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Episode 179 - The Church Builder · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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  Speaker 1: Great is our Lord, he lone is greatly to be praised.
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  Speaker 1: Worthy is the Lamb who was slain to receive riches, glory, honor,
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  Speaker 1: and power, both now and forever. He is the King
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  Speaker 1: of Kings, the Lord of lords, the Great. I am
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  Speaker 1: the Alpha, the o make of the beginning, the end,
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  Speaker 1: the first, and the last. And beside him there is
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  Speaker 1: no other. We praise and blessed and magnify the name
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord, our God, our Savior, Jesus Christ, who
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  Speaker 1: allowed us a man this day to breathe the breath
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  Speaker 1: of life that comes from him. We thank him for
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  Speaker 1: his mercy that is new this morning. Great is the
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  Speaker 1: faithfulness of our God. We welcome you once again to
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  Speaker 1: this another edition of End Time Revival Ministries USAY podcast.
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  Speaker 1: I am your host, Pastor al Zachary, and we are,
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  Speaker 1: as always a man again, thankful and grateful and marvelously
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  Speaker 1: favored by God to be called a son of God,
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  Speaker 1: a child of God, an heir, and a joint heir
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  Speaker 1: with Christ. And it is certainly as always, as the
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  Speaker 1: Bible makes it very clear, it's because of the Lord's
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  Speaker 1: mercies that we will not consumed, because his compassions fail,
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  Speaker 1: not they are new every morning. Great is the faithfulness
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  Speaker 1: of our God, and we want to be found faithful
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  Speaker 1: a man and what God has appointed for us in
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  Speaker 1: such a time as this. And of course we thank
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  Speaker 1: God for all of you who pray for and support
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  Speaker 1: the work of this ministry a man. Those of you
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  Speaker 1: who are regular listeners and or subscribers, we thank you. Please,
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  Speaker 1: by all means share it with someone else, and we
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  Speaker 1: will a man continue to endeavor, by the help of God,
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  Speaker 1: to speak for the truth of the Lord, of the
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  Speaker 1: word of the Lord, with plainness, with boldness a man,
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  Speaker 1: and with confidence in the assurance that God has spoken,
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  Speaker 1: he has declared, He has decreed what he is going
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  Speaker 1: to do and is doing in the earth. And there
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  Speaker 1: is not a word of his that shall return to
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  Speaker 1: him void. And this is our confidence, this is our hope,
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  Speaker 1: this is our assurance a man, the God that cannot lie,
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  Speaker 1: he cannot fail, he cannot die, and he will not change.
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  Speaker 1: And so we have our hope embedded in the rock
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  Speaker 1: of our salvation, the God of eternity, the God of creation,
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  Speaker 1: the God who a man keeps us from day today. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And again we are in a series speaking about concentrating
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  Speaker 1: on focusing on Jesus, the Christ. Amen, all about Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: And today we want to speak on this thought about
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  Speaker 1: the church. Amen, the church builder, as a matter of fact,
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  Speaker 1: the church builder. And before we begin, let's take just
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  Speaker 1: a quick moment too, Amen, in the presence of the
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  Speaker 1: Lord Father, again, we thank you, mercy knew this morning,
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  Speaker 1: your faithfulness, grace, peace, love, joy, hope, blessed assurance, this
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  Speaker 1: great salvation that you made us partakers of. We are
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  Speaker 1: rejoicing in you, the God of our salvation. May the
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  Speaker 1: Redeemed of the Lord always say so. May we be
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  Speaker 1: the salt and light. May we be that city set
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  Speaker 1: up on a hill that cannot be hidden. May we
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  Speaker 1: speak forth your word with truth and clarity, with boldness.
