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Episode 222 - Blessed Believers · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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Speaker 1: Blessed be the name of the Lord. This time forth
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Speaker 1: and even forevermore, from the rising of the sun until
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Speaker 1: the going down of the same, the name of the
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Speaker 1: Lord is to be praised. Blessed, blessed, blessed, Savior, Redeemer
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Speaker 1: and keeper of our souls. We bless his holy name.
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Speaker 1: We welcome you once again to this another edition of
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Speaker 1: End Time Revival Ministries USA Podcast. I am your host,
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Speaker 1: Pastor al Zachary. And again, on this glorious day that
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Speaker 1: the Lord has made, we are rejoicing in him who
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Speaker 1: is the God of our salvation, the God who made us,
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Speaker 1: made us in his own image and likeness, and then
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Speaker 1: he redeemed us by his precious blood and made us
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Speaker 1: sons of God. Now we are the sons of God.
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Speaker 1: The Bible tells us does not yet appear what we
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Speaker 1: shall be. But we know, because we have that blessed
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Speaker 1: hope within us, that when He shall appear, we will
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Speaker 1: be like him. We're going to see him as he
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Speaker 1: is in all of his glory, majesty, dominion, and power
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Speaker 1: and splendor. We look forward to that glorious and blessed
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Speaker 1: appearance of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Amen. Again,
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Speaker 1: blessings to each and every one of you who pray
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Speaker 1: for and or support the work of this ministry. We
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Speaker 1: are again just privileged to be called to be chosen
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Speaker 1: to be ambassadors, witnesses, spokespersons for this great Gospel message,
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Speaker 1: for this Kingdom work, for what God is doing in
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Speaker 1: the earth. We have been chosen by Him to participate
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Speaker 1: with Him. Amen, Co laborers in His vineyard, And we
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Speaker 1: don't take it lightly. We counted a privilege, we counted
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Speaker 1: an honor, and to this end we labor and we
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Speaker 1: will continue by the help of God, by the grace
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Speaker 1: of God, Amen, by the power of the Holy Ghost,
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Speaker 1: to be faithful and disseminating the word of the Living God. Amen.
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Speaker 1: So we thank God again for all of you, for
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Speaker 1: your prayers, for your support. For those of you who
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Speaker 1: subscribe to this podcast, who share it with others, May
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Speaker 1: the Lord bless you, and please by all means, if
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Speaker 1: you have not taking the opportunity to become a subscriber,
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Speaker 1: please do so, and please please please share it with
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Speaker 1: someone else. It is our endeavor, it is our a
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Speaker 1: man desire that the Word of the Lord will have
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Speaker 1: free course, that it would be disseminated far and wide,
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Speaker 1: and of course that men and women everywhere will come
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Speaker 1: to know that Jesus is the Christ, the only hope
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Speaker 1: of salvation. And we again thank God for his word
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Speaker 1: Amen in this great salvation in which we stand all right.
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Speaker 1: Today we are in the Gospel of John again as
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Speaker 1: we examine the words of Jesus, and we want to
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Speaker 1: focus on a man the final few words that we
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Speaker 1: see in chapter number twenty. We're again in chapter number
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Speaker 1: twenty of the Gospel of John. Our title today for
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Speaker 1: this podcast is Blessed Believers. Blessed Believers. And before we
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Speaker 1: again begin, as always, we're going to take just a
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Speaker 1: moment as we invoke the presence of the Lord and
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Speaker 1: ask him, ask him that his spirit will reign and
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Speaker 1: rule and his spirit will move within the hearts of men. Father,
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Speaker 1: we just want again thank you for this beautiful, beautiful,
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Speaker 1: beautiful day that you have made in this glorious year
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Speaker 1: of our Lord, twenty twenty six. We thank you for
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Speaker 1: the power of the Holy Spirit. We thank you for
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Speaker 1: enabling us to be ministers of the New Testament. We
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Speaker 1: thank you for calling us out of the darkness into
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Speaker 1: this glorious lights, to this glorious liberty. Wherein we stand.
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Speaker 1: It is in you that we live, move, and have
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Speaker 1: our being. We thank you for the power, the power.
