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Revelation chapter 22 · Scripture Unscripted

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Revelation chapter 22, let us pray.
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Our Father who's in heaven, we thank you, God, for another day
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to come and worship you in spirit and truth.
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We thank you, God, for who you are.
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Lord, we thank you for all the times that you've shown up and
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shown out and shown off. Father, we thank you for blowing
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the pictures off the wall. Father, we thank you for
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wrecking our theology. We thank you, God, for making us
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more like Jesus Christ with the mind of Christ.
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Lord, you are not the author of confusion, Father.
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So I pray right now that you'll give a sound doctrine and sound
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theology. Father.
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I pray, Lord, for the mighty rushing wind to come blowing
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through this camp. Father, I pray that you'll be
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magnified and glorified in all that we say and do today.
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Father, I pray that we can be your hands and feet, that we can
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go out into the harvest. Lord, that you'll send us.
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Father, here we are. Send us.
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Yes, Lord, purify us and cleanse us.
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Lord, give us your your righteousness.
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Impute unto us the purity of Christ.
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Lord, we want the at one meant with you, Father, we want the
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justification God. So I pray that in the mighty
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name of Jesus, through the blood of the Lamb, Lord, that we can
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be sanctified and we can be holy just as you are.
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Holy Father, I pray for manna and quail today.
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I pray for the bread of life today.
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I pray that your words will become alive and active to us.
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Lord, I pray for your will to be done today.
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Lord, I pray God, for your Kingdom to come here on this
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earth just as you have planned it there.
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Father, I pray that you'll form a hedge of protection around us.
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God, keep us from the enemy. Lord, I pray that you'll
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continue to use us mightily in this world.
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God, to write all of the disgusting things that are
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happening in this world. You, Lord, use the church Father
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to be the answer. Lord, for all of the things that
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are happening. God, we have the answers to all
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of the questions that anyone could ever ask, Lord, and his
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name is Jesus Christ. And so Lord, we propagate Jesus
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to the masses. Lord, we spread the seed of the
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gospel all over the world, Father, for every single people
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group, every man, woman and child from all languages, Lord,
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and all diversities, Lord, it's for them.
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So I pray God for them to surrender as we break up the
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fallow ground today. Lord, I pray that your rain will
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come down and water the soil, Lord, and produce a crop and
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produce fruit, Lord, produce a harvest, Father, that
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reproduces. Lord, I pray that you, Father,
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will be here with us in this room.
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Teach us your eternal paths. Father, we love you so much.
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We love everything about you. God, You are our everything, You
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are El Elyon, you are the Most High, God, you are El Shaddai.
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You're the Lord, you're the creator Father.
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So we get out of our own way and Lord, we give you the center
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stage. Hide me and hide my words, hide
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my thoughts. And Holy Spirit you teach, Holy
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Spirit, you guide. Holy Spirit, you say whatever it
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is that you want to say today. Lord, we love you.
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And it's in Jesus Christ, holy and precious name that I pray.
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Amen. Well, let's start in verse one.
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And he showed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal,
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proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb.
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So here we get to see a wonderful fulfillment of what
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Ezekiel talked about in the millennial temple.
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And that was just a smaller version of what the end would
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be, which is this river of life that flows from God because God
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is life and he emanates life. And just him being there is life
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and life abundant, friends. And we see the river, it just
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naturally flows and it's going to flow down the middle of the
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street. The street is made out of gold.
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And we see the tree of life on both sides of the street.
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And this is beautiful. Picture two in the middle of the
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street of it, and on either side of the river was there the tree
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of life, which bore 12 manner of fruits and yielded her fruit
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every month. And the leaves of the tree were
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for the healing of the nations. So here we get to see an
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invitation that was lost back in the Garden of Eden whenever the
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cherubim was was set up to keep Adam and Eve from being able to
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eat from the Tree of Life. And now we get the invitation
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back and we see this tree pop back up at the end of the Word
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of God and we get to see the fulfillment of what we lost in
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Eden. We get to see it here and now we
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are able to go and to eat from it and it's bearing its fruit, A
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fruit every month, friends. And what a an idea that we could
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even try to wrap our minds around this idea of a street
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that flows and a river that comes from the throne and the
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tree of life on both sides and it bearing fruit for us to be
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able to eat. And the leaves for the healing
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of the nations friends in it there is no more sickness,
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there's no more disease, there is no more death in heaven and
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all of eternity. So this healing of the nations
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is the well-being and the health, and it is life and it is
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abundant life. And it is for the enjoyment of
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all of His Saints, all of those that are there who whose names
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are written in the Lamb's book of life.
