Latest / End-Time Revival Ministries, USA / Episode 97: Pandemic Of Lies VIII
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- 0:14Bless the Lord, oh my soul, and all that is within me.
- 0:17Bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, oh my soul, and forget
- 0:21not all of his benefits. God, we thank you today for your mercy
- 0:25new this morning, your great faithfulness, your loving kindness, the peace of
- 0:28God, the joy of the Lord that gives us strength from day to day.
- 0:32We thank you for the blessed hope that we have in Christ, Jesus
- 0:35our Savior, our Lord, our Redeemer, our soon coming King Lord.
- 0:40We pray today somewhere, somewhere, somewhere, somewhere, someone's eyes will be
- 0:46open, ears attuned to hear, a man the spirit of the Living God,
- 0:51a man moving upon their heart, and that they will be obedient to
- 0:55the voice of God, to the word of God, and be saved.
- 1:00But for your glory, for your kingdom, for your great namesake, we
- 1:02pray it in Jesus' name. Amen and Amen. All right, God,
- 1:07bless you once again. We welcome you to this another edition of End Time
- 1:11Revival Ministries US a podcast. I am your host, Pastor al Zachary,
- 1:18and today we continue with another installment in our series, entitle Pandemic of Lies,
- 1:26Pandemic of lies. And in our previous episode, our focus was on
- 1:37the power of delusion, the power of delusion, and we stated in this
- 1:44past episode that whenever people or a person is brought under the power of delusion,
- 1:51the cause is their mind. That person's mind has been separate it from
- 2:00truth. Amen. And and and and so uh. The inner workings of
- 2:07the mind come under the sway, come under the influence of the demonic and
- 2:15demonic forces. Already, the Bible tells us by the way that the heart
- 2:21of man is already desperately wicked in and of itself. Amen. And this
- 2:25is why we need a new heart. This is why we must be born
- 2:30again. But when people turn away from the truth, they come under the
- 2:37sway, under the influence, under the control. Eventually, if they're given
- 2:43over the unto the demonic Amen. And the devil, who is the adversary
- 2:51of all of our souls, Amen, he then begins to manipulate them their
- 2:57actions, their deeds, a man, their thoughts in direct contradiction to the
- 3:05truth. The devil, your adversary, is the father of lies, and
- 3:08he is of course the mastermind of delusion. That's where he wants to take
- 3:17anyone again who will not hear and obey the truth. When the mind is
- 3:23given over to delusion, it is because again, somewhere, in some way,
- 3:29there has been a denial, there has been a rejection of God's truth.
- 3:36Amen. And this is what the apostle Paul wrote about Amen in Romans
- 3:40chapter one. Listen, please understand that when the spirit of God, who
- 3:45is at work in this world to save us, to deliver us, to
- 3:47set us free, when the Spirit of God strives with a man, a
- 3:53man for a season, for whatever time period, that God allots to that
- 3:58individual man after that time, after it has run its course, and this
- 4:02person continues to live in rebellion, a man refuses, and the Bible says
- 4:09again describes this in Roman chapter one. Amen, they don't want God in
- 4:14their knowledge, they don't want him in their mind. Amen. God gives
- 4:17that person over to a reprobate state. Amen. And by the way,
- 4:23this is not Amen, something new. This is not a new phenomenon.
- 4:27And how God has dealt with any proud and rebellious people. You can see
- 4:32this for example in Amen Isaiah chapter sixty six. I want to read a
- 4:38couple of verses. They're the latter clause of verse number three of Isaiah sixty
- 4:43six. This is what the Bible says. This is the Lord speaking through
- 4:47his prophet concerning his own people. Just as they have chosen their own ways
- 4:57and their soul delight in their abominations Verse four, soul, will I choose
- 5:06their delusions and bring their fears on them? Because when I called, no
- 5:18one answered. When I spoke, they did not hear, but they did
- 5:25evil before my eyes and chose that in which I do not delight. This
- 5:34is what God did with his own chosen people, the nation of Israel,
- 5:41and one of the times of their wicked abominations. Listen again what the Bible
- 5:46says. They chose their own ways, their soul delighted in doing abominable things,
- 5:55things that God hates. And so because of that, the Bible says,
- 6:00God says, I will choose their delusions. See God is the one
- 6:04who gives you over. Amen. The Holy Spirit again is at work in
- 6:10this world, and it is the he The Holy Spirit is the restraining force
- 6:15against the tide of evil that is operating in this world. But if and
- 6:20when a person or a people again continue to resist the Holy Spirit, Amen,
- 6:30they will not have the choice that they think they have. They will
- 6:34no longer have the option. They lose the power of choice because they choose
- 6:41to go down their own way. The Bible says, that way which seems
- 6:44right to a man, but it ends in destruction. That's where they're going.
