Sermon
God On Fire
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Father, God, Thank you for Jesus. Thank you that at
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the Cross of Christ we all meet, that our lives
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are found in Him. That there is grace beyond belief.
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There is forgiveness, an acceptance for the sinner, and there
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is a change life also that flows from Calvari's Cross.
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Help us to have that the Holy Spirit. Lord, we're
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living in the end of time and we feel it.
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Help us to just love you, know you, and to
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be changed people obedient to the word of God in
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Jesus' name. Amen. The title of the message this morning
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is God on Fire. When I was a child, at
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the age of four, I didn't understand the principle cause
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and effect in the most basic kind of ways. Is
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that typical of children cause and effect? I remember reaching
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out in a campfire, It's ingrained in my memory, reaching
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out to this glowing, beautiful object near the fire, rock
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that was glowing so pretty, and I picked it up.
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I grabbed it almost instantly. I felt my hand hurt
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intensely like I had never hurt before, and my hand
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was on fire. I heard a sizzle sound that was
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my skin frying, and then the pain went deep within
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my hand. My hand was on fire. I felt it
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was fire and hot stone. I quickly realized the stone
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and discovered that my right hand was all curled up
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and hurting really bad and hot for me, too hot
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for me as a child to endure. I began to
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cry uncontrollably and scream because the pain would not go
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away from my hand. My hand was on fire. Has
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that ever happened to anybody here? Okay? That was my
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first childhood introduction to fire in the most basic and
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painful kind of way. Friend. The Bible teaches us that
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the sinner who will not turn to God in this
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life will one day be thrown into the lake of
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fire at the end of time. And that's a fearful
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picture in the book Revelation. What does it mean, the Prince?
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The lake of fire is not some mystical place in
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the middle of the earth or in another dimension. The
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lake of fire is in the future, when God will
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eradicate evil on the last day. The Bible teaches this.
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And when Christ came to the two demoniacs, remember what
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they said, They said, have you come to torment us
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before the time? See? Hell was not then Hell is
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in the future. Jesus will slay the demons in fact,
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the demons are called elohems in the Old Testament gods
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false gods. Christ is the god slayer. He is the
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one who will destroy the demons at the end of
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the age Relation twenty verse fourteen and fifteen. You can
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open your bibles. The verse on the screen should help.
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Then death and hades were thrown into And what does
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the Bible say? What's the word there? The lake of fire?
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This is the and it tells us what the lake
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of fire is. This is the second death, the lake
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of fire. And if anyone's name was not found written
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in the Book of Life, the Book of Life is Jesus.
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He is the Truth, the Way, the Truth, and the Life.
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The Book of Life is him. His mind is his knowledge.
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He's God. He has enough information to make us live.
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If we're not found in Christ, the Book of Life.
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He was thrown in the lake of fire. So how
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important is the Book of Life Jesus Christ, our savior.
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Hugely important. The Bible teaches that the second death is
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the lake of fire. Fire in the Bible is a
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symbol of the Holy Spirit and Hebrews one seven angels
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are flames of fire because they are spirit beings. The
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Angel of the Lord, who was the pre exist in Christ,
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who is God in angel form we'd learned from the Torah,
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appeared to Moses from within the burning bush. In Exodus three,
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verse two and Matthew three eleven, John the Baptist promised
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that Jesus would baptize with the Holy Spirit and with fire.
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When the Holy Spirit came down at Pentecost, record his
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tongues of fire and Acts two three. The disciples were
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filled with the Holy Spirit and thus enabled to preach
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the gospel. Was the fire good at Benecost? Yes? Or no?
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All right? In the book Revelation Relation four or five,
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before God's Throne, there are seven torches burning bright, and
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John tells us exactly what they are. Relation four or five.
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From the Throne issue flashes of lightning, voices, peals of thunder,
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and before the throne burns seven torches of fire. And
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then it tells us what they are. It says they
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are the seven what seven spirits of God? So the
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seven torches before God's throne are the I'm quizzing you
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the seven spirits of God? Now why are there seven?
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We will learn that seven is the word for completeness.
