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That All May Know "God is God" | Elder Terence Atkinson
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You're listening to a message to go from acts church. We hope this message
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will light up your tea, that all may know God is God. The
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world seems to think that they are God, you know, but never let
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us forget that God is God, and we need to recognize that because we
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are not. We're not God. God is God and we're not God.
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So in Daniel four seventeen, it says this decision is by the decree of
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the watchers and the sentence by the word of the Holy Ones, in order
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that the living may know that the most High God or the most High rules
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in the Kingdom of Men, gives it to whom whoever he will, and
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sets it over the lost of men. You know, when I was reading
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this, I was thinking of Nebo, you know, old Nebu. I
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tried spelling his name. I couldn't. So, you know, a s
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telling Pastor. You know, I was sharing with Pastor what I was going
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to share this money, and you know, when it came to that part
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where I was writing, you know, I'm going to talk a little bit
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about Nebo, I couldn't spell it, so I just put Nebo and Okay,
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Neb. Now he was a guy that ruled everything. He had power
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beyond power. He had riches beyond riches he had. You know, you
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don't mess around with old Nebu, all right, he was a hard guy.
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If you messed around with Nebu, you might lose your head, You
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might get fed to lions. H you may be put to death for not
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worshiping him. But you see, Neble forgot one thing. Nebu forgot one
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thing. He forgot that God is God and he is not. And God
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decided to make an example of nebukaness. So you know what he did.
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He made Nebul can live in the field and eat grass for seven years.
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I mean the guy didn't bathe. He must have stunk like a cow.
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Right, imagine his hair. It would have been matted, you know,
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it would be horrible. And then I can just imagine his fingernails. How
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long have you tried growing your fingernails for seven years without cutting it? No?
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Yeah, exactly? And eating grass? How many of us know that
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the grass outside is not always so very clean because other animals think that the
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grass is one big toilet. And Neighbooknas was eating that grass, the grass
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that other animals stood on and trampled on. You know when I got saved.
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I got saved in nineteen seventy nine. It was in a small church.
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It was hot, in fact, it was hot in a palm oil
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estate. It was a hot in a part the PASTA took me there because
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that was the outreach, and that's where I got saved. Okay. And
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we had to walk, you know, some distance to get to that hut.
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And that place was booby trapped by cows. Yeah, there was poopy
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trapped. There's a poopy trap everywhere. And you think, when your eyes
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open, you'd miss it and you won't stand on it. But if they
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are there all the time, if you're not standing there, you're standing there,
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the glass is grown. But when you stand you get in it.
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That was how many of us want to live, that kind of life before
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God, that we think that we are God and instead we are like some
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animal feeding out there in the field. Because it's one in the same thing.
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Man, it's one in the same thing. So you think you live
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in a nice fancy house without God. You know how God looks at you
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if you have rejected Him for your riches, you are like Nebu. You're
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like a cow, unwashed and unbathed. In seven years with long fingernails eating
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grass out in the field that cows poop. On the condition of the world
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today, Let's have a look at the condition of the world today. Hey,
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everywhere you turn, there are wars. Man, do you know why
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we have wars? Because God said that there would be wars? And rumors
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are wars. Never forget whatever God says happened. And God said that,
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do you know how close we are to oblivion? Just to let you know
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that Israel intends to attack Ralpha? Is that the place? Okay, he
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intends to They intend to attack Rappha? What did Biden say? If you
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attack Ralpha, we will come against you. You know that one of the
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final prophecies is that the whole world will turn against Israel. Do we know
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why this war is happening? Yeah we do, and yes we don't.
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Are we supposed to get involved in the dynamics of the war? No,
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what the scriptures say. Pray for the peace of Jerusalem. Do you know
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why when Jerusalem is safe, we are safe. When Jerusalem is at peace,
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the world is at peace. Hey, you've got to understand what God
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is trying to say. So how close are we in case you don't know
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Iran threatened is real? Do you think they will carry out that threat?
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Probably not. The reason they won't carry out that thread is because Iran has
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got three oil field, three refineries, very very important refineries to its economy.
