Sermon
Fellowship: Great Apostasy
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Transcript
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Welcome, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the fellowship today. I
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am outside. And I'm very upset that I never realized
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before this summer that I could do this, that I
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could just bring my laptop outside and get on my
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phone and trudge and do a fellowship from outside. So
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this is great. I love it. But anyway, welcome to
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the fellowship. If you've never been here before, everybody is welcome.
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Everybody's encouraged to be born again. And I caught a
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lot of flack yesterday. I did a fellowship and had
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a scurry of bad responses to that because I was
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really harsh. Whereas before, I said I wasn't going to
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do that anymore. I said that I was making a change,
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but that was... And let me clarify. The reason why
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I did that is because individuals think that without supporting
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the ministry and hating my guts, and more importantly, hating God,
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being an enemy of God, they could still have their
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questions answered about their curiosities about arithmetic. So these particular
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people wanted to know, about this coming... I just got
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to say it. A lot of people worked up because
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this 9-11 is the Feast of Trumpets and these people,
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they have themselves as thoroughly convinced that the sky is
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blue and water is wet and that this is somehow important. So,
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they knew to ask me certain questions that only I
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could answer, such as, would the divine ratio or pi
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be associated with the triggering of a pre-trib rapture? Okay?
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So anyway, that's why I had a harsh response, because
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they were, they were going to listen. Okay? To get
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their answer. And of course they were very upset. When
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I didn't give them the whole answer. They were very
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upset that I didn't give them. Every instance. And I
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only gave them one example. Because there's more examples. Than
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just the Alev Tav. Being the 401. Ratio for Pi.
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With 1260. It's in there many times. It's in there
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hundreds of times. Without the use of. Of the Aleph Tav.
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As the 401 for the integer. But anyway. So I'm
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sorry about that. So. That's the only reason why I
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had that.
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Well.
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I mean. I preached the fire out of them. They
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don't like that. They don't like to be told they
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can't sin. They don't like that at all. So. Just
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take note. That's not going to be a. Tonight's not
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going to be a continuation of that. Let me get
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something to drink before this gets out of control. So anyway,
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tonight we're going to talk about the Great Apostasy, but
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because this is a fellowship, we may not talk about
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the Great Apostasy. That's just what direction we might go
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unless the Spirit leads us elsewhere. So, does anybody have
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any questions or comments or anything they want to talk about? Anybody? No?
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Let me ask a question myself. Tammy, are you hearing
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the wind as I walk back and forth? Because I
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do have a slight breeze here. Is that causing a
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problem with the audio? Sorry, no. I'm kind of busy
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with David right now, so I don't hear a problem.
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I hear the wind, but it's not a problem. Okay.
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All right. Thank you. Thank you. All right, sorry for
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that incursion there when you're dealing with David. If anybody
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doesn't know, Tammy needs lots of prayer for her family.
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She's got things going on everywhere, and they just happen
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to be going on all over the planet. So she
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certainly needs prayer if you all can afford the time.
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So the great apostasy. You're probably expecting me to cover
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it a certain way. And that's probably not going to happen.
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Because it has been perpetuated on the children of God.
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It's been perpetuated on Israel. Those of us who are
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born again in Jesus Christ. Through the baptism of the
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Holy Spirit. It has been perpetuated upon us that the
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great apostasy is external. It's not an apostasy. It's persecution.
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This is absolutely not the case. Now many of you
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don't have the linguistic aptitude to deal with the Greek
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and understand its very, very, very complicated language. I would
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say in my estimation that according to Greek what the
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Bible was written is, is the most complicated language. You
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can literally say exactly what you mean in Greek. So
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I understand many of you can't don't have the time
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or the resources to come to grips with with the
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complexity of that language because it is not your native tongue.
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But I'm here to tell you, the great apostasy comes
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from inside the church. It comes from inside, not outside.
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Persecution comes from the lost. Persecution comes from those who
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do not believe. That's where persecution comes from. The apostasy
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comes from inside. the church and unfortunately Jesus Christ come
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right out and told you that but you have been
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misled in one of the most important aspects of your
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physical mental and spiritual reality you have been indoctrinated into
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believing that that the church is a building. It's not.
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In Greek, it's assembly. In Greek, the church, that Greek word,
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is ecclesia. That ecclesia means a gathering together of people.
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That's the church. So you can just imagine, those of
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you that have the wherewithal to understand it, This was
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a way to erode the foundation of the Christian psyche.
