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Living Waters of Grace April 28, 2026 · Living Waters of Grace / Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland Sunday Services

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This is Living Waters of Grace, the teaching ministry of Clark
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Wofford, senior pastor of Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland,
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County of Greensburg, PA. Now here's Pastor Clark as he
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continues teaching through God's Word.
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The nations were angry, and your wrath has come, and the time of
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the dead, that they should be judged, and that you should
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reward your servants, the prophets and the Saints, and
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those who fear your name small and great, and should destroy
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those who destroy the earth. Then the temple of God was open
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in heaven, and the ark of His covenant was seen in His temple,
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and there was lightning noises, thunderings and earthquakes and
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great hail. Come quickly, Lord Jesus.
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Amen. In our culture today, sin is
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celebrated as if it's no big deal.
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Those who follow God openly are mocked for doing so.
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It's much like Noah, who is mocked for building the ark when
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there had been no rain and no ocean before.
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Yet his faith in God did not disappoint.
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In today's message, Pastor Clark encourages you not to lose heart
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as you trust in God, even when the world looks at you as if
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you're out of your mind. God will do as He has said in
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His Word, and judgment will one day come upon the world for sin.
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Now here's Pastor Clark in Revelation Chapter 15 with
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today's edition of Living Waters of Grace.
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We're to be lovingly and humbly aggressive about righteousness
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in this land. Verse 2, it talks about those
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who had the victory over the beast.
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And this is again the the tribulation martyrs and they
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were also described in Revelation Chapter 7, nine
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through 17. You can check that out later.
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These we're reading about now though, the completion of those
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who survive the tribulation because that that tribulation
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isn't over yet until after the bulls of wrath are poured out
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and the battle of Armageddon is over and then the second coming
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of Christ occurs. But this period is we're reading
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about right now is within the time parameters of the
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tribulation. And as I said that the bowl
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judgments are still waiting to be poured out.
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Now, even though the Antichrist has killed these people in the
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in the natural and the body physically, they have victory
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over him. And it's a glorious thing that I
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love what Jesus says in Matthew 1028.
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Do not fear those who kill the body that cannot kill the soul,
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but fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body.
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And hell. Now I don't know what my and
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demise will be, nor do you know what yours will be.
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If things get more difficult and our rights are being taken away,
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will there come a time where they'll begin to make examples
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of Christians? They've done it in past
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centuries. Nero did it, you know, and Titus
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did it back in 8070. We know it's happened throughout
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the history of the church in the the first several thousand
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years. And there's more martyrs believe
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it the occurring, more martyrdom occurring today than ever before
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in countries such as Sudan and Iraq and Afghanistan, you know,
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and Iran. It's just horrible what's going
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on in Indonesia and other countries that are led and ruled
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by Islam. And you don't have the ability
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in these countries to stand up as a Christian and proclaim the
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gospel of Jesus Christ because if you do, you're threatened
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with losing your life. And so many people do lose their
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life in these countries. And the wonderful thing is that
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they the more the persecution gets heavier and more intense,
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the more the church comes alive. I mean, we need some heat.
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All of us need heat to wake us up out of our lethargy and our
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complacency and our indifference of Oh well, this another Sunday.
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One day, if we don't watch it, life will not continually be
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like we got used to it being in the good old USA because our
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rights and our freedoms are being taken daily.
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They are. And if you don't see that
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occurring, I don't care. Republican or Democrat, it's not
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a, it's not a, a party issue, it's a heart issue.
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And so we have people leading our countries, leading our
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school systems, leading our local governments that have No
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Fear of God before their eyes. And persecution is what brings
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life. It brings the gospel out.
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It brings many, many people coming to the Kingdom.
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And that's what happens in the in the revelation, in spite of
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the horror that goes on and all the difficulty, many, many, many
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people become Christian. So if it's your your day and
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they're taking you to the firing squad or they're taking you to
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the gas chamber, they're taking you to the fire pit, you know,
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when you're in your mind, you think of, boy, that would be
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horrible. I don't want that.
