of them. And it kind of makes sense in
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  Speaker 1: a way that people were being baptized after the death
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  Speaker 1: of someone who had, by example of their life, their witness,
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  Speaker 1: their testimony, and how they lived perhaps been an influence
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  Speaker 1: on them to now a man believe the Gospel and
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  Speaker 1: then come on to baptism. In essence, they were not
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  Speaker 1: being baptized for that person who is a believer in
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  Speaker 1: Now we certainly understand you cannot, first of all, or foremost,
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  Speaker 1: if you want to talk about baptism for the dead,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, how far back do we go? Really? I mean,
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  Speaker 1: can someone be baptized for a person that died a
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  Speaker 1: thousand years ago? Two thousand years ago, five thousand years ago.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, how far back can we go when we're
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  Speaker 1: talking about being baptized for the dead, and so do
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  Speaker 1: we just limit it to the immediate generation of people
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  Speaker 1: that you and I may live in or live amongst,
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  Speaker 1: that we know or associate with and on a personal level,
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  Speaker 1: why not? And we're talking about baptism for the dead,
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  Speaker 1: then why not go all the way back to go
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  Speaker 1: as far back as we can go, Amen, and be
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  Speaker 1: baptized for someone who is already dead. But clearly this
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  Speaker 1: is not what the apostle paulity is, and that is
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  Speaker 1: carily one of the I mean, by the way, he's
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  Speaker 1: not teaching it at all, he's I believe in our
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  Speaker 1: second more plausible explanation for this, I believe there's more
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  Speaker 1: plausible explanation for this is that there is a belief
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  Speaker 1: that in the Corinthian Church that they were practicing some
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  Speaker 1: people were practicing baptist having being baptized rather for a
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  Speaker 1: relative or friend. Again, on behalf of them who had
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  Speaker 1: died not being baptized. Amen. So again this is an
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  Speaker 1: allusion to perhaps a practice that was only in the
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  Speaker 1: Corinthian Church, perhaps in that culture. Again, in behalf of
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  Speaker 1: a friend or perhaps a relative who had not been
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  Speaker 1: baptized while they were aligning. In this instance, Paul is
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  Speaker 1: not again sanctioning this practice of baptism, but here he
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  Speaker 1: uses an ad homining argument against it. And so again,
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  Speaker 1: even if people again were being baptized for the dead
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  Speaker 1: in order to positively positively affect their salvation if the
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  Speaker 1: dead do not rise again, this is Paul's argument here. Now,
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  Speaker 1: so on the one hand, you got people being baptized
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  Speaker 1: for the dead, but then you don't believe that there
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  Speaker 1: is a resurrection of there. So what he's arguing is,
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  Speaker 1: why then are you being baptized for people that are
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  Speaker 1: dead if the dead do not rise? Read the verse again.
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  Speaker 1: That's what it is, exactly what he is saying. Let
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  Speaker 1: me read it for you again. Otherwise, verse twenty nine,
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  Speaker 1: what will they do who are baptized for the dead
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  Speaker 1: if the dead do not rise at all? Why then
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  Speaker 1: are they baptized for the dead. So again, I believe
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  Speaker 1: that Paul is using this as an argument against baptizing
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  Speaker 1: people for the dead. Certainly, of course, if you don't
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  Speaker 1: even believe in the baptism of the dead, I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 1: The resurrection of the dead. So, in other words, he's
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  Speaker 1: not affirming, he's not putting into a man doctrine because
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  Speaker 1: everything that the Bible already teaches. That's why I believe
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  Speaker 1: it's not even what's even necessary for him to make
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  Speaker 1: the argument for baptism of people that are dead, because
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  Speaker 1: the Bible says, after death the judgment. Amen. So you
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  Speaker 1: and I are accountable to God. It is appointed that
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  Speaker 1: the man wants to die. Amen. And so you have
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  Speaker 1: to I have to. All men have to repent, have
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  Speaker 1: to come to the knowledge of the truth while they
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  Speaker 1: are living on this side of eternity. Amen. So Paul
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  Speaker 1: then goes on to say, because again he's again teaching,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, he's arguing his his his his point, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: from the perspective that there is no resurrection of that.
