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Episode 200 - Joy In Jesus · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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  Speaker 1: Great is the Lord, and he is indeed greatly to
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  Speaker 1: be praised. We welcome you once again to this another
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  Speaker 1: edition of End Time Revival ministries you as a podcast.
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  Speaker 1: I am your host, Pastor al Zacharye. And we are
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  Speaker 1: grateful as always to the Lord for the multitude of
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  Speaker 1: his mercies new every morning. Thank you Lord for your
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  Speaker 1: great faithfulness, even when we are unfaithful, certainly unworthy. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: It is of the mercies of the Lord that we
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  Speaker 1: have not been consumed because his compassions fail. Not. The
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  Speaker 1: Bible tells us they are new. Every morning we thank
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  Speaker 1: our Lord and say good Jesus Christ. Certainly we shall,
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  Speaker 1: and we should never forget a man his great sacrifice
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  Speaker 1: on our behalf, coming down from glory, making himself of
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  Speaker 1: no reputation, taking on the form of a servant, being
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  Speaker 1: found in likeness as a man. The Bible says, he
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  Speaker 1: humboed himself and became obedient unto death, even the death
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  Speaker 1: of the cross. And he did it for you and
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  Speaker 1: I so that we would have life, as he said,
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  Speaker 1: and have it more abundantly. Thank God for his grace
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  Speaker 1: and mercy and love and kindness and long suffering and
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  Speaker 1: peace and hope. That we have a man granted unto
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  Speaker 1: us through the sacrifice, through the atonement, by the blood
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus Christ. Amen. For we are saved by grace
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  Speaker 1: through faith. The Bible tells us. It is not of ourselves.
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  Speaker 1: It is not of works, lest any man should boast.
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  Speaker 1: All have sinned and come in short and come short
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  Speaker 1: of the glory of God. But God, who is rich
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  Speaker 1: in mercy, for the great love and with the great
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  Speaker 1: love that he loved us, he saved us, and he
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  Speaker 1: called us to this great hope and salvation that we
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  Speaker 1: have in Christ Jesus. So again we're grateful to be
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  Speaker 1: called a man, to be participants, willing participants in this
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  Speaker 1: a man great gospel, in this calling, in this Amen
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  Speaker 1: work of the Lord. A man to a man, preach
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  Speaker 1: the word, to be instant in season out of season, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: And to testify to the a man magnificent goodness and
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  Speaker 1: grace of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. A man.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, as always, we thank God for each and
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  Speaker 1: every one of you who pray for and support the
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  Speaker 1: work of this ministry. And we pray that the word
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord will have free course, and that we
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  Speaker 1: a man will continue to as long as God gives
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  Speaker 1: us the power and the strength preach the word of
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  Speaker 1: the Living God, speak the word with boldness, with clarity,
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  Speaker 1: with plainness or speech. Amen. And we certainly would implore you, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: to please, by all means share this podcast with someone else. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And again we thank you for your prayers and your support.
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  Speaker 1: All Right, today we continue. It's all about Jesus, and
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  Speaker 1: we're going to focus on joy in Jesus. There is
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  Speaker 1: a joy to be found, there's a joy to be enjoyed.
