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Your "Amazing Facts"
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Doug Batchelor:
Welcome back, friends.
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In our last episode, we learned
about the assurance, purpose,
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and the many signs
of Christ's soon return.
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Today we'll continue our
exciting study about Jesus'
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Second Coming,
learning how to not be deceived
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by false Christs,
and revealing exactly how
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the Lord returns
and what really happens
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to our planet when He does.
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Okay, it's time to get
into today's presentation.
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Doug: For years, I think
National Geographic had a
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program called Doomsday
Preppers, and they always made
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fun of kind of these, you know,
folks out there in the country
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that were walking around with
their tin foil hats and their
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guns and talking
about the end of the world.
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But it's not those
people now, friends.
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It's thinking people that
realize that we're on the cusp
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of what could be catastrophic.
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And they're wondering:
"How can we save ourselves?"
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Well, friends, this meeting
is going to tell you how you can
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be saved.
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And that's not going
to be a Doomsday Bunker.
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It is going to be a shelter,
and the Lord is our shelter.
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He is the way that
we are going to survive.
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He is a mighty rock
in a weary land, amen?
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"A thousand may fall at your
side, ten thousand at your right
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hand, but it will not come
nigh unto you," that's Psalm 91,
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"Because you've made the
most high your habitation.
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No plague will come
nigh your dwelling."
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God can protect you
through all of this.
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Now, not only are they looking
for bunkers and going down in
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the ground, but these
billionaires are also looking at
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going up in the sky.
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Boeing, you know, a contractor,
their space program is having
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problems right now, so they're
turning to private companies.
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And you got people, like
Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Richard
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Branson, where there's space
companies, and you ask them:
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"Why are you
building space companies?"
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If you ask Elon Musk, he
says: "The future of our world's
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looking pretty bleak."
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He said: "My goal
is to die on Mars."
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And they're saying: "We're
looking for colonization that is
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out of this world or on a space
station," because they're afraid
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for what the future
of the world might be.
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And you got SpaceX and
Blue Origin and all the
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different companies.
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And, frankly, I'd love
to take a trip up there.
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That would be
rather interesting.
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Here's some of the other reasons
I think Jesus is coming soon
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that get me so excited:
"Increase in knowledge."
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Do you know the
Bible foretold that?
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You read in Daniel
chapter 12, verse 4,
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the prophet
there said: "But you,
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o Daniel," the
angel's speaking to Daniel,
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"shut up the
words, and seal the book
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until the time of the end;
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many will run to and fro,
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and knowledge will increase."
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You notice he didn't say, wisdom
will increase, because people
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aren't much wiser.
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Knowledge, like technology,
"knowledge has increased."
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If I took my smartphone and I
showed it to the Apostle Peter.
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I said: "Peter, come here,
I want to show you something.
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I know you're in Israel.
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Paul's in Rome right now.
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Would you like to talk to him?"
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That would have blown
him away, just the telephone.
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Say: "You want to look at
him while you talk to him?
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Do you want to
upload a recipe to him?
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Maybe you'd like to do a
Zoom call with the whole church.
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Would you like to look at Google
Maps and see how to get there
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the quickest?"
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They would think
you're a witch, right?
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You know, my grandfather
was born in New York City.
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Matter of fact, he
was born in Harlem.
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It was a lot of Jewish people
on my mother's side, all Jewish,
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and he was born by
candlelight, my grandfather.
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They were riding horses--I
guess, you still have some
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horses left, right?
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But they were riding
horses around New York City.
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Look at how the world
has changed in one lifetime.
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He said: "Many will run
to and fro and knowledge
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will increase."
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People are running to and
fro now more than they ever had.
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You just consider the
increase in knowledge.
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I mean, just look at what's
happened in the past century
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with everything
from the automobile,
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the airplane, the radio,
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penicillin, a moon landing,
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space stations.
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Technology is
exploding exponentially now.
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They say that all of the
knowledge of man we've learned
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more in the last ten years then
all of the knowledge--all of the
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history of man combined.
