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Episode 129 - The Most Miserable · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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  Speaker 1: Oh Lord, our Lord, how excellent is thy name in
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  Speaker 1: all the earth? Who has set thy glory above the heavens,
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  Speaker 1: the sun, the moon, the stars. Lord, you have ordained,
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  Speaker 1: And the summon says, when I consider the heavens, when
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  Speaker 1: I consider the work of your hands, I I look
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  Speaker 1: at the moon and the stars, and and and you
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  Speaker 1: have or danged them. And then I look at man,
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  Speaker 1: and say, what is man that you are mindful of him?
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  Speaker 1: The son of man, that you would visit him. Uh,
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  Speaker 1: you made us a little of Lord than the angels.
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  Speaker 1: You crowned us with glory and honor. You set us
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  Speaker 1: over the works of your hand. You gave us dominion
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  Speaker 1: and all the earth of What kind of love is
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  Speaker 1: this that God has for us? We should heartily consider
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  Speaker 1: a man. The great love that God has, the great
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  Speaker 1: patience that he has, the great tolerance that he has
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  Speaker 1: toward us even to this present day. How excellent is
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  Speaker 1: your name and all the earth. We welcome you again
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  Speaker 1: to this another edition of End Time Revival Ministers USA podcast.
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  Speaker 1: I am your host, Pastor al Zachary, and today we
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  Speaker 1: are going to continue in the first letter of the
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  Speaker 1: Apostle Paul to the Corinthian Church We're in chapter number
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  Speaker 1: fifteen in this series, so we invite you to go
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  Speaker 1: our purpose is to end these last of the last days. Declare, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: Council of God. We are here to declare the whole
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  Speaker 1: counsel of God, without equivocation, without compromise, speaking the truth
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  Speaker 1: in love, praying and believing that God will Amen, deliver
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  Speaker 1: people from the chains of darkness, save as only He
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  Speaker 1: can save, because He is the Savior, Amen, as the
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  Speaker 1: Bible says, of all them that believe. And so we
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  Speaker 1: just simply pray that God would open hearts and minds, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: so that people will believe and come to know that
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  Speaker 1: He is the True and the Living God and the
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  Speaker 1: Savior of all again who put their trust in him.
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  Speaker 1: And today we're going to consider a portion of this
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  Speaker 1: lengthy chapter fifteen that the apostle Paul a Man wrote
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  Speaker 1: to the Corinthian Church, because I want to focus on
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  Speaker 1: some of the final words that we're going to read
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  Speaker 1: today in this portion most miserable, most miserable. And before
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  Speaker 1: you begin to feel a sense of sadness and misery,
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  Speaker 1: just hang on for a few moments, because we're going
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  Speaker 1: to discover. I believe, who are the most miserable creatures
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  Speaker 1: on this earth? A man? And I believe again, I
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  Speaker 1: stand wholeheartedly with the word of God. I believe the
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  Speaker 1: word of God, God I live by. I seek to
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  Speaker 1: order my life by the word of God. And that's
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  Speaker 1: where my faith and trust and hope a man lies in.
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  Speaker 1: Because the Bible tells us by the way that faith
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  Speaker 1: comes by hearing, hearing by the word of the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: And so I mean, if we're going to have faith
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  Speaker 1: and we're going to believe God, it must be through
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  Speaker 1: his word. And so I believe that we can discover,
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  Speaker 1: we can certainly see and understand and know this of
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  Speaker 1: a certainty. A man especially for those of us who
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  Speaker 1: are in the church a man that the most miserable
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  Speaker 1: people are those who are a man without the hope
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  Speaker 1: of the resurrection of Jesus Christ, who are living without
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  Speaker 1: Christ Jesus a man inside of them. There are so
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  Speaker 1: many false religions, of course, a man that have a
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  Speaker 1: hope of an afterlife that teach and expouses and after life,
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  Speaker 1: but the hope that they are led to believe in
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  Speaker 1: is non existent, at least from their teaching, at least
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  Speaker 1: from their perspective a man. I can certainly understand the
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  Speaker 1: hope of one who is an unbeliever, who is of
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  Speaker 1: course seeking some type of coping mechanism or looking to
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  Speaker 1: escape from the reality of their finality. And if you
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  Speaker 1: don't believe it, you, I mean, you're really delusional. If
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  Speaker 1: you don't believe that you're gonna die. We have an appointment.
