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812. Bible Study: Daniel 3 (Faith vs. the Image to be worshipped or Death?) · Faith by annm2705

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  Chapter 3 from the book of Daniel.
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  I am going to warn you right now that this is going to probably
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  be a long episode because there is so much to talk about and
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  it's so important. And we will get into
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  Christianity, Judaism and Islam when we talk about this and this
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  chapter, I think what I'll do is I'm going to pause at each each
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  section and then go through some of the research that I did.
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  So I have backup for everything that I will state.
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  It is, you know, it is, you'll be able to find it.
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  You can search it yourself and find it.
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  So whatever I say here is something that is publicly
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  available and it's not just my own thoughts.
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  However, there are some things that may be my own thoughts and
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  I will clearly state that before saying that because I don't want
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  to mislead anyone. But I really want people to
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  think about this and to and have discussions, have follow up
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  discussions with people about this.
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  So before we get started, let's pray.
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  Dear Lord, please be with us. Give us wisdom, insight, peace
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  through your word and let us understand.
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  Open our eyes, let the Holy Spirit give us wisdom, peace,
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  comfort, all of those things that the Holy Spirit gives.
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  We ask this in Jesus name, Amen. This is about the image of gold
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  and the blazing furnace. So in chapter 2, Nebuchadnezzar,
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  King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon, had a dream and Daniel explained
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  to him that the head of the statue that he saw in his dream
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  was him. And he was like the the 1st
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  Kingdom of a series of kingdoms of four kingdoms that would
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  eventually come. So Nebuchadnezzar took and ran
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  with us because he got a dream about it.
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  So here's what he did. King Nebuchadnezzar made an
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  image of gold 60 cubits high and six cubits wide and set it up in
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  the plain of Dura in the province of Babylon.
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  So this was done in Iraq. It'd be really interesting if
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  that ever turns up archaeologically that huge
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  statue. But anyway, this is a
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  significant statue. It's 90 feet high and 9 feet
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  wide, or 27 meters high and 2.7 meters wide.
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  So this is pretty significant. And if it's out on a plane, just
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  think of how tall that stands up and is visible.
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  And this is something that let's keep in mind too, a lot of these
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  accounts like this is a literal account.
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  It's not a made-up story. This is a, this just talks of, I
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  mean, this is an actual event that happened.
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  And at the same time, it's symbolic prophetically.
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  And I believe it also has future significance to us in prophecy.
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  And I'll explain that as we go along.
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  So this is a really important chapter.
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  So he summoned the say traps per prefects, governors, advisors,
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  treasurers, judges, magistrates and all the other provincial
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  officials to come to the dedication of the image he had
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  set up. If we've read about Bible
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  prophecy, there will be a future leader that's going to set up an
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  image and there will be a false prophet that allows the image to
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  speak. And we aren't given much more in
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  details of specifically what this image is, but this
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  certainly seems to be like a cursor or a foreshadowing of
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  that future event. This is someone filled with
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  pride and he's setting up an image of himself to be
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  worshipped. And that's what this other
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  entity in the future will be doing, will set up an image.
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  The false prophet will give him power to actually speak.
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  This image will speak and it will cause all those who do not
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  worship it to be killed. So it's very, very similar
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  because you'll see in in this chapter what this, you know,
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  whoever doesn't worship this gets put in a fire, essentially
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  killed. So let's continue.
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  So the satraps, prefects, governors, advisors, treasurers,
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  judges, magistrates, and all the other provincial officials
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  assembled for the dedication of the image that King
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  Nebuchadnezzar had set up, and they stood before it.
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  Then the herald loudly proclaimed nations and peoples
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  of every language. This is what you are commanded
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  to do. As soon as you hear the sound of
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  the horn, flute, zither, leer, harp, pipe, and all kinds of
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  music, you must fall down and worship the image of gold that
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  King Nebuchadnezzar has set up. Whoever does not fall down and
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  worship will immediately be thrown into a blazing furnace.
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  There's a couple things here, fall down and worship.
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  This is something that actually takes me to the story about
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  Jesus. What he after he got baptized,
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  he went into the wilderness and Satan tempted him for 40 days
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  and Satan said, I'll give you this Kingdom.
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  And he was up on a high mountaintop and said, I'll give
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  this to you if you fall down and worship me.
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  That's what he said. And then he also said, like, if
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  you fall off this Cliff, there will be angels that will protect
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  you. You won't even hurt a foot.
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  There will not even be a foot that will be hurt on you.
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  So again, Satan is kind of behind this like fall down and
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  worship thing. And we see that repeatedly in in
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  the Bible. But so anyway, it says
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  therefore, as soon as they heard the sound of the horn, flute,
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  zither, leer, harp, and all kinds of music, all the nations
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  and peoples of every language fell down and worshipped the
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  image of gold that King Nebuchadnezzar had set up.
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  So this is a type and foreshadow of the Antichrist image that
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  will be set up someday in the future.
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  And the death if you don't worship the, the image now, when
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  this like all of this music happens or this is broadcast,
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  you know, like this is, you know, back in that time, they
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  didn't have speakers like they do today.
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  But back then they, you know, had to make noises to alert
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  people that it is time to fall down and pray.
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  And when I was reading that, I had this thought.
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  And again, this is my own thought and something for you to
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  think about and consider and pray about.
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  But I've been noticing how different countries around the
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  world, and actually even in the United States have recently been
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  allowing the Islamic call to prayer to be broadcast over loud
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  speakers, that people need to stop what they're doing and
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  pray. And is there, I'm asking the
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  question, is there a correlation between, is there a similarity
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  between what Nebuchadnezzar did and what is happening in Islam?
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  Now we're going to get into a little bit, you know, people
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  might say, well, that's different because this is about,
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  you know, God or Allah or whatever.
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  And I will address that very, very soon because the God of the
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  Bible is not the same as Allah. They do worship, they are
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  worshipping a God, but it isn't the one true God from the Bible.
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  And we will talk about that. That is an absolute fact and I
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  have support for that. So continuing in verse 8, at
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  this time some astrologers and it says also these are all they
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  could also be. Well it was Chaldeans I guess in
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  Hebrew came forward and denounced the Jews.
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  So here we see anti-Semitism right here.
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  And of course, you know, they were the ones who were captured
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  by Babylon. They, you know, Babylon, King
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  Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon went into Jerusalem and took a bunch
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  of people and left the poor people behind, but took many of
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  the other people into exile and brought them to Babylon, which
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  is modern day Iraq. So they said to King
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  Nebuchadnezzar, may the king live forever.
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  Your Majesty has issued A decree that everyone who hears the
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  sound of the horn, flute, zither, leer, harp, pipe, and
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  all kinds of music must fall down and worship the image of
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  gold, that whoever does not fall down and worship it will be
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  thrown into a blazing furnace. This is interesting too because
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  if you study the the Bible prophecy and what is supposed to
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  what will happen in the end times is like the the beast
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  which is symbolic of multiple leaders.
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  The beast and the false prophet will be thrown into the burning
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  lake of sulfur. So that's what is told to us
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  through the Bible and that and, and eventually at the end of the
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  thousand years after Jesus reigns on earth, also those who
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  reject God, they will also go into the same place.
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  All those who whose names are not written in the book of life
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  will also have that same. So this is I've heard this
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  before, and it seems to be true that the enemy seems to copy the
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  you know what is said in the Bible?
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  Copy and twist it. And although this was not
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  written as prophecy, this is an account, a historical account of
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  what happened to Daniel and his friends under King
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  Nebuchadnezzar. So this wasn't foretold.
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  This is just an account. But it's interesting that the
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  same, you know, it's kind of like the opposite is happening.
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  The Jewish people who are God's chosen are the ones who would
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  not worship a false God, a made-up God, an image, because
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  that's one of the 10 commandments that God
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  established immediately with Moses.
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  And so, you know, I don't really understand a lot about how
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  people could worship an image when that's clearly one of the
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  commands that people should not do in the 10 commandments.
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  So anyway, these, these people were, you know, who were not
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  worshipping, they were supposed to be thrown into the furnace.
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  And then these are the people that are coming forward, these
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  astrologers or Chaldeans. And it's verse 12 it says, but
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  there are some Jews whom you have set over the affairs of the
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  province of Babylon, Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, who pay no
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  attention to you, Your Majesty. They neither serve your gods nor
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  worship the image of the gold you have set up.
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  Furious with rage, Nebuchadnezzar summoned
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  Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. So these men were brought before
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  the king, and Nebuchadnezzar said to them, Is it true,
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  Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, that you do not serve my gods or
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  worship the image of gold I have set up?
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  Now when you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, leer,
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  harp, pipe, and all kinds of music, if you are ready to fall
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  down and worship the image I made, very good.
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  But if you do not worship it, you will be thrown immediately
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  into a blazing furnace. Then what God will be able to
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  rescue you from my hand So you can see He's got right there and
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  he's thinking, you know, there's no escaping this.
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  You're going to you'll suffer the consequences of not doing
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  what I've told you to do. So verse 16 Shadrach, Meshach
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  and Abedneko replied to him. King Nebuchadnezzar, we do not
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  need to defend ourselves before you in this matter.
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  If we are thrown into the blazing fire, the blazing
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  furnace, the God we serve is able to deliver us from it, and
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  he will deliver us from Your Majesty's hand.
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  But even if he does not, we want you to know, your Majesty, that
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  we will not serve your gods or worship the image of gold you
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  had set up. Can you imagine this?
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  You are a captive in another country, and they worship things
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  that you don't worship. And to have the boldness and
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  courage that these three boys, they weren't, you know, they
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  were probably in their late teens, maybe early 20s.
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  They were young and I, I guess young men, not boys, but young
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  men. And, and they were, they had
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  this boldness to stand up. I'm sure these leaders were very
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  intimidating. And that can only be understood
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  by truly knowing God and having courage to stand up in a
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  circumstance like that. But these, these men on these
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  young men, they're, they're boldly saying, no, we're not
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  going to do that. And they know what's going to
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  happen to them. Verse 19 Then Nebuchadnezzar was
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  furious with Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and his attitude
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  toward them changed. He ordered the furnace heated 7
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  times hotter than usual and commanded some of the strongest
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  soldiers in his army to tie up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego
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  and throw them into the blazing furnace.
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  So these men, wearing their robes, trousers, turbans, and
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  other clothes, were bound and thrown into the blazing furnace.
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  The King's command was so urgent and the furnace so hot that the
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  flames of the fire killed the soldiers who took up Shadrach,
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  Meshach, and Abednego. And these three men, firmly
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  tied, fell into the blazing furnace.
