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Jesus' Concerns - Towards The Finish Line | Elder Terence Atkinson
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You're listening to a message to go from church. We hope this message will
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light up your day. The message for today is Jesus concerns. It's not
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a milk message, you know, it is very much a deep message.
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It's a message of meat Jesus concerns to what's the finish line? Heaven rules?
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Now we have concerns and the and the next slide. How many of
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you have learned Masslow's hierarchy of needs in school? Can I see a show
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of hands? Okay, all right, let me explain it to you.
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Now. There's this guy, his name is Maslow, was Manslow, and
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he came across this or rather, he developed this understanding of needs, people's
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needs, and he put it in a hierarchy, a pinnacle or a triangle
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or a pyramid, if you if you know, if you want to understand
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it that way. Now, at the lowest level is the physiological needs.
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These are the needs relating to water and food, clothing, shelter, yes,
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even reproduction. Right now, why is this important? Do you know
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the first thing that Jesus said when he came up his first message, you
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know, when he introduced him himself. How did he introduce himself. He
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said that I have been sent to preach good news to who the poor?
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Did he say, I've come to save you? He said that later on.
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But the first thing he said when he introduced himself to everyone, that
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he had come to fulfill the purpose of God was to preach the good news
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to the poor. Why preach to the pour? Hey, the devil wants
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to crush, kill, and destroy. He also wants to steal from you.
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He wants to make you poor. Why because when he can make you
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poor, he will take your mind of the need or desire to know your
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God, because your basic need. I don't have food on the table,
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if you don't have water to drink. I mean, if you are out
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there in the desert and you come into this place and you see, yeah,
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you see this water, do you think you would ask me permission?
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He can have some of the water. If you haven't had water for a
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few days, you will run up, you will grab it, and you
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will just swallow the whole thing, because that's all you can think of,
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that's all you can focus of. If you haven't had food for days and
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you're so hungry and you don't have money to buy food, what might you
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do. There are many people in prison today who stole a loaf of bread
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because they were hungry. So if the devil can rob you and make you
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poor, he will take you out or your focus away from wanting to know
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who Jesus is. And that is why Jesus and his wisdom says, when
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I came, I came to preach good news to that poor. If Jesus
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can take their mind of their poverty and their need for basic things in it
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in life, he can do something about it. So Maswell said at the
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bottom rung, it's this this. I mean, if you didn't have a
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shelter over your head, what would you do? There are many people who
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are sleeping under bridges because they need a shelter over their head. You go
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to Singapore and you'd be surprised that all people are sleeping under staircases because their
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children will not look after them. You need shelter. Which are the most
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populous countries? Are they not the ones who have a lot of poverty because
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the need for reproduction is there basic need. I cannot enjoy going to the
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cinema, I cannot enjoy driving a fancy, I cannot enjoy good food,
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But there's some other things I can try and enjoy. So what happens as
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a result of that no money to buy protection and you have proliferation of kids.
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You go to Brazil I think it's Brazil, if I'm not mistaken,
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and there are many kids on the street who run around pickpocketing and stealing.
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Why because people just have kids. I mean I went to another the same
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country and it you know, heavy down, poor, and the roads flooded
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to maybe two feet one and a half feet two feet of water black water
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black. I'm not talking great, I'm talking black. And you know what's
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happening. Kids are playing it because there's so many of them. Let's move
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on. So, after you've taken care of those basic needs, you move
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the hierarchy to the needs for safety, okay, personal security, employment,
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resources, health, and property. When you have those basic needs met,
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don't you want something higher? Now? You don't want to live under a
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bridge. You perhaps want to employment, You want to live in a good
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house. You want to live in a house. You want to keep that,
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at least that basic thing going. When you've taken care of that,
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you go a little bit higher. Now you want you know, love and
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belonging, family, a sense of connection. So do you know that after
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your safety needs are taken care of, which means you want now a place
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that's pretty safe to live. You don't want to live under the bridge where
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the dogs can come after you. You want to live in a house where
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you've got a gate maybe, or you know, you feel a little bit
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safe. And when you take care of that, you say now you say,
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hey, I got a little bit of extra money, Maybe I should
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join a gym. You want connection. You want now to go out with
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your friends because you've got a little bit of extra money. Isn't it true?
