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Episode 195 - Now You Know · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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  Speaker 1: Blessed be the name of the Lord, our God, who
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  Speaker 1: is worthy to be praised. From this time forth and
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  Speaker 1: even forevermore. We bless the Lord at all times, and
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  Speaker 1: may his praise continually be in our mouths, as we
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  Speaker 1: the redeemed of the Lord must say so whom he
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  Speaker 1: hath redeemed out of the hand of the enemy. We
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  Speaker 1: welcome you once again to this another edition of End
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  Speaker 1: Time Revival Ministries you as a podcast. I am your host,
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  Speaker 1: Pastor al Zachary, and on today we certainly are grateful
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  Speaker 1: as always to the Lord for the multitude of his many,
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  Speaker 1: many blessings toward each and every one of us, for
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  Speaker 1: saving us first and foremost, calling us to this great
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  Speaker 1: hope and salvation that is to be found in Christ Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: and enabling us to be ministers of the New Testament. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: this saving grace, Amen, this hope that we have, this
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  Speaker 1: blessedness that we have, this peace that we have, this
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  Speaker 1: joy that we have, Amen, this blessed assurance that we
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  Speaker 1: have all because Jesus Christ came down from glory to
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  Speaker 1: a man, Give to us victory over sin, over death,
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  Speaker 1: over hell, over Satan. Amen, all of the powers of
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  Speaker 1: the darkness of the wickedness, and victory even over our
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  Speaker 1: own selves. He has won for us total victory. He
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  Speaker 1: God that is the Bible tells us, always causes us
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  Speaker 1: to triumph. Amen. We are more than conquerors, and we
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  Speaker 1: can do all things through Christ Jesus, who strengthens us.
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  Speaker 1: His strength is made perfect in our weakness. Where we
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  Speaker 1: are weak, he is strong. Amen. And so we rest
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  Speaker 1: in it. We rely on it. Amen, we look to it,
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  Speaker 1: we trust in it, and we will not be ashamed.
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  Speaker 1: We will not be confounded. We cannot be defeated. Thank
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  Speaker 1: God for his unspeakable gift. Amen. All right, we welcome
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  Speaker 1: you again. Thank you again. Bless God again for all
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  Speaker 1: of you who pray for and support the work of
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  Speaker 1: this ministry. Amen. We are amen pleased. Amen, that God
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  Speaker 1: again has saw it fit if you will to call
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  Speaker 1: us to this and we endeavor to always be found
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  Speaker 1: faithful a man in our Amen. Calling to this Word
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  Speaker 1: of God, to the Gospel to the Amen, blessed hope
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  Speaker 1: that we have in Christ Jesus. All right, For those
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  Speaker 1: of you who have your Bibles, go with us again
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  Speaker 1: to the Gospel of John chapter number fourteen. We are
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  Speaker 1: continuing in our a man. Study in our focus on Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: because he is the focus. He is all in all,
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  Speaker 1: a man and the Savior of the Redeemer, the hope
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  Speaker 1: of all mankind. Without him, we are nothing, We can
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  Speaker 1: do nothing. And so again we focus our attention on
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  Speaker 1: a man, the one who came to save us from
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  Speaker 1: our sins. Before we begin, let's take just a moment,
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  Speaker 1: as always to a man, invoke the presidence of the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: and ask his favor upon this moment. Father, again, we
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  Speaker 1: are grateful to you for all that you have done,
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  Speaker 1: all that you've spoken, all that you've promised to do.
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  Speaker 1: We look certainly forward to greater, greater things that you
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  Speaker 1: have already a man, promise that you have in store
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  Speaker 1: for all of them that believe you, love you, trust you,
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  Speaker 1: and obey you. Help now our hearts and minds, O Lord,
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  Speaker 1: and help us to speak forth the word of the
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  Speaker 1: Living God. That amen. Someone somewhere we're here, hear the
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  Speaker 1: voice of the Savior, hear you calling. Hear you speaking, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: by your word, by your authority, by your power, through
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  Speaker 1: the call of the Love of the Savior, to them
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  Speaker 1: to come and be saved, to come and be safe,
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  Speaker 1: to come and be delivered to come and be set free.
