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Episode 160 - God Over Government · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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  Speaker 1: The Lord is my life, my salvation. Whom shall I fear.
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  Speaker 1: The Lord is the strength of my life. Of whom
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  Speaker 1: shall I be afraid? When the wicked, even my enemies
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  Speaker 1: and my folds, when they came upon me to eat
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  Speaker 1: up my flesh, they stumbled and fell, though in host
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  Speaker 1: should encamp against me. And this will I be confident.
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  Speaker 2: One thing.
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  Speaker 1: The salmon said, that I have desired of the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: and that shall I see, Captain, that I may dwell
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  Speaker 1: in the house of the Lord all the days of
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  Speaker 1: my life. I'm going to behold the beauty of the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to be able to inquire in his temple.
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  Speaker 1: We have a hiding place. We have a refuge, We
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  Speaker 1: have a shelter. We have an anchor for the soul
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  Speaker 1: in Christ. Jesus, our Lord God, bless you. Once again.
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  Speaker 1: We welcome you to this another edition of End Time
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  Speaker 1: Revival Ministries USA podcast for those of you who are
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  Speaker 1: Lord for allowing us this opportunity as always to be
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  Speaker 1: a spokesman for His truth.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. Preach the word, be.
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  Speaker 1: Instant in season out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort with
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  Speaker 1: all long suffering and doctrine. For the time will come
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  Speaker 1: the apostle fall through the power of the Holy Spirit,
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  Speaker 1: through the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, prophesied that they
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  Speaker 1: will not endure sound doctrine. They will heat to themselves
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  Speaker 1: teachers having itching ears, and will turn away their ears
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  Speaker 1: from the truth. But we are, as good soldiers of
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, we are to endure hardness.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And we live, of course in a world that is
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  Speaker 1: by a large hostile to the name of Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 1: to the Kingdom of Heaven, to the command of the
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  Speaker 1: sovereign God of Creation. Hostile to the Church of Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 1: And we must again, as good soldiers, endure afflictions, endure persecution,
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  Speaker 1: and stand Amen in such a time as this, for
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  Speaker 1: the name of Jesus Christ. Amen, and for the Kingdom
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  Speaker 1: of Heaven. And we continue as we have for the
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  Speaker 1: last several weeks on end in our series on God, Government,
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  Speaker 1: Church and State. God, Government, Church and State.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: God, of course is the sovereign king and creator and
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  Speaker 1: ruler over all of the universe, and He himself is
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  Speaker 1: the one who created and established and ordained government.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: But make no mistake about it. Every government ruler is
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  Speaker 1: the servant of God in the sense that whether they
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  Speaker 1: obey God or disobey him.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: His will reigns and rules supreme, and God raises rulers
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  Speaker 1: up and he takes them down.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: But every man everywhere is commanded, Amen, is commanded. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: Fear God and keep His commandments. This is the whole
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  Speaker 1: duty of man. Today we're going to focus on God
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  Speaker 1: over government, God over government. More specifically, we the Church
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus Christ, must obey.
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  Speaker 2: God rather than man. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Fear God rather than man, Obey God rather than mere
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  Speaker 1: mortal man. And today we're going to continue in the
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  Speaker 1: Book of the Acts of the Apostles in just a
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  Speaker 1: few moments. But by the way, if you have your Bibles,
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  Speaker 1: you can turn to the Acts of the Apostles, chapter
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  Speaker 1: number five, where we'll be reading in just a few minutes. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: But before we began, before we dive in, let's take
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  Speaker 1: just a quick moment, as always, to invoke the presence
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord Father again. Great is your faithfulness to us,
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  Speaker 1: Great is your mercy new every morning. Faithful God you are,
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  Speaker 1: even though we fall and sin and come short of
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  Speaker 1: the glory of God. You are forever faithful to us,
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  Speaker 1: forgiving long suffering toward us, not willing that any of
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  Speaker 1: us should perish, but that all should come to repentance.
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  Speaker 1: But we know that your day will come, and we
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  Speaker 1: are looking forward to it. We are hastening to it.
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  Speaker 1: We are even praying. Even so, Come, Lord Jesus, bless us.
