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Episode 150 - Resistant Rulers · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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  Speaker 1: Blessed is the man who does not walk in the
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  Speaker 1: council of the ungodly, who does not stand in the
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  Speaker 1: way of sinners, who does not sit in the seat
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  Speaker 1: of the scornful. His delight is in the law of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord, and in his law he meditates day and
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  Speaker 1: night and the Bible. The promises of God is that
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  Speaker 1: he shall be like a tree planted by the rivers
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  Speaker 1: of water, bringing forth fruit in season. Leaves will not wither,
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  Speaker 1: and whatever he does, it shall prosper. Thank God for
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  Speaker 1: the promises of God. We welcome you once again to
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  Speaker 1: T A man, one voice in the wilderness. That's who
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  Speaker 1: we are, That's what we are. We're simply crying out
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  Speaker 1: in such a time as this, a man warning a man,
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  Speaker 1: man and women everywhere to flee from the raft to come.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ is soon to return. Get your house in order,
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  Speaker 1: be ready, be looking for him, be in expectation of him.
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  Speaker 1: He said, these are not me, These are not my words. Brother,
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  Speaker 1: this is not me. A man, Jesus said, you don't
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  Speaker 1: know the day, you don't know the hour when this
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  Speaker 1: other man is going to return. A man. He's coming
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  Speaker 1: as a thief in the night, a man. And we
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  Speaker 1: want to be ready for the return of the Lord
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. That is our ultimate because a man, there's
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  Speaker 1: an eternity, that is a man awaiting all of us
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  Speaker 1: eternity with him, or eternity apart from him, and you
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  Speaker 1: do not want to be apart from him. All right again,
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  Speaker 1: we are continuing in our series that we've begun, uh soon.
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  Speaker 1: It's probably been about a couple of months or so
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  Speaker 1: ago now God, Government, Church and State. God Government, Church
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  Speaker 1: and State. And today we want to continue Amen in
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  Speaker 1: the New Testament with the ministry of Jesus. Amen, as
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  Speaker 1: he encountered what we're going to look at again today,
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  Speaker 1: Resistant rulers, resistant rulers, Amens, and be course, before we began,
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  Speaker 1: Let's just take a quick moment to Amen. Thank God, Father,
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  Speaker 1: blessed be your name. From this time and forth and
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  Speaker 1: even forevermore, we honor you, praise you, adore your name.
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  Speaker 1: It is above every name. Every knee shall bow, every
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  Speaker 1: tongue will confess that you are Lord. Thank you for
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  Speaker 1: this great salvation that you brought down from heaven. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: In the person of Jesus the Christ, the Savior of
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  Speaker 1: the Mist and the soon coming King. Lord, help us
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  Speaker 1: to run in this race with patience as we keep
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  Speaker 1: our eyes focused on you. You are the author and
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  Speaker 1: the finisher of our faith. Loie asked you to open
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  Speaker 1: blinded eyes and deaf ears, or change the obstinate heart,
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  Speaker 1: as only you can do by your power, by the
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  Speaker 1: power of your Holy Spirit. It's in the name of
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. We pray your thanks, Amen and amen resistant rulers.
