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Episode 165 - Every One Loosed · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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  Speaker 1: Oh, what a privilege it is to be called sons
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  Speaker 1: of God. And does not yet appear what we shall be,
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  Speaker 1: but we do know based on the word of God,
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  Speaker 1: the promises of God, every one of them, which of
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  Speaker 1: course are yeay and a man. The Bible says that
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  Speaker 1: when he shall appear, we shall be like him, for
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  Speaker 1: we shall see him as he is. And everyone who
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  Speaker 1: has this hope in him purifies himself even as he
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  Speaker 1: is pure. We welcome you once again to this another
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  Speaker 1: edition of End the Time Revival Ministry, she will say podcast.
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  Speaker 1: because it is our a man mission, a man to
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  Speaker 1: preach and teach the Word of God with plainness, clarity, boldness,
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  Speaker 1: without partiality, without compromise. Amen. And we have been a
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  Speaker 1: man commissioned by God to a man preach the Word
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  Speaker 1: and be instant in season out of season, reprove rebuke
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  Speaker 1: with all long suffering and doctrine. Because the time has
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  Speaker 1: nor endure sound doctrine. But that is a man what
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  Speaker 1: God has tasked us with, and we shall not a
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  Speaker 1: man retract recoil from it. Amen, as God is our help. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: We are again here to amen, preach and teach the
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  Speaker 1: truth of the Living God. Amen. All right, today we
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  Speaker 1: continue as we have been in our past few months,
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  Speaker 1: as it is now, on this topic of God, government, Church,
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  Speaker 1: and stay dealing with, Amen, the fact that the sovereign God,
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  Speaker 1: King of having a King of glory range rules over
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  Speaker 1: the kingdom of men. He is in charge of even
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  Speaker 1: the governments of this world. Is God himself who has
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  Speaker 1: ordained government. And despite the fact that, Amen, we can
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  Speaker 1: see throughout history, and certainly we've shown it so far
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  Speaker 1: in the Word of God, that governments have been hostile
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  Speaker 1: Amen to the Church of Jesus Christ. Nevertheless, we know
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  Speaker 1: we know we win upon this rock I build my church,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus said, and the gates of al shall not prevail
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  Speaker 1: against it. So let's take just a quick moment, Amen
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  Speaker 1: to amen, acknowledge the Lord Father again, we thank you
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  Speaker 1: for another day, your word, your truth, Amen, liberty that
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  Speaker 1: we have in you, because of your shed blood and sacrifice.
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  Speaker 1: You loosed us from the bonds of sin, from the
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  Speaker 1: chains of darkness, from the grips of hell itself, and
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  Speaker 1: we shall ever give you praise, glory and honor. The Lord.
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  Speaker 1: We pray that your spirit will move within the hearts
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  Speaker 1: of someone today, Lord, that someone will be set free
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  Speaker 1: by the mighty power of your word and of your spirit. God,
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  Speaker 1: be glorified in your people everywhere in Jesus Christ of
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  Speaker 1: Calvaries name, we pray, Amen and Amen. All right, every
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  Speaker 1: one loosed, Amen, everyone loosed. Amen Again. At first and foremost,
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  Speaker 1: let me just say this, because we are today celebrating
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  Speaker 1: in the United States of America, this day that has
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  Speaker 1: been set aside fourth of July in the yeuro or
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  Speaker 1: twenty twenty five, a man two hundred and forty nine
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  Speaker 1: years of a man liberation for this nation. And we
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  Speaker 1: are certainly blessed to be living in freedom and having
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  Speaker 1: a man, the freedom and liberty as it is the
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  Speaker 1: religious freedom, especially particularly for those of us in the church,
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  Speaker 1: a man to a man, freely, worship, freely, come and
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  Speaker 1: go a man, and be able to also disseminate the
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  Speaker 1: Gospel with limited persecution as it was in the early
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  Speaker 1: days of the Church. God has purpose and everything that
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  Speaker 1: he's appointed, and he's appointed each and every one of
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  Speaker 1: us for such a time as this, and the Bible
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  Speaker 1: makes it clear to whom much is given, much is required.