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  Speaker 1: We all have an appointment with death. The only exception
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  Speaker 1: is going to be those I mean, I'm speaking forward here,
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  Speaker 1: those who will be alive and remain at the rapture
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  Speaker 1: of the Church. But of course, if you don't believe
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  Speaker 1: in Jesus, you don't believe in the rapture, you don't
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  Speaker 1: believe in the Church, so that doesn't even apply. But
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  Speaker 1: I'm just simply stating the exception to those who will
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  Speaker 1: not die a man from this mortal life. And of
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  Speaker 1: course we had a couple of exceptions in the Old
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  Speaker 1: Testament Enoch a man who was taken in Elijah the
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  Speaker 1: prophet who was taken up to heaven, and those two
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  Speaker 1: individuals did not see death, but a man for all
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  Speaker 1: of the rest of us, as the Lord Tarry's, we
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  Speaker 1: will see death. And so there are those who are
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  Speaker 1: seeking to escape from this reality, and they know that
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  Speaker 1: it is final, at least in their minds. This is
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  Speaker 1: the finality for them. And what they don't understand, what
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  Speaker 1: they don't believe, and of course they govern their lives,
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  Speaker 1: they live their lives in such a manner. What they
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  Speaker 1: don't believe is that after death they will be judged
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  Speaker 1: a man by this same Jesus, a man, this same
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  Speaker 1: Jesus who was raised from the dead. They will be
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  Speaker 1: accountable to him, a man for their rejection of him,
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  Speaker 1: for their rebellion against God, for their rebellion against his grace,
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  Speaker 1: his love, his mercy, his compassion. A man and Jesus
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  Speaker 1: knocking at the door of their heart. He said. Behold,
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  Speaker 1: I stand at the door and knock. If any man opened,
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  Speaker 1: he said, I'll come in. I'll sup with him, I'll
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  Speaker 1: be in him. I'll be with you. Amen, he has
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  Speaker 1: there's an open invitation. Come all. You are laboring and
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  Speaker 1: heavy laden, and man, Jesus said, I'll give you rest
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  Speaker 1: a man. But again, people are looking hopelessly in all
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  Speaker 1: other places, all kinds of directions and other again religions
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  Speaker 1: so called. And again some of them teach, some of
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  Speaker 1: them expouse and after life, And but they are certainly misguided.
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  Speaker 1: And and I just, I just, I just according to
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  Speaker 1: the word of God. Again, I just weep inside for
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  Speaker 1: the misery that's coming their way, Amen, when they wake
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  Speaker 1: up on the other side of eternity. But be that
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  Speaker 1: as it may. What I'm deeply perplexed about. More so,
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  Speaker 1: and in my mind cannot reconcile, is this particular illogical
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  Speaker 1: conundrum that the apostle Paul addressed here. And the question is,
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  Speaker 1: how can it be that people who profess to be
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  Speaker 1: believers in Jesus, how can it be that they don't
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  Speaker 1: believe in the resurrection of the dead. I would, I would,
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  Speaker 1: I would say, and then and again, this is what
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  Speaker 1: the Apostle Paul is going to argue here, It's really
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  Speaker 1: the most miserable kind of existence to be in. These
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  Speaker 1: are the most miserable people a man. If you are
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  Speaker 1: practicing a religion, if you are living by a set
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  Speaker 1: of beliefs, as it were, surrendering your life, disciplining yourself,
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  Speaker 1: as it were, without any hope, without any assurance of
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  Speaker 1: life after you die. I again, this is in my mind.
