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Episode 156 - Government Hostility · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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  Speaker 1: as the Bible a man warned us of, and we
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  Speaker 1: as the people of God, as the churches in God,
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  Speaker 1: and for all delivered to the saints. Amen. So we
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  Speaker 1: has been given to us by Jesus Christ, our Lord
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  Speaker 1: that which he has called us a man to do.
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  Speaker 1: And so we take it seriously. Amen. And we are again,
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  Speaker 1: by the help of God, continuing to this very day.
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  Speaker 1: And we are of course for those of you who've
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  Speaker 1: been following along with us in a series on God,
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  Speaker 1: that government, church and state. And today we're going to
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  Speaker 1: look briefly at government hostility, government hostility. And before we begin,
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  Speaker 1: let's take just a moment too. Amen, acknowledge the Lord
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  Speaker 1: in prayer. Father again, great is your faithfulness to us.
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  Speaker 1: Great is your mercy toward each and every one of us. Lord,
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  Speaker 1: we love you because you first loved us. You have
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  Speaker 1: forgiven us. You've washed away our sins as far as
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  Speaker 1: the east is from the west, so far as you
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  Speaker 1: have you removed our transgressions from us. Lord, we are
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  Speaker 1: grateful to you because you died the death that we
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  Speaker 1: deserve to die. So that we can live life, have
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  Speaker 1: it more abundantly, and enjoy Amen, pleasures with you Forevermore so, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: we pray today that somewhere are someone's eyes will be open,
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  Speaker 1: ears unstopped, a man, hearts changed, as only you can
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  Speaker 1: do by the power of your Holy Spirit. We pray
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  Speaker 1: it today in the name of Jesus, the Christ of Cavalry.
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  Speaker 1: Amen and Amen. All right again, we have been in
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  Speaker 1: a series on God, government, church, and state. And thus
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  Speaker 1: far in this series, Amen, we have examined from the
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  Speaker 1: Old Testament as well as from the New Testament, how
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  Speaker 1: that God is not aloof, how that God is not absent,
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  Speaker 1: how that God is not disinterested a man in the
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  Speaker 1: authority of the governments of this world, in the affairs
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  Speaker 1: of the governments of this world, nor in the decisions
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  Speaker 1: that are made by government leaders in this world. As
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  Speaker 1: a matter of fact, the Bible is clear about this.
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  Speaker 1: It is God who raises up leaders of nations. It
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  Speaker 1: is God who commands them, Amen, to obey. It is
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  Speaker 1: God who disciplines them, chastises them, chastens them a man
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  Speaker 1: when they reb Ultimately he will remove them. He has
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  Speaker 1: shown this a man after a man, their wickedness has
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  Speaker 1: run its course, and make no mistake about it. Again,
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  Speaker 1: as we've already looked at this, there is no government
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  Speaker 1: authority outside of a man, the sovereign rule of God. Nebka,
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  Speaker 1: the great king of Battylon arguably without argument. If you
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  Speaker 1: want to argue, it would be you're disagreeing with the
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  Speaker 1: word of God. But nevertheless, this man, Nepuka Naza was
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  Speaker 1: the greatest king that ever lived, a man. He had
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  Speaker 1: autonomous power, only God. Amen. He had to answer to Amen,
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  Speaker 1: only God, and so Amen. This great king of Babylon
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  Speaker 1: learned a heart lesson Amen. He had to understand that
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  Speaker 1: it was God who raised him up, It was God
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  Speaker 1: who gave him power, It was God who gave him
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  Speaker 1: the authority. Amen. But he had to come to know
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  Speaker 1: that the heavens dreu. That God rules in the kingdom
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  Speaker 1: of Men, and he sets up over it, as the
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  Speaker 1: words of Nebukanaza is recorded in Daniel chapter four, the
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  Speaker 1: basest of Men. Amen. And that God is sovereignly in
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  Speaker 1: control a man over all of the affairs of this world.
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  Speaker 1: And of course, as we also recently observed, as we
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  Speaker 1: have been in our last few podcasts, the earthly visitation
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus, and how that he interacted with the governments
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  Speaker 1: of this world. He did not avoid conflict, Amen, And
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  Speaker 1: he did not avoid confrontation with the rulers of this world.
