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Living Waters of Grace February 27, 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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  There's a purpose in all these things and God is ultimately
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  glorified. And one day this enemy of our
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  souls and the enemy of the Kingdom of God will be one day
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  in that final judgement cast into the lake of fire forever
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  and ever and ever to bother or hassle anyone again.
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  But he's always working to trouble the church.
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  His big focus is to destroy the Church of Jesus Christ.
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  The good news is Jesus Christ says I will build my church and
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  the gates of hell will not prevail against it.
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  I was recently encouraged by a friend who shared with me that
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  we need not fear the devil in his schemes.
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  He said that gates are a defensive structure, something
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  used to prevent or withstand an attack.
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  If hell has gates, that means that Christ and all of heaven
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  along with him is on the attack. Pastor Clark reminds us today
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  that while we ought to be wary of the devil and his Wiles, to
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  be vigilant, but we should also walk in confidence knowing that
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  we've already been given the victory through Christ.
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  Now here's Pastor Clark in the Book of Psalms Chapter 32 with
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  today's edition of Living Waters of Grace.
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  He promises He'll never leave us or forsake us.
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  Sometimes we feel like God, where are you?
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  I felt like that at times. I'm sure you have too.
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  You're going through something. You're like, Lord, where are you
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  in all this? But He's there, He's always
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  there. He promises never to leave us.
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  He walks through it with us. I like what Psalm 32 says.
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  He says, behold, the eye of the Lord is on those who fear Him,
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  on those who hope in His mercy to deliver their soul from death
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  and to keep them alive. And in falling.
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  Our soul waits for the Lord. He is our help and our shield,
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  for our heart shall rejoice in Him because we have trusted in
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  His holy name. Let your mercy, O Lord, be upon
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  us, just as we hope in you. He says that in these trials, in
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  the midst of these trials, they're rich.
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  And James says in chapter 2, verse 5, Listen, my beloved
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  brethren, has God not chosen the poor of this world to be rich in
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  faith and heirs of the Kingdom which He promised to them who
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  love Him? I think about the Christians in
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  Haiti. You've seen them on TV, haven't
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  you? They have lost everything.
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  They didn't have anything to begin with.
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  One of the most poor countries in the world.
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  They have this horrendous earthquake that wipes out over
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  200,000 people. Many of them lost their
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  children, their spouses, their loved ones, their friends and I
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  was blown away to see them assembling together, raising
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  their hands and worshipping God. Poor inheriting the Kingdom of
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  God. He speaks about the adversary,
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  the devil, and he is a real being.
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  He is interested in destroying all of our lives.
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  The Bible tells us the devil has come to seek and to kill and to
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  rob and to destroy. He is involved in this world
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  every day to keep it from knowing the truth of Jesus
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  Christ. He is sending his emissaries out
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  all the time to prevent you and me from growing and the grace
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  and the knowledge of God. He wants us to be stunted,
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  immature Christians. He wants us to live without our
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  inheritance in this world, not experiencing the Kingdom of God
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  within. He'll do everything he can to
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  destroy your faith. The Lord allows him to work.
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  That's the mystery. And the purposes of God are
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  sometimes very, very complex for our human frail minds to
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  understand. But the Bible tells us that
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  God's ways aren't our ways. Neither are his thoughts.
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  Our thoughts for his ways are so much higher than our ways, and
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  His thoughts so much higher than ours.
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  There's a purpose in all these things, and God is ultimately
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  glorified. And one day this enemy of our
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  souls and the enemy of the Kingdom of God will be one day
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  in that final judgment cast into the lake of fire forever and
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  ever and ever to bother or hassle anyone again.
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  But he's always working to trouble the church.
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  His big focus is to destroy the Church of Jesus Christ.
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  The good news is Jesus Christ says I will build my church and
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  the gates of hell will not prevail against it.
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  The enemy can take everybody out, but it can't stop the work
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  of God moving on. And many of these people had
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  given their lives in this day and Smyrna for the sake of the
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  gospel. But it hasn't stopped the
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  movement of the gospel 2000 years later.
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  He speaks about these people that are enemies of God and
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  they're tools of the devil. It says these folks say they are
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  Jews and they are not two different kind of Jews.
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  Jews that have a heart for Messiah.
