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I once was blind, and now I sing,

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Welcome to Tell the Truth, a weekly podcast

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about faith, current events, and life in general,

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So how are you guys doing tonight, brother

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Brian? You had a good week? I have.

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I have. We've had a great week. So

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different stuff, church and praising the Lord and

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all that. Man, I know we had a

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couple of good services Sunday. Had a good

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morning service, and our, our singers last night

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were awesome. Oh, man. It was it was

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great to have the Durhams back and Yes.

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having those kids up there singing with them.

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I love seeing that. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Watching

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them grow in the lord. Yeah. Yes. How

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about you, Dennis? How are you doing tonight?

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I'm doing alright. Doing alright. Good. Good.

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Alright. Well, I think we are,

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getting ready to wing it a little bit

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whichever one of you

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Go ahead, Dennis. Well, I was just, looking

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through some stuff, you know, Israel's in the

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front pages everywhere,

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you know, and the stuff that's going on.

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And we've talked a lot about end time

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stuff here. And I don't know that we

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can ever talk about it enough because it's

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so urgent. You know, it's it's just something

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prophecies in Ezekiel 38 and 39 about,

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Gog of Magog. And,

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it's a, it's a pretty,

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to me, I don't have a really good

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good handle on when this thing occurs, you

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Some say that that what takes place in

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Ezekiel,

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and what takes place in Revelation chapter 20

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or maybe, you know, there might be a

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couple of different events.

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you look at them, there's a lot of

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similar things going on there.

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you have to go all the way back

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Magog being the grandson of Noah.

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if that guy have anything to do with

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what Ezekiel's talking about, probably not, maybe just

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a name reference, you know, but but that's

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where we first see that name, Magog. Yeah.

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the different lands because in a in a

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he he names off a bunch of different

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lands or or different leaders. Right. And he

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says, and the word of the Lord came

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to me saying, son of man, set your

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face toward Gog of the land of Magog,

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the prince of Rosh, Meshech, and Tubal,

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and prophesy against him and said, thus says

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the lord, behold, I am against you, oh,

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I will turn you about and put hooks

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I'll bring you out and all your army,

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horses and horsemen, all of them splendidly attired,

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a great company with buckler and shield, all

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of them wielding swords. And here's a bunch

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them with shield and helmet.

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Gomer with all its troops. Beth Togarmah from

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the remote parts of the north with all

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its troops, many people with you. And I

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started trying to look up some ancient maps

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and stuff on on on the on the

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And the and the best best ideas I

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could get from this thing were,

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Rosh is Russia.

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Mhmm. Meshek and Tubal are Turkey, present day

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Turkey. Yeah. And Persia, of course, is Iran.

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Ethiopia or

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Kush, could be either Ethiopia or Northern Sudan.

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Gomer is another part of Turkey, And nobody

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knows where Beth Toghamaha is. Yeah. So but

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man, you see what's happening today Yeah. With

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the alliances between Russia and Iran and Turkey.

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Turkey has has already talked about, the the

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leader of Turkey. I can't remember his name.

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Erdogan Erdogan or something like that.

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we really don't know exactly. There's a couple

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of different theories on when it takes place.

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it it it talks about, you know, there

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could be people who've got that point of

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view,

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are looking at at

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Israel will be just burning with with enemies

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and weapons for

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7 years spend over Yeah. 7 months bearing

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bearing the dead and all that, you know.

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requires a battle to be fought between tribulation

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and that,

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in that viewpoint and possibly even before the

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rapture of the church. I I don't know.

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place because it's it's gonna, I think, set

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forth so many different events.

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during the very first part of tribulation maybe,

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you know, because Israel's kind of at rest.

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the antichrist

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and so they're kind of they're kind of

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lining up with him and saying in in

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that right when they're at peace, then boom.

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one of the things that kinda sets it

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out too is in in 38 verse 11

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is is is talking about how what they're

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gonna say. I'll go up against land of

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unwalled villages. I'll go against those who are

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at rest that live securely.

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I guess the only point that that could

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or could happen right now. I don't know.

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kicked it off. Was October 7 or 9?

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that. Yeah. It's just just a despicable thing

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they did.

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tail end of the Antichrist peace agreement with

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them or something. But the way it the

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way it reads to me, this always sounds

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like Armageddon or it sounds like the one

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at the end of the millennium. Right. Right.

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in revelations, it seems more

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more like that that it was towards the

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end of end of, Armageddon, you know,

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or towards the end of the tribulation.

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Daniel 927

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too, it it it talks about that alliance

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that Israel's gonna make. Says, and he shall

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make a strong covenant

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with many for 1 week

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and for half of the week and shall

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put an end to sacrifice an offering.

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And on the wing of abominations

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shall come one who makes desolate

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until the decreed end is poured out on

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the desolator.

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alliances that are taking place. Some,

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some big promises of peace by the antichrist

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during that time that will lure them in,

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ultimately

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everyone is gonna be against Israel. Right? We

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can we can name these countries, and and,

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yeah, those are probably gonna be the main

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position wise that will be attacking Israel and

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be against Israel.

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But but really we're gonna see that everybody's

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gonna come against Israel in that time. It's

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gonna be the world against them. Right. And

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and that's I think that's part of what

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what Gog, Magog really is getting at too.

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Because in Revelation 20,

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it talks about Gog, Magog there or Magog

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anyway, and talks about from the 4 corners

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of the earth. Yeah. And it's like a

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whole world thing coming against them. Yeah. Yeah.

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you see these these pictures of these armies

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that are just

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multitudes and multitudes and multitudes and when, you

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know, you

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you you look in, like Korea and different

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places like that where they're just, man, they're

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just overpopulated

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and they're just pushing soldiers out there and

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we're China.

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Big big time China. Yeah. Yeah. So Or

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even India. Yeah. That's just about 1,000,000,000 of

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them. Yeah. So we don't know exactly where

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it's going to come from, but a lot

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of a lot of

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unholy alliances going on there against against Israel.

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saying before it started, you know, all of

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this is lining

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up and has been lining up for a

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long time, but it's been getting worse and

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worse and worse where so many of these

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countries are coming out anti Israel, anti

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Jewish state. They want the the Jewish population.

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They want Israel completely destroyed. They do not

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want them to have a land of their

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own. And it's coming from

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I understand

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when it when it's coming from people in

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in other parts of Palestine and things like

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that because these are people that have traditionally

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had a

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a beef with them. They've had a claim

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you know, they've claimed to have a claim

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to the land, and they've they've tried to

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start fights. So it's like, okay. That makes

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sense. It's like, okay. Yeah. They're they're just

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howling about what they've howled about for 1000

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of years.

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England and America Yeah.

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the world are calling for it. And I'm

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like and these aren't Muslims. These aren't people

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that are that have any connection to it

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whatsoever

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beyond just siding with

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Yes. These people that want them wiped out.

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Antisemitism

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has just exploded in the last year. Yeah.

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Just just crazy. And and, I I think

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it goes back. There's this book coming out

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in October I can't wait to read. It's,

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it's by Alibeth Stuckey,

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and it's called toxic empathy.

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She said there's a class of people in

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this country

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that are so empathetic

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to a fault that it ends up being

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toxic that they want, you know, illegal immigration.

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They want this. They want that. They side

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with the Palestinians because, well, Hamas is getting

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getting brutalized because they honestly deserve it. Right.

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At this point, at least Hamas does. The

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people there don't. Sure. But the people there

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are gonna have to be wiped out in

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order for Israel to be safe. That's right.

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And Israel, you know, let's do be clear

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about that. Israel has given the people

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every possible chance. Yeah. Before they do anything,

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they're they're announcing it. They're telling them, look.

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We're going this is the building we're about

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to level. Yeah. I mean, they give them

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and they give them time. Don't give them

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enough time to move munitions and things like

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that that might be hidden there out. But

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they give them time to get their people

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out, to get some of their belongings, to

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make sure, you know, you get your kids

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out and things like that. And these people

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are just sitting there. Yeah. They're not moving.

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And the bad guys are hiding right in

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the middle of them, lobbing missiles from hospitals

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and Yeah. Schools and stuff. They they they

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don't care. They're they're,

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their thought for life is is is nothing.

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It's pure evil, which is it's,

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the satanic is what it is, and I

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and I really believe

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I know that that when this battle takes

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place, it's gonna be a satanic battle on

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that side of it,

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and and possession, just pure possession.

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You know,

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on some of those armies the way they

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describe them, they're almost like,

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I'm not a fan of Walking Dead and

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all that stuff, but they're almost like a

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bunch of zombies that are just out there

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doing battle and and don't care if they

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die, you know, just coming in and just

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wanting to kill Israel because they hate they

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literally hate them with a passion. But, you

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know, the good thing is they're not gonna

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win. Right? Right. Magog does lose. Ezekiel 3819

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says, for in my jealousy

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and in my blazing wrath, I declare

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on that day, there shall be a great

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earthquake in the land of Israel. So Yeah.

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You know, god's gonna intervene.

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That sounds like Jesus setting foot on the

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Mount of Olives. It does. I don't know,

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man. It does. Yeah. Yeah.

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Boom.

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Yeah. Yeah. It'd be splitting 3 parts or

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something like that. I think it says. Yeah.

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But,

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I guess I guess we probably need need

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to throw out a warning too about current

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events

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and not to be careful to read those

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into the bible. Right? Yeah. Yeah. We we

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gotta be careful. We gotta be alert and

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aware,

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But at the same time, we can't look

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for every little thing. Go, well, that's this

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from Revelation. That's this and that's that. Piece

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it all together. It it will not work.

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No. It doesn't fit. I mean, the these

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prophecies are a general

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guide for the most part of this is

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the direction they had. It's it's not the

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specifics. It

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you know, whether or not it's gonna be

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a literal white horse and things like that,

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we don't know. So don't be looking for

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stuff like that. Just look for the general

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flow of where these prophecies are headed. Because,

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you know, it talks about the the way

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it describes some of the armies and stuff.

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You know,

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John was describing all that from what he

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could understand, what he could see, and how

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his mind could comprehend it. I mean, we

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we are beyond using horses and swords in

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battles.

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Yeah. You know, that's not what they're gonna

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come across with. They're gonna be coming with

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f fifteens and and bombers and missiles and

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everything else, and he's gonna shrug that off

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just like he coulda sword. But we do

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see the big picture. Right? We see Russia,

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Turkey, and Iran. Yeah. Yeah. And that's that's

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the ugly that's coming out of them. Yeah.

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That's right. That's right. Doing right now. That's

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right.

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It goes on in Ezekiel after verse 19,

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and it talks about God pouring torrents of

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rain, hail stones, burning sulfur on God and

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on his troops and on the many nations

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with him. And the result of that,

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the nation are gonna see God's greatness. They're

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gonna see his holiness. They're gonna see who

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he really is. He's wanna

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He's the God of all gods. Amen.

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Amen. And it's there's something similar to that

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in Daniel. I was gonna look that up.

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I can't remember exactly where it is, but

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but in Daniel he talks about the antichrist

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is,

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and of course he uses Antiochus 4 from

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from the, Seleucid Empire Greek.

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As he's like the like the shadow or

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the pre runner, the real antichrist is coming

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100 and 100 of years later. Yeah. But,

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the antichrist sees this, trouble coming from the

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east.

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Right? So it sounds like it may kind

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of blend in a little bit with this

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Gog and Magog thing too. Yeah.

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And we see little antichrist

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all all through,

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history. Right? I mean Yeah. Napoleon and Oh,

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look at Hitler. Hitler. Right. Yeah. Yeah. So

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I mean, when you when you start thinking

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about those and and again, antisemitism,

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there,

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just just a huge,

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just a huge revolt against Israel. Well, why

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do you think why do you think Satan

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hates Israel so much? Because he knew he

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was chasing the seed, you know, from the

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from the very beginning, from from the time,

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Adam and Eve were born and and,

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and God just just continually trying to to

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take our God God taking this the way

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that he wanted it to go and nothing

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was going to stop him. Right? Nothing was

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going to stop God's plan, But satan comes

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in from time to time.

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First he wants to get Adam and Eve,

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you know, to sin and he he tempts

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them and they're kicked out of the garden.

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He's like, I got them now. God's plan

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is done and you know so we go

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on and

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you get to Noah and he's like I'm

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gonna get rid of this these people you

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know and and and there'll be nobody left.

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And and there's Noah coming through the flood,

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coming out the other side of it you

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know.

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And and it's just it's just a continual

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he's chasing him. He's chasing that seed all

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all through history, all through time, all through

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the bible because he he thinks he's got

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this deranged idea even though he knows what

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his end is. He's got this deranged idea

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that maybe one of these plans is gonna

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work. Right? And all the way to the

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cross, like I got him right here. I

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got him. He's dead. He's done. Yeah. You

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know, they they're confused. They don't understand what's

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going on, and man, it ends up being

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the greatest man in history.

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Boom. So yeah. Yeah. So And I mean,

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you know, that's the thing. Satan is attacking

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this because he wanted

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to claim

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the world. He wanted to claim the people.

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He wanted to claim all of this as

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his. Yeah. God, you go play in your

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part of the playground. I'm done with you.

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Mhmm. And I'm gonna claim all of this

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as mine. And god went,

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excuse me? What's going on? That's mine. And

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I love those people. Yeah. I I made

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them, and I love them. And I made

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them in my image for a relationship.

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Yeah. You know? Yeah. We were talking about

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some unknowable things in Sunday school.

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It was horrible.

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But,

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one of the things I said that I

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wanted to ask God when I get to

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heaven is,

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what made satan think that he could possibly

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ascend on high? Yeah.

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Yeah. Pride. He's got he's not dumb. Yeah.

