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Episode 234 - One Narrow Way · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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  Speaker 1: I waited patiently for the Lord and he inclined to
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  Speaker 1: me and heard my cry. He also brought me up
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  Speaker 1: out of a horrible pit, out of the miry clay
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  Speaker 1: and set my feet up on a rock and established
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  Speaker 1: my steps. He has put a new song in my mouth.
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  Speaker 1: Praise to our God. Bless the Lord. Bless the Lord. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: my soul. All that is within me. I will bless you.
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  Speaker 1: His holy name. Bless the Lord at all times and
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  Speaker 1: may his praise continually be in my mouth. This poor
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  Speaker 1: man cried and the Lord heard him and delivered him
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  Speaker 1: from all of his fears. We thank you. We bless you.
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  Speaker 1: We honor you. Oh, Lord, our Lord, how excellent is
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  Speaker 1: thy name in all the earth. Amen. God bless you.
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  Speaker 1: Once again, we welcome you to this, another edition of
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  Speaker 1: End Time Revival Ministries USA podcast. I am your host,
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  Speaker 1: Pastor Al Zachary. And again, as always, as I say, always,
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  Speaker 1: and will forever, amen, begin each broadcast, each podcast with this.
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  Speaker 1: We are grateful to the Lord for this. enabling us,
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  Speaker 1: for calling us, for equipping us, amen, for choosing us
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  Speaker 1: to be able ministers of his word. We are, as
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  Speaker 1: the apostle Paul put it, we are charged. Woe is
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  Speaker 1: unto me, as a matter of fact, he would say,
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  Speaker 1: if I preach not the gospel, I am compelled. I
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  Speaker 1: am constrained. Amen. To preach the word. To be instant
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  Speaker 1: in season, out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort with all
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  Speaker 1: long suffering and doctrine as the prophecy of the scripture. Again,
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  Speaker 1: from the apostle Paul, by the spirit of the living God,
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  Speaker 1: tells us that the time will come when men will
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  Speaker 1: not endure suffering. sound doctrine, but they will heap to
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  Speaker 1: themselves teachers having itching ears and turn away their ears
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  Speaker 1: from the truth. Ladies and gentlemen, church of the living God,
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  Speaker 1: we are in that time. We are in the last
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  Speaker 1: of the last days. The last days began with the
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  Speaker 1: first coming of Jesus. And we are at the cusp,
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  Speaker 1: if you will, Of his second coming. When he will
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  Speaker 1: come for his church. And when he will come. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: To judge the world in righteousness. That's the gospel message.
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  Speaker 1: And we must prepare for his return. We must be
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  Speaker 1: looking for his return. Jesus Christ is coming back. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: He will be back. Amen. And so we look forward
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  Speaker 1: to and we hasten to the coming of our Lord
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  Speaker 1: and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen. And as we have been
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  Speaker 1: in the past several, several, several weeks and months in
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  Speaker 1: our podcast sessions, we started with the Gospel of John.
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  Speaker 1: We're in the Gospel of Matthew. So if you have
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  Speaker 1: your Bibles, by the way, you can turn to Matthew's Gospel,
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  Speaker 1: chapter 7. Just going to read two verses there shortly.
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  Speaker 1: And we're going to continue examining the words of Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: Man is not to live by bread alone, but by
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  Speaker 1: every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus said, if you've seen me, you've seen the Father. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not speaking on my own. I speak the words
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  Speaker 1: of God. And that's what we have. In Jesus, the
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  Speaker 1: word of God, the word that was made flesh, the
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  Speaker 1: word that dwelt among us, the living word. Amen. The
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  Speaker 1: bread that came down from heaven that we are to
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  Speaker 1: eat of and live and have life more abundantly. So
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  Speaker 1: we are again going to, in just a few moments, amen,
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  Speaker 1: proceed with the words of Jesus by which we will live.