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  Speaker 1: There's a joy to lift you up above all else
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  Speaker 1: that can ever happen to you in this world. That again,
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  Speaker 1: is to be found in Jesus. Before we begin, we'll
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  Speaker 1: be in the Gospel of John chapter fifteen. Let's take
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  Speaker 1: a moment to invoke the presence of the Lord Father. Again.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Ten thousand tongs would be insufficient, so thank you. So
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  Speaker 1: we just want to with the fruit of our lips Lord,
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  Speaker 1: in earnesty and insincerity. Thank you, Thank you. Thank you
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  Speaker 1: for all of your benefits, all of your blessings, all
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  Speaker 1: of your mercies. Oh God, thank you for saving us,
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  Speaker 1: calling us to this great hope. Amen, to this great
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  Speaker 1: Kingdom of Jesus Christ, our Lord and Savior. Bless now
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  Speaker 1: your word, Lord, Let it be penetrating and working and
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  Speaker 1: sustaining in the hearts of men and women everywhere, so
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  Speaker 1: that you get the glory you get, the honor you get,
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  Speaker 1: the praise you get, the worship and the adoration. In
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  Speaker 1: all that we say and do in Jesus name, we
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  Speaker 1: pray and give thanks, Amen and Amen. All right, Joy
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  Speaker 1: in Jesus. In Christ, Jesus our Lord, we have been
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  Speaker 1: granted an intangible, valuable, and eternal gift that is far
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  Speaker 1: more precious and priceless than anything else beyond our most
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  Speaker 1: vivid of imaginations. What we have been granted, what we
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  Speaker 1: have been given, is an incomparable joy in Jesus. Every
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  Speaker 1: true child of God is to possess this joy in Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Every true child of God is to live this joy
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  Speaker 1: in Jesus and to cherish it forever. This incomprehensible joy
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  Speaker 1: in Jesus, I would dare say, is one of God's
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  Speaker 1: unspeakable gifts. So we take you down to the Gospel
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  Speaker 1: of John chapter fifteen, where Jesus is just before he
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  Speaker 1: is to be betrayed into the hands of sinners and crucified.
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  Speaker 1: He is continuing to prepare his disciples for his departure
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  Speaker 1: out of this world. And he has been with them
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  Speaker 1: on this last and final evening we refer to as
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  Speaker 1: the Lord's Supper, on the night, the very night again
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  Speaker 1: before he will be betrayed and put on trial, and
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  Speaker 1: on the next day lifted up on the cross. He's
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  Speaker 1: preparing his disciples. This is so important preparation Amen for
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  Speaker 1: what lies ahead. He's preparing them for the joy Amen
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  Speaker 1: that they would experience, even though at that time their
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  Speaker 1: hearts were saddening. He's already told them, letting not your
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  Speaker 1: heart be trouble John chapter fourteen. Amen, if you believe
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  Speaker 1: in God, believe you all believe also in Me and
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  Speaker 1: my Father's house of many mansions. If it were not so,
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  Speaker 1: I told you, I go to prepare a place for
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  Speaker 1: you that where I am there you may be also.
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  Speaker 1: But now he continues in this preparation, and at the
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  Speaker 1: conclusion of these words that I'm going to read to
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  Speaker 1: you today, we're going to discover this joy in Jesus
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  Speaker 1: is again, I believe, one of God's most incredible, unimaginable,
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  Speaker 1: incomprehensible and unspeakable gifts that we the children of God
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  Speaker 1: have within us, these words be getting at vers number five.
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  Speaker 1: I am the vine, Ye are the branches. He that
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  Speaker 1: abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth
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  Speaker 1: forth much fruit. For without me, ye can do nothing.
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  Speaker 1: If a man abide not in me, he is cast
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  Speaker 1: forth as a branch and is withered, And men gather
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  Speaker 1: them and cast them into the fire, and they are burned.
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  Speaker 1: If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you,
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  Speaker 1: you shall ask what you will, and it shall be
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  Speaker 1: done unto you. Herein is my Father glorified that ye
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  Speaker 1: bear much fruit. So shall ye be my disciple. As
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  Speaker 1: the Father hath loved me, so have I loved you,
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  Speaker 1: continued you in my love. If you love me, Jesus says,
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  Speaker 1: you will keep my commandments Verse ten. If you keep
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  Speaker 1: my commandments, you shall abide in my love, even as
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  Speaker 1: I have kept my father's commandments and abide in his love.
