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Living Faith Conference with Kenneth Hagin Ministries
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Thanks for checking out the Anchor Faith Message podcast
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from St. Augustine, FL.
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Now enjoy this message. I've been, you know, listening
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and watching some things, and I've been around a while and
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I've seen a lot of things happen and a lot of people come and go
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and I want to just do a little teaching tonight.
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You know, I feel like that, especially in the rhyme of
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circles, that I have the right to to speak with a voice and
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warning. And I guess if you want to title
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this, just call it, don't let anyone fool you.
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Now we're living in a very unrestful time.
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I mean economics, politically, militarily.
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I mean, everything is just seem to be topsy turvy and there are
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many voices that are trying to tell you what to believe.
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Even in the Christian circles, even in even in charismatic
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Pentecostal circles, we're living in an age when there's a
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lot of spiritual activity going on and see what a lot of people
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don't realize the the devil's world.
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That's a that's a spiritual world.
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And there's the Christian world is a spiritual world, and many
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people don't recognize that. And the devil was kicked out of
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heaven. He was an Archangel, probably in
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charge of music. And you can go read there in
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Isaiah where he said he saw him falling from heaven.
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He he took a third of the angels.
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They formed a coup and they were going to overthrow God.
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And it's sort of dumb, but but the devil's dumb.
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So he took a third of the angels with him and they all got kicked
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out of heaven. So that means that there's two
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angels left for every one of his hello.
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You know as Bible believing Christians we need to check the
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sources when we hear something we could be and and I've seen
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and through the years. I mean I grew up and I was born
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one Sunday and then my dad's church the next Sunday about 20
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years ago. But no, I was born in September
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the 3rd, 1939. That's the that's the day that
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England declared war on Germany. My dad told me that I went and
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looked it up and it's it is. That's it, you know?
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And I was in his church the next Sunday.
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And I've seen stuff through the years growing up in in spiritual
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circles in Christendom, and I've seen people taking advantage of
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and all sorts of things and and and all sorts of doctrines.
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In fact, we've had through the years, especially in in recent
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years. Some year we had Shepherd Ship
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and we had all kinds of stuff that actually started out, the
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people that did it. But then it turned bad.
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Mark, I mean, Matthew 24, four. Now you stay with me because
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I'm, I'm, I'm just going, I'm going to talk to you tonight.
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It may not be exciting, but if you'll listen I think you'll get
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a hold of something. And Jesus answered them and said
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to them take heed that no one deceive you.
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The NL that's King New King James.
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The NLT says don't let anyone mislead you.
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The original Living Bible said Jesus said don't let anyone fool
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you. The enemy is using people to say
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things and design things to deceive, get people to go go
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astray. Even even the Apostle Peter said
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in Second Peter 2 But there were all there were also false
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prophets in in Israel. Just as there will be false
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prophets or false teachers among you, they will cleverly teach
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destructive heresies, even denying the master who brought
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them in this way. They will bring sudden
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destruction on themselves. Many will follow their evil
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teaching and save them immorality.
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And because of these teachers, the way of truth will be
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slandered in their greed. They will make up clever lies to
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get a hold of your money. But God condemned them long ago,
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and their destruction will be will will not be delayed.
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Now even Peter said that there were false teachers there in
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Israel and then he goes on and say that they're going to be
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here. I have seen some of those and
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just because something looks good and sounds good and has
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some scripture behind it, check it out to make sure that they're
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not taking a scripture out of context.
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So much has been been taken out of context and they, and I'm
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sorry to say, but many, and I get disgusted sometimes with
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Christian television. I'm on it, but I'm on Daystar.
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But had some of these things in these these gimmicks that these
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people have, I better go on and shut up.
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But that's what I'm talking about.
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And many people are being deceived.
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I had just gotten out of the Army in 1965.
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If you don't know it, Vietnam started right there, around 63
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in fact. I I did.
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I worked in Army Security Agency.
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I did never went to Nam. I was watching everything that
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moved in China and so forth. And I just got now I just got
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out of the service myself and I heard this guy say on the radio
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and if and I just got me pastor he he was army.
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He knows what I'm talking about. You're a little rough around the
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edges when you first get out because if you're not if you're
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not tough enough and strong enough you don't make it.
