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Episode 164 - No King Can Stop This · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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  Speaker 1: I will, I will bless the Lord at all times,
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  Speaker 1: and may his praise continually be in my mouth. We
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  Speaker 1: are again grateful to the Lord for allowing us another day,
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  Speaker 1: another opportunity to a man speak forth his word with
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  Speaker 1: someone else. We endeavor to a man speak for the
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  Speaker 1: word of a living God with truth, and again boldness
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  Speaker 1: and clarity, plainness of speech, Amen.
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  Speaker 2: Without compromise. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Such time as this we need the truth. Jesus said,
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  Speaker 1: it is the truth that sets men free. Thank God
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  Speaker 1: for the truth. It will not change, It will not
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  Speaker 1: a man be done away with, no matter how much
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  Speaker 1: people want to live in denial, live in delusion. The
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  Speaker 1: word of the Lord has been spoken, It has been decreed.
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  Speaker 1: He that is God and his Word are inseparable. And
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  Speaker 1: it shall not his word return to him void.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. So we must.
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  Speaker 1: Live by the word of God, and not by our
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  Speaker 1: own a man desires or decisions necessarily, but by the
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  Speaker 1: word of the Living God. All right, Today we continue
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  Speaker 1: our series on God, government, church, and state. And we
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  Speaker 1: are a man going to be today. In the Book
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  Speaker 1: of the Acts of the Apostles, chapter number twelve, if
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  Speaker 1: you have your Bibles, you can go. No king, no
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  Speaker 1: king can stop this, No king can stop this. What
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  Speaker 1: God has decreed, what God is purpose, what God has predetermined,
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  Speaker 1: what God has predestined.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. And he has, by the way.
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  Speaker 1: Predestined, He has predetermined that He will have a people
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  Speaker 1: called by his name, a people who will obey him,
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  Speaker 1: a people who will say, Yes, God has determined that
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  Speaker 1: from all eternity, and therein we are Amen.
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  Speaker 2: As it is this.
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  Speaker 1: Day the Church of the Living God called out Amen
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  Speaker 1: for that purpose. Amen, to bring glory and honor to him.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And also certainly the mission that we have been given
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  Speaker 1: is to go into all the world and preach the
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  Speaker 1: Gospel to every creature. And we continue to this day
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  Speaker 1: preaching the Word. As Apostle Paul gave the admonition to
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  Speaker 1: his son in the Gospel Timothy, be instant in season
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  Speaker 1: out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort with all long suffering
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  Speaker 1: and doctrine, for the time would come when men will
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  Speaker 1: not want to hear sound doctrine they don't want the truth. Nevertheless,
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  Speaker 1: the truth is what we must always be faithful to
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  Speaker 1: adhere to and proclaim. No king can stop it, No
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  Speaker 1: king can stop it. The haters of Jesus and the
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  Speaker 1: haters of his Church, Amen, are persistent. They are, of course,
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  Speaker 1: as long as they are in rebellion against God and
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  Speaker 1: disobedient to the Word of God and.
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  Speaker 2: Refusing to repent. They are.
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  Speaker 1: Indeed persistent in their hatred against the Church. They continue
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  Speaker 1: to flail away even after they are defeated. And of course,
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  Speaker 1: as we've already seen in our venture through the Book
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  Speaker 1: of the Acts, for example, they sought to intimidate Peter
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  Speaker 1: and John.
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  Speaker 2: That's again, this is the amal of what the devil does.
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  Speaker 1: First of all, he has a pattern. He will seek
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  Speaker 1: to bring fear, chiefly by intimidation. And so it was
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  Speaker 1: with Peter and John and the apostles in the early
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  Speaker 1: going of the church. They then put them in jail
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  Speaker 1: amen for preaching.
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  Speaker 2: Jesus the name of Jesus. They issued decrease.
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  Speaker 1: This is the government that it's the government at work,
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  Speaker 1: the rulers of the Jews. They issued decrease to prohibit
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  Speaker 1: their speech. Don't preach anymore. Don't teach anymore in the
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  Speaker 1: name of Jesus, we issued did we not?
