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925. Bible Study: Psalm 11 (God sees All, but Who has seen God?) · Faith by annm2705

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  Psalm 11 from the book of Psalms.
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  First let's pray. Dear Lord, please let our minds
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  and our ears and our hearts be opened to what you have to say
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  through David. We ask this in Jesus name.
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  So this is for the director of music of David in the Lord I
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  take refuge. How then can you say to me, Flee
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  like a bird to your mountain? For look the wicked bend their
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  bows. They set their arrows against
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  the strings to shoot from the shadows at the upright in heart.
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  When the foundations are being destroyed, what can the
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  righteous do? The Lord is in his holy temple.
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  The Lord is in is on his heavenly throne.
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  He observes everyone on earth. His eyes examine them.
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  The Lord examines the righteous, but the wicked, those who love
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  violence he hates with a passion.
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  On the wicked he will rain fiery coals and burning sulphur.
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  A scorching wind will be their lot.
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  For the Lord is righteous. He loves justice.
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  The upright will see his face. And that's the end of Psalm 11.
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  There's a couple few questions and answers.
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  So I will well before I do that, when I looked through this, I'm
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  just going to, as I mentioned, every time there's Lord or God,
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  I want to know the actual word in Hebrew that's being used.
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  And throughout this Psalm, it was Yehova, which is God the
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  Father. So Yehova was being referenced
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  in all of these for the Lord and David's, you know, talking about
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  evil attacking evil attacks, God's seeing it all and God will
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  eventually provide justice. And so there's a few different
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  things that the study Bible references.
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  Who advised David to flee because he said flee like a bird
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  to your mountain. And a lot of times mountains in
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  the, in the Bible and prophecy, they either refer to literal, a
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  literal mountain, or sometimes they refer to like a place of
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  strength, like a, a power or some, you know, like, like he's
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  on a high mountain top, like the Lord, a place of power, I guess.
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  And so it's like flee, like a bird, go to your mountain, like
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  fly away. And like the mountain is the
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  refuge, like the Lord is our refuge.
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  And so that's kind of interesting that he chose that.
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  Anyway, it says who advised David to flee.
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  We don't know who gave this advice to David or why it was
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  given. There were times David did flee
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  like a bird from Saul and later from his own son, Absalom.
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  In this case, however, it seems David was rejecting advice to
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  flee because he was determined to trust in God, no matter how
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  risky his adversaries thought things were or, I'm sorry, no
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  matter how risky his advisors thought things were.
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  So what foundations were being destroyed?
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  The moral foundations of a society based on God's law.
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  Some feared that increasing rebellion and the growing
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  aggressiveness of the wicked threatened those foundations.
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  This powerful increase of evil made the righteous fear that
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  they could no longer count on society in which good triumphed
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  over evil. It's kind of interesting because
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  David's time was, you know, thousands of years ago and, and
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  we can still, you know, we could say this applies today too, or,
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  you know, yesterday or a few years ago or something.
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  Like it's just as current today as it was back then.
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  And that's just really interesting to think about that
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  times really haven't changed like the things that David was
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  experiencing or the things that we experienced today.
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  So it then it says, why does or what does fiery coals and
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  burning sulfur refer to? This could refer to one, God's
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  destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah in Genesis chapter 19
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  or two, God's coming judgment on the whole world and or 3A desert
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  dwellers worst nightmare of punishment.
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  So I did reference those scriptures and I'll just read
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  that what they were what they were referencing.
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  I looked up so Genesis 1914. This is about Sodom and
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  Gomorrah. It said then the Lord rained
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  down burning sulfur on Sodom and Gomorrah from the Lord out of
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  the heavens. So this is when he destroyed
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  there were just none that were righteous and there were a lot
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  of prayers going to God and he sent angels to see if this
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  wasn't true. This was in fact the case that
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  this was, you know, just to see it.
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  And also I think perhaps Jesus came there because there were
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  three angels that visited. That's a whole nother.
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  I won't go into that. I probably could because this is
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  a short podcast, but I don't want to get too far off the path
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  on this one. But it's very interesting when
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  you really examine was there were three who visited the first
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  time and then two that visit the the next time.
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  Just look in detail. I guess it's on Genesis chapter
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  19 to to read about that and probably the preceding chapter
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  18. Yes, because that chapter 18
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  talks about the three visitors and then chapter 19 talks about
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  the 2 angels coming back and Sodom and Gomorrah getting
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  destroyed. So then let's jump to the other
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  place where burning sulfur is used.
