We are racing towards the
global crises at the close.
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God is going to set
up His kingdom on earth.
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Preparation for the
tribulation and the translation
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is to develop a
character like Jesus Christ
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to reach every hamlet,
every village, every man,
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every child,
every person in India,
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every person in South America
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must hear these
Three Angles' Messages.
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These are stories that
illustrate the kind of fabric
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of character and perseverance
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that we need to go
through the tribulation
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just as certainly as they did.
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The Bible makes it very clear
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we are living
in an unusual hour,
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the last grains of sand
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are trickling
through the hourglass of time
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and the door probation
is about the swing shut.
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The title of my message
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in this edition
of Amazing Prophecies
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is "Jesus Wants to be Wanted."
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"Jesus Wants to be Wanted."
Revelation Chapter 12:17.
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If you have it say amen.
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And the dragon... Who's that?
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The devil was
enraged with the woman..."
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Who's that? The church.
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So the devil is
enraged with the church
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and he went to make war
with the rest of her offspring"
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I like the way
King James puts it.
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"Remnant who keep
the commandments of God
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and have the
testimony of Jesus Christ."
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Question, how will
the devil launch that,
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that all out no holds barred
frontal assault on the remnant.
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They are in the
crosshairs of his target.
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I mean we are
on the target list.
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How many agree, we
are on the hit list.
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This is a real war.
How will that play out?
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What is the devil going to do
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in the last
moments of earth's history
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to pull off that
final phase of this,
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this war, this fierce war.
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Look at
Revelation 13:15, 16, 17.
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"And he was granted power
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to give breath to
the image of the beast,
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that the image of the
beast should both speak
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and cause as many as would not
worship the image of the beast,
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should be," how serious?
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"Should be killed."
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So there will be a death decree
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issued by the
government of the United States
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and around the world
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for people to
receive this death penalty
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if they don't go
along with the masses,
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the majority who think
that the mark of the beast
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is a good thing.
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And so look at verse 16.
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" He causes all,
both small and great,
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rich and poor, free and
slave, to receive a mark
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on their right hand
or on their foreheads,
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and that no one
may buy or sell..."
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Economic sanctions.
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"Except one who has the mark
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or the name of the beast,
or the number of his name."
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Did you know
that in a split second
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you can be digitally disabled?
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How many are aware
of that? Immediately.
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Have you ever gone
to on a shopping spree?
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Go to the mall
and maybe you used
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your credit card a little
more out of your ordinary,
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you're out of the
pattern, buying pattern
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and lo and behold the last
department store you stop at,
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you go to swipe your
plastic and they say decline.
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Here they want to talk to you?
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How many have ever had
that experience happened?
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All right, some of you.
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Where they want to
talk to you and they say,
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we just want to
make sure you're okay.
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You know you're little out
of your buying pattern here.
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Yeah, I'm okay, can I
get this? Yeah, no problem.
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How many have ever lost
plastic or your credit card?
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How many have ever
lost your credit card?
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What do you do?
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You call them immediately
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and you tell them what happened.
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Do you know what happens?
They change it, don't they?
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They digitally
disable that lost credit card.
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Another words two
confirming illustrations
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of how you can be
digitally disabled
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in this electronic age of ours.
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We're all plugged
in and the Bible says,
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there will be
an economic boycott
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imposed upon
those who don't go along
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with the infamous
mark of the beast.
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Then it will
escalate to a death decree.
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So this will require what?
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Revelation
14:12. Revelation 14:12.
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"Here is the
endurance of the saints,
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here are those
who keep struggling
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and they make it."
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"Here is the
patience of the saints,
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here are those who
keep the commandments of God
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and the faith of Jesus."
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So if we're going
to make it to the last,
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Jesus says in Matthew 24:13,
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"He who endorse unto the
end, the same shall be saved."
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It's not those
who begin the race,
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it's those who finish it.
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So look at this scenario.
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The mark of the beast
is going to be enforced.
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There will be
teeth in the legislation.
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You will be
forbidden to buy or sell.
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You will be out of commerce.
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You won't be able to buy or sell
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unless you go along with
this popular legislation,
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of forced worship.
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Would you agree forced worship
in the United States of America
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is a direct
violation of U.S. Constitution
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and the Bill of Rights.
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And so, but it will escalate
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as we read here in
this prophetic scenario
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to a death decree.
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So the question is,
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are we going to go through this?
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Yes or no?
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The Bible says, you
got to have endurance
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because you're
gonna go through it.