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  Speaker 1: In such a time as this, Lord, you're calling men
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  Speaker 1: out of the darkness and into your glorious life. And
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  Speaker 1: we just want to be vessels of honor, doing your
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  Speaker 1: will and being found worthy to escape the things that
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  Speaker 1: are coming to pass. To stand before you in that day,
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  Speaker 1: we want to hear your voice say, well done, good
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  Speaker 1: and faithful servant. Lord, We praise you, we bless you,
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  Speaker 1: we give you honor. Today it's in the name of
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, we praise your thanks. Amen and amen, the
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  Speaker 1: church Builder. There's only one, and it is he is Christ,
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  Speaker 1: the Lord. And may we forever be mindful of this
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  Speaker 1: fact that is stated in the Book of the Acts
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  Speaker 1: of the Apostles, that it is the Lord who adds
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  Speaker 1: to the church daily such as should be saved. He
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  Speaker 1: is indeed the church builder. Matthew sixteen again into verse
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  Speaker 1: number thirteen. When Jesus came into the region of Caesarea
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  Speaker 1: Philippi his disciples, saying, who do men say that I
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  Speaker 1: the son of Man am? So they said, some say
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  Speaker 1: John the Baptist, some Elijah, and others Jeremiah or one
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  Speaker 1: of the prophets. He said to them, but who do
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  Speaker 1: you say that I am Simon? Peter answered and said,
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  Speaker 1: you are the Christ, the son of the Living God.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus answered and said to him, blessed are you, Simon Barjona,
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  Speaker 1: For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you,
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  Speaker 1: but my Father, who is in Heaven. And I also
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  Speaker 1: say to you that you are Peter. And on this
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  Speaker 1: rock I will build my church, and the gates of
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  Speaker 1: Hell or Hades shall not prevail against it. Matthew's Gospel,
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  Speaker 1: chapter sixteen verses thirteenth eighteen. We read in your hearing
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  Speaker 1: Jesus stated this a man promise which is being manifest,
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  Speaker 1: which shall be fulfilled in its entirety all the way
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  Speaker 1: until the end of the church age. I will build
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  Speaker 1: my church, I Jesus said. I. He didn't say, you
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  Speaker 1: shall build my church. He said I will build my church.
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  Speaker 1: And the gates of Hades shall not prevail against it,
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  Speaker 1: except the Lord build a house. It is written of old.
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  Speaker 1: All who labor are laboring in vain. His church is
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  Speaker 1: built on the one and the only eternal, durable, solid foundation,
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  Speaker 1: the rock, which is Christ. Jesus. He is the chief cornerstone.
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  Speaker 1: He is the head of the church. He is the
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  Speaker 1: chief apostle. He is the one who gave himself for
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  Speaker 1: the church. Man is forever grasping at gimmicks in his
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  Speaker 1: vain attempt to build, as it were, the church, or
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  Speaker 1: build up or add to the church. And I would
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  Speaker 1: dare say it is for the primary purpose. Most of these,
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  Speaker 1: in many instances, for their own glory and for their
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  Speaker 1: own praise. They're chasing the crowds and using, if I
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  Speaker 1: might be so bold as to say, gullible people as
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  Speaker 1: ponds in a pretense of preaching the Gospel, preaching the Word,
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  Speaker 1: being ambassadors of Christ. And let's speak very clear about
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  Speaker 1: what the Bible is very clear about any human endeavors,
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  Speaker 1: any human efforts related to the building up of the
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  Speaker 1: Church of Jesus Christ. And I'm not talking about these religions.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not talking about these fake churches, false churches a man,
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  Speaker 1: because we have plenty of I mean in probably innumerable.
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  Speaker 1: Only God knows, false apostles, false prophets, false teachers, and
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  Speaker 1: the blind that are leading the blind. And they're building
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  Speaker 1: up again buildings, houses on a foundation that is not
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. Oh, they invoke the name of the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: they say they profess, but in works, as the apostle
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  Speaker 1: Paul wrote, they deny him, being abominable and disobedient. And
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  Speaker 1: they're working according to the flesh. They're working in their
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  Speaker 1: own schemes, in their own devices, after their own imaginations.
