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Christians Started Boycotting the Olympics, THEN This Happens · Off The Kirb Ministries

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  This Paris situation just got even worse.
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  Immediately after billions of people chose to laugh at Jesus
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  Christ at the Olympics, some pretty insane things have been
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  happening in Paris. New information has just emerged
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  about how an Olympic surfer was told to remove his picture of
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  Jesus from his board or else he'd be disqualified from the
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  competition. There is more to the story, but
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  first, did you see the footage of the total blackout of the
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  city of Paris the night after the opening ceremony?
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  You tell me, is this a coincidence?
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  Because one thing no one can deny and it's this.
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  Christians will not be silent. Thousands of believers arrived
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  on the streets of Paris on Sunday praising the name of
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  Jesus Christ. And I am going to make a strong
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  statement now. I believe millions are currently
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  boycotting the Olympics and I want to know are you one of
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  them? If you are, please tell me in
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  the comments. And if you are new to the
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  channel, please do subscribe. OK, back to our Christian
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  surfer. His name is Joao Chianka and he
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  is from Brazil. In a post that he has since
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  deleted on Instagram, Chianko claimed that two weeks before
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  the Games, he received an order to remove an image of Jesus
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  Christ from his surfboard or else he will be excluded from
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  the competition. Their reason?
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  I quote Christ is a religious figure and the Games have strict
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  rules and focus on total neutrality.
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  Am I the only one who finds this incredibly hypocritical?
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  So you can exclude 2.4 billion people who hold Christian values
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  to express your own agendas and to help your own communities,
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  but a surfer is somehow not allowed to express his faith
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  through a bit of artwork on his board?
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  Now, I know that some of my longtime subscribers are
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  probably thinking you don't even like pictures of Jesus Christ or
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  any representations of actors. Joe, why are you talking about
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  this? Well, you are right.
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  My personal conviction and, and this is just me, is when I'm
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  praying, I want to make sure that I don't have any images,
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  any preconceived ideas of what Jesus looks like, just so that I
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  know when I'm praying, I'm praying totally in the spirit.
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  Now, this is just my opinion, but that isn't the point.
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  The point is this. Listen very carefully to the
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  words of Paris's spokeswoman when she talks about why
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  Christians shouldn't really be that sad about the opening
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  ceremony. Clearly there was never an
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  intention to to show disrespect to any religious group.
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  On the contrary, I think that to imagine he really tried to
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  really intend to to celebrate community tolerance.
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  That was his word yesterday. And looking at the result of the
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  polls that we shared, we believe that this ambition was was
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  achieved. If people have taken any
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  offence, we are of course really, really sorry.
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  Did you catch that? So the Paris Olympics are
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  telling us that they believe in tolerance, that they are big
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  believers in let's let everyone have freedom and let's let
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  everybody be included. And yet a Christian surfer is
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  told that he cannot express his faith by having an image of
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  Jesus on his board. How is that tolerance?
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  But is it all doom and gloom? No, a 16 year old skateboarder
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  again from Brazil chose to use the moment when she won a bronze
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  medal. Instead of putting all of the
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  attention on herself, she chose to bring it all back to Jesus.
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  Using sign language, she went up on camera and she said Jesus is
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  the way, the truth and the life and he is there is only one way.
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  And that is why all of these people, all of these organisers
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  are going after Jesus because there is only one way to heaven
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  and it's through him. But guys, listen to me.
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  If you read one thing into this power outage, read this.
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  It's almost as if a message was sent out to the Olympics.
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  Paris, if you want darkness to reign in your world, fine, you
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  can have it. You see, my dear friends, as we
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  live in these last days, it really does feel like everyday
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  badder and badder things are going on.
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  Every day it feels like things are happening that 10 years ago
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  just one of these things would have made massive headlines and
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  now they're happening day after day and I am really struggling
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  to come to terms with a lot of these different things.
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  It almost feels like God could slowly be removing the
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  restrainer and evil. That restrainer that has held
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  everything in place for so long could slowly be being lifted as
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  we speak. You see right now as I film this
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  very video, many of you, you've seen me preaching in Southport
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  many times on my street preaching channel.
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  And yet, as we speak right now, something unspeakable has just
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  happened in Southport. Just 2-3 days ago in Manchester,
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  again, there was great unrest. You've seen me preaching in
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  Manchester in America. What happened to America at the
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  beginning of this month, July 2024?
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  A lot of big, big things have been happening.
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  And my dear friends, it does make you wonder, what days are
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  we about to answer? Because the Bible did say, did
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  it not, that in the very final moments of earth, this world
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  will see things that it has never seen.
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  It will experience evil that has never happened in all of human
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  history. And my dear friend, that is
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  precisely why we cannot be neutral any longer.
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  That is precisely why you must choose a side right now.
