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Episode 183 - Where Are You Going? · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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  Speaker 1: God is our refuge and strength. He is our very
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  Speaker 1: present help in trouble. Therefore we will not fear, though
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  Speaker 1: the mountains be removed, though there is a shaking and
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  Speaker 1: a swelling, though the rivers may overflow, though the oceans
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  Speaker 1: and the seas will roar. Our trust, our hope, our
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  Speaker 1: confidence is in the God of our salvation. We thank
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  Speaker 1: God again for this day, who has anointed us and
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  Speaker 1: appointed us for such a time as this, and we
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  Speaker 1: are grateful again to be called to the service of
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  Speaker 1: His kingdom. A man, he is Lord, he is God.
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  Speaker 1: He is a man, the true and the Living, the
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  Speaker 1: one and the only Why, God, our Savior, to whom
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  Speaker 1: belongs majesty, dominion, and power, both now and forevermore. Again,
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  Speaker 1: we are the recipients of His mercy that is new
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  Speaker 1: this morning. Great is his faithfulness to us, and we
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  Speaker 1: are a man also beneficiaries of all of his goodness.
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  Speaker 1: It is of the Lord's mercies that we are not
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  Speaker 1: consumed His compassion that fails not. Amen. We are thankful
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  Speaker 1: again and grateful unto Him, and we bless his name.
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  Speaker 1: Let the redeemed of the Lord say so whom he
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  Speaker 1: has redeemed out of the hand of the enemy. We
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  Speaker 1: welcome you once again to this another edition of End
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  Speaker 1: Time Revival Ministries USA podcast. I am your host, Pastor
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  Speaker 1: ol Z. I agree, and today we continue in our Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Look at this Jesus of Nazareth, the Christ, the Savior,
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  Speaker 1: the Redeemer, the only hope of mankind, the mediator between
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  Speaker 1: God and man. Amen. By him we must be saved.
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  Speaker 1: And so he certainly said many things about himself in
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  Speaker 1: the scriptures. And again we're going to look to the
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  Speaker 1: word of God, to the Gospels. Amen to a man,
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  Speaker 1: the eyewitnesses, a man who were with him during his
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  Speaker 1: earthly ministry, to see a man what they had to
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  Speaker 1: say concerning Jesus, and also what he himself said concerning himself. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And so today we want to ask this question. This
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  Speaker 1: is a question. Today we have a question for you.
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  Speaker 1: Where are you going? Where are you going? And momentarily
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  Speaker 1: we will be going by the way to the Gospel
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  Speaker 1: of John chapter number six, So if you have your
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  Speaker 1: Bibles you can go there with us, as well as
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  Speaker 1: subsequent scriptures which we're going to be referencing as we
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  Speaker 1: go along here on today. But before we begin, always
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  Speaker 1: just take just a moment, Amen, as we invoke the
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  Speaker 1: presence of the Lord and his power of his spirit.
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  Speaker 1: Amen to Amen work in someone's heart today. Lord, we
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  Speaker 1: again pray as we come to the throne of grace,
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  Speaker 1: beseeching your mercy, Lord, that you will amen. Have mercy today, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: open ears and eyes and hearts as only you can do.
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  Speaker 1: No one can come except you draw them, O Lord,
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  Speaker 1: And so we pray that the power your spirit will
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  Speaker 1: work and move, Lord, and that your word will be
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  Speaker 1: effectual in someone's heart today. They will come to know
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  Speaker 1: that You are the true, the Living God. There is
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  Speaker 1: none other beside the You are the way of eternal life. God,
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  Speaker 1: be glorified to your people everywhere in this world. Today
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  Speaker 1: we give thanks as always, Amen and Amen. The Gospel
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  Speaker 1: of John, chapter number six. The Gospel of John chapter
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  Speaker 1: number six. Amen. If you have your bibles, Amen, all right.
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  Speaker 1: Beginning that verse number forty seven, we read through verse
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  Speaker 1: fifty four, and then we will drop down to verse
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  Speaker 1: number sixty four through sixty nine. Verily, verily, or truly truly.