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  Speaker 1: It is by your blood, It is by your powers,
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  Speaker 1: by your sacrifice, by your atonement, that we are set free.
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  Speaker 1: And Lord, we pray now even again for those who
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  Speaker 1: are lost, that they will see and come to know
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  Speaker 1: that You are the Way, the truth, and the life.
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  Speaker 1: Be Thou glorified, and all that we say and do
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  Speaker 1: in Jesus name we bring your thanks, Amen and Amen.
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  Speaker 1: The title of our podcast for today is now you know,
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  Speaker 1: Now you know ignorantia jurish none excuse it. That is
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  Speaker 1: a Latin phrase for ignorance of the law. Excuse this
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  Speaker 1: not or ignorance of the law is as we say
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  Speaker 1: in our time, no excuse. Ignorance of the law is
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  Speaker 1: no excuse. This, of course, is a legal principle, and
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  Speaker 1: it holds that anyone who is unaware of a law
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  Speaker 1: or laws, that person does not escape liability or punishment
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  Speaker 1: for violating the law on the basis of their ignorance.
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  Speaker 1: This legal principle that has been understood in our fallen world.
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  Speaker 1: It holds all men accountable and responsible for knowing the
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  Speaker 1: law that applies to their lives. Ignorance of the law
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  Speaker 1: is not a defense. That is applicable rather or acceptable
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  Speaker 1: in a court of law, as it is in the
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  Speaker 1: earthly realm. So it is with our relationship and responsibility
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  Speaker 1: to the God who created us. John fourteen, Verse number one.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus is speaking we've been examining in these last few days,
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  Speaker 1: if you will, last hours of the Lord Jesus. Before
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  Speaker 1: he departs out of this world, he takes the time
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  Speaker 1: to spend with his disciples, with his apostles a man.
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  Speaker 1: We've already examined how he was with them, and they
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  Speaker 1: were with him. Of course at the last Supper. He
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  Speaker 1: is still a man, comforting their hearts, giving them instruction,
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  Speaker 1: and he's certainly going to pray for them a man
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  Speaker 1: and again preparing them for the ministry that they would
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  Speaker 1: undertake once he departed out of this world. So he
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  Speaker 1: speaks words of comfort that those of us in the
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  Speaker 1: church are certainly familiar with. We've heard them, we know them.
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  Speaker 1: But there's so much more that the Lord has a
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  Speaker 1: man relaid and or conveyed with these few words that
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  Speaker 1: we find in the first seven verses that we're going
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  Speaker 1: to read again from the Gospel of John, Chapter number fourteeen,
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  Speaker 1: Verse number one. I'm reading from the new King James version,
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  Speaker 1: Let not your heart be troubled. You believe in God,
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  Speaker 1: believe also in me. In my father's house are many mansions.
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  Speaker 1: If it were not so, I would have told you
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  Speaker 1: I go to prepare a place for you. And if
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  Speaker 1: I go and prepare a place for you, I will
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  Speaker 1: come again and receive you to myself. That where I
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  Speaker 1: am there you may be also. And where I go,
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  Speaker 1: you know, And the way you know? Thomas said to him, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: we do not know where you are going. And how
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  Speaker 1: can we know the way. Jesus said to him, I
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  Speaker 1: am the Way, the truth, and the life. No one
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  Speaker 1: comes to the Father except through me. If you had
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  Speaker 1: known me, you would have known my father also, And
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  Speaker 1: from now on you know him and have seen him.
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  Speaker 1: Gospel of John chapter fourteen, verses one through seven. In
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  Speaker 1: these few words of comfort and assurance that Jesus of
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  Speaker 1: course spoke to his apostles his disciples, he is again
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  Speaker 1: making claims that either must be believed by those who
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  Speaker 1: hear these words or they must be rejected as being false.