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But and he may and he said this I got so mad I was driving in my
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car and I heard him say, oh the Lord told me right now there's
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there is if you will, a lot of your mother's your son's in
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Vietnam. If you'll send $25 I'll pray and
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guarantee that he'll come home. I I happen to know one of the
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guys that worked in that area with him in in that in an area,
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and I happen to know he got $1,000,000 off of that radio
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broadcast. Now I'm talking about people
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deceiving you. People were deceived because of
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that. People are being deceived today.
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Now, you know the devil is offering all kinds of things to
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lead God's people astray. That's what he hates God.
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He hates anything to do with God.
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He raps songs with words of doubt and unbelief that are
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catchy tunes that Christians begin to get a hold of.
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I mean, we sing a lot. We sing a lot of the songs, but
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Anthony and them guys, they change a lot of the words in
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some of the songs. You see, if we're going to walk,
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work, walk in victory that we talk about, we got to know the
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truth of God's word. I'm just going to talk to you
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out of my heart tonight. I can preach if I need to, but
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God's been dealing with me about some of this stuff because I've
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seen I'm seeing too many people taking being taken advantage of
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and they think it's God, but it ain't.
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And sorry if it isn't, maybe I should say, but that's what we
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say where I grew up. It's hard for me not to say it.
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In Matthew 24, four through 11, Jesus told them don't let anyone
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mislead you, for many will come in my name claiming I am the
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Messiah. They will deceive many and you
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will hear wars and threats of wars, but don't panic.
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Yes, these things must take place, but the end won't follow
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immediately. Nation will go to war against
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nation, Kingdom against Kingdom. There will be phantoms and
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earthquakes in many parts of the world.
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But all of this is only the first of the birth pains with
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more to come then you and you'll be arrested and persecuted and
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many of them were in that day and many people that you don't
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realize it in other countries because of their Christianity,
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are being arrested and killed and persecuted right now.
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Even some of our own missionaries that that are in
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the charismatic circles have faced these things.
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You'll be hated all over the world because you're not my
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followers right now. If you start talking about God
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around in certain areas, people will come at you like you like
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you don't you don't. You don't want anybody come in
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contact with that. Some people have it.
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It's they. That's just the way it is and
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this is the end time. And it goes on to say many false
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prophets will appear and deceive many people.
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Skip down to full verse 24. Now that's that wizard that ends
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at 11 for false messiahs and false prophets will rise up and
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form great signs and munders. So don't don't be deceived if
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possible. Even God Chosen ones four times.
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Verse 451124 Jesus Is this Jesus talking?
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He said Don't be fooled or deceived.
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Notice the saying. He said there'd be wars and
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famines and earthquakes and pestilence or epidemics.
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And you know, there are people that claiming that they got this
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revelation from God and it may be and it may not be.
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Check it out. Well, we're not supposed to
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judge. The Bible tells us to judge
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prophecy. Come on now.
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So I said, well, bro, so I said I don't care who said it.
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And you can tell them to come see me.
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I don't care. I'm 84.
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I'll say what I want to say. If they don't like it, there's a
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door. That's me.
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Earl was telling you that and he'll tell you I'm.
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I've been that way the whole time.
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I'm me. I'm real.
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I'm no. I don't put on no false fronts.
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I mean, I don't have to have a special seat.
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I try to slip into a place and sit in the back.
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So then just and they'll, somebody will see them there and
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they'll have to escort me to the front.
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I I don't have to have no front seat.
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But, man, sometimes people come in there to some of our
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conferences and oh, where's my now?
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I'll need a special parking place and I'll need a special
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place to sit. I said park wherever you can
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find a place and sit wherever you want to sit, you know, come
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on now, I'm talking about the Christian world that we're in
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today. I'm not trying to be negative,
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but I'm trying to warn us. God's been dealing with me about
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this and I decided that, OK, I'll start saying it, you know,
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you know, the devil wants to deceive.
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He hates anything that has to do with God, and he will do
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everything he can to stop anything that has to do with
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God. We all know that we quoted all
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the time, John 1010. Still he comes to steal, kill
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and destroy. And you know Paul writing to
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Timothy in First Timothy 41. I'm reading some of this from
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the NLT. Now, the Holy Spirit tells us
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clearly that these last times, in these last times, some will
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turn away from the true faith. They will follow deceptive
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spirits and teachings that come from demons.