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  Speaker 1: As we have discussed in our past few episodes, a man,
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  Speaker 1: it should be. I believe abundantly clear that Jesus did
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  Speaker 1: not come down to this world to avoid government, to
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  Speaker 1: avoid the leaders, to avoid the rulers, a man of government.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus came to testify of the evil of this world,
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  Speaker 1: which of course would include the governments. And as we're
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  Speaker 1: going to see a man, they are the premier, I believe,
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  Speaker 1: I will say, without apology, instigators of wickedness and evil,
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  Speaker 1: when when they're not supposed to be, when they're when
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  Speaker 1: they should be otherwise. And because of Jesus testifying against
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  Speaker 1: the evil of this world, he was hated, he was despised,
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  Speaker 1: he was rejected a man again, chiefly by the rulers
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  Speaker 1: of governments, because they were then they are now again
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  Speaker 1: the premiere violators of the law of God and their
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  Speaker 1: zealous arrogance to act contrarily to what they know God
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  Speaker 1: requires of them a man. In the Bible and the
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  Speaker 1: Old Testament, for example, the Book of Micah, chapter six,
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  Speaker 1: verse eight, I refer to this often, and none of
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  Speaker 1: us are going to be able to say we didn't know,
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  Speaker 1: we didn't know, I didn't know. No, no, no, there
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  Speaker 1: will be no please of ignorance. Michael six and eight.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible says, he has shown you, old man, what
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  Speaker 1: is good? And what does the Lord require of you
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  Speaker 1: but to do justly, to love mercy, and to walk
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  Speaker 1: humbly with your God. Every man knows in all of us,
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  Speaker 1: we are all innately aware of our duty a man
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  Speaker 1: towards God and our fellow man. The knowledge of both
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  Speaker 1: good and evil is in all of us. It's in there, amen,
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  Speaker 1: our fallen nature. Rather we understand this. We should understand this,
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  Speaker 1: our fallen nature. And by the way, there's this erroneous
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  Speaker 1: assumption that men are basically good. And it is their environment,
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  Speaker 1: it is their upbringing, it is there, you know, surrounding,
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  Speaker 1: it is the pressures of life. It is the bad
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  Speaker 1: things that happen to them, for example, that causes them
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  Speaker 1: to be derailed. And so we have to go in
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  Speaker 1: and try to figure out what caused them to go astray. No, oh, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: we are born in sin, we are shaving in iniquity.
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  Speaker 1: We come forth out of our mother's womb. The Bible
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  Speaker 1: says the wicked, come forth speaking lies. Amen. We are
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  Speaker 1: not basically good, We are not intrinsically good. We are evil,
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  Speaker 1: radically and corruptly, falling, straying away, running away from God. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And we are bent on doing things our way. That
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  Speaker 1: is who we are. Amen. That's our fallen nature. It
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  Speaker 1: prefers to do evil. Amen. And it is the goodness
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  Speaker 1: of God and only the goodness of God and the
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  Speaker 1: grace of God, the Bible says, the goodness of God
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  Speaker 1: it is that leads men to repentance. Amen. Furthermore, is
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  Speaker 1: the grace of God that brings salvation. Amen. And it
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  Speaker 1: has appeared, the Bible says, the grace of God has
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  Speaker 1: appeared to all men, teaching us again no ignorance, please,
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  Speaker 1: will be accepted. The grace of God that appears to
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  Speaker 1: all men. It teaches us to deny ungodliness and worldliness,
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  Speaker 1: and that we should live holy, soberly, godly right here
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  Speaker 1: in this present where Romans chapter one, for example, again
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  Speaker 1: we talk about again the knowledge of God. Amen. The
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  Speaker 1: fact that we know so therefore no man is excluded
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  Speaker 1: Romans one, verse twenty. For since the creation of the world,
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  Speaker 1: in other words, since the beginning of our existence on
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  Speaker 1: this planet. Amen, His invisible attributes are clearly seeing who God,
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  Speaker 1: the creator. We know we see, the Bible says, being
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  Speaker 1: understood by the things that are made, even His eternal
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  Speaker 1: power and Godhead. So that they who are they us man,
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  Speaker 1: all men, We are all without excuse, because although they
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  Speaker 1: God do, they did not glorify Him as God, nor
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  Speaker 1: were thankful, but became futile in their thoughts, and their
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  Speaker 1: foolish hearts were darkened. They professed themselves to be wise,
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  Speaker 1: and therefore the Bible says, they became fools. So again,
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  Speaker 1: if all men know, if all men have this knowledge
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  Speaker 1: in them, all of us have a man the knowledge
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  Speaker 1: of God. We have been exposed to the goodness of God,
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  Speaker 1: to the grace of God. His reign falls, the Bible says,
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  Speaker 1: on the just and the unjust. God is good both
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  Speaker 1: to the thankful and the unthanke Amen, And so we
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  Speaker 1: all know. So of course, if we all know, then,
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  Speaker 1: of course that includes those who have been raised up
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  Speaker 1: and promoted by God to be in positions of power
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  Speaker 1: and authority over the rest of us. And please understand again,
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  Speaker 1: government was instituted by God for the purpose of promoting
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  Speaker 1: the good and punishing the evil Romans thirteen. Amen. Institution
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  Speaker 1: of government is for and again by God, done by
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  Speaker 1: God for the amen primary purpose of promoting what is
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  Speaker 1: good and punishing what is evil. However, the history of
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  Speaker 1: our existence in this earth, on this planet is marred
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  Speaker 1: by rogue governments, Amen, government rulers, Amen, who have altogether
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  Speaker 1: done just the opposite, just the opposite, in promoting and
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  Speaker 1: sanctioning evil while punishing those who would do good. We've
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  Speaker 1: done just the opposite. Amen. And so when Jesus came
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  Speaker 1: down to this earth, of course, again I said, and
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  Speaker 1: we showed you in our previous podcast explicitly, how that Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: when he encountered the rulers of the Jews, Amen, he
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  Speaker 1: intentionally provoked them to make a choice between showing mercy
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  Speaker 1: for their fellow man who was in need, Amen, or
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  Speaker 1: choosing their own hypocrisy. And of course we demonstrated through
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  Speaker 1: several examples, and we're gonna look at one more again day,
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  Speaker 1: how that Jesus deliberately intentionally healed people on the Sabbath day.