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You know what what what do you see?

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A loophole or you know? Right. And he's

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still trying to do it you know. And

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how could pride reach that far? I mean

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you're actually,

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you're you're you're not just a angel.

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You're one of the main dudes. Yeah. You

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know you're you're up there in rank and

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oh man,

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a beautiful angel right. I mean that's why

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sin is so

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enticing. That's why it attracts us so much

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because

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because satan

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is that's that's who he is right? He

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makes it look beautiful, but it's ugly on

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the inside. Yeah. Yeah. I I can't remember

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where this is either. My Bible knowledge is

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lacking tonight, but but isn't there a point,

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in the Bible where it says that people

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will look on this this one that tempted

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the nations

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and they'll be and wonder. Yeah. Yeah. That

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that's what did it? Yeah. That's him? Mhmm.

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Well, you know, and that's the thing. You

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know, that's what pride does. It it

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when you let pride take over and that's

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that's exactly what Satan did. He just became

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so prideful and so proud of what God

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had given him. Mhmm.

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But instead of being prideful in,

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god has trusted me with this, and I'm

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gonna take pride in the fact that god

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has trusted me, and I'm gonna do this

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for him, became so prideful and so filled

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with it. It's the same thing it does

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to us when we get so well, look

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at how good I am. Look at how

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big I am. And that's why Satan tempts

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us with pride. I mean, that was Yeah.

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I I

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you know, I just there have been times

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where I've

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I've seen people so full of pride and

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so

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focused on it. I've looked at them and

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thought, man, I wonder if Lucifer ever looked

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like that. Yeah. See, I have to I

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have to think about loose for, you know,

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being so beautiful because I am. Right? So

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I so I have to think about, well,

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see, I don't want I don't I don't

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wanna fall. That's right. Yeah. Right. You gotta

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be careful.

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I wanna I wanna answer a question that

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maybe somebody's listening and they're thinking. So because

530
00:19:16,580 --> 00:19:18,039
I've been asked this question before.

531
00:19:19,460 --> 00:19:20,200
So, preacher,

532
00:19:21,619 --> 00:19:22,519
if Satan

533
00:19:22,900 --> 00:19:24,519
was God's angel

534
00:19:25,144 --> 00:19:28,424
and he trusted him or was entrusted with

535
00:19:28,424 --> 00:19:30,204
all this beauty, with all these,

536
00:19:31,464 --> 00:19:33,865
you know, he was he was a a

537
00:19:33,865 --> 00:19:36,365
musical angel. It's all these things, you know.

538
00:19:36,744 --> 00:19:38,764
If he was if he was so entrusted

539
00:19:38,825 --> 00:19:39,964
with all these things

540
00:19:41,029 --> 00:19:43,130
and he messed up and he failed,

541
00:19:43,589 --> 00:19:45,990
then what keeps the other angels from falling?

542
00:19:45,990 --> 00:19:47,990
Yeah. Right? What keeps the other angels from

543
00:19:47,990 --> 00:19:48,809
falling too?

544
00:19:49,190 --> 00:19:49,690
So

545
00:19:50,309 --> 00:19:52,089
I want us to look at something here.

546
00:19:52,724 --> 00:19:53,765
First of all, I want us to look

547
00:19:53,765 --> 00:19:55,065
at where we're at because,

548
00:19:56,805 --> 00:19:58,325
there's going to come a point and there's

549
00:19:58,325 --> 00:19:59,464
going to come a time,

550
00:19:59,924 --> 00:20:03,045
where where everyone has to choose. Right? And

551
00:20:03,045 --> 00:20:04,805
the Bible says that every knee shall bow,

552
00:20:04,805 --> 00:20:06,884
every tongue shall confess that Jesus Christ is

553
00:20:06,884 --> 00:20:08,720
Lord. You're either going to choose on this

554
00:20:08,720 --> 00:20:10,079
side or you're going to choose on the

555
00:20:10,079 --> 00:20:10,819
other side,

556
00:20:11,279 --> 00:20:12,980
of of of life.

557
00:20:14,079 --> 00:20:16,559
And and so he gives us an opportunity

558
00:20:16,559 --> 00:20:19,039
to choose him now while we live, while

559
00:20:19,039 --> 00:20:19,539
we,

560
00:20:20,000 --> 00:20:21,299
walk through this life

561
00:20:21,904 --> 00:20:23,664
that we may choose Him so that in

562
00:20:23,664 --> 00:20:25,585
eternity we won't have to make a choice.

563
00:20:25,585 --> 00:20:28,065
Right? Because we've already made our choices. We

564
00:20:28,065 --> 00:20:30,164
go into eternity. We've already decided

565
00:20:30,944 --> 00:20:33,204
our fate, where we're going to spend eternity,

566
00:20:33,424 --> 00:20:35,265
when we accept Jesus as our Lord and

567
00:20:35,265 --> 00:20:37,230
savior here. And so in eternity,

568
00:20:38,089 --> 00:20:39,309
we are this perfect

569
00:20:39,929 --> 00:20:41,769
being. Right? We we don't know what we're

570
00:20:41,769 --> 00:20:43,049
gonna be like, but we know we're gonna

571
00:20:43,049 --> 00:20:45,470
be like him where there's no sin,

572
00:20:46,009 --> 00:20:48,750
there's no sickness, there's no heartache, there's no

573
00:20:48,795 --> 00:20:49,295
temptation

574
00:20:49,715 --> 00:20:50,215
there.

575
00:20:50,634 --> 00:20:52,394
Those things are taken away, those things are

576
00:20:52,394 --> 00:20:54,715
not there anymore. And and you know even

577
00:20:54,715 --> 00:20:56,654
though the angels have a different job,

578
00:20:57,195 --> 00:20:59,295
than we do, they have a different position,

579
00:20:59,355 --> 00:21:00,875
right? God made us because He wanted a

580
00:21:00,875 --> 00:21:03,509
relationship with us. God made the angels because

581
00:21:03,509 --> 00:21:05,909
they do specific they have specific duties. They

582
00:21:05,909 --> 00:21:08,069
have tasks that they do. And I I,

583
00:21:08,069 --> 00:21:09,829
you know, I do believe there's there's angels

584
00:21:09,829 --> 00:21:12,089
over different things in different places probably.

585
00:21:13,190 --> 00:21:15,849
But but what happened what I believe happened

586
00:21:15,990 --> 00:21:17,529
when when Satan

587
00:21:18,714 --> 00:21:21,294
was, he when he give in to temptation.

588
00:21:21,355 --> 00:21:23,615
When he looked at God and he said,

589
00:21:24,394 --> 00:21:26,315
maybe I can be like that, you know.

590
00:21:26,315 --> 00:21:29,515
Maybe maybe maybe I can can rule like

591
00:21:29,515 --> 00:21:31,674
him. Maybe I can be as powerful as

592
00:21:31,674 --> 00:21:33,839
he is. Maybe I can be as as

593
00:21:33,839 --> 00:21:34,339
majestic,

594
00:21:35,279 --> 00:21:37,440
as he. Maybe I can create, you know.

595
00:21:37,440 --> 00:21:39,539
And he started thinking all these things,

596
00:21:40,240 --> 00:21:42,339
but he was a created being himself,

597
00:21:42,640 --> 00:21:43,779
created by God.

598
00:21:44,240 --> 00:21:46,480
So I think that when when he failed,

599
00:21:46,480 --> 00:21:48,019
when he made that choice,

600
00:21:48,775 --> 00:21:50,134
the bible talks about,

601
00:21:50,775 --> 00:21:51,275
the

602
00:21:52,214 --> 00:21:54,375
the angels that fell from heaven with him.

603
00:21:54,375 --> 00:21:56,315
Right? He fell like a star,

604
00:21:57,015 --> 00:21:59,095
and and there was many angels that took

605
00:21:59,095 --> 00:21:59,835
with him.

606
00:22:00,295 --> 00:22:00,954
And so

607
00:22:01,289 --> 00:22:03,130
those angels, of course, we we look at

608
00:22:03,130 --> 00:22:05,450
today as demons. And I think all those

609
00:22:05,450 --> 00:22:07,950
angels that fell from heaven with Satan,

610
00:22:08,650 --> 00:22:11,130
are what we look at as demonic or,

611
00:22:11,369 --> 00:22:13,690
the demons that are out there. Because Satan

612
00:22:13,690 --> 00:22:14,190
is

613
00:22:14,595 --> 00:22:17,154
Satan's not able to be in more than

614
00:22:17,154 --> 00:22:18,914
one place at a time when god is.

615
00:22:18,914 --> 00:22:19,414
Right?

616
00:22:19,954 --> 00:22:20,775
He's omnipresent.

617
00:22:21,154 --> 00:22:23,394
Satan is not omnipresent, so he has to

618
00:22:23,394 --> 00:22:26,355
have little minions and, things to go out

619
00:22:26,355 --> 00:22:27,494
and to help him.

620
00:22:27,954 --> 00:22:29,890
But back to what I was trying to

621
00:22:29,890 --> 00:22:32,369
get to, what I what I believe happened,

622
00:22:32,369 --> 00:22:33,590
what I believe took place,

623
00:22:34,210 --> 00:22:36,609
it it that was their moment. That was

624
00:22:36,609 --> 00:22:38,690
the angels moment. I believe that was the

625
00:22:38,690 --> 00:22:41,714
moment where you either choose to go with

626
00:22:41,714 --> 00:22:43,654
satan, to to fall,

627
00:22:44,115 --> 00:22:44,934
with pride,

628
00:22:45,714 --> 00:22:48,194
and and and go with him and and

629
00:22:48,194 --> 00:22:49,815
try to rule the world,

630
00:22:50,434 --> 00:22:52,835
or you stay with God. And I believe

631
00:22:52,835 --> 00:22:54,674
those angels that stayed with God, I don't

632
00:22:54,674 --> 00:22:56,434
think they have to make another choice. I

633
00:22:56,434 --> 00:22:59,090
think it's gonna be like us in heaven

634
00:22:59,309 --> 00:23:01,789
that they made their choice. They decided which

635
00:23:01,789 --> 00:23:03,390
side that they were gonna be on, and

636
00:23:03,390 --> 00:23:04,830
I don't think there's gonna have to be

637
00:23:04,830 --> 00:23:07,070
another choice. They're gonna be there with him

638
00:23:07,070 --> 00:23:09,710
forever. Yeah. Same with us. Right? Right. Yeah.

639
00:23:09,710 --> 00:23:10,210
Yeah.

640
00:23:10,525 --> 00:23:12,605
Well, we're we're given that choice. And like

641
00:23:12,605 --> 00:23:14,365
you say, you know, as far as what

642
00:23:14,525 --> 00:23:16,444
what's stopping the other angels, well, a third

643
00:23:16,444 --> 00:23:18,444
of them did fall. Yes. Yeah. And and

644
00:23:18,444 --> 00:23:19,884
the rest of them just they made that

645
00:23:19,884 --> 00:23:22,204
decision. And when you're talking about eternal beings,

646
00:23:22,204 --> 00:23:22,785
I mean,

647
00:23:24,259 --> 00:23:26,740
the whole concept of time doesn't make sense

648
00:23:26,740 --> 00:23:28,899
to to us in the way they can

649
00:23:28,899 --> 00:23:30,259
see it because they don't see it like

650
00:23:30,259 --> 00:23:32,339
we do. They're they're they're seeing all of

651
00:23:32,339 --> 00:23:33,940
it. It's all happening at once. So for

652
00:23:33,940 --> 00:23:36,099
them, it was that singular moment. They're not

653
00:23:36,099 --> 00:23:38,285
gonna have to worry about every day making

654
00:23:38,285 --> 00:23:40,525
that choice. Ain't that crazy that God made

655
00:23:40,605 --> 00:23:42,444
not it's not crazy, God. I I didn't

656
00:23:42,444 --> 00:23:43,765
mean to say that. But it it it

657
00:23:43,805 --> 00:23:46,285
it's it's crazy to us. It's unfathomable to

658
00:23:46,285 --> 00:23:48,224
us that God can create,

659
00:23:48,765 --> 00:23:51,325
but he never chose to create anything that

660
00:23:51,325 --> 00:23:53,579
didn't have a choice. Yeah. Right? I mean,

661
00:23:53,579 --> 00:23:55,819
the angels had a choice. We've got a

662
00:23:55,819 --> 00:23:58,059
choice. It's love. It is. It's love. He

663
00:23:58,059 --> 00:24:01,019
wanted us to choose him because he's good,

664
00:24:01,019 --> 00:24:02,720
because he's he's holy,

665
00:24:03,579 --> 00:24:05,534
because he is creator god. And maybe that

666
00:24:05,534 --> 00:24:06,194
was satan's

667
00:24:06,575 --> 00:24:07,315
big miscalculation.

668
00:24:07,694 --> 00:24:10,174
Right? Yeah. How much god loves people. Yeah.

669
00:24:10,174 --> 00:24:12,434
How much god loved him. Right? Yeah.

670
00:24:12,734 --> 00:24:14,414
But again, he made his choice and his

671
00:24:14,414 --> 00:24:16,974
choice is now eternal. I've also heard people

672
00:24:16,974 --> 00:24:17,474
say,

673
00:24:17,910 --> 00:24:20,950
well, you know, could Satan be saved? No.

674
00:24:20,950 --> 00:24:23,590
No. Satan made his choice. Those those third

675
00:24:23,590 --> 00:24:24,330
of the angels

676
00:24:24,950 --> 00:24:27,430
made their choice just like us. Right? When

677
00:24:27,430 --> 00:24:29,590
we leave this world, we don't have another

678
00:24:29,590 --> 00:24:31,350
chance to go back. There's not another chance

679
00:24:31,350 --> 00:24:33,289
to go, oh, gosh. I'm sorry, god.

