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Joseph Prince

October 3, 2016

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Live Undefeated In Christ Part 1 (Hillsong Channel)

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- female announcer: Today
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- Joseph Prince: What God is,
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is love.
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Who God is, is God.
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And because he is God,
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he has to judge.
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But I want to tell you
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one thing,
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God's nature is not to judge.
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In Micah 6:8, God says,
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"He has shown you,
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O man, what is good;
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And what the Lord
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requires of you to do justice."
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Say, "To do justice."
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"To love mercy."
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Say, "Love mercy."
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- announcer: A victorious life
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can be your reality right now.
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Today, as a thank you
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- Joseph: You ready
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for God's Word?
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Let's dive right into it.
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Last week,
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we started with Genesis 18,
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and how the Lord, such a homely
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picture in Genesis 18,
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that God would come
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to a man's home, amen,
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share the secrets of his heart,
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eat with a man, amen,
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and God brought
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two angels with him.
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We know it's the preincarnate
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appearance of Christ,
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but what a homely, beautiful,
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comfortable, restful picture,
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God at home with his people.
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Isn't that beautiful?
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And we saw
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that Abraham instantly knew
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his divine visitor.
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He did not, like Joshua,
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when he saw the man
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with the drawn sword,
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he had to inquire who he was.
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"Are you on our side
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or on you
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on the other side's side?"
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You know, he had to inquire.
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Gideon had to inquire.
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At first, he didn't know
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the divine visitor.
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Many of them,
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they had to inquire,
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but Abraham,
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may we all be like him.
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Instantly, he knew
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who that divine visitor was.
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The Bible says
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he was nearly 100 years old,
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but we saw last week he ran.
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A hundred-year-old man running.
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Whenever your eye
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is on the Lord, you run, amen.
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Your body will not know
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it's old.
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Your body will only know
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its maker and its redeemer.
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Amen?
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When there was a storm and
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Jesus was walking on the storm,
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remember, to the boat
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where the disciples were?
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In jeopardy, in fear,
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in great consternation,
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Peter, looking at Jesus, said,
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"Bid me come," and Jesus knew
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that Peter's eyes was on him.
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Jesus says, "Come,"
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and Peter did the supernatural,
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as long as his eye is on Jesus.
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Of course, he took his eyes off
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for awhile and he started
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becoming natural.
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So, the greatest superhero,
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I told my son the other day,
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the greatest superhero
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in the whole universe
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is the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Amen?
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It's the Lord Jesus Christ.
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He's the greatest superhero.
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The one who died.
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I mean, it's greater
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than any romantic drama,
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the one who gave his life
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for the woman that he loved,
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you and I,
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and now we are his bride,
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waiting for the wedding day.
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Isn't it romantic?
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I mean, don't make it
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dry orthodoxy and theology.
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The whole thing is beautiful.
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God so loved the world
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that he gave his only Son.
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His Son didn't have to come
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and gave his life for us.
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So, we see in Genesis 18
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a family picture,
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a picture of how God
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wants our families to be like.
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God present, amen.
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God sitting,
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eating with us, amen.
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The unseen guest, divine guest.
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And then, he revealed his heart.
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I just wanna call your attention
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to the fact
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that I mentioned last week
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that the Jewish people today,
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they don't mix dairy products,
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they call it Kashrut laws,
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with meat.
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Now, that's their
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rabbinical law, okay,
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but here we see Abraham
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getting meat, a young calf,
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and also yogurt,
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butter and cheese.
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So, definitely,
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in the Scriptures,
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it seems all right, okay?
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But there was a death.
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A young calf had to die.
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Just like when the prodigal son
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came home,
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the young calf had to die.
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It's a picture
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of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Blood had to be shed
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for that reconciliation,
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because God is a holy God, amen?
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God is a holy God.
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And we must never forget that,
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God being holy,
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God has to judge.
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Today, my sermon
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is understanding
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this part of God's nature.
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I take great--you know,
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I say this
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with great trepidation
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because I don't want you
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to go home
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with the wrong impression
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or the wrong idea of God.