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  Speaker 1: Verse eleven. These things have I spoken unto you, that
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  Speaker 1: my joy might remain in you, and that your joy
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  Speaker 1: might be full. What a word? What a word, what
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  Speaker 1: a promise? What a preparation that Jesus did amen for
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  Speaker 1: his apostles, as well as all of us who have
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  Speaker 1: now a man believed their report, the Gospel, the preaching
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  Speaker 1: of the Word a man, and have come to know
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  Speaker 1: Jesus as Lord and Savior and soon coming King. Might
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  Speaker 1: I add the teaching and instruction that Jesus gave to
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  Speaker 1: his apostles again, it was designed to prepare them for
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  Speaker 1: the work of kingdom ministry, without his bodily presence being
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  Speaker 1: there with them. Of course, you know, they had been
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  Speaker 1: with him, they had been following him as disciples for
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  Speaker 1: three and a half years. And Jesus made a promise
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  Speaker 1: to them, of course, that he would be in them
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  Speaker 1: by the indwelling of the holy ghosts, who would be
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  Speaker 1: sent from above to them, and again to all believers
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  Speaker 1: who to faith and trust in Jesus as the Christ,
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  Speaker 1: as the Savior of the Redeemer, the hope of glory. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: One Lord, one Faith, One baptism. Jesus said, I am
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  Speaker 1: the Way, the Truth, and the Life. Everyone who comes
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  Speaker 1: to Jesus in faith is baptized by him. Amen. John,
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  Speaker 1: As he said the baptist I'm referring to, He said,
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  Speaker 1: I baptize you with water unto repentance, but there's one
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  Speaker 1: coming after me. He will baptize you with the Holy
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  Speaker 1: Ghost and fire. No one is saved without the baptism
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  Speaker 1: of the Holy Ghost, which comes exclusively by Jesus Christ alone.
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  Speaker 1: So the clear instruction to the apostles was about abiding
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  Speaker 1: in Jesus, because it is the exclude jusive way for them,
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  Speaker 1: and of course for us to be fruitful in what
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  Speaker 1: we have been chosen to do. Those who do not
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  Speaker 1: abide in Jesus, of course, Jesus said, if a man
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  Speaker 1: and a bide not, I mean he is cast forth
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  Speaker 1: as a branch, you are cast forth as a severed branch,
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  Speaker 1: cut off, if you will, from the vine, cut off
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  Speaker 1: from the tree. Again, Jesus says, I am the vine,
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  Speaker 1: and you are the branches. And if you're cut off
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  Speaker 1: from the tree, if you cut off from the vine,
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  Speaker 1: you cannot possibly bear fruit. You cannot possibly be productive
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  Speaker 1: a man. All that you do, anything that you engage in,
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  Speaker 1: will come to know whether the profit of man. Jesus says,
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  Speaker 1: if he gains the whole world and loses his soul,
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  Speaker 1: what can a man give in exchange for his soul? Fruitfulness,
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  Speaker 1: true fruitfulness, is righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Ghost. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: That is what a man fruitfulness is all about about. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: The fruit of the Spirit. We talked about this in
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  Speaker 1: our prior session. Amen. Love, joy, peace, Amen, Goodness, temperance, patience, meekness.
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  Speaker 1: All of those attributes of the fruit of the Spirit
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  Speaker 1: are to be in every child of God. Amen. And
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  Speaker 1: Jesus again makes it clear that abiding in Him and
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  Speaker 1: his Word abiding in Us is inseparable. It's inseparable. You
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  Speaker 1: cannot say that you are a disciple of Jesus, a
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  Speaker 1: believer in Jesus, a follower of Jesus, a Christian, when
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  Speaker 1: the Word of God is not in you and working
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  Speaker 1: in you. Amen, why call ye me lord Lord? Jesus says,
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  Speaker 1: And do not the things that I say? So? The
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  Speaker 1: one who is in Jesus is the one who is
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  Speaker 1: in the Word, and the Word is in them. The
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  Speaker 1: house and the life of the true believer is built
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  Speaker 1: upon the teachings of Jesus. All other houses are built
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  Speaker 1: on sinking sand. All of the preparation that Jesus is
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  Speaker 1: pouring into the apostles again as he is preparing them,
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  Speaker 1: hey man for his exit out of this world, as
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  Speaker 1: it were, He certainly did not neglect to let them
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  Speaker 1: know that they would be hated just as He was hated.
