Sermon
The Joseph Generation | James Lee
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I was on my way back two weeks ago from Germany.
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I was in Italy, then Germany for business meetings.
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And then I came back and I was not, I was adjusting to the
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time. I wasn't able to sleep.
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And then there was 1 evening I, I was having this vision or
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vision or dream and I don't know, whatever you call it.
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And I woke up and I and I go on my knees and I started to pray
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and I went straight to the laptop because it was such a
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revelation. I have no idea whether it is
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from the Holy Spirit, whatever it is, I'm not saying anything.
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I'm just saying I'm going to share with you what I've
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discovered because right from the start in Genesis, right from
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the start, we have you read the word in the beginning, God, but
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you also read in a few chapters later the devil.
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So there is God, there is also the devil.
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And then later you read there is good and there is evil.
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There is light and there is darkness.
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It's just like in farming, There is good microbes, there's bad
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microbes. I better be careful.
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There are a lot of nice, good expert farmers over here.
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There is a constant war between good and evil.
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The bad wants to destroy the good and the good just wants to
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survive. But they cannot eradicate the
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bad. Just like you have a garden,
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just when you think you pluck out all the weeds, you left it
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alone for a couple of weeks or couple of months, and the next
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thing you see all the weeds coming back again.
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So you cannot eradicate evil right away, and as as I was
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told, I'm subjected to correction in farming.
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In order to fight the bad microbes, you need to overwhelm
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them with the good microbes, am I correct?
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I better check with him. And so likewise, I think it is
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very applicable. If you want to suppress evil
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corruption in any country, you need to overwhelm them with the
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godly people, especially in government.
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Yeah, because these two will continue to exist side by side
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and this war will always continue until Jesus return to
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restore His Kingdom's authority once and for all.
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There is no more such thing as evil for the next 1000 years.
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And what happens in the unseen world, in the unseen world of
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the microbes, is the same as our present world.
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S Eitan wants to you know who is S Eitan, right?
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When you put the word together, it is Satan.
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So Satan is a Chinese S Eitan. He wants to destroy God's
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people. He wants to destroy the Jews,
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and he wants to destroy Christians.
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Yeah. And this is what Paul wrote to
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the efficient church. And he says, for we do not
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wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the principalities,
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against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this
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age, against spiritual host of wickedness in the heavenly
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places. In other words, Paul is telling
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the church, look here, there is a war going on up there that is
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unseen, that is invisible. That is nothing going to do with
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physical warfare. You can't fight them with
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weapons, OK? And Mr. SA Tan is going around
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waging a war to win the hearts and minds of people, especially
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the young people. And you know, what is his
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method? His method, broadly speaking,
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OK, is pain and gain. What is pain?
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Persecutions. What is gain?
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Temptations, lawlessness, that is his basic approach and it
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always works. That is why he never changed
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much. So lawlessness is pervading
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through the world right now. What is lawlessness?
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He offer what you want. He caters to your carnal
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desires, your freshly desires, unlimited, uncontrolled desires.
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That's what he offers you. This is what Paul wrote and he
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continued in the next church and he says, so I said walk in the
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Spirit and you will not gratify the desires of the flesh, for
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the flesh desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the
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Spirit what is contrary to the flesh, and they are in conflict
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with each other so that you are not to do whatever you want and
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love to do. There is this invisible conflict
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going on between the Spirit and the flesh and that is why Paul
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says the only way to fight this evil is walk by the Spirit, Be
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guided by the Holy Spirit. Allow your spiritual GPS to be
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guided by Heaven's Porter and not always be on your TikTok and
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your Facebook. You understand what I'm talking
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about? Yeah, I am so happy that my
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phone, my mobile phone is very special.
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I ordered it from from US actually, but they came from
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Hong Kong, which means China. And this is a Google Pixel
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phone, but there is no Google insight.
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We call it the Google phone. Yeah, nothing.
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No Google insight. And I'm glad this phone, I don't
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download Facebook, I don't download YouTube, I don't
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download. I only have necessary apps
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inside because I don't want to be distracted.
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Too many things in this world are distracting us.