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Because there's
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a lot of teachings already,
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people, you know, in the movies
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that they produce
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on the book of Genesis,
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and judgment
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is always the perspective.
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Judgment is always the focus.
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All right, God's anger
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is always the emphasis.
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So, for me, I wanna be careful.
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Is there judgment?
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Yes.
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"But Pastor, God is love."
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What God is, is love.
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Who God is, is God.
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And because he is God,
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he has to judge.
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There's no one above him
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to judge.
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If he doesn't judge,
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that'll be the end of mankind.
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There will come a time,
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all right, sin will be rampant
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and man will be no more.
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They will destroy themselves.
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God has to judge.
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But I want to tell you
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one thing,
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God's nature is not to judge.
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In Micah 6:8, God says,
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"He has shown you, O man,
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what is good;
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And what the Lord requires
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of you to do justice."
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Say, "To do justice."
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"To love mercy."
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Say, "Love mercy."
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"And to walk humbly."
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Say, "Walk humbly with God."
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So, three things.
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God says, "Do justice,
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love mercy," and it's an advice
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especially to leaders
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of God's people.
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God says, "Sometimes
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you have to do justice."
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This is a Word to all the
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magistrates, to all the judges,
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to all the people
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that have to execute justice.
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So, the thing is this.
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They have to judge,
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but as judges,
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even when you judge,
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you should never love judgment.
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That's what God says in Micah,
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"Do justice, but love mercy."
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Your heart loves mercy,
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and the word "mercy" there
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is "grace."
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"Chesed," which is translated
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by Delitzsch,
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the Hebrew scholar, as "grace."
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Love grace, but do justice.
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Sometimes we do that
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for our children, amen?
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We discipline them,
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we do justice,
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but we love mercy.
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And how fast we are to run
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to them, so to speak,
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the moment their heart is soft.
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You know, they've learned
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their lesson, amen.
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How fast we are, right?
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Talking about normal parents.
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Amen.
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So, God wants you to love mercy,
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but there are Christians,
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some sentimental Christians
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who love mercy
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and also do mercy.
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That's not God's way.
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Sometimes
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you have to do justice.
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Amen.
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Your children want you
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to stop them,
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give them boundaries.
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They want you to parent them,
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amen?
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They don't want you
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to be their best friend.
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They want you
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to be their father,
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their mother.
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Amen.
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Friendship comes later.
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And please, don't rob them.
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They are not orphans.
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Amen?
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So here, we have God
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coming to the house
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and God revealing
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the secrets of his heart
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to Abraham and Sarah,
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saying that this time next year,
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Sarah will have a son.
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That's been their dream
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all this while.
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What a beautiful picture.
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God eats,
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God celebrates with them,
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and then God gives
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this wonderful news.
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Amen.
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It was such a beautiful,
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warm, intimate surrounding.
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You know,
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I wanna tell you something.
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Twelve disciples
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walked with Jesus.
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They were familiar with him,
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but few were intimate
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with his mind,
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the counselors of his heart.
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Doesn't mean you walk with Jesus
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and you are familiar with him
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that you commune with him.
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Communion and familiarity
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are two different things.
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Intimacy and familiarity
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are two different things.
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The centurion
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never walked with Jesus,
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the one in Capernaum.
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He told Jesus,
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"I know who you are.
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Just speak the Word
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and my servant will be healed,
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because I have servants
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under me."
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He didn't even spend
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walking around Galilee
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with Jesus.
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He just met Jesus,
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but there was that revelation
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of the Holy Spirit
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to see who Jesus was.
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The disciples were lacking,
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but they were familiar,
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but not intimate.
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This centurion was intimate
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with his thoughts,
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and it pleased Jesus.
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Jesus was so happy.
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All right, we see another one,
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the Syrophoenician woman.
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We see glimpses of people,
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Zacchaeus, they look
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right through the veneer
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of the flesh of our Lord Jesus
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and saw the God
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of love and grace.
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Amen?
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And that's why they perceive
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here, and they know
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that he will grant them.
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Amen.
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Are you listening, people?
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May you all have eyes,
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and me also,
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may we all have eyes to see
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and a heart to hear.
