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- 0:41Speaker 2: ready to dive into Revelation chapter two, and this time
- 0:47Speaker 2: we're gonna hit a verses eight through eleven, and we're
- 0:51Speaker 2: talking about the Church smRNA A s m y r
- 0:58Speaker 2: n A smrnah. Even I'm pronouncing it right, you know
- 1:02Speaker 2: what I'm saying. But yes, yes, today we're going to
- 1:07Speaker 2: dive deep into it, and it is known as the
- 1:11Speaker 2: Persecuted Church, the Church of Suffering. The instruction tells us
- 1:18Speaker 2: that our faithfulness will make us as pure as gold.
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- 5:16Speaker 2: well let's go ahead and dive into it. The Book
- 5:21Speaker 2: of Revelation. I'm but pick it up from chapter two,
- 5:25Speaker 2: Verse eight is where we're gonna be at. I believe
- 5:29Speaker 2: that's where we left off. And let's go before our
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- 6:26Speaker 2: turn to you, Father, we asked this in Jesus saying
- 6:32Speaker 2: amen and Amen, come on now, right, So this is
- 6:38Speaker 2: gonna get deep. We're talking about persecution and we're gonna
- 6:42Speaker 2: break it down. We're gonna see God's view of it,
- 6:47Speaker 2: and we're gonna see how we should respond to it,
- 6:51Speaker 2: and we're gonna see what happens if we stay faithful
- 6:56Speaker 2: until the end. Now, I will say that this is
- 7:00Speaker 2: not really my favorite topic. I don't think anyone out
- 7:03Speaker 2: there likes to be persecuted. I've been persecuted in my lifetime,
- 7:10Speaker 2: not to this magnitude that we're gonna read here in
- 7:15Speaker 2: the word. Not saying that, but just you know, growing
- 7:20Speaker 2: up and as going through school, you know, there's times
- 7:23Speaker 2: where our classmates will torment us and tease us and
- 7:28Speaker 2: make fun of us. And I don't know if we
- 7:31Speaker 2: used to call it the dozens growing up or capping
- 7:33Speaker 2: on you or making fun of you, and it's embarrassing,
- 7:38Speaker 2: it's shameful. It wasn't fun. I wasn't good at capping.
- 7:43Speaker 2: You know. I ended up in a situation where someone
- 7:47Speaker 2: started talking about my shoes and my clothes, my shirt
- 7:51Speaker 2: and this and that and the other. Like I didn't
- 7:53Speaker 2: have good comebacks. I would just have to sit there
- 7:55Speaker 2: and take it. One of the reasons is because I
- 8:00Speaker 2: was new to town. You know, I was born in Vegas,
- 8:03Speaker 2: but the age of two, my mom took me to
- 8:06Speaker 2: Michigan and I grew up there until I was twelve
- 8:09Speaker 2: years old. Then I came back to Vegas to live
- 8:11Speaker 2: in my pops. And so it was like a culture
- 8:14Speaker 2: shot to me. And here I am the new kid,
- 8:17Speaker 2: new school and all this and then the other getting
- 8:22Speaker 2: made fun of and getting talked about. And it was
- 8:26Speaker 2: especially hard when the girls joined in and do it,
- 8:29Speaker 2: you know what I mean, when the girls are making
- 8:31Speaker 2: friend of you, like, that's like wow, you know what
- 8:34Speaker 2: I'm saying. And so no one really likes persecution. But
- 8:39Speaker 2: I like the fact that Jesus doesn't hold back. He
- 8:42Speaker 2: tells us straight up, Hey, you're gonna be persecuted, and
- 8:45Speaker 2: this is what's gonna happen. You know, he doesn't hold back.
- 8:49Speaker 2: But let's see what he says, his instructions, his promises,
- 8:54Speaker 2: and his comfort as this process has taking place. Now,
- 9:03Speaker 2: I do want to towards the end. I do want
- 9:06Speaker 2: to fall back on the last church we were talking
- 9:10Speaker 2: about ephesis. Another point about the nickelations. I kind of
- 9:16Speaker 2: looked that up, so let me put a note here
- 9:20Speaker 2: somewhere to jump back to that. I was actually gonna
- 9:24Speaker 2: start off with that, but we're already into the revelations too,
- 9:29Speaker 2: so let's go ahead and dive into it. And it
- 9:33Speaker 2: says into the Angel of the Church of Smyrna. Right,
- 9:38Speaker 2: these things says the First and the Last who was
- 9:43Speaker 2: dead and who came to life. I remember the pattern,
- 9:49Speaker 2: as I was saying in the last episodes. He starts
- 9:51Speaker 2: off describing himself and who he is because his name
- 9:57Speaker 2: Yahweh Jehovah. Right, I am that I am or I
- 10:04Speaker 2: am the becoming one. I am whatever you need at
- 10:07Speaker 2: the moment. I am whatever you need. And remember this
- 10:11Speaker 2: is the persecuted church. The saints will be put to
- 10:15Speaker 2: death during this period. During this time, and he introduced
- 10:20Speaker 2: himself as the verse in the last who was dead
- 10:24Speaker 2: and am alive. So he's letting them know, like, yeah,
- 10:28Speaker 2: you know what, I have the power over death. I died,
- 10:33Speaker 2: but I rose again, right, and that is the savior.
