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Episode 178 - The Truth Witness · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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Speaker 1: Blessed be the name of the Lord, Our Lord, how
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Speaker 1: excellent is his name, and all the earth. Lord, we
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Speaker 1: are again grateful to you for allowing us this opportunity
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Speaker 1: to come one more time to speak forth the word
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Speaker 1: of the Lord, to declare your truth. And such a
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Speaker 1: time as this, and Lord, we pray today that your
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Speaker 1: word will penetrate within the hearts of someone somewhere today,
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Speaker 1: so that we may be strengthened, so that we may
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Speaker 1: be a man delivered and kept by your power. By
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Speaker 1: the power of your word. And Lord, may we have
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Speaker 1: boldness and and and clarity and love and strength and courage.
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Speaker 1: And such a time as this be THU glorified, and
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Speaker 1: your people everywhere be thou glorified in the earth. It's
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Speaker 1: in the name of Jesus Christ. We pray and ask
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Speaker 1: your blessings upon each and every one of your people everywhere.
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Speaker 1: Amen and Amen. All right, God bless you everyone. We
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Speaker 1: welcome you once again to this another edition of End
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Speaker 1: Time Revival Ministries USA podcast. I am your host, Pastor
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Speaker 1: al Zachary, and today we're going to continue, of course,
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Speaker 1: in a man a short series long series. I don't
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Speaker 1: a man a series of podcasts talking about Jesus, All
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Speaker 1: a man proclaim the liberty that is to be found
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Speaker 1: in Christ Jesus. So again we thank you for your
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Speaker 1: prayers and your support of this ministry. Amen. All right,
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Speaker 1: Today again we are going to be looking at Jesus,
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Speaker 1: the ministry of Jesus, and particularly today we're going to
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Speaker 1: look at one of the amen perhaps most underrated causes
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Speaker 1: or reasons why Jesus came into the world. And the
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Speaker 1: title of Amen podcast for today is the truth witness.
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Speaker 1: The truth witness and history certainly is our amen, I
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Speaker 1: mean truth teller, if you will. It bears witness of
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Speaker 1: this fact that whenever truth is lacking, when truth goes
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Speaker 1: lacking in a culture, in a civilization, that people, that culture,
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Speaker 1: that civilization is destined for destruction, truth is vital to
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Speaker 1: our a man survival. And this was the undoing, by
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Speaker 1: the way, even of the nation of Israel, a man
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Speaker 1: when the Lord, of course would send prophet after prophet,
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Speaker 1: but he certainly sent the prophet Isaiah to testify against
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Speaker 1: this nation regarding their disregard for the truth of God
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Speaker 1: that had been revealed to them. As the people of
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Speaker 1: God as the nation set apart, a man chosen by God,
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Speaker 1: a man to be the bearers of light, to be
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Speaker 1: the defenders of truth, a man, and to show forth
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Speaker 1: the praises of the King of King. In the Lord
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Speaker 1: of Lords Isaiah, chapter fifty nine, I want to read
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Speaker 1: there before I get to the New Testament. I'm going
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Speaker 1: to go to the Gospel of John in just a
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Speaker 1: few minutes. Just to a man again, focus on this
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Speaker 1: cause that Jesus came into the world for. But before
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Speaker 1: we get there, let's look historically, if you will, back
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Speaker 1: to the book of Isaiah and the Old Testament, hundreds
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Speaker 1: of years before Jesus would arrive on this planet. In
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Speaker 1: the incarnation, that is a man again, the nation of Israel,
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Speaker 1: God's chosen people, who were given the oracles of God
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Speaker 1: and trusted with a man, this relationship, special relationship of
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Speaker 1: being the people of God. They had gone so far astray,
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Speaker 1: and it was all because they had abandoned truth Isaiah
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Speaker 1: fifty nine, beginning a verse number one, Behold the hand.
