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Episode 135 - Stand Fast In The Faith · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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  Speaker 1: Bless the Lord. Bless the Lord. Bless the Lord. Blessed
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  Speaker 1: be the name of the Lord, from this time forth
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  Speaker 1: and even forever more. Psalm number twenty four says the
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  Speaker 1: earth is the Lord's and the fulness there of the world,
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  Speaker 1: and they that dwell therein, For he hath founded it
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  Speaker 1: upon the seas, and established it upon the floods. Who
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  Speaker 1: shall ascend, Oh, this is a wonderful question. Who shall
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  Speaker 1: ascend into the heel of the Lord, or who shall
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  Speaker 1: stand in his holy place? Well, the answer is here.
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  Speaker 1: He that hath clean hands and a pure heart, who
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  Speaker 1: hath not lifted up his soul into vanity, nor sworn deceitfully,
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  Speaker 1: he shall receive the blessing of the Lord and righteousness
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  Speaker 1: from the God of his salvation. This is a general
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  Speaker 1: of them that seek him. Oh may it ever, Oh,
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  Speaker 1: may it be so that this generation amen will seek
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  Speaker 1: the Lord. This is the generation of them that seek him,
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  Speaker 1: that seek thy face. Oh, Jacob, lift up your heads,
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  Speaker 1: oh ye gates, and be lifted up ye everlasting doors.
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  Speaker 1: And the King of Glory shall is this King of glory?
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  Speaker 1: Great question? Well, the answer is here. The Lord Strong
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  Speaker 1: and mighty, the Lord Mighty in battle lift up your heads,
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  Speaker 1: oh your gates, even lift them up, ye everlasting doors,
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  Speaker 1: and the King of Glory shall come in. Who is
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  Speaker 1: this King of Glory, the Lord of Hosts, says the Psalmists.
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  Speaker 1: He is the King of Glory. Oh, may it be
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  Speaker 1: that we would recognize an honor, praise, and worship he
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  Speaker 1: who is the King of kings, Lord of Lord, Jesus
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  Speaker 1: the Christ, the Savior, the Redeemer of all them that believe.
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  Speaker 1: We welcome you once again to this another edition of
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  Speaker 1: End Time Revival ministers us a podcast and by way
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  Speaker 1: of video, our One Voice in the Wilderness YouTube channel.
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  Speaker 1: For those of you who are watching us by way
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  Speaker 1: of YouTube, we welcome you again to this twenty second
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  Speaker 1: day of November. It is as I'm recording in the
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  Speaker 1: year of Our Lord, twoenty twenty four. We are grateful
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  Speaker 1: to be alive, breathing the breath of life that God
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  Speaker 1: has so graciously allowed us to be partaker of. Thank
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  Speaker 1: Him for his mercy that is new this morning, beautiful day,
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  Speaker 1: glorious day, a little chilly on the outside, but nevertheless
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  Speaker 1: the sun is still shining. God is still good. We
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  Speaker 1: are still blessed, Amen, and we are thankful as always
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  Speaker 1: and in everything we are too, as the people of God,
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  Speaker 1: give thanks. And by the way, if you are breathing,
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  Speaker 1: which I suppose that you are, I know that you are.
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  Speaker 1: If you are, if you're able to hear, if you
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  Speaker 1: are able to see me, you're breathing. And so you,
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  Speaker 1: as a breath recipient, Oh God, praise you owe him praise.
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  Speaker 1: That's the only qualification for praising God is to be
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  Speaker 1: breathing a man, So that everything that hath breath a man,
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  Speaker 1: praise God, give him glory, be thankful unto him, and
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  Speaker 1: bless his name again, as the Simon said, For the
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  Speaker 1: Lord is good, his mercy is everlasting, and it's truth
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  Speaker 1: certainly endures to all generations. Amen. All right, for those
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  Speaker 1: of you who have been, who have been following along
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  Speaker 1: with us, we are at the close of the Apostle
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  Speaker 1: Paul's first letter to the Career Corinthians. I'm in chapter
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  Speaker 1: number sixteen on today, and I'm just going to extract
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to extract just a few words from this,
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  Speaker 1: and I want to take the thought of this admonition
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  Speaker 1: that he gives us at the end of this letter
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  Speaker 1: to stand fast in the faith. Stand fast in the faith,
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  Speaker 1: this is a man again. And as it was traditional
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  Speaker 1: and normally we close out a letter. Well, we don't
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  Speaker 1: write letters like we used to, of course, but this
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  Speaker 1: was a traditional way of closing a letter. It would
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  Speaker 1: open sometimes with greeting, and it would also close sometime
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  Speaker 1: with closing remarks, as it were, and sometimes with salutations.
