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Lawlessness The Man and the Mystery │ Msg 48 - Pastor Chuck Swindoll Insight for Living · INSIGHT FOR LIVING: Biblical Wisdom For Everyday Living

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Speaker 1: What earthquakes are to the regions they affect, the divine
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Speaker 1: judgment of the Day of the Lord will be to
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Speaker 1: the whole world. Every person on earth during that time
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Speaker 1: will experience its tremors and destruction. Think of that Paul
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Speaker 1: had taught the Thessalonian believers about the Day of the
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Speaker 1: Lord and its terrors, but apparently the church members had
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Speaker 1: become confused about the timing, fearing that the quaking of
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Speaker 1: God's judgment had already begun. The focus of our passage
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Speaker 1: today deals with Paul's attempt to steady the doctrinal legs
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Speaker 1: of that church. Before we launch into his explanation, however,
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Speaker 1: it will be helpful for us to read this section
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Speaker 1: of scripture. So turn with me in your bibles to
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Speaker 1: Second Thessalonians, Chapter two, and I'll be reading verses one
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Speaker 1: through twelve. Second Thessalonians two, in Verse one begins, Now
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Speaker 1: we request you, brethren, with regard to the coming of
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Speaker 1: our Lord, Jesus Christ and our gathering together to him,
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Speaker 1: that you not be quickly shaken from your composure or
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Speaker 1: be disturbed either by a spirit or a message or
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Speaker 1: a letter, as if from us, to the effect that
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Speaker 1: the Day of the Lord has come, Let no one
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Speaker 1: in any way deceive you, for it will not come
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Speaker 1: unless the apostasy comes first, and the man of lawlessness
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Speaker 1: is revealed, the son of destruction, who opposes and exalts
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Speaker 1: himself above every so called God or object of worship,
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Speaker 1: so that he takes his seat in the Temple of God,
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Speaker 1: displaying himself as being God. Do you not remember that
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Speaker 1: while I was still with you, I was telling you
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Speaker 1: these things? And you know what restrains him now, so
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Speaker 1: that in his time he will be revealed. For the
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Speaker 1: mystery of lawlessness is already at work. Only he who
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Speaker 1: now restrains will do so until he is taken out
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Speaker 1: of the way. Then that lawless one will be revealed,
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Speaker 1: whom the Lord will slay with the breath of his
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Speaker 1: mouth and bring to an end by the appearance of
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Speaker 1: his coming. That is the one whose coming is in
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Speaker 1: accord with the activity of Satan, with all power and
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Speaker 1: signs and false wonders, and with all the deception of wickedness.
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Speaker 1: For those who perish because they did not receive the
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Speaker 1: love of the Truth, so as to be saved. For
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Speaker 1: this reason, God will send upon them a deluding influence,
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Speaker 1: so that they will believe what is false in order
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Speaker 1: that they all may be judged who did not believe
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Speaker 1: the truth but took pleasure in wickedness. Of all the
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Speaker 1: calamities that we may have to endure, perhaps nothing is
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Speaker 1: worse than an earthquake. It comes with such swift and
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Speaker 1: sudden destruction. There was never even a few seconds warning,
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Speaker 1: and we are always surprised. People from from China to
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Speaker 1: Chile could tell their horrible stories, from Indonesia to Africa
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Speaker 1: and on into Alaska, and certainly from Italy to Mexico.
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Speaker 1: The stories of terror and horror stun us. I don't
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Speaker 1: believe I know a Native Californian who can't tell his
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Speaker 1: or her own story of horror. As you have endured
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Speaker 1: on more than one occasion a quake. Sometime they are small,
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Speaker 1: they are slight tremors. And who hasn't out on the
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Speaker 1: West Coast had supper with a family or friends on
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Speaker 1: some occasion and someone at the table said, did you
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Speaker 1: feel the quake today? And you didn't, so you say, no,
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Speaker 1: I missed it. And usually if you're at this kind
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Speaker 1: of table where those veterans and those natives are sitting,
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Speaker 1: they will get on the subject of there will be
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Speaker 1: a quake in the future someday that you won't miss.