- 10:37Speaker 2: That's who this church needed at this time period. Now,
- 10:48Speaker 2: he said in persecution, right, he's talking about persecution. Their
- 10:54Speaker 2: biggest need is a savior who walked through the death
- 11:01Speaker 2: before them. Jesus became flesh, and he understands death, He
- 11:06Speaker 2: understands suffering, and he can minister to us. He is
- 11:12Speaker 2: a faithful high priest. He can relate to us. You see,
- 11:17Speaker 2: this church needed hope. They needed the reminder that death
- 11:22Speaker 2: doesn't have the final say. Jesus rose, and so will we. Amen.
- 11:32Speaker 2: Like I said before, if I'm gonna follow somebody, I'm
- 11:35Speaker 2: gonna follow somebody who knows how to conquer death. That
- 11:38Speaker 2: is the biggest obstacle that mankind faces. And if you
- 11:45Speaker 2: can't defeat death and I can't talk to you, Jesus
- 11:48Speaker 2: is the only one who rose from the dead and
- 11:53Speaker 2: has conquered it. Amen. So let us jump to verse nine,
- 11:59Speaker 2: Chapter two. Verse nine, I know your works tribulation and poverty,
- 12:06Speaker 2: but you are rich, and I know the blasphemy, but
- 12:10Speaker 2: are a synagogue of Satan. Right. And so the early
- 12:20Speaker 2: Church was materially poor. They really didn't have that many possessions.
- 12:28Speaker 2: But even though they might have been materially poor, Jesus says,
- 12:32Speaker 2: you are rich. And what Jesus says is the final
- 12:37Speaker 2: authority on the matter. Right. He's talking about spiritual riches.
- 12:44Speaker 2: Jesus owns everything, and if he says we're rich, we're rich. Amen.
- 12:51Speaker 2: And see that's the double edged blessing of suffering for Christ.
- 12:57Speaker 2: Now you might feel like you have gotten, but if
- 13:02Speaker 2: you're living for Jesus, you are rich in the Kingdom.
- 13:08Speaker 2: That discredits any mockery or false religion around you. You know,
- 13:14Speaker 2: we can't look at reality sometimes we get tripped up,
- 13:17Speaker 2: just like when Peter was walking on water and he
- 13:20Speaker 2: looked at the wind in the ways and he began
- 13:22Speaker 2: to sink. You can't look at your situation and circumstance
- 13:27Speaker 2: that is around you. You may be suffering financially and
- 13:32Speaker 2: may be difficult to pay those bills and pay them
- 13:36Speaker 2: on time. You may not be able to buy what
- 13:39Speaker 2: you want or live the lifestyle that you would like
- 13:42Speaker 2: at this moment. But you have to step back and
- 13:47Speaker 2: you have to look through the eyes of Jesus and
- 13:52Speaker 2: remember he is able to change any situation or circumstances.
- 13:57Speaker 2: So I encourage you to give it to him. I've
- 14:00Speaker 2: been going through a financial funk for a couple of
- 14:03Speaker 2: years now, but I got to keep my faith in
- 14:06Speaker 2: my trust in the Lord, knowing that I'm rich. Amen.
- 14:13Speaker 2: The Bible says, if I let the week say I
- 14:17Speaker 2: am strong, at the poor say I am rich. Amen.
- 14:21Speaker 2: All right, let's keep going. Of Revelations, Chapter two, verse nine,
- 14:26Speaker 2: it says, I know your works tribulation and poverty, but
- 14:32Speaker 2: you are rich. We just read that one, right, okay.
- 14:36Speaker 2: Verse ten, do not fear any of those things. You
- 14:41Speaker 2: will have tribulation ten days, but be faithful unto death,
- 14:46Speaker 2: and I will give you the crown of life. Amen.
- 14:52Speaker 2: All right, let's break this down. We're gonna park here
- 14:54Speaker 2: for a few minutes because Jesus he doesn't sugarcoat it. Right.
- 15:00Speaker 2: He says that Satan is gonna persecute you. He's gonna
- 15:04Speaker 2: throw you into prison, and he's gonna do all these things. Now,
- 15:11Speaker 2: draw attention to the fact where he said ten days.
- 15:16Speaker 2: This is symbolic. It's symbolic for a complete season of testing.
- 15:22Speaker 2: Ten days of testing. He said, when it gets hard,
- 15:27Speaker 2: don't bail press in, pray harder, and stay ready. Jesus.
- 15:33Speaker 2: Jesus isn't asking us to be unbet beaten. He's calling
- 15:39Speaker 2: us to be unbowed. Unbowed, do not bow down to
- 15:44Speaker 2: the pressures to the persecution. If faithfulness costs you your life.
