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The Heathen Are Raging · Urantia Radio

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  Welcome to the Urantia Radio Podcast.
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  My name is Jim Watkins and the name of this podcast is called
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  Why Do the Heathen Rage? So we're going to get into Jesus
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  went through during a very tumultuous period in his life
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  with his apostles and what we're going through.
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  And they're very similar, more similar than you think.
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  And it explains a lot of the behavior that's going on in the
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  world today. Now, I also like to take a few
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  moments in the introduction to tell you if there's some
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  Now coming up Saturday, March 9th, Marvin Garin is going to be
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  on the Spotlight series at the Urancha Book International
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  School. It's March 9th and it is 11:00
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  AM Central time and it will be hosted by Marvin Garin and he is
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  focusing on coming home to spiritual family.
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  Go to theurancha.org website and you'll find everything you need
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  about this upcoming Spotlight series in a second.
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  Why do the heathen rage? Good question, isn't it?
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  Let's find out what Jesus had to say about it.
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  Well, it's really nice to have you back here for another
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  edition of the The Ranch Radio podcast.
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  And today we're going to talk about something that I've
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  thought about often and and there's a reason that I called
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  this episode, the the heathen are raging.
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  And the reason that the heathen are raging are plenty, no
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  question about that. But I think, I think it is often
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  when I see the amount of confusion that's going on in the
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  world and there's no doubt a lot of people are anxious, very
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  anxious. Even my son was commenting about
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  how everywhere he goes, people are just really caught up in all
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  that's going on. And I can certainly detect that
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  when I have people on the program.
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  And if you've noticed in the last couple of episodes,
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  everybody is really concerned about what's happening.
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  There's there's no question. I know in my mind and in your
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  mind that the earth is going through a transition.
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  And the way that I explained it to my son was that, you know, up
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  until most recently, things in life took a long time to change.
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  It wasn't really until, say, the discovery of certain principles
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  like, you know, steam power and electricity that things started
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  to accelerate. Just like right after the Guten,
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  the Gutenberg press and people started being able to read,
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  things started to develop. Well, now the ship is out of the
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  harbor and the Urantia Book among you know, I'm not not only
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  the Urantia book, but every anything right now will tell you
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  that the thing, the rate at which there is change is very
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  unsettling. And they talk about this in
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  paper 195 of the Urantia book where they talk about the future
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  and it's natural to feel anxious.
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  So let's all take a a breath and understand that yes, we are a
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  part of a particular inflection point in history, but not as all
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  lost. You know, we will get through
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  this. We've gotten through a lot
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  worse. I'm sure that it was a lot
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  harder to live as a Sangick as it is to live as a as an
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  American, you know. But nevertheless, there are
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  forces at work that are creating a lot of the tension in the
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  world, and most of it has to do with power and people who are
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  arrogant and they just want to be in control.
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  Other people want to be left alone, but they're also
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  underlying forces. And I do believe that we are in
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  an ideological struggle. I absolutely believe that.
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  And it is between materialism and faith.
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  And and when is it has have hasn't been that.
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  And you know, Jesus addresses this.
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  And I I really wanted to give homage to this particular
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  subject because there's a lot you can say about the heathen.
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  And I'm going to read a little bit from paper 155 about fleeing
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  through North Northern Galilee and what was going on at the
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  time. And I started reading the before
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  paper 155. I went to paper 153 because the
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  1:55 is a result of what was happening in one.
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  In paper 153 and 153 talks about the time.
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  Do you remember the story of when Jesus fed the 5000 people?
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  Remember when he miraculously handed out these baskets and had
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  unlimited fish And there was a whole lot of stuff going on at
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  that time. The the rise, it was the 3rd or
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  the end of the third preaching tour and Jesus started to become
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  popular and and crowds were going out to watch him.
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  He's just like when crowds go out to watch Taylor Swift,
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  right? You know what, back in those
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  days, you know, a man, a preacher, a man who spoke truth,
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  the man who would speak before, you know, hundreds or dozens of
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  people and they would all fall in love with this guy.