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When you go family gathering, everybody is sticking up a
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phone. Nobody is talking to each other
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anymore. Am I not correct?
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Am I telling you something strange?
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I think it only happens in Singapore.
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Are you Filip? You Filipinos are real great
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people. And so and he continues, he give
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a list of what is are the works of the flesh and what deposits
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sexual immorality, impurity, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred,
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discord, jealousy, any name. And he says what those who
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continue to do such a thing will not inherit the Kingdom of God.
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Be very careful. You may not make it if you
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continue to live a life of the carnal way.
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So let me explain to you. I'm a electrical guy.
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I'm, I'm not when, when my son and I go to meetings and you
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know, I will always introduce them.
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My son is an engineer. I am engineer NEAR, I'm near the
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engine. So here's the real deal.
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So if you and I know those days, we used to have this crazy
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fluorescent tube and to use the fluorescent tube, you need to
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have a about us. And I am from the old school.
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We are one of the largest importers of this from Europe to
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Singapore and to South East Asia.
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So this is how the fluorescent tube works.
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Let me explain. OK, this is the secretary.
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If you are engineer, you roughly know your AC supply, OK goes in,
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it goes through the we call it the choke.
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Why they call it the chook? American call it the current
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limiting device. Why they it's to limit the
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current going in? Because you know why the
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fluorescent tube without this chook will draw too much
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current. So if it draws too much current,
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the chook is the one that prevents this tube from drawing
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too much. It's a very hungry thing.
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We, you know, by our own flesh, we are the same.
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If we are offered everything unlimited, we will consume
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everything unlimited, and then we will go.
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And then you know what happened. If without the choke, you know
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what happened, this tube will light up very bright.
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Oh, you enjoy yourself very extinguished by itself.
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And so the choke is like the Holy Spirit.
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It limits the current that you are supposed to draw.
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OK. And this is where my business,
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this is where I make a lot of money from them.
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So, so this choke limits the current according to the
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specification of the tube. So if you are a four feet tube,
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this device will give you only the current that is meant for
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the four feet tube. If you are a 2 feet tube, this
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device will only give you and limit the current of a 2 feet
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tube. Why?
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So that you can have a longer life span, useful life.
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And so this is like a spiritual walk.
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If you are totally unbreeded and uncontrolled, yeah, I know
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you're going to enjoy yourself very bright.
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Next thing you're extinguished. We need the Holy Spirit.
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He is the current limiting device for all of us.
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Yeah, something like that. And the same thing goes the next
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slide. And so Christ talks about the
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last days and he provide us with a lot of info from Matthew 24,
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Mark chapter 13, Luke 21. And all those all the signs of
Mark 13 chapter mention
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his second coming and Satan method continue to be the same
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pain and gain in the last days. And here there will be a lot of
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persecutions in the last days, but there will also be a lot of
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lawlessness. So the better continues, the
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unseen better continues all the way into the last days until
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Christ return and do a regime change.
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In the last days Jesus talks about lawlessness will increase
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because lawlessness. Lawlessness is the same as the
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whole list of the works of the flesh.
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They will increase and the love of many will grow cold.
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The Internet is one source of lawlessness.
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It promotes the unlimited drawing of the current.
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If you're not careful, you get suck into it and you will not
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inherit the Kingdom of God. And in the another translation
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it says and because lawlessness shall have been multiplied and
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it is multiplying right now, and the NIVNIRV and NIV both they
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say it is evil shall increase, wickedness shall increase.
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And the Greek word for lawlessness, alumnia, that means
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it's against the law. Basically, it's against the law.
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And this word in Greek is not just going against the law of
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the country. I mean, it's ridiculous.
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Sorry. You know, in the US when you see
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people going against the law enforcement officers, it's
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ridiculous. It's not just going against the
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law of the country. It is also going against the law
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of nature, the law of anything. The boy can become girl, girl
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can become boy. And this is exactly what Paul is
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talking about in the next slide. And he says don't let anyone
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deceive you for that day. That means the coming of Christ
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will not happen until you see two key events.
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And one of the key events is the man, the rebellion take place.