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Speaker 1: The Lord's hand is not shortened that it cannot save,
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Speaker 1: nor his ear heavy that it cannot hear. But your
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Speaker 1: iniquities have separated you from your God, and your sins
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Speaker 1: have hidden his face from you, so that he will
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Speaker 1: not hear. For your hands are defiled with blood, and
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Speaker 1: your fingers with iniquity. Your lips have spoken lies, your
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Speaker 1: tongue has muttered perversity. No one calls for justice, nor
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Speaker 1: does any plead for truth. They trust in empty words
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Speaker 1: and speak lies. They conceive evil and bring forth iniquity.
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Speaker 1: Let's drop down to verse number fourteen. No hope, hopefully, hopefully, hopefully,
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Speaker 1: hopefully I didn't read over that too quickly, So let
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Speaker 1: me go back very quickly to verse number four four.
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Speaker 1: Listen what the Bible says. This is the state of
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Speaker 1: the nation of Israel, a man in Isaiah. The prophet
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Speaker 1: speaks to their a man depravity. No one calls for justice,
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Speaker 1: nor does any plead for truth. They trust in empty
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Speaker 1: words and speak lies. They conceive evil and bring forth iniquity.
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Speaker 1: And now the next few verses, verses five through thirteen,
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Speaker 1: goes on in describing, if you will a man again,
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Speaker 1: the state and the depravity of the nation. But I
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Speaker 1: want to skip down to verse number fourteen because I
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Speaker 1: want to get back to this truth being forsaken. Listen,
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Speaker 1: what the Bible says verse fourteen, justice is turned back. Because,
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Speaker 1: by the way, if this does not describe the culture
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Speaker 1: of the world that we're living in now, the nation,
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Speaker 1: the United States. I mean, if this is not descriptive,
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Speaker 1: read it, isaiaha, did I read it? This is descriptive
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Speaker 1: of the world in which we are now living. Justice
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Speaker 1: is turned back, and righteousness stands afar off. This is
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Speaker 1: what the Bible says verse fourteen. Again the latter clause,
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Speaker 1: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter,
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Speaker 1: So truth fails verse fifteen, and he who departs from
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Speaker 1: evil makes himself a prey. In other words, the man
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Speaker 1: or the woman who desires to live right, do right, amen,
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Speaker 1: live godly, may become victimized by those who practice evil,
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Speaker 1: children of the devil. Let me read that again, Justice
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Speaker 1: is turned back, righteousness stands afar off. Truth is falling
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Speaker 1: in the street, and equity cannot enter, So truth fails,
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Speaker 1: and he who departs from evil makes himself a prey.
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Speaker 1: Then the Lord saw it, and it displeased him that
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Speaker 1: there was no justice. He saw that there was no man,
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Speaker 1: and wondered that there was no intercessor. Therefore his own
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Speaker 1: arm brought salvation for him and his own righteousness. It
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Speaker 1: sustained him, for he put on righteousness as a breastplate
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Speaker 1: and a helmet of salvation on his head. He put
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Speaker 1: on the garments of vengeance for clothing, and was clad
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Speaker 1: with z as a cloak. Then this speaks of none
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Speaker 1: other than, of course, Jesus to Christ, who would be
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Speaker 1: manifested in the flesh, the servant of the Lord, the
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Speaker 1: redeemer of Israel, the redeemer of all who put their
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Speaker 1: trust and faith and hope in him. And of course,
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Speaker 1: centuries later, after the prophet Isaiah had spoken these words,
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Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, himself God manifested in the flesh, came down
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Speaker 1: into this world of darkness, despair, and death. Amen, to
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Speaker 1: bring the manifestation of truth and light. Amen down to us,
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Speaker 1: because we were in darkness, we were mired in despair,
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Speaker 1: Light and truth. Ladies and gentlemen are inseparable. But on
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Speaker 1: the other hand, lies in darkness they cohabitate. Lies and
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Speaker 1: darkness are partners. They cohabitate together. You cannot speak lies,
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Speaker 1: live lies, listen to lies, obey lies, traffic in lies,
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Speaker 1: and be in the light. No light and truth go together.