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It means the whole, the complete Spirit of God. Think
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of the directions here north, south, east west, how many directions?
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Give me two more directions up and down, five and six.
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There's seven, though, what's the seventh one inside? And so
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the Holy Spirit, the complete Spirit of God, the seven
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Spirits of God, which is the Holy Spirit, is throughout
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the entire universe and sees inside of you. The light
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shines the seven torches of God and the seventh Spirits
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of God, and they appear in the introduction of the
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book Revelation. In Revelation one, verse four. Here the seventh
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spirits of God are crossmatched chiastically. If you were to
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look at the book Revelation the front side and the backside,
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it starts matching, moving toward a center. The Sinner is
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Revelation twelve, ten and eleven. But this verse right here
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in Revelation one four, the seven spirits in the introduction
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matches in Revelation twenty two seventeen. Thus Spirit, So the
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seventh spirits is the Holy Spirit. That's how you can
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figure that out. The seventh spirits is another way of
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saying the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of God, the seven
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the complete Spirit of God, the seven torches, the complete
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fire that burns before God's throne is the third person
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of the God, the Holy Spirit. Relation five six, and
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between the throne and the four living creatures. And among
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the elders, I saw a lamb standing as though it
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had been slain, with seven horns, with seven eyes, which
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are the seven What what does the text say? Which
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are the seven spirits of God sent into all the earth.
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And so the seven spirits of God are also the
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eyes on the lamb. Now wait a second. Seven torches
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before God's throne is the Holy Spirit. It's called the seven.
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And yet here the seven eyes of the seven spirits
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of God are the same thing. Seven torches, seven eyes,
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seven spirits the same. The seven spirits before God's throne
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are also the seven eyes on the lamb of God.
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So you can't take the Holy Spirit away from Jesus.
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The connection is very close. So it's just like the
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connection that Christ has with his Father. They're one and
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Revelation one, fourteen, Revelation two, eighteen, Revelation nineteen twelve. Christ
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has eyes of fire in the Book of a because
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his eyes are the seven torches of God, the Holy
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Spirit eyes of God. Jesus said in Luke eleven thirty four.
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Your eye is the lamp of your body. When your
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eye is sound, your whole body is full of light.
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But when it is not sound, your body is full
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of darkness. Therefore, be careful lest the light in you
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beat darkness. Friends, we all need a good eye inside
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our body. Now, let me say something to our young
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people about these verses that we're going to read. Okay,
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what I'm gonna do right after my sermon, right after
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we preach it, I'm going to have you come up
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here and read those verses. Is that fair enough? Because
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I forgot? How many of you did not forget? Raise
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your hand, did not forget. You're all prepped, So we'll
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bring you up here at some point. Hebrews thirteen twelve
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says our God is a consuming fire, the fire of
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God's presence, the fire of God's glory. Is the Holy Spirit,
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the seven torches, the seven eyes, eyes that are on
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the lamb. The third person of the Godhead, the Holy Spirit,
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comes from God the Father through Jesus Christ the Son,
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to represent both the Father and Jesus Christ the Son,
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but mostly Jesus to us here on earth. If there
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is no third person of the Godhead, we don't have
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Jesus with us today. We need the Holy Spirit. Prince,
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do you realize it's possible to grieve the Holy Spirit?
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In Isaiah sixty three, it says they grieved his Holy Spirit.
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The Holy Spirit is the third person of the Godhead,
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we are told in the Spirit of Prophecy, who does
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not come with any kind of limited energy, comes in
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the fullness of the Divine Godhead to represent Jesus and
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the Father. And the Holy Spirit is a consuming fire.
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One John five seven. Here's a verse that some people
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say should not belong in our Bible. If you have
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the King James version, New King James version, it is there,
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some of them, a lot of most of the modern
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translations have deleted it, but it was in the Bible
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for centuries until they did. And the reason why it
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should stay is that it's quoted in the Old Latin
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Bible before the Council of Nicea in three twenty five
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by Cyprian of Carthage. It's alluded to in the second
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century by Athenagorus of Athens, who was a person who
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could have known someone who personally knew the John because
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he was born around the time John would have died,
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and we have other evidences. Athenasius, who was the champion
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of the deity of Christ of the Council of Nicea,
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quotes this verse as scripture. No one challenges him. In
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the codexes that were produced in the fourth century that
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were commissioned by Constantine at the Council of Nicea, there
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are fifty of them which were books. Codex means books.