- 15:50Speaker 2: He's saying, I've got you forever. Amen. Our faithfulness could
- 15:55Speaker 2: cost us our very lives. But he's saying, hey, I
- 16:01Speaker 2: got you, not only now, but I got you for
- 16:05Speaker 2: all eternity. Now, I think it's interesting that the ten
- 16:12Speaker 2: day symbolic time frame in his verse. Now the persecution
- 16:20Speaker 2: is real. Jesus is telling us that it's gonna be hard.
- 16:25Speaker 2: It's gonna be tough. Some of you are even gonna die. Now,
- 16:29Speaker 2: if you look back in Church history, you will see
- 16:33Speaker 2: how this played out. Now they were How can I
- 16:40Speaker 2: break this down? Okay, so ten, let's look at the
- 16:46Speaker 2: number ten as a symbolic complete season of testing. Now,
- 16:52Speaker 2: as we think of Daniel in the Three Hebrew Boys, right,
- 16:58Speaker 2: he did not want to eat the food from the
- 17:02Speaker 2: king's table. He did not want to defy himself, so
- 17:05Speaker 2: he asked for ten days to test me, test them out, like,
- 17:11Speaker 2: feed us vegetables for ten days, and come and see
- 17:14Speaker 2: if we're looking healthier for looking sickly, like, just give
- 17:19Speaker 2: us a test ten days. And also, historians say that
- 17:24Speaker 2: it was ten waves of the Roman persecution in the
- 17:29Speaker 2: early Church. Right now, this is what is significant about it,
- 17:36Speaker 2: Like I said, it's real and it's painful. Jesus won't
- 17:43Speaker 2: sugarcoat it. You're probably gonna go through some pain in
- 17:47Speaker 2: his life. You might even lose your life. Right, I know,
- 17:50Speaker 2: I keep repeating myself, but I'm really trying to drive
- 17:52Speaker 2: this point. The point is this, It's only for a season,
- 18:00Speaker 2: and God put a limit on it. There is a
- 18:04Speaker 2: season for this testing. Like it was up to Satan,
- 18:09Speaker 2: it would be forever. Right. Stan wouldn't put no limits.
- 18:13Speaker 2: God puts the limits. And we know that Satan hates
- 18:17Speaker 2: the fact that he's limited. That God gives him the
- 18:20Speaker 2: parameter on which he can operate. Now, why does God
- 18:26Speaker 2: allow persecution? Why does he allow his sayings to die? Why? Well,
- 18:37Speaker 2: I'll tell you straight up, I do not know the
- 18:39Speaker 2: whys of God. You know. That's why we have to
- 18:46Speaker 2: engage God with our faith. We will never understand all
- 18:52Speaker 2: of God. What he does, he says it. His ways
- 18:54Speaker 2: are not our ways, his thoughts are not our thoughts.
- 18:57Speaker 2: His ways are beyond us finding out. Unless he he
- 19:00Speaker 2: vels it to us, we wouldn't know. And so me personally,
- 19:08Speaker 2: I would protect my saints. I would protect my children
- 19:12Speaker 2: from any trouble like as soon as I see trouble coming. Right,
- 19:15Speaker 2: if you see a rabbit, raby infested dog running for
- 19:21Speaker 2: your child, you know this dog could kill your child
- 19:27Speaker 2: within seconds. I'll do everything I can to stop that dog.
- 19:32Speaker 2: Shoot them, stab them, you know, you know, get in
- 19:37Speaker 2: the way. I'd rather lay my life down than to
- 19:40Speaker 2: see my child do that. And he did this, Like,
- 19:44Speaker 2: don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to say that
- 19:47Speaker 2: God's love, God's love is limitless. Like this is what
- 19:51Speaker 2: he did when he's sending Jesus on the cross. Right,
- 19:54Speaker 2: he doesn't want us to go to hell, and so
- 19:58Speaker 2: a little persecution ain't much compared to eternal damnation. Right,
- 20:05Speaker 2: he did everything he could to stop the world from
- 20:09Speaker 2: going to hell. So I don't know, like you know,
- 20:14Speaker 2: I can't answer the wise of God, but I can
- 20:17Speaker 2: look at what he promised during this period of persecution.
- 20:22Speaker 2: At least he put a limit on it, right, ten days.
- 20:25Speaker 2: At least there's a season of this persecution. And also
- 20:30Speaker 2: he promised rewards for those who stay faithful. So we're
- 20:34Speaker 2: gonna look and get into that when we look up
- 20:38Speaker 2: these other verses. So verse eleven, he who overcomes shall
- 20:43Speaker 2: not be hurt by the second death, and I was
- 20:47Speaker 2: just talking about that, right like he did everything he
- 20:50Speaker 2: could to protect us from the second death. Now, overcoming
- 20:57Speaker 2: doesn't necessarily mean perfection. Is not the fact that we're
- 21:01Speaker 2: going to be perfect, that will not fall sometimes that
- 21:03Speaker 2: we're not going to struggle. But it means being persistent,
- 21:09Speaker 2: stay persistent, stay persistent, don't give up, keep going, keep going,
- 21:16Speaker 2: keep getting back up, keep seeking God, keep asking for forgiveness,
- 21:22Speaker 2: keep relying on him, keep crying out. He said that
- 21:28Speaker 2: they overcame by the blood of the Lamb and by
- 21:32Speaker 2: the word of their testimony. See overcoming is it about
- 21:38Speaker 2: never failing. It's about letting Christ through your mess. If
- 21:47Speaker 2: you do that, not even death can touch your destiny.
