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Episode 208 - Be Of Good Cheer · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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  Speaker 1: Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. We
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  Speaker 1: welcome you again to this another edition of End Time
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  Speaker 1: Revival Ministries USA podcast. I am your host, Pastor al Zachary,
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  Speaker 1: and today we are a man extremely grateful to the
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  Speaker 1: Lord again for all of his benefits towards us. We
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  Speaker 1: take the cup of salvation. We call upon the name
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord, who alone is worthy to be praised.
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  Speaker 1: God is our refuge and strength. He is of very
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  Speaker 1: present help in the time of trouble. He is our
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  Speaker 1: shield and buckler. Amen, and we trust in Him, and
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  Speaker 1: we shall never be ashamed. Thank God again for his
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  Speaker 1: divine protection, his angel a man, his Angel of protection
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  Speaker 1: that is around us each and every day, the Angel
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord, the Bible teaches us. The Angel of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord is around all of his people. Amen. He
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  Speaker 1: keeps us in our way. Amen. The sun will not
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  Speaker 1: smite us by day, the moon by night. The Lord
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  Speaker 1: will preserve us from all evil. He'll preserve our souls,
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  Speaker 1: our going out, our coming in. From this time forth,
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  Speaker 1: the Bible says, and forever more we abide under the
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  Speaker 1: shadow of the wings of the Almighty God. Thank God
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  Speaker 1: again for his great power and his great love. Toward us. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So today we continue and actually going to the final
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  Speaker 1: few verses of the Gospel of John chapter sixteen. So
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  Speaker 1: if you have your bibles, go with us there. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: the Gospel of John chapter number sixteen. Amen. Be of
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  Speaker 1: good cheer, Cheer up. Amen, what our focus will be
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  Speaker 1: on today, be of good cheer. Again. As always, we
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  Speaker 1: thank the Lord for each and every one of you
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  Speaker 1: who pray for and or support the work of this ministry,
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  Speaker 1: whether by financial means. If you are one of those
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  Speaker 1: who have given or give a man to keep us
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  Speaker 1: a man in a man courage, encourage, and also to
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  Speaker 1: keep us going forward a man with the dissemination of
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  Speaker 1: the Word of Living God. May the Lord bless and
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  Speaker 1: keep you also. Certainly we pray and trust and believe
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  Speaker 1: that a man God will cause his word to have
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  Speaker 1: free course. And those of you who a man share
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  Speaker 1: this podcast with someone else, Thank God for you, and
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  Speaker 1: we pray that you will, if you have not already,
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  Speaker 1: become a subscriber, and please, by all means share it
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  Speaker 1: with someone. We again endeavor to a man speak the
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  Speaker 1: word of a Lord in true truth and boldness and
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  Speaker 1: plainness of speech. Amen, so that someone somewhere will hear
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  Speaker 1: the word of the Lord. Come to know that Jesus
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  Speaker 1: is the Christ. Jesus is the Way. Jesus is the
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  Speaker 1: only one and true living Savior Mediator, Amen, by whom
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  Speaker 1: we all must be saved. Amen. So again, thank God
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  Speaker 1: for all of you. All Right, before we begin again
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  Speaker 1: in the Gospel of John chapter sixteen, we take just
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  Speaker 1: a brief moment, Amen, as we invoke the presence of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord Father. Again. We thank you, we love you,
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  Speaker 1: we praise you, We bless your wonderful, magnificent, glorious name.