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That's when they're deleted. Why because five years after the
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Council of Nicea, Constantine is anti Trinitarian. He is appointing
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bishops that are Aryan and they have a power lock
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on the church until the death of his son Constantious.
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The first about sixty years goes by before that shift occurs,
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and the devil was trying to rip our Bible apart.
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But Sister White says that the Waldensians were the first
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of the peoples of Europe to receive a copy of
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the Bible. They had the old Latin Bible, and one
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John five seven is guess what it's in the Waldensian Bible.
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The Bible that the people had who went through the
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Middle Ages, who preserve the knowledge of God. In fact,
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I don't have my Bible here but Relation twelve says
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that twelve to six the woman was given the wings
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of the Great Eagle that she might fly into the
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wilderness where she is a place prepared by God and
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the King. James version accurately translates the Greek there where
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they should feed her for twelve h and sixty days.
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God is the Triune, as Sister White would call it,
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the hoarded love of eternity, God, the Father, God, the Sun, God,
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the Holy Spirit. How many of you need love in
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your life? If God is not love, if God fails
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the love test, then we're in trouble Army. In the
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Book of Revelation, the second death is the Lake of Fire.
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It's when people come face to face with God. The
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God who is love, and the glory of Him who
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is love will destroy evil. The Bible teaches us that
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the lake of fire is the Spirit, the Holy Spirit
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himself unleashed from God to destroy evil. At the end
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of the millennium, on the Last Day, when fire and
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brimstone come down out of Heaven from God in the
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outpoint of the Holy Spirit, we will either have a
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covering or we will not. We must be in Christ.
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Our God is a consuming fire, Holy spirit fire. Turn
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to Isaiah thirty, verse thirty three. For a burning place
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has long been prepared, yay for the king. It is
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made wide and ready. It's pired deep and wide with
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fire and wood in abundance. And notice what the text
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says next. I'm gonna get my watch off so it
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doesn't hear. Take me here. Time will be no more.
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As they say in the macrrelation, I turn upside down.
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For a burning place has long been prepared. See that's
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what the that's what Jesus quotes this first when he says,
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go into the fire that has been prepared for the
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devil and his angels. It's been in existence for a
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long time, but nobody's in it. For a burning place
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has long been prepared. Yea for the King has made ready.
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It's pire made deep and wide with fire and wood
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and abundance. And then it tells you what it is.
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The breath, meaning the spirit of the Lord, like a
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stream of brimstone, kindles that God, the Father, God, the
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Son God, the Holy Spirit are one. God is Spirit,
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Jesus said in John four, and the Bible is very
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clear in Deuteronomy chapter four and Hebrews thirteen that our
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God is a consuming fire. When God made a coven
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with Abraham, he passed between the parts in Genesis fifteen.
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And when he passed between the parts, he was in
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the form of a smoking firepot and a flaming torch.
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Our God is a consuming fire in Relation twenty nine.
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When the wicked are destroyed at the end of the time,
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the Holy Spirit will come down like fire and consume
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the wicked. There will come a day when evil dies
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at the hands of the Holy Spirit, who is the
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fire on the altar at the end of time. The
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Bible teaches that Isaiah ten sixteen seventeen. Therefore, the Lord,
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the Lord of Host, will send leanness among his fat ones,
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and under his glory the Holy Spirit's called the Spirit
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of Glory. He will kindle a burning like the burning
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of a fire verse seventeen. So the light of Israel,
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and I'm quoting from the New King James version. The
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word light is capitalized because it's referring to God, the Father.
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The light of Israel will be for a fire and
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his Holy One, that's Christ for a flame. And my
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translation says it will burn, but the Hebrew could translate
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he will burn and devour his thorns and his briers
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in one day in Matthew, Jesus quotes that verse, and
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he says this, do not fear those who kill the
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body but cannot kill the soul. Rather fear him who
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can destroy both soul and body. Where what does he say? So?