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  Speaker 1: And so we don't want to take this liberty, this
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  Speaker 1: freedom that we have and enjoy in these United States
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  Speaker 1: in these times for granted. We don't want to take
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  Speaker 1: it for granted. Amen. Acts Chapter sixteen is where we're
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  Speaker 1: going to be looking at today for our scripture a reference.
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  Speaker 1: We just want to again point out, as we have
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  Speaker 1: been how that, Amen, it is a man, God working
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  Speaker 1: a man. In spite of the opposition of those who
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  Speaker 1: would use the government, those who would be in the
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  Speaker 1: government a man in their attempt to a man either
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  Speaker 1: slow down, stifle, or altogether destroy the Church of the
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  Speaker 1: Living God. And again we have the promise of God,
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  Speaker 1: We have the word of God. We have the blessed
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  Speaker 1: assurance knowing that a man, we are more than conquerors,
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  Speaker 1: we are victorious. God always causes us to triumph, either
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  Speaker 1: in life or death. It doesn't matter whether we live
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  Speaker 1: or die, if we become martyrs, and that's really what
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  Speaker 1: we are. We are martyrs for Jesus. And nevertheless, no
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  Speaker 1: matter what the enemy a man will try to do,
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  Speaker 1: will attempt to do. Amen, we win, Amen, we win.
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  Speaker 1: I want to look again at the apostle Paul. We
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  Speaker 1: certainly have already seen how that. I mean, he himself
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  Speaker 1: was arrested by God and changed a man and converted
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  Speaker 1: from being the number one enemy of the Church to
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  Speaker 1: now on his way to being the number one emissary,
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  Speaker 1: as it were, ambassador. Amen, especially to the gentiles. But
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  Speaker 1: he's also preaching to the Jews and going into the synagogues,
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  Speaker 1: just already on a missionary journeys. We're going to see
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  Speaker 1: in Acts chapter sixteen, a man seeking to take the
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  Speaker 1: Gospel to all the world. This is what Jesus commanded
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  Speaker 1: his apostles to do. Go and all the world, preach
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  Speaker 1: the Gospel to every creature, every one who believes and
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  Speaker 1: is baptized will be saved. He that does not believe
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  Speaker 1: will be condemned. And the Bible lets us know. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus said these words, this is the condemnation. That light
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  Speaker 1: has come into the world, and men would prefer the
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  Speaker 1: darkness rather than the light. And because they prefer the
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  Speaker 1: darkness rather than the light, this is why they are condemned.
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  Speaker 1: God is not condemning people because they are sinners. We
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  Speaker 1: are sinners by nature. We are born in saying, in
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  Speaker 1: shape and in iniquolitie. We are condemned because of unbelief,
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  Speaker 1: because of rebellion, because one would refuse the gift of God. Amen, reject, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: the salvation that God has a man brought down from
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  Speaker 1: heaven in the person and work of Jesus Christ. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So Paul, Amen again, now converted to being a man
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  Speaker 1: as it were, Amen, the number one friend of the church,
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  Speaker 1: now a man. He is now traveling with his companions
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  Speaker 1: in chapter sixteen, and they come to a man a
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  Speaker 1: city of Philippi. We're gonna pick it up in verse
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  Speaker 1: number twelve, which the Bible tells us the city of Philippi,
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  Speaker 1: which is chief part of Macedonia. And they were in
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  Speaker 1: that city. The Bible says abiding certain days Verse thirteen.
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  Speaker 1: And on the Sabbath, we went out of the city
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  Speaker 1: by a riverside, where prayer was wont to be made,
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  Speaker 1: and we sat down and spake unto the women which
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  Speaker 1: resorted thither. And a certain woman named Lydia, a sella
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  Speaker 1: of purple, of the city of thigh Tyra, which worshiped God,
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  Speaker 1: heard us. Whose heart the Lord opened. That's very important
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  Speaker 1: a man. No one can come except the Lord draw them.