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And none of us wanted it and no one in their right mind would
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want that. But if they do, we can be
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encouraged. What Jesus says do not fear
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those who can kill the body. A few moments of discomfort,
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right? And we're with the Lord.
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You read about those who were martyred in, in, in the fire.
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They put him in the fire and, and they're still in there
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praising God and, and they, they would cut off their hands and
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their arms and they cut out their tongue and, and, and, and,
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and they had people in the fire. The last thing they would do
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would put their hands up to heaven.
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Just showing they only have allegiance.
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The martyrs to the King of kings and Lord of Lords.
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Verse three and four they sing the song of praise, 2 songs, one
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song of Moses and one the song of the Lamb.
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And I love what Jesus says in Matthew 517.
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Do not think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets.
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I did not come to destroy but to fulfill.
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Jesus and Moses are like this, the old covenant and the new
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covenant. They come together and the
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person of Christ Jesus doesn't say that the law is
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inconsequential. It's critical.
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It's absolutely a necessity, but we don't get our justification
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by keeping the law. We could never keep it.
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We all broke it. We still break it.
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Christ kept the law. He's a fulfillment of the law.
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Law was brought by Moses, and grace and truth was bought by
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Jesus Christ. Jesus is very close to Moses.
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He anointed Moses in the Old Testament.
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He walked with Moses in the midst of his ministry.
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Jesus spoke with Moses. If you remember, in Mark Chapter
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9 on Mont Tabor and the Mount of Transfiguration, Moses and
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Elijah were there in the midst with Jesus and Jesus in his
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transfigured state, along with Moses and Elijah.
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Moses is alive, Elijah is alive, and the Kingdom.
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One day we'll see them. It talks about Moses in the book
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of Hebrews Chapter 11 verse 23 through 29.
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Verse 27 says by faith he forsook Egypt, and like Moses,
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you and I, by faith we forsake this world, not fearing the
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wrath of the king, for he endured as seeing him who is
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invisible. And I trust every day you and me
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are enduring this world and its heartache and its insanity by
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trusting him who we can't yet see, who the Bible says not
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seeing we believe. So there's this perfect union
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between the law of God and between the grace of God Christ
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fulfilled what we have been unable to fulfill and the song
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is beautiful. The song gives praise to God.
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It gives praise to God for his works.
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It says great and marvelous are your works.
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This would be a good worship song to learn worship team and
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put the music, wouldn't it the lyrics here we got great
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musicians, you know and and pray that you can put this song to to
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to some worship. We can we can sing this song
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here at Calvary. God's works great and marvelous
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are his works his ways just and true are your ways his
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worthiness. You shall not fear you, O Lord,
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who shall not fear you, O Lord, and glorify a name, your name,
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for you alone, our holy, for all nations come and worship before
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you. The song magnifies God's works,
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His ways, His worthiness, and His worship.
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All nations shall come and worship before you, for your
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judgments have been revealed. So the verse 5 and 6, the angels
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are coming now after these things.
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I looked and behold, the temple, the Tabernacle, the testimony in
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heaven was open. This, this blows my mind.
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I mean, I don't know how you guys think about having what it
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looks like. And some people have.
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You're going to be on clouds with harps and that's all you're
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going to do forever. Believe me, that is the farthest
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from the truth. I mean, heaven is a physical
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realm. It's a dimension that transcends
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this space and time, but it's actually more real and tangible
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than this world that we're passing through that's going to
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one day be destroyed and the new heaven and the new earth is
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going to be revealed. Not any.
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Will there be a new Jerusalem that will descend out of heaven?
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But there'll be a new heaven and a new earth.
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So the real estate, the territory that we're going to
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have access to in our new bodies, our glorified states,
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it's going to be incredible. I mean, the, the beauty and the
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things to do and the things to wonder and the things to
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experience, You know, we're going to go to heaven and it
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isn't going to be like, oh, it's boring.
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This is all there is. And I, you know, I'm perfect now
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and I, you know, and no, we're going to the Bible says in the
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ages to come, he's going to show us his exceeding riches and his
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grace toward us in Christ Jesus. I mean, eons upon eons upon
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eons. And we're never going to once
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say, isn't there anything new here?
