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Episode 148 - The Upsetting Business · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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  Speaker 1: with clarity, with plainness of speech, Amen, and by the
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  Speaker 1: help of the Lord. So today we are continuing in
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  Speaker 1: a series that we've begun on God, Government, Church and State. God, Government,
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  Speaker 1: Church and State. So we welcome you to follow along
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  Speaker 1: in the word of the Lord. We're going to be
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  Speaker 1: looking at a couple of passages of scripture. The first
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  Speaker 1: one will be found in Matthew chapter thirteen, and then
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  Speaker 1: we would go shortly to the Gospel of Luke. Amen. So,
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  Speaker 1: as always, we begin with a brief word of prayer
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  Speaker 1: as we invoke the presidence of the Lord and the
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  Speaker 1: blessing of God. Father. Again, greatest your faithfulness to us,
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  Speaker 1: Great is your mercy, your favor, loving kindness. Lord, We
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  Speaker 1: thank you for the peace of God that surpasses all understanding. Lord,
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  Speaker 1: help us this day to speak the truth in our hearts.
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  Speaker 1: Let the words that proceed of our out of our
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  Speaker 1: mouth be a blessing, be fruitful to the Hero. Lord.
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  Speaker 1: May someone receive this and grafted word that they may
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  Speaker 1: may be able to come to know you. Amen, in
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  Speaker 1: the fullness, in the power and the anointing and the
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  Speaker 1: blessing that you have for all those who will believe
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  Speaker 1: and obey your word, God be multiplied in us. Help us,
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  Speaker 1: oh God, to stand in such a time as this. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: We pray your blessings upon your people everywhere. It's in
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  Speaker 1: the name of Jesus we give thanks, Amen and Amen.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Today I want to focus on kind of
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  Speaker 1: this subject matter. The topic of this particular podcast will
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  Speaker 1: be the upsetting business. The upsetting business Matthew, chapter thirteen.
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  Speaker 1: Let me just begin there for the purpose of our
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  Speaker 1: understanding that man, what Jesus came to do is very upsetting,
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  Speaker 1: was very upsetting, and still he is upsetting. Amen to
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  Speaker 1: a lot of people. Matthew, Chapter thirteen, beginning of verse
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  Speaker 1: fifty four. The Bible tells us, when he, that is, Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: had come to his own country, he taught them in
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  Speaker 1: their synagogue, so that they were astonished and said, where
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  Speaker 1: did this man get this wisdom and these mighty works?
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  Speaker 1: Is this not the carpenter's son, Is not his mother
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  Speaker 1: called Mary? And his brothers James, Joseph, Simon and Judas
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  Speaker 1: and his sisters. Are they not all with us? Where
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  Speaker 1: then did this man get all these things? So they
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  Speaker 1: Verse fifty seven were offended at him. They were offended
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  Speaker 1: at Jesus. Now, there are those who would argue that
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  Speaker 1: Jesus was a political and he was detached from government
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  Speaker 1: and the rulers over these earthly governments and kingdoms, if
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  Speaker 1: you will, But the case can be made. I believe
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  Speaker 1: that early in the life of Jesus he was already
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  Speaker 1: devoted to his mission and the purpose for which he
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  Speaker 1: came down a man from heaven to accomplish. Jesus came
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  Speaker 1: not to avoid the leaders of this world, but to
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  Speaker 1: overthrow their authority. And I'll say this in a uniquely
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  Speaker 1: surreptitious way. That the leaders would be overtly threatened by Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: threatened by his ministry, threatened by his presence, uh and
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  Speaker 1: and and and threatened to the point that they were
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  Speaker 1: forced would be forced. And we know the history now,
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  Speaker 1: but they would be forced to make a decision as
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  Speaker 1: to what they believed that they had to do to him,
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  Speaker 1: what they had to do to if you will stop him. Now,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to repeat this at the end of the podcast.
