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Episode 158 - Governments Disturbed · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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  Speaker 1: I love the Lord who heard my cry and he
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  Speaker 1: has pitied every grown. We welcome you once again to
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  Speaker 1: this another edition of End the Time Revival Ministry. She
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  Speaker 1: would say, podcast for those of you who are again
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  Speaker 1: listening to us by way of our audio podcast, and
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  Speaker 1: of course we also welcome those of you who are
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  Speaker 1: viewing us by way of our YouTube channel One Voice
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  Speaker 1: in the Wilderness. We thank God again for another day
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  Speaker 1: and another opportunity a man to speak forth the truth
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  Speaker 1: of God's word in a time and season, in a
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  Speaker 1: culture such as this. We proclaim the truth of God
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  Speaker 1: with boldness and clarity. Plainness of speech is what we
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  Speaker 1: endeavor to do a man. And we are again eternally
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  Speaker 1: grateful to the Lord for this Amen calling. We don't
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  Speaker 1: take it for granted. Amen. By the grace of God,
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  Speaker 1: we are what we are and where we are, and
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  Speaker 1: it again is because of a man, the sacrifice of
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, who gave himself a ransom for our sins,
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  Speaker 1: delivered us from the power of the darkness of this world. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And again we are a man thankful, and we bless
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  Speaker 1: his name. All right Again we continue in our Amen
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  Speaker 1: series on God, Government, Church and State, God Government Church
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  Speaker 1: and State. And today we're going to be looking at
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  Speaker 1: a man disturbed governments disturbed, Amen, governments. And before we begin,
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  Speaker 1: and by the way, if you have your Bible, but
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  Speaker 1: you can go with us. The Acts of the Apostles.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to be in chapter number three today and
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  Speaker 1: a little bit into chapter number four. Let's pray and
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  Speaker 1: look to the Lord again. Lord, we are always and
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  Speaker 1: forever grateful to you for a man, the blood of
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ that we shed for the remission of our sins.
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  Speaker 1: We thank you for this great salvation, the hope that
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  Speaker 1: we have that is in You, that is eternal. Lord.
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  Speaker 1: We look to you now as the author and the
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  Speaker 1: finish of our faith. And we pray that your word,
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  Speaker 1: Lord will penetrate within the heart of someone today. Let
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  Speaker 1: it be effectual in them. Oh God, work or work
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  Speaker 1: in all of us for your glory, honor, praise, and majesties.
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  Speaker 1: In the name of Jesus the Christ of Caviarty, we
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  Speaker 1: pray and your thanks, Amen and amen. All right, God
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  Speaker 1: bless you again. All right, let's go again. If you
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  Speaker 1: have your Bibles to the Acts of the Apostles. I'll
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  Speaker 1: get there in just a few moments. But as we've
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  Speaker 1: already seen in our examination of the text of the
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  Speaker 1: scriptures in previous podcasts, what I'm referring to on this
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  Speaker 1: topic of God, government, church, and state. We have seen
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  Speaker 1: that the God of Creation is intimately involved in the
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  Speaker 1: affairs of this world, the world that He of course
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  Speaker 1: has made for his glory, his honor, his praise, his majesty,
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  Speaker 1: his dominion. Amen, it is God who ordained an established government.
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  Speaker 1: Let's not forget that God is the one who ordained
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  Speaker 1: and established government in this world. And in despite of
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  Speaker 1: the wickedness of the hearts of man a man, God
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  Speaker 1: still moves and operates within the government. Amen. And and
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  Speaker 1: and and to the chagrin and unbelief, of course of
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  Speaker 1: the carnal man, God yet rules in the kingdom of men.
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  Speaker 1: And again, if you go back, as we pointed out
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  Speaker 1: in particularly Daniel chapter four, pagan king by the name
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  Speaker 1: of Anferican has found this out a man, and he
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  Speaker 1: it is that made this state. We believe it is
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  Speaker 1: God who reigns and rules in the kingdom of men
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  Speaker 1: and gives it to whomsoever he wills. Amen. He's the
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  Speaker 1: great orchestrator, a man and ruler over all a man
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  Speaker 1: that exists. So in this series, of course, thus far, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: we have observed that a man. Of course, government leaders
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  Speaker 1: in particular do not like opposition. They don't like opposition
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  Speaker 1: number one. Government leaders. Amen, they prefer the status quo.
