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Episode 157 - Pentecostal Disturbance · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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  Speaker 1: Great is your faithfulness, Oh Lord, Great is your mercy,
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  Speaker 1: Great is your grace unto us. Father, again, we are
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  Speaker 1: thankful for this day that you have allowed us to see,
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  Speaker 1: and we pray that your blessings will be upon us,
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  Speaker 1: your peace, your love, your kindness. Lord, that you promise
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  Speaker 1: to amen be with us in all that you are.
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  Speaker 1: And Lord, we are looking to you now as the
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  Speaker 1: author and the finisher of our faith. O. Lord, sin
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  Speaker 1: forth your word with power and the annointing that someone
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  Speaker 1: somewhere hear the voice of the Savior and come to
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  Speaker 1: know that you are the True and the Living God,
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  Speaker 1: and there is none like you in all the earth. God,
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  Speaker 1: be glorified, be magnified. In Jesus's name, We pray and
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  Speaker 1: give thanks. Amen and Amen. We welcome you once again
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  Speaker 1: to this an the edition of End the Time Revival
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  Speaker 1: Ministry US, a podcast. For those of you who listen
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  Speaker 1: to us by audio podcasts, and for those of you
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  Speaker 1: who view us by well of our YouTube channel one
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  Speaker 1: Voice in the Wilderness, we welcome you as well. Right
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  Speaker 1: today we are again, as always grateful to the Lord
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  Speaker 1: for another Amen, opportunity to amen. Speak forth the truth
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  Speaker 1: of God with boldness, clarity, with plainness of speech. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: This is a man though, calling that God is placed
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  Speaker 1: upon us, and we want to be faithful, found faithful,
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  Speaker 1: a man doing this unto death or until Jesus comes
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  Speaker 1: back for his church. Amen. And so again this series,
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  Speaker 1: for those of you who've been following along with us,
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  Speaker 1: we're in a series on God, government, Church and state.
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  Speaker 1: God government, Church and State. And this particular series now
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  Speaker 1: takes us into the New Testament. And also now as
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  Speaker 1: we're going to as we're going to see today the
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  Speaker 1: beginning of the persecution of the Church, as Jesus Christ
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  Speaker 1: has finished, is earthly ministry ascended up into heaven, and
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  Speaker 1: he will as we're going to see today, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: if you have your Bibles, we're going to be in
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  Speaker 1: the of the acts of the apostles a man. We're
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  Speaker 1: going to see how Jesus empowers a man his apostles,
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  Speaker 1: a man to go forth and to continue in the
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  Speaker 1: ministry in the mission a man that he a man
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  Speaker 1: commissioned them for. And so we're going to also see
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  Speaker 1: that a man. There is something that is absolutely essential
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  Speaker 1: for the church to be equipped with, and that is
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  Speaker 1: the power of the Holy Spirit. Can't do it without
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  Speaker 1: the power of the Holy Spirit. And so today I
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  Speaker 1: will focus is kind of Pentecostal disturbance. Pentecostal disturbance is
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  Speaker 1: what we're going to A man entitle our a man
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  Speaker 1: podcasts on today. Pentecostal disturbance. Far more than any other
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  Speaker 1: event in all of the history of our existence, the
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  Speaker 1: world's existence, it was the coming of Jesus Christ into
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  Speaker 1: the world, a man that radically disrupted this world's darkness,
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  Speaker 1: the rulers of this world of darkness. It was the
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  Speaker 1: blind leading the blind further into the darkness. And just
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  Speaker 1: a few short years before this day of pentecost that
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  Speaker 1: we're going to look at the Pentecostal disturbance. But just
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  Speaker 1: a few short years before this day of Pentecosts would
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  Speaker 1: come Jesus the Christ, the Messiah, the anointed One, the
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  Speaker 1: promised One, the one who was prophesied of in the scriptures.