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What is hell? According to Jesus, it's the place where
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body and soul are what destroyed. So there's no such
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thing as eternal life in hell? Is there? It doesn't work,
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It's not in the Bible. A text out of context
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is a pretext. Now that's a good thing. If God
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would to torment people forever and ever and ever, how
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could we fall down and worship a God who would
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send its people to eternal torture for the crimes of
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a lifetime. That doesn't pass the justice test, and that
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doesn't pass the Good God test. And it isn't Bible
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religion either. The Bible teaches us the second death is
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the Lake of Fire, where the soul and the body
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will be destroyed by Holy Spirit fire. The Holy Spirit
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will be the fire that ignites. The Lake of Fire,
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destroys all evil, and the final judge. At the end,
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the whole world will become an altar. The Holy City
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that comes down from God will be the last ark
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with all the animals and all the people in it,
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and it will ride the waves of a molten planet,
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which becomes the altar. And when the fires go out,
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but the Holy Spirit doesn't go out because he's an
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eternal fire, Malachi forces will come out leaping like calves
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in the stall. When God burns up the wick and
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their ashes and the souls of our feet. It's the
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last arc experience. It's the last flood. We ride the
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waves of a slake of fire to a new world,
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a new Earth, like Noah came from the old to
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the new. The Holy Spirit will be the fire that
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ignites the late of the lake of fire and evil end.
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There will come a day when every evil person will
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be set on fire, and evil will die on the
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last day. People who have rejected the Holy Spirit by
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rejecting Jesus in his word will be tormented by the
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Holy Spirit's presence because they are now if they had
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the full manifestation of the Holy Spirit, that even be
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more by him in that day. There'll be no hiding
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from the Holy Spirit. If you hate God now and
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you will not allow God to come into your life.
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If you will not surrender the Holy Spirit in your
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life today. You will not be ready for the last day.
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His Holy Spirit glory will torment the wicked on the
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last day. The Bible says in Hebrews twelve twenty nine,
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for our God is a consuming fire. God is eternal,
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and God is fire. The sanctuary within it had the
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fire of God, the holy fire that destroyed Nadab and
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abaye you. And the Holy Spirit is God, and that
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means the fire, the Holy Spirit is eternal fire. Don't
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let anyone tell you the fire is not eternal. The
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Bible teaches it is. It is everlasting fire that will
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destroy the wicked. Eternal fire will get it done on
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the last day. Turn with me. In Isaiah thirty three,
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I want you to look at this verse and watch
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it with me very closely. The sinners in Zion are afraid.
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Why trembling has seized the God, not the righteous, but
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the wicked. Here's what they're saying in quotes, Who among
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us can dwell with the devouring fire? Do you see
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that question? Who among us can dwell with the everlasting burnings?
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What kind of burnings is the Bible talking about? Here?
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Help me with this eternal fire. They're afraid of it. Now,
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why are they afraid of it Mount Zion? Because Isaiah
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will say, God's furnace is in Zion. Psalm seventy three
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says I went into the sanctuary. It was there I
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perceive their end, God's presence, God's glory, God's fire was
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the Chicaina glory that resided between the cherub of inside
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the most holy place, and that fire lit the fires
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of the altar of the incense. And it was the
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sacrificial fire, holy fire. So they're afraid of that because
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it's everlasting. He who walked here's the question, according to
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most people today, who lives forever in the eternal fire?
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According to most Bible preachers out there, what answer they give?
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Sinners do Now, that's the question that sinners are asking here.
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Who can live in the midst of the eternal fire?