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  Speaker 1: It is above every name. Every need shall bow, every
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  Speaker 1: tongue must confess that you are. Lord. Thank you for life, health, strength,
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  Speaker 1: and thank you for a sound mind, mind to serve
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  Speaker 1: you in spirit and in truth. Lord, we pray that
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  Speaker 1: hearts will be awakened, eyes will be open, ears will
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  Speaker 1: be a tuned Amen, and there would be a man
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  Speaker 1: repentance and faith towards you revival even in your churches
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  Speaker 1: of God. May the name of the Lord be magnified. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: through the word of a living God. The promises that
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  Speaker 1: are yea and Amen. In Christ, Jesus, our Lord, we
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  Speaker 1: pray give thanks for all things, Amen, and Amen. Be
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  Speaker 1: of good cheer, Be of good cheer, Verse number twenty eight,
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  Speaker 1: Gospel of John. We began reading chapter sixteen. I came
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  Speaker 1: forth from the Father and have come into the world again.
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  Speaker 1: I leave the world and go to the Father. His
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  Speaker 1: disciples said to him. See now you are speaking plainly
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  Speaker 1: and using no figure of speech. Now we are sure
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  Speaker 1: that you know all things and have no need that
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  Speaker 1: anyone should question you. By this, we believe that you
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  Speaker 1: came forth from God Jesus as them. Do you now believe?
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  Speaker 1: Indeed the hour is coming. Yes, has now come that
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  Speaker 1: you will be scattered, each to his own and will
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  Speaker 1: leave me alone. Yet I am not alone, because the
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  Speaker 1: Father is with me. These things. I have spoken to
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  Speaker 1: you that in me you may have peace. In the
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  Speaker 1: world you will have tribulation. But be of good cheer.
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  Speaker 1: I have overcome the world. Be of good cheer. Now
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  Speaker 1: I must say at the outset here that I decided
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  Speaker 1: to take a peek into the dictionary to look up
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  Speaker 1: the word cheer, thinking that I already had a pretty
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  Speaker 1: good I guess thought or understanding of the meaning of
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  Speaker 1: the word cheer. But I must admit I was taken
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  Speaker 1: aback a little when I, a man saw what the
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  Speaker 1: Dictionary definition of the word cheer was printed in front
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  Speaker 1: of my eyes. Wasn't what I had anticipated. Definition number
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  Speaker 1: one that I saw was shout for joy or in
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  Speaker 1: praise or encouragement. Shout for joy or in praise or
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  Speaker 1: in encouragement. Think about that for a moment. Be of
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  Speaker 1: good cheer. Shout for joy or in praise or encouragement.
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  Speaker 1: Definition number two something that gives joy, gladness, comfort, enthusiasm, approval, congratulations.
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  Speaker 1: Be of good cheer. Those of you who trust in
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  Speaker 1: the Lord, who believe in and cleave to the word
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  Speaker 1: of the Living God, all of his promises. Again, every
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  Speaker 1: one of them, are yea and Amen to the glory
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  Speaker 1: of God. We are to be of good cheer, shout
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  Speaker 1: for joy, sing praises, be encourage, be glad in the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: Be of good comfort, and have enthusiasm. Congratulations. You overcome.
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  Speaker 1: You see, the true believer in Christ, Jesus, need not
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  Speaker 1: live a life of sadness, though we will have sorrows.
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  Speaker 1: And Jesus, by the way, in this same chapter we
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  Speaker 1: covered this, already told his disciples that they would experience
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  Speaker 1: sorrow because of his imminent departure out of this world.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, their hearts were troubled by all of what
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  Speaker 1: they were hearing from Jesus. So we will have sorrows
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  Speaker 1: in the world. And by the way, again, I think
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  Speaker 1: we pointed to the fact that the apostle Paul wrote
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  Speaker 1: about this. How we sorrow when we lose loved ones. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: fellow believers, Amen, But we sorrow not as others who
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  Speaker 1: have no hope. Yes, we will have sorrows in this world.
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  Speaker 1: The true believer in Christ, Jesus, however, has a rock
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  Speaker 1: solid promise of peace that is exclusively in the Lord
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. Amen. His peace, by the way, will carry
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  Speaker 1: us through whatever trials and whatever tribulations we're gonna face.
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  Speaker 1: And those who have this surpassing peace from the Lord
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  Speaker 1: they possess within them, what is vitally important to be
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  Speaker 1: of good cheer while they are pilgrim in their pilgrimage.