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  Speaker 1: A man he seen as it were, a man, and
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  Speaker 1: a man began his earthly ministry. And it was a
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  Speaker 1: ministry that was ordained of Heaven, ordained of God. It
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  Speaker 1: was a divine ministry. It was not of man by man, amen,
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  Speaker 1: it was of God, Amen, of the power of this
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  Speaker 1: Holy Spirit. Ordained of old, and this divine ministry that
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  Speaker 1: Jesus came to do a man. It worked and astonishing
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  Speaker 1: upheaval upon a radically corrupt tradition of men religion. That
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  Speaker 1: was a man again, the blind leading the blind, as Jesus. Amen. Again,
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  Speaker 1: as we've already pointed out, he did not shy away
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  Speaker 1: at all from confronting these religious hypocrites, these leaders, these
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  Speaker 1: rulers of the people, who had caused the people to error.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus didn't shy away from it at all. Amen. These
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  Speaker 1: were people, as Jesus said in essence, quoting from the
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  Speaker 1: Book of Isaiah, these people honor me with their lips,
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  Speaker 1: but their heart is far from me, in vain. They
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  Speaker 1: worshiped me, a man keeping the tradition of men, honoring
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  Speaker 1: more than the word of God, the tradition of men.
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  Speaker 1: And so you had a world that was living in darkness,
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  Speaker 1: mired in darkness, Amen, completely blinded from the truth, a
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  Speaker 1: man primarily by a man again religion and corrupt rulers
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  Speaker 1: of darkness. Matthew four sixteen tells us the people who
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  Speaker 1: sat in darkness again another fulfillment of the prophet Isaiah. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: the people who sat in darkness, have seen a great light.
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  Speaker 1: And upon those who sat in the region and shadow
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  Speaker 1: of death, light has dawned, Light has sprung. Light has come.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what Jesus said of himself in one of
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  Speaker 1: the im statements, I am the light of the world. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And he came that we might have light, Amen, so
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  Speaker 1: that we could see, so that our eyes could be open,
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  Speaker 1: so that the scales would fall from our eyes. And
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  Speaker 1: before his death by betrayal and murder, his burial in
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  Speaker 1: the tomb, and his resurrection from the dead, Jesus had
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  Speaker 1: already prepared his apostles for the persecution and the troubles
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  Speaker 1: that were ahead of them. Jesus taught them we covered
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  Speaker 1: this in our last session. He told them, you will
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  Speaker 1: be hated, you will be rejected, you will be ridiculed.
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  Speaker 1: Some of you are going to be put out of
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  Speaker 1: the synagogue, as it were. In other words, you're going
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  Speaker 1: to be expelled, harassed, persecuted, and even some of you
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  Speaker 1: will be executed. You're going to be killed, seame of
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. And also he taught them that they were
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  Speaker 1: going to be like lambs in the midst of wolves.
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  Speaker 1: They were to be harmless, as doves, but have the
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  Speaker 1: same kind of boldness and tenacity that Jesus had. Amen, Now,
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  Speaker 1: who is it that would do this? Who is it
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  Speaker 1: that would perform this kind of harassment and hatred and
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  Speaker 1: stir up all of this animosity toward a man. The
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  Speaker 1: followers of Jesus Christ, ordinary men, plain, old, ordinary galileans. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: is who they were. It would not be the common
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  Speaker 1: everyday man who would be threatened by the preaching of
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  Speaker 1: the Gospel. No, no, No, ladies and gentlemen, it would
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  Speaker 1: be and it is still to this day, the powers
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  Speaker 1: that be, government leaders who stir up people, who stir
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  Speaker 1: up opposition against the Kingdom of God, against the rule
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  Speaker 1: of God. Amen. In world history has clearly demonstrated this Amen,
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  Speaker 1: that the governments of this world have been hostile to
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  Speaker 1: the Gospel of Jesus Christ, to the Kingdom of God,
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  Speaker 1: to the Kingdom of Heaven, like no other entity on
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  Speaker 1: this earth, the hostility toward the name of Jesus especially. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: we've got religion in this world. We've got plenty of
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  Speaker 1: religion in this world. But we're not talking about religion,
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  Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen. We're talking about the Gospel of Jesus Christ,
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  Speaker 1: the Truth of God, the Church of the Living God.