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Speaker 1: We thank you for the boldness. We thank you for
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Speaker 1: the courage. God. We thank you for enabling us again
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Speaker 1: by your spirit, through the power of your promises and
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Speaker 1: your word, Amen, to stand in such a time as this,
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Speaker 1: to proclaim the liberty that is to be found exclusively
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Speaker 1: in Jesus, the Christ of Cavalry. Lord, we pray that
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Speaker 1: your word will have free course, and that someone somewhere
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Speaker 1: will be edified, will be lifted up from the horrible
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Speaker 1: pit of sin, and they will come to see and
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Speaker 1: know that you are the hope of glory. You are
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Speaker 1: the redeemer. You are the only mediator between God and man.
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Speaker 1: And it is by you and through you exclusively that
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Speaker 1: we are saved. We pray it now in Jesus' name, Amen,
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Speaker 1: and the Amen all right. In our last session, we
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Speaker 1: saw how Jesus made a special appearance to a doubting
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Speaker 1: Thomas and permitted Thomas to have all of his demands
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Speaker 1: and met for believing that Jesus was indeed risen from
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Speaker 1: the dead, as it had been told to Thomas by
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Speaker 1: the other apostles, and after Thomas had his rare privileged moment,
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Speaker 1: and by the way it is, it is, and it
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Speaker 1: was a rare privileged moment a man to see and
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Speaker 1: to touch the risen Savior. After this Jesus a man
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Speaker 1: would go on to pronounce a special blessing. I love it,
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Speaker 1: I love it, I love it. He pronounced a special
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Speaker 1: blessing on those of us who would not have this privilege,
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Speaker 1: who would not have this moment that Thomas and the
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Speaker 1: other eyewitnesses were able to see, were able to here,
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Speaker 1: were able to touch of this magnificent, miraculous risen Savior,
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Speaker 1: Lord Jesus Christ. After he rose from the dead, they
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Speaker 1: ate with him, They talked with him a man. He
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Speaker 1: appeared unto them on multiple occasions. And again rare privileged
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Speaker 1: moment of Thomas, who demanded that he would not believe
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Speaker 1: until he had seen, until he had touched a man
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Speaker 1: and verified for himself that this was true. Jesus was
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Speaker 1: indeed risen from the dead. So we take you now
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Speaker 1: to the Gospel of John chapter twenty. We're gonna read
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Speaker 1: verses twenty six to twenty nine a man, and we'll
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Speaker 1: get to verses thirty and thirty one. A little bit
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Speaker 1: later here, but verse twenty six, if you have your Bibles,
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Speaker 1: King James, version is from which I will read. And
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Speaker 1: after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas
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Speaker 1: with them. Then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and
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Speaker 1: stood in the midst and said, peace be unto you.
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Speaker 1: Then said he to Thomas, reach hither thy finger and
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Speaker 1: behold my hands. And reach hither thy hand and thrust
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Speaker 1: it into my side, and be not faithless, but believing.
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Speaker 1: And Thomas answered and said, unto him, my Lord and
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Speaker 1: my God. Verse twenty nine, Jesus saith unto him Thomas,
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Speaker 1: because you have seen me, thou hast believed. Blessed are
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Speaker 1: they that have not seen and yet have believed, Thomas,
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Speaker 1: because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed. Blessed are
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Speaker 1: they that have not seen and yet have believed. Oh man,
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Speaker 1: oh man. I remember reading this many many, many many
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Speaker 1: years ago, and instantly it just it just it just
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Speaker 1: it just remained with me. It is never left me
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Speaker 1: of the blessedness of those of us who never had
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Speaker 1: the privilege to see Jesus. But yet we believe, we believe,
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Speaker 1: these are wonderful words of encouragement for the vast majority
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Speaker 1: of true believers. And by the way, I think we
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Speaker 1: covered this in our previous podcast session, that only a handful.
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Speaker 1: By comparison, it was more than five hundreds testified by
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Speaker 1: the apostle Paul of the Brethren who saw Jesus' post resurrection.
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Speaker 1: But by comparison to the millions who have been a
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Speaker 1: man converted, the millions who have become a man, true believer,
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Speaker 1: saved Holy Ghost Field, Amen, baptized into Jesus, by comparison,
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Speaker 1: five hundred is a very small number. Amen. But Amen,
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Speaker 1: these words of encouragement is for the vast majority of
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Speaker 1: those of us who are true believers, true disciples, just
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Speaker 1: as they were a man. And these words I believe
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Speaker 1: of Jesus puts all of us a man into a
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Speaker 1: special class of being blessed believers. This is what Jesus said.
