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the word of the lordNew Recording (draft)
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Well. Amen, everybody. Amen, we thank God for yet another day. Man, truly,
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he's worthy to be praised. Amen. Thank you Jesus.
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Amen, he's worthy to be praised. Hallylulijah. Thank you Jesus.
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Brother James Is We'll be back Amen.
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Having some technical difficulties back there, yeah, Amen.
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Amen. Amen.
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Let us turn into the Book of uh Matthews. I
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believe it's Matthews, chapter twenty four. Prepare ourselves for the
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Word of God this morning.
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Amen. When you get there, say amen. Amen. Amen stare,
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here's some pages turning. Amen.
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But we do thank God for yet another day. We
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thank God for being the head of our lives, Amen,
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and the glorious works that He does in our lives.
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Amen. Amen. Let us go to the Lord and prayer Father.
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We want to thank you God for yet another day.
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Thank you for waking up up this morning. God, with
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the use of all of our limbs in our mind intact.
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In the name of Jesus.
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Thank you God for health, for strength, for your Holy Word,
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for safety.
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And getting to this place.
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Praying that all saints made it to the House of
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God safely, and that.
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You move upon those who want to do their own thing.
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God and that you stare them and shake them, that
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they give people today the truth of your word, God,
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without deviating from the truth.
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I pray God, in the name of Jesus, you continue
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to fill us with overflowing of your spirit.
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And continue to overflow us God, and keep our minds
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stayed on you, in the name of Jesus Christ, for
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we give you glory and we give you praise in
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Jesus Name.
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Amen.
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In the book of Matthews, we were talking this morning
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about these prophecies, the prophecy that Isaiah prophesied to the people.
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Of Israel, Judah and Jerusalem. Amen.
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And I also seeing this day and time that people
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are going about like there is no end to these times.
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You may be seated in the House of the Lord.
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They're going about like there is no end to these times.
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And even the Church is going about like Jesus is
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not coming back. And that in itself is disturbing because
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the world may not. The world don't know this, nor
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do they actually believe this. But the Church should know
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that one day Jesus is coming back. Nor but we
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may not know the day or the hour, but we
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know he's coming back.
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Amen.
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We've been taught we've been minister to, we've been preached to,
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we read for ourselves. The Holy Spirit is spoken to
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us that one day he's coming back.
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But yet the church is going about.
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Like Jesus is not coming back for judgment, doing any
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and everything they want to do on this earth. Preachers
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not preparing the people for the coming of Jesus. Again,
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they're not preparing them. They're preparing you for a new house.
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I lost, a new car, a new wife, a new husband,
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another husband, another wife.
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And more money.
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But they're not preparing the people of God for the
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coming of Jesus Christ. And I see many who have
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set under truth that will be left behind because they
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refuse to live what they know to be truth. Amen,
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But this is still God's prophecy, even though they know
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they still not going nowhere.
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Believe it, They believe it.
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They believe what they want to believe that they can
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control what the day and the hour will be, but
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they cannot control when he is coming back. And time.
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Time time.
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See, I have to say time like that because we
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always think we got plenty of time. We always think
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not only do we think we got plenty of time,
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we think time is on our side.
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Time ain't on our side. And we know and and
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we know that.
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Nobody knows the time, know the dey hours, so you
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don't know the time a man, and nobody wants to talk.
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Nobody wants to talk about this.
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You know why they don't want to talk about this
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because it's gloom and doom to them and they having
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too much fun.
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They don't want to hear about this. That's why preachers
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don't preach on them.
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That's why many preachers ain't gonna say no preacher, but
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many preachers, many do not preach in the Book of Revelations.
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They don't want to hear about this. They don't want
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to hear about this end time. That's doom and gloom.
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It should be if you're going to hell. But those
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that are not, I'm like Paul, I'm peeping around the
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corner waiting for where you at, looking for you.
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I'm ready, but he's coming. He's coming. And guess what.