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  Speaker 1: It faces more hostility. It has faced, and it will
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  Speaker 1: continue to, by the way, be despised and rejected by again,
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  Speaker 1: particularly governments of this world. And by the way, Jesus
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  Speaker 1: knew this, He designed it this way as a matter
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  Speaker 1: of fact, and again he prepared us for this very thing.
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  Speaker 1: We don't need state religion. We don't need the government
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  Speaker 1: to embrace us, to adopt us, and to a man
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  Speaker 1: a support us. What we need is a man, the
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  Speaker 1: power of God, the authority that God has given us,
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  Speaker 1: the boldness, a man to go forth, a man with amen,
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  Speaker 1: everything that God has already equipped us with. That's all
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  Speaker 1: we need. Amen. And so again, when we look throughout history,
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  Speaker 1: we clearly can see that it has been government leaders
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  Speaker 1: a man who have been hostile to the Kingdom of Heaven. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: They don't want the rule of God. They hate the
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  Speaker 1: rule of God. Some number two. We've referred to it often. However,
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  Speaker 1: again we must never forget the words of Jesus Christ himself,
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  Speaker 1: who said, upon this rock I build my church, and
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  Speaker 1: the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. Though
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  Speaker 1: Jesus again prepared its apostles for the persecution that was
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  Speaker 1: coming towards them a man by ensuring that they would
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  Speaker 1: be fully equipped, not only with the words which he
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  Speaker 1: had already given to them, which he had already spoken
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  Speaker 1: to them three and a half years they had been
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  Speaker 1: with Jesus. Nevertheless, they needed something else. And that's something else,
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  Speaker 1: of course, is what Jesus had promised would come to them,
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  Speaker 1: that he himself would send to them. And that is,
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  Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, the spirit of the Living God, the
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  Speaker 1: same spirit that brooded over the waters in creation, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: and the same spirit that acted amen when Jesus said,
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  Speaker 1: let there be light, and there was light. Listen what
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  Speaker 1: the Bible teaches a man the Book of the Acts
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  Speaker 1: of the Apostles, chapter number one. I'm going to pick
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  Speaker 1: it up at verse number four, and being assembled together
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  Speaker 1: with them. That's Jesus with his disciples, with his apostles.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible tells us he commanded them not to depart
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  Speaker 1: from Jerusalem, but to wait for the promise of the Father. Again,
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  Speaker 1: what promise is he referring to, specifically, not his coming
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  Speaker 1: back forth them a man, but the Holy Spirit, the
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  Speaker 1: Holy Ghost, which would be sent who brother would be
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  Speaker 1: sent to them? The Holy Spirit is a person, a man,
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  Speaker 1: not a thing. He said, Wait for the promise of
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  Speaker 1: the Father, which he said, you have heard from me.
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  Speaker 1: For John truly baptized with water. But you shall be
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  Speaker 1: baptized with the Holy Spirit not many days from now.
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  Speaker 1: Wait before you go out into the world, before you
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  Speaker 1: go on this mission. Remember he had already commissioned them
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  Speaker 1: to go into all the world preach the Gospel a
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  Speaker 1: man to every creature. He had already prepared them for
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  Speaker 1: what they would do, and he had already, during his
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  Speaker 1: earthly ministry, sent them out on missions to go amen
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  Speaker 1: to the cities and preach and heal, and a man
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  Speaker 1: do these kinds of things that the Church a man
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  Speaker 1: has been empowered to do. John truly baptized with water,
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  Speaker 1: But you shall be baptized with the Holy Spirit not
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  Speaker 1: many days from now. Absolutely essential, absolutely essential, indispensable Amen
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit. Therefore, the Bible says verse number six.
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  Speaker 1: When they had come together, they asked him, saying, Lord,
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  Speaker 1: will you at this time restore the kingdom to Israel.
