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Episode 207 - Sorrow Into Joy · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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  Speaker 1: Blessed be the name of the Lord. From this time
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  Speaker 1: forth and even forever more, from the rising of the
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  Speaker 1: sun until the going down of the same, the name
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  Speaker 1: of the Lord is to be praised. Oh that man
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  Speaker 1: would praise the Lord. Oh that men would give thanks
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  Speaker 1: an honor and glory to the name that is above
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  Speaker 1: every name, to the Christ, the Savior of the Redeemer,
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  Speaker 1: the soon coming King. Oh that every need would bow
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  Speaker 1: now and every tongue would confess now that he is Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Blessed be our God. From this time forth and even forevermore.
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  Speaker 1: We welcome you once again to this another edition of
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  Speaker 1: End Time Revival Ministries USA. On this glorious day that
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  Speaker 1: the Lord has made, we shall rejoice in him, who
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  Speaker 1: is the God of our salvation, who is our soon
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  Speaker 1: coming King. Amen. Blessed be his name. Amen, his name,
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  Speaker 1: his name, his name. There's power in his name, there's deliverance,
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  Speaker 1: there's hope, there's salvation, that's victory. Amen. We are overcomerce Amen,
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  Speaker 1: because of the power of his name, his blood, his sacrifice, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: his word. Amen. Oh, all that God has done for us, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: the beneficiaries of His goodness and greatness Amen for us. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Today we continue, Amen, with the words of Jesus Amen
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  Speaker 1: in the Gospel of John, chapter number sixteen. If you
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  Speaker 1: have your bibles, go with us there. We'll be reading
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  Speaker 1: from the text in just a few moments. But of course,
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  Speaker 1: as always, we want to thank each and every one
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  Speaker 1: of you who pray for and or support the work
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  Speaker 1: of this ministry. A man we endeavor by the grace
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  Speaker 1: of God, by the help of God, a man continuing
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  Speaker 1: to a man dispense, disperse, a man to preach, to teach,
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  Speaker 1: to disseminate the Gospel of Jesus Christ, the Word of
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  Speaker 1: the Living God. Amen. It is the word of God
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  Speaker 1: by which we must live. This is a command that
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  Speaker 1: it is not an option, Ladies and gentlemen. Man shall
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  Speaker 1: not live by bread alone, but by every word that
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  Speaker 1: proceeds out of the mouth of God. We live by
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  Speaker 1: the Word. In Him, a man, we live and move
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  Speaker 1: and have our being. Apart from Him. Without him, we
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  Speaker 1: can do nothing. In the beginning was the Word was
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  Speaker 1: with God, and the Word was God. The Word was
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  Speaker 1: made flesh, dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory,
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  Speaker 1: the glory as of the only begodden, of the Father,
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  Speaker 1: full of grace, and truth. And as we've said on
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  Speaker 1: many occasions, God and his Word are insep pro bol. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: you cannot separate God from his word. His word goes forth.
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  Speaker 1: His word will accomplish what He has purpose for it to, Amen, accomplish.
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  Speaker 1: And we can stand in that. We can a man
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  Speaker 1: live by that, we can have assurance and know, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: that God's word will come to pass everything that has
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  Speaker 1: not yet come to pass in our sphere of existence.
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  Speaker 1: If you will on this side of eternity, it will
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  Speaker 1: come to pass. Amen. All right again, the Gospel of
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  Speaker 1: John chapter sixteen. Thank you again, Thank you again, Thank
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  Speaker 1: you again. Please pray for Amen this ministry. Pray for
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  Speaker 1: all of those who are outside of the ark of safety.
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  Speaker 1: Pray that the word of the Lord will have free course. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And pray that God will a man open eyes and
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  Speaker 1: open ears and open heart to receive the word, the
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  Speaker 1: Word of Living God. Amen. That will save their souls. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: All right. Before we began, of course, let's take a
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  Speaker 1: moment as we invoke the presence of the Lord, give
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  Speaker 1: him glory. Lord. We thank you again again and again.
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  Speaker 1: Words inadequate, but with the fruit of our lips. Lord,
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  Speaker 1: we would just want to honor you, Thank you, bless you.