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Speaker 1: Lies in darkness cohabitate, and Jesus came to expose the
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Speaker 1: deception of devils in the darkness with light and with
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Speaker 1: the truth. And although he is the King of glory,
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Speaker 1: Jesus did not come to overthrow the kingdoms of this
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Speaker 1: world physically, not this first time, not this first advent. No, no, no,
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Speaker 1: But he is coming back, by the way. Let me
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Speaker 1: remind you, or let me inform you if you did
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Speaker 1: not know that he is coming, the second coming. And
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Speaker 1: when he does return, it will not be a spiritual
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Speaker 1: only it will be a physical overthrow of the nations
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Speaker 1: of this world, of the darkness of this world. But
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Speaker 1: the first time, his first advent, he came to extract
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Speaker 1: out of the kingdoms of this world, out of the
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Speaker 1: darkness of this world, a people that will hear and
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Speaker 1: obey truth. And so while he was on trial before
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Speaker 1: a pontous pilot, Jesus made clear to Pilot and to us,
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Speaker 1: of course, again perhaps the most underappreciated of reasons and
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Speaker 1: causes for which he came into this world. And for
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Speaker 1: this we turn to the Gospel of John chapter eighteen.
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Speaker 1: I'm just going to read three verses here. As Jesus
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Speaker 1: is on trial before mere mortal man, a man by
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Speaker 1: the name of Pilot, who was the governor, the ruler
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Speaker 1: over that province, and he had the responsibility, as it were,
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Speaker 1: to a man sit in judgment. It was given unto
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Speaker 1: him to sit in judgment of Jesus and to determine
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Speaker 1: whether or not Jesus would live or die. But of
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Speaker 1: course we know, as Jesus himself testified, no one takes
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Speaker 1: my life from me. I laid down, willingly have the
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Speaker 1: power to lay it down, and have the power to
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Speaker 1: take it up again. And they also testify the Pilot,
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Speaker 1: you would have no power. You do have no power
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Speaker 1: except that which has been granted to you, given to
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Speaker 1: you from above. Therefore, the one who has conspired those
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Speaker 1: who those It wasn't just one Jesus speaking of a
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Speaker 1: group people. Amen, the chief priest, of course, describes the Pharisees,
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Speaker 1: all of those who, by the way, Pilot knew, and
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Speaker 1: he knew this the Bible speaks of this. He knew
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Speaker 1: that they were envious of Jesus. They were jealous of Jesus,
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Speaker 1: and they just simply wanted to get rid of Jesus.
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Speaker 1: And so a man Jesus says, no one takes my
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Speaker 1: life from me. I laid down willing the pilot, you
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Speaker 1: have no power to take my life. Nevertheless, he was
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Speaker 1: the one who was to determine whether, if you will,
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Speaker 1: the fate of Jesus, whether or not he will be crucified.
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Speaker 1: And of course you know, and I'm just going somewhere here,
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Speaker 1: just since I mentioned Pilot, and just going and give
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Speaker 1: me a bear with me for just a moment. Pilot,
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Speaker 1: of course, I will say, if it is to be said,
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Speaker 1: at least in my opinion, to his credit, seems as
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Speaker 1: though he conducted a fair trial in that he went
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Speaker 1: back and forth. He would hear both sides, he would
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Speaker 1: go hear from them, and he would go back into
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Speaker 1: the hall and listen to Jesus. And he actually came out,
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Speaker 1: of course, and at the end of saying, I find
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Speaker 1: no fault in him at all. And he tried, as
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Speaker 1: it were, to wiggle out, to extract himself, to excuse himself,
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Speaker 1: or to find a way to not put Jesus to death.