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Here's the answer in verse fifteen. He who walks righteously
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and thus speaks uprightly, that's who's going to live in
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the fire. Who despises the gain of oppression, who shakes
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his hands lest they hold a bride, who stops his
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ears from hearing of bloodshed, and shuts his eyes from
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looking upon evil. He will dwell on the heights of
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Zion implied. His place of defense will be the fortress
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of the rocks. His bread will be given him, his
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water will be sure. Your eyes will see the King
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in his beauty. You see, the fire is God, and
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only the righteous can live in the midst of the
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everlasting burnings. Remember the story in Daniel three, Daniel and
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his friends, not Daniel, but Daniel's friends were thrown into
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the fiery furnace. The fire killed all the others that
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brought him to the door. Who was in the middle
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of the fire, the pre existent Christ. And when they
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were thrown out of the when they came out, the
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only thing that was burned was the ropes that had
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bound them. There was no smell of fire on their
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clothes or anything. How would you like to have that
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kind of ability to live in the midst of the
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glory of God? It flows through you. As it says
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in Malachi four, we shall come out of that holy
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city implied at the end of the millennium, leaping like
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calves in the saw from the stall. The wicked will
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be ashes and the soles of our feet. On that
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day when I act God says, and then it says,
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for the Sun of righteousness will arise with healing his wings.
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The fire that destroys the wicked heals us. It gives
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us love and glory for all time and eternity. The
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fire of God is eternal. And the wicked in Isaiah's
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day were afraid of the fire that was located out
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Zion inside the sanctuary. They were afraid of the Holy
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Spirit fire that is the fire we in our lives.
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When God came down and fire at Mount Sinai in
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Exos twenty, they are all afraid and they pull back.
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And God says, when the trumpet sounds, you're to come
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up into the mountain. And the people says, we don't
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want God to talk to us, lest we die. You
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talk to us Moses, and Moses said, look, God has
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come in the Hebrews, so that his fear literally what
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you are afraid of, will be upon your faces, so
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you will not sin. When Moses went up the mountain,
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he received the law. He came down. In Exus thirty four,
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it says his face was shone with the glory of God.
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And Paul says, when we look into the face of Christ,
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that Holy Spirit glory sticks to our faces, and we
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are on fire in the good kind of way. They
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were afraid of the Holy Fire. There's the Spirit of God,
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the Holy fire of the Altar, the seven torches of God.
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They knew that they cannot live, these wicked people in
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exsus Isaiah thirty three, they cannot live in the midst
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of the everlasting burnings the verse seventeen. The righteous can
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and will live in that fire, that is the Holy Spirit,
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fire of God. They will see the King and his
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beauty gleaming with fire and light. Because the seven tortures
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of God are the seven eyes of God. They will see,
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they can endure, they will see see See. Holy Spirit
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in our life means we can see. And don't forget
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that the eternal Spirit is the very one who helps
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us see Jesus Today. We've been told in the spirit
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of Prophecy that the person who cannot accept the person
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of the Holy Spirit, it is evidence of an unconverted life.
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So never diminish who the Holy Spirit is in the
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Triune as what she calls it, the Godhead of the Three,
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the Father Son, Holy Spirit, that is the hearted love
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of eternity. As she describes it, we need the Holy
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Spirit to see Jesus. Friends, there will come a day
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when every evil person reaches Jesus. And that's what evil is.
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It's not you know, if you struggle with sin, you're
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you're you're trying to overcome and you're getting on your knees.
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You're not an evil person as far as God is concerned.
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You're one of his children. But if you've given up,
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you're kind of stiff lipped, and you're just gonna follow
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your own will and way and push push it toward
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God and others, and you're not going to surrender, then
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you're not full of the Holy Spirit. Why because Roman's
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eight says those who are live with the spirit of God,
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these are the children of God. So we need the
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Holy Spirit in our lives because the Holy Spirit brings
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Jesus to us. And there will become a day when
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people have rejected the Holy Spirit will have to interact
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with him face to face, and they will be incompatible
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because the Holy Spirit is light and fire and life,
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and they are darkness, death and doom, and the Light
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will banish the darkness on the last day. Sister White
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says that the glory of Him who is Love will
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destroy sin. Had God done this when Lucifer first sinned,
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we were told that God would have appeared to be
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arbitrary and that his union verse have been at risk.