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We just don't want to be
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familiar with the Bible,
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look at all those portions,
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but we are not intimate
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with the thoughts
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of the Holy Spirit
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in that passage.
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Are you listening?
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And then they got up
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after they ate and they walked
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as if they were going
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towards the plains of Jordan.
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We'll continue our story
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from here, amen.
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And Abraham walked them there.
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And by the way,
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they were laughing, right?
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I mean, Abraham was laughing.
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Most likely Abraham was laughing
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also, but Sarah was laughing
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when she heard
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that she would have a son
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at 90 years old.
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She started laughing.
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"Shall I have pleasure?"
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We covered all that last week,
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amen.
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And the Lord says,
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"Did I hear Sarah laugh?"
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She said, "No," in the tent.
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"No, I heard you laugh."
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So, when the boy was born,
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they called his name "Laughter,"
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Yitzchak.
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So, here they were,
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they were about to go
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to the plains of Jordan,
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and Abraham
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walked with his divine guest.
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And the two men,
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which are two angels--
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the Bible says angels
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can turn into a form of a man.
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I heard last week, as we were--
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I was talking
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with Pastor Darren.
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Pastor Darren was telling me
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when he was in Perth, you know,
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it's not so nice
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to drive at night
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because they don't have, like,
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street lamps and all that.
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So, he says that he was caught,
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I think, somewhere
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having dinner or whatever,
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and darkness fell real fast,
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all right?
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And Singaporeans
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are not used to it, right?
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So, he says the road
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is pitch dark,
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and as he drove,
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he was kind of hoping
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that he can see his way around,
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all right, he know his way back
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to his cottage
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or wherever he was staying.
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And lo and behold,
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a truck came through
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with bright lights
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shining way down the road,
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and all he did
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was that he followed the truck
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and the truck brought him home.
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Now, I've heard
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many, many times--now,
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I'm not saying it's an angel,
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but it very well could be.
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Many of you
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have these kind of experiences.
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I don't want to give
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a spectacular experience
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because you might not identify.
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These kind of experiences,
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when you're about
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to cross the road
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and you don't see anything,
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you just happen to cross,
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and you feel something
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pull you back, like a wind.
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And then VROOM,
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there's a motorcycle
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that just came from nowhere.
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How do you explain that?
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Who pulled you back?
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These are simple things
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that we take for granted.
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But the Bible says,
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"Be not forgetful
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to entertain strangers,
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for some have entertained
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angels unaware."
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So, if you see them wearing
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a coat and their coat is high,
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right, you know it's an angel.
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Right?
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So, they don't appear like that.
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They appear like a man.
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So, the Bible says
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even when Abraham
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was talking to the Lord,
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the Bible says the two men
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went toward Sodom.
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So, let's follow the story now.
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"And the Lord said,
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'Because the outcry.'"
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All right, the men went.
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"The Lord said,
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'Because the outcry
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against Sodom and Gomorrah
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is great, and because
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their sin is very grave,
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I will go down now
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and see whether they have done
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altogether according
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to the outcry against it
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that has come to Me;
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and if not, I will know.'
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Then the men
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turned away from there
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and went toward Sodom,
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but Abraham still stood
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before the Lord."
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So, the two angels
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went toward Sodom
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as if they knew the mind
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of the Lord,
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and they both straightaway went.
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So, two of them went,
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and Abraham
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was on a higher plain.
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Hebron is higher,
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but from Hebron,
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a distance down,
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you can see the Dead Sea
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and you can see the cities
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of Sodom and Gomorrah.
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Amen.
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Remember when Lot, his nephew,
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was given the choice,
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because they are shepherds,
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all right, and caretakers
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were fighting among each other,
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and Abraham says, "No,
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it's not nice for us to fight.
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They are Hittites and Parasites
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in the land.
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You take the right,
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I'll take the left.
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You take the left,
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I'll take the right."
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What a humble man Abraham is.
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And the Bible says
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that Lot saw the beautiful,
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fertile crescent
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of the Jordan Valley.
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It was lush, it was green.
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It's not like today,
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the Dead Sea area.
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It was green.
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There were rivers running.
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The Bible says,
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"Like the Garden of Eden."
