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And, unmute the mics, and welcome back this week. There we go.

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Oh man, good to be back this week. We're about to dive into Revelation chapter 7.

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starting verse one hey we're getting to start a start a week on verse one that's kind of nice yeah

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um uh so we'll be doing that tonight and diving back in but uh brother brian how you doing this

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week good brother doing good having a good day today uh just a monday you know but it's a good

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day good good and what about you brother dennis doing all right man hey i got a uh got a i got

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my first round of persecution yesterday i think somehow or another oh is that how yeah is that

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what happened yeah you know i do this thing uh i go around to assisted living homes and play play

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guitar and sing old hymns with the folks at four different ones through the week and uh and i was

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at the memory care unit last night and and there was this older fella sitting next to me in a recliner

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and he's got a lot of problems right his dementia he's parkinson's he's probably in stage and he's

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he's mumbling a lot real loud he's kind of agitated a little bit and i'm sitting there just playing

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just playing along and having a good time praising the lord you know and some ladies are singing with

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me and stuff and uh and all of a sudden something whizzes behind me and i look and the dude has

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thrown his shoe at me i look over and his shoe is missing off his foot and the dude threw his shoe

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at me and i'd stop in the middle of the song and start laughing and can't quit and a couple of

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ladies are laughing and i'm like dude if you're gonna throw a shoe at me give me a sock too

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and after i'm done about 30 minutes later a sock lands out in the middle of the floor and i'm like

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There you go.

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There you go.

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You got a message to say it.

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Yeah.

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Love it.

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That is awesome.

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So, you know, other countries, you know, if they don't like what you're saying, I'll throw their shoe at you.

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I'm thinking I got persecuted.

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Yeah.

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That's true.

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Yeah.

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That's true.

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That's the beginning.

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Treasure.

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Hey, persecution.

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On the plus side, it was a shoe and you can call it persecution.

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Otherwise, it could have been a tomato.

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Yeah.

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Oh, yeah.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Those are just a mess.

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Yeah.

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They are.

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Yeah, or a drink or something, man.

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Yeah.

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Yeah.

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Oh, that is awesome.

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Well, we've had a good week going into this week.

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We had a great conversation last week on the ending of five and chapter six there.

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That was fantastic.

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I will suggest to add everybody for your prayer lists if you keep up with stuff to pray for.

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pray for the

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the ladies family

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up in Minnesota or wherever it was

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that got killed by that ICE agent

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and pray for that ICE agent

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her family I don't think they're particularly Christian or anything like that

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from what I've seen probably

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very much not

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but definitely be praying for that family

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and praying for that agent as well

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because that's a tough situation to be put in

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and that just stinks

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because the whole thing was entirely

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avoidable and it's

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not fair to him and it's not fair to to her family but because people wanted to act kind of dumb

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yeah um you know any anytime you have an interaction with police you pretty much have three three

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choices of how you interact you can you can just do whatever they say with no questions asked

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and nine times out of ten that nothing's going to happen from that like that's generally the

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best outcome with no no problems um but you can be belligerent and uh nobody comes out looking

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good in that situation when you get belligerent with them because at the end of the day you're

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arguing with somebody who has a gun and uh you you don't know what they're going through you don't

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know what's been going on you don't know what might have just happened to them before you got

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up in their face started screaming and yelling and acting foolish uh you know they might be just

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keyed up and on edge and suddenly that threat it's like well i can't let this happen again

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and that's that's kind of what more than likely happened there is you know it's already happened

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to him once he's like i'm not getting drugged by a car again yeah and uh nobody looks good no you

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you don't look good they don't look good and and then it can end with somebody losing their life

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and that there's no sense in that so so definitely be praying for them and pray for people that want

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to take take cues from that because that's not the kind of cues you need to be taking

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uh and the third way of course is you can you can disagree with them but you can be polite

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even even if you don't agree it doesn't it costs you nothing to be polite right and at the end of

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the day if you really don't agree with them that's what the courts are for yeah it looks like we're

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supposed to uh honor authority yes that's right yes absolutely yeah absolutely go about it the

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right way yeah and and that's why i say it costs you nothing to be polite and and if you're a

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christian you better be because there is there's a right way and a wrong way to to protest and to

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disagree um and and there there are a handful examples out there of some of the guys that go

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around online that are very polite and they've they've still been arrested before and they've

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won some really massive lawsuits because they didn't do anything wrong and you just had somebody

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that made a you know as a law enforcement maybe made a bad decision it happens but you stand a

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lot better chance of you turning out okay if you're just polite and you're just like well you know i'm

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i'm not arguing with you i'm not going to stand here and argue with you but there's this this and

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this and if you want to go this way we can go this way or we can go that way and and you kind

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of put it in their hands. And it's amazing how many times that turns into, oh, okay. And nothing

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happens. And so I do pray for everybody out there. I know we have people all up in their feelings

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right now and all up in their emotions about what all's going on. Just pray for everyone involved

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that we can all calm down. I saw on Facebook today, Franklin Graham is calling for a nationwide

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prayer Wednesday at noon. Oh, I did not know that. For all this turmoil that's going on right now.

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with the ice and all that stuff.

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Well, right now is the time to do it.

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So Wednesday at noon,

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definitely take a moment

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and stop and pray.

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Because that is something

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that we need to lift up

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and we need to be praying for.

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Because I am concerned.

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I've been watching as

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some of this particular,

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that side of everything

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that's going on right now

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is getting kind of volatile.

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And we just need to pray

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for calm, cool heads

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on the part of the people

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that want to protest.

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If you want to protest, that's fine.

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But you're right. Do it the right way. Be polite. Be you know, don't be creating a problem that could get somebody hurt and pray for the police officers that, you know, unfortunately, when you got people protesting, you're going to have to take a little bit of abuse.

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You're going to you're going to get called names. You're going to have people kind of talk ugly to you. And I hate it because you're just doing your job.

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You're doing what you're told to do. But at the same time, it's kind of what part of what you signed up for.

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And sometimes you got to let them kind of say some awful things to you.

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But pray for them that they can stay calm and keep their heads because we don't want somebody making a bad decision.

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At least they're not throwing their shoes at you.

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That's true.

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That's true.

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It's horrible.

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That's a terrible feeling, isn't it?

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It is.

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It is.

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It is one of my worst nightmares.

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Be up there preaching.

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Somebody chuck a shoe at you on Sunday morning.

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I've had some babies protests several times.

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I might put them to sleep.

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Hey, that'll work.

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All right.

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Well, here we go.

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Revelation chapter 7, verse 1, and we will start off.

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And if you guys want to say anything closing up last week,

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or if y'all want to dive right into this week, we can go for it.

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I don't know.

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We got through the sixth seal, and we saw a terror.

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You know, the fifth seal was martyrs and the sixth seal was this just crazy thing that happens, right?

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And that kind of marks the midway point of the tribulation, right?

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And it's about to get real ugly.

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It is, yeah.

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Real ugly.

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And, you know, it ends up, we ended up with, in verse 16 of chapter 6, it said,

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And they said to the mountains and the rocks,

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Fall on us and hide us from the presence of him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb.

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for the great day of the wrath is coming who is able to stand.

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So here we go.

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Yeah, and so now we're fixing to go into a little break or a little interlude, you know,

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on the opening of the seals.

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Verse 1 says,

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And after these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth,

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holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth,

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nor on the sea, nor on any tree.

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So, again, we've got a little interlude here between the sixth and the seventh seal.

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Why?

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Well, what's taking place here is an opportunity.

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It's about to be an opportunity here for a few things.

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But for people that are left here on earth to have a chance to trust Christ as Savior.

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And so these angels, they move north, south, east, west, stopping the judgment of God from going any further.

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They're not stopping God from judging, but this is God's plan.

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This is what he's told them to do.

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And there's no doubt that after these judgments take place,

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there's going to be some people who are ready to come to Christ.

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But, of course, there's also going to be others who will grow even harder in their heart,

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and some will wax like clay.

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But let's look at how people will be saved during this time.

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So the Holy Spirit is going to be gone, right?

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It's not going to be here in the same manner.

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2 Thessalonians 2, verse 7 through 12 says,

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For the mystery of iniquity doth already work.

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Only he who now letteth will let until he be taken out of the way.

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And then shall that wicked be revealed,

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whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth

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and shall destroy the brightness of his coming,

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even him whose coming is after the working of Satan

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with all power and signs and lying wonders

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and with all deceivableness of unrighteousness

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in them that perish,

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because they received not the love of the truth

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that they might be saved.

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And for this cause,

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God shall send them a strong delusion

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that they should believe a lie

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that they all might be damned

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who believed not the truth,

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but had pleasure in unrighteousness.

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So to understand that scripture completely, we've got to understand a few other things.

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One, what is the work of the Holy Spirit in the believer today?

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What does it do?

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What does the Holy Spirit do for us today?

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It convicts us, right?

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It leads us.

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It guides us.

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It directs us.

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It saves us.

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Not only that, it holds back evil.

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That's the work of the Holy Spirit.

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So when he who now lets is taken out of the way,

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it's talking about the Holy Spirit being removed, which is the Holy Spirit.

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Its works are going to be gone.

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The works of the Holy Spirit are going to be gone.

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And I believe one of the main works is going to be to restrain evil.

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That work of the Holy Spirit will be gone,

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but the Holy Spirit itself will still have a work to do.

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It'll be more like the Old Testament, I believe.

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Don't you think?

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I think so.

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And I like to look at this as kind of like, you know, on the day of Pentecost,

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the Holy Spirit was just poured out by the prophecies of Joel.

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Right.

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And I think it'll be just kind of the opposite.

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It was pulled out.

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With the rapture.

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That's right.

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And people could still be saved before Pentecost.

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Sure, sure.

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And they'll still be able to be saved afterward, I believe.

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That's right.

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The Holy Spirit, I think, will do a lot of prompting of things that need to happen

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and things that need to take place like it did again in the Old Testament,

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and it'll move things where they need to be moved.

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God will still use the Holy Spirit to do what needs to be done

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to bring people where they need to be,

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but the work is going to be so much different than it is during the church age.

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Yeah, it'll be a lot more like Old Testament times.

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Yeah, yeah.

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You know, and we say that and it's going to be a lot more like the Old Testament times.

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One of the things that caught me about that verse, I literally just heard today another person arguing that, you know, hell isn't real.

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It's not a real place.

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It's not a thing that you go to.

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And that verse you just read explicitly says, hey, look, either you believe or there's damnation for you.

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And I mean, we're we are not in hell now.

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We are on earth.

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Hell is a completely separate place and it is so much worse and it is so much more horrible than what's here now.

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We're not trying to escape hell.

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And the purpose of salvation is not just to get you out of hell.

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And it is to honor the one that made us at the end of the day.

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It's to have fellowship with our creator.

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And that's the purpose of all of this.

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And all of this is our creator taking the world and putting it back in the state that he intended it to be in that we messed up.

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We humans were given a choice, and at the end of the day, we made the wrong call.

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We made the wrong choice.

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Adam and Eve made a choice.

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It was not the right decision, and sin entered into the world, and there's a consequence for that,

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and there's a price to be paid for that.