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That is the apostasy of the church, which is already
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happening in US, in UK where the churches are turning to LGBT.
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OK. And now we are watching Who is
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this man of lawlessness promoting the flesh, promoting
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the frozen tube without the ballast?
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He's coming, but we don't know who yet.
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Surely not me. I'm a good guy.
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Of course we are seeing that in the US through the we call them
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the Demon Crack party. Demons.
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And also the Labour Party in the UK there are just crazy, like
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what Trump called them crazy. Sorry, I don't quite like Trump,
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but I think he's doing a great job.
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He's a nightmare for the LGBTS. So you see, lawlessness means
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there is no scarcity of sex within marriage.
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Premarital sex is being promoted.
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It's a free sex world and it results in so many abortions in
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America. Looks like 2024 went beyond
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1,000,000 unborn babies. And look at this girl.
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She decided to be a she's such a lovely looking girl.
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You look as she removed her breasts just to be a boy.
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This is the kind of evil that is going on and it's spreading and
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it's coming over to this part of the world.
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That's right. And you know, when my friends in
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Singapore are always James, why are you so concerned about what
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goes on in America? I say, look here.
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Whatever happens in America spreads all over the world.
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Trust me. Look at McDonald's everywhere
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now. Oh, isn't it true?
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Yeah. So what are we supposed to do?
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This is what the message is all about.
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Be very careful. Walk by the Spirit.
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The thing is this, it appears right now that the whole world
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is moving towards the same direction of lawlessness, and
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the easy way is for us to flow along that.
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The difficult way and the harder way is to follow Jesus all the
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way. And there is no in between, no
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compromise. That's right, You remember this,
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the story about Jesus talking about the broad gate and the
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narrow gate. And finally towards the end of
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his parable, he, he says that in the last days there will be a
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lot of people who will come before me.
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And he says, Lord, Lord, I have cast out demons.
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How can you don't know me? I'm on YouTube.
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I'm a mega church. You know, it cannot be.
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You don't know me. It's impossible.
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My name is Jacob. I shouldn't be using my own
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name. Oh, this is oh, that's bad.
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And Jesus says I don't know you. These are prominent guys.
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And he says depart from me. You who practice lawlessness,
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NIV calls it evildoers because lawlessness is as good as evil
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doing. And this word lawlessness comes
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from the same Greek word anomia. Outwardly these guys are calling
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him Lord, Lord, Lord. You know, somebody was saying,
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how do you tell you can you can tell the pretenders and the
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genuine ones, where where can you find them?
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They say in the church. Yeah, because many were
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professed Lord, Lord, but they'd really never meant to make him
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Lord. And so these other people,
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outwardly, they call him Lord. I remember my American founding
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pastor used to say this. If you, if he is not the Lord of
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all, he is not the Lord at all. I think you must have heard that
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before, right? So when you call him Lord, you
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have to mean it. But even though you don't mean
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it, it doesn't really matter because the test will come
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because Jesus at the end of the parable in Matthew Chapter 7,
Matthew 7 chapter mention
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there will be the storm test that is coming.
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The rain, the flood, the wind is going to come and only those who
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built their lives upon the rock, the genuine followers of Christ,
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they will be able to withstand it.
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And Paul warning to those who continue to want to sin and they
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make it very clear the consequences.
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Verse 24, can you see and God gave them up.
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Verse 26, God give them up, and verse 28 God give them over.
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It's a very scary thing to continue to want to sin.
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It's a very scary thing when God give us up.
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If you continue to grieve the Holy Spirit, if you continue to
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want to. Entertain lawlessness the flesh
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God one day is going to say bye bye to you.
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And not only that, the last verse 28 is even worse and God
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will give them over. In other words, since you want
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to continue this way, I will allow you this way.
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I help you along and make you even worse.
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Be very careful. I was 25 years old some 20 years
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ago, you know, and I know. How is it like, yeah, there are
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a lot of temptations even in my time.
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But it is very scary when God gave us up.
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We don't want that to happen. Sometimes it's good that we talk
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about the wrath of God, not just the love of God.
