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Living Waters of Grace for May 7th, 2026 · Living Waters of Grace / Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland Sunday Services

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This is Living Waters of Grace, the teaching ministry of Clark
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Wofford, senior pastor of Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland,
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County of Greensburg, PA. Now here's Pastor Clark as he
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continues teaching through God's Word.
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Have you ever been drunk? I hope you haven't, but if you
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have, you know what that's like. You don't think about anything
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or anybody but your sordid self, your own foolishness, your own
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pride, and all you can do to take advantage of everyone else.
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That's what a drunk does. It's all about them.
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This is what the system of the Antichrist will be like.
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It'll revel in the destruction of the godly, just like a drunk
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rebels in their wine. We are all aware that getting
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drunk impairs our cognitive ability.
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That's why there are laws preventing people from drinking
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and driving or operating heavy machinery.
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Oh, some people think it's all fun and games until the morning
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after, but really, it's no joke. In Pastor Clark's message today,
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he points out the biblical comparison between drunkenness
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and the celebration of evil. It might seem like a good time
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when the godly are being destroyed, but in the end, the
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wicked will face their ultimate destruction.
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Now here's Pastor Clark in Revelation Chapter 17 with
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today's edition of Living Waters of Grace.
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False religion is a deception of the Antichrist, and we see that
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happening today everywhere. It's amazing what people are
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saying. You know there's all roads lead
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to heaven. This is the common thing that
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you hear. It doesn't matter what you
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believe as long as you believe something.
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Anybody that doesn't know the truth will tell you that they
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just want to water it down. Second Timothy chapter 4 verse
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three and four says for the time will come when they will not
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endorse sound doctrine. Well, the time has come.
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People will not endorse sound doctrine but according to their
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own desires because they have itching ears.
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Tell me, basically, tell me what I want to hear, not what I need
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to hear. They will heap up for themselves
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teachers and will turn their ears away from the truth and be
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turned aside. The fables like Diwali, like
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Babylonian New Age heresies. If you turn to 2nd Thessalonians
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chapter 2, verse 9 through 12, this also speaks of the coming
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of the Lawless 1, the Antichrist.
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The coming in verse nine of the Lawless 1 is, according to the
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working of Satan, with all power signs and lying wonders and with
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all unrighteousness deception among those who perish because
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they did not receive the love of the truth that they might be
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saved. So people who are blowing off
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the truth and ignoring it and walking away from it and want to
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be part of the world system, they don't have any love for the
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truth that they might be saved. And so it says in verse 11.
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And for this reason God will send them a strong delusion that
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they should believe the lie, that they all may be condemned
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who did not believe the truth but had pleasure in
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unrighteousness. Verse one and two, it talks
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about this scarlet woman who makes the inhabitants of the
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earth are made drunk with the wine of her fornication.
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How she does this, she gets people to compromise.
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The world system gets people to compromise with spiritual
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idolatry. You know, a Christian has no
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business sitting in Zen prayer circles.
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A Christian has no business in being involved in yoga.
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A Christian has no business being involved in any of the
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eastern religions because they are all Pagan.
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But today it's amazing. Churches will have yoga classes
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in the basement of their church and you can go online.
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Churches in Greensburg yoga and Christianity see how they mix.
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They don't mix. 1 is light and truth.
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The other one is darkness and destruction.
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People don't realize when they do yoga.
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They think it's interesting, you know, just do stretching
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exercises. Nothing wrong with stretching
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exercises. But if you do stretching
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exercise under a yoga teacher, you don't realize, and many of
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them don't realize it, but the positions you're sitting in are
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setting you up to be in line with the energies of the Pagan
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demons. And you allow yourself as a
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Christian not to be possessed, but to begin to be oppressed by
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forces of darkness that will affect you and even your own
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family. You shouldn't have anything in
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your house that has anything to do with paganism.
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You should burn it and get rid of it.
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I have a bunch of books that have to do with that subject
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that I've needed to study and become aware of.
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And, you know, to some extent I understand.
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So I'm just not talking from my hip, so to speak.
