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Living Waters of Grace for May 11th, 2026 · Living Waters of Grace / Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland Sunday Services

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This is Living Waters of Grace, the teaching ministry of Clark
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Waffer, senior pastor of Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland, County
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of Greensburg, PA. Now here's Pastor Clark as he
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continues teaching through God's Word.
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One of the greatest assaults in the last days in the evangelical
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church movement is a movement towards anti-Semitism which
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means that God is no longer favoring Israel and the churches
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should not be interested in the favor of God in Israel because
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Israel is a, from their perspective an apostate nation
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and has no hope of repentance. Well, the Bible's full of God's
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love for Israel throughout the Scriptures, His commitment to
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Israel, his focus on Israel in the last days.
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Have you ever been given directions in a small town?
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You know, like drive past the traffic light, hang a left at
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the railroad tracks, Then once you see the giant ice cream
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cone, keep an eye out for the big oak tree.
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And then you're almost there. Well, in Pastor Clark's message
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today, he tells you that the signs of the times you're living
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in are all around. You are living in the last days.
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The Bible has given you the landmarks to look out for.
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Are you seeing them? Are your eyes open to the times
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you're in now? Here's Pastor Clark in Second
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Timothy Chapter 4 with today's edition of Living Waters of
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Grace. There's a form of godliness, but
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it denies the power thereof. People will wear robes.
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There'll be symbols in the church.
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There still may be a cross, but a lot of the newer churches that
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are being built have no cross because the pastors say that the
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cross is something that will stumble people.
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And you know, we don't want to offend the seekers.
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Well, the Bible clearly says the cross is to them that perish
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foolishness. It's a stumbling stone to them
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that perish. The majority of the churches out
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there nowadays do not believe that Jesus is God Incarnate.
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They don't believe in the virgin birth.
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They don't believe in the resurrection.
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The Barn Up organization took a poll of the percentage of people
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that claim to be evangelicals, and evangelicals were always
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known as people that believed in the importance of being born
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again, The inerrancy of Scripture, the infallibility of
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God's word, the faithfulness of the truths of the gospel.
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That Christ came to die for our sins according to the
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scriptures. He was buried.
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He rose again the third day according to the Scriptures and
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he rose and he shall come again with glory to judge the quick
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and the dead. His Kingdom shall have no end.
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One of the statements in the nice and creed that was one time
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proclaimed by all Christian churches and that's another
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document that's no longer even affirmed by most churches.
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The number of people that go to church without their Bibles.
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I was driving up here. I had to run back home to get
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something. I'm riding by a church and and I
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see people going, looks like nice people just sort of walking
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in, you know, just do my thing, you know, no Bible.
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Why would anybody go to a Bible teaching church without a Bible?
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I don't understand. I mean, whenever we don't need
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the Bible, we don't need the church anymore.
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It's a waste of time going to a church.
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If you don't have a Bible, you need to carry your Bible to
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church. If you don't take your Bible to
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church, do you believe the Bible?
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Now we have Bibles here, in case you forget.
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I'm not trying to condemn anybody or anything like that.
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The point I'm trying to make is whenever churches do not have
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the focus on the Bible anymore, the people that come to church
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or the pastors, it's obvious that the church has moved toward
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this movement of hypostasy and the One World church.
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They'll be sucked in very easily by this integration of all these
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different religious systems. The greatest contributor to
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apostasy today and apostasy, and you read about it in Hebrews and
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other sections of the Scripture, apostate person is someone who
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at one time claimed to believe and know the truth, and they
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moved completely away from it. It's amazing how some scholars
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of the Bible and people who once proclaimed the authority of the
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Scriptures will be on their deathbed and they'll be refuting
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the scriptures. They'll be saying, well, I don't
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believe this stuff anymore. It was a hoax.
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It's not important. I mean people at one time who
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were supposedly sound in their Bible teaching.
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The greatest contributor to apostasy today is this
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self-centered religious movement called the faith movement and
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it's run by faith teachers and faith movement.
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Another name for it is a positive confession movement.
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It promotes a faith devoid of moral and doctrinal content and
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which promises that whatever one truly believes and confesses
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with one's lips will come to pass.
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You ever hear of that? It's like a mind power
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visualization. The faith in yourself, not faith
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in God. Your faith is more upon what you
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affirm and what you say, and somehow through that power you
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develop these energies to be able to receive all these
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manifest blessings of heaven. Eastern mysticism and the mind.
