Latest / End-Time Revival Ministries, USA / Episode 175 - The Dishonoring Of Jesus
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- 0:13Speaker 1: Break you are.
- 0:14Speaker 2: Lord. You are greatly to be praised, from the rising
- 0:17Speaker 2: of the sun to the going down of the same.
- 0:20Speaker 2: Your name, lone is excellent, You alone of God, and
- 0:25Speaker 2: there is none beside thee.
- 0:27Speaker 1: Lord.
- 0:27Speaker 2: We thank you for this day that you have allowed
- 0:29Speaker 2: us to see, to breathe the breath of life, to
- 0:33Speaker 2: be called to be a vessel used by you.
- 0:36Speaker 1: For your glory and honor.
- 0:38Speaker 2: Lord, we pray today that your word will have free course,
- 0:42Speaker 2: that it will reign and rule in the hearts of men.
- 0:45Speaker 1: We pray for blinded.
- 0:46Speaker 2: Eyes to be opened in death, ears to be unstopped,
- 0:49Speaker 2: and that your name be magnified throughout all the earth. God,
- 0:54Speaker 2: we thank you for all of your blessings. Thank you
- 0:57Speaker 2: for the blood of Jesus that was poured out for
- 0:59Speaker 2: our sin, and that we might be redeemed from all iniquity.
- 1:03Speaker 1: Thank you for calling us out of the darkness and.
- 1:05Speaker 2: Saving us from a life of sin, a death and
- 1:14Speaker 2: eternity of the lake of fire. We are your people now,
- 1:20Speaker 2: We are your sheep of your pasture. We are sons
- 1:23Speaker 2: of God. We are called to be more like you
- 1:25Speaker 2: every day. So help us to running this race with patients,
- 1:29Speaker 2: with our eyes focus on you as the auten finisher
- 1:32Speaker 2: of our faith, being magnified, be glorified in Jesus' name,
- 1:36Speaker 2: we pray a man and Amen. All right, we welcome
- 1:39Speaker 2: you once again to this another edition of End Time
- 1:44Speaker 2: and Revival Ministries USA podcasts. For those of you who
- 1:48Speaker 2: are Amen, listeners, subscribers, Amen, and supporters, and those of
- 1:56Speaker 2: course who pray in the de Seed for this ministry
- 1:59Speaker 2: and others. We are grateful to the Lord for you,
- 2:03Speaker 2: for your prayers, for your support a man, for your
- 2:06Speaker 2: love of the ministry of the Word of God, and.
- 2:12Speaker 1: For the patience of the saints a man.
- 2:15Speaker 2: As we persevere in such a time as this, we
- 2:21Speaker 2: are called of God to a man be examples, to
- 2:26Speaker 2: be light, to be salt, to be a city set
- 2:29Speaker 2: on the heel, to be a man more and more
- 2:33Speaker 2: like Jesus each and every day. And we don't take
- 2:38Speaker 2: that calling nor a man responsibility lightly, Because a man,
- 2:45Speaker 2: God has entrusted in us and deposited in us, Amen,
- 2:51Speaker 2: these earthen vessels of clay. He has deposited in us
- 2:55Speaker 2: a great and precious treasure.
- 2:58Speaker 1: His Holy Spirit, Amen, is in.
- 3:01Speaker 2: Us for a purpose. And that purpose is clear, and
- 3:06Speaker 2: it is to.
- 3:07Speaker 1: Mold us and to make us. Amen.
- 3:10Speaker 2: Right here in this present world. Amen, to be conformed
- 3:13Speaker 2: into the image of Jesus Christ. And we are endeavoring,
- 3:18Speaker 2: by the grace of God more and.
- 3:19Speaker 1: More to be like Jesus. Amen. And so Amen.
- 3:25Speaker 2: As we have been in the past few episodes of
- 3:29Speaker 2: this podcast, we are today going to continue in our Amen.
- 3:35Speaker 2: Look at this Jesus, this Lamb of God. Amen, the Almighty,
- 3:45Speaker 2: the Savior of the Redeemer, the Way, the Truth, the Life,
- 3:49Speaker 2: the one by whom we all must be saved.
- 3:53Speaker 1: Amen.
- 3:54Speaker 2: All about Jesus is this series that we have begun.
