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Episode 93 - Pandemic Of Lies IV · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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God Bless you. God Bless you. Once again, we welcome you to
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this another edition of In Time Revival Ministries USA podcast. I am your host,
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Pastor al Zachary, and today we will continue with this short series on
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the topic. On this discussion of pandemic of lies, we are living,
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ladies and gentlemen, make no mistake about it, in a pandemic of lies
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that will not decrease, but rather increase. The closer we get to the
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coming of the Lord Jesus Christ, the more deception there will be in this
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world in which we are living. And certainly we are living in a pandemic
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of life, lies of deception everywhere. However, thanks be to God.
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His truth is liberating. It is lies that bring bondage, but the truth
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of God will set you free. Amen. Truth is not hidden by the
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way, but we must seek it. Truth is priceless, but we must
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buy it. The Bible tells us to buy the truth and sell it not.
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Truth is from God and we can know it. Three things Jesus warned
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us about and if you have not heard the previous three sessions of this particular
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topic on this pandemic of lies, Jesus warned us Matthew twenty four, and
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we're not going to go there today about these things that will come to pass.
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His disciples asking when would these things be? What will be the end
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of the world all of those things. Jesus answered first and foremost with this
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statement, take heed that no one deceives you. And he went on to
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tell us about the things that would come to pass. Amen. Before Amen,
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the return of a man, the Savior. Amen to this world first
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and foremost, ladies and gentlemen. Jesus made it crystal clear that there would
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be deception in this world, deception, and he made it crystal clear also
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that one of the reasons for this deception would be that false prophets would arise.
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The Bible says Jesus said, false prophets will arise and deceive many.
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Amen. That is I mean, this is what again, I believe I
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pointed this out in our previous session. This is what gives rise to false
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prophets. The fact that people reject truth. False prophets cannot survive, they
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cannot thrive, they cannot proliferate when truth prevails. Amen. False prophets have
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no place when there is truth. They have no they have no fertile ground
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when there is truth. And the more we a man go away from truth,
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deny truth, Amen. That is Jesus by the way, Amen,
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the more we do that, the more we are open, and the more
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we are prone to the deception of false prophets. Amen. And then thirdly,
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the thing we're going to be talking about today is lawlessness. Jesus said,
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lawlessness will increase, it would be, it would be on the rise,
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Amen. And and and and that's what we want to focus on in
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our session for today, the lawlessness that is in our world today. When
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most of us hear the word lawless, by the way we we we may
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have a tendency to think only in terms of breaking of man's law or laws.
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And when the word of God speaks by the way of lawlessness or lawless,
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of the lawless or lawlessness, it is referring to the breaking or the
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transgressing of the law of God by sinful man. First John, Chapter three,
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verse number four makes it crystal clear, ladies and gentlemen, in case
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you think, Amen, that you are not a lawless person, that you
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are a law abiding citizen just because you may drive the speed limit and pay
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your taxes and all of those kinds of things. Amen. The Bible says
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in First John three and four that whoever commit sin also commit lawlessness, and
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sin is lawlessness. So let's be very clear from the outset here of what
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lawlessness is. Sin sin against God, sin against his holiness, sin against
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his word, sin against his will for our lives. Amen. When we
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sin against God, when we break his law, Amen, we are lawless
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creatures. And we are a man trafficking in lawlessness. And one of the
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telltale signs again of the end times that Jesus himself prophesied Again, I refer
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you back to Matthew twenty four. What he himself prophesied about is the increase
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of lawlessness in this world. The practice of law breaking of man's laws is
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the result. Listen, please understand this. When we think again, thinking
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in terms of lawlessness, we only have a tendency I think, for the
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most part, to think in terms of breaking of man's law. Amen.
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And so the practice of law breaking Amen, from the world's perspective, of
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from the earthly perspective, it is a direct result of man having little,
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all or no regard for the law of God. This is why people break
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the laws of man. Is because they don't have any regard for the law
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of God. Thou shalt not kill comes from God. Thou shalt not steal
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comes from God. Thou shalt not commit adultery comes from God. And we've
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just altogether abandoned those kinds of things. By the way, Amen, When
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man has no fear of God, when man is not in awe of God,
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Amen, When man does not tremble at his word, when man has
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a disdain for God's goodness and his merciful kindness, is it any wonder that
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we are witnessing the rise of lawlessness in this world. When a man has
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no fear of God, he will at heart have no fear of man.