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  Speaker 1: So the Lord opens her heart. And the Bible says
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  Speaker 1: it unto the things which was spoken of Paul, and
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  Speaker 1: when she was baptized. And when you hear the word
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  Speaker 1: and God works in your heart, God speaks to your heart.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus said these words. Behold, I stand at the door
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  Speaker 1: and knock. If any man open, I will come in
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  Speaker 1: and sup with him. Amen. And so when the Lord
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  Speaker 1: knocks at the door of your heart, Amen, we are
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  Speaker 1: to open. You are to open any man. Any man
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  Speaker 1: hear my voice, Amen, let him open, He said, I
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  Speaker 1: will come in. So the Lord knocks at the door
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  Speaker 1: for her heart. She pays attention to the word of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord. She takes heed to the word of the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: And then she was baptized and her household. God is
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  Speaker 1: in the business of saving households. We saw well, whether
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  Speaker 1: we didn't see, But if you go back just a
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  Speaker 1: few chapters in the Book of the Acts, here in
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  Speaker 1: chapter ten Cornelius, and it's entire household. Amen. We're also
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  Speaker 1: brought into the faith when Peter was sent there a
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  Speaker 1: man to preach the word of the Living God. So
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  Speaker 1: it was with Lydia, a man. She was baptized her
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  Speaker 1: whole household. And the Bible tells us she besought a
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  Speaker 1: man us saying, if we have, if you have rather
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  Speaker 1: judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into
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  Speaker 1: my house and abide there. And she constrained us. So
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  Speaker 1: now she's openly showing good hospitality, as all the saints
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  Speaker 1: of God should do. Amen. And it came to past
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  Speaker 1: verse sixteen. As we went to prayer, watch what happens,
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  Speaker 1: a certain damn soul, young girl possessed with a spirit
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  Speaker 1: of divination met us, which brought her masters much gained
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  Speaker 1: by sooth saying or fortune telling, as it were the same.
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  Speaker 1: This young lady followed paul in Us and cried, saying,
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  Speaker 1: these men are the servants of the Most High God,
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  Speaker 1: which show unto us the way of salvation, all of
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  Speaker 1: that certainly true a man. And thus and this she
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  Speaker 1: did rather by verse eighteen, this she did many days.
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  Speaker 1: But Paul, being grieved, turned and said to the spirit,
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  Speaker 1: I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ, to
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  Speaker 1: come out of her. And he that is the spirit,
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  Speaker 1: the spirit of divination, came out of her the same hour.
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  Speaker 1: Now one would think that a young lady who has
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  Speaker 1: been used by the devil, possessed by the devil, used
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  Speaker 1: by other people, a man for the purpose of being
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  Speaker 1: merchandised to make money off of her, a man condition,
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  Speaker 1: as it were, being a man used by again the devil,
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  Speaker 1: a demon, a spirit of divination. When she would be
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  Speaker 1: set free, one would think that people would be glad
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  Speaker 1: that the girl is loosed from her bonds. But the
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  Speaker 1: Bible tells us verse nineteen, watch what happens. And when
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  Speaker 1: her masters, those who were controlling her, those who were
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  Speaker 1: using her, those who were making merchandise of her, when
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  Speaker 1: they saw that the hope of their gains was gone,
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  Speaker 1: they can no longer, in other words, make money off
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  Speaker 1: of her. They caught Paul and Silas and drew them
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  Speaker 1: into the marketplace unto the rulers. Now this word drew
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  Speaker 1: means dragged. They physically dragged them into the marketplace. And
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  Speaker 1: where did they take them onto the rulers. So now
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  Speaker 1: they have been brought up before the government. Amen. So
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  Speaker 1: the Bible says, they bring them to the magistrates Verse twenty.
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  Speaker 1: This is all government now. So these people who have
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  Speaker 1: you know, a vested entriests, or had rather a vested interests.
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  Speaker 1: And amen, this girl being possessed of the devil. They
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  Speaker 1: are so upset about losing their revenue sorcer revenue that
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  Speaker 1: they drag Paul and barnabas Amen, Paul and Silas brother
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  Speaker 1: into the marketplace. Amen, bring them to the magistrates and
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  Speaker 1: say that these men, being Jews, do exceedingly trouble our city.