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  Speaker 1: Number One, Jesus claims that belief in him is belief
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  Speaker 1: in God. Let me say that again. Jesus claims believing
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  Speaker 1: in him is believing in God. Number two, he claims
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  Speaker 1: that God is his father. In other words, he came
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  Speaker 1: from God. In the course, the Jews understood saying such
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  Speaker 1: a thing, making such a claim is tantam out to
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  Speaker 1: saying that you are God, because they know Hero Israel,
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  Speaker 1: the Lord, our God, is one God. There is no
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  Speaker 1: other God. So for Jesus to make the claim that
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  Speaker 1: he is the son of God, that God was his father,
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  Speaker 1: they understood that to me to be that Jesus was
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  Speaker 1: saying that he is God, God manifested in the flesh.
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  Speaker 1: They understood that, all right. Number three, he claims he's
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  Speaker 1: going to prepare a place for them. He claims that
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  Speaker 1: he knows what is in how the house of God,
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  Speaker 1: God's house heaven. He claims that because he says, in
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  Speaker 1: my father's house are many mansions. And then he says,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to prepare a place for you. And then
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  Speaker 1: he says that he will be returning again. He claims
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  Speaker 1: that he's leaving, he's going away, he's going to exit,
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  Speaker 1: He's going to go back up to heaven, because he's
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  Speaker 1: already told him he came down from heaven. He said,
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  Speaker 1: I'm from above you are from beneath I have come down.
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  Speaker 1: He's already said that over and over again. So now
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  Speaker 1: again he's reiterating, if you will, things that he've already
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  Speaker 1: that he's that he's already spoken. So he's claiming to
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  Speaker 1: know what is in heaven. He's claiming that he's going
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  Speaker 1: back up to heaven to prepare a place for his disciples.
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  Speaker 1: He's claiming that he will be returning again. And then
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  Speaker 1: he's claiming that he is going to take his disciples
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  Speaker 1: back with him. He claims that they will be where
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  Speaker 1: he will be. And then of course he claims that
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  Speaker 1: they now know the way. In other words, now Jesus says,
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  Speaker 1: now you know, very very plainly, ladies and gentlemen, very
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  Speaker 1: very plainly, in simplistic language here that is easily to
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  Speaker 1: be understood. Jesus said that he is the Way. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: said that he is the Truth. Jesus said that he
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  Speaker 1: is the Life. Jesus said that no man can come
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  Speaker 1: to God his Father by any other avenue, no other way,
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  Speaker 1: no other approach, no other option. Now that's what Jesus said.
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  Speaker 1: Now you know, and now that you know, ignorance is invalidated.
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  Speaker 1: How can we know the way is the question that
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  Speaker 1: was asked by Thomas. Jesus again is unambiguous. He is
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  Speaker 1: unapologetic in his response to this question of how do
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  Speaker 1: we get to the place heaven eternity with God, the
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  Speaker 1: place that God has prepared for our eternal existence? How
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  Speaker 1: do we get there? Jesus responding says, now you know. Now,
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  Speaker 1: although men persist in living and delusion, Although men continue
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  Speaker 1: to be in denial and to be obstinate in their
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  Speaker 1: rebellion against this revelation and truth spoken by Jesus, any
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  Speaker 1: other way invented by man in his imagination must, by
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  Speaker 1: logical reasoning, it must be false, or else what Jesus
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  Speaker 1: has said is false. The way of man and the
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  Speaker 1: way of Jesus cannot both be true. Either man is
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  Speaker 1: true and Jesus is false, or Jesus is true and
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  Speaker 1: man is false. Either man is right in going his
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  Speaker 1: own way, doing his own thing, and still be found
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  Speaker 1: acceptable to God, or Jesus is right in saying that
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  Speaker 1: you must come by me in order to get accept
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  Speaker 1: the acceptance if you will to be accepted, to be saved,
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  Speaker 1: to be delivered in the eyes of God. Now again,
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  Speaker 1: they cannot. They cannot both be true. Cannot so when
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  Speaker 1: we strip away all of the sat and all of
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  Speaker 1: the cowardly conversations concerning the reality of heaven, the reality