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  Speaker 1: And you will find that as Paul closed this second letter,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm not sure that he knew at the time,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm supposed that he did that he will be
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  Speaker 1: writing a second letter to the Corinthian Church, but he
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  Speaker 1: certainly did at a little bit later time. But this
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  Speaker 1: is the closing of his first letter, Amen to the Church.
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  Speaker 1: And so we're going to in chapter number sixteen just
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  Speaker 1: dwell on a few words and give a few thoughts
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  Speaker 1: to what the Apostle says. And I'm going to pick
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  Speaker 1: it up at VERSI number five, because this is mostly
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  Speaker 1: personal and informational for them, a man as personal to them,
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  Speaker 1: personal to that congregation, to that church. But there are
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  Speaker 1: certainly things that we can learn from this, extract from
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  Speaker 1: this and understand the a man intimate relationship in a
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  Speaker 1: more perfect way, as perfect as possible, that the Apostle
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  Speaker 1: had with the churches a man, and this is certainly
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  Speaker 1: an example of his pastoralship and his care, and some
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  Speaker 1: of the trials and troubles and perils that he faced
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  Speaker 1: as he traveled, and things of that nature that we
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  Speaker 1: can certainly understand. And not only that, but we who
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  Speaker 1: are a man called to service in our day, we
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  Speaker 1: can understand that this is nothing new. It is nothing
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  Speaker 1: strange when we will a man undergo some of the
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  Speaker 1: same types of tribulations or persecutions or hindrances as we
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  Speaker 1: seek to a man minister the gospel, preach the word,
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  Speaker 1: be faithful to the calling, and so forth, and so on.
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  Speaker 1: This is part and parcel for the course man. This
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  Speaker 1: goes along with the territory as it is a man.
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  Speaker 1: And Jesus warned us about it. He told us about it.
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  Speaker 1: He told us disciples about it. And the Bible tells
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  Speaker 1: us day that that will live godly in Christ Jesus
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  Speaker 1: shall suffer persecution and to be of good cheer. As
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  Speaker 1: Jesus told us, he said, I've overcome the world. You
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  Speaker 1: are overcomers, You are more than conquerors. A man, and
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  Speaker 1: we are already a man seated with him in heavenly places.
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  Speaker 1: In Christ Jesus, we already have an inheritance. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: we have so much to be thankful for, so much
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  Speaker 1: to be rejoicing in that we need not dwell on
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  Speaker 1: a man all of these light afflictions, as the Apostle
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  Speaker 1: Paul referred to them as light afflictions that occur a
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  Speaker 1: man during our short, very short pilgrimage here on this earth.
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  Speaker 1: So again, pick it. Let's just pick it up at
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  Speaker 1: verse number five. First Garanthians, chapter number sixteen, Maried a
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  Speaker 1: few verses, and then we'll just give a few words
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  Speaker 1: of admonition. First Garanthian Chapter sixteen, verse number five, reading
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  Speaker 1: from the New King James version. Now Paul says, I
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  Speaker 1: will come to you when I pass through Macedonia. For
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  Speaker 1: I am passing through Macedonia, and it may be that
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  Speaker 1: I will remain or even spend the winter with you,
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  Speaker 1: that you may send me on my journey wherever I go,
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  Speaker 1: For I do not wish to see you now on
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  Speaker 1: the way, but I hope to stay awhile with you
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  Speaker 1: if the Lord permits, and he certainly understands that it
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  Speaker 1: is all by the will of God. Paul would have
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  Speaker 1: plans and the apostles certainly all of them, a man
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  Speaker 1: being led by the Spirit of God, would have their
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  Speaker 1: own intentions and motivations and plans and ideas. But there
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  Speaker 1: were times, certainly when the Holy Spirit intervene, as it were,
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  Speaker 1: to redirect them from their intent And God always has
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  Speaker 1: a way, and if certainly we need to keep in
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  Speaker 1: mind that His providence is always at work, because it
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  Speaker 1: is He who is sending us out, leading us and
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  Speaker 1: guiding us a man in the way that we need
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  Speaker 1: to go in the things to be engaged. And that's
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  Speaker 1: why we need to be prayerful. Amen, and careful to
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  Speaker 1: be led by the spirit. Amen, and and uh. And
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  Speaker 1: allow the Lord to a man guide us and order
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  Speaker 1: our steps in him. So the Paul, So the apostle Paul.