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  Jews who are waiting. Jews, even at the time of Christ
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  crucifixion, were sensitive, even though they couldn't
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  understand that he at this time was the one they were waiting
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  for. They had a vulnerable, a
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  vulnerability of softness. Many of them eventually did come
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  to believe on Christ. Because the early church was
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  made-up primarily of Jews and they carried the worship of the
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  synagogue right into the New Testament.
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  Many of the symbolism and the pictures and the art and the
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  design of the priestly garments and robes were carried through
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  from the Jewish temple. It's interesting as we're
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  reading right now in Exodus, isn't it the, the, the specific
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  detail on how God wanted that Tabernacle built, the colors,
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  the, the length of the, the material that was used, the
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  embroidery and the, the symbolism, the type at this,
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  this mind blowing of the, of the beauty of, of God and and his
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  Kingdom, his church. But there were obviously as
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  there is today, not any Jews but Gentiles who cannot stand the
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  gospel of Christ and they are the enemies of the gospel.
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  I would say organizations like the ACLU, they are dead set
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  against our freedoms as Christians and the message that
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  we proclaim the person we believe in and trust in his Lord
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  and Savior. Many, many people today on the
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  liberal side of the agenda that are pushing all these teachings
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  of of really ungodliness are against what we do here, what we
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  do as churches in these last days, standing on the scriptures
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  and teaching the word of God. And so because of the large
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  population of Jews in Smyrna, the Christians were really
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  overrun by all these people that wanted to destroy them.
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  It was a tough place to be a Christian in.
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  They were the main enemies of the gospel.
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  Verse 10, he says to them again, don't fear these things which
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  you are about to suffer. Luke chapter 12, verse 4, Jesus
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  says to the disciples, my friends, do not fear those who
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  kill the body and after that have no more that they can do,
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  but fear the one who has the power to cast 1 into hell.
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  So Christ himself reminding us that we're not to fear what man
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  can do to us. You know, there's this element
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  of fear that we all have, a fear of disease, fear of failure,
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  fear of financial ruin, fear of losing job.
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  We all, we all struggle with a certain type of fear, but a fear
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  of knowing that you're in the jail cell tonight.
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  This is your last night on earth.
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  And you know, tomorrow you're going to be thrown to the lions
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  or you're going to have your head cut off because of your
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  faith. And you're probably walking
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  around pacing in the cell saying, Lord, I really believe
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  you. But I really have to go through
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  this. Is there another way out of
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  this? You know, would you mind if I
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  just, you know, I really believe in you, but would you mind if I
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  just told him I didn't? I'm sure those things would go
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  through all of our minds and our hearts, especially when our
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  families maybe were at home and we knew that we wouldn't see
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  them again until the next life. The struggle of having to wait
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  for the Lord to bring everything to a final culmination in the
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  last day. But I think about martyrs.
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  I think about Stephen, the first martyr in the New Testament in
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  Acts Chapter 7. This is what happened after he's
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  being accused of treason and he's speaking out and
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  proclaiming the gospel with all his heart, all his mind, all his
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  soul is strength, such conviction and fervor and love
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  in his heart for the people he's speaking to.
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  He's speaking to them about who Jesus is and what he did for
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  them. It says that people were so
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  angry they clenched their teeth. They just like, let me, Adam,
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  let me get rid of him, just like they wanted to get rid of
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  Christ. And it says, but he being full
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  of the Holy Spirit. And that's the key, guys.
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  No matter what we're going through in life, the struggles,
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  the fears, the anxieties, the pressures at work or home or
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  wherever, when we are filled with the Holy Spirit, we're
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  overcomers. But when we're filled with our
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  own vanity and pride and our own fear, we're basket cases.
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  Stephen's full of the Holy Spirit.
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  He gazes into heaven and God gives him a vision.
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  He sees the glory of God and Jesus standing at the right hand
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  of God. I love that Christ stood up.
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  He it says right now he's seated at the right hand of Father ever
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  living to make intercession for us, his Saints day and night.
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  He's praying for us all the time.
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  But there's a limit, isn't there?
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  What he's going to allow to happen to his kids.
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  And so he sees what's going on with Stephen and he couldn't
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  help but to stand up. And one day he's going to stand
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  up and not only stand up, but come back and put all things in
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  order and he's going to destroy wickedness from the face of the
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  earth, and no one will ever raise their hand to one of his
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  children again. What a day that'll be.
