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Episode 161 - The Fight Against God · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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  Speaker 1: I would have painted, I would have lost heart, I
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  Speaker 1: would have given up. I would have gone back, says
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  Speaker 1: the Summons, unless I had believe to see the goodness
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord in the land of the Living. Weight
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  Speaker 1: On the Lord be of good courage, and he shall
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  Speaker 1: strengthen your hard weight. I say on the Lord, 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, you'll say podcast. For those of you
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  Speaker 1: who listen to us by way of our audio podcast,
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  Speaker 1: we welcome you to this another edition, and we are
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  Speaker 1: grateful as always again to the Lord for allowing us
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  Speaker 1: this opportunity. A man to be a spokesperson for his word,
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  Speaker 1: Son of Man, I've set you as a watchman to
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  Speaker 1: the house of Israel. The Lord spoke to his prophet Ezekiel,
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  Speaker 1: hear the word from my mouth, and give them warning
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  Speaker 1: from me. So we are called. A man to a man,
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  Speaker 1: speak forth the truth of God with plainness, soberness, A
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  Speaker 1: man preach the word, being instant in season out of season,
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  Speaker 1: reproved rebuke exhort. The New Testament writer Apostle Paul a
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  Speaker 1: man in speaking to his son Timothy with all long
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  Speaker 1: suffering and doctrine. Because the time will come when they
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  Speaker 1: will not want to endure sound doctrine. Make no mistake
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  Speaker 1: about it. The preacher of the Gospel, the prophet of God,
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  Speaker 1: the man of God, whom God calls a man to
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  Speaker 1: speak forth his truth, has a grave responsibility, a great
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  Speaker 1: responsibility that's laid upon his shoulder. And a man, no
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  Speaker 1: matter how distasteful disdainful it may be, to the hear,
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  Speaker 1: to the listener, to the rebel, Amen, to the sinner, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: he must know, he must hear. Amen, what the saith
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  Speaker 1: the Lord, And so a man again, it is the
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  Speaker 1: word of God. It's not ours, it's not mine. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: I'm simply a carrier, the deliverer, the a man spokesperson
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  Speaker 1: who hears from the Lord and speaks for what God
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  Speaker 1: has spoken. It is a privilege, it is an honor.
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  Speaker 1: And we pray that as always, the word of the
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  Speaker 1: Lord will have free course, and that Amen. People will hear,
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  Speaker 1: people will obey, and people will come to repentance. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: And people will come to know that Jesus, of course
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  Speaker 1: is the Christ, the son of the Living God, the
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  Speaker 1: savior of all them that believe. All right again, we
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  Speaker 1: welcome you, those of you who listen to us by
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  Speaker 1: the Wilderness at one v it t W by all
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  Speaker 1: means please, of course, we invite you to become a
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  Speaker 1: subscriber and please share with someone else. Amen. All right,
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  Speaker 1: we continue in our series that we've been in for
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  Speaker 1: the past several months. Now it seems I believe a
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  Speaker 1: man on God, Government, church, and state. Amen, And today
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  Speaker 1: we're going to focus on this topic, if you will,
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  Speaker 1: the fight against God, the fight against God. And before
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  Speaker 1: we began, let us amen, if you will take a
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  Speaker 1: moment to a man, invoke the presence of the Lord
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  Speaker 1: and acknowledge Him in all that we say and do. Father, again,
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  Speaker 1: the greatest your faithfulness to us, your mercy, Thank you
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  Speaker 1: for favor, loving kindness, Thank you for calling us to
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  Speaker 1: this great salvation, delivering us from the power of sin, satan, darkness, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: evil and wickedness, and giving us the ability to walk right,
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  Speaker 1: to live, right, to look to you and to look
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  Speaker 1: in expectation of your return. Help us a man to
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  Speaker 1: be faithful men to the call to the Word, to
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  Speaker 1: your amen, holiness and righteousness right here in this present world.
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  Speaker 1: Lord opens someone's eyes today, someone's ears today, someone's heart today,
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  Speaker 1: to come to know that you are the truly living God,
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  Speaker 1: and there is none other beside the God. Be glorified.