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In case they are those that get upset about what
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I tell them, what the Word has says, it's my
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charge to keep the Lord Jesus Christ preach to you.
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It is my charge.
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To preach to you and to keep the Lord Jesus
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Christ on your mind, because it's my charge to get
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you ready.
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To meet him.
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It is my charge, and it is your charge to
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get those that are lost the word of God that
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may help them. Be ready, ay man, But are you ready?
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Because ready or not he's coming. He's coming. Ready or not,
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he's coming.
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You know. It's just like a race.
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You standing there with all them people. Ready or not
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he get ready to say go. If you're ready, you're
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gonna take off. If you ain't, you're gonna be.
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Slow in it. But ready or not, he's coming.
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So it takes me to Matthew chapter twenty four and
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verse thirty six. What it says, but of the day
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and hour, no, no, man, no, not the angels of heaven.
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Madgine that the angels are in heaven with God, but
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the Father only.
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But as the days of Norworth, so shall also the
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coming of the Son of Man be.
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For as in the days that were before the flood,
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before the flood, they were eating and drinking merrily, and
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giving in marriage, until the day of Nord entered into
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the art. So it says, But as the days of Norware,
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these were like the this was as the days of
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norwhere They were eating and drinking and marrying and giving
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in marriage.
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Until the day that in it into the art.
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You know, I studied this thing and didn't realize with
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knowing and his.
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Family in it into the ark. They sat there for seven.
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Days before the flood, waiting on the truth of God's words,
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waiting I don't hear what I'm saying in the ark,
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waiting seven days.
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And you could imagine the folks. I say them, foods
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up in there, and that hot thing.
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Ain't no lights in there, ain't there with all them
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stinking animals, what's wrong with them? Ain't nothing wrong with them.
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It's what's right with them. But it's what's wrong with you.
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Because we see when they entered into the door into.
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The ark, the door shut. It wasn't Noah grabbing the
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rope shutting the door. It wasn't his wife, his sons
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or sons wives. It was God shut the door.
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It's the truth saying that no man can open the
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door that God shut, because when that door was shut,
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no man could open it.
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They couldn't get in.
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Verse thir or that, and knew not until the flood
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came and took them all away. So shall also the
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coming of the son of Man. Be see that day
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back then gonna be like this. When it's the day
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of Noah, it's gonna take them all away. When the
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Son of Man comes, it's gonna be just like that day.
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It's gonna be our time. And it says, then shall
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too be in the field. The one shall be taken
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and the other left. I ain't gonna explain that to you.
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Two women shall be girding at the meal, grinding at
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the meal. The one shall be taken and the other left.
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She gonna still be grinding. Where is sister? Go? Two
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women shall be grinding at the mill. The one shall
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be taken and the other left. Watch watch therefore, for
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ye know not what hour, your lord, do it come.
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But know this. You don't know what out we're coming.
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But know this that if the good man, the good man,
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the master of the house, had known, and which known,
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and known in what watch the thief would come, he
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would have watched and would have suffered his house.
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To be broken up. See it says if he had
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known in what watch.
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So in other words, he may be watching now, he
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may watch a little later, and.
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Then he may fall asleep and then get up and
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watch again, in what watch? See what he trying to
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tell us, the Lord trying to tell us, we gotta
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be always watching. We gotta always be watching. Ain't know
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which watching? All watches? Be ready, because.
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He said, if he had known, in what watch, we're gonna.
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Suffer this house to be broken up.
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Therefore, be ye also, red ad, watching all the time,
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watching what watching?
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What? What are we watching? Did anybody know what we're watching?
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No, you're watching your life.
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Keeping it in order with God. That's what you're watching.
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You watching your life. Because the thief's trying to break
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in your house.
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This the house, he said, if he was watching it
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and known what hour, he was breaking too and broke
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up his house.
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This the house. You the house. He ain't talking about,
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no building. You the house.
