Latest / End-Time Revival Ministries, USA / Episode 212 - Set Apart By The Truth
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- 0:13Speaker 1: I love the Lord. He heard my cry, and he
- 0:16Speaker 1: pitied every groan. This poor man cried, and the Lord
- 0:20Speaker 1: heard him and delivered him from all his fears. Blessed
- 0:25Speaker 1: be the name of the Lord. From this time forth,
- 0:26Speaker 1: and even for evermore, from the rising of the sun
- 0:29Speaker 1: unto the going down of the same, the name of
- 0:32Speaker 1: the Lord is to be praised. Let everything that has
- 0:35Speaker 1: breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord. Let the
- 0:40Speaker 1: redeemed of the Lord say so whom he hath redeemed
- 0:44Speaker 1: out of the hand of the enemy God. Bless you.
- 0:47Speaker 1: Once again, we welcome you to this another edition of
- 0:51Speaker 1: End Time Revival Ministry USA podcast. I am your host,
- 0:57Speaker 1: Pastor al Zachary. And again, great is the Lord, greatly
- 1:05Speaker 1: to be praised. He is good, he is merciful, he
- 1:08Speaker 1: is kind, He is compassionate and long suffering, forgiving, patient
- 1:14Speaker 1: and tolerant of all of our shortcomings and failings. Sin. Oh,
- 1:23Speaker 1: thank you, thank you, thank you, Lord, for your goodness
- 1:26Speaker 1: and loving kindness toward the children of men. Oh, that
- 1:31Speaker 1: man would, by the way Whichard Sammis says it, all
- 1:36Speaker 1: that men would praise the Lord for his marvelous kindness
- 1:42Speaker 1: and wonderful works toward the children of men. Oh, that
- 1:47Speaker 1: men would acknowledge him and honor him, and call up
- 1:52Speaker 1: on his name, and give to him the glory that
- 1:56Speaker 1: is due unto his great name. Amen, God is good.
- 2:00Speaker 1: God is worthy of all of our praises. Again, we
- 2:04Speaker 1: thank God for each and every one of you also
- 2:06Speaker 1: who pray for and support the work of this ministry.
- 2:10Speaker 1: It is by the help of the Lord that we
- 2:12Speaker 1: continue to this day. We endeavor as always to proclaim
- 2:17Speaker 1: the name of Christ, proclaim the truth of God's Word
- 2:21Speaker 1: in a world that is dying of starvation, dying a
- 2:29Speaker 1: man from not the fact, not from the fact, for
- 2:35Speaker 1: the that the Word has been given, that we have
- 2:39Speaker 1: what we need to survive and to thrive, but from
- 2:43Speaker 1: a lack of knowledge, a wilful defiance, a wilful disobedience,
- 2:52Speaker 1: a wilful rejection of the truth of God. But the
- 2:56Speaker 1: Church nevertheless must stand in this evil time and proclaim
- 3:01Speaker 1: the name of the Lord, proclaim the truth of God.
- 3:04Speaker 1: And that is what God has called us for in
- 3:07Speaker 1: such a time as this, all right, we continue in
- 3:11Speaker 1: the seventeenth chapter of the Gospel of Saint John, in
- 3:14Speaker 1: this uniquely recorded prayer intercessory prayer of Jesus for his
- 3:19Speaker 1: disciples and for the Church a man. And again, if
- 3:23Speaker 1: you have your bibles. John's Gospel, chapter number seventeen. Before
- 3:28Speaker 1: we begin, as always again we want to invoke the
- 3:32Speaker 1: presence of the Lord Father. Again, we thank you for
- 3:34Speaker 1: this day, this day, this day that you have made
- 3:38Speaker 1: feed us with manna from on high, that the word
- 3:41Speaker 1: of Your glorious a man gospel, the word of truth,
- 3:47Speaker 1: the word of faith. May it, Lord be embedded within us,
- 3:51Speaker 1: that we may live therein and prosper therein and have
- 3:56Speaker 1: this great hope a man that comes from Your Truth. Amen, resting,
- 4:02Speaker 1: ruling and abiding within our souls. Lord, bless each and
- 4:06Speaker 1: every listening ear and every obedient heart, that you may
- 4:10Speaker 1: be glorified. And all we say and do. It's in
- 4:12Speaker 1: the name of Jesus Christ. We bring you thanks for
- 4:15Speaker 1: all things. Amen and Amen. The Gospel of John, chapter
- 4:20Speaker 1: number seventeen. We're going to begin reading at verse number fourteen.
