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Episode 225 - Blessed Believers · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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  Speaker 1: Great is thy faithfulness, O God. Great is your mercy
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  Speaker 1: toward those who fear your great name. Lord, we thank
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  Speaker 1: you again for this, another day that you have allowed
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  Speaker 1: us to see the day of rejoicing. We shall be
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  Speaker 1: glad in you, who is the God of our salvation.
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  Speaker 1: We thank you for life, health, strength. Thank you for
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  Speaker 1: supplying every one of our needs according to your riches
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  Speaker 1: in glory. Lord, you are great. You are greatly to
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  Speaker 1: be praised. And we, as the redeemed of the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: We shall declare, we shall say so. We shall take
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  Speaker 1: our stand for righteousness and holiness in this present world,
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  Speaker 1: looking for that blessed hope and the glorious appearing of
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  Speaker 1: our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. We thank you for
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  Speaker 1: this day that you have made. We shall lift up
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  Speaker 1: your name and live holy and righteous before you right
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  Speaker 1: here in this present world, in the land of the living.
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  Speaker 1: declaring that Jesus Christ is Lord, that Jesus Christ is
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  Speaker 1: the way, the truth, and the life. Bless now every
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  Speaker 1: listening ear and every obedient heart. In the name of
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, we pray and give thanks. Amen and amen.
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  Speaker 1: All right, we opened with prayer on this day as
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  Speaker 1: we are thankful to the Lord for another day and
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  Speaker 1: allowing us the opportunity to come again. on this podcast
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  Speaker 1: to speak the word of the Lord, to proclaim the
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  Speaker 1: liberty that is in Christ Jesus. Amen. In him we live, move,
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  Speaker 1: and have our existence, our being. Amen. It's all in Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: And so again, we are grateful to the Lord for
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  Speaker 1: allowing us, amen, this privilege. It is a privilege to
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  Speaker 1: be called of God, to be, amen, ordained by him, amen,
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  Speaker 1: to be a spokesperson, an ambassador, a messenger, amen, to
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  Speaker 1: speak the word of the Lord. And so we don't
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  Speaker 1: take it lightly, amen, we count it, we count it, amen,
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  Speaker 1: as a privilege because indeed it is, amen, a privilege
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  Speaker 1: to be chosen by God, amen, to speak on behalf
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  Speaker 1: of the glory of God. Amen. The hope of glory,
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  Speaker 1: the righteousness of our God and Savior. So we, amen,
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  Speaker 1: thank God for this day and this, amen, this venue, this, amen,
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  Speaker 1: this opening, if you will. We've had over the 2,000
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  Speaker 1: years of the church, opportunities, advancements in technology, to disseminate
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  Speaker 1: the word of God far and wide. Nevertheless, even without that,
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  Speaker 1: prior to that, amen, you had many, many, many who
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  Speaker 1: traveled by foot, amen, who were driven, amen, and again,
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  Speaker 1: you have to be, you have to be to do
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  Speaker 1: what they did, amen, with the fervor that they did
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  Speaker 1: it with the passion that they did it you have
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  Speaker 1: to be chosen by God you have to have that
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  Speaker 1: zeal of God amen to amen through all of the
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  Speaker 1: persecution especially and all of the harassment that they endured
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  Speaker 1: to steal amen persist in preaching that Jesus Christ is
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  Speaker 1: the way the truth the light the life of the
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  Speaker 1: world the light of the world the hope of the
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  Speaker 1: world amen the only salvation that is available to man
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  Speaker 1: amen and so we to this day continue amen preaching
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  Speaker 1: jesus christ and him crucified he is lord he is
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  Speaker 1: god he is the great hope of this world so
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  Speaker 1: again we thank god for all of you who pray
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  Speaker 1: for and support the work of this ministry it is
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  Speaker 1: a ministry Amen. We endeavor, amen, by the grace of
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  Speaker 1: God to each and every opportunity we get, amen, to, amen,
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  Speaker 1: disseminate the word of God. And we pray, we pray, pray, pray, pray,
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  Speaker 1: pray that it will fall on the ears of those
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  Speaker 1: who will hear. It will work in the hearts of
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  Speaker 1: those who will believe. It will become effectual, amen, in
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  Speaker 1: changing lives, amen, to the glory of God. We're doing
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  Speaker 1: this not for our glory, not for our honor, not
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  Speaker 1: for monetary gain or benefit at all in this world. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: We're seeking, amen, the salvation, the uplifting, the edifying of
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  Speaker 1: the people of God. That's it. Period. Amen. That God
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  Speaker 1: would save, that God would deliver, that God would comfort,
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  Speaker 1: that God would keep, Amen. All of the things that
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  Speaker 1: God has promised to do and is doing. Amen. We
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  Speaker 1: just want to play our little small part in a
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  Speaker 1: man participating, cooperating with the Holy Spirit as he worked
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  Speaker 1: in this world to advance the kingdom of God. Amen. So, amen.