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  Speaker 1: But the Church of Jesus Christ, and I'm talking about
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  Speaker 1: the true Church, the real Church, the one Church. It
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  Speaker 1: must be number one, derived from the Word of God.
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  Speaker 1: Number two, the church must be led by the spirit
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  Speaker 1: of God. Number three, it must be accompanied by prayer
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  Speaker 1: to God. And number four, It must be with faith
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  Speaker 1: in God, derived from the Word of God, led by
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  Speaker 1: the Spirit of God, accompanied by the power or prayer
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  Speaker 1: to God, brother, and worked with faith in God. This
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  Speaker 1: is exactly how the Church began after Jesus Christ, the Savior,
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  Speaker 1: the Founder, the Builder, the one who brought the Church
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  Speaker 1: down from Heaven, in his own person, in his own
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  Speaker 1: presence as the King of Kings, the King of the Kingdom.
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  Speaker 1: This is exactly how the Church began after Jesus ascended
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  Speaker 1: back up to glory, to his throne at the right
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  Speaker 1: hand of the Majesty on high. You see, ladies and gentlemen.
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  Speaker 1: Number one, the Church must be derived from the Word
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  Speaker 1: of God, and the true Church is rooted out of
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  Speaker 1: sprung out of taken out of the Word of the
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  Speaker 1: Living God. You see, the Word of God is foundational.
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  Speaker 1: It is the basis upon which the Church of Jesus
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  Speaker 1: Christ is established. You see. God speaks according to his
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  Speaker 1: eternal plans and according to what he has purposed, what
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  Speaker 1: he has predestined within the counsel of his own will,
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  Speaker 1: that has been revealed to us, ladies and gentlemen, Church
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  Speaker 1: of the Living God, through the mouth of his prophets
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  Speaker 1: of old into which He made known to fallen and
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  Speaker 1: fallible men. His plan of redemption God made known to
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  Speaker 1: fallen and fallible men, his plan of redemption, that is
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  Speaker 1: the word of God that we have, that has been
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  Speaker 1: again given to us, revealed to us, spoken to us
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  Speaker 1: by the very God of creation himself, the one who
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  Speaker 1: is the redeemer and savior of all them that believe.
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  Speaker 1: And so it is the grace of God. It is
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  Speaker 1: the love of God that has been embodied, that is
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  Speaker 1: embodied in the person and work of Jesus Christ, a
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  Speaker 1: man who was manifested in due time, at the appointed time,
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  Speaker 1: for the purpose of gathering in himself all of the
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  Speaker 1: redeemed of the Lord. From the beginning of the creation
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  Speaker 1: until the end of the Church Age, everyone who is saved,
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  Speaker 1: who will be saved, is saved by and through the
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  Speaker 1: atonement the blood sacrifice of Jesus Christ, by the way
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  Speaker 1: he was slain, from the foundation of the world, and
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  Speaker 1: from Adam to Noah, to Abraham to David, all of
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  Speaker 1: the prophets, all the way into the New Testament. John
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  Speaker 1: the Baptist, the thief on the cross, palled the apostle,
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  Speaker 1: all of the apostles, all of the Church, including the
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  Speaker 1: Mother of Jesus, all of the saints of old, all
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  Speaker 1: of the saints of today, all of the saints of
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  Speaker 1: the future, even ladies and gentlemen. After the church is
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  Speaker 1: taken up, there will be this thing called the ever
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  Speaker 1: Lasting Gospel of Jesus Christ, which by the way, was
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  Speaker 1: first preached in the garden of Eden when Adam sinned
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  Speaker 1: in his rebellion against God. See this plan of God,
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  Speaker 1: what God has purposed in himself is accomplished through the preaching.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible says, it pleased God that by the foolishness
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  Speaker 1: of preaching the preaching of what the gospel. This is
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  Speaker 1: why the apostle Paul says, I am not ashamed of
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  Speaker 1: the Gospel, because it is the power of God unto
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  Speaker 1: salvation to everyone that believes. Faith comes to us by hearing,
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  Speaker 1: hearing by the word of the Lord. So even after
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  Speaker 1: the church is raptured up, the Everlasting Gospel is still
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  Speaker 1: going to be preached, is going to be proclaimed, and
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  Speaker 1: there will be those who will be saved posts church age,
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  Speaker 1: tribulation saints, if you will, And what is it that
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  Speaker 1: is going to save them? By what means is it
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  Speaker 1: that they're going to be saved the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 1: And it is he when the Gospel is preached. It
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  Speaker 1: is he who searches the heart. It is he who
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  Speaker 1: searches the reins. It is he who knows and identifies
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  Speaker 1: any and all broken hearts and contrite spirits. It is
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  Speaker 1: he who pours out of his Holy Spirit upon all
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  Speaker 1: kinds of flesh, Jews, gentiles, bond and free. Now, when
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  Speaker 1: it comes to the participation of man in the building
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  Speaker 1: up of the Church of Jesus Christ, again, let's be clear.