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  Speaker 1: They will be rejected just as He was rejected. They
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  Speaker 1: would be persecuted and ridiculed, and beaten and even executed,
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  Speaker 1: some of them, for his name's sake and for the
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  Speaker 1: gospel of the Kingdom of Heaven. What I really find
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  Speaker 1: to be very interesting, however, and intriguing is the fact
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  Speaker 1: that even though the apostles and all of the saints
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  Speaker 1: of God would be and will forever be subjected to
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  Speaker 1: being led as sheep to the slaughter. And by the way,
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  Speaker 1: that's what the Bible teaches all. We like sheep. First
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  Speaker 1: of all, we are gone astray. But he calls us
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  Speaker 1: to come into his sheep fold. But the Bible tells
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  Speaker 1: us we are killed all the day long. Amen. In
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  Speaker 1: other words, the old man, we're already dead. Paul recognized
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  Speaker 1: that he understood it. He didn't count his life as
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  Speaker 1: being valuable to himself. He said, I am crucified with Christ,
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  Speaker 1: and the life that I now live I live by
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  Speaker 1: the faith. In other words, I live by believing my
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  Speaker 1: life is now going forward based upon what Jesus has spoken.
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  Speaker 1: I live by faith. I live of my life brother
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  Speaker 1: by the faith of the Son of God who loved
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  Speaker 1: me and saved me. He's the one who called me
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  Speaker 1: to this great hope and salvation. And so what we're
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  Speaker 1: going to see here and what we're going to explore here,
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  Speaker 1: is that the words that were recorded Amen in his
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  Speaker 1: verse eleven, the final verse that we read in chapter
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  Speaker 1: fifteen here of this passage, it has proven over and
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  Speaker 1: over again to be resolute within the hearts of untold
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  Speaker 1: numbers of martyrs, millions. By the way, all of us
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  Speaker 1: are martyrs, because again, we all die in Christ Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: We give up. We surrender our lives, ourselves, our ambitions,
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  Speaker 1: our wills. Amen to His will. We are dead. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: we are dead. We're dead to the old Man, and
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  Speaker 1: we live to him. So all of us in essence
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  Speaker 1: are martyrs. Amen. And those of course who actually spilled
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  Speaker 1: their blood, Amen, they had an unyielding and inexplicable joy
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  Speaker 1: within them for their Lord and savior, Jesus Christ. Now
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  Speaker 1: the words again, I remind you that Jesus said, is this,
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  Speaker 1: These things have I spoken unto you that my joy
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  Speaker 1: might remain in you? These things have I spoken unto
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  Speaker 1: you that your joy might be full? There is no joy,
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  Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, that is comparable to the joy in
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  Speaker 1: Jesus that we have been given. I believe that Jesus
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  Speaker 1: spoke these words to them and to us for the
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  Speaker 1: express purpose of possessing. And I always called this and
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  Speaker 1: astonishing to the world joy that could never be taken
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  Speaker 1: from the true disciple of of Jesus, even in the
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  Speaker 1: face of an imminent death for his name. Again, the
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  Speaker 1: aforementioned apostle Paul a man, when he was a man
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  Speaker 1: going to Jerusalem, and he had already been under severe
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  Speaker 1: attack his life from the very moment that he was
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  Speaker 1: transformed a man, from the very moment that he began
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  Speaker 1: preaching the Gospel of Jesus Christ a man, the Jews
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  Speaker 1: sought to slay him, and they hounded him everywhere he went.
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  Speaker 1: And he listen. But I want you to hear what
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  Speaker 1: the Apostle Paul said in reference to his life. He said,
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  Speaker 1: I do not count my life dear unto myself, that
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  Speaker 1: I might finish. He said, I want to finish what
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  Speaker 1: I've been called to. There is a joy I mean.
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  Speaker 1: And if Paul had it, he had it. He said,
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  Speaker 1: I am not a I'm not afraid to die I'm
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  Speaker 1: not afraid to go to Jerusalem. I'm not afraid to
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  Speaker 1: face what is already because, first of all, again just
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  Speaker 1: as Jesus had had prepared the eleven Apostles for what
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  Speaker 1: they would face, Paul the Apostle also was told up
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  Speaker 1: front at the time of his conversion. He said, I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to show you, and I'm telling you in advance.