- 4:23Speaker 1: But our thought today is focused on verse number seventeen.
- 4:27Speaker 1: Set apart by the Truth, set apart by the truth.
- 4:38Speaker 1: Jesus again in his intercessory prayer verse fourteen. We pick
- 4:43Speaker 1: it up there these words are recorded. I have given
- 4:46Speaker 1: them your word, and the world has hated them because
- 4:54Speaker 1: they are not of the world, just as I am
- 4:59Speaker 1: not of the world. I do not pray that you
- 5:03Speaker 1: should take them out of the world, but that you
- 5:08Speaker 1: should keep them from the evil one. They are not
- 5:14Speaker 1: of the world, just as I am not of the world.
- 5:21Speaker 1: Sanctify them by your truth. Your word is truth. As
- 5:31Speaker 1: you have sent me. As you sent me into the world,
- 5:35Speaker 1: I also have sent them into the world, And for
- 5:41Speaker 1: their sakes, I sanctify myself that they also may be
- 5:49Speaker 1: sanctified by the truth. Again, our main focus is derived
- 5:56Speaker 1: from verse number seventeen. Sanctified them by your truth. Your
- 6:02Speaker 1: word is truth. Of course, the meaning of sanctified, sanctify
- 6:11Speaker 1: is to set apart. So what Jesus is praying in
- 6:15Speaker 1: this prayer is that these men would be set apart
- 6:21Speaker 1: by your word, that is truth, the truth of God.
- 6:30Speaker 1: The truth of God's word is more powerful of a
- 6:34Speaker 1: force in this world than anything that would come against it,
- 6:41Speaker 1: anything or anyone that would seek to minimize the truth,
- 6:46Speaker 1: seek to change the truth. See that happens you Roman
- 6:51Speaker 1: chapter one, Paul speaks of this changing the truth of
- 6:55Speaker 1: God into a lie. They become fools you become a
- 6:58Speaker 1: fool seeking to change the truth, or even seek to
- 7:05Speaker 1: banish God's truth out of men's hearts men's minds. Amen.
- 7:12Speaker 1: What happens, then, of course, you become a reprobate when
- 7:16Speaker 1: they would not, as again Roman chapter one, did not
- 7:19Speaker 1: like to retain God his word, his truth, and their
- 7:24Speaker 1: knowledge in their minds. There they know it. Amen, they
- 7:29Speaker 1: become reprobate fools. Amen. This world, of course, is on
- 7:36Speaker 1: a collision course against God's word that will not end
- 7:45Speaker 1: well for it. The truth of God still marches on.
- 7:55Speaker 1: The Truth of God is just as immutable as God.
- 8:00Speaker 1: The truth of God is inseparable from God. The truth
- 8:06Speaker 1: of God is what sets the Church apart from a world.
- 8:11Speaker 1: Or feel with darkness, feel with confusion and delusions, because
- 8:16Speaker 1: the world, of course, operates contrarily with a malicious, intentional
- 8:23Speaker 1: hatred for God's truth. And anyone who will speak it,
- 8:27Speaker 1: anyone who will live it, anyone who will order their
- 8:30Speaker 1: lives by the truth. Rest assured you will be hated,
- 8:34Speaker 1: just as Jesus was hated. The truth about this world
- 8:39Speaker 1: we can find it pretty much summed up, if you will,
- 8:42Speaker 1: in some number two. And I want to take just
- 8:46Speaker 1: a moment to read a few verses from this man
- 8:49Speaker 1: magnificent prophetic psalm that again sums up the actions and
- 8:55Speaker 1: activities and thoughts and the approach of those who are
- 9:00Speaker 1: in rebellion against the truth of God that has already
- 9:05Speaker 1: been established. Why verse number one do the heathen rage
- 9:12Speaker 1: and the people imagine a vain thing? What is it
- 9:21Speaker 1: that they're imagining there? They've been deceived by lies and delusion.