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  Speaker 1: Now we shall be blessed. Keep us and we shall
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  Speaker 1: be kept.
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  Speaker 2: Open.
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  Speaker 1: Lord, someone's eyes ears and heart to receive the word
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  Speaker 1: of the Living God, that they may be saved. Thereby
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  Speaker 1: in the name of Jesus the Christ of Cavalry, we
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  Speaker 1: pray and give thanks.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. And Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Now, as we've already emphasized over and over again, perhaps
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  Speaker 1: specifically in the last few sessions, that a government that
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  Speaker 1: is not ruled by a god fearing leader, or by
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  Speaker 1: rulers who will revere an honor the Lord, the God
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  Speaker 1: of creation, the God of Heaven, the God of Earth,
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  Speaker 1: the God of the universe, this will be a government.
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  Speaker 1: This will be a ruler, This will be a king
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  Speaker 1: that will be threatened and fearful of the Church of
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. And we need look no further a man
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  Speaker 1: than the ongoing persecution in our world today that is
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  Speaker 1: against the Church in many religious led nations, nations of
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  Speaker 1: religion a man. And as I've said on numerous occasions,
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  Speaker 1: Christianritianity is not true. Christianity is not a religion.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Christianity is salvation God, Salvation God coming down. Religion is
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  Speaker 1: man reaching up, man attempting. Man are trying to climb
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  Speaker 1: up some other way. But salvation, Amen, through Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 1: is what Christianity, true Christianity.
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  Speaker 2: Is all about.
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  Speaker 1: So we have a world where there are many nations
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  Speaker 1: a man, governments led by religion. Religious order in the
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  Speaker 1: world is not opposed to religion by the way man
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  Speaker 1: is not opposed to religion. Religion has always been around
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  Speaker 1: with man, beginning way back with Babylon really beginning a man,
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  Speaker 1: and with the First Family, where a man Cain sought
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  Speaker 1: to come his own way. Amen, do it his way, Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And so the rebellion of religion and religious orders, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: is what we have in our world, even continuing to
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  Speaker 1: this day. And many nations who are deathly afraid of
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  Speaker 1: the name of Jesus Christ Amen being preached to their people.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And they look at these people as being their people.
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  Speaker 1: They want to keep people in bondage, keep people in subjection,
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  Speaker 1: keep people under their control. And such governments throughout the
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  Speaker 1: history of the Church of Jesus Christ existing in the
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  Speaker 1: world have clearly demonstrated all the world history. Amen. And
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about the true Church of Christ.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm not talking about when the church, Amen, was compromised,
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  Speaker 1: when the Church was infiltrated. I'm talking about the real
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  Speaker 1: true Church. Such governments throughout the history of the Church
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  Speaker 1: existing in this world, Amen, have clearly demonstrated their animosity
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  Speaker 1: towards the Church spreading the good news of liberty that
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  Speaker 1: is to be found in Christ, Jesus they hate the
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  Speaker 1: name of Christ. Jesus told us, he warned his disciples,
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  Speaker 1: He warned them, Amen, over and over again. They hated me.
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  Speaker 1: They're gonna hate you. They rejected me. They're gonna reject you.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Some of you are going to be killed. You're gonna
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  Speaker 1: be brought up before the council. You're gonna have to answer.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: But don't worry, don't even think, don't even meditate beforehand.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to give you words.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to speak in you and through you. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And your adversaries will not be able to a man
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  Speaker 1: resist that which the Holy ghosts in you, will a
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  Speaker 1: man perform. So in their hostility being intimidated by the
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  Speaker 1: growth of the Church, government leaders who feel that power
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  Speaker 1: being uh diminished by the rise of the Church, who
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  Speaker 1: feel their power of being dissolved or taken away. As again,
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  Speaker 1: this is what we're gonna talk about. This is just
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  Speaker 1: a moment the spirit of fear would do to a person.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So so the rising up of the Church puts fear
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  Speaker 1: in the hearts of these government rulers and leaders. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: because again they feel their power being diminished by the Church.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And and they have historically acted, Amen, and an irrational,
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  Speaker 1: an impetuous manner towards the Church of Jesus Christ. Again,
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about the true Church of Jesus Christ. Government
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  Speaker 1: leaders who do not operate in the fear of God.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: They will operate in a fear that comes from the
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  Speaker 1: adversary of their souls unbeknownst to them. In their unbelief
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  Speaker 1: and their rebellion against God, they are operating in the fear,
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  Speaker 1: the spirit of fear that come from the devil. They
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  Speaker 1: need not fear the Church. The fear they need not
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  Speaker 1: fear uh. True uh, followers of Christ, true believers in Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: true disciples of Christ who will do good Amen, following
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  Speaker 1: the footsteps of Jesus. They need not fear the Church.