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The problem in today is we always kick off with the Gospel
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of John 316 for God so loved the world, but we've forgotten John
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313 all the way down. How this verse 16 come about.
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That is the reason why we are doing hermeneutics with
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everybody. Always take the context, the
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passage. Why are we talking about the
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love of God only? It is understood He loves us
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because the love of God is not the problem.
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We are the problem. We have the flesh to worry
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about. We have the lawlessness to
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tackle. We should be talking about this
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more because the love of God is constant.
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We we are not constant. And so it's about time we start
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talking about hell, but you don't talk about anymore.
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And Paul, make it very clear. Those who continue in the flesh
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will not inherit the Kingdom of God means you inherit the
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Kingdom of Satan. You end up in hell.
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You know, in Singapore, we call it don't pray, play.
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That means don't play around. Yeah, OK.
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That is our colloquial way. Don't mess around.
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Don't play. Play OK and the next slide and
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Paul continue. He's very strong on this, you
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know, Paul continue and he says do not be deceived.
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Don't you ever think God is mock, OK, Whatever a man sows,
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he will also reap. But he who sows to the flesh
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will reap corruption, but he will sow to the Spirit will of
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the Spirit leap, leap life everlasting.
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And he encourages us in verse 9. But let us not grow weary.
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Let us not be tired. Let us not give up.
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Oh, this one, give up on me. Let us not give up, OK?
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For in due season there will be a time we're going to enjoy the
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fruits of our labour. And there are people who thinks
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that they can mock God, they can mock the church by living a life
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of uncontrolled flesh kind of ways.
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You know, some people, they are offended by the pastor.
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Ah, I decided to leave the church.
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I go on drinking. I go on visit all kinds of
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institutions except the mental institutions.
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And they continue to do whatever they want.
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They think they are mocking God. Oh, there will be consequences.
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Next slide. Look at this young man over here
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just few days ago he went to court few days only.
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This was reported last year he was charged 110.
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Bright young men, future doctor living in Melbourne.
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He have hidden cameras in the hospitals, changing rooms,
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bathing area for all the females.
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He was catering to the flesh and he thought he can get away with
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it. Oh, your sin will find you out.
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That's right, right. These are the consequences.
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Whatever you reap, whatever you sow, you reap.
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You may sow something now that you think you enjoy, but it will
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come back to haunt you. OK, but while all these are
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going on, it appears that we are in a very green environment.
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But God have given us examples of hope from the Scriptures and
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today I call this the Joseph generation that God is going to
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raise up. And when I told a pastor about
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Joseph generation, he got a shock.
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See that was the same thing that the Lord spoke to him.
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And now in my dream and my vision, whatever, somehow it
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connects in the last days, Joseph in the first book where
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one young man called Joseph, one man that God has provided us as
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a role model. He refused to give in to
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lawlessness and the temptation of free sex.
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But he suffered and yet he passed the test And see Mrs.
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Potiphar one day. Notice this young man was well
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built and handsome like me. She tames him with free sex.
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Now Can you imagine if you are alone with this hardly dressed
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woman? It's very, very difficult to
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resist temptation, but he decided not to.
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He fled, and this is what he said.
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My master has put me in charge of almost everything.
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Now he doesn't have to worry about anything in the house.
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He trusts me to take care of everything he owns.
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No one in this house in higher position than I am.
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My master hasn't held anything back from me except you.
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You are his wife. Can you recognize that you are
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his wife? You don't.
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There must be some rules. There must be some limitations
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to whatever you want to do. You don't get involved with
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someone's else's wife. How could I do such an evil
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thing like that? And how could I see it against
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God? Now you see, you notice this one
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thing that actually from here we discover 2 very important values
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of integrity #1 he values earthly relationship, OK?
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And that is very critical. You know, these are the guys
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that we want to look for when we want to hire someone who
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recognise the boss. And he's grateful to the boss
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for breaking him up to this level.
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And he wants to remain faithful. And he will not do such an evil
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thing as to try to encroach into his private relationship with
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his wife. Husband and wife relationship is
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sacred. Are you hearing me when I.
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Oh, sorry. I don't have my ring anymore
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because the ring is. The ring is too tight.