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  Speaker 1: I say unto you, he that believeth on me. This
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  Speaker 1: is Jesus speaking by the way hath everlasting life. I
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  Speaker 1: am that bread of life, Your fathers did eat manner
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  Speaker 1: in the wilderness and are dead. This is the bread
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  Speaker 1: which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat
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  Speaker 1: thereof and not die. I am the living bread which
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  Speaker 1: came down from heaven. If any man eat of this bread,
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  Speaker 1: he shall live four ever. And the bread which I
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  Speaker 1: will give is my flesh, which I will give for
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  Speaker 1: the life of the world. The Jews verse fifty two.
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  Speaker 1: Therefore strove among themselves a saying, how can this man
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  Speaker 1: give us his flesh to eat? Then Jesus said unto them, verily, verily,
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  Speaker 1: I say unto you, except ye eat the flesh of
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  Speaker 1: the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have
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  Speaker 1: no life in you. Whoso eatth my flesh and drinketh
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  Speaker 1: my blood hath eternal life. And I will raise him
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  Speaker 1: up at the last day verse sixty four. But there
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  Speaker 1: are some of you that believe not, For Jesus knew
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  Speaker 1: from the beginning who they were that believe not, and
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  Speaker 1: who should betray him. And he said, therefore I said
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  Speaker 1: unto you, that no man can come unto me except
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  Speaker 1: it were given unto him of my father. From that
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  Speaker 1: time many of his disciples went back and walked no
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  Speaker 1: more with him. Then said Jesus, unto the twelve, will
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  Speaker 1: ye also go away? Then Simon Peter answered him, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: to whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of
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  Speaker 1: eternal life, and we believe and are sure that thou
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  Speaker 1: art that Christ, the son of the Living God. Where
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  Speaker 1: are you going? That's a question that must be answered.
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  Speaker 1: Where are you going? Many of us get that question
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  Speaker 1: a lot, and just you know, it's very kind of
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  Speaker 1: inquisitive way when people ask, not knowing. If we're a
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  Speaker 1: headached to a certain place and they have been have
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  Speaker 1: not been informed, they may ask you, where are you going?
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  Speaker 1: But this is a question, the question of eternal consequence,
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  Speaker 1: if you will, eternal ramifications, Where are you going? Eternally?
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  Speaker 1: There's there's, there's, there's there's this question that Jesus put
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  Speaker 1: to the disciples after the many that had been following
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  Speaker 1: him went away from following him, when Jesus began to
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  Speaker 1: teach the hard things. And that's, you know, and that's
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  Speaker 1: what we're going to see. Also, this is a difficult
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  Speaker 1: way that Jesus is a man put forth with them.
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  Speaker 1: I'm so glad again, I said on so many occasions
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  Speaker 1: that Jesus did not the Bible does not hide from us, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: the difficulty of being a disciple of Jesus. Jesus said,
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  Speaker 1: if you're going to follow me, you've got to deny yourself.
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  Speaker 1: You've got to take up the cross and follow me daily.
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  Speaker 1: You cannot love anyone anything above before me. Amen. He
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  Speaker 1: must be first. His kingdom is to be sought after.
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  Speaker 1: And for if you will, first priority of your life
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  Speaker 1: must be the Kingdom of Heaven, seek it first. And
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  Speaker 1: then he said, all the other things will be added
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  Speaker 1: unto you. And so this is not a way of
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  Speaker 1: you know, the easy like a lot of what we
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  Speaker 1: have in our world today, as particularly some sects of
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  Speaker 1: Christianity so called, I mean, this easy believism kind of
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  Speaker 1: you know, I'm a Christian. I'm a Christian. I'm a Christian.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus said, how call you me lord Lord? Or why
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  Speaker 1: rather do you call me lord lord? And do not
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  Speaker 1: the things that I say. It's not a matter of
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  Speaker 1: just simply lip service. As Jesus again said of the
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  Speaker 1: Jews of that day, these people honor me with their lips,
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  Speaker 1: but their heart is far from me. And so a man,
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  Speaker 1: when Jesus puts forth this question, a man to the
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  Speaker 1: disciples a man. The answer from Peter, of course, again
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  Speaker 1: being the one who always seemingly spoke up, He said,
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  Speaker 1: to whom can we go? Where else? In other words,
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  Speaker 1: can we go? Where are we going? Where are we going?
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  Speaker 1: Lord Lord? You have the words of eternal life. You
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  Speaker 1: have life, You have the way, You are the Way. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: You are the Christ, you are the Messiah, You're the Savior.