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  Speaker 1: And they teach customs which are not lawful for us
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  Speaker 1: to receive, neither to observe, being Romans. Look what they say, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: this this is not for us. These these men are
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  Speaker 1: these men are Jews. This this stuff that they're preaching
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  Speaker 1: and teaching, it's not for the Romans. Oh yes, it
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  Speaker 1: is old contrya my friend. It is for jew gentile
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  Speaker 1: bond and free black, white Asian Indian. It doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 1: It's the Gospel of Jesus Christ. The liberating Word of
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  Speaker 1: God is for all men to be loosed, those who
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  Speaker 1: are demon possessed, bound by the devil living in the
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  Speaker 1: darkness of this world. Amen. This is what this gospel
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  Speaker 1: is all about. Liberation. But again, when people are making
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  Speaker 1: merchandise of other people, of systems, when they have their
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  Speaker 1: institutions of whatever it is, they don't like it if
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  Speaker 1: the Gospel is a threat to them, if the Church
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus Christ is a threat to them, And make
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  Speaker 1: no mistake about it, there are people, there are industries,
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  Speaker 1: there are institutions in this world right now. Do not
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  Speaker 1: like the church and does not want the Church to
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  Speaker 1: be effective, does not want the Church to do what
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  Speaker 1: the Church is supposed to do. They will do whatever
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  Speaker 1: they have to do. A man in the interests of
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  Speaker 1: their revenue and the interests of their money, and the
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  Speaker 1: interests of their personal gain, a man to hinder the church,
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  Speaker 1: to stop the church, to marginalize the church, and even
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  Speaker 1: to destroy the church. I mean, if they had the
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  Speaker 1: ability to do so. Nevertheless, again that's not gonna happen. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And so the Bible says, these men being Jews. They
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  Speaker 1: are troubling our city. They teach customs which are not
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  Speaker 1: lawful for us to receive needs to observe being Romans.
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  Speaker 1: And so the Bible says, the multitude rolls up together.
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  Speaker 1: So they've now stirred up the people amen against Paul
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  Speaker 1: and Silas and the magistrates. These are government officials. They
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  Speaker 1: tore off their clothing and commanded to beat them. Now
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  Speaker 1: they haven't even been the trial. What are the charges
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  Speaker 1: I mean, other than what these men, if they have
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  Speaker 1: not had a chance to defend themselves, speak on their
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  Speaker 1: own behalf. But the apostles are taken and dragged into
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  Speaker 1: the government a place of the center of the city,
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  Speaker 1: so to speak. And instantly, as you know, we had
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  Speaker 1: a mob of mentality going on here, they begin to
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  Speaker 1: lay stripes on them. They begin to beat them Verse
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  Speaker 1: twenty three. The box is when they had laid many
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  Speaker 1: stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the
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  Speaker 1: jailer to keep them safely, who, having received such a charge,
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  Speaker 1: thrust them into the inner prison and made their feet
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  Speaker 1: fast in the stock. So now Paul and Silas, just
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  Speaker 1: for preaching the gospel, just for casting out devils. And
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  Speaker 1: this is what Jesus said, by the way, and he
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  Speaker 1: would give us the power to do, to cast out devils. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And he commissioned the church to go and do this. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: so that what men can be liberated, so that men
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  Speaker 1: can be loose, All men could be free, Amen, from
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  Speaker 1: the bondage of sin, from the power of the darkness. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Light has come into the world. Amen, And there's no
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  Speaker 1: need for man to be in darkness. Amen. And that's
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  Speaker 1: what Jesus came to do. He came to set me
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  Speaker 1: in free. And anyone can be set free. Anyone can
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  Speaker 1: be loosed, a man from the shackles and from the