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  And this is in God's wrath at the end.
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  And it says in Revelation 1410, it says they too will drink the
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  wine of God's fury, which has been poured full strength into
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  the cup of his wrath. They will be tormented with
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  burning sulfur in the presence of the holy angels and of the
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  Lamb. The Lamb is symbolic of Jesus.
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  And so this is really interesting because this is a
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  future I'm going to read first, the preceding verse 9.
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  A third Angel followed them and said in a loud voice.
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  If anyone worships the beast and its image and receives its mark
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  on their forehead or on their hand, that's that mark of the
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  beast. The beast is symbolic of a
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  global governance something. So it's, it's probably humans
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  empowered by Satan because it says the dragon gives them the
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  power. And so the dragon is symbolic of
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  Satan and the beast that rises up out of the sea.
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  The sea is symbolic of people, lots of people.
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  So these are human beings or this group or entity.
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  I think there are maybe 10 or there's there's 10, but then
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  three of them are removed by 1 and they become seven.
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  So, and it's a, it's a grouping of seven, seven of seven
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  something, 7 powers that come together that end up ruling over
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  the whole earth. This is at the very end and the
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  end of the age before Jesus rules.
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  And then they will, because they will be successful in conquering
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  everything. People will begin to worship
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  them because like who can come against them?
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  They are just like so powerful. But in order to transact
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  business, it says like no one will be able to buy or sell
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  unless they get a mark on their hands or on their forehead.
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  So this is something that the it's actually a false, it says
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  the false prophet who is the 2nd beast.
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  I'm getting into a lot more, but I think it's good to talk about
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  this. So there is someone who is going
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  to be, he's going to look religious, but he's going to
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  speak like the enemy. So he's going to, he's going to
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  look like someone holy, but he's actually going to be speaking
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  words of the enemy. So this is what like kind of the
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  false prophet, maybe the false Messiah.
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  I don't know what it is, but that's the one who's going to
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  force people to take the mark, this religious figure.
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  But he's going to be working in tandem with this seven, this
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  group of seven who is, you know, looking to conquer the world.
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  And they're doing evil. And this is at the end.
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  And they are going to force people to get a mark in their
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  hand or in their forehead. And that's really kind of
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  interesting today since people are getting chips in their hands
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  where they can control things. They're getting these little,
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  you know, they're not really, it's like the size of a piece of
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  grain of rice that I think Sweden is doing this already.
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  If you want to search it on YouTube or something, you can
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  find people who are actually doing this that are getting that
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  in and you can unlock things. I mean, it does all of these,
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  you know, computer or technological advances where you
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  don't have to carry things with you.
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  And so for convenience, you know, people can do these kinds
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  of things. Is that the actual mark?
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  It's not really the IT, it isn't the mark because this is about
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  worshipping something, but it's showing that we have the
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  technology that that can happen today.
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  So, and we, we think about all the things that are being
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  discussed in the world right now about currency and whether whose
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  money we use and all these variances of different ways to
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  transact business and use different systems for business
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  and all these different alliances like bricks and then
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  the United States dollar and all of that that's happening in the
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  world. This certainly seems like it
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  could be the preceding thing that happens where people decide
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  we need to get something that is globally accepted and and then,
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  you know, we need everybody to get this mark or this.
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  Yeah, this, this mark of whatever it is so that you can
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  transact because it says in the Bible you will not be able to
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  buy or sell without it. So you won't be able to do
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  transact at all unless you have this and the Bible four tells
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  this and tells us this is coming.
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  We don't know when it is. It has not been rolled out yet.
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  But there are people who are familiar with the Bible that are
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  saying, gosh, it looks like we're very close to this
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  happening. So it's something to keep your
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  eyes open with. And especially now when we read
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  this Revelation chapter 14 where it says anybody who does get
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  that in their hand, there's a couple things that you really
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  need to know about that they're going to get wrath.
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  But the one thing, the other thing that's even, I don't know
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  if it's even greater than this or not.
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  Well, I think it is because you cannot repent from that.
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  Like once you do that, you've basically allied yourself with
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  God's enemy. So everybody needs to know about
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  this, like at, you know, even if it means you're, I mean, this is
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  where faith comes in because you really have to believe what
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  you're reading in the Bible because, you know, a regular
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  person who didn't believe this is not going to be willing to do
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  this. But according to the Bible,
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  you'd be better to, you know, give your life up for this.
