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Episode 202 - Not Of The World · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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  Speaker 1: Breaking news for the Church of Jesus Christ. Breaking news,
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  Speaker 1: breaking news. We are not of the world. If you
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  Speaker 1: didn't know it, you need to know it. Church of
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  Speaker 1: the Living God, Church of Jesus Christ. We are not
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  Speaker 1: of the world. The Church is hated. The Church is
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  Speaker 1: hated by the world. The Church is hated by the
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  Speaker 1: world for a reason. And the reason for this hatred
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  Speaker 1: is given to us by Jesus. And we're going to
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  Speaker 1: examine this on today the Gospel of John again, chapter
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  Speaker 1: number fifteen. And certainly if you have your Bible you
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  Speaker 1: can go there with us. In just a few months moments.
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  Speaker 1: We are not of the world. Again. We welcome you
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  Speaker 1: to once once again, brother to this another edition of
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  Speaker 1: End Time Revival Ministers USA podcast. I am your host,
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  Speaker 1: Pastor al Zachary. And again, of course, on today we
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  Speaker 1: continue in the doctrine of Christ and his teachings to
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  Speaker 1: the church. Amen. Because it's all about Jesus. Amen. We
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  Speaker 1: need to know if we're going to be disciples, true
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  Speaker 1: disciples of Jesus. We need to know what Jesus taught.
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  Speaker 1: We need to know what Jesus commands of us. We
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  Speaker 1: need to a man learn of him as he said. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And a man again know His will. Amen. If you
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  Speaker 1: are a Christian, it means that you are a follower
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  Speaker 1: of Christ. Christianity is all about him, the Christ, the
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  Speaker 1: Savior of the Messiah, the redeemer of the mediator between God,
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  Speaker 1: the only mediator between God and man. He is the door,
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  Speaker 1: the Way, the truth, the life. No other access to salvation,
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  Speaker 1: to God, to pleasing God if you do not come
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  Speaker 1: by Jesus. And of course again, these are the words
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus, These are the teachings of Jesus. And we
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  Speaker 1: live in a world and an age, and a time
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  Speaker 1: and a season, especially and particularly when, as the Bible says,
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  Speaker 1: many will depart from the faith given heed to seducing spirits,
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  Speaker 1: doctrines of devils. A man, and so we have to
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  Speaker 1: be a man, mindful of the world in which we
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  Speaker 1: live and who we are, whose we are, what we've
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  Speaker 1: been called for, what we have been commissioned to do.
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  Speaker 1: And we need to be about the business of what
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  Speaker 1: God has a man ordaining predestined for the Church of
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ to do and to be, especially in such
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  Speaker 1: a time as this, as we get nearer and nearer
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  Speaker 1: to the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ for his Church.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, Amen, the rapture of the church. Will
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  Speaker 1: a man precipitate if you will the end of this age, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: and we will be caught up together with him in
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  Speaker 1: the clouds. The Bible tells us to meet the Lord
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  Speaker 1: in the air, and so shall we forever be with
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  Speaker 1: the Lord. Jesus told us, as we've already discovered, as
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  Speaker 1: we've been in this Gospel of John, he said, let
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  Speaker 1: your heart be troubled. If you believe in God, believe
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  Speaker 1: also in me and my Father's house of many mansions.
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  Speaker 1: I go to prepare a place for you, that where
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  Speaker 1: I am there you may be also, he said, if
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  Speaker 1: I go away, I will come again. And so we
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  Speaker 1: are looking for We are in expectation of the return
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus Christ for his Church. John's God's Chapter fifteen.
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  Speaker 1: Before we begin again, of course, we want to thank
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  Speaker 1: all of you, each of each and every one of you.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, we pray for support the work of this ministry.
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  Speaker 1: We pray that you will if this perhaps is your
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  Speaker 1: first time, If it's not your first time, amen, please
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  Speaker 1: by all means share it with someone else. Our goal,
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  Speaker 1: our endeavor. We're not here for money. We're not here
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  Speaker 1: for fame. We're not here for fortune. Amen. We're not
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  Speaker 1: here to amen rack up followers and boasting whatever accomplishment
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  Speaker 1: or achievement of the ministry. It's all about proclaiming the truth.