- 4:00Speaker 2: And today we're going to look at the dishonoring of Jesus.
- 4:05Speaker 1: Amen. Dishonoring Jesus. Amen. And we're going to be by the.
- 4:11Speaker 2: Way, if you have your Bible's in the Gospel of
- 4:13Speaker 2: John and also in the Gospel of Mark. We're going
- 4:16Speaker 2: to look at three separate passages of scriptures of the
- 4:21Speaker 2: Scriptures on today. Dishonoring Jesus and dishonoring the name of
- 4:27Speaker 2: Jesus continues in our fallen world of a blinded men
- 4:33Speaker 2: who refuse to acknowledge and to accept the kingship, the
- 4:39Speaker 2: deity and the supremacy of Jesus.
- 4:43Speaker 1: As Lord, as God, as.
- 4:47Speaker 2: The Savior, the only mediator between God and man. And
- 4:55Speaker 2: in our last podcast, of course, we dealt with the
- 4:59Speaker 2: exclude lucivity of the salvation of men only coming by
- 5:04Speaker 2: and through Jesus Christ. Peter the Apostle, who understood, the
- 5:11Speaker 2: one who made the great confession, Thou art the Christ,
- 5:13Speaker 2: the son of the Living God. It is he who
- 5:16Speaker 2: spoke to the Jews a man, as recorded in the
- 5:20Speaker 2: Book of the Acts of the Apostles, chapter four.
- 5:23Speaker 1: I believe the verse twelve.
- 5:25Speaker 2: Neither is there salvation in any other There is none
- 5:28Speaker 2: of the name given among men.
- 5:30Speaker 1: Whereby we must be saved.
- 5:33Speaker 2: Yet, in our world today, with the proliferation and proclamation
- 5:38Speaker 2: of the Gospel going into all the world over the
- 5:42Speaker 2: past two thousand years, there are still perhaps as many
- 5:46Speaker 2: people in percentage in denial today as it was when
- 5:54Speaker 2: Jesus came to his own people, by the way, who
- 5:58Speaker 2: failed to know that He is the I Am. He
- 6:04Speaker 2: is the Savior, he is the Christ, he is the Redeemer,
- 6:08Speaker 2: he is the hope.
- 6:10Speaker 1: Of our salvation.
- 6:14Speaker 2: So we're going to look at three narratives in the
- 6:18Speaker 2: Gospel accounts where.
- 6:19Speaker 1: We will examine.
- 6:23Speaker 2: Dialogue between Jesus and the Jews, who for the most
- 6:27Speaker 2: part again rejected Jesus Christ as their messiah, as their savior,
- 6:35Speaker 2: as their king. As a matter of fact, if you're
- 6:38Speaker 2: familiar with the Gospels, towards the end of the life
- 6:42Speaker 2: of Jesus, when they were in denial of him, when
- 6:47Speaker 2: they were calling for his execution, his murder, they said,
- 6:53Speaker 2: we have no.
- 6:53Speaker 1: King but Caesar. Don't say that he is the king
- 6:58Speaker 1: of the Jews. Is it's not our king.
- 7:03Speaker 2: These individuals, who despised and detested the Roman government, despised
- 7:11Speaker 2: the reign and rule of Caesar over them, readily, readily
- 7:20Speaker 2: wanted to discard Jesus and admitted in their minds, in
- 7:27Speaker 2: their hearts, through their lips, that Caesar was their king
- 7:36Speaker 2: and not Jesus, dishonoring.
- 7:41Speaker 1: Jesus.
- 7:43Speaker 2: The Gospel of John, chapter number ten, we're going to
- 7:46Speaker 2: drop down the verse number of twenty two. And it
- 7:52Speaker 2: was at Jerusalem, the feast of the Dedication, and it
- 7:55Speaker 2: was winter, and Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch.
- 8:02Speaker 2: Then came the Jews round about him and said unto him,
- 8:09Speaker 2: how long dost thou make us to doubt. If thou
- 8:16Speaker 2: be the Christ, tell us plainly, Jesus answered them, I
- 8:27Speaker 2: told you, and you believed not. The works that I
- 8:34Speaker 2: do in my father's name, they bear witness of me.
- 8:43Speaker 2: But ye believe not because ye are not of my sheep.