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  Speaker 1: Saul was his name at the time. How great things
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  Speaker 1: you're gonna suffer for my namesake. I love it. I
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  Speaker 1: love it. I love it that it's not hidden from us.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, Jesus who went before us, the
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  Speaker 1: Bible says, he for the joy that was set before him,
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  Speaker 1: and do it the cross despised the shame a man.
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  Speaker 1: In other words, Jesus was joyfully looking forward to what
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  Speaker 1: lied ahead. I want you again hear these words. These
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  Speaker 1: things have I spoken unto you. In other words, not
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  Speaker 1: just the preceding words of I am, the buying you
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  Speaker 1: of the branches, body me in body. All of what Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: particularly in context, began to speak to them at that
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  Speaker 1: Last Supper about sending the Holy Ghost again, all of
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  Speaker 1: this was in preparation for what would lie ahead. And
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  Speaker 1: again this is what Jesus has in store for all
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  Speaker 1: of us. You know, joy, joy, joy, his joy. It's
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  Speaker 1: two joys here, okay. The first joy is his joy
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  Speaker 1: and the second joy is our joy. First joy, he says,
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  Speaker 1: my joy might remain in you. Now, how can we
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  Speaker 1: have the joy of the Lord. We can only have
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  Speaker 1: it if he gives it to us. It's his, so
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  Speaker 1: he has to grant us that joy. But then we
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  Speaker 1: will have our own joy. Now where does our own
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  Speaker 1: joy come from? I believe our joy comes from believing
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  Speaker 1: the word of God, trusting God, no matter what we
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  Speaker 1: may go through, no matter what we will facing this life. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And that gives us a joy. When we know the
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  Speaker 1: promises of God that the word of God is true,
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  Speaker 1: and we can have that same unshakable faith of many
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  Speaker 1: of those who have gone on before us, we can
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  Speaker 1: have true, real, sustaining joy in our hearts. Amen. I
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  Speaker 1: believe that. Amen. Listen to these words. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: let me read one more passage from the Gospel of John.
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  Speaker 1: This is in chapter fourteen. Want to go back just
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  Speaker 1: one chapter. I want to catch these three verses twenty
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  Speaker 1: five through twenty seven. Listen to what Jesus says in
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  Speaker 1: all of this again, when Jesus said these words, these
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  Speaker 1: things have I spoken unto you, that your joy may
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  Speaker 1: be full and that my joy will remaining you all
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  Speaker 1: of these things and want did you hear what Jesus
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  Speaker 1: says Verse twenty five. He says, these things I have
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  Speaker 1: spoken to you while being present with you. In other words,
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  Speaker 1: before I am crucified, before I'm laid in the grave,
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  Speaker 1: before I rise again on the third day, I am
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  Speaker 1: speaking these things to you. There's a reason, there's a purpose.
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  Speaker 1: And again that reason and purpose is joy, Joy, Joy.
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  Speaker 1: You know why, because the disciples are sadden, They're in distress,
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  Speaker 1: they're in confusion, they're in perplexity because Jesus is telling
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  Speaker 1: them he has already been preparing them for the fact
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  Speaker 1: that he was gonna be leaving. But now, after three
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  Speaker 1: and a half years, we've invested all of our time
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  Speaker 1: and you know, attention and being a true follower of you,
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  Speaker 1: and now you're gonna leave us. You're gonna forsake us,
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna go away. I thought the king. I thought
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  Speaker 1: you were the king. I thought you were the conqueror.
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  Speaker 1: I thought you were the I thought you were the
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  Speaker 1: one who was bringing in ushering in the kingdom and
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  Speaker 1: restoring Israel. What do you mean you're gonna die? What
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  Speaker 1: do you mean you're gonna leave? What is this? So
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  Speaker 1: they didn't fuly grasp it. So again Jesus is preparing.