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And all of this, all of this that we're reading here, all of this that we're seeing is making that right.

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Yeah.

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Yeah, we're created in the image of God, right?

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And I think part of that is that we've been given an eternal soul.

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It's got to go somewhere.

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That's right.

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They have to spend eternity somewhere.

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Yeah, and that's a piece of, I won't say it's a piece of God,

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but in his image is something that can't be killed.

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Yeah, yeah, absolutely.

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So you reject him, you've got to be put somewhere.

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Yeah, that's right.

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He made it eternal, and it's going to dwell somewhere eternally.

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And you've got to accept what he's done for you.

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Yeah, and you have a choice.

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You have a choice.

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And he's still crying out all through revelation in between every one of these judgments.

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All this wrath being poured out and he's still saying, come.

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Absolutely.

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Come.

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They won't.

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No.

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And like you said, that salvation, I mean, when we get a little bit further on,

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we're going to see that there are those that are being sent out prophesying and witnessing to the world.

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That wouldn't be happening if salvation wasn't possible.

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Yeah.

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Right.

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God does not do things for no reason.

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He doesn't just yell into the void and go, okay, well, I did what I was supposed to.

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That's not God.

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We see this over and over and over and over throughout Scripture, throughout the Old Testament, throughout the New Testament.

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Yeah, yeah.

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And there's a purpose for everything he does.

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He sends these people out a little bit later on because you can still choose to do right.

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You can still choose to turn your back on it.

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The cost for making that choice is way higher at this point.

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Yeah.

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And in chapter 14, we're going to see where there's the angel sitting around the world.

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don't take the mark of the beast

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don't take the mark of the beast

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that's right

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and the gospel is spread

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all over the world during this time

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every ear is going to hear it

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and way more than it is today

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and think about that

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it's going pretty much everywhere today

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but it's going to be so much more

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because there's not a single person

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and y'all can disagree with me on this

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but I believe that there will not be

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a single person that makes it

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into

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the tribulation

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that at some point during that seven years does not hear the truth spelled out plainly,

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specifically, and exactly in no uncertain terms.

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Here's the truth.

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They're going to have it presented to them.

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They're going to have it shown to them.

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And they're going to see all the evidence that is needed for them to believe.

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Well, there's too many preachers about to go out.

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Yes.

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I mean, it's going to be, plus the angels and all the ways that he's making to say,

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hey, this is who I am.

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Yeah, and look at the testimony of millions of people disappearing.

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Yeah, that's exactly right.

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What happened to them?

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There will be a great delusion.

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I think that will be the first testimony.

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That will be the first thing that says, I'm God.

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If you've heard this before, you need to run to me now.

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Then we see all these great, terrible things start to take place, start to happen.

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Then we move to this last three and a half years, and this is the beginning of that,

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where we're about to see the 144,000 sealed,

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and then he preaches the gospel again, right?

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I mean, you know, but yeah.

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Yeah, I mean, so many people, especially in this area,

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you know, in the Southeast U.S.,

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it's still a little bit of Bible Belt to it.

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It's not that strong anymore.

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But so many people have, you know, heard their grandmother

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or grandfather talk about the rapture or something.

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They go, man, I missed it.

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Yeah.

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I missed it.

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And they'll get on their knees.

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Yeah, yeah.

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They're going to have a long road of hope.

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Absolutely.

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They could be killed by pestilence or some kind of disaster or something.

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Yeah.

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Or could be beheaded.

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Yeah, absolutely.

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I would think I would want that to be the way I went.

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Just go ahead and cut my head off.

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Let me go through all this stuff.

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But you know what?

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I choose to go in the rapture.

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Thank you, Lord, for that option.

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Yeah, I would rather go through the rapture.

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But if I was one of the people stuck afterward, I'm with you.

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It's like, can we go ahead and just chop my – I believe.

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I was wrong.

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I believe, so I'm rejecting you.

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Let's go ahead and get this whole killing thing out of the way.

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I don't want to suffer what you are about to experience.

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No.

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Hit verse 2 and 3?

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2 and 3.

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And I saw another angel ascending from the rising of the sun, having the seal of the living God.

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And he cried out with a loud voice to the four angels to whom it was granted to harm the earth and the sea,

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saying, Do not harm the earth or the sea or the trees

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until we have sealed the bondservants of our God on their foreheads.

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Yeah, so two purposes here in halting this judgment.

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One, so that the Gentiles could become believers,

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and two, so that the 144,000 could be sealed, right?

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And, you know, I don't want you to think that these 144,000,

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and we can talk more about that in a minute,

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they're going to have to trust Christ as Lord and Savior.

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Yeah, amen, the same way we did.

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The same way we did, yeah.

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And this sealing is really just God protecting a remnant.

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Yeah, he is.

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Yeah, and in a lot of the same way that we are sealed,

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we're sealed by the Holy Spirit right now.

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They're going to be sealed through what these angels are doing here to protect them to get to the end of the seven years.

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So if they were not sealed, then they'd have been wiped out.

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Matthew 24, 21 through 22 says,

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For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, nor ever shall be.

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And except those days shall be shortened, there should be no flesh saved.

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But for the elect's sake, those days shall be shortened.

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So, you know, it's just a horrible, horrible time that if God had not sealed those 144,000 because he had a purpose for them,

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then they would have been destroyed during this thing, too.

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Right.

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Right.

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Verse 4, and I heard the number of them that was sealed,

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And there were sealed 144,000, all the tribes of the children of Israel.

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So 144,000 Jewish believers will be sealed.

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And then they'll start preaching the gospel.

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You may not believe it, but there will be a, just like Tyler was talking about a minute ago,

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there'll be a great revival during this time.

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I mean, a huge revival during this time.

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but the persecution is going to be even greater.

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Back to Matthew 24 and verse 14,

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and this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world

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for a witness unto all the nations, and then shall the end come.

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Then shall the end come.

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Persecution and revival kind of goes hand in hand.

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They do, don't they?

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Yeah.

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And if you look at the times, I know the times in my life,

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I've drawn closer to the Lord.

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This is something I've heard.

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I've seen J. Vernon McGee, he says it too, but he said,

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I grew closer to the Lord during my times of trials more than I did the happy times and the good times.

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We tend to cling to him.

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We tend to grab on to him.

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That's when we really know we're weak.

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Yeah.

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When I'm weak, he's strong.

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Exactly.

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Exactly.

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So what's the purpose for this whole preaching that I talked about there in Matthew 24?

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Well, he loves us, and he wants us to be saved, right?

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2 Peter 3, 9, the Lord is not slack concerning his promises, as some men count slackness,

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but he's long-suffering toward us, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.

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All kind of blows again.

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It kind of blows the theory of of of the tulip, doesn't it?

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I mean, you know, it's his will that all should be saved and none should perish.

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So, yeah, that's that's the God that we serve.

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And, you know, so many people want to spiritualize so much of this thing.

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And we've got to be careful in verses four through eight not to spiritualize.

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Absolutely.

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This is specifically to the sons of Israel.

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And what's another name for Israel is Jacob.

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That's right.

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These are the physical descendants of Jacob.

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Excuse me.

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Yeah.

435
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Amen.

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You want to hit those next all the way to eight?

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Are you going to make me read those?

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He played the seniority card.

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No, it was just your turn.

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He stopped on that one verse.

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I think he tricked you.

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Let's take turns.

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Okay.

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No, no, no.

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From the tribe of Judah, 12,000 were sealed.

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From the tribe of Reuben, 12,000.

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From the tribe of Gad, 12,000.

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From the tribe of Asher, 12,000.

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From the tribe of Naphtali, 12,000.

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From the tribe of Manasseh, 12,000.

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12,

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There's a name missing out of these.

453
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Yeah, there's actually two.

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The tribe of Dan is missing out of this.

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Yes, yes.

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And people like to spiritualize this, I think, because they think, well, there's 10 lost tribes, or there's this, or there's that.

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Nobody knows that all the records were destroyed in 70 AD.

458
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Nobody knows.

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God knows.

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He knows the descendants.

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And he's going to find the pure-blooded descendants that are still around to this day.

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And they're going to be part of that 144,000.

463
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Yeah.

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But he substitutes – I noticed he substitutes instead of – there's Ephraim and Manasseh that are substituted in.

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And Joseph is, I think, considered part of Ephraim because I think Jacob adopted Joseph's two sons, Ephraim and Manasseh.

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But Dan gets left out and –

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Well, is Ephraim not left out too?

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Is it in –

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I think he's considered as part of Joseph at the very end.

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See, from what I had studied, I thought that Ephraim was left out.

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Both of them were left out and Dan.

472
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Yeah, Ephraim wasn't one of the original.

473
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Right, right.

474
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But Dan was, and he includes Manasseh instead of Dan.

475
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Yeah, right.

476
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So it's kind of, I don't know.

477
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I don't know what there is to it.

478
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Well, if you look at this, so you got it.

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And like I said, I looked at it as both of those tribes.

480
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But Dan could have been left out because of its idolatry.

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In Judges 18, 30 through 31, it said,

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And the children of Dan set up graven image, and Jonathan the son of Gershom, the son of Manasseh,

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he and his sons were priests to the tribe of Dan until the day of captivity of the land.

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And they set up them up Micah's graven image, which he made all the time that the house of God was in Shiloh.

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And then 1 Kings 12, 28 through 30, whereupon the king took counsel and made two calves of gold, and said to them, It is too much for you to go up to Israel.

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Behold thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.

487
00:26:30,070 --> 00:26:34,100
And he set the one in Bethel, and the other he put in Dan.

488
00:26:34,780 --> 00:26:41,920
And this thing became sin for the people who went to worship before the one, even unto Dan.

489
00:26:42,600 --> 00:26:55,980
So, but please note that this tribe, this tribe of Dan, they haven't been written out completely because they're spoke again or they're spoke about, you know, Ezekiel chapter 48.

490
00:26:56,420 --> 00:27:00,160
God kind of shows his grace on this, on this, on these people.

491
00:27:00,470 --> 00:27:11,240
And then Ephraim, if they, you know, they were they were also one of the reasons I thought that because they were also guilty of of idol worship.

492
00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:17,580
Hosea 11, and it eventually leads to division in 1 Kings 11, 26,

493
00:27:17,920 --> 00:27:22,900
but Hosea 4, 17 is where we see Ephraim joining the idols.

494
00:27:23,620 --> 00:27:27,680
Hosea 11, 8, how shall I give thee up, Ephraim?

495
00:27:28,240 --> 00:27:29,900
How shall I deliver thee, Israel?

496
00:27:30,140 --> 00:27:32,340
How shall I make thee as Adma?

497
00:27:32,980 --> 00:27:37,340
How shall I set thee as Zeboam?

498
00:27:38,140 --> 00:27:40,040
My heart is turned within me.

499
00:27:40,160 --> 00:27:42,400
The repentings are kindled together.

500
00:27:43,140 --> 00:27:46,680
So anyway, but we know for sure Dan's not, yeah, he's not in there.

501
00:27:46,750 --> 00:27:49,020
And it could be because of his idol worship.

