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Living Waters of Grace for May 4th, 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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  You can't do it by the energy of your human ability and your
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  flesh. It's through the power of God's
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  Spirit. And if God's Spirit lives in US,
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  he's the one that enables us to live the Christian life.
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  Amen. It's God's Spirit.
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  And that's good news because you can't fake it.
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  And if you've been faking it, get the pressure off yourself
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  and just finally say, God, I can't do this.
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  I need you to be my Savior. I need Your Holy Spirit to live
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  in me to enable me to keep these commandments that I continually
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  have a tendency to break. Picks your little kid helping
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  his dad mow the lawn. Sure, he's walking behind the
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  mower with his hands on the handlebars and the grass is
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  getting cut, but his dad is the one who's actually pushing the
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  mower and doing the work. In today's message, Pastor Clark
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  teaches you that you can't follow Christ in your own
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  strength, but it's the Spirit of God within you who empowers you.
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  The Christian life cannot be lived in the flesh, but you must
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  walk in the power of the Holy Spirit.
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  Now here's Pastor Clark in Revelation Chapter 16 with
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  today's edition of Living Waters of Grace.
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  We're all blind until Christ comes into our life.
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  Christ is the one that gives us true vision.
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  He's the one that gives us the ability to see into the
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  spiritual dimension. And when our eyes are anointed
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  by the Spirit of God and we're able to see things for the first
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  time, all of a sudden we know our lives have changed.
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  You remember the guy in the gospel, they're asking him what
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  happened to him when he met Jesus and he didn't know a lot
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  about the Bible and he didn't know much about theology or
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  doctrine. He said, hey, this is all I can
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  tell you. This is all I know.
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  I was blind and now I see. And so for us here today that
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  have had that encounter, we can say Amen to that.
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  And we see at that time also the love that we're to have for
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  Jesus Christ. If He's truly awakened us and
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  caused us to be able to see what he sees and what he ordained and
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  what He knows, then we have this hatred in our lives for sin.
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  God hates sin, and He hates it so much that He put his Son on
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  the cross and He allowed him to be crucified on behalf of all of
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  us. That's how much He loves us.
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  And so we should love him because of what he's done for
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  us. A matter of fact, the Bible says
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  we love him because he first loved us.
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  And we need to love what God loves and we need to hate what
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  God hates. And so that's why he gives the
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  admonition to the church in Laodicea.
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  Be zealous therefore, and repent.
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  Be zealous, therefore, and repent.
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  There isn't a week that goes by in this church that the subject
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  of repentance isn't spoken about him and brought up.
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  Why? Because we need to be zealous
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  and repent. We are part of this Laodicean
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  movement in these last days, and we're doing everything we can by
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  the grace and the power of God to be less likely to be numbered
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  with that church. We want to be like the church in
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  Philadelphia that had still a little faith and was faithful
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  and remain faithful to the end. But we need to be zealous.
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  And to be zealous means to be fired up.
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  It means not emotionally stirring and jumping around like
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  a fanatic, but having a tenacity in our hearts and our lives that
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  we are seeing. Serious about the gospel.
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  We're serious about holiness. We're serious about repentance.
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  We're serious about living the way the Bible tells us that
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  we're to live. And so as a result, when things
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  come up in our lives that are inappropriate, we don't mess
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  around with it. We repent of it.
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  We ask the Lord for his mercy. We ask him to cleanse us and to
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  forgive us from our unrighteousness.
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  And when we repent, as I said last week, we stop going this
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  way and we start going God's way.
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  And every time we're tempted to move back a little bit or we we
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  struggle or we stumble, we, we, we don't stay there.
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  We just keep getting up by the grace of God in his mercy, and
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  we just keep walking toward him. In continual metanoia, which is
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  an active verb tense, which means to continually live in
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  repentance, moment by moment by moment by moment by moment.
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  Someone might say, well, is there a time when I don't have
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  to repent? Yeah, when you're in heaven.
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  But until that time, you repent continually.
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  And it's a wonderful thing to have that blessing to be able to
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  recognize and acknowledge our wrongdoings in turn from them,
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  because God will cleanse us and strengthen us and restore us to
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  to fellowship with him. This is something that Jesus
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  says in John 14 verse 15. If you love me, keep my
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  commandments. If you love me, keep my
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  commandments. So the adverse would be, if you
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  don't love me, you won't keep my commandments.