- 9:26Speaker 1: They're in confusion that they can overthrow God, change what
- 9:32Speaker 1: God has decreed and established. Why Why do the heathen
- 9:38Speaker 1: rage and the people imagine a vain thing? This is
- 9:42Speaker 1: a question, rhetorical question that the Bible puts forth here
- 9:46Speaker 1: again Psalm number two. The kings of the earth set
- 9:52Speaker 1: themselves and the rulers take counsel together to do what
- 10:01Speaker 1: well the Bible tells us, against the Lord and against
- 10:07Speaker 1: his anointed, who is the Anointed Christ, Jesus the Savior,
- 10:14Speaker 1: the Redeemer. Amen, they come against, They take counsel against.
- 10:22Speaker 1: They set themselves against the Lord, against his anointed, against
- 10:29Speaker 1: his truth, against his word, against his way, against his Church. Amen.
- 10:37Speaker 1: Look what the Bible tells us. They say in their council.
- 10:43Speaker 1: This is the conclusion that they come to after they
- 10:46Speaker 1: meet together, clude together. First number three, let us break
- 10:51Speaker 1: their bands asunder and cast away their chords from us.
- 10:57Speaker 1: In other words, we do not want to be ruded
- 11:01Speaker 1: by the God of creation, by the God who made us.
- 11:05Speaker 1: We do not want to live under his constraints, his restrictions.
- 11:13Speaker 1: Let's break them, break the commandments, break away from his law,
- 11:20Speaker 1: break away from his authority, break away from his sovereignty,
- 11:24Speaker 1: his right to rule over us. Let's do it. Let's
- 11:28Speaker 1: do it. But the Bible says, version of before he
- 11:34Speaker 1: that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh, the Lord shall
- 11:41Speaker 1: have them in derision. Then shall he speak unto them
- 11:47Speaker 1: in his wrath and vex them in his sore this pleasure?
- 11:54Speaker 1: Do you not know? The Bible says that God is
- 11:57Speaker 1: angry with the wicked read day, and the Bible tells
- 12:03Speaker 1: us that the wrath of God again Roman chapter one
- 12:06Speaker 1: is already revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and all
- 12:15Speaker 1: unrighteousness of men who deliberately suppress the truth of God
- 12:20Speaker 1: in their unrighteous behavior and conduct. God is going to,
- 12:25Speaker 1: the Bible says, speak unto them in his wrath and
- 12:28Speaker 1: vex them in his sore displeasure. But then the Psalmists,
- 12:36Speaker 1: in closing this psalm, skip down the verse number ten
- 12:40Speaker 1: gives salient advice. Be wise. Now therefore, O you kings,
- 12:50Speaker 1: be instructed, Ye judges of the earth, serve the Lord
- 12:57Speaker 1: with fear, and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the sun s
- 13:05Speaker 1: n lest he be angry, and you perish from the
- 13:11Speaker 1: way when his wrath is kindled. But a little blessed
- 13:21Speaker 1: are all they that put their trust in him. Now
- 13:35Speaker 1: this is the world, it always has been, and it
- 13:40Speaker 1: always will be until Jesus returns for his church. The
- 13:44Speaker 1: world that the Church is now living in. It is
- 13:50Speaker 1: the world that the apostles would be going forth to
- 13:55Speaker 1: carry on, to carry forth the mission that Jesus started,
- 14:03Speaker 1: and is even now again with us continuing building his church.
- 14:12Speaker 1: A man preparing a people a man, and Jesus knew
- 14:16Speaker 1: exactly what they would be facing, and in continuation of
- 14:22Speaker 1: his intercessory prayer for his true disciples, Jesus understood the
- 14:28Speaker 1: necessity of the potency of the Word of God to
- 14:34Speaker 1: be rooted and grounded in those who were his disciples.