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  Speaker 1: Were times when, of course, they would confront him, but
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  Speaker 1: certainly there were occasions where he would deliberately confront them
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  Speaker 1: as well. Amen. So he did not avoid a confrontation
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  Speaker 1: even when he came down for his earthly ministry. And
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  Speaker 1: although he did, not, of course, as we know, physically
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  Speaker 1: overthrow the governments of that time, his visitation completely disrupted
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  Speaker 1: forever the rulers of this world. A man with his
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  Speaker 1: kingdom coming down to this world. Amen. And as we've
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  Speaker 1: already noted again in previous podcast episodes, the governments of
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  Speaker 1: that day a man during the time of Jesus, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: and to this very day, Amen, these governments were and
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  Speaker 1: then are yet hostile. Amen to the rule of Christ
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  Speaker 1: as the Messiah king. That he is a man. The
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  Speaker 1: government of the Jews rejected him, and the government of
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  Speaker 1: the Romans capitulated, to a man, the evil conspiracy of
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  Speaker 1: the Jewish leaders a man to rid themselves of Jesus
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  Speaker 1: by having him crucified, murdered, as it were, by the
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  Speaker 1: Roman government. Nevertheless, unbeknownst to them, a man in their
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  Speaker 1: evil schemes against the Lord, a man. They were fulfilling
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  Speaker 1: what was written of them, A man was prophesied in
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  Speaker 1: the scriptures that was given to them by the way
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  Speaker 1: they had the oracles of God, they had the prophets
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  Speaker 1: sent to them, a man. They had a man all
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  Speaker 1: of the prophecies concerning Jesus coming into the world, and
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  Speaker 1: so forth and so on. But yet they were blinded
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  Speaker 1: by their jealousy, blinded by their greed, blinded by their
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  Speaker 1: own ambitions and desires and worldly love, and so forth
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  Speaker 1: and so on. And so when Jesus came, the Bible
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  Speaker 1: says he came to his own and his own received
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  Speaker 1: him not Amen. They rejected him soundly, rejected him from
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  Speaker 1: being their king. Amen. And again, in so doing they
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  Speaker 1: fulfilled what was written in the scriptures concerning him and
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  Speaker 1: concerning them. And so after Jesus surrendered himself over to
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  Speaker 1: their will, a man over to the will of his father,
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  Speaker 1: a man over to the predestined and predetermined plan of God,
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  Speaker 1: that he would die the death that he did. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: They then, even after they fulfilled all that was written
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  Speaker 1: concerning him, putting him to death. Amen. They then conspired
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  Speaker 1: Amen together to ensure I'm talking about the governments now.
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  Speaker 1: The rulers of Jews went to Pilot a man to
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  Speaker 1: ensure that Jesus his tomb would be guarded. It's his
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  Speaker 1: tomb would be sealed so that his disciples supposedly would
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  Speaker 1: not come and steal away his body, and proclaimed that
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  Speaker 1: he had a man risen from the dead. So again
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  Speaker 1: the governments conspired together again. Even after Jesus was dead,
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  Speaker 1: their hostility remained, and they just wanted to in their
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  Speaker 1: minds at least ensure that Jesus would never be heard
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  Speaker 1: from again. So little did they know, Oh, so little
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  Speaker 1: did they know. This is what unbelief does. By the
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  Speaker 1: way unbelief blinds a person, and God will see to
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  Speaker 1: it after listen. And I don't know, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: what point in time this happens within the heart of
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  Speaker 1: a person, within the mind of a person. But after
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  Speaker 1: a man, God gives individuals time and space to repent,
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  Speaker 1: time to a man turn from their wicked ways. After
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  Speaker 1: he has chasen them, rebuked them, Amen, admonished them, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: and sent invitation after invitation, prophet after prophet preacher after preacher,
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  Speaker 1: after God has sent Amen his word to us, as
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  Speaker 1: He again has given to us. And by the way,
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  Speaker 1: in our present world today, Amen, we have been given much.