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But I, I know people who are in these places.
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I've had long, lengthy discussions with them why they
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believe what they believe. And those books aren't in my
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house. They're in the garage underneath
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a plastic tub. So that stuff won't get out of
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them into the rest of the house, so to speak.
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You know, and the reason I have them there sometime I have to
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refer to them. You know, you meet a Hindu, you
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know, you want to love them. You want to help them understand
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why their beliefs are false in any way.
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You can unfortunately do that at times is know a little bit about
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why they believe what they believe.
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But anyway, first John chapter 4 verse 3 says, and every spirit
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that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh,
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meaning that there is a literal incarnation of God being
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manifest in Christ, God in Christ, God the Father, God the
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Son, God the Holy Spirit, God in Christ coming to this world as
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both man and God. Any spirit that does not confess
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that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God.
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And this is the spirit of the Antichrist, which you have heard
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was coming and is now already in the world.
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In verse 3 through 6, this is what John sees.
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He carried me away in the spirit into the wilderness, and I saw a
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woman sitting on a scarlet beast which was full of names of
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blasphemy, having 7 hens heads and 10 horns.
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The woman was arrayed in purple and scarlet and adored with gold
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and precious stones and pearls, having in her hand a golden cup
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full of abominations and the filthiness of her fornication.
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And on her forehead a name was written, Mystery Babylon the
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Great, the mother of harlots and of the abominations of the
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earth. I saw the woman drunk with blood
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of the Saints and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus.
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And when I saw her, I marvelled with great amazement.
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That's all the Father. We're going to go through 6
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today, but I'll finish up with the notes, this book and this
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chapter. I'll tell you, I, I fear even
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teaching on this stuff. I, I wish I could go back to the
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Beatitudes. They're a lot easier to teach
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on. They seem more practical.
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They seem to me much more easy to understand.
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This stuff in Revelation at times is wild, isn't it?
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It's like, other than this world.
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I mean, it really makes it clear that Jesus said his Kingdom
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isn't of this world. When you read Revelation, you
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realize his Kingdom is not like anything any of us have ever
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seen or experienced in this present world.
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But anyway, John is carried away in the Spirit into the
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wilderness, and it shows us that the wilderness is always seen as
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a place of desolation, a place where you see a vision of
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judgement. And this is what God's taking
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him to. He sees this harlot sitting on a
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scarlet beast. She's riding the same beast that
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we see written about in Revelation 13, one, and this
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refers to the Antichrist and his dictatorship.
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Her position is riding and supported by political powers of
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the beast. She has a dominant role and is
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outwardly controlling and directing the beast.
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So we see as the Antichrist is being brought into power, when
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he eventually becomes a real human being and he's walking
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around the earth and he's beginning to speak what's going
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to carry him and his authority. Even though he's the mindset, so
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to speak, of the authority that is experiencing all this horror
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on the earth and this leadership style, the world system is
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already going to be in place for him to walk in and be accepted
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by the world as a new international leader of the
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masses and the populace. It's amazing how Europe is
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trying to push together one world government. the United
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Nations and the Common Market, European nations, they're all
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working together and unfortunately, the United States
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is right in the mix there. How can we have one world
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currency, right? We're talking about that now any
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of you are involved in banking, realize that's not this a good
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idea that's going to happen one day because it's the only way
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that the financial markets can eventually become stable by
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having a common currency that's the same in every country and
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every culture. It makes good financial business
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sense, but there's a dastardly picture and and vision behind
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the reason for this, and it's certainly not to make you
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wealthy. It's designed to control and one
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day force you to receive the mark of the beast in order for
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you to buy and sell anyway. God sees this blasphemy very
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clearly, but to the people on the earth at this time, she'll
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look. This world system will look
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great. I mean, I, I have people I know
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that are very excited about a one world government.
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They're very bright, they're very smart and they think, man,
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you know, this is the way to go. We're going to stabilize the
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financial markets. There'll be no more poverty,
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there'll be equality around the earth world.
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There'll be no more starvation and suffering.