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  Speaker 1: Let's put it that way. While they are in their pilgrimage,
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  Speaker 1: that's what we are. By the way, the Bible speaks
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  Speaker 1: of us as being pilgrims and strangers. We didn't come
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  Speaker 1: here to stay, just as Jesus didn't come here to stay.
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  Speaker 1: We're only here for a season. Your life is a vapor.
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  Speaker 1: While you are here, while you have your being, every man,
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  Speaker 1: every woman, every boy, every girl, everything that breathes, everything
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  Speaker 1: that lives, owes praise to God. So while you have
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  Speaker 1: your being, the breath of life that is in you,
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  Speaker 1: that comes from the Lord, you owe him praise and
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  Speaker 1: be of good cheer people of God. Amen. Jesus speaks
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  Speaker 1: all of these words to his disciples concerning his again
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  Speaker 1: imminent gruesome death that he's about to undergo. Amen, the
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  Speaker 1: burial that is going to take place. He's going to
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  Speaker 1: be placed in a tomb. Amen. And then of course
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  Speaker 1: he speaks to them of his resurrection from the dead.
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  Speaker 1: And he tells them of these things in order to
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  Speaker 1: encourage them, to encourage their hearts and to prepare them
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  Speaker 1: for what they, too, by the way, would encounter after
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  Speaker 1: Jesus would permanently. If you will depart back up to
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  Speaker 1: heaven to no longer be with them bodily. Now he's
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  Speaker 1: with us in spirit. As a matter of fact, at
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  Speaker 1: his birth announcement, his name shall be called Emmanuel, which
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  Speaker 1: means God with us. And by the way, before Jesus
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  Speaker 1: made his final departure out of this world, he says, lo,
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  Speaker 1: I'm with you always, Amen. I'll never leave you, I'll
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  Speaker 1: never forsake you. Amen. And of course the Holy Spirit
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  Speaker 1: comes from him Amen, sent by Jesus, Amen, to also
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  Speaker 1: be in us and with us. He is a man,
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  Speaker 1: the very presence of Jesus in this world. And so
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  Speaker 1: this preparation that Jesus is taking the disciples through is
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  Speaker 1: vitally important for what the apostles in the early Church,
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  Speaker 1: of course, would indeed encounter post Pentecosts. Now again, I
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  Speaker 1: love what the Word of God does. I love what
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  Speaker 1: Jesus did, and how he a man spoke a man, plainly,
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  Speaker 1: clearly to his disciples about what would transpire. He did
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  Speaker 1: not hide or obscure in any way the tribulation, to persecution,
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  Speaker 1: the hatred, and even the martyrdom that some of them
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  Speaker 1: would come to encounter. The world hates me, Jesus says,
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  Speaker 1: because I testify that its deeds are evil. The world
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  Speaker 1: will hate you as well because of me, because of
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  Speaker 1: my name. They do not know me, they have not
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  Speaker 1: known the Father who has sent me. So be ready
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  Speaker 1: for what is coming. Let not your heart be trouble,
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  Speaker 1: nor let it be afraid. And by the way, Jesus
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  Speaker 1: also added this when he said, don't fear them who
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  Speaker 1: can kill the body only a man. Do not fear
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  Speaker 1: the right, even in the Old Testament the salmons, I
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  Speaker 1: will not fear what man can do unto me. And
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  Speaker 1: Jesus went on to say, if they have received my words,
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  Speaker 1: they will receive your words. If they believe me, they
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  Speaker 1: will believe you. The disciple is not above its master.