680
00:24:33,995 --> 00:24:35,835
One more chance. One more chance. You know?

681
00:24:35,835 --> 00:24:37,835
No. You had you had that choice. You

682
00:24:37,835 --> 00:24:39,595
had that. You were in the presence of

683
00:24:39,595 --> 00:24:41,434
of the lord Yeah. For all that time,

684
00:24:41,434 --> 00:24:43,035
however long it might have been. There's not

685
00:24:43,035 --> 00:24:45,615
even time there. Right. Right? That's right. So

686
00:24:46,370 --> 00:24:48,370
we haven't. Yeah. And so we're living by

687
00:24:48,370 --> 00:24:50,210
faith, looking forward to that time that would

688
00:24:50,210 --> 00:24:52,130
have been his presence. That's right. Yeah. You

689
00:24:52,130 --> 00:24:53,730
know, and as, you know, like I said

690
00:24:53,730 --> 00:24:55,910
earlier, it's it's one of those things. It's

691
00:24:56,850 --> 00:24:58,630
we are not capable of

692
00:24:58,930 --> 00:24:59,430
understanding

693
00:25:01,955 --> 00:25:04,275
any type of existence without time. Everything to

694
00:25:04,275 --> 00:25:06,434
us is cause and effect. One thing follows

695
00:25:06,434 --> 00:25:08,595
the next, follows the next. Yeah. Once you

696
00:25:08,595 --> 00:25:11,715
remove time from that equation, it's everything's happening

697
00:25:11,715 --> 00:25:12,695
at once. Everything

698
00:25:13,075 --> 00:25:15,494
all of it all in one moment for

699
00:25:15,589 --> 00:25:16,490
all of eternity,

700
00:25:17,109 --> 00:25:20,230
be it a millisecond or 1,000,000,000 and 1,000,000,000

701
00:25:20,230 --> 00:25:22,509
of years, it's all the same thing Yeah.

702
00:25:22,710 --> 00:25:25,589
Because it's all just there. And we are

703
00:25:25,589 --> 00:25:28,445
incapable of understanding that, which is interesting because

704
00:25:28,445 --> 00:25:30,684
god gave beings that are completely incapable of

705
00:25:30,684 --> 00:25:33,805
understanding that the same choice Yeah. The same

706
00:25:33,805 --> 00:25:35,664
exact choice that's an eternal

707
00:25:36,045 --> 00:25:37,105
permanent choice.

708
00:25:37,404 --> 00:25:39,085
But he's like, you don't get to see

709
00:25:39,085 --> 00:25:40,740
the end yet. I'm gonna tell you what

710
00:25:40,740 --> 00:25:42,868
the end is. Yeah. We should've done this

711
00:25:42,868 --> 00:25:44,997
podcast Sunday morning, my Sunday sky Sunday sky

712
00:25:44,997 --> 00:25:47,126
room. We had some doozies coming out, you

713
00:25:47,126 --> 00:25:49,788
know, but, but, one of the things was

714
00:25:49,788 --> 00:25:51,917
time. And and, you know, God created time.

715
00:25:51,917 --> 00:25:54,046
He's not bound by it. That's right. Who?

716
00:25:54,046 --> 00:25:56,174
It's bound by him. Right? So he sees

717
00:25:56,174 --> 00:25:57,394
sees one end from the other.

718
00:25:57,855 --> 00:25:59,695
And and Paul says that we, you know,

719
00:25:59,695 --> 00:26:01,695
we're already seated in the heavenly places in

720
00:26:01,695 --> 00:26:04,434
Christ. Yeah. He already sees that. Yeah. Yep.

721
00:26:04,494 --> 00:26:06,335
That's right. He's not waiting for tomorrow, the

722
00:26:06,335 --> 00:26:08,015
next day, the next day. There's no plan

723
00:26:08,015 --> 00:26:09,955
b. There's just he just,

724
00:26:10,650 --> 00:26:12,250
yeah, he knows. It's mind blowing. We can't

725
00:26:12,250 --> 00:26:14,970
possibly understand it. That's right. That's right. He

726
00:26:14,970 --> 00:26:17,710
he he knows you, Dennis, as as,

727
00:26:18,490 --> 00:26:20,570
sinful man. He knows you as preacher. He

728
00:26:20,570 --> 00:26:21,549
knows you as

729
00:26:22,970 --> 00:26:24,190
at some point in time,

730
00:26:24,890 --> 00:26:26,664
being with a new body. Right? He I

731
00:26:26,664 --> 00:26:28,825
mean, he he already knows that. It's already

732
00:26:28,904 --> 00:26:31,144
he already sees that. And it's just, like

733
00:26:31,144 --> 00:26:32,285
you said, it's just

734
00:26:32,825 --> 00:26:35,065
time does not hold him back. It that

735
00:26:35,065 --> 00:26:36,765
he's not restrained by

736
00:26:37,144 --> 00:26:38,339
it, and we are.

737
00:26:38,819 --> 00:26:41,859
Everything that we do. I I to for

738
00:26:41,859 --> 00:26:44,819
me to get, from work to home and

739
00:26:44,819 --> 00:26:46,579
today jump in the shower and come over

740
00:26:46,579 --> 00:26:48,740
here, I'm restrained by time. You know? I'm

741
00:26:48,740 --> 00:26:49,960
running. We're running.

742
00:26:50,339 --> 00:26:52,964
And and then tonight we'll get we'll we'll

743
00:26:52,964 --> 00:26:55,204
be tired. We'll go to bed, you know,

744
00:26:55,204 --> 00:26:57,204
and and guess what? That alarm clock will

745
00:26:57,204 --> 00:26:58,984
go off in the morning. Yeah. Time.

746
00:26:59,525 --> 00:27:01,525
It it it sets our whole day. And

747
00:27:01,525 --> 00:27:04,164
that's ruthless. Yeah. It's ruthless, man. You can

748
00:27:04,164 --> 00:27:06,200
look back. Wow. Where'd that 20 years ago?

749
00:27:06,200 --> 00:27:07,960
Yeah. Especially when you were kids, you know.

750
00:27:07,960 --> 00:27:10,360
Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it's it's one

751
00:27:10,360 --> 00:27:12,039
of those things, you know, when you look

752
00:27:12,039 --> 00:27:13,880
at the way way Christ referred to the

753
00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:15,960
Sabbath, all of that was set up for

754
00:27:15,960 --> 00:27:17,815
us. You know, man was not made for

755
00:27:17,815 --> 00:27:20,054
the Sabbath. Sabbath was made for man. Time

756
00:27:20,054 --> 00:27:22,054
is the same way. It wasn't made because

757
00:27:22,054 --> 00:27:24,214
God needed it. He went, okay. This is

758
00:27:24,214 --> 00:27:26,694
how I'm gonna structure things. Yeah. He did.

759
00:27:26,694 --> 00:27:28,954
And from day to the very first moment,

760
00:27:29,059 --> 00:27:31,140
he separated the the greater light from the

761
00:27:31,140 --> 00:27:32,819
lesser. He separated the light from the darkness.

762
00:27:32,819 --> 00:27:34,660
He he made the greater light to rule

763
00:27:34,660 --> 00:27:36,099
the day, the lesser light to rule the

764
00:27:36,099 --> 00:27:38,339
night, and created I mean, from the first

765
00:27:38,339 --> 00:27:38,839
second,

766
00:27:39,140 --> 00:27:40,740
he was like, he already had that plan

767
00:27:40,740 --> 00:27:42,900
in place. Okay. These are the limitations I'm

768
00:27:42,900 --> 00:27:43,640
gonna place

769
00:27:43,964 --> 00:27:44,944
on these creatures.

770
00:27:45,325 --> 00:27:47,005
And I believe he made a literal day,

771
00:27:47,005 --> 00:27:48,525
24 hour a day right off the bat.

772
00:27:48,525 --> 00:27:50,044
Oh yeah. I think so. I think we

773
00:27:50,044 --> 00:27:50,544
got

774
00:27:51,644 --> 00:27:53,484
yeah. Yeah from the time we begin to

775
00:27:53,484 --> 00:27:55,964
read what's going on, we're looking at time

776
00:27:55,964 --> 00:27:57,804
as we know it. Yeah. And he based

777
00:27:57,804 --> 00:27:59,470
all of his creation on it too. You

778
00:27:59,470 --> 00:28:01,150
know, you can't you can't study any kind

779
00:28:01,150 --> 00:28:03,309
of physics without seeing something based on time.

780
00:28:03,309 --> 00:28:05,730
Right. You know, speed, your velocity, or whatever.

781
00:28:06,110 --> 00:28:08,350
It's it's got time involved in it. Yeah.

782
00:28:08,350 --> 00:28:10,350
Like, every Yeah. And and if you try

783
00:28:10,350 --> 00:28:11,870
to think of physics or any of the

784
00:28:11,870 --> 00:28:14,110
science, anything in the universe without it, it

785
00:28:14,110 --> 00:28:16,004
all just falls apart. I mean, scientists are

786
00:28:16,004 --> 00:28:17,625
constantly playing with these concepts,

787
00:28:18,164 --> 00:28:20,325
and we know it's not quite the immutable

788
00:28:20,325 --> 00:28:21,444
thing that we thought it was. I mean,

789
00:28:21,444 --> 00:28:23,764
they've done experiments with this and and gone,

790
00:28:23,764 --> 00:28:26,105
oh, wait. You you can change

791
00:28:26,565 --> 00:28:28,804
it just by moving an atom a quarter

792
00:28:28,804 --> 00:28:31,150
of an inch. Or or, who was it?

793
00:28:31,150 --> 00:28:32,670
Was it Einstein? It was talking about the

794
00:28:32,670 --> 00:28:34,590
relativity theory. You know, it's talking about the

795
00:28:34,590 --> 00:28:36,190
closer you get to the speed of light,

796
00:28:36,190 --> 00:28:38,269
the Yeah. It all just falls apart. Yeah.

797
00:28:38,269 --> 00:28:39,970
It all falls apart. And, I mean,

798
00:28:40,910 --> 00:28:43,230
they those are the limits. God put limits

799
00:28:43,230 --> 00:28:45,464
on us. And because of those limits, it's

800
00:28:45,464 --> 00:28:47,464
like, you know, everybody talks about, oh, one

801
00:28:47,464 --> 00:28:49,384
of these days, they're gonna figure out quantum

802
00:28:49,384 --> 00:28:50,664
theory, and they're gonna figure all these things

803
00:28:50,664 --> 00:28:52,184
out, and they're gonna really figure out string

804
00:28:52,184 --> 00:28:54,105
theory. No. They're not. And it's like, no.

805
00:28:54,105 --> 00:28:56,424
Sorry. We we are limited because we are

806
00:28:56,424 --> 00:28:56,924
incapable

807
00:28:57,224 --> 00:28:58,845
of truly conceiving

808
00:28:59,940 --> 00:29:02,039
the absence of time. Now here's something crazy.

809
00:29:02,179 --> 00:29:04,500
So deeply ingrained. The angels that fail and

810
00:29:04,500 --> 00:29:06,279
the angels that are still with lord,

811
00:29:07,140 --> 00:29:09,460
they were involved in creation. Yeah. And they

812
00:29:09,460 --> 00:29:11,619
know they know some stuff. Sure. Yeah. They

813
00:29:11,619 --> 00:29:13,859
know some stuff we don't know about science

814
00:29:13,859 --> 00:29:15,394
and all this stuff. How could you sit

815
00:29:15,394 --> 00:29:17,015
back and watch god go

816
00:29:17,474 --> 00:29:17,974
earth,

817
00:29:18,674 --> 00:29:19,335
water, trees,

818
00:29:20,755 --> 00:29:24,595
grass Yeah. People and just watch creation just

819
00:29:24,595 --> 00:29:26,595
boom boom boom boom boom be spoken to

820
00:29:26,595 --> 00:29:29,234
existence and and and then sit there and

821
00:29:29,234 --> 00:29:31,430
think I believe I can do that. I

822
00:29:31,430 --> 00:29:33,529
I got this, man. I could do that.

823
00:29:35,109 --> 00:29:37,269
I can do that better. Yeah. Well and

824
00:29:37,269 --> 00:29:38,490
what shocks me

825
00:29:38,789 --> 00:29:41,210
is instead of trying to do it himself,

826
00:29:41,765 --> 00:29:43,205
as far as we know, he didn't even

827
00:29:43,205 --> 00:29:44,965
attempt it anywhere else. He just came and

828
00:29:44,965 --> 00:29:47,045
decided to take over the earth. Yeah. Yeah.

829
00:29:47,045 --> 00:29:47,545
Yeah.

830
00:29:48,085 --> 00:29:50,085
Well, I think there was some late some

831
00:29:50,085 --> 00:29:52,085
slothfulness in there, a little bit of lazy.

832
00:29:52,085 --> 00:29:53,684
Well, you know what? God's already made that

833
00:29:53,684 --> 00:29:55,445
place. I think I'll just take you. Yeah.

834
00:29:55,445 --> 00:29:57,490
Yeah. Yeah. What he wanted to do was

835
00:29:57,490 --> 00:30:00,289
destroy what God had already created and just

836
00:30:00,289 --> 00:30:02,390
recreated himself, you know, or

837
00:30:02,690 --> 00:30:04,769
or revamp it, I guess, and and make

838
00:30:04,769 --> 00:30:06,289
it like what he wanted it to be.