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I'm surprised I put on weight. Yeah.
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So. So my wife tell me to take it
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up. So with her permission, I took
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it up. I'm in the business world.
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There are a lot of temptations. One Indonesian businessman, very
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rich guy. My boss told me you better sit
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down with him. He likes you.
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You better have dinner with him. OK, Dinner, Ken.
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And after dinner he insists that I go with him to those
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nightclubs. Youngers dancing naked.
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I said, you want me to go, boss? You go.
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No, no, no, you go. OK, I go.
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I swallow my saliva. So you know what I did?
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I went to the nightclub together with this business guy.
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The first I saw the stage there I sat my back facing the stage
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and throughout the so-called entertainment time with all the
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food I eat the food, I never turn back.
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And then he would say to me, why are you not turning back to
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look? You should be enjoyed.
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I said, you know, my dear friend, I really told you I
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enjoy your company very much. I mean, you are a good guy.
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I like to do business with you. But you know, I don't need all
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this. It's OK.
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And besides, I'm married. I have a wife.
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Please understand. You know, too.
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One woman is enough trouble. A woman better forgive me.
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I, I, I I don't mean it. The second very important values
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of integrity is he values his heavenly relationship with God.
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He do not want to offend God. He do not want to have a rupture
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of relationship between the one that he loved, the one that had
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brought him through trust and promotion as well.
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He will not want to hurt God. I think many times it's very,
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very, very important that we have these two critical values
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of godly integrity that will see us through.
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And Joseph becomes a model of uncompromising purity and one
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that never lose hope even though he's being accused wrongly and
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God finally fulfill his God-given dream.
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He was promoted to be #2 and just when he was about to give
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up his dream, you remember he even called his first son.
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What is his first son? Name your son.
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No, no, Manessa. You know what's Manessa?
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Forget. Forget.
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I don't think you like to call your son forget.
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You forget everything. He forget because you know why
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He says God has made me forget about all my sufferings.
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I don't want to remember it anymore.
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But do you really think God may he forget?
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No, it was the next chapter you read carefully.
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His brothers appear again. But it is a God-given dream.
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He will make it come to pass. And his brothers came and bowed
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down before him. Ladies and gentlemen, when God
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give you a dream, you will go through difficult times
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sometimes, but never give up. And there are a lot of young
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people over here today. God has granted you dreams about
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what He's going to use you for in the future.
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Don't give up. Don't let temptations come along
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the way to get you into trouble. And I am believing that in the
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last days God is going to raise up more Joseph.
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They refuse to submit themselves to the pains, that is
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persecution, and they refuse to submit themselves to the gains,
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temptation and lawlessness. And then in my so-called vision,
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suddenly I was led to this passage.
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Revelations chapter 14 verse one to four and then John says I
Revelation 14 chapter mention
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look and there in front of me was the land.
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He was standing at Mount Zion. That means he already had
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returned. OK.
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With him were 144,000 people. Written on the foreheads were
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his name and his father's name and they had not committed
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sexual sins with women. They had kept themselves pure,
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their mouths told no life integrity again. 144,000 Jewish
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young men Genesis chapter 1 you have one young man in the last
Genesis 1 chapter mention
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days. 144,000 Joseph. Just when we think we are going
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to be overwhelmed by evil and lawlessness, God has his
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randoms. And so these are the Jewish
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people. Let me continue.
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There is another kind of Joseph generation that are non Jewish
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as well. And when I began to look at
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scriptures, I discovered that in Revelations Chapter 7, right
Revelation 7 chapter mention
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after the 144,000 are being announced in Chapter 7 and then
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jump over to chapter 14. That's why sometimes Revelation
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can make you very confused. That is why I avoid studying the
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book of Revelations that I ask your pastor to do it.
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He's more intellectual than me. I'm very confused.
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And so Chapter 7 talks about the inauguration of the 144,000.
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And after the inauguration of this so-called Joseph
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generation, later you discover that there is another
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generation, the multitudes and multitudes that he cannot even
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count. And he says that these are the
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ones who came out of the great tribulation.
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They are dressed in their their in their white robes.