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That's why I said watch what you watch yourself?
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Because he comes.
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And he says, be there for read ad for in
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such an hour as ye think not, Well, he came.
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In thirty six hours. I'm just gonna take you this
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one hour. I'm gonna take you this one hour I
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want to do.
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Therefore, be also ready for in such an hour as
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you think not.
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The Son of Man cometh in the hour that you
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think not.
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Let's look at chapter twenty five and verse thirty one.
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It says, when the.
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Son of Man shall come in his glory, and all
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the holy angels with him, then shall he sit up
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on the throne of his glory, And before him shall
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be gathered all nations, all nations, and he shall separate
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them one from another, as a shepherd divided his sheep
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from the goats, and he shall set the sheep on
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his right hand, but the goats on the left hand.
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Then shall the king say unto them on his right hand, come, ye, come, ye, blessed.
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Look what he called them.
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Blessed these are folks on the right hand now of
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my father. These folks were blessed of his father. He say,
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blessed of me, He said, blessed of my father. Inherit
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the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
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For I wasn't hungry, and you gave me me. I
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was thirsty, and you gave me a drink. I was
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a stranger, and you took me in necking and you
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clothed me. I was sick and you visit me. I
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was in prison, and you came into me. Then shall
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the righteous answer him, saying that's us.
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Lord. When y'all, y'all, y'all, are you looking at this?
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Are you looking at this?
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And since you're looking at it, it says, then shall
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the righteous answer him? Okay, y'all ready saying everybody ready, Lord,
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When saw.
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Y'all ain't reading with me, when saw we.
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A hunger and said thee are thirsty, and gave thee drink,
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I don't hear, y'all, when saw we thee a stranger
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and took the end our neked enclosed thee O, when
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saw we the sick and are in prison and came
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into thee.
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And the king shall answer.
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Listen to this now, it says, And the king shall answer.
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So what is it saying? We're not reading anymore?
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And the king it, it says, and the King shall answer.
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So what it's saying is this? When this time comes,
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this is what he's gonna say to us, he said,
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he Yet, this is what he's gonna say to us
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when this time comes, when Jesus comes and separates the nations,
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it says, he shall answer, and saying to them, verily,
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I say unto you, in as much ye have done it,
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until one of the least of these my brethren, ye
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have done it unto me. He's not done. See, y'all
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only dealt with those on the right. So now he's
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getting ready to deal with those on the left. And
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then shall he say unto them on the left hand?
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Notice what he said to them on the right hand,
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he said, Come hear me, he said in verse thirty four,
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Come ye, blessed of my father. But then the ones
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on the left, he said to them, depart from me,
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Ye cursed.
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He ain't call them blessed into.
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Everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels.
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Did y'all see that right there? I want you to
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back up now.
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I want you to see something in thirty four he said,
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Then shall the king say unto them on the right hand,
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Come ye, blessed of my father. Y'all see that. Listen
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to the rest of it. He said, blest of my
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father inherit the kingdom prepared for you. You see that
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prepared for you. Let's jump back down to forty one.
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He said, told them curse into everlasting fired, prepared See
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that word again for the devil and his angels.
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See, I try to tell you, y'all ain't been listening
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to me. Hell wasn't prepared for you.
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The Bible just told you written in red, just Jesus
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speaking who it.
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Was prepared for.
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But y'all going to just break in the hill anyway
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forty two for hours a hunger, and you gave me
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know me was thirsty, and you gave me no.
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Drink, was a stranger, and you took me not in.
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Neked, and you clothed me not sick and in prison,
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and you visit me not?
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Then shall they also answer him, saying, these these wicked folks.
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Here they go, Lord, when saw we the when saw
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we the good?
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Our thirst a thirst, are a stranger? Ournked? Are sick?
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Are in prison? And did not minister to thee? When when?
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When when did we do that?
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That's the wicked folks, these left handed folk?
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When did we do that? Then shall he answer them
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all you want to know?