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  Speaker 1: That is to be a man herald by those of
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  Speaker 1: us who have been called to preach the Word. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And so that's what we are here to do. Preach
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  Speaker 1: the word, disseminate the word. And we pray that God
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  Speaker 1: will a man use you as an instrument, as a tool,
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  Speaker 1: as a vessel to again just simply share it with
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  Speaker 1: someone else. Man. All right, God, bless you again. Let's
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  Speaker 1: go before the Lord and prayer before we delve into
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  Speaker 1: the word of the Lord. John's Gospel, chapter fifteen. Father, again,
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  Speaker 1: thank you for your word. Thank you for your promises,
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  Speaker 1: every one of them are yea and Amen to the
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  Speaker 1: glory of God. We thank you for the breath of
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  Speaker 1: life it's in us. Thank you for health and strength.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for a mind to serve you. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: for calling us out of the darkness, out of the
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  Speaker 1: misery and suffering Amen that's associated with sin and death,
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  Speaker 1: and giving us life and hope. Amen, and a new Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Expectation of joy and peace and contentment that is to
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  Speaker 1: be found in you. Thank you for a man blessing
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  Speaker 1: us to see Amen another year, another season. Amen, and
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  Speaker 1: whatever it is, that Lord, that you have in store
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  Speaker 1: for us. We a man look forward to a man.
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  Speaker 1: You're being with us, never leaving us and never forsaking us,
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  Speaker 1: but ordering our steps and got in our way each
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  Speaker 1: and every day. Be thou magnified glorified love. We pray
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  Speaker 1: for every listening ear and every obedient heart in Jesus name.
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  Speaker 1: Amen and Amen again breaking news for the Church of
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. We are not of the world, and we
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  Speaker 1: get this from the words of Jesus Christ himself. John's Gospel,
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  Speaker 1: Chapter fifteen. I begin reading at verse number eighteen. If
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  Speaker 1: the world hate you, you know that it hated me
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  Speaker 1: before it hated you. If ye were of the world,
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  Speaker 1: the world would love his own. But because ye are
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  Speaker 1: not of the world, but I have chosen you out
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  Speaker 1: of the world. Therefore the world hateth you. Remember the
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  Speaker 1: word that I said unto you, the servant is not
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  Speaker 1: greater than his lord. If they have persecuted me, they
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  Speaker 1: will also persecute you. If they have kept my saying
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  Speaker 1: they will keep yours also. But all these things will
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  Speaker 1: they do unto you for my name's sake, because they
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  Speaker 1: know not him that sent me. If I had not
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  Speaker 1: come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin.
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  Speaker 1: But now they have no cloak for their sin, no covering.
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  Speaker 1: He that hateth me. Listen to these words of Jesus'
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  Speaker 1: final verse, verse twenty three hateth my father. Also, He
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  Speaker 1: that hateth me hateth my father also so much, so much,
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  Speaker 1: so much that we can amen, and I could take
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  Speaker 1: hours on end disseminating and parsing through, if you will,
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  Speaker 1: the words that Jesus spoke, just in these few verses
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  Speaker 1: recorded in John's Gospel. But we're going to focus on
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  Speaker 1: the fact that we are not of the world. We
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  Speaker 1: are not the Church of Jesus Christ, called out chosen
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  Speaker 1: by God. We are not of the world. The precedence
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  Speaker 1: for the world's hatred of God's people is rooted in
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  Speaker 1: their hatred of Jesus. It's rooted in their hatred of Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: That's where it begins. Jesus was hated, he was despised,
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  Speaker 1: he was rejected by this world. And so it will
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  Speaker 1: be for those who name the name of Christ who
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  Speaker 1: walk in his commandments. That's what Jesus said. Now, remember
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  Speaker 1: we just read it. You will be hated for my
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  Speaker 1: name's sake again. And as we have talked about before,
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  Speaker 1: and now I'll mention it again in just a few moments.
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  Speaker 1: A man. World is not anti religion. Amen. The world
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  Speaker 1: hates Jesus because he testifies that their deeds are evil.