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We'll be able to heal all the diseases of the world because
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all our medical resources and technology and minds will be
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brought together to work for the common good of the the nation,
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the nation, the nation under Antichrist, the people on the
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earth. They're going to look at this
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religious system. It's going to look real
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spiritual on the outside. It's going to promote a kind of
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faith that everybody's going to want.
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You know what kind of faith it is?
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It's a faith of prosperity, health, wealth, and yourself as
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being God that's being preached right now on the networks of
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major televisions. Joel Osteen is the one of the
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greatest teachers of the modern prosperity and health movement
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is check his doctrine out, check what he teaches, check what he
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believes. It'll appall you.
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He says I'm not a preacher. He says I'm a motivational
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speaker. So people like hearing what he
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says because he's affirming them that they have a right to be
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prosperous, they have a right to be healthy and that they
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basically are the center of the universe.
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People like that. Do you believe it?
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That is the largest church in America today, the largest
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church in America, 40,000 people attend that church on a weekend
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and on the Airways even more millions around the world
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because it says in the last days people will what be looking for
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teachers that will tickle their ears.
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And that's what's happening. And some of you might be
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involved in listening to that. I warn you as a pastor, run as
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far from that stuff as you can. Run as far as you can from the
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Benny Hinn teachings and the Word of Faith, prosperity
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teachers such as Kenneth Copeland and all those on the
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Airways that are pushing this spirituality that is completely
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not found in the Scriptures. It says that these system at the
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time and the the picture of what's occurring at the time.
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The woman is arrayed in purple and scarlet and adored with gold
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and precious stones. This is the emblems of luxury
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Mercedes-Benz and Lexuses and the the high life, you know,
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400, five, $100,000 homes and precious stones, gold and silver
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and jewels and and luxurious diamonds and, and, and that that
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time and the government in Rome, the color of purple, the dye
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that was used to make the garments, the colors that are
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being described here was very, very expensive.
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And so we see then in the last days, the rulers of this one
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world government, one world system, this movement of a
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so-called Christian spirituality will be flaunting their luxury.
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Do you see it all these Word of Faith preachers on the
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television. Jesus came.
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He had no place to lay his head. He came to his own, his own
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received him not He wasn't born in the Ritz Carlton.
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He was born in a through of a horse stable.
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The apostles own nothing. They died with nothing.
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They died martyr's death. But today, some of the leaders
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in the so-called Church of America are flaunting their
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wealth on the backside of ripping you off.
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Their money that they receive isn't going to what they tell
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you. It goes to, It goes to their
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five and six and eight mansions around the world.
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It goes to their Mercedes Benzes and their fancy cars.
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And I can't understand. But the people are blind and
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they keep thinking these people are wonderful and they keep
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writing the checks in or. Meanwhile, the modern missions
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around the world have less than 2 1/2% to reach the World with
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the gospel. They don't have the money to get
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the gospel out to the ends of the the earth because the
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Christians are being deceived thinking they need to send their
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money to TBN and Benny Hinn and Joel Osteen and a bunch of other
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heretics on television. It's tragic.
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She offers the world system, offers idolatry, abominations
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and impurity, filthiness for fornication in this prosperous
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situation and people are going to be drawn to it.
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The purple and scarlet is the colors of splendor and
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magnificent, and if you read down to the course of church
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history, one of the deadliest marks of church corruption is
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the lust for power. Purple and scarlet are the
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colors of rulers. If you go into some of these old
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line historical churches, I don't know why they have to have
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all the robes and the fancy headdresses and the expensive
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vestments. That doesn't make sense to me.
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They walk around like they're in control of everything and people
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are to bow down and kiss their ring and and then they're told
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to not have one offering, but we have two or three or four
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offerings and a service. You know, we believe we're God,
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Gods. He provides.
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We don't need to get into your pockets and tell you we need
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money. God will work in your heart.
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As Steve said, as you pray, what is it that the Lord has put on
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your heart? The purpose in your heart to set
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apart for his Kingdom. We're not using your money here
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to ride in Mercedes-Benz or live in $400,000 mansions.