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  Speaker 1: But let me say it now, nothing has changed in
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  Speaker 1: our modern world as it relates to the decision that
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  Speaker 1: must be made concerning Jesus by not only each and
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  Speaker 1: every man, woman, boy, and girl, but by every ruler
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  Speaker 1: in this world. Will you accept the fact that Jesus
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  Speaker 1: is king and lord, and that he rules over you,
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  Speaker 1: over your life. His dominion is above yours, his authority
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  Speaker 1: is above yours, and you are subject to him. Will
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  Speaker 1: you accept that? Or will you reject his kingship and
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  Speaker 1: lordship every ruler? I would argue that the beginning again
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  Speaker 1: of this upsetting business occurs in the only account that
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  Speaker 1: we have in the Gospels of the childhood life of Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: which is in the Book of Luke, chapter number two,
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  Speaker 1: where we will find that Jesus was somehow separated from
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  Speaker 1: his a man parents and the company that had traveled
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  Speaker 1: to Jerusalem for the feasts of the Passover, and on
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  Speaker 1: the way back, of course, we'll see that they did
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  Speaker 1: not have Jesus in their midst. What a horrible thing
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  Speaker 1: it would be if we had to find Jesus instead
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  Speaker 1: of him finding us Amen Verse forty Luke, chapter two,
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  Speaker 1: And the child speaking of Jesus grew and waxed, strong
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  Speaker 1: in spirit, filled with wisdom, and the grace of God
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  Speaker 1: was upon him. Now his parents went to Jerusalem every
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  Speaker 1: year at the feast of the Passover, and when he
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  Speaker 1: was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem according
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  Speaker 1: to the custom of the feast, And when they had
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  Speaker 1: fulfilled the days, as they returned, the child Jesus tarried
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  Speaker 1: behind in Jerusalem, and Joseph and his mother knew not
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  Speaker 1: of it, but they, supposing him to have been in
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  Speaker 1: the company, went a day's journey, and they sought him
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  Speaker 1: among their kinsfolk and acquaintances. And when they found him not,
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  Speaker 1: they turned back again to Jerusalem seeking him, and it
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  Speaker 1: came to pass after three days they found him in
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  Speaker 1: the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both
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  Speaker 1: hearing them and asking them questions. And all who heard
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  Speaker 1: him were astonished at his understanding and answers. And when
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  Speaker 1: they saw him they were amazed. And his mother said
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  Speaker 1: to him, son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? Behold,
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  Speaker 1: thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing. And he said,
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  Speaker 1: unto them, how is it that ye sought me? Knew
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  Speaker 1: ye not that I must be about my father's business,
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  Speaker 1: and they understood not the saying which he spoke unto them. Again,
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  Speaker 1: early in his life, as a twelve year old o
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  Speaker 1: Jesus was in the temple in his house, shall we say,
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  Speaker 1: in a q and a discussion with the doctors of
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  Speaker 1: the law. Now, who were these doctors of the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: I'll take you to bible hub dot com and I'll
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  Speaker 1: just read an excerpt from this amen to give you
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  Speaker 1: an idea of who these people were. Doctors of the
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  Speaker 1: law were integral to the religious life of Isra. They
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  Speaker 1: were responsible for teaching the Torah, that is, the first
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  Speaker 1: five books of the Bible, interpreting its commandments and applying
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  Speaker 1: them to daily life. Their expertise was sought in legal disputes,
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  Speaker 1: and they often held. Listen to this positions of leadership
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  Speaker 1: within the Synagogue and the Sanhedrin, the Jewish ruling Council.