502
00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:50,780
Yeah, I actually just went through the list.

503
00:27:50,940 --> 00:27:52,620
Ephraim and Dan, both of those are missing.

504
00:27:52,880 --> 00:27:53,060
Yeah.

505
00:27:53,640 --> 00:27:56,160
So, you know, wow.

506
00:27:58,660 --> 00:28:05,560
But I hope that we realize that everything that God's doing during this period of time has to do with the nation of Israel.

507
00:28:05,790 --> 00:28:05,900
Right.

508
00:28:06,200 --> 00:28:11,200
Everything else is just included as just his marvelous grace, right?

509
00:28:11,420 --> 00:28:14,320
If you're here during this time and you accept Christ,

510
00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:19,360
you just count yourself under the grace of God because it's not about you, right?

511
00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:25,600
It is about he's turning himself back to Israel.

512
00:28:26,060 --> 00:28:30,240
Yeah, and this replacement theology that came around, I guess,

513
00:28:30,360 --> 00:28:32,680
in the late 19th century or sometime where people thought,

514
00:28:32,920 --> 00:28:34,160
well, the church is the new Israel.

515
00:28:34,440 --> 00:28:37,040
All the promises to Israel are now in the church.

516
00:28:37,460 --> 00:28:38,220
And that's garbage.

517
00:28:38,780 --> 00:28:38,960
Garbage.

518
00:28:39,040 --> 00:28:40,120
I mean, you look at Romans 11.

519
00:28:40,360 --> 00:28:43,840
Romans 11.1 says, I say then, God has not rejected his people, has he?

520
00:28:44,240 --> 00:28:45,060
May it never be.

521
00:28:45,240 --> 00:28:48,940
For I too am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, the tribe of Benjamin.

522
00:28:49,560 --> 00:28:51,760
God has not rejected his people whom he foreknew.

523
00:28:52,560 --> 00:28:53,100
Or do you know?

524
00:28:53,440 --> 00:28:57,700
And he goes on and he says in verse 25, for I do not want you, brethren, to be uninformed

525
00:28:57,700 --> 00:29:02,339
of this mystery so that you will not be wise in your own estimation that a partial hardening

526
00:29:02,400 --> 00:29:06,280
is happening to Israel until the fullness of the Gentiles has come in.

527
00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:13,240
And so all Israel will be saved just as it is written.

528
00:29:13,820 --> 00:29:15,480
The deliverer will come from Zion.

529
00:29:15,640 --> 00:29:17,640
He will remove ungodliness from Jacob.

530
00:29:18,180 --> 00:29:20,940
This is my covenant with them when I'll take away their sins.

531
00:29:21,140 --> 00:29:22,600
He's not done with Israel.

532
00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:23,600
He's not at all.

533
00:29:23,940 --> 00:29:25,580
And that's what Revelation is about.

534
00:29:25,620 --> 00:29:28,520
We saw in Daniel, this is the seven-year period,

535
00:29:28,560 --> 00:29:30,940
the last week of Daniel for Israel.

536
00:29:31,240 --> 00:29:31,640
For Israel.

537
00:29:31,920 --> 00:29:32,740
That's exactly right.

538
00:29:33,180 --> 00:29:34,940
Because, again, where's the church?

539
00:29:35,920 --> 00:29:36,140
Gone.

540
00:29:36,280 --> 00:29:36,640
We're gone.

541
00:29:36,860 --> 00:29:37,240
We're in heaven.

542
00:29:37,900 --> 00:29:38,760
We're out of here.

543
00:29:38,960 --> 00:29:39,060
Yeah.

544
00:29:39,520 --> 00:29:40,440
Praise the Lord for that.

545
00:29:40,560 --> 00:29:40,760
Amen.

546
00:29:44,200 --> 00:29:45,000
Verse 9.

547
00:29:45,220 --> 00:29:45,380
9.

548
00:29:45,960 --> 00:29:49,640
After this I beheld, and lo, a great multitude, which no man could number,

549
00:29:50,060 --> 00:29:53,300
and all the nations and kindreds and people and tongues stood before the throne

550
00:29:53,900 --> 00:29:57,900
and before the Lamb, clothed with white robes and palms in their hands,

551
00:29:58,580 --> 00:30:00,320
and cried with a loud voice, saying,

552
00:30:00,460 --> 00:30:04,820
salvation to our God, which sitteth upon the throne and unto the Lamb.

553
00:30:05,840 --> 00:30:11,480
So, again, we've got a great praise and worship celebration going on in heaven.

554
00:30:12,420 --> 00:30:17,000
But this time, the tribulation saints have joined in, right?

555
00:30:17,900 --> 00:30:23,700
And, man, what an awesome, awesome time this is going to be when they join in the celebration,

556
00:30:24,040 --> 00:30:28,900
when they join in praising God, when everybody begins to be in unison.

557
00:30:29,820 --> 00:30:32,920
I just can't imagine what it's going to be like during that time.

558
00:30:32,960 --> 00:30:35,740
We just automatically all know the same song and start belting it out.

559
00:30:36,120 --> 00:30:36,200
Yes.

560
00:30:36,380 --> 00:30:36,480
Yeah.

561
00:30:37,360 --> 00:30:38,320
Sing a new song.

562
00:30:38,440 --> 00:30:38,680
Oh, yeah.

563
00:30:38,890 --> 00:30:39,000
Yeah.

564
00:30:39,140 --> 00:30:41,160
I mean, whatever you're thinking, I'm thinking.

565
00:30:41,400 --> 00:30:41,580
Yeah.

566
00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:43,060
We're in sync here.

567
00:30:43,320 --> 00:30:43,420
Yeah.

568
00:30:43,660 --> 00:30:43,720
Yeah.

569
00:30:43,800 --> 00:30:44,600
That'd be awesome.

570
00:30:44,820 --> 00:30:45,080
Awesome.

571
00:30:45,240 --> 00:30:45,440
Amen.

572
00:30:45,840 --> 00:30:46,460
That'll fix you.

573
00:30:47,300 --> 00:30:47,420
It'll fix you.

574
00:30:47,420 --> 00:30:47,600
It'll fix what?

575
00:30:49,120 --> 00:30:49,580
Yeah, it will.

576
00:30:49,920 --> 00:30:50,260
It will.

577
00:30:50,450 --> 00:30:50,540
Yeah.

578
00:30:50,900 --> 00:30:51,800
It'll fix my voice.

579
00:30:52,720 --> 00:30:53,520
Oh, that's a voice.

580
00:30:54,220 --> 00:30:54,760
You're thinking.

581
00:30:56,660 --> 00:30:58,000
Yeah, I didn't think about that.

582
00:31:00,740 --> 00:31:06,240
oh man i think we'll all be fixed yeah amen yeah yeah yeah because we're all going to think what

583
00:31:06,460 --> 00:31:09,980
what god is has we're all going to be on the same wavelength with him we're going to be

584
00:31:10,660 --> 00:31:28,080
absolutely we're going to be like david yeah we're going to be like david was god is going to look

585
00:31:28,120 --> 00:31:32,780
around with yeah but yeah and this is this is like this whole chapter is like like you said

586
00:31:32,780 --> 00:31:37,760
an interlude right yeah it's like a snapshot of later uh-huh it is yeah well part later and part

587
00:31:38,060 --> 00:31:43,640
part yeah 144 000 are being sealed in yeah he's like hold up let's do this and now let's

588
00:31:44,020 --> 00:31:48,200
show you this yeah here's what it's gonna look like yeah yeah yeah absolutely yeah absolutely

589
00:31:48,540 --> 00:31:56,059
so uh you'll hit those next couple uh we're at 11 11 11 12 and all the angels were standing around

590
00:31:56,080 --> 00:32:02,060
the throne no that's uh 13 14 i think i read 11 12 didn't i no no oh did i not you did 9 10

591
00:32:02,220 --> 00:32:06,180
i'm sorry come on okay i'm sorry my thinking's still off okay

592
00:32:07,800 --> 00:32:12,860
yeah yeah and all the angels were standing around the throne and around the elders and the four

593
00:32:12,920 --> 00:32:17,060
living creatures and they fell on their faces before the throne and worshiped god saying

594
00:32:17,500 --> 00:32:24,559
amen blessing and glory and wisdom and thanksgiving and honor and power and might be to our god forever

595
00:32:24,580 --> 00:32:32,680
and ever amen yeah yeah yeah amen amen i mean this is going to be a coming to jesus like we've never

596
00:32:32,820 --> 00:32:39,100
seen oh yeah like like nothing in 2 000 years of church history that that it's just people coming

597
00:32:39,240 --> 00:32:49,220
to christ and people uh being saved in the worst time in history um and those that endure uh as we

598
00:32:49,120 --> 00:32:55,000
read about before that that make it to the end uh many of them will be martyred but but if they

599
00:32:55,160 --> 00:32:59,920
make it to the end they're going to be sealed right they're going to be sealed uh matthew 24 13 but

600
00:33:00,000 --> 00:33:04,500
they that shall endure to the end the same shall be saved phasians 4 30 and grieve not the holy

601
00:33:04,700 --> 00:33:09,340
spirit of god whereby you are sealed until the day of redemption amen thank god he does the sealing

602
00:33:09,520 --> 00:33:14,779
amen yeah yeah this is the door of the ark right yeah i see and i heard it i heard it i've heard

603
00:33:14,800 --> 00:33:19,300
I don't know, several things have popped up here lately on my feeds about the ark.

604
00:33:19,600 --> 00:33:27,620
And one of them I've seen somebody shared today that the ark was when it was sealed, there was no steering wheel in the ark.

605
00:33:28,140 --> 00:33:31,340
There was really no rudder that he talks about.

606
00:33:31,540 --> 00:33:33,520
He describes all this, how he's building it.

607
00:33:33,820 --> 00:33:41,140
But basically what Noah done was just gotten this thing just to float around and counting on the Lord to guide it.

608
00:33:41,280 --> 00:33:41,380
Right.

609
00:33:41,960 --> 00:33:43,320
And he's the one who sealed it, too.

610
00:33:43,480 --> 00:33:43,600
Yeah.

611
00:33:43,860 --> 00:33:45,800
He sealed it and they didn't need it and have to.

612
00:33:45,860 --> 00:33:49,980
At the end of the day, Noah trusted God so much that he jumped inside of a giant box.

613
00:33:50,540 --> 00:33:50,620
Yeah.

614
00:33:51,580 --> 00:33:54,120
With no way to steer, no way to tell him where to go.

615
00:33:54,620 --> 00:33:56,320
With a bunch of dangerous animals.

616
00:33:56,560 --> 00:33:59,100
It's like, God, I feel like you're making me build a big coffin.

617
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:00,240
Yeah.

618
00:34:00,540 --> 00:34:00,640
Yeah.

619
00:34:01,780 --> 00:34:02,100
Yeah.

620
00:34:02,500 --> 00:34:02,620
Yeah.

621
00:34:03,000 --> 00:34:03,460
Oh, man.

622
00:34:05,480 --> 00:34:05,600
Yeah.

623
00:34:05,900 --> 00:34:06,940
Heaven's going to get loud, man.