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  Speaker 1: have life. Amen. All right. So, uh, again, as always,
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  Speaker 1: we want to thank each and every one of you
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  Speaker 1: who pray for, who support the work of ministry, not
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  Speaker 1: only this ministry, and I'm sure many of you who, uh,
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  Speaker 1: support ministries, you support multiple ministries, your local church, especially
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  Speaker 1: please by all means. Amen. Support your local church, local ministry,
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  Speaker 1: where the word of God prayerfully is being faithfully preached
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  Speaker 1: and taught and disseminated. And by all means, amen, give
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  Speaker 1: whatever you can to amen organizations and amen, especially, especially
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  Speaker 1: para church organizations that are doing the work of God,
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  Speaker 1: the work of ministry, feeding, clothing, visiting, Amen. Comforting. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And just doing what the scripture, amen, calls for the
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  Speaker 1: people of God to do. Amen. Jesus said, when I
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  Speaker 1: was hungry, when I was in prison, when I was sick,
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  Speaker 1: you ministered to me. That's what we want to be
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  Speaker 1: found doing as the people of God. So thanks, thanks, thanks. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: To each of you who pray for, who support the
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  Speaker 1: work of this ministry. Amen. May God continue to bless
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  Speaker 1: you and multiply and increase you always. Amen. And if
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  Speaker 1: you have not become a subscriber, we pray that you
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  Speaker 1: will subscribe to the podcast. And please, by all means,
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  Speaker 1: share it with someone else. All right. We're going to
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  Speaker 1: begin in the Gospel of Matthew, chapter 7, verses 13
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  Speaker 1: and 14, just two verses. 13 and 14. Before we begin,
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  Speaker 1: as always, we take just a moment as we invoke
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  Speaker 1: the presence of the Lord and ask his blessings upon
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  Speaker 1: his holy word. Father, again, we love you. We praise you.
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  Speaker 1: We don't take this opportunity. We don't take life. We
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  Speaker 1: don't take this grace and mercy and your love and
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  Speaker 1: compassion for granted. We thank you. We thank you. We
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  Speaker 1: thank you. And we pray now that somewhere, someone will
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  Speaker 1: hear the voice of the Savior, the heating of, amen,
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  Speaker 1: the Spirit of the living God working in their hearts
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  Speaker 1: to turn them from idolatry, from vanity, to serve the
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  Speaker 1: true and the living God, to know that Jesus is
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  Speaker 1: the way, the truth, and the life. Help now, save now,
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  Speaker 1: deliver as only you can. By your mighty power, we
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  Speaker 1: pray and give thanks for all things. Amen, amen, and amen. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: The Gospel of Matthew, chapter number 7, verses 13 and 14.
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  Speaker 1: Just two verses, but two very powerful verses. Oh, boy.
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  Speaker 1: Very powerful. And by the way, if we are to
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  Speaker 1: choose a subject title for today, it is this one
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  Speaker 1: narrow way. One narrow way. Verse 13, enter by the
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  Speaker 1: narrow gate, for wide is the gate and broad is
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  Speaker 1: the way that leads to destruction. And there are many
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  Speaker 1: who go in by it. Verse 14, because narrow is
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  Speaker 1: the gate and difficult is the way, which leads to life.
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  Speaker 1: And there are few who find it. The broad way
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  Speaker 1: has many or the majority. The narrow way has few
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  Speaker 1: or the minority. These words of Jesus compacted in these
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  Speaker 1: two verses of scripture is in essence a summation of
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  Speaker 1: what the Bible is crystal clear about as it pertains,
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  Speaker 1: if you will, to our options, life and death. In
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  Speaker 1: these words of Jesus, I, and I don't know how
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  Speaker 1: anyone else could, But I find no room for ambiguity.
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  Speaker 1: There are no loopholes to be found in these words
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus. There are no other alternatives to consider. It's
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  Speaker 1: quite clear. It's straightforward. And contrary to the trickery of
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  Speaker 1: the adversaries, Who is actively deceiving. The multitudes. In religions.