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  Speaker 1: You're the one that we've been in expectation of. You're
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  Speaker 1: the one that we've been looking for, the one that
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  Speaker 1: we've been anticipating. And now you are here. Now you
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  Speaker 1: are speaking, Now we are we're hearing from you. We've
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  Speaker 1: heard from you. Where else can we go? If you
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  Speaker 1: have life, if you are the source of life, if
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  Speaker 1: you have the words of eternal life, then we simply
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  Speaker 1: do not have any one else or nowhere else to go.
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  Speaker 1: Now in our world today, ladies and gentlemen, this is unthinkable.
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  Speaker 1: This is an unthinkable option and unthinkable thing to even contemplate.
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  Speaker 1: This is simply unacceptable to so many in our culture today,
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  Speaker 1: especially here in Western civilization, where and especially in the
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  Speaker 1: United States in particular.
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  Speaker 2: We have so many options, choices, I mean, we just
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  Speaker 2: got choices and liberty and just options, glory to be
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  Speaker 2: narrowed down to two.
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  Speaker 1: Options. But contrary, ladies and gentlemen, to the deception, the
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  Speaker 1: delusion that is in our world today again with all
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  Speaker 1: of these supposed options, as it even pertains if you
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  Speaker 1: will to religion or salvation, all of these supposed options
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  Speaker 1: that we have to choose from. Man only has two
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  Speaker 1: true options. In reality, there is no multiple choice, no
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  Speaker 1: multiple choosing, and there is no all of the above. No, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, Two ways, two options, two directions, two outcomes,
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  Speaker 1: two different ways, to very different options, to very different directions,
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  Speaker 1: polar opposite directions, two very different outcomes. For example, Matthew,
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  Speaker 1: chapter seven, if you have your Bible turned there very quickly,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to read a couple of verses that Jesus
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  Speaker 1: spoke of. Two options, two ways, two choices, two outcomes.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus spoke of this, for example, the narrow way and
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  Speaker 1: the broad Way Matthew seven thirteen. Entered by the narrow gate,
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  Speaker 1: for wide is the gate. The two gates. Now two gates,
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  Speaker 1: not three, not four, not five, not all of them, No, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: not a combination of them, one or the other. We
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  Speaker 1: hate that we hate. I'm telling you we hate it.
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  Speaker 1: We specially hate that. In America, go to the car lot,
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  Speaker 1: only two car colors to choose from. There's either black
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  Speaker 1: or green, blue or pink? Whoa man? Really? Wow? And
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  Speaker 1: blue is not your color? Pink is not your color? Well, wait, hollow,
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  Speaker 1: do you mean? What do you mean? Only have two options?
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  Speaker 1: This is only two. It's only two entered by the
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  Speaker 1: narrow gate. For why is the gate? And broad is
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  Speaker 1: the way that leads to destruction? And there are many
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  Speaker 1: who go in by it, because narrow is the way
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  Speaker 1: or the gate, brother, and difficult is the way which
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  Speaker 1: leads to life. Again, Jesus doesn't hide from us the
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  Speaker 1: difficulty of discipleship, the cost of discipleship, the sacrifice of discipleship.
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  Speaker 1: He doesn't hide it from us. Narrow is the gate,
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  Speaker 1: difficult is the way which leads to life. And there
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  Speaker 1: are few, Jesus says, who find it. Two choices here,
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  Speaker 1: two ways, two options, two directions, two very different outcomes.
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  Speaker 1: There is a narrow gate or narrow way, there is
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  Speaker 1: the broad way. One of them leads to life, the
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  Speaker 1: other leads to death. Now you can't choose both. You
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  Speaker 1: can't go through both gates, and you can't make up
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  Speaker 1: another gate or way. Eternal life, ladies, we're talking about eternal,
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  Speaker 1: eternal life and and and even your life here in
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  Speaker 1: this world while you are here. There's there's an a lot,
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  Speaker 1: there's a life that you have to live while you're here, which,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, this life that you live here, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: if you surrender to the King of kings and the
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  Speaker 1: Lord of lords. And that's why Jesus, this is what Jesus. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: I've come that you might have life, and you're talking
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  Speaker 1: about life right here in this world, and life more abundantly.