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  So that's a a heart check for all of us.
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  You just say to yourself today, do I really love God?
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  If I do, it should be reflected in me keeping his word.
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  If I'm not keeping his word, I don't love God.
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  Who am I trying to kid? I certainly can't kid him.
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  That's how he tests me. If you love me, Clark, you'll do
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  what I tell you to do. You'll you'll follow my word,
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  you'll follow my ways. Another translation says if you
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  love me, you will keep my commandments.
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  It isn't a like this question he's asking will you love me
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  keep my commandments? It's an imperative statement
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  that if you love me, you will keep my commandments.
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  He says in first John chapter 5 verse 2.
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  By this we know and the importance of being short of
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  your salvation, not being nervous about well boy, I hope
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  I'm saved. I think I'm saved.
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  You can know that you're saved if this life reflects what he
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  says is true in this first John chapter 5 verse 2.
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  By this we know that we love the children of God.
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  By this we know you could say it this way.
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  We know we're part of the family or we're in the family of God
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  when we love God and keep his commandments.
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  Now, we're a body here today. And if some of us are here today
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  not loving our brothers and sisters here today, which is the
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  first Test of being a true Christian, and we aren't loving
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  God and keeping his commandments, then we don't
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  know. We're uncertain, we're unsure.
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  And some of us here today might be in a place in our life where
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  we're wondering, are we really Christians?
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  Well, you can test yourself. You love the brothers and
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  sisters. Do you love God or you keeping
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  His word? If you are by His grace and by
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  the work of His Holy Spirit in you, you know that you're in His
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  family. You know that you belong to Him.
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  But if you're not doing that, you're not living that way, be
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  concerned, be nervous, be paranoid, be uptight, because
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  your life is weighing in the balance of heaven and hell, and
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  you need to allow the Lord to transform your life.
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  And this is something none of us can do ourselves.
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  We need the work of God's grace and his Holy Spirit to transform
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  us. We can't this well, I'm going to
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  do better this week and I'm going to promise God I'll do
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  this and I'll, you know, you can't do it by the energy of
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  your human ability and your flesh.
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  It's through the power of God's Spirit.
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  And if God's Spirit lives in US, he's the one that enables us to
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  live of the Christian life. Amen.
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  It's God's Spirit. And that's good news because you
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  can't fake it. And if you've been faking it,
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  get the pressure off yourself and just finally say, God, I
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  can't do this. I need you to be my savior.
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  I need your Holy Spirit to live in me to enable me to keep these
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  commandments that I continually have a tendency to break.
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  For this in verse three of first John 5 is the love of God that
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  we keep his commandments and his commandments are not burden
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  burdensome. They're what enables us to
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  overcome sin. They live in victory as
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  Christians. They have an overcoming life.
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  It's the work of God's Spirit in us.
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  So you look at the commandments of God.
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  There might have been a time that you looked at in this way.
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  I know I did man those 10 commandments.
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  That's just part of it, you know, and, and I, I break them
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  all, you know, and I, what am I going to do?
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  These are impossible. Did you ever look at those
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  things and be honest with yourself and say these are
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  impossible to follow? Even on your best day, you're
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  not going to get 10 out of 10. You're going to break some of
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  them. Even you and me as Christians,
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  we break them. We break his commandments every
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  day. If we don't have him above every
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  other God, we're committing idolatry.
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  And how often do we allow the things of this world to get in
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  the way of our relationship with God and we've become idolaters.
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  We have to be serious and say, Lord, work on my heart by the
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  power of your spirit that I will not sin against you.
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  You're worried, Have I hid in my heart that I will not sin
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  against you? And it's awesome when the Holy
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  Spirit works in our lives because we find ourselves like
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  sort of floating in the sense of that we're overcoming things
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  that in the past we never were able to overcome before.
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  And and you might have a life besetting sin.