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  He was just an attractive man in in the greatest sense.
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  And why not? He was the son of God.
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  I mean, he was sent here to do what he's doing.
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  And he's out there preaching and teaching and he's got his 12
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  apostles and he's got an evangelical corps and and he is
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  really becoming something in this time.
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  But it created a crisis in a way.
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  And there were events that happened as a consequence to the
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  feeding of the 5000. So if you remember a few days
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  before what I'm about to discuss about the heathen, Jesus had
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  just fed the 5000 and he did through a a a real miracle.
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  He was somehow, through the power of being a creator's son,
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  he was able to accelerate time in taking the bread and the fish
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  and somehow circumventing time to produce what was inherently
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  possible in his bread and in the fish.
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  Now, how he did that, you can read about in the Orancha book.
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  But Needless to say, it was this act that started to concern the
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  religious leaders of the day. And so I want to read a little
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  bit from that particular paper. 153 says Jesus endeavored to
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  prepare the apostles for the impending shock, the crisis in
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  the public attitude toward him, which was only a few days
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  distant. And he explained to the 12 that
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  the religious rulers of Jerusalem would conspire with
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  Herod Antipas to affect their destruction.
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  The 12 began to realize more fully, though not finally, that
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  Jesus was not going to sit on David's throne.
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  This is was not going to be an endeavor where this rising
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  popular figure was going to take over and fulfill the prophecy
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  right. And the the apostles started to
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  realize there was some angst. Because you know, usually when
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  you people are fickle, you know it's not an accident that the
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  very people that were clamoring and celebrating the master and
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  the feeding 5000 and they wanted to make him a king.
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  Many were in the same audience where they were crying free.
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  Barabbas people are fickle human beings.
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  That's a characteristic that human beings have.
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  And the apostles of Jesus were fully coming to the awareness of
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  the spiritual truth was not going to be advanced by material
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  wonders. Feeding 5000 people wasn't going
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  to change much. It might appease some people,
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  but they began to realize that the feeding of the 5000 and the
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  popular movement to make Jesus King was the apex of the miracle
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  seeking, wonder, working expectants of the people, and
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  the height of Jesus's acclaim by the populace.
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  From here on it heads downward and they start to work against
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  him. And these apostles only vaguely
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  discerned and dimly foresaw the approaching times of spiritual
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  sifting and cruel adversity. And so I want to interject
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  Psalms 2. This is where we get the quote.
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  Why do the heathen rage? And it and it says from from the
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  Bible, why did the heathen rage And the people imagine a vain
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  thing. The kings of the earth set
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  themselves, and the rulers take counsel together and against the
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  Lord and against His anointed, saying, let us break their bands
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  asunder and castaway their cords from us He that sitteth in the
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  heavens shall laugh. The Lord shall have them in
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  derision. And so now we move on to paper.
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  I want you to remember that quote because Jesus uses that
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  quote to illustrate his point of what is about to happen.
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  And it's and it's very relative to what's happening today in
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  society, The rejection of faith, the rejection of religion, the
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  rejection of of anything that doesn't have to do with
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  materialism really, but it at its essence, at its core, it's
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  the same thing today that the apostles and Jesus were going
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  through then as they were going about spreading truth.
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  They were a threat to the norm. They were a threat to the
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  religious authority. They were a threat to the Roman
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  authority. So it reads from Paper 155.
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  Before retiring for the night, the Master called his followers
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  around him and discussed with them the plans for their
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  projected tour through Botania and northern Galilee to the
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  Phoenician coast. Why do the heathen rage?
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  And Jesus said, You should all recall how the psalmist spoke of
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  these times, saying, Why do the heathen rage and the people plot
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  in vain? The kings of the earth set
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  themselves and the rulers of the people take counsel together
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  against the Lord and against His anointed, saying, let us break
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  the bonds of mercy asunder and let us castaway the cords of
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  love. Do you see that that's happening
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  today? Materialism, some sort of
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  exalted humanism and it breaks the bound.