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Verse 3. And there shall be no more
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curse, but the throne of God and the Lamb shall be in it, and his
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servants shall serve him. We will be serving Him for all
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of eternity. There will be things for us to
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do. We will not be floating around
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on clouds singing hymns all day. There will not be the Baptists
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on the left and the Lutherans on the right.
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There will not be the Presbyterians up front and the
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Pentecostals in the back. Friends, we will have something
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to do. There will be jobs for us to do
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in all of eternity. And this is something that we
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can barely scratch the surface of.
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And I pray that your heart is a heart of servitude.
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I pray that your heart is a heart of serving, because that
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is the heart of God. And he told Adam and Eve all the
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way back in the garden, he before the fall, he told them to
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till the earth. He told them to keep and have
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dominion. And so you can see here that
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this is paradise restored. We see that the curse is removed
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and the work in the toil that we do will not be arduous.
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It will not be the sweat of the brow.
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It will not come with the same connotation that we attach to
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work. Friends, this will be glorious
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work. We will enjoy the things that we
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have to do for. And they shall see his face, and
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his name shall be in their foreheads.
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Praise God Hallelujah for every single person who refused the
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mark of the beast, where it says it'll be on their forehead or in
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their hand. Now we see that the true mark of
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God Almighty will be placed on us, and we'll never have to
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doubt our position in Christ Jesus.
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Five, And there shall be no night there, and they need no
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candle, neither light of the sun, for the Lord God gives them
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light, and they shall reign forever and ever.
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Praise the Lord God Almighty, that we will be ruling and
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reigning for Him with Him for all of eternity, and we do not
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even need any light, because God is there with us and He dwells
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in unapproachable light. 6 And he said to me, these sayings are
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faithful and true, And the Lord God of the holy prophets sent
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his Angel to show to the servants the things which must
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shortly be done shortly, friends.
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And if it was shortly 2000 years ago on the island of Patmos,
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whenever John was writing these things, how much shorter is it
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today? And he says in verse 7, Behold,
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I come quickly. Blessed is he that keeps the
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sayings of the prophecy of this book.
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So here it is again. He says quickly.
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He says shortly. So we have to live every single
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day in expectation that the Lord God Almighty could call us home.
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And that is how we keep our lamps full and our Wicks
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trimmed. And we wait and we look up and
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we see our redemption drawing near.
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We see the leaves on the fig tree.
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We see that all of the systems of the world are pointing to the
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green light of Jesus Christ's return, and we live in that
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tension. We live in that holy habitation
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and expectation that Jesus Christ is coming for his bride.
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And we need to keep the sayings of the prophecy of the book.
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And that is not just for the Book of Revelation.
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That is from Genesis all the way to Revelation is the prophecy of
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the book. These are divinely inspired
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words. They're alive and active
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friends. They're infallible and inerrant.
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The Rhema and the Logos, friends, is profitable for the
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salvation of mankind. 8 And I saw, and I, John saw these
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things and heard them. And when I had heard and seen, I
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fell down to worship before the feet of the Angel which showed
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me these things. This is a Abbot of John's.
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He's so overwhelmed by what he's seeing, his only response is to
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fall down and worship. And what does the Angel say
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again? 90 Then he said to me, See that
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you do not do it, for I am a fellow servant of your brothers
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and prophets, and of them which keep the sayings of this book.
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Worship God. God is the only one who deserves
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worship. Far be it from us to create and
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worship idols. Every other God is an idol who
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cannot see and cannot hear. There's only one true living
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God, and he is the only one that deserves adoration and worship.
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Friends and Jesus says God, which is why when Jesus was
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worshipped, he never refused it. He never turned anybody away
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from worshipping him because He is deity wrapped in flesh.
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And he said to me, seal not the sayings of the prophecy of this
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book, for the time is at hand. And if it was at hand back then,
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how much more at hand is it today?
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And God is not slack concerning his coming friends.
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For a day is like 1000 years, and 1000 years is like a day
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unto God. God knows the final number of
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the people who are going to be there with Him in the end and
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God Almighty is waiting for them to come in to the fold before he
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sends the Son. And Jesus Christ himself said
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only the Father knows that time. And so Jesus is waiting on God
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Almighty ABBA to say go and he tells him not to seal it up.
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Friends, if you remember back in the book of Daniel, he was told
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to seal it up because it was not at hand at that time.
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But during this time on the Allen Island of Patmos, John has
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said, do not seal it up, leave it revealed.
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And it is for our edification, so that we can make ourselves
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ready and we can adorn ourselves and wait for our Bridegroom to
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come and to rescue us from the coming of all of the temptation
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that's coming on the world to test the inhabitants. 11 He that
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is unjust, let him be unjust still.
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And he which is filthy, let him be filthy still.