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  Speaker 1: To that end, we have been a man focused on
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  Speaker 1: and we will continue to focus on the words of Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we can sit and argue and debate with people, amen,
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  Speaker 1: about all kinds of things, all kinds of things in
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  Speaker 1: this world, amen. And we can come up with all
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  Speaker 1: of our suppositions and theories and beliefs and, amen, what
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  Speaker 1: we suppose will happen. No one knows other than what
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  Speaker 1: is prophetically written in the word of God, what's going
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  Speaker 1: to come to pass. But yet, nevertheless, nevertheless, You have,
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  Speaker 1: you know, people again debating and arguing about, amen, what
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  Speaker 1: is and what is to come. And yet, amen, we
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  Speaker 1: won't even acknowledge, amen, honestly, what has already been, amen.
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  Speaker 1: And especially as it pertains to, amen, Jesus Christ coming
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  Speaker 1: into this world, the purpose he came for. Amen. And
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  Speaker 1: there are those who even deny, they still denial that
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ came in the flesh, that he actually died
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  Speaker 1: on the cross and that he was resurrected from the dead. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Despite the extra biblical, amen, evidence and references to Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: there are yet those who are deceived and in delusion,
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  Speaker 1: but nevertheless, we press on preaching the word of the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to preach the words of Jesus. We're going
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  Speaker 1: to teach the words of Jesus. We're going to emphasize
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  Speaker 1: the words of Jesus because man is not to live
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  Speaker 1: by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out
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  Speaker 1: of the mouth of the Lord. So again, I mean, I, I,
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  Speaker 1: I'm at the, I'm at the point where, you know,
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  Speaker 1: debating with people, arguing with people, trying to win a man, uh, arguments, uh,
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  Speaker 1: and debates and discussions on the point of merit here
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  Speaker 1: and there. At the end of the day, it doesn't matter,
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  Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, if the heart is not converted. And
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  Speaker 1: I am convinced, I am persuaded that the only, the
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  Speaker 1: only words that matter in the end will be those
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  Speaker 1: from the Lord himself. That is what we are to
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  Speaker 1: live by. That is how we have life. Amen. And
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  Speaker 1: so all these other, amen, philosophies, beliefs, religions, whatever they are. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: We can argue and debate about all of this stuff
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  Speaker 1: through and through over and over again. But the only
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  Speaker 1: thing that's going to stand in the end is the
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  Speaker 1: word of the living God. And so I am, I am, Amen.
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  Speaker 1: I am persuaded and I am. Amen. I am. I am.
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  Speaker 1: I am bent. I am. I am. I'm just going
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  Speaker 1: to tell you, I'm just this is where I am.
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  Speaker 1: This is where I am. This is where I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to be. Because, again. Nothing else is working. Ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 1: it's not working. We've tried all kinds of. We've tried
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  Speaker 1: all kinds of ways, if you will, to persuade people,
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  Speaker 1: to convince people, to get them, if you will, to believe,
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  Speaker 1: to be converted. And it doesn't work. We've got to
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  Speaker 1: use the word of God. And if the word does
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  Speaker 1: not work, ladies and gentlemen, nothing else will. You cannot
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  Speaker 1: convert a hardened heart. You cannot change. the mind, amen,
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  Speaker 1: that is corrupted by any other means. It has to
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  Speaker 1: be by the word of God. Amen. So we're going to, amen, continue.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to continue, amen, hammering the word of the Lord. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Preaching the word of the Lord, the words of Jesus
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  Speaker 1: more specifically, very specifically, the words of Jesus. And to
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  Speaker 1: that end, we go to the gospel of Matthew chapter
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  Speaker 1: number five. And today we're going to focus on these
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  Speaker 1: promises that Jesus made of the blessed believers, because I
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  Speaker 1: want to, first of all, encourage the hearts of God's people. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: That you are blessed. Amen. You are blessed as a believer.