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  Speaker 1: But again, it is because their father, the devil, is
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  Speaker 1: the one who fears his kingdom being torn apart, his kingdom.
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  Speaker 1: Being a man upset and turned over and shaken and
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  Speaker 1: moved and disturbed, and the light shine upon it that
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  Speaker 1: that's what the devil fears, and so he incites all
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  Speaker 1: of this fear here inside of these a man uh uh,
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  Speaker 1: These these unbelievers who a man have a have an
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  Speaker 1: unwarranted fear of God, an unwarranted fear of the Church,
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  Speaker 1: an unwarranted fear of the people of God preaching again
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ and him crucified. So historically they have acted
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  Speaker 1: irrationally and in an impetuous manner toward the Church, toward
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  Speaker 1: the people of God, a man, when there certainly was
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  Speaker 1: no need for that. Government leaders who do not operate
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  Speaker 1: again in the fear of God, will operate in the
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  Speaker 1: fear of the spirit, of fear that comes from the devil.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Because the fear of the Lord, the Bible says, is
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  Speaker 1: to beginning of wisdom. So if they acted in the
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  Speaker 1: fear of God, in the reverence of Him, they would
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  Speaker 1: have wisdom, They would have knowledge, they would have discretion,
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  Speaker 1: they would have understanding, They would have a man, the
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  Speaker 1: God of Heaven Amen, revealing things to them.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Those rulers who will revere and honor God, Amen, who
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  Speaker 1: rule over their governments in this world, again, they will
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  Speaker 1: have good understanding Amen, and they will have good success.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible says, when the righteous rule, the people rejoice.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: But when the wicked are in power, the people grown. Righteousness,
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  Speaker 1: the Bible teaches, is what exalts a nation. But sin
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  Speaker 1: is a reproach to any people. The spirit of fear
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  Speaker 1: from the devil will torment those a man who refuse
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  Speaker 1: to walk in the knowledge and counsel and in the
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  Speaker 1: fear of God.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom, knowledge
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  Speaker 1: and understanding. The only other fear that there is comes
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  Speaker 1: from the devil. And the Bible tells us teaches us
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  Speaker 1: that God has not given us the spirit of fear,
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  Speaker 1: but of power, love, and a sound mind. You will
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  Speaker 1: make sound decisions, government leaders and rulers if you walk
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  Speaker 1: in the fear of God. And by the way, this
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  Speaker 1: is precisely what happened with the rulers of the Jews. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: with the coming of Jesus and with the establishment of
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  Speaker 1: his church after he ascended back up into heaven, when
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  Speaker 1: the apostles began to work Amen, just as Jesus had
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  Speaker 1: worked with signs and wonders.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And also by the spirit of the Living God confirming them,
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  Speaker 1: confirming their ministry. What happened the rulers, the elders, the scribes, Amen, Pharisees,
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  Speaker 1: the Sadducees, all of them, all of these different again
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  Speaker 1: religious sects, Amen. They were deeply troubled. They were deeply
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  Speaker 1: distressed a man that these men who had by the
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  Speaker 1: way they took note of this, who had been with Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: were now very much a credible threat to them, to
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  Speaker 1: their power over the people. Again, this is all in
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  Speaker 1: their minds. It's again what happens when the spirit of
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  Speaker 1: fear comes. It begins to torment you.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And so it all really kind of began, if you will,
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  Speaker 1: from the Book of the Acts perspective. After again, Jesus
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  Speaker 1: has ascended back up to heaven with the healing of
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  Speaker 1: the Lame Man, which we've already talked about in the
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  Speaker 1: previous podcasts. The Healing of the Lame Man in Acts
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  Speaker 1: chapter number three. This was only the beginning of a
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  Speaker 1: Pentecostal fire. A man that would not and could not
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  Speaker 1: a man be quenched and controlled by a mere mortal man.