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  Speaker 1: And if and when there is change, Amen, it must
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  Speaker 1: be controlled by those who are in power. They don't
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  Speaker 1: like change, They like the status quot. So when change happens, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: they want to be able to control it, Amen, to
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  Speaker 1: regulate it, and so in their minds, in their minds,
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  Speaker 1: all institutions must be regulated a man by the rulers
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  Speaker 1: of this world. Which is why the true and I
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  Speaker 1: mean true Church of Jesus Christ a man will always
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  Speaker 1: be problematic a man for these princes and nobles and
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  Speaker 1: kings and rulers of the world, because they operate cornally,
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  Speaker 1: a man under the rule of the prince of the
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  Speaker 1: power of the air Satan. And this is how and
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  Speaker 1: where he primarily reached the majority of his habitants his
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  Speaker 1: destruction a man. It is through these who sit in
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  Speaker 1: high places. Nevertheless, of course, we take comfort in what
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  Speaker 1: Jesus said, and knowing and having this assurance that the
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  Speaker 1: gates of hell shall not prevail against the onslaught of
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  Speaker 1: the Church. And keep in mind, of course, that means
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  Speaker 1: we are on the offensive. We're not on the defensive.
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  Speaker 1: We are on the offensive. And please also note that
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  Speaker 1: the governments of this world and not necessarily opposed to religion.
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  Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, a man, many of them,
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  Speaker 1: are ruined and operated by religion. They hate and reject
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  Speaker 1: Jesus as their messiah, king and their ruling authority. That's
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  Speaker 1: the problem of ladies and gentlemen. They hate Jesus. They
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  Speaker 1: don't hate religion. They don't have a problem with religion.
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  Speaker 1: So we're not talking about religion. And by the way,
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  Speaker 1: as I've said so many times, and it bears repeating, Christianity,
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  Speaker 1: I'm talking about true Christianity. We're talking about salvation. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not come back from the world's perspective. I mean from
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  Speaker 1: the biblical perspective. Christianity is not a religion a man.
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  Speaker 1: Christianity is God's salvation. Christianity is Christianity is all about redemption,
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  Speaker 1: God redeeming a people, a man for his namesake. So
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  Speaker 1: and again me reiterate. We talk about amen government being
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  Speaker 1: in opposition to the Church. We're talking about the true
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  Speaker 1: Church of Jesus Christ. They're not opposed to religion, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: They're not opposed to faith. It is only when the
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  Speaker 1: faith involves the exclusivity of Jesus Christ as Messiah, Jesus
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  Speaker 1: Christ as King, Jesus Christ as Lord. That's where governments, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: are hostile. And when they are hostile. And we've seen
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  Speaker 1: this throughout the history of the Church of Jesus Christ
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  Speaker 1: post Pentecosts, in particular. Amen, that the world of human
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  Speaker 1: governments globally, Amen, have not only been adversarial to the
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  Speaker 1: true Church of Jesus Christ, but in many cases, and
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  Speaker 1: very often overtly, they don't even hide it. Amen, they
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  Speaker 1: have sought the total destruction of the Church. Amen. And
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  Speaker 1: so what we're going to see very shortly here and
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  Speaker 1: Acts chapter three, if you have your Bibles, that the
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  Speaker 1: opposition and persecution that Jesus warned his apostles about, that
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  Speaker 1: he warned them what happened to them, and he diligently,
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  Speaker 1: of course, prepared them for this. And certainly the outpouring
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  Speaker 1: of the Holy Spirit upon them, and the visible manifestation
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus Christ risen from the dead, that they all witness.