839
00:30:06,289 --> 00:30:07,570
You know, and I think it was CS

840
00:30:07,570 --> 00:30:08,710
Lewis that that

841
00:30:09,089 --> 00:30:10,869
said when he was talking about,

842
00:30:11,585 --> 00:30:13,345
yeah, it was a mere Christianity. He's talking

843
00:30:13,345 --> 00:30:15,105
about sin and he's talking about, you know,

844
00:30:15,105 --> 00:30:16,644
all these people have this idea

845
00:30:17,424 --> 00:30:19,924
of the duality of good and evil

846
00:30:20,305 --> 00:30:21,904
and that you can't have good without evil

847
00:30:21,904 --> 00:30:23,424
and you can't have, you know, you can't

848
00:30:23,424 --> 00:30:25,424
have sanctification without sin and all this. And

849
00:30:25,424 --> 00:30:26,884
it's he was like, no. No. No. No.

850
00:30:27,480 --> 00:30:29,880
Sin, evil is nothing but the perversion of

851
00:30:29,880 --> 00:30:31,720
that which is good. Good can exist on

852
00:30:31,720 --> 00:30:33,880
its own. Sin cannot. Yeah. And that's all

853
00:30:33,880 --> 00:30:35,799
it was. Satan, all of that pride, all

854
00:30:35,799 --> 00:30:38,839
that that desire and that that longing that

855
00:30:38,839 --> 00:30:39,500
he had

856
00:30:39,865 --> 00:30:41,944
turned into something that failed, and it was

857
00:30:41,944 --> 00:30:44,664
just a perversion of what was god created.

858
00:30:44,664 --> 00:30:45,884
He wanted to destroy.

859
00:30:46,744 --> 00:30:47,704
You you look at at

860
00:30:48,345 --> 00:30:49,325
we talk about

861
00:30:50,345 --> 00:30:52,779
everything everything, the the taking of life. You

862
00:30:52,779 --> 00:30:54,619
know, god is giving life and here we

863
00:30:54,619 --> 00:30:55,980
are. We go out and we take life.

864
00:30:55,980 --> 00:30:57,500
But like you said, it's it's,

865
00:30:57,900 --> 00:31:00,220
it's like darkness. Right? I mean, darkness is

866
00:31:00,220 --> 00:31:02,140
only the absence of light. It's only the

867
00:31:02,140 --> 00:31:04,539
absence of what is what what we can

868
00:31:04,539 --> 00:31:07,315
see. Right? And and so as soon as

869
00:31:07,315 --> 00:31:09,575
light hits, then there is no more darkness.

870
00:31:09,634 --> 00:31:12,535
Right. Right. Or or heat. Right? Heat's energy.

871
00:31:12,595 --> 00:31:14,434
You take away heat, you got cold. It's

872
00:31:14,434 --> 00:31:16,914
not something of itself. It's an absence. It

873
00:31:16,914 --> 00:31:19,255
is. It is. That's right. Yeah.

874
00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:21,580
So wow we're getting deep.

875
00:31:25,640 --> 00:31:27,559
So but, but you know that when you

876
00:31:27,559 --> 00:31:29,080
get to talking about and we can get

877
00:31:29,080 --> 00:31:31,080
too caught up. I I don't I've done

878
00:31:31,080 --> 00:31:32,380
a little thing on angels

879
00:31:34,394 --> 00:31:35,615
back last year,

880
00:31:36,154 --> 00:31:38,174
for several weeks, you know, and just

881
00:31:40,154 --> 00:31:42,394
my my and I stressed at the very

882
00:31:42,394 --> 00:31:44,154
beginning of it because people can get too

883
00:31:44,154 --> 00:31:45,994
caught up in that. They can get caught

884
00:31:45,994 --> 00:31:46,575
up in,

885
00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:47,900
you

886
00:31:48,200 --> 00:31:50,600
know, what angels watching over me and what

887
00:31:50,600 --> 00:31:52,279
and what angels doing this thing or that

888
00:31:52,279 --> 00:31:54,619
thing. And and almost place

889
00:31:55,160 --> 00:31:56,619
angelic beings over,

890
00:31:57,720 --> 00:31:59,559
are in the same position as Christ or

891
00:31:59,559 --> 00:32:01,965
in same position as God, and they are

892
00:32:01,965 --> 00:32:02,465
absolutely

893
00:32:03,085 --> 00:32:03,884
not. Yeah.

894
00:32:04,205 --> 00:32:06,924
We're never to worship an angel. Now they

895
00:32:06,924 --> 00:32:09,164
are powerful beings because God made them that

896
00:32:09,164 --> 00:32:10,865
way, like I said, with a specific

897
00:32:11,484 --> 00:32:11,984
purpose,

898
00:32:12,549 --> 00:32:14,789
but they are never made to be worshipped.

899
00:32:14,789 --> 00:32:16,710
And if you you see instances of that

900
00:32:16,710 --> 00:32:17,450
in the bible,

901
00:32:18,150 --> 00:32:20,009
when when someone tries to worship

902
00:32:20,710 --> 00:32:21,450
an angel

903
00:32:22,070 --> 00:32:22,570
then,

904
00:32:23,029 --> 00:32:24,789
they're like no no no no no. You

905
00:32:24,789 --> 00:32:27,384
know, get up. Don't do that. No. But

906
00:32:27,384 --> 00:32:28,684
when they go to worship

907
00:32:29,224 --> 00:32:31,224
the angel when you see the angel, most

908
00:32:31,224 --> 00:32:32,505
of the time when you see the angel

909
00:32:32,505 --> 00:32:34,684
and the word of God, it's the incarnate

910
00:32:34,744 --> 00:32:37,325
Christ. It's him. You know he makes appearances

911
00:32:38,184 --> 00:32:40,525
all through the old testament. Yeah. That crimson

912
00:32:40,585 --> 00:32:43,029
thread that just keeps running through. Yep.

913
00:32:43,409 --> 00:32:45,169
Yeah. You look at the the burning bush

914
00:32:45,169 --> 00:32:47,009
and when when Moses was on the mountain

915
00:32:47,009 --> 00:32:49,329
in those times and and when he's he

916
00:32:49,329 --> 00:32:51,409
has that same reaction everybody else has and

917
00:32:51,409 --> 00:32:53,970
and the response isn't, hey. Stop. Right. He

918
00:32:53,970 --> 00:32:56,224
was just, okay. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah.

919
00:32:56,525 --> 00:32:58,704
You can do this. That's allowed to worship

920
00:32:58,765 --> 00:33:00,704
me, but it's not allowed to worship

921
00:33:01,244 --> 00:33:02,144
anything else.

922
00:33:02,445 --> 00:33:04,785
I mean, and and we see these instances

923
00:33:04,924 --> 00:33:05,244
like,

924
00:33:07,085 --> 00:33:09,420
you know, Daniel and the lion's den or

925
00:33:09,740 --> 00:33:10,400
or or,

926
00:33:11,180 --> 00:33:12,000
you know, Meshach,

927
00:33:12,460 --> 00:33:14,380
Shadrach, and Abednego in the fire and all

928
00:33:14,380 --> 00:33:16,960
this. Yeah. We see the presence of Jesus.

929
00:33:17,259 --> 00:33:18,640
I mean, Jesus.

930
00:33:19,259 --> 00:33:20,080
Yeah. Melchizedek

931
00:33:20,539 --> 00:33:22,994
Yeah. Wasn't an angel, but just a mysterious

932
00:33:23,054 --> 00:33:24,494
guy that shows up and he tithes to

933
00:33:24,494 --> 00:33:25,554
him. Right. Or

934
00:33:26,095 --> 00:33:26,994
or who's it?

935
00:33:27,454 --> 00:33:30,174
Balak's donkey? Mhmm. Yeah. Yeah. Did the angel

936
00:33:30,174 --> 00:33:31,694
stand in the road stop and the donkey's

937
00:33:31,694 --> 00:33:33,694
got his sword drawn. The donkey sees it.

938
00:33:33,694 --> 00:33:36,174
Yeah. It's like, woah. Oh, stop right here.

939
00:33:36,174 --> 00:33:38,369
Yeah. Yeah. But, yeah, the the the letter

940
00:33:38,369 --> 00:33:40,450
to the Hebrews was written kinda concerning this.

941
00:33:40,450 --> 00:33:42,289
Right? Yeah. It's talking about which to which

942
00:33:42,289 --> 00:33:44,130
angel did he ever say today I've made

943
00:33:44,130 --> 00:33:46,049
you my son. Yeah. You know, he's kind

944
00:33:46,049 --> 00:33:47,890
of in that first chapter. He's laying it

945
00:33:47,890 --> 00:33:51,154
out. Absolutely. Don't worship angels. Absolutely. Absolutely. And

946
00:33:51,154 --> 00:33:52,994
he even gets into priest in Hebrews too,

947
00:33:52,994 --> 00:33:53,974
doesn't he? I mean,

948
00:33:54,275 --> 00:33:56,674
we we we see who the high priest

949
00:33:56,674 --> 00:33:58,595
is. Right? Yeah. And it tells us there's

950
00:33:58,595 --> 00:34:00,914
no need for another high priest because we

951
00:34:00,914 --> 00:34:02,515
have a high priest who is in heaven

952
00:34:02,515 --> 00:34:03,974
and it starts talking about

953
00:34:04,990 --> 00:34:06,909
the type and the likeness of of the

954
00:34:06,909 --> 00:34:07,409
temple,

955
00:34:08,109 --> 00:34:10,369
that is here was a replica

956
00:34:10,750 --> 00:34:12,690
of a a mimic of

957
00:34:13,309 --> 00:34:16,030
the temple in heaven. Yeah. And and the

958
00:34:16,030 --> 00:34:18,704
mercy seat that is in heaven where where

959
00:34:18,704 --> 00:34:21,505
Christ went and and placed his own blood

960
00:34:21,505 --> 00:34:22,325
and man

961
00:34:23,265 --> 00:34:25,265
nobody could touch it right? Nobody could do

962
00:34:25,265 --> 00:34:27,744
anything about what he done there. So and

963
00:34:27,744 --> 00:34:29,025
I'll tell you what if I do have

964
00:34:29,025 --> 00:34:30,945
a guardian angel I can't wait to thank

965
00:34:30,945 --> 00:34:32,625
him for keeping my ear in out of

966
00:34:32,625 --> 00:34:34,299
trouble so much. Man, I I don't know.

967
00:34:34,299 --> 00:34:35,500
I'm gonna get on to him a little

968
00:34:35,500 --> 00:34:37,199
bit because there's several times

969
00:34:39,179 --> 00:34:41,260
there's several times I'm like, why didn't you

970
00:34:41,260 --> 00:34:43,659
jerk me up? You know? But thanks for

971
00:34:43,659 --> 00:34:45,980
letting me live. But they're they're they're in

972
00:34:45,980 --> 00:34:47,925
perfect tune with the holy spirit. They are.

973
00:34:47,925 --> 00:34:50,405
Yeah. Their role right and they they do

974
00:34:50,405 --> 00:34:52,244
minister to us. Yeah. The bible tells us.

975
00:34:52,244 --> 00:34:54,965
Yeah. And of course then then we see

976
00:34:54,965 --> 00:34:55,605
that they,

977
00:34:56,324 --> 00:34:58,085
they're actually that we're going to sing a

978
00:34:58,085 --> 00:35:00,519
song that the angels cannot sing and and

979
00:35:00,519 --> 00:35:02,199
it's something that they're going to look into.

980
00:35:02,199 --> 00:35:03,400
And I don't think there's going to be

981
00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:04,920
a jealousy there, but it's going to be

982
00:35:04,920 --> 00:35:05,420
like,

983
00:35:06,359 --> 00:35:06,859
wow.

984
00:35:07,400 --> 00:35:09,400
I mean, God really made them to be

985
00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:12,135
sons and daughters. God Yeah. They didn't they

986
00:35:12,135 --> 00:35:14,074
didn't sin like we did, and they're like,

987
00:35:14,135 --> 00:35:16,775
wow. The grace of God. Yes. Yeah. Yes.

988
00:35:16,775 --> 00:35:18,695
Wow. Yeah. How awesome and how mighty is

989
00:35:18,695 --> 00:35:20,614
he. Right? Yeah. They'll be falling in worshiping

990
00:35:20,614 --> 00:35:22,454
God with us. Right? Well, it's like, you

991
00:35:22,454 --> 00:35:24,614
know, just like we have no no ability

992
00:35:24,614 --> 00:35:27,480
to truly understand the the absence of time,

993
00:35:27,480 --> 00:35:28,219
those angels,

994
00:35:29,320 --> 00:35:31,800
I don't think they can truly understand the

995
00:35:31,800 --> 00:35:33,559
grace that we've been given because they don't

996
00:35:33,559 --> 00:35:36,119
have that experience. Yeah. They don't have the

997
00:35:36,119 --> 00:35:38,119
experience of sin. And I'm thinking, man, they're

998
00:35:38,119 --> 00:35:39,640
gonna be standing back just looking at us

999
00:35:39,640 --> 00:35:40,140
going,

1000
00:35:40,525 --> 00:35:42,864
wow. God is good. Hey. He's really good.

1001
00:35:43,005 --> 00:35:45,324
He's saying. Listen to how they're talking about

1002
00:35:45,324 --> 00:35:45,985
him. Yeah.

1003
00:35:46,445 --> 00:35:46,945
Yeah.

1004
00:35:47,405 --> 00:35:49,485
He's got a personal name for each and

1005
00:35:49,485 --> 00:35:51,405
every one of them too. Yeah. Thank god.

1006
00:35:51,405 --> 00:35:53,164
They're gonna think they're gonna think, man, this

1007
00:35:53,164 --> 00:35:53,664
is

1008
00:35:54,410 --> 00:35:56,730
this is this is holy. This is holy.

