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Episode 130 - The Last Enemy · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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  Speaker 1: The Summons insomnumber sixteen recorded these words, I have set
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  Speaker 1: the Lord always before me, because he is at my
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  Speaker 1: right hand. I shall not be moved. Therefore my heart
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  Speaker 1: is glad, and my glory rejoiceth my s s flesh.
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  Speaker 1: He says, also shall rest in hope, for thou wilt
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  Speaker 1: not leave my soul in hell. Neither will thou suffer
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  Speaker 1: thine Holy One to see corruption. Thou will show me
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  Speaker 1: the path of life, and thy presence is fullness of joy.
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  Speaker 1: At thy right hand there are pleasures forevermore. Amen. Amen, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: This is the hope a man of every believer in
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  Speaker 1: Christ Jesus. We welcome you once again to this another
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  Speaker 1: as our YouTube channel, where we endeavor again to speak
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  Speaker 1: the truth of God in love. Amen. And right now
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  Speaker 1: we are continuing in this first letter of the Apostle
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  Speaker 1: Paul to the Corinthian Church. And today we are continuing
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  Speaker 1: in chapter number fifteen, and today we want to discuss
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  Speaker 1: from versus night Team through twenty six this thought of
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  Speaker 1: the last enemy, the last enemy, Amen, the last enemy. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Thank God again for all of his blessings. Thank God
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  Speaker 1: again for all of you, who a man are faithful
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  Speaker 1: to Amen, the Kingdom of God. And again that's what
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  Speaker 1: we are here to do. Amen to a man, add
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  Speaker 1: to what God has given to us, to be faithful
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  Speaker 1: Stewart's over over which he has the things which He
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  Speaker 1: has given to us. Amen. And to fulfill the ministry.
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  Speaker 1: That's what the Apostle Paul Amen prayed or spoke of us, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: as to people of God. And that was his desire also,
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  Speaker 1: of course, certainly is mine. I want to fulfill the ministry.
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  Speaker 1: I want to Amen, finish the work. Amen. I want
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  Speaker 1: to be as he was when he wrote his departing words.
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  Speaker 1: I have fought a good fight, I have finished the course.
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  Speaker 1: I have kept the faith. That is my prayer. That
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  Speaker 1: is my desire. Amen. That is Amen, Hope Amen. In
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  Speaker 1: this life. Amen, Bill, while I'm here. While I'm here,
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  Speaker 1: I want to, Amen, do what God has purposed for
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  Speaker 1: me to do in this world. Amen. And today again,
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  Speaker 1: if you have your Bibles, I want you to go
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  Speaker 1: with us to First Corinthians, chapter number fifteen, The Last Enemy,
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  Speaker 1: The Last Enemy. Father, Again, we thank you for grace, mercy, peace, joy,
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  Speaker 1: the hope that we have in you, all of the
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  Speaker 1: bountiful blessings that you've already bestowed upon us, and so
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  Speaker 1: much more that you have in us for us. Brother,
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  Speaker 1: I has not seen here, has not heard, neither has
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  Speaker 1: it entered into the heart of man, the things that
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  Speaker 1: you have prepared for them that love you. But Lord,
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  Speaker 1: we look forward to Amen, your glorious return, your coming
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  Speaker 1: for your people. Amen. In that great day when you
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  Speaker 1: shall reign as King of kings and Lord of lords,
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  Speaker 1: every eye shall see, and every need shall bow, and
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  Speaker 1: every tongue shall confess, Amen, and acknowledge that you are Lord.
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  Speaker 1: Be thou glorified. Today in Jesus' name, we praying your thanks,
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  Speaker 1: Amen and Amen, all right, The Last Enemy Verse number
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  Speaker 1: nineteen of First Corinthians, Chapter Amen fifteen. If in this
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  Speaker 1: life only we have hope in Christ, we are of
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  Speaker 1: all men most miserable. But now in Christ. But now
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  Speaker 1: is brother Christ risen from the dead, and become the
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  Speaker 1: first fruits of them that slept. For since by man
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  Speaker 1: came death, by man came also the resurrection of the dead.
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  Speaker 1: For as in Adam all die, even so in Christ
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  Speaker 1: shall all be made alive. But every man in this
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  Speaker 1: rather in his own order, Christ the first fruits. Afterward,
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  Speaker 1: they that are Christ. At his coming. Then cometh the end,
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  Speaker 1: when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to God,
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  Speaker 1: even the Father, and when he shall have put down
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  Speaker 1: all rule and all authority and power. For he must
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  Speaker 1: reign till he hath put all enemies under his feet
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  Speaker 1: Verse twenty six. The last enemy that shall be destroyed
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  Speaker 1: is death. Now, clearly the passage here speaks of enemies,
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  Speaker 1: and it also speaks very particularly specifically of this last enemy.