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  Speaker 2: This is what they said.
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  Speaker 1: Did we not straightly command you, did we not straightly
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  Speaker 1: tell you? We issued a decree to you that you
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  Speaker 1: are not the preacher teach anymore in the name of Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: And of course you know the response of and the
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  Speaker 1: apostles to say, we ought to obey God rather than man.
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  Speaker 1: And so after issuing their decrees, of course, they physically
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  Speaker 1: laid hands on the apostles, as it were, by beating them,
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  Speaker 1: and because again they refused to obey the decrees of man,
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  Speaker 1: the laws of man, which were in violation of the
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  Speaker 1: higher law of God, of course, and the command that
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  Speaker 1: God had given them, Jesus had given them, go and preach, Man,
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  Speaker 1: go and preach. And by the way, you remember, when
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  Speaker 1: they were delivered out of the prison, the angel came
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  Speaker 1: and said, go stand in the temple and speak to
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  Speaker 1: the people all the words of this life. Go do
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  Speaker 1: what the Lord has commissioned you, has commanded you to do.
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  Speaker 1: We are to obey God rather than man. No king
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  Speaker 1: can stop this. And so of course the counsel, the Jews,
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  Speaker 1: the leaders them of the people. They summarily then ignored
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  Speaker 1: the counsel of Gamaliel, who had come to them and said, hey, listen,
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  Speaker 1: if this work is of man, it'll come to nothing.
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  Speaker 1: But if it is of God, you're going to be
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  Speaker 1: fighting against God and you will not prevail. And so
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  Speaker 1: they of course again ignored all of that and summarily
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  Speaker 1: went back to their own ways. And they all consented
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  Speaker 1: to the stoning brother of Stephen when he was murdered
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  Speaker 1: by them, And shortly afterwards, of course, they deputized, and
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  Speaker 1: we talked about this, a man by the name of Saul,
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  Speaker 1: who became the chief enemy of the Church, going about
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  Speaker 1: a man putting people in prison and making people, seeking
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  Speaker 1: to make people recant. And they wouldn't stop at that.
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  Speaker 1: They would murder a man if necessary.
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  Speaker 2: And so.
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  Speaker 1: Paul was deputized by them to do their dirty work.
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  Speaker 1: And of course the Lord arrested him, and that foiled
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  Speaker 1: their plan. So they were defeated again when Saul was
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  Speaker 1: arrested by Jesus and converted and began preaching Jesus. And
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  Speaker 1: so after again that plan failed, they are now looking
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  Speaker 1: to Herod. They are now looking to King Herod to
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  Speaker 1: assist in their diabolical efforts to destroy the Church of
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  Speaker 1: the Living God. But may we never forget, no king
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  Speaker 1: can stop this. I don't care who they are. And
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  Speaker 1: it's been tried over and over again throughout world history,
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  Speaker 1: church history. A man, kings, rulers, a man have attempted
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  Speaker 1: to stomp out, stamp out, you know, put out, put
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  Speaker 1: the pasture as it were, the Church of.
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  Speaker 2: The Living God. It won't work.
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  Speaker 1: It won't work, Act Chapter twelve, verse number one. Now
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  Speaker 1: about that time, this is all during the time, an
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  Speaker 1: immediate aftermath of the stoning the murder of Stephen. The
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  Speaker 1: Bible tells us about that time, Herod the King stretch
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  Speaker 1: forth his hands to vex certain of the church. I
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  Speaker 1: just question why, why, why, Arad? Why? I believe I
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  Speaker 1: know the answer to that. It's all about trying to
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  Speaker 1: please the people. It's the only indication we have in
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  Speaker 1: the text here. He's an alliance, in allegiance with the Jews,
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  Speaker 1: the leaders of the Jews, and so they are now
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  Speaker 1: looking to Herod to help them. We got to stop
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  Speaker 1: these people. We gotta stop this movement. We gotta stop
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  Speaker 1: this way. We got to stop.
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  Speaker 2: These street preachers. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So the Bible says verse number two was successful. I'm
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  Speaker 1: it's my words. The Bible says he killed James, the
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  Speaker 1: brother of John, with the sword.