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I've been around a long time and I've seen all kinds of stuff.
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I mean back in the 50s this guy was going all over the country
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with a tent and he had, he had this cross that would appear in
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his forehead and blood would drip from it and everybody was
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following him and and I mean we, I was in Bible school and but we
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all went there. A bunch of us went there.
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You know, I mean he he was, he was he was a Pentecostal and man
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people are fucking to it like crazy and not some of the guys
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that we went went there and all they were talking about.
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I said that's that's not right. I said that's not in the Bible.
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Oh, Hagan, you just. Of course I had an advantage.
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I had a dad that's that that's very, very far as I'm concerned.
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He's the smartest man that I I know on Bible subjects and if
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you, if you if you're going to like one man they told, they
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told him, well you're going to because of this guy.
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He he was going in this denomination.
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He was going to have to. They said, well, we'll bring the
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charge, but you're going to have, you're going to have to
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face him. He said, Oh my Lord, he said
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that he can quote more, more, more of the Bible than I could
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than I've read. And he could and he could.
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When he quit, Lord told him quit.
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He'd read. He'd read the New Testament 3
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through 150 times and Lord told him that you're going to get
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prideful. Don't do that.
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So he he quit keeping the count. I don't know how many times he
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read the New Testament through, but is you see here anything
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that has to do with God? And so they were all, I mean
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everybody was all about it. And the reason I'm talking about
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this is because I have lived long enough to see this stuff
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start to come back around some stuff.
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I mean, it hadn't been very long ago.
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People was having gold dust and and and all kinds of stuff and
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people are flocking to it. Hey, don't be deceived.
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How many of you read the Bible through you've read the entire
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Bible. Did you ever see anywhere in
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there where anybody had gold dust appearing in this, in this?
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Did you see anywhere in there where anybody had oil running
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out of their hands. But those things have happened,
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and many people were deceived because of that and lost out
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with God. See, deception is the way the
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devil operates. How was Eve and Adam?
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How? What caused them to transgress
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in the Garden of Eden? Deception.
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That's the devil's way. And he comes in and he said to
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him, oh, surely nothing going to happen if you eat in this tree
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and and weary we're warned repeatedly in the epistles about
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being stuffed. And you know, Romans 16, you
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start reading it and it's and and going down to there and all
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it is is Paul greeting people and greet this one and greet
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that one and so forth. All right, anybody read it
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there? And a lot of times we skip read
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because we realize he's just greeting.
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But down in verses 17 and 18, he gets down to some real stuff.
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And Romans 1617 and 18. And I won't.
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I'm reading it from the NLT because it's a little more.
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And now I make one more appeal. My dear brothers, evidently he
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has appealed to them before. On this subject, I make one more
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appeal. Watch out for people who cause
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divisions and upset people's face by teaching things contrary
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to what you've been taught. Stay away from them.
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Such people are not serving Christ our Lord, but they're
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serving their own personal, personal interests by smooth
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talk, glowing words that deceive innocent people.
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That is so good. If you know the word, it don't
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matter what somebody says. You know I, my dad and I were we
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we we we were there at the inception of TBN.
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We have to get started and so forth there in California.
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Lynette's can tell you we we were there and helping them help
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that get started. And but then a lot of people get
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on there and you know they were they were talking about this and
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that and the other and they're nowhere to be found today.
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And a lot of people followed off after them and got Plumb out
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from the things of God. Now, no, this is this is not
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shouting material but this is material that if you will listen
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to what I'm saying and then think when you hear something,
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think scripturally not with your emotions.
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There you go. Yeah.
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Come on now. I've got 22 hours of psychology
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and my degree, and I happen to know that people can
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psychologically get you to they can prey on your side, on your
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psychic and get you to give money and all kinds of things.
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That's why you you've never heard my dad.
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You've never heard me, Craig, Any of us, ever get up and make
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and don't. I don't even preach A sermon
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about giving. Ain't no use in it, far as I'm
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concerned. I see people take 20 minutes to
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take the offering and get up and preach an hour.
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Well, that's stupid. Somebody said, well, why don't
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you say it? I mean, you shouldn't say that.
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Well, I think it is. That's my personal opinion.
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If you don't like it, EXIT. These guys that have been in
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Raymond heard me say it before, But you know what?