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You want to have a friendship going. Maybe you want to start looking
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out for a life partner, somebody to share your life with. You See,
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as you go up and the lower things are being taken care of,
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you start to think of the higher things. Then we come to these two
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evils alcoholic two evils, esteem and self actualization. Esteem is respect, self
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esteem, status, recognition, strength and freedom. After you have that basic
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thing taken care of, now you've got friends. You want to be better
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than some. It's no longer sufficient to drive my v Now you want a
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Mercedes Bens. You want people to look at you as you pass by.
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Never mind that you've got no money now for other things, just to see
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you pass by in the car. You want people to look up to you.
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Ah. There are many people in this world today who are dying from,
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you know, stress, because they want to live for the esteem of
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other people. When that's taken care of, now, you want to believe
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that you have arrived. I've achieved all that I can ever achieve. So
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now do I want to do? I want to build a rocket and I
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want to find into space. Some of you know who I'm talking about,
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But you see what drives them now. They want to say I am all
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that I can be. That's this guy, Selvin Hues. He wrote the
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book Marriage is God Intended. He said, Maslow's hierarchy of needs is okay
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except for the last two, because the last two can only be achieved with
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a knowledge and a relationship with Jesus Christ. And I'll tell you this is
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true. Without Jesus everything starts to go wrong. And this is where the
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Lord took me on a tangent. The whole of last Night, next life,
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the danger of the apex, the very thing that signals the return of
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Jesus Christ. Well, let's talk about the return of Jesus Christ, something
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that we don't hear very often. Now, yesterday we went through a wonderful
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World Changes conference and in this conference we had the great you know, sharing
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of Brother Leslie Brovella time and of course Pastor without a doubt, it was
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an exceptional time and they touched on this well. I want to tell you
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you ask my wife for the last six months to a year, this is
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already on my lips. Jesus Christ is coming soon. Jesus Christ is coming
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soon. Look at the signs of the time, look at the world that
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we are living in now. And when they said it yesterday, all these
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things were coming back. You know, I had just told my daughter,
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Jesus is coming soon. If you look at the signs of the times,
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it's there, It's so clear. But you want to know something, I
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said, Mom and Dad, we will most likely be with the Lord by
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then, but most likely very high probability you and your children you're going to
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live through it. That's how close it has come. The speed in which
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things are moving is astounding. In fact, I heard a disposition by a
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person of the majority faith talking on this, and do you know what he
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gave one of the best explanations I have ever heard, and no pastor or
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Christian has been able to put it quite the way that he did. And
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I have to give him credit for that. And he goes all the way
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back. And it started with the feminist movement. Then in the feminist movement
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we were too young. It happened in the sixties. And after the feminist
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that was in the fifties. And after the feminist movement came promisecuity of the
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sixties. And after the promisecurity of the sixties, which is free love,
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came the seventies, in which people began to do whatever it is they wanted.
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And then we came to the eighties where being gay was already talked about
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in secrecy. But then divorces started to happen and become more and become more
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and become more. Today in America it is said that nine of marriages divorce
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and the divorce. And after the nineties came the year two thousand. In
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the two thousands, everybody was very angry. Why were they very angry?
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I don't know, but you listen to all the music, you know what
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I mean? Very angry music. Every two words was a foulward turn.
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Don't take my word for it. Listen to the music of the two of
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you know in the two thousand and now let's fast forward to I think it
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was two thousand and it's about twelve years ago. It started with the show
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Will and Grace. Yeah, have you heard of the show Willa and Grace.