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  Speaker 1: In other words, Jesus was in discussion with leaders, leaders
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  Speaker 1: of government, leaders in the highest of the institutions of
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  Speaker 1: the Jewish people. Now, the Sanhedrin and the Jewish Ruling
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  Speaker 1: Council are governmental bodies, which means that Jesus, at age twelve,
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  Speaker 1: went directly to interact with them. It certainly would not
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  Speaker 1: end there, of course, because years later, in the official
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  Speaker 1: if you will, beginning of Jesus Earthly Ministry, at the
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  Speaker 1: age of thirty, Jesus would encounter the rulers of the
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  Speaker 1: Jews on multiple occasions, and most of these interactions were,
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  Speaker 1: of course confrontational nature, with Jesus increasingly increasingly being met
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  Speaker 1: with hostility and ambivalence, and it almost always led to Jesus. Well,
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  Speaker 1: of course it did, especially in if you read, for example,
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  Speaker 1: Matthew Chapter twenty three, it led to Jesus rebuking them
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  Speaker 1: and correcting them because of their erroneous and misleading teachings
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  Speaker 1: and doctrines that they a man had been, a man
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  Speaker 1: leading the people down, if you will this blind path,
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  Speaker 1: blind leading the blind, as Jesus said, so, Jesus, if
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  Speaker 1: you will came down to this earth, He came down
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  Speaker 1: to us with a business purpose. What business of his
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  Speaker 1: father is Jesus referring to at this early age of
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  Speaker 1: twelve years old. Well, I would argue that it is
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  Speaker 1: the business of God that is clearly stated in the
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  Speaker 1: scriptures multiple times throughout the Old Testament concerning Amen his
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  Speaker 1: servant that would come and we're talking about the Old
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  Speaker 1: Testament concerning the coming of his servant into the world.
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  Speaker 1: He would come to disrupt, He would come to overturn,
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  Speaker 1: he would come to conquer, he would come to make new,
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  Speaker 1: He would come to root out, He would come to overthrow,
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  Speaker 1: He would come to destroy all the works of the
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  Speaker 1: rulers of the darkness of this world, principally the devil himself,
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  Speaker 1: And and and and by the way, where where is
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  Speaker 1: it that the ruler or the rulers of the darkness
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  Speaker 1: operate primarily? Well, ladies and gentlemen, History would beg History
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  Speaker 1: would make the case. History would make the argument that
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  Speaker 1: they reside and they operate in and around the highest
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  Speaker 1: seats of government authority in this fallen and corrupt world. Now,
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  Speaker 1: if you will, the business of his father, as I said, already,
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  Speaker 1: is throughout the Old Testament, throughout the mouth of the prophets,
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  Speaker 1: in the Psalms, and even early on in the book
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  Speaker 1: of Genesis chapter three, where God himself said that he
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  Speaker 1: would come to bruise the head of the serpent. I
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  Speaker 1: would take you to Isaiah chapter sixty one. And this,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, is a passage that Jesus himself would
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  Speaker 1: again in his earthly ministry, repeat and it would certainly
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  Speaker 1: again upset upset who is just upset the people when
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  Speaker 1: he spoke these words, and he said, this day this
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  Speaker 1: scripture is fulfilled in your hearing. I am he amen
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  Speaker 1: Isaiah sixty one. The spirit of the Lord God is
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  Speaker 1: upon me, because the Lord has anointed me to preach
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  Speaker 1: good tidings to the poor. He has sent me to
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  Speaker 1: heal the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives
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  Speaker 1: and the opening of the prison to those who are bound.
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  Speaker 1: To proclaim the acceptable year of the Lord and the
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  Speaker 1: dair vengeance of our God, to comfort all who mourn,
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  Speaker 1: To console those who mourn in zion, to give them
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  Speaker 1: beauty for ashes, the oil of joy for mourning, the
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  Speaker 1: garment of praise, for the spirit of heaviness, that they
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  Speaker 1: may be called trees of righteousness, the planting of the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: that he may be glory fie now sadly, but understandably,
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  Speaker 1: at least from the cardinal's perspective. From the worldly perspective,
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  Speaker 1: the preaching of the good news of the Gospel to
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  Speaker 1: the poor is upsetting to the powers that be. You
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  Speaker 1: would think you would think that the powers that be
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  Speaker 1: the rulers of this world, the kings and governments, would
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  Speaker 1: want people to be happy and fill with joy, and
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  Speaker 1: to be of good cheer and have joy. The joy
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  Speaker 1: that Jesus brought to the world when he came into
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  Speaker 1: the world. Joy to the world. The Lord has come.
