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Ed Yearack: Being Faithful To The Word, Sensing The Urgency Of The Hour · Worldview Matters With David Fiorazo

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  Welcome to World View Matters, discussing controversial issues, discerning current events,
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  defending biblical Christianity.
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  No topic, off limits.
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  And now, here's your host, David Firazzo.
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  Hey, friends.
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  Thank you so much for watching, listening, and sharing the podcast.
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  We really appreciate you.
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  Today's guest is Pastor Ed Yarek.
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  And he was born and raised in Phoenix, Arizona, and now lives near Lansing, Michigan.
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  And he's been married 46 years to his wife, Carol.
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  1992, he entered Calvary Chapel, Costa Mesa School of Ministry.
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  And then was led to start Calvary Chapel in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
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  That was in 94.
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  He was senior pastor there for 18 years.
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  They also planted a church in Buckeye, Arizona, Calvary Chapel, Buckeye, Arizona, and
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  Ed was senior pastor there for 10 years.
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  He has served on mission trips, various countries, spoken on various issues, conferences.
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  He's been a part of ministries over the years.
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  And he's presently in lower Michigan, because I was a uper.
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  I grew up in the upper peninsula of Michigan.
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  But Ed serves on the board at Calvary Chapel, Lansing.
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  Frequently teaches on his YouTube channel, and we'll reference that many times throughout
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  the podcast today.
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  Ed Yarek, good to see you, brother.
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  Welcome to World View Matters.
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  Good to see you too, David.
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  God bless you, brother.
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  Yeah, God bless you.
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  Boy, you just sound like you're a busy guy, and I jokingly said before we got on the
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  podcast, you know, you say semi-retired Christians aren't supposed to retire, right?
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  No.
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  You have your retire from ministry, servings you as you can.
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  Never.
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  Not in time.
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  You're home.
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  And then anyway, I wanted to share how we met.
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  We both were speaking at a conference, a prophecy conference in Appleton, Wisconsin.
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  Was that last year or earlier this year?
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  I think it was earlier this year.
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  Earlier this year?
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  Yep.
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  On April, I believe.
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  So I met you there.
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  I just loved your passion, your energy, your, just your personality.
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  I just, and I, it took this long to get you on the podcast, but I'm glad to have you
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  here.
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  So tell us a little bit about you, you go to Calvary Chapel, Lansing and Teach about
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  once a month, and, and you planted the one in Arizona.
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  Tell us a little bit about your relationship with both churches today.
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  Yeah.
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  Well, in Lansing, we, we, we actually planted the church in a Buckeye, Arizona, about 11
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  12, 12 years ago now and, and, and so it's interesting.
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  The Lord brought a guy in the replacement before even knew I was going to have a replacement.
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  And then we moved back here, which was a blessing because we got kids and grandkids
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  here in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Lansing's only an hour away.
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  And so we're able to go and, I'm able to go over there and, and teach, and I'm also on
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  the board there.
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  So Jeff, if you can pull up the, the link over at SouthwestCalvary.com under our story.
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  I just want to show the viewers a picture of Ed and his wife, Carol, there you are.
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  Good picture, you guys, Ed.
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  And so tell us about you, do you pump out these videos, they're short videos.
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  So that's great.
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  People's attention spans are really limited these days.
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  So you do a lot of videos on YouTube.
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  I'm sure it's whatever God puts on your heart, but just tell us a little bit about that
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  and why you keep doing that.
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  Well, I mean, the, the bottom line is where I believe we're in the, in the last days.
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  And, you know, the thing that, that saw my heart, always been on my heart is get the gospel
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  out there.
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  And the word of God, you know, faith comes by hearing, hearing by the words.
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  So if I can, and I know that people, like you said, the people's attention spans aren't
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  that long.
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  So, you know, a lot of times, you know, if we can just get a scripture out there and then
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  whatever the Lord puts on my heart, just to try to reach people, my son-in-law got to
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  have me also do some stuff on TikTok because he said there's a lot of people, a lot of
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  younger people on TikTok.
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  You know, if we can get the, if we can get the gospel to them and get the word of God
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  to them, that's where really my heart, I've got just that burden for that at this point
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  in my life.
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  So, yeah.