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  Speaker 1: And all we say and do in Jesus' name we
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  Speaker 1: bring if thanks Amen and Amen again Amen, We'll thank
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  Speaker 1: you to the Lord for amen this day we take
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  Speaker 1: it one day at a time. Having obtained help from
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  Speaker 1: the Lord, we continue the fight against God. Now, please
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  Speaker 1: make no mistake about it, this fallen world, which of
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  Speaker 1: course is led by the powers of the darkness of
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  Speaker 1: this world, principalities and powers. This is what they Apostle
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  Speaker 1: Paul warned us, the Church that we are fighting against.
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  Speaker 1: We're not wrestling against flesh and blood, but against principalities
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  Speaker 1: and powers, the spiritual wickedness that lurks in the high places.
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  Speaker 1: They work again, as I've said in a previous podcast,
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  Speaker 1: chiefly they work these demonic forces and powers in persons
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  Speaker 1: who are in places of influence, levels of power, government institutions,
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  Speaker 1: but primarily in governments all over the world. And this
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  Speaker 1: has been shown historically to be the case when especially
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  Speaker 1: a man rises to a level of power that is
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  Speaker 1: literally un checked. A man and such as one who
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  Speaker 1: is a king who has almost autonomous power, and rulers
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  Speaker 1: of nations who have powers, and or in our day
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  Speaker 1: so called asocracies, western style governments, that a man have
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  Speaker 1: collusions of people of like mind who again, as again,
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  Speaker 1: this is all in the scriptures. By the way, the
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  Speaker 1: Bible speaks of Amen, of the kings of this earth,
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  Speaker 1: the rulers of this earth, Amen, and of this world
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  Speaker 1: coming against God, don't want the restraints of His word,
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  Speaker 1: his commands, Amen, his precepts Amen to bind them. And
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  Speaker 1: so they wanted to cast away the cords of God's Amen,
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  Speaker 1: precepts and his word and live a life that is
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  Speaker 1: a free and autonomus us from God. And so the
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  Speaker 1: princes of this world, the kings of this world, the
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  Speaker 1: rulers of this world, the governments of this world, are
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  Speaker 1: engaged in a war that it cannot win. They are
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  Speaker 1: for they are warring against God. They are fighting against God.
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  Speaker 1: It is the fight against God. That's exactly what it is.
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  Speaker 1: It is spiritual warfare. Again, that's not what we are
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  Speaker 1: wrestling against. As the Church, and we must recognize it,
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  Speaker 1: and we must understand what it is that we are
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  Speaker 1: fighting against a man. And this, this spiritual warfare, has
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  Speaker 1: been ongoing since the fall of Adam in the Garden
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  Speaker 1: of Eden. And there is delusion in this world. The
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  Speaker 1: demonic powers and forces of the darkness continue to deceive
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  Speaker 1: a man men into believing. They actually do believe that
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  Speaker 1: they can successfully overthrow what God has purposed to do,
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  Speaker 1: what God has decreed, what God has ordained. They actually
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  Speaker 1: believe it that they can change the course of this world,
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  Speaker 1: change what God has already a man again decreed that
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  Speaker 1: will come to past. Jesus made a promise, ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 1: concerning his church more narrowly focused. He said he would
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  Speaker 1: build it and the gates of Hell would not prevail
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  Speaker 1: against it. And of course there are and have been,
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  Speaker 1: and it's ongoing in our day. Of course, there have
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  Speaker 1: been multiple attempts on many different parts, by many different governments,
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  Speaker 1: by different leaders people who have risen up against the
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  Speaker 1: Church to try to stop it amen, to try to
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  Speaker 1: prevent the Church from becoming a reality. Of course, we
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  Speaker 1: look at the history of the Book of the Acts,
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  Speaker 1: in the Book of the acts brother of the Church,
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  Speaker 1: and the same kind of forces, same kind of government, powers, institutions, leaders, rulers. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: They are still here Amen, in spirit, in the same spirit, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: and attempting to stop what God has again purposed and
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  Speaker 1: decreed to come to pass. And God is still by
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  Speaker 1: the way Jesus, as he promised, He is still adding
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  Speaker 1: to his church daily such as should be saved. He
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  Speaker 1: is gathering his sheep into his sheepfold, as he promised,
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  Speaker 1: there would be one shepherd, one sheepfold. He said, my
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  Speaker 1: sheep hear my voice a stranger, they will not follow,
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  Speaker 1: they'll flee from them. Amen. And so we are amen,
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  Speaker 1: being gathered. The church is into Amen, the sheepfold of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord Jesus Christ. And we've already examined in recent
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  Speaker 1: podcast episodes. Of course, Us himself encountered and interacted with
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  Speaker 1: the hostile government that he faced. The government leaders, the
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  Speaker 1: rulers of the people primarily were hostile against him. The multitudes,
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  Speaker 1: if you read through the Gospel, many of them, most
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  Speaker 1: of them, except for when they were being stirred up
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  Speaker 1: by the rulers, They were receptive of Jesus. They were
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  Speaker 1: following Jesus. Multitudes of people were flocking. Again, many of
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  Speaker 1: them were only for there for the fishing loads, as
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  Speaker 1: it were, Jesus said, and when he began to speak
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  Speaker 1: the hard things, many of them, of course departed from
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  Speaker 1: him and welk no more. For the most part, the
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  Speaker 1: people were receptive of Jesus. It was the government. It
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  Speaker 1: was the rulers. Again, they don't like Listen, no government,
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  Speaker 1: no ruler, no person in power likes to feel threatened,
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  Speaker 1: especially when they're lifted up in pride. And again I'm
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  Speaker 1: not paining with a broad brush, but this is for
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  Speaker 1: the most part the way it operates in our world.