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  So there's Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego that are in the
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  furnace. Then King Nebuchadnezzar leaped
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  to his feet in amazement and asked his advisors.
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  Weren't there three men that we tied up and threw into the fire?
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  OK, so think about this also. Well, I guess it's he's
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  directing it to them because they were out openly going
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  against him, probably in front of other people.
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  And but I'm thinking, you know, were these the only three people
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  who refused to do it? Did everyone else worship the
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  image? Were there any other Jews that
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  didn't worship the image? Or was it just these three
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  people? We know Daniel didn't.
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  And I don't know how Daniel was not involved with this, but
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  there were three. It was the other three,
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  Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego, who were thrown into this fire.
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  So what did they do with Daniel while this was happening?
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  It's, you know, I wonder. And so the King Nebuchadnezzar
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  knows there's three that they put into the fire.
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  They replied, so he says, weren't there three men that we
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  tied up and threw into the fire? They replied, certainly, Your
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  majesty, he said. Look, I see four men walking
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  around in the fire, unbound and unharmed, and the fourth looks
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  like a son of the gods. Now, isn't that interesting?
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  Like he doesn't, he doesn't know God.
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  You know, Daniel was giving him the revelation of the dream he
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  had, and he had a dream from God, but he doesn't really know
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  who God is. He, he is seeing the power of
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  God. He saw the power of God through
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  Daniel because Daniel could interpret his dream, and he's
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  now a second time. He's seeing another powerful
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  thing from God about these three men who are walking around.
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  And then there's a fourth man. And I just think it's very
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  interesting that it says it looks like a son of the gods.
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  And what I immediately think is like, because he doesn't know
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  God, but why would he say the son of a God?
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  And then Jesus is the Son of God.
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  Was this Jesus walking around and he came and rescued these
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  three. We can't confirm it, all we can
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  say. So that is my speculation that
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  this is, you know, because of the description like a son of
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  the gods. So whatever he saw, it was
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  something significant. He was something significant,
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  the 4th man. And could this be Jesus?
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  Something to ponder, Nebuchadnezzar Then I guess it
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  would could be Jesus or an Angel.
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  But just because he described it like a son of the gods, I lean
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  towards Jesus. But I will never know unless you
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  know, unless until God tells us so.
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  So Nebuchadnezzar then approached the opening of the
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  blazing furnace and shouted. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego,
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  service of servants of the Most High God, come out, come here.
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  So Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego came out of the fire,
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  and the say traps perfects. Governors and royal advisors
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  crowded around them. They saw that the fire had not
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  harmed their bodies, nor was a hair of their heads singed.
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  Their robes were not scorched and there was no smell of fire
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  on them. Could you imagine that?
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  Like, you can't even sit around a campfire and your clothes
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  smell like fire. So these guys were inside the
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  furnace and it didn't even smell like fire when they came out and
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  there was nothing on them burned.
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  Don't you think that? I mean, there's two things here.
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  First of all, the faith of those three young men that they
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  exhibited here to being thrown in.
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  And then secondly, Can you imagine how elated they would be
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  to say like, Oh my goodness, look at what, what has God done
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  Now, you know? So verse 28 then Nebuchadnezzar
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  said, praise be to the God of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego
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  who has sent his Angel now it's called an Angel and rescued his
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  servants. They trusted in him and defied
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  the King's command and were willing to give up their lives
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  rather than serve or worship any God except their own God.
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  Therefore I decree that the people of any nation or language
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  who say anything against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and
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  Abednego be cut into pieces and their houses be turned into
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  piles of rubble. For no other God can save them,
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  can save in this way. So that, you know, again, a God
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  who save saves them. It you know, it's usually it's
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  only God who saves. God always says, you know, by my
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  right hand I will save. And Jesus is seated at the right
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  hand of the Father. So that's another reason why I
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  think maybe this was Jesus. And also the other thing is that
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  Nebuchadnezzar's eyes are being opened to God.
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  So he's starting to God is starting to be revealed in front
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  of Nebuchadnezzar. So at this, you know, when this
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  happens, it's just like us, when God begins to be revealed to us,
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  what do we do with it? How do we respond to God?
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  That's the situation that Nebuchadnezzar is going to get
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  himself into. He's going to see these things
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  that God keeps doing. But then he's got a point, a
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  decision, what he wants to do about this.
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  Then the king promoted Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the
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  province of Babylon. So this also shows God's
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  faithfulness, God's protection of his people, people who were
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  willing to die, these young men who were willing to die rather
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  than worship anything other than God.
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  What kind of faith is that? Do we have that kind of faith?
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  If we are the generation that is here, when Jesus returns, it's
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  going to demand faith like that out of us.
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  So I think we need to really get our minds prepared because it
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  all starts with your mind, your thoughts 1st and and we get
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  prepared by reading the Bible and by having the Holy Spirit
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  with us. The Holy Spirit gives us peace
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  and the Holy Spirit gives us self-control.
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  The Holy Spirit gives us power. The Spirit of God is the Holy
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  Spirit that I'm talking about. And so I think with the things
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  going on in the world, it makes sense right now to seriously
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  focus on what the Bible says and knowing God.
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  Don't be clueless about who God is and the power of the Holy
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  Spirit and the resources you as a believer have, because it is
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  incredible what God has given us to endure.
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  And I, there's so much that I still want to talk about, but
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  that that pretty much covers the chapter 3 of the book of Daniel,
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  But there's a lot more than I want to talk about.
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  So I will go through as I'm reading this, like how I came up
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  with questions and, and a lot more detail and resources.
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  So you can check this out as well.
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  Now I think there's, there's debate about this in with within
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  scholars, people who study the Bible about the Holy Spirit's
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  presence and what always comes to mind.
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  And I, I just think people should question this and look
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  into it yourself in the Bible and see what you think.
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  But the in first Samuel, this is the Old Testament, first Samuel
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  16 verse 14. It says now the spirit of the
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  Lord had departed from Saul and an evil spirit from the Lord
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  tormented him. This is really significant
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  because God anointed Saul as the first king of Israel.
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  And with the anointing, you know, the, the Holy Spirit.
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  I, I needed to, I should have looked at that a little bit
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  earlier, but at some point God's Spirit had to be with, with Saul
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  in order to depart from Saul. And the reason that the Spirit
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  departed from Saul was because he grieved the Holy Spirit.
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  He would not be obedient to God. God, he would be told to do
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  certain things and he would do them halfway, but he would think
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  his way is better and I'll just do this much, but I'm not going
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  to do all that. And he kind of set his own
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  parameters. He would not humble himself in
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  front of God and God Eventually he, he was like, I'm taking away
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  your Kingdom from you. And that's why he chose David to
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  replace Saul. Saul was the first king, David
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  was the second king and God chose David to be the king that
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  replaced Saul because of Saul's disobedience.
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  Samuel, who is a person who heard from God, he also warned
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  Saul many times about like question him, like, why are you
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  not obeying this? Why are you doing, you know,
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  basically what you want to do and you're not listening to what
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  I say, you're not following directions.
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  And that's what Saul was like. And so when I read that, I have
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  I, I struggle with that because there are a lot of people who
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  say the Holy Spirit, you know, will be with you forever.
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  And I do agree with that, as long as you don't disregard God,
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  as long as you choose to remain obedient to God.
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  I just, and maybe I'm wrong about that.
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  I know people will quote certain verses in Scripture and say,
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  well, it'll be with this eternally, but God always gives
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  us free will. So we could choose not to be
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  obedient to God. We could choose to do what we
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  want, and I'm not talking about that occasional mess up that we
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  have, but I'm talking about willfully doing things that God
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  says don't do. And we already know it.
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  We already know we're not supposed to do it, but we're
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  just like, oh, God gives us grace, He'll forgive me, you
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  know, like that kind of thing. And then go ahead and keep doing
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  something that is clearly known as something wrong.
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  And God looks at our heart. God looks at our intentions.
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  If we mess up occasionally and we ask for forgiveness, He is
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  kind, merciful and so forth. But that usually involves
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  repentance where we basically say to God, I don't want to do
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  this again, help me, give me more strength, give me the Holy
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  Spirit to help me overcome this problem that I have in my life.
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  And God is willing. It says our flesh is weak, but
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  the Spirit is drawn strong. And it says, and my grace is
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  sufficient, My power is sufficient.
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  So God's power, I mean, to deny the power of God that he can
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  give us in times of need is not fully relying on God.
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  It's not having, it's not having faith.
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  And faith is what saves us. Faith is what initiates
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  everything. So there's another one where,
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  you know, there's, there's spirits who can, you know, all
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  kinds of spirits who can be within a person.
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  I mean, they, they can, there's an account in the book of Acts
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  where there was this woman who was just, you know, annoyingly
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  following the disciples and she kept yelling out like something
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  about who they were. And it was annoying.
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  Paul and so this is in Acts chapter 16 verse 18.
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  She kept this up for many days. Finally Paul became so annoyed
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  that he turned around and said to the Spirit, in the name of
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  Jesus Christ, I command you to come out of her.
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  At that moment the Spirit left her.
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  This is showing the power in the name of Jesus Christ, and we
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  need to remember that because if we are in Christ and we have the
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  Holy Spirit, we have an, I guess, an unlimited resource,
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  the resources of God the most powerful, the Creator who Jesus
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  has given to us. So remember that as a a true
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  Christian believer filled with the Holy Spirit, the power that
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  Jesus has told his disciples, his followers, the people who
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  follow his teaching, who obey him.
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  This is the power you have. So when you're disobedient to
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  God, this is what you're giving up, that power that God made
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  available to you. And and there there are spirits
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  that can inhabit a person, a person who is not filled with
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  the Holy Spirit. That's why being in the word in
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  prayer, that's why communicating with God daily often is so
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  important, because we don't want to leave ourselves void of God's
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  spirit. We want to stay connected to the
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  spirit. And with with that there is
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  great power. People even tried to buy it in
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  the Bible and they got in trouble for it too.
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  But it OK, so faith is the beginning of it all.
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  And faith brings about so many different things.
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  And I, I want to, this is kind of long because there's 33
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  verses ironically, and Jesus was what about 33 when he, you know,
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  his ministry on earth? So I do want to read these
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  verses and I'll try to go through them kind of quickly.
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  And what you can, I guess if you go to blueletterbible.org, you
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  can find this and search through faith.
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  So it's the word through faith. Do a word search for that.
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  And I'm reading from the NIV. I'm not going to give every
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  single reference because that'll make this podcast a lot longer.
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  So if you want to find these quotes, that's how you can find
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  them. Search through faith on
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  blueletterbible.org website. So we'll start here.