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All it takes for their economy to be crippled is for those three definery
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refineries to be destroyed, and then they have no income. Do you know
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for all the rhetoric that they see against the US, they have to ask
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the US permission before they can send a response against what happened in that embassy.
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Do you know that? And there will be some kind of response which
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Israel be prepared for and Iran it's all too sayest Do you know that behind
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the scenes, that's what governments do, wars and rumors or wars. You
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better pay attention because the world is heading to a place that is speaking of
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the second coming of Jesus Christ that all may know Jesus is coming again.
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You better believe it. You know, it's not a message that people speak
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of very often now, But when I first became a Christian, it was
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like Jesus is coming the next day. We lived like that for thirty years,
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forty years, and for those of our generation, we're still living like
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that, like Jesus will come back anytime. But for those who were saved
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in the eighties, in the eighties, in the nineties, no eighties,
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still God. Those who were saved in the nineties, the two thousand and
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two thousand and then have forgotten that Jesus is coming again. So they live
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lives the way they just want to. Famines famines? Do you isn't it
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amazing that in a world of technological advance that there should be famines in the
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land. Hey, I'll give you a couple of reasons again. One of
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the reasons is greed. One of the reasons is greed. Do you know
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that an Ethiopia was having it's famine many many years ago? Do you remember
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that? How many of you were old enough to remember there was a time
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of we are the world? We are nineteen eighty four, eighty forty five?
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Okay? Do you know that? How many tons of grain and food
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was sent to Ethiopia? But do you know that he didn't reach the people
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and people stuff had famine? Do you know why? Because the people in
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the port wanted money, honey, they wanted to be bribed in order for
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that food to get out of port. Do you know that you see famines
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arise because people have their own interest at heart. Now I've got this,
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the great move to electrical vehicles as part of the famine. I was looking
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at a documentary and it made a whole lot of sense to me. How
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many of you know that this move towards electrical vehicles and electrical engines and everything
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electrical and nothing petroleum is actually an unthought principle that will lead us into a
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lot of trouble. Yeah, you all think the world is going to be
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safe. Clean energy isn't really clean because something had to produce the electricity to
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go into that car. And where do you think that is coming from?
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The same fossil fuels that they don't want you to buy? Do you know
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why? So you can be controlled? Do you know that China will control
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every country in the world if everybody moves to electrical vehicles, because who's the
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largest producer of electrical batteries China? And when China has got everybody in their
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hand and they don't decide not to supply to you, you know what happens.
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Transport comes to a grinding holt. You see, you gotta understand.
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We got to understand what's happening. Do you know that the fight in the
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US today against the return of fracting oil from shale pumping oil. You know
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what the fight is. The fight is the Biden wants to move to Biden
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wants to move them to no oil, all electrical vehicles. You know what
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happens when that happens. Guess who controls the US China? China, which
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is not surprising because there's a lot of fight now going on whether Biden accepted
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money from China. Hey, we got to keep our eyes open. Let
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me tell you how famines arise. Do you realize that to buy one truck
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that works on batteries costs three times the price of a diesel vehicle, and
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do you know that it only travels for about two hundred three hundred kilometers.
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There's not enough places to guess up and guess where that pricing is going to
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go. It's going to go to the consumer. Do you know how many
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truckers are going to go out of business because they cannot afford the price of
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the vehicles. You know how many truckers are going to go out of business
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because they cannot wait hours upon hours upon hours for the vehicles to charge.
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You know what happens. When that happens, food will not get to where
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it is needed. When food doesn't get where it's needed, there will be
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hunger. What is hunger? Famine? And this will happen even in industrial
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countries because the world has gone crazy over what is it, global warming?
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In the last few hundreds of years. Do you know how how much the
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temperature has gone? Maybe one degree? Carbon emission? Do you know how
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many percent carbon or carbon dioxide is in the air. Do you know that
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over the last few thousands of years? Do you know how many percent increase
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it has gone. If I'm not mistaken, it's zero point four percent.