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  Speaker 1: Look to you, old Lord as the often to finish
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  Speaker 1: of our faith. Speak now, Amen, your words of life
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  Speaker 1: to hearts, to minds, into ears listening ears, and Lord,
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  Speaker 1: may the hearts of every one of us be obedient
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  Speaker 1: to what you have spoken, O God, Amen, that we
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  Speaker 1: will come to know and to have the assurance of
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  Speaker 1: this great salvation in Christ Jesus, and look for that
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  Speaker 1: blessed hope you'll soon return as you get the glory
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  Speaker 1: out of our lives. It's in Jesus name we pray,
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  Speaker 1: give thanks, Amen and amen. All right, today we will
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  Speaker 1: focus on this topic of sorrow into joy, sorrow to joy.
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  Speaker 1: I like it already. No man coming or entering into
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  Speaker 1: this world can escape the inevitable experience of sorrow of heart.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible speaks of man. I believe it was the
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  Speaker 1: old patriarch job who said, man, he's born of a woman,
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  Speaker 1: is a few days and full of troubles. It's only
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  Speaker 1: a few days before trouble and sorrow knocks at the door. Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: our Savior, came, and he himself, of course took on sorrows,
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  Speaker 1: and the Bible spoke of him as being a man
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  Speaker 1: of sorrows, acquainted with grief, and he did it. He
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  Speaker 1: took it all on himself to relieve us of carrying
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  Speaker 1: a man and sorrows. Amen, it's unnecessary. Not that we
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  Speaker 1: won't experience it, not that it won't happen. Amen, it's
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  Speaker 1: going to happen, but we can. As he said in
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  Speaker 1: the Great Invitation, come to me, all you who are
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  Speaker 1: laboring heavy laden, I will give you rest. The Bible
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  Speaker 1: tells us to cast all of our cares upon him,
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  Speaker 1: because he cares for us. Jesus told us to not
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  Speaker 1: be anxious, Amen, and don't worry. And that's just where
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  Speaker 1: a lot of sorrow and anxiety and fear a man
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  Speaker 1: torment people a man from day to day. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: it is irrefutable that there is much sorrow in this
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  Speaker 1: falling world. There are times and seasons in all of
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  Speaker 1: our lives in which, Amen, our hearts will be filled
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  Speaker 1: with sorrow. And of course, one of the most common
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  Speaker 1: and perhaps the most devastating causes for our hearts been
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  Speaker 1: sorrowful is our enemy of death. All enemies are to
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  Speaker 1: be defeated now again in the realm of eternity. They
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  Speaker 1: have already been defeated but in the here and the now,
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  Speaker 1: where we are on this side of eternity, there are
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  Speaker 1: enemies that will yet be defeated. Amen. And the last
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  Speaker 1: enemy the Bible speaks of that it's going to be defeated,
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  Speaker 1: that will forever be banished is death. First Corinthians, I
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  Speaker 1: believe it is Chapter fifteen. The last enemy that will
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  Speaker 1: be destroyed, defeated, banished is death. You know what death means.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody knows. Every you know, you will you will come
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  Speaker 1: to understand if you don't know it already. Death means separation,
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  Speaker 1: Death means the end. Death means change will happen. Death
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  Speaker 1: means whatever has been will be no more as it
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  Speaker 1: pertains to that individual, that relationship. The Disciples are in
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  Speaker 1: this frame of mind, of course, as Jesus is preparing
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  Speaker 1: them for his imminent departure from this world, and this
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  Speaker 1: departure will be by means of death. You see, they
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  Speaker 1: had in their minds that Jesus was here right here,
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  Speaker 1: right now, to set up his kingdom, and they were
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  Speaker 1: going to rule and reign with him. They were going
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  Speaker 1: to live in eternal bliss, Amen, with the Savior feeding
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  Speaker 1: multitudes and healing people. And oh, it was just going
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  Speaker 1: to be glorious. But now he's preparing them for his departure,
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  Speaker 1: and his departure was going to be by death. And
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  Speaker 1: they understood what death means. It means the end. It
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  Speaker 1: means separation. That's what they're thinking. They're thinking separation because
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  Speaker 1: Jesus will no longer be there as again, that miracle
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  Speaker 1: working Rabbi. They are joined themselves too, for most of them,
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  Speaker 1: for three and a half years. Amen. And in their minds,
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  Speaker 1: this is the end of this glorious ministry that is
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  Speaker 1: unparalleled in the history of all of mankind. The death
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus, whom they believe to be their promise Messiah,
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  Speaker 1: would mean change is coming. He will no longer be
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  Speaker 1: with them. Everything that he has been speaking to them
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  Speaker 1: and preparing them, you know, sending the comforter, the Holy
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  Speaker 1: Spirit would come and he said, I'm I'm gonna be here,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna be with you, I'm gonna be in you.
