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Episode 217 - Truth Is The Cause · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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  Speaker 1: Blessed be the name of the Lord. From this time
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  Speaker 1: forth and even forever more, from the rising of the
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  Speaker 1: sun to the going down of the same. It is
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  Speaker 1: the name of the Lord that is to be praise.
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  Speaker 1: We blessed the name of the Lord, our God, who
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  Speaker 1: saved us and called us to this great and holy calling,
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  Speaker 1: this great salvation of which he has made us partakers
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  Speaker 1: by his grace, because of his love for us. He
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  Speaker 1: did not leave us in the condition in which we
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  Speaker 1: plunged by Adam's disobedience. But God, who is rich in
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  Speaker 1: mercy for his great love with he loved us. He
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  Speaker 1: sent Jesus Christ down from heaven to deliver us, to
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  Speaker 1: set us free from the bondage. All right, God, bless
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  Speaker 1: you once again. We welcome you to this another edition
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  Speaker 1: of End Time Revival Ministries USA podcast. I am your host,
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  Speaker 1: Pastor al Zachary, and again on today a man, We
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  Speaker 1: as always are grateful to the Lord for calling us
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  Speaker 1: to this great and holy calling through this ministry, to
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  Speaker 1: the dissemination of the Word of God. We have been
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  Speaker 1: commissioned by God, and we seriously undertake this calling to
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  Speaker 1: preach the Word to be instant in season out of season. Reproving, rebuking, exhorting,
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  Speaker 1: with all long suffering and doctrine for the time has come,
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  Speaker 1: as predicted in the scriptures, that men will not want
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  Speaker 1: to endure sound doctrine. But we are going to abide
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  Speaker 1: in the doctrine of Christ, in the teachings of Christ,
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  Speaker 1: in the Word of Living God, because it is by
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  Speaker 1: and through the Word of the Living God that we
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  Speaker 1: have our freedom and liberty. And today that is the
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  Speaker 1: focus of Amen session. Truth is the cause. Truth is
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  Speaker 1: the cause. Amen. Again. Before we begin, as always, we
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  Speaker 1: thank God for each and every one of you who
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  Speaker 1: pray for and support the work of this ministry. You
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  Speaker 1: can certainly do us a great service and also certainly
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  Speaker 1: for those who are in dire need of God's truth.
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  Speaker 1: If you would become a subscriber and share this podcast
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  Speaker 1: with someone else, just simply share it, Amen, Share the
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  Speaker 1: Word of the Lord. Share the truth of the Lord. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: this is why we are here. Amen to Amen. Freely
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  Speaker 1: disseminate the Word of the Living God. And if you
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  Speaker 1: have your Bible, go with us to the Gospel of
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  Speaker 1: John Again. We're going to read from chapter eighteen in
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  Speaker 1: just a few moments. But before we begin again, thank
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  Speaker 1: God for all of you. We pray that the word
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord will have free course in your heart,
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  Speaker 1: and that it will work in you to amen, make
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  Speaker 1: you more and more like Jesus. Every day we begin
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  Speaker 1: with the word of prayer. Father, again, we thank you
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  Speaker 1: for your faithfulness, your goodness, your mercy, your loving kindness,
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  Speaker 1: the peace of God. This surpasses all understanding. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: for the joy of the Lord that gives us strength
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  Speaker 1: from day to day. Having obtained help from you, O Lord,
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  Speaker 1: we continue to this day, and we thank you again
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  Speaker 1: for the multitude of your many mercies and your blessings
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  Speaker 1: that you've bestowed upon us. We cannot even begin to
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  Speaker 1: number them. Father, We again pray that your word will
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  Speaker 1: have free course and that it will rise up in
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  Speaker 1: the hearts of men and women, that there will become
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  Speaker 1: more and more like you. Sinners will be converted to you.
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  Speaker 1: Your kingdom will be magnified, glorified. And we thank you
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  Speaker 1: now in advance in Jesus' name, Amen and Amen. Truth
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  Speaker 1: is the cause. There are unlimited causes that people attach
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  Speaker 1: themselves to. Some are good and worthy of time and attention,
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  Speaker 1: but far too many causes that people attach themselves to.