624
00:34:06,980 --> 00:34:07,460
Yes, it is.

625
00:34:07,900 --> 00:34:10,960
Dine's getting mad at me lately for saying that, but man, it's going to be awesome.

626
00:34:11,260 --> 00:34:11,440
Yeah.

627
00:34:12,280 --> 00:34:12,980
It's going to be noisy.

628
00:34:13,460 --> 00:34:15,659
It's going to be a wonderful, wonderful time.

629
00:34:16,490 --> 00:34:22,399
I mean, a forever celebration to the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords.

630
00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:22,820
Amen.

631
00:34:24,720 --> 00:34:25,460
That's good stuff.

632
00:34:25,820 --> 00:34:26,379
Good stuff.

633
00:34:29,159 --> 00:34:30,580
Okay, now we can read 13.

634
00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:34,820
And one of the elders answered, saying unto me,

635
00:34:35,020 --> 00:34:39,040
What are these which are arrayed in white robes, and whence came they?

636
00:34:39,179 --> 00:34:42,580
So I mentioned that these are the tribulation saints,

637
00:34:42,720 --> 00:34:47,480
But then it answers the question in verse 13, 14.

638
00:34:47,800 --> 00:34:49,980
And I said unto him, Sir, thou knowest.

639
00:34:50,379 --> 00:34:56,820
And he said to me, These are they which came out of the tribulation and have washed their robes and made them white in the blood of the Lamb.

640
00:34:57,660 --> 00:35:00,980
So we identify who these people are.

641
00:35:01,980 --> 00:35:04,260
So if you didn't believe me before, you can believe me now, right?

642
00:35:05,840 --> 00:35:11,880
this verse clearly states that we're dealing with the people of every nation saved during

643
00:35:12,460 --> 00:35:19,480
tribulation i i had a i had a preacher um one time coming and uh done a revival for us and uh

644
00:35:19,940 --> 00:35:25,780
and i i just i i don't know if for sure i didn't know for sure that everybody caught it because it

645
00:35:25,780 --> 00:35:33,719
was just a short little snippet but he basically made um he alluded to the fact that uh that that

646
00:35:33,740 --> 00:35:35,720
only Israel was going to be saved during this time.

647
00:35:36,420 --> 00:35:37,840
And I'm like, no, that's not true.

648
00:35:38,100 --> 00:35:41,800
That's not true because the Bible says every tongue, every kindred, every nation.

649
00:35:42,160 --> 00:35:42,380
Right.

650
00:35:43,700 --> 00:35:46,120
So I don't know where he skipped over that.

651
00:35:46,280 --> 00:35:50,480
And I had to fix that the next Wednesday night and Sunday.

652
00:35:50,830 --> 00:35:55,480
I was like, hey, okay, I respected this guy, and he was a great –

653
00:35:56,050 --> 00:35:58,940
I love his preaching, but he got that wrong.

654
00:35:59,180 --> 00:35:59,280
Yeah.

655
00:36:00,240 --> 00:36:02,320
Not because I said it, because this is what the Bible said.

656
00:36:02,700 --> 00:36:02,940
Right, right.

657
00:36:04,100 --> 00:36:07,740
Yeah, and you see kind of a distinction, too, in verse 11.

658
00:36:08,030 --> 00:36:11,800
It talks about the different ones that are around the throne, the angels, elders.

659
00:36:12,260 --> 00:36:17,180
There's four living creatures, and then there's this great multitude, which no one could count.

660
00:36:17,790 --> 00:36:20,000
So the church is represented by those 24 elders.

661
00:36:20,080 --> 00:36:21,020
Right, yeah, absolutely.

662
00:36:21,440 --> 00:36:21,700
They're there.

663
00:36:21,980 --> 00:36:23,340
Yes, yeah, the church is there.

664
00:36:23,500 --> 00:36:24,300
The angels are there.

665
00:36:24,480 --> 00:36:26,060
The tribulation saints are there.

666
00:36:26,640 --> 00:36:27,420
And how are they?

667
00:36:27,600 --> 00:36:28,880
How's the tribulation saints say?

668
00:36:29,300 --> 00:36:31,980
They've got to trust in Jesus as Lord.

669
00:36:32,260 --> 00:36:33,120
That's like now.

670
00:36:33,260 --> 00:36:33,620
That's it.

671
00:36:33,800 --> 00:36:38,920
They got to trust that he died for his sins, that he rose again the third day, that he ascended into heaven.

672
00:36:39,060 --> 00:36:43,320
And now that he sits at the right hand of the father, making intercession for us.

673
00:36:44,400 --> 00:36:46,140
That's the only way you can believe.

674
00:36:46,240 --> 00:36:46,380
Right.

675
00:36:46,900 --> 00:36:47,080
Amen.

676
00:36:47,820 --> 00:36:53,180
And I love those two verses right there because they just make it so amazingly clear.

677
00:36:53,800 --> 00:37:00,040
And I mean, even to the point that this elder that comes over and asks John, hey, who are those?

678
00:37:00,740 --> 00:37:00,900
Yeah.

679
00:37:01,180 --> 00:37:02,540
And John's only answer is, I don't know.

680
00:37:03,740 --> 00:37:09,440
you know you know tell me i don't have a clue what's going on here i mean here yeah yeah you're

681
00:37:09,500 --> 00:37:13,780
the one over here talking to me i don't know what's going on yeah and then and he flat out says these

682
00:37:14,040 --> 00:37:20,220
are those who have come out of the great tribulation yeah and and they've washed their robes and made

683
00:37:20,360 --> 00:37:26,620
them white in the blood of the lamp it's ironic isn't it when have you ever seen a lamb slaughtered

684
00:37:27,060 --> 00:37:32,620
yeah i've seen some videos of that it's pretty messy and uh their coats don't come out very white

685
00:37:32,640 --> 00:37:37,880
red yeah yeah and and for some reason i mean and john's just i mean you have to imagine he's sitting

686
00:37:37,880 --> 00:37:43,240
there going oh yeah okay i'm starting to see what's going on here yeah yeah yeah yeah everybody's

687
00:37:43,360 --> 00:37:52,320
wearing white except for the lamb yeah he's wearing red that's it that's it amen gosh all right 15 15

688
00:37:52,760 --> 00:37:57,560
hit as far as you want to go for this reason they are before the throne of god and they serve him

689
00:37:57,760 --> 00:38:02,600
day and night in his temple and he who sits on the throne will spread his tabernacle over them

690
00:38:02,620 --> 00:38:07,500
They will hunger no longer, nor thirst anymore, nor will the sun beat down on them, nor any

691
00:38:07,680 --> 00:38:07,820
heat.

692
00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:12,400
For the lamb in the center of the throne will be their shepherd and will guide them to springs

693
00:38:12,510 --> 00:38:13,500
of the water of life.

694
00:38:13,650 --> 00:38:15,980
And God will wipe every tear from their eyes.

695
00:38:16,580 --> 00:38:17,560
So there's another one of those things.

696
00:38:17,760 --> 00:38:18,100
There is.

697
00:38:18,340 --> 00:38:18,560
Yeah.

698
00:38:18,900 --> 00:38:19,000
Yeah.

699
00:38:19,540 --> 00:38:19,700
Yeah.

700
00:38:19,860 --> 00:38:20,560
So that's two different things.

701
00:38:20,560 --> 00:38:21,560
The lamb is our shepherd.

702
00:38:21,960 --> 00:38:22,140
Yeah.

703
00:38:22,480 --> 00:38:22,720
Amen.

704
00:38:23,280 --> 00:38:23,560
Amen.

705
00:38:23,820 --> 00:38:24,240
Amen.

706
00:38:24,800 --> 00:38:26,260
Well, I love what somebody said.

707
00:38:26,870 --> 00:38:28,060
I don't remember who it was.

708
00:38:28,390 --> 00:38:31,620
I think it was the guy that did The Chosen was talking about one time.

709
00:38:31,720 --> 00:38:34,560
He said, you know, everything that Christ did, he came to flip everything on its head.

710
00:38:35,220 --> 00:38:37,340
You know, the first shall be last and the last will be first.

711
00:38:37,480 --> 00:38:38,580
The lamb will be the shepherd.

712
00:38:38,840 --> 00:38:43,080
The blood that's washing our sins will make us white as snow, not crimson.

713
00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:43,700
Yeah.

714
00:38:45,560 --> 00:38:46,000
He did.

715
00:38:46,760 --> 00:38:53,840
God, through Christ, through his son, through the sacrifice on the cross, has turned the world on its head.

716
00:38:53,890 --> 00:38:54,020
Yeah.

717
00:38:54,460 --> 00:38:55,760
Turned religion upside down, too.

718
00:38:55,920 --> 00:39:01,420
You know, I was just doing a study on this the other day in Romans chapter one.

719
00:39:01,640 --> 00:39:04,220
where it's the obedience that comes from faith.

720
00:39:04,540 --> 00:39:06,100
And he says it again in chapter 16.

721
00:39:06,480 --> 00:39:09,360
It's kind of like the thesis of Romans and what he's getting at here,

722
00:39:09,700 --> 00:39:12,080
that obedience comes from faith, not the other way around.

723
00:39:12,260 --> 00:39:12,640
That's right.

724
00:39:12,860 --> 00:39:15,340
Your obedience, the Pharisees were obedient.

725
00:39:15,480 --> 00:39:16,020
Yeah, yeah.

726
00:39:16,260 --> 00:39:17,680
But they had an obedience constant.

727
00:39:18,100 --> 00:39:18,800
Faith wasn't there.

728
00:39:18,860 --> 00:39:19,260
That's right.

729
00:39:19,500 --> 00:39:19,780
That's right.

730
00:39:19,880 --> 00:39:20,780
It's born out of faith.

731
00:39:20,900 --> 00:39:21,740
You're exactly right.

732
00:39:22,140 --> 00:39:25,820
And again, we're talking about these tribulation saints here,

733
00:39:27,080 --> 00:39:31,100
and we see, again, their robes washed in the blood of the Lamb,

734
00:39:31,560 --> 00:39:34,400
And then he wipes away the tears from their eyes.

735
00:39:34,430 --> 00:39:39,600
And we see that again in Revelation 21 after the great white throne of judgment.

736
00:39:39,920 --> 00:39:47,080
Because there's some, and we'll get there eventually, but there's going to be some sadness going on during that time, of course.

737
00:39:47,130 --> 00:39:49,920
And that's why he wipes the tears from our eyes after that.

738
00:39:50,170 --> 00:39:58,920
But here we've got, he's taking these tribulation saints and he's gathering them together and he's saying, look, I love you and I got you and you're okay now.

739
00:39:59,260 --> 00:40:02,520
And he's wiping the tears from their eyes, and he's telling them it's going to be okay.

740
00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:06,360
The church is already in heaven at this time.

741
00:40:07,110 --> 00:40:11,160
And, you know, he deals with the tabernacle.

742
00:40:11,230 --> 00:40:16,760
He deals with the temple, and that all pertains to Israel.

743
00:40:16,980 --> 00:40:19,300
When we talk about those things, it all pertains to Israel.

744
00:40:20,240 --> 00:40:20,880
They were hungry.