- 21:54Speaker 2: Right he promises to be with us. Let's think about Shahrak,
- 22:01Speaker 2: Mishak and Bendigo when the King never can A threatened
- 22:07Speaker 2: to throw them in the fiery furnace. This says, you
- 22:12Speaker 2: know what, our God is able to deliver us, but
- 22:16Speaker 2: even if not, even if he doesn't, we will not
- 22:19Speaker 2: bow to your God like they were willing to give
- 22:24Speaker 2: their life because they know that they have victory in death.
- 22:28Speaker 2: They know God, his word and his promises. They knew
- 22:31Speaker 2: who their God was, and God did not save them
- 22:37Speaker 2: from being thrown into the furnace. He could have allowed
- 22:43Speaker 2: an angel to stop them. He could have sent a
- 22:53Speaker 2: legion of angels to defeat never can Azer and all
- 22:57Speaker 2: the Shenanigans he had going. No, he allowed the furnace
- 23:02Speaker 2: to happen. Then, all of a sudden, as they're thrown
- 23:10Speaker 2: into the furnace, never Canezar saw a fourth person in
- 23:16Speaker 2: the furnace, and he looked like the son of God. Amen.
- 23:22Speaker 2: And the only thing that got burnt were the ropes
- 23:26Speaker 2: that were there to bind them and to tie them up.
- 23:30Speaker 2: A right. That is our God, that is our God.
- 23:35Speaker 2: He promises to be there with us in the midst
- 23:38Speaker 2: of the persecution. He promised to be there with us
- 23:42Speaker 2: in the midst of the trial. Whatever trial you were
- 23:45Speaker 2: facing today, whatever you're going through, lean upon Jesus, call
- 23:51Speaker 2: upon his presence. He promises to help you make it through. Amen.
- 23:58Speaker 2: All right, well, right now it's tough for a music break,
- 24:03Speaker 2: and I have on deck God, don't cancel me by
- 24:11Speaker 2: Rudy Current right here live on the his Hot radio show,
- 24:17Speaker 2: and uh we will see you right after the music.
- 24:24Speaker 3: As hoguins con don't cancel me. I, I'm all right,
- 24:27Speaker 3: I'm all right. Come as logus, God, don't cancel me.
- 24:31Speaker 2: I'm all right, time all right.
- 24:34Speaker 3: As hokus con, don't cancel me. I I'm alright, I'm
- 24:38Speaker 3: all right as we gus con. Don't cancel me. These things,
- 24:47Speaker 3: these things.
- 24:50Speaker 2: I can do be album love peace you bread.
- 24:55Speaker 3: I can't leave it, yaw, I gets me in no
- 24:57Speaker 3: way from your blessings over you do.
- 25:04Speaker 4: Let's don't take your spirit away from me, sir.
- 25:15Speaker 5: So many.
- 25:18Speaker 3: As hongus kid, don't canceling. I'm all right, I'm all right,
- 25:22Speaker 3: I'm all right, longus cod, don't canceling. I'm all right,
- 25:26Speaker 3: I'm all right.
- 25:28Speaker 5: I'm all right, God, don't canceling.
- 25:30Speaker 3: I'm all right, I'm all right. I'm all right, as
- 25:34Speaker 3: long as cord don't canceling. Don't cancel me.
- 25:39Speaker 2: Can I see it again? These things, these things I
- 25:44Speaker 2: can't do me that.
- 25:45Speaker 3: But you're free. Can I leave with outy casting out.
- 25:52Speaker 4: The way from your press Lord?
- 25:59Speaker 6: So take your spirit and worry.
- 26:03Speaker 3: Brow Yeah, Jesus, coming as hocus cod, don't cancel me.
- 26:14Speaker 3: I'm all right, I'm all right, I'm all right.
- 26:17Speaker 2: It's hocus con. Don't cancel me.
- 26:19Speaker 3: I'm all right, I'm all right, I'm all right.
- 26:23Speaker 6: Yeah, don't cancel me.
- 26:24Speaker 3: I'm all right, I'm all right. Time all right. As
- 26:28Speaker 3: long as cord don't castle, don't cancel me.
- 26:33Speaker 2: Just look to the hea.
- 26:37Speaker 5: Yeah yeah, well you know, just look.
- 26:44Speaker 6: To the hey.
- 26:52Speaker 3: He's coming from. As long as God don't cancel me,
- 26:57Speaker 3: I'm all right.