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  Speaker 1: That it's not registering with them. They're not getting it.
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  Speaker 1: And so death is just overwhelming their hearts. Amen, because
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  Speaker 1: that's what death does. It brings so sorrow, sorrow, Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So all that they have heard and all that they've witnessed.
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  Speaker 1: They understand, at least from their perspective, that this would
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  Speaker 1: be no more with the death of Jesus. Is it
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  Speaker 1: any wonder that their hearts will filled with deep and
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  Speaker 1: disappointing sorrow. Amen. While Jesus, of course, is telling them
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  Speaker 1: of his demise, I mean he's going to be betrayed,
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  Speaker 1: he said, I'm going to be betrayed into the hands
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  Speaker 1: of sinners, one of you. As a matter of fact,
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  Speaker 1: it's going to betray me. I'm going to be killed.
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to be put to death. This is going
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  Speaker 1: to happen. This is and by the way, it was
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  Speaker 1: just a few hours away. But again, thanks be to
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  Speaker 1: God who gives us the victory, who is our victorious champion.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus did not leave them with hopelessness and despair. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: knew what he was about to face, but he also
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  Speaker 1: knew that his death at the hands of the envious
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  Speaker 1: Jewish leaders at the hands of the gentiles, would not
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  Speaker 1: be the end of his life. But the prelude, ladies
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  Speaker 1: and gentlemen, to the greatest miracle, the disciples and the
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  Speaker 1: world would ever come to know when he would forever
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  Speaker 1: conquer death, hell and the grave when he as he
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  Speaker 1: had said, as he said out of his own mouth,
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  Speaker 1: I will rise again on the third day with that reserve.
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  Speaker 1: But remember, by the way, see Jesus, he gave them
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  Speaker 1: a taste, if you will. He gave them, He gave
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  Speaker 1: them a glimpse of what would happen. He raised several
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  Speaker 1: individuals from the dead. The last of them, I believe
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  Speaker 1: was Lazarus, just before Jesus would, of course, go to
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  Speaker 1: the cross and die that death himself. Lazarus four days
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  Speaker 1: four days, he was already in the grave, ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 1: And at that miracle of the resurrection of Lazarus from
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  Speaker 1: the dead, Jesus said these words, I am the resurrection
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  Speaker 1: and the life. He that believes in me never dies. Amen. So,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, what Jesus has done, ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 1: also he took away the sting of death. Death has
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  Speaker 1: a sting to it. It bites, it hurts who it
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  Speaker 1: does something in the heart brings sorrow and pain and agony.
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  Speaker 1: But Jesus took away that sting. So he, in preparing
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  Speaker 1: their hearts, is saying to them, I have great news
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  Speaker 1: for you. Yes I'm going to die. Yes I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: be betrayed. Yes, I'm going away, but I have great
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  Speaker 1: news for you. What you are experiencing right now in
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  Speaker 1: your heart is temporary. You will see me again. I
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  Speaker 1: will be back, and when you see me again, your
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  Speaker 1: sorrow will be no more. What you will experience in
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  Speaker 1: that moment is sorrow to joy. Listen to these words.
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  Speaker 1: These are the words of Jesus. John's Gospel, chapter sixteen,
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  Speaker 1: Verse number sixteen is where I'll begin reading a little while,
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  Speaker 1: and you will not see me. Now that of course,
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  Speaker 1: wait a minute, where are you going, Jesus? What's going on?