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  You must make a decision. And know this, choosing Christ
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  will be very costly. We are as Christians always
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  called to turn the other cheek. We are always called and, and I
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  need to emphasize this in capital letters and underline it
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  in red. We are always called to say God.
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  No. We leave this in your hands.
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  We commit this situation in your hands.
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  You alone have the right to take action.
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  We do not have the right and we just let the Lord look after us,
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  for He alone is our shelter. Now please don't misunderstand
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  me. That doesn't mean that we are be
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  silent. As you know, I'm speaking very,
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  very loud about this situation. I'm being very public that I
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  will be boycotting the Olympics. As much as I love sports, I
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  cannot endorse it. I cannot partake in it and right
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  now I believe you and I. As Christians, we do need to be
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  loud. We do need to raise the name of
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  the Lord Jesus Christ. But remember this, we must know
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  that as we seek to be lights for the Lord Jesus Christ, it will
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  not be easy. Christ did not promise us an
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  easy Rd. Have we forgotten what happened
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  to the early church? Have we forgotten about the
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  lions? Have we forgotten about our
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  brothers and sisters around the world?
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  We are called as Christians to walk a very difficult road.
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  And yes, we've had so much peace, we've had so much
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  comfort, we've had so much ease for so, so long.
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  But we must be ready because as we've seen just in this month of
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  July, just in the last few days, things are heating up and things
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  can turn just like that. So what will it be?
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  Who will you stand with today? Are you going to stand with the
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  world and partake and endorse all the wrongdoing that they're
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  doing? Or will you stand with the Lord
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  Jesus Christ? Will you be prepared to be
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  separate as the scripture says? Because right now put the let's
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  just move the Olympics aside for the time being.
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  The music that many Christians are listening to, they should
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  not be sharing in that evil. The films, Netflix, the things,
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  what you watch all alone, all of that.
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  It has to stop immediately because we need the Lord Jesus
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  Christ. We need him to be our shelter.
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  We need Him to be our protection.
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  As things heat up more and more, we cannot afford to step out, to
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  cross that invisible line and walk into the evil ones
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  territory. Because once we walk in those
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  that lines, once we walk behind that scene, suddenly we don't
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  have the same protection anymore.
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  Suddenly we've removed ourselves from the Lord.
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  So stay close to the Lord Jesus Christ, Abide in the vine and
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  soak up the scriptures. Pray and seek to look at what is
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  happening in this world. Seek to know the signs, but seek
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  above all things to be ready for when the Lord Jesus Christ comes
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  for his church. And maybe, maybe, just maybe, as
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  I've been speaking, you're not saved, but it is waking you up
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  this situation. What verse would I share with
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  you right now? Perhaps you're afraid.
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  Well, let me share a Bible verse with you, John 14 verse one
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  says, let not your heart be troubled.
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  You believe in God, believe also in me.
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  Now perhaps I'm the wrong person to give this message because as
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  you know about me, many of you, I am afraid when I look at the
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  world, I am thinking how can so much go wrong in such a short
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  space of time? Literally from 2020, it's been
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  like a movie, everything that's happened.
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  But yet what does the Bible say? We are not to be troubled.
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  There is a sovereign one who sits on the throne, and he
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  laughs at the wickedness. He laughs at when these men plot
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  their evil schemes against him and he says no, I am God, You
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  are but dust and ashes. And when these men shake their
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  fists and think they can mock and laugh at the Saviour, they
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  have nothing. Compared to God, they are
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  nothing. They're just weak, fragile human
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  beings. And if you recognize that you
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  are a weak, fragile human being, I would say believe in the Lord
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  Jesus Christ, believe in him, come to the cross where he did
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  die, that death, just like the Last Supper that we've been
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  considering the last few days. He said I must drink this cup,
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  only I can drink it. And when he drank that cup, he
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  drank the wrath of God for our sins.
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  He drank it and only he alone could pay the price for my sin
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  and your sin, for the sins of the world.
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  So come to him, the one who died on the cross, the one who had
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  his body broken on that cross, so that you and I could be
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  forgiven and have salvation. And come to the One who has
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  conquered the powers of darkness, the light of the
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  world, who could not even be held down by death itself, but
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  rose from the dead. So follow Him, put your trust in
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  Him, repent, turn from all of this wrongdoing and put your
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  faith in the Son of God, for He is coming back and He will
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  create a new world where we do not have to fear, where we do
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  not have to be afraid, where wicked men will no longer reign.
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  No Christ will reign, and we will follow Him and live with
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  Him for all of eternity. I want to be there and I wonder,
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  do you also? By the way guys, it's actually
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  not the first time that a sporting company has tried to
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  silence Christians. A few years ago, FIFA tried to
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  silence the footballer Neymar Junior's faith and well, it
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  actually worked. Anyway, check out this video if
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  you want to know more. And if you haven't yet
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  God bless you all and thank you for watching.