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  Speaker 1: And then the Bible tells Us above five hundred brethren, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: saw him after his resurrection. So you take those two
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  Speaker 1: things in conjunction, Amen, with the Word of God and
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  Speaker 1: the promises of God being fulfilled. So you have the
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  Speaker 1: Word of God, you have the Spirit of God, and
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  Speaker 1: you have a man there eye witness, a man visage visual, visual,
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  Speaker 1: if you will, seeing Jesus after he was raised from
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  Speaker 1: the dead. That put all of the confidence. It changed
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  Speaker 1: everything a man. I cannot even emphasize enough a man,
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  Speaker 1: the resurrection of Jesus Christ changing everything. Amen. So after
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  Speaker 1: we and we talked about this in our last session,
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  Speaker 1: Pentecostal disturbance, the Pentecostal disturbance that happened, and after this
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  Speaker 1: Pentecostal disturbance under their Pentecost, when the Holy Spirit was
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  Speaker 1: sent from having the promised comforter who was to come. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So after this the Church of Jesus Christ was added
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  Speaker 1: to greatly. As matter of fact, on that very same
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  Speaker 1: day the Bible said they were added unto them about
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  Speaker 1: three thousand souls. And of course hell was not going
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  Speaker 1: a man to be docile and allow the intrusion, if
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  Speaker 1: you will, of the power of the Gospel, a man
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  Speaker 1: to shake the foundations of the world of darkness without
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  Speaker 1: strong resistance and so hell itself and again working through
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  Speaker 1: the powers of those who are in authority. And this
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  Speaker 1: is what we're going to see today. Amen, that that
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  Speaker 1: that they would not sit idolely by while Peter and
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  Speaker 1: John and the apostles in the church just wean the
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  Speaker 1: way if you will their power. Amen. So delusional, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, is the adversary. Don't forget this. So delusional
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  Speaker 1: is the devil? So delusional are his followers in their
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  Speaker 1: state of fallenness and blindness. Of course, both he and
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  Speaker 1: they are, in actuality persuaded in their minds, Amen, that
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  Speaker 1: they can successfully oppose what God has predestined to do.
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  Speaker 1: They actually believe that they can stop church. They actually
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  Speaker 1: believe that they can wipe out a man, the Church
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus Christ, and a successfully defeated If you will, no,
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  Speaker 1: they I mean, this is this is real. This is real,
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  Speaker 1: true delusion, and this is why Satan is still operating.
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  Speaker 1: He knows, he knows, the devil knows he has a
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  Speaker 1: short time. The Bible speaks about this. He knows that
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  Speaker 1: he has a short time. He knows his destination. You
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  Speaker 1: remember when Jesus was here during his earthly ministry and demons.
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  Speaker 1: A man trembled, and they begged a man not to
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  Speaker 1: be sent back to the abyss. They didn't want to
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  Speaker 1: go back into the a man that place of eternal,
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  Speaker 1: a man abyst and so they know. But there's something
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  Speaker 1: about delusion, there's something about being so deceived that you
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  Speaker 1: you just still operate as if a man you you
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  Speaker 1: are in the right, and that you are going to
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  Speaker 1: be victorious. And so this is how and why we
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  Speaker 1: still have yet to this day, of course, and it's
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  Speaker 1: never going to stop. It's never going to cease, this
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  Speaker 1: kind of again hostility and adversarial opposition to the preaching
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  Speaker 1: of the Gospel, the proclamation that Jesus Christ is Lord,
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  Speaker 1: that Jesus Christ is the Way, the only way truth.
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  Speaker 1: And this will continue. And so the church again we
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  Speaker 1: must rest in this assurance that God has a man
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  Speaker 1: given to us. Now, Acts Chapter three, we're gonna begin
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  Speaker 1: at first on eleven, but let me just give you
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  Speaker 1: a quick little background of the first ten verses. Acts
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  Speaker 1: Chapter three deals with the apostles Peter and John going
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  Speaker 1: up to the Temple, and this is of course, in
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  Speaker 1: the aftermath of the birth of the church, and they
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  Speaker 1: were still attending a man temple prayer services that morning,
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  Speaker 1: about nine am or so, going to the temple to pray,
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  Speaker 1: to pray, and before they could enter, there was a man,
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  Speaker 1: the Bible teachers, that was laid at the gate of
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  Speaker 1: the temple so that he could He was crippled by
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  Speaker 1: the way, and he had never walked. He was about
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  Speaker 1: forty years old. All of these things are in the text.