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Speaker 1: It will rock the scales at eight point five or more. Yeah,
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Speaker 1: And as a matter of fact, we are not safe
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Speaker 1: from quakes like that. You're not even safe if you
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Speaker 1: are if you are at sea. In a fine book
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Speaker 1: entitled The Genesis Flood an old book now but a
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Speaker 1: good one, Quitcomb and Morris spend some time describing a
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Speaker 1: tsunami tsu in am i. The tsunami is what is
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Speaker 1: created at sea when the epicenter is on the ocean floor.
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Speaker 1: They write, Probably the most destructive of all waves is
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Speaker 1: that form of title wave known as the tsunami. Actually,
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Speaker 1: these are not true title waves, although commonly called so,
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Speaker 1: but they are caused by submarine earthquakes and volcanic eruptions
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Speaker 1: or slides. They have been known to attain velocities of
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Speaker 1: four hundred or more miles per hour and the heights
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Speaker 1: of one hundred thirty feet and travel extraordinary distances. The
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Speaker 1: Great Krakatoa earthquake in the East Indies in eighteen eighty
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Speaker 1: three created immense waves at least one hundred feet high
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Speaker 1: and traveling up to four hundred fifty miles per hour,
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Speaker 1: in undating neighboring islands and drowning nearly forty thousand people.
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Speaker 1: A tsunami from this quake was still two feet high
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Speaker 1: as it passed Ceylon and nine inches high beyond the
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Speaker 1: Arabian Sea. In nineteen forty six, a tsunami originating in
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Speaker 1: a quake in the Aleutian Islands region traveled four hundred
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Speaker 1: seventy miles per hour across the Pacific, creating a nineteen
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Speaker 1: foot high tidal wave on the shores of HAWAIII with
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Speaker 1: great destruction. Even more recently, they continued tsunamis generated by
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Speaker 1: the destructive Chilean earthquakes of nineteen sixty have demonstrated once
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Speaker 1: again the power available in this type wave. A news
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Speaker 1: account states the disastrous series of earthquakes that struck Chile
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Speaker 1: late in May nineteen sixty has brought death and destruction
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Speaker 1: to countries on the perimeter of the entire Pacific. In
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Speaker 1: the wake of the earthquakes, great tidal waves up to
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Speaker 1: fifty feet high and traveling at jet speeds of five
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Speaker 1: hundred and twenty five miles an hour caused extensive damage
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Speaker 1: to Pacific ports from Japan to California. From Alaska to
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Speaker 1: New Zealand. Yesterday morning, I was sitting in my little
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Speaker 1: fishing boat off the coast of California in the Pacific Ocean,
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Speaker 1: fishing with my younger son, Chuck, and we were having
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Speaker 1: a great time a mile or so from the shore.