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  Speaker 1: I'm asking questions here, what's the purpose?
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  Speaker 2: Why?
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  Speaker 1: Why would you why would you subject yourself? Why would
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  Speaker 1: you discipline yourself? Why would you follow these rules and
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  Speaker 1: this order and this disciplining your life? If there is
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  Speaker 1: no purpose, if there is no reward, if there's no
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  Speaker 1: nothing after you die, Because if you die and when
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  Speaker 1: you die, rather and this is what your religion teaches,
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  Speaker 1: this is what you believe, then how is it that
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  Speaker 1: you can have any hope? It's impossible. It's impossible for
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  Speaker 1: you to have a hope when this is your this
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  Speaker 1: is your faith, this is your religion, this is what
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  Speaker 1: you live by. And so this is what really is
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  Speaker 1: troubling to me. And I know that it had to
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  Speaker 1: be for the Apostle Paul and I would say, arguably
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  Speaker 1: it may be the most troubling issue that he had
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  Speaker 1: to address with this Corinthian church. You have professing believers
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  Speaker 1: in the congregation who did not believe in the resurrection
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  Speaker 1: of the dead. Ah wow. First coar Anthians, chapter fifteen,
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  Speaker 1: beginning at verse number twelve. First Corinthians, Chapter fifteen, beginning
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  Speaker 1: at verse number twelve. Again, if you have your bibles,
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  Speaker 1: go along with me. Let me take just a sip
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  Speaker 1: of water here so I can clear my throat. I'm
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  Speaker 1: reading from the King James version, verse number twelve. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if Christ be preached that he rose from the dead,
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  Speaker 1: the apostle Paul asked this question, how say some among
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  Speaker 1: you that there is no resurrection of the dead. But
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  Speaker 1: if there be no resurrection of the dead, so he
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  Speaker 1: now takes their position there there there their their their
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  Speaker 1: their argument, if you will, and he will now argue
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  Speaker 1: from their perspective of no resurrection from the dead. So
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  Speaker 1: he says, if there is or if there be no
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  Speaker 1: resurrection of the dead, then Christ is not risen. And
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  Speaker 1: if Christ be not risen, so it's just there's a logic.
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  Speaker 1: There's a logic here, there's a logic that he takes
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  Speaker 1: us to and through because you have to, you know,
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  Speaker 1: you It's amazing how we have, oh why we have
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  Speaker 1: A and B and C can all be true at
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  Speaker 1: the same time, even though they are violently, as it were,
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  Speaker 1: contradictory to each other. Yet somehow, in this world of
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  Speaker 1: delusion that we live in, both A and B and
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  Speaker 1: C can all be the same. Two plus two is
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  Speaker 1: whatever you want it to be. And so Paul argues
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  Speaker 1: here that if the dead do not rise, if there
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  Speaker 1: is no resurrection of the dead, then this Christ that
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  Speaker 1: we are preaching is not alive. He's dead. Now some
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  Speaker 1: people are okay with that. Maybe they are okay with that,
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  Speaker 1: I guess serving a dead hero because and I know
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  Speaker 1: that people are okay with some people are okay with it.
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  Speaker 1: But now, again that's not Christianity. I mean, that's idle worship.
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  Speaker 1: There are people who still worship dead folk, idolized dead people. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So that's not something that's strange or foreign, of course,
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  Speaker 1: because there are people who worship gods that don't exist,
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  Speaker 1: that are just figments of imagination and they believe in them.