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And now with AI, and it's
a double-edged sword like the
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internet, and like all
communications, it can be used
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for good or evil, but it's
pretty scary what it'll do:
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"Global evangelization,"
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now this gets me really excited.
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Jesus said: "One
of the signs before
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he comes back,"
Matthew 24, verse 14:
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"And this gospel of the
kingdom will be PREACHED
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in all the world for a
witness unto all nations,
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and then, the end will come."
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Just think about what's
happening right here in New
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York City.
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And, you know, we've got
a modest crowd compared with
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what's happening
around the world.
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There are tens of thousands,
if not hundreds of thousands, of
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people that are participating
right now, or they will tomorrow
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because of the time change,
and wherever we go in the world
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now--it's amazing.
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I go to the Middle East
and people live in a tent, and
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there's a satellite dish
coming up out of the tent.
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And goats are going in and out
of the front door, but they got
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a satellite TV.
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It's the truth.
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Karen and I were in
New Guinea, and we're out
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in the jungle of New Guinea.
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We took our film crew.
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We said: "We want to get,"
like, you know, we get way out
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in the hills and get in the
typical, you know, beautiful
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native hut with a garden.
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And we finally
found this person.
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And through a translator, we
said: "Will they mind if we come
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and do a little video tape?"
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And they talked to him in Pidgin
English, and they said: "No,
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they're happy to
have you come out."
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And so Karen and I and our crew,
we got out of the car, walked
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over, and the lady of the
house, she looked at me and her
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mouth fell.
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She looked like she saw a ghost.
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She began to jabber
really quick in Pidgin, and she
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looked terrified.
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And the translator came over and
said: "She watches your programs
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every week.
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She never dreamed
you'd be in her country.
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She never dreamed
you'd be in her front yard."
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And we gave her a big hug.
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It was such a neat experience.
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But it's, like, the Gospel's
going all over the world in
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Amazing Facts, you
know, we're one ministry.
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There's other
Christians doing it.
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Jesus said: "The gospel will go,
and then, the end will come."
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He didn't say, it might come.
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He didn't say,
everyone would believe.
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He said: "It will go
as a witness so they have
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an opportunity."
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All the stuff that's happening
in New York City tonight, you
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folks decided to come and
to hear what really matters in
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life, how to live forever,
and what is the purpose of life.
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Thank you for coming.
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This Gospel we preach in all
the world, it's happening now.
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"Today, almost with instant
global internet, satellite
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communication, smartphones,
rapid international travel, the
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fulfillment of this
prophecy is within reach in this
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generation," friends.
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Number four, "What solemn
warning does Jesus give about
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His Second Coming?"
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"For many will come in My
name, saying, 'I am Christ,' and
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will," what?
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"DECEIVE."
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We want to avoid being deceived.
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He said--Jesus says Matthew
24:24: "False Christs and false
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PROPHETS will rise and
show great signs and wonders to
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deceive, if possible, even
the very elect," very convincing
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signs and wonders.
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He said: "I'm telling
you in advance," Jesus said:
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"'I'm prophesying.
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I'm telling you.'
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Therefore if they say,
'Look, He's in the desert!'"
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that might be the
Middle East, "'do not go out;'
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'Look, He's in inner rooms.
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Do NOT BELIEVE it."
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Cause when Christ comes,
it says it's like lightning.
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Everyone's going to know, right?
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I don't know if you've
ever met a false Christ.
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Probably if you live in
the city, you've met several.
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When I was living in the
mountains up in a cave, I was
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living like a hermit
for about a year and a half.
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And one day into my
cave yard, this hiker came.
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And the guy was about 6
feet tall, handsome man,
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shoulder-length auburn
hair, beard, hazel eyes.
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There's no one up there, but me.
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He sat and he talked to me for a
minute or two, and then he said:
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"I'm Jesus."
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Well, at first I thought:
"I've got some Spanish friends
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named Jesus.
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Maybe he meant to
say, 'I'm Jesus.'"
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And so I inquired a little more,
and he said: "No, I am Jesus.
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And that kind of rattled
me a little bit because I just
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started reading the Bible.
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And then I thought: "Oh, I'm
up here in the mountains with
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either Jesus or someone crazy."