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  Speaker 1: According to the scriptures, our participation, if you will, is
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  Speaker 1: driven solely and exclusively by the Holy Spirit of God,
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  Speaker 1: and not by our might, not by our power, and
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  Speaker 1: not by our human will, to perform that which God
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  Speaker 1: has predestined, predetermined, ordained, and is himself carrying out. Now
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  Speaker 1: we are vessels. We are used by God, used of God.
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  Speaker 1: But it is God who moves by his spirit upon
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  Speaker 1: man to make us willing vessels to do of his
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  Speaker 1: good pleasure. Paul wrote about this. It is God who
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  Speaker 1: works in us both due will and to do of
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  Speaker 1: his good pleasure. Jesus said it this way without me,
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  Speaker 1: and or if you will, apart from me, you can
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  Speaker 1: do nothing. No one can even come to the Lord
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  Speaker 1: except he is drawn by the power, by the spirit
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  Speaker 1: of the Living God. So when we become the children
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  Speaker 1: of God, we are born not of blood, the Bible
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  Speaker 1: says John chapter one, nor of the will of the flesh,
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  Speaker 1: nor of the will of man. But it is of God.
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  Speaker 1: It is all of God. It is all in him,
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  Speaker 1: it is all of him, it is all through him,
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  Speaker 1: it is all by him. So why, then, after being
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  Speaker 1: born of the Spirit of God, by the will of God,
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  Speaker 1: why does mirror mortal man then think in himself that
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  Speaker 1: he is the power behind building the Church of the
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  Speaker 1: Living God, who birthed him and empowered him to be
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  Speaker 1: a part of the Church. I spoken on this before.
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  Speaker 1: The Church was not conceived in the mind of man.
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  Speaker 1: The foundation of the Church was not laid by man.
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  Speaker 1: Nor is it past, present or future going to be
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  Speaker 1: built up by man. It is the plan of God.
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  Speaker 1: It is the power of God. It is the working
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  Speaker 1: of the Holy Spirit. Even now, ladies and gentlemen, that
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  Speaker 1: is operating. He is the spirit of the Living God.
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  Speaker 1: He is the very presence of Jesus Christ in us.
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  Speaker 1: It is his power, It is his spirit. The same spirit,
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  Speaker 1: by the way in creation, that breathed upon the waters,
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  Speaker 1: that spoke the world into existence, the same spirit that
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  Speaker 1: moved upon the face of the waters, the same spirit
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  Speaker 1: that breathed life into that first man, Adam, after he
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  Speaker 1: was molded in, shaped out of the clay, the dust,
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  Speaker 1: if you will, of the earth. The Bible says in
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  Speaker 1: God breathed into him the breath of life, and man
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  Speaker 1: became a living soul. It's not by our might, it's
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  Speaker 1: not by our power. It's by all is by the
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  Speaker 1: spirit of the Living God. God is spirit. We are flesh.