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  The righteousness is this righteousness is given through
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  faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe.
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  There is no difference between Jew and Gentile.
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  So this shows us that it starts with faith and we receive
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  righteousness through that. It starts with faith in Jesus
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  Christ in I guess you know, believing what he's shared when
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  he had this time, his time on earth, when he had his ministry
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  on earth and it what is documented in the Bible.
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  Then another verse. Therefore, since we have been
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  justified through faith, we have peace with God through our Lord
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  Jesus Christ. So again, this is through faith.
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  Now we're at peace with God. We're not an enemy of God
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  anymore, and it's through Jesus that we get to that point.
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  Another verse says, But Scripture has locked up
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  everything under the control of sin so that what was promised
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  being being given through faith in Jesus Christ might be given
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  to those who believe. So Scripture has locked up
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  everything under the control of sin.
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  So if we are still in slavery, in bondage to sin, if that
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  hasn't been broken, it gets broken through Jesus, through
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  our faith in Jesus. And Jesus gives us the power,
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  that power through our faith. I better read more of that
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  verse. So or that how it continues on
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  the prior verse says is the law therefore opposed to the
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  promises of God? Absolutely not.
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  For if a law had been given that could impart life, then
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  righteousness would certainly have come by law.
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  But we don't get righteousness by the law.
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  It's we, we just, we break it if we don't have the Holy Spirit.
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  That's essentially, I believe what this is saying is that, you
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  know, through Jesus, before Jesus died on the cross, we were
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  subjects of wrath. We would receive God's wrath
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  because we broke all, his all or many of his commandments.
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  And if there was only the law, we would be found guilty because
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  we broke it and there was nothing we could do to make that
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  right with God. And that's what Jesus did on the
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  cross. He made it right with God.
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  He was our atonement to forgive us of the sins so that it's
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  possible for us to be in the Kingdom of God.
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  And another verse says, So in Christ Jesus you are all
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  children of God through faith. So our faith initiates.
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  Another verse says, for it is by grace you have been saved
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  through faith. So faith first, then we have
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  grace and this is not from yourselves, it is the gift of
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  God. That's why we can't do anything
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  to earn our salvation. It is through faith, through US
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  believing we receive grace and it's a gift of God.
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  Another verse in him and through faith in Him we may approach God
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  with freedom and confidence. So in Christ, if we have faith,
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  we can talk to God with confidence and freedom because
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  Jesus made that possible. Another verse so that Christ may
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  dwell in your hearts through faith.
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  And I pray that you being rooted and established in love.
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  Another verse says, and be found in him not having a
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  righteousness of my own that comes from the law, but that
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  which is through faith in Christ, the righteousness that
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  comes from God on the basis of faith.
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  So we see that faith starts all of this.
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  So if we have faith and we we get faith from reading the word
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  of God, from exploring it more, from meditating on it, you know,
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  being in the word every day, your faith will grow.
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  Another verse says and how from infancy you have known the Holy
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  Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation
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  through faith in Christ Jesus. Like how many times does the
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  Bible tell us that through faith in Christ Jesus that's connected
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  with salvation? So any religion that teaches
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  another way to salvation and circumvents Christ Jesus the
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  Messiah Jesus is not true. Another verse says we do not
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  want you to become lazy, but to imitate those who through faith
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  and patience inherit what has been promised.
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  So faith is going to be required and patience is going to be
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  required for the inheritance that has been promised.
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  Another verse says who through faith conquered kingdoms,
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  administered justice, and gained what was promised?
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  Who shut the mouths of lions? Now we'll read about Daniel
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  later on who shut the mouths of lions, but it's through faith.
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  Look at what happened to Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego
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  through faith. Another verse says who through
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  faith are shielded by God's power until the coming of the
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  salvation that is already to be revealed in the last time.
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  So this is a, this is something comforting despite what's going
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  on in the world, that through our faith we are shielded by
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  God's power until the coming of the salvation that is ready to
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  be revealed in the last time. And then there there's another
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  verse that says by faith in the name of Jesus, this man whom you
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  see and know was made strong. It is Jesus's name and the faith
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  that comes through him that has completely healed him, as you
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  can see. So healings come through faith
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  and Jesus's name. Another verse says strengthening
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  the disciples and encouraging them to remain true to the
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  faith. We must go through many
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  hardships to enter the Kingdom of God, they said.
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  Now this is something that unfortunately is true and you
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  will see many people of faith who did die for their faith, but
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  not everyone. Well, all of us except for the
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  ones who are alive and remain, when Jesus returns, we'll have
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  to experience a death of some kind.
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  And Jesus did say that in this world you will have troubles.
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  But trust in me for I have overcome all of this.
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  So it's again, we have to have that faith there.
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  We, we, it says in the Bible we must go through many hardships
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  to enter the Kingdom of God. It's because the world sets out
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  to destroy the world is against Jesus.
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  Obviously the world decided, you know, the people who were in
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  power decided to kill Jesus, and that was actually God's will
• 39:53
  because the killing of Jesus actually gave us atonement for
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  our sins. They didn't know they were doing
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  that, but that's what happened. And so even though it was awful
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  and Jesus had to suffer terrible, terrible things, he
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  did it out of love for us so that we could be with him in
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  God's Kingdom. Another verse that talks about
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  faith. On arriving there, they gathered
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  the church together and reported all that God had done through
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  them and how he had opened the door of faith to the Gentiles.
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  The Gentiles were anyone other than Jewish people.
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  So God is, you know, he works through, I mean, his Kingdom is
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  open to all people, all people. It's a matter of faith.
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  If we believe in him and if we repent and receive the Holy
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  Spirit, we will be in God's Kingdom.
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  That's how simple it is. So another verse says through
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  him we received grace and apostleship to call all the
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  Gentiles to the obedience that comes from faith, faith for his
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  name's sake. This is about Jesus.
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  So through Jesus we receive grace and apostleship to call
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  all the Gentiles to obedience. So that's what they this is
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  written in the book of Romans. So this was Paul writing this.
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  So he's calling all the non Jewish people to the obedience
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  that comes from faith for his name's sake.
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  So it starts with faith. We receive grace, grace.
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  I, I believe I don't, I haven't seen it taught this way.
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  But if you substitute Holy Spirit for the word grace, it
• 41:41
  really seems like, I mean, that's the Spirit of God and
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  it's the spirit who rose, who you know, made it possible for
• 41:48
  Jesus to rise from the dead. It was through God's Spirit that
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  that happened. There is power through God's
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  Spirit for these healings, for these miracles in Jesus name,
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  and there are casting out of demons humans in the name of
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  Jesus by the power of God. None of this, none of the
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  miracles that anyone did were anything other than the power of
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  God being expressed through an obedient person.
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  So if you want to operate in the power of God, you must be
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  obedient. God's not going to give that
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  power to someone who is disobedient to him.
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  But the Holy Spirit it, you know, no one has this power.
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  It's only God who chooses who he's going to give it to.
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  And he knows the heart of a person.
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  So he's not going to give it to a person who doesn't have the
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  right heart to accept it to be in not in control, but to use
• 42:46
  that power. So another verse says, first I
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  thank my God through Jesus Christ for all of you because
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  your faith is being reported all over the world.
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  That's not that's OK. The next verse, God presented
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  Christ as a sacrifice of atonement.
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  We were talking about that. That's the like the forgiveness
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  they, you know, the, the atonement sacrifice.
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  Sacrifices were to make atonement, but the animal
• 43:22
  sacrifices were only a temporary atonement or forgiveness of
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  sins, a wiping out of sins. But Christ's sacrifice was the
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  wiping out of sin on a person's life who comes to him and
• 43:39
  receives the Holy Spirit. God says he will, he will
• 43:41
  remember your sins no more. So it's a complete washing of
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  the slate. I'm going to read this fully
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  though. God presented Christ as a
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  sacrifice of atonement through the shedding of his blood,
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  because it says in Hebrews that without the shedding of blood
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  there is no atonement. So that had to happen to be
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  received. That's how we get it, by faith.
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  He did this to demonstrate his righteousness, because in his
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  forbearance he had left the sins committed before beforehand
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  unpunished. So God was merciful.
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  He was patient. People had sinned before Jesus
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  died on the cross, but he didn't punish them.
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  He waited for Jesus to do this. He could have because it says
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  the wages of sin is death. So that's what we get paid for,
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  our sin that is our just. That's justice.
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  If we sin, we have a punishment and that's death.
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  And of course all of us sin in some way or another, so that is
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  a natural consequence of it. And so God was merciful, and so
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  He left the sins committed beforehand unpunished.
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  Another verse says, since there is only one God who will justify
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  the circumcised by faith and the uncircumcised through that same
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  faith. So again there since there is
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  only one God who will justify the circumcised by faith and the
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  uncircumcised through that same faith.
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  So both circumcised and uncircumcised will be justified
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  through faith. So the circumcised word
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  primarily the Jewish people, but more are also do that besides
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  Jewish, Jewish and Christians I guess and I'm not sure about
• 45:45
  other faiths, but everyone and and God's ultimately looking for
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  what it says like our heart to be circumcised, our our desires,
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  our love towards God to serve him only.
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  OK another verse says it was not through the law that Abraham and
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  his offspring received the promise that he would be heir of
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  the world, but through the righteousness that comes by
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  faith. So Abraham was righteous because
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  of his faith. It wasn't by being obedient to
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  the law. So it was again, even at
• 46:30
  Abraham's time, it was by faith, yet he did in another verse.
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  Yet he did not waver through unbelief regarding the promise
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  of God, but was strengthened in his faith and gave glory to God.
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  I'm not sure who this is referring to.
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  Oh, I think it was Abraham. Yeah, that's that's who it was
• 46:50
  referring to. Another verse says through whom
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  we have gained access by faith into this grace in which we now
• 47:02
  stand and we boast in the hope of the glory of God.
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  Here's the verse that we should all remember and I'll tell you
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  where this is located. Romans chapter 10, verse 17.
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  Consequently, faith comes from hearing the message and the
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  message is heard through the word about Christ.
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  So that if you want to grow your faith, read scripture because
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  it's heard through the word about Christ.
• 47:32
  That's where faith comes from hearing the message, the message
• 47:36
  of the Kingdom and what Jesus has done for us.
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  So if you say, well, I don't really have that strong a faith,
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  well start reading the Bible every day and praying to God
• 47:46
  that he reveals things that are important for you to know.
• 47:50
  Next verse but now revealed and made known, but now revealed and
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  made known through prophetic writings by the command of the
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  eternal God, so that all the Gentiles might come to the
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  obedience that comes from faith. Again, that's like I, Jude,
• 48:08
  Jesus's brother actually said something like I think it was
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  Jude or James, I can't remember which now one of the brothers,
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  but said that I will show you my faith by my actions.