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  Speaker 1: That's what we want to focus on today, this last
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  Speaker 1: enemy that is going to be destroyed, which is death. Amen, enemies, enemies, enemies.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, we live in a world of enemy vexation,
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  Speaker 1: and on the surface, it seems that most people have
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  Speaker 1: a desire to live in peace, and I don't doubt
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  Speaker 1: that people want to be left alone and lead a
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  Speaker 1: peaceable life. And by the way, that's something that Apostle
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  Speaker 1: Paul commands us, the people of God, to pray for. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: we ought to pray for rulers, for kings, priests, all
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  Speaker 1: that in authority. The Bible says that we might lead
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  Speaker 1: a peaceable life right here a man, in this particular world,
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  Speaker 1: in this present world, we want to live in peace
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  Speaker 1: and be at peace. And again, on the surface, it
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  Speaker 1: seems that most people have a desire to live in
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  Speaker 1: peace with others rather than be engaging in conflict and
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  Speaker 1: warfare on a continuous basis. However, although that may seem
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  Speaker 1: to be the case, it certainly is not the case
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  Speaker 1: with all of the a man evil and upheaval and
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  Speaker 1: discord and hatred and malice that we see. And by
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  Speaker 1: the way, this is something the Bible clearly spoke of,
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  Speaker 1: and Jesus talked about this, that the love of many
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  Speaker 1: would wax cold, Amen, and brother would be against brother,
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  Speaker 1: and mother against children, and there would be all kinds
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  Speaker 1: of violence and upheaval in the land before he returns. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: the heart of man is desperately wicked. The thoughts and
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  Speaker 1: imaginations of his heart, as the Bible testifies in Genesis
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  Speaker 1: chapter six, are only evil continually. And this is why
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  Speaker 1: God brought the judgment, the first judgment of the flood
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  Speaker 1: upon the world of that time. And he said, as
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  Speaker 1: it was in the days of Noah soul, shall it
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  Speaker 1: also be in the days of the coming of the
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  Speaker 1: Son of Man. So we know a man, that we
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  Speaker 1: live in a world of evil and trouble, and trials
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  Speaker 1: and tribulations and vexation, and again the enemies that we face.
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  Speaker 1: When we think of enemies, the natural man's perception and
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  Speaker 1: his perspective is on mere mortal men. And sometimes even
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  Speaker 1: thus those of us in the Church who should know
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  Speaker 1: better a man, we have a tendency to look at people,
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  Speaker 1: to look at man as being our enemy. And there's
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  Speaker 1: no doubt I'm not minimizing in any way the work
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  Speaker 1: of the devil. And I'm gonna get to that in
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  Speaker 1: just a moment, how he uses people. And there are
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  Speaker 1: people who have sold themselves a man, to be enemies
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  Speaker 1: of the Church of the Gospel of Christ, of God
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  Speaker 1: of the Kingdom of Heaven. They've sold themselves out to
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  Speaker 1: Satan as his emissary. And so UH, by and large,
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  Speaker 1: though UH the average person as it were. Uh, we
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  Speaker 1: we we have to learn how to get along with
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  Speaker 1: people and follow peace with all men. The Bible speaks
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  Speaker 1: of that we have a certain a certain responsibility, a
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  Speaker 1: higher level, I would say, a higher level of responsibility
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  Speaker 1: and accountability to uh be peacemakers and to learn to
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  Speaker 1: live in peace first and foremost with one another and
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  Speaker 1: then even with those who are outside of the household
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  Speaker 1: of faith. Had Nevertheless, again we understand that there are
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  Speaker 1: enemies a man of this way, there are enemies of
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  Speaker 1: the church. There are enemies of the cross. And again
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  Speaker 1: enemies can be turned into friends, can be turned into assets.