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  Speaker 2: Why why murder?
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  Speaker 1: Why? Again? That's ultimately, this is ultimately what the devil
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  Speaker 1: always goes to. Never forget it. If they can't shut you,
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  Speaker 1: if they can't intimidate you, if they can't shut you up,
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  Speaker 1: if they can't lock you up, and even when they
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  Speaker 1: lock you up. For example, the apostle Paul, when he
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  Speaker 1: was locked up, what did he do? Wrote prison epistols
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  Speaker 1: while he was in jail. I mean, I mean, you
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  Speaker 1: can't stop. You can't stop this. This cannot be stopped.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus said it upon this rock, I'm biting my church
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  Speaker 1: and the gates of hell. When I prevail, you can't
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  Speaker 1: stop it. But they persist because they are delusional, because
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  Speaker 1: they are in denial. Amen, they are deceived. And so
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  Speaker 1: Herod is now there playing their savior to stop the church.
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  Speaker 1: He seeks for the leadership of the church. He successfully
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  Speaker 1: kills James. The Bible says, the brother of John with
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  Speaker 1: the sword, and because he saw it pleased the Jews
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  Speaker 1: verse three, he proceeded further to take Peter. Also, let
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  Speaker 1: me tell you something. When these devils, when these demons,
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  Speaker 1: and they're alive and well today, they get a little
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  Speaker 1: feather in their cap. They think they making progress. They're
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  Speaker 1: not going to relent. They're not gonna let up. They're
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  Speaker 1: never gonna be satis until the Church of Jesus Christ
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  Speaker 1: is dead. And I just told you it ain't gonna happen.
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  Speaker 1: It's not gonna work. But then they're not gonna stop.
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  Speaker 1: They're not gonna stop, They're gonna keep going. And so
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  Speaker 1: when he saw that it pleased the Jews, and make
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  Speaker 1: no mistake about it, this has to be. This is
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  Speaker 1: the leadership, because the people are rallying around the church
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  Speaker 1: is exploding.
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  Speaker 2: The people these are the Jews primarily.
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  Speaker 1: The early Church is comprised almost exclusively of the Jews
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  Speaker 1: at this point, in chapter ten, if you go back
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  Speaker 1: a little bit, of course, Peter has gone reluctantly and
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  Speaker 1: preached to Cornelius, and so the Gentiles being brought into
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  Speaker 1: the church. Chapter nine Samaria and fill up the Ethiopian
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  Speaker 1: he met with him. And so the Gentiles are being
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  Speaker 1: slowly grafted into the church as well. But however, at
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  Speaker 1: this point, especially in particularly in and around Jerusalem, it
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  Speaker 1: is almost exclusively the Jews. And so the Jewish leaders
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  Speaker 1: the leadership, and man the Old God, if you will,
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  Speaker 1: and man the government, those who are in charge. No, no, no, no, no, sir,
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  Speaker 1: they don't like this. They don't like this at all.
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  Speaker 1: And so they're going to, by any means necessary, seek
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  Speaker 1: to stomp out, damp out, put out this. A man uprising,
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  Speaker 1: this way, a man Jesus preaching, and so forth and
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  Speaker 1: so on, and so by pleasing the leadership, Herod then
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  Speaker 1: proceeds further, the Bible says, to take Peter also. And
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  Speaker 1: again this is just Ponteus pilot kind of people pleasing
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  Speaker 1: and appeasing. This is exactly what Pontius Pilot had to
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  Speaker 1: do in his mind, as it were, in order to
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  Speaker 1: appease the crowd, the leaders who had stirred up all
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  Speaker 1: the people against Jesus and said, give us Barabbus. And
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  Speaker 1: this is the same kind of appeasement here, this right
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  Speaker 1: in your Bible, he says. Because he saw it pleased
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  Speaker 1: the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also, And
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  Speaker 1: when he had apprehended him verse number four, he put
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  Speaker 1: him in prison and delivered him to four quaternions of
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  Speaker 1: soldiers to keep him, intending after Easter to bring him
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  Speaker 1: forth to the people. Kill the leader, kill the movement.