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  Speaker 1: You have Amen. An exclusive place in this world. You
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  Speaker 1: have a unique place in this world right here in
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  Speaker 1: this world as a child of God. Amen. As one
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  Speaker 1: who believes in Jesus. And I'm not talking about lip
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  Speaker 1: service and I'm talking about mental assenting. I'm talking about
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  Speaker 1: a deep and abiding conviction. Amen. Where you are rooted
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  Speaker 1: and grounded, where you are persuaded you will not be moved. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And so That's the belief that we're talking about. When again,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not talking about surface stuff. We're not talking about
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  Speaker 1: lip service. Where again, when you look at the old
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  Speaker 1: Testament and the new, when Jesus repeated it, these people
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  Speaker 1: honor me with their lips, but their heart is far
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  Speaker 1: from me. And then he said again, on another occasion,
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  Speaker 1: why call you me Lord, Lord, and do not the
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  Speaker 1: things I say. So when I say, when I'm talking
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  Speaker 1: about a believer, I'm talking about somebody, someone who is
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  Speaker 1: sold out, someone who is, Indeed, baptized into Jesus, baptized
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  Speaker 1: with the Holy Ghost, baptized in him, in him, in
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  Speaker 1: his name, believing on him, cleaving to him, walking in him. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And having no other gods, none other. Amen. Beside him.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Very quickly, let's go to Matthew's Gospel, chapter
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  Speaker 1: number five. We refer to this as the Sermon on
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  Speaker 1: the Mount, where Jesus began teaching a man. multitudes of people.
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  Speaker 1: And we're going to see this, amen, beginning in verse
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  Speaker 1: number one. Amen. The blessedness that we have, all of
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  Speaker 1: these precious promises. Let's go. Verse number one, seeing the multitudes,
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  Speaker 1: he went up into a mountain. And when he was set,
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  Speaker 1: his disciples came unto him and he opened his mouth
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  Speaker 1: and taught them saying, blessed are the poor in spirit
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  Speaker 1: for theirs is the kingdom of The first of these
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  Speaker 1: we call Beatitudes. Blessed are the poor in spirit, for
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  Speaker 1: theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Now, Jesus, of course,
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  Speaker 1: is not talking about people who are miserably poor in
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  Speaker 1: their spirit all the time, broken down in despair. No, no, no, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: What he's talking about is contrition, brokenness over sin and evil,
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  Speaker 1: who are repentant. who will walk in meekness and lowliness,
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  Speaker 1: who will humble themselves under the mighty hand of God.
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  Speaker 1: Look at the Old Testament, for example, the words of Isaiah,
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  Speaker 1: the prophet spoken to him, amen, through the Lord. Verse
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  Speaker 1: number 15 of chapter 57 of Isaiah, for thus said
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  Speaker 1: the high and lofty one that inhabited eternity, whose name
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  Speaker 1: is holy. Listen to what the Bible says. The Lord says,
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  Speaker 1: I dwell in the high and holy place with him
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  Speaker 1: also that is of a contrite and humble spirit. You
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  Speaker 1: want to know where God dwells? The Bible tells us here.
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  Speaker 1: He says, I dwell in the high and holy place
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  Speaker 1: with him also that is of a contrite and humble spirit, brokenness,
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  Speaker 1: repentant heart and mind. Amen. There's a meekness. There's a lowliness.
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  Speaker 1: There's a dependence. There's a looking to him, the savior.