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Look at Revelation 16:15.
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"When that death
decree goes forth
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and ultimately the
door of probation swings,
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shut on the hinges of time."
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Probation closes,
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just as certainly as
the door of the ark closed.
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The Bible says,
"Then the time of trouble,
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the final
tribulation takes place
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in which the seven last
plagues are poured out."
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When that death
decree goes forth,
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then the plagues
will ultimately come.
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Well, look at Revelation 16.
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Are we going to
be here in proximity?
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Are we gonna be
here on planet earth,
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going through
the throes of that?
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Revelation 16:15,
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in the context
of the sixth plague.
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"Behold I'm coming as a thief,
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Blessed is he who
watches and keeps his garments,
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Christ righteousness,
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lest he walk naked
and they see ashamed."
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Are we going
through the plagues?
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Yes or no?
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We are going
through the plagues.
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The Bible makes it very clear.
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There are seven last plagues
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and this is a
parallel to the plagues
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that fell in the days of Moses.
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They are upon the land of Egypt.
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You remember the plagues fell
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and then after the
final of those 10 plagues,
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then God's people
will miraculously delivered
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through the split sea.
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We call it the Exodus.
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And then we're
gonna be delivered
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after the plagues,
we are modern Israel,
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we will be delivered
not through the split sea,
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but the split, what, everyone?
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The sky. The opening of a sky.
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Revelation 6:14-17 talks
about the heavens opening up
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and we're gonna go up there
to meet the Lord in the air.
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So look now at
Daniel Chapter 12.
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Daniel Chapter 12,
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we're going here
to the Old Testament.
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Daniel 12:1. Daniel 12:1.
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Give you moment to locate that.
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All right? Daniel 12:1.
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"At that time
Michael shall stand up,
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The great prince who stands
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watch over the
sons of your people.
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And there shall
be a time of trouble,
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such as never was
since there was a nation,
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even to that time.
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And at that time
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your people shall be delivered."
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Is that favor of God, yes or no?
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"Every one who is
found written in the book,
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and many of those who
sleep in the dust of the earth
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shall awake, some
to everlasting life,
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some to shame and
everlasting contempt."
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Are we racing toward
the showdown at the close,
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yes or no?
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Is there going to
be a time of trouble?
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Do you see it in
the prophetic horizon?
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We are racing towards the
global crisis at the close.
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And my Bible tells me
that the nature of that,
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the scope of that includes
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the mark of the
beast being enforced.
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Every person will
have to make a decision
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for worshiping the beast
or worshiping the Creator.
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Every person is
involved in this final crisis.
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And so the Bible says,
there will a time of trouble.
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Now you remember the
scripture I like to begin with
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and I usually refer
to it every single night.
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You will arise, and
have mercy upon Zion
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for the time to favor her."
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Yes the set time has come.
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Psalms 102:13 is a
precious promise for us
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who believe we're
going through the tribulation
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because it's at that time
that God is going to stand up
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and He's gonna show
his favor upon His people.
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Would you agree
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if the plagues are
falling all around us,
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but not falling on us?
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Is that not the
favor of God, yes or no?
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Is that not the Lord
standing up for Zion?
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Is that not a set time
during the tribulation time
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when the Lord stands up
and shows Himself strong
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in behalf of His people.
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And so my Bible tells me
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the Lord is
gonna stand up for us.
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The Lord is
gonna stand up for us.
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Now what kind of
endurance do we need to have?
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If we're gonna go
through this tribulation,
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the Bible says in
Revelation Chapter 7,
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go there with me,
Revelation Chapter 7.
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So there's gonna
be a time of trouble.
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Revelation Chapter 7,
I'm looking here at verse 14.
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Revelation 7:14,
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"And I said to
him, "Sir, you know."
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So he said to me,
"These are the ones
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who come out of the
great tribulation..."
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And notice what
that tribulation will do.
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Tribulation brings
purification for translation.
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Listen to what it says here.
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"Those who come out
of great tribulation
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and washed or
purified their robes
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and made them white in
the blood of the Lamb."
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Question.
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When do you
desire and want Jesus
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more than any other time?
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When things are going just fine
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or when it seems let all hell
is broken loose in your life?
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When it seems like trials
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are converging,
and it seems like
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you're going through a
cluster bomb of trials.
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When do you want Jesus more?
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Through your trials
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or when
everything is prosperous?
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You know the answer to that.