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  Speaker 1: We don't understand now, Jesus, I mean just again again
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  Speaker 1: preparing them, telling them what's going to happen. He says,
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  Speaker 1: a little while, and you will not see me. And
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  Speaker 1: again a little while, and you will see me, because
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  Speaker 1: I go to the Father. They are confused, the Bible
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  Speaker 1: says verse seventeen. Then some of his disciples said among themselves,
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  Speaker 1: what is this that he says to us, a little
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  Speaker 1: while and you will not see me. And again a
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  Speaker 1: little while and you will see me. And because I
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  Speaker 1: go to the Father. They said, Therefore, what is this
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  Speaker 1: that he says a little while? We do not know
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  Speaker 1: what he is saying. You see there it is. They
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  Speaker 1: did not understand it, did grasp it. They didn't know
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  Speaker 1: that Jesus was going to die. Leave them Go down
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  Speaker 1: into the depths of hell as it were. Amen, take
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  Speaker 1: the keys of death, Hell and the grave. Rise again
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  Speaker 1: from the dead as sind, back up to the heavens.
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  Speaker 1: Remember when the women saw him, he said, touch me, not,
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  Speaker 1: for I have not yet ascended to my father. But
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  Speaker 1: go and tell my Oooh. Jesus is preparing them. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: But they don't get it. They don't get it. So again,
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  Speaker 1: verse number twenty, he says, most assuredly, I say to
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  Speaker 1: you that you will weep and lament. See, it's a
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  Speaker 1: part of life. It's a part of the human experience.
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  Speaker 1: It's a part of this fallenness that's in the world
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  Speaker 1: because we fell into sin. Sin is what brought on death.
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  Speaker 1: Sin is what brings on sorrows and disappointment and agony
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  Speaker 1: and pain. Jesus says, most assuredly, I say to you
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  Speaker 1: that you will weep and lament, but the world will
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  Speaker 1: rejoice and you will be sorrowful. But I love it.
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  Speaker 1: I love it, he says. Your sorrow will be turned
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  Speaker 1: into joy. Do you not know. I hope you know this.
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  Speaker 1: I hope you keep this this one. This is by
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  Speaker 1: far I gonna say, but I won't say by far.
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  Speaker 1: But it is right up there at the very top
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  Speaker 1: of all of my versus favorites in the Bible. I
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  Speaker 1: mean I live by this. When all things work together
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  Speaker 1: Romans eight twenty eight. For good, for the good, to
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  Speaker 1: them they love the Lord, to them who the called
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  Speaker 1: according to his purpose. Jesus came into this world with purpose.
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  Speaker 1: The world is going to rejoice. You're going to be sorrowful,
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  Speaker 1: but your sorrow will be turned into joy. Is working.
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  Speaker 1: I'm doing something. I'm going away. Everything that I'm doing,
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  Speaker 1: everything that has been spoken concerning me, has purpose and
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  Speaker 1: is for your good. Your sorrow will be turned into joy.
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  Speaker 1: Love with the Old Testament scripture says weeping may endure
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  Speaker 1: for a night, but joy comes in the morning. Jesus
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  Speaker 1: goes on to say, a woman when she is in labor,
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  Speaker 1: has sorrow because her hour has come, But as soon
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  Speaker 1: as she has given birth to the child, she no
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  Speaker 1: longer he remembers the anguish for joy that a human
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  Speaker 1: being has been born into the world. Therefore, you now
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  Speaker 1: have sorrow you now. Likewise, Jesus is saying to his disciples,
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  Speaker 1: right now, in your heart there is sorrow, but I
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  Speaker 1: will see you again and your heart will rejoice. And
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  Speaker 1: look at this, oh, watch this last last verse here,
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  Speaker 1: verse twenty two, and that I'm reading from Jesus says,
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  Speaker 1: and your joy no one will take from you? Do
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  Speaker 1: you do you know that we can? No, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: this is by choice. You have to apply the word.
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  Speaker 1: You have to believe the word. You have to stand
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  Speaker 1: on the word. You have to live in the word,
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  Speaker 1: live in the promises, live with expectation, live with this
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  Speaker 1: kind of hope. And you can even die a depth
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  Speaker 1: as a martyr with joy when you understand that the
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  Speaker 1: joy that Jesus has given to us cannot be taken
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  Speaker 1: away from us. Now again, does that mean we want
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  Speaker 1: to experience sorrow and weeping. No, we will, but our
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  Speaker 1: sorrow is turned into joy. And of course, and you
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  Speaker 1: know in the moment during this last supper time, and
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  Speaker 1: you know this preparation, when Jesus is about to go
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  Speaker 1: to the cross, the disciples again are perplexed. They're in despair,
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  Speaker 1: their hearts are sorrowful. They simply are not comprehending what
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  Speaker 1: Jesus is saying. They don't understand a man. But rather,
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  Speaker 1: let me rephrase that, they do understand what death is.