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  Speaker 1: I dwell in the high and holy place with him. Also,
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  Speaker 1: that is of a contrite and humble spirit to revive
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  Speaker 1: the spirit of the humble and to revive the heart
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  Speaker 1: of of the contrite ones. Humility, contrition. No, the Bible
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  Speaker 1: tells us God resists the proud, but he gives grace
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  Speaker 1: to the humble. Verse number four, Matthew chapter five, blessed are,
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  Speaker 1: this is number two, they that mourn for they shall
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  Speaker 1: be comforted. Blessed are they that mourn for they Shall
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  Speaker 1: be comforted. This promise of being comforted. I believe. Based
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  Speaker 1: on the word of God. Is exclusively for believers. I'm
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  Speaker 1: talking again about true believers. Who weep and mourn. Because
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  Speaker 1: the comfort. That comes. To the heart of man. It
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  Speaker 1: comes from the Holy Ghost. Amen. Now. The Holy Ghost.
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  Speaker 1: sent by Jesus. We just went through this, all of
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  Speaker 1: this in the gospel of John. Jesus said, I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to send the comforter, the comforter. He's going to be
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  Speaker 1: with you. He's going to lead you. He's going to
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  Speaker 1: guide you. He's going to teach you. He's going to
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  Speaker 1: bring things to your remembrance. The Holy Spirit is the comforter. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the only comfort that we can have in this world
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  Speaker 1: has to, because anything else, anything else, anything else, ladies
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  Speaker 1: and gentlemen, is a substitute. Anything else is temporary. Anything
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  Speaker 1: else will never bring true relief and hope and assurance
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  Speaker 1: to the heart of man. Nothing else will do but
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  Speaker 1: the comfort that comes from God, the peace that comes
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  Speaker 1: from him. So there is a blessedness when we mourn,
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  Speaker 1: when we weep, when we are saddened, we will have
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  Speaker 1: these occasions. And by the way, One of the attributes
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  Speaker 1: of the spirit is joy. Even in the midst of
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  Speaker 1: mourning and weeping. Weeping, by the way, the Bible tells
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  Speaker 1: us may endure for a night, but joy comes in
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  Speaker 1: the morning. God has a special blessedness for those of
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  Speaker 1: us who are broken. Amen. Weeping, mourning, and that comfort
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  Speaker 1: comes exclusively to us. by and through the Holy Ghost.
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  Speaker 1: Verse five, blessed are the meek for they shall inherit
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  Speaker 1: the earth. And I can read and I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: read and I'm going to read, by the way, because
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  Speaker 1: this meekness, a lot of people refer or think of
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  Speaker 1: meekness as a weakness. No, no, no, no, no, no. Moses,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, who was very strong, one of the
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  Speaker 1: greatest leaders that ever lived on the planet, period. The
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  Speaker 1: Bible referred to Moses as being the meekest man ever.
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  Speaker 1: that lived during that time, of course. Amen. Jesus, we know,
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  Speaker 1: was meek and lowly. He was, and then, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: you look at many of the great leaders, particularly the Bible,
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  Speaker 1: the Word of God, and even in world history, you
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  Speaker 1: have many examples of, amen, leaders who were meek, amen,
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  Speaker 1: some of the most effectual leaders that have ever, amen,
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  Speaker 1: walked on this earth, biblical, and those who were perhaps
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  Speaker 1: not even necessarily in biblical literature. They had a certain
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  Speaker 1: meekness about them. They had a humility about them. They
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  Speaker 1: had a recognition, an acknowledgement that they were mere mortal men. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: But listen to what the Bible says about meekness. Those
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  Speaker 1: who are meek, blessed are the meek, Jesus says, for
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  Speaker 1: they shall inherit the earth. But let me go back
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  Speaker 1: to the Old Testament, Psalm 22 and 26. The meek
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  Speaker 1: shall eat. And be satisfied. They shall praise the Lord
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  Speaker 1: that seek him. Your heart shall live forever. Look at
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  Speaker 1: this promise for those who are meek. Psalm 25 and 9.
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  Speaker 1: The meek will he guide in judgment. And the meek
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  Speaker 1: he will teach his way. I like that promise. Psalm 37, 11.
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  Speaker 1: But the meek shall inherit the earth. Same thing that
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  Speaker 1: Jesus said. And shall delight themselves in the abundance of peace.