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  Speaker 1: He said to them, it is not for you to
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  Speaker 1: know the times or seasons which the Father has put
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  Speaker 1: in his own authority. But you shall receive power when
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  Speaker 1: the Holy Spirit has come upon you, and you shall
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  Speaker 1: be witnesses to me in Jerusalem and in Judea and
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  Speaker 1: Samaria to the end of the earth. Oh, sorry, excuse me.
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  Speaker 1: This is what again is so essential, for this is
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  Speaker 1: what we must have. The Church of Jesus Christ must
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  Speaker 1: have the power of the Holy Spirit, because the mission
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  Speaker 1: of the Church cannot be carried out by anyone who
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  Speaker 1: does not have the baptism. Sorry, excuse me, all of
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  Speaker 1: a sudden you get to sneak. I believe the enemy
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  Speaker 1: doesn't like the mentioning, the preaching, the teaching about the
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  Speaker 1: power of the Holy Spirit. The mission of the Church again,
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  Speaker 1: cannot be carried out by anyone who does not have
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  Speaker 1: the baptism of the Holy Ghost, that is that is
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  Speaker 1: exclusively given by the power of Jesus, a man sent
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  Speaker 1: in his name, a man. And of course we must
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  Speaker 1: never forget. While Jesus was here, he operated in the
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  Speaker 1: spirit and the power of the Holy Spirit, and so
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  Speaker 1: must we a man. Remember at his baptism, by the
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  Speaker 1: way you saw how that the Spirit descended upon him
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  Speaker 1: like a dove. And from that day forward Jesus went
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  Speaker 1: forth in the power and the anointing of the Holy Spirit.
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  Speaker 1: So in chapter two, where we go down the book
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  Speaker 1: of the Acts of the Apostle, we're going to see
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  Speaker 1: the day of Pentecosts arrive and the promised comforter is
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  Speaker 1: sent by Jesus to his disciples, to those who believed
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  Speaker 1: on him. Look at Acts chapter two, verse number one.
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  Speaker 1: When the day of Pentecost had fully come, Oh, we
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  Speaker 1: got Pentecostal disturbance coming. It's a Pentecostal disturbance. It's going
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  Speaker 1: to shake up the world. It's going to turn, as
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  Speaker 1: it would be the testimony of someone else later with
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  Speaker 1: the Acts turned the world upside down. They couldn't do it,
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  Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, without this. They had to have the
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  Speaker 1: promise of the Father, the power of the Holy ghosts.
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  Speaker 1: And so the Bible tells us when the day of
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  Speaker 1: Pentecosts had fully come, they were all with one accord
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  Speaker 1: in one place, and suddenly there came a sound from
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  Speaker 1: heaven as of a rushing, mighty wind, and it filled
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  Speaker 1: the whole house where they were sitting, And there appeared
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  Speaker 1: to them divided tongues as of fire, and one sat
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  Speaker 1: up on each of them, and they were all and
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  Speaker 1: by the way. There were one hundred and twenty of
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  Speaker 1: them in the Upper room on that day, one of them,
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  Speaker 1: notably being Mary, the Mother of Christ. She herself also
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  Speaker 1: had to be felled with the Holy Spirit a man.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible says they were all feeled with the Holy
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  Speaker 1: Spirit and began to speak with other tongues as the
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  Speaker 1: spirit gave them utterance, and of course a man. The noise,
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  Speaker 1: as you can read also in the text, was a
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  Speaker 1: man heard, and people were curious as to what was
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  Speaker 1: happening there, and those a man who came to see
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  Speaker 1: what was taking place with this noise, a man, this
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  Speaker 1: sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, the
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  Speaker 1: fire of the Holy Ghost, a man resting upon these
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  Speaker 1: that had been waiting for this promise. Those who came.
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  Speaker 1: Someone spoke and accused them are being drunk. Peter said, no, no, no, no, sir, no, ma'am. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: this is not what you think it is. Amen, this
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  Speaker 1: is that which was a man prophesied of old. The
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  Speaker 1: prophet Joel said, the Lord made the promise Amen, that
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  Speaker 1: he would pour out of his spirit upon all flesh.