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Your money and you can check for with Anna Morris.
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She'll be more than happy to open the books to you.
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For the most part is intended to take care of the livelihood of
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what's happening here in this ministry, but more importantly,
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to take care of people who need help with missions around the
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world. I got a call recently, an e-mail
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from someone who said there's some missionaries in the
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Philippines that need some help. They're very, very poor.
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This person worked with them at one time and she she knows them,
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knows their hearts, and they needed $350.00 a piece to be
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able to go complete their mission.
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Now, $350.00 might not seem like a lot to us, but to them it was
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almost like $3500. Well, because of your
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faithfulness and giving, we didn't have to take a special
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offering today. We pulled it out of the budget
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and earmarked that money to go to those missionaries in the
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Philippines. And those people were ecstatic.
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This overwhelmed that their simple need was being met by a
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group of people in a church in America that they know nothing
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about. That's God's heart, isn't it?
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God's interested in the people in the hearts of the lost and
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the impoverished and the broken down.
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And I'll tell you, you're not hearing that from Joel Osteen on
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a Sunday morning. Lord have mercy on his soul.
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On her forehead was a name written in spite of her glory,
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in spite of the world's systems glory and power.
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This system is nothing but a sellout to the truth of Jesus
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Christ. In essence, we can call it
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spiritual prostitution, trying to have a form of godliness, but
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deny the power thereof. The mystery of Babylon the
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Great, the spiritual mystery, the mother of idolatry,
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spiritual adultery. The harlot is the embodiment of
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Satan's ecumenical movement, as I said, the movement toward the
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One World Church. Today, again, people are telling
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you it doesn't matter what you believe.
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Have the boldness and the courage to tell them it does
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matter what you believe. Jesus is the Christ, the Son of
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the living God. There is no salvation apart from
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Christ. For Jesus said I am the way, I
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am the truth, I am the life. No man comes to the Father, but
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through me. It says this leader, this world
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system is drunk with the blood of the Saints and with the blood
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of the martyrs of Jesus. If we're not speaking up today
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to the best of our ability against false religion, false
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ideologies, false churches, speaking the truth and love,
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we're only going to perpetuate the influence of this ungodly
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movement of the One world Church in these last days.
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And your silent voice and mind will only cause more having for
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those who one day will be persecuted on this earth after
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we're long gone. At the rapture, it says this
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system will reveal the destruction of the godly as a
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drunk revels in the wine. Have you ever been drunk?
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And I hope you haven't, but if you have, you know what that's
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like. You don't think about anything
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or anybody but your sordid self, your own foolishness, your own
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pride, and all you can do to take advantage of everyone else.
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That's what a drunk does. It's all about them.
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This is what the system of the Antichrist will be like.
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It'll revel in the destruction of the godly, just like a drunk
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revels in their wine. John says he marvels in great
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amazement. He marvels in great amazement at
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the end of verse 6. Why would he marvel?
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It'd be like you and me. Now, I don't know if you marvel
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or not, but I don't watch television, so I don't even know
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what these people are saying half the time anymore.
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But there used to be a time I put it on and my wife would yell
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at me. Turn that off.
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That man. Can't you see the devil in his
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eyes? Why would you listen to that?
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I sort of was humored by watching some of these people at
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times. But it's far from humor.
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It's it's heartbreaking, the persecution of the truth under
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the guise of religion. The counterfeit religion is
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being received and believed on. As we speak today to the
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persecution of the faithful, you realize the more the salt loses
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its Savior, the more we allow 11 to enter into the community of
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the elect and the true followers of God, the worse it's going to
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be for those who are without Christ in the days to come.
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Some of the worst persecutions in human history, in church
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history, have come from the people that call themselves
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religious or spiritual, that they've been corrupted.
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What happened during the Crusades and what happened
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during other times where churches felt it was their duty
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to persecute and destroy and martyr people again.
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Lord, have mercy on the church. Next week we're going to look at
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John's interpretation of the great harlot.
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The subtitle in the next session in my Bible says the meaning of
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the woman and the beast. And I'm glad the apostle doesn't
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leave it up to us to figure out what all this stuff means.