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Science cults like Christian Science and the positive
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thinking of Norman Vincent Peale.
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The possibility, thinking of Robert Shuler, the positive
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confession teaching of Hagen and Copeland and Price and David Cho
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and Osteen and others, Man, by thinking he can bring into his
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experience whatever he desires, becomes little gods.
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I remember one time years ago when I was a follower of Kenneth
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Copeland and when I was involved in bad doctrine many years ago,
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he said you're going to become like little gods.
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Well, this is exactly what these faith teachers say.
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We create our own world. We're partners with the
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Infinite, a universal creative mind which receives the impress
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of our thought upon it. Go to Second Timothy 4, three
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and four, for the time will come when they will not endorse sound
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doctrine. You think that's come yet?
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But according to their own desires, because they have
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itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers, and
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they will turn their ears away from the truth and be turned
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aside. The fables, but it says
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exhorting us, but you be watchful on all things and door
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afflictions do the working of evangelists fulfill your
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ministry and verse 2 it says preach the word, be ready in
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season and odysseys and convince rebuke, exhort with all
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long-suffering and teaching. We need to in love point these
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errors out to people because if they don't repent and see the
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errors they're in, they're going to be sucked in to this apostate
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world. One world church movement, this
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beautiful building that the Lord bless us with at one time was a
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Swedish Lutheran Church. It came over over 100 years ago
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with godly people that taught the Word of God, that believed
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in the importance of the Lord's Supper weekly, that believed in
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the importance of repentance, that taught the Word of God
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faithfully. The Church of the Lutheran
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Evangelical Synod, and I don't know how many years it happened.
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They no longer began to have the emphasis on the Word, but
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started looking at social programs.
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They began to do such things as ordination of women pastors,
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which the Bible clearly deep affirms.
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And nothing against women. And women are just as spiritual
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as men, if not more so many times.
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But the role of a pastor in a church is a male role.
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It says in First Timothy chapter 3 that he desires the office of
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the Bishop or pastor. Elder Shepherd desires a good
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thing. It's not a female role.
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But it doesn't mean that females can't serve in the church and
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minister in the church. But they're not to be the
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pastors. Well, this church, this movement
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became ordaining women, and then it began to be open to the
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homosexuality movement and ordaining homosexuals.
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And this is not any happening in the Lutheran Church, but in the
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Methodist Church and the Presbyterian during churches.
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It's appalling what's happening in these last days that we live.
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It says in the last days, First Timothy 41 people will give heed
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to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons.
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Second Timothy 32 says for men shall be lovers of their own
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selves rather than lovers of God.
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Robert Schoeller wrote a book called Self Love, the Dynamic
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Force of Success, and he is impacted very deeply.
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Billy Hybels of Willow Creek as well as Rick Warren and
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Saddleback. I mean, why in the world that
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these guys wanting to hang out and their conferences and that
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kind of stuff. It's scary because it just goes
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to show that any of us, including myself and pastors in
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Calvary Chapel and other churches that are endeavoring to
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be faithful in these last days can be sucked in by compromising
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and listening to the teachings of false teachers.
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It says there is a new concept and practice today.
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Peter Wagner, a famous teacher on revivals.
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This is interesting. Wagner has the audacity to say
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Jesus and Paul in the early church fathers didn't know about
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this stuff. In other words, there's new
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insight, there's new revelation now, OK.
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He says they now hold the key to spiritual breakthroughs and
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worldwide revival. What they talk about is like
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praying against territorial spirits, spiritual mapping,
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ground level spiritual warfare, occult prayer warfare, strategic
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level sin warfare, cosmic sin warfare, and praying through
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windows. Now where in the world did you
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ever see Jesus talking about this stuff or the apostles?
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The Bible very clearly says resist the devil and he'll flee
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from you. Jude again tells us, and this is
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Michael the Archangel, one of the highest created angels in
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the Kingdom of heaven. He's having this discussion.
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He says yet Michael the Archangel and contending with
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the devil when he disputed about the body of Moses dared not to
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bring against him a revelling accusation, but said the Lord
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rebuke you. How many times you've heard
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people like thinking that they got some authority to twist the
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devil around in their own authority in their own name.