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  Speaker 1: Psalm 147 and 6. The Lord lifted up the meek.
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  Speaker 1: He casteth the wicked down to the ground. Psalm 149
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  Speaker 1: and 4. For the Lord taketh pleasure in his people.
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  Speaker 1: He will beautify the meek with salvation. Blessed are the meek.
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  Speaker 1: Blessed are the meek. Oh. Verse number six of Matthew,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus continues, blessed are they which do hunger and thirst
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  Speaker 1: after righteousness for they shall be filled. No one, ladies
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  Speaker 1: and gentlemen, no one desiring, no one that prefers, in
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  Speaker 1: other words, puts the word of God, the things of God,
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  Speaker 1: kingdom of God, the kingdom of heaven, above their other
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  Speaker 1: pursuits or desires or longings or whatever it is, no
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  Speaker 1: one desiring or preferring the things of the kingdom of
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  Speaker 1: heaven will ever be left lacking. Jesus says, this is
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  Speaker 1: the promise, they shall be filled. If you hunger, in
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  Speaker 1: other words, if you desire, if you long for it,
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  Speaker 1: The psalmist says, as the deer panteth after the water,
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  Speaker 1: so my soul longs after thee in a dry and
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  Speaker 1: thirsty land. And Lord knows. Only God knows how dry
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  Speaker 1: and thirsty we are in this world today. But no one,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus says, they shall be filled. No one desiring and
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  Speaker 1: preferring the things of the kingdom of heaven will be
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  Speaker 1: lacking in I believe that one of the fiercest battles
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  Speaker 1: for true believers in our world today is the handling
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  Speaker 1: and or the resistance of the unrighteous mammon, the temporary
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  Speaker 1: things and treasures, if you will, of this world. But again,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus has given us the command to seek the kingdom first.
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  Speaker 1: Seek the kingdom first and all of the other things
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  Speaker 1: will be added to us. So again, hunger and thirst
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  Speaker 1: after righteousness, after pleasing God. The kingdom of heaven, the
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  Speaker 1: Bible tells us, is not meat and drink, but righteousness,
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  Speaker 1: peace and joy in the Holy Ghost. You will be blessed.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, when Jesus is talking about blessedness here,
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  Speaker 1: he's talking about being happy. being at peace, being at rest,
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  Speaker 1: having an inner fulfillment, an inner joy, a joy that
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  Speaker 1: the world can't take away, a joy that trials and
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  Speaker 1: tribulations cannot extinguish. Amen. Verse seven, blessed are the merciful
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  Speaker 1: for they shall obtain mercy. This is, I mean, it
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  Speaker 1: doesn't need a whole lot of explanation here, if you will.
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  Speaker 1: Mercy clearly here. From the lips of Jesus, mercy is
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  Speaker 1: reciprocated to us as we are merciful. Show mercy, receive mercy.
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  Speaker 1: Give mercy, you'll get mercy. It's the same principle that
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  Speaker 1: Jesus spoke of concerning forgiving others of their trespasses. If
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  Speaker 1: you forgive men their trespasses, your Heavenly Father will forgive you.
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  Speaker 1: That's really part of being merciful. It's a part of
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  Speaker 1: being merciful forgiveness. Amen. So again, mercy will be received.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, all of us want mercy when we need it.