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  Speaker 1: Your sons and daughters are going to prophesie. We are
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  Speaker 1: not drunk as you suppose, it's only the third hour
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  Speaker 1: of the day. It was nine a m. In the morning. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: The Holy Spirit came upon them. Amen. And so Peter
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  Speaker 1: took this occasion to preach the Gospel of Jesus Christ
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  Speaker 1: to this crowd that had come. Amen. And what we're
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  Speaker 1: going to see, ladies and gentlemen, again, this pentecostal disturbance, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: is birthing the Church of Jesus Christ. Acts Chapter two.
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  Speaker 1: Go down to verse number twenty two. Listen to these
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  Speaker 1: words of of the apostle Peter, as recorded by Luke
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  Speaker 1: in the Gospel. I'm sorry, in the acts of what
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  Speaker 1: we refer to as the acts of the apostles, some
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  Speaker 1: rather refer to this as the acts of the Holy Spirit. However,
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  Speaker 1: verse twenty two tells us that Peter speaks to the
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  Speaker 1: crowd with these words, Men of Israel, hear these words
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  Speaker 1: Jesus of Nazareth, a man attested by God to you
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  Speaker 1: by miracles, wonders, and signs, which God did through him
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  Speaker 1: in your midst, as you yourselves also know him, being
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  Speaker 1: delivered by the determined purpose and fore knowledge of God,
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  Speaker 1: you have taken by lawless hands, the lawless hands by
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  Speaker 1: the way, not only were the people, but most disturbingly
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  Speaker 1: more so than the people. It was by the government,
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  Speaker 1: the rulers of the people, who stirred up the people.
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  Speaker 1: By the way did the multitudes. The chriwds loved Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: They were following him, most of them a man wanted
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  Speaker 1: to make him their king. Amen. They didn't want to
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  Speaker 1: see him die. They were enjoying all of the healings
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  Speaker 1: and miracles and signs and wonders, and eating of the
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  Speaker 1: fishes and lows. They wanted Jesus to remain. But the
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  Speaker 1: jealousy of the rulers, the government leaders Amen, their lawless hands, which,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, on that fateful day said they said,
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  Speaker 1: his blood be upon us and our children. They by
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  Speaker 1: their lawless hands they crucified Jesus, Peter says, and put
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  Speaker 1: him to death, whom God raised up verse twenty four,
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  Speaker 1: having loosed the pains of death. Because it was not possible. Ooooh,
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  Speaker 1: I love this. It was not possible that he should
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  Speaker 1: be held by it. Why was it not possible? Let
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  Speaker 1: me just pause on that for just a moment. Why
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  Speaker 1: was it not possible for Jesus to be held down
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  Speaker 1: by death? Ladies and gentlemen, because it is appointed for
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  Speaker 1: sinners to die. Now, true, Jesus, who knew no sin,
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  Speaker 1: became sin. He took on our sin. He became the
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  Speaker 1: violence of sinners. Nevertheless, he himself was sin less. Death
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  Speaker 1: is appointed to those who are sin nursed. Jesus died
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  Speaker 1: the death of a sinner, but yet he himself had
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  Speaker 1: never sinned. The wages of sin is death. Jesus died
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  Speaker 1: the death that we deserve to die. It was not
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  Speaker 1: possible for death to hold Jesus. As a matter of fact,
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  Speaker 1: it was not even possible for death to take Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus said, no one takes my life from me. Death
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  Speaker 1: could not take his life because he was not a sinner.
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  Speaker 1: And because he was not a sinner, he had to
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  Speaker 1: yield himself over. And that's exactly what he did. Father,
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  Speaker 1: into thy hand, I commit my spirit. Again, no one
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  Speaker 1: took his life. He gave his life. And so it
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  Speaker 1: was not possible amen that the grave that death could
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  Speaker 1: hold Jesus down. So the verse thirty two tells us
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  Speaker 1: Peter said, this Jesus, God has raised up of which
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  Speaker 1: we are all witnesses, therefore being exalted to the right
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  Speaker 1: hand of God, and having received from the Father of
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  Speaker 1: the promise of the Holy Spirit, he poured out this
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  Speaker 1: which you now see. And here therefore at all the
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  Speaker 1: house of Israel no assuredly that God has made this Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: whom you crucified, both Lord and Christ, of course a man.