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Speaker 1: He did. I believe in all earnestly that he put
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Speaker 1: forth a real effort to do that. And so, of
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Speaker 1: course he was in a dilemma. And I did a
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Speaker 1: whole series on this on Pilot's dilemma, and it is
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Speaker 1: the dilemma of every man, by the way, and it
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Speaker 1: comes down to this question that Pilot himself asked, what
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Speaker 1: then shall I do with this Jesus who is called
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Speaker 1: the Christ? Every man, every woman, every person must answer
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Speaker 1: that question. There's no getting around it. What must I
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Speaker 1: do with this Jesus who is called the Christ? You
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Speaker 1: have to decide. You have to answer that. Am I
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Speaker 1: going to obey him? Am I going to believe him?
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Speaker 1: Am I going to trust in him? Am I going
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Speaker 1: to listen to his words? Put them in my heart,
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Speaker 1: put them in my mind? Am I going to worship him?
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Speaker 1: Am I going to honor him as the King of
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Speaker 1: kings and the Lord of lords? Am I going to
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Speaker 1: confess that he is Lord? Am I going to believe
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Speaker 1: his report? Am I going to call upon his name?
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Speaker 1: Am I going to acknowledge him as Lord, as Savior,
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Speaker 1: as redeemer, as the only mediator between God and man?
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Speaker 1: What am I going to do if this Jesus who
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Speaker 1: is called the Christ? Oh? Help me, Jesus. Oh I
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Speaker 1: got off a little bit. I'm sorry, whoo. I couldn't
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Speaker 1: help it. It's all about Jesus. Yeah, it's all about Jesus.
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Speaker 1: And so now Jesus is standing before Pilate, which brings
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Speaker 1: us again to this, perhaps again, in my inestimation, the
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Speaker 1: most underappreciated reasons stated by Jesus himself as to why
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Speaker 1: he came into this world Gospel's John, chapter eighteen, verse
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Speaker 1: thirty six. Jesus answered, my kingdom is not of this world.
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Speaker 1: If my kingdom were of this world, my servants would
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Speaker 1: fight so that I should not be delivered to the Jews.
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Speaker 1: But now my kingdom is not from here, ladies and gentlemen.
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Speaker 1: That is very important of us to always remember that
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Speaker 1: the Kingdom of God, the Kingdom of Heaven, it's not
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Speaker 1: of this world. It's here now. Jesus brought it down
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Speaker 1: in the person of himself, a man, the kingdom. And
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Speaker 1: then you remember John, the Baptists came before him preaching, hey, repent,
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Speaker 1: the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. And Jesus came preaching,
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Speaker 1: the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand, and he said,
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Speaker 1: the Kingdom is among you. It's right here. And it
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Speaker 1: came again. But now you can't see it visibly with
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Speaker 1: your eyes. You see the manifestation of it. You can
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Speaker 1: taste of it, you can partake of it. You certainly
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Speaker 1: must be born again to see it, to be in it. Amen.
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Speaker 1: And only one can do that. By the way, we've
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Speaker 1: talked about that, only Jesus can baptize you. John. The
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Speaker 1: Baptists can't preaching repentance unto the people, saying, believe on
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Speaker 1: him who is coming after me. He will baptize you
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Speaker 1: with the Holy Ghost and fire. And if any man
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Speaker 1: does not have the spirit of the Living God, he
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Speaker 1: does not belong to him. And so amen. Jesus. This
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Speaker 1: kingdom that he brought down to earth a man, he said,
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Speaker 1: it is not of this world a man. So Pilot
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Speaker 1: then verse thirty seven says to Jesus, are you a king?
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Speaker 1: Then Jesus answered, you say rightly that I am a king.
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Speaker 1: But watch what he says. For this cause I was born,
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Speaker 1: and for this cause I have come into the world.
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Speaker 1: Now what is this cause that Jesus is referring to?