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It's a comedy in which homosexual friendship was so prominently displayed for the first
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time. But even then they never showed the men in men kissing or you
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know, it was always alluding to it, although they they said that's what
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they were look at it. Now, how many shows do you find two
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women's lips locked. They thought it was okay to do that because it's quite
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titillating to the men to see two women locked in kisses. But have you
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seen Star Trek Discovery, You'll see two men locking lips. I mean,
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it's so prevalent that I have just canceled my subscription to Netflix because I sense
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there's an anti Christian movement that is becoming so strong and on. These things
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have changed within the last four or five years. Scripture says in two to
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Mite three, one to seven. But notice that in the last days perilous
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times will come, for men will be lovers of whom themselves lovers of money.
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Ratherwella said one of the tough things in these last days. People love
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money. It's there in scripture, by the way, lovers of money,
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boasters, proud, bless, femous, disobedient to parents. Hey, if
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your child is disobedient to you, it was propheteside And you children, if
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you are disobedient to your parents, be very careful because you might be on
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the wrong side, unthankful and only, unloving, unforgiving, slanderous, without
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self control, brutal, despises of good. Hey, in the US today,
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you know, we Malagians sometimes we don't get it. We're so in
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a hurry to migrate to Australia, to migrate to Canada, to migrate to
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the US. And what's our excuse? Because education there is good. Really,
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why are they teaching your kids? You go into a preschool and they're
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teaching the child that it's okay to be gay, that children, it's okay
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for a boy to say it's a girl, and a girl to say she's
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a boy, and parents cannot do anything about it. You open your mind.
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You know what happens. The state takes the child sends it to some
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wacko of a psychologist who tells them, I will give you the drugs that
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will change you. Boys being medically castrated at the age of six, seven,
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eight, and by the age of fifteen your bodies are mutilated. This
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is not happening in some TV show. This is happening in the world today.
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You thank God that we are living here in Asia because it's taken a
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little bit longer to reach us. But you know, God gave me an
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understanding of why it's not about so much here. Firstly, it won't be
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allowed in Malaysia, right, That's okay, We're happy about that. But
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in Malaysia we have another kind of thing. Hey, you guys who think
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that it's okay to mischurch. I'm not speaking to the ones who are here
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today. I'm not speaking the ones who are ill and cannot come. But
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I'm speaking the ones who made a decision not to come. There will come
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a time when that choice will be removed from you, and then what are
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you going to do. Jesus knew what he was saying when he said,
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do not forsake the gathering of the saints. Well, if it said in
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the word, Jesus said it because Jesus is the world lovers of self?
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Do you know that man loves himself today? I mean when we make a
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decision to say I do not want to live with my wife anymore, I
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don't want to live with my husband anymore. I want to do things my
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own way. Well, guess what that's being a lover of self? Because
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your God and my God said, then when you marry, it's for life.
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So if I have to take what you have to say, and if
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I have to take what God has to say, you stand no chance.
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Now, I don't want this message to seem like I'm coming across in an
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angry tone. No, this is the passion of how the Lord was speaking
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to me all night, and I hope that by the end of it,
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I'll give you some handles on what to do. But Scripture says that my
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people are destroyed for the lack of knowledge, So if nobody is telling you
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these things, it will most likely destroy you. Well, I am telling
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you these things today. Do you know that boys who have become girls,
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and who've had their bodies cut up and mutilated at the age of eight nine
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ten are now taking those doctors to court because they're saying, I was too
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young, What did I know? What did you do to me? It
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cannot be reversed. If you think that those doctors are think thinking of the
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children, think again, because it's about the money, honey, there's a
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lot of money in this medical gobbled PSYCHOSISMS and psychotic understanding of gender dysphoria.