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If a man doesn't fear God, let me say it again, he will
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not fear man. Amen. When a man has no fear of God,
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he will be lacking in wisdom and understanding by the way the Bible teaches.
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Because the Bible makes it crystal clear that the fear of the Lord is the
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beginning of wisdom, is the beginning of knowledge and understanding. Amen. It
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begins with the wisdom of God. It begins with the knowledge of the Holy
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And when we minimize the necessity of holiness. We will invariably, make no
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mistake about it, sink into the darkness and the depravity of lawlessness. The
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laws of men and of nations cannot and will not stop. Will not prevent
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the lawless from their lawlessness. The laws of man, the laws of nations,
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cities states, whatever they cannot prevent. They cannot stop the lawlessness of
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the lawless, because lawlessness is of the heart. That's what Jesus said about
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the heart of man. Where evil comes from, Where does it come from?
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It proceeds out of the heart? First Timothy, Chapter one. I
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want to share a few verses there, verse number eight. Amen, listen.
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Because there's nothing wrong with the law, we can keep on making laws.
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But amen again, if the problem is the heart, the problem is
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the fact that we are lawless people, Amen, breaking the law of God,
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and we need something else outside of us. Amen, Amen, to
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keep us from being lawless creatures. Listen what the Bible says. But we
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know that the law is good if one uses it lawfully. Knowing this,
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Listen what the apostle says, that the law is not made for a righteous
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person, rather but for the lawless and insubordinate, for the ungodly, and
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for sinners, for the unholy and profane, for murderers of fathers and murderers
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of mothers, for man slayers, for fornicators, for sodomites, for kidnappers,
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for liars, for perjurers, and if there is any other thing that
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is contrary to sound doctrine, according to the glorious Gospel of the Blessed God,
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which was committed to my trust. Ladies and gentlemen, according to what
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I just read in your hearing, you can read it for yourself. One
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Timothy Chapter one, verses eight three eleven. Are we not living wholesale in
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the midst of lawlessness? And I'm talking about the lawlessness that we have because
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of our disregard for the law of God. Remember, listen again, listen
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again, listen again. The law is not for a righteous person. Why
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wait a minute, Why is the law not for a righteous person? Because
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now listen, when you are saved, when you are delivered, when you
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have set free by the power of God the presence of the Holy Spirit,
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you don't need the law. Why because the law of God now becomes written
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in your heart, it becomes a part of you. You have a fear
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of God, you have in all of Him. You have a love,
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you have a relationship, and you want to Now, we may not always
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do what is right. But again, even when we sin, as John
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rights, also we have an advocate with the Father, Jesus Christ, the
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Righteous, and we run amen to our advocate. Amen, who will?
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And the Bible says, who will? And who is able? And who
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is there too? A man faithfully forgive us and cleanse us from all unrighteousness.
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But the law is not for those who are righteous, Amen. But
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the law is for the lawless person. The law is for the insubordinate person.
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Again, insubordinate too to God. We're not talking about the law of
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man. We're talking about the law of God. They are lawless when it
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comes to the law of God. They are insubordinate when it comes to the
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law of God. They are ungodly when it comes to the law of God.
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They are sinners because they practice sinfulness and their sinful deeds a man,
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as it pertains to the law of God, they are unholy. The Bible
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says, profane murderers, man slayers, fornicators. Oh my God, help
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us here, help us here. Do you know when you fornicate that you
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are a lawless person, that you are breaking the law of God. Do
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you know that if you practice sodomy, homosexuality, same sex relations, that
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you are lawless and breaking the law of God. If you are a kidnapper,
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a liar, a perjurer, and Paul says, and if there is
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any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine, listen, ladies and gentlemen,
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No law can save anyone. Only Jesus can save. He is man's
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one and only provided salvation from the hopelessness of lawlessness that is already in us.