- 27:00Speaker 4: As brokeuse.
- 27:01Speaker 3: God, don't cancel me. I'm all right as brokeuse. God,
- 27:06Speaker 3: don't cancel me.
- 27:07Speaker 6: I'm all right.
- 27:11Speaker 2: As monkeys. God don't cancel me.
- 27:14Speaker 1: Don't Cassley.
- 27:20Speaker 6: All all I'm a say, yeah, I'm a right.
- 27:36Speaker 5: You ought to tell somebody you can block me if
- 27:39Speaker 5: you want it, but you can't block these blessings.
- 27:49Speaker 2: You get it, hey me if you want to.
- 27:54Speaker 4: But no, no, no, no, no, that's for harm against me.
- 28:29Speaker 2: And just like that, we are back. As long as
- 28:33Speaker 2: God don't cancel us, We're gonna be all right a man,
- 28:37Speaker 2: no matter what kind of persecution, no matter who's coming
- 28:41Speaker 2: up against you, no matter what. As long as we
- 28:45Speaker 2: stay persistent in our faith, stay faithful, call upon our
- 28:50Speaker 2: Lord amen, seek him daily, we're gonna be all right.
- 28:57Speaker 2: How it was time for joke of the day, you
- 29:05Speaker 2: are entering into twenty jokes on I don't know. It
- 29:10Speaker 2: may be funny to you, but hey, we got one
- 29:13Speaker 2: about I don't know. Maybe maybe this one might not
- 29:18Speaker 2: be that funny because persecution. You know, I'm gonna skip
- 29:22Speaker 2: that one. This one's gonna be a little joke about persecution.
- 29:26Speaker 2: Persecution is not funny at all. So let's do some
- 29:30Speaker 2: Bible trivia. Who met with Abraham? Who had no mother
- 29:38Speaker 2: or no father, no history at all? Who was the
- 29:45Speaker 2: There was someone in the Old Testament that met with
- 29:48Speaker 2: Abraham and there is no history someone who had no
- 29:52Speaker 2: mother and no father. So look that up. I know
- 29:57Speaker 2: some of y'all are gonna go to Google, but I
- 30:01Speaker 2: guess it's all right. As long as you learn right
- 30:04Speaker 2: post it in the live chat let us know the answer.
- 30:08Speaker 2: You will get some extra credit today for that. And
- 30:12Speaker 2: now it's time for some news. It looks like Brian Trio.
- 30:16Speaker 2: We know that he's been going through something as of late.
- 30:20Speaker 2: His wife sent out a video a couple of months
- 30:26Speaker 2: ago about things going on in his life, and it
- 30:30Speaker 2: seems like he's repented, right, and but it looks like
- 30:35Speaker 2: he's got some new music out. I don't know I
- 30:37Speaker 2: think it might be too early. What do you guys
- 30:39Speaker 2: think posting a live chat but it's supposed to be
- 30:43Speaker 2: about his testimony and him coming back. What do you think?
- 30:47Speaker 2: Is it too soon? You think Brian should sit down
- 30:50Speaker 2: and spend more time with his family. He's actually got
- 30:53Speaker 2: a new baby on the way. But you know, we're
- 30:56Speaker 2: not here to judge anyone. I'm not judging. I'm just
- 30:59Speaker 2: saying the process of restoration. It's not like God can't
- 31:04Speaker 2: do it, so maybe God is doing the things. So
- 31:07Speaker 2: check them out. Brian Trio. He's got a new track
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- 34:05Speaker 2: so I'm gonna close out this topic now at this time.
- 34:10Speaker 2: But just as I was saying a few minutes ago,
- 34:14Speaker 2: I want to fall back on chapter one and give
- 34:18Speaker 2: more insight on the nickelations, right because I believe it's
- 34:25Speaker 2: if Jesus brought it. He brings it up twice. There
- 34:27Speaker 2: are two churches that he addressed concerning the nickelation, so
- 34:32Speaker 2: he ain't tight for that. So now for the current topic,
- 34:36Speaker 2: the persecuted church family. If you are walking through your
- 34:44Speaker 2: some Marna season Samarana somemarna announcing it right, know this,
- 34:54Speaker 2: you are blessed, you are counted, and you are loved,
- 35:03Speaker 2: and you will inherit the crown of life one day soon.
- 35:10Speaker 2: Every tear, every test, be turned into a testimony. Amen,
- 35:18Speaker 2: it will be your testimony. Keep your faith, keep your fire,
- 35:29Speaker 2: and remember everything you do for Jesus will never be wasted.
- 35:36Speaker 2: It will never be wasted. There's a crown of life.
- 35:43Speaker 2: You may not understand this on this side of eternity
- 35:47Speaker 2: about receiving crowns, where there's a crown of life waiting
- 35:53Speaker 2: for you if you're faced with a life and day
- 36:00Speaker 2: situation concerning your faith in Jesus Christ. Now, as we
- 36:06Speaker 2: read further we get to the futuristic section of this
- 36:10Speaker 2: Book of Revelation. It speaks about those who put their
- 36:16Speaker 2: faith in Christ will be beheaded by the world government.