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Speaker 1: Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed,
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Speaker 1: those who never saw Jesus doing his earthly visitation, those
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Speaker 1: who were not privy again to being one of his
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Speaker 1: disciples or chosen apostles, those who were not in and
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Speaker 1: around his kingdom preaching travels wherein he performed myriads of
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Speaker 1: signs and wonders, those who would not get to see
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Speaker 1: Him in his glorified post resurrection body and touch him
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Speaker 1: as Thomas and the other witnesses were able to do.
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Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, Church of the Living God, we have
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Speaker 1: been made partakers of a special group of those who
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Speaker 1: are redeemed. And it was Jesus who pronounced this special
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Speaker 1: blessing upon us as blessed believers. Oh man, this is special.
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Speaker 1: This is you know, a lot of people, by the way,
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Speaker 1: there's this saying, and I'm sure most of you are
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Speaker 1: certainly familiar with it. Seeing is believing, Seeing is believing,
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Speaker 1: and it was very interesting. I delved into it just
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Speaker 1: a little bit, and I'm not going to spend a
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Speaker 1: lot of time on this. But now, of course, you
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Speaker 1: cannot see every yeah, I believe rather everything that you see,
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Speaker 1: at least in our world of AI, our internet world
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Speaker 1: photography that has been around for quite some time. You
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Speaker 1: cannot believe everything you see. But there were no tricks
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Speaker 1: in what Jesus did. Amen Miracles, designs and wonders for example,
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Speaker 1: being everything that he did, he did upon people who
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Speaker 1: had been a long time in certain conditions, who were
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Speaker 1: born in certain who were well known to have been paraplegic, crippled, blind, lame.
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Speaker 1: I mean, they were well documented and known to be
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Speaker 1: suffering people who were delivered from demonic possession. Amen. Seeing
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Speaker 1: should have been for all who witnessed what Jesus did
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Speaker 1: believing and by the way, if that was all that
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Speaker 1: would be required to become a believer, then Judas, who
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Speaker 1: not only was a disciple, not only was a witness,
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Speaker 1: one who had followed. He was one of the Twelve,
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Speaker 1: He was one of the twelve apostles originally Amen. So
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Speaker 1: if seeing was all that would be required, then Judas
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Speaker 1: should never have betrayed Jesus. Then the members of the Sanhedrin,
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Speaker 1: who also knew, by the way, the Pharisees who also knew,
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Speaker 1: the Sadducees who also knew, the priest, the chief priest,
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Speaker 1: the elders, and all of those who were in the multitudes,
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Speaker 1: who were all by the way privy to what Jesus
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Speaker 1: openly talked, openly did in miracles and signs and wonders,
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Speaker 1: and almost the vast majority of his miracles, there were eyewitnesses,
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Speaker 1: multitudes of people who knew what he had done, who
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Speaker 1: knew what he was teaching. If seeing was all that
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Speaker 1: it required, all that would have been required, Brother, if
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Speaker 1: you will, then all of those people should have been saved.
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Speaker 1: I mean, one would surmise that being around Jesus on
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Speaker 1: a day to day basis, on a week to week basis,
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Speaker 1: on a month to month basis, for more than three years,
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Speaker 1: three and a half years, approximately, you would think that
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Speaker 1: would be sufficient. Sufficient. It's your suffice you are with Jesus,
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Speaker 1: with him around him. By the way, Jesus was referred
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Speaker 1: to as a rabbi, which he was a teacher. He
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Speaker 1: was a great teacher, rabbi, but not at all he was.
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Speaker 1: Of course, if you were a follower, a disciple of
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Speaker 1: a rabbi, you followed them night and day. And so
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Speaker 1: the disciples, in particular, they witnessed Jesus rising early in
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Speaker 1: the morning to pray, and again, of course all of
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Speaker 1: what he did with the signs and wonders, they were
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Speaker 1: intimately acquainted with his ministry. But again, if that's all
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Speaker 1: it takes being around, amen, the vast majority of the
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Speaker 1: Jews should have been saved. It did not suffice for them.