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  Speaker 1: And if there is no resurrection of that, then why
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  Speaker 1: would anything at all matter at all? Again, That's what
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  Speaker 1: I've already reiterated, a man, nothing really matters if there
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  Speaker 1: is no resurrection that and Paul Paul goes on to say,
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  Speaker 1: then why are we in jeopardy? Why do I stand
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  Speaker 1: in jeopardy? Why am I putting myself in danger in
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  Speaker 1: harm's way? For the preaching of the Gospel. Amen, I'm
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  Speaker 1: fighting with beasts at ephesis. Now whether that whether or
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  Speaker 1: not that was a man true animals attack or or if
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  Speaker 1: you look back into the Book of the Acts when
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  Speaker 1: they had the uproar at ephesis where Paul was in
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  Speaker 1: grave danger. Amen, whether or not it is that or both. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Paul was in jeopardy for preaching the gospel. His life
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  Speaker 1: was on the line daily. Amen. But he said, listen,
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  Speaker 1: I tie daily. In other words, I'm already dead. And
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  Speaker 1: he said, also, I'm not afraid to die. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: afraid to a man give my life for the cause
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus Christ. So he says, But if there's no
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  Speaker 1: resurrection of the dead, then why am I doing this?
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  Speaker 1: Why am I putting myself in danger? Why am I
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  Speaker 1: putting myself in jeopardy for what? Amen, There's no logical
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  Speaker 1: reason for me to do this. If they're just gonna
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  Speaker 1: kill me for me, I'm being killed, I'm being persecuted.
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  Speaker 1: I'm putting myself in danger for nothing, for no reason
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  Speaker 1: at all. If there is no resurrection of the dead.
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  Speaker 1: And then Paul goes on to say, then what is
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  Speaker 1: the advantage to me? It doesn't profit me at all.
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  Speaker 1: I again can go ahead and eat and drink and
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  Speaker 1: be merry and live my life and enjoy my life
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  Speaker 1: under the sun here, because if there is no resurrection
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  Speaker 1: of the dead, what am I doing? Why am I
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  Speaker 1: again subjecting myself to all of this? Amen? Again, do
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  Speaker 1: not be deceived. Listen what the apostle goes on to say,
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  Speaker 1: do not be deceived. Do not be deceived. And let
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  Speaker 1: me read that verse for you, Amen, verse thirty three,
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  Speaker 1: do not be deceived. Evil company corrupts good habits, and
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  Speaker 1: the King James I believe it says evil communications corrupts
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  Speaker 1: good manners. Man. Do we need good manners nowadays? Oh
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  Speaker 1: my god, we need good manners, we need good habits.
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  Speaker 1: But evil communication, evil company a man corrupts goodness. And
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  Speaker 1: so we are not to be deceived by this fool again,
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  Speaker 1: because you have to. This is the lifestyle. This is
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  Speaker 1: the This is why Heathens live the way that they do. Hey, man,
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  Speaker 1: this is why godless people live the way that they do,
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  Speaker 1: because they don't believe. They don't believe in the resurrection.
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  Speaker 1: Some people may give lip service to Christianity, but they
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  Speaker 1: don't believe in the resurrection. I'm talking about Listen, I'm
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  Speaker 1: not talking about these other false religion. I'm not talking
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  Speaker 1: about reincarnation. I'm not talking about some other kind of
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  Speaker 1: again pie in the sky kind of something. I'm talking
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  Speaker 1: about the biblical doctrines. Amen, in the Christian faith. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: that there is a resurrection and there is accountability. There's
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  Speaker 1: the judge of the quicken, the dead, Jesus to Christ
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  Speaker 1: and all were given account to him. Amen. That's what
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  Speaker 1: we're talking about here. And so but if that does
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  Speaker 1: not exist, if that is not there, Amen, you have people,
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  Speaker 1: and this is what we see in our world today.
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  Speaker 1: You have people who live their lives as if it
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  Speaker 1: is not true. That's how they live. There is no resurrection,
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  Speaker 1: there is no a judgment, there is no accountability. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not gonna live. I have one life to live. You
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  Speaker 1: only live once. That's their motto. Amen. But Paul says, no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: Do not be deceived by this foolishness of nothingness and meaninglessness.
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  Speaker 1: Don't be don't be fooled by this, don't see by this,
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  Speaker 1: because if you allow this evil, this wickedness, this false doctrine,
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  Speaker 1: doctrine or false teaching and false prophets, a man to
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  Speaker 1: a man infiltrate your mind, a man, you're going to
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  Speaker 1: be corrupted from your good habits, your good living, your
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  Speaker 1: good manners. Amen. So we're not to be deceived a
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  Speaker 1: man by the evil that is all around us. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And so we need to understand that evil company only
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  Speaker 1: seeks a man to influence more evil. Amen, more sin,
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  Speaker 1: more rebellion against God. Amen, and his righteousness. So Paul
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  Speaker 1: says to the church, to all of us awake to
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  Speaker 1: righteousness and sin not. Do not sin. Sin is to
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  Speaker 1: no longer reign in our mortal bodies. Amen. We have
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  Speaker 1: been buried with Christ in baptism. That's what the Bible
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  Speaker 1: teaches a man. We were buried with him in baptism,
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  Speaker 1: and we rise to walk in the newness of life. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: The old man is crucified, the old man is put
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  Speaker 1: to death. We are to mortify the deeds of this body.