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It looks like Garden of Eden.
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So, he's a man
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that went by sight, Lot,
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and he chose by sight.
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Later on, when enemies
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came to invade
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and plunder the land,
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it was Abraham that rescued him.
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And after Abraham rescued him,
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tied to Melchizedek
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and all that,
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and there's no record
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that Lot ever tied.
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Lot went back
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to the city of destruction.
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So, this is something
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very interesting, all right?
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I want to tell you something
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about what the Scripture says.
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But before we go on reading,
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I want you to go to
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Genesis--sorry, 2 Peter 2.
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2 Peter 2.
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If we have 2 Peter 2.
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Yeah,
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"And turning the cities of--"
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this is New Testament now.
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"And turning--
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God turning the cities
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of Sodom and Gomorrah
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into ashes, condemned them
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to destruction, making them
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an example
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to those who afterward
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would live ungodly."
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Next,
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"And delivered righteous Lot."
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Underline that, "Righteous Lot."
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So, Lot was righteous.
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Today, I'm gonna share with you
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about a defeated, righteous man,
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a man who had a
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family and lost his family.
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He finally ended up
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with only two daughters,
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but it's not
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a proper relationship.
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A man who was called righteous,
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but defeated.
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Abraham is righteous,
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but Abraham was exalted.
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When all the destruction
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was happening,
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he was on a mountain,
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looking down.
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I said, "Looking down."
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The world is hating
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towards judgment.
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The King is gonna return to
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set this world right,
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and there will be
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a millennium rule
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of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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Then, the gospel of the kingdom
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will be preached once again,
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all right, before he comes.
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Then, when he comes,
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that kingdom
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will be established,
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because finally it's no more
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an absentee kingdom.
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The King--
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Kingdom needs the King.
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There's a King.
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The King is here.
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And the Bible says his scepter
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is a scepter of righteousness.
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He will judge for the poor,
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amen.
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And God says,
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"I'm gonna send me Son."
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Okay?
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"My Son will rule."
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The return of the King.
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This is the return of the King.
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And when the King returns
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after 7 years
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of what Daniel prophesied, amen,
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the 70th week of Daniel,
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the last part that's
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to be fulfilled will happen
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in the 3 1/2 years
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of great tribulation.
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All right, Jesus will come back
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at the end
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of that great tribulation
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when armies
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are about to destroy Israel.
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Israel will look up
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and they will see him return.
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He will save Israel.
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Amen?
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And he will establish his rule
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from Jerusalem.
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The Bible says that.
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And then there are scoffers that
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come in these last days saying,
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"Where is the promises coming?
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We hear people preaching
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on end times and this and that."
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Today, slowly, slowly,
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you find that the preaching
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of end times
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is now put on the shelf,
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or even totally cast out.
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The Bible says, Peter says,
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"In the end times,
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scoffers will come, saying,
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'Where's the promise
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of his coming?
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Where, where, where?
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Since our fathers fell asleep,
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everything has gone as normal.'"
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And the Bible says these people
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are ignorant of one thing, okay?
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This is what the portion says
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in chapter 3.
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Next chapter,
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"The Lord is not slack
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concerning His promise,"
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his promise to return.
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He's not slack.
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He's not slacking concerning
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the promise of his return.
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To save us--
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Before the return of Christ,
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let me explain.
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I'm gonna say this
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one more time.
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I've said this
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a number of times.
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The rapture
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is not second coming.
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Rapture is a private affair
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for his church.
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All right?
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He says, "I go to prepare
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a place for you.
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And when I go, I will come again
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and receive you unto myself."
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That's the rapture.
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1 Thessalonians talks about,
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all right,
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the Lord will come in,
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"harpazo," in Greek.
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He will seize us.
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It's the story
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all over again of Enoch.
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Enoch never saw death.
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Enoch was raptured.
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Enoch was the father
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of Methuselah.
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And God said, "Flood is coming."
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And I want to say
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something to you.
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God is not a God that jumps
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on the gun straight away.
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"Oh, you sinned.
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I'm gonna blast you."
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No, God waited.
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God waited.