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  Speaker 1: Here he certainly understands that all things are by the
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  Speaker 1: will of God. And he said, all of this I plan,
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  Speaker 1: all of this I intend is if the Lord permits
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  Speaker 1: it to be so. Verse number eight, he says, but
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  Speaker 1: I will tarry in ephesis until pentecosts again. Plans plans, plans,
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  Speaker 1: A man, commit your way unto the Lord, and your
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  Speaker 1: your your plans can be established. Amen. It is God's
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  Speaker 1: will that we a man certainly be fruitful and multiply,
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  Speaker 1: and the things of God, and God is not certainly
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  Speaker 1: about hindering us as long as we are a man
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  Speaker 1: walking in the path, a man that he has, a
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  Speaker 1: man made for us to walk in. Harry in ephesis
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  Speaker 1: until pentecosts. For a great Oh, I like this, for
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  Speaker 1: a great and effective door has opened to me. And
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  Speaker 1: there are many adversaries, but nevertheless the door is open.
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  Speaker 1: And may we always, by the way, may we always
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  Speaker 1: be sober, as the Bible again admonishes, and Jesus, by
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  Speaker 1: the way told us to watch him pray. And this
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  Speaker 1: is what we're gonna get to as we close this
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  Speaker 1: letter out a man standing fast, watching, praying, being vigilant,
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  Speaker 1: being sober. And may we always, even in our day
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  Speaker 1: here two thousand plus years or so removed from or
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  Speaker 1: two thousand or so years removed from a man this
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  Speaker 1: early church season, we need to be sober, We need
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  Speaker 1: to be vigilant, We need to be always a prayer
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  Speaker 1: for alert in all seas, and even I would say,
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  Speaker 1: in those times and in those seasons when God opens
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  Speaker 1: doors for us and everything seems to be prepared, everything
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  Speaker 1: seems to be great, Everything sort of like Elijah when
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  Speaker 1: he had that mountaintop experience, and then all of a
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  Speaker 1: sudden things changed in a sense, at least from the
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  Speaker 1: earthly perspective, from the natural perspective, when he went from
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  Speaker 1: being a conquering hero, as it were, a man to
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  Speaker 1: being the most wanted in all of the land. And
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  Speaker 1: so we have to be vigilant, we have to be
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  Speaker 1: sober because we have adversaries, We have enemies. There are
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  Speaker 1: enemies of the cross Amen. And so when God opens
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  Speaker 1: doors for us, a man, for the ministry, amen, for
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  Speaker 1: the preaching of the gospel, a man, we need to
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  Speaker 1: be alert. God opens doors. The Bible says Jesus said
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  Speaker 1: it to the church in the Book of Revelation. I've
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  Speaker 1: set before you and open door. No one can shut it. And
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  Speaker 1: that's what he does. He opened doors and no one
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  Speaker 1: can shut and he shut doors by the way, no
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  Speaker 1: one can open. That's what it was in the days
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  Speaker 1: of nor when God had them to enter the ark,
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  Speaker 1: and he shut the door. So God opens doors, God
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  Speaker 1: closes doors. Nevertheless, there will still be opposition, there will
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  Speaker 1: still be adversaries that we must face. There are gonna
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  Speaker 1: be mountains a man that are cropping up as it were,
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  Speaker 1: in our way, gonna be giants that we will face,
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  Speaker 1: and we will have opposition from the principalities and powers,
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  Speaker 1: spiritual wickedness that lurks in the darkness of this world.
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  Speaker 1: A man, and they stir up fleshly accomplices, as it were,
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  Speaker 1: to fight against a man, the word of the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: a man, And what God has a man purpose for
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  Speaker 1: us to do. And I'm reminded very quickly of Neemiah
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  Speaker 1: when he was burdened in his heart to go return
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  Speaker 1: to his nation, to his city to rebuild the walls,
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  Speaker 1: and how that, if you can read it, and you
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  Speaker 1: certainly can read it in the text, he was faced
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  Speaker 1: with all kinds of opposition. And that's what's gonna happen.