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It's time that somebody had guts enough to stand up and talk
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about some of these things that's happening in the
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Christian world right now. God's been dealing with me about
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it and I decided, hey, I'm the head.
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I'm the head of Raymond and we got Raima's a word.
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Raima's a place and Raima's a worldwide family.
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And as the head of Raima, I I feel and all y'all are part of
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Raima because y'all are hooked in with us.
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So your pastor it's then if I'm the head then it's my it's my
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duty to speak to you about these things so that you will not be
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deceived. Thank you, Ephesians 5-6 says.
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Don't be fooled by those who try to excuse sin, for the anger of
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God will fall on all who disobey him.
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I've been highly upset over the last about the last 10 years
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over even ministers that are saying it's all right to drink
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and because of grace. And grace is a great subject,
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but it has been pushed to the extent over here on the wrong
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side of grace. You know, people talk about
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grace well in one place and in your testament, the Holy Spirit
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is said, the spirit is called the spirit of grace.
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They're actually, there's about 17 different times in there that
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that the word grace is used. And it's not in any way the way
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they're that it's been talked about.
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Now it'll come back around actually, and people are saying
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it's all right to do whatever you want to do because you're
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under grace. Well, it's not.
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Some of y'all may have heard that because that was just out
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just a few years back. And for some of you that are not
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old enough, that's nothing more than the doctrine of one saved,
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always saved that came around back that was really strong back
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in the 50s when I was a teenager growing.
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I graduated high school 58, so that tells you my where I come
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from that that once saved, always saved.
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That was the big topic back in those days.
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Once you're saved, you're saved. Let me tell you what, If a
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person gets born again and truly saved, there is a change in
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their lives and they not. They're not living and doing the
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things they were doing before, but yet people are being
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deceived. Today they go to one of these
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churches, and sometimes it's just a video church.
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And I'm sorry to say, but the guy they listened to went into a
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room and recorded it, and he's not even preaching it to an
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audience. Come on now.
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And I happen to know that sometimes they will speak to a
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audience of young people, middle-aged people and older
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people. They will treat their message
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and they will change this and change that and change something
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else. And so not to offend somebody.
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The gospel is the gospel. If it offends you, then that
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means that you are not where you should be with God.
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If preaching the Bible, if talking about hell, talking
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about sin, come on, now I'm walking where angels fear the
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tread, but I'm doing it anyway because I am tired of people
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getting deceived. I know for I know personally
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that what they this couple told the pastor.
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So they were on the team, you know, the team up on the
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platform and said, oh, we're under grace, so it's all right
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if we live together and not married.
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I don't find that in the word of God.
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Anybody find that in the Bible that you can live together out
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of wedlock? Come on now, you know, Hey, some
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of you are with me. Some of you are looking at me
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like, where are you coming from? Well, I'm coming from the fact
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that I'm reading scripture to substantiate what I'm talking
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about. I'm not just telling you
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something. I'm thinking.
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I'm telling you what what the Bible says.
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You know Colossians 214. I mean 24 says 24.
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I'm telling you this so no one will deceive you with well
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crafted arguments I've seen. I'll tell you that King James
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says now this I say, lest anyone should deceive you with
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persuasive words. Some people are great orators.
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They can, you know, and that's the problem with some of these
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churches today. And I'm sorry, I may, I may get
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letters, I may get phone calls or whatever, but that's I I
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don't worry about it. But they're preaching to the
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people. They're giving them a feel good
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sermon and they won't go out of church.
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I've done my duty. I went to church and there is no
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life change. If there's no life change, then
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there's no conversion. Hello.
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You know, Second Thessalonians 2-3.
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Anybody get anything out of this?
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Don't be fooled by what they say for that day, for that day will
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not come until the great rebellion against God and the
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man of loudness revealed no one, the one who brings destruction.
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Watch, Paul said here. Watch that words don't are not
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being able to deceive you. We many times in the natural if
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we're not careful, something that is said will appeal to our
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natural senses. It sounds good and feels good,
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but it isn't in line with the word of God.
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The Bible says that even in the last days, Christians will be
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deceived. People are saying, oh, I don't
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need to read the Bible anymore. You know, I've been saved and
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and I I mean, it's being said right now.
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I've heard it. It's OK if we don't go to church
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and just watch it on the live stream.
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That's all right. Well, it's OK if you can't get
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there, but what does the Bible say?