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"God is not slack
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concerning his promise,
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as some count slackness,
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he's longsuffering towards us,
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not willing
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that any should perish."
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Not willing!
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He's not willing!
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He's not willing.
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Are there those who perish?
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Yes, but in God's heart,
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he's not willing.
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"Then why don't he save them,
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Pastor Prince?"
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Free choice.
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Man was not a robot--
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was not created a robot.
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God gave man a choice.
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You can get up right now
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and walk away.
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God won't stop you.
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Jesus said, "How I wish
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Jerusalem, Jerusalem,
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to gather you as a mother hen
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would gather her chicks."
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But notice the forwards,
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"But you would not."
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And now you're left to yourself,
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and armies will come around you,
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and that happened.
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We know it happened.
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So, God is not slack, okay,
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"But he's not willing
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that any should perish
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but that all
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should come to repentance."
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So, why is God delaying?
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He's waiting
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for more to be saved.
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Good God.
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Don't despise his slackness.
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Don't despise his slackness.
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Sometimes I look at some
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terrorists in the world
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and I say, "God,
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send missiles from heaven."
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Aren't you glad I'm not God?
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And then I see a story
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in the Bible of a terrorist,
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and what did God do?
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God knock him off
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his high horse, literally,
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and saved him, and made him
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the greatest apostle of grace
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that the world has ever seen,
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the Apostle Paul.
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I thank God for that, God
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doesn't deal the way man,
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you know?
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What a heart.
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So, Enoch realized.
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God told Enoch judgment
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is coming.
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You will find Enoch's prophesy
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in the New Testament,
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in the book of Jude.
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"Behold, the Lord cometh
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with ten thousands
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of his saints,
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to judge the ungodliness
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of the ungodly,
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of the ungodly speeches
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they have spoken against him."
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All right, and Enoch saw it,
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and God says,
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"Enoch, judgment is coming."
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Enoch says, "God, I'm ready."
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"The flood is coming
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to the earth."
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"I am ready."
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And God says,
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"You will have a son."
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Says, "Yes, thank you, Lord."
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But God says, "I want you
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to name him Methuselah."
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Indian name, Methuselah.
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Okay, it's Methuselah,
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okay, but actually in Hebrew,
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"Muth," "Muth" is death.
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So, "Methuselah."
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"You call his name Methuselah."
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Say, "Lord, what do you mean
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he's death?
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When he dies, he will bring,
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like an arrow.
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His death will bring.
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What does it mean?
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What does it mean, Lord?"
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Then, as the boy grew up,
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he noticed that God
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kept the boy strong and healthy,
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and the boy lived,
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and live, and lived.
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And Enoch--the Bible says
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Enoch had a revelation.
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By the way, when he was born,
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he had the revelation already,
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because the Bible says,
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"After Methuselah was born,
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Enoch walked with God."
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So, this revelation
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of the end times
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will cause people
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to walk with God.
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And his name means what?
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When he dies, it will come.
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That means the moment
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this boy dies, the judgment,
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the flood will come.
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And they watched, and the news
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was spread far and wide,
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"Watch this boy."
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Every time he has a sneeze
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and all that,
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all the neighbors come running
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with their handkerchief
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and their chicken soup.
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And every family had their own
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chicken soup.
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Every time!
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You know, the boy--they would
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help the boy up.
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I mean, they don't want to see
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him die.
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And he became the longest
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living man to record on earth.
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He lived longer than Adam.
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Methuselah lived 969 years.
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Why?
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"Not willing any should perish
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but that all should come
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to repentance."
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That's the heart of God, people.
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That's the heart of God.
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God says,
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"Yeah, it's gonna happen.
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Yes, yes, the iniquity is full.
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It's gonna happen.
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Your boy will be called,
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'When he dies, it will come.'"
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Then God waited.
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What a heart.
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That's why it's called
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longsuffering.
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I like the Old English,
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"We shall not all sleep,
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any fair market value
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of the materials
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you receive from us.
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Joseph Prince Ministries
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believes that your tithes
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belong to your local church.
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Your donations to the ministry
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are received as offerings
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to support the preaching
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of the gospel of grace
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as well as the ministry's
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