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  Speaker 1: Didn't wait a minute?
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  Speaker 2: Didn't they try it?
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  Speaker 1: This already? Didn't they wasn't this trial, wasn't this attempted already?
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  Speaker 1: And again they again, as I said, they summarily ignored
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  Speaker 1: the advice of Gamala, who told them, listen, fellas, if
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  Speaker 1: this work is of men, it's gonna come to nothing.
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  Speaker 1: Leave them alone, it'll die out. It won't work if
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  Speaker 1: it's man. If it's religion, if it's contrived of men
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  Speaker 1: made of man, it won't work.
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  Speaker 2: But if it is of God, or you're gonna be
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  Speaker 2: fighting against God and you won't win.
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  Speaker 1: But never less, the old wise man, they said, I
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  Speaker 1: we're not gonna the devil is not gonna stop. He's
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  Speaker 1: not going to stop. And that's okay because we win. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: The church wins because Jesus has won for us victory,
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  Speaker 1: and He's made us more than conquerors through Him that loved.
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  Speaker 1: All we need to do is cleave to God and
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  Speaker 1: resist the devil. Stand on the word of God, stand
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  Speaker 1: on his promises.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And God will come through for his people at all times,
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  Speaker 1: even in them and all of the mayhem, if you will.
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  Speaker 1: When murder happens, when martyrdom happens in the church, guess
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  Speaker 1: what we still win? Paul says, whether dead or alive,
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  Speaker 1: either way, and I prefer rother. He said, to be
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  Speaker 1: absent from the body and to be present with the Lord.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So none of these Amen, rulers of the church. Leaders
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  Speaker 1: in the church were afraid of death.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: They weren't afraid to die. And so James, shortly after
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  Speaker 1: the murder of Steven is killed by a Herod, a man,
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  Speaker 1: and now he takes Peter with the intent of killing
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  Speaker 1: the movement. So if I kill the leader, I'll kill
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  Speaker 1: the movement. And again they've tried it before. Of course
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  Speaker 1: that didn't work. They killed the number one leader. Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: how did that work out for him?
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  Speaker 2: Peter?
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  Speaker 1: Therefore verse five was kept in prison, But prayer, the
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  Speaker 1: Bible says, was made without ceasing of the church unto
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  Speaker 1: God for him. And when Herod would have brought him
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  Speaker 1: forth the same night, Peter was sleeping between two soldiers
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  Speaker 1: bound with two chains, and the keepers before the door
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  Speaker 1: kept the prison. So you had two soldiers in change
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  Speaker 1: with Peter, all of them are sleeping, and you had
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  Speaker 1: guards on the outside of the prison door guarding Peter
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  Speaker 1: as well. But look what happens. Oh, I love this,
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  Speaker 1: I love it. I love it, I love it Verse
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  Speaker 1: number seven. And behold the Angel of the Lord came
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  Speaker 1: upon him, and a light shined in the prison, and
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  Speaker 1: he smoked Peter on the side and raised him up, saying,
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  Speaker 1: rise up quickly, and his chains, his chains fell off
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  Speaker 1: of him. The Bible says, Remember Peter was chained along
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  Speaker 1: with these soldiers or with these soldiers, but they're chains
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  Speaker 1: and fall off. Peter's chains fell off from his hands,
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  Speaker 1: the Bible tells us, Amen and so, and by the way,
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  Speaker 1: very quickly.
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  Speaker 2: I love this.
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  Speaker 1: I've commented on this every time I've read this passage
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  Speaker 1: and spoken about this. I mean, miraculous deliverance of God
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  Speaker 1: dispatching an angel from heaven. You find it kind of
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  Speaker 1: curious that Peter was fast asleep, so sleep the night
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  Speaker 1: before he's to be murdered, the night before he's to
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  Speaker 1: be executed. Peter is sleeping like a baby, so fast
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  Speaker 1: asleep that the angel has to smite him to wake
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  Speaker 1: him up. That's resting in the Lord. That's that's confidence
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  Speaker 1: in God. That's that's I mean, like Daniel in the lions.