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  Speaker 1: Apostle Paul a Man, the one who wrote this particular
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  Speaker 1: excuse me, a particular letter, is an example number one
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  Speaker 1: of someone who was an enemy of the church, whom
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  Speaker 1: God a man opened his eyes and turned him around
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  Speaker 1: to become the great apostle to the gentiles. And so
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  Speaker 1: again we need not think of enemies, and we should
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  Speaker 1: not again those of us who in the church not
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  Speaker 1: think of enemies only in the natural rem because I
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  Speaker 1: believe in this is I'm just gonna insert my little
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  Speaker 1: bit of an opinion here if you will. I believe
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  Speaker 1: that the reality of Man's problem for the natural man
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  Speaker 1: is his lack of understanding who his real enemy or
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  Speaker 1: enemies are. A man, the reality is that man's number
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  Speaker 1: one enemy is sin. Now that's not my opinion. That
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  Speaker 1: part is not my opinion. That's a fact. Amen. The
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  Speaker 1: last enemy, of course, death that the Bible has spoken
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  Speaker 1: of that's going to be destroyed, came as a result
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  Speaker 1: of our number one enemy, which is sin. We would
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  Speaker 1: not even have death if it were not for sin.
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  Speaker 1: A lot of people look at death brother as being
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  Speaker 1: our number one enemy. But death is not our number
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  Speaker 1: one enemy. Sin is our number one enemy because it
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  Speaker 1: brought on it, ushered in death. And then the Bible
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  Speaker 1: speaks of the wages of sin being death. And again
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  Speaker 1: the natural man who does not believe this, who does
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  Speaker 1: not understand this, a man he struggles, and he wrestles
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  Speaker 1: all of his life, a man with flesh and blood
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  Speaker 1: folds a man who are in fact the least of
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  Speaker 1: his most lethal enemies a man. And again, we as
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  Speaker 1: the people of God, should understand this. The Bible teaches
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  Speaker 1: us that we wrestle out against flesh and blood, but
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  Speaker 1: against the principalities and powers. The rulers of the darkness
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  Speaker 1: of this world, spiritual wickedness in high places. But again,
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  Speaker 1: our number one enemy, our most lethal enemy, is Sin.
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  Speaker 1: Sin is what rereaks havoc in this world, the number
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  Speaker 1: two enemy of man. I believe in the end. This
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  Speaker 1: is where I'm inserting my opinion. I've spoken on this before.
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  Speaker 1: I believe there's an order. I believe there's a and
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  Speaker 1: I this is my pecing order. Let's put it that way.
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  Speaker 1: And I believe, without a question, Sin is our number
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  Speaker 1: one enemy. But I believe number two is self. A
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  Speaker 1: lot of people would say Satan is number two, but
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  Speaker 1: I believe it is self. Self is number two. The
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  Speaker 1: number three enemy of man is Satan, a man, and
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  Speaker 1: he and his fellow cohorts of the demonic ram. They
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  Speaker 1: are a potent force, of course, and they stir up
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  Speaker 1: evil and calamity in the earth. And again our fourth
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  Speaker 1: and final I woul not final, but the fourth and final,
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  Speaker 1: last one I'm going to speak about today and one
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  Speaker 1: again that we're focusing on. The last enemy is death. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So we have Sin, we have Self, we have Satan,
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  Speaker 1: and we have Death. Those are our most lethal enemies.
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  Speaker 1: And the Word of God identifies the devil identifies Satan
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  Speaker 1: lucifer a man as our adversary. He is the one,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus said, who seeks to kill us, to steal from us,
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  Speaker 1: destroy us. Jesus said it. This is who the devil is.
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  Speaker 1: He's a liar, he's the father of lies. He's the deceiver,
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  Speaker 1: He's the accuser of the brethren. Amen. And so he
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  Speaker 1: will use any man, he will use any means that
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  Speaker 1: is permissible to him in carrying out his diabolical, detrimental
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  Speaker 1: destruction that he reeks again in all of the world
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  Speaker 1: through the darkness. And by the way, he as it were,
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  Speaker 1: throws his or shoots his darts, and he hides his hands,
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  Speaker 1: he hides himself. Uh, he works as if he's not there.