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  Speaker 1: You would think that the rulers of this world would
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  Speaker 1: be excited about the Kingdom of light rather than darkness.
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  Speaker 1: But preaching good news to the poor, it is upsetting
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  Speaker 1: to the powers that be, both man and the demonic
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  Speaker 1: Hell itself is upset with the Gospel, with the good news.
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  Speaker 1: And let me give you, give you very quickly an example, one,
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  Speaker 1: just very quick example. When oh, there's so many in
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  Speaker 1: the Book of Acts, and I'm thinking of a multitude
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  Speaker 1: of them, the riot that occurred at Ephesus with Paul
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  Speaker 1: oh Man. But let me let me go early in
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  Speaker 1: the Book of Acts, when Peter and John went up
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  Speaker 1: to the temple, and the Bible says, at the ninth hour,
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  Speaker 1: at the not the ninth hour, but yes, at the
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  Speaker 1: ninth hour of the day, which is nine am in
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  Speaker 1: the morning, to pray. And on their way into the temple,
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  Speaker 1: there was a man who was crippled. The Bible said
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  Speaker 1: from his mother's wound, who had never walked. The man
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  Speaker 1: was above forty years old, and he was expecting to
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  Speaker 1: receive alms help money from Peter and John as they
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  Speaker 1: were walking by him. And Peter said, of course, silvering
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  Speaker 1: gold I don't have, but what I do have, give
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  Speaker 1: I you in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth's
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  Speaker 1: horizon and walk. The man was miraculously healed, leaping and walking,
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  Speaker 1: and he ran and jumped, and he was praising God.
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  Speaker 1: And all the people gathered around. Everybody knew who the
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  Speaker 1: man was, including the leaders, the rulers. They knew this man,
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  Speaker 1: and so when they saw him, he was very upsetting
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  Speaker 1: to them that they had performed this miracle of healing
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  Speaker 1: on this man. None of you would think that the
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  Speaker 1: rulers would be okay, would be happy with people that
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  Speaker 1: are sick, people that are infirmed, that have diseases, people
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  Speaker 1: that are in need being delivered to the point where
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  Speaker 1: they could be self sufficient as it were. But no, no,
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  Speaker 1: As a matter of fact, again, if you go just
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  Speaker 1: in the life of Jesus doing his earthly ministry, all
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  Speaker 1: of the miracles, designs and wonders that he did, these
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  Speaker 1: people were upset. They were mad at Jesus for healing people,
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  Speaker 1: supposedly because in some instances it was done on the
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  Speaker 1: Sabbath day. But please understand again, the rulers of this world,
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  Speaker 1: the governments of this world, the kings of this world,
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  Speaker 1: do not want the Gospel, the good News preached and
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  Speaker 1: talked to the masses. It's upsetting. It's upsetting. Amen. So
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  Speaker 1: the healing of the broken hearted and the proclamation of
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  Speaker 1: liberty for those in captivity, captivity, which Jesus, of course
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  Speaker 1: again when he read this, when he was in the synagogue, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: in his own hometown, when he read this from Isaiah
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  Speaker 1: chapter sixty one, and he said, this day, this scripture
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  Speaker 1: is fulfilling you. Here these people were upset with Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: they were offended. Amen. And so you talk about healing
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  Speaker 1: the broken hearted, liberty, liberty, proclamation of liberty for those
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  Speaker 1: who are in captivity of all kinds. It's all kinds
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  Speaker 1: of captivity, and most of all, Number one, please forget about.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not saying forget about, but a lot of people
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  Speaker 1: focus only on, for example, slavery servitude, and there's more
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  Speaker 1: than that that is far more devastating and concerting that
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  Speaker 1: the Bible speaks of the one and most detrimental Amen,
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  Speaker 1: captivity that we are in as falling creatures in this
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  Speaker 1: world is the servitude des sin, slavery de sin. That's
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  Speaker 1: what Jesus came to set us free front slavery, bondage
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  Speaker 1: to sin, And that's what he's talking about. Captivity, captivity.