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  Speaker 1: I mean government leaders and rulers a man. And again,
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  Speaker 1: those who are not rooted and grounded in reality and
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  Speaker 1: in the truth of God and have a fear of God,
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  Speaker 1: they are threatened whenever there is something that is potentially
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  Speaker 1: upsetting to the status quo. And this is what happened
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  Speaker 1: with the Church. This is what happened with Jesus when
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  Speaker 1: he came, of course, And so again we've already examined
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  Speaker 1: in some of our previous podcasts how that they dealt
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  Speaker 1: with Jesus, how they dealt with a man. The early
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  Speaker 1: Church and the Apostles whom God had equipped, whom the
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  Speaker 1: Lord had equipped and chosen by the way about the
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  Speaker 1: mission that he would give to them, go into all
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  Speaker 1: the world, preached the Gospel to every creature. He that
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  Speaker 1: believes in is baptized, shall be saved. He that believes
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  Speaker 1: not would be condemned. Go and make disciples of all nations,
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  Speaker 1: baptizing them in the name and the name of the Father,
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  Speaker 1: of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit. And then
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  Speaker 1: he said to them, Lo, I'm with you always, even
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  Speaker 1: to the end of the world. So he equipped them,
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  Speaker 1: He prepared them a man to preach the gospel. And
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  Speaker 1: he told him that they would face hostility. He told them, look,
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  Speaker 1: they have not received me. They won't receive you. They
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  Speaker 1: rejected me, they're going to reject you. They persecuted me,
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  Speaker 1: they're going to prosecute you. They put me out, they'll
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  Speaker 1: put you out. Amen. And so they knew what to expect.
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  Speaker 1: And so, of course, after Jesus ascended back up to heaven,
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  Speaker 1: the apostles went out doing and performing a man in
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  Speaker 1: the power of the holy ghosts, just as Jesus had done.
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  Speaker 1: And of course we've been examined how that Peter and
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  Speaker 1: John went up to the Temple Acts Chapter three, the
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  Speaker 1: Hour Prayer. There was a lame man there whom a
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  Speaker 1: man the power of the Holy Spirit healed, made him
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  Speaker 1: to walk. The people began to gather around, and there
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  Speaker 1: was such an uproar, And the Bible tells us that
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  Speaker 1: many people were converted a man on that day and
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  Speaker 1: added to the church. But the people, the government, the
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  Speaker 1: government of the people of a they were not happy
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  Speaker 1: about this. The leaders, they were upset, they were threatened,
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  Speaker 1: they were intimidated. Amen, And again they tried to intimidate
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  Speaker 1: the apostles, just as they had attempted to intimidate Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: They had threatened Jesus, and of course finally put Jesus
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  Speaker 1: to death. But they are now seeking to deplore their
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  Speaker 1: same Amen warfare tactics now against the Church, because now
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  Speaker 1: the Church is a threat. The Church is a man,
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  Speaker 1: threat to the status quo, to their power, to their influence,
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  Speaker 1: their authority over men, to their religious order, and so forth.