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  Speaker 1: These are the words of Jesus. That's what he said.
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  Speaker 1: The world hates me because I testify against it, because
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  Speaker 1: their deeds are evil. When you speak up against evil,
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  Speaker 1: you will be hated. The world also hates Jesus because
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  Speaker 1: he is the light of course, that exposes their deeds.
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  Speaker 1: And Jesus again, men prefer the darkness rather than the light,
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  Speaker 1: and it is because their deeds are evil a man,
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  Speaker 1: but the light exposes the deeds, and men again hate
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  Speaker 1: the light because they don't want to be exposed. They're deeds.
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  Speaker 1: Want to be a man carried on in the darkness.
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  Speaker 1: They live in the darkness. They love the darkness. They
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  Speaker 1: prefer the darkness. Jesus being the light, and then of
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  Speaker 1: course we being light also. Jesus told us to do
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  Speaker 1: what let our lights shine? Let them shine and when
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  Speaker 1: you let the light shine a man, you will be
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  Speaker 1: hated for again exposing the evil deeds of this world.
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  Speaker 1: The world hates Jesus because he also speaks true. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: They hate him because he speaks truth. And if you
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  Speaker 1: speak the truth, if you live the truth a man,
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna be hated. This is nothing new. By the
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  Speaker 1: way Isaiah Amen prophecies, his warnings, his writings recorded. Look
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  Speaker 1: at chapter fifty nine. I believe it is Amen. Truth
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  Speaker 1: is slain in the streets. Amen. People hate the truth
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  Speaker 1: and feel if you speak the truth and you live
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  Speaker 1: by the truth, you become a prey. That's what the
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  Speaker 1: Bible says. You become the one who is hunted, who
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  Speaker 1: is hated a man and despised a man. The world
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  Speaker 1: loves and lives in the deception of lies. They love lies.
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  Speaker 1: This is the world in which we live. They love
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  Speaker 1: to be lied to. Jesus is preparing his disciples, of course,
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  Speaker 1: at these final hours a man before he would be
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  Speaker 1: again betrayed and surrender himself in the garden of canseimite
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  Speaker 1: a man over to the authorities. He's preparing his disciples
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  Speaker 1: for the reality of this hatred. And of course the
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  Speaker 1: subsequent persecution that will come along with this deep seated
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  Speaker 1: malice that is of course of the devil. All of
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  Speaker 1: this comes out of the pit of hell, and Jesus
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  Speaker 1: informs these apostles that they are not of the world.
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  Speaker 1: They have been chosen out of the world. And because
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  Speaker 1: they have been chosen out of the world, they will
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  Speaker 1: be hated, and they will be persecuted. And many of them,
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  Speaker 1: if not all of them, were martyred a man, and
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  Speaker 1: Jesus told them in advance they would be You're gonna
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  Speaker 1: be brought up before the counsel, You're going to testify
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  Speaker 1: before kings and rulers, and you are going to be
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  Speaker 1: hated of all nations for my namesake. Amen. And so
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  Speaker 1: because of our this is the Church. All of God's
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  Speaker 1: people are chosen. Amen. And the Bible tells us, by
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  Speaker 1: the way we were chosen him before the foundation of
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  Speaker 1: the world, that we will be a holy people. And
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  Speaker 1: God wants us to be, of course as his people,
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  Speaker 1: a peculiar people. Amen. A chosen, the Bible says generation, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: chosen by God. And along with that comes hatred and persecution.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible tells us they that will live godly in
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  Speaker 1: Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution. And again, as it was
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  Speaker 1: with Jesus, as it was with the Apostles, as it
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  Speaker 1: was with the early Church. We can read all of
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  Speaker 1: this in the Acts of the Apostles, for example, about
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  Speaker 1: this early Church. Amen, so it will be with us.