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  Speaker 1: You are not of this world. I've chosen you out
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  Speaker 1: of the world. The world loves its own, Amen, and you,
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  Speaker 1: on the other hand, the world will Jesus tell Us
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  Speaker 1: told him, told him, and he tell he tell He's
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  Speaker 1: telling us. By the way, this is applicable to us
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  Speaker 1: as well. Amen. The world will reject, persecute, expel, and
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  Speaker 1: again even put to death some of you because of me.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm telling you these things for you to know
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  Speaker 1: that in me you will have a peace that will overcome,
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  Speaker 1: that will surpass, if you will, all of the tribulations,
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  Speaker 1: the trials, the persecution, everything that you are going to
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  Speaker 1: experience in this world. This peace that I leave with you,
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  Speaker 1: we talked, there's a knowledge. I'm already Amen. This peace
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  Speaker 1: I leave with you is a surpassing, overwhelming, comforting, sobering, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: bring to your remembrance and reality the hope, Oh my God,
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  Speaker 1: the things that the Bible speaks of. Eye hasn't seen, ear,
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  Speaker 1: hasn't heard, it hasn't even entered into the heart. Paul
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  Speaker 1: speaks about and writes about the ages to come. What
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  Speaker 1: God has at his right hand, there are pleasures forevermore.
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  Speaker 1: There will be rejoicing in heaven. There is rejoicing even
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  Speaker 1: now in heaven. Amen. We're going to be transformed. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: This old flesh, this old body, this old Amen, decaying temple, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: temporary tabernacle that we inhabit, It's going to be changed. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: God is gonna wipe away all tears from our eyes.
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  Speaker 1: This is the peace that we can have right now
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  Speaker 1: and enjoy right now, and be of good a cheer
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  Speaker 1: while we are in this world. Amen. The peace is
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  Speaker 1: in Jesus. The peace is in his promises. Jesus said,
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  Speaker 1: you will not be alone, you will not be forsaken.
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  Speaker 1: I will send the comforter. He will be with you.
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  Speaker 1: He is the hepper. He's going to lead you. He's
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  Speaker 1: going to guide you, he's going to remind you. He's
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  Speaker 1: going to speak through you. He's gonna help you to overcome,
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  Speaker 1: just as I have overcome, be of good cheer. So
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  Speaker 1: he's preparing the disciples Amen to have the right attitude.
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  Speaker 1: They're gonna need Amen to be deeply rooted. Amen again,
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  Speaker 1: rooted in what rooted, rooted and grounded a man in
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  Speaker 1: the reality in the words in the prophecy, Jesus prophesying.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus is prophesying things that are gonna come to pass. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And they, in the imi idiot aftermath of his departure
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  Speaker 1: post Pentecous, begin to experience exactly what Jesus told them
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  Speaker 1: would come to pass. So they needed to have this preparation.
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  Speaker 1: They needed to have the promises of God, the word
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  Speaker 1: of God a man, the promise of his presence, the
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  Speaker 1: promise of his peace, the promise of his joy that
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  Speaker 1: he would leave a man to his disciples, his believers.
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  Speaker 1: And so when we have this, it gives us, and
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  Speaker 1: it should give us, the proper perspective and the right
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  Speaker 1: attitude while we are here in this world. An attitude,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, is critical in our everyday life situations,
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  Speaker 1: but exceedingly more for the people of God, because, of course,
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  Speaker 1: as the Bible prepares us, as the Word of God
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  Speaker 1: prepares us, for this, we are in a world that
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  Speaker 1: is hostile to the very name of Jesus Christ. The
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  Speaker 1: world is hostile to those who believe in Jesus, expect
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  Speaker 1: to those who expouse and teach the biblical doctrine of
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  Speaker 1: salvation exclusively in Jesus. If you are Jesus only in
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  Speaker 1: his name, by his name, neither is there salvation in
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  Speaker 1: any other. As he said himself, I am the Way,
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  Speaker 1: the Truth, and let no man comes to the Father
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  Speaker 1: except by me. So if you cling to that exclusivity,
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  Speaker 1: the world is going to hate you. The world is
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  Speaker 1: going to reject you, because our world is a world
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  Speaker 1: of doplicity, idolatrous, duplicity. The world knows the true in
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  Speaker 1: the living God of creation, yet the world persists in
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  Speaker 1: creating idols out of the futility of vain imaginations. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: the world despises and rejects those who cleave to the
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  Speaker 1: exclusivity of salvation through the one Lord, one faith, one baptism,
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  Speaker 1: one way, that is in Jesus. And so the people
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  Speaker 1: of God must be prepared to face the rejection, the
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  Speaker 1: persecution from the world, the world that will not tolerate
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  Speaker 1: this kind of narrow minded doctrine. You Christians are narrow minded.