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  Speaker 1: And so now they have to figure out how are
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  Speaker 1: they going to deal with yet another again threat to
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  Speaker 1: their power and prestige. They've gotten rid of John the Baptists,
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  Speaker 1: he's gone. They've gotten rid of Jesus. Supposedly, at least
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  Speaker 1: in their minds, he's gone. Amen. From the emits from
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  Speaker 1: from their mitch, brother and man, they don't see him.
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  Speaker 1: The more physically bodily, of course, we know that he
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  Speaker 1: has risen from the dead, and he's at the right
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  Speaker 1: hand of the Majesty on High. Amen. And so now
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  Speaker 1: these same government leaders, by the way, these are the
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  Speaker 1: same people, because this is in the aftermath of Jesus
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  Speaker 1: ascending back up into heaven. This is shortly after Amen,
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  Speaker 1: He's appeared to the disciples and strengthened them and gave
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  Speaker 1: them the courage, and of course by them witnessing him
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  Speaker 1: being raised from the dead bodily, you remember Thomas said,
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  Speaker 1: except I see the nail, Prince, except I see for myself, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: I won't believe. And of course he saw it, and
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  Speaker 1: he believed in all. All of the apostles saw it,
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  Speaker 1: and believed in only their pentecosts a man in one
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  Speaker 1: hundred and twenty of them were in the upper room, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: when the Holy Ghost was poured out as promised. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And so now they went out into the world, just
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  Speaker 1: as Jesus had instructed them, preaching the gospel beginning at Jerusalem.
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  Speaker 1: And now a miracle of healing has been performed on
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  Speaker 1: this crippled man who was crippled from his mother's womb.
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  Speaker 1: And now there's an uproar. The people are believing a
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  Speaker 1: man of religious order is being threatened. And the rulers
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  Speaker 1: of the people, again, having dispelled themselves of Jesus, if
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  Speaker 1: you will, have now got another problem on their hand.
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  Speaker 1: What are we going to do with this rapidly growing
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  Speaker 1: movement that is called the church. Jesus promise, he said,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to build my church in the gates of Hell.
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  Speaker 1: Will not veil against it. Now this church is a
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  Speaker 1: threat to the religious hierarchy, to their control. Amen. And
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  Speaker 1: so now this church has got to be stopped by
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  Speaker 1: any means necessary. And so the government rulers they came
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  Speaker 1: to the conclusion. I suppose that if they they say,
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  Speaker 1: if we get the leaders if we get the leadership,
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  Speaker 1: then this movement will go away a lot. That's the
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  Speaker 1: thinking of a lot, cut off the head of the snake,
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  Speaker 1: as it were, if you will. They thought that by
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  Speaker 1: getting rid of Jesus, that would you know. But they're
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  Speaker 1: so wrong, so wrong, so misguided, so delusion, you know, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: So deceived, are they? And so we're going to go back,
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  Speaker 1: if you will, into Acts chapter number five, will pick
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  Speaker 1: it up again there where Amen, the apostles have already
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  Speaker 1: been threatened and brought before the council. Then they've been
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  Speaker 1: put into prison, as it were, into the lock up.
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  Speaker 1: Rulers could get themselves together and figure out what they're
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  Speaker 1: going to do. And so they went to the prison
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  Speaker 1: to have them, or they sent rather to the prison
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  Speaker 1: to have them brought forth to the council so that
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  Speaker 1: they could confer with them again and try to persuade
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  Speaker 1: them that this would not be in their best interest
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  Speaker 1: to go forward a man with all of this preaching
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  Speaker 1: and teaching about this Jesus that they had gotten rid of.
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  Speaker 1: And so the Bible tells us that they went to
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  Speaker 1: the prison to look for them, but they were gone, because,
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  Speaker 1: as we've already discovered, a man in the text that
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  Speaker 1: an angel of the Lord was dispatched from heaven came
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  Speaker 1: down to the prison by night and released a man
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  Speaker 1: Peter and John from the prison and told them to
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  Speaker 1: go stand right there in the midst of the people. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: go preach to them all the words of this life. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So God listen you can't. This is you can't fight.
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  Speaker 1: You can't fight against what God has already a man
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  Speaker 1: determined will be. I mean, this is what they're engaged in.