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Hebrews 1025, Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves
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together, and was in the matter of some, but exhorting one
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another. So the much more as you see the
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day approaching Hebrews 1025 in NLT.
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And let us not neglect our meeting together, as some people
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do, but encourage one another, especially now that the day of
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his returning is drawing nigh there.
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You get something when you come together in the local body of
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church that you can't get watching that screen number one,
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you there drinking your coffee with your house shoes on and
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your and your pajamas on, and you're you're halfway listening
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and halfway not. But I've done my duty.
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I went to church. There are many churches and I'm
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now I'm going to really get strong.
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There are many even charismatic churches that are have trying to
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have church without the power of God.
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What am I talking about? I know exactly some churches
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that say we have no demonstration of any kind in the
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service. What we saw during worship while
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ago, people down here, people over here, people and people
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jumping, that is not allowed. And they say if you would like
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to talk about a better life at the end of the service where
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people will be here and you can come and talk with them about a
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better life. And if you would like to have a
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little more information about some another experience back
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here in this room, back here in the back part of the campus, we
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have one night a week, we have an hour meeting and they'll
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explain to you about a deeper experience that don't cut it.
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As far as I'm concerned. If you come to Raven Bible
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Church, I will give an altar call.
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I will ask for people that if they like, need to accept Jesus
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Christ or they need to rededicate their life to God,
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I'll ask them to raise their hand and come forward so I can
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pray with them. I also will give a call if you'd
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like to receive the Holy Spirit. According to what the Bible says
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in Acts chapter 2, verse #4, they were all filled with the
Acts 2 chapter mention
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Holy Spirit, began to speak with tongues as the Spirit gave them
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utterance. We have many of our charismatic
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church churches today that are not allowing any of that to
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happen. There there's if somebody gets
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up at the in a demonstration, the ushers will usher them out.
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I know that to be a fact, and yet the bill is full.
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Come on, Deception as far as I'm concerned.
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Come on. There you go.
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Come on. I don't know what y'all think
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about this, but I'm doing what I felt like God told me to do.
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Having church with no call for salvation, no moving of the
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Spirit of any kind or demonstration of the Spirit is
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not in line with what the Paul taught is not in line with the
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book of Acts. And do you realize that that's
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the Acts of the early church? Do you realize that the Acts did
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not end? And chapter 28, We are still
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living the Book of Acts and what was happening in among them
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should be happening with us, Paul said.
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You come together, you have a Psalm, you have testimony, you
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have a prophecy. You have in tongues
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interpretations I give I, I I speak out prophecy all the time
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while I'm preaching. Sometimes I don't ever tell
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nobody. It's it.
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If somebody studied the word, they can tell when it's when,
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it's when it's coming out of my spirit and the Spirit gives it
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to you. See, God wants to move with His
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Spirit in power and give you understanding.
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In fact, if you read the Bible, it says that if you will study
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the word, he will reveal things to you.
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Anybody ever read that in there? We are living in what they call
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and when I was in Bible school I was taught this.
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I went to Southwestern Assembly God University in Waxahachie, TX
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and we had a different name then, but it's the same school
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You ever noticed a lot of these schools changing their names.
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But we are living in what we call the age of the Holy Spirit.
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It's the time that the Holy Spirit is being poured out.
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You know, I you read Acts 2 and Peter talking in the last days.
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God said I'll pour out my spirit upon all people and he goes on
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and talks all about it. It's true.
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Today we need to have Pentecost. When they were filled with the
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Holy Spirit on the day of Pentecost, people heard them
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talking in tongues. Actually, they thought they were
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drunk. And Peter said they're not drunk
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as wine as you suppose they had. They were drunk on the Holy
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Spirit. Nowhere in the Bible does it say
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that the Holy Spirit has ceased. Now, a lot of people have said
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that. A lot of denomination, a lot of
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churches, and a lot of people say, oh, that happened in Bible
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days. We are still in Bible days.
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Hallelujah. And what happened then should be
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happening now. I went to some churches just to
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see, and in the back they didn't know who it was.
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I set out. My wife will tell you.
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We went. We were appalled.
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It was supposed to be a Pentecostal church.
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I left that grieved in my spirit because what they say on their
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sign and in their statements of faith is not happening in their
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building. We have come to the point and I
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got to quit. It's too long I've come.