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Speaker 1: And then as things got a little quiet and we
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Speaker 1: were pulling the kelp off our lines and thinking about
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Speaker 1: this mammoth fish we were going to catch, I began
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Speaker 1: to think about my introduction to this message today. Suddenly
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Speaker 1: I wasn't too concerned about fishing and the catch of
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Speaker 1: the day. He especially when he said, watch out, dead,
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Speaker 1: here comes a swell, and I imagine this tsunami coming
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Speaker 1: over me at that moment time. You're not even safe
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Speaker 1: at sea. What the Great Earthquake is to the Californian
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Speaker 1: the Great Tribulation is to the whole world. You will
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Speaker 1: not escape it. Every person on the Earth at the
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Speaker 1: time of the Great Tribulation will experience it's tremors and
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Speaker 1: its destruction. Now, if you're like me, you will treat
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Speaker 1: that information sort of like you treat the information about
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Speaker 1: the Great Quake. I know there are scientists with big
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Speaker 1: thick glasses that hide out at MIT and the cow
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Speaker 1: tech and work with their voodoo figures in there and
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Speaker 1: tell us it's coming. It's coming. Don't tell us we
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Speaker 1: didn't warn you. And all the while we live and
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Speaker 1: buy and sell and die with hardly a thought that
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Speaker 1: we'll ever experience it. But one of these days, one
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Speaker 1: of these awful days, we will. We will. But by comparison,
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Speaker 1: the terrors of the Great Tribulation are stunning. And I
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Speaker 1: find people, even Christian people, who hear information like that
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Speaker 1: and pass it off as if it weren't meant to
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Speaker 1: disturb their peace. And for a Christian it shouldn't, for
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Speaker 1: we'll never know the horrors of it, but many of
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Speaker 1: our friends will. Dare I say, most Now, what does
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Speaker 1: all of this about earthquakes and tsunamis and tidal waves
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Speaker 1: and great tribulation? What does all of this have to
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Speaker 1: do with the Thessalonian letter? We're studying well, everything, as
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Speaker 1: a matter of fact, everything, in fact, that particular subject
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Speaker 1: is precisely the reason Paul wrote them two letters instead
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Speaker 1: of one. You see, they had been carefully instructed about
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Speaker 1: the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ in the sky
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Speaker 1: to catch believers off this earth, whether living or dead.
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Speaker 1: And sweep them from time into eternity. First Thessalonians, chapter four,
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Speaker 1: verses thirteen to eighteen, a great section of scripture on
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Speaker 1: that marvelous day of Christ, when believers the world over
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Speaker 1: will be taken from earth to Heaven in a moment,
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Speaker 1: in the twinkling of an eye. Listen to these wonderful words.
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Speaker 1: First Thessalonians four thirteen. We do not want you to
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Speaker 1: be uninformed, brethren about those who are asleep, that you
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Speaker 1: may not grieve as do the rest who have no hope.
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Speaker 1: For if we believe that Jesus died and rose again,
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Speaker 1: even so God will bring with him those who have
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Speaker 1: fallen asleep in Jesus. For this we say to you
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Speaker 1: by the word of the Lord, that we who are
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Speaker 1: alive and remain until the coming of the Lord shall
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Speaker 1: not precede those who have fallen asleep. That is, we
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Speaker 1: will not precede those who have died. And now the
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Speaker 1: order of events, for the Lord himself will descend from
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Speaker 1: heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel
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Speaker 1: and with the trumpet of God, and the dead in
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Speaker 1: Christ shall rise first. Then we who are alive and
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Speaker 1: remain shall be caught up together with them in the
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Speaker 1: clouds to meet the Lord in the air. Mark those
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Speaker 1: two prepositional phrases. In the clouds in the air, that's
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Speaker 1: where we'll be caught up. And thus we shall always
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Speaker 1: mark that one in the clouds in the air, always
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Speaker 1: with the Lord. Comfort one another with these words. Well,
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Speaker 1: I don't know about you, but there are times in
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Speaker 1: my life where I draw great comfort and hope to
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Speaker 1: go on. From first Thessalonians for thirteen to eighteen, Paul
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Speaker 1: even went on to describe the difference between the day
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Speaker 1: of Christ and the judgmental day of the Lord. Keep
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Speaker 1: reading in this same book five verse one. Now as
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Speaker 1: to the times and epochs, brethren, you have no need
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Speaker 1: of anything to be written to you. I take it
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Speaker 1: that he spent a lot of time during his four
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Speaker 1: to six weeks in Thesalonika describing these events. So he said,
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Speaker 1: I write these words just by way of review. You
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Speaker 1: hardly need the reminder, for you yourselves know full well
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Speaker 1: that the day of the Lord. Now there's a difference
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Speaker 1: between the day of Christ and the day of the Lord.