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  Speaker 1: With this preaching of the Gospel, the people were stunned.
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  Speaker 1: They were stunned at what they heard from Peter. And
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  Speaker 1: by the way, I skipped over some of what Peter
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  Speaker 1: had to say a man. There were a lot of
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  Speaker 1: other words that he used in the Old Testament, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, going back a man. And is wonderful how
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  Speaker 1: that you understand, of course, that the New Testament certainly
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  Speaker 1: has not been written. They are writing it. As all
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  Speaker 1: of this is now about to a man take place.
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  Speaker 1: The writing of the New Testament will take place. But
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  Speaker 1: Peter and the apostles only had the scriptures, the Hebrew scriptures,
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  Speaker 1: the Old Testament scriptures, and in the Old Testament scriptures,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ is through and through. And so he preached
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  Speaker 1: to them from the Old Testament scriptures about David, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: about Joel a man, about the psalmp what was written
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  Speaker 1: in the Psalms, and all I mean this is, this is,
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  Speaker 1: this is, this is the power of the Word of God.
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  Speaker 1: A man, God foretold all of these things. He determined
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  Speaker 1: all of these things beforehand. Amen. And Peter, now, with
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  Speaker 1: the power of the Holy Spirit, bringing things to his remembrance,
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  Speaker 1: uses the power of the Word of God, the Old
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  Speaker 1: Testament to preach the Gospel to these who are gathered.
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  Speaker 1: So now the church is birthed and the church. Amen
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  Speaker 1: is on his way because the Jews now respond positively
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  Speaker 1: to the preaching of the Gospel. Listen what happens verse
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  Speaker 1: thirty seven. The Bible says, when they heard this, when
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  Speaker 1: they heard the preaching of Peter, the Bible tells us
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  Speaker 1: they were cut to the heart, and man, they were
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  Speaker 1: pricked in their heart and said to Peter and the
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  Speaker 1: rest of the brothers, the brother and the apostles, They said,
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  Speaker 1: men and brethren, what shall we do? What is our recourse?
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  Speaker 1: Is there a remedy? Is there a way of escape
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  Speaker 1: for us? Peter said to them, repent, Oh, yes, and
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  Speaker 1: let every one of you be baptizing the name of
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and you shall
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  Speaker 1: receive the gift of the Holy ghosts. For this promise
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  Speaker 1: is to you, it's to your children, is to a
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  Speaker 1: man all who are false, and as many as the
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  Speaker 1: Lord our God shall call, And with many other words,
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  Speaker 1: the Bible tells us, he testified and exhorted the people, saying,
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  Speaker 1: be saved from this perverse generation. So many of them,
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  Speaker 1: the Bible tells us, heard the word, obeyed the word.
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  Speaker 1: They were baptized, And now the church again is birthed
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  Speaker 1: and it is blossoming. Go down to verse forty two.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible says. They continued steadfastly in the apostles, doctrine
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  Speaker 1: and fellowship, and in breaking the bread and in prayers.