- 14:41Speaker 1: In the Word of God is God immutable, eternal truth
- 14:53Speaker 1: that would set them apart from the world. Let me
- 14:58Speaker 1: say that again. The Word of God is God immutable,
- 15:11Speaker 1: eternal truth that would set these apostles, these disciples apart
- 15:24Speaker 1: from the world. The truth sets the church apart. Now again,
- 15:34Speaker 1: the world is going to hate just as they hated Jesus.
- 15:38Speaker 1: The world is going to hate them. Jesus knows this
- 15:42Speaker 1: because of him. That's why he's praying for them. That's
- 15:45Speaker 1: why he's interceding for them. Amen. The Word of God
- 15:51Speaker 1: again is the differentiator. And the world hates the word.
- 15:57Speaker 1: They hate the word. The word of Jesus, by the way,
- 16:00Speaker 1: are the same. There again, inseparable. In the beginning was
- 16:03Speaker 1: the word. The Word was with God. The Word was God.
- 16:05Speaker 1: The Word was made manifest. Amen was manifest among us
- 16:08Speaker 1: and with us. And John said, we handled, we touched Amen,
- 16:14Speaker 1: the word the word. And the world does not receive
- 16:20Speaker 1: the word is in conflict with the Word. And so
- 16:25Speaker 1: the world hated them also because of Jesus, hated them
- 16:31Speaker 1: because of the truth that Jesus talked to them. The
- 16:36Speaker 1: world rejected them because they would now these men, these disciples,
- 16:43Speaker 1: these apostles, they would now be like Jesus, the same
- 16:47Speaker 1: Jesus they rejected and crucified. So these devoted followers of
- 16:54Speaker 1: Jesus Amen, through his words in them, would no longer
- 17:02Speaker 1: be a part of the world. But now they would
- 17:09Speaker 1: be set apart by the truth. Again, Jesus was not
- 17:17Speaker 1: of the world. These words he says, he speaks, we
- 17:21Speaker 1: just read it in his prayer a man. He was
- 17:24Speaker 1: not of the world. And now these apostles were now
- 17:28Speaker 1: to be taken out of separated, set apart, sanctified from
- 17:36Speaker 1: the world. This is applicable to all of those who would, afterwards,
- 17:43Speaker 1: of course, come to believe and obey the gospel of
- 17:46Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. That's the church. All of us are built
- 17:49Speaker 1: upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ
- 17:53Speaker 1: himself being the chief cornerstone. Jesus is the builder of
- 17:57Speaker 1: the church. He's the founder of the church. He's the
- 17:59Speaker 1: one who adds to the church. Amen. So again the
- 18:03Speaker 1: church is just as Jesus pray for these apostles. The
- 18:08Speaker 1: church is set apart by the truth. You see again,
- 18:17Speaker 1: it is obedience and allegiance to the doctrine of Christ.
- 18:24Speaker 1: That is what differentiates those who are called and chosen
- 18:28Speaker 1: by God to now be set apart by the truth.
- 18:33Speaker 1: It's the truth. The truth is the truth, is it?
- 18:40Speaker 1: The truth is the difference, the difference maker, the differentiator.
- 18:46Speaker 1: And so with this hostility and hatred that the world
- 18:49Speaker 1: has for Jesus and would also now have for his
- 18:52Speaker 1: church that he is building, Jesus prays for his apostles,
- 19:01Speaker 1: and as we see also in the pray praise for
- 19:04Speaker 1: his church, those who would believe on them, that they
- 19:10Speaker 1: would not be taken out of the world. Now, that
- 19:12Speaker 1: would be wonderful, of course, if Jesus just saves us
- 19:15Speaker 1: and snatches us away, saves us and snatches us away
- 19:21Speaker 1: out of this world, we won't have to face all
- 19:23Speaker 1: of the hostility and hatred and trouble and malice and
- 19:26Speaker 1: trials and temptations and all of that. Yeah, seem to
- 19:31Speaker 1: be a wonderful thing. But that's not God's design, that's
- 19:34Speaker 1: not his desire. He leaves us in this world. We
- 19:38Speaker 1: are here to be living epistols. We are here to
- 19:41Speaker 1: be examples. We're here to be salt. We're here to
- 19:43Speaker 1: be light. We're here to be that city set up
- 19:46Speaker 1: on a heel. We are to be image bearers, true
- 19:50Speaker 1: image bearers of God. And more like Jesus every day
- 19:56Speaker 1: that we are here. Amen, that's why he leaves us here.