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And I thought: "What do I do?
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So if it is Jesus, I don't
want to hurt his feelings."
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So I was a little bit
cautious in my answer.
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I said: "Now, if you're Jesus,
didn't you say that when you
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come, it's in the clouds,
and everyone's going to see?"
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He said: "Well, yes, that's
for most people, but I'm coming
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specially to
prepare some other people."
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He knew his Bible.
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He had an answer for everything.
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And--but I knew something wasn't
right, especially after he
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stayed with me for three days
and ate all my food and didn't
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do any work.
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I knew Jesus wouldn't do that.
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And then I kicked him out.
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I had to evict Jesus.
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And then a few days later, I saw
him down in Palm Springs, and he
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had found an apostle.
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This tall hippie was following
around going: "This is Jesus."
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A few days later, I saw
him again in town, and he was
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missing his front tooth.
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And I felt so, you know, I felt
bad for him, but I felt good for
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me 'cause I thought I
know Jesus has all his teeth.
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I was sure then it
wasn't Jesus at that point.
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But the false Christ in
the last days are going to be
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very convincing.
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They're not going to
be just deranged people.
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Number five: "What will
prevent the righteous from
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being deceived?"
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What is the answer, friends?
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The Word of God: "To
the law and the testimony!"
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That means the law and the
prophets, the Word of God, the
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New and the Old Testament:
"To the law and the testimony!
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If they do not speak according
to THIS WORD, it is because
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there is no light in them."
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We're going to be showing you
from the Word of God how you can
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separate the wheat from
the tares, the true from the
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false, amen?
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"Thy Word is a lamp to my
feet and a light to my path."
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So we're talking now, not just
about Jesus coming soon, now
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we're talking
about how He's coming.
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Let me tell you
why that's important.
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When Jesus came the first time
as a baby, were His people, the
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nation of Israel, were they all
ready and waiting with banners
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saying: "He's here."
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Did they have the Bible?
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They had their prophecies.
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Did they
misunderstand the prophecies?
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And they were not
ready for His first coming.
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Has the devil changed or is
it possible he's going to do
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that again?
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And a lot of the church now is
expecting Jesus to come in a way
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He didn't say He's coming, so
they're not going to be ready.
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The devil's trying to deceive a
whole generation of Bible-toting
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people just like he did before,
so they're not ready for the
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Second Coming.
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So we need to know
something about how He's coming.
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The Bible says: "The Lord
Himself will descend," this is
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1 Thessalonians 4:16,
"He'll descend from heaven with
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a," what?
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"A SHOUT, with the voice of
the archangel, and the TRUMPET
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of God."
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Now there are, let me just make
a little disclaimer, there are
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good, spirit-filled,
heaven-bound Christians in many
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different
churches, y'all hearing me?
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I've had the privilege of
preaching in Methodist churches,
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Nazarene churches, Pentecostal
churches, Baptist churches, Four
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Square churches, and I've met
lovely people in many different
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denominations, and I'm
not wanting to say anything to
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offend anybody.
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Clearly, they
disagree on different points.
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We all know that.
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I think we can love each
other and disagree on some
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points, amen?
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But I'm going to tell you what
I believe the Bible teaches.
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The idea that the rapture, I
believe the rapture that we're
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going to be caught up, but
I don't believe it's a secret.
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The idea of the secret rapture
is a relatively new teaching.
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For 1900 years, the church
believed in a glorious, visible,
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loud, obvious
coming of the Lord.
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And you might be thinking:
"Well, doesn't the Bible say
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He's coming
quietly like a thief?"
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It does, 2 Peter chapter 3,
verse 10, let me quote it to
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you: "The day of the Lord will
come as a thief in the night."
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Some people stop right there.
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They say: "Yeah,
He's going to come.
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The saints are
raptured before the Tribulation.
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Then there's seven years
of Tribulation, and the church
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doesn't have to worry at
all about the plagues or the
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Tribulation because we've been
caught up because He came like
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a thief."
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They don't keep reading the
verse: "The day of the Lord will
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come as a thief in the night; in
which the heavens will pass away
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with a great noise, and the
elements will melt with fervent
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heat, and the earth and the
works that are in it will be
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burned up.