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  Speaker 1: of life after death, or the reality of whether or
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  Speaker 1: not the teachings or the claims of Jesus are to
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  Speaker 1: be received as truth or not. If we are going
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  Speaker 1: to be intellectually honest in our own minds and rational
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  Speaker 1: in our thinking, then again we must say that Jesus
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  Speaker 1: is truthful or otherwise he is not. But again it's
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  Speaker 1: simply cannot It cannot be any other option, cannot be
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  Speaker 1: any other option. Ignorance. Again, there's no excuse, because now you, oh,
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  Speaker 1: ignorance of the law of God is tantam out if
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  Speaker 1: you will to calling God a liar. Why because the
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  Speaker 1: Bible tells us very clearly, very plainly, that God has
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  Speaker 1: written his law upon the hearts of all men. In
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  Speaker 1: other words, it's in our conscience. We know He has
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  Speaker 1: embedded the knowledge of his existence in our minds, and
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  Speaker 1: he has put on full display the clear visibility of
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  Speaker 1: his creation, of his power, of his Godhead, so that
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  Speaker 1: man is without excuse. These are not my words, ladies
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  Speaker 1: and gentlemen, I simply paraphrase from Romans, chapter number one,
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  Speaker 1: verse eighteen through twenty one. I'll read it very quickly
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  Speaker 1: in your hearing, for the wrath of God is revealed
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  Speaker 1: from Heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who
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  Speaker 1: suppress the truth. Not that they don't know, they do know.
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  Speaker 1: They suppressed. That means it is a deliberate act on
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  Speaker 1: the part of man to hold down, to squash, to
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  Speaker 1: put away, to ignore the truth. The Bible says in
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  Speaker 1: Unrighteousness verse nineteen, because what may be known of God
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  Speaker 1: is manifest in them. In other words, it's inside of us.
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  Speaker 1: We know all that we need to know. We don't
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  Speaker 1: know everything about God. There are a lot of things
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  Speaker 1: we don't know about God. There is so much self
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  Speaker 1: revelation that God has a man done and revealed. If
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  Speaker 1: you will to us, we know enough. We know all
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  Speaker 1: that we need to know in order to be saved,
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  Speaker 1: in order to be delivered everything we need to know,
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  Speaker 1: we have been shown. We have been told. It has
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  Speaker 1: been revealed. Because again what may be known of God
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  Speaker 1: is manifest in them. For God has shown it to them.
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  Speaker 1: For since the listen what the Bible says verse twenty,
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  Speaker 1: For since the creation of the world in other words,
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  Speaker 1: all the way back to the beginning, since the creation
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  Speaker 1: of the world. His that is, God's invisible attributes are
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  Speaker 1: clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made.
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  Speaker 1: In other words, when we look around in all of
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  Speaker 1: creation and we see the majesty, the beauty, the splendor,
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  Speaker 1: the wonder the miraculous, even that you know, with the
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  Speaker 1: food that we consume, the perpetuality of the seed in itself,
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  Speaker 1: over and over again, when we see the flowers of
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  Speaker 1: the field, the animals, the stars, the planets, our solar system,
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  Speaker 1: even our own human bodies fearfully and wonderfully made the sun.
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  Speaker 1: It says, it's all clearly seen, it's understood, the Bible says,
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  Speaker 1: by the things that are made, even his eternal power
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  Speaker 1: and Godhead. So that they are with that excuse, because
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  Speaker 1: although they knew God, you see again, there will be
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  Speaker 1: no one who can claim that they didn't know. Although
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  Speaker 1: they knew God, they did not glorify him as God,
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  Speaker 1: nor were thankful, but became feutile in their thoughts, and
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  Speaker 1: their foolish hearts were darkened ignorance of the law of God,
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  Speaker 1: of the existence of God. It's no excuse even if
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  Speaker 1: you wanted to, you cannot because now you know you've
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  Speaker 1: always known. You know there is a God. You know
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  Speaker 1: there is the God of creation. You know that he
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  Speaker 1: has revealed himself. The Bible says, even the heavens declare
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  Speaker 1: the glory of God. The earth showeth forth his power.