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And so before Jesus comes,
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He will allow us to go
through the tribulation,
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not to harm us, but to help us
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to develop a character to
be ready when Jesus comes.
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Would you agree, the preparation
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for the
tribulation and the translation
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is to develop a
character like Jesus Christ,
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that's the only
way we can prepare,
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is to have a
character like Jesus,
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to have a
character change, you know.
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You will see in
the news and magazines,
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these complete makeovers.
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And I must say,
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sometimes, you know,
you might have a person
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that homely looking
person comes in there
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and they are all
disheveled and so forth,
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and they do makeover
and then they come out
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after they spend some good money
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and just they had all
the, the stylist there
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and the dress
advisors and so forth.
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And they come out
and to a stunned audience
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and you can hear the gasp
because they had a makeover.
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You know the
greatest makeover of all
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is when Jesus
Christ comes into our heart
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and He changes us.
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And by the way the
Bible says in Proverbs 15.
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It says that a merry
heart makes a happy face.
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So let me see some teeth.
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So the Bible
makes it very clear.
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God's people will
receive a makeover.
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They will receive a
character transformation.
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There is a person in the
Bible that had an experience,
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that illustrates the experience
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that we'll have
during the great tribulation
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and the kind of muscle of
faith that we must develop
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if we're gonna
persevere to the close.
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Now many people
when there's pressure,
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they buckle under the pressure.
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They give in.
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And those individuals that
have that in their character,
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well, when there's
pressure they give in,
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they will not survive
this crises at the close.
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Well, you know I
think about Jacob.
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Go with me to
Genesis Chapter 32.
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Go with me to Genesis 32.
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Everybody say Jacob.
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Jacob, the very name
Jacob means supplanter.
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And what that essentially means
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is one who pushes his way around
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and pushes others out.
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You remember that when
he was in the womb there,
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you know,
reaching, grasping, remember?
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And so you remember the story
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how he defrauded
his brother Esau,
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took advantage
of Esau's weaknesses
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and deceived his father.
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And so you remember
Jacob went into exile
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and then he, he fell in love
and he wanted Rachel so much
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and instead he got Leah,
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and then he worked
more to get Rachel.
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And so you
remember that years later,
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years later Laban finally
said, go ahead you can leave.
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And you remember he
was on his way home.
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Would you agree, that
must have been very emotional,
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20 years or so away from home.
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What a homecoming...
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What a homecoming that would be.
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But you know as he
got closer and closer,
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then he got the dangerous report
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that his
brother Esau was enraged
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and with armed men was
coming out to meet Jacob
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and his vulnerable family.
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By now his family was massive.
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He had a lot of
cattle, he was blessed.
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He left with just him
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and he came back
with a massive family
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and cattle and oxen
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and so forth
and sheep and goats.
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He was prosperous.
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But it didn't
matter how much he had,
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how big his family
was, he had a heart
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that longed to be
reconciled with his family.
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So you know when
he found that out,
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he split his family up,
send part of his family one way
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and the other part of
his family the other way.
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And then the Bible says,
when he was left "Alone."
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When he was alone, he
poured out his heart to God.
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I want you to notice this.
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Let's pick this
up a little bit here.
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Genesis Chapter 32.
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Genesis 32.
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All right.
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Let's look here in verse 22.
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"And he arose that
night and took his two wives,
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his two female
servants, and his eleven sons,
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and crossed over
the ford of Jabbok.
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He took them and
sent them over the brook,
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and sent over what he had.
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Then Jacob was..."
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What everyone I
repeat, "Left alone."
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Do you want to help your family?
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You cannot help your family
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if every waking minute
you're with your family.
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There must come time
for secret prayer to God.
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Amen.
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I want you to notice,
"The man wrestled with him
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until the breaking
or the dawn of the day."
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Now I want you to picture this
in the shadows of the night,
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a man touched him.
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What was
uppermost in Jacob's mind?
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My angry brother,
my revengeful brother
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armed to the teeth
with his soldiers is,
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are heading our way.
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God have mercy upon me.
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He's pouring his heart out,
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I believe with
tears and with anxiety
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and with foreboding fears
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and then all of a
sudden he gets that touch.
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It seemed as if
that what he feared
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did come up on him.
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And as he swirled around,
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he immediately
engaged in a wrestling match.
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It was muscle against
muscle, arm against arm
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and it seemed
it would go one way
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and then the other way
and this dragged on for hours,
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an exhausting feat.