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Speaker 1: The day of Christ is a day of great relief,
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Speaker 1: It is a day of great release. It is a
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Speaker 1: day when believers in Jesus Christ, whether living or dead,
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Speaker 1: are caught up together in one great reunion to be
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Speaker 1: forever with the Lord. That's the day of Christ. Having
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Speaker 1: trusted Christ and having believed in Him with all of
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Speaker 1: our hearts, He who began a good work in us,
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Speaker 1: will perform it until when the day of Christ. That's
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Speaker 1: our end of life on this earth as Christians. But
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Speaker 1: that isn't the end of life on this earth. For
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Speaker 1: on this earth will remain only unbelievers, are non Christians
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Speaker 1: for a period of time. And he writes of that
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Speaker 1: day of the Lord, and some things that will transpire,
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Speaker 1: begetting at verse two. The day of the Lord will
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Speaker 1: come just like a thief in the night. While they
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Speaker 1: are saying peace and safety, then you'd think an earthquake
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Speaker 1: struck destruction will come upon them suddenly like birth pangs
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Speaker 1: upon a woman with child, and they shall not escape.
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Speaker 1: Could no more escape that event than those in Mexico City.
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Speaker 1: He could escape the awesome results of that earthquake. And
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Speaker 1: don't tell yourself you can, God says they cannot. This
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Speaker 1: is the kind of thing that ought to keep the
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Speaker 1: unsaved awake through the night. This is the kind of
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Speaker 1: information God gives in his word designed to bring a
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Speaker 1: person if by fear to the foot of the cross,
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Speaker 1: they shall not escape. But you, brethren, now he's back
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Speaker 1: to the Christian You are not in darkness that that
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Speaker 1: day should overtake you like a thief. You're all sons
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Speaker 1: of light and sons of the day. We are not
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Speaker 1: of the night or of the darkness. So then let
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Speaker 1: us who are let us not sleep as others do,
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Speaker 1: but let us be alert and sober. Your return to
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Speaker 1: Christ is soon to come. It's the next event in
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Speaker 1: the prophetic calendar, and we don't know when it will be. Now,
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Speaker 1: everything is well and good as you read through the
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Speaker 1: rest of this letter, because you and I don't live
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Speaker 1: in Thesalonika, and we're in the twentieth and not the
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Speaker 1: first century. But for some untold reason, persecution began to
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Speaker 1: break upon the Thessalonians, being in one of the metropolitan
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Speaker 1: areas as Rome or as Philippi, or perhaps as Athens,
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Speaker 1: one of the major centers of population in the first century.
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Speaker 1: When persecution began to spread, it struck Thessalonika with heavy blows,
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Speaker 1: and some of these very Christians, some of these who
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Speaker 1: received this letter began to lose their family members, lost
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Speaker 1: their jobs. Some of them were martyred as families, and
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Speaker 1: they paid the ultimate price for their faith in Christ.
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Speaker 1: And other Christians who lived through it began to wonder
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Speaker 1: if they had missed something in God's plan. And you
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Speaker 1: would and I would too, we thought. Paul said that
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Speaker 1: we would be taken up to be with our Lord,
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Speaker 1: and then there would be destruction. And look at the destruction.
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Speaker 1: We've missed the coming of Christ. We're into the day
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Speaker 1: of the Lord. So he wrote Second Thessalonians, and he says,
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Speaker 1: in this second Thessalonian letter, you haven't missed it. You
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Speaker 1: haven't missed a thing. What you are experiencing is a
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Speaker 1: few little tremors, but the great quake hasn't yet struck.
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Speaker 1: In fact, he begins this second letter, you may recall
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Speaker 1: by affirming them. He tells them, verse three, we give
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Speaker 1: thanks to God for you. Verse four, we speak proudly
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Speaker 1: of you. Verse eleven, we pray for you. I hope
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Speaker 1: you have those three lines marked in your Bible, as
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Speaker 1: I do. We give thanks for you, we speak proudly
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Speaker 1: of you, we pray for you. Those are three things
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Speaker 1: you do for people who are really going through hard times.