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  I know Christians that still struggle with life besetting
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  sins. The book of Hebrews say says we
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  all have them. A sin is so easily besets us,
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  but that doesn't mean just because it's a weakness that God
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  isn't able to cause us to overcome that sin if we follow
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  Him and obey His Word. So we ask for His mercy and His
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  help, and God is the one who's able, as it says in Jude, to
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  keep us from falling and present us faultless before His glory
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  with exceeding joy. It tells us in verse 15 of
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  Revelation 16 that Jesus is going to come as a thief.
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  A sudden surprising event. It's unexpected.
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  It's an unannounced appearance. Many years ago, when Cindy and I
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  were first married, we didn't have two cents to rub together,
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  but we had paychecks from Spencer gifts that that week.
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  And so we were so tired and it worked so hard.
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  We were in this like motel room in the winter, they run out and,
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  you know, you're right on the beach.
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  And, and so we, we loved it and we, that's all we had.
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  We they had, it was furnished and all we have is like a couple
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  duffel bags with some clothes in.
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  And we had money that week to actually buy some groceries, you
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  know, so we go to bed and we're tired.
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  Had one of those Polaroid instant cameras.
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  Remember those old cameras? You take the picture, you put
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  the film in and then you peel it back and the picture comes
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  alive. And, you know, it was like, wow,
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  this is, I think it was one of the first things we got after we
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  got married. But, but anyway, we're asleep
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  and we're tired. And for some reason that night,
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  I, I, I don't remember putting the chain on the door.
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  It was weird. I just turned the lock on the
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  door. So we're sound asleep.
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  All this sudden in the room, I felt God woke me up.
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  The Holy Spirit woke me up and I felt this darkness in the room
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  and, and I and I opened my eyes and I sat up and I saw this guy
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  Crouch down the bottom of my bed.
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  It freaked me out. I mean, just having someone in
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  your room that you weren't expecting to be there, an
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  unannounced guest and someone is visiting, you know, and you
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  weren't inviting them. And our hearts are pounding.
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  And all I know is that I started getting up.
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  I yelled something. I just started getting up.
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  Guy could have had a knife and killed me and raped my wife or
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  whatever, and it could have been horrible.
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  But by the grace of God, that guy took off and I went outside
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  to see where which way he went and he was completely gone.
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  And I'll tell you, that night was so difficult to go back to
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  sleep because every time we fell back to sleep, we'd wake up,
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  we'd be stirred thinking he's here again, he's here again,
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  he's in the room, he's here. And that's sort of how we have
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  to think about the presence of God.
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  He's here, He's here again, He's in this room, He's with us, He's
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  watching us, He sees us. We have time, guys, to deal with
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  our hearts. We have time to have our lives
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  change. We have time to forsake sin.
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  He's going to come as a thief in the night.
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  Sudden, surprising, unexpected. And so this is endorsement by
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  God's word that you would keep your heart clean, that you would
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  keep your garments clean through holiness and repentance.
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  You would be living for God and not living for sin.
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  And when he comes back, we wouldn't be ashamed at what he
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  might find us living for, right? That he would come back and we
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  could smile and say, man, I'm glad you came today because the
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  day's a good day with you, Lord, I'm doing exactly what I'm
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  supposed to be doing. I'm in the place that I'm
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  supposed to be. I'm I had a good devotional day
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  and I had a, a day of maybe I shared my faith or I honored my
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  boss or I love my wife or I love my kids the way the Bible
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  teaches me, or I'm, I'm seeking the things which are above and
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  not the things which are below. And, and, and how awesome will
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  it be when the Lord comes for us in the rapture and for those he
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  comes forth the second coming that have gotten saved in that
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  tribulation period, that he, he finds us doing the things that
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  he told us to do versus finding us doing things that we
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  shouldn't be doing. I mean, if we're saved by God's
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  grace, we're still going to be saved.
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  But I want to be ready, don't you, that He, the Master, finds
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  me doing as a Scripture, say what He told me to do.
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  So just as the first coming of Christ involve many phases over
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  33 year period of Christ's life, from the Annunciation to the
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  ascension of Christ, the second coming of Christ encompasses
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  phases that take place before, during, and beyond the
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  seven-year tribulation. We covered phase one several
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  times in the Book of Revelation and Thessalonians where Christ
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  comes from the church at the rapture.
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  First Thessalonians chapter 4, verse 13 and 18.
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  You can review that and look at that again later.