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Seeing then that all these
things will be dissolved, how
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should we live in all holy
conversation and godliness,
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Looking forward to the coming
of the day of God, in which the
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heavens being on fire will be
dissolved, and the elements will
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melt with fervent heat?"
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Yeah, He's coming as a thief,
but when He comes as a thief,
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it's not going to
be good down here.
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It says: "He'll come
with a shout, with a trumpet."
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All Christians believe in
the Tribulation, and all people
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believe we're going to be caught
up, but the big disagreement is
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on when.
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So let me address that quickly.
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Does Jesus say: "He that endures
to the end will be saved?"
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If the church is all caught up
before the Tribulation, why do
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we need to endure?
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"We're the children of Israel."
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By the way, the Great
Tribulation is also the same as
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the Seven Last Plagues
in Revelation 15 and 16.
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That's the Great Tribulation.
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It says so in the Bible.
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The children of Israel,
were they in Egypt when the ten
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plagues fell on Egypt?
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God protected them
through the last seven plagues.
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First three plagues, they
went through with the Egyptians.
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The last seven,
they were protected.
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Will He protect us
through the seven last plagues
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in Revelation?
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He will, but they were in
Egypt, and He protected them.
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Now that's why He said:
"No plague will come nigh
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your dwelling.
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Only with your eyes will you see
to your right and your left the
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punishment of the wicked."
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Did God save Noah from the
flood or through the flood?
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Through the flood.
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Did God save Job from his
trials or through his trials?
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Did God save Joseph from
his troubles or did He save him
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through his troubles?
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Doesn't the Bible say: "Paul,"
Acts chapter 14: "It is through
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Tribulation we
enter the kingdom of God."
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I'd love to believe we're all
going get raptured out before
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the Tribulation, friends.
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That'd be much easier.
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If we get to heaven and I'm
wrong, I'll apologize, but I
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don't find it in the Bible.
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I think God tells us: "Now
we need to fortify our faith so
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that we can stand."
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Jesus says: "Pray that you be
found worthy to escape all these
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things and stand before
the Son of Man when he comes."
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Now, let's find out what
the Bible says, fair enough?
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All right, keep going.
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Jeremiah 25: "The Lord will
roar from on high, and utter His
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voice from His holy habitation;
He will roar mightily against
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His fold.
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He will give a shout, as those
that tread the grapes, against
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all the
inhabitants of the earth.
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Our God shall come,
and shall," what's it say?
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"Shall NOT keep SILENT; a fire
shall devour before Him, and it
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will be very tempestuous
all round about Him."
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And I know that there's a lot
of dear people that have been
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taught through Tim LaHaye, good
man, wrote that "Left Behind"
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series, colorful.
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Very first thing he
says is: "This is a novel."
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He doesn't say:
"It's scriptural."
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He said: "It's a novel."
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And pilots are flying
along, and all of a sudden,
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co-pilot disappears.
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They're both pilots, and
the plane goes down because they
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were raptured,
and no one else was.
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A man goes to talk to his wife,
and she's not there, just her
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clothes are there in the bed and
her curlers because she's been
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raptured, and
he was left behind.
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But he gets a second chance.
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See, the devil is
telling people: "You'll get a
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second chance."
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No friends, you got to get
ready now for when Jesus comes.
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Number seven: "Who will
see Jesus when He returns?"
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What does the Bible say: "Then
the sign of the Son of Man will
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appear in a heaven, and ALL the
TRIBES of the earth will mourn,
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and they will see the Son of Man
coming in the clouds of heaven
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with power and great glory."
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Revelation 1:7: "Behold, He's
coming in the clouds, and," how
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many eyes?
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"EVERY EYE will see Him."
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People always say: "How
can--Pastor Doug, how can every
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eye see Him on a round world?"
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Doesn't say the same moment.
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It means that day that He comes,
He'll sweep around the earth.
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Everybody will see Him that day.
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Number eight: "Who will
be with Jesus when He comes?"
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"When the Son of Man comes
in His glory, and all the HOLY
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ANGELS with Him."