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  Speaker 1: Oh my God. And I'm telling you, and I pray for,
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  Speaker 1: and I thank God, by the way, this is one
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  Speaker 1: of the great promises of God. One of the great
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  Speaker 1: benefits of those of us for those of us rather
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  Speaker 1: who are in the kingdom, by the way, it, even
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  Speaker 1: for those who are not saved, they don't even realize it.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, how merciful God is to them. And no one,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, will ever be able to stand before
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  Speaker 1: the presence of God. And by the way, when they
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  Speaker 1: stand there, their mouth will be stopped. Every mouth will
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  Speaker 1: be stopped. But no one, even if it were possible,
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  Speaker 1: will be able to stand before God and blaspheme and
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  Speaker 1: say that God was not merciful enough. It's blasphemy. No
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  Speaker 1: one will be able to say that. And I thank
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  Speaker 1: God that he has new mercies. New mercies, the Bible
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  Speaker 1: tells us. New mercies every day. Great is the faithfulness
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  Speaker 1: of our God. And so we are called to be
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  Speaker 1: merciful people because we're called to be like Jesus. We're
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  Speaker 1: called to be like God. Amen to that. requires us
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  Speaker 1: to be merciful, to be compassionate, to be forgiving, to
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  Speaker 1: be long-suffering, amen, to be patient, to be kind, all
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  Speaker 1: of that attributes, all of those attributes of the fruit
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  Speaker 1: of the Spirit. Verse number eight, blessed are the pure
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  Speaker 1: in heart, for they shall see God. Again, we can
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  Speaker 1: appeal to the Old Testament and again in the New
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  Speaker 1: Testament even, but Psalm 24, for example, verse 3 and 4,
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  Speaker 1: who shall ascend into the heel of the Lord? Or
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  Speaker 1: who shall stand in his holy place? That's a question.
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  Speaker 1: Two questions, as a matter of fact. Who shall ascend
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  Speaker 1: into the heel of the Lord? Or who shall stand
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  Speaker 1: in his holy place? Who will be able to stand
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  Speaker 1: in the presence of God before the throne of God? Who? Who?
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  Speaker 1: We know that flesh and blood can't we know that
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  Speaker 1: flesh and blood can't glory in his presence. Well, the
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  Speaker 1: Bible tells us verse number four of Psalm 24, he
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  Speaker 1: that had clean hands and a pure heart who has
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  Speaker 1: not lifted up his soul into vanity, nor sworn deceitfully,
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  Speaker 1: who will be able to stand in the presence of God.
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  Speaker 1: Only those ladies and gentlemen, who have a pure heart.
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  Speaker 1: And the Bible tells us, by the way, and I
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  Speaker 1: could read on and on, but I'm just going to
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  Speaker 1: give you a couple of examples in the New Testament,
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  Speaker 1: Paul writing to Timothy, 1 Timothy, and then also in
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  Speaker 1: 2 Timothy, 1 Timothy 1, verse 5. Now, the end
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  Speaker 1: of the commandment is charity, that's love in action, charity
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  Speaker 1: out of a pure heart, pure love, out of a
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  Speaker 1: pure heart, And of a good conscience. And of faith unfeigned.
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  Speaker 1: Or that is real. Not fake faith. But real faith.
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  Speaker 1: Let me read that again. Now the end of the commandment.
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  Speaker 1: Is charity. Out of a pure heart. And of a
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  Speaker 1: good conscience. And of faith unfeigned. And then he writes
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  Speaker 1: again to Timothy, 2 Timothy 2, verse 22. Flee also
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  Speaker 1: youthful lusts, Timothy, but follow righteousness, faith, charity, peace with
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  Speaker 1: them that call on the Lord out of a pure heart.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think it's possible. I just do not believe
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  Speaker 1: that it is possible to call on the name of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord, to believe in the name of the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: to trust in the name of the Lord, unless your
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  Speaker 1: heart is pure toward God. In other words, unless you
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  Speaker 1: actually believe, unless you have actually been converted. And I
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  Speaker 1: believe that only through the indwelling of the Holy Ghost
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  Speaker 1: and the effectual working of the word of the living
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  Speaker 1: God Can the desperately wicked heart of men. Of any
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  Speaker 1: man rather. Become pure. That's the only way the heart
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  Speaker 1: can become pure. Purify. That's what the psalmist says. Created
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  Speaker 1: me a clean heart. Purify. Purify. Wash me. Purge me. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: It's only. By the baptism of the Holy Ghost. John said,
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  Speaker 1: I baptize you with water. The church baptizes you in water.
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  Speaker 1: But water baptism alone, ladies and gentlemen. No, no, no, no, no. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: It's an answer of a conscience toward God. It's a
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  Speaker 1: confession of our faith. We come being baptized. But John
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  Speaker 1: the Baptist baptizing people. He saw the Pharisees coming. And
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  Speaker 1: the Sadducees coming. He said, wait, wait, wait. Hey. Mm-mm.