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He gives us good direction, good insight, good explanation and
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declaration as to what's going to be happening as we continue
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through the study of the Book of Revelation.
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Now you can have one or two thoughts here today.
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Zion, the sermon, you can say to yourself, I know the Lord, I'm
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glad I know Him. I'm glad I'm walking in the
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truth and I continually want to walk in the truth.
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Or you can be here today and say I never heard anything so
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outlandish and crazy in my life. That guy must have been drinking
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wine before he came to church. No, this is all in the Bible.
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If you had your Bible open today, you would have seen this
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very, very clearly. But if you are here today and
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this is all new to you, the simplified is that Jesus came to
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this world to die for the sins of the Sinner.
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And if you today understand that you're a Sinner and that's all
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of us and you've never ever asked Christ to be your Lord and
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Savior. If you've never turned from your
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sin and you just don't pray a prayer, easy believe ISM.
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I believe I'm in you got to repent.
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You got to say, Lord, my life is wrong.
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I'm living in real sin and I know it and I can't keep living
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this way. I need to turn from my sin and I
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need to turn to you. And when you turn for sin, that
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means forsaking it. That's not like for a little
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while and then going back again. No, it's saying I'm done with
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that. Life doesn't mean you're going
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to be perfect. You're still going to stumble.
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You're still going to struggle. You're still going to fall, but
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you're not going to stay down. You're going to get up and keep
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heading toward the Lord. There's a devil in the world,
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and your own fallen nature keeps trying to pull you back this
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way. You know, now you can't go that
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way anymore. You want to follow Jesus, and
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that's salvation, following Christ as Lord and Savior.
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And today you can just say to the Lord, Lord, I'm here not by
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circumstance or coincidence. I believe I'm here because you
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brought me here today and I know all this stuff's going to one
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day come on the world. I don't want to be left behind
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with all this stuff. I want to go where you are and
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where the Christians are. Lord, I want you to forgive me
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of my sins and come into my life and save me and forgive me, and
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I'll follow you all the days of my life.
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If you can pray that kind of prayer from your heart, God will
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be merciful to you. But if you don't understand why
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you need to be saved, you're not going to want to be saved.
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Anyone who can show you you need to be saved is the Holy Spirit.
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He's the one that convicts you of sin, not me, only the
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spirits. I pray that the Holy Spirit
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today is working here to convict not only the ungodly of their
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sin, but the Christian of their sins.
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That as we study this book, it should cause us to move toward
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personal holiness. Amen.
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That's what it should cause all of us to do.
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This has been Living Waters of Grace with Pastor Clark.
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We're going through the challenging and also intriguing
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Book of Revelation. Whether you're a fan of reading
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ahead in books of fiction, there's such a benefit to
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reading ahead in the Bible to read about how it all ends.
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But in an interesting turn of events, the Book of Revelation
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is not really the end, but rather the beginning.
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It's the end of life as we know it here on earth, but there's so
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much to look forward to for what comes after all the judgement of
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the earth and those who reject God.
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There's a lot to work through, and it can be heartbreaking to
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read through the intense judgements and wrath that will
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come on those who hate God with all their might.
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The thing is, God has given chance upon chance to these
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people. They don't want it.
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So the outcome is that there are judgements and consequences for
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those who've rejected the good news and the gift of salvation
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that's offered through Jesus's death and resurrection.
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Are you one who has heard about these things but doesn't really
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want it because you want to live life on your terms?
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Trust me, living for Jesus is so much better.
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That doesn't mean it will be easy, but as you listen and read
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through Revelation with us, you'll come to a stark
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realization that you don't want to be on earth when the
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apocalypse happens. So check out Calvary Chapel
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online.com to learn how to come to a saving grace through faith
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that will allow you to be with Jesus for eternity.
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We'd also love to meet you in person at Calvary Chapel
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Westmoreland. Come join us at 400 E Pittsburgh
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St. Ste. 6B in Greensburg, PA 15601.
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This has been living waters of grace.