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna have adversaries. There are enemies of the Cross,
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  Speaker 1: there are enemies of the Lord, there are enemies of
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  Speaker 1: the Church. There are enemies of the way of truth
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  Speaker 1: and holiness and righteousness. And if we are to be
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  Speaker 1: a man, a successful as it were, we must be vigilant.
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  Speaker 1: We must be sober and understand, and that way we
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  Speaker 1: don't get all freaked out as it were, when opposition arises.
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  Speaker 1: Paul knew this. He said, I've got an open door.
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  Speaker 1: But their adversaries, that's okay. They're always going to be
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  Speaker 1: adversaries a man, there's always going to be enemies of
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  Speaker 1: the Cross. But we are to be equipped. We are
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  Speaker 1: to be a man well acquainted with how the enemy operates,
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  Speaker 1: and we should not be taken aback. We should not
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  Speaker 1: be surprised when he launches his attacks. And the Apostle
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  Speaker 1: Paul was he was well acquainted with all of these
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  Speaker 1: forces of the wicked One, all of the schemes of
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  Speaker 1: the devil. He said, we are not ignorant of his devices.
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  Speaker 1: He were right to the church, and we should not
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  Speaker 1: be in ignorance of how the devil operates, the wicked ones,
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  Speaker 1: that he uses, all of his cohorts, his cohorts of demons, principalities,
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  Speaker 1: and powers, spiritual wickedness, a man who by the way,
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  Speaker 1: had already vehemently and still were at that time opposing
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  Speaker 1: the Apostle Paul, seeking to hinder him from a man
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  Speaker 1: doing his work. But Paul did not shrink back a
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  Speaker 1: man because of these adversaries. But he pressed on, as
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  Speaker 1: he would write later, toward the mark of the prize
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  Speaker 1: of the high Calling, and he would any at the
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  Speaker 1: end of his life, he would say this, and I
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  Speaker 1: would this is one of my prayers. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: I want to be able to say this, that I
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  Speaker 1: have fought a good fight, i have finished my course,
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  Speaker 1: and I've kept faith a man, I want to be
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  Speaker 1: able to say I did not shrink back. And Paul
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  Speaker 1: would admonish Timothy by the way, to a man, endure
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  Speaker 1: hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ. No one
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  Speaker 1: who engages in this warfare, no one who takes up
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  Speaker 1: the sword, as it were, no one who does this,
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  Speaker 1: who is called to this, who is appointed for this,
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  Speaker 1: who is ann for this? Amen. No one shrinks back,
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  Speaker 1: No one turns back, No one goes back. Jesus said,
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  Speaker 1: if you put your hand to the plow and turned back,
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  Speaker 1: you're not fit for the kingdom. Amen. So we are
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  Speaker 1: to endure hardness as good soldiers of Jesus Christ. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And this is exactly what the apostle Paul did, knowing
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  Speaker 1: even though again that door was open. He knew that
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  Speaker 1: there were adversaries, He knew that there were enemies. But
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  Speaker 1: our most effective defense, if you will, our best and
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  Speaker 1: most defective defense and offense offensive prowess, I will say,
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  Speaker 1: offensive prowess is of course what this same apostle wrote
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  Speaker 1: to the Church and Ephesians. Because this is most potent,
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  Speaker 1: it is most ect And by the way, I'm just
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  Speaker 1: going to go there. Let's read it Ephyesians, Chafet number six.
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  Speaker 1: Let's turn their Ephysians, chapter number six, beginning at verse
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  Speaker 1: number ten. You, of most of you of Bible readers
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  Speaker 1: and me in church, you are very familiar with it.