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  Speaker 1: And he was laid there daily at the temple a
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  Speaker 1: man to seek alms assistance money from the people who
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  Speaker 1: would be coming by, and seeing Peter and John, Bible
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  Speaker 1: tells us, he asks of them money. Peter along with
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  Speaker 1: John looked at the man, and the Bible tells us
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  Speaker 1: that they said to him silver and gold we don't have,
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  Speaker 1: but such as we do have, we give to you
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  Speaker 1: in the name of Jesus Christ. A man rise up
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  Speaker 1: and walk. The Bible tells us Peter took the man
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  Speaker 1: by the hand, and he immediately receive strength in his
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  Speaker 1: feet and its eight bones. That he leaped and he walked,
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  Speaker 1: And not only that, he began to run and leap
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  Speaker 1: all through the temple. And the people were all amazed
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  Speaker 1: at what had just transpired. Amen, And so we pick
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  Speaker 1: it up at verse number eleven. The Bible says verse
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  Speaker 1: number eleven. Now as the lame man who was healed
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  Speaker 1: held on to Peter and John, all the people ran
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  Speaker 1: together to them in the porch which is called Solomon's
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  Speaker 1: greatly amazed. And so when Peter saw it, now he
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  Speaker 1: is the opportunity to Peter sees an opportunity. He sees
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  Speaker 1: an opening, he sees a door. God is opening doors
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  Speaker 1: that no one can shut. He shuts the doors that
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  Speaker 1: no one can open open. So Peter now sees the
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  Speaker 1: open door, and he says to the people men of Israel,
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  Speaker 1: this is his second message. By the way, the first
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  Speaker 1: one actually is third. But the Poe pentecosts Amen. On
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  Speaker 1: the day of Pentecost, he preached a magnificent message Amen,
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  Speaker 1: acts chapter two, And the Bible also tells us other
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  Speaker 1: than what was recorded there, he with many other words
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  Speaker 1: exhorted them. So we don't know what else he said.
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  Speaker 1: I would love to know. But nevertheless, Amen. He now
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  Speaker 1: takes this opportunity to again preach Jesus the Gospel of Salvation,
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  Speaker 1: which is the apostle. Paul says, the power of God
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  Speaker 1: unto salvation to everyone that believes. So, Peter sees the
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  Speaker 1: opportunity and he seizes upon it, and he responds to
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  Speaker 1: the people by saying, men of Israel, why do you
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  Speaker 1: marvel at this? Why do you look so intently at us,
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  Speaker 1: as though by our own power or godliness we had
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  Speaker 1: made this man walk? The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob,
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  Speaker 1: the God of our fathers, glorified his vant Jesus, whom
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  Speaker 1: you delivered up and denied in the presence of Pilot
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  Speaker 1: when he was determined to let him go. But you
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  Speaker 1: denied the Holy One and the Just and ask for
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  Speaker 1: a murderer to you, and killed the Prince of life,
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  Speaker 1: whom God raised from the dead, of which we are witnesses,
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  Speaker 1: and his name, through faith in his name has made
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  Speaker 1: this man strong, whom you see. And no, yes, the
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  Speaker 1: faith which comes through him has given him this perfect
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  Speaker 1: soundness in the presence of you all. Yet, now, brother,
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  Speaker 1: in verse seventeen, I know that you did it in ignorance.
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  Speaker 1: This is what he says, as did also your rulers,
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  Speaker 1: the rulers, the government officials who hate Jesus, who rejected Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: They did it in ignorance, not an excuse ignorance, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: on their part. But it was nevertheless ignorance, because you
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  Speaker 1: are ignorant if you don't believe that Jesus is God,
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  Speaker 1: that Jesus is the Messiah, that Jesus is the Judge,
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  Speaker 1: that Jesus is the Savior, that Jesus is the Way,
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  Speaker 1: Truth and life. Amen, you are living in ignorance. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: so Peter says to them. Yet now, brother, and I
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  Speaker 1: know that you did it in ignorance, as did also
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  Speaker 1: your rulers. But those things which God foretold by the
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  Speaker 1: mouth of all his prophets, that the Christ would suffer,
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  Speaker 1: he has thus fulfilled. Repent therefore and be converted, that
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  Speaker 1: your sins may be blotted out, so that times of
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  Speaker 1: refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord, and
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  Speaker 1: that he may send to Jesus Christ, who was preached
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  Speaker 1: to you before, whom heaven must reach until the times
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  Speaker 1: of restoration of all things which God has spoken by
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  Speaker 1: the mouth of all his holy prophet since the world began.