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We've come to the point that too many people are ascribing to a
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code written but not demonstrated.
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The Holy Spirit should be moving in our midst, and we're going to
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have a healing line here on Friday night.
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And one of the gifts of the Spirit will be in operation,
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which is the gifts of healings. You know, we all read Mark 16.
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These meritless signs will accomplish accompany the
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believer. We need to not just embrace them
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with our thoughts and with our speech.
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We need to embrace them with our actions.
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You know, John Ray, in the layman's commentary on the Holy
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Spirit, said this. Every generation must be
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convinced of the reality of God that he is not dead, but living
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and loving. All Christians and missionaries
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and evangelists and ministers need the supernatural equipment
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to do their part in proclaiming Christ to the lost and dying
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world. But not only do they need it,
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that and I got a sermon. I preach sometimes.
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Every member, a minister, everybody, everybody that that's
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born again. Everybody's filled with the
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spirits you have. You have a place to minister.
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It may not be on a platform, but wherever you're at, come on now.
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Through the years there have been many moves of the Spirit
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and I'm just going to go back They the Pentecostal Revival.
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It came with Azusa St. The healing revival has started
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1947 through 1958. I my dad was a part of it.
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I grew up there. I I I knew all of those guys.
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I knew oral. I knew WB Grant.
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I knew Jack Cole. I knew a A Allen personally.
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I went to. I went to Scandalville Bible
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Academy with Paul Allen, Allen's son.
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You name all of those evangelists.
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And you know what? Most of them got off because
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they got hunting money. Come on now, Oral Roberts.
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Kenneth Hagin, 2, and Osborne and only three of that group
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that I know. And then I don't know why they
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all ended up in Tulsa. All of them.
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All three of them that continued their ministry.
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Out of all of those, I got the magazines, the Boise Heating
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magazine. Gordon Lindsay was the head of.
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I know I knew Gordon Lindsay personally myself.
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Dad was there with him the charismatic renewal that
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started. I was AI would have had the
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privilege of being a part of that full gospel of businessmen
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started it. People were getting the Holy
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Ghost in the elevators in in in restaurants in the halls of of
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of of hotels and resorts. They have these huge conventions
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And I was in Phoenix. We you remember this on way in
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Phoenix AZ. Now Dimas Securin was the head
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of that and he dimas like that. He said, Now, Brother Hagan,
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these other guys can teach faith, but nobody teaches the
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Holy Spirit like you do. You're going to be the Holy
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Spirit. Teacher, we were in Phoenix, AZ.
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There's a room, 400 people. I believe it was in that room.
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Daddy taught on the Holy Spirit. He stood up and he said receive
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the Holy Spirit. And 400 people started speaking
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in tongues. I saw it.
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Hello. That was the healing revival.
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Now why am I talking about it? Then the teaching revival came.
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All these people got the Holy Spirit.
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They didn't know what to do. And that's why the teaching
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revival came. And then we had a Holy Ghost and
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Joy revival for a while. See, the Holy Spirit moves in
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many different ways. I thank God I had the privilege
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of being in every one of these except the Azusa Street I
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preached the sermon back into. I preached the mess of Ceres.
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It's out there in the book called God's Greater Glory.
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I guess they got it on C DS I think on what they haven't put
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it on that MP whatever it is anymore.
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But I we This is why I'm talking about this because there is
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going to be a Last Day revival and it's going to include all of
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these revivals put together. And I don't want people to be
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deceived thinking that they're they're in in where they're
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supposed to be. You know, we need to realize and
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sound the alarm that we we belong to God and we need to
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realize that greater is he that's in US and he that's in
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the world, He's there. It's going to come against us.
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He's coming against us. We are all.
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This is also known the age of the church, and God is building
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the church. He's building the church, which
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is the Ecclesias worldwide. Everybody that's born again, but
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he's also building local, local congregations.
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And you see he said in he said, now I say to you, you're Peter,
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which means rocking up on her up on this rock.
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I will build my church and all the powers of hell.
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Not the car, Peter. People said, oh, they're going,
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he's going to build it. No, he's using Peter as an
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example, a person the church is being built by you.
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What the word of God says what don't you know that you're
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living Tabernacle. You're living.
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You're living Tabernacle, the Holy Spirit.