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It was the perfect plan. This plan was devised by academia.
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Specifically by theologians. This was the perfect thing to do
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so that now, here today, in this final generation, If
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you go up to anybody of any denomination of any
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of the seven branches of clericus, and let me define that.
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If you want more information about that, go to YouTube
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and look in my playlist and you'll see it. Clericus
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is the seven different branches of Christianity. That's what it is.
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This is common knowledge. If you go to any of
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those branches... and you ask one of God's children what
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a church is, they'll tell you it's a place, a building,
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where you go to worship God. No, it's not. No,
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it's actually the exact opposite. It is a person in
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who God's Spirit dwells. That's what a church is. Now
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what I just said, it probably took you by surprise,
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but it struck a chord in you, didn't it? It
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rang true with you, didn't it? So we're going to
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talk about the simple fact that the first thing that
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has to happen is not anything to do with us.
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Nothing to do with us. Of course, most of you
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believe now, all depending on which side of the fence
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you're on, because unfortunately there is a fence. I mean,
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when it comes to Christianity today, everybody's either dispensationalist or
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they're preterist. I mean, this is literally a fence down
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the middle of Christianity. They have both on both sides
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of the fence. Completely misled... Everybody... About what's coming... How
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it's going to come... When it's going to come... And...
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When you're so confused... And don't even realize that... It is...
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It is physically impossible... For someone... Who... Is a Muslim...
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To be in the great apostasy... It's a little hard
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for me to relate to you the truth. But a
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Muslim cannot apostatize he never believed in Christ. The apostasy
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comes from people who believe in Christ, but they do
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not follow him. This type of individual is specifically mentioned
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in the most important chapter that you should memorize according
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to Bible prophecy. I've been mentioning it here for the
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past two years. Before then, I did not mention it
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very often. But for you, the person that has been
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born again, that find yourself in one of these buildings
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every Sunday morning, it is imperative that you memorize but
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one chapter, and that's Hebrews chapter 10. That explains to
Hebrews 10 chapter mention
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you what you're doing. It explains to you what you're
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waiting on. It explains to you what you're waiting for.
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But more importantly, in the latter verses, Of this chapter.
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It explains to you emphatically. Where the great apostasy. Is
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going to come from. And. Once you. Are able to
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come to grips. With that. Generally speaking. I have come to. Learn.
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This upsets people. And they all say the same thing.
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Well I've read that a hundred times. And I. I
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just didn't see it. Really. You can give me. A full. Rundown.
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Of eternal security. But you've. You've never actually. Processed. Hebrews
Hebrews 10 chapter mention
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chapter 10. You've never processed it. You've just read it
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like it was a little golden book. Now. I've had
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this said to me from academics. They had been so
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indoctrinated with this garbage from seminary that they had never
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literally independently studied the Bible for themselves. They had went
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through high school with the intention of going to seminary
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to be a preacher. the entire time not thinking that
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they actually were smart enough or had the resources to
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study the Hebrew and the Greek for themselves. So they
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waited until they got to college and they only learned
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what their professors taught them. What I'm getting ready to read,
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you need to understand. This tells you who it is
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that tramples... the Son of God. I took you by surprise,
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didn't I? Yes, it comes out and tells you who
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it is that tramples the name of Jesus. Surprisingly enough,
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just like you, they couldn't tell me the answer. Well,
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surely you know. So someone who worships an idol I
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don't know. I literally don't know. You literally don't know.
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We're going to pick it up here in verse 26. Okay?
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Need to be perfectly clear with everybody. If you have
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not been born again, this is going to upset you.
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And I do not want you to sin against me. Okay?
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So I'm going to talk about things that's going to
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upset you. So if you've not been baptized in the
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Holy Spirit, please just go listen to something else. Or
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go watch some other video. I have no desire to
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do something that will provoke you to send me curse
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words and messages. You're sinning against me. I have not
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done anything to you. I would literally give you the
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shirt off my back. I mean, I would literally give
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you all the money in my pocket if it was
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the last money I had. And as a matter of fact,
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I have done this before. So, there's no reason for
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you to call me curse words, get mad, you know,
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Get so upset that you throw your phone and break
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your phone. You're not going to like what this says.
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But it's going to tell you that if you're doing
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these things, you're trampling Jesus Christ. And it tells you
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that God is going to have his recompense upon you.