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By the way, we are rebels. By nature, we are disobedient
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and hard hearted. The Bible says, the heart of man is what desperately
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wicked All who were not born again of Him by his Holy Spirit, by
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His power that has been sent down from above, they are still in their
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sins, and they are practicing lawlessness. I don't care how good of a
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citizen that they think they are. You are lawless without Jesus. Joining a
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church or practicing a religion will not say anyone will not save you from being
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a lawless person. Remember the testimony of Jesus. By the way, according
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to Matthew seven verses twenty two and twenty three, Jesus said these words,
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many will say to me in that day, Lord Lord, have we not
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prophesied in your name, cast our demons in your name, and done many
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wonders in your name? What is the response of Jesus Verse twenty three.
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And then I will declare to them, I never knew you. Depart from
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me, you who practice lawlessness. Don't forget that part, ladies and gentlemen.
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Jesus is going to say to those in that day, who are the
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professors. We got a lot of professors today. I've talked about that at
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nauseam in the past, professing, as Paul said, professing to know God.
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But it works. They deny him, being abominable and disobedient and to
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every good work, reprobate. Amen, these will come in that day.
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Amen, have we not prophesied in your name, cast out demons in your
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name, done many wonderful, wonderful works in your name? Jesus says,
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I never knew you. Depart from me, you who practice lawlessness. Again,
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remember the definition according to the Bible, what is lawlessness? First John
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three and four says whoever commits sin also commits lawlessness. Sin is lawlessness.
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According to the Bible, according to the word of God. If you are
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a practitioner of sin, you are a lawless person. You practice lawlessness.
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And again here's again the warning of Jesus, and it's throughout the scriptures.
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He not only warned about it, but again the prophets of whole and the
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apostles after Jesus. Amen, this warning is crystal clear throughout the scriptures,
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that we are not to a man, let anyone deceive us. Take heed,
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Jesus said, Take heed, the apostle Paul says, and again all
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of the other apostles and prophets. Again, the Bible is replete with this
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warning that deception is everywhere. Take heed that no one deceives you into believing,
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ladies and gentlemen, that you can practice lawlessness and still be in Jesus
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and Jesus in you. Don't let anybody deceive you just because you're going to
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church. Amen. You may have a church membership, you may have a
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religious affiliation. You may be deeply devoted in service to these organizations or to
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whatever ministry that you may be operating in, so to speak. But the
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words of Jesus, ladies and gentlemen, is that I never knew you.
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If you are practicing sin, I'm talking about practicing sin. If you are
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living in lawlessness, if you are practicing fornication, practicing sodomy, if you're
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practicing same sex relations, if you're practicing a hatred and murder lying, Amen,
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you're lawless. You're lawless. And Jesus says, I never knew you.
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Again, Jesus warned us about these things that will come to pass,
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and they are happening right here, right now. And again, the closer
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we get to the end of the time, we're going to see it more
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and more. Number One, deception, deception, deception, that's Satan's specialty,
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deceiving people. That's how he deceived the woman in the Garden of eting
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Eve. From the very beginning. Hey man, you won't die. You
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won't die. Oh no, no, no, no, no, you
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won't die. This is our this is God, God, God, God,
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God, this night. He didn't really mean that. He didn't really
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mean that. And a lot of people don't believe that. First well,
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there's so many things people don't believe. But they don't believe. There's a
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hell, they don't believe there's a lake of fire. They don't believe that
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there will be eternal damnation, eternal judgment in the lake of fire for all
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of those who disobey the Gospel of Jesus Christ. They don't believe it,
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and it's evident, it's self evident because of the lawlessness that we see.
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This is self evident. There is no fear of God, there's no fear
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of Him judging them and finding them a man as he is. The separation
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that we're going to see in heaving. The Bible says that the sheep on
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one hand of the goats on the other, he's gonna turn and say,
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depart from me. Depart from me. You curse it into everlasting punishment.
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That's what the Bible says. But there are people out here deceiving false prophets,
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proliferating everywhere. As Jesus told us they would come, and they're here.
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They've always been here. A man into a man again, believing people
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believing that they can practice lawlessness, practice sin. Why do you think,
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why do we think Jesus died, ladies and gentlemen, What is the purpose
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of Jesus dying? What was the purpose of Jesus coming into this world dying?