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  Speaker 1: A merely distractions. They are distractions from the pre eminent
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  Speaker 1: cause the world needs, far and above any other cause.
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  Speaker 1: All we need to do is to hear and to
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  Speaker 1: add to here to this cause, because truth is the cause.
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  Speaker 1: All of these other causes are derived from the fall
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  Speaker 1: of man into sin, which leads us into corruption and
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  Speaker 1: also into bondage and also ultimately to death. Now, of course, today,
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  Speaker 1: on this day that we are recording this episode of
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  Speaker 1: this ministry, is the third day of July, in the
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  Speaker 1: year of our Lord twenty twenty six. And of course,
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  Speaker 1: as you know, on tomorrow, the fourth of July, our
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  Speaker 1: nation will be celebrating two hundred and fifty years of freedom.
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  Speaker 1: Two hundred and fifty years of freedom. But sadly, amongst
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  Speaker 1: the masses of the population of this nation, there is
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  Speaker 1: no understanding whatsoever where the freedom America enjoys comes from.
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  Speaker 1: Too many people are persuaded that freedom comes from government
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  Speaker 1: or from some other source. Listen carefully, all freedom, any freedom,
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  Speaker 1: is from God and God alone. Our freedom is found
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  Speaker 1: in the truth of God that is embodied in Jesus
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  Speaker 1: the Christ. And as we're going to see today, he
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  Speaker 1: came down from glory from above manifested in the flesh
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  Speaker 1: born into this world to testify to the truth. The
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  Speaker 1: truth that ungodly wicked rebels insists up undenying, is that
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  Speaker 1: this nation enjoys freedom like no other nation a man,
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  Speaker 1: because it was born in a reverential agnotg of liberty
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  Speaker 1: that emanates from God. Millions of Americans are enjoying and
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  Speaker 1: living in the freedom of this nation that has for
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  Speaker 1: two hundred and fifty years protected the free propagation of
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  Speaker 1: the Gospel of Jesus Christ. And yet they are enslaved
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  Speaker 1: to calls after calls that can neither provide nor enhance freedom.
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  Speaker 1: Now again, in the Gospel of John, we have been
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  Speaker 1: examining the liberating words of Jesus a man, in which
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  Speaker 1: we find in this gospel the exclusive claim of Jesus
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  Speaker 1: that he is the Way, that he is the Truth,
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  Speaker 1: and that he is the Life. One of the seven
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  Speaker 1: I Am statements, again found exclusively in the Gospel of John,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus said I am the Way, I am the Truth,
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  Speaker 1: I am the Life. But furthermore, in this Gospel of John,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus also stated that he whom the sun sets free,
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  Speaker 1: is free. Indeed, our freedom comes from the one who
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  Speaker 1: is truth and who testified to the truth. I'm only
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  Speaker 1: going to read just two verses today from the Gospel
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  Speaker 1: of John chapter eighteen. A man. We've already seen in
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  Speaker 1: our last session, how Jesus testified that his kingdom is
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  Speaker 1: not of this world. His kingdom is not about a
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  Speaker 1: man flesh and blood, is not of flesh and blood.
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  Speaker 1: It is not of man, doesn't come from man. It's
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  Speaker 1: not built by man. It hasn't been established by man
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  Speaker 1: a man. It comes from above. It is not of
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  Speaker 1: this world. And again he has come as the king,
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  Speaker 1: born the King. He was not made the king. He
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  Speaker 1: is born the king, not only of the Jews, but
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  Speaker 1: he's the king of the world. He's the King of
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  Speaker 1: the truth. He's the King of freedom. He's the king
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  Speaker 1: of everything and all things that exists. In him. We
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  Speaker 1: live and move and have our existence and again our freedom.
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  Speaker 1: If you're going to be free, it comes from the truth.
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  Speaker 1: And Jesus is again the very embodiment of truth. Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: as we're going to see here just two verses. He's
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  Speaker 1: standing before Pilot. He's been accused of the Jews, a man.