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  Speaker 1: Draw near to the fire with reverence and godly fear.
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  Speaker 1: You'll be saved, you'll be delivered. What will happen is
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna burn up the wickedness. It's gonna burn up
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  Speaker 1: the old man. It's gonna quench all of the amen,
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  Speaker 1: the the the ungodly uh things, and and and of sin.
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  Speaker 1: And all of that will be purged out of you.
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  Speaker 1: If you draw near to the fire with reverence and
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  Speaker 1: godly fear, in repentance, with a broken heart and a
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  Speaker 1: contrite spirit, the fire will burn up, the shaft will
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  Speaker 1: burn up that which is unnecessary, unneeded, and and and
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  Speaker 1: which which which, so as the Bible said, easily besets us,
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  Speaker 1: which which drags us down, Amen, which brings us down?
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  Speaker 1: Draw near to the fire, Amen, and you will be saved.
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  Speaker 1: But if you resist the fire of the Holy goat,
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  Speaker 1: you will be burned.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Draw near to the fire, be saved. Resist the fire
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  Speaker 1: and you will be burned. Amen. So Amen. The re
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  Speaker 1: Bible teaches by the way that our God is a
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  Speaker 1: consuming fire.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Our God is a consuming fire. So we don't need
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  Speaker 1: to fear the fire of God, fear the fire that
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  Speaker 1: falls from heaven in a way that Amen, is going
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  Speaker 1: to be detrimental to us. But we need to fear God, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: and keep his commandments and look to obey him. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And again, rather than man. And so if you remember
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  Speaker 1: after the healing of the cripple band, the miracle of
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  Speaker 1: healing that was performed on him was done. And keep
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  Speaker 1: in mind again the man was above forty years old
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  Speaker 1: man it never walked before all the people knew him.
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  Speaker 1: He sat in the tempt u gate daily.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And so when this miracle had been performed on this man,
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  Speaker 1: all of the people a man begin to a man rejoice.
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  Speaker 1: The man himself was leaping and walking, and and and
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  Speaker 1: and all day during that day, a man of rejoicing,
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  Speaker 1: a man the crowd. The people were being converted. And
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  Speaker 1: the Bible says, I believe it was about five thousand
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  Speaker 1: men or so that were added to the church.
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  Speaker 2: A man believing the.
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  Speaker 1: Preaching of the gospel, that Peter went on to preach
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  Speaker 1: to the people.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And and and so with this all of this commotion
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  Speaker 1: happening the government. The rulers described the Pharisees, they were
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  Speaker 1: losing control in their mind. In their mind, they were
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  Speaker 1: losing control in the spirit of fear caused them a
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  Speaker 1: man to lay hold on the apostles and to threaten them,
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  Speaker 1: a man to speak no more, to command them to
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  Speaker 1: speak no more, to preach no more, to teach no
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  Speaker 1: more in the name of Jesus Christ. But the apostles
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  Speaker 1: went back Amen to their own, went back to the church,
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  Speaker 1: had a prayer meeting, and the Bible tells us the
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  Speaker 1: place was shaken. They prayed to the Lord for boldness.
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  Speaker 1: They prayed to the Lord, Amen, that he was strengthen them,
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  Speaker 1: and that the Lord would do even more signs and wonders. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: by the name of Jesus Christ. And so we go
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  Speaker 1: now to chapter number five, or the book of the
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  Speaker 1: Acts of the Apostles. The Bible teaches big Gun, We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna begin reading by the way down at verse number twelve.
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  Speaker 1: So if you have your Bible, please please follow along
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  Speaker 1: with us as we read. And we'll pause intermittently to
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  Speaker 1: a man perhaps comment here and there. But verse number
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  Speaker 1: twelve Acts chapter five and reading from the King James version,
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  Speaker 1: and by the hands of the Apostles, were many what
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  Speaker 1: the Bible says, many signs and wonders walked among the people.