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  People don't believe in faith anymore, do they?
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  They don't. You know, in many, many ways
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  it's almost as as as it has nothing to do with anything.
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  And the the kings of the earth set themselves and the rulers of
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  the people get together and they push out faith and anything to
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  do with God. You heard it the other day when
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  they were talking about that people that were believe that
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  their rights and their free will came from God were, you know,
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  being considered as problematic. Jesus goes on to say today you
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  see fulfilled before your eyes, but you shall not see the
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  remainder of the Psalmist prophecy fulfilled, for he
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  entertained erroneous ideas about the Son of Man and his
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  mission on earth. My Kingdom is founded on love,
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  proclaimed in mercy and established by unselfish
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  service. My Father does not sit in heaven
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  laughing in derision at the heathen.
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  He is not wrathful in his great displeasure.
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  True is the promise that the Son shall have so-called heathen in
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  reality his ignorant and untaught brethren for an
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  inheritance. So Christ is identifying there
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  that you know I have to deal with these people too, that
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  reject me. They're part of my family,
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  they're my children. And he goes on to say, I will
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  receive these Gentiles with an open arm of mercy and affection,
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  regardless of how silly they are.
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  Really. All this loving kindness shall
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  be shown the so-called heathen, notwithstanding the unfortunate
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  declaration of the record, which intimates that the triumphant
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  Son quote, shall break them with a rod of iron and dash them to
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  pieces like a Potter's vessel. End Quote.
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  Jesus says the psalmist exhorted you to serve the Lord with fear.
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  I bid you to enter into the exalted privilege of divine
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  sonship. By faith he commands you to
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  rejoice. With trembling I bid you
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  rejoice. With assurance.
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  He says, kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and you perish with
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  His wrath. His when His wrath is kindled.
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  And I emphasize this point because it's such a great point,
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  But you have lived with me, and you know that anger and wrath
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  are not a part of the establishment of the Kingdom of
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  heaven and the hearts of men. But he says the psalmist did
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  glimpse the true light when in finishing his exhortation, he
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  said blessed are they who put their trust in the sun.
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  And I'll be honest with you that for a while.
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  And I go through periods where I'm really disconcerted about
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  the way of the world. But I'm always rejoicing and I
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  always get refreshed when I think about that.
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  This man was real and he knows about this and he is the creator
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  son. And I put full confidence in
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  what he says. And this is where it gets really
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  important, because this is where Jesus actually takes on the
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  heathen, whether it's in his age or in our age.
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  And I want you to think about the heathen as a particular
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  group of people and what they have planned for us in the new
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  world Order for whatever you want to call it.
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  He says Jesus continued to teach the 24 his apostles and the
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  evangel quote. The heathen are not without
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  excuse. When they rage at us because
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  their outlook is small and narrow, they're able to
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  concentrate their energies enthusiastically.
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  Think about what he's saying, that they and their mission,
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  whatever their mission is, is small and narrow, finite.
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  So they can put all their energy, all their resources, all
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  their lobbying, all of their pressure, they can put it all
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  into what they want, he says. Their goal is near and more or
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  less visible. Where for do they strive with
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  valiant and effective execution? You who have professed entrance
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  into the Kingdom of heaven are altogether too facilitating and
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  indefinite in your teaching conduct.
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  And I know this is true for me. I'm, I'm, I'm always, hey, let
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  them go on their merry way. They're not going to get
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  anything from. I'm not going to spare any truth
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  on them. It's going to be like, what's
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  that expression? You know, this pearls before
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  swine? It's sort of a spiritual
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  arrogance, right? I'm not even interested in
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  saving them. Why would I want to engage in
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  somebody who's already told me they don't believe in God?
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  Why would I want to waste my time?
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  Jesus says he goes the heathen strike directly for their
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  objectives. You are guilty of too much
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  chronic yearning. If you desire to enter the
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  Kingdom, why do you not take it by spiritual assault?