- 6:47They don't know it. They delight in doing the abominable things that God
- 6:51says are abominations. And so in soul are their refusal, in their a
- 7:03man rejection, in their unwillingness to retain God in their knowledge, the Bible
- 7:11says, God then chooses their delusions, and God brings their fears, all
- 7:18of their fears upon them. And why does God do this? He says,
- 7:25because when I called, no one answered. When I spoke, they
- 7:31refused to hear. They did evil before my eyes, and they chose that
- 7:39in which I do not delight. Now, there's no doubt in my mind
- 7:45that we are living in the latter of the end times. For this present
- 7:49world of the darkness in which we are living, so much of what Jesus
- 7:57prophesied about what would happen happen is occurring as we see it day by day,
- 8:05year by year, as we draw closer to the day of the Lord,
- 8:09when all of what the Bible has spoken of, what the prophets have
- 8:16spoken of, what jesuslf spoke of, that will come to pass, is
- 8:20going to be fulfilled. We're just that close in the meantime, by the
- 8:26way, because the Last Days began when Jesus came, it was over two
- 8:31thousand years ago. The last days are already here. They were then at
- 8:37that time, and we are again at the latter end of the Last Days
- 8:41in the meantime in our day. What we are seeing, what we're witnessing,
- 8:50are many of the things that Jesus himself spoke of. And I read
- 8:56this already before you, and I'm going to rehearse it again. And the
- 8:58Gospel of Matthew, chapter twenty four, I'm gonna read beginning in verse number
- 9:01four. Jesus answered and said, unto them, take heed that no one
- 9:05deceives you. And again that's where we're living, certainly in a time of
- 9:11deception, massive delusion, that's happening in our world today. He says,
- 9:16for many will come in my name saying I am the Christ, and will
- 9:20deceive many. And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. Jesus
- 9:26says, see that you are not trouble, for all these things must come
- 9:30to pass, but the end is not yet. For nation will rise against
- 9:37nation. And this also, by the way, speaks of not just national
- 9:41borders or nation states, but ethnicities, racial division, and strife. Nation
- 9:48will rise against nation, kingdom against kingdom. And there will be Jesus speaking
- 9:56prophetically, famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places, and Jesus goes
- 10:03on to say that all these are the beginning of sorrows. Then he says,
- 10:09they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and you will
- 10:13be hated by all nations for my name's sake. And then many will be
- 10:20offended, will betray one another, and will hate one another. Oh boy,
- 10:24do we see that many false prophets will arise and deceive many. That
- 10:31has been happening, and it's still happening. And because lawlessness will abound.
- 10:37Can anybody that's honest not admit that we are living in lawlessness? Lawless time?
- 10:50I mean, it can't get worse. By the way, again,
- 10:54thank God for the restraining power of the holy ghosts, of the spirit of
- 10:58the life God at work in this world. Because I am thoroughly convinced,
- 11:03beyond a shadow of any kind of doubt in my mind that if it were
- 11:09not for the presence of the Holy Spirit in this world restraining evil that is
- 11:15in the heart of man, that's where it comes from, from the heart
- 11:18of man, and coupled with the influence of the devil, the adversary,
- 11:24who is out to destroy your soul. When you couple the wickedness of man's
- 11:30heart with the evil that comes out of the pit of hell, what we
- 11:35have is lawlessness. And Jesus told us that lawlessness will abound and the love
- 11:43of many will grow cold. But he who endures to the end shall be
- 11:50saved. And this Gospel of the Kingdom, he goes on the verse number
- 11:54fourteen, will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the
- 11:58nations. And then the end will come. Ladies and gentlemen, is the
- 12:05gospel being preached in all the world? Yes, yes, it is.