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  Speaker 1: And that that's that's one of the most insidious and
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  Speaker 1: uh successful of his tactics, by you know, not being seen,
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  Speaker 1: not being perceived. He and he wants mankind, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: to believe that he doesn't even exist. Oh that that's that's,
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  Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, that just that just gives him all
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  Speaker 1: kinds of uh advantages when we or if we falsely
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  Speaker 1: believe or hope that he does not exist, that he's
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  Speaker 1: not behind much of Again, the evil and wickedness that's
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  Speaker 1: in our world. And of course again he has been
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  Speaker 1: identified by Jesus as our adversary. But on the other hand, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus said, I've come that you might have life, and
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  Speaker 1: have it more abundantly. But if we failed to identify,
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  Speaker 1: if we failed to recognize our true enemies, then what
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  Speaker 1: happens is and what's happening in our world today and
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  Speaker 1: has been going on out you know, from the beginning
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  Speaker 1: of time when bell let's just go back to from
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  Speaker 1: the time Jesus came into the world and a man
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  Speaker 1: brought life and and and brought hope, and the Gospel
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  Speaker 1: and the Kingdom ushered it in. We we we live
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  Speaker 1: beneath our Amen, privileges, beneath what Jesus came to give
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  Speaker 1: to us. Which is it? Which which again is life
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  Speaker 1: or abundantly and not just He's not talking about in
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  Speaker 1: the by and by pie in the sky. Right here
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  Speaker 1: in this present world, we are to live victorious. We
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  Speaker 1: are to be a man above only and not beneath. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: We are to have joy and peace more than conquerous.
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  Speaker 1: That's what he said. We are victorious. God always causes
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  Speaker 1: us to triumph. Amen. That this is how we are
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  Speaker 1: to live right here in this present world. But if
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  Speaker 1: we don't understand who our enemies are, if we find
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  Speaker 1: ourselves continually striving and wrestling and tugging with flesh and blood,
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  Speaker 1: we lose focus. And the devil and his enemies, or
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  Speaker 1: rather his cohort, who are our enemies, who are our
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  Speaker 1: true adversaries? They amen again gain an advantage. Amen. As
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  Speaker 1: Paul said on one occasion, we are not ignorre rent
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  Speaker 1: of his devices. This is why we have to understand
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  Speaker 1: who our enemies are. And again, failing to do so
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  Speaker 1: causes us to live belief beneath, so far beneath the
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  Speaker 1: privileges that God has made available for us. And what
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  Speaker 1: the kingdom of darkness seeks to do, of course, is
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  Speaker 1: to undermine what God has purposed for us. But but
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  Speaker 1: but we got to keep his in mind. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to talk about this just a few minutes. What God
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  Speaker 1: has done. He has defeated the devil has been defeated. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And it was done by Jesus Christ and his atoning
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  Speaker 1: death at cavalry, doing for us what we could not
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  Speaker 1: do for ourselves. And again, let me say one more time,
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  Speaker 1: these four are our most lethal enemies number one Sin,
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  Speaker 1: number two self, number three Aden, and number four death. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And as the text read what we read in First Corinthians,
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  Speaker 1: here it is by man, namely by the man Adam,
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  Speaker 1: the first man, that sin was introduced and death was
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  Speaker 1: brought upon, sentenced on us into the human race. And
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  Speaker 1: the Bible speaks of this. We were in Atam, and
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  Speaker 1: so in Adam we all die. And the Lord spoke
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  Speaker 1: to Adam. In the day that you eat thereof you
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  Speaker 1: shall surely die. And now we all have an appointment
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  Speaker 1: with death. But man was not created. He was not
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  Speaker 1: originally created to experience death. He was not created for
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  Speaker 1: that purpose. He was created to experience a man bliss
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  Speaker 1: and fellowship, Amen, and true harmony with his creator. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: But the enemy of sin, that is so radically and
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  Speaker 1: wretchedly within our fallen nature is the root cause of
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  Speaker 1: our obstinate rebellion, man's rebellion against God, against the law
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  Speaker 1: of God, a man against the commandments of God, against
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  Speaker 1: the spirit of life. By the way, I'm gonna read
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  Speaker 1: a couple verses from Roman chapter number eight. Here, this
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  Speaker 1: spirit of life that is in Christ, Jesus, listen again,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus has come. He said, I've come that you might
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  Speaker 1: have life, and have it more abundantly, and that's all
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  Speaker 1: we have to do. Amen, come to him and Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, those especially and particularly the religious leaders
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  Speaker 1: that were in his day who strove against Jesus, who
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  Speaker 1: chied it with him, who fought with him, who all
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  Speaker 1: by the way came together to a man deliver him
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  Speaker 1: to the Romans to be crucified. They all heard his ministry,
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  Speaker 1: saw his works, knew who he was. A mean Nicodemus
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  Speaker 1: came and said, we know that thou art a teacher
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  Speaker 1: come from God. No one can do these miracles that
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  Speaker 1: you're doing unless God is with him. So they knew
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  Speaker 1: who Jesus is, not was, but is. And yet they
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  Speaker 1: refuse to come. They refuse life. They chose death rather
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  Speaker 1: than life. And that's really what is set before us,
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  Speaker 1: life and death. Life is in Jesus. Death is in
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  Speaker 1: rebelling against him. Amen, and Jesus again said, I've come
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  Speaker 1: that you might have life. The wages of sin is death.