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Because his mercies will be new just as they are now.
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Morning by morning, day by day, every every day, there's going
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to be some new cool thing that one of us, Wow, you should see
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what I saw the other day. I was 1,000,000 miles from
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Pluto. And, and God, he showed me this
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thing that I never, you know, and we're all going to be like
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that all the time. We're going to be so excited and
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so stoked and so in love with God and so in love with Christ
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and the Holy Spirit and the Kingdom of heaven that none of
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us are ever going to ever long for anything that's on the face
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of this earth. Matter of fact, it says later on
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he's going to wipe away all tears.
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There will be no more remembrance of the former things
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for the former things that passed away.
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The temple of the Tabernacle of his testimony in heaven, this
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literal temple and the Kingdom of heaven.
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We study about this in Exodus and Hebrews.
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It reminds us of the Tabernacle of meeting with God.
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When God told Moses to build this temple, this Tabernacle, it
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was based on a pattern of heaven.
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If you ever read the specific details of everything that was
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design about how that temple was built, the, the, the, the
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structure, the parameters, the height, the width, the depth,
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the, the different instruments in there that were used to, to
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magnify and and glorify God in the midst of the sacrificial
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worship system. The, the, the, the color of the
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material and the length and the, and I mean, it's a spectacular,
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the attention to detail. And when we get to heaven
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someday, the Tabernacle that we're going to see is going to
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be mind blowing because the beauty of it will exceed
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anything that man could have ever made on earth.
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The, the, the temple, the Tabernacle that was built on
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earth by man with man's hands was only a pattern, a a slight
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facsimile of the reality of what was existing in the Kingdom of
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heaven. And out of this temple the seven
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angels come with the seven plagues.
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They bring God's judgment, and these judgments are sent out by
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God and by Him alone before His throne.
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It talks about their clothing, bright linen, having their chest
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girded with golden bands. The bright, pure linen
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represents the purity and the holiness of our Savior Jesus
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Christ. The gold band represents God's
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judgments that are pure and righteous.
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And verse 7 and 8, it talks about the four living creatures.
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This is fascinating to me and I, I never thought about this when
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I read this. You know, the four living
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creatures that I read about in Isaiah prior to the Lord's
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Supper. What are they doing continually?
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They're saying, holy, holy, holy are you, O God, who was and is
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and is to come. They do that 24/7, day in and
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day out, day in and day out, day in and out, for all eternity.
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But they stop here for a moment. One of the four living creatures
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give to the seven angels the 7 golden bowls of the wrath of God
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who lives forever and ever. It's almost like everything
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stops in heaven, this constant sound of holy, holy, holy are
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you. O God.
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They take and give to the angels what now will bring the ultimate
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glory to God, this outpouring of His final just wrath and anger
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upon the face of an ungodly world.
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I don't know about you guys, but I used to watch like New Year's
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Eve thing on TV and I'd have my few drinks at one time and all
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that goofy stuff. And you know, I mean party,
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whatever it is that we would do. And, and, and, and that's like
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Sodom and Gomorrah. When you look at what goes on on
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New Year's Eve in Times Square, people are drunk beyond
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recognition, having sex in the street, urinating in the street.
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This drugs everywhere. I mean everybody all there.
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It's like the what it is, guys and gals.
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It's the picture of the real cesspool of what this earth
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represents to a holy God. It's the masses of humanity.
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You give them an opportunity to gather, to basically flaunt
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before a holy God, immoral lifestyles.
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And they want to know what, when's the next event I can show
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up at? When's the next party I can go
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to? And God has to look at this and
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and then this is what his wrath is going to come out upon.
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I mean, it isn't like those people down there.
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Many of them have heard the truth of the gospel.
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Many of them have family members that are praying for them and
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tell them you need a savior. You need to turn from your sin.
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You need to repent, you need to get saved.
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Oh, I don't want to hear that. I'm tired of hearing that.