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  Speaker 1: And not only did he do that, before he would
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  Speaker 1: a man speak the healing or lay his hands on
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  Speaker 1: an individual or heal or deliver them from whatever infirmity
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  Speaker 1: or malady that they had. He would in some of
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  Speaker 1: these instances, in some of these confrontations, before he did it,
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  Speaker 1: he would confront the rulers and ask them, is it okay?
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  Speaker 1: Is it lawful, for example, to do good on the
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  Speaker 1: Sabbath day or to do evil? And now now is
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  Speaker 1: healing someone? For example, the woman who had an infirmity
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  Speaker 1: a man, the woman that was bowed down and could
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  Speaker 1: not straighten herself up. Jesus said, woman, you are loose
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  Speaker 1: from your infirmity. She was a daughter of Abraham. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: went on to say she had been by Satan, bound
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  Speaker 1: by the devil all those years. And Jesus said, wait
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  Speaker 1: a minute. In other words, why should this woman have
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  Speaker 1: to wait? You hypocrites? And this one again, Jesus intentionally
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  Speaker 1: provoked them, as it were, to choose between having mercy
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  Speaker 1: on someone who was in need of a healing as
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  Speaker 1: opposed to amen of choosing their own hypocrisy. You know
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  Speaker 1: they chose, They chose their own hipocrisy. And Jesus pointed
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  Speaker 1: it out again, You hypocrites. On the Sabbath day, you
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  Speaker 1: lead your ox, your horsemle your donkey out to get water.
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  Speaker 1: You if your animal falls in the ditch, you pull
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  Speaker 1: him up out of the ditch on the Sabbath day.
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  Speaker 1: You violate the Sabbath day yourself. But yet here is
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  Speaker 1: somebody you're a fellow man, Amen, who is in need
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  Speaker 1: of deliverance, of healing, and you don't want them to
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  Speaker 1: be set free on the Sabbath day. Matter of fact,
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  Speaker 1: one of the rulers of the synagogue said, there are
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  Speaker 1: six days when which men ought to come and get healed,
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  Speaker 1: but not on the Sabbath. Wow. So again, Amen, this
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  Speaker 1: was intentional, deliberate provocation by Jesus, and again, not for
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  Speaker 1: their destruction, but to show them the error of their ways.
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  Speaker 1: It was to demonstrate to them, Amen, and lead them
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  Speaker 1: to repentance. God has no delight in the death of
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  Speaker 1: the wicked. Amen. God has come to Amen. Not Jesus said,
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  Speaker 1: to destroy men's life, but to save their life. But
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  Speaker 1: you have to point out two people, the era of
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  Speaker 1: their ways. But the pride that is in us, the
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  Speaker 1: arrogance that is in us, Amen, the haughtiness that is
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  Speaker 1: in us. Will not, Amen, allow some of us to
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  Speaker 1: just acknowledge first and for all that we are w
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  Speaker 1: It's one of the most difficult things to get people
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  Speaker 1: to acknowledge I am wrong. I was wrong. That's how.
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  Speaker 1: That's the only way you're gonna come to repentance with God.