- 12:11The end is nearer than we would like to Some of us may like to
- 12:18believe a man, but what we are all experiencing even now on a global
- 12:24scale, and it began, the seeds of it began, I believe quite
- 12:31some time ago but it manifested itself in a unthinkable, unimaginable way, unprecedented
- 12:43way four years ago, and even now it is still not fully comprehensible and
- 12:52acceptable, and it's very difficult for most of us to even began to try
- 12:58to wrap our minds around what we went through. The massive delusion of lies
- 13:05that swept across the planet is only one of perhaps I believe, this is
- 13:13my opinion, a series of precursory events that will precede the end of this
- 13:22world system as we know it to be. What happened in twenty twenty and
- 13:28going into twenty twenty one, and even into twenty twenty two and into twenty
- 13:31twenty three last year is just a precursor of what is to come. For
- 13:39the next few minutes, I'm going to be reading from a book, a
- 13:45book that was written by a former self proclaimed radical feminist liberal by the name
- 13:54of Naomi Wolf. The book title is Facing the Beast, Courage, Faith
- 14:05and Resistance in a New Dark Age. Now, I'm very selective and I'm
- 14:13very particular about what I read, but I absolutely endorse this particular book,
- 14:22which has in it but a tip of the iceberg truth that it reveals about
- 14:31the last few devastating years of again this massive delusion that swept across this entire
- 14:41planet. Now, the excerpts that I will be reading come from the chapter
- 14:50in her book titled Principalities and Powers. Those of you familiar with your Bible,
- 14:58you know where that comes from. Principalities and Powers Ephesians. Paul,
- 15:05the Apostle, writing to the church, teaches us, warns us, instructs
- 15:11us that we are not wrestling against flesh and blood. Amen, this is
- 15:16spiritual wickedness, principalities powers, These are demonic forces that reign and rule in
- 15:26high places. And that's why, as the apostle, Paul warns us that
- 15:33we are to be equipped with the whole armor of God, that we will
- 15:37be able to stand in this evil day. And that's what we're gonna need.
- 15:43By the way, from this time forward, if you were not equipped,
- 15:46if you were slacking, listen this. By the way, let me
- 15:50say this again, this is the time of repentance in the Church. The
- 15:56Bible says judgment begins at the House of God. And I've said this before
- 16:00in the previous episodes. Here judgment and it's it has already begun. By
- 16:06the way, what happened, what started to transpire in twenty twenty game was
- 16:10a manifestation of seeds that had already been sown for years, in perhaps decades,
- 16:15that came to fruition, that came to manifestation in this pandemic that was
- 16:22brought upon this world. And I believe that it is a judgment upon the
- 16:26church. It is a judgment. It isn't an indictment on the church.
- 16:32Amen. And people ran and fled, and the leaders And I'm still to
- 16:37this day boiling in my blood. My blood is still boiling to this day
- 16:45about the cowardly leaders of churches and organizations who capitulated and ran faster than the
- 17:00Oh, my God, I hadn't even planned to go there. But this
- 17:06is again, judgment has begun, ladies and gentlemen at the House of God.
- 17:14And there is, as the Bible tells us that Jesus have taught,
- 17:18there is to be a separation of the week from the cheff. Now you
- 17:22can profess to know Jesus, you can profess to be saved, you can
- 17:25professor, you can do all these so called wonderful, marvelous works in the
- 17:29name of Jesus, but he's going to say to a massive I believe segment
- 17:36of people in that day, depart from me, you workers of iniquity.
- 17:41I never knew you. You were never one of my sheep, because Jesus
- 17:48said, my sheep hear my voice, and a stranger they will not follow.
- 17:56And you had preacher of national and international prominence who were supposedly God fearing
- 18:08gospel, preaching of the cross, preaching about miracles and signs and wonders,
- 18:18the power of God, and all of that, who gave no power,
- 18:22no authority to the God that they say that they serve. I'm still hot.
- 18:32Let me move on again the excerpts that I'm going to be reading nothing.