745
00:40:21,010 --> 00:40:21,540
They were thirsty.

746
00:40:21,860 --> 00:40:23,220
They were burning in the heat of the sun.

747
00:40:23,450 --> 00:40:24,440
They were shedding tears.

748
00:40:25,040 --> 00:40:27,060
Christ is going to take all that away.

749
00:40:27,620 --> 00:40:31,280
And he brought them through tribulation, and now they're going to get to spend eternity with him.

750
00:40:31,440 --> 00:40:31,700
Yeah.

751
00:40:31,820 --> 00:40:32,120
Man.

752
00:40:32,980 --> 00:40:38,620
And we'll see even in the next chapter that hunger and thirst is a big deal coming up.

753
00:40:38,860 --> 00:40:39,440
It sure is.

754
00:40:39,440 --> 00:40:40,080
That they've experienced.

755
00:40:40,620 --> 00:40:40,820
Yeah.

756
00:40:41,170 --> 00:40:41,280
Amen.

757
00:40:41,670 --> 00:40:41,780
Amen.

758
00:40:41,980 --> 00:40:50,180
And we need to understand, too, that the church is not the Lord's only sheep.

759
00:40:50,730 --> 00:40:50,860
Okay?

760
00:40:51,160 --> 00:40:53,400
We're not the Lord's only sheep.

761
00:40:53,940 --> 00:40:59,880
John chapter 10, verse 16 says, and other sheep I have, which are not of this fold,

762
00:41:00,760 --> 00:41:07,480
them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice, and there shall be one fold and one shepherd.

763
00:41:07,900 --> 00:41:10,140
So here we are getting brought together.

764
00:41:10,460 --> 00:41:10,620
Yeah.

765
00:41:10,620 --> 00:41:11,180
Man.

766
00:41:13,180 --> 00:41:20,620
So he was talking about the contrast of Jews and Gentiles, but now we see the tribulation saints coming into this thing.

767
00:41:20,900 --> 00:41:23,900
But man, the church does hold a special place.

768
00:41:24,120 --> 00:41:25,200
I don't want to get that.

769
00:41:25,210 --> 00:41:28,060
I don't want to get that misconstrued because we're the bride of Christ.

770
00:41:28,420 --> 00:41:28,520
Yeah.

771
00:41:28,740 --> 00:41:28,860
Right.

772
00:41:29,400 --> 00:41:31,560
But man, we're all going to get to worship him together.

773
00:41:32,000 --> 00:41:32,240
Yeah.

774
00:41:32,400 --> 00:41:32,580
Amen.

775
00:41:33,420 --> 00:41:33,780
Amen.

776
00:41:34,220 --> 00:41:35,100
We got it easy, don't we?

777
00:41:35,380 --> 00:41:35,600
Yeah.

778
00:41:36,000 --> 00:41:36,060
Yeah.

779
00:41:36,200 --> 00:41:41,900
And really, I do want to throw out and make it very clear when we say that, because somebody

780
00:41:42,010 --> 00:41:43,180
is going to take that out of context.

781
00:41:44,180 --> 00:41:49,379
We're not saying that there are those that are not following Christ, that are not following

782
00:41:49,400 --> 00:41:51,240
the scripture that are still his sheep.

783
00:41:51,520 --> 00:41:52,620
That's not how that works.

784
00:41:52,980 --> 00:41:57,940
He has some lost lambs out there that are not following, but he's talking about the children

785
00:41:57,980 --> 00:42:02,360
of Israel and the church, the Gentiles that we're a part of.

786
00:42:02,740 --> 00:42:07,520
And these are two different groups that are part of two separate flocks right now, because

787
00:42:07,560 --> 00:42:15,600
you have the Jews, you have the Christian Jews that are following Christ, and you have the

788
00:42:16,020 --> 00:42:18,620
Christian Gentiles, which are the rest of us.

789
00:42:19,000 --> 00:42:20,760
You've got to be born again and be a bold adult.

790
00:42:21,360 --> 00:42:26,260
And these are two different flocks, but the way you get there is still the same.

791
00:42:26,400 --> 00:42:27,080
It's still through him.

792
00:42:27,680 --> 00:42:29,300
It's two separate flocks.

793
00:42:29,320 --> 00:42:30,400
We have two different backgrounds.

794
00:42:30,680 --> 00:42:32,300
We have two different upbringings.

795
00:42:32,300 --> 00:42:39,880
We have two different sets of promises because we are the bride of Christ, whereas they are his children, his chosen people.

796
00:42:40,400 --> 00:42:47,940
And these are two different sets of promises and two different sets of people that all get brought together in the end to be one group.

797
00:42:50,560 --> 00:42:53,060
That's non-church Gentiles, right?

798
00:42:54,619 --> 00:42:58,760
Before the church and, you know, like tribulation saints, Gentiles.

799
00:43:00,380 --> 00:43:01,260
Yeah, that's true, too.

800
00:43:01,460 --> 00:43:03,600
But that common denominator is born again.

801
00:43:03,760 --> 00:43:04,340
Born again.

802
00:43:04,720 --> 00:43:04,880
Yes.

803
00:43:05,900 --> 00:43:08,100
Faith through grace through faith.

804
00:43:08,260 --> 00:43:14,540
And it's nothing else, not worse, and not the adherence to the law.

805
00:43:14,880 --> 00:43:16,340
That was what Christ came to overthrow.

806
00:43:16,450 --> 00:43:18,180
That was part of that throwing it on its head, right?

807
00:43:18,320 --> 00:43:19,660
Obedience comes from faith.

808
00:43:19,750 --> 00:43:20,200
Yeah, yeah.

809
00:43:20,760 --> 00:43:22,360
It's not the other way around.

810
00:43:22,960 --> 00:43:24,660
And that was one of the crazy things.

811
00:43:24,800 --> 00:43:26,080
I say it all the time.

812
00:43:26,200 --> 00:43:27,660
It's the unique thing about Christianity.

813
00:43:28,260 --> 00:43:30,980
We do not keep the law because there's anything in it for us.

814
00:43:31,560 --> 00:43:33,460
We keep the law because we have faith in Him.

815
00:43:33,700 --> 00:43:34,720
Because we love our Father.

816
00:43:35,120 --> 00:43:35,180
Yes.

817
00:43:35,580 --> 00:43:40,360
And because He fulfilled the law in us through Him, He fulfilled the law.

818
00:43:41,760 --> 00:43:44,640
And it's only because of Him that we're able to keep anything.

819
00:43:45,010 --> 00:43:45,120
Yeah.

820
00:43:45,620 --> 00:43:49,900
And when God looks at us, he looks at us through his son, Jesus Christ.

821
00:43:50,420 --> 00:43:56,580
I've broken all the laws because the Bible says if I have sinned, if I broke one, I broke them all.

822
00:43:57,240 --> 00:44:00,060
And so there had to be a remedy for that.

823
00:44:00,060 --> 00:44:03,200
And the only remedy for that was Jesus Christ and his sacrifice.

824
00:44:03,880 --> 00:44:09,820
And our faith in him is what brings that together and what covers us with the blood of Jesus Christ.

825
00:44:10,020 --> 00:44:11,940
So we're covered in his righteousness.

826
00:44:12,040 --> 00:44:17,120
And so when, when, that's how he fulfilled that in us because we're covered in his righteousness.

827
00:44:17,660 --> 00:44:20,440
And when God looks at us, he looks at us in perfection.

828
00:44:20,500 --> 00:44:23,800
He looks at us through the sun and he says, those are mine.

829
00:44:24,020 --> 00:44:24,140
Yeah.

830
00:44:24,140 --> 00:44:27,740
And as we walk with him in this lifestyle of faith, we're transformed.

831
00:44:27,920 --> 00:44:28,180
That's right.

832
00:44:28,280 --> 00:44:32,320
And more and more obedient because we love him more and more and loving it is obedient.

833
00:44:32,680 --> 00:44:32,920
That's right.

834
00:44:33,000 --> 00:44:36,900
The Bible is being transformed by the renewing of your mind.

835
00:44:37,060 --> 00:44:37,180
Right.

836
00:44:37,460 --> 00:44:37,620
Yeah.

837
00:44:37,960 --> 00:44:39,900
And, you know, I'm going to throw out real quick.

838
00:44:40,020 --> 00:44:47,880
I love that in 717, you pointed out that it says the lamb will be the shepherd, will shepherd them and lead them to springs of living water.

839
00:44:48,559 --> 00:44:51,020
You want to know where that living water part comes in?

840
00:44:51,020 --> 00:44:51,480
You want to know where?

841
00:44:51,880 --> 00:44:52,680
Right here's where it comes in.

842
00:44:52,800 --> 00:44:54,820
It says that's what he's leading us to.

843
00:44:54,920 --> 00:44:56,000
That's what he's taking us to.

844
00:44:56,400 --> 00:45:00,080
And when he told the woman at the well, hey, drink of the water I'm bringing you, this is that water.

845
00:45:00,220 --> 00:45:04,820
He's saying, I'm going to now lead you to that that I've promised you, that spring of living water.

846
00:45:05,040 --> 00:45:19,540
Again, that representation and that knowledge that we are going to have, that life that is eternal and everlasting and is a life of peace and of perfect connection with God.

847
00:45:20,190 --> 00:45:22,380
Again, that's what he's leading us into when it says that.

848
00:45:22,730 --> 00:45:23,700
I love that verse.

849
00:45:23,760 --> 00:45:25,520
It reminds me of Psalm 23.

850
00:45:25,960 --> 00:45:30,660
You know, he makes me lie down and greeting pastors, leads me besides to quiet waters, still waters.

851
00:45:30,820 --> 00:45:31,000
Amen.

852
00:45:31,380 --> 00:45:31,840
Yes.

853
00:45:32,180 --> 00:45:32,400
Yeah.

854
00:45:32,740 --> 00:45:32,800
Yeah.

855
00:45:33,220 --> 00:45:41,540
And again, the whole analogy here that we see of the lamb becoming the leader, the lamb becoming the guy.

856
00:45:41,880 --> 00:45:44,860
You know, instead of the lamb being led, the lamb is leading.

857
00:45:45,060 --> 00:45:50,580
The lamb is bringing us to a good place and bringing these tribulation saints.

858
00:45:51,020 --> 00:45:53,960
He's going to feed them and he's going to lead them.

859
00:45:54,460 --> 00:46:00,060
He talks about feeding them there, and then he talks about taking care of their thirst, too.

860
00:46:00,440 --> 00:46:02,480
He's going to give them living water, right?

861
00:46:02,760 --> 00:46:04,280
I mean, God, what a wonderful thing.

862
00:46:05,020 --> 00:46:07,080
The lamb that says, look, I know where I'm going.

863
00:46:07,190 --> 00:46:07,960
I don't need a shepherd.

864
00:46:08,150 --> 00:46:08,840
I am the shepherd.

865
00:46:09,000 --> 00:46:09,500
That's right.

866
00:46:10,579 --> 00:46:12,380
And we'll never go hungry again.

867
00:46:12,490 --> 00:46:13,440
We'll never be thirsty again.