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So God endured sin, he shielded his glory throughout the centuries,
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and he sent Jesus to save us. The Bible teaches
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us that Jesus experienced the second death for us on
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the cross as our substitute. But what was the last
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word I just said here in that sentence as our
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What now? How many of you want to face the
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judgment bar yourself without Jesus in front of you, keep
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your hands down? How many want Jesus to represent you
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in the judgment? Good deal? You see, Christ died for us,
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so he can also take our place in the preadvent
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investigative judgment. So we have passed from death to life,
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and we don't have to go through the scrutiny of that.
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We have a savior all the way to the resurrection
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and into eternity. Hebrews ten twenty six. For if the
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sprinkling of defiled persons with the blood of goats and
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bulls and with the ashes of a hafer sanctifies for
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the purification of the flesh, how much more shall the
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blood of Christ who through the eternal spirit? What kind
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of spirit here? What does it say? Eternal? Hey, the
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Holy Spirit has always been alive. The Holy Spirit didn't
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just come online when Christ condescended to take the form
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of an angel servant. Christ was the second person that
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God had longed before that we are told he has
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no beginning, both in the Bible and the spirit of prophecy.
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But the fact is that when the Holy Spirit came
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into this picture here to the cross. Here it's saying
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that when Jesus down on the cross, the cross was
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an altar, and he was offered up through the eternal
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spirit without blemish to God, he was the lamb. What
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would that make the eternal spirit? The fire of the altar?
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And it says to purify your conscience from dead words,
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to serve the living God. Fire purifies Christ was on
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the altar on Calvary's cross, the eternal spirit. What does
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that mean? It means God was on fire in Christ.
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Hell is at the cross. What we observe is the
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second death at the end of the millennium somehow is
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at the cross, and every human being from Adam to
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the end is in Christ. Paul says God was in
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Christ reconciling the world unto himself, not counting our trespasses
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against him. The Second Death, the doom at the end
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of the millennium, was put through one human being for
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every human being who's ever lived, from Adam to the ends.
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And when it was done, there was nothing left to condemn.
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Jesus said, it is finished. But before he said it
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is finished, he said, Father, forgive them. They know not
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what they do. Friends, if you're running from the cross,
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you're running from Christ, from a surrender to Jesus. Got
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no hope of eternal life. But if you get on
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your knees flawed though you be, see, Jesus loves you
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more than he hated your sin. He loves the sinner
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more than he hates the sin. And he found a
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way to save a sinner, to transform the heart, to
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justify them, to hold them in acceptance through justification by
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faith as they grow, and then one day to be
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transformed by the power of the Holy spirits of the
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nature of evils God, and we share the glory of
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the suns of light. Christ teaches that we will take
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the place of fallen angels and the resurrection will be
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equal to the angels sons of God. When Jesus came
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to the garden of Gsemone, let us go there and
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retrace the footsteps to the cross. The garden of Gsemone
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and the Aramaic language means the oil press oil represents
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the Holy Spirit in the Bible. It's one of the symbols.
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Jesus began to sweat great drops of blood as the
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Holy Spirit was being pressed out of him. In the
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garden of Gsemite. Christ became the God forsaken God. In
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the garden of Gsemone, the hearted love of Eternity, the
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Tribune God, was being ripped apart by the sins of
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the world. In the Garden of Casemone, the Bible says
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the life is in the blood. We are sprinkled. We're
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sanctified by the sprinkling of blood. But it also says
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we're sanctified by the washing of the Holy Spirit. The
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Holy Spirit flows through the blood. That's why it came
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from Jesus' side along with water. As the water opened
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up from the rock representing the Holy Spirit. Christ is
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the rock. When Christ died, he gave up his spirit,
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the Holy Spirit. When Jesus died, he gave up his life.
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He shed his blood. Life is in the blood. According
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to Hebrews nine fourteen, when Jesus died, he was offered
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up in the eternal Spirit, God on fire. Christ experienced
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the fires of the Holy Spirit leaving him. He wasn't
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afraid of it. He was not incompatible with the fire,
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as the wick will be at the end of the millennium.