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  Speaker 1: I've come to give you eternal life. You get that
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  Speaker 1: eternal life, not in eternity. You get it here while
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  Speaker 1: you're here, alive in this world, and you have that
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  Speaker 1: hope of eternal life living in you, abiding in you, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: never leaving out of you. Amen. You die with that hope.
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  Speaker 1: You die, you go to sleep, you lay down in
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  Speaker 1: eternal rest with that hope, with that expectation. Even in
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  Speaker 1: the Old Testament, you had David, you had Daniel, you
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  Speaker 1: had others. Amen, who knew a man Abraham. The Bible says,
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  Speaker 1: look for a city, Amen, looking way into the future,
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  Speaker 1: for what God has them that love him, trust him,
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  Speaker 1: and obey him. The Gospel of John, chapter number eight,
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  Speaker 1: Eternal life is through Jesus Christ, but eternal damnation is
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  Speaker 1: for those who are without Jesus Christ. Gospel of John,
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  Speaker 1: chapter eight, verse number nineteen. Then they said unto him
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  Speaker 1: as a dialogue, by the way, that's happening between Jesus
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  Speaker 1: and the Jews a man. And so, of course, you know,
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  Speaker 1: they did not believe that Jesus was who he said
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  Speaker 1: he was, even though again by demonstration, Nicodemus even came
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  Speaker 1: to Jesus, no one can do these miracles that you
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  Speaker 1: are doing except God. We know. In other words, he
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  Speaker 1: made the confession, we know that you came from God.
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  Speaker 1: We know. But see, this is this thing called pride.
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  Speaker 1: This is this thing called rebellion. This is thing called
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  Speaker 1: you know, lust for power, and envy and pilot, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, we talked about this often. Pilot, by the way, knew,
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  Speaker 1: he said. The Bible says he knew that they had
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  Speaker 1: delivered Jesus up because they were envious of him. Pilot
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  Speaker 1: was put into it. And again pilot was limited by
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  Speaker 1: the way, Oh, by God, will I don't even have
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  Speaker 1: time to go through all of the examples of where
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  Speaker 1: you only have one or two choices, one of two,
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  Speaker 1: not one or two, one of too choices. Pilot, since
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  Speaker 1: I mentioned him, let me go there very quickly. Pilot
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  Speaker 1: only had one of two options. He either had to
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  Speaker 1: release Jesus or he had to have Jesus crucified. He
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  Speaker 1: didn't have any other option. He did not have any
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  Speaker 1: other option. He had to make a decision concerning Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: And he asked the question, this is the question, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, that has eternal ramifications for all men everywhere.
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  Speaker 1: What then shall I do with this Jesus, who is
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  Speaker 1: called the Christ? What am I going to do? Am
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  Speaker 1: I going to believe him and receive him and obey him?
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  Speaker 1: Or am I going to not believe him, reject him
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  Speaker 1: and disobey him. There are no other options. There are
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  Speaker 1: no other choices. Eternal life is through Jesus Christ, or
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  Speaker 1: the only other option is her damn nation. Now again,
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  Speaker 1: this is not me, This is not my philosophy, this
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  Speaker 1: is not my religion, This is not my truth. Ladies
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  Speaker 1: and gentlemen, this is the word of the living. And again,
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  Speaker 1: you only have two options when it comes to the world.
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  Speaker 1: Now you don't have to believe what Jesus said. A
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  Speaker 1: lot of people don't. The Jews didn't believe in You
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  Speaker 1: don't have to believe it. Now, either you believe Jesus
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  Speaker 1: or you are. And that's it's calling him a liar.
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  Speaker 1: So I'm going to read again from the Gospels what
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  Speaker 1: Jesus said. Having this dialogue with the Jews. They said,
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  Speaker 1: unto Jesus, Verse nineteen of John, chapter eight, where is
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  Speaker 1: thy father? So Jesus responds to them, and he says,
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  Speaker 1: you neither know me nor my father. If you had
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  Speaker 1: no you should have known my father. Also these word
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  Speaker 1: words brother, spoke Jesus in the treasury, as he talked
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  Speaker 1: in the temple, the Bible says, and no man laid
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  Speaker 1: hands on him, for his hour was not yet come.
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  Speaker 1: Then said Jesus again, unto them, I go my way,
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  Speaker 1: and you shall seek me and shall die in your sins.