1009
00:35:56,730 --> 00:35:58,890
Yeah. Holy holy holy. That's right, man. And

1010
00:35:58,890 --> 00:36:00,809
it is. It's something to be so excited

1011
00:36:00,809 --> 00:36:02,410
about as Christians. And and and a lot

1012
00:36:02,410 --> 00:36:03,550
of Christians, they kinda

1013
00:36:04,090 --> 00:36:04,670
they wanna

1014
00:36:05,849 --> 00:36:08,410
kinda stay away from talking about the end

1015
00:36:08,410 --> 00:36:09,974
and what comes next and what's and I'm

1016
00:36:09,974 --> 00:36:12,295
like, man. No. It's something to be excited

1017
00:36:12,295 --> 00:36:14,135
about. What I think if we didn't have

1018
00:36:14,135 --> 00:36:16,375
it. Right? We'd be hopeless. Yeah. We're all

1019
00:36:16,375 --> 00:36:18,454
gonna die. That's right. That's right. You know,

1020
00:36:18,454 --> 00:36:19,815
we we don't know what's coming, but we

1021
00:36:19,815 --> 00:36:21,335
know what's coming. We know the love that

1022
00:36:21,335 --> 00:36:23,414
God has for us, the plan he's working

1023
00:36:23,414 --> 00:36:26,140
out, his sovereignty that he's working all this

1024
00:36:26,140 --> 00:36:27,820
stuff. Yeah. You know, one of my favorite

1025
00:36:27,820 --> 00:36:30,460
passages in the scripture is, 1st Corinthians 13,

1026
00:36:30,460 --> 00:36:32,699
that that whole chapter. And Paul ends it

1027
00:36:32,699 --> 00:36:34,860
by saying, look. Everything, all of these other

1028
00:36:34,860 --> 00:36:35,360
things

1029
00:36:35,739 --> 00:36:37,420
are gonna fade away. They're gonna go into

1030
00:36:37,420 --> 00:36:39,099
nothing, and you're left with faith, hope, and

1031
00:36:39,099 --> 00:36:41,494
love. And I'm like, Yeah. Man, that's incredible.

1032
00:36:41,554 --> 00:36:43,394
Yeah. And there's a reason he says that

1033
00:36:43,394 --> 00:36:45,234
love is the greatest because he's talking about

1034
00:36:45,234 --> 00:36:47,315
the love of God. He's talking about the

1035
00:36:47,315 --> 00:36:48,694
fact that love contains

1036
00:36:48,994 --> 00:36:51,795
faith and hope. It it's an expression of

1037
00:36:51,795 --> 00:36:53,280
those things. And not to go against what

1038
00:36:53,280 --> 00:36:55,360
the Bible says, but you know, then then

1039
00:36:55,360 --> 00:36:57,760
we we sang the song and faith ends

1040
00:36:57,760 --> 00:36:59,440
in sight, you know, and it will. I

1041
00:36:59,440 --> 00:37:01,280
mean, you know, hey, what what we have

1042
00:37:01,280 --> 00:37:03,199
faith, what we have trusted in in faith

1043
00:37:03,199 --> 00:37:05,360
now, we're gonna see it all. Right? I

1044
00:37:05,360 --> 00:37:07,599
mean, here here it is. We we trusted

1045
00:37:07,599 --> 00:37:09,914
in this and he was he was worthy

1046
00:37:09,914 --> 00:37:11,835
to be trusted in. An eye has not

1047
00:37:11,835 --> 00:37:13,454
seen and ear has not heard.

1048
00:37:14,954 --> 00:37:17,515
I mean, man, we're we're gonna see things.

1049
00:37:17,515 --> 00:37:19,135
We're gonna experience things

1050
00:37:19,994 --> 00:37:22,159
that we are so

1051
00:37:22,460 --> 00:37:23,440
so woefully

1052
00:37:23,980 --> 00:37:24,480
incapable

1053
00:37:24,859 --> 00:37:27,500
of understanding. Yeah. And I'm thinking when God

1054
00:37:27,500 --> 00:37:29,819
gave that vision to to John and told

1055
00:37:29,819 --> 00:37:32,139
him to write things and John, the whole

1056
00:37:32,139 --> 00:37:33,500
time, you know, his mind had to be

1057
00:37:33,500 --> 00:37:34,000
going,

1058
00:37:34,699 --> 00:37:35,900
god, I know you want me to write

1059
00:37:35,900 --> 00:37:37,525
this, but I don't even know how to

1060
00:37:37,525 --> 00:37:39,364
put this in words. Yeah. Can you imagine

1061
00:37:39,364 --> 00:37:40,804
seeing the throne of god and trying to

1062
00:37:40,804 --> 00:37:42,804
describe it? And he starts breaking out all

1063
00:37:42,804 --> 00:37:46,005
his jewelry knowledge. Right? Yeah. Yeah. All these

1064
00:37:46,005 --> 00:37:47,765
jewels. I don't know how he knows all

1065
00:37:47,765 --> 00:37:49,925
these jewels, but and an emerald rainbow. And

1066
00:37:49,925 --> 00:37:51,625
I always think about the color green.

1067
00:37:52,119 --> 00:37:54,519
You think of spring, it's life. Yeah. It's

1068
00:37:54,519 --> 00:37:57,739
life. Yeah. Yeah. Just And I mean, goodness.

1069
00:37:57,880 --> 00:37:59,960
I I but I can't I can't imagine

1070
00:37:59,960 --> 00:38:02,359
that that's that's what awaits us on the

1071
00:38:02,359 --> 00:38:04,359
other side of all this that's going on.

1072
00:38:04,359 --> 00:38:06,359
Yeah. Yeah. And and whether we're gonna get

1073
00:38:06,359 --> 00:38:06,859
there

1074
00:38:07,335 --> 00:38:09,655
before before the the rapture, whether we're gonna

1075
00:38:09,655 --> 00:38:12,315
breathe our last breath and go home early,

1076
00:38:12,375 --> 00:38:14,215
or whether we're gonna be here until the

1077
00:38:14,215 --> 00:38:16,135
rapture. I mean, we we don't know how

1078
00:38:16,135 --> 00:38:18,074
much time we've been appointed, but, man,

1079
00:38:18,454 --> 00:38:19,275
that hope

1080
00:38:19,769 --> 00:38:22,670
is so special. Yeah. It is. Yep. Yeah.

1081
00:38:22,730 --> 00:38:23,789
It is. It is.

1082
00:38:25,449 --> 00:38:27,630
When you go back, we're talking about,

1083
00:38:28,489 --> 00:38:29,469
Gog and Magog.

1084
00:38:30,170 --> 00:38:32,190
And I was Oh, yes. Just looking here.

1085
00:38:34,010 --> 00:38:35,344
I'm sorry. But

1086
00:38:35,804 --> 00:38:37,664
I was just I was just thinking about,

1087
00:38:39,484 --> 00:38:41,005
let me find it again. Revelation.

1088
00:38:43,164 --> 00:38:45,505
We see we we really see a reference

1089
00:38:45,644 --> 00:38:46,304
to Satan

1090
00:38:47,239 --> 00:38:48,219
in context,

1091
00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:51,019
in Revelation 20

1092
00:38:51,559 --> 00:38:54,920
in verse 7 when it it really when

1093
00:38:54,920 --> 00:38:56,440
I when I read that, I think, you

1094
00:38:56,440 --> 00:38:58,139
know, this is this is at the end

1095
00:38:58,280 --> 00:39:00,039
of the 1000 years. Right?

1096
00:39:01,025 --> 00:39:02,864
Because it says when the 1000 years had

1097
00:39:02,864 --> 00:39:04,485
ended, Satan will be released,

1098
00:39:05,425 --> 00:39:07,664
from his prison. He's gonna be he's gonna

1099
00:39:07,664 --> 00:39:09,925
be let out during that time, and so,

1100
00:39:10,465 --> 00:39:12,065
you know, I I think I think we're

1101
00:39:12,065 --> 00:39:14,144
gonna see we're gonna see some major things

1102
00:39:14,144 --> 00:39:15,765
going on there. I know we are.

1103
00:39:16,230 --> 00:39:17,670
At the end of a 1000 years has

1104
00:39:17,670 --> 00:39:19,750
ended, Satan will be released from his prison,

1105
00:39:19,750 --> 00:39:22,170
and he'll come out to deceive the nations

1106
00:39:22,550 --> 00:39:24,469
that are the four corners of the earth,

1107
00:39:24,469 --> 00:39:25,530
Gog and Magog,

1108
00:39:26,150 --> 00:39:28,170
to gather them for the battle.

1109
00:39:28,674 --> 00:39:30,194
Their number is like the sand of the

1110
00:39:30,194 --> 00:39:32,755
sea, and they matched up over the, the

1111
00:39:32,755 --> 00:39:35,074
broad plain of the earth and surrounded the

1112
00:39:35,074 --> 00:39:37,394
camp of the saints in the beloved city,

1113
00:39:37,394 --> 00:39:39,635
but the fire came down from heaven and

1114
00:39:39,635 --> 00:39:41,875
consumed them. So so it really gives us

1115
00:39:41,875 --> 00:39:43,699
a place that God and may God's going

1116
00:39:43,699 --> 00:39:45,239
to take place there in Revelation,

1117
00:39:45,859 --> 00:39:46,920
7 through 9.

1118
00:39:48,339 --> 00:39:48,839
Yeah.

1119
00:39:49,859 --> 00:39:51,639
Yeah. I was thinking that was a

1120
00:39:54,339 --> 00:39:55,940
I guess I still don't have a handle

1121
00:39:55,940 --> 00:39:56,704
on it.

1122
00:39:57,485 --> 00:39:58,385
I really don't.

1123
00:39:59,965 --> 00:40:01,805
Yeah. But but that would be a time

1124
00:40:01,805 --> 00:40:03,905
where they dwell in peace and safety. Yeah.

1125
00:40:03,965 --> 00:40:07,005
Yeah. Oh, yeah. Perfect peace and safety. Everybody

1126
00:40:07,005 --> 00:40:09,289
has through the through the through the millennium.

1127
00:40:09,289 --> 00:40:10,889
You know, there's no there's been no sin

1128
00:40:10,889 --> 00:40:12,349
and Christ is ruling and

1129
00:40:12,730 --> 00:40:14,329
then he lets Satan out for a short

1130
00:40:14,329 --> 00:40:16,409
time. And Yeah. And, you know, people living

1131
00:40:16,409 --> 00:40:18,409
for 100 of years and Jesus is on

1132
00:40:18,409 --> 00:40:20,429
the throne. Yeah. Yeah. So

1133
00:40:20,824 --> 00:40:23,224
yeah. And and everybody I think we've talked

1134
00:40:23,224 --> 00:40:25,884
about this and everybody born during that time,

1135
00:40:27,224 --> 00:40:29,404
just like the angels, just like us,

1136
00:40:29,784 --> 00:40:31,625
they've got to make a choice. And they

1137
00:40:31,625 --> 00:40:33,545
haven't had a choice during that 1000 years.

1138
00:40:33,545 --> 00:40:35,250
They've just they they because they have they

1139
00:40:35,250 --> 00:40:37,269
haven't knew any evil. They haven't knew temptation

1140
00:40:37,730 --> 00:40:39,510
because Christ is ruling and reigning.

1141
00:40:40,130 --> 00:40:41,730
And so that's why he let Satan out

1142
00:40:41,730 --> 00:40:42,710
at the end of that,

1143
00:40:43,250 --> 00:40:45,410
millennial reign so that, you know, so that

1144
00:40:45,410 --> 00:40:46,929
they can be tempted and they can make

1145
00:40:46,929 --> 00:40:48,449
a choice and and some of well, some

1146
00:40:48,449 --> 00:40:50,025
of them will choose Satan, some of them,

1147
00:40:50,904 --> 00:40:53,404
will choose to to follow Christ into eternity.

1148
00:40:53,545 --> 00:40:55,065
Yeah. But that's gonna be the end of

1149
00:40:55,065 --> 00:40:57,224
it there. That's saying. That's new heavens and

1150
00:40:57,224 --> 00:40:58,444
new earth time. Yeah.

1151
00:40:58,904 --> 00:40:59,404
Yeah.

1152
00:41:00,184 --> 00:41:00,684
Yeah.

1153
00:41:01,784 --> 00:41:03,484
I wish we could know everything, but

1154
00:41:04,059 --> 00:41:04,559
unfortunately

1155
00:41:05,179 --> 00:41:07,339
Not here. Not here. One day one day

1156
00:41:07,339 --> 00:41:08,940
we will. Yeah. You know, we talk about

1157
00:41:08,940 --> 00:41:10,699
asking all those questions, but I don't think

1158
00:41:10,699 --> 00:41:12,219
we'll be asking a whole lot of questions

1159
00:41:12,219 --> 00:41:13,980
when we get there. It's hard to ask

1160
00:41:13,980 --> 00:41:15,980
when you're face planted. That's right. That's right.

1161
00:41:15,980 --> 00:41:18,219
It's like, oh, okay. It's it's all clear

1162
00:41:18,219 --> 00:41:20,224
now, you know? Yeah. I understand this. I

1163
00:41:20,224 --> 00:41:21,824
couldn't I didn't understand why you done it

1164
00:41:21,824 --> 00:41:24,224
this way, but okay. Cool. Yeah. Oh, I

1165
00:41:24,224 --> 00:41:26,305
didn't have a better plan, god. Oh, it

1166
00:41:26,305 --> 00:41:27,824
turns out that I did not know what

1167
00:41:27,824 --> 00:41:29,265
I was talking about. Yeah. Yeah. Who would

1168
00:41:29,265 --> 00:41:30,565
have thought? Every single

1169
00:41:31,265 --> 00:41:33,844
time. And, oh, man, to to understand

1170
00:41:34,880 --> 00:41:37,840
the question of of evil, to understand the

1171
00:41:37,840 --> 00:41:40,960
question of, you know, why why a child

1172
00:41:40,960 --> 00:41:43,199
has to die or why Yeah. You know,

1173
00:41:43,199 --> 00:41:45,039
a a loved one that's so good and

1174
00:41:45,039 --> 00:41:45,539
so

1175
00:41:45,840 --> 00:41:47,204
godly has to die.