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  Speaker 1: Hey man, you have to acknowledge. That's all God will
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  Speaker 1: ever wanted from the very beginning with Adam, when he came, Adam,
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  Speaker 1: where are you? God knew where Adam was. Wasn't a
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  Speaker 1: matter of God. Adam got lost somewhere and God didn't
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  Speaker 1: know where he was. Where are you, Adam? Where are you? Adam? Adam? No? No, no,
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  Speaker 1: What did God wanted from Adam? What have you done?
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  Speaker 1: When he started the inquiry? What did Adam do? Blamed God?
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  Speaker 1: That's what we do. By the way, we want to
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  Speaker 1: blame God for. You know, whatever condition, whatever fault, whatever
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  Speaker 1: failure that's in us, it's God's fault. It's the woman
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  Speaker 1: that you gave me. I mean me, man, me and
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  Speaker 1: my dog animals. We were doing just fine. So she
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  Speaker 1: showed up and you're the one who brought her here. God,
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  Speaker 1: so it's your fault. That's how. That's who we are.
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  Speaker 1: We blame everybody. We point the finger at everybody, our parents,
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  Speaker 1: the society, amen, the the employer. You know what the
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  Speaker 1: system is against me, racism, sexism, whatever, We just everybody.
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  Speaker 1: It's every body's fault but our own. Amen. And what
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  Speaker 1: God has come to do, what Jesus came to do, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: is to amen. Point out Amen, particularly again to these
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  Speaker 1: rulers who were hypocrites, and there's no difference between them
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  Speaker 1: and us, by the way, Amen, and forced them to
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  Speaker 1: make a choice. You have to choose. Are you going
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  Speaker 1: to choose to show mercy? Are you going to continue
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  Speaker 1: in your hypocrisy? Choosing to do the right thing? Making
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  Speaker 1: the godly choice becomes increasingly difficult, ladies and gentlemen, people
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  Speaker 1: of God. It becomes increasingly difficult the more a person
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  Speaker 1: disobeys God, because the heart then becomes all the more hardened,
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  Speaker 1: it becomes deceived, it begins to live in delusion a man,
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  Speaker 1: the longer one lingers in resisting the goodness of God. Again,
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  Speaker 1: the Bible says, it's the goodness of God that leads
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  Speaker 1: us to repent us. And the longer we resist, the
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  Speaker 1: more we resist a man, the harder the heart becomes.
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  Speaker 1: This is exactly what happened to the Pharaoh of the Exodus,
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  Speaker 1: a man if you remember the a man encounter that
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  Speaker 1: he had with Moses a man. And the same spirit
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  Speaker 1: was in the Jewish leaders in their striding opposition to
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Amen uposed to repentance John. The Baptists even warn
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  Speaker 1: and bring forth fruit meat for repentance. But no, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: If you remember, for example, again the initial and I'm
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  Speaker 1: going to the Gospel of John here just a moment,
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  Speaker 1: the initial response of the Pharaoh to Moses was, who
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  Speaker 1: is the Lord that I should obey his voice? I
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  Speaker 1: don't know the Lord. I don't know.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know your god, Moses. I am a god.
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  Speaker 2: I am the God of Egypt. Amen, who is the
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  Speaker 2: Lord that I should obey his voice? I don't know
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  Speaker 2: the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not gonna listen to him, and I'm not gonna
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  Speaker 1: let my slaves go. I'm going to continue to oppress them.
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  Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, I'm gonna make it even
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  Speaker 1: more difficult on the Moses. Now, how you like that? Now,
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  Speaker 1: this is the same kind of attitude, the same spirit
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  Speaker 1: that these religious religious leaders of the Jews had. They stridently,
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  Speaker 1: stridently opposed Jesus Amen, and their response to Jesus. One
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  Speaker 1: of their responses, by the way to Jesus was this wish.
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  Speaker 1: We won't see here John chapter number nine. We are
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  Speaker 1: the disciples of Moses, and we don't know where you
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  Speaker 1: come from. We don't know you, but we do know
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  Speaker 1: by the way that your mother wasn't married. We heard
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  Speaker 1: about it. We know about that. Who do you think
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  Speaker 1: you are? Gospel of John chapter nine. A let's see
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  Speaker 1: all right. Bible tells us that Jesus passed by he
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  Speaker 1: saw a man who was blind from birth. The disciples
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  Speaker 1: then asked Jesus, Master, who's sin was it this man?