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  Speaker 1: You Jesus people are narrow minded, you see, because in
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  Speaker 1: their minds it is it is when you say, when
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  Speaker 1: you say, Jesus is the way, Jesus is the only way,
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  Speaker 1: and there is no other way. And what you are doing,
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  Speaker 1: whatever you're engaged in, whatever religion that you are practicing,
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  Speaker 1: leads to destruction, leads to hell, leads to eternal damnation.
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  Speaker 1: When you speak that kind of thing to people, it
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  Speaker 1: is in their minds an infringement upon their I call
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  Speaker 1: it cain like approach to being accepted by God. They
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  Speaker 1: are walking in the way of Cain. You remember the
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  Speaker 1: Genesis account and narrative of Cain and Abel. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: so they have this cain like mentality that they can
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  Speaker 1: come to God, approach God on their own terms, and
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  Speaker 1: make him accept what they are offering. They know, they know,
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  Speaker 1: make no mistake about it. They know the one and
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  Speaker 1: true and living God. The heavens scream, the earth screams,
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  Speaker 1: the creation screams of His eternal power in Godhead and
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  Speaker 1: leaves no man an excuse. So if they are told
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  Speaker 1: that they're offering their sacrifice their religion is unacceptable, then
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  Speaker 1: these who do not adhere, who will not hear, who
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  Speaker 1: will not obey, who will not come to the narrow minded,
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  Speaker 1: the narrow world. Now listen this, by the way, they're
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  Speaker 1: calling those of us who believe that Jesus is the way.
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  Speaker 1: There are the ones who's using the word narrow minded,
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  Speaker 1: calling us narrow minded. And by the way, remember it
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  Speaker 1: was Jesus who says broad is the way, the gate
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  Speaker 1: that leads to destruction, but narrow is the way that
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  Speaker 1: leads to life. So it is not the true believer
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  Speaker 1: who is making the way narrow. It is what God
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  Speaker 1: determined and decreed and set forth him by the way,
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  Speaker 1: He did not have to provide any way whatsoever, but
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  Speaker 1: he did provide us one way. And you can call
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  Speaker 1: it narrow if you want. So those who do not
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  Speaker 1: adhere to the narrow minded way of acceptance, Amen, those
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  Speaker 1: of us who believe and walk in this way, you
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  Speaker 1: know what's coming. We know it's coming, and so we
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  Speaker 1: just need the right attitude and perspective. Persecution is coming
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  Speaker 1: just as and again even murder, because there's hatred there.
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  Speaker 1: And the Bible says Jesus, by the way said this,
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  Speaker 1: who's whoever hated his brother is a murderer. Amen, So
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  Speaker 1: you don't have to actually commit the act's hatred. Hatred,
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  Speaker 1: that's where it begins. By the way, So just as
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  Speaker 1: Cain slew his brother able able, just as he killed him,
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  Speaker 1: murdered him. So these who walk in the way of Cain, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: despise and detest those who walk in the narrow way.
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  Speaker 1: So this is again, this same hostility. It's it's alive,
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  Speaker 1: it's well in the world today. So they bring their offering,
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  Speaker 1: they bring their religion, they bring their beliefs and practices
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  Speaker 1: and thrusting at the throne of God if you will.