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  Speaker 1: In their self-righteousness. In their idolatry. Jesus has made it
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  Speaker 1: crystal clear. That there are only two paths. There are
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  Speaker 1: only two paths. Ladies and gentlemen. Only two paths. One path.
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  Speaker 1: Leads to life. One path leads to death. And they're
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  Speaker 1: not in the same direction, by the way. You cannot
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  Speaker 1: go up and down at the same time. You cannot
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  Speaker 1: go east and west at the same time. You cannot go.
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  Speaker 1: On your way to heaven and on your way to
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  Speaker 1: hell at the same time. You're either in Jesus or
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  Speaker 1: you're not in Jesus. You're either saved or you're lost.
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  Speaker 1: We don't like this. We don't like this, especially in our,
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  Speaker 1: especially in America, especially where we have hate. Oh, my God.
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  Speaker 1: In this age of, oh, man, oh, man. Prosperity. choices, options.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, we hate narrowness. We don't like when our
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  Speaker 1: options have been cut down to one, two. And in
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  Speaker 1: reality here, although Jesus makes mention of two paths, the Bible,
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  Speaker 1: the word of God, From Jesus is quite clear here
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  Speaker 1: that in essence, there is only one narrow path. One. One.
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  Speaker 1: One path that leads to life. The other path leads
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  Speaker 1: to death. That's clear. And life and death is set
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  Speaker 1: before us. That's in the scriptures. Death is not an
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  Speaker 1: option for mankind. In fact, when we are born, when
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  Speaker 1: we come into this world, we are already dead. We
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  Speaker 1: are dead in our trespasses and sins. We are born
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  Speaker 1: as sinners and we need the Savior. We need to
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  Speaker 1: be delivered from death. Death is not an option. What
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  Speaker 1: he done to man wants to die. And we can
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  Speaker 1: argue about, you know, all kinds of things. And I'm
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  Speaker 1: not going to even mention the multitude of things we
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  Speaker 1: can argue and debate about. There's one thing absolutely that
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  Speaker 1: no one can dispute. If you are born into this world,
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  Speaker 1: given enough time, even if you live to be 100,
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  Speaker 1: which few do, 110, which even fewer do, 120. Oh,
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  Speaker 1: that's a super rare exception. Eventually, as the Lord tarries,
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  Speaker 1: you will die. Death is not an option. There's no
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  Speaker 1: escaping of death in the natural. We have an appointment
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  Speaker 1: with death. That's okay. We can talk about that on
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  Speaker 1: another occasion. But the point is, Life and death has
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  Speaker 1: been set before us. And we must conscientiously choose life.
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  Speaker 1: We don't have to make the choice about death. Death
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  Speaker 1: is coming. All have sinned. And the day you eat, Adam,
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  Speaker 1: you will surely die. All have sinned, fallen short of
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  Speaker 1: the glory of God. All men will die. Now, again,
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  Speaker 1: let me say this. One path. leads to life. One
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  Speaker 1: path leads to death. And as knowledge increases, mankind is
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  Speaker 1: wondering and running faster and further away from the truth.
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  Speaker 1: And what we're doing, we are validating the truthful accuracy
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  Speaker 1: of the word of God In our words and in
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  Speaker 1: our deeds. And I'm speaking in broad terms of mankind
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  Speaker 1: as a whole. As the prophecy of scripture tells us,
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  Speaker 1: knowledge will increase. And it has. Oh, my God, has
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  Speaker 1: it ever. But the Bible also tells us in the
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  Speaker 1: New Testament that men would be ever learning. But not coming.
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  Speaker 1: To the knowledge of the truth. We are fulfilling the
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  Speaker 1: word of God. It's right there. It's in the scriptures.
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  Speaker 1: Knowledge has increased. We are learning, learning, learning, but not
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  Speaker 1: coming to the knowledge of the truth. And the truth
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  Speaker 1: that we need to acknowledge is that again, we are
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  Speaker 1: born sinners. We are rebels. We are haters of God.