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When it was verily I saying to you, in as
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much as you did it not to me of the
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least of these, you did it not to me? He said,
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I said, unto you, In as much as you did
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it not to one of the least of these, ye
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did it not to me. You didn't help my brothers,
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so you didn't do it to my brothers. I'm in
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my brother. If you didn't do it till my brother,
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you didn't do it for me. And these shall go
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away into everlasting punishment. Who the ones on the left,
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but the righteous into life eternal.
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Amen.
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So we understand we're living we're living in the end times.
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Amen.
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We're living in an uninsecure world. And as we can
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see now, all of these unexpected things are happening that
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we're not expecting to happen.
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Amen.
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I didn't expect that to happen. I would that should
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have never happened had that happen. So we see in
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all of these unexpected things that would change our lives forever.
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Amen. We live uncertain lives.
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But as Christians hear me, now, we know God is
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in control. See all that we see uncertain things.
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What is uncertain to me.
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It ain't certain that this is gonna be this way always.
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This ain't certain that this gonna happen. This ain't certain
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we're gonna get this or get that.
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But one thing we know is that God is in control.
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And the one thing, the other thing we know is
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that nothing happens outside of His knowledge and understanding.
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And our lives are hidden.
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The Bible says that our lives are hitting with Christ
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in God.
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You read it in Colossalus, chapter three and three. And
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we have we have. I don't know about you. Let
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me say it like this. I have. I ain't trying
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to be selfish. I have absolutely. Are you hearing what
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I'm saying?
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Assurance of my eternal salvation. Now you gotta say that
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for yourself. I know that for my own self, because
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let me tell you something.
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I know for sure. I know for certain and fully persuaded.
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The earth may shape.
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The mountains may fall, the stars can roll up out
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of their sockets, and the nations can collapse what they're
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doing right now.
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But through Christ we have eternal safety.
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You, no matter what's going on in the world, or
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price is going up, food price going up, gathers when
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we have we have safety and our Lord. And say,
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Jesus Christ Eve you believe that you don't. But the
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Word is truth, and the Word says we do.
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So I believe it. I don't know about you, but
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I believe it. Amen.
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That is the truth of my personal assurance of salvation.
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And it's talked throughout the Bible. If you don't read
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the Bible, but has your fault.
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So I still got to ask, are you ready to
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meet him where you are?
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Because he's coming.
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He's coming, Jesus ain't Even in his teaching, Jesus had
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given general signs to watch for regarding the coming of
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the end of the of the time.
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Clearly he explained it.
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Amen, he clearly gave example of the coming of the end.
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And he clearly explained this thing to the disciples.
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And if you have been reading your word of God,
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it's clearly explained to you, if you've been listening to
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the truth of the Word of God, it's clearly explained
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to you as well that the day of the hour.
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Was not known by the angels or the sun. Jesus Christ.
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We just read that.
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But you know what, there's a good there's really good
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in this because if we happen to find out, let's
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just say, you know when your time is coming? What
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would you really do if you knew exactly when your
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time was coming?
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What would you do? I'll tell you what most people
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would do. They wouldn't go to church, they wouldn't support
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the church. Oh yeah, they wouldn't do it.
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Because see, they would do what a lot of people
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would think would work for them, They wouldn't do as
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much for ministry, and some of them ain't doing that
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much now. But I'll tell you what the worst thing
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of all would be.
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They would keep sinning.
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Folks would keep sinning and then try to turn to
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God right at the end.
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And I'm gonna tell you.
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Something that would be one of the greatest gambles and
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mistakes of your life.
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You'll mess around and Misshaven all together.
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So it's good he don't tell us the day of
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the ourt, because folks will cut up sideways until the
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time comes. They do it, they do it now, then
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they don't even know. So we understand when Jesus said
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that no man knows the day of the hour, he
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didn't know the end time himself, and he was what
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he was doing was affirming his limitations as a human.