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  Speaker 1: Was it his parents that he was born blind? Jesus said, no,
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  Speaker 1: neither was had this man sinned his parents, but that
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  Speaker 1: the works of God should be made manifesting him. I
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  Speaker 1: must work the works of Him that sent me while
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  Speaker 1: it is day. The night comes when no one can work.
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  Speaker 1: As long as I'm in the world, I am the
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  Speaker 1: light of the world. And the Bible tells us furthermore,
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  Speaker 1: when Jesus had finished speaking, he spits on the ground.
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  Speaker 1: He makes clay of the spittle. He annoints the man's
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  Speaker 1: eyes and tells him to go washing the pool of silom,
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  Speaker 1: and the man goes obeys what Jesus told him, to do.
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  Speaker 1: And he came back with his eyes open. He could
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  Speaker 1: now see, here's a man who was born blind. The
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  Speaker 1: neighbors knew the man. They all knew the man was blind.
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  Speaker 1: He knew he had been born blind. And they said,
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  Speaker 1: wait a minute, is this the same guy who we
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  Speaker 1: saw begging who was born blind? And said, yeah, that's him.
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  Speaker 1: He said, no, he looks like him. And he said
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  Speaker 1: he said now, he said, no, I am he. I'm
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  Speaker 1: the one said wait a minute, how did your eyes
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  Speaker 1: get open? They know this have to be a miraculous event.
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  Speaker 1: He said, this, that's a man named Jesus. He anointed
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  Speaker 1: my eyes, and he told me to go wash and
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  Speaker 1: I went obeyed him, and I came back see and
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  Speaker 1: they said where is he? And the Bible says, they
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  Speaker 1: bring now watch this, watch this verse thirteen. They brought
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  Speaker 1: to the Pharisees, who are the Pharisees a sect of
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  Speaker 1: the leadership rulers of the government leaders rulers. So they
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  Speaker 1: bring to the Pharisees this man who had been born blind.
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  Speaker 1: And oh, watch it. When Jesus did this, it was
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  Speaker 1: on the Sabbath day. Jesus did it on this And
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  Speaker 1: again I said, like I said last week. Listen. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: could have told this man, listen, sir, I know what
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  Speaker 1: you've been going through all your life. I knew you
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  Speaker 1: were born blind from birth, and I'll tell you what
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  Speaker 1: day's Sabbath day. I don't want to cause any problems,
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  Speaker 1: any disturbances or anything. I don't want to get anybody upset.
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  Speaker 1: So what we're gonna do is, listen, here's my card.
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  Speaker 1: Call me tomorrow. Come by the temple, and I think
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  Speaker 1: I'm on You know, I may lay hands on you
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  Speaker 1: there and we'll see about getting your eyes open tomorrow. Okay?
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  Speaker 1: Is that what Jesus did. Jesus knew it was a
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  Speaker 1: Sabbath day. Jesus knew what was going to happen. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: knew what was in the heart of these rulers. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: knew that they were hypocrites. Jesus knew exactly what he
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  Speaker 1: was doing, and he did it with intention. Again, God
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  Speaker 1: puts us listen, Jason Woo Man. God puts us listen.
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  Speaker 1: You are going to be we all. We all there
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  Speaker 1: by the way. You've got to choose. You got to cheer,
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  Speaker 1: you got listen, and the longer you linger, the longer
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  Speaker 1: you delay choosing. The longer you resist saying yes, the
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  Speaker 1: more difficult it's gonna get. I'm just here to tell you.
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  Speaker 1: It's why the Bible tells us. For example, remember now
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  Speaker 1: you're creator, in the days of your youth, before the
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  Speaker 1: evil days come? Who help us Jesus? All right, all right?
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  Speaker 1: So this is on the Sabbath day when Jesus made
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  Speaker 1: the clay and opened the man's eyes. So the pharisees
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  Speaker 1: asked the man again and said, what happened? What happened here?
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  Speaker 1: How did he do this? And the man tells him again,
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  Speaker 1: and he put clay on my eyes, told me to
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  Speaker 1: go wash. And now I see. And so listen what
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  Speaker 1: they say verse sixteen. Some of the pharisees, this man
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  Speaker 1: is not of God because he keepeth not the Sabbath day.