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  Speaker 1: Fear came upon every soul, many signs, many wonders, in
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  Speaker 1: other words, the greater works that Jesus said that you
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  Speaker 1: would do that I'm doing. I mean because I'm going
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  Speaker 1: back to heaven, and there are going to be twelve
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  Speaker 1: of you as opposed to one of me. Many wonders
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  Speaker 1: and signs, the Bible says, were done by the apostles,
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  Speaker 1: and all that believed were together had all things coming,
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  Speaker 1: sold their possession in goods, to parted them to all men,
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  Speaker 1: as every man had need. And they continuing daily on
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  Speaker 1: accord in the temple, breaking bread from house to house.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible tells us they ate their meat with gladness,
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  Speaker 1: singleness of heart, praising God, having favor with all the people,
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  Speaker 1: and the Lord who I love. This added to the
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  Speaker 1: church daily, such as should be saved. Now with all
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  Speaker 1: of this, ladies and gentlemen, and make nobody's Hell is
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  Speaker 1: not happy. Hell is not happy. Demons are coming back
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  Speaker 1: with no place to go. Amen. They are disturbed. I
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  Speaker 1: mean there's been an upheaval. The darkness is being dispelled,
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  Speaker 1: the eyes of being opened, Scales are falling from people's eyes.
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  Speaker 1: Religion is being destroyed in their midst the ears of
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  Speaker 1: the people are being attentive to the preaching of the Gospel,
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  Speaker 1: and the Bible said, by the way, three thousand souls Amen,
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  Speaker 1: on the very first day, by the way, not those
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  Speaker 1: who were being added even more afterwards. But on that
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  Speaker 1: very first day Pentecostal disturbance, about three thousand souls were
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  Speaker 1: added to the church. So now hearts are being converted,
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  Speaker 1: lives are being transformed, and the Church is now a
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  Speaker 1: force to contend with. Now, please understand that with this
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  Speaker 1: Pentecostal disturbance that took place, a man in that upper
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  Speaker 1: room from that day. For what we're going to see
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  Speaker 1: throughout the Book of the Acts of the Apostles and
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  Speaker 1: throughout the history of the Church is hostility mostly mostly
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  Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen. We're going to see, and we're going
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  Speaker 1: to point it out, just as it was in the
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  Speaker 1: Ministry of Jesus. It is going to be the rulers
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  Speaker 1: and the leaders and the government a man of not
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  Speaker 1: only a man the Jews, but also of the Romans
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  Speaker 1: that will be so hostile to the Church, so hostile
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  Speaker 1: to the preaching of the God. They weren't hostile to
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  Speaker 1: all of these a man idols of the people that
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  Speaker 1: were made up these religions there were, I mean, there
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  Speaker 1: was a plethora of gods, a plethora of religious beliefs
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  Speaker 1: a man during this a man time of the Roman Empire,
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  Speaker 1: a man. They weren't bothered by it. I mean, everybody
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  Speaker 1: just did their own thing. As a matter of fact,
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  Speaker 1: we're going to see later on ad Ministry of the
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  Speaker 1: Apostle Paul, when he was at Athens waiting for his companions,
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  Speaker 1: a man, he discovered an altar that was inscribed with
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  Speaker 1: these words to the unknown God in case they missed
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  Speaker 1: a God in case there was a God that they
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  Speaker 1: weren't aware of. They didn't want to offend any of
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  Speaker 1: the gods. So there was I mean, there was a
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  Speaker 1: plethora of religion throughout all of the world at that time.
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  Speaker 1: And so now here comes the Church and it is
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  Speaker 1: now a force to be reckoned with. And so from
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  Speaker 1: this point forward, ladies and gentlemen, after the birth of
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  Speaker 1: the Church, well we're going to be examining here. We've
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  Speaker 1: already seen it throughout the history of the Church, Church history. Amen. Again,
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  Speaker 1: total and complete hostility a man toward the Church. Because
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  Speaker 1: the princes of this world they loved their power, they
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  Speaker 1: love their authority, and they love for people to be
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  Speaker 1: in bondage, their eyes to be close. Amen. They don't
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  Speaker 1: want freedom, they don't want liberty. They want people shackled
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  Speaker 1: in change, in darkness, in bondage. Amen, so that they
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  Speaker 1: can again control them, Amen, manipulate them. No, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: What the Gospel does is open the eyes of the blind,
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  Speaker 1: It opens the ears of the death. Amen. It changes
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  Speaker 1: the heart. And no no, no, no, no, no, no no no.