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If it falls below zero point two five percent, we will all die because
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all plants will die because plants also need carbon dioxide. So you have you
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and I have been sold an idea that man is in a position to make
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a difference. Hey, he is not. If you think all the things
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that they are going to do is going to make a difference, you and
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I we are deeply mistaken because we are coming into God's territory. God can
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do what God can do. We can't. And that's where we get that
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pestilence. We just went through a kind of a pestilence, right, COVID
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nineteen. How horrible was that? How many years did it take us to
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recover? We're just recovering. There's twenty and twenty four. I mean it
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had us in its grip until the end of twenty twenty. Maybe in twenty
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twenty three. It just started to make a difference. You know, I
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tell you this. I've been to Thailand. You got to take your head
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off to them. Their recovery is remarkable. I went there in twenty and
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twenty two to meet a friend I've not met in such a long time,
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and then I went again into twenty twenty three to meet him. In that
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one year, that whole economy has turned around. That's amazing, You know
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why, because the people work, They work hard, and we wonder why
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it's not happening as fast here anyway. So talking about pestilence, right,
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have you heard of Hitch five N one? You know what scientists say,
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one hundred times worse than COVID. If it took us two and a half
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years to recover, how long would it take to recover from something that's a
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hundred times worse. Hey, guys, and this pestilence COVID for example,
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So we were forced to take these vaccinations. I took the vaccination. Yeah,
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you gotta do what you gotta do, whether it's good or not.
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We'll find out now whether those vaccinations will have an impact on us. The
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next ten years will tell. But something tells me that they will never tell
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you the numbers because it's money. The farmer pharmaceutical companies made billions upon billions
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of dollars, so you're never going to get any adverse report. And lastly,
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let's remember earthquakesh remember earthquakes. How many have you seen some pictures of
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the Taiwan earthquake. It's quite disconcerting to see a building like that and people
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coming out the top floor just getting out of the window because the building is
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lying flat like that. It's horrible. And that wasn't even a major major
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earthquake. Can you imagine when a really major earthquake happens, how devastating it
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could be. But again, Scripture did say that isn't it. There will
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be earthquakes in diverse places. This is a condition of the world today.
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I pay attention. I pay attention because in Matthew twenty four to twelve.
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It says, and because lawliness lawlessness will abound, the love of many will
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grow cold. The love of many will grow cold because lawless. You know,
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lawlessness is you know what rebelliance against God? Do you know that God
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puts certain laws in place, and when we don't want to follow those laws,
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what is that? Lawless? Nas Hey, the world today is not
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interested in following norms. It's okay not to follow a norm it's all right.
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But when you begin to think that you have all the answers and only
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your way is the way, then you're running into trouble. And that's exactly
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what the world is today. If you study the makeup of the world today,
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it's all about itself. It's all about doing things it's way, and
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that's why the love of Minni has grown called. Do you know that when
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it comes to people loving God, it's probably at one of the all time
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laws. And the reason it's one of the all time laws is because people
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love themselves. They have made God in their image, or at least that's
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how they think that Scripture is. But it's God who made us in his
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image. You know. Scripture says when they deny God, they're actually fools.
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I mean I didn't say that. Okay, if the word is strong
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for you, take it up with God. Because God said that if they
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reject the notion of God, they are fools. So they think that you
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and I came into being because two planets hit each other and suddenly the rocks
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went apart and cool down, and out of nothing suddenly one a mehba guruguru
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gurgrou and became a fish, and then became a reptile and then converted itself
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into a monkey, and eventually we were I mean serious, do you believe
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that? And you know how they justified they justified evolution is true. You
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see, the people who are gone to cold countries can take cold, to
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people who are in the equator can take hot. You take the hot people
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and put them where they cold cannot take it. You take the cold people
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put well they cannot take it. You see. They have adapted, and
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so they create their own theories to justify their stupidity. WHOA, So what
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does this mean? God is God and we have not? All this means
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God is God and we are not. And if we want to live a
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life that's centered, you know, well, right, correct, Always remember
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God is God and we are not. Yeah, I'm always one. Yeah,
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I'm fascinated with this question whose heaven are we going to? Her?
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Have you ever asked that question? Who's heaven are we going to? I
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mean, are we going to God's heaven? Or are we going to our
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heaven? You know, some really insane people used to say back in the
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seventies that they want to go to hell because in Hell it's one big party.
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Jimmy Hendrix is there, Janice Joplin is there and they're having a rocking
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time. Really, hey, don't mess around with things we don't know.