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  Well, what I'm hearing is you seem to have a sense of urgency because our time is short.
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  And one of my favorite verses, I share this a lot, Psalm 90 verse 10, teach us to number
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  our days that we might gain a heart of wisdom.
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  We don't know.
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  You know, I mean, I had a sister that died when she was 24, you know, I mean, my mom made
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  it to 93, you know, but we don't know, but, but I think what we lack, especially in
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  America, and I'd love for you to speak to this, we are so maybe too comfortable and busy
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  and distracted and maybe live in the American dream and whatever that is to different people.
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  But we, I don't sense that the church in America understands the times and has a sense
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  of urgency.
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  Your thoughts on that, Ed?
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  Well, I think you're right.
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  I think the big problem is a lot of the churches are, and I hate to say this, but are in many
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  ways more interested in nickels and noses and trying to get people in the church.
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  And rather than just teaching the word of God, and it doesn't seem as popular, but people
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  are perishing today for lack of knowledge.
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  I mean, you know, the scriptures are very clear about that, and there's a famine in
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  the land, as the Old Testament talks about, and it's not a famine of food or water, but
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  it's a famine of the word of God.
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  And so, yeah, and so the whole culture is, you know, if the way the church goes is the
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  way, of course, the family goes and the culture goes.
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  And so a lot of the churches aren't, aren't sticking to the old paths.
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  I'm not so thankful, you know, I think the Lord for Calvary Chapel, Pastor Chuck Smith
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  back in the day, you know, that's what got me hooked up listening to him on the radio.
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  And just a simple teaching of the word of God, it's so transformed, transformed our lives.
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  And, you know, you got that solid foundation of the word of God, and people have something
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  to lean on.
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  I love the teaching of verse by verse for the simple fact that, you know, whether they
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  continue to go to your church or go somewhere else, they have a foundation, and they can
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  take that with them.
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  Because the focus is the Bible, you know, it's like that old adage, pray and read the Bible
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  or read the Bible and pray.
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  It's so simple, you know, and but the church has kind of moved away from that.
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  And so therefore our culture is kind of, you know, where do they have to go?
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  Where's the hope, you know?
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  What I've noticed, I know you have too, you've been at this a while.
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  In America for some reason, I don't even know when this started, maybe you can share
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  some insight on this, pastors maybe started thinking they had to maybe keep people's attention
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  and that turned into entertainment.
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  So entertaining people, and then shorter sermons, and then more topical, and then, and all
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  this other stuff.
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  And I'm thinking, wow, we got away from the power for the gospel is the power of God.
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  Then as you said, faith comes by hearing, hearing by the word, not by stories and not
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  by entertaining, whatever you're going to share to make your point.
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  Go ahead and share your thoughts.
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  I don't know when that started and how far we've gotten away from that in the church today.
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  Right.
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  Well, like you know, Spirition said, you know, the word of God, it's like a line in the
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  cage.
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  You just open up the cage and let it out.
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  So just teaching my, you know, can Carl Westerland back in the school of ministry?
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  He said, if you guys, if you and Chris, we didn't know what we were doing at the beginning
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  of learning to be a pastor, but if you just did nothing but teach, read the text, you
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  know, you'd be doing great.
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  And, you know, that's the thing we don't, and the deal is with, with Calvary style, I
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  mean, what I do is it's not teaching necessarily from the Bible or about the Bible.
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  I mean, we do some of that, but it's mostly, we teach the Bible, you know, it's so, and
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  it's such a blessing to be able to just read through a passage, comment on it, give
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  the background on it, you know, if you look at the language, whatever.
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  But just so you can, and my main job is just, okay, we want to understand this text.
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  And it's like Jayverna McGee used to say, you know, take and put the cookies down on
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  the bottom shelf so that the little kiddie's going to, you know, that's really all we do
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  and or seek to do and to keep ourselves out of the way of doing it.
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  So, you know, whether you have a big church, a little church, who cares?
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  I mean, you know, God said, the Lord says in, in a way that it's Psalms, you know, unless
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  the Lord built a house, a labor in vain that build it's, unless the Lord, you know, forget
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  the last part of it, but unless the Lord builds a house, a labor in vain that build it.