868
00:46:13,450 --> 00:46:17,260
The sun will not beat down on them, nor any burning heat.

869
00:46:17,310 --> 00:46:20,740
I mean, we're talking about, okay, this is what God had in store.

870
00:46:20,920 --> 00:46:21,980
This is what God planned.

871
00:46:22,240 --> 00:46:25,920
I mean, you look back at the design of the garden and the way he designed the Garden of Eden.

872
00:46:26,440 --> 00:46:27,000
That was it.

873
00:46:27,120 --> 00:46:28,980
You weren't going to be out in the hot sun.

874
00:46:29,070 --> 00:46:29,860
You were in this garden.

875
00:46:29,890 --> 00:46:30,680
You had leaves over.

876
00:46:30,710 --> 00:46:31,200
You had stuff.

877
00:46:31,280 --> 00:46:32,220
You had this cool area.

878
00:46:32,360 --> 00:46:33,860
You have the cool water to go hang out with.

879
00:46:34,220 --> 00:46:36,760
And we rejected that to go hang out in the desert.

880
00:46:37,100 --> 00:46:38,020
No, Adam did.

881
00:46:38,190 --> 00:46:38,580
I didn't.

882
00:46:39,260 --> 00:46:39,720
That's true.

883
00:46:40,700 --> 00:46:41,460
Yeah, that's true.

884
00:46:41,720 --> 00:46:44,540
Let me tell you, let's look at another thing right here, too.

885
00:46:46,160 --> 00:46:50,640
Have you seen anywhere in the book of Revelation or during tribulation,

886
00:46:50,980 --> 00:46:52,740
have you seen anywhere where anybody's baptized?

887
00:46:53,740 --> 00:46:53,920
No.

888
00:46:55,319 --> 00:46:55,680
Okay.

889
00:46:56,180 --> 00:46:56,440
All right.

890
00:46:57,540 --> 00:47:00,040
So maybe you don't have to be baptized to go to heaven, right?

891
00:47:01,300 --> 00:47:03,280
I just wanted to put that out there.

892
00:47:03,820 --> 00:47:06,420
I mean, these guys haven't been baptized.

893
00:47:06,660 --> 00:47:07,840
They haven't been to Bible college.

894
00:47:08,000 --> 00:47:09,400
They haven't been to Sunday school.

895
00:47:09,460 --> 00:47:10,940
They haven't been, or a lot of them.

896
00:47:11,080 --> 00:47:16,200
I mean, most of these people during this time may be people who have never even stepped foot in a church

897
00:47:16,280 --> 00:47:17,820
or around a church or even heard of Pete.

898
00:47:18,380 --> 00:47:19,140
Yeah, absolutely.

899
00:47:19,700 --> 00:47:20,980
And guess what?

900
00:47:21,160 --> 00:47:21,840
Now they're going to heaven.

901
00:47:22,140 --> 00:47:22,300
Yeah.

902
00:47:22,740 --> 00:47:24,780
It reminds me of that Alistair Begg sermon.

903
00:47:24,860 --> 00:47:25,340
Do you remember that?

904
00:47:25,700 --> 00:47:25,980
Yes.

905
00:47:26,080 --> 00:47:31,120
I remember that a few years ago, and he's like, well, now tell me about the doctrine of whatever.

906
00:47:31,280 --> 00:47:36,420
you know yeah yeah it's why should we let you in he said because the man on the middle cross said i

907
00:47:36,540 --> 00:47:41,400
could come that's right yeah yeah that's his own that that's it oh we got let's see it we came

908
00:47:41,500 --> 00:47:45,740
through man on the middle that's a powerful sermon he gives yeah yeah it really is yeah

909
00:47:46,240 --> 00:47:51,120
i'm at but that is powerful again he said he just ad-libbed that one time and we were speaking

910
00:47:51,340 --> 00:47:55,379
somewhere yeah yeah he didn't write any of that down he just started talking that dude can talk

911
00:47:55,460 --> 00:47:56,040
Oh, he can.

912
00:47:56,200 --> 00:47:56,520
Oh, yeah.

913
00:47:57,040 --> 00:47:57,400
He can.

914
00:47:57,430 --> 00:48:03,660
I heard somebody had played it not long ago, and they described it as –

915
00:48:03,920 --> 00:48:05,880
The best three minutes or something like that.

916
00:48:06,080 --> 00:48:12,419
Yeah, but he describes Alistair Beck coming across like a Viking soldier

917
00:48:13,180 --> 00:48:15,020
leading us to battle or something like that.

918
00:48:15,140 --> 00:48:18,240
That voice that he has.

919
00:48:18,450 --> 00:48:19,820
Yeah, he's a little bitty dude, too.

920
00:48:20,080 --> 00:48:20,940
Yeah, he is.

921
00:48:21,180 --> 00:48:21,440
He is.

922
00:48:22,240 --> 00:48:27,420
But, you know, that's the amazing thing is you've got this period in Revelation.

923
00:48:27,650 --> 00:48:37,160
You have – I cannot envision a world in which you are actively being hunted and killed for believing in Christ,

924
00:48:37,400 --> 00:48:41,800
for rejecting this religion that has been set up by the beast, which we haven't gotten to yet,

925
00:48:41,810 --> 00:48:44,320
but we're going to see it pretty soon, of what this looks like.

926
00:48:44,580 --> 00:48:46,160
They are actively killing people.

927
00:48:46,210 --> 00:48:48,300
They are actively saying you can't buy food.

928
00:48:48,390 --> 00:48:49,100
You can't eat.

929
00:48:49,300 --> 00:48:51,420
You can't have rent.

930
00:48:51,560 --> 00:48:52,540
You can't own your house.

931
00:48:52,670 --> 00:48:53,680
You can't have a car.

932
00:48:53,770 --> 00:48:54,260
You can't.

933
00:48:54,540 --> 00:48:56,260
They're actively persecuting.

934
00:48:56,620 --> 00:48:57,320
It really does.

935
00:48:58,040 --> 00:48:58,880
It really does.

936
00:48:59,420 --> 00:49:01,720
And they're actively persecuting you for being a Christian.

937
00:49:02,360 --> 00:49:04,280
And you think they're having baptizing, Stuart?

938
00:49:04,780 --> 00:49:04,940
Yeah.

939
00:49:06,460 --> 00:49:06,640
No.

940
00:49:06,960 --> 00:49:07,900
You want to know how they're meeting?

941
00:49:08,060 --> 00:49:09,320
They're going out in a field somewhere.

942
00:49:09,440 --> 00:49:12,960
They're finding a cave to hide in so that the government doesn't find out about it so they

943
00:49:13,040 --> 00:49:15,820
don't come and murder all of them because they're trying to help them spread the word.

944
00:49:15,820 --> 00:49:17,460
This is like China or North Korea right now.

945
00:49:17,530 --> 00:49:17,900
I don't know how.

946
00:49:17,900 --> 00:49:18,740
I don't know how.

947
00:49:18,840 --> 00:49:20,440
I'll probably get cut off for this one.

948
00:49:20,560 --> 00:49:25,220
I don't know how the Church of Christ, how they evangelize in some of these foreign countries or whatever,

949
00:49:25,440 --> 00:49:30,660
because, I mean, you've got people who are getting saved and then beheaded right after they get saved, you know,

950
00:49:30,740 --> 00:49:32,940
and it's like, oh, God, let's dunk them in water before.

951
00:49:33,460 --> 00:49:36,100
You know, let me throw some water on them real quick.

952
00:49:36,560 --> 00:49:42,120
I mean, guys, I mean, listen, baptism is important.

953
00:49:42,380 --> 00:49:44,120
I don't want to come across.

954
00:49:44,320 --> 00:49:45,380
It is a commandment.

955
00:49:45,640 --> 00:49:48,000
It is a commandment that we show the world.

956
00:49:48,060 --> 00:49:51,080
It's part of who we are in Christ.

957
00:49:51,480 --> 00:49:53,380
It's our testimony.

958
00:49:54,980 --> 00:49:55,900
They're both commands.

959
00:49:56,120 --> 00:49:56,380
Yeah.

960
00:49:57,130 --> 00:50:04,480
So we testify that we have been born again, that we are washed away in the old, that we buried the old, and we come up new.

961
00:50:04,740 --> 00:50:05,640
And so it is.

962
00:50:05,720 --> 00:50:10,080
It's an outward expression of an inward change in us, and it's very important.

963
00:50:10,130 --> 00:50:12,040
And I do not want to downplay that.

964
00:50:12,420 --> 00:50:16,360
If you get saved and you can be baptized, you need to be baptized.

965
00:50:16,600 --> 00:50:17,540
That's your next step.

966
00:50:17,620 --> 00:50:19,480
I don't think your spiritual walk will be whole.

967
00:50:19,600 --> 00:50:20,060
Yes.

968
00:50:20,320 --> 00:50:20,840
Yeah, absolutely.

969
00:50:21,900 --> 00:50:27,740
But if you die before baptism takes place, that does not send you to hell.

970
00:50:28,040 --> 00:50:29,980
That is not biblical at all.

971
00:50:30,160 --> 00:50:30,320
No.

972
00:50:30,480 --> 00:50:31,560
Look to the thief on the cross.

973
00:50:31,800 --> 00:50:31,920
Right.

974
00:50:32,180 --> 00:50:38,660
And what do you do with somebody that say that they're on their deathbed in a hospital or somewhere and they get saved?

975
00:50:38,860 --> 00:50:39,060
Yeah.

976
00:50:39,320 --> 00:50:40,040
Oh, we got a donkey.

977
00:50:40,440 --> 00:50:40,660
Right.

978
00:50:40,920 --> 00:50:41,000
Yeah.

979
00:50:41,300 --> 00:50:41,360
Yeah.

980
00:50:41,620 --> 00:50:42,800
Let's find a tub.

981
00:50:43,020 --> 00:50:43,160
Yeah.

982
00:50:43,300 --> 00:50:43,440
Yeah.

983
00:50:43,520 --> 00:50:44,180
You can't.

984
00:50:44,380 --> 00:50:44,540
No.

985
00:50:44,680 --> 00:50:44,820
Right.

986
00:50:44,860 --> 00:50:46,920
And it's not critical for salvation.

987
00:50:47,100 --> 00:50:47,360
That's right.

988
00:50:47,420 --> 00:50:49,000
You're looking for your spiritual one.

989
00:50:49,180 --> 00:50:49,280
Absolutely.

990
00:50:49,880 --> 00:50:51,080
And it's exactly that.

991
00:50:51,820 --> 00:50:54,260
Once you're born again, that's already happened on the inside.

992
00:50:54,760 --> 00:51:02,360
And Paul referred to it kind of a different way, I think, in Galatians, where he said it's a circumcision.

993
00:51:02,600 --> 00:51:03,240
It is.

994
00:51:03,400 --> 00:51:07,360
The sign of circumcision in the Old Testament is kind of the same as the baptism in the New Testament.

995
00:51:07,420 --> 00:51:07,640
Right.

996
00:51:07,880 --> 00:51:09,360
That's the removing of the old.

997
00:51:09,480 --> 00:51:09,860
That's right.