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  Speaker 1: Government leaders do not like opposition. They prefer the status
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  Speaker 1: quo and change. Any change that happens it must be
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  Speaker 1: controlled by them. Amen. It must be regulated by the
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  Speaker 1: rulers of this world. This is why you know anything,
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  Speaker 1: anything that happens in our world, even in this free
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  Speaker 1: nation civilization supposedly that we're now living in America, the
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  Speaker 1: United States of America. The government must regulate. The government
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  Speaker 1: must control. The government must ensure that there is nothing
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  Speaker 1: that rises up that is too powerful for them to control,
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  Speaker 1: to regulate. And so it was with the Church. It
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  Speaker 1: will be opposed by government primarily. Amen. And so this
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  Speaker 1: is why the true Church I'm talking, I'm not talking
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  Speaker 1: about religion, y'all. No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no no.
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  Speaker 1: We have all kinds of state sponsored, embraced religions all
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  Speaker 1: across this world and throughout the history of this world.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm not gonna even not going there. For those
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  Speaker 1: of you who wanted to challenge the Church being a
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  Speaker 1: state sponsored religion early in the Christianity of the Church
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  Speaker 1: three hundred a D or so, four hundred a D,
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  Speaker 1: five hundred a D going forward or whatever. No, no, no, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, that was not the true Church of
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, no sir, no, ma'am. Amen. But this is
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  Speaker 1: why I say the true Church of Jesus Christ will
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  Speaker 1: always be problematic for the princes, the kings, the rulers, governors,
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  Speaker 1: prime ministers, presidents whatever of this world, those of them,
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  Speaker 1: those who are under the rule of the prince and
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  Speaker 1: power of the air. Because he that is Satan works
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  Speaker 1: most of his destruction, most of his death and annihilation
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  Speaker 1: through those with those by those who rule in high places,
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  Speaker 1: high seats of authority in government. Nevertheless, the Church needs
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  Speaker 1: to know this. The Church needs to understand this. Again,
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  Speaker 1: we don't need to be regulated. We can't be regulated
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  Speaker 1: by man. We are not to be ruled by nor
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  Speaker 1: a man subject to Amen, the governments of this world
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  Speaker 1: in the sense of them telling us what to preach,
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  Speaker 1: what to teach. Amen. I'm not talking about abiding by
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  Speaker 1: the laws of the land as it pertains to being
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  Speaker 1: good citizens and stewards. We can talk about that a
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  Speaker 1: man in the Bible, by the way commands us to
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  Speaker 1: do so. Roman Shepherd thirteen and other passages in the scriptures.
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  Speaker 1: But what we're talking about is the government seeking to
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  Speaker 1: shut down, to shut up, to hinder the Gospel, the
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  Speaker 1: mission of the Church. Nevertheless, again, the gates of Hell
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  Speaker 1: shall not prevail because we persevere. Oh yes, we do,
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  Speaker 1: we overcome. Oh yes, we are victorious. And this pental
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  Speaker 1: costal disturbance that was sent by Jesus himself. Amen, Uh,
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  Speaker 1: it will not cease until our Lord himself returns amen,
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  Speaker 1: to take his church away. Until then we fight and
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  Speaker 1: we win. Oh yes, Father, again, we thank you that
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  Speaker 1: we are more than conquerors. Through you, You loved us,
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  Speaker 1: you ordain us. You sent us into a world again
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  Speaker 1: that is hostile. We know that what we're up against
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  Speaker 1: principalities and powers, the rulers of the darkness of this world. Nevertheless,
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  Speaker 1: You've given to us what we need to overcome, to prevail,
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  Speaker 1: to stand to war and fight a good fight of faith. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: And to be more than conquerors because it is through you.
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  Speaker 1: It is by your spirit, not by our might, not
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  Speaker 1: by our power, but by your spirit, we are victorious.
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  Speaker 1: We thank you now, we praise you now in Jesus
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  Speaker 1: the Christ of Calvary's name, we pray and give thanks
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  Speaker 1: for all things. Amen and Amen. All right, God bless
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  Speaker 1: you in Jesus' name.