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Speaker 1: Nothing more affirming and in couraging then hearing from a
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Speaker 1: believer who loves them and is praying for them through
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Speaker 1: it is available to help wherever. Now Paul's affirmation and
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Speaker 1: encouragement turns to clarification and explanation in the next section
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Speaker 1: of this passage, chapter two. Take a look. Now we
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Speaker 1: request you, brethren, with regard to the coming of our
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Speaker 1: Lord Jesus Christ and our gathering together to him. That's
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Speaker 1: the day of Christ. That's when we are swept from
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Speaker 1: this earth into the presence of Christ as a body
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Speaker 1: of believers in the Church, that you may not be
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Speaker 1: quickly shaken from your composure or to be disturbed either
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Speaker 1: by a spirit or a message or a letter as
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Speaker 1: if from us. You see, this is what happened. As
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Speaker 1: the bottom fell out of their lives. The rumor began
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Speaker 1: to spread that they had in fact miscalculated, or they
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Speaker 1: had somehow missed the event that God had promised them
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Speaker 1: through Paul's teaching. And they were sure that they had
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Speaker 1: tumbled and plunged into the tribulation time they had moved
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Speaker 1: from the day of Christ. Somehow they missed that, and
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Speaker 1: they were now into the day of the Lord. Paul says, no,
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Speaker 1: that hasn't happened. Those that passed the rumor around said,
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Speaker 1: haven't you heard about this special revelation? I mean there
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Speaker 1: was some kind of signal in the sky, or we
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Speaker 1: heard about a message that Paul had spoken, and he
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Speaker 1: talked of this occurring. And some even said, we have
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Speaker 1: a letter that he wrote. Here's the letter, and it
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Speaker 1: was obviously if it was a letter, it was a forgery.
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Speaker 1: Paul never wrote such a letter, he says in this passage.
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Speaker 1: There has been no revelation, there has been no message preached,
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Speaker 1: and I have written no such letter. So stop worrying,
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Speaker 1: go back to your business. You haven't missed a thing
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Speaker 1: as though the day of the Lord has come. By
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Speaker 1: the way, I don't want to just hurry over this.
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Speaker 1: I want to say something about heresy and how these
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Speaker 1: rumors spread. It's been my observation that when heresies develop
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Speaker 1: into cults and gain a following, they do so because
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Speaker 1: of the claim of these three these same three things.
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Speaker 1: Someone either has a spirit about him or her, or
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Speaker 1: a message as if from God, or a letter, some
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Speaker 1: divine document that God has written or led some man
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Speaker 1: or woman to write. And now with this inspired so
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Speaker 1: called text, we have the basis of a new religion
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Speaker 1: and where to follow it. Because this is special revelation
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Speaker 1: from God. And invariably Christians who are weak in theology
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Speaker 1: are disturbed and shaken from their composure. Invariably, there is
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Speaker 1: nothing to give you confidence and a solid footing like
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Speaker 1: good theology, sound understanding of your faith. These Thessalonians were
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Speaker 1: really new Christians, and Paul had to assure them that
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Speaker 1: there had been no such letter or special revelation. One
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Speaker 1: more thought on this before we jump into the other.