998
00:51:10,060 --> 00:51:10,320
That's right.

999
00:51:10,440 --> 00:51:11,100
Cutting away the old.

1000
00:51:11,360 --> 00:51:17,020
And I tell you, again, it is such a testimony, just like the Lord's Supper.

1001
00:51:17,200 --> 00:51:23,640
absolutely lord's supper is a testimony we had a we had a a girl get saved here uh uh last i think

1002
00:51:23,640 --> 00:51:31,980
it was last year uh last year or the year before yeah got saved here uh after uh we had our communion

1003
00:51:32,220 --> 00:51:38,340
service one morning uh and and the lord just convicted her during communion right that that

1004
00:51:38,340 --> 00:51:43,460
hey i can't take part in this because i don't understand it oh and and it just convinced and

1005
00:51:43,440 --> 00:51:44,560
And this was a teenage girl.

1006
00:51:45,580 --> 00:51:46,820
And it does the same thing.

1007
00:51:46,820 --> 00:51:55,760
I always tell them before we have communion, hey, when my kids were growing up, I didn't let them take part in communion until they were saved, until they knew Jesus Christ.

1008
00:51:56,240 --> 00:52:00,500
And people say, well, preacher, I thought you said if they hadn't reached the age of accountability that they're okay.

1009
00:52:00,580 --> 00:52:01,580
Yeah, I agree with that.

1010
00:52:01,880 --> 00:52:04,120
But I want them to understand what it's about.

1011
00:52:04,320 --> 00:52:07,300
And you don't understand it until he's living inside of you.

1012
00:52:07,640 --> 00:52:15,860
That connection to what you're doing and what you're taking place in there is such a beautiful thing for you.

1013
00:52:16,350 --> 00:52:26,120
But it's also a testimony to others, because when other kids see kids that have been saved take part in communion, they're like, ah.

1014
00:52:26,370 --> 00:52:29,680
And they go home and they say, Mom, Dad, why can't I take part in that?

1015
00:52:29,680 --> 00:52:33,660
And Mom, Dad says, well, let me tell you, this is why you take part in communion.

1016
00:52:33,990 --> 00:52:35,920
And this is what happens, right?

1017
00:52:35,980 --> 00:52:40,580
Like you accept Christ as Savior, and then you become part of the church,

1018
00:52:40,760 --> 00:52:43,720
you become part of the body of Christ, and then you have an understanding,

1019
00:52:43,800 --> 00:52:45,220
and then you get to take part in communion.

1020
00:52:45,340 --> 00:52:46,340
And they say, oh, okay.

1021
00:52:46,760 --> 00:52:48,540
So it's an opportunity to teach them.

1022
00:52:49,040 --> 00:52:50,060
Same thing with baptism.

1023
00:52:51,040 --> 00:52:56,680
I can't tell you at the number of kids who have asked questions after questions to their parents.

1024
00:52:56,880 --> 00:52:59,920
Like I've had parents come up to me, hey, you care to talk to my kids?

1025
00:53:00,500 --> 00:53:04,200
Because after baptism today, you know, my kid was asking a thousand questions.

1026
00:53:04,660 --> 00:53:07,620
The Holy Spirit begins to deal with them through things like that.

1027
00:53:07,780 --> 00:53:09,900
And so it is very important.

1028
00:53:10,260 --> 00:53:21,660
Both of those things that we've been commanded to do are very important for us and for the others who see us taking part in those things because they say, okay, there's something there.

1029
00:53:21,740 --> 00:53:23,600
There's a testimony there that I don't have.

1030
00:53:23,720 --> 00:53:27,480
And there's a mysterious power in there, too, toward us when we participate in this stuff.

1031
00:53:27,480 --> 00:53:27,940
Isn't there? Yeah.

1032
00:53:28,520 --> 00:53:32,380
And communion, to me, has always been a really, really reverent thing.

1033
00:53:32,450 --> 00:53:32,960
It is, yeah.

1034
00:53:33,040 --> 00:53:34,740
I'm refocused on the cross.

1035
00:53:35,160 --> 00:53:35,280
Yeah.

1036
00:53:35,700 --> 00:53:37,900
The cross, the body and the blood, right?

1037
00:53:38,360 --> 00:53:45,700
And, you know, I always go back to, I'd gone to an Episcopal church one time, and of course they do it at the end of every service.

1038
00:53:45,960 --> 00:53:47,600
They're like the Catholics and the Lutherans.

1039
00:53:47,600 --> 00:53:51,580
They do the communion service at the end of every single church service.

1040
00:53:52,260 --> 00:53:55,360
And I will never forget watching this older lady.

1041
00:53:56,460 --> 00:53:59,000
She really couldn't even get up in and out of the seat very well.

1042
00:53:59,740 --> 00:54:05,960
And before she went down, she had to get on her knees and she sat there and she prayed and she prayed and she prayed.

1043
00:54:06,340 --> 00:54:07,440
And then she got up and went down.

1044
00:54:07,480 --> 00:54:10,660
And I thought, oh, man, you know, I mean, don't get me wrong.

1045
00:54:10,820 --> 00:54:13,280
I have I have issues with the Episcopal Church.

1046
00:54:13,880 --> 00:54:18,760
But goodness, that kind of faith and that kind of, hey, I'm going to make sure that I've done what I need to do.

1047
00:54:18,840 --> 00:54:22,180
And I've had that conversation with my father before I walked down there.

1048
00:54:22,220 --> 00:54:25,080
And I went, oh, I mean, that it convicted me.

1049
00:54:25,200 --> 00:54:25,320
Yeah.

1050
00:54:25,600 --> 00:54:31,520
watching it from this completely, you know, totally what is today a fairly out there church.

1051
00:54:32,380 --> 00:54:37,400
And man, it convicted me watching this little old lady go, I can barely get up and walk down the aisle.

1052
00:54:37,800 --> 00:54:41,660
Not going to be getting very comfortable getting on my knees in that seat,

1053
00:54:42,120 --> 00:54:46,000
but taking the time to flip that little prayer stool down and get down on her knees and pray.

1054
00:54:46,520 --> 00:54:48,860
And I thought, man, what if we all did that?

1055
00:54:48,920 --> 00:54:50,340
Yeah, Paul said it's a dangerous thing.

1056
00:54:50,480 --> 00:54:50,720
Oh, yeah.

1057
00:54:50,880 --> 00:54:52,660
He said you're eating and drinking damnation.

1058
00:54:53,300 --> 00:54:57,880
And I wonder, I just thought about that when you were saying this.

1059
00:54:58,480 --> 00:55:04,080
I wonder if you're saved, of course you're not going to lose your salvation.

1060
00:55:04,230 --> 00:55:05,980
You're not going to die and go to hell.

1061
00:55:06,410 --> 00:55:21,740
So I wonder if you're eating and drinking damnation, could it be that you're eating and drinking damnation to someone who has fought with you, to someone who you've hurt their feelings, to someone who you've sinned against them,

1062
00:55:21,920 --> 00:55:27,140
And then they see you taking part in a sacred thing that's supposed to be for Christians.

1063
00:55:27,240 --> 00:55:30,300
And they're like, look, if that guy is a Christian, the woods is full of me.

1064
00:55:30,420 --> 00:55:31,320
You know, he's cussed me.

1065
00:55:31,400 --> 00:55:31,960
He's hurt me.

1066
00:55:32,360 --> 00:55:33,680
He's done wrong against me.

1067
00:55:34,020 --> 00:55:39,640
And now he is over there trying to pretend like he's somebody that he's not, you know, and I don't know part of that.

1068
00:55:39,800 --> 00:55:40,620
So, yeah, exactly.

1069
00:55:41,180 --> 00:55:42,500
I would be there down there.

1070
00:55:42,560 --> 00:55:42,660
Yeah.

1071
00:55:42,820 --> 00:55:50,500
You know, and I started to say it could be purely about the witness, because I mean, like I say, I had never seen anybody do that before.

1072
00:55:50,680 --> 00:55:53,340
It was the first time in my life I'd ever, and I was 20 something years old.

1073
00:55:54,859 --> 00:55:57,720
And it just, it's something that has stuck with me all these years.

1074
00:55:57,830 --> 00:56:01,940
And when we do communion, it is, it's something that even my kids have, have commented over,

1075
00:56:02,520 --> 00:56:06,340
you know, as they were growing up that, that I did it a little differently after that.

1076
00:56:06,580 --> 00:56:09,460
And, and we would be at their mom's church or whatever.

1077
00:56:09,740 --> 00:56:13,000
And, and, uh, or grandmama's church on that side.

1078
00:56:13,200 --> 00:56:17,540
And, uh, you know, they were like, you're, you're treating this a little differently,

1079
00:56:17,630 --> 00:56:18,800
dad, why are you, why are you treating it?

1080
00:56:18,860 --> 00:56:20,080
Why aren't you just acting like everybody else?

1081
00:56:20,200 --> 00:56:21,560
And I'm like, because it's special.

1082
00:56:21,900 --> 00:56:23,020
It has meaning.

1083
00:56:23,340 --> 00:56:29,180
It is something that is important to represent what our Savior has done for us.

1084
00:56:29,240 --> 00:56:32,440
And for me to just willy-nilly walk down, I can't.

1085
00:56:32,500 --> 00:56:33,620
You're eating at his table.

1086
00:56:33,860 --> 00:56:34,140
Yeah.

1087
00:56:34,820 --> 00:56:35,620
That's his table.

1088
00:56:35,660 --> 00:56:42,160
I feel so heavy when we have communion.

1089
00:56:42,280 --> 00:56:47,060
I'm like, I've never done it when I felt like I'd done justice to it.

1090
00:56:48,400 --> 00:56:52,080
It really gets a hold of me because I'm like, Lord, I don't know.

1091
00:56:53,220 --> 00:56:55,840
I don't know exactly the right things to say.

1092
00:56:55,920 --> 00:56:57,700
How do you glorify them in something like that?

1093
00:56:57,840 --> 00:56:57,940
Yeah.

1094
00:56:57,980 --> 00:56:58,380
Yeah.

1095
00:56:58,780 --> 00:57:06,860
I mean, it's just so, like you said, it's so sacred and it's so special to us as Christians.

1096
00:57:07,680 --> 00:57:09,660
And I don't want to mess it up.

1097
00:57:10,200 --> 00:57:13,900
And I just feel like, oh, gosh, I'm just not doing this justice.

1098
00:57:14,000 --> 00:57:21,400
But I've had an opportunity to do communion outside the church several times.

1099
00:57:21,400 --> 00:57:25,240
I've done it in several nursing homes since I've been a hospice chaplain.

1100
00:57:26,060 --> 00:57:33,600
But I've also done it in some homes with a few families who wanted to do communion and some good Christian families.

1101
00:57:33,680 --> 00:57:37,780
And my goodness, two different times we've had church.

1102
00:57:38,380 --> 00:57:39,620
I mean, we've had church.

1103
00:57:39,720 --> 00:57:43,360
It was just a sweet thing.

1104
00:57:43,660 --> 00:57:49,200
and you got somebody there that this is probably the last time

1105
00:57:49,210 --> 00:57:50,820
that they may ever get to take communion.