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  When are Jesus? We shall see when we look into
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  his face, the one who saved us by his grace, the old song, what
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  a day, glorious day that will be.
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  And so Jesus, he stands in the right hand of the Father.
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  And Stephen says, look, I see the heavens opened and the Son
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  of man standing at the right hand of God.
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  What a privilege he was given. And as they began to stone him,
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  he's calling on God, and he's saying, Lord Jesus, receive my
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  spirit. He kneels down and he cries with
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  a loud voice. Lord, do not charge them with
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  this sin. And when he had said this, he
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  fell asleep. He went to be with the Lord.
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  What love, huh? You know, the the example of
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  martyrs, they're not proud and they're not hating the people
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  that are killing them. Their hearts are breaking for
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  the people that are taking their lives.
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  And that's the love of Jesus Christ.
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  I think of what he said when he was being crucified on the
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  cross. He said, Father forgive them for
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  they know not what they do. All of us are responsible for
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  crucifying Christ. We know we're guilty and we know
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  it's our sin that caused him to die.
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  And he says to his Father, Father, forgive all those people
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  for they know not what they do. And and then we see Stephen, a
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  stunning example of the person of Jesus Christ and his witness,
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  his testimony, his countenance. Lord, don't charge us to them.
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  Don't charge us sin to them. I think of the the gospel and
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  the Beatitudes when Jesus says love your enemies, pray for
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  those who despitefully use you and say O manner of evil about
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  you for my name's sake. Guys, if we're not loving
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  people, the people that drive us nuts, the people that mess our
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  lives up, the people that hurt us the most and wound us the
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  greatest, if we don't love them, then we aren't like Stephen, are
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  we? We're not like Jesus.
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  We need to say to the Lord, when people do things to us, Lord,
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  don't charge this sin to their account on my behalf that we
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  love them. That's the gospel.
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  That's what Christianity is, isn't it?
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  Not a bunch of words. It's real action, real love.
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  First Peter 314 says even if you should suffer for righteousness
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  sake, do not be afraid of their thoughts or be troubled or their
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  threats or not to be afraid. And the, the definition of
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  fearlessness, being fearless is not necessarily a total absence
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  of dread. You know, when you're facing
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  something that you know, man, you're, you're scared and you
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  don't know how you're going to get through it.
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  When you're fearless, it doesn't mean you don't have a sense of
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  dread or what if or you know that's human stuff.
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  But rather it's the refusal to succumb to the intimidation of
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  the circumstance of trial so that the threats of harm do not
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  turn you back from your loyalty and faith in Christ, no matter
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  what. He speaks about this warfare in
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  verse 10. Do not fear these things which
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  are about to come upon you. The testing, the persecution.
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  The devil, he says clearly is about to throw some of you into
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  prison that you may be tested. He says you will have
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  tribulation for 10 days. You know, the devil is, it's
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  interesting his, his influence. On one hand, he's a destroyer.
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  On the other hand, God uses them in some sense to be a
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  sanctifier. Isn't that ironic?
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  Because like in Job, a book that Christians don't like to read,
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  the worst of things happen to this guy, right?
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  And there was a conversation in the 1st chapter where God's
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  talking to Satan. Where you been?
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  Oh, I've been roaming up and down on to and fro, going all
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  around, you know, and this subject comes up about Job.
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  He's a man of great faith, a man who would never deny and always
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  be faithful. And Satan saying, well, you
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  know, it's easy for him. You got a hedge around him.
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  Nothing can touch his life. I bet if you took that hedge
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  down and gave me some opportunity to mess with him,
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  he'd curse you. Well, Job never cursed God.
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  He struggled through the circumstances and the trials.
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  His heart was broken at times. He had questions.
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  God can handle the questions when you want to ask him.
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  Doesn't mean you're going to get an answer.
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  But he did give Joe some pretty profound answers.
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  Were you there when I hung the universe in space and suspended
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  the stars? He just begins to talk about his
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  great creative power and his incredible miraculous ability to
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  create all this out of nothing. And I can just see Joe because
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  he's hearing that. I get it, Laura.
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  I get who am I? Who is any of us the question of
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  greatness of our God, but the testing will make us stronger in
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  the Lord. When you guys go through trials,
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  I know it's not something you want to jump up and down and be
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  excited about, but it says in James 1/2, it says my brother
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  encountered all joy. When you fall into various
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  trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience,
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  it's going to make you more like Jesus.