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  Speaker 1: They want him dead, they want him a man put away,
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  Speaker 1: and so they've brought him to the Roman government a man,
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  Speaker 1: Pilot being the official, a man, in order to have
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  Speaker 1: Jesus executed. Now again, let me, just as a side note,
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  Speaker 1: say this. They did not know that they were in
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  Speaker 1: fulfillment of the prophecies of the scriptures that were given
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  Speaker 1: to them. They were simply fulfilling the word of God.
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  Speaker 1: It was predetermined by God. Nevertheless, it was by their wickedness,
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  Speaker 1: because of their envy, because of their jealousy, because of
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  Speaker 1: their rejection of truth, that they turned Jesus over to Pilot,
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  Speaker 1: to the Roman government to be crucified. So, now, as
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  Speaker 1: we see in the text, Jesus is standing before Pilot,
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  Speaker 1: just before he would be given over to the will
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  Speaker 1: of his own people to be put to death. Pilot
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  Speaker 1: verse number thirty seven. John's Gospel, Chapter eighteen therefore says
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  Speaker 1: to Jesus, are you a king? Then Jesus answered, you
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  Speaker 1: say rightly that I am a king. For this cause
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  Speaker 1: I was born. Listen carefully to these words, Oh, my God,
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  Speaker 1: help us Jesus. For this cause I was born, and
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  Speaker 1: for this cause I have come into the world, that
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  Speaker 1: I should bear witness to the truth. Everyone who is
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  Speaker 1: of the truth hears my voice. Pilot said to him,
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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 said to them,
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  Speaker 1: I find no fault in him at all. Jesus, ladies
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  Speaker 1: and gentlemen, Church of the Living God, was manifested in
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  Speaker 1: flesh for a cause. Jesus himself said that truth is
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  Speaker 1: the cause. Jesus lived the truth, and he spoke the truth.
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  Speaker 1: Everything about Jesus was embedded in truth. He was manifested
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  Speaker 1: to take away our sins. Yes, yes, yes, and that
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  Speaker 1: through the offering of his pure, undefiled blood. This is
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  Speaker 1: the cause for which I was born, Jesus said, This
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  Speaker 1: is the cause for which I have come. This is
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  Speaker 1: the cause for my arrival at this hour. I came
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  Speaker 1: down here to bear witness to the truth for a world. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: my God, help us, Jesus, help us, Jesus, help us, Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: for a world, Our world that is enthralled in deceit,
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  Speaker 1: in delusion and bondage. This world desperately needs God's truth.
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  Speaker 1: Now God has spoken, but the world does not hear.
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  Speaker 1: The world stops up its ears. In refusing to hear,
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  Speaker 1: the world shuns God freely available wisdom. If the world
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  Speaker 1: were too simply heed the wisdom of God calling out
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  Speaker 1: to them, they would be wiser to salvation, far less
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  Speaker 1: inclined to their own evil ways. The Bible says, the
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  Speaker 1: fear of the Lord, that is the awe of God,
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  Speaker 1: the reverence of God, the reverence for God. It is
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  Speaker 1: the beginning of wisdom and knowledge, and it of course
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  Speaker 1: will lead men to good understanding and discretion. That is,
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  Speaker 1: we would make the right decisions in our living in
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  Speaker 1: our ways. The Bible says, there's a way that seems
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  Speaker 1: right unto a man, because that's when we are walking
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  Speaker 1: in our own way, not acknowledging God in our ways. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible says, if we were to acknowledge God in
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  Speaker 1: all our ways, he would direct our path, and he
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  Speaker 1: would never direct us into evil, into wickedness, into rebellion,
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  Speaker 1: into the things which he hates. But man walking in
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  Speaker 1: his own way, in his own understanding, using his own discretion,
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  Speaker 1: is walking contrary to the will of God. And we
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  Speaker 1: need to know the truth, the truth that will set us. Friend,
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  Speaker 1: this is why Jesus came. But I want you to
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  Speaker 1: hear these words, amen, that the Lord spoke of old
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  Speaker 1: in the Old Testament, in the Book of the Proverbs,
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  Speaker 1: the collection of wise sayings, Wisdom that again, do us
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  Speaker 1: well if we would adhere to the word of the
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  Speaker 1: Living God. Listen what the Lord says about wisdom. Wisdom,
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  Speaker 1: beginning in verse number twenty of Proverbs, chapter number one,
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  Speaker 1: Wisdom crieth without. She uttereth her voice in the streets.