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  Speaker 1: And so it continues to this day. The Church of
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ is hated. Why because we are not of
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  Speaker 1: the world. So the Church of our day must understand
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  Speaker 1: that this is an inescapable experience, a man of being
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  Speaker 1: chosen by God, being baptized into the body of Christ,
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  Speaker 1: naming the name of Christ, being a disciple of Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 1: walking up right before him. Again, you're going to be hated,
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  Speaker 1: not rioting with them, banqueting with them. The Bible tip
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  Speaker 1: speaks of this. Peter, I believe it was rute about this.
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  Speaker 1: Don't think it's strange when you come into these fiery trials,
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  Speaker 1: and it's because again you're not one of them. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: You're going to be be hated, Amen, because of a
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  Speaker 1: man the name of Jesus Christ. Amen. So Amen, you
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  Speaker 1: become a target. Amen. And this happens as soon as
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  Speaker 1: we are set apart by the Holy Ghost to be
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  Speaker 1: ambassadors for Christ. When you become a martyr, a witness,
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  Speaker 1: you begin to testify to the deliverance, the deliverance power
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  Speaker 1: of God's grace and mercy. You're instantly a target of
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  Speaker 1: the adversary, the devil. Of course, he hates the fact
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  Speaker 1: that you have now left off from being one of
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  Speaker 1: his soldiers, one of his footmen, one of his ambassadors,
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  Speaker 1: a man being used by him. And now that you've
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  Speaker 1: come into the light, now that you've been delivered from
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  Speaker 1: his power and persuasion a man, you become a target.
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  Speaker 1: And that's okay, that's okay. We are under God's divine
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  Speaker 1: protection and we don't need to fear the evil of
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  Speaker 1: the enemy, evil of the adversary. Amen. The enemies of
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  Speaker 1: the Cross of Christ, yes, they despise the preaching of
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  Speaker 1: the Gospel of Christ. They abhor the transformation of the
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  Speaker 1: new Man in Christ, Jesus. The Bible tells us, anyone
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  Speaker 1: being Christ, he becomes a new creation. The old man
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  Speaker 1: has passed away. We put off the old man, We
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  Speaker 1: put off the old deeds. They despise that, they abhor that,
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  Speaker 1: and they cannot be at peace as long as Jesus
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  Speaker 1: is being preached in this world. We've got to understand
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  Speaker 1: that as the Church of the Living God, as the
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  Speaker 1: people of God, we cannot they cannot rather be at peace, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: And they are not going to get along with us. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: as long as we preach Jesus. Now again, it's okay,
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  Speaker 1: the preacher all other and any other kind of religion.
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  Speaker 1: But it is the name of Jesus Christ. It is
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  Speaker 1: his authority, his king chip that is so detestable to
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  Speaker 1: this world. The world does not hate religion. The world
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  Speaker 1: is saturated with religious idolatry everywhere in every nation. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: They hate that they must submit to his kingdom, to
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  Speaker 1: his commands. They hate that it is his way that
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  Speaker 1: is the only way. Amen. They hate that they cannot
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  Speaker 1: secede and overthrowing his kingdom, overthrowing his church, turning true
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  Speaker 1: disciples away from calling on Jesus, trusting in Jesus, believing
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  Speaker 1: in Jesus, looking for his return. They hate it that
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  Speaker 1: you cannot be persuaded to turn away from the faith.
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  Speaker 1: The world, as Jesus says, loves the world, The world
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  Speaker 1: loves his own. Amen. And although the Church, again, although
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  Speaker 1: the people of God we are in this world, the
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  Speaker 1: Bible teaches we are not of the world. We have
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  Speaker 1: been called out of the world, called to love this
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  Speaker 1: same Jesus. We were once partakers in the hatred of Amen.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible again tells us very clearly we were as
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  Speaker 1: children of Amen wrath. We were haters of God. We were.
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  Speaker 1: But God, Oh, I love it, I love it, I
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  Speaker 1: love it, who is rich in mercy. He loved us
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  Speaker 1: with an everlasting love. And we love him again because
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  Speaker 1: he first loved us. So herein is another separation of
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  Speaker 1: the true disciple of Jesus Christ from all others, which
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  Speaker 1: is why we cannot be of the world as partakers
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  Speaker 1: of the hate that the world has for Jesus. We
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  Speaker 1: love him, we don't hate him, Amen. And so that's
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  Speaker 1: why we're not of the world, because the world hates Jesus. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if you're of the world, you must be a hater
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus. That's a separation, that's a line of demarcation.