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  Speaker 1: So again, if there's no resurrection of the dead, Paul
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  Speaker 1: is saying here, then Christ is not risen. To Christ
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  Speaker 1: that we're preaching to you is not risen if there
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  Speaker 1: is no resurrection of the dead, and so if He's
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  Speaker 1: not risen, then Paul says, our preaching is vain. In
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  Speaker 1: other words, it is null and void. And your faith
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  Speaker 1: then logically you have to come to that conclusion what
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  Speaker 1: you believe is also vain. Yay, Then that's not the
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  Speaker 1: end of it, Paul says, look at verse fifteen, and
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  Speaker 1: we have found false witnesses of God because we have
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  Speaker 1: testified of God. That's what Paul says. Listen, this, this
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  Speaker 1: see you know. And it's a shame that we live
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  Speaker 1: in a culture in a day time where logic is gone,
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  Speaker 1: rational thinking, logical conclusions coming to again, we take that
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  Speaker 1: away because now we live on emotions and feelings. This
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  Speaker 1: is the world we live in, the emotions and feelings, logic,
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  Speaker 1: truth facts gone from our thing thinking. So Paul says,
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  Speaker 1: not only is Christ's not risen, not only are we
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  Speaker 1: preaching in vain, but your faith is also in vain.
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  Speaker 1: And then we are false witnesses of God because we
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  Speaker 1: have testified of God that he raised up Christ whom
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  Speaker 1: he raised not up. If so be that the dead
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  Speaker 1: rise not For if the dead rise not, Paul says
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  Speaker 1: verse sixteen, then is not Christ raised? And if Christ
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  Speaker 1: be not raised, he continues the argument here, if there
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  Speaker 1: is no resurrection of the dead, and if Christ is
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  Speaker 1: not raised, he says, your faith is in vain, and
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  Speaker 1: you are yet in your sins. Oh, my God, you're
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  Speaker 1: still in your since your sins have not been forgiven.
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  Speaker 1: You have not been washed in the blood of the lamp.
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  Speaker 1: As far as the e sins from the west, So
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  Speaker 1: far has he removed our transgressions from us? No, that
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  Speaker 1: hasn't happened either, if the dead do not rise, if
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  Speaker 1: Christ has not been risen from the dead, and that
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  Speaker 1: blood atonement, that sacrifice, that's shedding of blood, placed as
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  Speaker 1: it were, on the altar of heaven. Because if he's
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  Speaker 1: still in the grave, he was the Bible said, by
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  Speaker 1: the way he was raised for our justification. But if
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  Speaker 1: he's not raised, if he's not risen from the dead,
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  Speaker 1: Paul says, we are yet in our sins, and verse
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  Speaker 1: eighteen says, then they also which are falling asleep in Christ.
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  Speaker 1: In other words, those who had already died it's over.
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  Speaker 1: He says, they're perished that's the end. If in this
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  Speaker 1: life only we have hope in Christ, Paul says, verse nineteen,
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  Speaker 1: this is where we get the topic or title for
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  Speaker 1: today that we want to ponder. He says, if in
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  Speaker 1: this life only we have hope in Christ, we are
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  Speaker 1: of all men most miserable. In other words, those of
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  Speaker 1: us who have this belief, this faith, this trust in Christ,
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  Speaker 1: who is dead, who is not risen from the dead.
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  Speaker 1: Paul says, if that is the case, then we are
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  Speaker 1: the most miserable of all men, because his argument is,
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  Speaker 1: we are believed in a God that does not exist,
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  Speaker 1: in a God that did not raise Christ from the dead.
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  Speaker 1: We're believing in a Christ as a savior who cannot
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  Speaker 1: be a savior because he's not alive. He's not interceding
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  Speaker 1: for us, he's not working in us, he's not in us.
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  Speaker 1: All that he's in other words, all that Jesus said
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  Speaker 1: that would happen, that would transpire after his death. If
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  Speaker 1: it did not happen, then that makes null and void
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  Speaker 1: everything that he said, everything that he said everything. Ah.