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  Speaker 1: And they were all with one accord in Solomon's porch.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And of the rest verse thirteen, there's no man joined
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  Speaker 1: himself to them, but the people magnified them.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Now listen, listen, listen. The Church is being exalted among
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  Speaker 1: the people.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. The Lord is building his church just as he
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  Speaker 2: promised to do. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus said upon this rock, I will build my church,
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  Speaker 1: and the gates of Hell will not be able to prevail.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And so this is what is happening, This is what
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  Speaker 1: is transpiring. Verse number fourteen tells us that believers were
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  Speaker 1: the more added to the church, added to the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: multitudes of people, both men and women. So the Church
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  Speaker 1: again is being built up by the Lord. And now
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  Speaker 1: this is problematic, Amen, especially again for hostile government, for
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  Speaker 1: a government ruler or rulers, leader or leaders who are
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  Speaker 1: being tormented by the spirit of fear. They fear that
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  Speaker 1: they're going to lose their power, their fearing that they're
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  Speaker 1: going to lose control, Amen, their ability to regulate, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: and to command and.
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  Speaker 2: To issue their decrees. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Because he whom the sun sets free is free indeed, Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And we are to obey God.
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  Speaker 2: Rather than man. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And so the Bible tells us the signs and wonders.
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  Speaker 1: The power the movement was so overwhelming, look what happens
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  Speaker 1: so much so verse fifteen, that they would bring forth
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  Speaker 1: the sick into the streets. The Bible tells us they
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  Speaker 1: laid them on beds and couches, that at the least
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  Speaker 1: the shadow of Peter passing by might overshadow some of them.
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  Speaker 1: In other words, there were so many people, as it
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  Speaker 1: was with Jesus, who were in need of healing, who
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  Speaker 1: were in need of deliverance, who were in need of
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  Speaker 1: a man salvation and victory over a man, all of
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  Speaker 1: what the devil had been doing, the tormenting spirit, and
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  Speaker 1: so forth, a man.
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  Speaker 2: They were in need of it.
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  Speaker 1: But Peter, Amen, and the apostles were a man insufficient
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  Speaker 1: in themselves, not that they you know again, you're talking
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  Speaker 1: about one or two, or ten or twelve, a man,
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  Speaker 1: individuals amongst a multitude of people. And so Peter, a
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  Speaker 1: man particularly being in out with the power of God,
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  Speaker 1: with the Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible tells us that his shadow just in other words, Peter,
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  Speaker 1: just walking down the street, his shadow cast upon these people.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible says, they were vexed with unclean spirits.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: A multitude of people coming out of the cities verse sixteen,
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  Speaker 1: about Jerusalem. And they brought all of these six folk,
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  Speaker 1: sick folk, a man people, a man again, vexed, oppressed,
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  Speaker 1: possessed by unclean spirits. And look what the Bible says,
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  Speaker 1: verse sixteen. And they were healed, every one of them,
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  Speaker 1: every one of them healed by the power of God.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And whenever, please, never, never, never, never, never forget this.
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  Speaker 1: Whenever there is an upheaval to the status quo, a
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  Speaker 1: disruption a man to the minds and hearts and ways
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  Speaker 1: of the powers that be a man, what they are
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  Speaker 1: accustomed to, a man being able to regulate and to control.
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  Speaker 1: Whenever there's an upheaval, whenever there's a disturbance. And this
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  Speaker 1: is exactly what this was, because we'll see a little
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  Speaker 1: bit later. In the Acts of the Apostles, there was
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  Speaker 1: one who testifies, say, these who have turned the world
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  Speaker 1: upside down, so now they're losing They feel in their
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  Speaker 1: minds that they are losing control, that they are losing
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  Speaker 1: their power, and the people are no longer going to
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  Speaker 1: be following their religious order. Now they are compelled to act,
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  Speaker 1: and when they do, it is almost always ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 1: out of fear. They had no reason to fear a man,
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  Speaker 1: They had no reason to fear the Church, and no
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  Speaker 1: reason to fear Amen, the salvation of people being delivered
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  Speaker 1: from sin.
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  Speaker 2: What they feared, Amen, was.