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So this isn't my fault and I'm not here to
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preach to you anymore. I'm just not. So, you probably
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ought to leave if you haven't been born again. But
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I'm not going to say anything that's my opinion. This
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is straightforward. And I'm sorry if you didn't know this
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was here. And I'm sorry if you've written a dissertation
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to get your degree on eternal security. I'm sorry about that. Anyway,
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please don't attack me. Please don't sin. Because I've shared
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with you God's word. Now let me say something. I've
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also been receiving messages that that that other people are
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coming on saying that they are sharing a word from God.
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That's not what Maranatha Ministries does. You're never going to
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hear me say that. Unless God actually gives me a
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message to give to you. I never do that. This
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is what I'm doing. This is what I've always done.
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It's what I always will do. I'm going to share
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with you God's Word. So don't get upset that I
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said that. Somebody caught me saying that the other day
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and they thought that I was saying Well, you said
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you were sharing a word. No, don't lie. Surely as
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the Lord my God is my own witness. No, I've
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never said that. I share with you God's word, not
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a word. God is not given Matthew Miller this. No, no, no, no, no.
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Be rest assured. The book of Hebrews has been in
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the Bible. It's been in the canon the whole time.
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So the I'm just sharing to you God's word. This
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is what he said to everybody. He hasn't said it
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to me. He said it to everybody. So, from the
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New King James Version. Hebrews chapter 10, starting in verse 26.
Hebrews 10 chapter mention
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For if we sin willfully after we have received knowledge...
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Of the truth. There no longer remains. A sacrifice for sins.
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But a certain. Fearful. Expectation. of judgment and fiery indignation
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which will devour the adversaries. Anyone who rejected Moses' law
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dies without mercy on the testimony of two or three witnesses.
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How much worse punishment Do you suppose will he who
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will he be thought worthy who has trampled the Son
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of God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by
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which he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the
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Spirit of grace? Why do I got a feeling you
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didn't understand what it just said? This is not talking
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about a Muslim. It's not talking about a Buddhist. It's
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talking about someone who practices sin willfully. Having been a believer. Okay,
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let's finish the thought. If this is the case, what's
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going to happen? Verse 30. For we know him who said,
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vengeance is mine. I will repay, says the Lord. And again,
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the Lord will judge his people. I'm going to say
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this again. I'm sorry if you were under the impression
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you've been misled that the great apostasy comes from outside
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the church. No, that's a lie. Verse 31. It is
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a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the
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living God. But recall the formal days in which after
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you were illuminated... you endured great struggle with sufferings. Now,
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from this point, I'm going to cease. It's said that
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if you continue to willfully sin after having been illuminated
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in the knowledge of the truth of the Son of
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the Living God, you continue to willfully sin, you are
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trampling his son. Now it goes on to describe what
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should have happened to you once you were illuminated with
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this truth. For immediately, the whole world would have become
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opposed to you. It goes on to say that from
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this point forward, society and its machinations would never work
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in your favor. You would never be able to ascend
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the corporate ladder. But I'm not going to discuss those things.
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I'm just driving home the simple fact it was very
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clear that it was those who had been illuminated with
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the truth of the Lord Jesus Christ that continued to
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willfully sin, it is they and they alone, not Muslims,
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not Buddhists, okay? It is they and they alone who
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have trampled the Son of God. And God is going
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to get in your face about it. And I need
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to be very forthright with you He is so mad
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that he's going to tell death to flee from you,
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and then he's going to put you in an uninhabitable environment.
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That's what he's going to do. So, Those of us
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that's been born again, I really feel sorry for you
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that I'm not there with you because most of the
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time when people that have been born again that are
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a part of these buildings, sometimes they get sick to
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their stomach. There's been times where I had to Call
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a break in the class. So that being said. You
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need to understand. What all they've done to you. These
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church goers. They were never Christians. That went to these seminaries.
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And have taken over. The denominations. They're not Christians. You
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need to know that. You need to know if they're
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teaching you. That you can continue sinning. And enter the
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kingdom of heaven. It's because they are not a Christian.
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And they're telling you. trample the Son of God. There's
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no such thing as once saved, always saved. There's no
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such thing. I'm going to read this again. And the
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reason why I'm going to read it again is so
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that those of you that's been born again, you begin
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to understand this. These people that you're going to church with,
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they're going to make a martyr out of you. They're
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going to make a martyr out of you. This is coming.
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And I must prepare you for the great apostasy. And
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Jesus Christ told you where they were going to turn
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you into. Jesus Christ gave that word for the building.