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  Speaker 1: She crieth in the chief places of concourse, in the
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  Speaker 1: openings of the gates in the city. She uttereth her words, saying,
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  Speaker 1: how long, ye simple ones? Will you love simplicity and
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  Speaker 1: the scorner's delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
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  Speaker 1: Turn you at my reproof. Behold, I will pour out
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  Speaker 1: my spirit unto you. I will make known my words
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  Speaker 1: unto you. Now, ladies and gentlemen, as you listen to
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  Speaker 1: these words words, as you read along, if you have
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  Speaker 1: your Bibles, these words speaking about the wisdom of God.
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  Speaker 1: There is no mistaking absolutely that Jesus Christ, as the
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  Speaker 1: Bible tells us in the New Testament, is the wisdom
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  Speaker 1: of God. This is the spirit of the Living God
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  Speaker 1: crying out. This is the spirit of the Living God
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  Speaker 1: reaching out to man openly in the streets, at every corner,
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  Speaker 1: calling to men, as Jesus said, Behold, I stand at
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  Speaker 1: the door and knock. If you will open, I will
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  Speaker 1: come in. So listen again verse twenty three. I'm picking
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  Speaker 1: up again there turn you at my reproof. Behold, I
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  Speaker 1: will pour out my spirit unto you. I will make
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  Speaker 1: no own my words unto you. Now again, is wisdom?
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  Speaker 1: Is the word? Is the truth? Is help? Is hope?
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  Speaker 1: Is it available? Is it not openly been declared, been preached,
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  Speaker 1: been taught, been spoken? Have they not known? Have they
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  Speaker 1: not heard? But what happens, ladies and gentlemen, when we
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  Speaker 1: when the world, when mankind spurned, rejects, turns away from
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  Speaker 1: the wisdom of God? Well the Bible tells us what
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  Speaker 1: happens verse twenty four. Because I have called and you refused.
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  Speaker 1: I have stretched out my hand, and no man regarded.
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  Speaker 1: But you have said it naught all my counsel, and
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  Speaker 1: would none of my reproof. That is, God is seeking
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  Speaker 1: to correct us, to turn us away from the way
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  Speaker 1: that we are going, which of course leads to destruction
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  Speaker 1: and death. So what happens, he says verse twenty six,
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  Speaker 1: I also will laugh at your calamity. I will mock
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  Speaker 1: when your fear cometh, when your fear cometh as desolation,
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  Speaker 1: and your destruction cometh as a whirlwind. When distress and
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  Speaker 1: anguish cometh upon you. Then shall they call upon me,
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  Speaker 1: but I will not answer. They shall seek me early,
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  Speaker 1: but they shall not find me. For that they hated
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  Speaker 1: knowledge and did not choose the fear of the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: They would none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof.
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  Speaker 1: Therefore shall they eat of the fruit of their own
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  Speaker 1: way and be felled with their own devices. For the
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  Speaker 1: turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the
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  Speaker 1: prosperity of fools shall destroy them. But whoso hearkeneth unto me,
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  Speaker 1: unto wisdom, unto God's truth, unto the counsel and reproof
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  Speaker 1: the knocking at the door of the heart, whoever listens,
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  Speaker 1: whoever take heeds, takes heed. Rather, the Bible says, shall
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  Speaker 1: dwell safely and shall be quiet from fear of evil.
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  Speaker 1: I called, I knocked, but you would not. Now you
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  Speaker 1: eat of the fruit of your own way, because you
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  Speaker 1: have listened to your own devices, your own counsel, your
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  Speaker 1: own understanding, your own wisdom, the wisdom of this world,
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  Speaker 1: which is foolishness, the Bible tells us now what we
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  Speaker 1: have read, and what we have heard is the truth.