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Hell is not a place of joy. It's not a place where we'll find
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peace. It's a place of eternal tomment and trusts me, Jimi Hendrix is
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not playing the guitar. He's not. He's too busy screaming in his own
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pain to think about you. So, Who's heaven are we going to?
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And this is a very important question that we need to ask usself because it
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will set our hearts and minds right for the future, and the where we'll
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live is heaven fashioned after our beliefs of right and wrong. Thailand just approved
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same sex marriage. I remember two or three months ago I said that it
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will move down. All this is going to move and eventually you watch and
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see Singapore be next, Singapore be soon, Singapore be soon. And I
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remember telling you that how the world puts pressure on people to adopt these kind
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of ways is that the countries who are strong will pressure the countries who are
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weak. Have you read that many people in the US are trying to pressure
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the US government to put pressure on Uganda and some other African nations that are
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against same sex marriage to capitulate and allow it, so they will test there
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first. Then once they start testing there, they will start pressurizing the whole
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world around. Hey, you and I, we got to keep our eyes
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open. These are the last days and if we are to get ready for
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jesus second coming, it behooves us. That's a big word to know that
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God has God and we are not. We have to get with the program.
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Whose program the world's program? The world's program is I love myself.
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I am to me all that I need to be. There is no other
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than me, other than me, for I am I, and that's all
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that needs to be true. If you look and see why people reject God
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is because they love their own ideas. But they forgot God, who said
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I am God, I am Jehovah, I am like you said, you
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know. And God proved his own divinity when he rose up from the dead,
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his messiah Emmanuel. And in that don't pass the test. The Book
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of God says, he's the Word of God. Come, Come in the
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flesh. He's the author of salvation. And he leaves no room to guess.
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He's the alpha, or make it beginning is the beginning and the first,
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and he's the last, with no words left to say. He told
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us he was God always God. See, the world does not want to
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recognize God, because if it recognizes God, it does not recognize itself as
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being number one? So is heaven fashioned after our beliefs? Is heaven made
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in our image? Is heaven made in our image? Who calls the shots?
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We forget? You know, I'm really against this. My season here
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is done. I'm sorry. I'm truly against them statement because how many of
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us have maturity enough to recognize that our season ends only when God says it
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ends, and very very often when he says it ends does not depend upon
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our convenience. You see. That's why when people say my season here is
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done, it's convenient. I don't believe God's involved. We have to be
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very, very careful. Whose image are we made in? We are made
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in God's image, all right. He's the one who calls the shots.
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I can tell you that I was in a church which for many years had
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come to a point where we needed to live mable than myself. But God
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said no. He said no. How many people who said my season here
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is done has ever stayed even though they wanted to go, because God said,
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don't move. You know, when elde Mable and myself moved, when
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the church moved, When the church moved away, then we were allowed by
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God to go. You know what happened. We obeyed the Lord. And
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you know what God did. He gave us ex church. He gave us
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a wonderful group of people who look after us. Pastor Kenneth, pastor Sandra,
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who, by the way, send you your love and their greetings.
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Let me not forget that. Wow, amazing is that now you look after
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people. You don't go because you want to go. You don't go because
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God tells you to stay. And when God allows you to go, it's
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the perfect place. But these days too many people's seasons seem to you know,
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God is the one who made seasons, you know, so our seasons
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depend on God's seasons, does not depend on our will. Good question to
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think of, because in these last days, this is the question, and
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you and I are going to be faced with all the time. He's a
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season over hmmm, filled with our strife? Do you think God's heaven is
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filled with our battles? Do you think he's interested with who we like and
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who we dislike? And here we don't want to forgive people. How silly
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is that when God, when Jesus himself on the cross, can say,
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Father, forgive them for them or not what they do? And here somebody
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looks at us wrongly. I don't talk to that person anymore. Forgiving doesn't
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necessarily mean you have to be buddies, okay, But forgiving means you don't
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wish harm upon that person, and your heart will never be satisfied to see
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that person receive any kind of harm. That is true forgiveness. True forgiveness
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is you love someone, you love them, you can forgive them and it
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doesn't depend upon whether they accept it or not. There is no scripture that
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tells me Jesus ever spoke to pontious Pilot again after he res erected. Can
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any of you find such a scripture? But you see, the Onus was
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unconscious Pilot to receive the Lord as personal Lord and savior. Whether he did
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so or not depended solely upon him. But Jesus had already forgiven him.