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They came out from the great tribulation.
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That means it is after the tribulation already.
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It's after Jesus return. Who are these guys that are
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beyond count? You can't number them and and
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John recorded for us. They are from different tribes,
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different countries, different tongues, so many of them
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millions I believe. Who are these people?
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What we know is that they suffer, they go through thirst,
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they go through hunger but they survive the 3.5 years great
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tribulation and they were rewarded.
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They were dressed in white robe and God recognised them.
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And I am of the opinion Revelations Chapter 7 verse 14,
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this group of multitudes of Saints have to be the same group
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found in Matthew chapter 24 where Jesus says those who
Matthew 24 chapter mention
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endure to the end. These are the multitudes and
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multitudes and the millions of Saints around the world that God
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is raising up. They refuse to submit to Satan's
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pain and gains, and they endure to the end.
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And if you read the context and I was running through again and
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again, I was praying about it. And so towards the end, Jesus
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says because lawlessness shall abound.
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We read this already, but he who endures to the end shall be
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saved. Endures what I mean not just
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your wife, but you have to endure temptation.
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You have to endure lawlessness, you have to endure persecutions,
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endure to the end. The end of what?
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The end of the 3.5 years. So Revelations Chapter 7, verse
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14 are likely to be these guys who endure to the end.
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They are like Joseph. They refuse to budget.
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They refuse to be part of the B system.
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They don't want to get jacked. I'm sorry.
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I'm not jacked because I was almost jacked.
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You know the mRNA, but I didn't thank God.
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My wife got a revelation. Actually, it's not revelation.
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Actually, I show him, show her the video, but her friends show
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her the same video that she listened to her friends.
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She don't listen to me. And then you read the next
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verse, NCV. Another version says those
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people who kept their faith until the end will be safe.
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But what are they kept safe for? For what there is a purpose and
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this is where the next verse comes in and this gospel of the
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Kingdom, these are the guys that God is going to use for the last
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days massive Holy Spirit revival around the world because these
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are the guys that refuse to budget.
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These are the guys that are the Joseph generation, OK,
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Persecution will not affect them.
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Temptation will not affect them. They are the guys that choose to
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walk the narrow gate and, and you know something, God will use
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the last days persecutions and the temptations to sieve up the
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wolves among the ship. And then when they are being
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done away with, God unleashes those people who are ready to
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endure to the end. And they will be the one that
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this gospel, the Kingdom will be pitched to the whole world and
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the God will use them for this massive evangelism.
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And these are the Joseph generation that God is looking
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for. The non Jews.
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Do you see the flow? I never saw it until I further
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study after that so-called dream that I have.
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And so it is very encouraging for us to know we are not alone.
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We are not alone. I have testimonies after
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testimonies because we support church planters in persecuted
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area in India, Indonesia, oh Pakistan.
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I forget to mention tough and these are the guys that we
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salute them. They endure to the end very
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tough. We visit them, we know how is it
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like and after those who endure to the end and after the gospel
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is being preached to the whole world after this non Jews Joseph
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generation rise up and begin to reach out and then the end come
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and then later you ever discover where Jesus himself said
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immediately after the tribulation, the Son of man
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comes and then he gathered the elect and you look at the word
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elect. Don't get confused, OK, The
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Greek word it's very hard to pronounce.
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Go mine. It's a go mine, OK.
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Just remember it is like a selection process.
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It is not as though it is an arbitrary approach in the
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political context, election or to be chosen.
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It's not a one way thing, it's a two way thing, OK.
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There is a call and there are those who respond to this call
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and that is what election is all about.
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And it's like the Army, for example, in the Army we're going
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to recruit commandos. And what happened?
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Those who answer the call, they join in, they go through the
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course and if they survive the test, the commander or the
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defence minister, ladies and gentlemen, today I present to
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you those chosen ones because they survive the test.
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So there are two way, there is a call and there are those who
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answer the call and it is the same as what Paul in his first
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sermon in Acts chapter 2, verse 21, whoever calls on the name of
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the Lord. You see there is this response
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to the core and as many as the Lord our God called verse 39.
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So you see it's a two way process.