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Speaker 1: And you know why it did not suffice for them
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Speaker 1: it is simply again with the Bible stresses old Testament
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Speaker 1: and knew by the way unbelief, unbelief. Again you go
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Speaker 1: through the writer Hebrews. I believe it's Paul the Apostle,
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Speaker 1: by the way he uses the example, and he stresses
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Speaker 1: the unbelief of those who had come out of Egypt,
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Speaker 1: that entire first generation of eyewitnesses, of all of the miracles,
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Speaker 1: the signs, and the wonders that God did in Egypt
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Speaker 1: while protecting them in Goshen, and with a mighty hand
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Speaker 1: he brought them out with the death of the firstborn
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Speaker 1: in that last deadly plague. And when they left, of
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Speaker 1: course you know the story. They got to the Red Sea,
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Speaker 1: and they thought, and their fear and their unbelief that
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Speaker 1: it was over. God did the miraculous, God, the unthinkable
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Speaker 1: got it. God did the sensational. He opened up the
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Speaker 1: Red Sea, and they walked through on dry land, and
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Speaker 1: he was with them forty years. They were in the wilderness, clothes,
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Speaker 1: never washed, shees, never he would rerained down manner from
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Speaker 1: having gave them water out of a rock. Oh God,
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Speaker 1: but they did not believe. And here it comes Jesus
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Speaker 1: with the finger of God performing even more, and would have,
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Speaker 1: in essence done even more. And the Bible says, of
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Speaker 1: course his Gospel testimony, he did not in certain cities,
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Speaker 1: Capernaum and others many mighty works because of their unbelief. See,
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Speaker 1: seeing along is not sufficient, Thomas and the apostles, and yes,
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Speaker 1: yes they saw Jesus. But that listen, you know what,
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Speaker 1: there's a decree, there is a word, and I use
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Speaker 1: it all, I say it all the time. I have
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Speaker 1: to say it. Man, it's not to live by bread alone,
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Speaker 1: by miracles, by signs, by wonders. Only because by the
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Speaker 1: way in the New Testament, and you could book of
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Speaker 1: Revelation more particularly, the Antichrist will have the power to
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Speaker 1: do miracles and signs and wonders. No, no, no, ladies
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Speaker 1: and gentlemen, it's by the word of the Living God.
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Speaker 1: Do you believe the word? Do you believe God? And
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Speaker 1: that is the problem. That was the problem for those
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Speaker 1: who saw the miracles and signs and wonders why Jesus
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Speaker 1: was here. And that is the problem even for those
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Speaker 1: of us who do not, who were not there, who
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Speaker 1: do not see perhaps the volume certainly not of the
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Speaker 1: signs and wonders in our day. But we believe, and
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Speaker 1: we are counted blessed believers because we believe the word
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Speaker 1: of the living God. We believe the word. Amen. Again,
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Speaker 1: those who were there, those who were alive, hundreds of
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Speaker 1: thousands of Jews and some gentiles, many gentiles, perhaps they
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Speaker 1: witnessed a great deal of what Jesus did with their
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Speaker 1: own eyes. But yet they've refused to believe, to believe, brother,
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Speaker 1: that he was the Messiah, that he was the Christ,
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Speaker 1: that he was the one the word the Bible says.
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Speaker 1: By the way, I let me read down the last
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Speaker 1: two verses of Chapter twenty, verses thirty one, Lord John
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Speaker 1: the Apostle wrote, Amen, this is why he has an eyewitness.
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Speaker 1: Also included some of the miracles. And by the way,
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Speaker 1: he only concluded about eight or so miracles that Jesus
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Speaker 1: did seven prior to his amen death. And I think
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Speaker 1: it's one additional miracle after he wrote from the dead
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Speaker 1: and was with them. Jesus did all of this. And
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Speaker 1: yet again you have people that didn't believe, but John,
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Speaker 1: who was an eyewitness in a circle. By the way,
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Speaker 1: Peter James and John wrote these words in verse thirty
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Speaker 1: and thirty one, and many other signs truly did Jesus
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Speaker 1: in the presence of his disciples, which are not written
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Speaker 1: in this book. But these are written, all of the
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Speaker 1: ones that he included, that you might believe that Jesus
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Speaker 1: is the Christ, the Son of God, and that believing
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Speaker 1: he might have life through his name. Those of us
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Speaker 1: again who are repentant, those of us who are converted,
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Speaker 1: those of us who have received the gift, and it
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Speaker 1: is a gift of the Holy Ghost, those of us
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Speaker 1: who are recipients of God's magni magnanimous grace and mercy.
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Speaker 1: Here we are, two thousand years removed from the visitation
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Speaker 1: of Jesus to this world. And for those who will
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Speaker 1: hear the gospel message, for those who will believe in
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Speaker 1: Jesus on the basis of martyred witnesses who refused, by
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Speaker 1: the way to recant, who refused to modify their testimony,
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Speaker 1: that that that that Jesus was indeed written from the dead.
