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Episode 92: Pandemic Of Lies III · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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We're welcome you once again, ladies and gentlemen, to this another edition of
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End Time Revival Ministries US a podcast. I am your host, Pastor al
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Zachary, and today we continue in our series that we just commenced a couple
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of weeks ago on the topic of this reality that is certainly in our world
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today, a pandemic of lies, a pandemic of lies. I normally start
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broadcast with a word of prayer, but I'm going to close with that prayer
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at the end, and I just want to say a man in prayer to
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the Lord before we begin. Lord help us, Lord, Help us Lord.
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And today my focus is going to be on false prophets. The false
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prophets. Take heed that no one deceives you is the warning from Jesus and
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his apostles, who were sent for, of course, to proclaim the truth
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of the Gospel. This warning is what we need to be very diligent about
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daily. Take heed that no one deceives you. The Bible lets us know
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that the House of God, the Church of the Living God, is the
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pillar and ground of the truth. That's in One Timothy chapter three, verse
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fifteen. The Church of Jesus Christ is to contend for the truth of God
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in this fallen world, and fight the good. Fight faithfully and boldly and
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with confidence, a man knowing that God will not a man allow his word
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to fall to the ground. Truth shall prevail, It always has, and
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it always will. Nevertheless, we are certainly living in this time, this
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season that the Bible certainly told us would come to pass. It is what
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I call a pandemic of lies. But a pandemic of lies is not possible
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without these two things. Number one, no love or desire for the truth,
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which opens the door for Number two, false prophets in mass, false
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prophets of plenty, false prophets proliferating everywhere. When there is no love or
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desire for the truth, ladies and gentlemen, it opens the door for false
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to thrive and prosper. This is precisely what has given way for a pandemic
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of lives to prosper in our world today. False prophets can only be effective
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when people are willfully ignorant of the truth of God, which by the way,
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is not hidden from any of us. These are the opportunities that the
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adversary of the souls of man seek for a man truth resistance, truth,
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hostility, truth rebellion. When that happens when we resist the truth, when
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we are hostile to the truth, when we rebel against the truth. The
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devil your adversary, the one who is seeking to destroy you. He is
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the enemy of your soul. Remember, the Bible tells us we wrestle out
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against flesh and blood a man. He then goes to work within any heart
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of any man, a man again, who is resistant to the truth,
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who is hostile to the truth, who rebels against the truth. He works
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within that heart to build up defiant insubordination to God's truth, to repentance,
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to salvation. Amen. In order for lies to proliferate and to prosper,
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there must be willing participants who are prone to believing the lies. The temptation
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for man, to be certain a man of a lie, comes from being
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drawn away of his own loss, of his own desires. This is what
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the Bible tells us the Book of James. No man, let no man
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say when he's tempting, he is tempted of God. Every man is drawn
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away, every man is enticed, every man is seduced. A man when
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he is drawn away of his own us, his own desires. And this
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enticement then is added to by the devil a man in order to entrap the
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man, in order to enslave the man. This is the devil's field of
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expertise, Amen, and this is his number one priority with any man,
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Amen, because he knows that God's truth is his undoing. Now, I
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want you to hear the teaching of Jesus, and I'm gonna back up what
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I just said. I'm gonna back this up with the word of the Lord,
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the teaching of Jesus that's found in the parable of the soul. And
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people can make all the excuses that they want, But the word of God,
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the Gospel of Jesus Christ, is plentiful. It is available, and
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especially in our Western culture. Amen, even though we have again those who
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hate the Church, hate the Word of God, hate the Cross, hate
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Salvation, hate the truth, Amen, hate the Way of Salvation, it
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is still not restricted as it is in many other parts of the world.