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  Do not take it even if it means that you will be killed.
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  And if you believe in Jesus and you have you have the Holy
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  Spirit, you don't have to worry because the way the Bible says
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  it is more or less going to sleep and then we awaken in the
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  presence of God. When you have the Holy Spirit,
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  that's what happens to a person. So if if you truly believe what
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  is written in the Bible, then you will not at any cost take
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  this mark that the Bible tells us the prophets of a long time
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  ago. This was written by John.
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  It was through a vision that he had when Jesus came to visit him
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  on an island of Patmos. John was one of the 12 disciples
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  that was with Jesus and knew Jesus and he had this revelation
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  when he was on the island of Patmos and wrote this.
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  So we've had this for, you know, thousands of years, this
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  information and this prophecy that has not yet been fulfilled.
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  But this is all Scripture is inspired by the Holy Spirit is
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  all God breathed. And so this will come to pass
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  someday. We have, you know, most people
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  who are familiar with the Bible are watching for this just
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  because of the technology that exists today and all of the AI
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  that's happening, that it could be very close, but we really
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  don't know. But you really have to pay
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  attention to it and don't be ignorant of it and let it come
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  upon you like a surprise because it's all easily done at this
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  point. We aren't there yet, but but
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  keep your eyes open for it. So I did want to just mention
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  that and I probably went too far down that path, but let's go
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  back to the last sentence or verse in Psalm 11.
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  It says for the Lord is righteous.
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  He loves justice. The upright will see his face.
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  And I thought this was interesting because as I was
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  reading through the Bible, no one sees the face of the Lord.
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  In fact, when they think they've seen the face of the Lord, they
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  say we are going to die. And even Isaiah, when he was in
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  the presence of the Lord, I think he says, you know, like he
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  can't do that because he's a man of unclean lips or something.
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  And then an Angel comes and takes a coal and burns his lips
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  or, you know, puts a coal to his lips and then cleanses him like
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  there's a burning. I think, you know, that's like
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  symbolic and but there is it's a purification is what that was
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  representing that the he was being purified by that.
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  And there is a purification by fire through fire.
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  And that's like through trials and tribulations that we'll have
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  when we come under fire, when we're tested, but maybe by the
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  enemy, when we we are put to the test and the enemy comes against
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  us. That is also how our faith
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  grows. But going back to no one seeing
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  God, this is what is very interesting.
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  There are 4 references to it, one in Isaiah and then through
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  3IN John. Well two of them in the book in
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  the Gospel of John and one in first John chapter 4.
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  So I'm going to read those. Isaiah 64 four says since
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  ancient times no one has heard, no ear has perceived, no eye has
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  seen. Got any God?
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  Oh, it says besides you who acts on behalf of those who wait for
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  him. But then Jesus says, which that
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  also makes me wonder anytime that someone has seen God, was
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  that actually Jesus that who they seen because it was Moses
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  in the burning Bush. And I know I've said this before
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  another podcast where it says an Angel of God, but then in the
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  way that he speaks to Moses and he says I am, I am, who am I
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  believe that was Jesus. It's just that Jesus's time had
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  not come to where he was being revealed, but he was the Lord.
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  He was revealing himself as the Lord, as as God, as Elohim.
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  But because I and then there was that I'm just recently I've said
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  this in my podcast, but it was Samson, I think, where they an
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  Angel of the Lord or a messenger.
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  So when it says Angel, it also means messenger of God came and
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  visited them. And then they said they thought
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  they were going to die because they had seen the Lord.
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  And when they asked the messenger of God who what his
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  name was, he replied something to the effect of my name is
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  incomprehensible, like I can't tell you can't understand what
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  my name is. And did he, I'm speculating
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  here. This isn't like a fact or
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  anything. But did he respond that way
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  because he was actually, you know, it was actually Yeshua,
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  but he had not been made known yet.
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  And people, you know, that's just something that crossed my
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  mind, just something to look at more So Jesus actually says,
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  let's go back to the here. I get sidetracked a lot.
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  John chapter one verse 18. No one has ever seen God, but
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  the one and only Son who is himself God and is in closest
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  relationship with the Father has made him known.