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  Speaker 1: Losing their power and control.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: The spirit of fear tormented them. Look what happens. Look
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  Speaker 1: at verse sevent time. I'm not making it up as
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  Speaker 1: you writing your bibles.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Then the high priest rolls up, and all they that
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  Speaker 1: were with him, which is the sect of the Sadducees,
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  Speaker 1: And the Bible says they were filled with indignation, angry.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible tells us, by the way, be angry and
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  Speaker 1: sin not, because the wrath of man does not produce
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  Speaker 1: the righteousness of God. They were filled with indignation.
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  Speaker 2: You know why they were.
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  Speaker 1: Feeling with indignation, ladies and gentlemen, is because they, in
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  Speaker 1: their you know, pride and pompousness, they thought that they
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  Speaker 1: were in control. And they had commanded the apostles, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: to preach no more, to teach no more in the
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  Speaker 1: name of Jesus. Don't you dare bring the blood of
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  Speaker 1: this man upon us now. Even though they themselves at
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  Speaker 1: the crucifixion of.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus said to Pilot said, in.
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  Speaker 1: The presence of all the people, his blood be on
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  Speaker 1: us and our children. Yeah, kill and crucify him, give
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  Speaker 1: us the rabbits. His blood be upon us. Now, they say, oh, no, no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: don't preach anymore in the name of Jesus, and bring
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  Speaker 1: this man's blood upon us. So they had commanded the apostles. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: they had a man straightly threatened them, don't you preach.
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  Speaker 1: Don't you teach anymore in the name of Jesus. Government intimidation.
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  Speaker 1: They're trying to intimidate. I told you this is how
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  Speaker 1: the devil operates. He first tries to intimidate us.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: If that doesn't work, then it moves on to strong persecution.
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  Speaker 1: And if that doesn't work, then, of course, Amen, they
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  Speaker 1: will physical altercations will ensue. And if that doesn't work,
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  Speaker 1: and none of it works, by the way, then they'll seek.
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  Speaker 2: To kill you and Jesus. Listen. This is all.
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  Speaker 1: This is Old Testament, New Testament. They did it to
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  Speaker 1: the prophets, ay man, they did it to Jesus. They
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  Speaker 1: did it to the apostles. They're still doing it today.
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  Speaker 1: People are being murdered, massacred. Amen, for the name of
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, for the cause of Christ.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So the high priest he rises up with all those
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  Speaker 1: who were with him. The Bible says, the sector of
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  Speaker 1: the sadducees. See, they had the control of the religious
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  Speaker 1: order of the temple of the services, and they are
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  Speaker 1: now feel with indignation. Look what the Bible tells us
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  Speaker 1: verse eighteen. They laid their hands on the apostles and
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  Speaker 1: put them in the common prison. Ah, there they go.
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  Speaker 1: They'll lock you up there. That's another thing. He'll put
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  Speaker 1: you in jail, put you in prison, incocerate you. They'll
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  Speaker 1: invent and make up laws just to stop you.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. They'll come up with all kind of decrees. Amen.
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  Speaker 2: Just to amen again, try to.
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  Speaker 1: Withstand against the fire of God, the fire that is
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  Speaker 1: consuming fire. They don't understand. They don't understand. They really
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  Speaker 1: don't understand. But the Bible said, look what I love this.
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  Speaker 1: I love this matter. Oh I love this. Look at
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  Speaker 1: verse nineteen. But the Angel of the Lord by night
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  Speaker 1: opened the prison doors and brought them forth, and said,
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  Speaker 1: go stand and speak in the temple to the people
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  Speaker 1: all all the words of this life. Lord, have mercy.
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  Speaker 1: I wish I had time. We just to deal with
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  Speaker 1: that alone. Go and stand and speak to the people
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  Speaker 1: all the words of this life. Not all of this foolishness,
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  Speaker 1: not all of this conjecture, not all of these lies.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: But speak life, Amen, the words of this life.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: In the word of life comes from God. In his word,
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  Speaker 1: you will find life in obedience and adherence to His word,
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  Speaker 1: you will live and not die. Amen, Go and stand
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  Speaker 1: and speak to the people all the words of this life.
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  Speaker 1: In him we live and move and have our being.
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  Speaker 1: And without him, and apart from him, we are dead.