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  Speaker 1: bondage of sin that has a man bound them. A man,
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  Speaker 1: he whom the Son sets free, the Bible says Jesus said,
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  Speaker 1: is free. Indeed, and time after time, again and again
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  Speaker 1: a man. Those who oppose the good news of Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 1: those who oppose a man the gospel message, those who
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  Speaker 1: oppose freedom from bondage a man, they continue to come
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  Speaker 1: after the messengers of liberty and salvation. And that's who
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  Speaker 1: we are, with the preachers, true preachers, true ministers, Amen
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  Speaker 1: of the Gospel of Jesus Christ. We are messengers of
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  Speaker 1: liberty and salvation. We are ambassadors for Christ. Amen, we
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  Speaker 1: are ambassadors a man and for the souls of men
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  Speaker 1: to be again liberated. Amen. And and and and and
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  Speaker 1: and Based upon this particular attempt a man by these
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  Speaker 1: haters of the liberating gospel of Jesus Christ, they were
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  Speaker 1: completely I mean they were they were upset. They were
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  Speaker 1: really upset about their money. Amen. And and again, if
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  Speaker 1: we what you think about, if the Church was really
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  Speaker 1: liberating people from drug addiction, from alcoholism, a man from
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  Speaker 1: sexual uh dependency, from all of these vices and all
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  Speaker 1: of these things that people use others to make merchandise
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  Speaker 1: of them, if prostitutes were wiped off of the streets
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  Speaker 1: and in the house of God, I mean all kinds
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  Speaker 1: of industries and people, a man benefit financially, a man
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  Speaker 1: from people being in bondage, people being loose I mean
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  Speaker 1: a chained up and not loose or set free, a
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  Speaker 1: man from all of these vices. But again, Jesus came
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  Speaker 1: for the express purpose of loosing us amen, from the bonds,
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  Speaker 1: from the change from the shackles a man of sin, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: and death. That's that, that's that's ultimately awaiting, because that's
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  Speaker 1: the wages of sin. The wages of sin is death.
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  Speaker 1: God wants people's eyes open, their ears attentive, Amen, and
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  Speaker 1: them amen again loosed from their bonds. Amen. And so
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  Speaker 1: what happens here, what we're going to see and just
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  Speaker 1: a moment, is with this attempt by these who amen,
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  Speaker 1: were so upset about their loss, Amen, about the liberating
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  Speaker 1: power of God and the gospel of Jesus Christ. Not
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  Speaker 1: only was the young woman h loose from the demonding
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  Speaker 1: power that had been possessing her for however long, but
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  Speaker 1: as we're going to see, all of the prisoners were
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  Speaker 1: loosed from their bonds, and all of them witnessed and
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  Speaker 1: experienced got a taste of the liberating power of God,
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  Speaker 1: the liberating power of the Holy Ghost, Amen, the spirit
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  Speaker 1: of a living God that sets men free, and the
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  Speaker 1: keeper of the prisoners we're all going to see and
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  Speaker 1: his whole household. Amen, we're also again loosed once again,
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  Speaker 1: even when the sworn enemies of the church attempt to
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  Speaker 1: stifle the messengers, attempt to interfere with what God is predetermined,
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  Speaker 1: what God has a man already decreed. And I mean, listen,
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  Speaker 1: it's gonna happen. It's gonna happen. You can stop, you
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  Speaker 1: can hinder, you can stifle. I mean Satan. The Bible
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  Speaker 1: speaks of it. Paul asked for prayer, he said, and
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  Speaker 1: he had intentions of going here there, but Satan hindered us.
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  Speaker 1: And he always prayed, for example, that the word of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord would have free course. Pray for Pray for
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  Speaker 1: me that I will have boldness. So forth and so on.
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  Speaker 1: We know that we have opposition a man, we know
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  Speaker 1: that there will be opposition. That's okay. God knows that.