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See the human side of him and that the God
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side of him. Amen.
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So he was just showing that he has a limitation
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of the fact because of his human side he on
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know dead hour either. But of course God the Father
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knows the time and the time. He knows the time,
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and of course Jesus and God the Father are one.
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Don't get messed up. But when Jesus became a man.
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He volunteerly gave up his unlimited use of his divine
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power and his attributes.
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When he came to earth.
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Jesus laid it aside, his divine prerogatives and submitted to
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God the Father.
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He submitted to his will.
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So he don't know to day the hour, So you
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can go praying Jesus when it's coming, Jesus, Jesus, can
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you tell me?
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Jesus, He can't.
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Tell you, so you can cut that one out. So
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he don't know when the return time comes. But when
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we come to understand the scriptures and we come to
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understand what he's even emphasizing here in the Word of God,
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Jesus himself, Jesus himself is not emphasizing in this verse,
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in these verses, rather of these verses not on It's.
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Not on his knowledge.
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He's not emphasizing his knowledge in these verses. He's not
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letting you know how much he knows, Amen, but rather
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on the fact that no one knows.
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That's what he's emphasizing. No one knows the day of
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the hour.
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I'm not trying to emphasize my knowledge. I'm just trying
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to let you know that no one knows, because it
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is God's the Father's secret which God mentioned in Deuteronomy
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twenty nine and nine. The secret things belong to him.
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The things he wants to be revealed us, he revealed us.
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But this is a secret thing, and these is God's
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secret thing that He's gonna keep.
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And nobody can predict this thing.
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Amen, He's gonna reveal it in due time, and nobody
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will be able to reveal his will concerning this.
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And no one.
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Can predict by scripture or by science, even though folk
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run around talking about it. In nineteen ninety something, the
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world coming to end, and you know he.
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People predict that. Four five different people have predicted the
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end time. It ain't came yet. Why because the Bible
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is right. Nobody knows the Daddy hour. You can't predict it.
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God said, you can't do it.
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If the Son of Man don't know, how you gonna
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know he live in you.
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And if he living in you and don't know, you
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ain't gonna know.
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But he ain't living in these other folks, you ain't
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gonna know the second coming. So see, Jesus wasn't teaching calculation,
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He was teaching preparation. He wasn't teaching calculations. See look
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at it down and ten more years now, he was
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teaching prepare yourself for the coming.
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Of the Lord. We look at verses thirty seven, thirty
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and thirty nine.
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These were the first outpouring of God's jud bones sinful
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people in the days of Noah. This was the first
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judgment of God's outpouring of sinful people. And it has
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a natural connection with the final outpouring at the Lord's return.
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It's a connection. What's the connection. He gonna destroy this world.
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He gonna destroy the world. All the sinners are gonna
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all the sinners are gonna be destroyed. They're gonna go
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to that wide mouth hell, just like the folks of
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old den in the days of Noah. Gonna be the
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same thing in those days. People are gonna be doing
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the same things people gonna people gonna be doing the
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same things they was doing in the days of doing.
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They're gonna be.
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Going about their daily lives, their daily businesses, just as
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they were in the days of Noah's time, doing any
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and everything. They were doing whatever they thought they was
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big enough to do, not conscious of the Lord coming back.
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Even the church still up there preaching a lie.
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Still out there, people living any kind of way they
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want to live, claiming their Christians still gonna be going
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on the same way. And just as the floor and
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just as the flood caught the people in the days
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of Nor unaware, and after it was too late for
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them to realize it, and they were all swept away
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in judgment. See, they weren't just swept away. They were
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swept away in judgment because.
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You got to realize something.
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Nor preach the same word, same word, never changed it
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for one hundred and twenty years to them people. You
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trying to tell me in one hundred and twenty years
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you couldn't get yourself together. He preached the same word
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for one hundred and twenty years to the same people.
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And not only that, he prepared the arc, they watched.