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  Speaker 1: We're dead in our trespasses and sin. And we must
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  Speaker 1: have the word of life that comes from God, that
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  Speaker 1: emanates from God, in order to live.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: When they heard that verse one, they entered into the
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  Speaker 1: temple early in the morning and talked. But here comes
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  Speaker 1: the High Priest, the Bible says, and they that were
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  Speaker 1: with him, they called all the council together. So here's
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  Speaker 1: the government assembling all together, a man getting ready to
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  Speaker 1: a man put the apostles on trial, as it were. Again,
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  Speaker 1: bring them up before the council, And the Bible says, Look, old,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not making this right in your Bible. This is
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  Speaker 1: the government at work. The high priests, all who were
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  Speaker 1: with him, they called the council together, all the senate
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  Speaker 1: of the children of Israel, and sent to the prison
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  Speaker 1: to have them brought. But when the officers came found
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  Speaker 1: them not in the prison. They returned and told, saying,
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  Speaker 1: the prison truly found we shut with all safety. Can
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  Speaker 1: somebody say he toned empty prison? Amen, the prison was
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  Speaker 1: shut safely, locked, the keepers, the guards. In other words,
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  Speaker 1: they were standing outside the doors. But when we went inside,
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  Speaker 1: when we opened the door, when we unlocked it, nobody
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  Speaker 1: was there. What in the name? Uh, oh, what in
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  Speaker 1: the name?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? What's in a name?
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  Speaker 1: Oh?
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  Speaker 2: In the name of Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, we have victory, reed, we are victorious, We are
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  Speaker 1: triumphant verse twenty four. When the high priests and the
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  Speaker 1: Captain of the temple and the chief priests heard these things,
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  Speaker 1: they doubted of them. Where in to this we grow,
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  Speaker 1: in other words, the way, way, way, How could this
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  Speaker 1: possibly be? You know, we put chains on them, we
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  Speaker 1: put shackles on them, We locked them up, And nobody
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  Speaker 1: has ever escaped our custody before. What do you mean, Well,
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  Speaker 1: you forgot all about the Jesus that you denied, and
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  Speaker 1: by the way, Jesus by and on many occasions had
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  Speaker 1: escaped out of their desire, they're there, they're they're they're
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  Speaker 1: longing to slay him before the time a man miraculously
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  Speaker 1: uh moving out of there. A myst but but but
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  Speaker 1: but but they can be because they wanted to believe
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  Speaker 1: a lie. See, people just want to believe a lie.
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  Speaker 1: They wanted to believe the lie that Jesus was still
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  Speaker 1: dead even though he was not in the grave.
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  Speaker 2: And they knew that.
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  Speaker 1: And they bribe the guards and say, hey, just tell
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  Speaker 1: them the disciples came and stole his body. Listen, no grave,
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  Speaker 1: no prison, can't stop, can't nothing, nothing of man can
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  Speaker 1: stop what God is doing. They locked up Paul, and
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  Speaker 1: men put him in prison. What did he do while
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  Speaker 1: he was there? Wrote those prison epistles, Oh my God,
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  Speaker 1: Oh God, God, God has a way, even in the
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  Speaker 1: midst of persecution. A man in the midst of man
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  Speaker 1: again attempting Amen.
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  Speaker 2: To stop the fire of God.
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  Speaker 1: Amen from burning up sin, Amen from burning up the
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  Speaker 1: old way of man, the doings of man, the wickedness
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  Speaker 1: of man. And you can't stop this fire. You can't
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  Speaker 1: stop it. So they they say, wait, wait, what how
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  Speaker 1: could this have happened?
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  Speaker 2: Amen?
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  Speaker 1: They doubted of them where into this would grow? And
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  Speaker 1: then the Bible says, somebody comes verse twenty five and
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  Speaker 1: tells them, behold, the men whom you put in prison
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  Speaker 1: are standing in the temple and teaching the people. So
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  Speaker 1: then the Bible says, went to the captain with the officers.