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  Speaker 1: But God wants to and he does show himself strong
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  Speaker 1: on our behalf. And even in death, even in imprisonment,
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  Speaker 1: even in persecution, we still love victorious. Amen, because God
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  Speaker 1: has made us victorious. And again he has predetermined that
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  Speaker 1: whatever the enemy means for evil, God has already meant
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  Speaker 1: it for good. Amen. So don't don't. We are not
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  Speaker 1: to live in fear. We're not to live in doubt,
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  Speaker 1: with not to live in unbelief. Amen. We'll not to
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  Speaker 1: a man anxious a man about what the enemy would
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  Speaker 1: try to do a man. All things work together for
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  Speaker 1: the good for them that love the Lord, to them
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  Speaker 1: who are the called according to His purpose. Now here's
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the story A man with Paul. Insiders
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  Speaker 1: go down to verse twenty five. And at midnight now
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  Speaker 1: here these men are thrust into prison, beaten, put in
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  Speaker 1: shackles and chains and bonds. Amen. But at midnight they
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  Speaker 1: got the right spirit, they got the right attitude. They
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  Speaker 1: are serving the truth and the living God. They are
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  Speaker 1: a man. And Paul, by the way, had already been
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  Speaker 1: prepared for this, a man from the day of his conversion,
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  Speaker 1: if you remember, already a man. When God arrested him,
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  Speaker 1: ay man, he told him how much he would suffer
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  Speaker 1: for his namesake. And Paul would later write about glorying
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  Speaker 1: in afflictions, glorying in all of these things, and he said,
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  Speaker 1: I will endure all things for the elect's sake, that
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  Speaker 1: they may obtain this salvation which is in Christ Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: And so Amen, Paul and Silas. Amen. Even though they
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  Speaker 1: were mistreated, as we'll see, Amen, even though they were
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  Speaker 1: not afforded an opportunity to defend themselves, to speak on
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  Speaker 1: their behalf. And by the way, Roman citizens, which of
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  Speaker 1: course they had rights. Amen. But nevertheless, it matters if
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  Speaker 1: you got the right attitude, Amen, No matter what circumstance
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  Speaker 1: you find yourself in. So in the midst of a
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  Speaker 1: dark dungeon, no doubt, Philippian jail. Amen, at midnight, the
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  Speaker 1: Bible says, Paul and Silas prayed and saying praises unto God.
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  Speaker 1: And listen what happened, The Bible says, the prisoners heard them,
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  Speaker 1: and suddenly verse twenty six, Oh my God, Oh God
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  Speaker 1: knows how. God knows how, he knows how, he knows
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  Speaker 1: how to come wherever you are, Amen, Look what happened.
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  Speaker 1: Suddenly there was a great earthquake, so that the foundations
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  Speaker 1: of the prison were shaken. And immediately, watch what happens.
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  Speaker 1: All the doors were open. Now you remember with Peter,
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  Speaker 1: a man, when Peter was put in prison, the night
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  Speaker 1: before he was to be executed, the angel came in
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  Speaker 1: and only opened the door, as it were, for Peter,
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  Speaker 1: Amen to go out. And it didn't free everyone else
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  Speaker 1: who perhaps may have been in prison. But in this case,
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  Speaker 1: everyone is loosed. Look, oh, I love it. Everyone is loose.
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  Speaker 1: That's what God wants. He wants you and I all
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  Speaker 1: men everywhere to be loosed. A man and so the
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  Speaker 1: Bible tells us, when Paul in silence began to pray
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  Speaker 1: and sing praises to God. There was a great earthquake.
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  Speaker 1: All the doors were open, and everyone's bands were loosed,
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  Speaker 1: and the keeper of the prison woke up out of
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  Speaker 1: his sleep, and the Bible says he saw the prison
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  Speaker 1: doors open, and he took out his sword and was
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  Speaker 1: in the process of committing suicide. The Bible said, he
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  Speaker 1: was going to kill himself because he thought that the
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  Speaker 1: prisoners had escaped and on his watch. Amen. That's a
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  Speaker 1: death sentence. Amen. And so the Bible you remember again
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  Speaker 1: with Peter, when herod examined the keepers of the jail
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  Speaker 1: of the prison where Peter was being held and determined
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  Speaker 1: that they had been derelict, as it were, at least
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  Speaker 1: from his perspective, from the human perspective, in their duty
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  Speaker 1: to guard Peter. Amen, he had them put to death.
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  Speaker 1: So this was a death sentence of sorts if you
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  Speaker 1: were a man the responsible party for guarding prisoners and
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  Speaker 1: they escaped on your watch. Amen. So he drew out
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  Speaker 1: his sword and he was about to kill. But the
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  Speaker 1: Bible says Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, do
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  Speaker 1: thyself no harm, for we are all here. No one listen.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody was loose, but nobody ran away. Oh my God,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, I can ah the power of God in
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  Speaker 1: that place. I mean what, I would love to know
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  Speaker 1: what happened with all of the rest of these prisoners.
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  Speaker 1: If I would love to know. Luke doesn't tell us, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: what happened with all the rest of these prisoners. But
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  Speaker 1: the Bible tells us this. They heard Paul and Silas praying.