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  Speaker 1: If you do not come to Jesus, you will die.
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  Speaker 1: You will die in your sins. And that's what Jesus
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  Speaker 1: said to them. You are going to die in your sins, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: and you will not come to me. That's what he said,
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  Speaker 1: You will not come to me that you might have life.
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  Speaker 1: I'm the bread of life. Amen, I'm the Amen spirit
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  Speaker 1: of life. And in him, the Bible says, we live
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  Speaker 1: and move and have our being, our existence is in him.
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  Speaker 1: He was in the beginning, from the beginning. He is
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  Speaker 1: the beginning. Amen. And nothing was made without him, Nothing
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  Speaker 1: is or can exist apart from him, a man, including
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  Speaker 1: all of us. And that's what we must realize and recognize,
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  Speaker 1: a man, that a man. Life is in him. And
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  Speaker 1: if we're not in him, death death, that enemy, that
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  Speaker 1: enemy called death. Look at Romans chapter eight. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: read three verses, Verses two through four. Amen, for the law.
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  Speaker 1: This is what the Bible says, very carefully here for
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  Speaker 1: the law, because there are two laws at work in
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  Speaker 1: our world as it pertains to life and death. There's
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  Speaker 1: the law of the spirit of life, and then there's
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  Speaker 1: the law of sin and death. Two laws at work.
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  Speaker 1: Let me save them again. There's the law of the
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  Speaker 1: spirit of life and there's the law of sin. This
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  Speaker 1: is what the apostle Paul is talking about here in
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  Speaker 1: Romans chapter eight for the law of the Spirit of
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  Speaker 1: life in Christ, Jesus verse number two hath made me
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  Speaker 1: free from the law of sin and death. See those
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  Speaker 1: two laws. The law of the Spirit of life in Christ,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus frees us, liberates us, delivers us from the law
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  Speaker 1: of sin and death. We are born in sin, shaping
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  Speaker 1: in iniquity. We are under the sentence of death by nature.
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  Speaker 1: We are children of wrath, enemies of God, and we
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  Speaker 1: are going to die. We're going to perish in our sin.
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  Speaker 1: So what the Bible tells us, though God so love
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  Speaker 1: the world that he gave is only forgotten, so that
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  Speaker 1: who's whoever believes in him should not perish. God has
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  Speaker 1: made the way, the one way, and he didn't have
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  Speaker 1: to provide it. But he did make a way for
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  Speaker 1: us to escape the sentence of death. On the Bible
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  Speaker 1: says verse number three for what the law could not do,
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  Speaker 1: and that it was weak through the flesh. See, we
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  Speaker 1: don't have the ability to keep the law. We don't
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  Speaker 1: have the ability within us to obey the law again,
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  Speaker 1: because of the sin nature that is in us. In
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  Speaker 1: Paul had just by the way. In Roman chapter seven,
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  Speaker 1: a man waxed eloquently if you will will about this
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  Speaker 1: struggle that's in us, the wretchedness that is in us,
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  Speaker 1: old wretched man that I am. I know what I
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  Speaker 1: ought to do. I have a sense of altness. I
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  Speaker 1: know the law of God. I know what is good.
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  Speaker 1: The Bible says again in Michael chapter six, the Lord
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  Speaker 1: is God has shown you, o man, what is good.
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  Speaker 1: We know we have that sense of altness in us.