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  Speaker 1: And the Bible says to whom much is given, much
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  Speaker 1: is required. Amen. And so after Amen. And again this
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  Speaker 1: is all in the mind of God. I have no
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  Speaker 1: idea when God cuts an individual off and you can
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  Speaker 1: still be living, of course, but you will be a
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  Speaker 1: living reprobate. Amen. You will be a living, breathing reprobate
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  Speaker 1: with no possibility ever of being saved, of being redeemed,
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  Speaker 1: because you have gone past, and this is demonstrated in
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  Speaker 1: the scriptures over and over again. You've gone past the
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  Speaker 1: point of no return. Amen. And by the way, there
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  Speaker 1: is nothing. This is not necessarily a man based upon
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  Speaker 1: how much sin, how much wickedness, how much evil you
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  Speaker 1: have done, because again God will forgive all manner of sin.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what Jesus said, All manner of sin will
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  Speaker 1: be forgiven men except for blasphemy against the Holy Ghost.
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  Speaker 1: There will never be forgiveness a man for blasphemy against
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Ghost. However, a person can also reach a
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  Speaker 1: point in which God has called God has a man
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  Speaker 1: knocked on the door of their heart a man. God
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  Speaker 1: has pulled at them, a man tugged at them, if
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  Speaker 1: you will, a man. And they have just rebelled, they
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  Speaker 1: have refused to repent. They have used up their opportunity
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  Speaker 1: a man and time and space, a man to be redeemed,
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  Speaker 1: and God simply gives them over. As the Bible speaks
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  Speaker 1: about this in the Romans Chapter one, he gave them
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  Speaker 1: over to a reprobate mind. In other words, he turns
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  Speaker 1: you over to satan. A man. He turns you over
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  Speaker 1: to complete darkness, never again a man to see the light,
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  Speaker 1: the taste of the goodness of God. A man, you
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  Speaker 1: are still living, You're still breathing, you're still moving. A man,
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  Speaker 1: You're still operating in this world. And you can be
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  Speaker 1: rich and powerful, you can be poor and destitute. Doesn't
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  Speaker 1: preclude anyone a man based on their status a man
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  Speaker 1: in life, a man from being saved, or from being
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  Speaker 1: a man, a reprobate a man, but again a man.
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  Speaker 1: There is a point of no return a man where
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  Speaker 1: a man must A man come to the knowledge of
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  Speaker 1: the truth. He said, I stand at the door and knocked,
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  Speaker 1: And he said, because you refused, Amen, when the day
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  Speaker 1: of your calamity comes, Amen. I called the wisdom of God.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible speaks about this is in the streets on
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  Speaker 1: every corner, calling out to men, begging, as it were,
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  Speaker 1: pleading with men to turn Amen from their folly and foolishness. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And so again these Jewish leaders conspired together, Amen, in
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  Speaker 1: their ultimate rejection and rebellion against the rule of God,
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  Speaker 1: against the Kingdom of God. Amen. And again, unbeknownst to them,
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  Speaker 1: they were fulfilling the scriptures. Amen. And so Jesus simply
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  Speaker 1: surrendered himself over to them, over to their will, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: and gave himself Amen, to be that ransom, to pay
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  Speaker 1: that price that was so neat a man, by his
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  Speaker 1: precious blood being shed, a man, in order to redeem
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  Speaker 1: us his people, a man from our sins. Amen. But
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  Speaker 1: before his ascension, and by the way, if you have
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  Speaker 1: your Bibles, I'm going to go to the Gospel of
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  Speaker 1: Looking to the Gospel of John for a couple of readings.
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  Speaker 1: Here in just a moment before his ascension back up
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  Speaker 1: into heaven, Amen, Jesus thoroughly warned his disciples, a man,
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  Speaker 1: his apostles, a man of the hostile treatment that they
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  Speaker 1: would receive a man at the hands of these same
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  Speaker 1: Some of this in this case, because many of these
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  Speaker 1: same leaders would be alive, of course, after the ascension
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus and when the God, when the Gospel would
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  Speaker 1: begin to be preached by the apostles, some of these
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  Speaker 1: same leaders a man government rulers, a man who had
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  Speaker 1: harassed and persecuted Jesus. Jesus warned his DISI, they're going
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  Speaker 1: to do it to you as well. Let's look at
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  Speaker 1: a couple of scriptures in the Gospel of Luke, first
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  Speaker 1: chapter twenty one. If you have your Bible, I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: read three verses here. Look twenty one, verses ten through twelve. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus thoroughly warned. And by the way, listen, the Gospel,
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  Speaker 1: the Kingdom of God, the Church of Jesus Christ, is
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  Speaker 1: not for cowards. It's not for amen, the faint of heart.