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  Speaker 1: They heard Paul and Silas a man of singing praises
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  Speaker 1: to God. And they experienced the shaking, They experienced the
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  Speaker 1: doors being opened. They experienced, Amen, their shackles and chains
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  Speaker 1: and bonds being broken off of them, and they were
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  Speaker 1: all loosed and set free. And they could have escaped,
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  Speaker 1: but they didn't. Now why did they not escape? Was it?
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  Speaker 1: Could it be that they had also been converted? I'm
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  Speaker 1: talking about real freedom, real liberty. Amen. Amen. Again, he
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  Speaker 1: whom the Son sets free is free. Indeed, so I
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  Speaker 1: would like to believe that because of this experience, because
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  Speaker 1: they were in the presence of two of God's a
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  Speaker 1: man mighty apostles, servants of the Most High God, and
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  Speaker 1: the fear of God, I believe fell also in that place, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: And so they were all their apostle Oh to the
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  Speaker 1: Philippi and jail or do yourself no harm. Everybody is
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  Speaker 1: still here. Nobody has escaped, but everybody is free. Oh
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  Speaker 1: my God, help us Jesus, oh man, we don't have
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  Speaker 1: Oh my God, thank you Lord. Amen. And so the
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  Speaker 1: Bible says he called for a light and sprang in
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  Speaker 1: and came trembling and fell down before Paul and Silas
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  Speaker 1: and brought them out and said, sirge oh, I love this,
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  Speaker 1: I love this. What must I do to be saved? Lord,
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  Speaker 1: have mercy? What must I do to be saved? And
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  Speaker 1: they said, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou
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  Speaker 1: shalt be saved. And thy house amen. And so the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the story is that he took them to
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  Speaker 1: his house. Amen. He and his whole house was baptized.
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  Speaker 1: And God had a purpose. And and of course Paul
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  Speaker 1: and Silence were the next day freed and and and
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  Speaker 1: set set free. And and of course they discovered that
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  Speaker 1: Paul and Silace were Roman and citizens, and they should
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  Speaker 1: have not been mistreated this way, all hastily. But again,
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  Speaker 1: that's how the devil is, That's how the enemies of
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  Speaker 1: the Cross are. They don't think and irrational. Amen. And
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  Speaker 1: so Amen. Nevertheless, God gets the glory. God gets victory.
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  Speaker 1: Even though paul Insilas were mistreated, they were beaten, they
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  Speaker 1: were thrust in jail. Amen. And God had a purpose
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  Speaker 1: in it, that Philippian jailer and everyone else in that prison.
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  Speaker 1: I pray, I believe. I believe that these not only
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  Speaker 1: loose from their physical shackles, but loose from the bondage
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  Speaker 1: of sin his whole house. God had a purpose. Hey,
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  Speaker 1: God had a purpose in that. And so I would,
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  Speaker 1: I would, I would, I would. I would certainly implore
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  Speaker 1: all of us, especially on this particular day, this day
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  Speaker 1: of the fourth of July twenty twenty five, and the
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  Speaker 1: year of our Lord, on this occasion of celebrating Amen
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  Speaker 1: in the United States of America, a man, the freedom
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  Speaker 1: that we have, the liberty that we have, a man,
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  Speaker 1: the blessing that we have the privilege that we have
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  Speaker 1: to enjoy freedom like northern nation on this earth. I
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  Speaker 1: would implore us as believers, especially and particularly those of
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  Speaker 1: us who are citizens of this nation, and more importantly,
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  Speaker 1: though citizens of the heavens of the Kingdom. That's where
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  Speaker 1: our true and ultimate citizenship is. A man, we should
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  Speaker 1: be more thankful all the more thankful, all the more grateful, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: And mindful of this liberty a man wherewith we have
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  Speaker 1: been set free, wherein we have a man ability, a
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  Speaker 1: man to openly worship, freely share the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: the good news that liberates and sets men free. Am.
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  Speaker 1: May not always be this way, For the Church may
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  Speaker 1: not always be this way in the United States of America.