- 18:36By the way, this book this woman again she by her own admission,
- 18:41if you read, if you understand, you look her up. She
- 18:45self proclaimed radical feminists who did not even really believe in God, had little
- 18:55to no interest in God or whether he even really existed. And she,
- 19:00by the way, in the book, some of this is in the book
- 19:03itself, but after the fallout and through her own ability to rationalize and to
- 19:10reason, and also by being exposed to a very different kind of people,
- 19:15that she had shinned most of her life. She came to believe in the
- 19:22supernatural. She started praying, and I pray and I pray even now that
- 19:30God, and I believe God is doing something in her life. And listen,
- 19:34God can save anybody. God, Listen, God has purpose in everything
- 19:41that happens. By the way, God has purpose and everything that he allows,
- 19:44everything that He permits a man, even in all of what we are
- 19:48going through now, even this strong delusion that's in this world right now.
- 19:53God is sovereign and he has purpose in everything that he allows. You can
- 20:00carry on for decades and decades and purport to be professed to be a true
- 20:08believer, a child of God, a preacher, a bishop, and apostle,
- 20:14whatever you can call yourself, name yourself whatever. But guess what,
- 20:18ladies and gentlemen, The fire is where the true test is. It's not
- 20:23in the prosperity. It's not in the crowds, it's not in all the
- 20:26praise, it's not in all the adulation. No, no, no,
- 20:30no, The test comes when the fire comes. I'm reading from page thirty
- 20:37seven of her book, chapter entitled Again Principalities and Powers. I'm just gonna
- 20:44read a couple of excerpts here. These are her words, Naomi Wolf facing
- 20:49the beast, courage, faith and resistance in a new dark age. This
- 20:57is what she writes, friends and colleagues of mine, who have been skeptical
- 21:03their whole adult lives of big agriculture, who only shopped at whole foods,
- 21:11who would never let their kids eat sugar or processed meat, or in just
- 21:17a hint of red dye number two in candy, or eat candy itself for
- 21:22that matter. In some cases, lined up to inject into their bodies and
- 21:30then offered up the bodies of their minor children for the same reason, and
- 21:37m are in a gene therapy injection whose clinical trials would not end for two
- 21:49more years. These parents announced on social media proudly that they had done this
- 22:00with the bodies of their children. And she goes on to say, when
- 22:07I pointed out gently that the trials would not end until twenty twenty three,
- 22:15they yelled at me and blocked me. I continue, She continues, Whole
- 22:23belief systems were abandoned painlessly overnight, as if these communities were in the grip
- 22:33of a collective hallucination. These are her words, were abandoned painlessly overnight,
- 22:48as if these communities were in a grip of a collective hallucination, like the
- 23:00rich craze of the fifteenth to sixteenth seventeenth for other centuries in Northern Europe.
- 23:06This is what she says, Intelligent, informed saw things that were not there,
- 23:15and were unable to see things that were before their faces. She continues,
- 23:26and I'm almost sunny. I want you to hear this last portion.
- 23:32She goes to the bottom line. She says. The bottom line, though,
- 23:37is that this infection of the soul, this abandonment of modern civilization's most
- 23:42cherished post war ideals, this edifice of evil was too complex and too elegant
- 23:57to assign only to human awfulness and inventiveness. This sudden dropping of post Enlightenment
- 24:10norms of critical thinking, This dilution of even parents' sense of protectiveness over the
- 24:18bodies and futures of their helpless children, This acceptance of a world in which
- 24:26people can't gather to worship these structures themselves that had built up this demonic world
- 24:36in less than two years and imposed it on everyone else. These heads of
- 24:42state and heads of the American Medical Association and heads of school boards, and
- 24:52these teachers, these heads of unions, and these national leaders, and the
- 24:57state level leaders and the town hall level functionaries, all the way down to
- 25:06the men or women who disinvited a relative from Thanksgiving due to social pressure,
- 25:15because of a medical status which was no one's business and which affected no one.
- 25:22This edifice of evil, she goes on to say, was too quickly
- 25:29erected, too complex, and too elegant to assign only to human awfulness and
- 25:40inventiveness. In other words, she says, in short, I don't think
- 25:45humans are smart or powerful enough to have come up with this horror all alone.
- 25:57This is a woman who does not have a knowledge, a working knowledge
- 26:03of the Bible, prior to writing this, and she's still not about her
- 26:07own a mission. I'm not criticizing her anyway. I'm actually praising her.