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I mean, if Michael the Archangel who's on the outside of the
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throne room of God's heaven has fear and also a healthy respect
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of the Prince of darkness, realizing he doesn't have the
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authority. He doesn't have the power.
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But the Lord Jesus Christ is the only one that has the authority
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over the power of the enemy. And we have authority over that
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enemy through the power of Jesus Christ and the power of the Holy
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Spirit who lives us. It says resist the devil and
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he'll flee from you. So these delusions from the
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counterfeit revival are becoming very, very big in the sense of
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impacting the evangelical community.
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It's just unbelievable what has happened and occurred.
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They called it the Holy Laughter movement and people were barking
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and acting like animals. And I mean, this stuff that had
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nothing to do with any kind of biblical premises or teachings
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of what real repentance is and what real Holy Spirit revival
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is. You know, the counterfeit, it
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looks so close, it looks so good that the Bible says it can
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deceive the very elect if possible.
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You know, one time I remember leaving at Kenneth Copeland
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conference and I was high, but I wasn't high.
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And the Holy Spirit, I was so out of my mind in the sense of
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what was reality that I drove through a red light and it was a
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miracle I didn't kill someone. And the counterfeit, the
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delusion. And if any of you are involved
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in any of these false teachings, if you're embracing any of these
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counterfeit revivals, I would ask you before the Lord to
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repent. Throw the books away, burn them,
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get rid of them, turn your back on anything that is not the
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truth. You can't mess around with light
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and darkness. You can't mess around with 11.
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The Bible says a little 11 a little sin will destroy the
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whole body. So John talks about these
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nations in verse 10. He says that there are 7 kings,
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5 have fallen and one is the five that have fallen in John's
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day was Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Medio, Persia and Greece.
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And the one it was at that particular time was Rome.
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The other is yet to come, the one world empire to come, a
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revival of the Roman Empire. Verse 11 he says the beast that
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was and is not is himself also the 8th and is also of the seven
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and is going to perdition. So we see the manifestation of
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this individual called Antichrist who will have control
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over this one world religion, one world government, one world
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financial and banking system. As we talked last week, the 10
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horns which you saw are 10 kings who have received no Kingdom as
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yet, but they receive authority for one hour as kings with the
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beast. These are of one mind and they
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will give their power and authority to the beast.
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So in other words, the Beast is going to use this false
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religious system to accomplish his goals up until a certain
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time. Once he accomplishes what he
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wants to accomplish, he could care less about that group of
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people and their religion. Matter of fact, he's going to
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come against it and destroy it. These will make war with the
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Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for He is Lord of Lords
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and King of kings, and those who are with him are called chosen
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and faithful. So the Lord Jesus Christ, when
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he comes back at that final battle of Armageddon, will come
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against all these false religious movements as well as
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the authority of the One World Government and the Kingdom of
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the Antichrist. And then he said to me, the
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waters which you saw where the harlot sits are peoples,
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multitudes, nations and tongues. So there's going to be a
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tremendous amount of people that are in this deception where this
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one world religious ruler and government will rule and reign
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for a period of time. And it says in verse 16, and the
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10 horns which you saw on the beast, these will hate the
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harlot, make her desolation naked, eat her flesh and burn
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with fire. So we see all the sudden the
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uptight feelings of all these nations that thought that they
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were in good with this world ruler.
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He commits treason against them. He doesn't want them and said
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now they're angry and they're going to try to come after him
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to destroy his system. And this is what's interesting
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here again with God's sovereignty and Providence in
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verse 17. For God has put it into their
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hearts to fulfill His purpose to be of one mind and to give their
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Kingdom to the beast until the words of God are fulfilled.
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So everything's under control. Whenever you see all this crazy
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stuff happening in the world, don't panic, don't worry, don't
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get upset, don't get fearful. Get closer to the Lord.
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Deal with your own heart, but look up.
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Your redemption's drawing nigh because God has everything under
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control. Aren't you glad?
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You don't have to worry. You don't have to fear what's
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going to come upon the world. Doesn't mean there won't be some
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difficulty, perhaps for us, our persecution or trial, some
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degree of tribulation in the world.
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You will have tribulation. But be of good cheer, he says.
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I have overcome the world. So we see verses 12 through 15.
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These 10 kings allude to the 10 nation confederation.
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This is also talked about in Daniel chapter 224 and 25.
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These 10 European powers are subject to the anti Christian
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powers shall make war against Christ.