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  Even as the heathen takes a city they lay sage to, they lay siege
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  to. You are hardly worthy of the
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  Kingdom when your service consists so largely in an
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  attitude of regretting the past, whining over the present, and
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  vainly hoping for the future. Why do the heathen rage?
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  Because they know not the truth. Why do you languish in feudal
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  yearning? Because you do not obey the
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  truth. Cease your useless yearning and
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  go forth bravely doing that which concerns the establishment
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  of of the Kingdom. And those are the words of
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  Jesus. Quote in all that you do.
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  Become not one sided and over specialized The Pharisees who
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  seek our destruction think they are doing God's service.
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  They've become so narrowed by tradition that they are blinded
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  by prejudice and burdened by fear.
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  Let me emphatically state this eternal truth.
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  If you by truth coordination learn to exemplify in your lives
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  this beautiful wholeness of righteousness, your fellow men
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  will then seek after you, that they may gain what you have so
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  acquired. And so I take that to me.
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  And when you have that confidence, I heard one somebody
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  told me, confidence attracts arrogance, repels.
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  The measure where with true seekers are drawn to you
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  represents the measure of your truth, endowment, your
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  righteousness. The extent to which you have to
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  go through with your message to the people is in a way the
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  measure of your failure to live the whole or righteous life, the
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  truth coordinated life. And I really wanted to share
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  that message with you, because that's such an important message
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  coming from the master himself. But today we can see that the
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  heathen rage, making people who are faithful and portraying them
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  as unsophisticated, going after people who are trying to protect
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  the unborn. Sexualizing children because
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  they abide not in the truth but in fetishism.
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  Asserting that there is no God, that there is only science, or
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  that there's only that which can be observed.
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  Killing people because they believe in God or Christ or any
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  religion, Killing any, any person because of who they
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  believe in is wrong. Killing people because
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  governments are atheistic and religion is illegal, only
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  subservient to the state. There are so many governments
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  now that kill or arrest people because they have a Bible or
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  because they profess faith in a number of different religions,
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  not just about Christians. Demonizing people who love
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  marriage and raising children and think that that's an
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  important part of society. And they're now being portrayed
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  as patriarchal and misogynistic negative connotations, large
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  corporations and governments who enforce medicine as a treatment
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  for depression and emotional discomfort and playing down the
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  efficacy of prayer, worship, service, family, community,
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  riots in the streets are allowed where people are are wanting
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  license without restraint, and who seek retribution for
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  ancestral grievances and do not serve their brothers and
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  sisters. And then you've got cartels run
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  by people who are Catholic, who purposefully destroy human life
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  by peddling addiction. Yes, their purpose is 1 sided
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  and singular. They love prophets and in power
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  more than they love humanity. And it isn't just limited to
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  cartels. Many influential corporate
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  leaders behave the same way. So now we understand why the
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  heathen are sometimes more victorious.
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  Jesus is asking us to take the hill with a spiritual assault.
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  That doesn't mean violence. It means having spiritual
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  conviction, acting upon them and defending them.
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  And that's about as preachy as I'll ever get.
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  But that's that's the emotional stirring of my soul when I read
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  about this and I just wanted to share with you.
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  And I promised I would. And there you have it, Another,
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  another show in the can, as they say, well, listen, it's been so
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  good to be here with you, and there's so much good stuff going
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  on. Go to my website,
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  yourranchoradio.net Social Connections is up.
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  There's some great events going on.
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  There's some people within the Urantia community that have been
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  on this podcast that are going to be at the the upcoming share
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  event, this share sessions event going on in Missouri.
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  So go to the Urantia Fellowship website and you'll get more
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  information. And I believe there's a there's
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  a link on my website urantiaradio.net.
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  So hang in there and we'll see you next time here.
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  Any questions or comments? urantiabookradio@gmail.com
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  please share this with fellow truth seekers.
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  The numbers, the numbers of downloads, numbers of people who
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  are listening to this program, they're growing pretty
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  significantly. I'm I'm humbled.
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  We'll see you next time. Thanks for stopping by.
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