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There they were
wrestling, wrestling,
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wrestling in the night.
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They couldn't even
see each other's face,
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but they could feel the muscles.
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They both had muscles
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and it was being
stretched to the outmost.
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Then, what do you think
was going through Jacob's mind?
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Lord, please don't
let it end this way.
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Lord, I got a
family. Lord, please help me.
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Lord, please,
and he was fighting
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for his life,
fighting for this life,
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he didn't want
it to end this way.
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Then what happened?
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Bible says
here, "Now when He saw
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that He did not
prevail against him."
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He was fighting with
every fiber of his being,
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his life was on the line,
his family was vulnerable.
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Would you agree he was
fighting for his family too?
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When he saw that
it did not prevail,
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he touched or struck
the socket of his, what?
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Of his hip, and the
socket of Jacob's hip
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went out of joint ouch
and He wrestled with him."
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Now I want you to notice
here. Notice the sequence.
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They are wrestling and
then the angel of the Lord
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just kind of
hit him, punched him
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or some kind of
thrust in the hip
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and immediately it
went out of socket.
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Now there was a couple of things
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that surfaced
immediately in Jacob's mind.
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Number 1, excruciating pain,
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Number 2, this is not
a man I am dealing with.
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This is the divine Lord Himself.
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Third thing, I
can't let this man go.
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This is the Lord
Himself. Now you think about it.
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When your hip is
out of the socket,
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you have excruciating
pain, the tendency is to--
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If you're doing anything else
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to let go with
whatever you're doing
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and focus on the
pain and screech and yell,
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oh, this hurts,
but he didn't do that.
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Oh, I can hear.
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I don't know what
kind of noise does he made,
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but I'm sure they were
loud, but he wouldn't let go.
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He wouldn't let
go despite the pain
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inflicted upon
his physical being,
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he wouldn't let go
because now it was primarily
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a spiritual warfare
with the Lord himself.
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The greatest victories are
when you lay hold of the Lord
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and you do what Jacob did.
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They are the only kind of people
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that are gonna make it,
that are gonna be delivered.
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Now I want you to
notice something here.
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Despite the pain he holds on.
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He holds on because he knows
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this is all he has,
this is his only hope.
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I want you to notice
here. It says here...
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I mean you got
to think about this.
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All right, so there's a
little humor side to it.
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It's kind of like, oh, you're
fighting good, right, Jacob?
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You have given
everything you got.
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Yeah, I am, I
am, all right, bam.
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Oh.
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It's as if, you know,
the Lord has a little humor,
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you know, it doesn't take much.
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You know this reminds me of,
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when I play
roughhousing with my children.
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And I get in the
middle of the floor
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and they will
be racing around me
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and they are next to my study
and they will be racing around,
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"Come on, dad,
let's play, let's play."
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Oh, my 10 year
old, my 5 year old
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will run around
me and I'll try to--
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I have to, I can't get up.
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I got to stay down there
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and I'll try to
grab hold of them.
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Well, you know, I, at any
time I can grab hold of them
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if I really want to, although
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now it's getting
more, little more difficult
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but all I know
is, I let them win.
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Not all the time,
but I can let them win.
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And I can-- You know what I do?
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I build up their strength.
Wow, you're really strong.
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The Lord does that.
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How many agree, at
anytime the Lord could say,
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leave me alone, I'm out of here,
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but he wants us
to take hold of Him.
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I want you to
notice what happened here.
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It says here, "And
he said, let me go.
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The Lord Himself says
let me go for the daybreaks.
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In others words, now
you're going to see my identity.
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But he said, notice
the response of Jacob
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who is now limping,
crying in agony and pain.``
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I will not... I can
hear his cracking voice.
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I can hear the
desperation in the tone.
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I will not let you
go unless you bless me.
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We receive
according to the intensity
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of our desire to receive.
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No, you didn't catch that.
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We receive
according to the intensity
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of the desire to receive.
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What things, whoever you desire
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believe that you receive
them and you shall have them.
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But you receive, Mark 11:24,
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"You receive
according to your desire."
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Would you agree
the Lord Jesus, listen,
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I know where
I'm going with this.
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I've come here today to tell you
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that the Lord wants to intensify
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your want of Him
and your desire for Him.
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And the more intense it
is, the more you can receive,
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casual Christians
don't receive much.
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Lukewarm
professors don't receive much,
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but Jacobs receive a lot
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because they want the
Lord more than anything.
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You will notice he didn't
say, Lord, before you go...