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  Speaker 1: And we cut it right there. Amen. But the apostle Peter,
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  Speaker 1: a man, again preaches a sterling sermon message if you will, amen,
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  Speaker 1: and reminded the people of their rejection of Jesus, their
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  Speaker 1: crucifixion of Jesus, betrayal of Jesus a man. And that Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: this same one that you rejected, the same one that
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  Speaker 1: you traded in, as it were for a murderer, a man,
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  Speaker 1: This same Jesus that you saw a man nailed to
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  Speaker 1: the cross, crucified by the Roman soldiers, by the Roman government.
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  Speaker 1: That same Jesus is alive, He is risen from the dead,
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  Speaker 1: and we preach him, and it is threw him by
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  Speaker 1: him alone, that you must be saved, that you must repent,
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  Speaker 1: that you must, a man be converted. And so after
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  Speaker 1: a man preaching these words, the Bible tells us this
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  Speaker 1: is what we get to chapter four. As they spoke
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  Speaker 1: to the people, watch what happens. The priest, the captain
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  Speaker 1: of the temple, and the sadducees came upon them, came
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  Speaker 1: upon who came upon the apostles as they were preaching
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  Speaker 1: the word of God. Now listen to this verse two
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  Speaker 1: very carefully. They were, and I'm reading from the new
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  Speaker 1: King James version, being greatly disturbed, not like the King
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  Speaker 1: James version. By the way he says they were grieved.
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  Speaker 1: They were grieved in their hearts at what was transpiring here.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible says, being greatly disturbed, that they taught the
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  Speaker 1: people and preached in Jesus the resurrection from the dead. Now,
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  Speaker 1: the Sadducees, particularly by the way the Pharisees, on one hand,
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  Speaker 1: they believed in angels, they believed in the afterlife. They
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  Speaker 1: believed in a man the resurrection of the dead. The
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  Speaker 1: Sadducees who had the charge of the temple, this is
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  Speaker 1: the high priest and all of his a man relatives.
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  Speaker 1: And and this is amazing by the way that we're
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  Speaker 1: talking about the priesthood. We're talking about as it were,
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  Speaker 1: the preachers, ministers, those who ministered at the altar, those
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  Speaker 1: who a man had the oracles of God and were
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  Speaker 1: to be the teachers and instructors of the people.
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  Speaker 2: These individuals who had the law a man in their
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  Speaker 2: hands and at the responsibility of the worship for.
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  Speaker 1: The people with the people amen, these among the Sadducees,
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  Speaker 1: along with the Sadducees, do not even believe in the
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  Speaker 1: of the dead. And two that in ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 1: we have people today, preachers, ministers, and folk in the
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  Speaker 1: church that do not only not believe if I can
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  Speaker 1: double negative here in the resurrection of Jesus Christ. But
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  Speaker 1: they're not even looking forward to the return of Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: They are all about the here and the now. Oh
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  Speaker 1: my God, I just I just want to go to
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  Speaker 1: First Corinthians fifteen. So bad because Paul makes the argument,
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  Speaker 1: if there's no resurrection of the dead, what are we doing?
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  Speaker 1: In other words, what are we doing? What are we
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  Speaker 1: even doing here? Amen? If this is all there is
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  Speaker 1: to life, if this is all there is to it,
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  Speaker 1: we doing. Amen. So these government leaders, sadducees, priests, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: captain of the temple, this is the police, if you will,
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  Speaker 1: the guards they were, the Bible says, greatly disturbed. So
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  Speaker 1: the government is disturbed. Now we have a disturbance among
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  Speaker 1: the rulers. Amen. That they taught the people and preached
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  Speaker 1: in the Jesus the resurrection from the dead. So what
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  Speaker 1: do they do, ladies and gentlemen, Ladies and gentlemen, The
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  Speaker 1: Bible tells us Verse three, Acts, chapter four. They laid
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  Speaker 1: hands on them. In other words, they this was not
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  Speaker 1: this was not some Will you guys please come with us?