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  Speaker 1: So let's see what the Bible, the Word of the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: has to say here. Amen. But because if we do this,
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  Speaker 1: and I'm turning into my Bible as we speak to
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  Speaker 1: Ephesians Chief number six. Now, by the way, I'm I'm
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  Speaker 1: gonna be reading here from the King James Versions version
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  Speaker 1: Brother of the Bible, g Gallationans Ephesians. For those of
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  Speaker 1: you turning now, I use electronic Bible a lot. Now
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot easier, Amen, to simply search there and
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  Speaker 1: boom there you are. But nevertheless, I have my man
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  Speaker 1: old Bible here with me, Amen, and so I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to amen use the pages of the Bible. I kind
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  Speaker 1: of wanted to feel the turning of the pages here
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  Speaker 1: as I read this, because I do have it here electronically,
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  Speaker 1: But I want to read a man from the King
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  Speaker 1: James version here of my printed Bible. All right, Finally,
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  Speaker 1: my brethren, he says, be strong in the Lord. Hear
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  Speaker 1: that radmonition here that admonition. Be strong where in the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: in the power of his might. It is not of us, amen,
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  Speaker 1: it is of him. It is through him. So be
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  Speaker 1: strong in the Lord and in the power of his might.
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  Speaker 1: Put on this is our part. Put on the whole
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  Speaker 1: armor of God, that you may be able to stand
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  Speaker 1: against the wilds, what wiles, tricked, the schemes, the trickery
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  Speaker 1: that the enemy has, that you may be able to
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  Speaker 1: stand against the wiles of the day. For we wrestle
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  Speaker 1: not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers.
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  Speaker 1: Understand who the enemy is, Against the rulers of the
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  Speaker 1: darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
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  Speaker 1: This is the Oh, my God, this is the this
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  Speaker 1: is the This is the principal enemy that we are
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  Speaker 1: wrestling and fighting against. Spiritual. It's spiritual. It's spiritual. He
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  Speaker 1: uses willing accomplices in the world, in the natural realm,
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  Speaker 1: of course, And man, they're there are people who certainly
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  Speaker 1: have even sold themselves to work iniquity and and and ungodliness.
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  Speaker 1: And they are sworn in their heart and in their
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  Speaker 1: mind enemies of the Cross. But our principal enemies are spiritual.
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  Speaker 1: And this is what the apostle Paul alerts the church to.
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  Speaker 1: And this is how we are to be equipped, I mean,
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  Speaker 1: because this is what we are up against. We're up
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  Speaker 1: against spiritual wickedness in high places. Wherefore, how do we
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  Speaker 1: stand against this? Take unto you, Paul says, And that
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  Speaker 1: means it's available for us. It's made ready for us.
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  Speaker 1: So all we have to do again is take it,
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  Speaker 1: receive it, use it, equip ourselves with it. Take unto
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  Speaker 1: you the whole armor of God, that ye may be
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  Speaker 1: able to withstand in the evil day. And having done
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  Speaker 1: all to stand stand therefore having your loins girt about
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  Speaker 1: with truth. So what's the first thing we need is truth?
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  Speaker 1: God's truth, God's word, God's commands, God's precepts, a man,
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  Speaker 1: the whole counsel of God. That's what we need. We
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  Speaker 1: need the truth. And man Jesus said about the truth.
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  Speaker 1: What did he say about the truth? You're gonna know
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  Speaker 1: it if you know it. The Truth sets you free.
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  Speaker 1: And he whom the Son sets free is free indeed,
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  Speaker 1: and he, by the way, is the very embodiment of truth. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: have your loins girt about with truth. And then he says,
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  Speaker 1: having on the blessed breastplate, let me slow down a
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  Speaker 1: little bit, having on the breastplate of righteousness, and your
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  Speaker 1: feet God with the preparation of the Gospel of peace.