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  So faith produces the obedience. We have to start with faith and
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  we become more obedient when we have the Holy Spirit on our own.
• 48:32
  It says like God can do the impossible.
• 48:35
  It's God makes the impossible possible and that's through the
• 48:40
  Holy Spirit. We need the Holy Spirit.
• 48:43
  In fact, I always say this in my podcast, but it's so important
• 48:46
  to know in John chapter 3, Jesus said no one can enter the
• 48:51
  Kingdom of God unless they are born again, born of the Spirit.
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  And Jesus gives he, he requests the Spirit from the Father and
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  gives it to us. And it's so important.
• 49:07
  So it's all through Jesus. And that's why Jesus said, well,
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  I'm thinking that's why, because it makes sense to me.
• 49:13
  That's why Jesus said I am the way, the truth and the life.
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  No one comes to the Father except through me.
• 49:20
  So Jesus is the only way. He is the truth.
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  And he gives us the life. And the only way we get life is
• 49:29
  by the Holy Spirit. So he's the gatekeeper, and if
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  we try to go around the gatekeeper, it's not going to be
• 49:35
  successful for us. OK, next verse.
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  Scripture foresaw that God would justify the Gentiles by faith
• 49:43
  and announce the gospel in advance to Abraham.
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  All nations will be blessed through you.
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  That's from the book of Genesis. That's an interesting one to
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  read. Again, Scripture foresaw that
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  God would justify the Gentiles, not just the Israel people of
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  Israel by faith and announce the gospel in advance to Abraham.
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  All nations will be blessed through you.
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  You know it's the descendants of Abraham.
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  He redeemed us in order that this, that the blessing given to
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  Abraham might come to the Gentiles through Christ Jesus so
• 50:31
  that by faith we might receive the promise of the Spirit.
• 50:35
  I was just talking about that the Holy Spirit that comes
• 50:39
  through Jesus. And it starts with faith.
• 50:43
  We have to know about Jesus. We have to believe it.
• 50:47
  And when we believe it, then we receive.
• 50:50
  And if you haven't received, ask Jesus.
• 50:53
  You know, I want the Holy Spirit.
• 50:55
  What do I need to do? What does my faith need to be
• 50:58
  strengthened? Because Jesus will give the Holy
• 51:02
  Spirit to us if we ask if we are sincere about ourselves.
• 51:09
  And one of the things that I want to mention too about my I
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  was baptized as an infant and then when I got older in 2021, I
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  was baptized by full immersion as an adult.
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  And I wasn't sure if I needed to do that because I was already
• 51:25
  baptized once. And baptism is not a requirement
• 51:32
  to be in the Kingdom because Jesus told one of the two men on
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  the cross next to him. He said, you know, the guy
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  basically says, Remember Me and he said surely you will be in
• 51:45
  paradise with me. That guy on the cross didn't
• 51:48
  have time to get baptized. So baptism isn't a requirement.
• 51:51
  But what it is, Jesus did say go and baptize in the name of the
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  Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
• 51:59
  That's what he told his disciples, his followers to do.
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  So getting baptized is an act of obedience, and I believe that
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  there's a couple things I believe.
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  I believe that the Holy Spirit gives us more power as we are
• 52:17
  more obedient and the gifts are determined by the Holy Spirit
• 52:21
  what he gives us. So I do think that, but I also
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  want to say that I think I made a mistake in waiting to get
• 52:29
  baptized. Maybe it was not a mistake.
• 52:32
  I did wait to get baptized because I wanted to not be a
• 52:38
  hypocrite. So when I did it, I was like, I,
• 52:41
  I'm doing this like, I really mean it.
• 52:43
  I really want to be obedient to God.
• 52:46
  So it's, it's, it's not that the day of my baptism, I was like,
• 52:51
  I'm doing everything right. I've, you know, arrived not by
• 52:55
  any means, but I think I could have done it a lot longer, a lot
• 52:58
  earlier than when I did it. But I was just kind of, you
• 53:03
  know, waiting till I really meant that commitment of being
• 53:07
  obedient. And actually, I guess that's
• 53:10
  really what baptism is. It's so maybe I wasn't ready
• 53:14
  prior to that, as I'm thinking out loud right now, but I
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  probably did need to wait until I did it, which was 2021.
• 53:23
  It wasn't that long ago. And but it took me that long to
• 53:27
  be willing to be obedient. Now was IA sinless person at
• 53:32
  that point? No, but did I have the intention
• 53:35
  of turning my life around and focusing on God and being
• 53:41
  obedient? Yes, that I that was my
• 53:43
  intention. And then the Holy Spirit started
• 53:48
  becoming known without like I didn't, I didn't know a lot of
• 53:52
  this stuff when it started happening, but I think that act
• 53:55
  of obedience really did something.
• 53:59
  And through my baptism, that's when I started having a lot of
• 54:03
  spiritual experiences going back to Scripture.
• 54:06
  Now we're reading about faith again.
• 54:08
  For through the Spirit, we eagerly await by faith the
• 54:13
  righteousness for which we hope. So the Spirit gradually changes
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  us into righteous people or more righteous people.
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  We're not going to be perfect, but more righteous.
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  Another verse says for in Christ Jesus, neither circumcision nor
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  uncircumcision has any value. The only thing that counts is
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  faith expressing itself through love.
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  So faith and love, like love is the greatest and that's probably
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  because God is love. And so that's like the most
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  important because it says like if we do all these things, but
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  we don't have love, we don't express love, that those are
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  meaningless things that we do. So the only thing that counts is
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  faith expressing itself again through love.
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  So if we have the faith, we can express it.
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  We can show our faith through love.
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  Another verse having been buried with him in baptism in which you
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  were also raised with him through your faith in the
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  working of God who raised him from the dead.
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  So when our baptism happens, we are buried.
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  That's symbolic of being buried. When we do a full immersion
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  baptism, we are go into the water with him in baptism and
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  then when we come out, this is like a new creation that's
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  representative of it. That's what it's going to start
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  happening through the power of the Holy Spirit.
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  And we were raised up through our faith.
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  So we believe that God will do this in US and just like God who
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  raised him from the dead, who raised Jesus the Son of God from
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  the dead by the Spirit, the shared spirit that they have the
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  Spirit of God. Next verse but women will be
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  saved through childbearing if they continue in faith, love and
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  holiness with propriety. That question or that I have a
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  question about that. So I'm I can't talk about that.
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  I don't fully understand that verse.
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  It says, but she will be saved. I need I would really need to
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  read that more that's found in first Timothy 215.
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  Don't have time to go into that because this will be a long
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  podcast already. OK.
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  Next verse by faith. The people passed through the
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  Red Sea as on dry land, but when the Egyptian tried to do so,
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  they were drowned. So the Israelites went through a
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  sea and it was because of their faith of God leading them out of
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  slavery. Another verse.
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  Through him you believe in God, who raised him from the dead and
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  glorified him so and so your faith and hope are in God.
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  So through Jesus you believe in God who raised Jesus from the
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  dead and glorified Jesus, and so your faith and hope are in God
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  something important. And then the last verse, Simon
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  Peter, a servant and apostle of Christ of Jesus Christ to those
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  who through faith, the righteousness of our God and
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  Savior Jesus Christ have received a faith as precious, as
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  precious as ours. So you know, faith is precious.
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  It's very important and we get it from reading the Bible.
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  So there's another thing that I guess in in my thinking, going
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  back to the book of Daniel, chapter 3 verses.
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  Let's see verse 28. Here's a portion of it.
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  I'll read it just as a reflection before I talk about
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  these next two verses. It says in verse 28, they
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  trusted in him talking about God and defied the King's command
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  and were willing to give up their lives rather than serve or
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  worship any God except their own God.
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  So those young men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, were
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  willing to give up their own lives because they trusted God.
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  So this is something that is actually going to apply to us in
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  the future. And I want to read that because
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  I think it's important for us to know that like, our faith is so
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  important. So if we don't have strong
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  faith, we need to especially read the the Bible.
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  We need to find a Bible teaching church to attend.
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  It's helpful to get into a Bible study group so you can talk
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  about what you're reading and learn more about what's in the
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  Bible and have discussions with people and learn from other
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  people and, and prayer, you know, prayer is most important
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  'cause that's our direct communication with God.
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  But pray as often as possible. So here's what it says though.
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  If I, I could get concerned about people and this church
• 59:37
  word of backsliding, it's people who claim to be Christians, but
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  they live a sinful life and people call that, oh, they're
• 59:45
  backslidden. They're Christians, but they've,
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  you know, now they're doing sinful things.
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  There's there's a debate on whether they are truly saved to
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  begin with or and backslidden, which, you know, one, I mean,
• 1:00:00
  people have differing opinions on that.
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  They think, well, they were never truly saved to begin with.
• 1:00:07
  And then there's another camp that said that thinks that, oh,
• 1:00:11
  that can happen to backslidden. You know Christians can
• 1:00:14
  backslide and they. You know, God is always there
• 1:00:19
  hanging on to him. And you know, once you're a
• 1:00:21
  Christian, you're always a Christian.
• 1:00:22
  Well, I don't believe that. I don't think Scripture says
• 1:00:26
  that. And these couple of verses, you
• 1:00:30
  know, it's talking about faith and how important it is.
• 1:00:33
  So in Hebrews chapter 10 verse 39, it says but we do not belong
• 1:00:42
  to those who shrink back and are destroyed, but to those who have
• 1:00:49
  faith and are saved. So faith is important if we are
• 1:00:55
  going to be like Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego and it's
• 1:00:58
  and someone in power says you need to worship me or you need
• 1:01:04
  to get this mark of the beast or you can't operate in society.
• 1:01:09
  And we say, oh gosh, I'm not going to be able to eat.
• 1:01:12
  I'm not going to be able to have a house to live in.
• 1:01:14
  I'm not going to, I guess. I guess I need to do this to
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  survive. That's shrinking back.
• 1:01:19
  And so Hebrews 1039 says that they are destroyed, but to those
• 1:01:25
  who have faith are saved. So faith is so important.
• 1:01:31
  Like we need to do everything possible to strengthen our faith
• 1:01:35
  and our reliance and our trust in God.
• 1:01:39
  In Revelation 12 verse 11 it says they triumphed over him.
• 1:01:47
  This is referring to the lawless man by the blood of the Lamb.