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Now, what was the
glory of one angel like?
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You know, the Bible says: "It's
like lightning shining from the
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east to the
west," Matthew 24:27.
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When Jesus came, one or two
angels rolled away the stone,
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I think one angel rolled away
the stone, but the ladies looked
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inside, they saw two angels, and
"the glory of that one angel the
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Roman guard fell down
as though they were dead."
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The Bible says in 1 Kings that
"an angel of the Lord struck
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185,000 Assyrian soldiers
in one night," one angel.
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"Angel of the Lord went through
Egypt, destroyed the first
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born," one angel.
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When the Lord comes with all the
angels, are you going to have to
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call your friend in the
morning and say: "Did you catch
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that yesterday?"
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"Yeah, all those
angels, every angel in heaven."
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"What will happen to the
righteous at Jesus' coming?"
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"For the Lord Himself
will descend from heaven with a
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shout, the voice
of the archangel."
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We read this, but notice the
second part: "And the dead in
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Christ will,"
there's a resurrection.
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The dead in Christ are
rising when Christ comes.
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And if you read in 1 Corinthians
15, He's talking about, when
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does that happen: "At the coming
of Christ at the last trump, for
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the trumpet will sound," and we
will come forth: "In a moment,
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in the twinkling of an
eye, at the last trumpet.
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For the trumpet will sound,
and the dead will be raised
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incorruptible," we have
glorified bodies, "and we will
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be CHANGED."
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1 Thessalonians
4:17: "We are caught UP."
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The Bible says, what direction
do we go when He comes?
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"We go up."
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That's the rapture.
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The rapture means to be caught
up, means to be carried away
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with power.
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Number ten: "What other
physical evidence will accompany
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Jesus' return?"
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You can see here: "And there
were noises and thunderings and
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lightnings; and
there was a great," what?
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"EARTHQUAKE, such as a mighty
and a great earthquake has not
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occurred," this is going
to be 55 on the Richter scale.
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Says every island disappears.
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The mountains are not found.
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Everybody's going
to know about this.
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Number 11: "What will the
brightness of Jesus coming do to
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the living who are wicked?"
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Now you've got the dead in
Christ and the living in Christ
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are caught up.
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What about the wicked?
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What happens to them?
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By the way, nobody here
needs to be in this category.
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You're here tonight because
the Lord wants you to be in the
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first group.
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It says: "And to give you who
are troubled rest with us when
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the Lord Jesus is revealed from
heaven with his mighty angels,
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in FLAMING FIRE taking vengeance
on those who do not know God."
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The Bible says:
"It's going to be like Lot.
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They fled from the city and
fire rained down from heaven."
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I just read that to you
from 2 Peter, chapter 3.
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Again, read what it
says in 2 Thessalonians 2:8:
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"Then that lawless one,"
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the Antichrist power, "whom
the Lord will consume with the
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breath of his
mouth and," do what?
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"DESTROY with," what?
00:21:03.59\00:21:05.36
"The brightness of His
coming," destroys the wicked.
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But God's people, they're
going to look for it with joy.
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Number 12: "What will the angels
do at Jesus' Second Coming?"
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Christ has promised: "He will
send His angels with the sound
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of a trumpet," that same
trumpet, "and they GATHERED
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TOGETHER His elect from
the four corners of heaven."
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That means north,
south, east, west.
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He sends His angels
to gather them together.
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That's how every
eye is going to see Him.
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And with the dead in
Christ, we will be together.
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That will be the greatest
reunion in history when the
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Lord comes.
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"Since we're living just before
Jesus' Second Coming, how should
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we relate to this solemn event?"
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What should be
our attitude, friends?
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"Therefore also BE READY."
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Did he say, get ready?
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How many of you know you're
going to be alive tomorrow?
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I'm not trying to frighten you,
but, you know, not everybody
00:22:07.66\00:22:11.13
gets a note from the doctor.
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And sometimes we're surprised.
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And someone asked the Jewish
Rabbi: "What's the best time
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to repent?"
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And he said: "The
last day of your life."