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  Speaker 1: So so far we need truth, we need righteousness. We
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  Speaker 1: need the Gospel, Truth, righteousness, the Gospel. And then he says,
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  Speaker 1: above all, taking the shield of faith. Oh, my God,
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  Speaker 1: we need faith. Without faith, it is what it's impossible
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  Speaker 1: to please God. So we need to believe God. Now
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  Speaker 1: it's one thing to know the word, to read the Word,
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  Speaker 1: to study the Word, but on another level, we got
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  Speaker 1: to believe it. So we got theologians galore. We got
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  Speaker 1: people that have studied religion and religious studies and degrees
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  Speaker 1: they have in it, but they don't know in the
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  Speaker 1: realm of belief of faith. They don't have the gift
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  Speaker 1: of faith, they don't have the trust and reliance on God. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And so above all, take the shield of faith. Now,
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  Speaker 1: your faith, your trust, your confidence in God will do
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  Speaker 1: what it will shield you, it will protect you, it
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  Speaker 1: will act as a shield. Amen. And I believe this
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  Speaker 1: is what the saints of old. Surely this is what
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  Speaker 1: they have, because they didn't have all the revelation of
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  Speaker 1: God as we do. Amen. They were living through in
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  Speaker 1: this Why Hebrews chapter eleven. We can see that these
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  Speaker 1: few who were named here, Amen, they relied on what
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  Speaker 1: God had spoken, what God had revealed to them. Mostly
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  Speaker 1: most of them relied strictly on what God had for
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  Speaker 1: example Abraham, for example, Amen. People of that time period
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  Speaker 1: did not have the written word of God, the all
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  Speaker 1: of the revelation of God that we have now that
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  Speaker 1: God is pleased to reveal to us. So they had
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  Speaker 1: to stand on the word that God had given to them,
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  Speaker 1: that God had spoken to them. And so that required
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  Speaker 1: them to believe God. And that's what the Bible, by
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  Speaker 1: the way said of Abraham, said of Noah. They believed God. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And so faith will act as a shield. Faith will
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  Speaker 1: be your protection. Amen. And God, by the way spoke
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  Speaker 1: this directly to Abraham Genesis fifteen. I am your shield
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  Speaker 1: and your exceeding great rewarding. Why was he his shield?
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  Speaker 1: Why was he he Abraham's texting me, because the Bible
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  Speaker 1: says Abraham believed God. He believed God. So Amen, above
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  Speaker 1: all this, when the Bible says verse sixteen, above all
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  Speaker 1: taking the shield of faith. And what will we do
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  Speaker 1: with the shield of faith? The Bible says, wherewith it
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  Speaker 1: ye shall be able to quench all the fiery darts
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  Speaker 1: of the wicked, Not some of them, but all of them. So,
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  Speaker 1: no matter what the devil, no matter what they addressary
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  Speaker 1: will throw at you. When you have the shield of faith,
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  Speaker 1: when you believe God will man. And that's all the
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  Speaker 1: way to the death. By the way, whether I live
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  Speaker 1: or whether I die, Amen, it still doesn't matter. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: it doesn't matter if he if he is pleased to
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  Speaker 1: make me a martyr, so be it. That's what shatricked me,
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  Speaker 1: taking the benuty go. I love those guys, man, that's
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  Speaker 1: what they That's what they believed. King I we We're
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  Speaker 1: not gonna buy no matter what you do, what you
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  Speaker 1: gotta do. Who I love, I love it, I love it.
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  Speaker 1: I love it, man. It's what the Bible, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: speaks of those in uh in Hebrews eleven, those few
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  Speaker 1: that were named again, they love not their lives until
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  Speaker 1: the death. They look for a city that hath it's
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  Speaker 1: not that's not made with hands f of the foundation. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: that that's not of this world. The building maker is God.
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  Speaker 1: And and so you have to look beyond your your,
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  Speaker 1: your your short pilgrimage here on this earth. Amen. We're
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  Speaker 1: only here for a season. But while we're here, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: God has given us everything that pertains to life and godlingness,
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  Speaker 1: all that we'll ever need, and certainly hear in our day.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible says, the things that are written before time,
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  Speaker 1: before our learning. So we have all those who've gone
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  Speaker 1: before us, who had far less than we did. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And a and they they they obtained the promises. They
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  Speaker 1: they uh. They held on to their faith. They believed God.
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  Speaker 1: They trusted God to the death. And some of them,
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  Speaker 1: many of them, were martyred. All of the apostles, for
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  Speaker 1: the most part, I believe, were martyred for their faith.
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  Speaker 1: Many in the early Church were martyred. But they held on.
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  Speaker 1: They took the shield of faith. And then the Bible
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  Speaker 1: says in verse seventeen, take the helmet of salvation. Oh
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  Speaker 1: my God, you got to be saved first of all.
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  Speaker 1: And this is protection. But this is what Paul Ish.