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Leave me alone. And they just keep running from
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it. They're, you know, the the
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prodigal. We just want to go out and do
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our own thing. And some of us, by the grace of
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God, come to our senses and say, there's got to be more to life
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than this. Living in this cesspool of sin,
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I start to feel so dirty and so filthy and so messed up.
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And, and I'm looking up into the heavens at night and the stars
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and the skies. And I say there has to be more
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to life than what I'm living, that there has to be a reason
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why I was created. And then the Holy Spirit begins
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to work and begins to draw us to truth.
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And we begin to like the next drink or the next sexual
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encounter, or the next thing I steal, or the next thing I am
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jealous over, the next thing I'm lustful over, the next thing my
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greed or my selfishness, it doesn't fulfill me anymore.
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It's empty the the next drug. It just doesn't do it for me
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anymore. I am so burnt out and so over
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this world. And that's why some people sit
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in the end of the bed with a gun, thinking there's nothing
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else. I'm going to kill myself.
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I'm going to take my life, but thank God for the gospel of
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Jesus Christ. Thank God for the Gideon Bibles
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that are in the hotel rooms when the when the man or the woman's
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in there not knowing what to do. And then they're looking and
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they open the drawer and they see a Bible and they open it for
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the first time. And in the front, it gives them
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the plan of salvation. And they read the gospel and
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they get saved and they put their gun down or someone who's
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sitting in the hotel room and they're scanning the TV, this
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looking. And all the sudden they catch an
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old Billy Graham evangelistic gospel message or someone else
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who's faithful to preach the word in the middle of the night
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to some lost soul, and they get saved.
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This temple represents the holiness of God.
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And the bulls are now given in the midst of the cloud of God's
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glory that's filling the temple. There's an old worship song.
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I see the Lord and his glory fills the temple.
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Holy, holy is the Lord. And so these 7 golden bowls,
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they're not a big like a round concave bowl, they're flat like
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saucers. And they're used in the Old
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Testament for the ritual drinking or the pouring out of
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sacrifices upon the altar. Their their contents are quickly
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and easily poured out, such as were used in a temple to hold
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the fire when the incense was burned.
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So it isn't like these huge bowls that they're going to need
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5000 angels to get in the bottom and finally pour it out.
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They're they're just waiting just to be tipped.
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And as they're tipped, God's judgment flows everywhere.
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The temple's filled with the glory of God.
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It says in verse 8, as we begin to conclude, the temple was
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filled with smoke from the glory of God and from his power.
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The glory fills the temple. It says no one can enter.
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Why can't anyone enter into the temple?
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It's no more time of intercession.
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There's no one that can go in behind, behind in front of the
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the throne of God and say, wait, there's more.
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It's over. There's no more time for
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intercession. The judgement of God is going to
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be poured out. The cloud covers the Tabernacle
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of meeting. In the Old Testament, the glory
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of the Lord fills the temple. It says Moses in Exodus chapter
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40 was not able to enter the Tabernacle of meeting because
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the cloud rested above it and the glory of the Lord filled the
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Tabernacle. It's referred to the Chicana
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glory. It was a coin phrase used by the
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Hebrew rabbis that meant that He came to dwell in our midst, the
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divine visitation of the presence or dwelling of Jehovah
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God on the earth, the visible manifestation of God's glory.
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And I sense that sometime I hope you do too, when I come here and
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I worship before the Lord. And these worship people,
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they're, they're excellent musicians, but that's not what
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they're about. These people love Jesus Christ.
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Their heart is to truly honor him and to worship him and to
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have their eyes on him and to glorify him.
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And as they do that, they bring us in with them.
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And we're caught up in this sense of the Kabat of God, the
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manifest presence of God. And I see many of you, you, you
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raise your hand or your, your heads are down or you're about
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or some of you are about about on the face of on your face or
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wanting to be on your knees because you're so aware of God's
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presence in the worship. And that's what God wants us to
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experience more and more because as we as we experience his
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presence, I don't want to be in sin.
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I don't want to be unforgiving. I don't want to be bitter.