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It's not a one way where God only choose.
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It is very clear when Jesus said it.
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That is why he says in Matthew chapter 20 verse 16 and 22 verse
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14 and he says many are called, few are chosen right, some are
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frozen. So now we understand you can,
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you can answer the call, but if you don't endure to the end, you
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are not selected, you're not part of it, you're not meant to
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be it, or maybe you just refuse to be, to be enduring to the
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end. And So what will occur
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immediately after the tribulation, immediately after
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the tribulation, those multitudes who have gone through
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the tribulation, these are the guys that are the one that
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endures to the end. So now I'm going to end my my
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presentation, my thesis, so to say.
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OK, there are some Bible school lecturer here.
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I hope you pass me. There is this link which I see
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it's my opinion. There is this link between the
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first book and the last book. The first book tells us there is
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one man, a Jewish young man, that refused to give way to
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lawlessness. He refused to give way to free
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sex. He suffered, but he passed the
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test. He endured to the end.
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And he gives us a picture of consecration, purity, godliness,
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sanctifications and holiness. And this link all the way to the
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last book, 144,000 Jewish young men that God is raising up.
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Like Joseph, they refused to have any sexual sins.
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They kept themselves pure, untainted, uncompromised, fully
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consecrated to him. And in between, before the last
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days, Jesus told us there is another group, non Jewish,
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multitudes, uncountable. And these are the millions of
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people that God is also raising up.
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And they will be the one that will be used for the last bit,
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last days evangelism. Wow.
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And I think there is a link. So the first book reveals 1
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Joseph, the last book reveals to us we are not alone. 144,000
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Joseph. And in between God is going to
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raise up more than just that millions uncountable in the last
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days. And ladies and gentlemen, young
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people, listen to me carefully. God is calling you to be the
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Joseph generation, but you are going to stand the test of pain
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and also gain. But I'm telling you it's worth
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it. Why do I say that?
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You look at the current world situation, it is the young
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people that are making the impact.
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In Bangladesh, they overthrew the government, in Nepal, the
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same and now in Iran. And many of them are Christians
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who are dying at the hands of Ayatollah.
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And then in the US you have Charlie Cook.
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God is raising up young people and I think there is a model in
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the Philippines. Next line, you know this guy,
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he's the vice mayor of Quezon City.
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This guy, his mum is a pastor and he is totally transparent.
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He opened up all his books on the Internet.
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Anybody can see how much money he spent.
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Who are the the open open tenders given?
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No such thing as closed tender phone call.
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Hey, hello. You know you couldn't express no
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such thing. Everything is open.
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This guy is making an impact and you do Bible studies in the
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office. God is calling you guys.
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Young people, don't fall for the devil's skin.
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Keep yourself pure. I want to go back to election
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again. Don't ever think that election.
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I mean, that is what you have the Calvinist, you have the
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harmonist and I believe both are correct.
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Yeah, I believe both are correct.
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You cannot explain just Calvinism alone.
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You going to explain harmonism as well.
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But if you just based on Calvinism, God have already
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decided who he wants and he has and he is arbitrary selecting
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hey, you, what are you good looking guy?
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You're in and you what are you pretty looking?
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You're in me gone. There is there is a standard
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process. God is an organised God.
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Just look at the universe from the day God created the
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universe. You don't see the moon come
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crashing towards the earth. It stays within the orbit.
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You look at the solar system, God is an organised God.
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There is a process and one of the process I believe is he who
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endures to the end. And this is the process.
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We are the elect if we choose to endure to the end.
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And so ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to just wrap this up with
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The Last Light. Just remember what Rand
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Hartbourne cases when he was very young as a kid, he went to
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the altar and he knelt down and this is what he prayed.
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Lord, help me to mind in the beginning what matters in the
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end. In other words, what you start
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now better think about what is going to end.
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Don't just think about the beginning, the fun, OK, the
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gains, think about the pain later.
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So ladies and gentlemen, God wants all of us to be part of
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this Joseph generation. If you want to feed the hungry,
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you must first have purity before God can use us to help
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the last days people. God is looking for an untainted
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Joseph generation.