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  Speaker 1: You know, you know, everybody understood the imagery and the
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  Speaker 1: equipment that the Roman soldiers had on. And this is
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  Speaker 1: what Paul draws from here. So that we can understand,
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  Speaker 1: or they could understand it, we certainly should be able
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  Speaker 1: to understand it as well. All of these things that
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  Speaker 1: will provide not only offensive but defensive weaponry protection. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: from whatever we will face. Take the helmet of salvation.
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  Speaker 1: Take the sword of the Spirit, which is the Word
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  Speaker 1: of God. And then he says, praying always with all
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  Speaker 1: prayer's application in the spirit. So don't leave pray out,
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  Speaker 1: never leave pray out. By the way, the sword of
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  Speaker 1: the Spirit, the Word of God. Oh my God, we
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  Speaker 1: need the word. This is how Jesus. I don't mean
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  Speaker 1: to skip over that, and I'm certainly not taking it orts,
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  Speaker 1: but this is exactly what Jesus. This is exactly and
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  Speaker 1: precisely what Jesus used when he was tempted of the devil. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: he used the Word of God. It is written, it
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  Speaker 1: is written, it is written. So you gotta wor you
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  Speaker 1: gotta have the word. You gotta use the word. In
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  Speaker 1: order to have the word and use word, you gotta
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  Speaker 1: be acquainted with the Word. Know the Word of God
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  Speaker 1: and believe it. You gotta believe it if you're going
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  Speaker 1: to try to apply it. Amen, gotta believe it. So
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  Speaker 1: we take the heaven of salvation, the sword of the Spirit,
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  Speaker 1: which is the Word of God. When then we pray,
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  Speaker 1: pray always with all prayer and supplication in the spirit.
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  Speaker 1: Watch it, oh, watching thereunto with all perseverance and supplication
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  Speaker 1: for all saints. And then Paul will go on to say,
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  Speaker 1: and pray for me also, that utterance may be given
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  Speaker 1: to me, that I may open my mouth boldly to
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  Speaker 1: make known the mystery of the Gospel, for which I
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  Speaker 1: am an ambassador in bonds, that therein I may speak
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  Speaker 1: boldly as I ought to speak. Amen. Now again the
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  Speaker 1: apostle here not only admonishes us to pray for all
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  Speaker 1: the saints, but he again requested prayer for himself. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: that he would have what he needed, that utterance would
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  Speaker 1: be given to him, uh, so that he would be
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  Speaker 1: able to make known the mystery of the Gospel. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And all of this even though he was imprisoned. And
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  Speaker 1: by the way, again, no matter what situation or circumstance
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  Speaker 1: you may find yourself in and in this case, particularly
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  Speaker 1: the apostle Paul during his imprisonment. Guess what happened. We
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  Speaker 1: got the prison epistles, We got the work. Paul was
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  Speaker 1: not in there sucking and upset with God and mad
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  Speaker 1: and angry and asking why me? Who? Man? And boy?
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  Speaker 1: Did he? And oh my God did he write? Wonderful,
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  Speaker 1: beautiful God. Everything's that, no matter what to see, It
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  Speaker 1: doesn't matter what the enemy does, doesn't matter what the
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  Speaker 1: en he thinks, he is hindering the Gospel. And God
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  Speaker 1: will have you in a place that will Again, you
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  Speaker 1: don't even see the open door. You don't even understand
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  Speaker 1: what God is doing. But if you believe him, if
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  Speaker 1: you trust him, if you obey him, if you are
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  Speaker 1: walking with him, you may not see. You may not
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  Speaker 1: understand why, you may not see the end, the results.
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  Speaker 1: He may not see what God is doing at that time.
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  Speaker 1: But trust him, trust him. And this is what Paul
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  Speaker 1: came to understand. Amen. And he while he was imprisoned,
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  Speaker 1: he referred to himself as a bond servant of Christ,
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  Speaker 1: as a prisoner of Jesus Christ. Amen. So he now
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  Speaker 1: gives sound admonition to the church, Amen, to do these
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  Speaker 1: And I'm going back to First Corinthians, chapter sixteen. In
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  Speaker 1: closing this letter, he gives these sound admonitions to the
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  Speaker 1: church things very quickly here in the verses thirteen and fourteen.
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  Speaker 1: Number one watch, number two, stand fast in the faith.