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  Speaker 1: And God rejects their religion, He rejects their arrogance. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: again coming to supposedly give to him what he does
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  Speaker 1: not need, he does not prescribe. So their true hatred
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  Speaker 1: is really for God. They hate God, and like Cain,
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  Speaker 1: who couldn't get to God, they persecute their brother, their
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  Speaker 1: fellow man, murder. They the same thing. Again, this is
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  Speaker 1: what Jesus. By the way, again, let me get back
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  Speaker 1: here to what Jesus is doing. He's preparing his disciples
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  Speaker 1: for what is coming. They're going to hate you, They're
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  Speaker 1: going to persecute you, they're going to and it's all
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  Speaker 1: because of me, my name. So don't be shocked and
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  Speaker 1: surprised and taken aback when people hate thank you for
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  Speaker 1: the name of Jesus, Amen, because they can't get to God. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Just like King, they rage against those who believe God,
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  Speaker 1: those who seek to obey Him. I think it's in
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  Speaker 1: the I believe it's in the Book of Isaiah. I
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  Speaker 1: want to say this in chapter fifty. I think it's
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  Speaker 1: in the fifties. Anyway, the Bible speaks about truth being
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  Speaker 1: slain in the street, and those who have the fear
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  Speaker 1: of God and seek to do what is right, they become,
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  Speaker 1: in essence a target. You get targeted, targeted by who
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  Speaker 1: those who hate the truth, hate righteousness, hate godlininess, hate holiness,
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  Speaker 1: who want to again, out of their own vain and
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  Speaker 1: feudal imaginations, create gods that do not exist and thrust
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  Speaker 1: upon God their own religion, their own way that he
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  Speaker 1: must accept or else. So they take their rage and
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  Speaker 1: frustration out on the people of God. So knowing that
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  Speaker 1: we will now Jesus again he said this is going
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  Speaker 1: to happen, So now we know this. But by the
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  Speaker 1: same token, what does he say to us be of
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  Speaker 1: good cheer, so knowing that we will face this kind
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  Speaker 1: of rage, malice, hostility, anger, hatred, vitriolic behavior, just because
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  Speaker 1: we agree with God, agree with this word, believe the
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  Speaker 1: words of Jesus. Cling to Jesus, baptized into Jesus, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: live by his word and his promises. You're gonna have
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  Speaker 1: to have, ladies and gentlemen, Church of the Living God,
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  Speaker 1: an attitude that will enable you to overcome all of
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  Speaker 1: these tribulations, just as Jesus warned us it would be again.
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  Speaker 1: I want you to hear the words of Jesus clearly
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  Speaker 1: and and and let them become embedded deep. If you
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  Speaker 1: will within your heart and in your faith, listen again
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  Speaker 1: the final verse, Jesus says these things I have spoken
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  Speaker 1: unto you that in me you might have peace in
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  Speaker 1: the world. You shall, you shall, You will have tribulation.
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  Speaker 1: But should I like that if he just leaves it
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  Speaker 1: at You're gonna have tribulation? Really, who signs up for that?
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  Speaker 1: You will have tribulation? But be of good cheer. I
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  Speaker 1: have overcome the world. So again, Number one, peace, Peace.
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  Speaker 1: This is, by the way price. Do you know that
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  Speaker 1: peace is priceless? Look around and there. Look around in
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  Speaker 1: your world, Look around in your world, look around in
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  Speaker 1: your workplace. If you are living and operating in a
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  Speaker 1: peaceful work environment, God bless you. If there is no hostility,
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  Speaker 1: no animosity, no backbiting, no jealousy, no envy, no malice
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  Speaker 1: and hatred. Everybody is getting along swimmingly. God bless you
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  Speaker 1: in your workplace. Woo, and you keep on praying and
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  Speaker 1: thanking God that that is the case. Peace is priceless.
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  Speaker 1: Peace come from the Prince of Peace. Peace emanates from God.