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  Speaker 1: We were in captivity. We were in darkness. Amen. But
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  Speaker 1: the light has come, Amen, and the freeing of those
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  Speaker 1: who were in captivity. Amen. This is of great consternation
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  Speaker 1: to the governments of oppression who love to have people
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  Speaker 1: in poverty. Believe it or not, the governments of this world,
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  Speaker 1: for the most part, loved to oppress its people. Opening
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  Speaker 1: the prison doors to free those who were in activity. No,
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  Speaker 1: this cannot be an option, not for the governments of
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  Speaker 1: this world. But that is only the beginning, because when
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  Speaker 1: you read again verses two and three of this Amen,
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  Speaker 1: proclamation of freedom in Isaiah sixty one, to proclaim the
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  Speaker 1: acceptable year of the Lord and the day of vengeance
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  Speaker 1: of our God. To comfort all who mourn, to console
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  Speaker 1: those who mourn in zion, to give them beauty for ashes,
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  Speaker 1: the oil of joy for mourning, the garment of praise,
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  Speaker 1: for the spirit of heavenness, that they may be called
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  Speaker 1: trees of righteousness, the planning of the Lord, that he
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  Speaker 1: may be glorified. Oh no, But ladies and gentlemen, make
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  Speaker 1: no mistake about it. It is the year of the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: It is the day of God to vengeance. It is
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  Speaker 1: comfort time for those who mourn. It is consolation for
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  Speaker 1: those who mourn. It is the time for God to
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  Speaker 1: be glorify. Jesus said, if I be lifted up, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: that's what he came for. Now, he said, is the time.
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  Speaker 1: Now will I be glorified? And Father, you will be
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  Speaker 1: glorified in me. Amen. And so this business that Jesus
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  Speaker 1: came down to this earth to do is still right now,
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  Speaker 1: and perhaps even more so in our day. It's very
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  Speaker 1: upsetting to the kings and the rulers of this world. Again,
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  Speaker 1: they do not want Jesus to rule over them. They
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  Speaker 1: don't want his rule. They don't want his authority. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: They don't want his law, they don't want his ordinances.
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  Speaker 1: They don't want his precepts. They don't want his commandments. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: They don't want they don't want It's some number two again.
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  Speaker 1: Let us cast off the restraints for them to them,
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  Speaker 1: it it it it, it it it It bothers their conscience,
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  Speaker 1: it eats at them. Well, the Bible speaks of it
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  Speaker 1: is so true, and make no mistake about it. And
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  Speaker 1: this is why again, when we preach the Word, when
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  Speaker 1: we preach the Gospel, when we teach the truth of
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  Speaker 1: the Word of God, people don't like it, and especially
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  Speaker 1: the rulers of this world, who in their own pride
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  Speaker 1: and arrogance. And we talked about one of the greatest,
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  Speaker 1: the if not the greatest king that ever lived in
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  Speaker 1: terms of the power, the power and the authority that
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  Speaker 1: he had autonomous only amen there was, there was no one,
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  Speaker 1: only God that he had the answitude king neverkan has.
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  Speaker 1: But what happens is when rulers, when kings, when presidents,
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  Speaker 1: when prime ministers, when governors and mayors and whoever, when
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  Speaker 1: these people get into their positions of power, and oftentimes
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  Speaker 1: the spirit of pride is already in them before they
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  Speaker 1: ascend there. But if they are not checked, if they
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  Speaker 1: are not disciplined, and the spirit of pride and arrogance
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  Speaker 1: rises up in them even more, elevates them even more,
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  Speaker 1: you can best believe they will rule with oppression. The
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  Speaker 1: Bible speaks of this, how that when the righteous rule,
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  Speaker 1: the people rejoice, but when the wicked are in power
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  Speaker 1: the people grown there is mourning, there moaning, there is oppression.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible says, righteousness is what exalts a nation, but
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  Speaker 1: sin is a reproach. And it's bad enough, ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 1: that we have sin and wickedness and ungodliness and immorality
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  Speaker 1: in the population, in the culture at large. But it
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  Speaker 1: is even more egregious when the rulers, when the governments,
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  Speaker 1: when those who are in authority, who should be leading
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  Speaker 1: the people, who should be directing the people, who should
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  Speaker 1: be correcting the people who have been given the authority
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  Speaker 1: of God Romans, Chapter thirteen. Governments were established by God,
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  Speaker 1: and God has given to them authority to punish evil duels.