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This United States of America and again in most of Western civilizations. The Word
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of God is available of plenty. Amen. Jesus commanded the disciples, he
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sent them forth, and even though again they faced hostility, they faced opposition,
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they face resistance, they faced persecution, they face martyrdom because of the
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truth of God. Yet and still the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the Church
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of Jesus Christ, grew and exploded and expanded and is still prospering, because
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Jesus himself said, the gates of hell will not be able to prevail against
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the Church, his Church, the true Church. Amen. But here he's
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words of Jesus. Amen. Because again, when we are drawn away from
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the truth, it's because of number one, our own luss and number two
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the Ai who comes to steal, keel and to destroy hre the words of
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Jesus. This is the parable of the sore. By the way, I'm
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reading from Luke chapter number eight, beginning at verse number four, what a
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great multitude, the Bible says, had gathered, and they had come to
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him, that is, to Jesus, from every city he spoke by a
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parable. A sore went out to sow his seed, and as he sold,
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some fell by the wayside, and it was trampled down, down,
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and the birds of the air devoured it. Verse number six. Some fell
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on rock, and as soon as it sprang up, it withered away because
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it lacked moisture, and some Verse number seven fell among thorn, and the
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thorns sprang up with it and choked it. But others Verse number eight fell
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on good ground, sprang up and yielded a crop one hundredfold. When he
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had said these things, he cried, he who has ears to hear,
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let him hear. Then his disciples, who did not understand the parable,
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the meaning of the parable, the Bible says, they came to Jesus.
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They asked Jesus, saying, what does this parable mean? And Jesus,
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and thank you Jesus that he This is not one of those parables where we
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get to get our own interpretation and we get to get our own meaning from
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it, and we can, you know, theorize in all rational No,
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no, no, no no. Jesus did not leave us this one for
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us to, you know, make assumptions and presumptions about. He explains the
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parable first eleven. Now, the parable is this number one first and foremost.
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The seed is the word of God, the sore souls. The seed
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who is the sore. The number one sore, of course, is Jesus
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Christ himself, Amen, the son of Man Amen. And he has commissioned
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first the apostles, and all of the others. Afterward, Amen, that
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he sends forth to again soul the Word throughout all the earth. By the
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way, that is the mission of the church to preach the Gospel, preach
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the word timoth. He was commissioned and commanded, rather admonished by Paul,
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to preach the Word to be instant in season out of season. Reproved,
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rebuke, exhort with all long suffering and doctrine. He said, because prophetically
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the time, he said, Prophetically, the time will come when people will
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not want to hear sound doctrine. They will turn away their ears from the
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truth and be turned to fables. Again. We are led away by our
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own desires, our own luss. Listen what the Bible says. Let's what
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Jesus says. This is the meaning of the parable. First and foremost,
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the seed that is solven throughout all the earth, all over the world is
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the Word of God. Man shall not live by bread alone, but by
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every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. So God makes sure
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that his word is here, his word is available, word is dispensed,
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his word is proliferated throughout the earth. Amen. So the Word, the
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Word of God is the seed that is sown. Listen what the Bible says,
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This is Jesus, Amen, first and foremost Again, the Word of
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God is the seed Verse number twelve. Those by the wayside, because you
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have different groups of people, Amen, exposed if you will to the seed.
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Those by the wayside are the ones who hear hear what hear the word
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of God. They hear the word of God. Amen. But what happens
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to them wayside? The wayside group, the Bible says, the devil comes
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and takes away the Word, takes away the seed of the Word out of
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their heart, lest they should believe and be saved. Listen what happens,
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ladies and gentlemen. This happens. It happens. It happens. The Word
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of God. The Bible said, by the way, the Word God is
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quick, powerful, sharpen than any two edge sword. It it goes down
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into the innermost thoughts, the Bible says, of the heart. It deals
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with the man. That's what the Word of God does. And that's why
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we have to be consistent in preaching the Word instant, in season and out
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of season, the Word of God. And so what happens is when the
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word of God is preached. When the word of God is properly disseminated,
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When the word of God proliferates, it goes into the inner man, and
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the Bible says, that's where it begins to do work. However, there
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there is an enemy. There's an adversary over your soul. Who is the
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devil, who does not want you to be saved, who does not want
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you to believe, who does not want you to obey the truth. And
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so what he does he comes, the Bible says, and he steals.
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That's what Jesus said. He came to do, steal, kill, destroy,
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He steals away the word out of the heart of mine. How does
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he do this? By the way, I'm you know, you may ponder
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in your mind. Devil just comes in and just steal. He does it,
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ladies and gentlemen, rationalizing, reasoning, doubting, using unbelief, just
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like he did with Eve a man. It's no new tricks, no new
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tricks, no new tricks. By the way, a man hath God said,
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Does that really mean that? Oh you're not really gonna die. Oh
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you're not gonna really go to hell. Oh Hell is not a real place.