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  Phase two of this movement of God in these last days was when
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  when Christ comes to judge the rebellious nations remaining on
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  the earth during the Tribulation.
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  And He does that through the seal judgment, through the trump
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  trumpet judgments and the and the bold plagues from Revelation
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  chapter 6 through Revelation chapter 18.
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  Phase 3 is when Christ comes to destroy the Antichrist and his
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  massive armies at Armageddon. And we'll get into that
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  Revelation chapter 1911 and phase 4.
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  The final phase is when Christ comes and establishes on earth
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  the prophecies millennial Kingdom of God and we read about
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  in Matthew 25 and Daniel chapter 2.
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  So we see in verse 15 for all of those who are awaiting this
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  event, whether those of us right now who are waiting for the
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  rapture of the church or those who are living in the time of
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  the tribulation to become Christians that will go through
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  this battle of Armageddon at the end of the tribulation.
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  Verse 16 through 18. And they gathered them together
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  to the place called in Hebrew Armageddon.
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  And the 7th Angel poured out his bowl into the air, and a loud
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  voice came out of the temple of heaven from the throne saying it
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  is done. And here we have described
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  what's spoken about in the book of Joel chapter 3.
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  The armies of the antichrists are ascending down to Armageddon
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  and in the valley plain of Jordan and that this huge piece
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  of real estate approximately 10 by 40 miles from northwest to
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  southeast, the gateway to Jerusalem.
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  This is where this battle will occur.
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  And we know from Revelation chapter 14, verse 19, it talks
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  about the great winepress of the wrath of God.
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  This is where this is going to happen.
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  This would be in the most cataclysmic battle in human
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  history on the face of the earth 17 to 21.
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  It speaks now about the 7th Angel pouring out this final
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  bowl into the air and a loud voice came out of the temple of
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  heaven from the throne room saying it is done.
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  So this is the last major horrendous judgement that's
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  coming out from the the throne of God prior to this great
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  battle of Armageddon. He says it is done just like
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  Jesus said. It is finished when he's on the
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  cross. No more wrath of God to be
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  poured out on those who come to Christ.
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  The wrath of God is only to be poured out on those who reject
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  Jesus Christ. And we see here the 7th bowl is
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  concluding with these cataclysmic events here.
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  It speaks about this in verse 18.
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  Noises and thunderings and lightnings, and great earth
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  earthquake, such a mighty and great earthquake as had not
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  occurred since men were on the face of the earth.
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  Now the great city was divided into 3 parts, and the cities of
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  the nation fell, and great Babylon was remembered before
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  God to give her the cup of the wine of the fierceness of His
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  wrath. Again speaking about this this
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  judgement of God's wine press. Every island fled away, and the
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  mountains were not found, and great hail from heaven fell upon
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  men. Each hailstone about the weight
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  of a talent approximately 90 pounds.
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  Men blasphemed God because of the plague of the hail, since
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  the plague was exceeding great. And so we see this gigantic
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  hail, worldwide earthquakes, destruction of the Antichrist,
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  his reign and his role. These lightnings and thunders
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  that are spoken about in verse 18 remind us of what we read
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  about in Exodus chapter 19 as Moses began to come down off the
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  mountain and it says the people trembled because of the sound of
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  the Thunder and the brightness of the lightning.
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  People were aware this was not a normal weather pattern.
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  This was the holiness of God shaking the foundations of the
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  earth and this great earthquakes.
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  All these great scientists in the face of the earth, they're
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  bright, they're brilliant, they study, they know certain things.
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  Unfortunately, many of them aren't understanding the signs
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  of the times of the seasons that they don't believe that the
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  Bible is real and they don't believe that Jesus Christ is
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  God. And, and they got a lot of a lot
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  of problems, but nonetheless, this is one thing that many of
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  them agree on. There's this geologic fault line
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  and it's amazing how far this thing extends.
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  It extends through Palestine, Jordan Valley, down into Africa
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  and through the California coast.
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  I I pity people who are moving to California.
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  I'm glad for people who are moving away from California.
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  I'm just kidding. Randy's here going to
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  California. Gary and Cather are moving from
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  California. You need to talk to us brother
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  about the prophecies that are coming up.