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  Speaker 1: Bring forth fruits, meat for repentance. In other words, your
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  Speaker 1: heart needs to be changed. Reconciliation with God. In other words, again,
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  Speaker 1: it can only be the pureness of the heart. And
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  Speaker 1: that only happens by the Holy Ghost. The heart of man,
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  Speaker 1: the Bible tells us, is desperately wicked. Oh, wretched man
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  Speaker 1: that I am. Paul talked about this in Romans chapter 7.
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  Speaker 1: Who can deliver me? Who can deliver me? Only the
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  Speaker 1: Holy Ghost. Only Jesus. himself. John says, I baptize you
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  Speaker 1: with water unto repentance, but there is one coming after me.
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  Speaker 1: He's going to baptize you with the Holy Ghost and fire. Amen. Blessed,
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  Speaker 1: verse number 9, are the peacemakers. for they shall be
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  Speaker 1: called the children of God. The Bible tells us, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: I could go, I really could spend probably an inexhaustible
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  Speaker 1: amount of time talking about the peace, peace, peace, peace, peace.
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  Speaker 1: Knowing first of all, that Jesus is the Prince of
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  Speaker 1: peace and peace can only come by and through him.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible tells us, admonishes us, especially, particularly in the
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  Speaker 1: New Testament to seek peace, to follow peace, follow peace
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  Speaker 1: with all men and holiness without which no man can
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  Speaker 1: see the Lord. And then the Bible tells us to
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  Speaker 1: pursue it. Amen. Ephesians, I'm just going to read one verse.
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  Speaker 1: Ephesians 4, the latter clause of verse 1, walk worthy
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  Speaker 1: of the calling with which you were called with all
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  Speaker 1: lowliness and gentleness. Look, and by the way, all of
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  Speaker 1: these verses that I've been reading, if you notice, all
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  Speaker 1: All of them allude to the attributes of the fruit
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  Speaker 1: of the Spirit. This is what Jesus is talking about.
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  Speaker 1: This is Holy Ghost stuff. This is Spirit abiding, working
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  Speaker 1: in us kind of stuff. That's what this is. You
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  Speaker 1: can't do this apart from, you can't be a peacemaker.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, you don't have peace with God. You
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  Speaker 1: cannot be a peacemaker without Jesus. Jesus. The Bible tells
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  Speaker 1: us Romans chapter five. Now we have peace with God
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  Speaker 1: through our Lord Jesus Christ, by whom we have received
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  Speaker 1: the atonement. That's the only way you can even have
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  Speaker 1: peace and become a peacemakers. So blessed are the peacemakers.
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  Speaker 1: They shall be called the children of God. Now, if
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  Speaker 1: you don't have the Holy Ghost, if Jesus is not
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  Speaker 1: in you, you're not a peacemaker. Number one. And if
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  Speaker 1: you're not a peacemaker, you're not a child of God.
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  Speaker 1: So if you're not a child of God, then who
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  Speaker 1: are you a child of? Well, the devil. That's the
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  Speaker 1: only other option, ladies and gentlemen. You're a child of
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  Speaker 1: the devil. So you're either a child of God, peacemaking,
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  Speaker 1: seeking peace, following peace, pursuing after peace, or you're a
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  Speaker 1: child of the devil. And you're a peacebreaker. So walk worthy.
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  Speaker 1: Paul writes to the church of the calling with which
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  Speaker 1: you are called with our loneliness and gentleness, with long suffering,
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  Speaker 1: bearing with one another in love, endeavoring to keep the
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  Speaker 1: unity of the spirit in the bond of peace. Peace
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  Speaker 1: is the glue, if you will. Peacemakers. All right, enough, enough.
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  Speaker 1: I could go on and on with that. Verse number 10,
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  Speaker 1: blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness sake, for
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  Speaker 1: theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Now, Peter, of course,
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  Speaker 1: who was one of the apostles in the inner circle
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus, he heard this and he would later write
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  Speaker 1: about this persecution that the people of God would suffer.