1176
00:41:47,684 --> 00:41:50,025
To to understand those things, and we always

1177
00:41:50,164 --> 00:41:52,325
we always, of course, we we answer it.

1178
00:41:52,325 --> 00:41:53,925
Well, we live in a in a sinful

1179
00:41:53,925 --> 00:41:56,085
fallen world, and that really is the answer.

1180
00:41:56,085 --> 00:41:56,585
Yeah.

1181
00:41:56,885 --> 00:41:58,965
But it doesn't settle people's hearts and minds

1182
00:41:58,965 --> 00:42:00,630
a lot of times even to say that.

1183
00:42:00,949 --> 00:42:02,710
And I and I think our hearts and

1184
00:42:02,710 --> 00:42:03,369
our minds

1185
00:42:03,750 --> 00:42:05,929
are never gonna be completely settled

1186
00:42:06,309 --> 00:42:08,789
until we're there, until we now we see

1187
00:42:08,789 --> 00:42:11,909
through a glass dimly, darkly. Right? But but

1188
00:42:11,909 --> 00:42:14,594
there we'll see we'll see clear. Yeah. And

1189
00:42:14,594 --> 00:42:15,474
we'll say, okay.

1190
00:42:15,954 --> 00:42:18,295
I see that God from the very

1191
00:42:18,835 --> 00:42:19,335
beginning

1192
00:42:19,954 --> 00:42:20,775
of creation

1193
00:42:21,394 --> 00:42:23,474
that you knew exactly what you were doing.

1194
00:42:23,474 --> 00:42:25,735
That's right. You knew that Satan would come.

1195
00:42:26,170 --> 00:42:28,190
You knew you would tempt Adam and Eve.

1196
00:42:28,250 --> 00:42:30,409
You knew they would fall. God, you knew

1197
00:42:30,409 --> 00:42:32,650
every bad thing and every bad thought that

1198
00:42:32,650 --> 00:42:35,130
I had. You knew that that nations would

1199
00:42:35,130 --> 00:42:37,130
come against nations. You knew that we couldn't

1200
00:42:37,130 --> 00:42:39,130
live in peace, god, but you gave us

1201
00:42:39,130 --> 00:42:41,244
your son, and you gave us the holy

1202
00:42:41,244 --> 00:42:43,005
spirit so that we wouldn't be orphans, so

1203
00:42:43,005 --> 00:42:44,465
that we wouldn't be by ourselves,

1204
00:42:44,844 --> 00:42:46,605
and and that you could walk with us

1205
00:42:46,605 --> 00:42:49,005
and that we could actually accept that so

1206
00:42:49,005 --> 00:42:51,324
that we can walk through tragedy, we can

1207
00:42:51,324 --> 00:42:53,824
walk through troubled times and heartaches and

1208
00:42:54,369 --> 00:42:56,230
all these things that may come at us

1209
00:42:56,449 --> 00:42:59,329
because, god, you are ultimately good. And I

1210
00:42:59,329 --> 00:43:01,409
may not have a clear grasp on that

1211
00:43:01,409 --> 00:43:03,489
right now. Oh, but I have faith in

1212
00:43:03,489 --> 00:43:05,650
it that he is. Amen. I know that

1213
00:43:05,650 --> 00:43:07,329
he is. I know that I know that

1214
00:43:07,329 --> 00:43:09,664
I know. Amen. That's who he is. Amen.

1215
00:43:09,664 --> 00:43:11,585
And we'll see we'll see the reasons why

1216
00:43:11,585 --> 00:43:13,265
some of this stuff happened. You know? Yeah.

1217
00:43:13,265 --> 00:43:14,784
And we don't we don't we don't see

1218
00:43:14,784 --> 00:43:15,684
in his sovereignty

1219
00:43:15,985 --> 00:43:17,744
all the things that's working all around us

1220
00:43:17,744 --> 00:43:19,905
and just I mean, thousands of miles away,

1221
00:43:19,905 --> 00:43:21,585
he's working something that might happen to us

1222
00:43:21,585 --> 00:43:23,204
in a month. Yeah. And

1223
00:43:23,949 --> 00:43:25,550
it it blows our minds, and we we

1224
00:43:25,550 --> 00:43:27,550
don't understand it. And in this broken world

1225
00:43:27,550 --> 00:43:29,550
we live in, we're gonna be suffering and

1226
00:43:29,630 --> 00:43:31,949
but he's tuning us. Yeah. He's tuning us

1227
00:43:31,949 --> 00:43:33,630
to be more and more like Jesus. That's

1228
00:43:33,630 --> 00:43:35,390
right. And you know what breaks his heart

1229
00:43:35,390 --> 00:43:37,730
when we suffer? We we know it does.

1230
00:43:37,864 --> 00:43:39,464
Because in Matthew 25, he said, in as

1231
00:43:39,464 --> 00:43:40,744
much as you did the least of these,

1232
00:43:40,744 --> 00:43:42,664
you did it to me. That's right. And

1233
00:43:42,664 --> 00:43:44,744
and I can't imagine I can't imagine having

1234
00:43:44,744 --> 00:43:47,065
a glimpse of what Jesus sees in this

1235
00:43:47,065 --> 00:43:49,144
world for one second would probably kill you.

1236
00:43:49,144 --> 00:43:51,759
Yeah. The pain that he feels. Absolutely. From

1237
00:43:51,759 --> 00:43:53,359
all the ugly that's going on around us.

1238
00:43:53,359 --> 00:43:54,960
Well, the pain that he took on at

1239
00:43:54,960 --> 00:43:56,880
Calvary. Yeah. I mean, can I can't even

1240
00:43:56,880 --> 00:43:57,859
imagine that?

1241
00:43:58,239 --> 00:43:59,839
The the the sin that he took on

1242
00:43:59,839 --> 00:44:01,779
at Calvary that was ours,

1243
00:44:02,480 --> 00:44:04,420
but not only ours, but every

1244
00:44:05,599 --> 00:44:06,579
sinful, heinous,

1245
00:44:07,094 --> 00:44:09,255
terrible crime that we could ever think of.

1246
00:44:09,255 --> 00:44:11,675
Right. Worst of the worst. He took that

1247
00:44:11,734 --> 00:44:13,974
upon himself and said I'm gonna die for

1248
00:44:13,974 --> 00:44:17,195
this. Yeah. I'm guilty. Yeah. Yeah. Wow.

1249
00:44:17,655 --> 00:44:20,795
Man, he who knew no sin became sin

1250
00:44:20,880 --> 00:44:23,299
so that we might know his righteousness. Right.

1251
00:44:23,839 --> 00:44:25,940
What an awesome god that he is. Amen.

1252
00:44:26,239 --> 00:44:28,819
That and and that is such an amazing,

1253
00:44:29,759 --> 00:44:30,980
amazing thing. And

1254
00:44:31,599 --> 00:44:33,199
once you wrap your head around it, once

1255
00:44:33,199 --> 00:44:34,259
you really understand,

1256
00:44:35,114 --> 00:44:36,815
wait a minute. He died

1257
00:44:37,755 --> 00:44:40,235
for us taking our sin when he did

1258
00:44:40,235 --> 00:44:41,614
nothing wrong. Yeah.

1259
00:44:42,474 --> 00:44:43,994
And yet he took the sin for the

1260
00:44:43,994 --> 00:44:46,315
whole world, everything I've ever done, everything I

1261
00:44:46,315 --> 00:44:48,014
ever will do. Yeah.

1262
00:44:48,410 --> 00:44:50,410
And it's all laid laid on him on

1263
00:44:50,410 --> 00:44:52,250
the cross when you accept him. Right. That's

1264
00:44:52,250 --> 00:44:53,769
what he did for everybody. And all you

1265
00:44:53,769 --> 00:44:55,789
have to do is accept nothing special,

1266
00:44:56,090 --> 00:44:59,210
nothing hard. Yeah. That part's the easy part.

1267
00:44:59,210 --> 00:45:00,269
Right. It's the sanctification

1268
00:45:00,570 --> 00:45:02,410
after that where things get hard, but Yeah.

1269
00:45:02,570 --> 00:45:04,110
That part's easy. Yeah.

1270
00:45:05,105 --> 00:45:05,605
Why

1271
00:45:06,065 --> 00:45:07,844
are we so hesitant

1272
00:45:08,545 --> 00:45:09,525
to tell people?

1273
00:45:10,385 --> 00:45:11,684
Why are we so

1274
00:45:11,984 --> 00:45:12,484
shy

1275
00:45:13,025 --> 00:45:14,964
to look people in the eye and say,

1276
00:45:15,025 --> 00:45:15,844
do you know

1277
00:45:16,489 --> 00:45:18,969
who Jesus Christ was? Do you know what

1278
00:45:18,969 --> 00:45:20,670
he did for you? Do you understand?

1279
00:45:21,049 --> 00:45:22,730
Yeah. You know, I saw I I I

1280
00:45:22,730 --> 00:45:25,449
watch videos sometimes of these street preachers that

1281
00:45:25,449 --> 00:45:27,289
go out in different countries, and a lot

1282
00:45:27,289 --> 00:45:28,489
of them are here in the US, of

1283
00:45:28,489 --> 00:45:30,664
course, but some of them are in Australia

1284
00:45:30,664 --> 00:45:30,984
and,

1285
00:45:31,465 --> 00:45:33,324
over in England and places like that.

1286
00:45:34,585 --> 00:45:35,864
And they'll go out and they'll just ask

1287
00:45:35,864 --> 00:45:36,984
people. They're like, hey. Can I talk to

1288
00:45:36,984 --> 00:45:38,184
you for a minute? You know, let's just

1289
00:45:38,184 --> 00:45:40,105
talk about this. And he starts asking them

1290
00:45:40,105 --> 00:45:41,704
and he says, well, you know, have you

1291
00:45:41,704 --> 00:45:42,844
ever told a lie?

1292
00:45:43,784 --> 00:45:44,605
Have you ever

1293
00:45:45,449 --> 00:45:47,389
stolen anything? Do you ever steal a cookie?

1294
00:45:47,530 --> 00:45:50,250
No. It's from the grocery store? Yeah. Yeah.

1295
00:45:50,250 --> 00:45:52,269
Yeah. And he starts asking these questions.

1296
00:45:52,650 --> 00:45:54,090
And they're like, yeah. I've done that. I've

1297
00:45:54,090 --> 00:45:55,769
done that. He said, well, the Bible says

1298
00:45:55,769 --> 00:45:57,864
that that makes you a sinner. And the

1299
00:45:57,864 --> 00:45:59,945
wages of sin is death. You're a thief.

1300
00:45:59,945 --> 00:46:01,625
And you're you're you're a thief. You're a

1301
00:46:01,625 --> 00:46:02,125
liar.

1302
00:46:02,505 --> 00:46:04,744
Yeah. Yeah. You're a blasphemer and an adult.

1303
00:46:04,825 --> 00:46:07,385
Like, everybody just starts looking. They're like, wait.

1304
00:46:07,385 --> 00:46:09,184
What? But I I I did that when

1305
00:46:09,184 --> 00:46:10,585
I was real little. I mean, I haven't

1306
00:46:10,585 --> 00:46:12,359
done it. And he's like, well, it doesn't

1307
00:46:12,359 --> 00:46:14,839
matter. Yeah. But I'm a person. You did

1308
00:46:14,839 --> 00:46:17,159
it. Yeah. So you're saying says you're not

1309
00:46:17,159 --> 00:46:19,000
that good of a person. Right. And then

1310
00:46:19,000 --> 00:46:20,779
he's like, but here's the kicker.

1311
00:46:21,319 --> 00:46:23,719
You can be because Christ has already paid

1312
00:46:23,719 --> 00:46:25,514
the price for you. Yeah. And I'm like,

1313
00:46:25,594 --> 00:46:27,194
and the number of times he says that

1314
00:46:27,194 --> 00:46:29,275
people and you just see that second of

1315
00:46:29,275 --> 00:46:30,574
realization, they go, wait.

1316
00:46:31,194 --> 00:46:32,574
I don't have to do anything?

1317
00:46:32,954 --> 00:46:33,775
Yeah. Yeah.

1318
00:46:34,074 --> 00:46:34,734
I mean,

1319
00:46:35,275 --> 00:46:37,355
we we really I think sometimes as Christians,

1320
00:46:37,355 --> 00:46:39,855
we forget how amazing and incredible.

1321
00:46:40,640 --> 00:46:42,739
We don't do anything for our salvation.

1322
00:46:43,039 --> 00:46:45,519
Our righteousness is filthy rags, but we get

1323
00:46:45,519 --> 00:46:47,460
to be clothed in his righteousness.

1324
00:46:47,840 --> 00:46:50,000
Right? We get to put on Christ, and

1325
00:46:50,000 --> 00:46:52,160
we get to we get to to to

1326
00:46:52,160 --> 00:46:54,735
experience all the good things of him, and

1327
00:46:54,974 --> 00:46:57,055
and ultimately, we get to live with him.