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He's ultimately building the church, and the enemy is doing
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everything within his power right now to come against the
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church and us that are born again, spirit filled.
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And he's trying to deceive us so that this thing can be shut
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down. They're trying to pass
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legislation to stop it. Let me tell you something.
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The church is a mighty mood and force, and nothing is going to
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stop it. We cannot afford to be deceived
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by some of these preachers. And don't be deceived by some of
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these people that are trying to take use scriptures to take
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offerings. It's not only have anything to
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do with offering, It's all right to use the scripture for
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offering, but make sure that it's talking about an offering.
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Come on. And Luke 18, eight.
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And I want to close this down. I've been going way too long.
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I normally don't go this long. But listen, I'm just.
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I'm not preaching the sermon. I'm talking to you out of my
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heart. I'm just talking to you.
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Tonight, When the Son of Man returns, how many will he find
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on Earth who have faith? Far as I'm concerned, they're
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going to be faith. And I got Craig and Denise and
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my boys. They say that face shield on top
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of that building is still going to be spinning.
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The devil tried to take it out, but now it's up there, bigger
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and better than ever. You see when these difficult
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days and times come and people are preaching stuff and you may
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even have some of your friends that try to convince you
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otherwise, you're going to have to make up your mind what you
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believe and stand your ground. Some of you are going to have
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listen in this last days. It's going to, the Bible says
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it. Everybody's concerned about
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what's happening. Hey, nothing is happening that
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the Bible doesn't say it's already going to happen.
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And we're going to have to make up our mind.
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Whether we believe God, we're going to have to make up our
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mind. And it's the Bible.
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It's gone. And I'm going to preach it
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whether they like it or not. And God made Adam and Eve and
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not Steve and Jim. Come on now, you can get mad at
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me if you want to, but now I'm telling you what the Bible said.
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Go read. Go if you want to read.
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If you really want to go, read the first chapter of Romans.
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If you want to get into it, just read the first chapter of
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Romans. What Paul was saying.
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They say as it was in the days that one city God destroyed it.
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Let's look to the word let's believe what the word says not
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what some oh so and so said I don't care what so and so said
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Paul said if he came preaching something or somebody else that
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he didn't had not to count it to cursed.
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You know David went out and declared the last you coming at
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me with sword and spirit and jab.
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I'm sword and javelin. But today I will kill you and I
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will cut off your head because not because of who I am I'm
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going to paraphrase that but because of my God.
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And let me tell you today, we're going to have to stand against
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some giants that are rising up in our nation that are trying to
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tell us this is OK and that's OK.
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Let me tell you what it's not OK if it's if it's a going against
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the word of God, if it's going against what God's principles
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are, don't be fooled. It's time that we rise up and
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begin to say, I believe God and I will stand for the Bible no
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matter what. Because I will not recant and
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you going, I believe that we're coming to a point that we're
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going to have to get to that place where we just bow our neck
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and dig our feet in and say no more and stand up for the
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principles of God. You know your pastor, there's
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army. I'm army.
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There's been other people in here that are probably army.
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I raised my. I raised my right hand and I
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took an oath. I signed a blank check, payable
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up to my life, to defend this country.
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Tonight, if you want to stand up and take an oath to stand for
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God, no matter what happens, I want you to stand on your feet
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right now. Don't do this.
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If you did, it don't mean it. Right.
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Keep seated. And we're not going.
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We're not going, but we're not going to put you down.
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But listen, this is serious. Yeah, this is serious.
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I'm not talking about doing something because everybody else
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is doing it. I'm not talking about doing it
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because I said to do it. I'm talking about you having a
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conviction in your heart. Yeah.
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That you aren't going to stand for what the Bible says.
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Hello. Thank you, Jesus.
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You make your own commitment. Hallelujah.
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You talk to God. You tell God yourself what your
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commitment is. You talk to him.
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You tell him. I commit God.
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I commit. I've preached it.
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I've already committed to it. Thank you, Father.
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In Jesus name these people are saying they're going to stand
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for the what is the word and the things of God.
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Father, I thank you that you would give each of us the wisdom
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and knowledge and understanding of how and when to keep our
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mouths shut and when to open our mouth and talk.
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Father, give us the strength to stand in the face of any
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opposition that is against you and your word.
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I thank you for it in Jesus. Name everybody to agree with
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that. Say Amen.
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