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  Speaker 1: But clearly, clearly, ladies, and we know by the way,
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  Speaker 1: we know that Christ is risen from the dead a man,
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  Speaker 1: and that he is alive, and that he lives in us,
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  Speaker 1: and he's still yet saving, He's still yet. Oh, I
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  Speaker 1: have no Listen, there is no doubt in my mind
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  Speaker 1: at all that Christ not only lived, not only that
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  Speaker 1: he was crucified. I have no doubt in my mind
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  Speaker 1: that he is alive, that he's risen from no doubt,
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  Speaker 1: no doubt, zero doubt in my mind zero. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: not saying that to try to persuade anyone otherwise, because
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  Speaker 1: you can't get that persuasion from me. It can only
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  Speaker 1: come from him, a man. When God, when the Lord
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  Speaker 1: asked his disciples, Jesus did ask his disciples, whom the
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  Speaker 1: men say that I am? And they say, some say this,
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  Speaker 1: and some say that. And Peter said, thou art the Christ,
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  Speaker 1: the son of the Living God. You what Jesus said
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  Speaker 1: to Peter, flesh and blood did not reveal this unto you,
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  Speaker 1: but my Father, which is in heaven. You can't get
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  Speaker 1: the revelation, you can't get to understanding, you can't get
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  Speaker 1: the hope and the assurance of who Jesus is without Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: That's why I have zero reservations about Amen Jesus being alive,
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  Speaker 1: because he lives in me. Amen. Clearly. So then clearly
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  Speaker 1: we must conclude that the most miserable people in our
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  Speaker 1: world are those who only live for the hearing. Now, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: that's it. They are living with a false philosophical hope
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  Speaker 1: and a mantra that you only live once. You've heard this,
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  Speaker 1: you've heard this said before. Yoose those those four the
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  Speaker 1: word yolo acronym if as it were, for you only
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  Speaker 1: live once, you only live once. And so their philosophy,
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  Speaker 1: their belief, their religion as it were, because everybody's religious.
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  Speaker 1: And they may not worship the through God, of course, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: but everybody has religion. Amen. And and they and everybody worships.
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  Speaker 1: And so these kinds of individuals they live and enjoy
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  Speaker 1: or they live to enjoy life, this life to the fullest.
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  Speaker 1: They seek to obtain the highest a man level of
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  Speaker 1: gratification and satisfaction, happiness, pleasure, seeking to reduce or or
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  Speaker 1: or eliminate pain at all costs, and misery and suffering,
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  Speaker 1: because again, you only live once, and this is it,
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  Speaker 1: so maximize it, uh, take advantage of it. This is
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  Speaker 1: this is it, This is it, This is it, and
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  Speaker 1: and and and this philosophy as it were of escapism.
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  Speaker 1: It has deceived untold multitudes of people who have been
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  Speaker 1: victimized and to believe in that they will not be accountable,
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  Speaker 1: they will not have to answer to the God of creation,
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  Speaker 1: who made them, made man in his own image, in
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  Speaker 1: his own likeness, and again gave us dominion in the earth.
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  Speaker 1: And these people believe that they will not have to
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  Speaker 1: answer and be accountable for the deeds done in this body.
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  Speaker 1: That's what they believe, because they're just living their lives
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  Speaker 1: as if there is no God. In the Psalmist twice
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  Speaker 1: in the Psalms, the fool has said in his heart
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  Speaker 1: that there is no God. They live as fools, because
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  Speaker 1: that's what a fool believes. That there is no God
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  Speaker 1: in that age. And if there is no God, there's
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  Speaker 1: no accountable. But again, you take logic, you can logically
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  Speaker 1: follow that belief. If there is no God, then I
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  Speaker 1: can do what I want to do. Then I can
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  Speaker 1: be God. I am God. I'm accountable to no one
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  Speaker 1: but me. I can make my own rules, I can
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  Speaker 1: make my own laws. I can decide what I do,
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  Speaker 1: when I do, and what I do, and I have
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  Speaker 1: to answer to no one because there is no God.