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And he that is righteous, let him be righteous still.
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And he that is holy, let him be holy still.
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So this is not a cup out, friends, for us to get out of
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evangelizing. We evangelize, we we scatter the
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seed. But what is being mentioned here
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is that if the words of God will not provoke and prick people
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into giving their life over to them, if the words from Genesis
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to Revelation are not enough for someone to make a decision, then
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let them go. Warn A divisive person once and
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then warn them again after that. Have nothing to do with them,
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for you can be sure that they are warped and self condemned.
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And do not throw your do not cast your pearls amongst swine
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friends, because you see that they'll turn on you.
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And that is what is referenced here, that we give the pure,
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unadulterated, unwatered down gospel of the Jesus Christ
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coming and giving his life, and we give the entirety of God's
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word to mankind. And if they will not believe
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after hearing the clear presentation of the gospel, then
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let them go. And that is what is referenced
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here. 12 And behold, I come quickly, and my reward is with
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me to give. Every man according to his work
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shall be. This is the Bema seat.
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This is the righteous judgment, friends.
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This is when we go up and have to suffer the judgment during
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the seven-year tribulation, when the world is going to hell in a
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handbasket, when it'll be worse than it's ever been since the
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beginning of creation. And if God had not cut those
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days short, no one would survive.
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The Saints will be receiving the rewards, friends, and that is
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what he's mentioning here. He's saying his reward is with
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him and he's going going to give to us what we have earned
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through the works friends. And it's not a works based
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salvation. We're saved by grace, friends,
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through faith. But you need to understand that
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beyond salvation, we will be rewarded for the things that we
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do. And most of what we do is wood,
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hay and stubble and will be burned up.
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But there will be some things that we have done which when we
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did not let our left hand know what our right hand was doing,
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we will be rewarded for those things.
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And those are the rewards that we will get to take with us into
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eternity, forever and ever and ever.
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Friends 13 I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the
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end, the first and the last. He started the Book of
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Revelation that way, and now he is ending the Book of Revelation
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that way. He is the beginning and the end,
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the Alpha and the Omega. He is from A-Z and all prophecy
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and all the fulfillment of all of time is pointing towards
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Jesus Christ. He's the chief cornerstone.
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He's the rock. He's who we build our life on
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and will never be put to shame. 14 Blessed are they that do his
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commandments that they may have right to the tree of life and
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may enter in through the gates into the city.
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Praise God, Hallelujah. The gates will never be shut,
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friends, and we'll have access to this tree of life and we'll
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eat from it, and we will be there with him and he will be
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there with us, which is heaven. Anywhere that Christ is, is
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heaven 15 for outsider dogs and sorcerers, whoremongers and more
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murderers, idolaters, and whosoever loves and makes a lie.
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So we know that they're cast into the lake of fire.
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They are outside of any place where God is because they are
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hostile towards a loving God. They chose to go to the lake of
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fire and that is the reality of it.
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God did not send them there. They chose it, and that is the
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hostile of an unrepentant reprobate mind and heart and
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life, friends. And that is the sad reality of
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it, this delusional mind that you see being played out in the
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world today. And as a St. and you look upon
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the world, you can't quite understand why in the world
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someone would not choose God. But we must remember that we
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were once them. We were once just like them.
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And that is why we are passionate and compassionate
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friends about spreading the love of God throughout all the world.
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Regardless of the embarrassment, regardless of the ridicule,
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regardless friends of the being ostracized, regardless friends
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of being marginalized, regardless of being passed over
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for that promotion, regardless of the persecution.
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We propagate the love of God throughout all of the world
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because we were once just like them.
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We were once far from God, but He, through his loving kindness,
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he called us unto himself, and we responded.
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And now the scales have fallen off our eyes, now the blindfold
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has been taken off, our ears are unstopped, and we can finally
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see the world around us the way that He does.
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And we want that for every single person.
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And we desire that. We yearn for that.
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We plead for that, friends, and our hearts break for all those
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who refuse it. And they refuse to come to a
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loving Savior who only wants their fellowship and their heart
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and their obedience, but they are hostile towards Him.
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And they do not want conviction, and they do not want to have to
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answer to God. And they only want the things of
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the world. And they build up a wall, and
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they harden their hearts, and they serve mammon in this world.
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And it is sad and it is hard for us to understand, but we must go
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back to where we were once in that same position. 16 I, Jesus,
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have sent my Angel to testify unto you these things and the
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churches. I am the root in the offspring
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of David and the Bright and Morning Star.
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So there we see the church pop up after being unmentioned.