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  Speaker 1: They do understand what death means. They do understand a
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  Speaker 1: man what death does to good relationships, such as they
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  Speaker 1: have a man with Jesus beg with him, all of
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  Speaker 1: these a man years now, though again from their perspective,
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  Speaker 1: because their eyes are closed understanding and seeing and comprehending
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  Speaker 1: all that Jesus is laying on them. Now, from their perspective,
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  Speaker 1: it's over. It ends with his death. You remember, after
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  Speaker 1: Jesus rose from the dead, even the road till mayus.
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  Speaker 1: Remember those two disciples, Cliffords being one of them. As
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  Speaker 1: they're walking along, Jesus joins up with them. They are
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  Speaker 1: then despair, They are disappointed, and they say to Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: not recognizing that it is Jesus, we thought that he
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  Speaker 1: was the one. You see this, this is their art,
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  Speaker 1: this is what they're thinking. We thought that he was
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  Speaker 1: the one, and now he's dead. It's over, it's finished.
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  Speaker 1: We put our faith and hope and trust and confidence
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  Speaker 1: in him, but death got the better of him. Oh well,
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  Speaker 1: let's go back home, let's get back to whatever it is,
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  Speaker 1: or let's look for someone else's That's that's how they
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  Speaker 1: were thinking. That's how they were comprehending what had happened.
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  Speaker 1: That's how they had processed it. It was their own words. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So at this time, when Jesus is speaking these words
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  Speaker 1: to the disciples, their hearts are filled with sorrow because
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  Speaker 1: they know what death means. But we know, ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 1: the rest of the story. The death Jesus would take
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  Speaker 1: on was not the end, though it again made the
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  Speaker 1: hearts of the disciples sorrowful. Yes, they wept and they
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  Speaker 1: lamented while the world was rejoicing. But it would only
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  Speaker 1: be for a little while, Just as Jesus had told
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  Speaker 1: him it would be. They did indeed see him again
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  Speaker 1: after his resounding victory over death, hell and the grave.
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  Speaker 1: Death was not the end for Jesus, and death is
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  Speaker 1: not the end for those who believe in Jesus, who
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  Speaker 1: believe in his promise of eternal life. In the aftermath,
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  Speaker 1: of course, in which we now live, of the resurrection
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus and of his ascension back up into heaven
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  Speaker 1: where he sits at the right hand of the Majesty
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  Speaker 1: on high interceding for us, looking out for us, a
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  Speaker 1: man sending his Holy spirit to all who a man
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  Speaker 1: bow who come to him in repentance with brokenness and contrition. Oh, yes,
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  Speaker 1: he lives, He lives, says Behold, I am alive for evermore.
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  Speaker 1: I have the keys of death, hell and the grave. Yes, yes,
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  Speaker 1: now go, go go. He commissioned his disciples to go
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  Speaker 1: into all the world. Preach this gospel. Preach that you
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  Speaker 1: have life. Preach, preach, preach the word, and be instant
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  Speaker 1: in season and out of season. Reprove, rebuke, exhort with
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  Speaker 1: all o suffering and doctrine. Tell them that there is
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  Speaker 1: a hope, a savior, a living hope that will never
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  Speaker 1: fade away. There is a joy that is unspeakable and
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  Speaker 1: full of glory. So, now that Jesus has ascended back
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  Speaker 1: up into heaven, those of us who are awaiting his return, Yes,
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  Speaker 1: we will face sorrows in this world, just as again
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  Speaker 1: Jesus was a man of sorrows. Some of us, of course,
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  Speaker 1: will doubt, as Thomas doubted. Some of us will experience death,
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  Speaker 1: of course before Jesus returns again. But we have the
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  Speaker 1: same promise that we will see him again and sorrow
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  Speaker 1: into joy is what we will experience, and our joy
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  Speaker 1: will have no end. Just as the woman that Jesus
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  Speaker 1: spoke of generically, of course, who gives birth to a child,
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  Speaker 1: she forgets the labor pains for the joy of bringing
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  Speaker 1: a life into the world, so it will be for us.