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  Speaker 1: Then Amen, like shotrack me checking the bnnygolds, standing before
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  Speaker 1: the fiery furnace, that's confidence in God. Now Peter doesn't know,
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  Speaker 1: he's just already know. So he knows this that his companion,
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  Speaker 1: his running mate, one of his running mates, James, has
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  Speaker 1: already been killed. And so he's an expectation, Oh well, oh,
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  Speaker 1: if I perish, I perish, you gotta be like as
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  Speaker 1: to have that same spirit. If I perish. I perish. Nevertheless,
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  Speaker 1: I'm still gonna stand on the word of God. And
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  Speaker 1: so Amen. Peter, Uh, the Bible says, is sleeping, gaunt
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  Speaker 1: dispatches an angel from heaven, and angel comes in, and
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  Speaker 1: light shines in. And by the way where the President
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord is, there is light. I mean, even
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  Speaker 1: in the darkness there is light. And so Peter has
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  Speaker 1: to be awakened out of his sound sleep the night
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  Speaker 1: before he's to be executed. And the Angel said to
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  Speaker 1: him verse eight, gird thyself, bind on thy sandals. And
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  Speaker 1: so he did, and he said them to him, cast
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  Speaker 1: thy garment about thee, and follow me. He went out,
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  Speaker 1: followed him, and wished not that it was true, which
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  Speaker 1: was done by the angel. But he thought he saw
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  Speaker 1: a vision. Now Peter is the same guy who saw
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  Speaker 1: the vision that God gave him in Acts chapter ten
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  Speaker 1: about you know, Riys Peter killing the head of all
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  Speaker 1: these different so called unclean animals of the Old Testament,
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  Speaker 1: Old Covenant. And so Peter thinking, in this particular case,
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  Speaker 1: he's seeing another vision. I'm dreaming. I'm dreaming the Angel
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  Speaker 1: is taking me on the glory.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: But no, that was not the case. The Bible says,
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  Speaker 1: when they were passed the first and second ward, they
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  Speaker 1: came into an iron gate that leadeth into or rather
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  Speaker 1: unto the city, And the gate, the Bible says, open
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  Speaker 1: to them of its own accord. And they went out
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  Speaker 1: and passed through one street and forthwith the Angel departed
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  Speaker 1: from him. And when Peter was come to himself, the
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  Speaker 1: Bible says, he said, wait a minute, Oh, wait a minute,
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  Speaker 1: I'm not dreaming. He said, now I know of a
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  Speaker 1: surety that the Lord hath sent his angel, and hath
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  Speaker 1: delivered me out of the hand of Erd, and from
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  Speaker 1: all the expectation of the people of the Jews. In
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  Speaker 1: other words, I am I mean, he's talking about the leadership.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's the it's the government. Is Herod represents the
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  Speaker 1: government of the Gentiles. The Jewish leaders represent the government
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  Speaker 1: of the Jews, a man of Israel. And they are
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  Speaker 1: the ones who are conspiring, who were turning, attempting to
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  Speaker 1: turn the people against a man the Church. But again
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  Speaker 1: no king can stop this. And listit all, elicit enlist,
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  Speaker 1: elicit all the help that you want to think you
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  Speaker 1: can get from whatever legislature, whatever president, prime minister, governor,
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  Speaker 1: mayor city Council. All you want, you will not prevail
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  Speaker 1: against the Church of the Living Why it's just so
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  Speaker 1: hard for people to believe. It's because they are deceived.
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  Speaker 1: They're in delusion. And we got right now in America.
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  Speaker 1: Even though we again enjoy relative freedom and ability to
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  Speaker 1: worship and all of this and so forth, so called freedom. Man,
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  Speaker 1: there are people, There are forces. They are demons. These
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  Speaker 1: same demons are alive and well and attempting to stop
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  Speaker 1: the Church. But no king can stop this. No shackles
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  Speaker 1: can be put upon the saints of the Living God,
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  Speaker 1: the Church of the Living God.
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  Speaker 2: No bars.
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  Speaker 1: You can put us in change, you can put us
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  Speaker 1: behind bars. As I mentioned beforehand. Amen, Peter, I mean Paul, brother,
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  Speaker 1: the apostle was put in prison, and what did he do?