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It's a lie of the devil. Jesus was very clear, even on the
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left or on the right, in the middle, I'll spit you out of
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my mouth. I finally understand it because people today cannot understand what a male
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is and what a female is. Did you know that in Congress? Not
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in Congress, but in the senators. You know whatever it is that they
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do calling people to talk before the law is done. Ask doctors this simple
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question. Can a man have a child? And you know what the doctors
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say, Yes, men can bear children. And these are the cycles who
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are dealing with our children. So you want to go to the US and
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send your kid there. You want to go to Australia. Hey, Canada
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has passed the law. If the person is a guy and you call him
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at him when he wants to be called at her, they put you in
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jail. Twisted scripture has another there's another scripture for it called professing themselves to
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be wise? They are fools. God knew what he was talking about when
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he said all these things. Can you imagine a medical Can women? Can
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men have children? The answer she said was yes, what I have a
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little hair on my head. I wanted to pull out at that moment,
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but I couldn't grab onto it. I mean, come on, and do
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you know that when you start focusing like how Jesus focused? Hey, what
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is a woman? There's a video going around, now watch it. What
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is a woman? A woman is a person with x X chromosome. Do
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you know when you catch them like that, you know what they say?
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You hate me? So now you don't understand telling the truth has become hate
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speech? Don't you know? This is a signal of the end of times
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because now the truth that you have in your word, they are calling it
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hate speech. Are you aware? Are you aware that the Bible recently was
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banned from schools because it was considered hate speech? So now when you're going
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you tell them Jesus loves you, so then I can be whatever it is
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I want to be. I mean, come on, if I think this
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chair and put it into this chair here and I put food on it,
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and I sit on the floor and I eat from the chair, does that
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make the chair table. It doesn't matter, because the chair will always be
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a chair. But so confused as men become in the stupidity of their own
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thoughts that they can't tell the difference. You and I, we better understand.
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We are living in the last days. Jesus is coming, so we
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have a responsibility. Our first responsibility is to our children. You better start
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be teaching them right now that a boy is a boy and will always be
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a boy, and a girl is a girl and will always be a girl.
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Because if you think that this movement that is going around the world cannot
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touch you, the world has gone absolutely mad. Last week it was declared
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an emergency for the LGBTQI A, B, C, D, E,
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F G commun be read because they are saying hate is being propagated against them.
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You know what Jesus says, You love the guy, you love the
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person. You know that Jesus does not love ideology. You show me in
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the Bible way it says Jesus loves Christianity. It's not there, but what
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the scriptures say. You shall love the Lord with all your heart, with
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all your soul, with all your mind, and all your strength. And
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you shall love your neighbor as yourself. Because God knows we are already twisted
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people in our own way. So by loving him and this is the handle,
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how do we take care of it? You love God more, and
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the more you love God, the more your understanding will become clear. Do
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you know that scripture says give us an answer to why our understanding goes crazy?
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Okay, I'm gonna share it that scripture with you now. Some of
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you may already know it. But professing to be wise, they became fools
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and change the glory of the incorruptible God into the image made like corruptible men
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and birds and four legged animals and creepy things, creeping things. Therefore,
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God gave them up to their uncleanness and the lusts of their hearts to the
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dishonor to dishonor their body among themselves. Because we gave up the love of
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God and change it for the love of ourselves, our thinking has gone walked
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two Timny three was four traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather
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than lovers of God. You see, that's the key. The key has
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always been the love of God. When we don't get the love of God
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right, everything else goes to parts having a form of godliness by denying its
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power. And from such people, Bible says, turn away for all this
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thought. There are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women,
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loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, always learning and
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never able to learn, to come to knowledge of truth. X one eleven,
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it says, men of Galilee, why do you look stand looking to
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heaven? This is Jesus saying, who was taken away from you to heaven
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will come the same way as you saw him going to heaven. You know
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that a lot of people don't believe this anymore because they don't believe God anymore.
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And why don't they believe God anymore? Because they believe in themselves.
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Hey, guys, your life is facing an onslaught. Are you just gonna
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sit there and take it? We should be talking to our children and among
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ourselves every day, reminding us love the Lord, your God. It's the
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only thing that's going to keep us saying, this world is going to go
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crazy around us. And in case any of us miss it, one of
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the biggest purposes of the pandemic was to take us to online finance. What
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descriptions say in revelations without the market the best they she'll neither sell nor buy.
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And you ask anybody in those days, they would not have been able
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to see it. Today, it's very simple. You don't countou. They
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can block all your accounts, block your credit card, block your bank account.