- 36:21Speaker 2: The world government is going to haunt us down. He
- 36:27Speaker 2: can't do it right now because the Holy Spirit is restraining.
- 36:33Speaker 2: You think Satan would love the opportunity if he could
- 36:37Speaker 2: wipe us all out right now? You think he wouldn't
- 36:39Speaker 2: have He's already doing it in other countries. I thank God.
- 36:44Speaker 2: This is one of the reasons why I am thankful
- 36:47Speaker 2: that I am an American, because I have the freedom
- 36:53Speaker 2: to worship Jesus of nothing else. We have liberties and
- 36:59Speaker 2: freedom that other countries do not have that we should
- 37:04Speaker 2: not take for granted, we should thank God every day.
- 37:08Speaker 2: On this note, as I close out this topic, persecution
- 37:16Speaker 2: has never really hurt the church. If you look through
- 37:20Speaker 2: church history, every time the church was persecuted with life
- 37:26Speaker 2: and death situations, there were martyrs back in the ancient
- 37:30Speaker 2: Roman times. They would feed Christians to lions, they would
- 37:36Speaker 2: keep them, they would take them to the arena, and
- 37:39Speaker 2: these people were willing to die for what they believed in. Well,
- 37:44Speaker 2: that caused the revival. That caused the Roman people to say, wow,
- 37:48Speaker 2: like I would love to have something to die for,
- 37:51Speaker 2: Like what do I have on my life? What am
- 37:54Speaker 2: I convicted about that I'm willing to lay my life
- 37:57Speaker 2: down like that? And they felt the love of the
- 38:00Speaker 2: love they had for one another, the love and we
- 38:04Speaker 2: talked about that on the last episode, how love is
- 38:07Speaker 2: the main thing, right, we're not growing in love? They
- 38:11Speaker 2: were missing it and they just saw the love on
- 38:14Speaker 2: these Christians. And even in persecution, it doesn't stop the glory. Amen.
- 38:22Speaker 2: Persecution will make the church kind of mean and mean,
- 38:28Speaker 2: if you know what I'm saying, it'll strengthen the church
- 38:33Speaker 2: and the church will grow. Look at the church in China,
- 38:36Speaker 2: the underground church experiencing miracle, science, and wonders. The church
- 38:41Speaker 2: in Africa, these churches and other nations are experiencing revival
- 38:46Speaker 2: and things that we have not experienced a long time
- 38:50Speaker 2: in this country. So amen. So I don't necessarily feel
- 38:57Speaker 2: sorry for the church, the persecuted church, but our instruction
- 39:04Speaker 2: today is to be prepared, to be ready, be persistent,
- 39:08Speaker 2: don't let it deter you, don't act surprised. It doesn't
- 39:14Speaker 2: surprise God. God is in control and he puts limits
- 39:18Speaker 2: to it. Yeah, it may be painful, but there's a season.
- 39:22Speaker 2: It's not eternal. You will be protected from the second death.
- 39:29Speaker 2: So this little trouble, temporary trouble that we may be
- 39:33Speaker 2: going through now, is nothing compared to that. Amen, Amen
- 39:39Speaker 2: and Amen. All right. So those are my closing remarks
- 39:48Speaker 2: concerning the persecuted Church. Now let's fall back for a second,
- 39:55Speaker 2: back to chapter one, and I really want to finish
- 40:02Speaker 2: out a few thoughts about the nickeolations nicolity right now.
- 40:12Speaker 2: And the reason why is because I live through this.
- 40:15Speaker 2: This is a part of my story, part of my testimony,
- 40:18Speaker 2: and I want to send a strong warning out to
- 40:21Speaker 2: the saints, to the believers who may be unaware that
- 40:27Speaker 2: this is out there. Now Revelation chapter two, Jesus commends
- 40:36Speaker 2: the Church of Ephesus. But this you have that you
- 40:40Speaker 2: hate the deeds of the Nickelations, which I also hate.
- 40:44Speaker 2: So Jesus already established that he hates it. So if
- 40:48Speaker 2: Jesus hates it, we should hate it. Even if you
- 40:53Speaker 2: belong to a church that has adopted this doctrine trumps
- 41:00Speaker 2: the church right. And in Revelations two fifteen, Jesus rebukes
- 41:05Speaker 2: the Church of Pergamas. H Pergamum right, and we haven't
- 41:12Speaker 2: gotten there yet, but we will read it. But he
- 41:15Speaker 2: says this, you also have those who hold the doctrine
- 41:21Speaker 2: of the Nickelations, which thing I hate. So he confirms
- 41:25Speaker 2: it twice that he hates this doctrine. Now, in the
- 41:31Speaker 2: Greek the word is pronounced Nicholas or nicol like n
- 41:38Speaker 2: I k O l a i t e with aposiphy
- 41:44Speaker 2: s now. This name is compound of two Greek words.