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  So we, as long as the pastor's doing what he's supposed to do, teaching the word about
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  and God honors us word of even above his own name, if we do that, God will do whatever
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  he wants to do, add to the church, grow it, you know, whatever we, you know, whatever
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  he wants to do.
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  He's a fan.
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  Who's in control?
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  Who's the Lord?
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  He's the Lord.
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  And we're a service of the most high and what a blessing and a privilege to be able to
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  do that, you know.
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  I think something you said reminded me of just the fact that we are in desperate need of
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  more godly men, strong leaders and I should emphasize strong biblical leaders and teachers
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  and pastors and what do you sense with the younger generations?
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  Because we know what the Barnard research says.
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  We know that we're, you know, the biblical worldviews is the worst it's ever been in
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  our country, even in the church when it comes to pastors.
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  Do you see any change where it might reverse course or what, what, what do you see as, as
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  a pastor that's been in ministry for so many years?
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  Well, I think we, we have to reach these kids.
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  I mean, again, that's one of the reasons why I'm on TikTok.
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  You know, it's the simplicity, you know, if we just get the simple truth, I mean, I work
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  with young people from time to time.
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  I got the part time job and it's great, you know, to be there and to be able to talk
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  with them and, you know, big part of ministry is listening, listening to their listening
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  to what's going on with them and the struggles they have and a lot of, a lot of the struggles
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  they have aren't much different.
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  The struggles I had when I was 18 years older, whatever.
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  And so we're able, but yet we have the background of the experience.
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  And then we got, of course, we got the wonderful foundation of the Word of God where we're
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  able to minister to them, break it down into a language that they can understand.
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  I mean, that's really what it's about.
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  You know, young people don't seem to be going into the church so much.
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  So we got to go out of the church and go, go reach them.
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  And certainly we know that the church is a wonderful thing.
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  I mean, we need to not forsake the assembly together.
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  We know that we're built up through the teaching of the Word of God sitting.
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  You know, again, faith comes by hearing, hearing of the Word of God and the teaching.
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  And of course, that word, by the way, in the, in the, in the Greek is, is that a ramah,
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  you know, so it's the, it's the Word of God, the Logos, and then the Spirit of God through
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  the pastor, you know, bringing it out again, so the, so to make it clear and understandable.
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  That's our job.
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  And as you, as you know, David, man, I mean, Word of God is like a, just like a refreshment.
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  It's like living water.
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  And once you, you taste it and you drink of it, men, it's satisfied.
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  There's nothing else that satisfied is like the Word of God.
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  What gets in the way, you know, our culture, men, everything's getting in the way.
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  I mean, even our, even the very phone that we're, you know, that we have TikTok on.
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  I mean, you can sit, I mean, I don't know about you, but I mean, there's been times
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  that I've got a TikTok and the next thing, you know, that 30 minutes and a half hour,
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  40 minutes of his past, why don't I go, what am I looking at all this, because it's
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  that entertainment mentality that we're all prone to.
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  And it takes a little, it requires a little bit of discipline, you know, a word that,
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  I don't know, a lot of people like that word, but discipline's an important word, you
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  know, it's setting aside, you know, the things that are not as necessary important.
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  And it's like going to the end, who likes to work out, but you sure like the results
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  are working out, you know, you like to, you like to be strong and buffed in all those
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  kinds of things, but it takes the right diet, proper nutrition, and, you know, discipline,
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  you know, saying no to certain things and saying yes to others.
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  And that's what we love about the Word of God.
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  It's all there, everything we need for, for righteousness and good living and being strong.
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  It's all right there in the Word of God.
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  And that's, that's my heart in trying to, trying to convey that to other people.
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  You know, that's my passion.
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  And as we know, between one quarter and one third of the word is Bible prophecy, we're
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  going to, we're going to take a break in a minute.
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  And when we come back, we're going to talk about Psalm one and Psalm two.
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  That was part of the message you gave earlier this year at the Great Lakes Prophecy Conference.
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  So we're going to talk a little bit about that.
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  But I want to make sure people see behind you where you're positioned.
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  They can't see the Israel flag.
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  So I want to make sure people can see that.
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  And I just, there it is.
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  You want to just move just for a second.