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Him do it. When the arc was done, they watched
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it being finished.
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And after they was finished, they watched the animals walk
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up in there, probably mocking Nor. They watched everything that
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happened and did nothing.
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For their lives.
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They watched all that, just like people today are watching
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people come to church, people living right.
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And we read in the Book of Isaiah, they don't
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like you living good. The wicked don't like you living good.
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They want you to live wicked.
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That's why they mock you, because they want you to
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be like them when you supposed to having them subject
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to coming to be like you. But like the Bible says,
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when Judah was supposed to be shining the light on
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the world, the world was turning out Judah's light, and
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the Church supposed to be shining.
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The light on the world, and the world is turning
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out this Church's life.
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Even in this dispensation of time, we have to be
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ready for the second coming, because if we.
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Not, and we wait and we wait and we wait, it's.
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Gonna be too late, and we're gonna be just like
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the people know. It's time swept away in judgment, and
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so it will be when the Son of Man comes
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for us the same. Because this was an example of the.
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World, white world, white.
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Judgment, of when Jesus will come, and it is inescapable, people,
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it's inescapable.
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Let's look what first Peter says, Amen, give me a
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few moments, try to get up bat of here.
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First Peter, First Peter, Chapter three and verse twenty.
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What does it say here?
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It says in First Peter chapter three and verse twenty.
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It says, which sometime were disobedient, when once the long
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suffering of God, When the long suffering of God waited
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in the days of Nord, he waited.
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He was long suffering patient.
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God waited in the days of Nod, while there are
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was preparing. Wherein few, that is, eight souls were saved
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by water, say a, only eight the right figure, where
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in two even baptism.
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Do it also?
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Now save us not the putting away of the filthy
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of the flesh, but the answer of a good conscience
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towards God by the resurrection of Jesus Christ. So here
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we see again that word prepared.
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Hey man, only eight went into the art. Eight is
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the number for what new beginning.
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Is gonna be a new beginning because those eight went
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in the art and the rest the world was destroyed,
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and now there's a new beginning. And God told them
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to be fruitful and multiply in this new beginning. Because
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we got to understand something, people, is this example of
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Nor's days was a world wide judgment. It also tells
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us that this is an example of what's to come.
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This is an example. The whole world was destroyed, but
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eight that's gonna happen to this world. It's an example
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of what's to come, and it is inescapable people.
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You will not escape it.
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The only way you're gonna make it is that you
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know Jesus. The second coming we be so sudden that
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in a blink of an eye, one in the field
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our working we'll be taken away in a blink of
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an eye, and the other left behind. See when they
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say taken away, it's a good thing.
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The one left that's the bad thing. The reason why.
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Because one was ready or shall I say saved, and
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one was not?
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I shall I say lost?
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And as believe us, we must always be on our
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guard and alert constantly. Somebody say constantly ready for him
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to come at any time.
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Hold on, Lord, give me about ten minutes. Mm hm,
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at any time. Hold on, Lord, I remember something about
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Susan May.
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At anytime, we have to be ready and be on
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our guard, because Christ's second coming.
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Will be swift and sudden.
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See you the reason why I did that, because you
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can't say the way ten minutes. You can't say, give
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me time to get to Susane Mays. And the reason
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ten seconds, The reason why you can't say that because it's.
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Gonna be swift.
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And second, there will be no time for repenting, are.
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Bargaining. That's why I said, hold lord, gimmet, you ain't
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got no time for bargain. There's no time for bargaining, there's.
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No time for repeating, there's no time for repenting.
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That should hit you like a turn of pricks. You
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can't even repent. Repenting is the only thing that'll save you.
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And at that time you can't even do it. You
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can't be saved at that time. That's why you gotta
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be ready.
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Because it's swift, there will be no bargaining.
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The choice that you have already made will be determining
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your destiny. See it told us, says the Master of
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It is the Master of the house that we read
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the scripture of the Master of the family, who expected
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a thief at any time of the night. Did y'all
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y'all got that that.