- 41:51Speaker 2: Nico means to conquer or to overcome, or to subdue.
- 41:57Speaker 2: Now pay attention to that. That's where they get the
- 42:01Speaker 2: word nike. Nico means to conquer, to overcome, and to subdue.
- 42:09Speaker 2: In laos las means the people. So it means nickelations
- 42:18Speaker 2: equal conquerors, conquerors of the people, or those who subdue
- 42:25Speaker 2: the people. There's churches out there. They conquer the people
- 42:31Speaker 2: or they seek to subdue the people their congregants. People
- 42:35Speaker 2: are underneath this type of doctrine. This suggests a group
- 42:41Speaker 2: that dominates or rules over the people spiritually or politically,
- 42:47Speaker 2: likely abusing authority and distorting the freedom in Christ. Amen,
- 42:53Speaker 2: Jesus comes to set us free, right, but this doctrine
- 43:01Speaker 2: wants to subdue and set up some type of a
- 43:04Speaker 2: higharchy in the Church. Now, remember Jesus hates this type
- 43:12Speaker 2: of activity. See. While the Bible doesn't give us a
- 43:16Speaker 2: detailed theological outline, here's what we can gather from early
- 43:23Speaker 2: Christian sources. In biblical contexts, it involves moral compromise. They
- 43:32Speaker 2: were associated with sexual immorality and eating food sacrificed to idols,
- 43:38Speaker 2: a pattern repeated in Revelation chapter two. This mirror is
- 43:43Speaker 2: the doctrine of Balem. Now it fellowships with the doctrine
- 43:47Speaker 2: of Balem in Revelations two fifteen and fourteen, who taught
- 43:53Speaker 2: Israel to compromise spiritually. Jesus hates this because it seduces
- 44:01Speaker 2: the church into worldliness, the church that he died for.
- 44:07Speaker 2: Jesus wants to be intimate with us. But this doctrine
- 44:11Speaker 2: is seducing us away. Now it turns grace into lawlessness.
- 44:25Speaker 2: They taught that because believers are under grace, they could
- 44:29Speaker 2: sin without consequences, licensing sin under the banner of freedom.
- 44:36Speaker 2: Now that is just stray demonic saying that God's grace
- 44:41Speaker 2: will cover you. God knows your heart. It's okay. If
- 44:43Speaker 2: anyone ever comforts you while you are in your sin,
- 44:47Speaker 2: that is a false teacher, a false brother. Get away
- 44:52Speaker 2: from them. Satan is the only one that would promote
- 44:57Speaker 2: sin in any situation. Now June chapter one, verse four.
- 45:03Speaker 2: Ungodly men who turn the grace of our God into
- 45:07Speaker 2: lootness and deny the only Lord God. They turn the
- 45:13Speaker 2: grace of God into loudness. Now now the name niclations,
- 45:26Speaker 2: the name hence a system where a select few rule
- 45:31Speaker 2: over the church. Right now here it says that this
- 45:46Speaker 2: perverts servanthood leadership into clerical control. Jesus taught servanthood. It
- 46:01Speaker 2: rejects Matthew Chapter twenty three, verse eight through twelve, when
- 46:07Speaker 2: Jesus taught that kingdom leadership is servanthood is the world
- 46:13Speaker 2: that they want to rule over you. Right, he talked
- 46:17Speaker 2: about benefactors and adverse. Now, there is no direct Hebrew
- 46:24Speaker 2: for the word nickelations, but some scholars draw symbolic parallels
- 46:30Speaker 2: right here with Baylim. Right, this is associated with corrupting
- 46:37Speaker 2: God's people for gain. That's who Baylum represents in the
- 46:43Speaker 2: Old Testament. So Baylim equals destroyer of the people. That's
- 46:55Speaker 2: the name for Baalim if you look it up. Nickelations
- 46:59Speaker 2: means ankeror of the people. Now they both represent the
- 47:05Speaker 2: same spirit, corrupting from within that leads God's people into
- 47:11Speaker 2: spiritual defeat. Corruption from within. Now, why does Jesus hate
- 47:19Speaker 2: this doctrine? Because this doctrine leads his people astray into sin.
- 47:26Speaker 2: They give them comfort and sin. It leads them into compromise,
- 47:30Speaker 2: It controls them, and it leads them to destruction, all
- 47:38Speaker 2: under a mask of religion and under the mask of
- 47:44Speaker 2: false grace. False grace, this is not the purpose of
- 47:50Speaker 2: the grace of God. It pollutes holiness, It destroys the
- 47:56Speaker 2: intimacy between Christ and his bride, It misrepresents God's character,
- 48:06Speaker 2: and it manipulates authority for selfish gain. It manipulates authority
- 48:13Speaker 2: for selfish gain. Amen. Yes, I just wanted to go
- 48:20Speaker 2: further into that. That is part of my testimony. And
- 48:24Speaker 2: these churches are out there, beloved. That's why I really
- 48:29Speaker 2: want to spend time with this. This is probably not
- 48:32Speaker 2: the last time we're gonna talk about the Nickeolations. But
- 48:37Speaker 2: a lot of churches are not preaching against it. You
- 48:41Speaker 2: don't hear this. You don't hear how many sermons have
- 48:45Speaker 2: you heard on the works of the Nickeolations? Right? You
- 48:50Speaker 2: really don't hear about it because a lot of churches
- 48:53Speaker 2: take advantage at this point. They want to rule over
- 48:56Speaker 2: their people, this corruption from within. I give you permission
- 49:02Speaker 2: to leave your church if you're in a situation where
- 49:07Speaker 2: they are conquering your life, controlling every aspect of your life.