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Speaker 1: For this cause? Was I born manifested in the flesh,
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Speaker 1: come down in the incarnation, come down to earth, come
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Speaker 1: down to tabernacle with man? What is this cause for
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Speaker 1: Jesus being born? What is this cause for Jesus coming
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Speaker 1: into the world. Well, he tells us that I should
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Speaker 1: bear witness to the truth the cause. Perhaps again again
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Speaker 1: this is my opinion that may perhaps be the most
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Speaker 1: underrated of reasons. Why that Jesus came into this world.
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Speaker 1: We know he came to shed his blood. We know
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Speaker 1: he came. We came to to down that crossed, to
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Speaker 1: die of death, to atone for our sins. But ladies
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Speaker 1: and gentlemen, we need truth. And by the way, he
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Speaker 1: is truth. And he says, I came to bear witness
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Speaker 1: to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth. Jesus says,
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Speaker 1: here's my voice. So Pilot, then, befuddled, says to Jesus,
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Speaker 1: what is truth? And when he had said this, he
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Speaker 1: went out again to the Jews, and he said to them,
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Speaker 1: I find no fault in him at all. Wow. If
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Speaker 1: Pilot never spoke any other truth, he did on that day,
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Speaker 1: no fault in Jesus. Now, we as human beings, even
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Speaker 1: in our carnality, even in our flesh, even in our
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Speaker 1: natural desires, to some respect, I would say that perhaps
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Speaker 1: the most desirable and sometimes unspoken character trait that all
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Speaker 1: of us desire, at least to some extent, at least
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Speaker 1: in others is that they be a person of truth,
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Speaker 1: even though we again may not always want to accept
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Speaker 1: truth ourselves a man, when we are at odds with
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Speaker 1: the truth, and when truth is at odds with again,
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Speaker 1: what is in our heart? Of course, we nevertheless, and
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Speaker 1: I said this at the outset, we cannot survive without truth. Now,
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Speaker 1: what obstructs man from a tank from attaining, if you will,
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Speaker 1: to this great salvation that God has provided is man's
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Speaker 1: rejection of the truth. Man is at a great disadvantage
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Speaker 1: as it pertains to his ability to fully embrace truth,
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Speaker 1: because first and foremost, man is born in sin. Man
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Speaker 1: is an enemy of the truth. Man does not have
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Speaker 1: the desire innately within his heart, within his being for
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Speaker 1: the truth. That's why it's that's why God had to
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Speaker 1: speak from heaven. That's why he had to come down.
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Speaker 1: He did come down from heaven. He not only spoken,
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Speaker 1: he had already spoken. He had already spoken, He had
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Speaker 1: already spoken betimes and betimes. He sent his servants over
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Speaker 1: and over his prophets, over and over, speaking the truth,
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Speaker 1: speaking the truth, speaking the truth. What do we do?
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Speaker 1: We rejected it, We killed the prophets, We persecuted the prophets,
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Speaker 1: and at the last God came down in the person
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Speaker 1: of Jesus the Christ. The Bible tells us, by the
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Speaker 1: way the write of Hebrews again, God, who has on
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Speaker 1: hundred times and in divers matter, spoke to the fathers
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Speaker 1: by the prophets in these last days, spoken to us
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Speaker 1: by his son, the Bible says the Book of John,
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Speaker 1: the same book the Gospel of John. The law was
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Speaker 1: given by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
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Speaker 1: He came for the brast purpose. The cause is we
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Speaker 1: need truth. Anybody who denies that we need truth in
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Speaker 1: our world today. And by the way, I come to
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Speaker 1: learn by the way that most people just don't want you.
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Speaker 1: And I'm not even talking about biblical truth. Necessarily. People
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Speaker 1: love to be lied to. They love deception. People love delusion.
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Speaker 1: That's why the Bible speaks to them, to this prophecy,
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Speaker 1: to this fact that it's now a realization in our
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Speaker 1: world today. The Bible says, they will heap to themselves
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Speaker 1: teachers having itching ears, turning away their ears from the truth.
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Speaker 1: They'll be turned to lies, they will be turned to fables.