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, I'm sure they roughed them up,
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  Speaker 1: grabbing them and yanking them as it were. I'm not
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  Speaker 1: saying they put them down and put a chokehold on
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  Speaker 1: them or anything, but I'm sure they whisked them away
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  Speaker 1: a man and probably bound them up, and chains and shackles,
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  Speaker 1: if you will, or whatever it was they use ropes
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  Speaker 1: tie them up, and the Bible says they laid hands
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  Speaker 1: on them and put them in custody, in other words,
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  Speaker 1: in prison, in jail, in the holding cell, if you will,
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  Speaker 1: until the next day, for it was already evening. So
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  Speaker 1: in other words, remember Peter and John went up to
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  Speaker 1: the temple at the hour prep in the ninth hour,
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  Speaker 1: So this was nine am in the morning when all
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  Speaker 1: of this began to unfold, And it was by the
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  Speaker 1: time of the a man arrest of the apostles almost
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  Speaker 1: six pm in the evening. So you had a whole day,
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  Speaker 1: if you will, of all kinds of basically commotion and
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  Speaker 1: going on and no matter. I'm not sure what all
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  Speaker 1: had transpired, but this we do know. Version number four. However,
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  Speaker 1: many of those who heard the word believed, and the
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  Speaker 1: number of the men came to be about five thousand.
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  Speaker 1: So now I don't know how long after the Pentecostal
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  Speaker 1: disturbance that this a man transpired, because at the end
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  Speaker 1: of chapter two we know the church had already begun
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  Speaker 1: their fellowship and breaking the bread. And we know that
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  Speaker 1: on the day of Pentecosts, at the Pentecostal Disturbance, there were,
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  Speaker 1: according to Luke's a gospel here or writing rather about
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  Speaker 1: three thousand souls added to the church on the very
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  Speaker 1: first day. And so if you add the three thousand
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  Speaker 1: and the five thousand, so now we have a megachurch
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  Speaker 1: of eight thousand in a matter of perhaps a couple
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  Speaker 1: of weeks or so. But nevertheless, in the interval there
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  Speaker 1: may have been others that had been added to the church.
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  Speaker 1: And so now again this only adds to the level
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  Speaker 1: of a man grieving that is happening inside of the
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  Speaker 1: a man. Government officials who are deeply disturbed and perturbed
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  Speaker 1: about what is happening a man. And so again, if
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  Speaker 1: you look at all of what Jesus promised to do
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  Speaker 1: and all of what is now transpiring the pentecost of
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  Speaker 1: disturbance that begin on the day of Pentecost, it continues
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  Speaker 1: to this day. And again the powers that be are
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  Speaker 1: greatly grieved. They are troubled in their minds, and now
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  Speaker 1: again they are scrambling to hold on, to attempt to
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  Speaker 1: hold on to again. This is the delusion of the mind.
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  Speaker 1: They think that they can hold onto their power. They
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  Speaker 1: think that they can still be in control, because they
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  Speaker 1: actually believe that they're in control. They don't. They don't
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  Speaker 1: see themselves as subservient to the God of Heaven, to
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  Speaker 1: the law of God, to the a man sovereignty of God.
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  Speaker 1: No no, no, no, no, no, no no no. They don't
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  Speaker 1: see themselves as servants of God, a man, ministers of
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  Speaker 1: God in the sense that they are accountable to him. No, no,
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  Speaker 1: no no. They believe that they have the power and
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  Speaker 1: the control and the authority a man, and they have
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  Speaker 1: the ability to orchestrate and again regulate all affairs any entity,
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  Speaker 1: every entity must be controlled, any individual who rises up
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  Speaker 1: with power and the people begin to follow them. They've
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  Speaker 1: got to see what's happening. They did it with John
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  Speaker 1: the Baptists, they did it with Jesus, and now they're
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  Speaker 1: doing it with the Apostles. They've got to put this down.
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  Speaker 1: We can't have this. No no, no, no no. So again
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  Speaker 1: they are grieved in their hearts and now again scrambling
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  Speaker 1: to try to see how they can put down this uprising.