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  Speaker 1: But what the problem is is the sin nature, the
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  Speaker 1: wretchedness of the send nature that's in us. That when
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  Speaker 1: even we know to do good, and we should do good,
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  Speaker 1: we don't do it. So Paul says, what I ought
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  Speaker 1: to do, I find myself not doing what I ought
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  Speaker 1: not to do. That's what I find myself doing, old
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  Speaker 1: wretched man that I am. Who shall who can deliver
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  Speaker 1: me from this body of death? And the only deliverance
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  Speaker 1: that we have available to us is the law of
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  Speaker 1: the Spirit of life. And where is it to be
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  Speaker 1: found in Christ Jesus. Because keeping the law, which by
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  Speaker 1: the way, none of us can do amen, it's not
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  Speaker 1: possible for us to keep the law. We don't have
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  Speaker 1: the ability again to do it. What the law could
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  Speaker 1: not do in that it was weak through the flesh
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  Speaker 1: Verse three, God sending his own son in the likeness
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  Speaker 1: of sin, for flesh and for sin, condemned sin in
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  Speaker 1: the flesh, that the righteousness listen of the law might
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  Speaker 1: be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh,
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  Speaker 1: but after the spirit, after the spirit again the power
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  Speaker 1: of sin, the power of sin over us. Amen, We
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  Speaker 1: were slaves to sin again, born in sin, servants of sin,
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  Speaker 1: subject to sin, obedient to sin. We loved it too,
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  Speaker 1: by the way, Amen, But the power of sin has
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  Speaker 1: been broken, Amen, It was broken by Jesus. And we
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  Speaker 1: now have victory, and that victory over self, by the way,
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  Speaker 1: remember those four enemies sin. Jesus did that. Now self,
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  Speaker 1: You know what happens. The only way that we can
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  Speaker 1: have victory over self is to be crucified. We gotta
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  Speaker 1: die this mortal man, man, we gotta we gotta kill him,
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  Speaker 1: crucify him, put him to death, mortify the deeds of
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  Speaker 1: the body. That's what the Bible tells us. And that
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  Speaker 1: victory over sept now Jesus got gained for us. God
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  Speaker 1: for us gave to us victory over sin, power over sin.
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  Speaker 1: But self, it only happens through repentance and submission. There's
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  Speaker 1: the brokenness. There's a brokenness brokenness, Amen, a broken heart
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  Speaker 1: and a contrite spirit will in no wise be despised.
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  Speaker 1: And when we come to him, when we rely on him,
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  Speaker 1: when we look to him, when we live in him,
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  Speaker 1: when we move in him. Amen, that self, that self,
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  Speaker 1: the old man, the old man is crucified. If any
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  Speaker 1: man being Christ, the Bible says, he becomes a new creation,
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  Speaker 1: the oldest passed away, and behold all things become new.
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  Speaker 1: So Sin again has been destroyed, has been defeated. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: The power of it has been broken. Amen, for us
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  Speaker 1: by Jesus. But again self enemy number two. Self that
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  Speaker 1: comes through repentance and submission to Jesus, our Lord, a man,
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  Speaker 1: Jesus said, why call you mean, Lord Lord? Do not things?
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  Speaker 1: I say? Obedience submission to Jesus is how we have
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  Speaker 1: the victory. Keep the victory over self. Amen. Again the
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  Speaker 1: power of Satan. Satan is enemy number three lethal enemy
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  Speaker 1: number three Am. And again he has the power, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: but he has to have permission to do it. Now
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  Speaker 1: a man, he can only go as far as God
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  Speaker 1: allows him. And that's what people don't realize. Amen, that
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  Speaker 1: Satan will kill you. He will absolutely murder you. He's
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  Speaker 1: a murderer. Jesus say, he's he was the murderer from
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  Speaker 1: the beginning. He's a liar and a murder and he
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  Speaker 1: wants to kill you. Amen. That's his ultimate desire to
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  Speaker 1: kill you, because if you die in your sins, he
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  Speaker 1: knows that you are eternally lost. And so he wants
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  Speaker 1: to kill you before you can be saved a man,
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  Speaker 1: before you can be delivered from his power, from his influence,
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  Speaker 1: a man from the power of sin, from the power
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  Speaker 1: of self. Amen, and so amen. His power also has
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  Speaker 1: been broken, destroyed for the children of God by Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 1: Now Satan has no more power over you. If you're
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  Speaker 1: if you're if you're saved. What did Jesus say to
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  Speaker 1: its disciples, I give you power, I give you authority.
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  Speaker 1: And so now that we have the power, Now that
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  Speaker 1: we have the authority, by the power of the Holy
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  Speaker 1: Spirit dwelling in us, we can say, as Jesus said,
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  Speaker 1: get thee behind me. Satan. You are an offense. You
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  Speaker 1: only love the things of this world. That's all he
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  Speaker 1: wants to He wants to court, he wants to court us. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: He wants to persuade us. Amen. To walk in the
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  Speaker 1: ways of this world, to walk into flesh. Amen. But
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  Speaker 1: again the righteousness of the law is fulfilled in us
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  Speaker 1: when we walk not after the flesh, but after the spirit.