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  It really, it really does. And all of us who have been
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  through trials and testings and difficulties, we're becoming
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  more like him. But whenever we fight the trials
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  and we try to run away from them, we don't want to deal with
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  it. We have to later on go back and
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  go through perhaps something different in order to learn what
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  it is that the Lord wants us to learn.
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  Jesus tells us in the Gospels in Matthew 5.
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  Blessed are you when there reviling and persecuting you and
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  they're saying all kinds of evil against you falsely for my sake.
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  Rejoice and be exceedingly glad for great is your reward in
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  heaven for so they persecuted the prophets who were before
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  you. So when you got people that
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  really hate you because of your stand for Christ or they want to
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  make comments about you because they don't think you're perfect
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  enough or whatever, just smile, enjoy it because great will be
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  your reward when you are given persecution and criticism and
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  remarks about your walk with the Lord and your faith.
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  That's a wonderful thing to have the privilege of, of, of
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  hearing. And if you accept it lovingly
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  and pray for the people that are saying these things about you,
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  he promises a great reward in heaven.
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  First Peter chapter 1, If you flip over there just for a
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  minute, so much of this parallels the the writings of
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  some of the other apostles. First, Peter, I want you to read
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  this for yourself first. Peter, chapter one, verse 6
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  through 9, it says in this you greatly rejoice, though now for
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  a little while if need be, you have been grieved by various
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  trials. Some of you today I know are in
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  various trials and you're grieved about it.
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  You don't like what you're experiencing.
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  You don't like what you're going through.
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  But the purpose of this is in verse 7 that the genuineness of
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  your faith being much more precious and gold that perish,
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  though it's tested by fire, may be found to praise, honor and
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  glory at the revelation of Jesus Christ.
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  In other words, is our faith real?
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  If it's real, it'll last the trial, it'll get through the
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  difficulty. It won't abandoned the gospel of
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  Jesus Christ. It'll get stronger and closer to
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  the Lord. What's the scripture say?
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  Though he slay me, yet I will trust him.
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  That's someone who knows who God is, someone who loves God and
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  knows, hey, this body going to last 7080 years at best.
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  But my Lord and my God, I will be with him for all eternity.
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  For Peter says whom having not yet seen you love, though now
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  you do not see him yet you believe you rejoice with joy
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  inexpressible and full of glory receiving the end of your faith,
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  the salvation of your souls. He talks about this ten days of
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  of trials and it's not so much we're just going to have 10 days
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  of problems here and everything is going to be cool.
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  Now there was actually in the sense of we take a literal
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  perspective of what he's he's representing here.
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  There was a wave of persecution that began and continued to the
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  3rd century unlike any other time of persecution on the face
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  of the earth, unlike any time up until the soon coming
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  tribulation that will fall upon this earth in Christ timing.
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  There was 10 actual empires, emperors that persecuted the
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  church throughout the first 3 centuries.
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  And so we believe this is what this is referring to.
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  And it's important to realize that we all want everything to
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  go great in our lives, right? I mean, that's just human
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  nature. No pressure, no hassle.
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  Martyrdom, boy, God bless those people.
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  Not here in America. Let that stay over there in
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  Indonesia and China and Afghanistan and Sudan.
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  Not here, but I don't know where we're going as a country.
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  It doesn't seem like we're going in the right place right now.
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  And if things don't turn around, if Christians don't stand up for
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  the truth and that our light is not hid under a basket, but it's
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  seen in the workplace, the marketplace, the community.
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  If we're not preaching and being using the freedoms we have,
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  we'll lose the freedoms. And but we're not, we're not
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  promised to be protected from martyrdom.
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  I can't stand here today and tell you this.
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  Keep believing in Jesus and love Him.
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  And you'll have no problems in your life.
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  Joel Osteen will tell you that. I can't tell you that.
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  The Bible doesn't tell you that, does it?
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  In the world you will have tribulation, Jesus says, would
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  be of good cheer. I've overcome the world.
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  And so Jesus says, be faithful unto death, and you'll receive
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  the crown. James 112 says blessed is a man
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  who endorsed temptation. For when he has been approved,
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  that means when he's been seen as being faithful, he will
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  receive the crown of life, which the Lord has promised to those
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  who love him. And he promises that these folks
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  in Smyrna, if they endure, when they're tested, he will give
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  them the crown of life and they will not have to deal or be hurt
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  by the second death. Revelation 2040 talks about
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  that. You flip over there.