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  Speaker 1: God gives him epistles and letters to write that we
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  Speaker 1: still have to this day. No bars, no change, no shackles, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: can hold back the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: The Lord said, my word is gone for from my mouth,
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  Speaker 1: and it shall not return to me void. It will
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  Speaker 1: accomplish what I please. It's going to prosper where I
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  Speaker 1: send it. Although comparably, speaking of course, again, we enjoy
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  Speaker 1: less threatening season, as you will, of persecution, particularly here
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  Speaker 1: in America. We must forever be vigilant and prayerful for
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  Speaker 1: our fellow Amen, soldiers in the Body of Christ, who
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  Speaker 1: are suffering in the same way that most of these
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  Speaker 1: in the first century Church suffered, in which we read about,
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  Speaker 1: of course, in the book of the accent Beyond. And
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  Speaker 1: we are to take comfort a man, I would say
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  Speaker 1: in the Word of God, of course, believe certainly that
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  Speaker 1: what Jesus has spoken concerning his church will certainly prevail.
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  Speaker 1: I believe that, I believe that it has already over
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  Speaker 1: two thousand years. And we are to pray to that end.
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  Speaker 1: Pray that the word of the Lord will have free course.
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  Speaker 1: Pray for the people of God, Pray one for another,
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  Speaker 1: Pray for those who are lost.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: The Lord watches over his church. Amen, and he keeps
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  Speaker 1: his promises. And if God chooses to intervene directly by
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  Speaker 1: dispatching an angel from heaven or simply by the word
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  Speaker 1: of his mouth, Amen, God can and God will deliver
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  Speaker 1: if he so chooses. All power is in his hand.
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  Speaker 1: He is the almighty, sovereign, King of Kings and Lord
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  Speaker 1: of Lord. King Herod of course had to learn this
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  Speaker 1: the hard way. Now here's the rest of the story.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, verse eighteen of Acts, chapter twelve. As
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  Speaker 1: soon as it was day, there was no small stir.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible says, among the soldiers, what was becoming Peter.
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  Speaker 1: Can you imagine that they're looking around there, they're searching,
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  Speaker 1: they're digging, they're going, wait a minute, hold on, what
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  Speaker 1: whoa we wake up?
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  Speaker 2: And oh my God.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, they were not I should not
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  Speaker 1: have been sleeping, by the way, and may not even
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  Speaker 1: have been sleeping. Those guards could have been wide awake
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  Speaker 1: and invisibly. Peter and the angel just walk right by them.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: God is a god of all power, all authority. And
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  Speaker 1: as soon as it was day, the Bible says, they
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  Speaker 1: don't know what has happened with Peter. And the Bible says,
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  Speaker 1: when Herod had sought for him, of course they sent
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  Speaker 1: out a search posse i soume, and they didn't find him.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible says, he examined the keepers. In other words,
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  Speaker 1: these are the guards who were on duty, sixteen of them.
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  Speaker 1: I believe it is four quaternions. I believe it's sixteen
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  Speaker 1: guards who had the responsibility of guarding Peter, the Bible says,
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  Speaker 1: when he had examined them, he commanded that they should
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  Speaker 1: be put to death, and he went down from Judea
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  Speaker 1: to Caesarea and their abode, and Herod, the Bible says,
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  Speaker 1: was highly displeased with them of tire and Sidon, and
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  Speaker 1: they rather came with one accurt to him. And having
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  Speaker 1: made Blastes, the king's chamberlain, their friend, they desired peace,
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  Speaker 1: and because their country was nourished by the king's country,
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  Speaker 1: and so they wanted to be on good terms with Herod.
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  Speaker 1: And the Bible tells us verse to anyone, watch this
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  Speaker 1: upon a set day, Herod, this is the king. Herod,
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  Speaker 1: arrayed in royal apparel, sat upon his throne, and he
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  Speaker 1: made an oration to the people, and the people gave
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  Speaker 1: a shout, saying, it is the voice of a God
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  Speaker 1: and not of a man. And immediately, the Bible says,
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  Speaker 1: the Angel of the Lord smote him because he gave
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  Speaker 1: not God the glory, and he was eaten of worms
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  Speaker 1: and gave up the ghosts.