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  Speaker 1: There are in a fight against God, is what they're
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  Speaker 1: about to find out. And so they went to the
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  Speaker 1: They went rather assent, if you will, the guards, the
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  Speaker 1: captains and the police, the government police went to the
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  Speaker 1: prison to fetch the apostles and bring them before the council.
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  Speaker 1: And they didn't find them. And in the way, when
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  Speaker 1: what's going on here? So the Bible says that verse
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  Speaker 1: twenty five, we're gonna pick it up there. Then came
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  Speaker 1: one and told them, saying, I'm reading from Acts chapter five,
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  Speaker 1: King James courage. In verse twenty five. One came and
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  Speaker 1: told them, saying, behold, the men whom you put in
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  Speaker 1: prison are standing in the temple and teaching the people. Wow,
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  Speaker 1: wait a minute, how can this be? The Bible says
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  Speaker 1: verse twenty six. Then went the captain with the officers
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  Speaker 1: and brought them without vibe, for they feared the people
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  Speaker 1: lest they should have been stoned. And when they had
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  Speaker 1: brought them, they set them before the council, and the
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  Speaker 1: high priests asked them saying, did not we straightly command you?
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  Speaker 1: I like that. I like this, I like this, I
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  Speaker 1: like this. These guys man, see, you know, these people
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  Speaker 1: think that they really do believe that they have power.
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  Speaker 1: They really do think that they can control that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: they really they live in delusion. I mean, they really
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  Speaker 1: don't even have they have the little power that they
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  Speaker 1: do possess. Of course, they really don't have it. That
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  Speaker 1: I mean at any point in time, if if God
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  Speaker 1: would have would permitted, and we've seen these kind of
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  Speaker 1: just and I'm talking about just in the world. When
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  Speaker 1: when when when you have uprisings with the people, with
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  Speaker 1: the common people, the peasants, with their pitchforks, as it were,
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  Speaker 1: a man, if they were to come against a man,
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  Speaker 1: the government with all the police, force and power, I
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  Speaker 1: mean listen to some extent, I mean, but if they could,
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  Speaker 1: they can put down some some rebellion, some violence. But listen,
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  Speaker 1: make no mistake about it, if all the people of
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  Speaker 1: this world, or any Indian nation for the most part,
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  Speaker 1: were to come in coalition, were to come in agreement
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  Speaker 1: against any government for the most part, they would overthrow it.
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  Speaker 1: They could overthrow it. So the little power that some
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  Speaker 1: of these government officials, you know, get all, you know,
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  Speaker 1: swollen up with in their minds and hearts, and not
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  Speaker 1: understanding again that it comes from God, is granted by God. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: You are there, Amen, because God has put you there,
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  Speaker 1: placed you there, and so here these the high priests,
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  Speaker 1: and especially expecially we're not even talking about pagan governments.
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  Speaker 1: We're not talking about talking about These people are supposed
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  Speaker 1: to be the people of God, who understand where their
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  Speaker 1: authority comes from, who understand that God is sovereign and
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  Speaker 1: he reigns and rules over all of the kingdoms of
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  Speaker 1: this world. Yet here they are swollen up, if you will,
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  Speaker 1: in their power, Amen, in their amen, pride, arrogance. Saying
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  Speaker 1: to the apostles, did not we straightly command you that
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  Speaker 1: you should not teach in this name? And behold you
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  Speaker 1: have filled Jerusalem with your doctrine and intend to bring
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  Speaker 1: this man's blood upon us? Then Peter verse twenty nine,
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  Speaker 1: and the other apostles answered and said, we ought to
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  Speaker 1: obey God rather than men. Amen, brother Peter, Amn. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: anytime a government. We've already talked about this, I'm not
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  Speaker 1: gonna belabor it. Anytime a government, anytime, any institution, any man, period,
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  Speaker 1: issues orders decrees that are contrary to the word of God,
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  Speaker 1: contrary to what God has commanded us to do. In
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  Speaker 1: other words, they forbid you to do something that you
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  Speaker 1: have already been come man to do by God. They say, no,
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  Speaker 1: you can't, No you must not, you cannot. We are
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  Speaker 1: to obey God. Now, that's when they forbid us to
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  Speaker 1: do something that God has commanded us to do, that
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  Speaker 1: God has instructed us to do, we are to engage
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  Speaker 1: in civil disobedience. And then, of course, if they command
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  Speaker 1: us to do something that God has forbidden us to do,
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  Speaker 1: we are not to do it. Amen. We are to
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  Speaker 1: refrain from engaging in amen. Activities, Amen, things that the
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  Speaker 1: government compels us to do that God has forbidden us
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  Speaker 1: to do. Amen. And so again the Apostles, along with Peter,
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  Speaker 1: say we ought to obey God rather than men. And
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  Speaker 1: Peter went on and the apostles brother went on to
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  Speaker 1: speak in verses thirty a man to thirty two. Look
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  Speaker 1: what he said. They say here. If it's probably Peter,
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  Speaker 1: more likely the God of our fathers raised up Jesus. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: I love this three little short verses here where the
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  Speaker 1: I mean preaching preaching, preaching man you're talking about preaching
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  Speaker 1: and preaching conviction. Watch it. Watch what they say. The
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  Speaker 1: God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom you slew
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  Speaker 1: and hang on a tree, who just won't let them
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  Speaker 1: forget it, just won't let them forget it. You're not
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  Speaker 1: gonna listen. No, no, no, no, no, no no no.