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  Speaker 1: Whether I go, you cannot come. Now what is you
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  Speaker 1: just talking about? But let me pology. What is you
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  Speaker 1: say about the way? Where's he going? Where is he
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  Speaker 1: going that they cannot come? Well, of course we know,
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  Speaker 1: first of all, from whence he came. He descended down
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  Speaker 1: from heaven from above. Now where is he going? Of
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  Speaker 1: course he's speaking of his death, his burial, his resurrection,
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  Speaker 1: and of course his ascension back up to Heaven. Now
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  Speaker 1: where he's going. He's saying to these Jews, these who
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  Speaker 1: do not believe him, that where I am going, you
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  Speaker 1: cannot come there. You cannot go there, You cannot be there,
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  Speaker 1: you will not be there. That's what he's saying. I
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  Speaker 1: go my way, and you shall seek me, and you
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  Speaker 1: shall die in your sins. Whether I go, whither I go,
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  Speaker 1: Let me put it, Let me whither. I'm reading from
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  Speaker 1: the King James, So let me say whither. In other words,
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  Speaker 1: he's saying, where I am going, you cannot come. And
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  Speaker 1: he said, unto them, ye are from beneath. I am
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  Speaker 1: from above. Ye are of this world. I am not
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  Speaker 1: of this world. I set therefore unto you that ye
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  Speaker 1: shall die in your sins. Now, listen carefully what Jesus says.
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  Speaker 1: For if ye believe not that I am, he ye
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  Speaker 1: shall die in your sins. Now, ladies, damen, I simply
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  Speaker 1: cannot fathom in my mind how this can be confusing,
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  Speaker 1: how this can be How is it that anyone can
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  Speaker 1: even fathom in their mind that there is some wiggle room,
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  Speaker 1: some kind of ambiguity here, something that is, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a way to slither in, some other kind of option.
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  Speaker 1: It simply is not here. Any other way. Any other
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  Speaker 1: option is not another way. It's not another option, But
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  Speaker 1: rather it is a deception of the heart of man
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  Speaker 1: that has been implaneted into his heart by Hell itself,
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  Speaker 1: by doctrines of devils, because of his rebellion against the
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  Speaker 1: truth of God. Where are you going? Who are you
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  Speaker 1: listening to? Who is it? What is it that is
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  Speaker 1: causing you to stumble, to trip and fall? The Bible says,
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  Speaker 1: there's a way that seems right unto a man, but
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  Speaker 1: the end is destruction. John chapter ten, verse seven, then
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  Speaker 1: said Jesus unto them again. He's having this dialogue back
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  Speaker 1: and forth, very verily, I say unto you, I am
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  Speaker 1: the door of the sheep. All that ever came before
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  Speaker 1: me are thieves and robbers, But the sheep did not
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  Speaker 1: hear them. I am the door by me. If any
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  Speaker 1: man enter in, he shall be saved. Is there any
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  Speaker 1: ambiguity in this statement of Jesus? Here I am the door,
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  Speaker 1: not one of the doors. I am the door by me.
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  Speaker 1: If any man enter in, he shall be saved. You
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  Speaker 1: must come by me the door, and shall go in
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  Speaker 1: and out and find pasture. The thief cometh not but
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  Speaker 1: for to steal and to kill and to destroy. I
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  Speaker 1: am come. Jesus says that they might have life, and
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  Speaker 1: that they might have it more abundantly. Again, even in
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  Speaker 1: that last verse, verse ten, I just read two ways.
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  Speaker 1: You can go your own way, which is the way
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  Speaker 1: of the thief, the murderer, the devil who comes to steal.
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  Speaker 1: He's going to steal the word away from you. He's
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  Speaker 1: going to steal hope away from you. He's going to
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  Speaker 1: steal life away from you. He's going to steal joy
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  Speaker 1: and peace, all of what God has for you, it
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  Speaker 1: will be stolen from you by the devil. He comes
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  Speaker 1: to kill because he's a murderer, he's a liar, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: and he comes to destroy. Now that's one way. The
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  Speaker 1: other way is the way that Jesus speaks, I am come,
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  Speaker 1: that they might have life. Now, you can go the
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  Speaker 1: way of the devil, thievery lying Amen, destruction. You can
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  Speaker 1: go that way. That's the broad way that leads to destruction.