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  Speaker 1: Now again keep him, don't forget. These are the same
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  Speaker 1: hypocrites who on the Sabbath day lead their animals out
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  Speaker 1: to get water, will pull their animals up out of
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  Speaker 1: the ditch if they fall in the ditch. All kinds
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  Speaker 1: of things they did on the Sabbath day. Now they
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  Speaker 1: love to lay all of the burdens and the restrictions
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  Speaker 1: and the prohibitions, all kinds of things they had added
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  Speaker 1: to the law. They loved to lay them on the
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  Speaker 1: shoulders of other men, as Jesus pointed out in Matthew
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  Speaker 1: chapter twenty three, where he excoriated them, they loved to
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  Speaker 1: do that to others. But they themselves, the rulers, the leaders,
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  Speaker 1: the government officials, the religious sects, No, not one finger
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  Speaker 1: would they lift. So here they are accusing Jesus, this
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  Speaker 1: man is not of God because he doesn't keep the
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  Speaker 1: Sabbath day. So others say, wait, man, wait, wait, wait,
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  Speaker 1: hold on, how can a man that is a sinner
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  Speaker 1: do these kinds of miracles? So there was a division
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  Speaker 1: among them. Listen, listen, look what happened. Okay, So so
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  Speaker 1: they say, unto the blind man again, what do you
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  Speaker 1: say of him that he opened your eyes? And he said, well,
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  Speaker 1: I believe he's a prophet. But the Jews and I
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  Speaker 1: believe concerning him they've been born blind and received a sight.
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  Speaker 1: Until they call the parents and they asked the parents says,
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  Speaker 1: this is your son whom who you say was born blind?
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  Speaker 1: How did he receive his sight? The parents said, well, well,
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  Speaker 1: we don't know how he got his site. We know
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  Speaker 1: he was born blind. Yeah, this is our son, but
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  Speaker 1: we don't know how his eyes will open. Amen, he's
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  Speaker 1: old enough, he's of age. Ask him. He can ask
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  Speaker 1: her for himself. And so the Bible tells us here
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  Speaker 1: listen with listen, listen, listen. Let me tell you again. Oppression,
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  Speaker 1: oppression of government leaders. These works spake his parents because
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  Speaker 1: they feared the Jews. Now they're not talking about the Jews,
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  Speaker 1: just the Jews in ineral, they're talking about the government leaders.
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  Speaker 1: The Jews had agreed already that if any man did
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  Speaker 1: confess that Jesus was the Christ, that Jesus was the Messiah,
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  Speaker 1: that Jesus was the son of God, that he was
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  Speaker 1: to be put out of the synagogue. They didn't want
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  Speaker 1: to get put out of synagogue. You see what you see,
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  Speaker 1: what you see, what's happening here? You got government oppression.
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  Speaker 1: Uh you know, people know if you choose, if you
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  Speaker 1: believe on Jesus, you are out. So his parents said, oh,
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  Speaker 1: he's of age, you ask him. So they called a
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  Speaker 1: blind man again, a man who had been blind. Rather,
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  Speaker 1: they called him and said, hey, wait, wait, wait, why
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  Speaker 1: don't you give God the praise? We know that this
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  Speaker 1: man is a sinner, And so he said, wait, wait, look,
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  Speaker 1: whether he be a sinner or not, I don't know
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  Speaker 1: one thing. I know. I was blind and now I see.
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  Speaker 1: And so they keep harassing the man. He said, what
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  Speaker 1: did he do? What did he say? How did he
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  Speaker 1: open your eyes? He said, listen, look, look, look, I
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  Speaker 1: told y'all already. Now I'm paraphraging a little bit. He said,
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  Speaker 1: I told you already what he did. Will you also
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  Speaker 1: be his disciples? Why do I have to keep telling you?
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  Speaker 1: And they reviled him. The Bible says, listen, this is
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  Speaker 1: where you are his disciple. But we are Moses' disciples.
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  Speaker 1: We know that God spoke to Moses. But as for
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  Speaker 1: this fellow, this is what they say of Jesus. Now,
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  Speaker 1: as for this fellow, mm hmm, we don't know where
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  Speaker 1: he came from. We don't know anything about this guy.
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  Speaker 1: The man said, well, you know what, this is a
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  Speaker 1: marvelous thing that you don't know where he came from.