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Speaker 1: It's not only true of people. A man who are
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Speaker 1: reprobates concerning the faith the Church. No, no, no, ladies
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Speaker 1: and gentlemen, this is just true in general. In the
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Speaker 1: hearts of man, people lie to themselves about their conditions,
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Speaker 1: about being an alcoholic, for example, or a drug addict,
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Speaker 1: or being lazy. I mean, we lie. This is the
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Speaker 1: falling nature of man. We love lies, we love delusion,
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Speaker 1: we love deception, and that's why we hate the truth.
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Speaker 1: That's why we reject the truth. That's why truth is
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Speaker 1: an enemy to us. But we cannot survive, ladies and gentlemen,
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Speaker 1: if there is no truth. When man is left to
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Speaker 1: his own imaginations, when man is left to his own devices,
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Speaker 1: not true inclination of man leads him down the path
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Speaker 1: of destruction and death. The Bible speaks of the heart
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Speaker 1: of man being desperately wicked. And again, when we are
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Speaker 1: left to our own way, we will deny the very
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Speaker 1: existence of God. Bible tells us in Psalm fifty three,
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Speaker 1: believe it. I believe It's also inside number fourteen. The
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Speaker 1: fool has said in his heart there is no God.
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Speaker 1: That's what happens. The fool is the one who denies
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Speaker 1: that there is a God. And he says in his
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Speaker 1: heart in his heart. Now, how does that happen. I'll
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Speaker 1: get to that in just a moment. I'm almost finished,
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Speaker 1: by the way. But the fool says in his heart,
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Speaker 1: there is no God Psalm fifty three. They are corrupt,
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Speaker 1: They have done abominable iniquity. There is none who does good.
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Speaker 1: God Verse two looks down from heaven upon the children
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Speaker 1: of men, to see if there are any who understand,
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Speaker 1: who seek God. In other words, who is seeking for
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Speaker 1: the truth? No one, the Bible says verse three. Every
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Speaker 1: one of them has turned aside. They have together become corrupt.
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Speaker 1: There is none who does good, No, not one. It
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Speaker 1: has always been this way, ladies and gentlemen. Even as
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Speaker 1: far back Genesis six, in the days of Noah, the
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Speaker 1: earth was full of corruption and violence. The thoughts and
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Speaker 1: the imaginations of the heart of man was only evil.
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Speaker 1: Continually they rejected truth, they rejected light, theect godliness. Only
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Speaker 1: one man found grace in the eyes of the Lord,
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Speaker 1: the man left to his own imaginations. The man left
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Speaker 1: to his own devices will ultimately profess himself to be wise,
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Speaker 1: not knowing that he is becoming a fool. And again,
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Speaker 1: although he knows that God by revelation, God has revealed
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Speaker 1: plainly to us, the Bible says, this Roman chephter one.
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Speaker 1: It is clearly seen. It is clearly known. Although they
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Speaker 1: knew God, they glorified him, not as God. God has
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Speaker 1: revealed himself to us. The heavens declare his glory. The
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Speaker 1: invisible things of Him, the Bible says, from the creation
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Speaker 1: of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the
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Speaker 1: things that are made, even his eternal power, and God
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Speaker 1: had so, that is without excuse. Again, although he knows
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Speaker 1: by revelation that God exists, he changes the glory of
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Speaker 1: God in his mind and in his heart into that
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Speaker 1: which is corruptible, the Bible says. And what happens from
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Speaker 1: that is the heart of this man becomes darkened. It
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Speaker 1: becomes darkened. Now understand that no man is born a fool.
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Speaker 1: You're not born as a fool. Man becomes a fool.
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Speaker 1: What happens is he builds up resistance to the truth.
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Speaker 1: He builds up resistance to the truth of the creation
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Speaker 1: of the Creator, by and through darc treads of devils.
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Speaker 1: He is deceived by the devil, and he further descends
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Speaker 1: into delusion as God gives him over to a reprobate mind.