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  Speaker 1: We are running from him. And we are in need
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  Speaker 1: of salvation. That must come from outside of us. There
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  Speaker 1: is no self-saving. We must be saved. We must be rescued.
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  Speaker 1: And that's what Jesus came into the world to do.
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  Speaker 1: He said it. I've come to seek and to save
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  Speaker 1: that which was lost. And if you don't believe that
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  Speaker 1: I am he, Jesus said you would die in your sins.
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  Speaker 1: And with all of the learnedness, with all of the
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  Speaker 1: access to information, with all of the knowledge that we
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  Speaker 1: have acquired, with all that we have stored up in databases,
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  Speaker 1: with all of the past history of civilizations that we
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  Speaker 1: should learn from, we are no better off than the
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  Speaker 1: generation of Noah. We're no better off than the people
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  Speaker 1: of Sodom and Gomorrah. And one could certainly argue, and
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  Speaker 1: I am of this mindset, we could compellingly put forth
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  Speaker 1: the argument that we are in fact regressing in understanding
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  Speaker 1: and are in worse shape than prior civilizations who had
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  Speaker 1: far less history, who had far less revelation from God.
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  Speaker 1: We're in worse shape now. Relatively speaking, again, with all
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  Speaker 1: of the history that we have, with all of the
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  Speaker 1: knowledge that we have, with all of the, amen, revelation
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  Speaker 1: that we have now, we are in worse shape. And
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  Speaker 1: by the way, let me, I want you to ponder this.
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  Speaker 1: Because I think this is proof of what I'm talking about.
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  Speaker 1: I'll give you an example of this in the Gospel
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  Speaker 1: of Luke, chapter number 11. I want you to turn
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  Speaker 1: there if you have your Bibles. If not, take note
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  Speaker 1: of this. Please, please, please, just to buttress my point
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  Speaker 1: that I just made, that we are worse off now
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  Speaker 1: than prior generations. Because we get more, and we have, again, more, more, more, more, more.
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  Speaker 1: And by the way, the Bible is clear about this.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus said this, to whom much is given, much is required.
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  Speaker 1: And during the earthly visitation of Jesus, he did not
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  Speaker 1: mince his words of rebuke for that generation of people
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  Speaker 1: who had more knowledge, who had more revelation, who had
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  Speaker 1: history on their side than preceding generations had. Gospel of
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  Speaker 1: Luke chapter 11. Listen to this, what Jesus says. beginning
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  Speaker 1: at verse number 29. Amen. Beginning at verse number 29.
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  Speaker 1: Gospel of Luke, again, chapter 11, beginning at verse number 29.
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  Speaker 1: All right? If you have it. If not, again, take
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  Speaker 1: note of this. And when the people were gathered thick together,
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  Speaker 1: he began to say, this is Jesus speaking. This is
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  Speaker 1: an evil generation. They seek a sign and there shall
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  Speaker 1: no sign be given it but the sign of Jonas
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  Speaker 1: the prophet. For as Jonas was a sign unto the Ninevites,
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  Speaker 1: so shall also the Son of Man be to this generation. Now,
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  Speaker 1: let me pause for just a moment. Now, again, please
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  Speaker 1: take to heart the words of Jesus. For that generation,
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  Speaker 1: who had even less revelation than we have, by the way.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus said to that generation 2,000 years ago, this is
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  Speaker 1: an evil generation. They are seeking a sign. In other words,
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  Speaker 1: they want proof, proof, proof, more proof, more evidence, more proof.
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  Speaker 1: No matter, listen, ladies and gentlemen, Miracles, signs and wonders
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  Speaker 1: do not save people. Otherwise, everyone during the generation of
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  Speaker 1: Jesus certainly should have been saved. The multitudes of people
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  Speaker 1: that he fed miraculously, the multitudes of people that he
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  Speaker 1: healed of diseases, casting out devils, delivering them. I mean,
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  Speaker 1: sign after sign and wonder after wonder. He did so
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  Speaker 1: many mighty works amongst them. if miracles and signs and
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  Speaker 1: wonders saves people, then that entire generation should have been
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  Speaker 1: saved and delivered and on their way. And matter of fact,
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  Speaker 1: in heaven right now, because Jesus said of that generation,
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  Speaker 1: this is an evil generation. And that's proof positive. Ladies
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  Speaker 1: and gentlemen, the miracles and signs don't save people. This
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  Speaker 1: is an evil generation. They seek a sign. Now, I
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  Speaker 1: ask of this generation, what more evidence do you need?