- 49:12Speaker 2: That is not the will of God. If Jesus hates it,
- 49:16Speaker 2: trust me, you're good, You're okay. If Jesus hates it,
- 49:22Speaker 2: then I'm gonna preach against it. I know what it's
- 49:25Speaker 2: like to have a pastor dominate your life and control you.
- 49:34Speaker 2: They're always dangling you over the pitsa hill. In my situation,
- 49:39Speaker 2: a little bit about my story. You were forced to
- 49:43Speaker 2: wear a tie as a disciple come to church, you
- 49:46Speaker 2: had to have a tie. And I'm actually gonna name him.
- 49:49Speaker 2: The church is called the Potter's House from Prescott, Arizona
- 49:53Speaker 2: is the main church. The church I went to here
- 49:56Speaker 2: locally was called the dor Christian Fellowship, which was a
- 50:00Speaker 2: branch from Youma Arizona, from their pastor Coolidge. And so
- 50:07Speaker 2: what they talked was you must wear tie, you must tithe,
- 50:13Speaker 2: which I mean I believe in that we should tithe.
- 50:16Speaker 2: But I'm gonna show you the twist they put on it.
- 50:19Speaker 2: You gotta go to every outreach. You better come to
- 50:21Speaker 2: every church service, everything the church was doing. You better
- 50:26Speaker 2: be there. And this is how they control their people.
- 50:31Speaker 2: Or you're not saved, or you didn't come tos in
- 50:34Speaker 2: that Bible study. Brother, you're not saved. Oh you didn't
- 50:38Speaker 2: do this, you're not saved. And if you did not
- 50:42Speaker 2: listen to your pastor, you're doing to go to hell.
- 50:48Speaker 2: Right like your pastor is almost like your pastor had
- 50:51Speaker 2: the same authority as the Bible itself. Right Jesus, Now
- 50:56Speaker 2: think about it. Jesus is the only one that has
- 50:58Speaker 2: the right to rule our lives like that. And what
- 51:01Speaker 2: does how does he exercise No. Jesus is the king
- 51:04Speaker 2: of kings and lord of lords. Look at his lordship, right,
- 51:10Speaker 2: does he control us like that? What does he? How
- 51:14Speaker 2: does he communicate to us? He communicates to us out
- 51:18Speaker 2: of love. His lordship is intimacy. His lordship he respects
- 51:26Speaker 2: your freedom of choice. If your pastor doesn't respect your
- 51:31Speaker 2: freedom of choice, and he's always forcing you, demanding you,
- 51:39Speaker 2: then that could be a red flag. That is a
- 51:45Speaker 2: nicolat in church. I don't know. You would have to
- 51:48Speaker 2: pray and ask the Holy Spirit discernment. But I just
- 51:53Speaker 2: want my brothers and sisters just to be aware that
- 51:57Speaker 2: there are a lot of churches out there that are
- 52:01Speaker 2: teaching this doctrine. Of course, if they're compromise is sin.
- 52:05Speaker 2: If your pastor is sleeping with the people in the
- 52:08Speaker 2: church having babies all over the place, I mean that's
- 52:11Speaker 2: a no brainer. But you don't really hear too much
- 52:15Speaker 2: about the pastors who are controlling their people, who have
- 52:23Speaker 2: conquered their congregation. God did not call us to be
- 52:27Speaker 2: conquered by a pastor. He called us for freedom in liberty. Amen.
- 52:33Speaker 2: And I'm gonna be bold enough to tell you this
- 52:35Speaker 2: right here on his hot radio podcasts. It is my
- 52:40Speaker 2: heart that we ingrabh the Word because it is able
- 52:44Speaker 2: to save our souls and stick with us. Next up
- 52:50Speaker 2: tomorrow we'll be looking at the Church of Pergamos, the
- 52:54Speaker 2: Compromised Church. So don't sleep on this. There's more Kingdom
- 53:00Speaker 2: truth coming your way. We're going chapter by chapter, book
- 53:04Speaker 2: by book through revelation. Read ahead so that we can
- 53:08Speaker 2: come back together and go through it again. God bless you,
- 53:13Speaker 2: I mean, boy, mister his hop and remember not about us.
- 53:18Speaker 2: It's all about the Christ and us. God bless