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  When I said Jesus said that I was this was I shouldn't have
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  said Jesus said this, this was John writing this and he was
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  explaining about Jesus. And so he, John, is the one who
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  said no one has ever seen God, but the one and only Son who is
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  himself God and is in closest relationship with the Father has
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  made him known. And then he repeats it again in
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  chapter 6 verse 46. No one has seen the Father
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  except the one who is from God. Only he has seen the Father.
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  That's referring to Jesus. And then in first John chapter 4
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  verse 12, he says no one has ever seen God.
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  But if we love one another, God lives in US and his love is made
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  complete in US. So I thought there was another
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  time where Jesus had, oh, I think it was, I didn't look this
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  up, but it was he. Jesus says something like, if
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  you've seen me, you've seen the Father, something to that effect
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  where Jesus was saying, oh gosh, image of the Father, image of
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  the Father. I can't remember the actual
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  words, but it was something. Let's see, there did there did
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  come. No, it's not like there's
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  something to that. I wish I would have looked this
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  up ahead of time, but it just came to mind.
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  Right now, no one has seen the father.
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  I'm going to look that up and see if there's something that
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  says that. No, it's John 118 says no one
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  has seen God at any time. The only begotten Son who is the
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  bosom of the Father, He has declared him.
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  So I, I don't know where that verse is, but it, it says
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  something to the fact like if you've seen me, you've seen the
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  Father. Or he is a reflection of the
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  Father, I don't know. Anyway, OK, here it is.
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  OK, here it is. It takes me a while to find
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  these things because I don't have scripture memorized and
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  there's so many versions. But John 14 verse 9 says Jesus
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  answered. Don't you know me, Philip?
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  Even after I have been among you such a long time, Anyone who has
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  seen me has seen the Father. How can you say show us the
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  Father? So this is where Jesus was
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  talking to one of the disciples and just saying, you know, if
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  you've seen me, you've seen the Father.
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  And I think there's more also that say this, that Jesus says
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  this similar thing in another scripture I was looking to see.
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  It doesn't really show other verses that say that because
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  Philip had said, Lord show us the Father and that will be
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  enough for us and he. Let's see, I'll just read this
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  section. Jesus the way to the Father.
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  Thomas said to him, Lord, we don't know where you are going,
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  so how can we know the way? This is John chapter 14 verse 5.
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  Jesus answered, I am the way and the truth and the life.
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  No one comes to the Father except through me.
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  If you really know me, you will know my Father as well from now
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  on. You do know Him and have seen
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  him, Philip said. Lord, show us the Father and
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  that will be enough for us. Jesus answered.
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  Don't you know me, Philip? Even after I have been among you
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  such a long time, anyone who has seen me has seen the Father.
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  How can you say show us the Father?
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  Don't you believe that I am in the Father and the Father is in
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  me? The words I say to you, I do not
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  speak on my own authority. Rather, it is the Father living
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  in me who is doing his work. Believe me when I say that I am
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  in the Father and the Father is in me.
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  Or at least believe on the evidence of the works
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  themselves. Truly, very truly I tell you,
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  whoever believes in me will do the works I have been doing and
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  they will do even greater things than these because I am going to
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  the Father and I will do whatever you ask in my name so
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  that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
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  You may ask me for anything in my name and I will do it.
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  Now this is about the Holy Spirit too, and I just want to
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  read more. If you love me, keep my
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  commands. I talk about this all the time.
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  So when we obey God, it's if you love me, keep my commands.
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  We're just showing love to God when we are obedient.
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  So then he says, and I will ask the Father and he will give you
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  another advocate to help you and be with you forever.
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  So this is really interesting because it's right after he says
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  if you love me, keep my commands and I will ask the Father and he
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  will give you another advocate to help you and be with you
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  forever. The spirit of truth.
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  The world cannot accept Him because it neither sees Him nor
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  knows Him. But you know Him, for He lives
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  with you and will be in you. I will not leave you as orphans.
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  I will come to you. Before long the world will not
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  see me anymore. But you will see me because I
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  live. You will also live.
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  On that day you will realize that I am in the Father and you
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  are in me and I am in You. Whoever has my commands and
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  keeps them is the one who loves me.
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  Here again, this is obedience. Whoever has my commands and
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  keeps them is the one who loves me.
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  The one who loves me will be loved by my Father, and I too
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  will love them and show myself to them.
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  Then Judas, not Judas, Iscariot said.
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  But Lord, why do you intend to show yourself to us and not to
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  the world? Jesus replied.
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  Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching.