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From chapter 3 all the way here to chapter 22, friends, we do
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not see that Word church at all. And that is because we have gone
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up and out and we are there with Him, and here we're landing the
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plane back down on earth. And God is about to quit
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revealing anything that He needs to reveal to mankind.
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And He's revealing it all through John here in the Book of
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Revelation. But we're at the very last
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chapter and God's pulling out and he's about to leave John
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there on the island of Patmos to sit and to ponder and marvel at
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what he just got to experience. So we see him mention the church
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again because John's about to wake up from this spiritual
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experience and be back in his flesh.
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And here we see the church mentioned again, and Jesus
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Christ is giving us some messianic titles.
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He's giving us this beauty of a bright morning star in the roots
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of Jesse. 17 And the Spirit and the bride say, come, and let him
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that hears say Come and let him that is thirsty come.
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And whosoever will let him take the water of life freely.
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We can have it. Friends, if you're thirsty, go
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get it, friends, it's all yours. Drink in, be filled.
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Friends, the Spirit and the bride say come.
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I pray that you are in that camp.
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I pray that you're not trying to build a Kingdom here on this
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earth. I pray that you are long
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awaiting the return of Jesus Christ. 18 For I testify unto
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every man that hears the words of the prophecy of this book.
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If any man shall add to these things, God shall add unto him
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the plagues that are written in it.
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This is a stark warning, friends, to anybody who tries to
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become extra biblical. It is not the Bible plus
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anything else. It's not the Bible plus the book
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of Mormons. It's not the Bible plus the
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Catechism. It's not the Bible plus
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Apocrypha. It is not the Bible plus the
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Watchtower Society. It is not the Bible plus your
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favorite pastor. It is the Bible alone that is
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inspired Genesis to Revelation solely.
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Everything else is opinion and everything else is unnecessary.
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Be a student of the Word of God so that when the counterfeit
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slides across the table, you'll be able to identify it.
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Far be it from us to choose a watered down version of
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Christianity. 19 And if any man shall take away from the words
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of this book of the prophecy, God shall take away his part out
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of the book of life and out of the holy city, and from the
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things which are written in this book.
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So you need to understand that we cannot take out any scripture
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at all. It is not for us to call into
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question any of the books of the Bible, any of the passages of
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the Bible. We read them and we believe them
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and we apply them and that is the end of it.
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Friends, it is not for us to try to pick and cherry pick the
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verses that we agree with. It is the complete context of
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God's Word from Genesis to Revelation, the infallible and
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errant word of God. That is all that we need for the
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profitability of men to be saved.
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Friends, we do not get to take out the verses that we don't
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agree with or that we don't understand or that do not fit
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our theology. We preach the entirety of God's
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Word, every single syllable, every jot and every title.
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Heaven and earth shall pass away, but not one of these
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words. 20 He which testifies these things says, Surely I come
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quickly a man. Even so, come, Lord Jesus
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quickly, friends, you see it over and over and over.
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Shortly and quickly you see that He is going to come.
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Suddenly He comes like a thief in the night.
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And if the strongman knew when his house will be broken into,
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he would not allow it. That is what you need to
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understand. It's going to come so rapidly
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that you will not have time to prepare and make a decision.
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You must make the decision now. Today is the day of salvation.
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Do not wait for a better time. Do not wait for a more opportune
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time. Friends, it's today.
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Today is the day and if you get tomorrow, make it again.
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Make that decision again for the rest of your life.
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Sell out to the Lord God Almighty.
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Sell out to the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.
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You are not your own. You were bought with a real high
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price. Get covered in the blood of
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Jesus Christ and be passed over. Get in Jesus Christ, we'll end
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on 21 in the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ be with you all,
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Amen. Grace.
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Friends, we saw the Old Testament in the book of Malachi
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end with a curse pronounced and we see here the end of the New
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Testament. The Book of Revelation ends with
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grace, and that is what you need to understand is that the law
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brought nothing but curse and hear.
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Through the blood of Jesus Christ.
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We see grace, friends, and this is the beauty of the entirety of
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God's Word. And you must hold it in your
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hands and hold it in your heart and hold it in your minds and
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meditate upon it and memorize it.
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And it is all profitable, every single bit of it.
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And I look forward to continuing our study as we move through the
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Word of God. I love you, praying for you.
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I'm thankful for you. I'm glad you're on this journey.
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What an amazing time we've had studying the New Testament.
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I pray that your spirit has been edified.
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I pray that you have more hope today.
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I pray that you can see things clearly as the disciples on the
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Road of Emmaus as they finally got to see Jesus right before he
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lifted off. I pray that that's your story.
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I pray that you can see him clearly for who he truly is, the
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Son of God, the Most High God, praying for you and I love you.
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I'll see you back here tomorrow. God bless you.