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  Speaker 1: It's not for those who will not be of good courage. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: persevering the faith. No, Jesus. And again, this is what
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  Speaker 1: I love about the Bible, Love about the Word of God,
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  Speaker 1: love about Jesus doing his ministry. He didn't hide, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: the difficulty. Man, he didn't sugarcoat what this would be about. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: He warned his disciples of what they would face a
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  Speaker 1: man if they continued following him. Amen. And so let's
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  Speaker 1: see what the Bible has to say. Just a couple
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  Speaker 1: of passages, and then there are a lot more that
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  Speaker 1: we could devi into, But we just want to give
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  Speaker 1: you taste of what Jesus a man forecast, a man
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  Speaker 1: for his church, for his believers, a man. Then verse
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  Speaker 1: number ten, Luke twenty one, he said to them nation
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  Speaker 1: will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom, and there
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  Speaker 1: will be great earthquakes in various places, and famines and pestilences,
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  Speaker 1: and there will be fearful sights and great signs from heaven.
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  Speaker 1: So Jesus is predicting a man many of the things
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  Speaker 1: that we are seeing even now in our world today.
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  Speaker 1: But listen to what he says in verse number twelve.
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  Speaker 1: But before all these things, how accurate, how precise are
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  Speaker 1: the scriptures are the prophecies of the Word of God.
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  Speaker 1: We're talking about the God who is sovereign, the God
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  Speaker 1: who's in control of the God who a man predestines
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  Speaker 1: and determines, predetermines all of these things. And so Jesus
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  Speaker 1: knows what's going to transpire, of course, in the future.
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  Speaker 1: And he's not only aware of it, but he's the orchestrator.
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  Speaker 1: He's the sovereign God over all of nature, as he
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  Speaker 1: showed himself to be. He said, but before all these things,
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  Speaker 1: they will lay their hands on you and persecute you,
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  Speaker 1: delivering you up to the synagogues and prisons. You will
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  Speaker 1: be brought before kings and rulers for my name's sake. Ah.
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  Speaker 1: Then the Gospel of John chapter fifteen, beginning at verse
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  Speaker 1: number eighteen, these words are recorded. Listen what Jesus said again,
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  Speaker 1: warning his disciples, Amen, letting them know, listen, if you're
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  Speaker 1: going to do this, if you're going to follow after me.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, did he not say to us, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: we must deny ourselves. If we're gonna be his disciple,
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  Speaker 1: we must deny ourselves. We must take up the cross
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  Speaker 1: and follow him daily. We must not love our lives
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  Speaker 1: in this world. If you're gonna be a follower of Jesus, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: a true disciple of Jesus, you must not love your life.
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  Speaker 1: If you love your life, you're gonna lose it, Jesus says.
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  Speaker 1: But if you lose your life, for my sake and
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  Speaker 1: for the Gospel's sake, you'll find it. So listen what
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  Speaker 1: Jesus warns his disciples of in the Gospel of John,
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  Speaker 1: chapter fifteen. By the way, he was just a short
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  Speaker 1: few hours, as it were, away from being a man betrayed,
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  Speaker 1: and also later, of course, a man put on trial, beaten, amen,
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  Speaker 1: and nailed to the cross. Amen. So he warns his disciple,
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  Speaker 1: before all of this would take place, if the world
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  Speaker 1: hates you, you know that it hated me before it
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  Speaker 1: hated you. If you were of the world, the world
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  Speaker 1: would love its own. Look at that, Look at that,
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  Speaker 1: look at that. Listen. We ought not to be surprised man,
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  Speaker 1: And the Bible tells us we are pilgrims, We are strangers.