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  Speaker 1: God is calling for holiness, for sanctification, Amen, for righteousness. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: He's shown us what is good. Amen. And this is
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  Speaker 1: the whole duty of man, because all will give an
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  Speaker 1: account to God. Jesus said it John chapter five. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: that our is coming, when all who are in the
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  Speaker 1: grades are going to hear the voice of the Son
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  Speaker 1: of God, and live amen. So Paul says, awake to righteousness,
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  Speaker 1: and do not sin, do not practice sin, do not
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  Speaker 1: get caught up in sin. And if we sin, Amen.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible says, we have an advocate with the Father
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus Christ, the Righteous. He is faithful, he is
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  Speaker 1: just to forgive us of our sins and to cleanse
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  Speaker 1: us from all on righteousness. So if and when we sin,
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  Speaker 1: as the people of God, we are to come boldly
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  Speaker 1: to the throne of grace. The Bible teaches that we
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  Speaker 1: may obtain mercy, find grace to help in this time
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  Speaker 1: of need. But the Apostle goes on to say that
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  Speaker 1: some do not have this knowledge. Now we are not
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  Speaker 1: even talking about people in the church, out of the church.
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  Speaker 1: In a sense, heymen, it is to our shame, especially
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  Speaker 1: if they're you're talking about people in the church and
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  Speaker 1: that's what they had. There were people in the church
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  Speaker 1: who believed that there was no resurrection of that and
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  Speaker 1: that is a shame. That is a shame, and what
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  Speaker 1: a shame, What a shame that we have. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: we have churches everywhere, We have religion, We have no
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  Speaker 1: shortage of religion. We have no shortage of churches, and
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  Speaker 1: I mean and I mean churches that purport to be Christian,
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  Speaker 1: to to to be under the banner of Christianity. And
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  Speaker 1: yet there are people, by the multitudes, who are being
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  Speaker 1: blindly led down the path of ungodliness and unrighteousness, sitting
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  Speaker 1: right there in these churches. Why because they are not
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  Speaker 1: being taught the apostolic doctrine, the biblical doctrines I mean
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  Speaker 1: basic fundamental things such as the atonement by the blood
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus Christ, his death has buried his resurrection from
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  Speaker 1: the dead, which is I mean indispensable. It is absolutely
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  Speaker 1: indispensable from the gospel message. You cannot even have the Gospel,
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  Speaker 1: we can't even have the church again. Apostle Paul makes
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  Speaker 1: the argument that we are still in our sins if
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  Speaker 1: Christ is not reason from there. So what are you doing?
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  Speaker 1: What are you even having? What are you gathering together for?
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  Speaker 1: What are you worryorship me? Who are you worshiping a
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  Speaker 1: dead martyr? We might as well worship Peter, which, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, some people do. We may as well worship
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  Speaker 1: Barnabas Saw I mean David Abraham. What does it matter
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  Speaker 1: if it's just a dead martyr? If Jesus did not
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  Speaker 1: rise from the ten This is foundation and fundamental to
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  Speaker 1: the Gospel itself. Amen, we have the shame of it.
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  Speaker 1: People sitting in churches that do not believe that, do
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  Speaker 1: not walk in the fear of God. They don't live
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  Speaker 1: their lives as if Jesus Christ is coming back, as
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  Speaker 1: if they could die today and on the other side
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  Speaker 1: wake up in eternity. They don't believe it. What a shame,
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  Speaker 1: What a shame it is for our world and our
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  Speaker 1: civilization today, especially in our modern day where we have
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  Speaker 1: the advances of all kinds of technology. What a shame
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  Speaker 1: if we do not take advantage, if we do not
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  Speaker 1: use what God has given to us made available to us. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: For people to be walking around blissfully ignorant. Now I
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  Speaker 1: know there are people who can and will and do
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  Speaker 1: willfully ignore. That's on them. The Bible says, the heavens
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  Speaker 1: declared the glory regard the earth shows you no one
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  Speaker 1: is going to have an excuse. By the way, So
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  Speaker 1: whether or not the church does what it does, that's
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  Speaker 1: judgment upon us. But no one is going to be
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  Speaker 1: excused because they didn't know. Make the claim that they
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  Speaker 1: didn't know that there was a God. Amen, when the
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  Speaker 1: heavens declare Amen. And by the way, man I could
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  Speaker 1: go to back the Roman chapter waning again. When they
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  Speaker 1: knew God, they glorified him, not as God. It's not
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  Speaker 1: as though we don't have the knowledge of God. Amen
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  Speaker 1: in our hearts. Amen, His Lord's written within our hearts.