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  But Calvary Chapel is all through Southern California and
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  will be will be take will be taken out before these things
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  are occurring. Praise God.
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  But the move of God that will give way of what sinners have
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  believed supported them all the all the people on their face of
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  the earth right now. They they ignore God for the
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  most part. They walk around the world like
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  it's their own. They don't understand or
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  acknowledge a creator. They could care less even if
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  there was 1. They're not going to pay
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  attention to them or listen to them.
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  And they're standing on this ground saying this is stable.
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  This I got control. I have, I have energy, I have
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  wealth, I have materialism, I have great gain.
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  I'm the master of my domain. I'm the king of my household and
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  nothing's going to change that. I'm in charge when this
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  earthquake begins to occur, the massive earthquake like the
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  world has never known. And I haven't ever been through
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  an earthquake. But people that have been, they
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  tell you it's like a horror, that you don't want to go
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  through it. It's extremely frightening.
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  Your whole world begins to fall out from under you.
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  Literally. Those who ignore this at this
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  time will be the ones that will realize that they laughed at us
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  because we have a crutch. They call our faith in Jesus
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  Christ. You guys need it because you're
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  weak. You need a crutch.
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  They're going to wish they could find a crutch during that time
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  of the earthquake because they'll be nothing that will be
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  able to hold them up but the mercy of God.
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  And it seems that the majority of people will still, as we read
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  last week at the end of verse 11, they did not repent of their
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  deeds. So this great city is divided,
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  it says, into three parts, Babylon.
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  Some people think Babylon's an ancient Rome, the revived Roman
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  Empire. Some people think it's Baghdad.
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  You know, it doesn't really matter where it is or what it
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  is. It is a literal place.
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  And it'll be revealed in the in the last days.
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  But it's also symbolic of the corrupt world system led by the
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  Antichrist. And this earthquake is going to
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  split this city in three parts. And we'll get into that in more
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  detail next week in chapter 17 and 18.
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  In verse 20, it talks about these islands and mountains that
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  are affected by this earthquake. Some people think that this will
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  occur when Jesus comes back and lands literally on earth and his
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  feet touch the Mount of Olives. And this the holiness of God
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  touching this wicked world, that's when everything will
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  begin to just break apart and his Messiah's triumphant
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  millennial reign that will eventually be set up as we read
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  in Psalm chapter 2, the weight of this stone, these hailstones
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  coming out of heaven that says uses this word talent, which is
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  parallel to the the weight measure 95 lbs.
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  So you can imagine something 95 lbs coming down out of the
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  heavens. The damage and the death it'll
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  cause will be incalculable. I don't want to be there and I
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  won't be there. And I pray if you're here today
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  and you're still on the fence about your need of a Savior and
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  salvation, you don't stick around for this.
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  I really believe that these things are sooner than later
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  just because of what's going on in the world.
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  I mean, there's never it's, you know, people talk about the
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  stars being lined up when when Christ comes back, it seems like
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  everything is just falling into place.
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  And the prophecies, it says in the last days people will be
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  lovers of themselves rather than lovers of God.
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  That's apparent everywhere. People will go to churches to
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  have their ears tickled. You know, they want to have
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  things that will tell them how the wonderful they are, make
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  them feel good and know what they would perceive as
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  negativity or, and no down or message.
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  You know this make tell me how great I am and, and make me feel
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  good and comfortable in my sin and what I want to do and, and
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  don't bother me. Don't don't say anything that
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  would cause me to be convicted or something.
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  But God, God, you know, he is so patient and so merciful.
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  It's a wonder he hasn't done this already to everybody.
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  But in his mercy he has a body, a bride, a group of people, the
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  elect that he loves and he cherishes.
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  And and he's come to this world that has not received him and
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  rejected him. And he came to his own and his
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  own received him not. And yet he comes with love to
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  save the world from their sin. And very few people and the
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  populace from the beginning of time to the end of time come to
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  him. It's it's a mystery.
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  And so these people, when all this is happening, Can you
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  imagine this weight of these hailstones coming down?
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  There's no place to go, no place to run, no place to hide.
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  And they're still cursing God. They're blaspheming him.
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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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  judgments 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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  through what it means to be a follower of Jesus.
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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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  and 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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