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You have no money to buy or sell. You know how easy it
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is easy as ABC. And every Sunday when we give the altar call and
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we say getting to know Jesus is as easy as ABC, many think,
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no, not today, who is this Jesus. I'm not interested to know
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him. Your liberties are stick and the only one who can keep you free
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is Jesus Christ. When that altar call is given to you today, if
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you do not know him, believe in him because he's the only one who's
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got things held in your hands in his hands. He's the only one who
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cares for you the way you should be careful. I cannot get over some
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of these things that people are doing. Do you know how many different genders
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they are in the world today? According to the wise men, about one
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hundred and eighty At last count. You thought it was lg L LGBTQ plus.
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Now it is plus plus plus one hundred and eighty times. And these
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people think that they are wise. I mean, okay, we go back
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to start treker. There is one couple there where the guy behaves like a
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girl and he's in relationship with a girl who acts like a guy. What's
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the matter with you? Now? Why can't I see it? And why
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can't they see it? Because the eyes of our understanding has been opened through
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our belief in Jesus Christ. You know this coming x men, devotion and
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l The Maighbel pointed out, ask me anything challenger was not a challenge to
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see houseman, I am you ask me any question? Or the earth?
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Does the moons on Saturn have water? And I'm supposed to give you that
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answer. No, it's not that kind of challenge. But the moons on
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the at Saturn does have water, okay, at least two moons. But
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the challenge was, if you have the challenge and the courage to ask me
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a question, I will have the courage to answer you, to try and
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give you an answer I cannot. I hope you can catch my heart that
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our children I at risk. They are at risk. The Internet proliferates this
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nonsense. Do not think that your prohibition of the Internet will change anything.
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So rather than pretend it doesn't exist, teach your children that when they see
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this crap rejected. You want to send your kids to Australia to study,
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you send them as a man and they comeback as a girl. And you
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know what, you're expected to accept it. And when you say no,
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chromosomely you're a boy, you have the man bits be you Noah that as
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babies, you all look the same except from the navel down. That's the
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only way you can tell it's true. The only way you can tell a
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baby after it's been born whether it's a boy or a girl, is from
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the navel down. Other than that they all look the same. It takes
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years before they develop into what they're supposed to be. But that's part in
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parcel or puberty to develop. And in the States, do you want to
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give puberty blockers? You know as puberty blockers, the same chemical used to
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castrate rapists are being used on kids to block puberty. Then there's this other
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thing. These creatures want to participate in women's sports, and the women,
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I'm sorry to say this, take this lying down, taking anyway which way
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you want. You know, what if if I was a woman and that
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happened, I say, keep your sport. Not interested. There was a
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m fight. This guy who decided after he was twenty or thirty years old
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that he was a woman, ran in and thrashed the woman opponent. And
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guess what. The press started celebrating him, oh, or her, whatever
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you call it, you know, celebrating and say, wow, what a
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fantastic thing, and the whole world was clapping. I am sorry. I
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have words for them that I can say on the mike, starting with the
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letter I and ending with the letter T, and then as after that,
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I got ten minutes and I haven't even recorded. My message is okay,
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that's okay, because I think this is more important. But what are you
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gonna do? You say it cannot come here. Let me tell you that
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when the States have finished confusing everyone in the States, they will say,
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you want to do business with me? You have the same ideology. Hey,
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we're not very far behind okay, because our neighbor down south is all
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for it. A neighbor up north has had more than two sexes for as
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long as I've been alive. Taiwan is for it. China can't be bothered
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one way or the other. Korea is for it, Japan is for it.
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Where do you stand unless we will be We are satisfied to eat grass
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all the days of our life. The pressure will come to this country.
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It may not happen during my wife and my lifetime, but it will definitely
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happen during your children's lifetime. Everything that I've explained to you has only happened
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in the last five years, and you think that we are safe from it.