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Listen, if the Lord
could inflict that pain,
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Lord, just before you go,
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could you please
take away this pain.
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Right. Jacob
could have prayed that?
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Oh, Lord, You
can't leave me like this.
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I don't have any Tylenol.
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Was his mind on
the physical pain?
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His mind was on, I can't deal
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with the emotional,
spiritual pain anymore.
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I want to know God
that I am totally forgiven.
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I believed it,
but now everything
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is coming to a head,
a showdown, a crises,
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this is my family crises,
this is my personal crises,
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Lord, you can't leave me
like this, I cling to you.
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The Bible says,
in Deuteronomy 30:20.
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It says, "Cling to
Him for He is your life."
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I want you to notice this.
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The Bible makes it clear
00:24:13.95\00:24:15.55
that we're gonna go
through Jacob's trouble
00:24:15.58\00:24:18.49
and we need to
have the kind of faith
00:24:18.52\00:24:20.76
and the clinging faith,
and the impertinent prayer,
00:24:20.79\00:24:24.43
the faith that
will not be denied.
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And praying with fervency,
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"The fervent prayer of
righteous man avails much."
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Any other
prayers don't get much.
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As James 5:16 listen to me.
00:24:32.67\00:24:35.60
Jacob is a model
for us to follow,
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in preparation
for the tribulation
00:24:39.54\00:24:42.51
which is
purification for translation.
00:24:42.54\00:24:45.05
How many want to be translated
00:24:45.08\00:24:46.65
without seeing death
like Elijah, like Enoch.
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Now, watch this.
00:24:50.62\00:24:53.62
I will not let you
go unless you bless me.
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Could the Lord right then
00:24:57.23\00:24:58.56
and there said, too
bad I'm out of here.
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Exit.
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He could have left this ailing,
00:25:03.10\00:25:06.50
desperate,
father, husband, Jacob,
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could have just left
him right then and there
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with all of his baggage of pain,
00:25:13.14\00:25:15.38
all of his hurt and
anxiety, left him right there.
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My question is,
what if Jacob did let go?
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Would you agree there would
have been a different outcome?
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Because the Lord never imposes
His presence and blessing.
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You got to want it.
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The Lord wants to
intensify that desire
00:25:48.11\00:25:50.85
for those who thirst
with an intense thirst,
00:25:50.88\00:25:54.02
and hunger with
an intense hunger
00:25:54.05\00:25:55.92
after his
righteousness, Matthew 5:6.
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Now, watch this, watch. He
says, I will not let you go.
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Every fiber of his
being is on the stretch.
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I wonder here, is
there anyone here today
00:26:05.03\00:26:07.26
that knows what it is to
be in the chamber of prayer
00:26:07.30\00:26:09.86
and to be
reaching out to the Lord
00:26:09.90\00:26:12.13
with every fiber of your
being and taking hold of him
00:26:12.17\00:26:16.07
and say, "Lord, I
know You listen to me."
00:26:16.10\00:26:19.17
How many know that experience?
00:26:19.21\00:26:20.54
Can you raise your hand? Amen.
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Now, listen carefully.
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I will not let you
go except you bless me.
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This is gonna be
the sound, the tone,
00:26:31.05\00:26:35.49
that the feel in the
prayer life, and the--
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In the character development
00:26:38.86\00:26:40.20
of those who are
gonna go through the crises,
00:26:40.23\00:26:42.26
we must learn what
it's like to be alone
00:26:42.30\00:26:45.20
and struggling and
wrestling with the Lord.
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How many of you have loved ones,
00:26:49.77\00:26:51.97
children, grandchildren,
that are not with Jesus.
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I think many of you know
00:26:58.21\00:26:59.55
what it's like to wrestle
with the Lord, don't you?
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Come on I'm a dad.
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I'm praying the Lord comes
before my kids are teenagers.
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Listen to me.
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Jacob wrestled for
his family, didn't he?
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He wrestled in prayer.
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His family couldn't see him,
but when he wrestled in prayer
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it saved his family
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and they had a
future and a hope.
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I want you to
notice this, beloved.
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So he said to him
what is your name?
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He said Jacob!
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I've got a question for you.
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Didn't the Lord
know his name, yes or no?
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Would you agree
He knows us by name?
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But He wants to remind Jacob,
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who he was, where he came from
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and what a flash his
life came before him.
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Jacob, deceiver, supplanter,
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want to pushes his way around
and pushes people out, why?