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  Speaker 1: We don't know, Amen, And we should not be ignorant
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  Speaker 1: of the adversary and his willing vessels who hate the Church,
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  Speaker 1: and who are actively actively even as I speak, they
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  Speaker 1: are actively seeking, just as their fathers did. Amen, to
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  Speaker 1: overthrow what God has purpose, what God has decreed, what
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  Speaker 1: God is Amen. Amen, set forth in his eternal salvation
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  Speaker 1: plan a man to redeem the souls of lost and
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  Speaker 1: wayward man. Amen, let us not be ignorant of Satan's devices.
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  Speaker 1: The children of the devil a man. They seek the
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  Speaker 1: destruction of the Church. They seek to silence the preacher
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  Speaker 1: of the truth. Amen. And they work tirelessly night and day.
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  Speaker 1: They don't sleep, they don't rest Amen, until Eve has
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  Speaker 1: been performed by them. And they are working hand in
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  Speaker 1: hand with willing government. Amen. Officials who are of the
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  Speaker 1: same mindset. And as it was with the enemies of
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  Speaker 1: the early Church, as we just saw another example of this. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: and they all of course fell miserably a man to
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  Speaker 1: stop the church, to destroy the church. Amen. These in
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  Speaker 1: our day, make no mistake about it, we'll also be
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  Speaker 1: relegated to the same fate of failure in their futility.
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  Speaker 1: And again we've already seen throughout the a man the
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  Speaker 1: pages of scripture, Old Testament, and knew Amen that those
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  Speaker 1: who insist upon opposing the will of God. Amen, they
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  Speaker 1: are seeking, they're bringing about, as it were, their own demise.
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  Speaker 1: And please understand we never should forget this, that God
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  Speaker 1: is sovereign over all of the affairs of all men,
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  Speaker 1: of all nations at all times. Amen. And what He
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  Speaker 1: is decreed to come to pass, it shall come to pass. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus again said it, I'm on this rock, I'm building
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  Speaker 1: my church. The gates of hell shall not prevail. We win,
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  Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen. We have victorious in life and death,
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  Speaker 1: and persecution and distress and tribulation. No matter. Amen, we
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  Speaker 1: still win. Jesus told us, in this world, you're going
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  Speaker 1: to have tribulation you're going to have persecution, You're going
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  Speaker 1: to God didn't hide that from us, and thank God
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  Speaker 1: he didn't. And nevertheless we again are triumphant, We are victorious. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: It cannot be thwarted by mere mortal man. Amen. Again,
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  Speaker 1: these who have their very existence by the way and
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  Speaker 1: the very Creator, Amen, whom they are rebelling against, they
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  Speaker 1: would be wise to bow their knees now and willing
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  Speaker 1: submission to the King of king and to the Lord
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  Speaker 1: of Lords. They would be wise now to a man
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  Speaker 1: come in repentance, a man to turn from their wicked ways, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: and do it of their will now with a broken
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  Speaker 1: heart and a contrite spirit, rather than to have their
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  Speaker 1: knees broken by the Lord himself. You do not want, amen,
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  Speaker 1: the wrath of God on you. And the Bible tells us,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, the Lord is angry with the wicked
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  Speaker 1: every day a man. It's the mercy of God. It's
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  Speaker 1: the compassion of God, is the long suffering of God.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't bring judgment upon men and allow them to
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  Speaker 1: even continue in their blasphemy and obstinacy against the God
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  Speaker 1: of Heaven. Amen. It's the goodness of God. The Bible
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  Speaker 1: says leads us to repentance. But the arms of the
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  Speaker 1: wicked will be broken. I mean, every need is going
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  Speaker 1: to bow and every tongue is going to confess that
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  Speaker 1: Jesus to Christ is Lord. So let us, as the
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  Speaker 1: people of God, as ambassadors of Christ, be bold, be confident,
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  Speaker 1: be assured. Amen that Amen, God has come and he
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  Speaker 1: is yet now. And this is our prayer loosing men
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  Speaker 1: from their bonds. So on this independence day, let us
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  Speaker 1: pray that God will set men free everywhere, because again
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  Speaker 1: he whom the Son sets free is free. Indeed, God
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  Speaker 1: be glorified in Jesus' name. God bless you. Amen.