1106
00:57:51,100 --> 00:57:53,480
In fact, one of them, the first one that I done,

1107
00:57:55,020 --> 00:57:58,720
that person passed just a day or two after that.

1108
00:58:00,100 --> 00:58:04,220
And the whole family that was there, the family that was there,

1109
00:58:04,270 --> 00:58:05,280
man, they were just there.

1110
00:58:05,430 --> 00:58:08,980
It was crying and squalling, and he got to take part in it,

1111
00:58:09,040 --> 00:58:10,900
and we got to take part in it with him.

1112
00:58:11,140 --> 00:58:14,160
It was like this is what it's about right here.

1113
00:58:14,270 --> 00:58:17,940
Yeah, you know, there's always been something just mysterious

1114
00:58:18,110 --> 00:58:20,480
and powerful about breaking bread with your brothers too.

1115
00:58:20,780 --> 00:58:21,760
It is, yeah, yeah.

1116
00:58:21,940 --> 00:58:28,080
You know, that was the road to Emmaus where the two guys are walking alongside Jesus

1117
00:58:28,170 --> 00:58:29,560
and don't know it, he breaks the bread.

1118
00:58:29,700 --> 00:58:30,260
And then boom.

1119
00:58:30,560 --> 00:58:30,740
Boom.

1120
00:58:31,180 --> 00:58:31,860
Yeah, yeah.

1121
00:58:32,760 --> 00:58:35,560
The Last Supper, he's breaking the bread and gives the morsel to Judas.

1122
00:58:35,860 --> 00:58:36,020
Yeah.

1123
00:58:36,480 --> 00:58:40,000
There's something about bread, about dining together.

1124
00:58:40,160 --> 00:58:40,820
Yeah, it is.

1125
00:58:40,870 --> 00:58:41,880
It is about fellowship.

1126
00:58:42,340 --> 00:58:42,440
Yeah.

1127
00:58:42,600 --> 00:58:44,680
I mean, it's important, man.

1128
00:58:44,800 --> 00:58:45,320
It's important.

1129
00:58:45,400 --> 00:58:46,280
Fellowship of the believers.

1130
00:58:47,700 --> 00:58:53,480
In Acts, it says that they were daily in the breaking of bread and fellowship with each

1131
00:58:53,710 --> 00:58:53,800
other.

1132
00:58:54,320 --> 00:58:54,380
Yeah.

1133
00:58:54,500 --> 00:58:55,100
Oh, man.

1134
00:58:55,600 --> 00:58:57,260
It also says they were in one accord.

1135
00:58:57,340 --> 00:58:58,260
And I don't believe it, man.

1136
00:58:59,040 --> 00:58:59,740
They drove a Honda.

1137
00:59:00,860 --> 00:59:01,300
That's true.

1138
00:59:01,960 --> 00:59:02,420
That's true.

1139
00:59:02,880 --> 00:59:03,040
Yeah.

1140
00:59:03,410 --> 00:59:03,540
Yeah.

1141
00:59:03,920 --> 00:59:06,200
That's a lot of people to squeeze in there.

1142
00:59:06,290 --> 00:59:07,440
Those guys must have been a little, man.

1143
00:59:07,580 --> 00:59:07,760
Yeah.

1144
00:59:08,060 --> 00:59:08,200
Yeah.

1145
00:59:08,290 --> 00:59:09,840
To get everybody to get back then.

1146
00:59:09,920 --> 00:59:19,120
yeah well i blew that didn't i maybe that was great well there'll be another joke at the

1147
00:59:19,320 --> 00:59:28,800
beginning of chapter eight too so that's right that's right yeah yeah so but uh yeah good stuff

1148
00:59:28,980 --> 00:59:34,100
though man and good stuff in the middle of tragedy i mean here we are we're seeing people

1149
00:59:34,380 --> 00:59:39,880
saved during all this right we're seeing the grace of god the hand of god coming down and saying i'm

1150
00:59:39,900 --> 00:59:46,140
here i still love you and i'm still the per my purpose is is not to create you and destroy you

1151
00:59:46,140 --> 00:59:51,640
but to create you and save you right and and him reaching down and putting that pause on all the

1152
00:59:51,760 --> 00:59:56,900
damage everything let me seal let me seal mine and get them started doing what they're called to do

1153
00:59:57,140 --> 01:00:03,079
that's it that's it and oh yeah hit the play button again yeah and yeah and when that play

1154
01:00:03,100 --> 01:00:05,520
button hits, it's like, can you hit pause again?

1155
01:00:06,360 --> 01:00:07,840
Play button and volume to 11.

1156
01:00:08,020 --> 01:00:08,420
Yeah.

1157
01:00:08,420 --> 01:00:08,440
Yeah.

1158
01:00:08,680 --> 01:00:09,000
Yes.

1159
01:00:09,300 --> 01:00:09,520
Yes.

1160
01:00:09,720 --> 01:00:10,100
Absolutely.

1161
01:00:10,500 --> 01:00:10,600
Yeah.

1162
01:00:10,800 --> 01:00:11,020
Yeah.

1163
01:00:11,220 --> 01:00:13,760
You didn't think God did the whole rock music thing.

1164
01:00:15,100 --> 01:00:15,320
Yeah.

1165
01:00:16,500 --> 01:00:18,440
The way the earth starts trembling, I disagree.

1166
01:00:18,880 --> 01:00:18,960
Yeah.

1167
01:00:21,300 --> 01:00:21,720
Thumping.

1168
01:00:23,280 --> 01:00:27,280
Well, that takes us through chapter seven in the book of Revelation.

1169
01:00:27,500 --> 01:00:29,800
We're going into chapter eight next week.

1170
01:00:29,820 --> 01:00:31,880
That will be chapter eight, verse one.

1171
01:00:32,060 --> 01:00:33,440
We'll get to start again on a verse one.

1172
01:00:33,760 --> 01:00:34,120
Awesome.

1173
01:00:34,280 --> 01:00:34,460
Yeah.

1174
01:00:34,700 --> 01:00:35,020
One week.

1175
01:00:35,560 --> 01:00:36,000
One a week.

1176
01:00:36,000 --> 01:00:36,600
I like it.

1177
01:00:37,460 --> 01:00:38,860
20 weeks, 22 weeks.

1178
01:00:42,000 --> 01:00:48,680
But it is, it's a wonderful thing to study this and to think about just how good our God is.

1179
01:00:48,760 --> 01:00:49,260
Oh, yeah.

1180
01:00:49,360 --> 01:00:55,300
And how amazing and awesome he is and how wonderful he is that he's given us the opportunity to miss all of this.

1181
01:00:55,660 --> 01:00:55,760
Yeah.

1182
01:00:56,260 --> 01:00:56,940
I mean, that's the thing.

1183
01:00:57,100 --> 01:00:58,060
It's not about fear.

1184
01:00:58,260 --> 01:00:59,540
It's not about scaring people.

1185
01:00:59,700 --> 01:01:00,840
It's not about making you nervous.

1186
01:01:00,940 --> 01:01:03,040
It's not about making you want to escape hell.

1187
01:01:03,500 --> 01:01:09,540
It's about realizing that there is a loving creator out there that wants a relationship with you individually.

1188
01:01:10,460 --> 01:01:13,260
You personally, he knows you by name.

1189
01:01:13,580 --> 01:01:20,800
He knew you in the womb before you were formed and he knows you and he wants a relationship with you.

1190
01:01:21,500 --> 01:01:28,340
And goodness, let's let tell people, tell people it's again, I was listening to that earlier day and I made that reference.

1191
01:01:28,480 --> 01:01:34,880
you know, when we first started listening to people talk about their journey of walking away

1192
01:01:35,040 --> 01:01:38,700
from the church and why they walked away. And these are people that were pastors, were former

1193
01:01:39,020 --> 01:01:43,000
pastors, were pastor's kids, were involved in these things. And then, of course, they start

1194
01:01:43,100 --> 01:01:45,920
talking about the things that they went through and the reason they walked away. Okay, yeah, no,

1195
01:01:45,960 --> 01:01:51,600
I get it. But at the same time, it's like, goodness, you're not out here trying to scare people out of

1196
01:01:51,700 --> 01:01:57,920
hell. I'm out here trying to draw people to a loving God who wants a personal relationship with

1197
01:01:57,940 --> 01:02:05,840
them to be their loving Abba Father. And all of this, all of this, we see it even there. He turns

1198
01:02:06,020 --> 01:02:11,080
around and we're praising him and we're worshiping him and we're making that wonderful noise again.

1199
01:02:11,940 --> 01:02:16,100
And we get to see the lamb come and say, okay, here, I'll take you. Let me lead you to these

1200
01:02:16,580 --> 01:02:21,460
living waters over here. Let me take you over here and bring you into peace. And that's what's in

1201
01:02:21,620 --> 01:02:25,780
store for us. And we want everybody to join us in that. We want as many people as possible along

1202
01:02:25,800 --> 01:02:30,120
along the way. So it's not about scaring you out of hell. It's about getting a personal

1203
01:02:30,300 --> 01:02:35,380
relationship with the one who created you. The getting out of hell is just kind of a side effect

1204
01:02:35,600 --> 01:02:40,720
that happens to be a very joyous one. If you don't see by the end of chapter eight that we need to be

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about the father's business and we need to be evangelized, and I don't know what else to tell

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you. I don't know how you can be revived or brought to life. Yeah. If you can't see it by

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then there's not much we can say for you but next week we will start again revelation chapter 8

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verse 1 and we will pick up with that and uh go from there next week so uh brother dennis would

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you pray us out father in heaven thank you thank you for these brothers of mine that love you and

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love your word father i pray your blessings on them father may your peace surround them and and

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that your joy be made full in their hearts.

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And Father, I pray for everyone listening that they'll take your word seriously, Lord,

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to know the wrath that's about to be poured out on this world.

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And Father, thank you for your goodness, that you are so good to us, Father,

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that you've adopted us as your own.

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You call us your own.

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You want us with you for eternity, that your thoughts toward us are like sand on the seashore.

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And Father, we just do it so much that we don't deserve, but you're so good and you love us so much that you gave your life for us.

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Father, thank you.

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Lord Jesus, thank you.

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Father, I pray for everyone listening that they would know that same joy that you offer, the water of life, Father, that you offer without cost.

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Father, that they would hear these words of ours and what we're speaking and would turn to you, Lord, and repent and be saved.

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Father thank you for this time together

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And Father I pray your blessings on everyone listening

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In Jesus name

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Amen

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Amen

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Amen

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Special thank you to Carter Pridmore

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Brian Harris

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Waverly Henderson

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Tatum Harris Spears

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And Josie Partain

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For our theme song

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Truth Set Me Free

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I've been Tyler Goza on production and audio

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We hope you can join us live next Monday at 6 p.m. Central.

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Thank you for listening.

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But truth found me there. It was in my darkest hour. I traded my black heart for joy, for something real, something with power.

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Truth set me free. Truth came to me. I once was blind, but now I see. Truth set me free.

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Oh, oh, truth set me free

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Oh, oh, truth set me free

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You're the only one who's