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  Speaker 1: Because again the spirit of life in Christ Jesus has
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  Speaker 1: freed us from the law of sin and death. And
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  Speaker 1: so again enemy number one sin defeated. Enemy number two
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  Speaker 1: self defeated when we are in him. Enemy number three death,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Satan already defeated. But enemy number four it
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  Speaker 1: has been defeated by Jesus also, but it has not
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  Speaker 1: yet been destroyed. That's the difference. Death has been defeated,
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  Speaker 1: how when where in Jesus. Again, It's all in Jesus
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  Speaker 1: and the death, in the burial and the resurrection of
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ. Amen, he abolished death. Remember he said these words. Death,
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  Speaker 1: he said, has no power over me. He said, I
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  Speaker 1: lay down my life. I give it willingly. Amen. Death
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  Speaker 1: had no power over him. Death could not hold him.
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  Speaker 1: Man did not could not rather take his life from him. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: They could do all the things. The piercings and the
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  Speaker 1: spikes and the spear thrust in his side had no
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  Speaker 1: power over him at all. He laid down his life
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  Speaker 1: into thy hands. He said, I commit my spirit, and
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  Speaker 1: he gave up the ghost. Amen, gave give up the
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  Speaker 1: spirit of life. That is amen him. Amen, he is
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  Speaker 1: life and through him and through his death, through his
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  Speaker 1: amen atonement at Cavalry. Again, death has been defeated. Death
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  Speaker 1: has been defeated. And furthermore, the Bible says he abolished
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  Speaker 1: death for all who are believers in him. Death has
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  Speaker 1: been abolished as a matter of fact. Amen. Uh, And
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  Speaker 1: I'm gonna get to this in just a few minutes,
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  Speaker 1: you know, when we and Jesus by, because he said this,
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  Speaker 1: in me, in him, we don't die. How can we die?
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  Speaker 1: How can we perish? And let me, let me, let me.
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  Speaker 1: I get to that in just a moment. But what
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  Speaker 1: Jesus did, he abolished death for all who in him.
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  Speaker 1: He conquered the power of the grave in his resurrection
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  Speaker 1: from the dead. Because again, as Peter said, it was
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  Speaker 1: not possible that death could hold him. Why was it
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  Speaker 1: not possible for death to hold Jesus down? First and foremost,
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  Speaker 1: Why and why was it possible for death not to
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  Speaker 1: take him? Why was it possible for man? Why was
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  Speaker 1: it not possible rather for man to take his life?
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  Speaker 1: You know? Why because again, remember, never forget this. The
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  Speaker 1: wages of sin is death. Death had no claim. Death
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  Speaker 1: had no power over Jesus. And likewise the grave no power,
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  Speaker 1: no claim. And so never forget again. The sentence of
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  Speaker 1: death for man came because of his sins, But the
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  Speaker 1: sentence Jesus being sentenced to death came because of our sins,
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  Speaker 1: not his. He didn't heaven, he who knew no sin.
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  Speaker 1: He became a sin He took on our sins, but
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  Speaker 1: it wasn't his sins because he never sinned. He was
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  Speaker 1: sinless and man. And so because he was sinless, death
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  Speaker 1: had no claim. The grave has no power over him. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And in that he died, he defeated because he gave himself.
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  Speaker 1: He defeated death, He defeated sin, he defeated Satan, he
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  Speaker 1: defeated the grave. Amen. And again in that Amen, And
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  Speaker 1: because of our appointment with death. Again, the Bible says,
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  Speaker 1: all have sinned and fallen short of the glory of God.
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  Speaker 1: And so now we all have an appointment with death,
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  Speaker 1: and so death comes for all of us. Amen. But
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  Speaker 1: Jesus came Amen, to deliver us from this last enemy
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  Speaker 1: that would had Jesus not did. But he did, okay,
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  Speaker 1: accomplish what he accomplished. Think about it. Death would have
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  Speaker 1: the power, the grave would have the power to hold
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  Speaker 1: us forever of the Old Testament. All of the people
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  Speaker 1: of God who died in the New Testament, who will die,
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  Speaker 1: they would be forever. But by the way, there would
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  Speaker 1: be no New Testament, there would be no church. But
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  Speaker 1: the fact that Jesus conquered death, conquered the grave, got
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  Speaker 1: the victory over death, and the grave it now because
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  Speaker 1: we are in him transferred to us. Now we're gonna
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  Speaker 1: die because again all of us have sinned and fallen
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  Speaker 1: short of the glory of God, and we have an
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  Speaker 1: appointment with death. But again for the believer, absent from
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  Speaker 1: the body, present with the Lord. So when the believer
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  Speaker 1: dies in this mortal when we put off this border
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  Speaker 1: a man, of course, this tabernacle that we're in, and
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  Speaker 1: Paul said, listen, he wrote about it. He said, if
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  Speaker 1: this earthly tabernacle is destroyed, we have a building not
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  Speaker 1: made with hands, that's eternal. And it happens. And again
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  Speaker 1: this is not something new. By the way, too, to
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  Speaker 1: those who are a God fearing, believing saints of God,
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  Speaker 1: and again saints that word that goes back to the
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  Speaker 1: Old Testament. Joe, he said, I know my redeemer liver.