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  Speaker 1: This world is not our home. As a matter of fact,
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  Speaker 1: this same John, apostle, John, who wrote the Gospel and
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  Speaker 1: wrote the Book of Revelation, also wrote three epistles to
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  Speaker 1: the church. He says, love not the world, neither of
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  Speaker 1: the things that are in the world, but all that
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  Speaker 1: is in the world, the lust of the eyes, or
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  Speaker 1: lust of the flesh, and the pride of life. It
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  Speaker 1: is not of the Father, It is not of this world.
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  Speaker 1: We are not to love this world nor the things
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  Speaker 1: of this world. Amen. And Jesus warned his disciples that
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  Speaker 1: we are not of this world. Amen, Because if we
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  Speaker 1: were of this world, the world would love us, the
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  Speaker 1: world would receive us, the world would embrace us. But
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  Speaker 1: he says, because you are not of this world, he says,
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  Speaker 1: they're gonna hate you. Amen. The world would love its own.
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  Speaker 1: He said, Yet, because you are not of the world,
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  Speaker 1: but I chose you out of the world. That's who
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  Speaker 1: the Church is. Amen. We are chosen out of the world. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus says, the world hates you. We must get this
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  Speaker 1: deeply embedded in our hearts and minds and understand man,
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  Speaker 1: the hostility that we will face if we are if
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  Speaker 1: we are going to live godly in Christ. Jesus, this
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  Speaker 1: is what the Bible speaks of. By the way, those
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  Speaker 1: who will live godly in Christ, Jesus shall suffer a
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  Speaker 1: man persecution. So listen with. Jesus again warns his disciples
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  Speaker 1: about a man. Verse twenty. He says, remember the word
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  Speaker 1: that I said to you, a servant is not greater
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  Speaker 1: than his master. If they persecuted me, Jesus says, they
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  Speaker 1: will also persecute you. If they have kept my word,
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  Speaker 1: they will keep yours also. But all these things, look, listen,
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  Speaker 1: listen what Jesus says. But all these things they will
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  Speaker 1: do to you for my namesake, because they do not
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  Speaker 1: know him who sent to me. Jesus is forewarning his
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  Speaker 1: disciples again as to what will be forced it upon them,
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  Speaker 1: What will be a man placed upon them, The harassment,
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  Speaker 1: the persecution, all of that is coming. It's coming, Jesus says.
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  Speaker 1: If I had come, Jesus said verse twenty two Amen
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  Speaker 1: and spoken to them, If I had not rather come
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  Speaker 1: and spoken to them, they would have no sin. But
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  Speaker 1: now they have no excuse for their sin. He who
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  Speaker 1: hates me hates my father. Also, if I had not
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  Speaker 1: done among them the works which no one else did,
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  Speaker 1: they would have no sin. But now they have seen
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  Speaker 1: and also hated both me and my father. Clearly, I
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  Speaker 1: could read on in other Amen passages where Jesus a man,
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  Speaker 1: clearly won his disciples. And again even in and throughout
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  Speaker 1: the New Testament, we're going to see some of this
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  Speaker 1: a man. The apostles certainly came to that understanding about
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  Speaker 1: all of this persecution. But again it was Jesus who
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  Speaker 1: forewarned them. He said, you will be hated, you will
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  Speaker 1: be rejected, you will be ridiculed. You're going to be expelled.
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  Speaker 1: They're gonna put you out. They're gonna put you out
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  Speaker 1: of the centagond. They're gonna put you out. Amen. They
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  Speaker 1: want to even expel you from the nation, banish you. John.
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  Speaker 1: The same John, by the way, was exiled to the
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  Speaker 1: Isle of Patments, where he would receive the revelation of
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. Thank God, Amen. Even in persecution, Amen, and
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  Speaker 1: being exiled, expelled, put out, Amen, God still has purpose
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  Speaker 1: even in that. But he warned them, He forewarned them.
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  Speaker 1: He said, you're gonna be harassed, You're gonna be persecuted.