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Speaker 1: We need to bask in the joy and the relief
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Speaker 1: of our Lord's soon coming. How long has it been
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Speaker 1: since you've even thought of it? Most people think of
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Speaker 1: it right after incurring an enormous debt. They think that's
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Speaker 1: gonna be my answer. I'm gonna leave it in the tribulation,
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Speaker 1: let them work it out. I thought of it a
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Speaker 1: lot when we redecorated our home. I prayed for it
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Speaker 1: more than ever. That He is coming would be swift
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Speaker 1: and sure, especially swift, take me out of this mess,
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Speaker 1: but without any of the ex When is the last
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Speaker 1: time you began the morning saying Lord, it may be today.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to live like it is. See never once
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Speaker 1: is the return of Christ given us as a bracket
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Speaker 1: for carnality. As a matter of fact, if my study
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Speaker 1: is correct, if not every time, most every time our
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Speaker 1: savior's return is mentioned, clean up your act is associated
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Speaker 1: with it. Be ready, be clean, be pure, You're the
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Speaker 1: bride ready for his coming. But there is another part
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Speaker 1: of the story that isn't answered by our leaving, and
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Speaker 1: that part of the story has to do with those
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Speaker 1: who were left. Verses three through twelve. We have an
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Speaker 1: explanation not of the day of Christ, but of the
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Speaker 1: day of the Lord. I'm going to give you four words. Words,
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Speaker 1: though they are not original with me, I have found
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Speaker 1: a lot of help in allowing them to be a
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Speaker 1: mental outline for the three through twelve verses of Second
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Speaker 1: Thessalonians two. They all began with dee, defiance, delay, destruction,
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Speaker 1: delusion all right, defiance verses three and four, Delay verses
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Speaker 1: five to seven, destruction verses eight to ten, delusion eleven
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Speaker 1: and twelve. Let's take them one by one and see
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Speaker 1: if we can unravel versus that for some people seem
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Speaker 1: terribly confusing. First, the defiance verse three, Let no one
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Speaker 1: in any way deceive you. You know why. He says
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Speaker 1: that now some had deceived them into thinking that they
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Speaker 1: were already in the day of the Lord, that judgment
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Speaker 1: was sweeping across the world, that tribulation was occurring, that
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Speaker 1: the mark of the Beast was upon them. No, no, no,
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Speaker 1: he says, no, let no one in any way deceive you,
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Speaker 1: for it that is the day of the Lord. The
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Speaker 1: time of earthly judgment will not come unless number one,
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Speaker 1: the apostasy comes first, and number two the man of
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Speaker 1: lawlessness is revealed, the son of Destruction, who opposes and
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Speaker 1: exalts himself above every so called god or object of worship,
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Speaker 1: so that he takes his seat in the Temple of God,
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Speaker 1: displaying himself as being God. Now, if you'll let your
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Speaker 1: mind wander and passages like this, you will leave thinking
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Speaker 1: this was kind of a boring talk. But if you'll
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Speaker 1: think with me, you'll find some real interesting information. You
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Speaker 1: may not agree with each of my interpretations, but that's
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Speaker 1: your prerogative. You want to be wrong, it's up to you.
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Speaker 1: I'm just gonna try to tell you what I think
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Speaker 1: it says. Please observe that before there is the day
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Speaker 1: of the Lord sweeping across this earth. There must begin
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Speaker 1: the apostasy, and second, there must emerge ultimately the man
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Speaker 1: of lawlessness. The apostasy interests us. First. We see apostasy today,
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Speaker 1: but it's like seeing the tip of the iceberg. It's
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Speaker 1: like the little tremor of the earthquake in light of
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Speaker 1: the great quake yet to come. The definite article is
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Speaker 1: there on purpose. It is the apostasy, as though there
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Speaker 1: will never be another one like it on the earth,
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Speaker 1: and there will not. It's a time of large scale, wholesale,
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Speaker 1: spirit of lawlessness that wraps itself around our world. But
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Speaker 1: there are still today marvelous movements for Christ, great chunks
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Speaker 1: have not entered the time of wholesale, worldwide, large scale
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Speaker 1: He will have enormous charisma. He will have to use
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Speaker 1: be politically sophisticated. He will be marvelously convincing in the
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Speaker 1: and the people will be convinced that his words come
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Speaker 1: billions will follow this leader. Even though he opposes and
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Speaker 1: exalts himself above every so called God and object of worship,
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Speaker 1: One reputable student of Scripture writes, this will be the Antichrist,
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Speaker 1: that shall come, the Little Horn, the Beast, the Antichrist,
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Speaker 1: his cabinet. They will win a hearing for him. They
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Speaker 1: to attract the attention of the masses, for those things
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Speaker 1: always draw a crowd, and right of those works miracles,
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Speaker 1: they will be prompted to follow him. He will have
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Speaker 1: a whole economic system that he will offer, called in
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Speaker 1: certainly explained some things that are happening in our day,
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Speaker 1: doesn't it? Now? There's delay right now? Verse five? Do
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Speaker 1: making his moves, shaping our world in God's direction. And
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Speaker 1: now know it is removed, restraint is removed, and the
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Speaker 1: left the room, unfortunately, leaving us to read, and a
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Speaker 1: my elementary school. But that it just broke up. Now
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Speaker 1: the fellow tied pigtails of a girl to the chair
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Speaker 1: so that when she stood up, she looked like Samson
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Speaker 1: in one chow haul, you have disaster in the making.