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  Speaker 1: Men find themselves after again, walking in their own way,
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  Speaker 1: They find themselves at the end, especially when all they
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  Speaker 1: have that they have engaged in, all of their frivolity,
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  Speaker 1: all of their futility, all of their foolishness, all of
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  Speaker 1: their rebellion against God, against his righteousness, against his holiness,
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  Speaker 1: against his commands, when it leads them to the point
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  Speaker 1: of death, when sickness and disease, and when again the
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  Speaker 1: root cause of their rebellion leads them to a death bed,
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  Speaker 1: when they have terminal illnesses, when they no longer have
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  Speaker 1: any hope, then they call upon the Lord. But he says,
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  Speaker 1: I called, I called, I knocked. I stood there. My
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  Speaker 1: wisdom was crying out in the streets, and you spurned it.
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  Speaker 1: You refused it, you rebelled against it. You would have
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  Speaker 1: none of my counsel. You didn't want anything to do
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  Speaker 1: with my reproof. You cast me out of your mind,
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  Speaker 1: you cast me out of your knowledge. But now anguish
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  Speaker 1: has come upon you. You are now eating of the fruit
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  Speaker 1: of your own way, and now you want to call
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  Speaker 1: upon me. No, ladies and gentlemen, today when you hear
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  Speaker 1: his voice. The Bible says, harden not your heart. It
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  Speaker 1: is God's truth, ladies and gentlemen, that will deliver men's
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  Speaker 1: souls from the bondage of corrupting sin that leads to
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  Speaker 1: destruction and leads to death. Long ago it was decreed
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  Speaker 1: that man shall not live by bread alone, but by
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  Speaker 1: every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.
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  Speaker 1: The word of the Lord is right. The word of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord is life. The word of the Lord is
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  Speaker 1: direction and protection for man, to keep him from his
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  Speaker 1: own ways, to keep him from the snares of the enemy,
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  Speaker 1: to keep him from from the certainty of death. Truth,
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  Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, is the cause. It is the cause
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  Speaker 1: for which Jesus came into this world. Please again, do
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  Speaker 1: not miss these words that Jesus spoke to Pilot that
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  Speaker 1: is recorded for us exclusively in this Gospel of John.
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  Speaker 1: And it is for our admonition, and it is for
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  Speaker 1: us to adhere to. Jesus once again said, for this
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  Speaker 1: cause I was born, and for this cause I have
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  Speaker 1: come into the world, that I should bear witness to
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  Speaker 1: the truth. But listen carefully what he closes with everyone
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  Speaker 1: who is of the truth. Here's my voice. Everyone who
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  Speaker 1: is of the truth, here's my voice. Jesus said, you
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  Speaker 1: will know the truth, and the truth will make you free. Now,
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  Speaker 1: he whom the son says free, one of the same.
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  Speaker 1: There's no differentiation between Jesus and the truth, the truth,
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  Speaker 1: the Word of God, the word that was made flesh,
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  Speaker 1: the word that dwelt amongst us, that word Jesus. Truth,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus is what will set you free. Truth is the cause. Father.
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  Speaker 1: We thank you, We thank you for freedom, We thank
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  Speaker 1: you for liberty. We thank you for Jesus coming down
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  Speaker 1: to testify, to bear witness to truth, the truth that
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  Speaker 1: we need, the truth that we so desperately must have
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  Speaker 1: in order to have life and have it more abundantly.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, thank you that you have come
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  Speaker 1: to set the captive free, to open blinded eyes, to
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  Speaker 1: set liberty them that are bruised, to preach the acceptable
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  Speaker 1: year of the Lord. And we know that now is
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  Speaker 1: the time. Now is the season. Now, in these last
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  Speaker 1: of the last days, is the hour of salvation for
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  Speaker 1: many who are still yet lost, living in delusion. Lord,
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  Speaker 1: we pray that you will save and deliver and set
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  Speaker 1: the captive free, open their blinded eyes to the truth
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  Speaker 1: that will set them free. Be thou glorified, be thou magnified.
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  Speaker 1: In Jesus name, we pray and give thanks, Amen and Amen.