• 1:01:52
  That's referring to Jesus death on the cross, which give gave
• 1:01:57
  atonement. And by the word of their
• 1:01:59
  testimony, they did not love their lives so much as to shrink
• 1:02:06
  from death. So just like Shadrach, Meshach,
• 1:02:10
  and Abednego, these are Christians and they have a
• 1:02:16
  testimony, and they didn't love their earthly life so much as to
• 1:02:23
  try to avoid death by going against the belief.
• 1:02:29
  And we have to remember that our body is more or less a container
• 1:02:34
  for our soul. We are made-up of spirit, soul,
• 1:02:40
  and body. It tells us that in Scripture.
• 1:02:43
  So our soul is the eternal thing that makes us up.
• 1:02:50
  That's our personality and our intangible things, and it
• 1:02:55
  resides inside of our body. Our body is the physical form,
• 1:03:01
  the container of the vessel. Our body will not be with us
• 1:03:06
  forever. As we get older, it gets older
• 1:03:10
  and eventually it returns to ashes.
• 1:03:13
  It doesn't. It's not immortal.
• 1:03:15
  It doesn't last forever. And as much as the world tries
• 1:03:19
  to focus on maintaining youth, it's going to go away.
• 1:03:24
  We can't avoid that. And but what happens is when
• 1:03:30
  Jesus returns, we will receive those who are believers will
• 1:03:34
  receive new bodies, immortal bodies that will, if we are
• 1:03:42
  resurrected when Jesus returns, we don't have to worry about the
• 1:03:46
  second death that's comes at the end of the thousand years and we
• 1:03:51
  receive this new body. So don't be so worried about our
• 1:03:56
  existing body. Take care of yourself.
• 1:03:59
  But it's not our forever body. We're going to have another body
• 1:04:03
  that Jesus that will be given to us at that moment.
• 1:04:06
  We will be changed. So I was another.
• 1:04:13
  This is like my whole thought process as I'm going through.
• 1:04:15
  I'm going to kind of jump to another subject, but it's
• 1:04:17
  related to the book of Daniel. I was wondering, you know, when
• 1:04:20
  I'm reading this and the significance of the book of
• 1:04:24
  Daniel chapter 3 and about the fourth person like the son of
• 1:04:28
  the gods and you know, he, that's what he looked like this
• 1:04:31
  person. I was wondering, do the Jewish
• 1:04:35
  people, do the rabbis acknowledge the book of Daniel?
• 1:04:37
  So I looked that up and I'll read what it says.
• 1:04:40
  Yes, Jewish rabbis acknowledge the book of Daniel as part of
• 1:04:44
  the Holy Tanakh or the Hebrew Bible, specifically in the
• 1:04:47
  writings Katyuvum, valuing Daniel as a wise sage and pious
• 1:04:53
  figure, but generally do not consider him a prophet or a
• 1:04:57
  niveum in the same vein as Isaiah or Jeremiah due to the
• 1:05:03
  Jewish definition of prophecy requiring direct revelation,
• 1:05:07
  which Daniel lacked. That's what it says, but I think
• 1:05:10
  he had direct revelation. Think about it.
• 1:05:14
  I mean, maybe did. Was it just that had to be an
• 1:05:17
  audible voice? Because Daniel did get direct
• 1:05:21
  revelation when he and his friends prayed to interpret the
• 1:05:25
  King's dream. God revealed that, so I don't
• 1:05:30
  know. I don't understand that.
• 1:05:31
  Anyway, it says through the books apocalyptic visions are
• 1:05:35
  respected though. The books apocalyptic visions
• 1:05:38
  are respected as inspired wisdom notes.
• 1:05:41
  Chabad are kabad. I don't know how to say it.
• 1:05:44
  Org and the Sequora post anyway. So that's that's one aspect Then
• 1:05:52
  I also wondered, has the Book of Daniel been discovered in Qumran
• 1:05:56
  like the Dead Sea Scrolls? And the answer is yes.
• 1:06:00
  The Book of Daniel has been discovered in the Qumran Dead
• 1:06:04
  Sea Scrolls, with at least 8 manuscript copies found in the
• 1:06:08
  caves, confirming its presence and importance to the Qumran
• 1:06:13
  community and providing some of the oldest biblical text ever
• 1:06:18
  found, dating to the late 2nd century BCE to the 1st century
• 1:06:24
  CE. These scrolls include fragments
• 1:06:27
  of different parts of Daniel and related to Daniel text, offering
• 1:06:32
  key evidence for the book's composition history and
• 1:06:37
  confirming its antiquity, challenging earlier scholarly
• 1:06:42
  divide doubts. There were multiple copies. 8
• 1:06:47
  separate manuscripts of Daniel were found, showing it was
• 1:06:50
  popular in a significant book in the Qumran sect dating.
• 1:06:54
  The oldest fragments date to the late 2nd century, suggesting the
• 1:06:59
  book was known and copied very soon after its likely
• 1:07:03
  composition. Textual evidence.
• 1:07:06
  The scrolls include portions of Daniel's visions and prayers,
• 1:07:10
  with some manuscripts like 4 Q Dan A containing large sections
• 1:07:16
  of the book. Broader quote.
• 1:07:18
  Daniel literature Beyond the biblical text.
• 1:07:21
  Other Qumran scrolls feature stories and prayers related to
• 1:07:25
  Daniel, showing a rich literary tradition around his figure,
• 1:07:29
  such as the Prayer of the Nabonidus and pseudo Daniel
• 1:07:34
  fragments. The discovery of Daniel
• 1:07:37
  manuscripts among the Dead Sea Scrolls provides crucial
• 1:07:40
  evidence for the early existence and transmission of the biblical
• 1:07:45
  book, helping scholars understands its development and
• 1:07:49
  influence on Jewish and Christian eschatology.
• 1:07:52
  So if this book was preserved and and these things, you know,
• 1:08:00
  these things that he foretold, they are there are prophecies in
• 1:08:04
  here and these things are happening.
• 1:08:06
  We'll get to that more. But this is just you know, I
• 1:08:09
  like to find and show the evidence when it is there.
• 1:08:13
  I was curious like how did Daniel from the Bible die?
• 1:08:17
  The Bible doesn't explicitly state how Daniel died, but it
• 1:08:20
  records his miraculous survival from the lion's den in Daniel
• 1:08:24
  chapter 6 and suggest he lived to a very old age, dying a
• 1:08:28
  natural death in Babylon, likely in his 80s or 90s before the
• 1:08:33
  return of the Jews to Jerusalem with God promising him a final
• 1:08:39
  rest. In essence, Daniel didn't die
• 1:08:45
  from his famous trials, he was saved by God's intervention and
• 1:08:50
  lived out his Dale days in exile, A testament to his faith.
• 1:08:55
  There you go again, faith. Faith does a lot of things.
• 1:09:00
  Look at he was protected. Look at his friends were
• 1:09:02
  protected. Faith is but then at the same
• 1:09:05
  time, the Bible does say that, you know, some will be killed.
• 1:09:08
  I mean, there there was Stephen who was stoned to death in the
• 1:09:11
  Bible and he wouldn't, you know, denounce his faith and they
• 1:09:14
  stoned him and killed them. And he looked up to the sky when
• 1:09:18
  it was happening and he saw heaven opened and he saw Jesus.
• 1:09:23
  And a lot of people who talk about near death experiences,
• 1:09:26
  they say they don't feel the pain.
• 1:09:27
  They see their body from 3rd, you know, third party position
• 1:09:31
  up high. Usually they're looking down on
• 1:09:33
  their body and they see themselves, but they don't feel
• 1:09:36
  that. So we shouldn't necessarily fear
• 1:09:39
  death the way that we do about when it when it actually
• 1:09:42
  happens. Now, when I mentioned a few
• 1:09:48
  things about Islam, I, there's just so much that is that
• 1:09:55
  concerns me about what's going on because you can look on
• 1:10:00
  social media and you can look like there's there's people of
• 1:10:04
  that faith in our governments in different part in different
• 1:10:10
  placements in government throughout the United States.
• 1:10:13
  Currently we're seeing what's happening in other countries
• 1:10:16
  where they are, you know, blasting the call to prayer,
• 1:10:21
  which does remind me of what King Nebuchadnezzar did.
• 1:10:27
  And like, we do have people that are in our in governmental
• 1:10:32
  positions now, just like Christians.
• 1:10:36
  Not everybody who calls themself a Christian is a Christian
• 1:10:41
  because if they are not obedient, they're not really a
• 1:10:45
  Christian or they're not, maybe they're a baby Christian.
• 1:10:50
  If they, you know, a Christian should be a Christ follower.
• 1:10:54
  If you are not following the teachings of Christ, you
• 1:10:58
  probably shouldn't call yourself Christian because I think it
• 1:11:03
  gives people the wrong impression of what a Christian
• 1:11:05
  is. And the same thing goes for
• 1:11:08
  people who call themselves Muslims.
• 1:11:11
  I think there are many people who are peaceful people.
• 1:11:15
  That's my belief. And, and they probably are the
• 1:11:20
  same as the ones maybe that was an inherited religion that they
• 1:11:26
  grew up in and they happen to be living in the United States.
• 1:11:31
  And maybe they don't practice and but that's just what they
• 1:11:34
  identify with. And so if that is the case where
• 1:11:39
  they are non practicing, then I do think they can be peaceful
• 1:11:45
  people if they are a full practicing Muslim.
• 1:11:51
  Everybody needs to be aware. It would help you out if you
• 1:11:56
  actually read some of the Quran because there you know this word
• 1:12:04
  Islamophobia. That is an irrational fear of
• 1:12:10
  what Islam is, and that's a word that people like to use today
• 1:12:15
  that oh, you're an Islamophobe. If you're concerned about it,
• 1:12:19
  well, anyone who follows the true religion of Islam, it's not
• 1:12:25
  a lot. Islamophobia because it's a real
• 1:12:31
  historical history, proven reason to be concerned about
• 1:12:39
  that religion because of what it specifically says.
• 1:12:43
  And so anyone who has not read some of it, at least if you are
• 1:12:49
  a Christian, you need to read the Chapter 9.
• 1:12:55
  I think it's called Surah SUR AH9.
• 1:12:58
  You can search it, you can find it in English and read what it
• 1:13:02
  says. And it will be alarming to you
• 1:13:05
  because it is not a peaceful religion.
• 1:13:09
  If somebody is a devout follower of that faith, it's very, very
• 1:13:15
  concerning because of what it says that people should do who
• 1:13:21
  follow the faith. So I was, gosh, I don't know
• 1:13:27
  even know, like there is so much in there.
• 1:13:29
  I wish I would have highlighted the, the part that I wanted to
• 1:13:35
  review, but OK, so I was reading that Surah Surah 9 and there
• 1:13:47
  was, there was something that says something about, you know,
• 1:13:51
  OK, I wondered like, why are Muslims and Jews?