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  There it is.
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  He's proud to support Israel.
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  Now Ed, man, a quick question before the break, are you surprised that there's such a,
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  it's an apparent lack of support in the church for Israel?
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  And is that a direct result of misunderstanding Bible prophecy?
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  Absolutely.
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  Absolutely.
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  It's, again, it's, it's, it's teaching sermons and, and, and coming from theological bands
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  rather than just teaching the word of God.
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  And I don't look at myself or don't want you to want to think of myself as a theologian,
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  but I want to be a legalist.
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  I want to be a person that I know the Bible, I share the Bible.
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  The whole council of God, you know, because if you go to theology, you got, you're polarized
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  one side of the other, but with the Bible, it's straight down the middle.
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  You get it all, you know, we're not cow, we're not Calvinists, and we're not all,
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  on many us, we're, we're, we're, we're Calvinists, you know, we're, we're down the middle, you
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  know, we, because the Bible says it all, right?
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  Yeah.
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  There's a balance there.
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  What's the balance we want?
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  Well, it's, it's the word of God and it's, and it's the spirit of God that makes it
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  evident in our lives, you know?
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  Amen.
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  There he is.
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  And he puts out all kinds of short videos that you can watch and share and especially
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  they're, they're a benefit for those with extremely low or limited attention span.
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  So Ed, let's jump right into contrasting the righteous and the wicked and that's Psalm
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  1.
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  Psalm 2, I always love this because it helps us understand this globalist push against
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  the biblical world view because it's ultimately against Jesus Christ as Lord.
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  And so start with Psalm 1, whatever you want to share, we'll just talk about the scriptures
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  and walk people through it.
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  He said I chose it for the prophecy conference and the title was, you know, what is prophecy
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  and what's the purpose of prophecy?
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  Well, quite frankly, it's to keep us in the game.
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  Again, you know, asserted the Bible is prophecy and what's it talk about right in the
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  beginning?
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  Blessed is the man, right?
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  That doesn't walk with the counsel and God, they're standing with the way of sinners.
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  And then you jumped to verse 2 and says, but it's delight is what?
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  It's in the law of the Lord and in his law does he meditate day and night.
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  And of course, the whole idea of being like a tree planted by the rivers of water and
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  being being fed and being nourished.
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  And that's a beautiful picture of what the Word of God is to us.
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  And I'm from Arizona.
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  You look out in Arizona and in the desert and you see a row of green trees in all this
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  barren desert.
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  Well, you know that there's a river bottom there because there's water there.
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  And it's the same with our lives where I mean, we live in kind of a barren and dry land
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  quite frankly, especially in our culture today.
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  And then the only thing that's going to keep us nourished and alive is the Word of God.
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  And I've found that true in my own life.
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  I know you have David.
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  I mean, we need that.
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  And so, but again, it says in the contrast is the young God there not so, but they're
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  like chaff blown by the wind.
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  So instead of being rooted and grounded in something solid that has meaning and purpose
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  and hope, they're blown away by whatever kind of thing comes down the pike.
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  And of course, we know there's so much coming down the pike right now.
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  And so, and then you jump in in chapter two, you know, how's this keep us in this gate
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  in the game?
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  Well, first of all, it's talking about the blessings of staying in the Word of God,
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  the prophetic scripture.
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  And then the chapter two talks about future events that, you know, you know, quite frankly,
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  it hasn't, it hasn't, a lot of it hasn't happened yet.
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  But it gives us the background and the flavor of why the, you know, why the evil and wickedness
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  it goes on.
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  Why did the heath and rage and people imagine a vain saying in there, setting themselves
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  against the rulers and they take counsel against the Lord?
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  And of course, to us, that's crazy.
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  Knowing the Bible, we're like, who's wanting to come against God?
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  That's crazy.
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  Yet, you know, in our humanity, I mean, we all that propensity to do that.
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  But then the world system is definitely doing that.
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  We see that in it and just, I mean, it's 3D right now, you know, with, you look at what's
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  going on in Washington, you look what's going on in the Middle East and everything else.
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  It's just, it's crazy.
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  And, but yet the comfort that comes in this passage, you know, not only, you know, the
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  exhortation about sticking and keeping your roots into the water of the Word, but then
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  it's, it's, it's, was it say it, it talks about Jesus Christ.