- 20:01Speaker 1: So he prays a man, not that we would be
- 20:04Speaker 1: taken out of the world, but that we would be
- 20:09Speaker 1: protected from the evil one, the prince and the power
- 20:14Speaker 1: of the air, the devil, Satan himself, who hates play. Oh,
- 20:20Speaker 1: my God, Please, Church of the Living God, if you
- 20:24Speaker 1: learn and know and understand nothing else, please learn, know,
- 20:31Speaker 1: understand that the devil hates you if and when you
- 20:39Speaker 1: are in the Church of Jesus Christ, if you are
- 20:42Speaker 1: a true disciple of Jesus, he hates you, and he
- 20:49Speaker 1: is after you to destroy you. But as with all
- 20:55Speaker 1: of the promises of God, we can now also have
- 20:59Speaker 1: this blessed as shure. And so of course we know
- 21:01Speaker 1: this to be true, that God hears the prayer of
- 21:08Speaker 1: the righteous. And there is none righteous, none like Christ,
- 21:17Speaker 1: the righteous one who prayed and is deceited on our behalf.
- 21:24Speaker 1: He prayed that we would be kept from the evil One.
- 21:29Speaker 1: And by the way, what we call the Lord's prayers
- 21:32Speaker 1: really prayer that the Lord gave to the disciples when
- 21:35Speaker 1: he asked teach us how to pray. You know, a
- 21:40Speaker 1: part of that pray is deliver us from evil or
- 21:45Speaker 1: keep us from evil. That's what God does. He preserves,
- 21:50Speaker 1: he protects his people. The evil one is the murderous influencer,
- 21:58Speaker 1: reving up the hostility and hatred that is in our world.
- 22:02Speaker 1: And be not deceived again. This murderous hatred is aimed
- 22:07Speaker 1: directly at and against the true Church of Jesus Christ,
- 22:11Speaker 1: that is set apart by the truth. The evil one
- 22:19Speaker 1: is anti Christ, anti way of truth, anti liberty, anti freedom,
- 22:29Speaker 1: the freedom that is granted ladies and gentlemen by the
- 22:34Speaker 1: truth of God to all who come to know the
- 22:38Speaker 1: truth and walk in it. Judge Gospel by the way,
- 22:43Speaker 1: same Gospel of John. Again. Back if you will to
- 22:48Speaker 1: chapter eight, you will find these words that Jesus spoke.
- 22:52Speaker 1: In verse thirty one, thirty two, and thirty six. Jesus
- 22:55Speaker 1: said to those Jews which believed on him, if you
- 22:57Speaker 1: continue in my word what he says, then are you
- 23:02Speaker 1: my disciples. Indeed, true disciples continue in the Word, in
- 23:08Speaker 1: the doctrine, in the teachings of Christ. They build their houses,
- 23:11Speaker 1: they build their lives. They order their steps by the
- 23:14Speaker 1: Word of God. They don't live by bread alone. They
- 23:18Speaker 1: live by the word. Amen. They prefer the word. They
- 23:24Speaker 1: promote the Word higher than anything and everything else. Amen.
- 23:32Speaker 1: Verse thirty two. If you well, let me back up,
- 23:36Speaker 1: because it's a continuous flow of thought. Then said Jesus
- 23:39Speaker 1: to those Jews which believed on him. If you continue
- 23:45Speaker 1: in my word, then are you my disciples. Indeed, and
- 23:50Speaker 1: you shall know the truth, and the truth shall make
- 23:56Speaker 1: you free. Verse thirty six tells us if the Son
- 24:01Speaker 1: therefore shall make you free, you shall be free. In deed.
- 24:06Speaker 1: Now again, Romans speaks about the bondage of sin. You're
- 24:16Speaker 1: a servant, you are a slave of sin. You're in bondage.