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  Speaker 1: And we know we have that sense of altnance that's
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  Speaker 1: already built in into our DNA as well as you
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  Speaker 1: know the u and against the fallen nature of sin
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  Speaker 1: that's there. So we know, we know, we know, we
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  Speaker 1: know what we ought to do, we know what we
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  Speaker 1: must do, we know what we should do. Amen. But again,
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  Speaker 1: it is to our shame if we fail to go
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  Speaker 1: into all the world to preach the Gospel of Jesus
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  Speaker 1: Christ as he has commissioned, as he has commanded the
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  Speaker 1: church to do. That's our primary mission that has been
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  Speaker 1: given to us. And sometimes we get you know, distracted,
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  Speaker 1: distracted and detracted a man away from the main mission
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  Speaker 1: of the church. Our main mission is not to Amen,
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  Speaker 1: solve the problems of this world. Let me just generalize
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  Speaker 1: it that way. We're not here to solve the problems
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  Speaker 1: of this world. We're not here to make the world
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  Speaker 1: a better place. No, we're here, amen, to preach the
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  Speaker 1: gospel of God does all of that. God does that
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  Speaker 1: by his spirit. And by the way, if my people
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  Speaker 1: that are called by my name, if they would just
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  Speaker 1: simply homo themselves in pray, turn it that we ways
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  Speaker 1: and seek my face. He said, I'll hear from heaven
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  Speaker 1: our forgive says, and I'll heal the land. God would
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  Speaker 1: do the healing. God would do the converting. God would
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  Speaker 1: do the changing. God would do the conviction in the
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  Speaker 1: hearts of man. If we do what we're supposed to
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  Speaker 1: do as the church. And what a shame it is
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  Speaker 1: when we don't proclaim the gospel of Jesus Christ and
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  Speaker 1: let people know, Amen, that this is the only way
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  Speaker 1: for them to be saved. What a shame we don't
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  Speaker 1: preach that Jesus rose triumphantly from the dead, got the
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  Speaker 1: victory over death, hell and the grave, and that they
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  Speaker 1: can have hope, the only hope by the way, and
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  Speaker 1: for death over death, over the grave. And if we
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  Speaker 1: don't preach that he is alive and that he is
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  Speaker 1: the judge of the quick and dead, what a shame.
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  Speaker 1: It's a shame on our part if we don't preach
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  Speaker 1: the fear of God. If we don't preach the love
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  Speaker 1: of God, if we don't preach the mercies of God,
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  Speaker 1: the compassion of God, God's forgiveness. Amen, if we don't
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  Speaker 1: preach it the power of God to quicken the dead,
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  Speaker 1: to raise the dead, to speak life to those that
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  Speaker 1: are in the grave, to speak life to dead bones.
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  Speaker 1: Son of Man, he says, ezekiell, prophesy to these dead bones. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: God is able to do exceeding abundantly and above all
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  Speaker 1: that we can ask a thing. Amen, those that are
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  Speaker 1: in the grave, the graveyard of sin, they need not
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  Speaker 1: die in their sins, even though they are dead in
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  Speaker 1: their trespastors than sin, they need not perish. For God
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  Speaker 1: Jesus said these words, so loved. The word that he
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  Speaker 1: gave is only behind, and some day whosoever believed in
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  Speaker 1: him should not perish, but have everlasting life. What a shame, indeed,
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  Speaker 1: But may it not be that we should be ashamed
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  Speaker 1: at his coming because we have failed a man to
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  Speaker 1: do what God has commanded us to do. Father, help
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  Speaker 1: us today to walk worthy of the calling, to fulfill
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  Speaker 1: the ministries that you have given to each of us.
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  Speaker 1: A man the calling to preach the gospel, to be witnesses,
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  Speaker 1: to be ambassadors, to make disciples of all nations. Help
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  Speaker 1: us to stand in such an evil time, in such
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  Speaker 1: an evil day, in these last of the last days,
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  Speaker 1: to be again that sought and light, that city set
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  Speaker 1: on the hill that cannot be hidden, that men may
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  Speaker 1: see our good works and glorify you, the God of creation,
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  Speaker 1: the God of glory. We give you praise in honor
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  Speaker 1: today Jesus name, Amen and amenh yah h m hm