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  Speaker 1: He wrote to the 12 tribes who were scattered abroad
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  Speaker 1: and listened to this, what he writes in chapter four,
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  Speaker 1: verses 12 through 16. Beloved, do not think it strange
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  Speaker 1: concerning the fiery trial, which is to try you, as
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  Speaker 1: though some strange thing happened to you, but rejoice to
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  Speaker 1: the extent that you partake of Christ's sufferings, that when
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  Speaker 1: his glory is revealed, you may also be glad with
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  Speaker 1: exceeding joy. If you are reproached for the name of Christ,
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  Speaker 1: blessed are you. There it is. Peter remembered what Jesus taught.
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  Speaker 1: Blessed are you for the spirit of glory and of
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  Speaker 1: God rests upon you. On their part, he is blasphemed,
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  Speaker 1: but on your part, He is glorified. But let none
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  Speaker 1: of you, those of us who are saved, those of
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  Speaker 1: us who are saints, those of us who are believers,
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  Speaker 1: those of us who are Christians, those of us who
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  Speaker 1: are of the household of faith, let none of you
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  Speaker 1: suffer as a murderer, a thief, an evildoer, or as
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  Speaker 1: a busybody in other people's matters. Yet, if anyone suffers
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  Speaker 1: as a Christian, Let him not be ashamed, but let
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  Speaker 1: him glorify God in this matter. Persecution is here, and
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  Speaker 1: I believe it is going to continue, and it's going
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  Speaker 1: to intensify the closer we get to the return of
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. But these last two, blessedness, beatitudes, if you will,
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  Speaker 1: that we have verse 11 and 12. I'm going to
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  Speaker 1: read those because they, again, in essence, kind of relate
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  Speaker 1: to the last one we just read. So let me
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  Speaker 1: read all three of them together. Verse 10 again. Blessed
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  Speaker 1: are they which are persecuted for righteousness sake, for theirs
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  Speaker 1: is the kingdom of heaven. Blessed are you, Jesus says,
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  Speaker 1: when men shall revile you and persecute you, and shall
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  Speaker 1: say all manner of evil against you falsely. For my
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  Speaker 1: sake rejoice and be exceeding glad, for great is your
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  Speaker 1: reward in heaven, for so persecuted they the prophets which
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  Speaker 1: were before you. There he is, ladies and gentlemen, without doubt,
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  Speaker 1: because these are the words of Jesus. There is without
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  Speaker 1: doubt great blessedness for those of us who are true
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  Speaker 1: believers in Jesus Christ. Those of us who will endure persecution.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible tells us those who will live godly in
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  Speaker 1: Christ Jesus, you'll suffer persecution. We're going to go through tribulations.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to have trials. We're going to be falsely accused.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to be hated. Jesus told us that there
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  Speaker 1: is going to be malice toward us. And in many instances,
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  Speaker 1: we've seen this and it's going to continue. Physical attacks,
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  Speaker 1: death even. For the name of Jesus Christ, for the
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  Speaker 1: cause of the kingdom, for preaching the gospel, for standing
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  Speaker 1: on the truth of God, the word of God. Now,
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  Speaker 1: these promises, again, are coming directly from the Lord Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 1: who himself, by the way, endured far more than any
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  Speaker 1: of us will ever have to encounter in this world.
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  Speaker 1: But for the joy, the Bible says, that was set
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  Speaker 1: before him. And I'm finishing, I'm closing here. Jesus endured
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  Speaker 1: the cross. He suffered the shame and he is now
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  Speaker 1: at the right hand of the majesty on high. And
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  Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, you want to know what Jesus is
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  Speaker 1: doing on our behalf. He is interceding and he is
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  Speaker 1: intervening for all who belong to him. And so we
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  Speaker 1: can have that blessed assurance and we can have that
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  Speaker 1: blessedness that he has promised to those who love him
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  Speaker 1: and who Obey him. Lord, we bless you. We thank you.
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  Speaker 1: We glorify your great name. Thank you for this word,
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  Speaker 1: this word, these blessed promises that are yea and amen
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  Speaker 1: in Christ Jesus our Lord. Bless every listening ear and
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  Speaker 1: every obedient heart in Jesus' name we bring you thanks. Amen.