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  Speaker 2: Herod was.
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  Speaker 1: Sadly because of his vanity and pride, because of his
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  Speaker 1: rebellion against God, because of his persecution against the Church,
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  Speaker 1: because he was a willing vessel of the Jews, of
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  Speaker 1: the devil of Satan, of the kingdom, of the darkness
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  Speaker 1: of this world because he and he knew, they all knew,
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  Speaker 1: they knew better, He knew better. And nevertheless, because of
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  Speaker 1: his pride and arrogance. See God didn't even immediately killed him,
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  Speaker 1: kill him after he killed James. See God would allow,
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  Speaker 1: He permits these devils to you know, even sometimes take
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  Speaker 1: the lives of his saints, it's people. But again after
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  Speaker 1: from the body, we are present with the Lord, and
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  Speaker 1: we know about the persecution of the early Church that
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  Speaker 1: went on for centuries and still goes on again to
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  Speaker 1: this day. It's still very prevalent. Again, although we in
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  Speaker 1: America enjoy a very, very aught to be thankful for
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  Speaker 1: level of free him unlike any other ever in the
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  Speaker 1: history of the world. For the most part, still it's
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  Speaker 1: still is very prevalent in our world that saints of
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  Speaker 1: the Most High God allows them to be executed, murdered,
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  Speaker 1: martyred for the name of Christ, Amen and so Herod.
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  Speaker 1: In this particular case, being an enemy of the Church,
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  Speaker 1: God judiciously decides to.
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  Speaker 2: Take him out.
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  Speaker 1: And he can do that, I mean, if he chooses
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  Speaker 1: and he certainly chose to do that in this case.
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  Speaker 1: But again, he didn't immediately do it. When he had
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  Speaker 1: killed James, he didn't. He didn't do it when he
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  Speaker 1: arrested Peter, he didn't do it immediately. But Herod's time
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  Speaker 1: came a man when his sins reached the fullness of
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  Speaker 1: herod cup. And that's what happens when you know a person,
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  Speaker 1: of people, a nation, when they're sins the cup is full.
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  Speaker 2: God brings judgment. And so it was with Herod.
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  Speaker 1: He was judged at any time by the way, for
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  Speaker 1: any sins all of us, any of us, are worthy
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  Speaker 1: of death a man, the wages of sin is death.
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  Speaker 1: But the gift for God is he hearingal life. But
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  Speaker 1: Herod being lifted up in pride, seeing himself, viewing himself,
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  Speaker 1: receiving the praises of men as if he is God,
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  Speaker 1: as if he is a God and not a mere
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  Speaker 1: mortal man. God ended his days. But look at this
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  Speaker 1: verse number twenty four. What happened after the death of Herod.
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  Speaker 1: The word of God grew and multiplied. You can't stop this, Herod.
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  Speaker 1: You can't stop this government of the Jews, government of
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  Speaker 1: the Gentiles, Kings, governors, mayors, city councilmen, whoever you think
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  Speaker 1: you are, you can't stop this. No king has ever
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  Speaker 1: been able to do it. Earthly king can't stop it.
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  Speaker 1: So it was then, so it is now. So shall
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  Speaker 1: it forever be. Heaven and earth will pass away, Jesus said,
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  Speaker 1: But my word, it will not, it will not. It
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  Speaker 1: will always prevail.
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  Speaker 2: God.
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  Speaker 1: We thank you for your word.
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  Speaker 2: We thank you for.
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  Speaker 1: The Kingdom of Heaven, the Kingdom of Light, the Kingdom
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  Speaker 1: of Hope, the Kingdom of Joy, the Kingdom of peace,
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  Speaker 1: the kingdom of which you've made us Partakers, Lord, open eyes, ears, hearts. Lord,
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  Speaker 1: let the rebel come to know that you are the
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  Speaker 1: true in the Living God. Be glorified, and all we
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  Speaker 1: say and do in Jesus name, Amen and amens.