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Speaker 1: They refused. They refuse a man intimidation, didn't do it,
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Speaker 1: a man, the beating, the persecution, none of that, No, no, no,
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Speaker 1: they refuse. On the strength of these witnesses, their eyewitness
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Speaker 1: testimony that Jesus is the only way of salvation. That
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Speaker 1: redemption is by His shed blood through his atoning sacrifice,
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Speaker 1: and that through his name only we have forgiveness of sins.
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Speaker 1: If you believe their report, then you are indeed of
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Speaker 1: these who are the blessed believers. You didn't see, I
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Speaker 1: didn't see. We didn't see. We didn't see. We haven't seen,
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Speaker 1: but yet we believe. And by the way, let me
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Speaker 1: give you one last closing reference, if you will, from
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Speaker 1: again one of the apostles who was not only a disciple,
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Speaker 1: not only an eyewitness, but in her circle. And by
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Speaker 1: the way, this is the apostle Peter who wrote two
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Speaker 1: letters to the saints, to the people of God. Amen.
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Speaker 1: And again Peter, James and John being in that inner circle.
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Speaker 1: You remember, they only were eyewitnesses of Jesus in the
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Speaker 1: transfiguration when he took them up on the mountain and
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Speaker 1: was transfigured before their faces, and they saw Jesus talking
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Speaker 1: with Moses and Elijah and and and Jesus was his
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Speaker 1: whole forming image and likeness, if you will, was changed
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Speaker 1: right there before their eyes. The brightness, the glory, I mean,
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Speaker 1: it was, it was beyond their belief, beyond their ability
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Speaker 1: to wrap their heads around, their eyes around there, I mean,
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Speaker 1: their their comprehension around. And they wanted to build their
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Speaker 1: tabernacles a monument. If you will, Lord, let us build
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Speaker 1: here three tabernacles, one for you, one for Moses, and
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Speaker 1: one for Elijah. And of course you know the story,
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Speaker 1: and I mean, let me digress in just a moment here,
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Speaker 1: but how a voice came from heaven. Oh no, no, no, no, no,
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Speaker 1: see you know, we we are, we are, we are.
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Speaker 1: And you know, by the way, had they done that,
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Speaker 1: had they been able to do that, and had it
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Speaker 1: been able to have been preserved and you know, protected
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Speaker 1: over these two thousand years, people would be right now
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Speaker 1: going up to that mountain, going up to that place,
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Speaker 1: bowing down and worshiping perhaps figurines or figures one of Jesus,
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Speaker 1: one of Moses, one of Elijah, treating it as a place,
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Speaker 1: a holy place, something to be. And this is why,
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Speaker 1: by the way, give me just one moment here. It's
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Speaker 1: not about a place, ladies and gentlemen. It's not about
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Speaker 1: the temple. It's not about a mountain. Because she's had
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Speaker 1: the conversation with this woman at the well, same Gospel
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Speaker 1: of John chapter four. You know, at this mountain at
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Speaker 1: this place, this is where no, no, no, no, no,
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Speaker 1: Jesus says, no more. If you will at Jerusalem or
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Speaker 1: in this mountain that you are, and you will be
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Speaker 1: a true worship. And by the way, the demonstration of that, Oh,
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Speaker 1: My God, Oh, goes all the way back to the
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Speaker 1: book of Genesis. Abraham Amen, he was a pilgrim, as
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Speaker 1: it were, He was a stranger in his own land,
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Speaker 1: homeland of Canaan. That the Lord promised them. Abraham went
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Speaker 1: from place to place, from place to place to place
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Speaker 1: to place. When you read about all of the movements
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Speaker 1: of Abraham, wherever he went, he built altars, and he worshiped.
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Speaker 1: It's not about a particular place, geographical location. Not to
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Speaker 1: make any place of any insignificance, and certainly not Jerusalem,
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Speaker 1: the mountain of God, Amen, the place of God, the
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Speaker 1: place where he met Moses, the mountain on which Jesus
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Speaker 1: Calvary was crucified. Not to minimize insignificance any of those places.