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  Speaker 1: And yet he has opened my eyes. And we know
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  Speaker 1: that God doesn't hear sinners. But if any man be
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  Speaker 1: a worshiper of God and does what God's will, is
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  Speaker 1: God hears him. Since the world began was it not
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  Speaker 1: heard in anyone opened the eyes of one who was
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  Speaker 1: born blind? If this man was not of God, he
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  Speaker 1: could not do this. They answered and said you were
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  Speaker 1: altogether born, and saying you're gonna teach us, and they
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  Speaker 1: kicked him out. They put the man out. This is
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  Speaker 1: the government. This is the government. These are the leaders,
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  Speaker 1: These are the rulers. Amen, this is resisting what they
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  Speaker 1: knew and about. Let me show you. Let me tell
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  Speaker 1: you by the way one of their leaders, one of
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  Speaker 1: their rulers, back in the Gospel of John chapter three,
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  Speaker 1: man by the name of Nicodemus. The Bible says he
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  Speaker 1: came to Jesus by night. Why why did he come
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  Speaker 1: to Jesus by night? He was one of them. He
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  Speaker 1: was one of the rulers. He was one of the
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  Speaker 1: mass as Jesus put in of Israel, He was on
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  Speaker 1: the Sanhedrin council. He came to Jesus by night, and
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  Speaker 1: he said, we know that thou art the ruler, that
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  Speaker 1: we know where you came. We know. But see it
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  Speaker 1: was all about not making an open profession. And so
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  Speaker 1: they hardened their hearts and they resisted. Now Nicodemus, of course,
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  Speaker 1: later he would be one of his disciples. He would
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  Speaker 1: become one of his disciples. After the death of Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: he showed himself to be true. But Nicodemus made a confession.
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  Speaker 1: He said, we know, He said, I know, He said,
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  Speaker 1: we know. In other words, there were those who were
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  Speaker 1: among the rulers of the Jews who knew that Jesus
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  Speaker 1: was divine, that Jesus was the son of God. And
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  Speaker 1: so listen, understand this. Because they could not deny the miracles,
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  Speaker 1: they could not deny the works. And that's what Jesus said,
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  Speaker 1: if you don't believe, believe me for the very work sake. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: Why don't you believe the works? Because no man can
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  Speaker 1: do these No man can do these kinds of miracles.
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  Speaker 1: No one has the power to raise the dead. But
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  Speaker 1: God God is life. In him we live and move
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  Speaker 1: and have all been and today is that not what
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  Speaker 1: Jesus or what was said of Jesus, And in him
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  Speaker 1: we have life? In him? Is life in him we
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  Speaker 1: live and without him, and apart from him we can
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  Speaker 1: do nothing. That's exactly, amen, who Jesus is. And they
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  Speaker 1: knew it. So the real resistance. Please understand what the
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  Speaker 1: real resistance is. Amen, the real resistance of the ruling
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  Speaker 1: class to Jesus. Amen. And so it was not chiefly
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  Speaker 1: on the basis of his doctrine. It was not on
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  Speaker 1: the basis of again the miracles and signs and wonders
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  Speaker 1: that he did. Amen. It wasn't because he cast out devils, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: But rather it was on the account of the ruling
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  Speaker 1: authorities envy of Jesus. They were envious of him. They
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  Speaker 1: were jealous of Jesus. They were jealous of the crowds,
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  Speaker 1: they were envious of the multitudes. They hated the fact
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  Speaker 1: and resented the fact, and believed in their heart that
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  Speaker 1: they were going to lose their positions of power and authority.
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  Speaker 1: If the people were free, if the people were no
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  Speaker 1: longer under their bombs, under their foot, No, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: they could not have that. They could not stand for that.
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  Speaker 1: They could not take that chance. You know, later they
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  Speaker 1: would say, if we don't do something about this man,
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  Speaker 1: the Romans are gonna come and take away our government,
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  Speaker 1: our They're gonna they're gonna over We're gonna be We're
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  Speaker 1: gonna in other words, we're going to lose our positions.