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  Speaker 1: Number three, be brave, number four be strong. In number five,
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  Speaker 1: let all that you do be done with love. So
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  Speaker 1: what do we need here? We need to be watchful,
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  Speaker 1: we need to stand firm, We need to be strong,
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  Speaker 1: We need to be brave, that is of good courage.
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  Speaker 1: And we need to be loving. Everything that we do
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  Speaker 1: is to be in love. A man. We speak the
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  Speaker 1: truth in love, we walk in love, and we let
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  Speaker 1: the love of God dwell in us richly. Amen, and
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  Speaker 1: we are to amen. Love one another, Jesus said, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, this is how men will know that you
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  Speaker 1: are my disciples. Indeed, by the love that you have
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  Speaker 1: one for another. By the way, we already covered this
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  Speaker 1: in our previous session as we got to chapter thumber
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  Speaker 1: thirteen of this First Corinthian Letter of the Apostle a
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  Speaker 1: few episodes back in this podcast series. Amen, though I
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  Speaker 1: speak with the tongues of men and of angels, First Corinthians,
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  Speaker 1: chapter thirteen, and I don't have charity I don't have
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  Speaker 1: the love of God. What does it profit mean? It
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  Speaker 1: profits mean nothing. Love, the Bible tells us, covers a
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  Speaker 1: multitude of sins. Amen, God so loved that he gave
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  Speaker 1: his only begotten son. God is love. God is the
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  Speaker 1: very embodiment of love. And he loved us with an
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  Speaker 1: everlasting love. He first loved us, and we love him,
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  Speaker 1: the Bible says, because he first loved us. So Number one, watch,
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  Speaker 1: Oh my God, that is so many times given to us.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus said it several occasions as he talked and warned
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  Speaker 1: his disciples to watch, to watch, to watch, and pray,
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  Speaker 1: he says, Then stand fast in the faith. That's number two.
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  Speaker 1: Be brave, be strong. And then everything we do is
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  Speaker 1: to be done out of love, from a heart of love,
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  Speaker 1: with love. And then len we close at the end
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  Speaker 1: of this letter, these final three verses twenty two, twenty three,
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  Speaker 1: and twenty four. I'm skipping down to those verses. If
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  Speaker 1: anyone speaking of love, uh oh, watch it, uhh uh oh.
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  Speaker 1: If anyone this is to anyone, this is to everyone,
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  Speaker 1: this is all men. If anyone does not love the
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  Speaker 1: Lord Jesus Christ, let him be accursed. That's bad news.
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  Speaker 1: And then he says, Oh Lord, come the grace of
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  Speaker 1: our Lord, Jesus Christ, be with you, My love be
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  Speaker 1: with you all in Christ. Jesus say, man, what a
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  Speaker 1: beautiful letter, What a beautiful closing to this letter. Beautiful
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  Speaker 1: words of admonition. And again let me re emphasize that
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  Speaker 1: we are to stand fast in the faith. We are
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  Speaker 1: to be watching always, even when doors are opened. When
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  Speaker 1: God opens doors, we need to be aware that there
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  Speaker 1: would be adversity, that there would be powers of the
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  Speaker 1: darkness that will seek to prevail against us. But they
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  Speaker 1: will not. Jesus said it. The gates of hell shall
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  Speaker 1: not prevail. When the enemy will come in like a flood,
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  Speaker 1: the spirit of the Lord will lift up a standard.
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  Speaker 1: So we just simply need to a man walk in
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  Speaker 1: the faith, leave the word of God, stand on his promises. Rather,
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  Speaker 1: I mean watch, stand fast, be brave, be strong, be
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  Speaker 1: a good courage, and do everything in love. That's it
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  Speaker 1: for First Corinthians, chapter number sixteen. Father help us, Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: May your grace and love and peace and joy rest
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  Speaker 1: ruling abide with us both now and forevermore. And Lord,
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  Speaker 1: we pray that someone somewhere will acquiesce, will surrender, will
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  Speaker 1: lift up their hands, will bow their knees, and say
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  Speaker 1: yes to your will, yes to your way, to receive
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  Speaker 1: the power of your holy ghosts to lead them and
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  Speaker 1: to guide them into all truth. God, do it for
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  Speaker 1: your glory, your honor, your kingdom, your majesty, and we
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  Speaker 1: pray you'll soon return. In Jesus' name. Amen and Amen.
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  Speaker 1: God bless you everyone in Jesus name.