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  Speaker 1: Certainly not the God of the Bible, the God who's
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  Speaker 1: going to hold me accountable, the God who is the
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  Speaker 1: judge of the quick and the dead, the God that
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  Speaker 1: the Christians expouls. He doesn't exist. And so therefore I'm
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  Speaker 1: a free agent to do as I please. That is
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  Speaker 1: what they believe, that is what they govern their lives by.
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  Speaker 1: And so they have that philosoph that system of believe. Again,
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  Speaker 1: I listen, I get it. You must find an escapism.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, make no mistake about it, because
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  Speaker 1: Paul writes about this in the Book of Romans, chapter
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  Speaker 1: number one. They know, they do know. This is all delusion,
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  Speaker 1: ladies and gentlemen, make no mistake about Church of the
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  Speaker 1: Living God. This is all delusion. They know that there
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  Speaker 1: is a God. They know, okay, So don't ever think
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  Speaker 1: that people don't know. They do know, and they are
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  Speaker 1: without excuse. And so what this is, what they do,
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  Speaker 1: what they practice is escapism. It's a way of coping
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  Speaker 1: with what they don't want to face because they do
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  Speaker 1: want to do what they want to do. They want
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  Speaker 1: to practice what they want to practice. They want to
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  Speaker 1: live how they want to live. And again, God is,
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  Speaker 1: as it were, long suffering and we use the word permissive,
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  Speaker 1: but he's certainly most tolerant. Oh, no one, no one,
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  Speaker 1: No one will be able to blasphemously say that God
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  Speaker 1: was not merciful enough, that God was not patient enough,
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  Speaker 1: that God was not tolerant enough, that God was not
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  Speaker 1: gracious enough. No one will be able to say that.
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  Speaker 1: But again, they live their lives as if there is
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  Speaker 1: no God. And in this philosophy, in their religion of escapism,
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  Speaker 1: they have been deceived into believing that they will not
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  Speaker 1: have to be accountable for their deeds that they have
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  Speaker 1: done on this side of eternity. What they failed to see,
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  Speaker 1: and what they failed to understand, is that man was
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  Speaker 1: created to live forever and forever. He will live you
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  Speaker 1: and I will live forever. Eternity is real, because God
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  Speaker 1: is real. And what we're living under now, of course,
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  Speaker 1: is the sentence of death. And because this enemy of
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  Speaker 1: death was imposed upon us, was brought upon us because
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  Speaker 1: of our sin and rebellion against God. And but death,
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  Speaker 1: please understand, is just an intermediate state that will one
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  Speaker 1: day be completely destroyed. The Bible else just this, And again,
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  Speaker 1: I know people don't believe the Bible, but the last enemy,
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  Speaker 1: the Bible calls the last enemy death and Paul writes
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  Speaker 1: about it, by the way, in this same chapter, the
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  Speaker 1: last enemy that will be destroyed is death. But I
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  Speaker 1: want you to hear the words of Jesus himself. But
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  Speaker 1: I'm coming to a close here. I want you to
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  Speaker 1: hear the words of Jesus and the Gospel of John
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  Speaker 1: chapter number five. For those of you who doubt that
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  Speaker 1: there will be life after death, hear what Jesus had
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  Speaker 1: to say. And by the way, again, and this is
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  Speaker 1: particular to those who are in the church who are
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  Speaker 1: again professing to believe in Jesus. But as it was,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, this is not something that was or
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  Speaker 1: is just foreign or limited to these few that were
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  Speaker 1: in Corinth, that were in that church. I know there
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  Speaker 1: are people today. And again I can't reconcile it in
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  Speaker 1: my mind? Is am I just? Is it? Is it?
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  Speaker 1: Is it some kind of narrow mindedness? Is it some
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  Speaker 1: kind of over am I? Over analytical? Too logical? And
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  Speaker 1: again again because because I'm just I just have a question.