• 1:13:55
  Why do the why do Muslims not agree with Judaism?
• 1:13:58
  Because the Jews say there's one God, the Muslims say there's one
• 1:14:03
  God, and Christians say there is one God.
• 1:14:06
  But we have as Christians, we talk about the Trinity, we talk
• 1:14:11
  about the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit.
• 1:14:15
  Judaism doesn't. They talk about the Father.
• 1:14:19
  So then if it's only the Father, then what kind of problem do
• 1:14:25
  Muslims have with Jews? Because if they just both
• 1:14:32
  worship one God, why are they at war with one another?
• 1:14:40
  And why does the Quran speak against them?
• 1:14:46
  So that was my curiosity. I was like, that doesn't make
• 1:14:49
  sense because and, and we do see that there's this trending now
• 1:14:54
  towards, there's this trending towards a unified religion and
• 1:15:06
  it, you know, of Christians, Jews and Muslims because they
• 1:15:15
  are called like all under the Abrahamic faith because that's
• 1:15:18
  where all of our faith, our religion starts.
• 1:15:22
  And you know, and it like we were just saying, you know, it
• 1:15:24
  comes through faith. Like people who started out
• 1:15:28
  Muslims or started out as Jews, they will be saved if they
• 1:15:33
  believe in Jesus. They don't have to do anything.
• 1:15:37
  They have to believe in Jesus, believe in what is said about
• 1:15:40
  Jesus and receive the Holy Spirit and then they can be
• 1:15:46
  saved. And there is no like I know in
• 1:15:49
  the past history there were horrible people that called
• 1:15:52
  themselves Christians that killed people who didn't believe
• 1:15:55
  what they told them to do. God gave us free will.
• 1:15:58
  Again, people can call themselves Christians, but not
• 1:16:02
  really truly be Christians. God, He is so far from evil,
• 1:16:08
  from wickedness, from killing other people.
• 1:16:12
  Now God is a God of justice and he will provide justice, which
• 1:16:19
  does involve killing people, but that's God.
• 1:16:22
  God is the only one who knows someone's heart, who knows
• 1:16:25
  someone's intent. We as people do not.
• 1:16:28
  We think we might, but we don't know everything.
• 1:16:30
  So we are not in a position to do that, but God is.
• 1:16:35
  And so anyway, I this this whole question and it's something that
• 1:16:41
  we should really like use our minds to think about these
• 1:16:45
  things and don't accept something.
• 1:16:47
  So I just you can go to Google. This is what I searched.
• 1:16:50
  Why do Muslims not agree with Judaism?
• 1:16:55
  Because it didn't make sense. And I'm going to read what it
• 1:16:58
  says here. Muslims and Jews share Abrahamic
• 1:17:02
  roots but diverge on key theological points, particularly
• 1:17:08
  regarding final prophets. Muhammad for Muslims, not Jews.
• 1:17:14
  Scripture interpretation. Quran supersedes the Torah slash
• 1:17:20
  the Bible and historical narratives leading to
• 1:17:24
  disagreements on claims to Jerusalem in the land of Israel,
• 1:17:29
  amplified by modern political conflicts like the Arab Israeli
• 1:17:33
  conflict, though some Islamic texts emphasize coexistence and
• 1:17:38
  shared monotheism. Well, I don't believe that very
• 1:17:43
  last statement because I will read you something.
• 1:17:46
  It basically says to, well, it's more like for Christians, I
• 1:17:51
  think to kill them. And it, it does say that in
• 1:17:56
  Surah 9, it says to kill them. Christians are called the, the
• 1:18:01
  polytheist because we believe in the Trinity.
• 1:18:04
  So but it's also about the Jews too.
• 1:18:07
  And I was like, well, the Jews only say there's one God.
• 1:18:10
  And and you think about here's where it is in Surah 930, it
• 1:18:15
  says while both are strictly monotheistic, the Quran
• 1:18:20
  criticizes Jewish beliefs like Ezra being God's son and claims
• 1:18:28
  God's hand is tied. And I didn't look that part up
• 1:18:32
  in Surah 564, but Ezra being God's son, I'm like, I don't,
• 1:18:38
  I'm not aware that Jews believe that Ezra being God's son.
• 1:18:43
  And so they, they don't, that is, that is false.
• 1:18:49
  They don't believe that Ezra is God's son.
• 1:18:54
  And I looked up, do Jews believe that Ezra is the Son of God?
• 1:18:58
  Because I thought, no, they can't.
• 1:19:00
  They don't believe the Messiah is the Son of God.
• 1:19:03
  So how could they believe Ezra? So you can search this.
• 1:19:07
  Do Jews believe that Ezra is the son of God?
• 1:19:11
  No, Jews do not believe Ezra is the son of God.
• 1:19:14
  This idea comes from a current Quranic verse 930 that some
• 1:19:21
  Muslim scholars interpret as Jews claiming Ezra was God's
• 1:19:25
  son, a concept Jewish tradition strongly refutes, seeing it as
• 1:19:31
  either a misunderstanding of intense reverence for a revered
• 1:19:36
  prophet, or perhaps a reference to a tiny, long gone sect.
• 1:19:41
  Mainstream Judaism reserves Ezra as a great scribe and prophet,
• 1:19:46
  but not divine, viewing the Quranic reference as a metaphor
• 1:19:51
  for deep respect or a fringe belief.
• 1:19:55
  And so that is, you know, that is essentially a lie.
• 1:20:03
  And there's something else that I, I had read before.
• 1:20:06
  First of all, it says the Quran supersedes the Torah or the
• 1:20:11
  Bible. And so early in my, you know, I
• 1:20:14
  started looking at end time study and I was wondering like,
• 1:20:17
  OK, there's all these beliefs and they're kind of very
• 1:20:19
  similar. There's some, you know,
• 1:20:21
  crossover between these different beliefs and which came
• 1:20:25
  first? How does this, you know, work?
• 1:20:27
  So. You may know this, but I'm just
• 1:20:30
  going to say it for somebody who might not know it.
• 1:20:32
  So the Old Testament of the Christian Bible is essentially a
• 1:20:36
  lot of the Jewish beliefs. The Jew.
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  Jewish people for the most part accepted their Messianic Jews.
• 1:20:42
  That's all I'm aware of, don't believe in the New Testament
• 1:20:45
  portion. So the New Testament is about
• 1:20:48
  Jesus's life and what happened after Jesus.
• 1:20:51
  And so they reject Jesus as the Son of God.
• 1:20:55
  But Christians believe what Jesus taught, believe he was the
• 1:20:59
  Son of God. And so we incorporate the Jewish
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  beliefs. That's the Old Testament plus
• 1:21:09
  Jesus. And because Jesus fulfilled,
• 1:21:12
  this is something that's really interesting.
• 1:21:14
  It's not just like, OK, well, we like Jesus more, but Jesus
• 1:21:18
  actually fulfilled many prophecies.
• 1:21:22
  And this is something else that would be worthwhile for you to
• 1:21:26
  look up, because if you can search on Google, how many
• 1:21:31
  prophecies did Jesus fulfill? While the exact number varies by
• 1:21:36
  definition, Christian tradition holds that Jesus fulfilled
• 1:21:40
  hundreds of Old Testament prophecies, with conservative
• 1:21:45
  estimates starting around 300 and some scholars identifying
• 1:21:50
  over 500 prophetic verses encompassing his birth, life,
• 1:21:56
  ministry, suffering, and resurrection, making the
• 1:21:59
  fulfillment statistically improbable by chance.
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  Now, if you've been following my podcast, I've been I started
• 1:22:09
  with the book of Genesis and we are now on all the books of the
• 1:22:12
  prophets. And as I see references to
• 1:22:16
  Jesus, I point them out and there are tons that I've seen in
• 1:22:22
  reading this and any of my anytime I see it.
• 1:22:26
  Sometimes I put in the title on my episode of the times where I
• 1:22:30
  believe Jesus is referred to in Scripture.
• 1:22:33
  And I think this is if you're trying to, you know, find out
• 1:22:37
  where Jesus is in the Old Testament, Look at some of the
• 1:22:40
  titles on the episodes of my podcast, because I tried to do
• 1:22:44
  that to show people here's the prophecy about Jesus.
• 1:22:49
  And so the point also is that there were so many things that
• 1:22:58
  so many times like, well, it's like it says, it's statistically
• 1:23:02
  improbable by chance. No one could fulfill that many
• 1:23:09
  prophecies. No one person could.
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  So there's evidence in that manner.
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  And plus this is this book was had over 40 different authors.
• 1:23:18
  So to have this repetitively spoken of about this person by
• 1:23:24
  so many different things. It just you get to the point
• 1:23:27
  where you're like, yes, this is proving Jesus is the Messiah
• 1:23:33
  that was prophesied. He did these things.
• 1:23:38
  If you want another resource, you can go to gotquestions.org
• 1:23:43
  and in the search bar search how many prophecies did Jesus
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  fulfill? I haven't read that article, but
• 1:23:51
  gotquestions.org is a really good resource and if you're
• 1:23:56
  curious about it, that's a good place to go look it up.
• 1:24:00
  So anyway, as I was reading, let's see, I'm looking at the
• 1:24:05
  different things that I searched.
• 1:24:07
  I want to talk about how the Quran came about, and I want to
• 1:24:10
  talk about Muhammad from what I know.
• 1:24:13
  And again, you can research these things.
• 1:24:15
  So here's something that also gives you an idea that what the
• 1:24:22
  Quran is talking about is a lie, potentially.
• 1:24:28
  This is my belief, potentially given by fallen angels.
• 1:24:34
  I've heard that the Quran was revealed directly by God to
• 1:24:38
  Muhammad, and that's what I hear.
• 1:24:40
  But when you actually read the Quran it says we.
• 1:24:44
  So if God is not, you know, multiple or, you know, like they
• 1:24:51
  say polytheistic or if there's only one God, why would it say
• 1:24:54
  we all the time unless it was fallen angels giving Muhammad
• 1:24:59
  this information? So that's one question that I
• 1:25:01
  want you to answer is why does it say we?
• 1:25:05
  We know that Satan had a group of fallen angels.
• 1:25:10
  We know that there were watchers from the book, well, from the
• 1:25:12
  book of Enoch, if you believe that book, but it's, you know,
• 1:25:17
  not canonized, I guess is what the proper word is.
• 1:25:20
  But but it really explains a lot of things.