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  Speaker 1: But when the government itself of any people or any
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  Speaker 1: nation becomes wicked, rupt, fill with evil and abominations, and
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  Speaker 1: give hearty approval to those things that are against the
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  Speaker 1: word of God. When the government, when the rulers of
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  Speaker 1: this world are in stritent opposition to God in his word,
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  Speaker 1: we really have problems. Again. When the righteous rule, the
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  Speaker 1: people rejoice, but when the wicked are in power, the
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  Speaker 1: people grown. They grown. But you see when these kind
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  Speaker 1: of leaders, when these kind of rulers who hate the
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  Speaker 1: word of God, who despise the word of God, who
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  Speaker 1: rule and operate against the word of God, against his commands,
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  Speaker 1: when they are in power, Amen, they lead a people,
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  Speaker 1: They lead a nation closer and closer to the judgment
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  Speaker 1: of God to divine intervention. We've talked about that already. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And this is why when Jesus came to testify against
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  Speaker 1: the works of the darkness, against the rulers of this world,
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  Speaker 1: he was so upsetting to them. Amen. They did not
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  Speaker 1: want him to rule over them. They did not want
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  Speaker 1: him to speak the kind of things that he spoke.
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  Speaker 1: And his disciples who followed in his footsteps, Oh, the
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  Speaker 1: Bible says, they took knowledge of them, Peter and John
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  Speaker 1: and the apostles, They took knowledge of them that they
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  Speaker 1: had been with Jesus, who so they wished to break
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  Speaker 1: the bonds of righteousness. They want to cast away the
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  Speaker 1: cords of moral restraint and accountability to Jesus, Amen, as
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  Speaker 1: King and Lord. Amen. Now he said, this is the
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  Speaker 1: words of Jesus. The prince of this world is cast
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  Speaker 1: out now is the prince of this world cast out? Now?
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  Speaker 1: Is the prince of this world? Judged? Ladies, please please,
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  Speaker 1: we gotta see. We gotta call those things. We gotta
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  Speaker 1: understand it. Those things that God has spoken, when God
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  Speaker 1: is predestined, when God is already determined to be, by
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  Speaker 1: the way, in eternity past, before the foundation of the world,
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  Speaker 1: what God has already spoken is already accomplishes. That's why
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  Speaker 1: Jesus could say it. That's why Jesus could speak it. Now.
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  Speaker 1: It's done. Now. When you look at the world, you
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  Speaker 1: look at the condition of the world in which we
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  Speaker 1: live now, and we see things transpiring in our sphere
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  Speaker 1: of time, which, by the way, is in eternity present.
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  Speaker 1: Shall I call it as opposed to eternity past or
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  Speaker 1: eternity future. We're living in the presence, in our in
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  Speaker 1: our eyes. From our perspective, it looks like the world
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  Speaker 1: is in chaos. It looks like the powers of the
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  Speaker 1: darkness are winning. It looks like the Church is impotent.