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So it doesn't mean that when you forgive somebody you got to be buddy buddy
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with them. There are those people who are really toxic, who spend their
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whole life trying to irritate you and remove your joy. You can forgive them,
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you don't have to mix with them. So do you think heaven is
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a place that is going to continue our strife? Oh? I don't like
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you. Hey, we're going to meet those people in heaven. You know,
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I'm telling you, We're going to meet them in heaven. And you
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know what's the only thing that will happen. You will all be crying saying
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I'm sorry, I should have done it the Lord's way. What does the
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Bible say, He wipes away our tears? Why is it that we cry
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because we failed him? And we will see ourselves for the first time in
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such truth. But then Jesus will reveal how he Esus with love, and
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then this world decides whether they want to receive Jesus or not. It's very
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sad what's given to them free. They don't want You tell them go to
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this place in some mountain high up in the Himalayas and take ten bars of
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God, put their offer with some candles. That they will do. But
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here, when Jesus is offered to them freely, they don't want to receive.
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Oh, sensual pleasure. Do you think heaven is a place where there
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will be sensual pleasure? You know there are some faiths that believe that.
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But scripture says that you and I will be like angels. We won't be
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given in marriage. And you know that is a form of things already passed.
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When we are in heaven, there are pleasures that supersede sensual pleasures,
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the pleasure of being in the presence of God. So guys, do not
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equate heaven in our terms. In two Timedy three two to four, it
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says for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money. This last
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day is right, lovers of money. I tell you men loves money.
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These days, Who here does not love money? I love money, So
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who here does not? I ask the question again, who here does not
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love money? Okay? I love money. Money is good. But always
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remember God's first. Then money's okay. So it's okay to love money.
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After all, you love your spouse, right, anything wrong with loving your
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spouse? No, But the Bible says you got to love God first.
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So it's God first, then your spouse second. So it's okay to love
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money as long as you love God first. Came my point. Okay,
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Boasters, Wow, proud, blessed, femous, disobedient to parents? You
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know, I Boasters. I will share something with you about that later.
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Bosus, proud, blessed, femous this obedient to parents? Hey, children
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these days just do not believe parents exist. Not so much here we guys
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in Asia, it's okay. You know, filial piety and all that sort
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of thing. You try just going to a nearby country like Australia. Australia,
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if the boy says I want to be a girl, the parents have
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no choice, and if the parents don't support it, the child is removed
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from the parents care. By the way, this actually happened. The mother
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has not seen the sun in two years. Unthankful, unholy, unloving.
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I don't know why the three is there, but oh yeah, it's worse.
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Three sorry, unloving, unforgiving. We covered that just now. Slanderous
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without self control or without self control, oh, my goodness, without self
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control. I have seen guys who put a few hundred piercings, put horns
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in the head, cut off the years, remove the nose, split the
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tongue into and they think they look wonderful. Hmm, the spices of good.
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I heard that prizes are good. There'll be traitors, headstrong, haughty,
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lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God. You see, that's where
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all the trouble begins, because man loves himself and not God. Hey,
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guys, in the last days, let's be careful. I'll pick up speed
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here so I won't, you know, scare you to death? What's up
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with man? All right? Man is smart. He has the brains to
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accomplish anything he sets his mind to. True. Not yeah, Hey,
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they sent a rocket with William Shatner up into space. You know it's William
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Shanner Captain Kirk in case you don't know. At the age of ninety years
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old. He went up the space came down, so he actually went the
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space. Wow, amazing. Do you know that China has produced a fusion
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reactor that has produced, if I'm not mistaken, heat two times the core
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of the sun a million degrees. I can't imagine anything that can hold it.