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  Speaker 1: What more proof do you need? We've uncovered all kinds
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  Speaker 1: of things that artifacts. Oh, God, help us, Jesus. Archaeology
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  Speaker 1: is still turning over stones and rocks and digging up.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, stuff that proves evidence. The veracity of scripture
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  Speaker 1: validates historical things in the Bible. And the more we learn,
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  Speaker 1: the less we believe, the further we go away. This
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  Speaker 1: is an evil generation. Jesus said of this, this is
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  Speaker 1: an evil generation. They want more evidence. They want more proof.
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  Speaker 1: If Jesus said that of that generation who had less revelation,
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  Speaker 1: who had less knowledge than we do, then what about
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  Speaker 1: this generation? Listen to these two final verses here. Verses
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  Speaker 1: 31 and 32. Jesus again. This is him. Jesus speaking.
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  Speaker 1: He said of that generation. Now listen carefully. The queen
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  Speaker 1: of the south. shall rise up in the judgment with
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  Speaker 1: the men of this generation and condemn them. For she
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  Speaker 1: came from the utmost parts of the earth to hear
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  Speaker 1: the wisdom of Solomon and behold, a greater than Solomon
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  Speaker 1: is here. Verse 32, the men of Nineveh shall rise
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  Speaker 1: up in the judgment with this generation And shall condemn it.
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  Speaker 1: For they repented. At the preaching of Jonah. And behold.
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  Speaker 1: A greater. Than Jonah. Is here. Again. That generation. We're
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  Speaker 1: talking about 2000 years ago. They had more revelation. They
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  Speaker 1: had more knowledge. They had more history. Than the generation.
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  Speaker 1: Of Solomon. Than the generation. Of the people of Nineveh.
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  Speaker 1: And Jesus is saying. Crystal clear in the scriptures. That
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  Speaker 1: the people of Nineveh. The queen of Sheba. She's going
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  Speaker 1: to rise up. They are going to rise up. In
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  Speaker 1: the judgment. And condemn. That generation of 2000 years ago.
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  Speaker 1: Who had more information. more knowledge, more revelation, more signs,
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  Speaker 1: more wonders, and had the Christ incarnate, the Son of God,
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  Speaker 1: the Word of God made flesh walking in their midst
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  Speaker 1: and they still did not believe. And again, the words
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus, To whom much is given, much is required.
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  Speaker 1: Do not be deceived. Do not fall victim to the
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  Speaker 1: delusion of the enemy who specializes in duplicity. The more
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  Speaker 1: we advance in our world and in our culture, the
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  Speaker 1: more difficult it will become for men to put away
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  Speaker 1: their idols and turn to the truth That will liberate them.
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  Speaker 1: The truth is this. Ladies and gentlemen. There is only
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  Speaker 1: one way. For men. To be saved. From destruction. One
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  Speaker 1: narrow way. Jesus said. One narrow gate. There is only
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  Speaker 1: one way. For you to be saved. From destruction. From death.
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  Speaker 1: From eternity. In the lake of fire. The Bible says.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus says. That will never be extinguished. And Jesus again.
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  Speaker 1: Made it. Crystal clear. To us in. Unambiguous words. Recorded
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  Speaker 1: for us in the gospel of John. Very specifically. Jesus. Made. Seven.
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  Speaker 1: I am statements recorded again in the gospel of John
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  Speaker 1: in no particular order. He says, I am the door
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  Speaker 1: by me. You must enter. I am the door. I
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  Speaker 1: am not Peter. You get all these little fables. It's
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  Speaker 1: not a little stories of Peter at the gate. No, no, no.