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  Speaker 1: It appears as though God is aloof He's not present,
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  Speaker 1: he is powerless to do anything about what is happening
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  Speaker 1: in our world. M Ah, do not do not, do
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  Speaker 1: not do not be deceived. Do not be misled by
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  Speaker 1: what your eyes see, because Satan has already been defeated
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  Speaker 1: all of the principalities and powers. Oh, they knew, they
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  Speaker 1: knew when Jesus came. They saw it when, Oh, please,
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  Speaker 1: have you come. Listen to what they will say these demons,
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  Speaker 1: have you come to torment us before the time? In
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  Speaker 1: other words, they knew, they know, if only we did. Nevertheless,
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  Speaker 1: the upsetting business, that's what Jesus was talking about. I
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  Speaker 1: must be about my father's business. Now. Of course, it
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  Speaker 1: wasn't the time, because he would not enter into his ministry,
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  Speaker 1: his priesthood as it were, until the age of thirty. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: But the business that Jesus was talking about was an
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  Speaker 1: upsetting business, and it has already been accomplished in his death,
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  Speaker 1: in his burial, and in his triumphant resurrection from the dead. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: from the grave that could not hold him down. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: nothing has changed. Let me say it again, nothing, ladies
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  Speaker 1: and gentlemen, has changed in our modern world as it
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  Speaker 1: relates to the decision that must be made about Jesus, particularly,
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  Speaker 1: if you will, by the rulers of this world. They
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  Speaker 1: must listen. Let me say this and I'm done of closing.
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  Speaker 1: There's no such thing as neutrality when it comes to Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Either you are with him or you are against him.
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  Speaker 1: There's no middle ground, there's no fence to stand on.
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  Speaker 1: Hey man, you can't be double minded. Either you are
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  Speaker 1: with Jesus or you are against Jesus. And the vast
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  Speaker 1: majority of the rulers of this world, the kingdoms of
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  Speaker 1: this world, the governments of this world, are being led
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  Speaker 1: by rulers who are against God, godliness, righteousness. There's no
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  Speaker 1: question about it. I mean, and I'm not I'm not
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  Speaker 1: just saying this by observation and certainly not judging anyone.
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  Speaker 1: I'm simply stating what the Bible clearly states. Read some
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  Speaker 1: number two again, Amen, they don't want it. So nothing
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  Speaker 1: in our world has changed as it relates to a man.
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  Speaker 1: The opposition to Jesus as it relates to the a man,
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  Speaker 1: the choice that must be made concerning him. You must
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  Speaker 1: make a decision about Jesus. Will you accept the fact
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  Speaker 1: that Jesus is king and lord over you over your governorship, presidency,
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  Speaker 1: mayor duties, responsibilities, leadership, your Senate, your Congress, your legislation, legislators.
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  Speaker 1: Will the righteousness of God, Will the law of God prevail?
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  Speaker 1: Will you allow him? Will you permit him to be lord?
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  Speaker 1: In the sense that, now, let me just I say that,
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  Speaker 1: because we say we stay mistakenly, I will say, and
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  Speaker 1: I don't want anyone to be misled. Certainly, we don't
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  Speaker 1: make Jesus lord. He is lord. Will you in other words,
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  Speaker 1: let me rephrase it. Will you confess? Will you honor?
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  Speaker 1: Will you respect? Will you acknowledge that he is Lord,
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  Speaker 1: that he is King, that he is God. That's really
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  Speaker 1: the question. Will you govern according to his righteous precepts.
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  Speaker 1: That's what we That's where we are, that's who we are. So,
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  Speaker 1: Father again, we know that you came for a business
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  Speaker 1: purpose into this world, your father's business, and we the church,
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  Speaker 1: your church, your people, are to be about the Father's
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  Speaker 1: business as well. So help us to stand in the
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  Speaker 1: day and a time still in a world where people
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  Speaker 1: are hostile, governments are hostile rulers, a hostile to the
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  Speaker 1: preaching of the Gospel, to the setting free of the captives,
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  Speaker 1: to those who are in bundage in blindness. Lord, help
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  Speaker 1: us to take a stand on your word, on your promises.
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  Speaker 1: A man to preach and to proclaim liberty in such
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  Speaker 1: a time as this, the acceptable day of the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: We give you glory to the honor of the praise
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  Speaker 1: in Jesus name. Amen and Amen.