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  My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our
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  home with them. Anyone who does not love me will
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  not obey my teaching. These words you hear are not my
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  own. They belong to the Father who
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  sent me. So I don't know how anyone can
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  get away from obedience here with God, Jesus's own words, the
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  Son of God's own word, saying that the only reason why we
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  should obey is because we love him.
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  And if we don't obey, that means we don't love him.
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  It's just very clear. So that's the way we can look at
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  things. When we choose to be rebellious,
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  we're just saying I don't love you God.
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  And when we choose to obey him, that's when we're saying I love
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  you God. Then he continues.
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  All this I have spoken while still with you, but the
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  Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name,
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  will teach you all these things and will remind you of
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  everything I have said to you. I think this is interesting to
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  just, you know, reflect on the Advocate comma, the Holy Spirit
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  comma whom the Father will send in my name.
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  So the Holy Spirit comes from, this is where I talk about the
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  Holy Spirit coming from the Father, but it's through Jesus.
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  So it says the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in my name.
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  So that's through Jesus. This is why we don't have to.
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  If we have the Holy Spirit, we don't have to worry about our
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  words or what we're going to say or how we're going to do it.
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  If we get a message from God or if we are told by God to do
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  something or we have this impression that, you know, it
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  lines up with Scripture. We can't, we have to make sure
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  it's not an enemy giving us an impression.
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  But if it lines up with Scripture and it's, you know,
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  confirmed in various ways. So the Holy Spirit, if we know
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  we have the Holy Spirit and we have the fruit of the Spirit,
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  that's in Galatians chapter 5, you can see what the fruits of
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  the spirits are. And then there's also the gifts
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  of the Holy Spirit, which are different, but that's another
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  way of knowing whether or not you have the Holy Spirit.
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  So you can probably look up gifts of the Spirit because I
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  can't remember what book or chapter it's in.
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  But anyway, when you have the Holy Spirit, the Holy Spirit
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  will teach you all things and will remind you of everything I
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  have said to you. So if we're in Scripture, it the
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  Bible says that Scripture is all God breathed.
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  And it's like through the Holy Spirit, through the inspiration
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  of God's Spirit that these authors wrote what is in this
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  Bible. So when we're reading it, it's
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  it's getting into our, our brain, into our thoughts.
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  And the Holy Spirit will remind us of those, those verses, those
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  things. So when Scripture comes to mind,
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  that could very well be the Holy Spirit prompting us in that way.
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  And it's all through scripture and and it's clearly says in
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  scripture the Holy Spirit will teach you all things and will
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  remind you of everything I have said to you.
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  So when we all of a sudden remember a scripture that fits a
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  certain situation in our life, it's probably the Holy Spirit
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  reminding us and we just don't realize it because we don't see
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  the Holy Spirit and it's just through our thoughts.
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  And that's probably why, you know, the Holy Spirit resides in
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  us when we are a believer. And when we have determined that
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  we want to obey God and we're not rebelling against him.
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  We've repented of our sins and we've we've come to God and
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  we've basically said, you know, I don't want my old life
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  anymore. I want to be changed.
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  And the only way we can change is we don't have to clean up our
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  act first. God just takes us in.
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  He thank God, he's merciful and he takes us in and our current
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  current condition, whatever we're in, but he doesn't leave
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  us that way. Then he starts changing us by
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  the Holy Spirit when he knows we are sincere and what we're
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  saying to him. We're not just, you know, doing
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  it for show or I don't know, for whatever reason it would someone
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  would have, but when we really, truly just want to end our
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  rebellious ways and turn to God and get right with God, get our
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  relationship right with God, when we really want that and God
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  knows it, that's what he's going to send.
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  I mean, that's apparently when he sends the Holy Spirit,
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  because the Holy Spirit has come to people sometimes before they
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  get baptized, sometimes when they get baptized, and sometimes
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  after they get baptized. So it's up to God when he
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  decides to send the Holy Spirit, but it doesn't happen at a
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  specific time. But I think it depends on our
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  heart. If our heart is what the Bible
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  refers to as a circumcised heart where we're cutting out of like
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  the sin, the separation. We are, you know, drawing close
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  to God and we want to be reconciled with them.
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  When that happens, that's when I believe because I think that's
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  when we truly are saved. When we have the Holy Spirit,
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  that is the, the time of salvation.
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  And so knowing if you have the Holy Spirit is really important
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  because, and Jesus himself said it, he, he said, you know, no
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  one can enter the Kingdom of God unless they are born again, born
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  of the Spirit. That's in John chapter 3.