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  Speaker 1: But Jesus says, I've come that you might have life.
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  Speaker 1: And have it more abundantly. Real life, joyful life, peaceful life,
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  Speaker 1: eternal life, love, forgiveness, for bearings, amen, the kind of
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  Speaker 1: life that you know that gives you the ability to
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  Speaker 1: love your enemies, to pray for those who fully use you,
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  Speaker 1: to forgive. Oh woo, that's that's that's life, more abundant.
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  Speaker 1: That's real life, that's true life. That's that's the life
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus, who of course was our example, is our example.
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  Speaker 1: Now you can you can again. You can go this
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  Speaker 1: way or you can go that way. But you can't
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  Speaker 1: go both. You can't go both directions. You can't go
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  Speaker 1: with Jesus and go with the devil. You can't eat
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  Speaker 1: at the Lord's table and eat at the table of devils.
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  Speaker 1: No one can serve two masters. Jesus Christ is the Way,
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  Speaker 1: or Jesus has lied to us. There is no other
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  Speaker 1: alternative to what Jesus said. He said, I am the Way,
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  Speaker 1: I am the Truth, I am the Life. Now that
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  Speaker 1: is a true, true statement, or it is a false statement.
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  Speaker 1: If he is the way, the ladies and gentlemen, there
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  Speaker 1: can be no other way. If he is the truth,
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  Speaker 1: there can be no other truth. If he is the life,
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  Speaker 1: there is life outside of him, no other way. In
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  Speaker 1: other words, let me reach state that there is no
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  Speaker 1: life outside or apart from him. Now, either what he
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  Speaker 1: said is true, or you have to call him a liar.
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  Speaker 1: Any man who attempts, as Jesus also said, to climb
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  Speaker 1: up some other way by any other means that man
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  Speaker 1: is a thief, That man is a robber. Jesus is
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  Speaker 1: the door to salvation and entrance into heaven, or he
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  Speaker 1: is not. But it cannot be both. Those who say
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  Speaker 1: or believe that there are other alternatives or avenues, they
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  Speaker 1: are simply calling Jesus a liar. So where are you going?
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  Speaker 1: That's the question. Everyone is following someone. Everyone is following
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  Speaker 1: some belief, even if you are a cynic. Cynic, if
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  Speaker 1: you're a cynicism is a belief system, and you can
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  Speaker 1: choose to believe what you want. But there are undeniable
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  Speaker 1: truths in this world, and one of them. We can
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  Speaker 1: argue and debate about all kinds of other things, but
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  Speaker 1: one of them is outstanding and undefeated. If you will,
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  Speaker 1: you can debate and believe or not believe whatever you
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  Speaker 1: want to believe about Jesus. You can't deny this truth.
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  Speaker 1: This is an undeniedle truth. You are going to die.
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  Speaker 1: One day. You're gonna die. It's appointed unto bad wants
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  Speaker 1: to die. If you want to live, there's only one
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  Speaker 1: life option. And by the way, if you are not
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  Speaker 1: in Jesus, you're already dead. You are dead in your trespasses.
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  Speaker 1: You are dead in your sins. You have no life
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  Speaker 1: because life only comes by Him through Him. Oh you said, well,
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  Speaker 1: I'm breathing, I'm living, I'm having my best life. I'm
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  Speaker 1: living my best life. You're dead because the thief. You're
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  Speaker 1: going the way of the thief. What does he come
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  Speaker 1: to do? Still? Kill? Destroy? You're dead without Jesus, in
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  Speaker 1: the hands of the devil. You are dead. Where are
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  Speaker 1: you going? You're going the way of thievery, You're going
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  Speaker 1: the way of destruction. You're going the way of death.
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  Speaker 3: If you're not with Jesus, if you're not following Jesus,
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  Speaker 3: if you're not in Jesus, where you're going.