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Oh this, that, and the all that, all you's name,
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everybody's going to everybody's going to heaven. Everybody's good, everybody's saved. Everybody.
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I mean, he uses a man trickery and deception and lies inside of
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the heart. When the Word of God is working in you, when the
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Word of God is working to bring about conviction, the devil does not want
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anyone to come under conviction, and he's going to do everything in his power
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to hinder you from coming to Jesus. So he does to those by the
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wayside, the act of theft, he comes, the Bible says, and
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takes away the Word out of their hearts, lest they should believe and be
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saved. Then verse thirteen, he said, the ones on the rock,
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this is another group of people. They are those who, when they hear
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see here's the key. Ladies and gentlemen, they're all hearing the word.
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They're all getting the word. The Word of God has sown. Jesus is
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making sure, the Holy Spirit is making sure, God himself is making sure
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that the Word of God. Amen is disseminated, Amen throughout the land.
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Amen. So those on the walk of those who, when they hear they
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receive the Word with joy. Oh that wait, wait a minute, Oh
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they Oh that sounds good. I like that. Oh you mean there's hope,
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you mean there's peace to be had, You mean there's there's there's a
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there's a way out of this life that I'm in. They receive the Word
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with joy. And these, by the way the Bible says, there is
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no root. Who believe for a while. They believe for a while,
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and in time of temptation they fall away. You see, these are those
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who never come to know Jesus. They never follow on. These are those
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who make a confession with their mouth, but their works they're not there.
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I mean again when I say it, by works. But anybody can make
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a confession. Anybody can make a profession. As Jesus said himself, these
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people honor me with their lips Old Testament, New Testament. But their heart
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is what far from me. They hear the word, they receive the Word
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with joy. They have no root, and they believe for a while.
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But when the true tests of discipleship, when the true test of denying yourself,
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as it were, as Jesus said, taking up the cross and followed,
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when the true hardships come, they abandon the word they fall away.
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Amen. I've said it before. I said again, this way of salvation
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Jesus following Jesus. It's not for everybody, and it's certainly not for cowards.
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It's not for cowards. Ladies and gentlemen. You're gonna have to have
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boldness, and you can get it by the way the apostles prayed for it.
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Remember, these were the most cowardly people as it could be, perhaps
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during the time of Jesus testing and temptation when he was taken. Amen.
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And they all fled and ran for their lives and thought it was all over
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until they received the power that comes with the Holy Ghost. God has not
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giving us the spirit of fear, but of power, love and a sound
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mind, a sound mind. Amen. But the people on the rock who
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hear, they calm and rejoice, They shout and dance. You know,
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they participate in church. They active in the church. What did Jesus say,
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not everyone who says Lord Lord is in the kingdom. He's gonna say
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to these people, depart from me. I never knew you. So they're
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gonna protest to say Lord. Wait? Wait, wait, wait, did
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we not do this? Did we not prophesied, did we're not preached.
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It were not, were we not in the church. I never knew you.
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You never had root, Amen, you would never root it and ground
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it in Jesus. And that's the only way that you and I, any
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of us, can a man survive a man, this pandemic of lies a
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man the deception of the enemy, is to be rooted and grounded in Jesus.
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In the word of God. Thy word have I hidden in my heart
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that I might not sin against you? The sarm has said, it's the
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word of God. That's what Jesus used in the wilderness of temptation. He
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used the word of God, the truth of God. The devil cannot handle
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that. He will flee from you. The Bible says, cleave to God,
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resist the devil, resist him with what the word, the truth.
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He will leave you. He will let you go. But if you start
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conversing with him, if you start rationalizing with him, if you're only in
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it for the singing and the shouting and the dancing, But no word,
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no truth, no self examination to see if you are in the faith,
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no adding to your faith, all the things that Peter wrote about. Amen,
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these are people who come to church, attend church. But again they'll
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never redeemed, they will never rooted. Amen. And then there's another group.
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The Bible says, they are those who fell among thorns. These are
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they, the Bible says, when they have heard, they're they're again.
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They all hear, everybody hears. They go out, the Bible says,
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they go out from hearing the word of God, getting the truth of God.