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  Speaker 1: If you look in the Old Testament again the book
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  Speaker 1: of Ezekiel, the Lord takes him up by the spirit,
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  Speaker 1: shows him a valley full of dry, dead bones, disassembled
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  Speaker 1: and looking lifeless. It was lifeless, not looking lifeless, and
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  Speaker 1: without hope of life. And he asks the prophet this question,
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  Speaker 1: son of man, can these bones live? Lord? You know?
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  Speaker 1: And what did the Lord say to the prophet? He said, prophesy,
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  Speaker 1: Speak the word prophesy to these bones. And you know
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  Speaker 1: what happened. And you know what happens, ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 1: when the word of God, which is the power of God,
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  Speaker 1: which is God in the beginning was the Word. The
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  Speaker 1: Word was God. The Word was God, the Word was
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  Speaker 1: made flesh. And I'm not talking about the wisdom of man.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not talking about the word of man. I'm talking
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  Speaker 1: about the living Word of God. When the word of God,
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  Speaker 1: when we speak the word of God, when we speak
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  Speaker 1: what God has spoken, God by his spirit, by his power,
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  Speaker 1: breathes life into dead bones, into dead men. Prophesy Preacher,
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  Speaker 1: to these dead bones, speak the word of the Living God,
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  Speaker 1: because it is the word of God. It is the
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  Speaker 1: power of God. It is the spirit of God that
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  Speaker 1: brings life, that gives life, that sustains life. It's not
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  Speaker 1: a man, it's not of us. So the Church was
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  Speaker 1: not conceived in the mind of man. The foundation of
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  Speaker 1: the Church was not laid by man's hands. And the
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  Speaker 1: building up of the Church is not through or by
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  Speaker 1: the weakness the frailty of man. It is God. It
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  Speaker 1: is by His spirit working operating through these vessels of
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  Speaker 1: clay us. But nevertheless, ladies and gentlemen, we are still fragile.
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  Speaker 1: Fragile we are, and we need to have the humility
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  Speaker 1: of the Psalmist. Lord, make me to know my days,
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  Speaker 1: make me to understand how frail. I am that my
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  Speaker 1: life is just a vapor. I'm only here for a season.
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  Speaker 1: But while I'm here, help me to walk in the way,
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  Speaker 1: in the path that you have ordained for me. Help
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  Speaker 1: me to do your will, Help me to speak for
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  Speaker 1: your word. It is the work of the Holy Spirit
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  Speaker 1: operating through vessels again that are made willing, who then
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  Speaker 1: cooperate with and within the predestined plan of God to
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  Speaker 1: save a people for his great namesake, to his glory,
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  Speaker 1: to his praise, to his honor, to his majesty, to
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  Speaker 1: his dominion, both now and forever, Ladies and gentlemen, the
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  Speaker 1: chosen apostles and disciples of the Church post Pentecosts, they
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  Speaker 1: preached the word of God from the scriptures and from
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  Speaker 1: the teachings of Jesus. They were led by the Holy
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  Speaker 1: Spirit that Jesus promised to send down to them. As
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  Speaker 1: a matter of fact, Jesus commanded them go to Jerusalem.
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  Speaker 1: Do not depart, wait for the promise of the Father.
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  Speaker 1: He said, you shall be endued with power from where
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  Speaker 1: from on high. Now never forget, get, ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 1: that these disciples where the ragtag bunch who ran and
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  Speaker 1: cowered in fear when Jesus was taken in the garden
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  Speaker 1: of Guests semone, and they hid themselves, and they wondered,
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  Speaker 1: have we wasted three and a half years of our
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  Speaker 1: lives we thought that he was the one. But now
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  Speaker 1: these same disciples who cowered in fear have seen the
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  Speaker 1: risen Christ, have seen him alive from the dead, eating
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  Speaker 1: and drinking with them. And they saw him when he
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  Speaker 1: ascended back up to heaven, and they remembered his words.