- 8:49Speaker 2: As I said unto you, my sheep hear my voice,
- 8:56Speaker 2: and I know them, and they follow me. And I
- 9:01Speaker 2: give unto them eternal life, and they shall never perish.
- 9:08Speaker 2: Neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.
- 9:11Speaker 2: My father, who gave them to me, is greater than all,
- 9:17Speaker 2: and no man is able to pluck them out of
- 9:22Speaker 2: my father's hand.
- 9:25Speaker 1: I and my father are one.
- 9:33Speaker 2: Then the Jews, upon hearing these words of Jesus, knowing
- 9:38Speaker 2: full well exactly what Jesus was saying, and what he
- 9:42Speaker 2: was saying was I am God, the Bible says, they
- 9:50Speaker 2: took up stones again to stone him. And so Jesus
- 9:55Speaker 2: answered them, many good works have I shown you from
- 9:59Speaker 2: my father?
- 10:00Speaker 1: For which of those works do you stone me?
- 10:04Speaker 2: The Jews answered him, saying, for a good work we
- 10:07Speaker 2: stone thee not but for blasphemy. And because thou, being
- 10:14Speaker 2: a man, makest thyself God. Now, ladies and gentlemen, I
- 10:25Speaker 2: could spend hours on this narrative, on this dialogue, on
- 10:32Speaker 2: just this portion of what Jesus and the Jews interacted
- 10:38Speaker 2: with one another in conversation with But let me just again,
- 10:45Speaker 2: very succinctly and to the point, as it was.
- 10:50Speaker 1: What we heard in the text. Jesus is the Christ.
- 10:58Speaker 2: He has up until this point made it very clear
- 11:04Speaker 2: to them, shown it to them by way of the
- 11:08Speaker 2: signs and wonders, the miracles that he has done. As
- 11:12Speaker 2: a matter of fact, in chapter three of the same gospel,
- 11:14Speaker 2: and Nicodemus, who was one of the rulers of the Jews,
- 11:18Speaker 2: as you may be familiar with, if you're familiar with
- 11:20Speaker 2: your Bible, that come to Jesus by night and said, Rabbi,
- 11:24Speaker 2: we know that.
- 11:27Speaker 1: You are come from God.
- 11:30Speaker 2: We know because no one can do these miracles, no
- 11:36Speaker 2: one has this kind of supernatural power and authority. If
- 11:44Speaker 2: he does not come from God, if it does not
- 11:47Speaker 2: come from God, if it is not the hand of God,
- 11:51Speaker 2: if it is not the finger of God. Only one
- 11:57Speaker 2: sent from God, only one that comes from God, can
- 12:02Speaker 2: do these kinds of things. So Jesus, not only in
- 12:08Speaker 2: his own words, not only in his works, not only
- 12:17Speaker 2: with the voice of God coming down from heaven saying
- 12:20Speaker 2: this is my beloved son in whom I am well pleased.
- 12:24Speaker 1: Hear ye him, Jesus.
- 12:28Speaker 2: Spoke it plainly, clearly, unambiguously, that he is.
- 12:40Speaker 1: The son.
- 12:42Speaker 2: Of the Living God, that he is the fulfillment of
- 12:46Speaker 2: old Testament prophecy.
- 12:50Speaker 1: And now they.
- 12:51Speaker 2: Come to Jesus and say, how long are you a
- 12:56Speaker 2: putting the blame on Jesus for making them unbelievers? This
- 13:01Speaker 2: is how warped and how twisted the mind of the
- 13:06Speaker 2: rebel is. They come to Jesus in essence accusing him
- 13:14Speaker 2: of causing their unbelief.
- 13:17Speaker 1: How long, Jesus, are you going to make us doubt
- 13:25Speaker 1: if you be the Christ?
- 13:28Speaker 2: Tell us plainly, Jesus again responds, I told you, But
- 13:38Speaker 2: the problem is your unbelief. You don't believe it. So
- 13:44Speaker 2: it is today.
- 13:46Speaker 1: People don't believe. They don't believe that Jesus is the Christ.
- 13:52Speaker 2: Let me take you quickly because I want to get
- 13:55Speaker 2: to one more scripture in the Gospel of John. But
- 13:58Speaker 2: before I go there, let me go to the Gospel
- 14:00Speaker 2: of Mark chapter seven. Because we have a world. We
- 14:03Speaker 2: in a world. There's always been nothing new under the
- 14:06Speaker 2: son of course people wanting to give.