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  Speaker 1: The world loves those who are of the world. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: said this. Now, so again we are to be in
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  Speaker 1: the world as salt and light, as that city set
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  Speaker 1: on a heel, as lights shining in the darkness, as
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  Speaker 1: the people of God, as that peculiar people, that holy nation,
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  Speaker 1: that royal priesthood. That's what we're to be in the world,
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  Speaker 1: but not of the world as partakers of their evil
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  Speaker 1: deeds and their hatred of Jesus Christ and his Church.
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  Speaker 1: Now there is please understand this also, this is very important.
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  Speaker 1: There's a great deal of syncretism and devious scheming on
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  Speaker 1: the part of the adversary to mesh the religions of
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  Speaker 1: this world into the true Church. See, they want a
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  Speaker 1: one world religion. You heard a one world government. They
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  Speaker 1: want a one world religion. This is deviousness and scheming
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  Speaker 1: on the part of the devil. Amen. Can we all
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  Speaker 1: get along? The answer to that is really absolutely no,
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  Speaker 1: we cannot. Now we ought to follow peace with all men.
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  Speaker 1: We are to as much as lies within us. The
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  Speaker 1: Bible says, to be at peace, pray for the peace
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  Speaker 1: of this world of mankind. Amen, of and follow peace
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  Speaker 1: with all men, and again, as much as lies in
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  Speaker 1: us and mean Bible, by the way calls for us.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus called for us to be peace makers. Amen. And
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  Speaker 1: so we are to endeavor with everything that's in us
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  Speaker 1: to be peacemakers. But can we get along with people
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  Speaker 1: who hate God? Who hate the name of Jesus, who
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  Speaker 1: hate the Gospel of Jesus Christ, who hate church. No,
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  Speaker 1: we can't get along with them because they don't want
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  Speaker 1: to get along with us. However, what they want to
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  Speaker 1: do and what is happening is syncretism. They are pretending
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  Speaker 1: to be righteous. Oh, by the way, and again, this
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  Speaker 1: is what devil does. His first tactic always is persecution.
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  Speaker 1: And this is what he did early church. Reading in
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  Speaker 1: the Book of the Acts of the Apostles, he oh,
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  Speaker 1: my God, he did everything he could to overthrow the church. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And of course Jesus already said, fun this rocket building
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  Speaker 1: a church against fail will not prevail a man. We
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  Speaker 1: are to be by the way on the offense. If
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  Speaker 1: that means we are to be on the offensif not
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  Speaker 1: on defense, we are to be attacking. Amen. And when
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  Speaker 1: you again, just live the life. Amen, live the word,
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  Speaker 1: follow the word, preach the word, live the truth. You're
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  Speaker 1: going to be hated. Oh, you're going to stick out
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  Speaker 1: because you're not doing what they do. You're not living
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  Speaker 1: as they live. You don't participate in what they do. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: you don't give approval. So what the devil has done
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  Speaker 1: and what the world is doing and with their religion
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  Speaker 1: is they want to Amen, co op the church, as
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  Speaker 1: it were, with this syncretism, trying to mesh and meld
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  Speaker 1: and weld and combine if you will, religion, all kinds
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  Speaker 1: of religion, which by the way, they all descend from
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  Speaker 1: the pit of hell. They're all of the devil. They
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  Speaker 1: are idolatrous. Amen, religion, that's what really religion is. It's
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  Speaker 1: man's attempt, and it's all of the devil doctrines of devils,
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  Speaker 1: a man attempt to appease God, and not necessarily the
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  Speaker 1: true in the living God, of course. And they just
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  Speaker 1: now with this deception creep into the church and attempt
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  Speaker 1: to co opt the church. Amen, combine score up these names. Man,
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  Speaker 1: where do they get these names from? You know? They
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  Speaker 1: combine Islam and Christianity some kind of way. And they say, oh, well,
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  Speaker 1: we we we we respect Jesus, we honor Jesus, we
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  Speaker 1: believe in Jesus. No, no, not biblically, not doctrinally, not