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Scripture says in Matthew twenty thirty seven. But as the days of Noah
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war, so also will be the coming of the sun, So also will
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be the coming of the sun of men. Be For as in the days
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before the floods, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving to marriage
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until the day that Noah entered the up. They did not know until the
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flood came and took them all away. So all so also will the coming
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of man be. You know what this means. This simply means that people
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will just live lives the way they have always lived life, and the end
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will come. It means that everything that I have told you is going to
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become such a norm, because there's another scripture that says, as in the
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days of Luck, it's going to be so commonplace that we won't even bat
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an eyelid. Jesus will come. In Revelations one seven, it says,
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behold, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him,
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even those who pierced him, and all tribes of the earth will wail
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on account of him. Even so Amen. In Luke seventeen twenty eighth thirty,
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it says, likewise, as it was also in the days of Lot,
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they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted,
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they built. But on the day that Lot went out of Sodom,
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it rained fire and brimstone from heaven and destroyed them all. Even so it
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will be in the day with the Son of Man is revealed. I'm really
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not going to get to every other point that's in the slight. I'm not.
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I don't have the time. So you want to know what Jesus is
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concerned with, Let me tell you a few things, and just just just
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tell you that Jesus is not concerned with pointing out how wrong we a He's
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not. When the woman was brought before him, caught in adultery, and
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they all said, this one was caught in adultery, What shall we do?
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Should we stone her? Jesus wrote in the ground. He didn't bother
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to look up with them, And then casually he looks up and he said,
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okay, you you don't see. If you're not seeing, you throw
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let me tell you. Jesus response, he can't be bothered. Ah,
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Jesus can't be bothered with the sin that's blasphemy. You've got to understand that
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Jesus is not bothered with the accusation of us, because there's an accuser of
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the brethren who stands before the Lord, always before the Lord, dear knight,
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accusing us before God. Is Jesus. Hey, he didn't even pay
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attention to those people men read the scripture. He couldn't be bothered with them.
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And when they all left, he looks up to the woman said where
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the people? He said, there's no one here, no one to condemn
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you know, well, I don't condemn you. Go and sit no more?
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What is he concerned about your restoration? He is not concerned about finding
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for and Christians are so busy finding for with others, Oh this person that
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Jesus was only concerned with the person being saved. The second thing is he
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went to the woman and a well. Why is hey, he went to
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the woman that well, because that's exactly why he went to the well to
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meet that woman. And he tells the woman, I need a drink,
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and she says, you have nothing to draw water from. How can you
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get a drink? Then Jesus tells her why he came to the well.
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Hey, it's not about me getting a drink, is about you getting a
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drink? I'm paraphrasing. By the way you read that scripture, you will
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find nothing saying that Jesus took a drink in that well. He didn't.
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He went to the well to meet the woman. And when he and when
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she said that to him, he says, if you drink from me,
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you won't ever thirst. Then she says, I perceive your prophet. And
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then the question, the burning question of our heart, of her heart,
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she asks the Lord, And that's what drew Jesus to that place. What
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was that question? Scripture says. Or people say we got to worship here,
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Jews say, we got to worship in in Jerusalem. Where shall be
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worship The biggest question in our heart was worshiped? If that's the question in
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your heart, Jesus will come to you, man, he will meet you.
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That question brought this woman to him, And Jesus said, they that
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worshiped me in spirit and in truth, That's what I'm after. And then
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the woman I can imagine a woman running away from him forgetting a bucket,
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forgetting everything. She runs back to the village and she tells everybody, I
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met someone who told me about my whole life, and he is or could
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it be the Messiah. Then the people run to Jesus and hear him talk.
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Then they look at the woman say, no longer do we believe because
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of you. We believe because we've heard one connection, heart felt connection with
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Jesus turned that woman into an evangelist. You and I were living in the
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last days. Will we not have those kind of burning questions that will draw
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the Lord into our presence so that one meeting will turn us into the people
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he wants us to be. Because the days are shot we have no time.