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  We'll get to that down the road. But 2014, it says the death,
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  then death in Hades, it's the end of time.
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  We're cast into the lake of fire.
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  This is a second death, and anyone not found written in the
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  Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire.
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  No call to repent in this church.
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  How would you like to be a member of the church in Smyrna?
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  Any hands raised? You'd rather be in Ephesus or
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  Laodicea? They're rich and everything's
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  going great. And Jesus says that you know
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  you're naked and poor, wretched and blind.
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  How many months have joined the Church of Smyrna here?
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  I don't think any of us want to join that church because of what
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  they went through. But look at the promise that God
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  said they're going to have. See the problem with us as
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  humans? We're looking at like the here
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  and now. We need to have a vision of
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  eternity, guys, right? Because all this stuff here
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  today isn't going to last. What's going to last is what's
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  going to be in eternity. Souls, humans, people who are
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  saved, heaven and earth will pass away.
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  But he that does the will of God, the word of God abides
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  forever. I pray though, that we have a
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  kind of heart like Smyrna, though, guys, not Ephesus, but
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  be hot. Be hot for the Lord in the
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  trials that you go through. Let the Lord make you deeper and
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  more faithful and more radical in your commitment and your love
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  for him. And I love the fact that this
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  church wasn't given the admonition of needing to repent.
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  Because when you're in trials, you don't need to repent because
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  you're, you don't, you don't know 1 needs to tell you to
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  repent. You are repenting, right?
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  The first thing that happens when we go through a trial.
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  Is there anything, Lord, in my life that you need to deal with?
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  And if there is, here it is. I give it to you.
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  I want what you want. I don't want my way.
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  I want your way. And, and then man, your, your
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  life as a Christian is astounding.
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  And so God knows when to bring the trials and he knows what
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  he's doing in all of our lives, whether we think he does or not.
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  I don't want to see anybody have to deal with the second death
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  being thrown into the lake of fire and hell forever.
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  If you've never put your faith in Jesus Christ, this is not
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  made-up here. What I'm talking to you guys
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  about this is the word of God. Your soul's weigh in the
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  balance. You hear the gospel, you hear
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  the message, you hear the truth of Jesus Christ.
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  The day is a day of salvation. If you're here today and you've
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  never said, Lord, I'm a Sinner and I need Jesus to be my
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  Savior, Just quietly in your own heart, just let the Lord do
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  that. Let him save you.
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  Just submit to him that you're a Sinner.
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  It's real simple. And that you want him to save
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  you and that's, that's it. And then He'll Holy Spirit comes
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  into you, and He begins to show you the way to walk and makes
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  things clear. We are digging into the Book of
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  Revelation here on Living Waters of Grace.
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  Pastor Clark is tackling this challenging book as we try to
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  discern the messages that are within its pages.
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  There's so much imagery and at times you're not always sure
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  what's literal and what's metaphorical.
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  At one point there's a reference to an adulterous woman riding on
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  a beast. And as someone else mentioned,
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  at one point it almost sounds like a rodeo from hell.
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  And in actuality it kind of is. You learn about the downfall and
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  demise of a sinful and rebellious world, falling down
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  in worship to someone who is the anti hero, the enemy, Satan
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  working his insidious ways into the minds of fallen people.
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  It's sad and it's heartbreaking, but it's a classic story of good
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  versus evil. Thankfully, we know how this
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  story ends. Jesus wins, Jesus reigns, and
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  evil is conquered once and for all.
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  We pray and trust you've received Jesus as your Savior.
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  But if you haven't, don't wait until the events in Revelation
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  become what's happening on the streets.
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  None of us wants you to be there at that time.
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  Instead, we'd love for you to be with us in heaven as we
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  celebrate the marriage supper with Jesus as his bridegroom.
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  To get a better understanding of where we are in the Book of
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  Revelation, to listen to any messages before or after this
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  one, you can find them at our website,
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  calvarychapelonline.com. That's it for today's edition,
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  but we hope you'll want to hear Pastor Clark teach more from the
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  Book of Revelation. It can be exciting to think
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  about the future for believers, but it can feel a bit harrowing
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  for those who don't believe. Come hear more next time on
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  Living Waters of Grace.