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Text I sent y'all got the Master of the house.
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Yeah, see, see that's what it's talking about too, mm hmm.
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Because if he ain't got all of you.
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Who gonna come in and bash you, coming in to
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bash you, yat, give him the whole house just he
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thought you was doing something because you gave him the
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biggest room in the house. You wasn't doing nothing. Then
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you thought you were doing something. Couse you gave him
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the whole top floor of the mansion.
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M M. Reality kicked in. I gotta give him this whole.
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House because guess who got to answer the.
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Door of the house. The owner, he's responsible.
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For the house, so he got an answer the door.
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Y'all out hear what I'm saying.
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So if the master of the family, who expected the
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thief at any time of the night, were taken care
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to be awake, if he had taken care to be
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awake and ready to protect his house, so should you.
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So should you who do know that the son of
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man will come. You know it's coming. And though the
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day in the hour may not be known, we should continually,
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somebody say, continually always in a state of watchfulness. We
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gotta stay in a state of watchfulness. See, how do
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you stay in the state of watchfulness when folks see?
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It's only folks, y'all, and things.
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It's only focus and things that you got to be
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in a state of watchfulness for it. Only people can
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come to you and try to throw your focus out
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come the least and tell her you are so and
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so and so and so. I don't care what see
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and if you fall into.
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That, you right with them? What you down about? You see?
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You gotta watchfulness only things.
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It's your look good right there? I need to get
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that right there, Only things and people, folks.
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Is your watchfulness from hey man? You gotta stay in
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a state of watchfulness that he may not come upon
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us unaware.
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You can't be like, oh is it you? When he come,
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you're gonna be just like this, how you doing? Lord?
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That's not gonna because you're in a state of watchfulness.
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So when he comes, you're gonna be like, hey you doing? Lord?
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But if you ain't aware, you're gonna be like this,
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what was that?
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So let me conclude this thing on that. I'm gonna
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conclude this on that. Then the time would be normal.
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Any time it's gonna be normal.
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What do I mean normal?
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I'm up here right now ministering, preaching and teaching the
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word of God. This normal, and he can come right now,
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then the town gonna be normal.
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Normal could be when you walk out that door to
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get in your car to go with to eat or
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go home with. Normal. Normal would be Monday morning.
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When you get up the Lord state to say and
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go to where you driving down the road.
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You're going to work. Normal. He could come while you're
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driving down the road. The only way to work. Normal.
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It's gonna be normal. Let me help you out. Let
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me let me help you out. It was a guy.
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I told you the story before he came to Memphis.
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He visits daughter, a young lady.
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Used to go to church that used to go to
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came to visit his daughter.
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He lived in Atlanta.
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He got in his car when he got the visitation.
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I don't know how he's long. He stayed a week
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or whatever. He got in his car.
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Normal. He's driving back to the line of die normal. Normal.
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He ain't don't get no sign normal. So the end
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time will be normal. The end time's gonna be normal.
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And life goes on despite the interruptions. Life goes on,
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And spite the interruptions, God worked with me. His sister died.
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They had her funeral yesterday. But in spite of that interruption,
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time didn't stop.
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Still going on.
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So life goes on despite the interruptions. But suddenly Christ
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will come. Suddenly he will come. As time goes on,
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suddenly he will come. Luke fourteen and seventeen tells us
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in the Book of the Word of God that and
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sent his servant at supper time to say to them
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that were.
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Bidding come, for.
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All things are now ready, and they all would want
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to call. What constant began to make excuse? The first
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said unto him, I have brought a piece of ground,
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and I must need to go see it. I pray
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THEE have me excused. And another said, I have bought
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five yolks of vakia, and I go to go to
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prove them. I pray, THEE have me excused. And another said,
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I have married a wife, and therefore I cannot come.
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MM.
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So the servant came and showed his Lord these things.