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  Speaker 1: And even if these worms and we go back to
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  Speaker 1: the dust, the skin worms destroy this body. They eat
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  Speaker 1: up this flesh, this corpse that's going to be put
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  Speaker 1: in the ground. Yet in my flesh, he said, I
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  Speaker 1: shall see him. I know my Redeemer lives. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to see him. This is the hope that we have.
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  Speaker 1: And so when we die, when the believer dies on
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  Speaker 1: this side, we are instantaneously ushered into the presence of
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  Speaker 1: the Lord. And this, by the way, began at Calvary.
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  Speaker 1: There's an instantaneous ushering into the presence of the Lord.
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  Speaker 1: What did Jesus say to that thief, the repentant thief
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  Speaker 1: at the cross? On the cross, Today, you will be
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  Speaker 1: with me in paradise, not a thousand years from now,
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  Speaker 1: not ten thousand years. He said, today, you will be
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  Speaker 1: with me in paradise. So again, Paul says, I'm called up.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know. He said, I want to stay here
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  Speaker 1: with you. I want to be with you. I want
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  Speaker 1: to continue dis minis, I want to help you. But
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  Speaker 1: he said, I I'm torn because I know that if
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  Speaker 1: I die. When I die, I'm going to be the
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  Speaker 1: presence of the Lord. And so we are simply separated
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  Speaker 1: from this mortal from this flesh and blood, which again,
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  Speaker 1: when the Lord pronounced that sentence upon Adam, you were
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  Speaker 1: taken from the dust into the dust. You shall return
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  Speaker 1: but our souls. And because of the spirit of life
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  Speaker 1: that's in Christ, Jesus, that's in us, Amen, it takes us.
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  Speaker 1: It transports us instantly into the presence of God, absent
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  Speaker 1: from the body, present with the Lord, and we go
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  Speaker 1: to that eternal place of rest and peace. Blessed are
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  Speaker 1: they who die in the Lord, that they may rests
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  Speaker 1: from their labors. And this is the clear and compelling
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  Speaker 1: message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ, because he is
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  Speaker 1: the resurrection and the Life. Amen. And He has done
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  Speaker 1: for us that which we could not do for ourselves. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And death has been defeated, and it will be in
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  Speaker 1: the day of the Lord completely destroyed, abolished, done away with,
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  Speaker 1: and all men shall live. And Jesus spoke of this
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  Speaker 1: John chapter five. The day is coming, the hours coming
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  Speaker 1: when all who are in the graves are going to
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  Speaker 1: hear the voice of the Son of God and live.
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  Speaker 1: Because again death has been defeated. Death will be abolished,
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  Speaker 1: Death will be destroyed forever, and no one will die
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  Speaker 1: because again, we were never created to die. Sin brought death,
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  Speaker 1: and we will all live again, forever, eternally. Now again,
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  Speaker 1: the question is where where. That's all that remains is
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  Speaker 1: where will you spend eternity? I pray, I pray, I
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  Speaker 1: pray that if you are not already redeemed, if you
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  Speaker 1: have not already repented, if you're not already turned, as
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  Speaker 1: it were, from your way to His way, I pray
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  Speaker 1: that God will open your eyes, open your ears, open
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  Speaker 1: your heart to see, to know, to believe that Jesus
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  Speaker 1: Christ is the only hope, your only hope, my only hope,
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  Speaker 1: our only hope to conquer death, hell and the grave. Father,
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  Speaker 1: help someone today as only you can do. No one
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  Speaker 1: can come unless you draw them, unless you open their
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  Speaker 1: eyes and open their heart, Open their ears, Lord, prick
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  Speaker 1: their hearts. Do as only you can do, by the
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  Speaker 1: power of your Holy Spirit. For your namesake, for your King,
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  Speaker 1: for your glory and honor. It's in your name we
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  Speaker 1: bring your thanks. Amen and amen hm h m hmm.