• 1:25:23
  But there were these angels who fell away from God, who rebelled
• 1:25:27
  against God and they wanted to be worshipped and they taught
• 1:25:29
  mankind things that mankind didn't know, didn't know how to
• 1:25:33
  do and taught them things like astrology.
• 1:25:36
  And there were like technical things, like I think there's
• 1:25:40
  some sort of mathematical things and maybe technology.
• 1:25:43
  There's there's a lot of things. I haven't read the book in a
• 1:25:46
  long time. I just read it once, but it's
• 1:25:50
  very informative. If you can get your hands on the
• 1:25:52
  book of Enoch. It's, it's interesting to read,
• 1:25:55
  but it does, it does. It's about these angels who
• 1:26:00
  rebelled against God and they all kind of banded together and
• 1:26:03
  they wanted to be gods, which we know that's what Satan wanted to
• 1:26:07
  do. He wanted to be worshipped like
• 1:26:08
  God. We see all of God's enemies
• 1:26:10
  wanting to be worshipped. They don't want to submit to
• 1:26:13
  God. They want to be worshipped
• 1:26:14
  instead. So anyway, there are fallen
• 1:26:20
  angels, there are rebellious angels, and it says Satan
• 1:26:25
  himself can appear masquerading as an Angel of light.
• 1:26:29
  That's in Scripture. So Satan is deceiving.
• 1:26:33
  He can show himself to people, and people think it might be
• 1:26:37
  Jesus, but it could be Satan. That's what he does.
• 1:26:41
  So he could have influenced many, many early people.
• 1:26:48
  The interesting story search this out, the interesting story
• 1:26:51
  about Muhammad was that he got these revelations.
• 1:26:55
  I think it was over a 13 year period and at the time there are
• 1:27:03
  documentation that he thought he was possessed.
• 1:27:08
  Now, he thought he was possessed, and I think he wanted
• 1:27:14
  to or he tried to kill himself. That's demonic.
• 1:27:19
  So why would you think that anything good is coming from
• 1:27:23
  these revelations when you're having this horrible?
• 1:27:26
  I mean, he was tormented by this stuff.
• 1:27:29
  And then look at what happened in his life.
• 1:27:31
  He went out and killed, massacred people and not only
• 1:27:35
  that, but then he it was either a six year old or a nine year
• 1:27:39
  old that he took as as his wife and consummated the marriage at
• 1:27:45
  either six or nine years old. I'm not sure there might be a
• 1:27:48
  debate on that, but I don't care which age it is.
• 1:27:53
  That is still wrong. That is a young child.
• 1:27:57
  I mean, that's what we call abuse, sexual abuse.
• 1:28:02
  And this is what that leader did.
• 1:28:06
  And to call that leader Ace, you know who they will acknowledge
• 1:28:10
  he was sinful, but to to call him a greater prophet than Jesus
• 1:28:18
  and then they acknowledge that Jesus was sinless.
• 1:28:22
  I mean, that doesn't make any logical sense.
• 1:28:25
  And that's where it's like what happened to these people's
• 1:28:28
  minds. Like are their minds seared?
• 1:28:31
  Did God turn them over to evil for some reason?
• 1:28:34
  Like how can they believe this? How can they follow a person who
• 1:28:40
  has the track record of Muhammad?
• 1:28:43
  And how do they not? Just by logical standpoint, look
• 1:28:47
  at the Quran that says we this, we that we this.
• 1:28:50
  That's angels giving the information.
• 1:28:52
  That's not a direct revelation from God.
• 1:28:55
  That's an Angel. That's a third party.
• 1:28:58
  Do you think maybe that could be a bad Angel?
• 1:29:00
  Do you think it could be a fallen Angel that gave that
• 1:29:02
  revelation to him? It sure sounds like it when you
• 1:29:05
  hear his history. So we have people who are maybe
• 1:29:09
  not practicing the true Islamic belief and that are peaceful.
• 1:29:15
  But if you look at and read Surah Chapter 9, you will see
• 1:29:21
  that it says to kill the polytheist, basically to convert
• 1:29:25
  them or kill them. And they are openly saying that
• 1:29:28
  now in the world they want everybody to conform to Islamic
• 1:29:34
  religion. And that is very concerning
• 1:29:39
  because I believe it is something that came from fallen
• 1:29:45
  angels and it is a great deception that is in the Bible
• 1:29:50
  prophecies, that there will be a great deception that will bring
• 1:29:53
  an apostasy, a falling away from the faith.
• 1:29:57
  And we are seeing that the numbers of Muslims are growing,
• 1:30:02
  whether just by having babies or by converting people or
• 1:30:06
  converting people out of fear, like threatening their lives.
• 1:30:10
  And again, you don't want to shrink from your faith because
• 1:30:15
  ultimately you will end up where all those people will also end
• 1:30:18
  up. They think they're going to be
• 1:30:20
  promised 72 virgins or 27 virgins or something like that.
• 1:30:24
  But in reality, if they continue down that path and they don't
• 1:30:28
  get to know Jesus, and they don't believe in Jesus, they're
• 1:30:31
  going to be thrown into the burning lake of sulfur at the
• 1:30:34
  end of the 1000 years. Or if they're present during
• 1:30:39
  God's wrath, they may be the subjects of wrath.
• 1:30:41
  And if they die without knowing Jesus, without believing in
• 1:30:45
  Jesus, they're going to get the opportunity to believe in Jesus.
• 1:30:48
  But if they reject Jesus, what they think they're going to get
• 1:30:54
  and what they actually get is complete opposite.
• 1:30:58
  And I have compassion for the people or empathy for the people
• 1:31:03
  who do not know Jesus. And I pray and we should all
• 1:31:07
  pray for the people to get to know Jesus.
• 1:31:12
  And I hope they do because I don't have any bad.
• 1:31:18
  Let's see, how do I say it? I don't like what the religion
• 1:31:21
  teaches at all. But as far as the people go, I
• 1:31:25
  think some people are ignorantly involved with the religion and
• 1:31:29
  it's not expressed the way that I'm explaining it.
• 1:31:33
  But you can search this out on your own and you can find this
• 1:31:36
  stuff, at least for now. I don't know how long that's
• 1:31:38
  going to be online. But then I also want to give you
• 1:31:42
  some timelines. The the last book of the Bible
• 1:31:47
  was written in 90 AD and that was the Book of Revelation from
• 1:31:53
  by the disciple John who was on the island of Patmos.
• 1:31:58
  And SO90AD was the last book of the Bible that was written and
• 1:32:03
  within the Bible. And I think these might have
• 1:32:06
  been written in the 60 AD or 70. I don't know at what point I
• 1:32:11
  don't, I'm not sure exactly. 6070 AD, I'm not sure.
• 1:32:14
  I didn't look it up, but they were written before 90 AD.
• 1:32:18
  But this is this is Paul. Paul warns about a different
• 1:32:25
  gospel. The gospel is the good news.
• 1:32:29
  And so if you compare what is good news, Jesus is saying that
• 1:32:33
  he made a way for us to get into God's Kingdom and that we just
• 1:32:37
  need to believe in him and receive the Holy Spirit and then
• 1:32:42
  we will be repent. I mean, we obviously repent of
• 1:32:46
  our sins. We we want to change and we
• 1:32:49
  receive the Holy Spirit in order to make that change.
• 1:32:52
  And then we will be in God's Kingdom if we remain that way,
• 1:32:57
  if we don't reject him before we die.
• 1:33:00
  And So what the Bible says, it says in Galatians chapter one
• 1:33:06
  verse 6, this is Paul talking. I am astonished that you are all
• 1:33:11
  so quickly deserting the one who called you to live in the grace
• 1:33:17
  of Christ and are turning to a different gospel.
• 1:33:19
  Well, this was something he was writing to the Galatians.
• 1:33:22
  That wasn't the first I wanted to read first.
• 1:33:24
  I wanted to read second Corinthians Chapter 11 verse 4.
• 1:33:30
  Here's the important one that makes my point.
• 1:33:33
  For if someone comes to you, for if someone comes to you and
• 1:33:41
  preaches a Jesus other than the Jesus we preached, or if you
• 1:33:48
  receive a different spirit from the Spirit you received or a
• 1:33:54
  different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it
• 1:33:59
  easily enough. That is not be a cursed.
• 1:34:08
  I know there's maybe it's a different version where it says
• 1:34:11
  let them be a cursed. It might be the new King's James
• 1:34:16
  version and so I want to look that up to find out where that
• 1:34:23
  is. OK this is Galatians 1 so I had
• 1:34:30
  the wrong verses here. This is the one I was after
• 1:34:33
  Galatians 1 chapter or Galatians chapter one verse 8.
• 1:34:41
  Make sure you remember this Galatians one verse 8.
• 1:34:45
  But even if we or an Angel from heaven preach any other gospel
• 1:34:53
  to you than what we have preached to you, let him be
• 1:34:57
  accursed. And so this is, I think about
• 1:35:05
  the Islamic religion because Muhammad received revelation,
• 1:35:11
  they say, from God, but it was from angels.
• 1:35:14
  And he, I think he said it was from angels.
• 1:35:16
  And this book was written no later than 90 AD.
• 1:35:22
  That would be the last time, I mean 90 AD.
• 1:35:24
  And it was a warning that was put in there.
• 1:35:26
  If anyone, even an Angel from heaven, ever tells you anything
• 1:35:31
  different than this, let them be accursed.
• 1:35:35
  And and that's that's important to know because Muhammad was in
• 1:35:42
  the 600 BCS. So we have at least 500 BCS.
• 1:35:48
  I'm sorry, AD so we have at least 500 years after the Bible
• 1:35:55
  was written, the Quran comes out and it's telling a different
• 1:36:00
  message of salvation. The Bible warned us about this
• 1:36:05
  and then it comes along and people are being deceived by
• 1:36:08
  that. So if you know anyone who is
• 1:36:11
  wavering on their faith and what they should believe, there's
• 1:36:17
  there is some things that you know really need to be looked
• 1:36:22
  into because this is very, very important.
• 1:36:28
  Another part is that in Psalm 11 verse 5, it says the Lord
• 1:36:37
  examines the righteous but the wicked comma those who love
• 1:36:43
  violence he hates with a passion.
• 1:36:46
  So this is talking about God loving the righteous, but he's
• 1:36:50
  not condoning violence. It says he hates with a passion.
• 1:36:56
  So I think that's another thing we need to know the truth and
• 1:37:00
  what is said about God. Another thing in Proverbs 616
• 1:37:06
  through 19, it says there are 6 things the Lord hates 7 that are
• 1:37:14
  detestable to him. Haughty eyes, which is a proud
• 1:37:18
  look, a lying tongue. So liars.