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  Speaker 1: We will forget all about the labor pains, all of
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  Speaker 1: the toil, all of the anguish and the sorrows we
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  Speaker 1: will endure while we live on this side of eternity.
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  Speaker 1: And just let me give you a very quick example
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  Speaker 1: of how God is able to do this even while
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  Speaker 1: we are here. By the way, before we get to glory,
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  Speaker 1: you remember the story of Joseph. How do he went
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  Speaker 1: through all that He went through, the betrayal, slavery, the accusations,
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  Speaker 1: the prison, all of that before God exsulted him twenty
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  Speaker 1: years amen, before he rose to be the prime minister
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  Speaker 1: of Egypt. I believe it was. And when his brothers
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  Speaker 1: were made known to him, well, he rather was made
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  Speaker 1: known to his brothers. Remember these words that he said,
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  Speaker 1: God has made me to forget all of my toil.
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  Speaker 1: I believe he said those words. By the way, at
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  Speaker 1: the birth of his child. God has made me forget
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  Speaker 1: all of my toil. You my brothers, meant it for evil.
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  Speaker 1: What you did, what you purposed, what you plotted, what
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  Speaker 1: you schemed, You meant it for evil. But God, ooh,
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  Speaker 1: that's a whole nother that's a whole other message. Oh
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  Speaker 1: that's a whole nother man. God meant it for good.
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  Speaker 1: And he has turned my sorrow into joy. He's made
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  Speaker 1: me to forget all that I went through, all of
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  Speaker 1: the anguish. This is why we must keep our eyes
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  Speaker 1: and our focus on Jesus. He not only took on
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  Speaker 1: our sins and our guilt, but again he as a
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  Speaker 1: man of sorrow's acquainted with grief, but for the joy,
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  Speaker 1: the Bible says, but for the joy that was set
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  Speaker 1: before him. He endured the cross, despised the shame, the humiliation,
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  Speaker 1: in order to turn all of our sorrows into joy.
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  Speaker 1: This is also why we, as the children of God,
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  Speaker 1: do not sorrow as others who have no hope. When
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  Speaker 1: death comes knocking at the door, we have an appointment, unless,
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  Speaker 1: of course, the rapture takes place before some of us,
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  Speaker 1: and that is what the Bible speaks of. It will happen,
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  Speaker 1: but we don't sorrow as others who have no hope.
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  Speaker 1: We believe that Jesus died and rose again. We believe
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  Speaker 1: that he is the resurrection and the life. We believe
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  Speaker 1: he is coming again for his church. We are also
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  Speaker 1: confident that when we are absent from the mortal body,
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  Speaker 1: as the apostle Paul reminds us this earthly tabernacle, we
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  Speaker 1: are present with the Lord. This day. Jesus said to
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  Speaker 1: that the thief on the cross, you will be with
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  Speaker 1: me in paradise this day, absent from the body, present
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  Speaker 1: with the Lord. This is what should turn any of
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  Speaker 1: our sorrow into joy. The enemy of death that brings
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  Speaker 1: sorrow to our hearts has already been conquered. It's already
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  Speaker 1: been defeated by Jesus, and death will forever be banished
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  Speaker 1: to no more bring sorrow to our hearts. And it's
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  Speaker 1: all because of what Jesus did on our behalf. He
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  Speaker 1: turned our sorrow and to joy. Thank you, thank you,
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  Speaker 1: thank you, blessed Savior. Father. We pray that someone somewhere
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  Speaker 1: even now, who may be experiencing sorrow and disappointment, pain, grief, agony, torment, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: that they will be delivered by the power of your
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  Speaker 1: word by the power of your spirit, by the power
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  Speaker 1: of your promises, open their eyes and ears and hearts
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  Speaker 1: to believe, to receive, to embrace your word, and come
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  Speaker 1: to know that you are the True to live in God,
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  Speaker 1: and receive the blessed gift of the Holy Ghosts who
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  Speaker 1: will be with them, comfort them and carry them until
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  Speaker 1: you return again. Be thou glorified, and all we say
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  Speaker 1: and do be thout glorified in this world. Be thout
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  Speaker 1: glorified in your people everywhere. It's in the name of Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: the Christ of caval we praying gift. Thanks, Amen and Amen.