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He lived to have it flow inside of him. When
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he was on the mount of transfiguration, he couldn't hold
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it back. You know, he was ready. He could have
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gone to heaven. He'd suddenly begin to glow with Holy
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Spirit fire. But then he put it out, so he'd
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come down instead of going up, and he went to
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the cross to save us instead. But then the garden
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of Gaseimone had started believing him God on fire, leaving
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him the oil of the Holy Spirit. The life of
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the Holy Spirit was being pressed out of Jesus in
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the garden of Simone. His seven eyes were plucked out
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of him at the cross, because the lamb is the
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seven eyes, which are the seven spirits of God. As
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God the Father turned his back of his Holy son
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because he cannot look on evil and sustain it. He
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has to deal with it. The Holy Spirit did the same,
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and Jesus became the God forsaken God on Calvary's cross.
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My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? My God,
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the Father, God, the Holy sp Spirit. We have been
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the hearted love of eternity, and eternity breaks here and
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now I am broken. You are broken? Why have you?
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Because you're one forsaken me? Jesus was left alone, holy alone,
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without his Father and without his Holy Spirit, burying our
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sins and the sins of the whole world and the
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darkness of the cross. Now we are told in the
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pen of Inspiration that God was there and his angels
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were there in the darkness, but Christ couldn't see it.
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He had no sense of their presence. The Holy Spirit
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is representing Scripture as the seven eyes of God that
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roamed throughout the whole earth. They were plucked out of
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him at the cross. When the Holy Spirit was being
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pressed out of Jesus because of our sins, the seven
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eyes of the seven spirits of God, the complete Holy
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Spirit was being pulled from Christ, just like Samson's eyes
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were plucked out of his head. The mighty man Samson
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they took his eyes out. Samson's name in Hebrew comes
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from word Shemish for Sun. The man named Sun lost
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his eyes. The son of Righteousness, who is the son
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of God, was left in darkness because the strong man
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who was Jesus in the Book of Daniel, lost his
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Holy Spirit eyes on the cross blinded. That's why the
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gospels record that there was darkness over the Cross from
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the sixth hour of the ninth hour. In the Gospel
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Counts of the Cross. The Greek word for darkness is scotos.
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The usual word for Greek darkness is scotia or scotia,
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depending on how you say it. It's used in the
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Greek Septulogen when it says there was the darkness over
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the land that could be felt. You see, it's not
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just the kind of darkness you see. It's the kind
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of darkness you feel when you can't see into the future,
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when you're hopeless and you don't know what's gonna happen.
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Jesus died in the darkness of the cross, with no light,
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no Holy Spirit eyes, no Holy Spirit life, as he
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offered himself up to God in the eternal spirit, the
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eternal flame of the Holy Spirit of God. Jesus was
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God on fire, losing the fire of God at the
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same time losing his eyes blinded in the darkness of
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the cross, the heat of the fire of Mount Calvary. Now, AI,
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how many of you are aware of AI technology? A little bit?
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They're going to have to build massive power stations so
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that an AI computer system can run. It takes It
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could take theoretically the energy of an entire city like
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New York City to run AI artificial intelligence. Why because
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artificial intelligence to be able to take in so much information,
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the CPUs will get so hot. You have to have
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enormous energy for artificial intelligence. Now, Christ far surpasses artificial intelligence.
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What went through the human mind of Christ supernaturally sustained
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would fright him in a moment, But it didn't because
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when that angel came down from having the garden of
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the Simity and Christ fell to the ground with dropped
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with clots of blood, thrombosis, blood clotting coming out of
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his pores. The angel gave him God power to live
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and endure the pain. He put him on the respirator,
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so to speak, so he could get the Calvary's cross
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and get it done for you and me. As Christ
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began to relive every human life from Adam to the
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end in Atonement, the fires of hell were hot on
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Calvary's cross. I don't have to look to the end
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of the millennium to know what hell is. I see
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it on Calvary's cross. I see God on fire. It's
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God on fire, suffering the second death, Jesus cried out,
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my God, my God, why have you forsaken me? It
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was darkness, and he was alone the Tsar of Ages
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page seven fifty three. Satan, with his fierce temptations, wrung
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the heart of Jesus. The Savior could not see through
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the portals of the tomb. Hope did not present to
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him his coming forth from the grave a conqueror, or
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tell him of the Father's acceptance of the sacrifice. He
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feared that sin was so offensive to God that their
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separation was to be eternal. Christ felt the anguish which
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the sinner will feel when mercy shall no longer plead
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for the guilty race. It was the sense of sin
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bringing the Father's wrath upon him as man's substitute, that
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made the cup he drank so bitter and broke the
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heart of the Son of God with amazement. Angels witnessed
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the Saviour's despairing agony. The hosts of Heaven veiled their
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faces from the fearful sight. Inanimate nature expressed sympathy with
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its insulted and dying author. The Son refused to look
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upon the awful scene. Its full bright rays were illuminating
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the earth at midday, when suddenly it seemed to be
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blotted out. Complete darkness, like a funeral pall enveloped the cross.