- 14:10Speaker 1: Platitudes if you will to Jesus.
- 14:14Speaker 2: Oh, he was a good man, He was a good prophet,
- 14:16Speaker 2: He was a good teacher, this, that and the other.
- 14:22Speaker 2: Mark Chapter seven. Chapter seven, begin a verse of a five.
- 14:26Speaker 2: Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, that is Jesus,
- 14:32Speaker 2: why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of
- 14:35Speaker 2: the elders, but eat bread with unwashed hands. He answered,
- 14:41Speaker 2: and said unto them, well, hath Isaiah prophesied of you hypocrites.
- 14:48Speaker 1: As it is written.
- 14:50Speaker 2: This people honoreth me with their lips, but their heart
- 14:57Speaker 2: is far from me. Therefore in vain do they worship
- 15:02Speaker 2: me teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. For laying
- 15:08Speaker 2: aside the commandment of God. You hold to the tradition
- 15:12Speaker 2: of men, as the washing of pots and cups, and
- 15:15Speaker 2: many other like things you do. And he said unto them,
- 15:18Speaker 2: full well, ye reject the commandment of God, that you
- 15:23Speaker 2: may keep your own tradition, ladies and gentlemen, not only tradition,
- 15:33Speaker 2: tradition and religion, their tradition and their religion. No, no, no, no, no,
- 15:42Speaker 2: I'm not talking about the scribes and the Pharisees of old.
- 15:46Speaker 1: No no, no, no, no, ladies and gentlemen.
- 15:47Speaker 2: I'm talking about right now, right here in this present world,
- 15:52Speaker 2: tradition and religion. Jesus spoke because the Bible, the Word
- 16:05Speaker 2: of God, the prophets of old, had already spoken concerning this.
- 16:08Speaker 2: And by the way, it's the same God, the same
- 16:11Speaker 2: God of the Old Testament, the same God of the
- 16:13Speaker 2: New Testament.
- 16:14Speaker 1: This is why Jesus.
- 16:16Speaker 2: Went back into the Old Testament, into the scriptures and
- 16:21Speaker 2: pulled from the writing of Exaa the prophet. When he
- 16:26Speaker 2: says this, people honored me with their lips. You see,
- 16:33Speaker 2: they were just like their fathers of old, who again
- 16:39Speaker 2: spoke highly sometimes if you will, when it was convenient,
- 16:43Speaker 2: when they wanted to, you know, you know, if you go,
- 16:48Speaker 2: for example, in the Book of the Judges, how they
- 16:50Speaker 2: went through all those cycles, and you know, as soon
- 16:54Speaker 2: as they got deliverance, you know, they they would be grateful,
- 16:58Speaker 2: and then right afterwards they would go back to their
- 17:01Speaker 2: old ways, their own ways. And people love to again
- 17:06Speaker 2: receive the gifts and the mercy and the grace and
- 17:09Speaker 2: the kindness in favor of God.
- 17:12Speaker 1: But when it comes to really.
- 17:16Speaker 2: Honoring him, really honoring God is obeying him.
- 17:20Speaker 1: Jesus said, why call you mean lord, Lord? And do
- 17:22Speaker 1: not things I say.
- 17:25Speaker 2: You see, these people are honoring God with their lips,
- 17:30Speaker 2: but their heart is far from me. That's the same
- 17:35Speaker 2: as dishonoring him. Because you don't honor God with your words.
- 17:40Speaker 2: You don't honor him with your mouth. Amen, You honor
- 17:44Speaker 2: God with your obedience. Giving lip service to Jesus and
- 17:54Speaker 2: perhaps an attempt to patronize him, is nothing short of wickedness. Yes,
- 18:03Speaker 2: this lip service is of the devil, the demons and
- 18:07Speaker 2: the devil himself. They know who Jesus is, and they tremble.
- 18:13Speaker 2: The Bible says they believe, and they tremble. But mere
- 18:20Speaker 2: mortal men who were made lower than these angelic beings
- 18:26Speaker 2: will not bow their knees willingly to honor Jesus as Lord.