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  Speaker 1: I just have how can you, how can you and
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  Speaker 1: why would you? I have so many questions, But how
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  Speaker 1: can you believe call yourself believing in a Jesus that
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  Speaker 1: lied to you, as it were, if he if he's
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  Speaker 1: not risen. Now I'm saying, if he is not risen
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  Speaker 1: from the dead, then he lied because he said, no
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  Speaker 1: one takes my life from me. I have power to
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  Speaker 1: lay it down. I have power to take it up again.
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  Speaker 1: He said three days, he said, I will rise again.
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  Speaker 1: He said, destroy this temple, and in three days I race.
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  Speaker 1: That's what he said. But if he's not risen from
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  Speaker 1: the dead, then he lied to you. Why would you
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  Speaker 1: believe anything else? And he said, how can you call
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  Speaker 1: yourself a Christian? And why are you following someone who
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  Speaker 1: lied to you? Well we get that. Well, dug, what
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  Speaker 1: was I thinking? We got people following all kinds of
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  Speaker 1: line demonic politicians and leaders all over this world. Anyway,
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  Speaker 1: I digress. I want you to hear what Jesus had
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  Speaker 1: to say. Gospel of John, chapter five, Verse twenty five.
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  Speaker 1: He says, listen, listen, listen, listen. And again this is
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  Speaker 1: it's for everyone, but especially for you in the church.
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  Speaker 1: You in the church who call yourself of Christian, meaning
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  Speaker 1: you follow Christ. So this is what Christ had to say,
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  Speaker 1: Verse twenty five. John, chapter five. Very verily, I say,
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  Speaker 1: unto you. The hour is coming, and now is when
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  Speaker 1: the dead shall hear the voice of the Son of God,
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  Speaker 1: and they that here shall live. I could just stop
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  Speaker 1: right there. I mean, that is so crystal clear. But
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  Speaker 1: let me read on a few more verses, for more verses.
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  Speaker 1: For as the Father hath life in himself, so hath
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  Speaker 1: he given to the Son to have life in himself,
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  Speaker 1: and hath given him authority to execut cute judgment. Also,
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  Speaker 1: because he is the son of Man, marvel not at this,
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  Speaker 1: For the hour is coming.
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  Speaker 2: In the witch. All a l l that are in
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  Speaker 2: the graves shall hear his voice and shall come forth.
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  Speaker 2: They that have.
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  Speaker 1: Done good unto the resurrection of life, and they that
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  Speaker 1: have done evil unto the resurrection of damnation. All ladies
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  Speaker 1: and gentlemen, all will hear his voice. All will come
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  Speaker 1: from the dead from the grave. Now you can say, well,
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna get cremated. I'm not gonna even I'm not
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  Speaker 1: gonna really I'm gonna entertain that, because if I take
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  Speaker 1: you back to creation, where God spoke the world into
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  Speaker 1: existence and he made man from the dust of the earth.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't believe that, of course you're gonna be
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  Speaker 1: delusion of thinking that if your body is turned into
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  Speaker 1: ashes and you know, thrown into the wind somewhere somehow. Again,
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  Speaker 1: that's the end of view. And I'm not gonna take
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  Speaker 1: the time on that because this is a temporary tabernacle
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  Speaker 1: and all of that. So again and I'm closing. I'm
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  Speaker 1: closing here. Listen. The Pharisees, for example, they were a
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  Speaker 1: religious sect that believed in the resurrection of the dead.