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Europe is spiritually right now as we speak, bankrupt with
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regard to believing and living the gospel of Jesus Christ. the
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Reformation had occurred that was a wonderful movement of God
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and needed to occur because of the abuses of the teachings of
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Rome is now a faint memory in Europe and Wales and London and
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England and Scotland, the birth place of the Reformation, less
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than 3% of the population attends any church on any given
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Sunday. So Europe is primed already to
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just give devotion to this false spiritual movement that is in
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the process of developing now and growing stronger and
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stronger and stronger. If you go into your Barnes and
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Noble, your Borders bookstore now, you know, the Christian
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section, which you usually check out, the New Age movement, the
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occult and spiritist movement is almost about the same amount of
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space that they give to the Christian teachings in these
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stores. And it's growing more and more
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every day. We see the movement in 1957, and
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this is interesting. I don't hear much about it now,
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but it still exists. It's called the European
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Economic Community and in 1957 they got together to combine
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their nuclear, coal and economic resources.
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And of all places they met in Rome.
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They signed a treaty. It's called the Treaty of Rome.
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And the European Economic Community has a flag and it's
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prominent as any other national flag in some of the European
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countries today. This euro dollar coin, on the
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back of it there's a woman riding a multi headed beast.
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I mean, the symbolism is this astounding of what's occurring,
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and most of us are clueless to these things.
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Now, you know, what do we do with this stuff as we study
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these things? As I try to say many times when
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we're studying the Book of Revelation, it's a fascinating
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book. It's exciting.
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It's all about the prophecy and the return of the Lord.
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What's going to happen in the last days?
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But what's more important is what's happening to you in the
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last days. Where's your heart with the
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Lord? Where's your life?
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Where's your priorities? What are you focusing on?
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What are you believing? What are you feeding on?
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What are you participating in? Jesus says His Kingdom is not of
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this world, but we can't have it both ways, guys and gals.
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We can't be friends with the world and and try to be
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disciples of Jesus Christ. We have to have a real solid
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focus and commitment to what the truth of Jesus Christ is.
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We we need to live like the apostles lived in the sense of
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their zeal and their thirst and their hunger for Jesus Christ.
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Paul said follow me like I follow Jesus Christ.
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The Bible says in the last days there's going to be scoffers
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that aren't going to believe in the coming of the Lord.
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Someone told me yesterday in the men's meeting a good friend of
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theirs, it goes to a Baptist Church is saying that there is
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no such thing as a rapture and denying about the catching up of
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the believers and and doesn't believe.
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You're basically scoffing at it. One of the greatest assaults in
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the last days in the evangelical church movement is a movement
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towards anti-Semitism which means that God is no longer
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favoring Israel and the churches should not be interested in the
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favor of God in Israel because Israel is a, from their
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perspective an apostate nation and has no hope of repentance.
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Well, the Bible is full of God's love for Israel throughout the
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Scriptures, His commitment to Israel, his focus on Israel in
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the last days, the focus of many Jewish people coming to Christ
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in the last days. The Christ of all places, when
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he returns, is not going to land in any other spot or any other
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place but the Mount of Olives in Jerusalem.
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And so that is one assault against the truth in these last
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days by those who claim to be followers of Jesus Christ.
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There's also an assault against the teachings of of the rapture
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of the church. And the enemy does not want
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people to believe that Christ can come at any moment.
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One of the wonderful things about the teachings of the soon
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coming of the Lord in the rapture is that the Bible says
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every man that hath his hope in himself purifieth himself even
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as he is pure. So that means for me and for you
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that every day I need to expect that Christ could come.
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I need to allow my heart to be searched and turn away from
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anything that would be unpleasing in the sight of the
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Lord, so that when He comes, He'll find me busy doing what He
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told me and you to do. If you don't think that the Lord
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could come any moment, it's real easy to become LAX in your
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Christian life. You have no anticipation, no
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fervor to work out your salvation with fear and
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trembling as the Bible commands us.
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Knowing that it's God who works in us both to will and to do
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with his good pleasure. The importance of holiness and
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purity in the church in the last days is critical.