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This is amazing language describing when is there In the Gospels,
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there was darkness over all the land till the night hour.
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There was no eclipse or other natural cause for this darkness,
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which is as deep as midnight without moon or stars.
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It was a miraculous testimony given by God that the
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faith of after generations might be confirmed, and that thick
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darkness God's presence was hidden. He makes darkness his pavilion
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and conceals his glory from human eyes. God and his
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holy angels were beside the cross. The Father was with
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his son, yet his presence was not revealed. Imagine God
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the Father, like Abraham beside Isaac, there beside his son.
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His son is forsaken, but Daddy's there, Daddy's there. The
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Holy Spirit is there. He's the fire of the altar.
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The knife, which symbolizes the Holy Spirit was in the
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hand of Abraham Holy Spirit imagery. The Father was with
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his son, she writes, yet his presence was not revealed.
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Had his glory flashed forth from the cloud, every human
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beholder would have been destroyed. And in that dreadful hour,
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Christ was not to be comfort with the Father's presence.
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He trod the wine press alone, and of the people
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there was none with him. In the thick darkness, God
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veiled the last human agony of his son. All who
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had seen Christ and his suffering had been convicted of
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his divinity. That face, once beheld by humanity, was never forgotten.
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As the face of Cain expressed his guilt as a murderer,
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so the face of Christ revealed Innocen's serenity, benevolence, the
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image of God. But his accusers would not give heed
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to the signet of Heaven. Through long hours of agony,
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Christ had been gazed upon by the jeering multitude. Now
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he was mercifully hidden by the mantle of God. An
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amazing description of the cross friend Jesus was God on fire,
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dieing the second death for you and me on Calvary's Cross,
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in the darkness and the realest sense, Jesus went to
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Hell for us all so we could never ever have
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to face the Holy Spirit fire. In the lake of fire,
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you see, the Holy Spirit will consume the sinner at
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the end of time. But Christ was not out of
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sync with the Holy Spirit, so hell for him was
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losing the Holy Spirit, losing the presence of God ripped
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him apart. Jesus was God on fire, so we can
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have the fire in our lives and our hearts, the
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fruit of the Holy Spirit. Somehow on the cross, in
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the mystery of God revealed God's justice and God's mercy
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kissed when Jesus died for us. And in that miracle
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of love, that love kiss with God on fire in
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the midst as Jesus suffered, as the fire suffered, is
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the Holy Spirit suffered for justice and mercy kissed from
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every side. It kissed Jesus, and we were in the
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middle of the kiss because God was in Christ and
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we were in Christ. On Calvary's crost in Jesus, the
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hearted love of Eternity embraced us at Calvary's cross, friend,
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the Godhead of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.
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They lost it all on Calvary's cross to save us
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and give us a good eternity. And at the cross
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justice and mercy. Kiss, dear heart, Never ever forget that
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you were in the middle of the kiss. You were
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in the middle. You were in the middle, and let
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that work in your life. God's not out to destroy you.
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God loves you. He loves you more than you sin.
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He loves you more than anything you've ever done wrong
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in the past. He is the good God of the Bible.
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And never forget that Jesus was God on fire for
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you on that cross. And never forget their heart that
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we were in the middle of that kiss that saved
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the world, where the God had the hearted love of
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eternity met again, suffered and saved us all in Jesus
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huge