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  Speaker 1: Although again they aired in many other things that they
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  Speaker 1: believed in and talked, they did at least believe in
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  Speaker 1: the resurrection of the dead. The Faducees, on the other hand,
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  Speaker 1: were also a religious sect, but they had no hope
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  Speaker 1: of eternal life because they did not believe in the
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  Speaker 1: resurrection of the dead. Ah, So these words that Jesus
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  Speaker 1: spoke to them and to us, somebody is wrong and
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  Speaker 1: somebody's right. But again there we are again. Here we
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  Speaker 1: are again in our world of my truth, your truth,
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  Speaker 1: his truth, her truth. Everything can be true at the
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  Speaker 1: same time. Again, this is the kind of world of
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  Speaker 1: delusion that we live in. It's true for you, but
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  Speaker 1: it's not true for me. But again, if what Jesus
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  Speaker 1: said is true, then everybody, everyone everybody. Everyone is coming
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  Speaker 1: back from the grave and will be accountable to him
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  Speaker 1: who is the judge of the quicken the dead. And
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  Speaker 1: that's what Jesus said. The hour is coming into which
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  Speaker 1: all that are in the graves will be resurrected from
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  Speaker 1: the dead. They will face the judge of the living
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  Speaker 1: and the dead. Some will go to their eternal reward
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  Speaker 1: and glory to be with Jesus. That's what he said.
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  Speaker 1: Let not your heart be trouble. You believe in God.
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  Speaker 1: Believe also in me. And in my father's house there
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  Speaker 1: are many mansions, And I go to prepare a place
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  Speaker 1: for you. And where I am there you may be also.
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  Speaker 1: They will go on to their eternal reward ward to
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  Speaker 1: be with Jesus in glory. But on the other hand,
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  Speaker 1: he said, those who have practiced evil, who have not repented,
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  Speaker 1: they will go on to eternal damnation, where there will
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  Speaker 1: forever be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Those are not
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  Speaker 1: my words, those are the words of Jesus. And by
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  Speaker 1: the way, misery there will have no end. The most miserable.
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  Speaker 1: Please understand, some people think that the most miserable people
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  Speaker 1: on the earth are Christians, who were there that morality
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  Speaker 1: in their their strictness, in their rules and standards. And
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  Speaker 1: you know, ladies and gentlemen, the most miserable people on
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  Speaker 1: this earth, always has, always will be are those who
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  Speaker 1: do not believe God, do not fear God, do not
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  Speaker 1: seek to obey God. And there again, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: your life is only a vapor. You're only here for
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  Speaker 1: a few moments. They're the most miserable because when they
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  Speaker 1: wake up on the other side of eternity. And by
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  Speaker 1: the way, don't be fooled by the prosperity of people
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  Speaker 1: that are wealthy, who look like they're living it up again,
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  Speaker 1: it's they're masquerading, trying to create joy, trying to you know,
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  Speaker 1: buy happiness. Don't be food. Don't be food. They're thinking
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  Speaker 1: that these people are joyful and have you know, have
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  Speaker 1: it all, they just got they just living it up. No, no, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: but don't be food. These people are miserable. They are miserable.
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  Speaker 1: Their minds are torn because they know that they have
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  Speaker 1: no hope, they know that they have no peace, they
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  Speaker 1: know that they have no assurance, they know that they're
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  Speaker 1: going to die, and they know that there is a God.
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  Speaker 1: They are the most miserable those who have no hope
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  Speaker 1: beyond this mortal life. So we want to pray today
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  Speaker 1: that God, somewhere someone will hear your voice, someone will
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  Speaker 1: come to know that you are the true in the
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  Speaker 1: Living God. Their eyes will be open, their ears will
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  Speaker 1: be attuned, their hearts will be changed, Lord, converted to
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  Speaker 1: receive the gift of eternal life. God, you so love
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  Speaker 1: that you gave that men should not perish but have
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  Speaker 1: everlasting life, life with you, life in you. Here and
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  Speaker 1: now you said, I've come that you might have life,
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  Speaker 1: and have it morebundantly, not only here but eternally in
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  Speaker 1: the ages to come. God be glorified today. We love you,
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  Speaker 1: We praise you. We thank you for this great salvation
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  Speaker 1: that you brought down to us, the hope that we
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  Speaker 1: have in you, so that we are not men most miserable.
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  Speaker 1: We thank you now in Jesus' name. Amen and Amen,