1328
00:46:57,055 --> 00:46:59,155
We get to spend eternity with him

1329
00:46:59,614 --> 00:47:01,775
just because he loves us, not because I've

1330
00:47:01,775 --> 00:47:04,095
done anything good, not because Brian was just

1331
00:47:04,095 --> 00:47:06,655
a hey. Right. I like him. I like

1332
00:47:06,655 --> 00:47:09,059
O'Brien. He's a great guy. No. I'm not.

1333
00:47:09,219 --> 00:47:12,180
I'm terrible. I'm a sinful man. And and

1334
00:47:12,180 --> 00:47:13,860
and, you know, I I've told the church

1335
00:47:13,860 --> 00:47:14,840
before. I mean,

1336
00:47:15,219 --> 00:47:16,900
if you could be inside my head for

1337
00:47:16,900 --> 00:47:18,420
a minute, you wouldn't want me to preach

1338
00:47:18,420 --> 00:47:19,320
for you, you know,

1339
00:47:19,780 --> 00:47:21,860
because that's who we are. I don't care

1340
00:47:21,860 --> 00:47:23,715
I don't care who you are. You can

1341
00:47:23,795 --> 00:47:25,715
you can say you're the greatest person or

1342
00:47:25,715 --> 00:47:28,035
or or portray yourself as the greatest person

1343
00:47:28,035 --> 00:47:28,695
in the world.

1344
00:47:28,994 --> 00:47:31,315
And I'm sure some people act better than

1345
00:47:31,315 --> 00:47:33,655
others, but but in our minds, the

1346
00:47:34,114 --> 00:47:36,275
the struggle and the battle and the things

1347
00:47:36,275 --> 00:47:37,335
that we go through,

1348
00:47:37,679 --> 00:47:38,179
we

1349
00:47:38,480 --> 00:47:40,800
are definitely sinners saved by the grace of

1350
00:47:40,800 --> 00:47:42,480
God. That's who we are. Yeah. But to

1351
00:47:42,480 --> 00:47:44,480
us, you know, most people think, well, I'm

1352
00:47:44,480 --> 00:47:46,480
basically a good person. Yeah. You know, and

1353
00:47:46,480 --> 00:47:49,199
relative is to goodness is just relative among

1354
00:47:49,199 --> 00:47:50,880
people. I see it. I see it. But

1355
00:47:50,880 --> 00:47:53,565
with God, it's perfect. Yeah. Perfect goodness. And

1356
00:47:53,565 --> 00:47:54,465
that's the thing.

1357
00:47:54,765 --> 00:47:56,765
It it blows my mind that people can

1358
00:47:56,765 --> 00:48:00,684
have those concepts of relativistic good. Yeah. And

1359
00:48:00,684 --> 00:48:02,525
they try to make everything about, well, you

1360
00:48:02,525 --> 00:48:04,684
know, but you gotta understand over where these

1361
00:48:04,684 --> 00:48:06,284
people are or those people are. You know,

1362
00:48:06,284 --> 00:48:07,265
it's different different

1363
00:48:07,619 --> 00:48:09,859
different standards. Different and I'm like, no. There's

1364
00:48:09,859 --> 00:48:12,679
one standard. Yeah. There's one truth. There's one

1365
00:48:13,139 --> 00:48:13,639
good

1366
00:48:14,019 --> 00:48:15,480
in all of this universe.

1367
00:48:16,420 --> 00:48:16,920
And

1368
00:48:17,539 --> 00:48:18,599
to me, it just

1369
00:48:19,246 --> 00:48:21,724
it when you see things like October 7th

1370
00:48:21,724 --> 00:48:23,485
last year Yeah. You see stuff like that.

1371
00:48:23,485 --> 00:48:24,945
It's like there's unquestioned,

1372
00:48:25,244 --> 00:48:25,985
no question.

1373
00:48:26,364 --> 00:48:29,005
Evil. Evil. It was evil. And there were

1374
00:48:29,005 --> 00:48:31,005
people going, well, but you don't understand. I'm

1375
00:48:31,005 --> 00:48:32,699
like, I don't I don't have to understand.

1376
00:48:32,699 --> 00:48:35,500
But then somebody actually sided on the side

1377
00:48:35,500 --> 00:48:37,760
of evil and decided that it was good.

1378
00:48:37,900 --> 00:48:40,380
Yes. They they they reasoned in their minds.

1379
00:48:40,380 --> 00:48:42,300
I mean, you think about Saul who became

1380
00:48:42,300 --> 00:48:42,800
Paul.

1381
00:48:43,339 --> 00:48:45,579
He was he was killing Christians. He was

1382
00:48:45,579 --> 00:48:47,355
he was watching them being stoned to death.

1383
00:48:47,355 --> 00:48:48,175
He was participating.

1384
00:48:48,554 --> 00:48:50,255
He was putting him in prison

1385
00:48:50,954 --> 00:48:53,034
all in what he thought was the name

1386
00:48:53,034 --> 00:48:55,775
of his god. Right. Right? And and although

1387
00:48:55,914 --> 00:48:58,474
in a sense, yes, he was worshiping Yahweh,

1388
00:48:58,474 --> 00:49:00,809
he was worshiping the one true god. He

1389
00:49:00,809 --> 00:49:02,809
really wasn't because he didn't believe in his

1390
00:49:02,809 --> 00:49:04,809
son. That's right. And because he didn't believe

1391
00:49:04,809 --> 00:49:06,730
in his son, Jesus Christ, what he was

1392
00:49:06,730 --> 00:49:08,329
doing was evil and what he was doing

1393
00:49:08,329 --> 00:49:10,329
was wrong. You know? And and I mean,

1394
00:49:10,329 --> 00:49:11,150
even Hitler,

1395
00:49:11,530 --> 00:49:14,570
somewhere in Hitler's mind, he reasoned the fact

1396
00:49:14,570 --> 00:49:15,070
that,

1397
00:49:15,644 --> 00:49:17,724
that we are good and Jews are bad,

1398
00:49:17,724 --> 00:49:20,364
you know. And so and so he reasoned

1399
00:49:20,364 --> 00:49:22,204
that and and you like you said, it's

1400
00:49:22,204 --> 00:49:23,085
relative to,

1401
00:49:23,565 --> 00:49:25,804
and so everyone who was in the 3rd

1402
00:49:25,804 --> 00:49:27,184
Reich, everyone who was

1403
00:49:27,485 --> 00:49:30,820
following Hitler was saying, okay. Maybe he's right.

1404
00:49:30,820 --> 00:49:32,340
Maybe we do have to get rid of

1405
00:49:32,340 --> 00:49:34,739
them because they're evil and they're wrong and

1406
00:49:34,739 --> 00:49:37,460
they're not good. And so because of that,

1407
00:49:37,460 --> 00:49:39,699
they they started thinking a certain way. They

1408
00:49:39,699 --> 00:49:42,500
were their their minds were were bent, you

1409
00:49:42,500 --> 00:49:43,000
know.

1410
00:49:43,474 --> 00:49:45,235
On that and that's and that's what we

1411
00:49:45,235 --> 00:49:48,195
do. We reason things in our minds. We

1412
00:49:48,195 --> 00:49:50,914
will Self justify. That's it. That's it. That's

1413
00:49:50,914 --> 00:49:53,875
what sin is. Right? It's self justification. Oh,

1414
00:49:53,875 --> 00:49:55,554
I'm just gonna do this one time. It's

1415
00:49:55,554 --> 00:49:57,119
not that big a deal. It's not gonna

1416
00:49:57,119 --> 00:49:59,679
hurt anybody but me, right? I'm I'm gonna

1417
00:49:59,679 --> 00:50:01,679
smoke this thing. I'm gonna I'm gonna stick

1418
00:50:01,679 --> 00:50:03,599
this needle in my arm. I'm gonna I'm

1419
00:50:03,599 --> 00:50:05,539
gonna, you know, have that uh-uh

1420
00:50:06,000 --> 00:50:07,839
that extramarital affair. I'm gonna do this thing.

1421
00:50:07,839 --> 00:50:09,164
I'm gonna do that thing. You know, we

1422
00:50:09,244 --> 00:50:11,485
and we reason these things in our mind

1423
00:50:11,485 --> 00:50:13,565
all the way till we till we we

1424
00:50:13,565 --> 00:50:15,965
just we make them okay. Right? We make

1425
00:50:15,965 --> 00:50:19,324
them okay, and evil becomes good. And now

1426
00:50:19,324 --> 00:50:21,485
we live in this world where we're so

1427
00:50:21,485 --> 00:50:21,985
surprised,

1428
00:50:22,739 --> 00:50:24,340
but the Bible told us is there's gonna

1429
00:50:24,340 --> 00:50:26,340
come a time where where evil is good

1430
00:50:26,340 --> 00:50:27,699
and good is evil. Right? They're gonna look

1431
00:50:27,699 --> 00:50:29,860
at them in the opposite way. So here

1432
00:50:29,860 --> 00:50:32,820
we are. Yeah. We're killing babies, and we're

1433
00:50:32,820 --> 00:50:34,920
justifying it. Right? And we're we're,

1434
00:50:35,494 --> 00:50:38,375
we're we're, we're murdering children in the womb,

1435
00:50:38,375 --> 00:50:40,315
and and we're saying it's okay. We're,

1436
00:50:40,775 --> 00:50:42,934
we're we're doing all these things, and we

1437
00:50:42,934 --> 00:50:44,635
say, yeah. But, you know,

1438
00:50:45,255 --> 00:50:46,775
this thing or that thing, this is the

1439
00:50:46,775 --> 00:50:48,295
reason we do this, and this is the

1440
00:50:48,295 --> 00:50:50,670
reason we can justify this, and it's still

1441
00:50:50,670 --> 00:50:52,589
all sin. It's still all wrong. That's why

1442
00:50:52,589 --> 00:50:54,109
we have a moral law. That's why God

1443
00:50:54,109 --> 00:50:56,109
gave it. Yeah. That's right. So that he

1444
00:50:56,109 --> 00:50:57,949
could be a judge. That could be justice

1445
00:50:57,949 --> 00:51:00,190
in the world. Yes. Yeah. And watch out

1446
00:51:00,190 --> 00:51:01,789
if you're at the wrong end of it.

1447
00:51:01,789 --> 00:51:04,109
Yeah. Right? That's right. And Jesus Jesus really

1448
00:51:04,109 --> 00:51:05,925
boiled this thing down when he when he

1449
00:51:06,724 --> 00:51:07,864
when he came. He said,

1450
00:51:08,565 --> 00:51:10,244
in John 3, we like to read John

1451
00:51:10,244 --> 00:51:12,085
3 16. You know, for God so loved

1452
00:51:12,085 --> 00:51:13,684
the world, he gave his only begotten son,

1453
00:51:13,684 --> 00:51:15,605
that whoever believes in him shall not perish

1454
00:51:15,605 --> 00:51:16,905
but have eternal life.

1455
00:51:17,204 --> 00:51:20,105
But how many of us know 17 and

1456
00:51:20,840 --> 00:51:23,400
18? Yeah. Right? He says, for God did

1457
00:51:23,400 --> 00:51:24,760
not send the son into the world to

1458
00:51:24,760 --> 00:51:26,599
judge the world the first time. Right. When

1459
00:51:26,599 --> 00:51:27,960
he's coming back, he's gonna judge the world.

1460
00:51:27,960 --> 00:51:29,719
That's right. But that the world might be

1461
00:51:29,719 --> 00:51:31,960
safe through him. He who believes in him

1462
00:51:31,960 --> 00:51:33,099
is not judged.

1463
00:51:33,400 --> 00:51:34,815
Yeah. But he who,

1464
00:51:35,135 --> 00:51:36,974
sorry, but he who does not believe has

1465
00:51:36,974 --> 00:51:39,295
been judged already because he has not believed

1466
00:51:39,295 --> 00:51:40,815
in the name of the only begotten son

1467
00:51:40,815 --> 00:51:42,514
of God. This is the judgment.

1468
00:51:42,974 --> 00:51:44,815
This is the judgment. There's 2 different kinds

1469
00:51:44,815 --> 00:51:46,739
of people in the world. That's right. And

1470
00:51:46,739 --> 00:51:49,140
and you're going to go into severe judgment

1471
00:51:49,380 --> 00:51:50,659
That's right. If you're in the wrong side

1472
00:51:50,659 --> 00:51:52,900
of this. That's right. Amen. And and that's

1473
00:51:52,900 --> 00:51:55,059
the I mean, god's goodness is is what

1474
00:51:55,059 --> 00:51:56,039
makes, the

1475
00:51:58,179 --> 00:51:59,940
the the absence of it is what makes

1476
00:51:59,940 --> 00:52:03,194
hell hell. It is. Yeah. God's goodness. God's

1477
00:52:03,194 --> 00:52:04,795
a source of all goodness. He's the source

1478
00:52:04,795 --> 00:52:06,315
of all love. He's the source of all

1479
00:52:06,315 --> 00:52:08,554
joy, of all peace, of all truth. None

1480
00:52:08,554 --> 00:52:09,914
of that stuff. None of that stuff is

1481
00:52:09,914 --> 00:52:12,554
in hell. Yeah. Yeah. All all while you're

1482
00:52:12,554 --> 00:52:14,394
burning for eternity. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, you're

1483
00:52:14,394 --> 00:52:16,400
not drinking beer with your buddies. No. No.