- 18:35Speaker 2: And again we honor him by obedience. But the Bible nevertheless,
- 18:41Speaker 2: it's crystal clear that every need will bow every time
- 18:44Speaker 2: we'll convince that he is Lord. Gospel of John, chapter eight,
- 18:53Speaker 2: verse number thirty four. Jesus answered them, verily, verily, I
- 18:58Speaker 2: say unto you, whosoever commit sin is the servant of sin,
- 19:03Speaker 2: that is the one who practices sin is the servant
- 19:09Speaker 2: of sin and the servant of bidies. Not in the
- 19:12Speaker 2: house forever, but the son about if ever, if the
- 19:18Speaker 2: Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free. Indeed,
- 19:24Speaker 2: now listen to what Jesus says. He's speaking to these Jews.
- 19:28Speaker 2: He says, verse thirty seven. I know that you are
- 19:32Speaker 2: Abraham's seed, but you seek to kill me, because my
- 19:38Speaker 2: word hath no place in you. I speak that which
- 19:47Speaker 2: I have seen with my father, and you do that
- 19:52Speaker 2: which you have seen with your father. They answered and said,
- 19:58Speaker 2: unto Jesus, Abraham is our father. So Jesus replies to them,
- 20:05Speaker 2: if you were Abraham's children, you would do the works
- 20:11Speaker 2: of Abraham. But now you seek to kill me, a
- 20:17Speaker 2: man that hath told you the truth which I have
- 20:22Speaker 2: heard from God. This did not Abraham. You do the
- 20:30Speaker 2: deeds of your father. Then they said to him, we
- 20:36Speaker 2: are not born of fornication. We have one father, even God.
- 20:44Speaker 2: They were by the way, taking a little shot at Jesus,
- 20:48Speaker 2: if you will, because of their unbelief in the virgin birth.
- 20:54Speaker 2: We be not born of fornication. We have one father,
- 20:59Speaker 2: even God. Lord, Jesus said, unto them, if God were
- 21:04Speaker 2: your father, you would love me. For I proceeded forth
- 21:10Speaker 2: and came from God. Neither came I of myself, but
- 21:15Speaker 2: He sent me. Why do you not understand my speech?
- 21:22Speaker 2: Even because you cannot hear my word? You are of
- 21:30Speaker 2: your father the devil, and the lust of your.
- 21:35Speaker 1: Father you will do.
- 21:38Speaker 2: He was a murderer from the beginning, and a bode
- 21:41Speaker 2: not in the truth, because there is no truth in him.
- 21:46Speaker 2: When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own,
- 21:50Speaker 2: for he is a liar and the father of it.
- 21:55Speaker 2: And because I tell you the truth, you believe me not?
- 22:02Speaker 2: Which of you convicteth me of sin? And if I
- 22:05Speaker 2: say the truth, why do.
- 22:06Speaker 1: You not believe me? He that is of.
- 22:10Speaker 2: God heareth God's words. Ye, therefore hear them.
- 22:14Speaker 1: Not because you are not of God.
- 22:19Speaker 2: Then the Jews answered and said it to him, say
- 22:22Speaker 2: we not well that thou art a Samaritan and hast
- 22:26Speaker 2: a devil. Jesus answered, I have not a devil, but
- 22:35Speaker 2: I honor my father. And listen what Jesus says, and
- 22:39Speaker 2: you do dishonor me. They accused Jesus of being demon possessed,
- 22:56Speaker 2: the Jesus that cast out devil, the Jesus that set
- 23:03Speaker 2: people free from being afflicted and tormented by the devil.
- 23:08Speaker 2: And God knows we need the casting out of demons.
- 23:12Speaker 2: Today people want to dress it up and call it
- 23:15Speaker 2: mental illness and this that and the other, and disorder
- 23:18Speaker 2: this and disorder that.
- 23:20Speaker 1: No, no, no, no no. The problem is clearly, plainly.
- 23:26Speaker 1: We don't want to say it.
- 23:29Speaker 2: Because again we don't want to believe the word of God.
- 23:34Speaker 2: People are being possessed by the devil.
- 23:40Speaker 1: They are demon possessed.
- 23:42Speaker 2: They are doing the deeds of their father, the devil.
- 23:48Speaker 2: He came to steal, kill and destroy. He is a liar.