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But they are choked, the Bible says, with cares with riches and
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pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity. These are they,
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By the way, ladies and gentlemen, I'm just gonna say it like it
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is. These are those who are compromisers, who want to love the world,
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love the things in the world, love the pleasures of the world,
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co oper with the world, run with the world. Amen. These are
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those who they don't have their treasures in heaven, They have their treasures here.
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They love the praises of men. They want to be seen and heard.
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They want to a man again, have their as we call all that
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cake and eat it too, And they want all of that. No self
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denial, no no, no, no self denial, no no, no
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no. They are they are solely in pursuit, not in the kingdom first,
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as Jesus commanded us. But they are in pursuit of worldliness first,
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and they try to co op and all and bring all of it and make
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it all right, and then get upset and angry with anybody who wants to
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deny those things first and again, it's nothing wrong with having those things.
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Jesus said, seek the kingdom first, and all these other things will be
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added to you. But they are not of that mindset. Ladies and gentlemen,
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these are those who get choked by again, what are all of these?
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All of these? What are all of these things have in common?
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By the way, it's their own desires, their own lust what they want
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to do. People, listen, ladies and gentlemen, Church God, this
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is so clear, Christal. Jesus made it Christal clear. You know,
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discipleship following Jesus is not for everybody. When Jesus in the I believe it's
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the Gospel of John chapter number six. I believe it is when Jesus began
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to teach the hard sayings, when he got down to the nitty gritty about
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eating of his flesh, drinking of his blood. If you're not going all
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the way, you put your hand to the power. In another verse,
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he said occasion, he said, and looking back, you're not fit for
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the kingdom. You're not fit. Amen. Amen. This is a way
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of self denial, ladies and gentlemen, it is a way of self denial.
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We have to deny ourselves. He comes first, His kingdom is first,
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his name is first, his truth is first, Holiness first, righteousness
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first, Godliness first. But if you are in pursuit of pleasures and love
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of the world, and with the Bibles explicitly again tells us not to do
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love not the world. These are things that are in the world. All
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that is in the world. The lust of the pleasure, and lust of
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the eyes and the pride of life is not of the Father. It is
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not of God. And that's why people get choked and carried away with it,
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because that's what they want, that's what they're in pursuit of, instead
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of pursuing to know Jesus and holiness and Godliness right here in this present world.
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Now, one more group, the ones that fell on good ground,
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are those who having heard the word, all of everybody, all the groups
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heard the word, the Bible says, but with a noble and good heart
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keep it. They keep what they keep the word. That's what did I
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not famous? The salmon said it Thy word have I hidden in my heart?
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The word comes in. I hear the word. I contemplate on the
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word. I meditate on the Word. And instead of rejecting it, instead
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of being obstinate against it, instead of being hostile toward the Word of God,
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I take the word of God and keep the Word of God in me,
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and it works on me. It perfects the word. That's what the
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word of God does. It perfects. Amen, it changes us. That's
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what the word of God does. It's quick, it's powerful, It's sharper
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than it a two edged sword. Amen. I beseech you. Therefore,
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brother, and Paul says, by the mercies of God, that you present
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your bodies of what living sacrifice, holy acceptable onto God, which is your
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reasonable service. Be not conformed to this world, but be transformed by the
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renewing of your mind. How does that take place, lady and gentlemen.
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There's only one thing in this world that can transform and change the way we
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think, the way we are and who we are. That is the Word
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of the Living God, by which again we have all been commanded to live
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by man shall not that's a command, live by bread alone, but by
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every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God. Now, what the
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devil does in his craftiness in this world is chiefly accomplished through the use of
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false prophets, his false prophets, who have lived in every nation and in
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every generations, And these emissaries of his are mostly found in the realm of
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religion. But that's not exclusive, by the way, the rejection of the
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truth of Jesus Christ as Lord and Savior of all men, as the one
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and the only mediator between God and man, the one and only way by
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which we all must be saved. If you reject that, it is guaranteed,
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ladies and gentlemen, to lead anyone who rejects it. Anyone who rejects
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this great salvation into religious idolatry, you are guaranteed to go into religious idolatry.