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  Speaker 1: Now again, eight thousand, that's no small number, Amen, eight
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  Speaker 1: thousand people have left their religion as it were, and
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  Speaker 1: join the True and the Living Church of God. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And so this is this is this is not good,
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  Speaker 1: This is not good in their minds there they are
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  Speaker 1: troubled about this. Amen. And so keep in mind again too,
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  Speaker 1: it's not the common man who is disturbed and disgruntled, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: by the apostles preaching Jesus. No, it is rather again
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  Speaker 1: the priests of the Law of Ordinances, a man again,
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  Speaker 1: who were in charge of the temple and the sacrifices
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  Speaker 1: and the animal sacrifices, and and again the Law of Moses,
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  Speaker 1: as God had given it to them. These are the
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  Speaker 1: people who should have known. Amen. They had the law
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  Speaker 1: and the prophets. They should have known when Jesus came uh,
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  Speaker 1: and they should have known who he was. They should
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  Speaker 1: have should have known the time of his visitation. All
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  Speaker 1: of that was revealed to them. Amen. And so you
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  Speaker 1: have these priests, you have these temple officers, you have
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  Speaker 1: the Sadducees, a man again who had control of all
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  Speaker 1: of the religious affairs the high priests. We saw that
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  Speaker 1: with Jesus, Amen, and and and and and and and
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  Speaker 1: and yet a man they are uh still again delusional
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  Speaker 1: and now they have to deal with yet another challenge.
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  Speaker 1: Are stated from the out said they don't like anything changing,
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  Speaker 1: they don't want any change to the status quo. So
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  Speaker 1: now they got yet another challenge Amen, some more a
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  Speaker 1: troubling competition, if you will, to their power and authority,
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  Speaker 1: and not quite knowing what to do about the people
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  Speaker 1: being delivered from the bondage of religion and the tradition
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  Speaker 1: of men, they quickly moved to have Peter and John
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  Speaker 1: arrested until they can once again convene, get together, put
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  Speaker 1: their heads together, come up with some ideas, strategize as
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  Speaker 1: to what they're going to do to stop this massive
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  Speaker 1: AMEN movement that is underway because they're they're losing converts,
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  Speaker 1: they're bleeding membership, membership, Amen. And so when you start
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  Speaker 1: bleeding membership, Amen, No, no, no, something's got to be
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  Speaker 1: aren't about this? So they they've got to convene. So
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  Speaker 1: they arrest Peter and John, put them in the prison
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  Speaker 1: until the next day so that they can get together
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  Speaker 1: and figure out what are we going to do about this, heymen,
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  Speaker 1: We thought we had gotten rid of Jesus, the name
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus, the memory of Jesus. And now these fellas
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  Speaker 1: are preaching this risen the dead and proclaiming that Jesus
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  Speaker 1: has risen from the dead. And we thought we had
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  Speaker 1: disposed of all of that amen. But on their part,
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  Speaker 1: it was shortsighted when they sentenced Jesus, when they betrayed Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: when they gave him over to the Roman government to
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  Speaker 1: be crucified, and took barrabbits back into their community. Now,
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  Speaker 1: keep in mind, there is no amount of planning, no
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  Speaker 1: amount of scheming on the part of the most powerful
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  Speaker 1: and the most prominent of the princes and the elites
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  Speaker 1: of this world that will a man prosper. It won't prosper.
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  Speaker 1: And they continue by the way again because they are
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  Speaker 1: delusion them. They'll continue to be instruments of a man
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  Speaker 1: of the devil. They will continue to be aligned with
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  Speaker 1: the powers of the darkness of this world. And again,
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  Speaker 1: in the effort to put down what God is highly exalted,
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  Speaker 1: they're trying to put down that name of Jesus. They
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  Speaker 1: were disturbed about the apostles preaching Jesus, preaching that Jesus
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  Speaker 1: was risen from the dead, preaching repentance and salvation in
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  Speaker 1: the name of Jesus. They were greatly disturbed. But God
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  Speaker 1: is highly exalting him and giving him a name. The
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  Speaker 1: Bible says that is above every name, it is that
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  Speaker 1: the name of Jesus Christ. Every need must bow, every
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  Speaker 1: tongue must contest that that he is Lord. Nevertheless, in
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  Speaker 1: all of their feeble attempts, we need not fear. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: What mere mortal man conceives of contrives in his mind,
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  Speaker 1: a man concocts in all of his a man convening
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  Speaker 1: of counsels, a man in order to again bring the
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  Speaker 1: church down, bring the church to destruction. The Bible makes
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  Speaker 1: a promise in the Old Testament, no weapon that is