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And the man said: "Well, what
if you don't know what the last
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day is?"
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The Rabbi said: "Exactly."
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Today Jesus said: "If you
hear His voice, do not harden
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your heart.
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Be ready.
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Live in an attitude of I'm
walking with the Lord now."
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And you can have that
experience tonight, friends.
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You just come as
you are to Jesus.
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"How will people be rewarded
at Jesus' Second Coming?"
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There's only
two groups, friends.
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Life and death, good
and bad, saved and lost.
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God wants you to have life.
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One group, Revelation 22:12:
"Behold, I'm coming quickly, and
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My reward is with Me, to
give to every one according to
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his WORK."
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Now, wait a second, Pastor Doug,
I thought we're saved by grace,
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you are.
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And when you come to
Jesus, just like you are,
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He forgives you
all of your sins.
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You can pray tonight
and say, Lord, forgive me,
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I want to come to you.
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I don't know how I'm
going to live tomorrow,
00:23:20.03\00:23:21.80
but I'm coming to you now.
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He'll accept you.
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He'll forgive you.
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And then He'll help
you live a different life.
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And your works change
when your heart changes.
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So the works
indicate the life has changed.
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You're not saved by works.
00:23:36.38\00:23:37.68
You're saved by grace.
00:23:37.71\00:23:39.01
But that solid saving
grace will change your actions.
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Number 15: "What will the
wicked say when Jesus comes?"
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Answer: "[The wicked],"
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Revelation 6: 16, they say:
00:23:49.76\00:23:52.53
"to the mountains and the rocks,
00:23:52.56\00:23:54.00
'Fall on us and
hide us from the face
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of Him who sits on the throne
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and from the
wrath of the Lamb!'"
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You usually don't think
about Jesus, the Lamb of God,
00:24:01.04\00:24:03.41
and wrath.
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Some people say: "I like the God
in the New Testament more than
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the God in the Old Testament."
00:24:08.11\00:24:09.44
Friends, it's the same God.
00:24:09.48\00:24:11.85
You got grace in
the Old Testament.
00:24:11.88\00:24:13.38
You got wrath in
the New Testament.
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You got plagues
in the Old Testament.
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You got plagues
in the New Testament.
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You got salvation
in the Old Testament.
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You got salvation
in the New Testament.
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It's all the same God.
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And He wants you to be saved.
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He is desperate
for you to be saved.
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They're going to say:
"Who is able to stand?"
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Jesus said: "Pray always you're
able to escape all these things
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and stand
before the Son of Man."
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Number 16: "What will
the righteous say when
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Jesus appears?"
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Then, they'll say: "in that
day: 'Behold, this is our God;
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we have waited for
Him, and HE will SAVE us.
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This is the Lord; we've waited
for Him; and we'll be glad
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and rejoice."
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Paul refers to the Second
Coming as "the blessed hope."
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You should long for it.
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Now, I know we've
got mixed feelings.
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You got friends maybe that
aren't saved and loved ones, you
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think, I don't want them to come
now because they would be lost,
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and I want them to be saved.
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But, friends, we ought
to look forward to that.
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I don't know about you, but
I'm sick and tired of being sick
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and tired.
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I'm looking forward to a
world where there's no more pain
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or sorrow.
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There's two
groups when Jesus comes.
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You know, there's one group,
if you go out on a dark night in
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the woods, and you get a
flashlight, and you turn over a
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log or a rock and you shine
the light, you can see all these
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bugs crawl away from the light.
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You don't have
to go to the woods.
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Just, if you have
any cockroaches, try it.
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They run from the light.
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But if you're out in the woods
and you turn on a light, the
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moths come to the light.
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There's two kinds of
people when Jesus comes,
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cockroaches and moths.
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What do you want to be?
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Doug: Friends, I hope you've
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But really the reason we do
this is so that people might
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know Christ.
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You know, information
is not going to save us.
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It's a relationship with Jesus,
the one who died on the cross
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for your sins.
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You must personally accept Him.
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And that's the most
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these programs.
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If you've not asked Him
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encourage you
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His arms are open wide.
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Just come to Him as
you are and ask Him.
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