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And what we are witnessing in the fulfilling of Bible prophecy in our world
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today, it's just what Jesus and his apostles again told us to be on
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the lookout for. Again, Jesus himself told us in the Gospel of John,
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I'm sorry. The Gospel of Matthew read. It's our first session,
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our introduction Matthew twenty four. I want to go there again because when Jesus
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was asked of his disciples, when will these things be? When all this
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is going to take place? When is the end of the world? When
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is this temple going to be thrown down? Amen? And all of this?
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When of these things going to say? Jesus answered, The first thing
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came out of his mouth was, take heed that no one deceives you.
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Take heed, no one deceives you. There are gonna be many who are
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gonna come in my name. They're gonna say I'm the Christ. And Jesus
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said this, they will deceive many. And you're gonna hear wars, rumors
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of wars. And he told us we are not to be troubled. He
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said, all these things are gonna come to pass, but the end is
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not yet. He told us nation will rise against nation, that kingdom will
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be against kingdom. We've seen it. It's still happening. He told us
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that there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. That's
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still happening. And he told us that all these are the beginning of sorrows.
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And he told us also that they would his disciples and us as well,
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even martyrs to this day would be delivered up to tribulation. Some of
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us will suffer death martyr Thom. We've seen it happen already, and it
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continues to this day. And he said, you will be hated by all
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nations for my namesake. It's the name of Jesus Christ that is offensive.
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It's not the title of God, not the title of God. It's the
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name of Jesus Christ that is so offensive. And the Bible told us Jesus
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told us verse number ten Matthew twenty four. Many will be offended, many
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will betray one another, many will hate one another, and many false prophets
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will rise up and deceive many. Do you hear this, ladies and gentlemen,
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Please hear this and understand, because it's happening right now. Many false
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prophets have risen up, will continue to rise up. The Bible says,
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and will That means it's they're going to be successful. And why are they
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successful, ladies and gentlemen, Why are we in a pandemic of life?
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It is because number one, the rejection of truth the ignoring of truth,
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the setting aside of truth. That's the only way a false prophet can be
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successful. That's the only way, ladies and gentlemen, a false prophet can
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succeede is when people don't know the truth, don't want the truth, when
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people reject the truth. Because Jesus said, if you will know the truth,
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the truth will set you free. You will be free from that,
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you will not be led astray, you will not fall into error. When
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the truth has set you free. That's the only way false prophets can proliferate.
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And Jesus told us that it's going to happen now again, Why is
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it happening because people do not want the truth, ladies and gentlemen. And
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Jesus said, because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold.
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That's what false prophets do, ladies and gentlemen. They propagate false promises
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to you. They themselves are deceived, and they both unwittingly and willfully seek
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to deceive others as they proselytize all of their lives. By the way,
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which are doctrines of devils. False prophets have detrimental doctrines of men, which
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they will often intertwine and syncretize with the truth. And it's with the express
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purpose and intentionality of captivating unsuspecting souls who are destitute of the truth, some
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of which, by the way, again, as I said earlier, they
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have itching ears who are willing to be led away from the truth. Again,
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if you want the truth, if you desire truly to be saved,
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God will rend the heavens. Hey man, don't tell me whereas people just
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seeking for no, they're not. No, they're not. That's not what
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the Bible says. They're not seeking for truth. They are seeking for somebody
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to tell them what they want to hear. False prophets are everywhere. They're
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not just in churches. They're in positions of power and persuasion all over this
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planet. False prophets are in education. They're in medicine, they are in
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science, they're in history, they're in philosophy, and god knows, they're
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in politics and in every field of consciousness where the heart and the soul of
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a man can be taken captive, ladies and gentlemen, Let me close with
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this number one. Truth is not hidden, but we must see it.
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Truth is priceless, but we must buy it. The Bible says, buy
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the truth and sell it not. Truth is from God number three, and
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we can know it and we can have it. Finally, truth is liberating,
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but lies bring only bondage. Lord, help us today, Help somebody
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today to hear the voice of the Savior, to hear and know the truth
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that will set them free. God opened, blinded eyes, unstopped death ears,
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change the obstinate heart, as only you can do by the be glorified
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in your people, everywhere in the Church of Jesus Christ, in this world,
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God, in this hour, in this season, for your great namesake,
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we pray, we thank you in advance. Ants, Amen and amen.
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H mm hmm.