- 23:54Speaker 2: He's the father of lies. And those who traffic in lies,
- 23:57Speaker 2: those who kill, those who seek the action, those who
- 24:01Speaker 2: seek mayhem and disorder and disunity and division and strife
- 24:07Speaker 2: and and and hatred and malice. They are of their father,
- 24:11Speaker 2: the Devil. And they are dishonoring to Jesus, to the
- 24:19Speaker 2: word of God, to God himself. And these are the
- 24:25Speaker 2: same people who demote Jesus. Demoting Jesus is dishonoring, relegating
- 24:34Speaker 2: Jesus to simply, oh, he's a good you know, he's
- 24:38Speaker 2: a good He was a good teacher, he was a.
- 24:41Speaker 1: He was a prophet, he.
- 24:45Speaker 2: Was a great historic figure.
- 24:51Speaker 1: He was a good example of morality.
- 24:58Speaker 2: Relegating Jesus platitudes, you know, trying to you know, play
- 25:06Speaker 2: like you or pretend as if you actually do you know,
- 25:12Speaker 2: acknowledge Jesus.
- 25:13Speaker 1: No, no, no, no, no no no. No.
- 25:15Speaker 2: Ladies and gentlemen, you are dis honoring Jesus if you
- 25:20Speaker 2: are saying less than what the Bible, the Word of God,
- 25:25Speaker 2: has to say, and what Jesus himself said of himself,
- 25:28Speaker 2: you are calling him a liar. He is Lord, he
- 25:38Speaker 2: is God. He is the Alpha, he is the Omega.
- 25:42Speaker 2: He is the beginning, he is the end. He is
- 25:44Speaker 2: the first, he is the last. He is the Word,
- 25:47Speaker 2: the Word that was made flesh that dwelt among us.
- 25:53Speaker 2: He is God manifested in the flesh. This believing Jesus
- 26:02Speaker 2: is dishonoring Jesus. Disobeying Jesus is dishonoring Jesus. And ladies
- 26:13Speaker 2: and gentlemen, there is no middle ground to be had,
- 26:18Speaker 2: there is no compromise.
- 26:20Speaker 1: Jesus said, you are with me or you are against me.
- 26:27Speaker 2: So when it comes to Jesus, whether or not Jesus
- 26:32Speaker 2: is who he and the Bible and the Word, and
- 26:36Speaker 2: God himself.
- 26:38Speaker 1: Has spoken of clearly and stated unequivocally that he is.
- 26:45Speaker 1: If you don't believe.
- 26:47Speaker 2: That he is, as Jesus himself also said, you will
- 26:51Speaker 2: die in your sins. If you don't believe that I
- 26:54Speaker 2: am he, you will perish. You will die in your sins,
- 27:02Speaker 2: and in the lake of fire, which was prepared by
- 27:06Speaker 2: the Way for the devil and his angels. You will
- 27:10Speaker 2: have your part there with them. To disrespect, to disregard,
- 27:18Speaker 2: to dishonor, the son is to dishonor. The Father, Jesus
- 27:26Speaker 2: and the Father, as he stated, are one. You've seen me,
- 27:33Speaker 2: You've seen the Father, he said to Thomas, So how
- 27:36Speaker 2: would do you say, show us the Father. The eyes
- 27:41Speaker 2: in the minds of those who are in darkness are
- 27:44Speaker 2: in denial of the deity of Jesus Christ, being the
- 27:49Speaker 2: almighty and having all power. As he said, these are
- 27:54Speaker 2: not my words, he said, all power in heaven and
- 27:55Speaker 2: earth is in my hand. If your eyes are blinded,
- 28:03Speaker 2: if your mind and your heart is heartened, we pray
- 28:10Speaker 2: today that your eyes will be open, that your heart
- 28:15Speaker 2: will be converted, and that you will come to see
- 28:18Speaker 2: and to know that Jesus Christ is God, Savior, Redeemer, Messiah,
- 28:29Speaker 2: the only hope of mankind, the only Hope, the Prince
- 28:36Speaker 2: of Peace. Father, we thank you for your word, and
- 28:41Speaker 2: we pray that it may prosper in someone's ears, someone's
- 28:45Speaker 2: heart today.
- 28:47Speaker 1: Amen and Amen,