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That word in the Bible is not church. Church is
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not in the Bible. The word that the Bible uses
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for the building is synagogue. Did you know that? The
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name that the Bible uses for the building is synagogue.
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That usually takes people by surprise. And sometimes they have
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a hard time reckoning in their minds what's being talked
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about in the scriptures But Jesus Christ did warn you
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that this is exactly what they were going to do.
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They are going to turn you in to the authorities
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from the buildings. This is no joke. You need to
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know this. Now, with that being said, now we can
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go to the chapter that you've all been thinking that
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we were going to go to from the beginning, 2
2 Thessalonians 2 chapter mention
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Thessalonians chapter 2. And that is where this lesson is given.
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It is how the chapter begins. But now you know
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who it's talking about. It's talking about water-baptized churchgoers. They're
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going to make martyrs out of you. They are going
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to follow... the man of sin. They will rally behind him.
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Just like the Sanhedrin was taking their marching orders from
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the Herodotans, this is the same way. The entire clergy
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will get behind the man of lawlessness. Just like the
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Pharisees and Sadducees got behind Herod.
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2 Thessalonians, chapter 2, very first verse.
2 Thessalonians 2 chapter mention
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Now, brethren, concerning the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ
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and our gathering together, to Him we ask you not
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to be soon shaken in mind or troubled, either by
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spirit or by word or by letter, as if from us,
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as though the day of Christ had come. Let no
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one deceive you by any means, for that day will
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not come unless the falling away comes first. And the
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man of sin is revealed, the son of perdition. This
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just said that this man of sin was going to
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be the leader of the great apostasy. This is who
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they're going to follow. And by them, Let me make
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sure I'm very clear with you. Not Muslims. Not Buddhists.
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Water-baptized churchgoers. When this man of sin starts being able
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to manifest great signs and wonders... even perform acts of Elijah,
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like calling fire down from heaven, all the clergy will
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follow him. They will. They will follow him wholesale. And
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in the end, he will make a transition and perform
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the abomination of desolation, declaring himself to be, The Messiah.
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Declaring himself. To be the Passover lamb. He does this.
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Because the devil. Has offered him. His great power and authority.
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Just like he did Jesus. He's going to do the
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same thing. And this man of sin. once he accepts,
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becomes the son of perdition. That's what happens. Verse 4,
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who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called
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God or that is worshipped, so that he sits as
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God in the temple of God, showing himself that he
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is God. This takes place during the birth pangs. If
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Jesus Christ was crucified in 30 A.D., These things are
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getting ready to get kicked off by my estimation. And
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I could be wrong. But by my estimation, come about
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October the 1st. This year. As in October the 1st, 2026. Because,
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let me give you God's Word. God's Word states that
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it takes Him... 2,300 days before his temple is built.
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Now that's what he says. I don't care what the
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dispensationalists say. I don't care what the preterists say. That's
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what God says. So you need to be made aware.
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They are going to make martyrs of you. Now, I
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know I've been talking about this again and again and again,
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but I'm going to have to talk about it once more.
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They're going to make a martyr of you only for
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one reason, just one. Now, you've been taught something else.
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You've been taught all about the holy wars, right? Or
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maybe the church wars. They're commonly called the wars of religion.
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Most importantly, the Reformation. Where Catholics would kill Protestants and
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Protestants would kill Catholics. No, that's not the reason. I
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assure you that Catholics will kill Catholics. I assure you
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that every branch... Christianity, all seven branches, they will be
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responsible for their own martyrs. So any Catholic that's been
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born again will be martyred by them. But when they
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martyr you, it's only going to be for one reason.
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It's not because of your denomination. the Bible always come
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right out and told you, but it's incredible to me
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that when I've asked this question in public, nobody knows.
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I will have doctors, literally doctorates of theology in front
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of me, and they do not know the answer. How
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is that possible? When the Bible comes right out and
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tells you, there's only one reason why They kill you.
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It's because you begin to say, no, your traditions do
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not supersede God's word. For in the beginning was the word.
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Revelation chapter 6, verse 1. When he opened the fifth seal,
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I saw under the altar those souls who had been
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slain for the word of God and for the testimony
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which they held. They hold to only one testimony, the
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word of God. So you should naturally know in your
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heart that when you put everything I've said together in
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one place in this fellowship that the testimony of the
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Word of God is that you cannot continue to willfully
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sin once you've been illuminated in the knowledge of the
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Son of God. Well, that was a mouthful, wasn't it?