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The death that he did. He could have come and just as we
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can just talk talk to us and taught us. But Jesus came, the
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Bible says, without the sheding the blood, there's no remission of sins.
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Jesus came to shed his blood for the remission of sins, for the blotting
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out of sins, for the forgiveness of sins. Without his precious blood being
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shed, we're still in lawlessness. Lawlessness is sin. Sin is lawlessness,
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and lawlessness is on the increase again because of the rejection of the sacrifice of
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Jesus. That Saloni is the final Scripture're gonna read here. Second Thessalonians,
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chapter two, verses one through twelve. This is the apostle Paul again writing
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to the church. He says, now, brotherre in concerning the coming of
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our Lord Jesus Christ and the gathering, our gathering, that's the church,
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our gathering together to if Jesus is coming back, Amen to bring his people,
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Amen to himself. Amen, the rapture of the Church, the gathering
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of the saints. Amen. Now, brother, and listen what the Bible
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says concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to him.
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We ask you not to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either
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by spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us, as
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though the day of Christ had come. There was a lot of deception.
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Even then. People were troubled, and many in the Thessalonian Church and perhaps
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even others, had been led to believe that maybe perhaps they had missed the
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coming of Jesus a man. But Paul makes it clear, and I don't
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have time to go through all of that right now, but he makes it
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clear that there are certain things, and we're going to see this that must
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take place before Jesus returns again a man, for our gathering together to him,
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before we all a man are again gathered before the rapture, before the
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day in Christ rise, and we all amen, will be caught up together
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with him. The Bible says, in the clouds to meet the Lord in
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the air, and so shall we forever a man be with him. But
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Paul makes it clear a man, that we are not to be soon shaken
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in mind or trouble. And by the way, this is Jesus also again
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Matthew twenty four told us that there were certain things that would come to pass
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before the end, Before the end, there will be earthquakes and pestilences and
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those kinds of things. Amen. All of these, Jesus said, these
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are the beginning of sorrow. But the end is not yet. War nation
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against nation, kingdom against the kingdom. Amen, all of these things.
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Again, we are not to be shaken by any of these things. We're
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not to be troubled by these things. Amen. And Paul says again,
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look at verse three. Let no one deceive you by any means. Let
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no one deceive you by any means. For that day, what day,
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the day of the Lord. The day of the Lord will not come unless
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there's something that has to happen first, unless the falling away comes first.
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There's a falling away, falling away from what from the faith, from the
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Word of God, from the fear of God, from the Law of God,
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from the holiness of God. Amen. That falling away, ladies and
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gentlemen, is happening. It's increasing, not decreasing. It's increasing. That's
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how we know. Amen. No, your eyes are not deceiving you,
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your ears are not deceiving you. It's happening. Amen. And as we
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get closer and closer, Amen, Paul says, letting no one. Jesus
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said, let no one deceive you by any means, that day will not
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come unless their conditions. First, there's gonna come of falling away. And
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then look what the Bible says, the man of sin is revealed. Who
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is he talking about? Here? The Antichrist in body. The Antichrist will
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come in body. Now, the spirit of the Antichrist, as the Bible
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makes clear, it's already here. First John, a man, he writes
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about it. John writes about it in his first letter. I believe,
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amen, about the spirit of Antichrist already being here. Amen. So we
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know that, and there are it many, as John wrote with small a
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anti Christ plural already in the world, even at that time, almost two
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thousand years ago. Amen. So we're living in an age in these last
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day By the way the last days begin when Jesus came, you will know
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we are already and we've always been since the man coming of Jesus in the
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last days. Now we are in now the last of the last days.
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And so we are not to be shaken, We're not to be troubled,
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certainly not to be deceived as to when the day of the Lord would come,
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because there are certain things that must come to pass. First. One
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of them, first and foremost is a falling away. The falling away.
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Then the man of sin is going to be revealed, the son of tradition.
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The Bible says, who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called
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God or that is worshiped, so that he listen what the Bible says.