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Speaker 1: And this need not be the case for any man
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Speaker 1: who simply has to take heed to the truth that
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Speaker 1: has been given to us, that has been provided, the
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Speaker 1: Bible says, by the way, again, the law was given
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Speaker 1: by Moses, but grace and truth came by Jesus Christ.
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Speaker 1: The Bible tells us that the grace of God that
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Speaker 1: brings salvation has appeared to all men, teaching us to
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Speaker 1: deny ungodliness and worldlyness, and that we should live soberly,
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Speaker 1: righteously and godly right here in this present world. Again,
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Speaker 1: the Book of Micah in the Old Testament, the Bible
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Speaker 1: says that God has shown you, a man, what is good.
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Speaker 1: It's not as though we don't know. We know. There
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Speaker 1: are no atheists. I said this before. There are no
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Speaker 1: atheists in the sense that they really believe that there
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Speaker 1: is no God. Now there are atheists from the definition
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Speaker 1: standpoint of being against God. But they know in their hearts,
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Speaker 1: because the Bible says it. When they knew God, they
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Speaker 1: glorified him, not as God, but they became vain in
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Speaker 1: their imaginations. And what happens, darkness comes in. But again
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Speaker 1: this need not be the case. When truth is here
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Speaker 1: when truth is not trampled in the streets. Those who
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Speaker 1: hear the words of Jesus, they hear truth. Those who
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Speaker 1: obey the truth of Jesus, they receive grace. Those who
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Speaker 1: received the grace of God, they get the salvation that
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Speaker 1: comes from God. For we're all saved by grace through faith. Faith.
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Speaker 1: What believing the Word, the Word, the Word of God,
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Speaker 1: the living Word, the Word that was made flesh, the
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Speaker 1: Word that was in the beginning, the truth of God,
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Speaker 1: the Word that is abiding forever, that lives forever, that
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Speaker 1: will never perish, that will never fade away. Heaven and earth,
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Speaker 1: Jesus says, will pass away. But my word, when I
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Speaker 1: pass away, hear the word. Obey the word. Receive the Word,
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Speaker 1: and you will be saved. Obey the sayings, the teachings,
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Speaker 1: the truth that emanate, emanate it and emanates. Even now
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Speaker 1: God is spoken, God is speaking from Jesus. It will
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Speaker 1: if the foolish man up out of his folly, and
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Speaker 1: it will elevate him to wisdom and understanding. He will
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Speaker 1: become wise to salvation. That's what the Bible, the Word
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Speaker 1: of God is able. The Bible says, to make you
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Speaker 1: wise unto salvation. That's what the truth will do. You
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Speaker 1: will become wise to salvation that is to be found
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Speaker 1: in Jesus, who says again, I Am the Way, the Truth,
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Speaker 1: and the Life. No one comes to the Father but
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Speaker 1: by me, the man who will obey the sayings of Jesus.
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Speaker 1: He will build his house. He will order his lifestyle,
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Speaker 1: his steps, his decisions, his future on the foundation of
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Speaker 1: truth that he learns of Jesus. And just as Jesus
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Speaker 1: was in this world, this man will also become a
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Speaker 1: truth witness. And just as Jesus came to bear witness
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Speaker 1: to the truth, so much is disciples, so must we.
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Speaker 1: We must be like the disciples. We cannot help but
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Speaker 1: speak those things which we have heard and seen, speaking
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Speaker 1: the truth in love, living the truth, walking in the truth,
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Speaker 1: bearing witness to the truth. Father, help us today, help
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Speaker 1: someone today. You said it, Jesus, you said it yourself.
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Speaker 1: You shall know the truth, and the truth shall make
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Speaker 1: you free. He whom the Son sets free is free. Indeed,
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Speaker 1: Thank you for truth that liberates us. Thank you for
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Speaker 1: your word. Thank you that you brought it down. Thank
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Speaker 1: you that it a bie that's forever in Jesus' name, Amen,
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