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  Speaker 1: You are guilty, guilty, guilty, and we're gonna keep reminding you.
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  Speaker 1: And Peter and the apostles they did just that. They
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  Speaker 1: reminded them, a man you killed, Jesus, you killed the
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  Speaker 1: prince of life. You, by your wicked hands took him,
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  Speaker 1: and you said, by the way, his blood be upon
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  Speaker 1: our hands. Amen. And now they have the nerve to say,
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  Speaker 1: are you well. You keep preaching this Jesus, and you
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  Speaker 1: tend to bring this man blood upon it. You said it,
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  Speaker 1: his blood be upon us and our children. So Peter
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  Speaker 1: reminds them, and the apostles remind them that God has
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  Speaker 1: raised up this Jesus, the same one that you crucified. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: God has exalted Verse thirty one. Him God had exalted
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  Speaker 1: with his right hand to be a prince and a savior,
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  Speaker 1: for to give repentance to Israel and forgiveness of sins,
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  Speaker 1: and we verse thirty two are his witnesses of these things.
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  Speaker 1: And so is also the Holy Ghost, whom God hath
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  Speaker 1: given to them that obey him. The Bible says verse
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  Speaker 1: thirty three, when they heard that they were cut to
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  Speaker 1: the heart and took counsel to now slay them. Listen again,
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  Speaker 1: it's just saying the devil has no new tricks. It's
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  Speaker 1: the same tactics, the same little gimmicks. To listen, Jesus said,
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  Speaker 1: he comes to steal, he comes to kill, he comes
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  Speaker 1: to destroy. And so when the church began to be birthed,
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  Speaker 1: you had the Pentecostal explosion on the day of Pentecosts. Then,
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  Speaker 1: of course shortly thereafter, when Peter and John went up
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  Speaker 1: to the temple and the Lameman was here, there were
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  Speaker 1: thousands more added to the church. And Bible said the
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  Speaker 1: believers were all on accord. They went from house to
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  Speaker 1: housebreaking bread. I mean many, many, many souls were being
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  Speaker 1: converted from a man the old mosaic law and commands.
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  Speaker 1: And and now understanding that this Jesus that Moses spoke
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  Speaker 1: about is the one that had come whom they had crucified,
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  Speaker 1: and many of them a man in believing the preaching
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  Speaker 1: of the gospel turned in repentance a man, and and
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  Speaker 1: and and was now being added to the church, and
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  Speaker 1: and and and and. So there there had to be
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  Speaker 1: a response from the government leaders and rulers who were
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  Speaker 1: now losing their grip of power. Remember, they had a
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  Speaker 1: religious government, if you will, amen, And they had control
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  Speaker 1: of the people, uh, the high priests in particular the Sanhedrin,
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  Speaker 1: the count so all of the elders inscribes, the rulers
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  Speaker 1: of the people. They were in control even from the
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  Speaker 1: religious perspective. The Pharisees and Sadducees were held in high
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  Speaker 1: regard from the religious perspective. And so these that were
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  Speaker 1: rulers of the people, they're not they're not they're not
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  Speaker 1: they're not. No, no, no, no, no, no no. They're not happy
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  Speaker 1: about this at all. Amen. So this is the government now,
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  Speaker 1: a man upset about what is happening, upset about what
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  Speaker 1: is transpiring. And so when the enemy fails with his
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  Speaker 1: intimidation tactics. You remember they tried that first. We need
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  Speaker 1: to intimidate them. We got to stop them from this.