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  Speaker 1: That's why he said the Holy Spirit. I'm gonna send
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit to you. And when he comes, which
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  Speaker 1: happened on the day of Pentecost, fifty days after Jesus
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  Speaker 1: ascended up to glory. Of course, when the Holy Spirit
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  Speaker 1: came on the day of Pentecost, it brought to their remembrance.
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  Speaker 1: He brought to their remembrance. Let me rephrase that he
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  Speaker 1: because the Holy Spirit is a he, not a knit.
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  Speaker 1: He brought to their remembrance all things that Jesus has
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  Speaker 1: spoken to them. Now listen what Jesus says, verse twenty six.
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  Speaker 1: But the Hemper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will
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  Speaker 1: send in my name, He will teach you all things
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  Speaker 1: and bring to your remembrance all things that I said
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  Speaker 1: to you. Peace I leave with you. My peace I
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  Speaker 1: give to you. Not as the world gives, do I
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  Speaker 1: give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither
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  Speaker 1: let it be afraid. Ladies and gentlemen, powerful powerful, all
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  Speaker 1: powerful peace, Peace of God, the joy of the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: There is nothing in this world that is comparable to
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  Speaker 1: the peace of God. The Apostle Paul referred to this
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  Speaker 1: peace as surpassing all understanding. It is this incomparable and
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  Speaker 1: incomprehensible peace that, again, the Apostle Paul says, will guard
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  Speaker 1: your hearts and your minds, and it will give to
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  Speaker 1: us a joy in Jesus that endures and perseveres in
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  Speaker 1: tribulations and trials and distress and persecution in this present world.
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  Speaker 1: And we're going to have any boy the way again,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus told us again, I love it. I love it.
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  Speaker 1: I love it. The fact that the Bible does not
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  Speaker 1: hide from us what we're going to face as true believers,
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  Speaker 1: the people of God in this world. He said, in
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  Speaker 1: this world you will have tribulation. But what did he
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  Speaker 1: say after that, be of good cheer. I have overcome
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  Speaker 1: the world. And you know what else he did. He
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  Speaker 1: made us overcomers. That's exactly what he did. Amen. We
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  Speaker 1: ought to be of good cheer. Just as Jesus said
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  Speaker 1: to the apostles, I have overcome. I've made you overcommerce. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And for the joy that was set before him again.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus endured the cross, despised the shame, and he gives
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  Speaker 1: to every one of his children amen called by his name,
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  Speaker 1: who called upon his name. He gives to every one
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  Speaker 1: of us the same joy for any in all future distress, disappointment,
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  Speaker 1: or even death by martyrdom. That we are all subjected to.
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  Speaker 1: Joy in Jesus is all we need to persevere in
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  Speaker 1: our present world. And this joy in Jesus will be
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  Speaker 1: with us forever if we abide in Him and his
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  Speaker 1: word in us. You can't have it without the Word.
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  Speaker 1: You can't have it without the presence of the Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 1: Because in the Word of the Lord it is written
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  Speaker 1: we are not too sorrow, for the joy of the
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  Speaker 1: Lord is our strength. And we pray even now. Father,
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  Speaker 1: we praying now that every listening year and every obedient
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  Speaker 1: heart will have the joy in Jesus that only you
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  Speaker 1: can give by the power of your resurrected a man
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  Speaker 1: glorious gospel, a man that is a man south to
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  Speaker 1: all that believe you came to seeking to save that
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  Speaker 1: which is lost. So Lord, we pray now undecende now
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  Speaker 1: for those who are lost, that they may come to
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  Speaker 1: know the fullness of the joy that is in Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: the joy of the Lord that would give them strength
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  Speaker 1: to persevere through difficulty, through heartache, through trials and tribulation,
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  Speaker 1: and distress, disappointment, and even death. So Lord, we love you,
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  Speaker 1: we praise you, we thank you, we bless you, we
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  Speaker 1: honor you. In Jesus' name, we pray your thanks. Amen
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  Speaker 1: and Amen.