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  Speaker 1: This is the police, the government police, amen, and brought
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  Speaker 1: them without violence, for they feared the people, lest they
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  Speaker 1: should have been stoned. And when they brought them, the
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  Speaker 1: Bible says they set them before the council, and the
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  Speaker 1: high priests ask them listen to these words verse twenty
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  Speaker 1: eight and twenty nine, saying, did not we straightly command
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  Speaker 1: you that you should not teach in this name? And behold,
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  Speaker 1: you have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine and intend to
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  Speaker 1: bring this man's blood upon us. Man, I wish sometimes
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  Speaker 1: I would just wish I could, I could just I
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  Speaker 1: could just see how all of this actually just really transpire.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you have to use your imagination, if you will,
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  Speaker 1: to see Peter and John and the apostles standing there,
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  Speaker 1: and the high priests having the temerity.
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  Speaker 2: To now say that is now the fault that is
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  Speaker 2: now on Peter and John and James and Bartholomew and
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  Speaker 2: Matthew to.
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  Speaker 1: Bring upon them the guilt of the shed blood of Jesus.
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  Speaker 2: When they said.
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  Speaker 1: When they themselves said, his blood be on us and
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  Speaker 1: our children, just kill him, Pilot, crucify him, crucify him,
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  Speaker 1: get rid of him. He's a nuisance to us. He's
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  Speaker 1: a threat to our power and our religious order.
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  Speaker 2: Kill him. Now.
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  Speaker 1: You are preaching this Jesus, Amen, and intend to bring
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  Speaker 1: this man's blood upon us. You are filling Jerusalem with
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  Speaker 1: your doctrine. Oh that we would, Oh that we would
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  Speaker 1: abide in the doctrine of Christ, all that we would
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  Speaker 1: preach the doctrine of Christ in our world today. Then
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  Speaker 1: Peter verse twenty nine, and the other apostles answered and said,
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  Speaker 1: we ought to obey God rather than men, ladies and gentlemen.
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  Speaker 1: It is God over government. We are not ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 1: Church of the Living God. We are not to fear
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  Speaker 1: mere mortal man. Jesus taught his disciples, he trained them,
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  Speaker 1: he prepared them. Even though this that fear did come,
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  Speaker 1: and they were cowering in fear after Jesus was taken,
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  Speaker 1: after Jesus man was crucified. Amen, But God, through the
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  Speaker 1: resurrection of Jesus, through the amen witnessing of his resurrected body,
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  Speaker 1: his presence being with them, these same men were now emboldened. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: had the courage a man to stand in the face
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  Speaker 1: of all of these hostile threats of the government, A
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  Speaker 1: man of the rulers of the leaders, who were being
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  Speaker 1: tormented by the spirit of fear of losing their own
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  Speaker 1: power and control of the people, of this disrupting of
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  Speaker 1: the status quo of their religious order. They were being
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  Speaker 1: a man driven and compelled to now persecute the apostles,
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  Speaker 1: just again as Jesus had warned and prepared them.
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  Speaker 2: But Peter.
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  Speaker 1: And the other apostles, the high priests, they answered the
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  Speaker 1: rulers of the Jews, the government officials, with these words,
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  Speaker 1: we ought to obey God rather than man, God over government.
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  Speaker 2: We need in our day, ladies.
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  Speaker 1: And gentlemen, the same kind of boldness we need in
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  Speaker 1: our day.
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  Speaker 2: To be of good courage. We need.
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  Speaker 1: In our day to obey God rather than man, God
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  Speaker 1: over government. God help us, God be with us, God
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  Speaker 1: strengthen us. Just as the apostles went back and prayed
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  Speaker 1: for boldness, for courage, for signs and wonders to be done.
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  Speaker 1: Through your name, Lord, we pray even now that you
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  Speaker 1: will raise up a generation that will obey, that you
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  Speaker 1: will raise up a people, a nation of witnesses, who
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  Speaker 1: will stand in the face of fear, stand in the
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  Speaker 1: face of intimidation, stand in the face of persecution. Stand
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  Speaker 1: in the face of the enemy coming in like a flood,
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  Speaker 1: knowing that you are our refuge, our source, our strength,
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  Speaker 1: our shield, our strong tower, our shadow of protection. Under
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  Speaker 1: your wings, Lord, we give you praise, glory and honor.
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  Speaker 1: Right now. We know that you're able to do, exceeding
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  Speaker 1: abundantly above all we can even ask or think. We
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  Speaker 1: give you the glory now in the name of Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Amen and Amen.