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  Speaker 1: Peace Jesus says, will be in me and by the way,
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  Speaker 1: for the believer, for the child of God, for the
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  Speaker 1: children of God, for the saints, or the most High God.
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  Speaker 1: We can still have peace even when we are working
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  Speaker 1: and operating and living in places, in situations and circumstances,
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  Speaker 1: in a world of hostility, anger and malice, and jealousy
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  Speaker 1: and envy. We can still have peace because we are
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  Speaker 1: in Jesus, and He is in us, and he gives
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  Speaker 1: to us a peace. He gives to us a joy
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  Speaker 1: that is unspeakable because it comes from him. He is
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  Speaker 1: the principle. He can calls. Even the Bible says, your
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  Speaker 1: enemies to be at peace with you. And by the way,
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  Speaker 1: he has commissioned us to be peace makers. Blessed are
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  Speaker 1: the peace makers. Not only are we to have the
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  Speaker 1: peace of God in us, but we are to become
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  Speaker 1: peace makers disseminators. If you will of peace, follow peace
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  Speaker 1: with all men, the Bible tells us, in holiness, without
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  Speaker 1: which no man shall see. The Lord Peace. Jesus says,
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  Speaker 1: my peace leave with you in me. You will have
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  Speaker 1: peace now in the world. What are you gonna have
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  Speaker 1: in the world. Tribulation You're gonna have it. That's that's
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  Speaker 1: but that's okay, man, it is wonnerful woman, Old Testament.
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  Speaker 1: Few days in full of trouble. You're gonna have tribulations.
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  Speaker 1: You're gonna have trials, you're gonna have You're gonna have persecution.
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  Speaker 1: But be of good cheer. Jesus says, I have overcome
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  Speaker 1: the world. And by the way, he also made us overcomers.
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  Speaker 1: He made us more than conquerors. He made us victorious.
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  Speaker 1: He always causes us to triumph. Be of good cheer
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  Speaker 1: while you are here, ladies and gentlemen, people of God,
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  Speaker 1: Church of the Living God, Be of good cheer while
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  Speaker 1: you are here in this world. You're gonna hear wars
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  Speaker 1: and rumors of war. Nation is going to rise against nation,
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  Speaker 1: kingdoms against kingdom. There's going to be earthquakes, there's going
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  Speaker 1: to be famines, there's going to be pestilence. The hearts
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  Speaker 1: of men are going to fail them for fear. But
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  Speaker 1: God has not giving us the spirit of fear, but
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  Speaker 1: of power, love and a sound mind. And we need
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  Speaker 1: not fear, we need not be troubled be afraid. We
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  Speaker 1: are to be of good cheer. So again, those of
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  Speaker 1: you who trust in the Lord, those of you who
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  Speaker 1: believe in and clead to His word, be of good cheer,
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  Speaker 1: shout for joy, sing praises, be encouraged, be glad in
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  Speaker 1: the Lord, be of good comfort, and have enthusiasm in
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  Speaker 1: this great salvation and hope that we have in Christ Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Because ladies and gentlemen, congratulations you overcome you when you persevere.
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  Speaker 1: Why because greater is he who is in you than
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  Speaker 1: he who is in the world. He has overcome and
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  Speaker 1: He's made you an overcomer. Thank you, Lord for all
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  Speaker 1: of your promises, every one of them. Yeay and amen
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  Speaker 1: to the glory of God. And we pray, we pray,
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  Speaker 1: we pray. We pray someone somewhere we hear the word
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  Speaker 1: of the Living God, and that it will strengthen them,
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  Speaker 1: keep them, giving them courage in such a time as this,
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  Speaker 1: to know that they have peace in you, hope in you,
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  Speaker 1: trust in you, assurance in you, and they can be
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  Speaker 1: of good cheer as they finish this race, keeping their
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  Speaker 1: eyes on You, with the author and the finisher of
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  Speaker 1: their faith. Be not glorified. In Jesus' name, we pray,
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  Speaker 1: Amen and Amen.