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And yet the church in the last days is becoming unholy and
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unpure. And so as a result of that,
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people are being very, very complacent and very
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lackadaisical and very superficial in their walk with
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the Lord. And so as a result, for you and
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me as a church, Calvary Chapel and his members of one another,
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mother and this body, the Bible says that we're to exhort one
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another. And so much the more as we see
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today approaching right when we get together, we have fun, we
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have fellowship, we enjoy each other's company, But our focus
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is to encourage each other to move closer to the Lord, not
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move away from the Lord, deal with our priorities in our life,
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not spending time and foolish endeavors and wasting our
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resources and our lives for what's going to perish and not
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last, but to focus our attention on what will last forever.
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And so as we study this book, I pray that we're examining our
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own lives. What are we living for?
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Is my marriage what it needs to be?
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Am I loving my wife like Christ loves the church?
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Am I training up my kids in the nurture and admonition of the
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Lord? Am I working for my boss?
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Is work unto the Lord and not unto men?
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As a man, am I keeping my eyes focused on the finished goal on
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the cross and not looking to the left to the right?
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Am I monitoring what's being watched on my television in my
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home or what's being listened to on the airwaves of my computer
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or my radio in my car? Looking at my finances and
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asking God what is it that He wants me to use my finances for
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in these last days? The Bible tells us layout and
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offer yourselves treasures on earth where a moth and rust does
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corrupt and thieves break in and steal away.
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But layout for yourselves treasures in heaven, where a
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moth and rust does not corrupt, nor thieves just break in to
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steal away. As we study these things
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together, they are very, very serious, very, very important.
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We're to be sober minded. We're to be full of the joy of
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the Lord, the joy of the Lord's, our strength.
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But we're to be sober minded, not to be double minded, right?
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James told us in that section. Don't be double minded.
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Have any of you been guilty of being double minded in your
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life? I have I don't want to be double
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minded. Whatever is holding you back
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from giving your all and on all to Christ, don't, don't let
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another day or a week go by where you're not going to say
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Lord, not my will, but your will be done.
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If you have talents, if you have gifts, if you have abilities, if
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you have a calling on your life, don't hold back to say Lord.
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I don't know what you want to do with it or what you want to use
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it for, but I'm willing to use it.
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If you're being called to this church, then allow the Lord to
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use you in this church so that you're busy about what the Lord
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wants you to be busy to you about in the last days.
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The evidence of God's Spirit working in the church is when
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people become people of prayer. For Jesus says my house shall be
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a House of prayer. And some people say, well, I can
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pray at home. I can pray in my bed on my knees
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beside. Yeah, you can.
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But I know lots of times we don't.
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When the Holy Spirit is working in the church and through the
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message and through the worship, there's a level of conviction
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and a level of intensity that God puts upon us that now is the
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time to deal with salvation. Now's the time to deal with
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commitment and sacrifice. The Lord and the more of us that
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come together and pray and say and we see each other pushing in
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and not pushing away, it encourages the church and the
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body that to become a place of prayer.
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The most important thing for us to be as a Church of prayer and
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the most important thing for us to be as a people of prayer to
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humble ourselves before Him. We are digging into the Book of
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Revelation here on Living Waters of Grace.
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Pastor Clark is tackling this challenging book as we try to
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discern the messages that are within its pages.
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There's so much imagery and at times you're not always sure
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what's literal and what's metaphorical.
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At one point there's a reference to an adulterous woman riding on
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a beast, and as someone else mentioned, at one point it
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almost sounds like a rodeo from hell, and in actuality it kind
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of is. You learn about the downfall and
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demise of a sinful and rebellious world, falling down
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in worship to someone who is the anti hero, the enemy, Satan
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working his insidious ways into the minds of fallen people.
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It's sad and it's heartbreaking, but it's a classic story of good
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versus evil. Thankfully, we know how this
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story ends. Jesus wins, Jesus reigns, and
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evil is conquered once and for all.
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We pray and trust you've received Jesus as your Savior,
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but if you haven't, don't wait until the events and revelation
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become what's happening on the streets.
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None of us wants you to be there at that time.
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Instead, we'd love for you to be with us in heaven as we
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celebrate the marriage supper with Jesus as his bridegroom.
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To get a better understanding of where we are in the Book of
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Revelation. To listen to any messages before
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or after this one, you can find them at our website,
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calvarychapelonline.com. That's it for today's edition,
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but we hope you'll want to hear Pastor Clark teach more from the
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Book of Revelation. It can be exciting to think
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about the future for believers, but it can feel a bit harrowing
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for those who don't believe. Come hear more next time on
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Living Waters of Grace.