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Speaker 1: But that's not how and where worship takes place. But
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Speaker 1: I say all that, and again rolling back to this
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Speaker 1: amount of transfiguration, where Peter, James and John were eyewitnesses
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Speaker 1: of the majesty of the deity of Jesus. Peter understood
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Speaker 1: how special it is for those of us who were
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Speaker 1: not eyewitnesses to now become blessed believers. He writes in
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Speaker 1: First Peter, Chapter one, I'm gonna pick it up at
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Speaker 1: verse number six. I'm reading from the esb by the way,
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Speaker 1: verse number six, First Peter, Chapter one. In this you rejoice,
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Speaker 1: though now for a little while, if necessary, you have
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Speaker 1: been grieved by various trials, so that the tested genuineness
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Speaker 1: of your faith, more precious than gold that perishes, though
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Speaker 1: it is tested by fire, may be found to result
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Speaker 1: in praise and glory and honor at the revelation of
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Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. Our faith, by the way is tested, our
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Speaker 1: faith goes through the fire. Our faith may it be found,
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Speaker 1: as Peter writes, to result in praise and glory and
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Speaker 1: honor at the revelation of Jesus. And by the way
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Speaker 1: Jesus said something, it's kind of frightful if you will
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Speaker 1: when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith
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Speaker 1: on the earth? Something to think about verse number eight.
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Speaker 1: I digress, though this is very important. Peter understood it.
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Speaker 1: Though you have not seen him. Now, who is Peter
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Speaker 1: writing to you, writing to the twelve tribes, who was
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Speaker 1: scattered abroad, who under severe persecution, who were yet clinging
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Speaker 1: and holding on to their faith and their belief what
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Speaker 1: they believe. Again, you don't have to see to believe.
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Speaker 1: Seeing is not all it is required to believe. Thomas
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Speaker 1: demanded it. But we don't get that privilege. We were
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Speaker 1: not there. We are now again two thousand years removed
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Speaker 1: from Jesus's visitation upon this planet. But yet Peter again says,
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Speaker 1: though you have not seen him Jesus, he's talking about Jesus.
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Speaker 1: You love him. Oh, what a blessing. We sing all
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Speaker 1: about it. We sing about it, we sing about and
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Speaker 1: we praise about the love that we have for Jesus.
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Speaker 1: And of course the Bible tells us we love him
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Speaker 1: because he what first loved us. What a wonderful blessing.
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Speaker 1: This is what a wonderful privileges. Though we have not
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Speaker 1: seen Jesus, we love him, though we do not now
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Speaker 1: see him. What the Bible says, you believe in him
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Speaker 1: and rejoice with joy that is inexpressible and filled with glory,
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Speaker 1: obtaining the out come of your faith, the salvation of
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Speaker 1: your souls ladies and gentlemen, we believe to the end,
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Speaker 1: not because we've seen Jesus, not because we had a
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Speaker 1: chance to touch him, not because we had a chance
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Speaker 1: to see him in his resurrected body. Again with the
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Speaker 1: proof and the evidence that Thomas demanded and was privileged
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Speaker 1: to have a man Jesus to allow him to amen fulfill. No, no, no,
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Speaker 1: we didn't. We didn't get that. We don't get it.
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Speaker 1: We won't get it, not until we reached the other
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Speaker 1: side of glory. By the way, you know, the Bible
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Speaker 1: says without faith, it is impossible to please God. And
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Speaker 1: the just shall live by faith. We live by faith.
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Speaker 1: Faith in what faith in the Word of the Living God.
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Speaker 1: Faith in the world of God is inseparable from faith
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Speaker 1: in God himself. In the beginning was the word word
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Speaker 1: of God. The word was God. And if we believe
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Speaker 1: the report, if we believe the inspired word of God,
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Speaker 1: the infallible word of God, the eyewitness accounts of those
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Speaker 1: who were inspired and moved by the Holy Ghost to
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Speaker 1: write the Gospels, who faithfully recorded some of the words
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Speaker 1: of Jesus, some of the miracles of Jesus. You, if
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Speaker 1: you believe, are among the blessed believers, Thomas, Thomas, because
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Speaker 1: you have seen, But blessed are those who have not
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Speaker 1: seen and yet have believed. Father Again, we just love you,
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Speaker 1: We thank you, we praise you, We bless you. Because
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Speaker 1: the Word, the Word of God, that is quick in
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Speaker 1: powerful and sharper than any two edged sword, has worked
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Speaker 1: in us and is working in us. And we pray
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Speaker 1: now that it will work in someone somewhere today, so
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Speaker 1: that they will come to know that you indeed are
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Speaker 1: the Christ, the risen Savior, the belief the Savior of
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Speaker 1: all them that believe. We bless now your name, and
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Speaker 1: praise you and honor you. Amen and Amen,