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  Speaker 1: The Holy Spirit was sent on the day of Pentecosts,
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  Speaker 1: just as Jesus promised he would not. And he did
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  Speaker 1: not send them out just on the teachings alone, just
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  Speaker 1: on what they had heard alone, on their own testimony alone. No, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen. It's not by might, it's not by power.
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  Speaker 1: It's by the spirit of the Living God. It is
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  Speaker 1: God in us, God in you, that works in us
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  Speaker 1: to will and to perform and to do of His
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  Speaker 1: good pleasure. So Jesus commanded his disciples that they were
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  Speaker 1: not to go out, even though they had already given
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  Speaker 1: them the commission. Don't go until you receive the power
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  Speaker 1: of the Holy ghosts. And that is exactly what they did.
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  Speaker 1: They went to Jerusalem, and they waited, and on the
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  Speaker 1: fiftieth day, the day of Pentecosts, they were all gathered
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  Speaker 1: together Acts chapter two, on one accord, in one place,
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  Speaker 1: and suddenly, the Bible says, there came from heaven a
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  Speaker 1: sound as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled
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  Speaker 1: all the house where they were sitting. And there appeared
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  Speaker 1: unto them clothing tongues like as of fire, and it
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  Speaker 1: sat up on each of them, and they were all
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  Speaker 1: filled with the holy ghosts, and began to speak in
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  Speaker 1: other tongues, as the spirit of God gave them the utterance.
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  Speaker 1: And on that very day, as it was noised abroad,
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  Speaker 1: and a crowd came gathering, the Apostle Peter stood up
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  Speaker 1: in the midst of this brethren and said, this is
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  Speaker 1: that which was spoken of by the prophet Joel. It
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  Speaker 1: shall come to pass in the last days that I
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  Speaker 1: will pour out of my spirit upon all flesh, your
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  Speaker 1: sons and your daughters shall prophesy. And the Bible says
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  Speaker 1: that were many other words. He began to exhort them,
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  Speaker 1: and save yourselves from this untoward generation. And the Bible
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  Speaker 1: says they were pricked in their hearts as he preached
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  Speaker 1: unto them Jesus the Christ, and that very day the
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  Speaker 1: Bible says, there was added unto them about three thousand souls.
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  Speaker 1: And the Church would go on to continue to grow
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  Speaker 1: as the apostles gave themselves to prayer and the Word
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  Speaker 1: of God, and being led by the spirit of God,
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  Speaker 1: they went out, and they went about on the mission
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  Speaker 1: that Jesus gave into them, go into all the world
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  Speaker 1: and preach the Gospel. They went about performing miracles, signs,
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  Speaker 1: and wonders. Not by Peter's power, not by Peter's shadow,
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  Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen. It is by the power of the
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  Speaker 1: Living God. They went about acting in faith, believing what
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  Speaker 1: the scriptures had spoken of through the prophets of old,
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  Speaker 1: that God would save a people, that God would redeem
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  Speaker 1: a people Jews and gentiles alike, and ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 1: as it was then with the Early Church, with the
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  Speaker 1: First Church, with the beginning of the Church, if you will,
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  Speaker 1: on the day of Pentecosts, as it is now and
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  Speaker 1: as it shall always be, It is the Lord who
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  Speaker 1: adds to his church. It is the Lord who builds
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  Speaker 1: the house. It is the Lord who saves such as
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  Speaker 1: should be saved to God only, to God alone. To
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  Speaker 1: God always be the glory as He builds his church
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  Speaker 1: in these last of the last days. Lord, help us
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  Speaker 1: anornance afresh, a hoonnance anew. Open our eyes and ears. Lord,
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  Speaker 1: do as only you can do by the power of
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  Speaker 1: your spirit. May we walk by and be led by
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  Speaker 1: the spirit of Living God and the Word of God
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  Speaker 1: that lives and abides forever more. Be glorified in us
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  Speaker 1: through us. For your glory and honor and Jesus name,
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  Speaker 1: we bring you thanks, Amen and Amen.