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  Speaker 1: The furnaments, all of it testifies of the majesty, of
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  Speaker 1: the power, of the splendor of God. You know that
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  Speaker 1: he has demonstrated his power. You know that He has
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  Speaker 1: come down to visit us. You know that he has
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  Speaker 1: come down to deliver us. You know that this world
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  Speaker 1: that we live in, this fallen world, you know, you
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  Speaker 1: know that it is out of our control. You know
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  Speaker 1: that there is evil displayed everywhere. You know that man
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  Speaker 1: is born and soon after adversity awaits him. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: right from his mother's wound. One in the Old Testament testified,
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  Speaker 1: I believe it was Joe, man that is born of
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  Speaker 1: a woman. A few days troubles troubles. You know that,
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  Speaker 1: you know that, you know that the days of man
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  Speaker 1: are few, and he perishes. He is no more, He
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  Speaker 1: is soon forgotten. He will die and be no more
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  Speaker 1: in this life. You know that, you know that, you
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  Speaker 1: know that life has no meaning without God, without his law,
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  Speaker 1: his moral law. You know that, and you know that
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  Speaker 1: man is accountable to his creator. Now you know you
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  Speaker 1: know what Jesus has. Now you know, as he said
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  Speaker 1: very plainly. If you've never heard it before, you heard
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  Speaker 1: it now you know that he is the way, the
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  Speaker 1: only way. There is no other way. There is no
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  Speaker 1: other option, There is no other access. There's no man,
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  Speaker 1: no priests, no pope, no father, mother, friend, acquaintance, no
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  Speaker 1: one that can get you, that can mediate on your behalf,
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  Speaker 1: that can buy your way, that can pay a ransom.
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  Speaker 1: No bulls, no goat, no pigeon, no turtle, dove, No
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  Speaker 1: blood of any animal, not even your own body can
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  Speaker 1: be offered to pay the price the debt that you owe.
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  Speaker 1: In fact, it's already been paid in full by Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: And he alone is the way. Now you know that
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  Speaker 1: he is the truth. Now you know that he is
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  Speaker 1: the life. And he said, except you eat of my
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  Speaker 1: flesh and drink of my blood, you have no life.
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  Speaker 1: And he said, the word that I speak unto you,
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  Speaker 1: it is spirit, and it is life. Man is not
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  Speaker 1: to live by bread along but by every word that
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  Speaker 1: proceeds out of the mouth of God. God's word is life.
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  Speaker 1: And if you don't believe the word of God, if
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  Speaker 1: you reject the word of God, you die. You not
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  Speaker 1: only die in your sins, you die spiritually. You die
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  Speaker 1: an eternal death of separation from God. And Jesus said,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, he spoke more about hell than any
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  Speaker 1: other person in the Bible. Jesus said that in the
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  Speaker 1: lake of fire, Jesus said, it is a fire that
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  Speaker 1: is unquenchable. Jesus said that there would be weeping and
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  Speaker 1: gnashing of teeth. And Jesus said that you will be
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  Speaker 1: there forever. But there is one way, and by the way.
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  Speaker 1: God did not have to provide that one way, but
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  Speaker 1: he did. And the way is Jesus. The truth is Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Life is through Jesus. Now you know that in order
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  Speaker 1: to be saved, in order to be delivered, in order
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  Speaker 1: to be set free, in order to have life, in
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  Speaker 1: order to have truth, in order to live by truth,
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  Speaker 1: you must come to Him. You must come by him
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  Speaker 1: now you know, Father again, and help someone open eyes,
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  Speaker 1: open ears, open hearts. Is only you can do. By
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  Speaker 1: the power of your Holy Spirit. We pray, we thank
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  Speaker 1: you in Jesus' name. Amen.