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  He said, it says, I will set my kin, verse 6, upon my holy hill of Zion.
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  And I will declare that you create the Lord is sent.
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  You are my son this day.
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  But I've got to, we know this prophecy of Jesus Christ.
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  And of course, this is yet future.
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  Well, he's going to set us king where mountain Zion, well, that's beautiful.
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  Of course, we got the Israel flag back there, but the fact of the matter is Israel became
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  a nation, you know, May 14th, 1948, wow, what a surprise.
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  That's ever happened in the history of, for any country of people that has been dispersed
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  and, and just been from a land and here they are back.
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  Well, we know that our Messiah has to come back and he's going to rule and reign in Israel.
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  What's going to happen?
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  Well, we got to have a rapture of the church.
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  We got to have a seven year tribulation.
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  And then Jesus comes back with all of the saints there in, in Revelation 19, this clear
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  is day, and then he's going to set up his kingdom and he's going to sit on the throne
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  of David.
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  Isaiah 9, 6 and 7 talks about that as well, you know, it'll be, it'll be his kingdom and
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  the zeal of the Lord of Hosts will perform this.
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  So what come, I mean, that's amazing comfort, you know, well, what, you know, with everything
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  that's going on, and I think that, you know, when we went through the whole situation
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  in 2019 and 20 with this, you know, disease or whatever it was in the situation, I won't
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  say so much more than that, but, but it blew us all the way, man, quite frankly.
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  And I'm, I mean, again, we've been studying prophecy for what, 30 some years, but here's
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  the deal.
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  We'd never expected things to come so fast and in such a weird way, and it took us by
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  surprise.
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  And so quite frankly, you know, that, that was really the ministry for this, this passage
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  for me was, yeah, what are you worried about?
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  Yeah, I mean, there's, what's the worry about?
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  You stay in the word, you stick, you stick in, you know, with Lord Jesus and in His word.
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  And by the way, you know the rest of the story, he's going to rule in rain in Isaiah and
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  we're all going to rule with him that those that are in Christ Jesus that are bought, blood
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  and bought saints.
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  We're going to rule in rain with him.
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  So that's pretty comforting, you know, amen.
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  And I love the way these flow too.
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  And we have to remember that these weren't all number, they didn't number the chapter in
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  verse when they wrote them.
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  So I love the way verse six in Psalm one flows into Psalm two.
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  It says, for the Lord knows the righteous and that's comforting to us.
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  And then also if we were to be honest and admit the next phrase is also comforting, but
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  the way of the wicked will perish.
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  Yeah.
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  Well, you know, I love people to go to heaven, but I'm glad that the way of the wicked is
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  going to perish.
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  But when it goes right into Psalm two verse one, so why are the nations in an uproar?
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  And we see that today.
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  This is so prophetic.
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  Why are the nations in an uproar?
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  And the people devising a vain thing and the kings of the earth are taking their stand.
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  Their rulers are counseling together against the Lord and his anointed.
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  And it's eye opening.
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  If we know the Lord, students of the Bible, we understand Jesus, King of Kings, Lord of
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  Lords.
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  And when he returns, it's not going to be on a donkey, right?
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  We understand what this means.
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  Yeah, go ahead.
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  And for example, I mean, it's amazing because this first coming, he came as a humble servant,
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  right?
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  And he went to the cross and gave his blood to wash away all our sins, a gift, a free gift,
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  right?
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  Well, when he comes back again, Revelation 19, we're going to see him Revelation 19 11.
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  And guess what?
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  He's going to have blood splattered on his garments, but that's not going to be his blood.
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  The idea is he's coming back as the reigning king that he is, you know?
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  And so, you know, my suggestion to anybody who's listening is my goodness, you receive
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  Jesus now.
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  Again, every knee will bow and every tongue will confess it, Jesus Christ is Lord.
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  I'll tell you what.
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  In this side of heaven, it's a whole lot better if you do it now than wait till you're
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  forced to do it.
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  And of course, you know, eternal punishment comes after that.
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  So, amen.
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  What do you think about the false teaching?
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  And I think this would be under the category of universalism that you will get a second
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  chance.