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  Speaker 1: When that fails, the devil will ultimately always turn to violence.
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  Speaker 1: And death murder. So these government leaders who are doing
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  Speaker 1: the deeds of the devil Jesus already told me you
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  Speaker 1: are of your father, the devil, and deeds of your
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  Speaker 1: father you would do again. They have already threatened the Apostles,
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  Speaker 1: they said, you read it, we read it. Did now
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  Speaker 1: we straightly command you. They threatened them, they beat them.
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  Speaker 1: Don't teach, don't preach anymore in his name, and you
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  Speaker 1: intend to bring this man blood up on, don't do
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  Speaker 1: it anymore. So they already had threatened them. They put
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  Speaker 1: them in jail and said, listen, we don't want to
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  Speaker 1: hear nothing else about this Jesus. So now they've got
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  Speaker 1: to a man resort to silencing them by shedding their blood.
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  Speaker 1: They are incensed at these ignorant and unlearned common men,
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  Speaker 1: these fishermen, I mean, these Galilean Galileans, having the gall
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  Speaker 1: a man to point the finger of responsibility and culpability
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  Speaker 1: towards them in accusing and rejecting Jesus a man, and
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  Speaker 1: having Jesus murdered by the Roman government. They are incensed
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  Speaker 1: at this. So Peter and the Apostles, they had just
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  Speaker 1: continued to remind them of their wicked betray of Jesus
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  Speaker 1: and their need for repentance and conversion. Repent, repent, repent,
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  Speaker 1: and be converted. But they said no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: no no no. Peter said, listen, both we and apostles,
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  Speaker 1: they said, both we and the Holy Spirit, the Holy Ghost,
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  Speaker 1: we are witnesses of and we have been commanded by God.
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  Speaker 1: We are compelled by the power of the Holy Spirit,
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  Speaker 1: and we are committed to preaching this Jesus whom you crucified.
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  Speaker 1: We have seen the risen Christ. We know that he
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  Speaker 1: is alive. We know that he is the Savior. We
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  Speaker 1: know that he is the Redeemer. We know that he
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  Speaker 1: is the Prince of life. We know that he is
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  Speaker 1: the Word incarnate. He is the first, the last, the
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  Speaker 1: alphab the omega, the beginning to the end. And we're
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  Speaker 1: going to preach him. And we know that there is
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  Speaker 1: salvation and none other. Yeah, the Bible tells us. Then
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  Speaker 1: stood up there one in the Council of Pharisee named
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  Speaker 1: Gamelee or Doctor of the Law, had in reputation among
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  Speaker 1: the people, commanded to put the postls forth a little space. Listen,
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  Speaker 1: God can and will use anyone at any time to
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  Speaker 1: see to it that his word does not return to
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  Speaker 1: him void. He uses this man and this advice that
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  Speaker 1: doctor Gamalia is about to give to the government leaders.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to read it just a moment. This advice
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  Speaker 1: should be well heeded and received by these ignorant and
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  Speaker 1: rebel government leaders that we have in our world today,
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  Speaker 1: all over the world. So listen to the advice that
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  Speaker 1: Gamealio gives to the council the government. So he says
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  Speaker 1: to them verse thirty five, you men of Israel, take
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  Speaker 1: aid to yourselves what you intend to do as touching
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  Speaker 1: these men. For before these days rose up through this
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  Speaker 1: boasting himself to be somebody to whom a number of men,
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  Speaker 1: about four hundred joined themselves, who were slain, and all
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  Speaker 1: as many as obeyed him were scattered and brought to knaw. Again,
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  Speaker 1: this is what the rulers hope to happen. Cut off
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  Speaker 1: the head of the snake, and then the whole thing
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  Speaker 1: will just die out. After this man rose up Judas
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  Speaker 1: of Galilee in the days of the Taxi, and drew
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  Speaker 1: away much people after him, he also perished, and all
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  Speaker 1: even as many as obeyed him were dispersed. Now I
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  Speaker 1: say unto you, refrain from these men, let them along.