- 24:26Speaker 1: And we come this way by come to this, by
- 24:29Speaker 1: the way when we are born into this world, we're
- 24:34Speaker 1: born in sin and shaping, in iniquity. And only only
- 24:40Speaker 1: the Son of God can set you free. And so
- 24:47Speaker 1: this is what Jesus is is imparting. And he knows
- 24:52Speaker 1: that the truth, by the way, same truth, and and
- 24:55Speaker 1: and Jesus inseparables the same see the only thing that
- 25:00Speaker 1: will set you free. And this is why the devil
- 25:03Speaker 1: hates the truth. This is why the world, the world
- 25:06Speaker 1: systems hate the truth, because they want you to be
- 25:14Speaker 1: in bondage, incocerated, bound, shackled, enslaved to sind depravity. But
- 25:27Speaker 1: Jesus says, I've come that you might have life. I've
- 25:32Speaker 1: come to liberate. The spirit of the Lord is upon me.
- 25:35Speaker 1: Is annoying me to preach the Gospel to the poor,
- 25:38Speaker 1: to say, at liberty them that are bound, bruised, broken.
- 25:46Speaker 1: That's what Jesus came to do. That's what the truth does.
- 25:51Speaker 1: And this is the truth that separates, that differentiates, that sanctifies,
- 26:00Speaker 1: sets apart the real true Church from all other religions,
- 26:09Speaker 1: so called doctrines teachings. You shall know the truth, and
- 26:20Speaker 1: the truth shall make you free. The truth is gonna
- 26:25Speaker 1: set you apart. The truth is going to exalt you.
- 26:30Speaker 1: The truth is going to open your eyes and cause
- 26:32Speaker 1: the scales to fall. The truth it's going to make
- 26:39Speaker 1: you a new creation in Christ, Jesus, the Truth. It's
- 26:44Speaker 1: gonna set your feet on a different path. Any man
- 26:48Speaker 1: being Christ, he becomes a new creation. The old has
- 26:50Speaker 1: passed away, and behold, all things become new. Let me
- 26:57Speaker 1: close with these few words. Although we are living in
- 27:01Speaker 1: the latter times of the last days, which by the way,
- 27:05Speaker 1: begin with the Advent, the first Advent, the first coming
- 27:09Speaker 1: of Jesus, that ladies and gentlemen, marked the beginning of
- 27:14Speaker 1: the Last days, and we're living now in the latter
- 27:17Speaker 1: times of the last days. The world systems again under
- 27:25Speaker 1: the influence of the evil One has always been hostile
- 27:32Speaker 1: to God's truth, always always, And I will say this
- 27:39Speaker 1: what the Church of Jesus Christ must do and these
- 27:43Speaker 1: last of the last days is set our hearts on
- 27:51Speaker 1: the truth with courage and conviction, knowing again that we
- 27:59Speaker 1: are set free by the truth, that we are to
- 28:05Speaker 1: walk in the truth, because again we have been set
- 28:13Speaker 1: apart by the truth. That's what Jesus prayed for. That's
- 28:18Speaker 1: what Jesus interceded on our behalf for. Sanctify them by
- 28:24Speaker 1: your truth. Through your truth, set them apart, just as
- 28:31Speaker 1: I am set apart and sanctified by the truth. So Father,
- 28:38Speaker 1: we pray now, just as Jesus prayed, and we know
- 28:43Speaker 1: he hears, and he intercedes on our behalf, Lord, that
- 28:49Speaker 1: your people, your church, the remnant, those who are truly yours,
- 28:56Speaker 1: those whom you will bring into the fold to be
- 29:01Speaker 1: like you. Every day, Lord, we pray that in our
- 29:06Speaker 1: hearts we rest in this assurance that we are set
- 29:12Speaker 1: apart by your truth. May we live it. May we
- 29:20Speaker 1: walk in it daily, and may our hearts be guarded
- 29:25Speaker 1: by this truth, so that we live in this liberty,
- 29:31Speaker 1: stand fast in this liberty, wherein we have been made free,
- 29:38Speaker 1: to never again be entangled in the yoke of bondage. God,
- 29:44Speaker 1: be glorified in your people. Everywhere we pray, We thank
- 29:47Speaker 1: you now in Jesus' name. Amen and Amen.