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  So for Jesus himself to say that, that's pretty impactful.
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  So the Holy Spirit is, is a, is the person of God, the Spirit of
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  God that we need to know about and we learn about it through
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  the Bible. So anyway, I'll just finish out
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  this chapter. Jesus says, peace, I leave with
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  you, my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the
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  world does. Do not let your hearts be
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  troubled and do not be afraid. You heard me say I am going away
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  and I am coming back to you. If you loved me, you would be
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  glad that I'm going to the Father, for the Father is
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  greater than I. I have told you now before it
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  happens, so that when it does happen, you will believe I will
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  not say much more to you, for the of this world is coming.
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  I believe that's referring to Satan.
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  He has no hold over me, but he comes so that the world may
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  learn that I love the Father and I do exactly what my Father has
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  commanded me. Come now, let us leave.
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  And that's the end of the chapter.
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  Really interesting chapter. But going back to, you know, no
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  one has seen the face of the Father except the Son.
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  And let's see first John chapter one, verse 2, the life appeared.
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  We have seen it and testified to it, and we proclaim to you the
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  eternal life which was with the Father and has appeared to us.
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  This is referring about Jesus that they they were witnesses to
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  Jesus and that he and the father are one.
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  They're united as one. There's a special prayer that I
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  do talk about a lot and I have not looked this one up too, and
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  I'm going to see if I can find that.
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  I think it says something like one as we are one that he prays
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  for all of us. I hope that I can find it.
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  Yes, OK, this is this is just such a beautiful prayer from
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  Jesus. He says it twice.
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  This is before he he dies on there he goes to the this is
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  before he goes to the cross and he John 17 verse 11 says I will
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  remain in the world no longer but they referring to his
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  disciples or the believers, his followers, but they are still in
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  the world and I am coming to you Holy Father, protect them by the
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  power of your name, the name you gave me so that they may be one
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  as we are 1 isn't that interesting like Jesus's prayer
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  is for disciples to be one with him and the Father as he is one
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  with the father that you know. I guess that's where the Holy
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  Spirit is that deposit. But when we become perfected and
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  changed from mortal to immortal people, beings, then when Jesus
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  returns, that's when that happens.
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  At the resurrection, that is when we will experience that
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  oneness with the Father. And he also says John 17 verse
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  22. I have given the I have given
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  them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are
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  one. I mean, that is the most
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  beautiful prayer that he has. Jesus and the Father share this
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  relationship that is just unknown to anyone, but it's so
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  good and they are so much in unison.
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  One in I, I always think of it as being one in spirit.
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  It's just like a husband and wife, the 2 become one.
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  So I think it's something like like that.
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  Like there is a spiritual connection between people in
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  the, in the physical sense. When that happens, I think in
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  the spiritual realm that also happens and and that's what you
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  know, that's human beings coming together like husband and wife,
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  but in a spiritual sense with, with the Father and Jesus the
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  Son. Someday, you know, we we would
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  receive the Holy Spirit as the deposit.
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  So we have a portion of it. It's a deposit.
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  It's not the whole thing. It's not the whole being, the
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  whole experience, I guess, but someday when we are immortal,
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  when we've been purified and we've been changed to immortal,
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  is when we will actually experience what it's truly like
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  to be one with the Father and the way Jesus was.
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  Because that's what he prayed for us.
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  And I mean, that's just so loving and kind to pray for all
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  of us that we can have that same experience that he has with the
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  Father. It's just amazing.
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  Like I'm so thankful for God, but anyway that I don't know if
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  I read the last one too. In 1 John chapter one verse 3,
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  it says we proclaim to you that we have seen and heard so that
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  you also may have fellowship with us and our fellowship is
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  with the Father and with his Son Jesus Christ.
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  So just it's, there's just so much to be looking forward to,
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  no matter how dark our days may get.
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  If we just know what's in Scripture and we know know the
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  truth that we find through Scripture.
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  There's a lot to look forward to and that special day, who knows,
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  maybe it's coming soon, but if it's coming soon, we all want to
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  be reconciled with God and not receive the wrath that was kind
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  of talked about here where it was that, you know, the Book of
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  Revelation where the sulfur, the burning sulfur and all of that.
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  So we don't want that side of it all.
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  Anyway, I'm going to wrap this up now and I hope you, if this,
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