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  Speaker 1: For if this council or this work be of men,
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  Speaker 1: listen to this, listen to this. This is very This
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  Speaker 1: man is spot on. If this council, if this work,
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  Speaker 1: in other words, if this movement, if it is of men,
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  Speaker 1: if it is earthly it is fleshly, if it is carnal,
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  Speaker 1: if it has been contrived and brought up and raised
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  Speaker 1: up by man, look what he says. It will come
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  Speaker 1: to naught. It's gonna fail, it's gonna flounder, it's gonna falter.
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  Speaker 1: But look at verse thirty nine. If it be of God,
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  Speaker 1: ooh I love it. I love it. Look what he says.
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  Speaker 1: You cannot overthrow it. Less happily you be found even
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  Speaker 1: to fight against God verse forty to him there and
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  Speaker 1: when they had called the apostles, look they still not
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  Speaker 1: finished with, you know, intimidation tactics. The Bible says, they
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  Speaker 1: call the apostles, they beat them, They beat them again,
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  Speaker 1: and then they commanded them. See they're still using that
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  Speaker 1: threat in intimidation. They commanded them that they should not
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  Speaker 1: speak in the name of Jesus. And they let them go. Now,
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  Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, again, any government or any government leader
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  Speaker 1: that insists upon engaging in warfare against the Church, against
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  Speaker 1: what Jesus has already promised that he's going to do,
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  Speaker 1: He's going to build. They are waging a war that
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  Speaker 1: they cannot win. The fight against God is untenable, and
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  Speaker 1: it is unwinnable. Yet fickle, foolish, falling, fallible, frail men
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  Speaker 1: who are, by the way, breathing by the permissiveness of God.
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  Speaker 1: You're breathing the breath of God. And you have a
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  Speaker 1: position of power that has been given to you by God.
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  Speaker 1: God is the one who has raised you up. God
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  Speaker 1: is the one who has granted you to have whatever
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  Speaker 1: position of power in government and leadership and influence that
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  Speaker 1: you have in this world. And yet you will persist
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  Speaker 1: in aligning yourself with the defeated kingdom of the darkness
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  Speaker 1: of this world, of the devil, of the demonic, and
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  Speaker 1: you will insist in failing away amen to your own
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  Speaker 1: destruction and damnation. What a sad, what a sad, what
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  Speaker 1: a sad delusion that is in our world today. But
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  Speaker 1: after being released by the government rulers, the Bible tells us,
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  Speaker 1: I'm finishing here. They departed from the presence of the
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  Speaker 1: Council rejoicing that they were counting worthy to suffer shame
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  Speaker 1: for the name of Jesus Christ. And daily in the
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  Speaker 1: temple and in every house, they did not stop. They
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  Speaker 1: did not quit. We must not stop. We must not
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  Speaker 1: cease from teaching and preaching Jesus Christ. Fight against the Church,
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  Speaker 1: and you are fighting against God. No weapon formed against
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  Speaker 1: the Church of Jesus Christ can prosper. Against the people
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  Speaker 1: of God can prosper. God is for his Church, and
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  Speaker 1: he is with us. Amen. The fight against God is
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  Speaker 1: a fool's fight. Amen. I close with these verses from
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  Speaker 1: Isaiah forty, verse twenty eight. Hast thou not known, hast
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  Speaker 1: thou not heard that the Everlasting God, the Lord, the
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  Speaker 1: creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither
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  Speaker 1: is weary. There is no searching of his understanding. He
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  Speaker 1: giveth power to the faint, and to them that have
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  Speaker 1: no might. He increases strength. Even the youths shall faint
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  Speaker 1: and be weary, and the young men shall utterly fall.
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  Speaker 1: But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength.
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  Speaker 1: They shall mount up with wings as eagles. They shall
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  Speaker 1: run and not be weary, and they shall walk and
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  Speaker 1: not faint. We will not faint, we will not fall
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  Speaker 1: because God holds up his church. Father Again, we thank
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  Speaker 1: you for your word, your power. You're anointing your promises,
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  Speaker 1: every one of them. Yeah, and Amen to the glory
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  Speaker 1: of God. Blessed now every listening ear and every obedient heart.
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  Speaker 1: To the glory of God. We give thanks. Amen, and
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  Speaker 1: a man