• 1:37:23
  And think about this. In the Quran it's written, it
• 1:37:26
  says that the Jews believe that Ezra is the son of God, but the
• 1:37:30
  Jews don't believe that. So that's a lie right there in
• 1:37:35
  their own book that I didn't even know was there until today.
• 1:37:38
  So God hates that. So how could that be from God if
• 1:37:43
  there's a lie that's just blatantly said right in there,
• 1:37:48
  it says hands that shed innocent blood.
• 1:37:51
  Well, what does Islam do when they go and conquer what
• 1:37:55
  happened October 7th, 2023? What were innocent blood shed?
• 1:38:02
  These people, supposedly the people that lived, were they in
• 1:38:05
  that village where they, the kibbutz, were they attacked?
• 1:38:09
  Those were the people that were help helping the Gazans, the
• 1:38:12
  stands. They had compassion for the
• 1:38:16
  Palestinians or the Gazans, and yet the their neighbors murdered
• 1:38:22
  them, baked their babies in the oven, cut cut open.
• 1:38:26
  Woman's wombs, pregnant women killed in front of each other.
• 1:38:33
  This is what the Lord hates, A heart that devises wicked
• 1:38:38
  schemes. Well, there was probably some
• 1:38:39
  planning involved in that. Feet that are to rush into evil,
• 1:38:44
  Is that not evil? Did they not rush in by feet?
• 1:38:47
  They had paragliders who came in on a festival with a lot of
• 1:38:52
  Jewish people that were there and other people probably that
• 1:38:54
  weren't even Jewish that were murdered and then a false
• 1:38:59
  witness who pours out lies and a person who stirs up conflict in
• 1:39:03
  the community. There is so much propaganda
• 1:39:08
  about this that is inciting people within the US and there
• 1:39:12
  is a lot of anti-Semitism that is is really trying to divide
• 1:39:19
  our country. We have to be careful about that
• 1:39:22
  because these are things like the things that make us hate
• 1:39:26
  another person. Those are not from God.
• 1:39:29
  God, we should have compassion for all people, people who are
• 1:39:33
  misled, people who and not. We're not going to conquer them
• 1:39:38
  by force. It becomes their choice.
• 1:39:41
  But we should make it aware to them how they can be saved.
• 1:39:45
  And then if they choose to ignore it, that's OK.
• 1:39:48
  Not really. It's not OK for them, but that's
• 1:39:52
  their right. God gave us free will.
• 1:39:54
  God gave us a freedom to choose and we need.
• 1:39:58
  We have that and everyone should have that.
• 1:40:02
  And then the other thing that I noticed about the Quran was the
• 1:40:06
  fear that it instilled. It was basically saying, you
• 1:40:09
  know, if you start following these unbelievers, which are
• 1:40:12
  Christians and Jews, if you align with their beliefs, then
• 1:40:17
  you know you're going to be punished by Allah.
• 1:40:19
  Well, that's not how God's. I mean, God does say in the end
• 1:40:24
  that there's going to be a judgement, but the Bible also
• 1:40:28
  says in first John chapter 4 verse 18, there is No Fear in
• 1:40:34
  love. But perfect love drives out fear
• 1:40:40
  because fear has to do with punishment.
• 1:40:43
  The one who fears is not made perfect in love.
• 1:40:47
  And what we need to remember is that God is love.
• 1:40:53
  So the Bible also does say the fear of the Lord is the
• 1:40:58
  beginning of wisdom, but that doesn't say that we fear him
• 1:41:02
  forever. But in the beginning, when we
• 1:41:05
  realized that we are God's objects of wrath because of our
• 1:41:09
  sin, like the justice, if God was going to give us justice, we
• 1:41:13
  would get his wrath. When we realized that, yeah, you
• 1:41:18
  better bet that's going to mean there's some fear there.
• 1:41:21
  But that's not where we stay because we know that's not what
• 1:41:24
  God wants for us. He disciplines his children to
• 1:41:29
  bring us to repentance, but he doesn't want to destroy us.
• 1:41:33
  Earlier we were talking about how God postponed his judgement,
• 1:41:39
  his punishment for the people, you know, in in allowing time
• 1:41:45
  for his Son to come if Jesus didn't come.
• 1:41:48
  Like Jesus's death on the cross covers everybody prior to him
• 1:41:52
  and during his time and after his time in the future.
• 1:41:56
  So it covers everything. There is one sacrifice made for
• 1:41:59
  all people. So we are all covered by that.
• 1:42:02
  If we have fear of God, we we should.
• 1:42:08
  If we are not his friend, if we are living in sin, we are God's
• 1:42:12
  enemy. The Bible does tell us that.
• 1:42:15
  But when we ask for forgiveness, we repent.
• 1:42:18
  We ask God for the Holy Spirit to help us live out our lives.
• 1:42:22
  We don't have that fear anymore because we experience the
• 1:42:27
  perfect love of God. We know that God loves us.
• 1:42:33
  We know God doesn't want to punish us and we know God has
• 1:42:38
  good things in store for us. It says in first John chapter 4
• 1:42:45
  verse 8, whoever does not love does not know God because God is
• 1:42:52
  love. And in verse 16 it says and so
• 1:42:56
  we know and rely on the love of God, on the love God has for us.
• 1:43:02
  God is love. Whoever lives in love lives in
• 1:43:08
  God and God in them. So by showing our love to
• 1:43:14
  others, that exhibits who God is.
• 1:43:19
  And like it said, you know, you could have faith, but if you
• 1:43:21
  don't have love, it doesn't mean anything because God it it.
• 1:43:28
  God's presence will be emanating from people who believe in him.
• 1:43:33
  So I, I don't know how many other things that I had searched
• 1:43:39
  that might be important to discuss, but I did want to say
• 1:43:46
  like the, I don't know, I don't want to end on that note, but
• 1:43:52
  Jesus is so important. I want to read a couple things
• 1:43:58
  that Jesus said in Matthew chapter 10, verse 32.
• 1:44:04
  Whoever acknowledges me before others, I will also acknowledge
• 1:44:10
  before my Father in heaven. So again, this is we can't deny
• 1:44:15
  Jesus. Jesus is the separation of the
• 1:44:20
  the three faiths that we were talking about, the Abrahamic
• 1:44:23
  religions. That's what separates Christians
• 1:44:27
  from Muslims and from the Jews, is that we acknowledge Jesus.
• 1:44:33
  We acknowledge that he was the atoning sacrifice.
• 1:44:36
  It helps us so much when we read the book, the Jewish portion of
• 1:44:41
  the Bible, the Old Testament, because then we understand the
• 1:44:45
  things that are talked about in the New Testament.
• 1:44:48
  Jesus also said in Luke chapter 12 verse 8.
• 1:44:51
  I tell you, whoever publicly acknowledges me before others,
• 1:44:57
  the Son of man will also acknowledge before the angels of
• 1:45:02
  God. There is like, these are like
• 1:45:06
  promises that Jesus made to people who stay with him, people
• 1:45:13
  who believe with, believe in him.
• 1:45:17
  And you know, I did wonder and I've kind of heard some, but I
• 1:45:21
  wondered, you know, because I see Jesus referenced and he, he
• 1:45:25
  was referred to so many times, like we just talked about, you
• 1:45:30
  know, 500 times or so prophecies prophetically, the things that
• 1:45:35
  he fulfilled. And so I wondered what, what do
• 1:45:38
  people think the Messiah is to the Jews?
• 1:45:40
  Like who are they looking for? So I I searched that who is the
• 1:45:45
  Messiah? To the Jews and Judaism, the
• 1:45:47
  Messiah Moshek is a future human leader, a descendant of King
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  David, who will bring a global era of peace, justice and
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  wisdom, rebuild the temple in Jerusalem and gather all Jews to
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  Israel, ushering in the Messianic Age.
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  He is not a divine, but a wise, powerful and righteous king, a
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  great prophet second only to Moses, who will unite humanity
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  under God, not a savior figure who atones for sins.
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  So this is just really, this is just really sad because the
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  Savior, the Son of God is the one who will ultimately save the
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  Jews. But many will go through
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  persecution because their denial of who he is.
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  And that is also in prophecy. And if only their eyes would be
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  opened, if only they would turn to God, if only they would
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  really truly seek God and say God, do you have a son?
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  Did you send a son? Is Jesus the Messiah?
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  I know God would reveal that. I know God would.
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  And if they come to God in repentance, that when we read in
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  historic, you know, like what we've read in these Jeremiah,
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  the people would not repent. They wouldn't turn to God.
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  They wanted to keep doing their own things.
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  And there is if they would just carefully read the scripture,
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  it, it seems like it should be clear, but I know that there was
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  a blindness that was put over the Jewish people because of
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  their unrepentance and because of their rejection of God's Son.
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  Then it it brought about the ability for Gentiles for non
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  Jews to come into the Kingdom. So we are thankful for that.
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  But it's, you know, God's chosen people.
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  It's sad that the people that he chose are not fully accepting
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  him and not accepting the Savior that he sent.
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  And it's, I think a lot of it has is because people pass this
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  information on and people don't study things for themselves.
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  They listen to somebody else and then they believe somebody that
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  they respect. But we need to get into the
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  word. We need to think critically and
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  ask questions about it, seek it and pray about it and ask for
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  the Holy Spirit to reveal things so we we don't want to be
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  deceived because God does have a wonderful plan for us and He has
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  so much good in store for us. Jesus said he was going to
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  prepare a place for his disciples and that he was going
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  to come back and bring him, bring them to the place where he
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  has prepared. This is where Jesus has been
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  gone for all this time, but he is coming back and he's coming
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  back for a people who don't deny him, a people who have faith in
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  him, a people who trust in God. So it's something for you to
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  really reflect on. Who is Jesus to you?
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  Do you believe him? If he returned any day, will you
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  be in the group that Jesus will protect or will you be in the
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  group that the wrath of God will come against for the denial of
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  Christ at that point, that is going to be justice by God.
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  But God is going, He has a time frame and he's going to separate
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  good from evil. And we only become good through
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  Jesus, through the Holy Spirit. We can't receive the Holy Spirit
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  unless we believe because Jesus essentially what the Bible, what
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  I understand is Jesus controls who receives the Holy Spirit.
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  So you're not going to get the Holy Spirit directly to God from
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  the Father if you try and circumvent the Son.
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  You have to go through Jesus to have the Holy Spirit.
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  So you need the Holy Spirit to be in the Kingdom of God.
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  So if any of this stuff doesn't make sense to you, please keep
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  searching more. Look into it, study it, pray
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  about it, because it is so critical for every single
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  person's future. And if you found this helpful
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