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  Speaker 1: according to the Gospel, not according to the teachings of Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: And so again the Church has be very careful about
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  Speaker 1: this scheming of the devil. Amen. It will never be
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  Speaker 1: so Jesus says again, I am the way, and you
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  Speaker 1: must obey my commands. If you love me, you will
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  Speaker 1: keep my commandments. Neither is there salvation. People understood that,
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  Speaker 1: the Church understood it early on. Neither is there salvation
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  Speaker 1: in any other You can't come any other way. That's
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  Speaker 1: nothing to add to what Jesus did, and you certainly
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  Speaker 1: cannot take anything away to do. So you don't want,
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  Speaker 1: you don't want. You don't want the plagues, you don't
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  Speaker 1: want the additional curses, because then you're calling God a liar,
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  Speaker 1: you're calling Jesus a liar, and you're also blasphemous lee
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  Speaker 1: calling his work, his suffering, his sacrifice insufficient. Because now
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  Speaker 1: there's another way. Now there's another option. Now we have
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  Speaker 1: multitudes of ways in all roads lead no, no, no, no. See,
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  Speaker 1: that's hatred, that's cloaked in religious clothing. The wolves in
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  Speaker 1: sheep's clothes, that's what it is. These are wolves in
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  Speaker 1: sheep's clothing. They inwardly possess a hatred for Jesus. They
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  Speaker 1: hate godliness, they hate holiness, they hate righteousness, and we,
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  Speaker 1: on the other hand, are to have a hatred for
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  Speaker 1: this lawlessness. Amen, James and his Epistol to the Church,
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  Speaker 1: he reminds us that friendship of the world is enmity
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  Speaker 1: with God. Whosoever therefore will be a friend of the
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  Speaker 1: world is the enemy of God. So you can't be
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  Speaker 1: a friend. You can't eat at the Lord's table and
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  Speaker 1: at the table of devils. You can't be a friend
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  Speaker 1: of God and a friend of the devil, a friend
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  Speaker 1: of the world. Love not the world, neither love the
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  Speaker 1: things that are in the world. The Bible tells us
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  Speaker 1: this same John who wrote in this epistle Amen to
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  Speaker 1: the Church. He says, all that is in the world,
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  Speaker 1: the lust of the eyes, of the lust of the flesh,
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  Speaker 1: and the pride of life, is not of God. Paul
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  Speaker 1: also wrote to the Church concerning what and how our
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  Speaker 1: relationship to unbelievers in this world is to be while
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  Speaker 1: we are in this world. We're gonna close here in
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  Speaker 1: just a few moments, but I want you to hear
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  Speaker 1: these words from Second Corinthians, chapter number six, verse number fourteen.
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  Speaker 1: Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers. Now again,
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  Speaker 1: Paul is not, and the Bible is not, And Jesus
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  Speaker 1: did not advocate again that we are to be completely
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  Speaker 1: and totally separated from sinners, from those that because why
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  Speaker 1: because we were once such were some of you, And
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  Speaker 1: we are here to be the light, the salt, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: the witnesses, to compel men, to call men, to love them,
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  Speaker 1: to have compassion, just as Jesus had compassion on us. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: to forgive Amen, even when we are persecuted and hated
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  Speaker 1: for it. Amen. So we're not in the Bible is
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  Speaker 1: not again advocating separation, Amen, complete abandonment, separation in this world,
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  Speaker 1: to where we don't even walk and talk amongst you know,
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  Speaker 1: those that are unbelievers. No, that's not what he do. Again.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not going to spend a tremendous amount of time,
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  Speaker 1: but just understand, we cannot walk together when we don't
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  Speaker 1: agree together. In other words, that doesn't mean again I
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  Speaker 1: can't work with unbelievers on a job, Amen. But amen,
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  Speaker 1: it is very difficult. For example, if you want to
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  Speaker 1: a man have a business to be and you want
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  Speaker 1: to glorify God in this business, to be unequally yoked
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  Speaker 1: together with a partner, for example, in that business who
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  Speaker 1: does not share the same values that you do as