- 26:11This woman comes to the proper conclusion. She has the insight to understand,
- 26:18by pure ration and pure reasoning, that this could not have been done simply
- 26:26by human hands. This delusion that swept over an entire nation, an entire
- 26:37globe, nations everywhere, people everywhere were caught up and swept up in this
- 26:45delusion, and people who had fault and believed in systems, in certain beliefs
- 26:53and practices all their lives. Suddenly, as it were, as she says,
- 27:00overnight, literally abandoned everything that they had believed and took an experimental COVID
- 27:08vaccine that had not been proven, that had not been tested, that had
- 27:14not been finished in clinical trials. Why did they do it, ladies and
- 27:22gentlemen? Why did people cast off all reason, all ration, and all
- 27:30everything they're understood? These are not just simple slugs of people who were just
- 27:37dumb and ignorant in some third well world environment that had no knowledge, had
- 27:45no wisdom, had no understanding, had no education. No, these were
- 27:48highly educated, supposedly highly intelligent people who lined up in mass with masks on
- 28:00by the way as well, to take an experimental drug that would stay in
- 28:08their body forever and would spread to every cell of their body forever. How
- 28:19did this happen, ladies and gentlemen. I'm telling you on the authority of
- 28:27the word of the Living God. This was a delusion. It is a
- 28:36delusion, and it is still working. You know what happened, ladies and
- 28:40gentlemen. Let me tell you what happened, and you know it. If
- 28:42you go back if you can, if you can recall, if you're not
- 28:45still under the delusion the spirit of fear. It began with the spirit of
- 28:52fear. With the announcement of this contagious virus. There came the profits of
- 29:03doom and gloom. The false prophets serving under the religion of science and medicine
- 29:14sold out to the pharmaceuticals who put the fear of death into every creature on
- 29:25the planet. They told us that everybody was going to die, that millions
- 29:33and millions and millions and millions and perhaps billions of people were going to and
- 29:44not follow if they did not prescribe, if they did not obey all of
- 29:51their commandments. And so they took control over every institution, every private institution,
- 30:00every public institution, in the name of salvation of the human race.
- 30:10Now, some of you, perhaps under the sound of my voice, may
- 30:15not read the word of God, may not believe the word of God.
- 30:22And as Jesus said, if you don't believe me, there's another one coming.
- 30:30If you don't believe the truth of God, there's something else coming.
- 30:36And I'm here to tell you again on the authority of the Word of God,
- 30:40that it is all ready here and even in the church, massive numbers
- 30:49of people were swept up into fear and refused to believe and rationalized away.
- 31:00The power of God simply dismissed it. Make no mistake about it, and
- 31:12do not be deceived and swept away in this delusion. This world in which
- 31:21we live is now, right now, living in a pandemic of lies,
- 31:30lies of being proliferated throughout the culture everywhere. And it is for one reason
- 31:42and one reason only. It's because we have rejected the truth. And when
- 31:51we reject the truth, there's nothing left but lies and only the power of
- 32:00God, only the power of God. And this is my prayer. This
- 32:05is my prayer, this is my prayer. I'm not preaching hopelessness. I'm
- 32:08preaching hope because I believe God, and I know that the power of God
- 32:14is superior. I know the power of God is And by the way,
- 32:16and I've said it already earlier, God is sovereign. God allows this for
- 32:22his own purpose, for his own glory, and he's he's allowing this judgment
- 32:30to fall. And many people, by the way, died not because of
- 32:34the virus, oh no, and there there yet, And I'm I will
- 32:42go on the record. And I stand by this because I said it in
- 32:47twenty twenty, I said it in twenty twenty one, I said it in
- 32:52twenty twenty two, I said it in twenty twenty three, and I'm gonna
- 32:54say it again in twenty twenty four. I am thoroughly convinced that we are
- 33:02only we have only seen the beginning of these sorrows. We're only seeing the
- 33:12beginning of this, the fallout, rather from this pandemic that was hoist upon
- 33:21us four years ago, the ramifications, the fallout. And I believe more
- 33:32death than what we had normally seen is still yet to come, because the
- 33:38Bible says the wages of sin is death. Listen. I beg you,
- 33:45I plead with you, if you would hear the voice of the Living Savior,
- 33:53of the God of the universe, if you would hear the voice of
- 33:58God speaking through his word, his truth that sets the captive free. I
- 34:06beg of you, Repent, Repent, repent. When the when the people
- 34:13and and I preached about this during the during the during the time of the
- 34:16pandemic, when the people of Israel rebelled against God in the wilderness, God
- 34:22sent the fiery serpents among them, and the people were bitten, and thousands
- 34:30of people were perishing in that plague because of their unbelief, because of their
- 34:37rejection of the truth that comes from God. Now God gave to Moses his
- 34:46servant a remedy. Make a brazen serpent, put it on a pole and
- 34:57hold it up. And everyone who looked, if they've been bitten, all
- 35:07they need to do is look and they will live. Ladies and gentlemen,
- 35:16whoever you are, wherever you are, if you have been bitten by this
- 35:22serpent, by this snake, by this devil, and by the way that
- 35:29the evidence is still outpouring, and and by the way, from the phiser
- 35:35of documents themselves and moderna the pharmaceuticals, these are their own internal documents,
- 35:42their own manifestations of what they knew before they injected millions and billions of people
- 35:49with this poison. And again I said this, ladies, gentlemen, I
- 35:52said this back in twenty twenty twenty twenty twenty three. It's it's not my
- 35:58first time. They knew this. And if you have been bitten, I'm
- 36:07telling you, on the authority of the Word of God, your only hope,
- 36:12your only remedy, because they still trying to even more injections. Your
- 36:22only hope, your only remedy, is to look to Jesus wherever you are.