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You wasn't expecting me to say that, were you? But
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that is that is the statement for this episode. And
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I need to prepare you for these things. I've already
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prepared Catholics and Orthodox and Methodist and Wesleyans and Baptists,
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I have prepared them all. And now I'm preparing you.
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You need to know that these water-baptized churchgoers are going
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to turn those buildings into kill boxes. And they will
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make a martyr out of you. And now you know why.
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Though you've been in your church your whole life, right?
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And no one ever told you. why they were going
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to kill you. You thought they were going to kill
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you just for the simple fact that you're a Christian. No.
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Most people who hold that title only have that title
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to trample it underfoot. That's the only reason why they
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hold to that precious name. They only hold on to
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it so they can continue sinning in whatever way they want.
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That's the only reason why they claim Christ. Do I
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need to read it for you again? I probably do
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because you've never heard of it before, have you? Even
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though you've read through the Bible, right? You're on these
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yearly Bible reading programs and you read it every year,
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but yet you never, you never listen to what it said.
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Even though those of you out there that's been born again,
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you never articulated these things, but you realized there were
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people in your congregations That were clearly not acting like Christians.
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But nobody ever said anything about it. Even though when
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these people have had. Affairs with other members of the. Congregation.
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And they weren't kicked out of the church. And everything
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just goes on as normal. And you're just confused. And
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you keep it quiet to yourself. Whenever you have potlucks.
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You kind of. set by yourself and just nobody really
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has too much to do with you and sometimes the
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nice people will come set with you, right? They're going
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to make a martyr out of you because when the
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time comes you will not be able to dance to
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their tune because their tune will be sung By the
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son of perdition. Hebrews chapter 10 verse 26. For if
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we sin willfully... after we have received the knowledge of
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the truth, there no longer remains a sacrifice for sins,
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but a certain fearful expectation of judgment and fiery indignation
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which will devour the adversaries. Anyone who has rejected Moses'
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law dies without mercy on the testimony of two or
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three witnesses. Of how much worse punishment, do you suppose,
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will be thought worthy who has trampled the Son of
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God underfoot, counted the blood of the covenant by which
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he was sanctified a common thing, and insulted the Spirit
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of grace? For we know him who said, Vengeance is mine,
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I will repay. Thus says the Lord. And again, the
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Lord will judge his people. It is a fearful thing
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to fall into the hands of the living God. So
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take note. These people who call themselves Christians... God just
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called them adversaries. So, the great apostasy is coming. And
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I'm sorry if you've just heard this Over and over
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and over and over and over and over and over again.
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That you're never going to see in a great apostasy.
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Just take note. The ones that convinced you of that.
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Are God's adversaries. This is why they've told you that.
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Because they're setting up. A kill box for you people.
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Don't you understand that? Don't you get it? I mean,
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you know, there's really no further point in me going
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any further with this. Today I've shared with you God's Word.
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I am just pointing out to you what He's told everybody.
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And now you know why they spread this garbage of
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a pre-trib rapture. Or this garbage that there is no tribulation.
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There is no millennial reign of Christ. the person in
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your pulpit, he's reigning for Christ. Those are all lies.
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And you need to come to grips with that. You
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need to come to grips with it. They've not been
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born again. And it tells you why they never got
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baptized in the Holy Spirit. It came right out and
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told you. Let me read it for you again. Verse 29.
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How Much worse punishment, do you suppose, will be thought
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worthy who has trampled the Son of God underfoot, counted
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the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified,
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a common thing, and insulted the Spirit of grace. This
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is why the Spirit of truth never came upon them
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and baptized them. It comes right out and tells you
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in this verse. And I know you've never heard it before.
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But I'm here to tell you. You must be born again.
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You must be baptized in the Holy Spirit. So, with
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that being said, let's go ahead and open the floor again.
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Is there anything anybody wants to talk about this evening? Yes,
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it can be off topic. We're not on topic because
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we're in a fellowship, so we can talk about anything.
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All right. Going once. Going twice. All right. Going three
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times and gone. Those of you that's watching the video
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in the archive or listening to the audio on Spotify
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or wherever you get it from, know this. You can
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come into the fellowship. When we're done, I stop recording
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and we continue to talk if anybody needs to talk.
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So if you're afraid to come on air, you don't
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have to. You can just wait until after we stop
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recording and then you can come on and we can
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discuss whatever you would like. But until next time, ladies
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and gentlemen, God bless. Godspeed.