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  Speaker 1: formed against you is going to prosper. So no weapon
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  Speaker 1: formed against the Church of Jesus Christ can prosper. Jesus said,
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  Speaker 1: up on this rock again, I build my church. The
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  Speaker 1: gates of hell shall not prevail. No tongue, Oh man,
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  Speaker 1: we can even, Oh, there are so many promises, no tongue.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible also promises rising up to accuse us to
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  Speaker 1: bear false witness against us, to slender and to impune
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  Speaker 1: if you will the Church of Jesus Christ, the people
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  Speaker 1: of God. None of it will prevail, none of it
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  Speaker 1: will work, none of it will prosper. The Bible says,
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  Speaker 1: this is the heritage of the saints of God and
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  Speaker 1: their righteousness. The Lord says is from me. Let me
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  Speaker 1: close with Romans Chapter of eight. Paul said, what shall
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  Speaker 1: we say to these things? Verse thirty one. If God
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  Speaker 1: before us, and he is not only for us, he
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  Speaker 1: is with us? Amen, who can be against us? He
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  Speaker 1: that spared not his own son, but delivered him up
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  Speaker 1: for us? All the Bible says, how shall he not
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  Speaker 1: with him also freely give us all things? Who shall
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  Speaker 1: lay anything to the charge of God's elect It is
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  Speaker 1: God that justifieth. Who is he that condemneth? It is Christ,
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  Speaker 1: that God yea brother that has risen again, who is
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  Speaker 1: even at the right end of God, who also maketh
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  Speaker 1: intercession for us? Who shall separate us from the love
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  Speaker 1: of Christ? Shall tribulation or distress, or persecution, or famine,
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  Speaker 1: or nakedness or peril or sword, as it is written,
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  Speaker 1: for thy sake we are killed all the day long.
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  Speaker 1: We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter, nay, and
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  Speaker 1: all these things, we are more than conquerors through Him
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  Speaker 1: that loved us. Listening with the apostle, Paul closes in
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  Speaker 1: these magnificent words of encouragement to the church. He says,
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  Speaker 1: for I am persuaded, and that's where you and I
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  Speaker 1: must be as the people of God. For I am
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  Speaker 1: persuaded that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities,
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  Speaker 1: nor powers, nor things to come things that are present,
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  Speaker 1: nor height, nor death nor any other creature will be
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  Speaker 1: able to separate us from the love of God that
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  Speaker 1: is in Christ. Jesus, our Lord, are you persuaded again?
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  Speaker 1: The Church is always going to be I'm talking about
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  Speaker 1: the true Church of Jesus Christ. It will always be
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  Speaker 1: a man, a thorn, as it were in the side
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  Speaker 1: of government leaders. And again we're going to see that
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  Speaker 1: again because our God is sovereign, because he is completely
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  Speaker 1: and totally in control, and he is the orchestrator of
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  Speaker 1: all things. A man. God even uses government, and not
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  Speaker 1: every and all government, not every government leader, ruler, official,
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  Speaker 1: not all of them are corrupt. By the way, because
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  Speaker 1: God has his people also in places and positions of
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  Speaker 1: power and authority. We've already talked about that in the past. Nevertheless,
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  Speaker 1: I'm speaking of government as a whole, government in general.
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  Speaker 1: A man in the carnal ram, in the earthly ram,
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  Speaker 1: in the fleshly realm of carnal man, that government, that
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  Speaker 1: kind of leadership, that a man, coalition of government. And
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  Speaker 1: nobodyle speaks about this. So number two we've harped on
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  Speaker 1: it plentifully. They are against God, they are against his Christ,
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  Speaker 1: they are against his authority and his rule and his law.
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  Speaker 1: But again God has spoken, and we take our amen
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  Speaker 1: queue from the word of the Lord. That's where I
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  Speaker 1: will trust. Faith, hope, and confidence is in him. God
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  Speaker 1: in his Word are in separable. And so therefore we
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  Speaker 1: walk by faith and not by sight, and we lean
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  Speaker 1: not to our own own understanding. God is for us.
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  Speaker 1: He is with us. He'll never leave us, He'll never
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  Speaker 1: forsake us. God, Again, we thank you for your word.
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  Speaker 1: We thank you for your promises, every one of them. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: and amen to the glory of God. We thank you
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  Speaker 1: that you have spoken. Your word is gone forth out
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  Speaker 1: of your mouth. They shall not return it to your void.
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  Speaker 1: He will accomplish what you'll please, and it will prosper
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  Speaker 1: where you send it, God be glorifying your people everywhere. Again,
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  Speaker 1: we give you thanks and honor, Amen and Amen.