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  Speaker 1: Now you can believe it or not. You can deny
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  Speaker 1: it if you want. But in reality is the truth
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  Speaker 1: is you are living right now in Jesus because of Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: in him, by him, through him. If you will all
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  Speaker 1: things are made that are made, and without it. In
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  Speaker 1: him is life, and his life because he is, life
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  Speaker 1: is the life of all things. Your parents didn't give
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  Speaker 1: you life. Life didn't come from your parents because you
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  Speaker 1: were born from your mother's wound. Life comes from and
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  Speaker 1: life is in and life is because of Jesus. Now
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  Speaker 1: you don't have to believe that. You can believe what
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  Speaker 1: you want. One final they're going to point out very
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  Speaker 1: quickly Book of Romans, chapter eight. There's the law of
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  Speaker 1: the Spirit of life, and there's the law of sin
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  Speaker 1: and death. Again two options. There's therefore an now no
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  Speaker 1: condemnation Verse number one of Romans eight. To them which
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  Speaker 1: are in Christ Jesus, who walk not after the flesh
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  Speaker 1: but after the spirit, listen very carefully, for the law
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  Speaker 1: of the Spirit of Life. In Christ, Jesus hath made
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  Speaker 1: me free from the law of sin and death. For
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  Speaker 1: what the law could not do. That it was we
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  Speaker 1: through the flesh, God sending his own son in the
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  Speaker 1: likeness of sinful flesh, and for sin condemned sin in
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  Speaker 1: the flesh, that the righteousness of the Law might be
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  Speaker 1: fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh but
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  Speaker 1: after the spirit. For they that are after the flesh,
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  Speaker 1: do mine the things of the flesh. But they that
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  Speaker 1: are after the spirit the things of the spirit. For
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  Speaker 1: to be carnally minded is death, but to be spiritually
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  Speaker 1: minded is life and peace. Because the carnal mind is
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  Speaker 1: enmity against God, for it is not subject to the
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  Speaker 1: law of God, neither indeed can be so. Then verse eight,
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  Speaker 1: they that are in the flesh cannot please God. Again,
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  Speaker 1: so clearly delineated for us in the Word of God.
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  Speaker 1: Are these two opposing ways polar opposites. There is the
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  Speaker 1: way of living through the law of the Spirit of life,
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  Speaker 1: that is in Christ Jesus, or living by the law
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  Speaker 1: of sin and death. You either live by the law
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  Speaker 1: of the Spirit of life, which is in Christ Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: which can only come through Christ Jesus. By Christ Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: You either live that way, I'm talking about it right
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  Speaker 1: here in this present world, being led by the spirit,
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  Speaker 1: living by the Spirit. You either live that way, which
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  Speaker 1: is the way of life, the spirit of life, or
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  Speaker 1: you live by the law of sin and death. One
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  Speaker 1: way is the way of liberty and freedom from sin
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  Speaker 1: and mondage, and the other way is the way way
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  Speaker 1: of sin, which of course we know the Bible says
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  Speaker 1: the wages thereof is death. Where are you going? That's
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  Speaker 1: the question. Peter nabbed it again. We have nowhere else
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  Speaker 1: to go, because you have the words of eternal life.
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  Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen. Not only does Jesus have the words
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  Speaker 1: of eternal life, he is the word. He is life,
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  Speaker 1: eternal life, and you can get it no other way.
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  Speaker 1: The one and only way of life is through Jesus
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  Speaker 1: the Christ, both here and throughout eternity. Today, if you
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  Speaker 1: have not yet bow your need, if you have not
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  Speaker 1: yet repented of your sins, if you have not yet
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  Speaker 1: called upon the name of the Lord, I prayed today
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  Speaker 1: that the word of the Living God, that the spirit
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  Speaker 1: of the Living God will work in your heart, will
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  Speaker 1: move upon your heart to draw you, by faith, by
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  Speaker 1: his power, by his spirit, into His kingdom. And you
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  Speaker 1: will have life. You will have eternal life. You will
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  Speaker 1: have joy, you will have liberty, you will have peace.
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  Speaker 1: You will have abundant life in this world and eternal
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  Speaker 1: life in the ages to come. What we pray, we believe,
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  Speaker 1: we trust. We know that you are able to do
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  Speaker 1: exceeding abundantly and above all that we can ask or think.
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  Speaker 1: And we pray now, and we believe even now that
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  Speaker 1: your word will be effectual, and it will work in someone.
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  Speaker 1: It will elevate someone out of the pit of hell,
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  Speaker 1: out of the clutches of that evil one, and deliver
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  Speaker 1: them into the law of liberty, the life of liberty
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  Speaker 1: that is in Christ. Jesus our Lord, be glorified, be magnified.
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  Speaker 1: Today we pray, Amen, and a man