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  Speaker 1: Ladies and gentlemen, Jesus says, I am the door. You're
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  Speaker 1: a pastor, the preacher, the priest, the Pope, the Bishop.
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  Speaker 1: I am the door. Jesus says, number two,
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  Speaker 1: I am the light. If you don't walk in Jesus
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  Speaker 1: by Jesus, you're in darkness. I am the light of
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  Speaker 1: the world, Jesus says. Number three, he says, I am
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  Speaker 1: the bread of life. You must eat of me, Jesus says,
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  Speaker 1: in order to have life. I'm giving my body. It's
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  Speaker 1: going to be broken for you to eat, to have life.
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  Speaker 1: Number four, he says, I am the True vine. Gospel
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  Speaker 1: of John chapter 15. I believe it's there recorded. My
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  Speaker 1: father is the husband man. I am the true vine.
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  Speaker 1: Abide in me. Live in me. You as a branch
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  Speaker 1: cannot survive on your own. You must be attached to
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  Speaker 1: the vine. I am, Jesus says, the true vine. He says,
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  Speaker 1: I am the good shepherd. I lay down my life
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  Speaker 1: for the sheep. Hirelings. Hirelings don't care. Jesus says, no,
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  Speaker 1: I'm the good shepherd. My sheep know me. I know them.
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  Speaker 1: They'll never perish. They're in my father's hand. No man
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  Speaker 1: can pluck them out. I am the good shepherd. I
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  Speaker 1: care for my sheep. I know my sheep. I call
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  Speaker 1: them by name. They go in and out and find pasture.
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  Speaker 1: Number six, Jesus says, I am the resurrection and the life.
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  Speaker 1: I am the only way for you to be raised
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  Speaker 1: up from the dead. Remember, you are dead in your
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  Speaker 1: trespasses and sin. If you Do not come to Jesus.
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  Speaker 1: If you don't come to the foot of the cross,
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  Speaker 1: if you don't believe that Jesus is he, as he said,
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  Speaker 1: if you don't believe that I am he, you're going
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  Speaker 1: to be dead. You're going to remain dead. And you're
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  Speaker 1: going to die that second death. But Jesus says. I
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  Speaker 1: am the resurrection. In him we live. Move. And have
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  Speaker 1: our being. Finally. Certainly. Oh. You know this one. The
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  Speaker 1: last I am statement. Number seven. I am the way.
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  Speaker 1: I am the truth. I am the life. I am
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  Speaker 1: the way. That narrow way that Jesus was referring to
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  Speaker 1: in the gospel of Matthew chapter six that we read.
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  Speaker 1: The narrow gate. The narrow way. the one way, the
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  Speaker 1: only way. That's Jesus. He said it. I am the way,
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  Speaker 1: the truth, and the life. No man comes to the
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  Speaker 1: Father but by me. Thomas would go on, Lord, show
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  Speaker 1: us the Father, and it suffices us. Thomas, have I
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  Speaker 1: been so long time with you? Have you not known me?
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  Speaker 1: If you've seen me You have seen the Father. I
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  Speaker 1: am the way. One broad way, ladies and gentlemen, leads
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  Speaker 1: to death. One narrow way leads to life. There are
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  Speaker 1: no other options. No other alternatives. No other avenues. There's
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  Speaker 1: no other gospel. There's no other salvation. No other savior.
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  Speaker 1: No other redeemer. No other hope. No other escape. You
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  Speaker 1: must come. To Jesus. The way. The narrow way. The
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  Speaker 1: narrow gate. By him you will have life. Father, help someone,
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  Speaker 1: help us all today. One way that leads to life.
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  Speaker 1: The other way it leads to destruction and death. Save, deliver,
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  Speaker 1: set free. As only you can do by your mighty power,
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  Speaker 1: by your spirit. In Jesus' name we pray. and give thanks. Amen.