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We have no time. You know this is elimiable. Has helped me
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share this message so many times. But it's a completely new one, isn't
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We need Jesus in our lives. And if you want to have a personal
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connection with him, you only have to see what made him tick in the
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Bible, what draws God to us? We as we have to draw near
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to him, right, okay, you know what we have to draw near
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to him with. We have to draw near to him with the questions that
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make him pick, and he will come to us with answers. And man,
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when the Lord gives us the answer, we're no longer the same.
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When that guy and I shared this before, the one friend of mine rich
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person had his own yacht. How many people here know people who own their
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own yat? Can I see your ends? None? Okay, I'm one.
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When we went in school in Singapore, he had his own car.
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Look, this was seventy eight years ago. Just tells you how really well
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to do he was. He had a ship. And the only thing that
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I told him was which I wrote in an autograph book, which I ready
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forgot, was if you run into difficulty, call on the name of Jesus
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and he will come and help you. And then this guy goes on his
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yacht and something happens, and he's about to die. He's alone in the
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middle of the ocean, and of all things, he remembers what I had
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written ten years earlier when he told me, how did you become a Christian?
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He says, you are to blame. I'm to blame. What do
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you mean say, don't you remember what you wrote in your autograph? How
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can I remember? It's been now when I connected with him, twenty five
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to thirty years had passed. He said, when I was about to die,
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I remembered what you wrote in the autograph book, and I called on
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the name of Jesus, and he came to me on the water, and
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he's saved me. Those are his words. You know what he did.
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He changed his whole life. He gave up all his riches, and today
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he's a pastor. What's burning in your heart? That's the thing you bring
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before the Lord. And you and I as parents, we haven't a choice
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because, and I'm speaking to parents now, it is very likely your kids
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and mine will see the return of Jesus there. We take the risk that
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it won't happen. Ravella said, yesterday, live life. Let me see
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if I can code it right. Okay, An if I'm wrong, you'll
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help me. He said, um, live life, or do your best,
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you know, as if you've got ten thousand days to live. But
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live for Christ as if he's coming tomorrow, meaning do do your work one
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for a thousand you know, you know, ten thousand days or something like
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that. But live life as if he's or do do it every day as
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he is coming back tomorrow, meaning that you and I we have a responsibility.
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And when he said that, it spoke to my heart, and maybe
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that's why you know, I literally did not I'm going to crash afterwards.
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The moment I finished this message, I sit down and the last song is
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done. Most likely I'm going to be walking like I'm a thousand years old
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because the Lord was speaking to me all night about this. He knows something.
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He knows something is about to break very soon, and he's giving you
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an opportunity to be ready for it. My people are destroyed for lack of
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knowledge. Well now you know, so don't get caught up with this crap
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that the world is throwing your way. Recognize it for what it is.
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Do not be sympathetic towards it. Sympathize with the people. Love the people.
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You don't have to accept the ideology. And then when they say,
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oh, you know, I'm sorry, I do not believe in all these
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things. I'm supposed to love you, but I don't love what you do,
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they will call it hate speech. They will call it hate speech,
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and they will cancel you. That's the word, isn't it cancel culture?
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Woke culture. I just woke up from a sleep. And now when I've
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woken up, I think I'm clever, but actually I'm not. And they
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will try and cancel you. And that's why it will be very easy for
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the countries in the West to cancel Jesus, because Jesus is not confused like
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they are. Don't you see why they are banning the Bible in schools.
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Don't you see why they are vilifying all the Christian churches? And guess what.
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There are some clowns in the Christian Kingdom who have mistaken the love of
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the person for a love of the ideology when they cannot even remember that Jesus
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did not even love religion. He loved people. Guys. Let's not forget
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this message. Let's not forget this word. Those of you that I'm speaking
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to that are on camera. Jesus loves each and every one of us as
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a person, irrespective of ideology. Even if I think the way that I
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was talking about those people, it makes no difference. He loves you,
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and it is only through loving Him will you get a clear understanding of what
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you're supposed to do, how you're supposed to live your life, and how
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you be to be prepared. We hope you've been blessed by this message.
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to be a good week ahead for you. God bless