- 36:30Repent, repent, repent, look and live. God can heal whatever
- 36:39the pharmaceuticals have done. I feel I'm not guaranteeing that. I can't tell
- 36:45you that he will do it. I'm telling you that he can do it.
- 36:47He can make it of no effect. He certainly can. I don't
- 36:53know that he will, but I know that he can. Just like the
- 36:57Hebrew Boy said, we don't know what he will do, but we know
- 37:00that what he's able to do, and if he so chooses, he will
- 37:06deliver us. If you repent, but it begins repentance. You got to
- 37:10acknowledge. You've got to acknowledge that you sinned against God, that you forsook
- 37:20his word, that you did not trust him, you did not obey him.
- 37:27That's what we have to do, we as the Church, we as
- 37:30the people of God. It begins with us. If my people, who
- 37:35are called by my name would humble themselves in pray, turn from that wicked
- 37:38ways seek my faith. The Lord says, I will hear from heaven.
- 37:42I will forgive their sins, and I will heal the land. It starts
- 37:45with us, the Church, the people of God. We need to repent.
- 37:54Satan is the prince and the power of the air, and his demonic
- 37:59forces of the darkness. They serve as the principalities and the rulers over the
- 38:05kingdom of darkness. That is blinding the minds of those who do not believe
- 38:13and who do not obey the Gospel. That's what the Bible teaches. The
- 38:16God of this world, Satan blinds people's minds delusion. He brings them into
- 38:29delusion. He takes them into captivity. The Bible speaks of this, the
- 38:32devil taking people captive. But by the power listen, this is the hope
- 38:39that we have. This is why the gospel, This is why the truth,
- 38:45This is why the power of Jesus Christ, the power has shed blood.
- 38:51No matter what the enemy tries to do or has done to you.
- 38:58If God has not given you over to the delusion, if God has not
- 39:04given you over to a reprobate mind, you have hope of salvation. And
- 39:10it is by the power of the living word of God's truth that he is
- 39:15spoken. God can send his word right now and heal you wherever you are.
- 39:23Believe the report of the Lord. Look and live. The scales can
- 39:31and will fall from your eyes, and you will be set free, because
- 39:36he whom the Son sets free is free in deed. This is my prayer
- 39:42today. Father, helps somebody today, Let somebody somewhere hear the voice of
- 39:49the Savior. Lord, you are sovereign. Your power supersedes rules, over
- 39:58overrides any power, any principality, any wicked and evil scheme of that wicked
- 40:07one. Because God, it is your kingdom, your majesty, your honor,
- 40:14it's your word, it's your purpose, it's what you have predestined.
- 40:19It is what you have spoken that we are standing on. And God,
- 40:22we will believe your report. We are praying for revival. We're praying for
- 40:27deliverance. We're praying for captives to be set free everywhere everywhere by your mighty
- 40:31power. Lord, for your kingdom, for your majesty, for your glory,
- 40:35for your honor. In the name of Jesus the Christ, we pray
- 40:39and we ask it Amen. And a man