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  Speaker 1: a true believer and disciple of Christ. So we are
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  Speaker 1: not to be unequally yoke together with unbelievers. For what
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  Speaker 1: fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? And what hath communion? Or
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  Speaker 1: what chameunion? Brother? Hath light with darkness? What concord hath
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  Speaker 1: Christ with be I ill? Or what part hath he
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  Speaker 1: that believeth with an infidel? What agreement hath the temple
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  Speaker 1: of God with idols? For you are the temple of
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  Speaker 1: the Living God. As God hath said, I will dwell
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  Speaker 1: in them and walk in them, and I will be
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  Speaker 1: their God, and they shall be my people. This is
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  Speaker 1: the Church of the Living God, God in us, his
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  Speaker 1: Spirit in us, Jesus said, I'll be in you, I'll
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  Speaker 1: never leave you, I'll never forsake you. Amen, we are
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  Speaker 1: again that holy people, Amen, called out verse seventeen. Wherefore,
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  Speaker 1: what does the Bible say, come out from among them
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  Speaker 1: and be ye separate? Said the Lord again. He's not
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  Speaker 1: saying leave the world. Let's all go together, evan live
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  Speaker 1: in some commune somewhere in the mountains, somewhere set apart,
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  Speaker 1: waiting for the rapture of the church. You know that's
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  Speaker 1: not what about Paul By Again, he said very clearly
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  Speaker 1: that it would be necessary for us in essence, once
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  Speaker 1: we are saved, to then be taken out of the world,
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  Speaker 1: if that were the case. But that's not what he
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  Speaker 1: is stressing here. He's talking about again, fellowshipping in agreement,
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  Speaker 1: walking in agreement, living in agreement. Amen, allowing your faith
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  Speaker 1: to be compromised. Amen, come out from among them, and
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  Speaker 1: be ye separate, said the Lord, and touch not the
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  Speaker 1: unclean thing. And I will receive you, and you will be.
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  Speaker 1: And I would rather be a father unto you, and
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  Speaker 1: you shall be my sons and daughters. Saith the Lord Almighty.
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  Speaker 1: The Church is not of the world. In fact, the
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  Speaker 1: Church is the future bride of Christ, and the bride
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  Speaker 1: will not be compromised, or rather comprised if you will,
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  Speaker 1: certainly not will We're certainly not going to be compromised.
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  Speaker 1: But it's certainly, of course, it's not going to be
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  Speaker 1: comprised of people of the world who hate the Bridegroom.
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  Speaker 1: Can you imagine that the bride of Christ comprised of
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  Speaker 1: people who hate Christ? Oh, we are the future bride
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  Speaker 1: of Christ, and there will not be haters of Christ
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  Speaker 1: in the Church. The Lord knows them that are his,
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  Speaker 1: and those who love him, those who trust him. Those
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  Speaker 1: who obey him, and those who look for him. They
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  Speaker 1: are the ones who will be called up to meet
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  Speaker 1: with him in the air and forever be with the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: We are not of this world. We are looking, and
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  Speaker 1: we are praying, and we are in anticipation of his return.
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  Speaker 1: But until that time we are to live godly and
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  Speaker 1: holy and righteous right here in this present world, in
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  Speaker 1: the world, but not of the world. So Father, give
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  Speaker 1: us the strength we need, help us to endure, to
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  Speaker 1: persevere in a world that hates us. And that's okay,
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  Speaker 1: because you told us it would be. Amen. Through your strength, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: through your power, through your love, through your grace, we're
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  Speaker 1: able to bear it. You'll put no more on us
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  Speaker 1: than we can bear. And so Lord, we pray that
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  Speaker 1: you will open eyes and ears and hearts. And Lord,
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  Speaker 1: turn those who are in the darkness, those who are
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  Speaker 1: now haters of God. Amen, turn them from that darkness
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  Speaker 1: into the light. They will come to know that You
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  Speaker 1: are the true in the Living God, the savior of
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  Speaker 1: all them that believe. Be thout glorified, and your people
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  Speaker 1: everywhere we pray and give thanks. Amen and Amen.