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He opposes, he exalts himself above all that is called God or that is
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worshiped, so that he sits as God, as if he is God,
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in the Temple of God, showing himself that he is God. Ladies and
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gentlemen, this is coming to pass, Amen. The temple will be rebuilt,
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Amen, and the Antichrist Amen will sit there. He's gonna make a
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pack. And I don't have again, don't have time to go through all
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of that. But these things will come to pass before and when you said
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the day of the Lord, that this does not mean the rapture is gonna
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precede the day of the Lord. By the way, I believe, people
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don't believe. There are some that don't believe that. And again I don't
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have time to go in all of that. But before the day of the
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Lord comes. The day of Lord is not one twenty four hour period,
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by the way, Amen, But when the day before the Day of the
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Lord comes, these events must take place, and it will be the final
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constant, or close to the final consummation of these things, will be when
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the Antichrist, when Satan incarnate, will sit in the Temple of God,
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demanding worship as if he is God. That's what he's always wanted. And
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Paul says verse five, do you not remember that when I was still with
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you, I told you these things? And now you know what is restraining
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that he may be revealed in his own time for the mystery of lawless Listen,
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the mystery of lawlessness is already at work even then, ladies and gentlemen,
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almost two thousand years ago. Lawlessness, the mystery of lawlessness, Paul
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says, is already at work. Only he who now restrains will do so
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until he is taken out of the way. And I get to that in
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just a moment, and then the lawless one will be revealed again. That's
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the end to Christ, the very embodiment of the devil himself a man.
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The lawless one will be revealed whom the Lord will consume with the breath of
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his mouth and destroy with the brightness of his coming. The coming of the
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lawless one. Listen to what the Bible says. The coming of the lawless
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one is according to the working of Satan, with all power, signs and
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lying one, as you can read about that in the Book of Revelation.
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Also and with all unrighteous deception among those who perish. Why, the Bible
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says, because verse number ten, they did not receive the love of the
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truth that they might be saved. And again, I think I may I
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think I alluded to this. I read this perhaps in one of the previous
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episodes. Here this version, again, this is one of the scariest of
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verses in the Bible a man. From my perspective, the Bible says,
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and for this reason, God will send them strong delusion, that they should
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believe the lie, that they all might be damned, condemned who did not
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believe the truth, but had pleasure and unrighteousness, in other words, had
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their pleasure in their lawlessness. Now I'm almost finished. I'm concluding here.
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But please understand that as we draw ever closer to the return of the Lord
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Jesus Christ for his glorious kingdom to be revealed. Lawlessness in this world is
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going to continue to increase. And what is now restraining, what is now
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restricting the lawlessness of that wicked one of Satan, of the devil. Please
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please, please, please please, Here's something you know, we don't even
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fathom. We can't even fat fathom. We cannot even fathom this in our
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minds. How much evil God restrains. We have no idea. I guarantee
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you, we're not even we even if we thought to believe. You know,
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the things that God keeps evil from doing. Evil in the hearts of
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men, people want to do certain acts of evil and wickedness, a man
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of murder and deceitfulness and destruction and all that God prevents. So much of
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that we don't even see. We don't have no idea. And so the
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restraining force that is in the world right now is the Holy Spirit. What
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is now restraining and restricting lawlessness sin against God is the prayer of God's Spirit,
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the Holy Spirit, who is primarily at work in the Church of Jesus
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Christ. He is perfecting us number one, but he is also working in
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the hearts of unbelievers in order to bring them to salvation, in order to
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bring them to repentans, in order to save them from their lawless deeds.
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But in the meantime, ladies and gentlemen, Church of the Living God,
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people of God, be not dismayed, be not discouraged. As we see
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the rise of lawlessness in our midst It is a sign of these end times,
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as we come closer and closer to the end of this world as we
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now know it to be. But remember the words of Jesus, take heed
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that no man deceives you. Father, help us today, God opened some
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eyes somewhere, Open some ears somewhere, Change your heart somewhere, Lord,
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for your glory, for your majesty, for your kingdom. And as we
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look to your return for your people and the again glorious majesty of your kingdom,
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Be thou glorified in Jesus name. We pray and give thanks. Amen
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and Amen.