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But they did it for about one second or two seconds, So we
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step away from fusion reaction. Fusion reaction is clean energy without heat. Man
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has the brains to accomplish anything. He's capable. There are men who achieve
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their goals. Look at Microsoft, if you look at the Pirates, it
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is the pirates Silicon Valley who was a dirty business, all right, and
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somebody made billions from it. So man is capable. He achieves his goals,
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and he is proud. He believes in himself and has no room for
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God. You see, that's where we always run into trouble. And I
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just want to share something with you in something that the Lord ministered to me
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and for the first time I got to see it and got to understand it.
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In Genesis eleven one to six, it says, now the whole earth
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had one language and one speech, and it came to pass that they journeyed
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from the east, and they found a plane in the land of Shina,
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and they dwelt there. Then they said to one another, come, let
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us make bricks and bake them thoroughly. They had bricks for stone, and
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they had asked for for motor. And they said, come, let us
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build ourselves a city and a tower whose top is in the heavens. Let
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us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered abroad over the face
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of the earth. Capable they can achieve, what do they want? They
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want a name for themselves. But the Lord came down to see the city
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and the tower which the son of Men had built. And the Lord said,
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indeed, these people are one, and they all have one language,
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and this is what they begin to do. Now, nothing that they proposed
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to do will be withheld from them. I want you to know this,
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and I do not know whether we have caught it. Men succeeded in building
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that tower because God came down to see the tower that they had built,
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not that they were building. I did some researcher, do you know what
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height was the tower? Bebel Some ancient writings said three times the height of
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the Burj Khaliphar others say one third the height of the burj Khalipher, But
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it doesn't matter. It was tall enough for God to take notice. Because
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the next statement I'm about to make is one that is a little bit difficult
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to understand, and it's simply this. You and I have no right to
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achieve anything of value without the involvement of God. Got that. You and
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I have got no right to achieve anything of value without the involvement of God.
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Because if God is not involved, he comes down and he messes with
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the language. So you ask yourself, Oh, these big men like Jeff
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Bezos and Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, they all made billions, they did
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so well. Right, there's only one difference. They're all not together.
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They all at enmity with one another. There is no agreement. Can you
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imagine if Elis and and and Jobs and Gates and what's the Testlae guy named
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Elon mask and all these people got together together, what they could achieve.
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See what they've achieved separately. There is no need for God to come down
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and mess around with their language anymore because they're not together. They are for
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themselves. And if they are for themselves, God doesn't need to get involved
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because you live a life of having a lot of money, and if you
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don't have God, if you don't have Jesus, by the end of that
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life, you go to a christless eternity. And I tell you it is
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not a fun place. Jimmy Hendrix is not playing his guitar there. For
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those of you young ones, you may not know who Jimmy Hendrix is.
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Okay, I do not know who your best guitar player is today, all
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right, But the older ones will know, all right. So can we
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agree that only things of value in our lives should be with the involvement of
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Jesus Christ. Because scripture says in Philippines four thirteen, I can do all
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things, not some things, not a few things, not a little things.
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I can do all things through Christ. To what strengthens me. It
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means that you recognize your weak It means that you recognize you don't have everything
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in your grasp. You recognize that you need God's help. It's very important
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because this world today, the only way you and I are going to succeed
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constantly and for a long period of time is with God's involvement. I will
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not do anything without God being involved. Hey, I got up at five
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o'clock in the morning and I walked and I walked and I walked today to
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be sure I was awake while I prayed for this message. Man, because
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I can share a great, wonderful message without the help of the Holy Spirit,
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and one second after I say amen, all of you have forgotten it
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and it will have no impact in your life. But I can share what
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to me maybe so horribly sounding, but with the power of the Holy Spirit
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backing it up, because I am weak and He is strong, can have
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an impact on people's lives. Which do you think I want? I want
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that great clap in one second, nobody can remember anything. Oh, I
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don't mind the silence, but everybody is focused on God. I have been
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able to do so many things because of the involvement of God. How many
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minutes, ten minutes? Oh, I'm earlier. Okay, I'm coming to
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the end. Not bad. I heard that. Okay, Okay, good
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good, good luck. I want to tell you that I've shared this before,
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but I need to share again that when God is involved in your life,
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you can do all things. Hey, I was looking for a job
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for six months, no money coming in. I had written tens of applications
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out there, tens of just sending out application, nobody bothering to respond,
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until finally I came to God and say, I can't do this anymore.