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Speaker 1: And so happened that the mess officer left early that evening,
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Speaker 1: and someone noticed it and because he didn't like his pie,
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Speaker 1: sitting next to him, who took his tray and emptied
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Speaker 1: stuff like that, but I'm telling you it was really something.
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Speaker 1: he heard the noise, which was unusual noise coming from
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Speaker 1: seen it happen when some authority steps out of the scene,
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Speaker 1: to God, we are in and interlude a time of
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Speaker 1: great chunks of time, and we're among it right here
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Speaker 1: God is doing, and some of the marvelous events that
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Speaker 1: the judgment of the Great White Throne. The Day of
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Speaker 1: the Lord is therefore an extended period of time, an
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Speaker 1: He may impose judgment in some cases, but there are
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Speaker 1: Christians and not honoring the Lord. The Lord is not
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Speaker 1: attempting to straighten that out. Now, this is a day
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Speaker 1: does step on the scene to deal with such events,
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Speaker 1: You probably have seen demon oppression and possession, but didn't
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Speaker 1: It is a frightening encounter, and my experience with it
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Speaker 1: has not been sought, nor has it been frequent. I
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Speaker 1: can't imagine a scene on this earth that lasts for
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Speaker 1: years under the direction of one so motivated and inhabited
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Speaker 1: will direct. But by comparison with the tribulation we know today,
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Speaker 1: it defies description. And many will believe him, and will
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Speaker 1: follow his lie, and will openly and deliberately reject the
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Speaker 1: made their bed, he will have them lie in it.
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Speaker 1: God will send upon them a deluding influence so they
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Speaker 1: might believe what is false, in order that they all
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Speaker 1: may be judged. Who did not believe the truth but
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Speaker 1: they took pleasure in that lifestyle, and God gave them
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Speaker 1: over to it. So there is no recourse but to
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Speaker 1: and without compassion. If you understand the deliberateness of their unbelief,
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Speaker 1: you'll say God is doing what is just and what
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Speaker 1: is right. I I struggled a bit with whether I
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Speaker 1: should conclude the message as I'm going to conclude it,
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Speaker 1: but I think I shall. I'd like you to turn
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Speaker 1: Jesus faces the Antichrist at Armageddon nineteen eleven. I saw
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Speaker 1: of Kings and Lord of Lords verse nineteen. And I
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Speaker 1: those who worshiped his image. These two were thrown alive
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Speaker 1: saw a great white throne, and him who sat upon it,
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Speaker 1: Paul Trenet has written a great book called A Place
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Speaker 1: growing up, in the home where we live. This is
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Speaker 1: what gives an orphan such trauma. He lacks or she
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Speaker 1: lacks a place. And here, for the first time in
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Speaker 1: their conscious awareness, there's no place. There's no earth, Heaven
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Speaker 1: has changed. The whole surrounding is disorienting, and they are
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Speaker 1: now naked before the living God at this great throne.
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Speaker 1: If I read this correctly, I saw the dead, small
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Speaker 1: and great standing before the throne. Verse twelve books were opened.