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  Speaker 1: And some of you, and most of them were, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, you will be Jesus says, executed. Some of
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  Speaker 1: you are gonna lose your life for my saint and man,
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna lose your physical life. Amen. You will be
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  Speaker 1: like lambs amongst vicious wolves. But he told them to
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  Speaker 1: be harmless as doves, to be wise as serpents. A
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  Speaker 1: man in a world that is going to be hostile
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  Speaker 1: to you. They were hostile to me, Jesus says, they're
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  Speaker 1: gonna be hostile to you. They hated me, They're gonna
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  Speaker 1: hate you. They rejected me, and some of them will
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  Speaker 1: reject you. Now again, who is this that, primarily, for
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  Speaker 1: the most part, will do this to Christ's followers? We
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  Speaker 1: know for the most part, I mean, we know that
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  Speaker 1: it is the world as a whole. Amen. But generally speaking,
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  Speaker 1: it will not be and it has not been the
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  Speaker 1: common everyday man who has been threatened by the preaching
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  Speaker 1: of the Kingdom of Heaven, by the holiness and godliness
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  Speaker 1: that is to be proclaimed in this world. World history
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  Speaker 1: has clearly demonstrated, ladies and gentlemen, here we are the
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  Speaker 1: year of twenty twenty five, almost two thousand years removed
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  Speaker 1: from Amen. Jesus Christ and his ministry on this earth.
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  Speaker 1: World history has clearly demonstrated that the governments of this
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  Speaker 1: world have been all violently hostile, violently hostile to the
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  Speaker 1: Gospel of Jesus Christ and to the Kingdom of Heaven
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  Speaker 1: like none other entity on this earth. The Church of
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. And I'm talking about the true Church. I'm
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  Speaker 1: not talking about a church that is in bed with
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  Speaker 1: the government, in collusion with the government, in cahoots with
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  Speaker 1: the government. I'm talking about the true Church of the
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  Speaker 1: Living God a man. It has been violently opposed, hostily
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  Speaker 1: treated in this world for two thousand years, and world
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  Speaker 1: history has clearly demonstrated this. It was then and it
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  Speaker 1: is now. The government, rulers and leaders of this world
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  Speaker 1: who hate the name of Jesus, who hate the preaching
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  Speaker 1: of the Gospel, who hate for people to be liberated
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  Speaker 1: a man, and they are in hostile opposition to the
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  Speaker 1: Kingdom of Heaven's rule on this earth. They want to rule,
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  Speaker 1: They want power and control and authority, as we've already
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  Speaker 1: talked about. However, we must never forget the prophetic promise
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus Christ, our Lord. He says, upon this rock,
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  Speaker 1: I will build my Church, and the gates of hell
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  Speaker 1: shall not prevail against it. In this world, Ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus told us we will have tribulation, we will face
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  Speaker 1: government hostility. Amen. And they are going to be a
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  Speaker 1: man opposed for the most part to the Word of
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  Speaker 1: God being proclaimed. But we must persecure, persevere, We must
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  Speaker 1: persevere during all of this persecution and man. Again, the
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  Speaker 1: Bible is clear about this. They who will live godly
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  Speaker 1: in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution, Jesus told us disciples,
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  Speaker 1: and it's applicable to us even in a nation that
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  Speaker 1: is supposedly a man a nation that is a nation
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  Speaker 1: where you are free to exercise your religious liberty and
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  Speaker 1: have religious liberty. In this nation, in our day right now,
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  Speaker 1: there are government leaders and rulers who are hostile, violently
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  Speaker 1: hostile to the name of Jesus, to the preaching of
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  Speaker 1: the Gospel, to the proclamation of the Word, to the
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  Speaker 1: a man speaking of the truth of God. Nevertheless, again
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  Speaker 1: we must persevere. We must stand boldly with and conviction
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  Speaker 1: to speak the truth of God in love. So help us,
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  Speaker 1: God Father, again, great is your faithfulness. We thank you
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  Speaker 1: that you loved us while we were yet sinners. You
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  Speaker 1: died of death, Amen for us, and you've given us
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  Speaker 1: the power of the Holy Spirit. Your promises. Amen that
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  Speaker 1: are yea and amen. And so help us to stand
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  Speaker 1: in such a time as to speak the truth of
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  Speaker 1: God in love in a world where governments are hostile
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  Speaker 1: Continually to You, to your Kingdom. Help us to amen again,
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  Speaker 1: stand in this evil day, to speak your word with truth,
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  Speaker 1: boldness and clarity. Be glorified, Be magnified in US through us. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: For your namesake, we praying your thanks, Amen and Amen.