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I give it up to you. You handled it. The only thing I
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can do. I will do every day. What is that? I will
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worship you. I get up at five in the morning, I just worship
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the Lord. I worship the Lord, worship the lot. On the fifth
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day, I get a phone call somebody I never applied a job for and
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from nothing to general manager. Five days after I committed into God's hands.
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At the age of fifty five, how many you know Malaysia, nobody employs
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you. After the age of forty five, fifty becomes very difficult to get
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a job. Fifty five, I decided to look for a job, another
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job. I said, God, you know I need to go. I
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need to go. Will you find me another job? See God's involved.
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And someone whom I did not pass my CV two calls me up and say
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I've got your CV in hand. Somebody else passed them a CV. HA
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say when you come for an interview. So I went for the interview.
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It seemed all good. Then I went back home I went to sleep.
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God came to me in a dream and said, the job is going to
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be good for you. Take it. So I knew I was going to
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get another call. Next day, I got a call. Can you come
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over a second interview? Meet director. So when I met the director,
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said before you say anything, can I tell you something? They said,
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yeah, go ahead. I say, well, as concerned to take this
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job or not. God appeared to me in a dream and say, take
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this job. It's good for you. So I knew you're going to offer
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me the job. I'm telling you the truth. This is the truth.
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And then this person said, that's amazing, because let me tell you what
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happened. Your position was already filled when I saw your CV. God means
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to me and said, you can't affort to let this guy go. Bring
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him in. You won't regret it at the age of fifty five. So
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I'm telling you, any of you who is having difficulty, just get in
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line with God and recognize that God can do it and you can't. Then
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you put yourself in correct perspective, and you put yourself in a position for
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God to act because God wants us all to know that God is God,
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and we are not. In Matthew nine, it says, come to me
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all who are, all you who labor and are heavily hidden, and I
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will give you rest. Hey, Steve, job's not going to give you
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rest. Your money ain't going to give you rest. Hey, the honey
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is not going to give you rest. No one is going to give you
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rest. But Jesus says I will give you rest. Take my yoke upon
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you and learn from who from me? Hey? Why do we want to
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go and see all these gurus who tell us you wear green it's good for
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you. You'll your life will be great? You laugh? Do you know
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that in Singapore there are courses they tell you what color to wear because it
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will change your life. I'm not kidding. You know. People pay money.
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Why do you want to do that? What is scripture saying? Learn
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from me, for I am gentle and lowly in heart, and you will
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find rest for your souls. Hey, Rest for your souls a big thing,
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you know. Rest for your souls doesn't mean only peace, go owack
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home, sleep nicely peace. It also means a good job. Because when
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you got a good job, are you at peace? Yes? Hey?
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Good wife? When you have good wife you're at peace, like, yes,
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good husband, you have good husband, you're at peace? Yes,
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good children? If you have good and definitely at peace? Why not?
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And you will find rest for your souls. Hey, you know inscription did
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not say it rest for your bodies? And what is it here? And
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you will find rest for your souls because rest for your body you go to
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sleep and get God's not involved, that's or natural. But souls is a
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deeper kind of thing. It's something that external situation cannot resolve. That's why
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it talks about rest for your souls, Rest for the deepest parts of you
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that will make a difference in your entire life, not the externals, not
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the physical, Rest for your souls. So therefore God is God and we
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are not. I think just God wants us to recognize that there's a perspective
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that we have to. I go five minutes left with it. Oh,
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there is a perspective that God always wants us to have. You know what
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is that perspective? Jesus? Hey, God is God and we are not.
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And you know what God said, For I love the world so much,
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I give you Jesus that whichever one of you believes in Him, you
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will not perish but have everlasting life. Of course, that's paraphrase from John
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three sixteen. But you see, God is God. That was his way,
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So what right do we have to try search for any other way.
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We don't have that right because God is God and we are not. And
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no matter which person on earth says there are many ways to heaven, there
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is but one. In his name is Jesus. And every time an alt
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call is given, if you do not know who Jesus is, you have
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but one choice. Get to know him. We hope you've been blessed by
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is going to be a good week. I heait for you. God bless