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Speaker 1: written in the books according to their deeds. The sea
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Speaker 1: up the dead which were in them. They were judged,
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Speaker 1: and hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This
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Speaker 1: if anyone's name was not found written in the Book
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Speaker 1: of Life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.
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Speaker 1: I didn't write that. God wrote that. It is well
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Speaker 1: documented in the original text. Whether or not you have
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Speaker 1: been taught this truth, whether or not you choose to
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Speaker 1: believe it has nothing to do with what is in
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Speaker 1: the scriptures. And I leave with you the very awesome
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Speaker 1: thought that without Jesus Christ, if you are to live
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Speaker 1: through this era, that will be your future. That is
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Speaker 1: what you're facing. And if I were without the Savior,
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Speaker 1: I got to tell you that keep me awake day
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Speaker 1: and night. How do I respond and how do I
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Speaker 1: handle this? Well? If I am a child of God,
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Speaker 1: I am relieved. I have great hope, great promise in
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Speaker 1: my Savior's return for me. If I am without Christ,
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Speaker 1: I have the greatest need that's ever been present in
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Speaker 1: the human heart, the need to turn my life over
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Speaker 1: to someone who can get me through eternity. That's Christ
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Speaker 1: and Christ alone. I was sitting on that little boat
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Speaker 1: of mine. It isn't big enough to be in the ocean.
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Speaker 1: So we went out really early, and those swells were
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Speaker 1: beginning to move, and the waves were beginning to break,
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Speaker 1: and it got a little bit threatening. And I heard
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Speaker 1: a sound that reminded me of a great comfort in
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Speaker 1: the future. I heard the sound of a jet way
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Speaker 1: above us, and I thought, the only safe place to
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Speaker 1: be is in the air. That's the safest place to
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Speaker 1: be at a great earthquake. And I guarantee you it's
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Speaker 1: the safest place to be to miss the great tribulation
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Speaker 1: in the air. And if you're in Christ, you'll be
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Speaker 1: in the air. I like us to boutlegare. Can you
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Speaker 1: look back in your life to a time when you said, yes,
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Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, I give you my life. I acknowledge myself
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Speaker 1: a sinner, lost without hope, without a future, without forgiveness.
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Speaker 1: And I come to you today at the cross, and
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Speaker 1: I believe in you now time like that. Now, I
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Speaker 1: want to challenge you, even if you can remember such
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Speaker 1: a time, I want you to reaffirm it right now,
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Speaker 1: out of adoration and love, not out of fear. Tell
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Speaker 1: in him. Express to him your gratitude for your hope,
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Speaker 1: for your place. He goes to prepare a place for you,
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Speaker 1: and He will come again and receive you to himself.
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Speaker 1: If you can't locate a time in your life when
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Speaker 1: you've got to confess to the Lord and to yourself
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Speaker 1: that you're without Christ. Turn your life over to Him. Now.
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Speaker 1: I'll give you a prayer to follow. Dear Lord, I
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Speaker 1: know I'm a sinner. I'm not ready to die. I
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Speaker 1: need your help. I need your forgiveness. I believe Christ
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Speaker 1: died for me and rose from the dead. I would
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Speaker 1: like to become a Christian today. Thank you for coming
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Speaker 1: into my life. As soon as the service ends today,
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Speaker 1: I would like you to meet with our counselors. Those
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Speaker 1: people are trained to answer your questions and to help
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Speaker 1: you understand the decision you've made. I'm grateful, Father for
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Speaker 1: your truth that lives and abides forever. Where I have
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Speaker 1: done it a disservice. Forgive me, may it be quickly forgotten.
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Speaker 1: Where spoken the truth, may it never be forgotten. May
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Speaker 1: it run and have free course through the power of
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Speaker 1: your spirit. In this day of great grace, not simply
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Speaker 1: that we might miss hell and gain heaven, but out
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Speaker 1: of praise and adoration, that we might live for You
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Speaker 1: for the rest of our lives. It is in the
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Speaker 1: name of Jesus Christ we pray Amen.
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