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Then the mouths of the house.
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Being angry, said to his servant, go out quickly into
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the streets of the lanes of the city, and bring
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in hither the poor and the main, and the haughty
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and the blind. And he and the servant said, Lord,
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it is done as thou hast commanded.
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And yet there is room.
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And the Lord said, unto the servant, go into the
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highways and hises and compel them to come in that
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may that my house may be feeled, for I say
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unto you that none of these men which were bidden
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shall taste of the supper.
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You ain't getting it, You got all they excuse it.
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Let me go take care of this first.
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God m h. The time is now done, deal over.
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So suddenly Christ will come. And as the business of
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life continues, are you ready for the coming of Christ?
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To get ready, you must repent of your sins.
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So as life continues, things.
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Are going to continue to go on and on and on.
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But you have to stay focused of the coming of
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Jesus Christ.
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Although interruptions of life.
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May come, still gotta stay focused and watchful of the.
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Christ that's coming. No matter what's going on.
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Your child may in trouble, your husband might be in trouble,
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your house might be in trouble. You still gotta stay
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focused on the coming of Jesus Christ coming. You gotta
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stay focused even though these interruptions come.
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You gotta stay focused.
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What's happening to the people of God now The interruptions
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are causing them to lose focus, But you gotta stay
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ain't ready, and you must repent of your sins and
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believe on Christ Jesus and.
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Live a new life. It ain't so it ain't. It
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ain't so much that you.
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Believe on Christ that's gonna get you.
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You gotta live that new life and watch that life
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of hope in his coming. Amen.
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Continue to live that life in hope of his coming,
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because he's coming.
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He's coming.
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There are people that believe that Jesus Christ is not coming.
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There are people that believe that Jesus Christ has already come,
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and he has, but they don't believe he's coming back.
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They don't believe that. There's some that believe he's not came.
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These are Jews who believe.
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He hasn't come.
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Because if they believe that, again, I tell you, they
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had to believe that. With them, they crucified it. They
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don't want to believe that. But whether they want to
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believe it or not, the Bible said He's already come,
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and he was already hung on.
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A tree, and he's already saved us from the sins
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of this world. Amen.
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So I'm going to end with this in the Book
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of Hebrews.
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Amen. And in the Book of Hebrews, chapter ten, I
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want to end with this right here ten and verse nineteen, and.
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It says, having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the
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Holy by the blood of Jesus. What he's talking about
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is y'all enter the end to the work and the
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walk of salvation, into a new faith in Jesus Christ,
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and by a new and living way which he had
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consecrated for us through the veil, that is to say,
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his flesh, and having a high priest over the House
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of God, let us draw near with a true heart
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and all in full assurance, full assurance of the faith
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that means you just believe, having our hearts sprinkled from
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an evil conscience.
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In our bodies washed with pure water.
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Let us hold fast the profession of our faith without wavering,
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for He is faithful that promise. And let us consider
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one another to provoke, unto love, to good works.
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So we got to stare up the love, that's to provoking.
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We got to let our conscience.
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Consider one another to provoke or to stare up the love.
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And to good works in one another.
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In other words, we are to be sharper than each
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other on a daily amen, not forsaking the assembly. There
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it is, y'all keep saying, I made that up, But
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there it is not forsaken.
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The assembly of ourselves.
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That didn't me me myself sitting in front of TV,
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watching TV.
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Preacher. It's it ourselves. It isn't say myself together.
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That means we gotta come together as the man of
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some is but exhorting one another.
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And so much the more as ye see.
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The day approaching, we don't know when is coming, but
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guess what it's coming.
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We don't know when, but it's coming. We know that there's.
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Going to be a day and an hour that Jesus
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Christ will come back. It's foolish for us not to
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prepare ourselves. I said to prepare ourselves, not to get prepared,
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but to prepare ourselves. You just heard the scriptures say
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that we won't have time to get ready.
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We gotta be right