1484
00:52:16,400 --> 00:52:18,559
No. You're not down there. It's not,

1485
00:52:19,039 --> 00:52:20,099
eternal debauchery,

1486
00:52:20,559 --> 00:52:21,920
that we just get to do what we

1487
00:52:21,920 --> 00:52:23,519
want to do, and and we're just going

1488
00:52:23,519 --> 00:52:25,360
to live this sinful life forever because that's

1489
00:52:25,360 --> 00:52:26,559
who we are, and we're going to laugh

1490
00:52:26,559 --> 00:52:28,605
it up with the devil. Now that's that's

1491
00:52:28,605 --> 00:52:30,889
not what it is. You will suffer. You

1492
00:52:30,889 --> 00:52:33,173
will go through pain and agony and torment

1493
00:52:33,173 --> 00:52:35,744
forever, but that's only the physical part that

1494
00:52:35,744 --> 00:52:38,028
you're gonna feel. Right? Because just like you're

1495
00:52:38,028 --> 00:52:40,313
gonna have a new body in heaven, you're

1496
00:52:40,313 --> 00:52:42,597
gonna have a body in hell too. You're

1497
00:52:42,597 --> 00:52:45,199
gonna have a body that that's gonna feel,

1498
00:52:45,659 --> 00:52:47,099
you know, when we when we look at

1499
00:52:47,099 --> 00:52:49,179
the rich man and Lazarus, that story Yeah.

1500
00:52:49,260 --> 00:52:50,559
We know that

1501
00:52:51,019 --> 00:52:53,420
he had some type of body because he

1502
00:52:53,500 --> 00:52:55,039
it says he looked over,

1503
00:52:55,739 --> 00:52:57,920
into the other side and he saw

1504
00:52:58,434 --> 00:52:58,994
he saw,

1505
00:52:59,315 --> 00:53:01,795
Abraham's bosom there. So so there was there

1506
00:53:01,795 --> 00:53:04,534
was physical attributes that were going on there,

1507
00:53:04,914 --> 00:53:06,914
and people will have physical attributes in hell

1508
00:53:06,914 --> 00:53:08,755
and they're thirsty. They will yeah. He was

1509
00:53:08,755 --> 00:53:10,755
thirsty. Right. If somebody could just drop a

1510
00:53:10,755 --> 00:53:12,890
drop of water on his tongue. Right? And

1511
00:53:12,890 --> 00:53:15,230
so and so for all eternity

1512
00:53:15,769 --> 00:53:16,750
you're gonna spend,

1513
00:53:17,210 --> 00:53:19,449
in the lake of fire, that's that's gonna

1514
00:53:19,449 --> 00:53:22,250
be what it is. And then the biggest

1515
00:53:22,250 --> 00:53:24,170
thing is not gonna be the pain and

1516
00:53:24,170 --> 00:53:26,590
suffering from the burning and the the flames,

1517
00:53:26,885 --> 00:53:28,885
But like you said, it's gonna be the

1518
00:53:28,885 --> 00:53:32,164
absence of God, the absence of morality, the

1519
00:53:32,164 --> 00:53:35,444
absence of of anything that is good and

1520
00:53:35,444 --> 00:53:38,724
holy and holds anything together and oh my

1521
00:53:38,724 --> 00:53:41,039
gosh. Because you have some grace. Yeah. The

1522
00:53:41,039 --> 00:53:43,119
absence of grace. I mean, grace has already

1523
00:53:43,119 --> 00:53:45,280
been offered. You rejected it. Yeah. And that's

1524
00:53:45,280 --> 00:53:46,400
the thing. A lot of people say, well,

1525
00:53:46,400 --> 00:53:48,340
why would a holy God send anyone?

1526
00:53:48,719 --> 00:53:50,960
God doesn't send to anybody. That's our default

1527
00:53:50,960 --> 00:53:53,655
destination. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And and even Christ

1528
00:53:53,655 --> 00:53:55,655
says it's not, you know, it is not

1529
00:53:55,655 --> 00:53:57,175
our you know, it is not his will

1530
00:53:57,175 --> 00:53:59,255
that any should perish. Yeah. And it's like

1531
00:53:59,494 --> 00:54:00,894
He reaches out. Chosen

1532
00:54:01,335 --> 00:54:03,574
Yeah. To reject. You've chosen. This is my

1533
00:54:03,574 --> 00:54:05,735
destination, and I'm doing that. And god honors

1534
00:54:05,735 --> 00:54:08,050
it. He honors it. Really? Yeah. Yeah. He

1535
00:54:08,050 --> 00:54:10,369
will honor your choice. Yes. He will. He

1536
00:54:10,369 --> 00:54:11,190
will. Because

1537
00:54:12,050 --> 00:54:13,969
that's the way he made this right. Being

1538
00:54:13,969 --> 00:54:15,750
with a free will to choose,

1539
00:54:16,769 --> 00:54:18,929
to choose him or to reject him. And,

1540
00:54:19,170 --> 00:54:21,349
if we if we die rejecting him,

1541
00:54:21,675 --> 00:54:24,235
that's blasphemy of the holy spirit. Right? And

1542
00:54:24,235 --> 00:54:26,414
and and that's that's what it is because

1543
00:54:26,555 --> 00:54:28,255
you'll never have another choice,

1544
00:54:28,795 --> 00:54:30,255
time to have another choice.

1545
00:54:31,275 --> 00:54:33,515
Your eternity is decided at that point when

1546
00:54:33,515 --> 00:54:35,195
you draw your last breath. And right now,

1547
00:54:35,195 --> 00:54:37,079
you could decide, well, I would rather face

1548
00:54:37,079 --> 00:54:39,160
the judgment and see how I stand up,

1549
00:54:39,160 --> 00:54:41,239
or I can accept the judgment that was

1550
00:54:41,239 --> 00:54:43,880
poured out on Jesus. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And

1551
00:54:43,880 --> 00:54:45,400
that's and that's what they'll see at the

1552
00:54:45,400 --> 00:54:47,640
at the great white throne of judgment. Right?

1553
00:54:47,640 --> 00:54:48,940
Yeah. I mean, I'm telling you.

1554
00:54:49,574 --> 00:54:51,255
And God's so good to us. Right? He's

1555
00:54:51,255 --> 00:54:52,614
he's gonna he's gonna take us out of

1556
00:54:52,614 --> 00:54:55,734
here before that rap, before the, tribulation starts.

1557
00:54:55,734 --> 00:54:56,474
He's gonna,

1558
00:54:57,494 --> 00:54:59,355
he's gonna love us for for

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00:54:59,894 --> 00:55:02,534
all eternity and Marriage supper of the lamb.

1560
00:55:02,534 --> 00:55:04,829
Marriage man, just all the good things that

1561
00:55:04,829 --> 00:55:06,670
come along with that that that type and

1562
00:55:06,670 --> 00:55:08,369
likeness of who he is,

1563
00:55:09,309 --> 00:55:11,309
that we should we're supposed to be living

1564
00:55:11,309 --> 00:55:13,630
out in our marriages and our relationships, you

1565
00:55:13,630 --> 00:55:14,449
know. Yeah.

1566
00:55:14,989 --> 00:55:16,670
He is so good. He's been good to

1567
00:55:16,670 --> 00:55:19,804
me. Amen. Almost 59 years now. Yeah.

1568
00:55:20,824 --> 00:55:23,324
Amen. Amen. God is so good.

1569
00:55:23,625 --> 00:55:25,644
Yes. God is so good.

1570
00:55:26,184 --> 00:55:29,164
God is so good. He's so good

1571
00:55:29,625 --> 00:55:30,764
to me.

1572
00:55:31,219 --> 00:55:32,739
Sorry. I'll spare you off, man. I'm not

1573
00:55:32,739 --> 00:55:33,480
gonna do that.

1574
00:55:35,139 --> 00:55:37,859
But that's true. And God God is so

1575
00:55:37,859 --> 00:55:39,079
good. And

1576
00:55:39,619 --> 00:55:41,619
if you know the mercy and grace and

1577
00:55:41,619 --> 00:55:43,460
love of Jesus Christ, go out and tell

1578
00:55:43,460 --> 00:55:45,894
somebody. Go out. Yeah. Tell the people you're

1579
00:55:45,894 --> 00:55:48,054
around. Let them know. Let them know that,

1580
00:55:48,054 --> 00:55:49,574
hey. There's a god who loves you. There's

1581
00:55:49,574 --> 00:55:51,974
a a savior who died for you, and

1582
00:55:51,974 --> 00:55:53,574
you can come to him. Don't be afraid

1583
00:55:53,574 --> 00:55:56,054
to tell people. We'd if you're in America,

1584
00:55:56,054 --> 00:55:57,255
we still live in a country where you

1585
00:55:57,255 --> 00:55:58,775
can do that without having to worry too

1586
00:55:58,775 --> 00:56:01,360
much about the repercussions of it. So don't

1587
00:56:01,360 --> 00:56:02,900
be afraid of it. Don't be afraid.

1588
00:56:03,440 --> 00:56:04,880
You you know, we're we're not saying go

1589
00:56:04,880 --> 00:56:06,480
out and make laws where we say that

1590
00:56:06,480 --> 00:56:09,619
people are not allowed to reject god, but,

1591
00:56:09,920 --> 00:56:11,679
you know, be be willing to tell people,

1592
00:56:11,679 --> 00:56:13,519
hey. Look. God loves you, and and he

1593
00:56:13,519 --> 00:56:14,835
has a plan for you, and he has

1594
00:56:14,835 --> 00:56:16,914
a desire for your life. And that's one

1595
00:56:16,914 --> 00:56:18,434
thing that I know we pray for all

1596
00:56:18,434 --> 00:56:20,355
the time for ourselves, and I and and

1597
00:56:20,355 --> 00:56:21,894
we pray for for our listeners.

1598
00:56:22,195 --> 00:56:24,514
If you're listening, go out, tell people, share

1599
00:56:24,514 --> 00:56:25,735
the good news. Yeah.

1600
00:56:26,449 --> 00:56:28,049
That brings us pretty much to the end

1601
00:56:28,049 --> 00:56:30,049
today, and we thank you all for listening.

1602
00:56:30,049 --> 00:56:31,809
Next week, I'm gonna be out of town.

1603
00:56:31,809 --> 00:56:33,569
And because I deal with all the tech

1604
00:56:33,569 --> 00:56:35,650
problems as they come up, we won't have

1605
00:56:35,650 --> 00:56:37,809
a broadcast next week. This talk. Come on,

1606
00:56:37,809 --> 00:56:38,529
man. This

1607
00:56:39,409 --> 00:56:40,389
You just hit the button.

1608
00:56:41,010 --> 00:56:41,414
Yeah.

1609
00:56:42,135 --> 00:56:44,135
But, we'll be back the week after that.

1610
00:56:44,135 --> 00:56:45,574
And then I think Brian's gonna be gone

1611
00:56:45,574 --> 00:56:47,494
the following week, so we may may or

1612
00:56:47,494 --> 00:56:49,015
may not do that week as well. Keep

1613
00:56:49,094 --> 00:56:50,295
as long as they got you, they can

1614
00:56:50,375 --> 00:56:51,735
y'all just rock right on. I don't know

1615
00:56:51,735 --> 00:56:53,335
if I can do it without me. Not

1616
00:56:53,335 --> 00:56:54,954
be sailing the sea. So,

1617
00:56:56,420 --> 00:56:58,420
so we hope everybody has a great week.

1618
00:56:58,420 --> 00:56:58,739
And,

1619
00:56:59,539 --> 00:57:00,739
would one of you like to pray us

1620
00:57:00,739 --> 00:57:02,980
out tonight? Go ahead, brother. Alright. Father, thank

1621
00:57:02,980 --> 00:57:05,139
you. Thank you for your goodness to us.

1622
00:57:05,139 --> 00:57:06,199
Father, we know

1623
00:57:06,980 --> 00:57:09,494
we've tasted we've tasted your goodness and it

1624
00:57:09,494 --> 00:57:11,494
is incredible, father. And thank you for your

1625
00:57:11,494 --> 00:57:13,494
kindness and your mercy to us in Christ

1626
00:57:13,494 --> 00:57:15,514
Jesus. And, father, I pray for anyone,

1627
00:57:16,054 --> 00:57:18,534
anyone listening who does not know your goodness,

1628
00:57:18,534 --> 00:57:20,214
that that they would come to know it

1629
00:57:20,214 --> 00:57:22,135
now, father, that you would pour your spirit

1630
00:57:22,135 --> 00:57:23,755
out on them, that they could see

1631
00:57:24,119 --> 00:57:25,719
who you are and what you're doing in

1632
00:57:25,719 --> 00:57:27,639
this world, that you're reaching out and you're

1633
00:57:27,639 --> 00:57:29,400
trying to save us. You you want as

1634
00:57:29,400 --> 00:57:31,319
many of us with you in eternity as

1635
00:57:31,319 --> 00:57:32,119
possible. And,

1636
00:57:32,839 --> 00:57:34,599
father, I just pray for each one that

1637
00:57:34,599 --> 00:57:36,119
that that they would that they would see

1638
00:57:36,119 --> 00:57:38,119
you for your beauty and your goodness. In

1639
00:57:38,119 --> 00:57:40,335
Jesus' name, amen. Amen.

1640
00:57:41,594 --> 00:57:44,655
Special thank you to Carter Pridemore, Brian Harris,

1641
00:57:44,954 --> 00:57:45,934
Waverly Henderson,

1642
00:57:46,315 --> 00:57:49,434
Tatum Harris Spears, and Josie Bartain for our

1643
00:57:49,434 --> 00:57:51,454
theme song, truth set me free.

1644
00:57:51,755 --> 00:57:54,094
I've been Tyler Goza on production and audio.

1645
00:57:54,474 --> 00:57:56,550
We hope you can join us live next

1646
00:57:56,550 --> 00:57:58,170
Monday at 6 PM CST.

1647
00:57:58,470 --> 00:57:59,530
Thank you for listening.

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Power.