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  Speaker 1: That's the real resistance to Jesus. That's the real resistance
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  Speaker 1: to the law of God, because if he governs, if
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  Speaker 1: he rules, then I no longer rule. I'm no longer
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  Speaker 1: the governor, the ruler, the authority over my life. I'm
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  Speaker 1: no longer in charge. I know long get to make
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  Speaker 1: the laws. I no longer to get things done the
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  Speaker 1: way icy fit for them to be done. Yeah, folks, listen, please,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus did not come down from glory, amen, to reform
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  Speaker 1: the governments of this world, but rather to convert the
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  Speaker 1: hearts of man. That's what Jesus came down to do,
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  Speaker 1: to convert the heart, to change the heart. And this
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  Speaker 1: is all that Jesus was doing. And it wasn't all
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  Speaker 1: of them. It wasn't all of them. The Bible tells
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  Speaker 1: us later on the Book of the Acts, for example,
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  Speaker 1: that many of the priests began to believe the rulers.
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  Speaker 1: Some of them came, to a man believe on Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: But amen, he came. That's what Jesus came to do,
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  Speaker 1: to save men's lives, to change the heart. He didn't
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  Speaker 1: come for government reformation. Because whenever there is transformation within
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  Speaker 1: the heart, excuse me, when there's transformation within the heart
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  Speaker 1: of man. Especially again, whenhen you have it in the
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  Speaker 1: hearts of those who are ruling over the people, then
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  Speaker 1: and only then can there be righteous government reformation. Again,
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  Speaker 1: when the righteous rule, the Bible says, the people rejoice,
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  Speaker 1: But when the wicked are empowered, the people grown. Now
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  Speaker 1: what we mean by righteous reformation is that those who
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  Speaker 1: are in seats of authority, they seek to do what
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  Speaker 1: is right, and they reject what is wrong. Again, because
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  Speaker 1: we know in us, we have it in us, the
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  Speaker 1: knowledge of good and evil. We know what is good
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  Speaker 1: and we know what is evil. Yet the problem is
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  Speaker 1: again that the heart of man is desperately wicked, our diference,
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  Speaker 1: our nature is against doing what is good, even though
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  Speaker 1: we know what is good, and resistant rulers who persist
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  Speaker 1: in their own ways. But not only having for destruction,
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  Speaker 1: but as Jesus said, the blind leading the blind, they're
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  Speaker 1: both going to fall into the ditch. Amen. And So
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  Speaker 1: the understanding that we need to have, and I'm saying listen,
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  Speaker 1: we need to have this deeply embedded within our minds
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  Speaker 1: and within our hearts, is that men, then and now,
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  Speaker 1: not only then, So we're not just talking about, you know, again,
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  Speaker 1: the opposing the rulers of the Jews and the governments. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: that you know resisted Jesus. No, no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: then and now, and perhaps even more so today. To
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  Speaker 1: whom much is given, much is required. Amen. The heart.
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  Speaker 1: Please understand that the heart is bent on resisting the
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  Speaker 1: righteous law of God. This is where the problem is.
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  Speaker 1: The problem is in the heart. The problem is inside
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  Speaker 1: of us. Amen. And Jesus is the righteous fulfillment Amen
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  Speaker 1: of the law of God. So if we hear him,
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  Speaker 1: we live. If we resist and rebel against him, we die,
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  Speaker 1: we perish. That's what Jesus was talking about when he said,
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  Speaker 1: God so loved the world that he gave is only
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  Speaker 1: beydam sound, and whosoever believes in him should not perish,
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  Speaker 1: but have everlasting life. God did not send his son
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  Speaker 1: into the world to condemn the world, but that the
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  Speaker 1: world through him might be saved. He that believes on
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  Speaker 1: the Son has life. Who does not believe the Son,
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  Speaker 1: he does not have life, because all life is in him,
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  Speaker 1: of him emanates from him. So, Father again, help us today.
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  Speaker 1: We don't want to be resistant to your righteous rule,
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  Speaker 1: your law, your commands, your precepts. Lord. We want to
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  Speaker 1: receive them gladly in our hearts, so that there would
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  Speaker 1: be reformation, transformation, Lord, that we will not be conformed
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  Speaker 1: to this world, but be renewed in the spirit of
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  Speaker 1: our minds, to be obedient to your word, to walk
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  Speaker 1: upright before you help us today. Be glorified, be magnified.
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  Speaker 1: We praying your thanks, Amen and amen. God bless you
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  Speaker 1: in Jesus name.