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  Everyone's going to make it to heaven.
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  If you don't do it in this life, don't worry about it when it comes to that time.
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  And that's like right out of the pit of hell.
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  That's such deception, isn't it?
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  Absolutely.
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  I mean, you know, we die and then come to judgment.
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  So what does that mean?
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  I mean, what's second chance?
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  The Bible doesn't talk about, I mean, only, I mean, the first Bible is very clear about
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  all kinds of second chances, but before you die, after you die, you've already, your fate
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  is sealed.
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  And so that's, you know, that's, those are nice thinking.
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  That's a great humanist kind of way to handle things.
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  But you can't get past the fact that Jesus Christ, who is God the Son, had to be persecuted
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  and had to go to that cross and die in our place, which tells me, tells me just how wicked
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  our hearts and our sin is to him.
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  You know, the heart is deceitfully wicked above all things who could know it.
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  And so that's every man.
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  And I think that it's so important for us to come to that, that, that, you know, recognize
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  the fact that God himself had to come and die in our place in order to pay the just judgment
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  for our sin.
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  And if we're going to reject that, I mean, what, what more does he have to offer us?
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  There's no second chance after, you know, and, and by the way, as you know, the description
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  is very clear that the, that the spirit of God goes about, you know, by everyone to convict
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  of sin, righteousness and judgment.
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  So everybody, I believe, has an opportunity.
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  I mean, look what's happening in Iran in Persia.
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  People are getting visions and seeing Jesus and they're coming to Christ.
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  We know in the, in the, in the tribulation, the seven year tribulation, there's going
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  to be, I mean, he's, he's going to send two witnesses in Jerusalem.
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  There's going to be 144,000 witnesses.
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  And then there's going to be angels flying with the everlasting gospel because Jesus, it's
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  a, that, that the, that the gospel, and it says at Matthew 24, the gospel is going to
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  go up to the, in the entire world, well, when is that going to be?
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  Well, obviously, we haven't quite done that, done our job yet, but that's going to happen.
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  God himself is going to do it in the tribulation, you know?
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  So Ed, we've just got two minutes left, less than two minutes.
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  Just want to make sure we get these last two verses in and then you can, we can give
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  your final comments where it says, take warning or judges of the earth, worship the Lord
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  with reverence and rejoice with trembling.
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  Do homage to the Son that he may not become angry and you perish in the way.
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  And then the final verse for his wrath may soon be kindled.
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  How blessed are all those who take refuge in him.
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  There's that balance again.
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  Go ahead and share.
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  Well, the Lord of the fear, and of course we know the beginning, the beginning of wisdom
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  is fear of the Lord.
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  I mean, it's so important to understand these God, and there's, and there's a great contrast.
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  And then, you know, you know, rejoice with trembling and then it says kiss the son, embrace
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  the son.
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  I mean, the word really means to embrace him.
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  And I think of really, that is the key right there earlier on it talks about the Lord
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  and knows the way of the righteous.
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  It's interesting that that word know there is yada in the Hebrew means it's an intimate
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  knowledge.
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  It's a knowledge that Adam knew even conceived.
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  And we're to know the son, we're not in, of course, the, the scripture is clear about
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  how we're to know the Lord, you know, yada intimately, and it's intimate relationship.
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  And that therefore, kiss the son and embrace him.
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  You need to do that every day, you know, we get up in the morning, we need that we need
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  to rise and, and greet the Lord in, in walk with the Lord.
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  It's a wonderful thing.
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  I mean, we can't, we can't, we can't do the Christian thing on our inner own strength.
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  There's no way.
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  After have the power of Holy Spirit, we have to walk with Jesus, we have to be followers
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  of Jesus Christ.
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  Amen.
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  And as we said earlier, we never retired, it doesn't matter how old we are, but Pastor
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  Ed Yereck, and you can get him on YouTube and just check out more information on him.
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  We appreciate your time today, brother, God bless you and your ministry, and just make
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  sure we stay in touch, okay?
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  You bet.
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  God bless you, David.
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  Thanks, brother.
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  Thanks, brother.
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  Hey, friends, thanks for sharing the show.
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  God bless you, and as always, keep speaking the truth about things that matter.