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I don't want to be jealous. I don't want to be greedy.
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I don't want to be vengeful. I want my heart to be made right
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with God and experience God's love and heaven.
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After these judgments are poured out, we will have access to this
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temple always and forever. I love what it says.
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IN2013 of Revelation I heard a loud voice from heaven saying,
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behold, the Tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with
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them, and they shall be His people.
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God himself will be with them and be their God.
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So the bowls are poured out. They come from His glory and
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from His power, and there's no intercession that can avail at
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this point in time because the world is now doomed.
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All sinful people on the earth, the Pagan empires will be
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brought to their knees and destroyed.
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These bowls of wrath are the third woe.
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And we've studied that throughout the Book of
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Revelation, which is associated with the 7th trumpet and the
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end, second coming of Jesus Christ.
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And I like to just conclude in Revelation Chapter 11, verse 14,
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it says the second woe is passed.
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And again, this is the chronological aspect.
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You can't just go from verse to verse, chapter to chapter and
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Revelation. You have to flip back to keep
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the things in continuity and flow and context.
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The second woe is passed. Behold, the third woe is coming
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quickly. And that's what we study today,
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this third woe that is about to be poured out.
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The 7th Angel sounded the the 7th trumpet at the at the end of
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this period, beginning into the period of the bowls being poured
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out, it says there were loud voices in heaven saying the
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kingdoms of this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord
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and of his Christ, and he shall reign forever and ever.
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And the 24 elders who sat before God on the Thrones fell on their
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faces and worshiped God, saying, we give you thanks, O Lord God
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Almighty, the one who is and who was and who is to come, because
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you've taken your great power and reign.
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The nations were angry and your wrath has come.
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And the time of the dead, that they should be judged, and that
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you should reward your servants, the prophets and the Saints, and
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those who fear your name small and great, and should destroy
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those who destroy the earth. Then the temple of God was open
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in heaven, and the ark of his covenant was seen in his temple,
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and there was lightning noises, thunderings and earthquakes and
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great hail. Come quickly, Lord Jesus.
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Amen. If you're here today and you
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don't have a Savior, I can't make you get saved.
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I can't save you, but His Spirit can, and I know His Spirit is
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present here today. The Holy Spirit convicts you.
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It gives you that gnaw. He gives you that gnaw.
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Hey, this stuff's true. You got to deal with it.
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This is real. You can leave here and try to
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forget about it, but you can't. You can run, but you can't hide.
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God is coming after you today because He loves you and He
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wants to spare you from all these things that are going to
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come upon the earth one day, and they could be sooner than later.
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As we look at what's happening in the world, we have a sense
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that these days are closer than ever.
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Thanks for being with us today here on Living Waters of Grace.
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We're in the Book of Revelation, and we find it fascinating how
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influential and involved the angels are in this book.
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They bring about whatever it is that God has instructed them to
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do, but it's through their actions that much of the
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judgements come on the earth. The angels are in submission to
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God as their authority, but He utilizes them in unique ways
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throughout this book. Like angels have a specific
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purpose from God, you have a unique purpose and plan too.
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God wants to use you in your life as a testimony to others
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and to bring others who are currently lost into the fold of
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God. God would love more than
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anything for all who are willing to come to Him for salvation,
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but he wants it to be their choice, not a forced situation.
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This is the way God works, not forcing himself on anyone, but
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giving each person free will. If you're interested in learning
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about this choice that's free and that it's a gift, go to
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calvarychapelonline.com and click on the About Us tab and
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then find the link for what we believe.
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We'd love to be a help and a resource for you as you walk
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through what it means to be a follower of Jesus.
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If you find the contact tab on our website, you can get in
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touch with us or submit a prayer request.
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We'd love to hear from you. That's all for today's edition
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in Revelation, but there's much more that Pastor Clark plans to
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share with us from this culminating book of the Bible.
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Stay tuned for that and make sure to mention this radio
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program to others. Invite them to tune into Grace
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FM 91.7 FM and they can stream worldwide at Grace Radio dot FM.
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This has been living waters of grace.