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To take the blessing himself.
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And then he's saying,
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I can't let you go
except you bless me.
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What's your name?
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I'm the one who pushes around
so I can take the blessing.
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Well, you're not
gonna take it from me
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unless I give you.
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We live in a world especially
in the business world,
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but not just a business world
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where, you know, in
our capitalistic society
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and so forth, the
good old American pies,
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you know, push
others out of the way.
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So you can make it big.
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Don't worry about
little brother, little sister.
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We live in an age of
supplanters, do we not?
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Read 2 Timothy 3:1-5
we're lovers of money...
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Lovers of themselves,
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proud, blasphemers,
disobedient to their parents.
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Would you agree that
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this is the
generation of supplanters.
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But I want you to
notice here, beloved.
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What is your name? My
name is sinner and sinful.
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Would you agree
outside of Christ
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that is all we are, is
just a, a real bundle of sin.
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I want you to notice here.
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A name denotes character.
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Character is the only
thing we take to heaven,
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but I've been reminded,
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no, you don't just take
it your character to heaven.
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If you've had a character
developing after Jesus,
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I'm gonna agree you will
try to take others with you.
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Now I want you to notice this.
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And he said, your name
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shall no longer be called Jacob.
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Who's giving him the
new name? The Lord Himself.
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Didn't the Lord do that for you?
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How many of you have given
your heart to Jesus Christ?
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Then you are a
what? A Christian.
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Your name has changed.
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You are now a Christian
because you are born again.
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How did you get born again?
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You struggled with the
Lord, you took hold of Jesus
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and said, Jesus,
you are my Savior."
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And as if Jesus said, "Okay.
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You're no longer the same
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because your
character is changed,
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your name is changed.
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Now you can take my name."
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Would you agree
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it's a privilege
to take His name?
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Privilege to take His name.
Privilege to take His name.
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So I want you to notice
here. I want you to notice here.
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So he said to
him, what is your name?
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He said Jacob.
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And he said, your name
shall no longer be called Jacob,
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but Israel for you
have struggled with God
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and with men and have prevailed.
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What the Lord is saying
is, Jacob, your name is changed
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because you have
won the victory, why?
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Because you wanted it
so much, I gave it to you.
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You wanted me more than
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even an antidote
for your physical pain.
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You wanted me more than anything
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and because of that,
because you took hold of me
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and you wouldn't let go.
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I stayed here to tell you this.
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Your life will now
have a future and a hope.
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I'm gonna do more for you
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than you ever
thought possible, why?
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Because you were
willing to struggle with me
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and forget about yourself,
your convenience, your comfort,
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you put me first.
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Let me tell you something.
Bible makes it very clear.
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He shows himself
strong on behalf of those
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whose heart is
loyal towards Him.
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I want you to notice
something. Listen carefully.
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You struggle with God.
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You struggle with
God. Who told him that?
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The Lord Himself
said, you struggle.
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Would you agree,
God knows our struggles?
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He knows your struggles.
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And the Lord says, I
know you've struggled
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and you've won the struggle.
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I want somebody to tell me
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that they've had
deliverance here today.
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I want somebody to
tell me here today,
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that you struggled
with the Lord this morning
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and you gain the
victory and you came forth
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maybe with the limp,
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but you've been
born again today.
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You took hold of the Lord today.
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You had an
experience with Jesus today.
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He didn't wait
till you came to church.
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You got up and you sought
the Lord with importunity,
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I want to hear that
somebody's done that here today.
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I want to know if
there's some Jacob here,
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whose name has
been changed to Israel
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because we are
called to be modern Israel.
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Ones who struggle with the
Lord and have overcome sin,
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self and Satan,
by the scriptures
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and the savior Jesus Christ.
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I wonder, is there anybody here
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that knows what it's
like to struggle with the Lord
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until you know,
you will prevail.
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You've overcome
and the Lord says,
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I give you want you wanted.
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I'll give it to
you more abundantly.
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Is there anybody here?
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We need modern Jacobs
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who have been changed to Israel.
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And then this is the key
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that unlocks the
Book of Revelation
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where it talks about
the tribes of Israel.
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And then it talks
about the name of God,
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on the saved foreheads.
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What is that all that
about? We are modern Israel.
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We are the ones who
get the character change
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and the Bible says, in
the Book of Revelation.
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What book am I
referring to? Revelation.
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It says the name of
God is on their forehead.
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What is that all about?
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The name of God,
the character of God,
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God is love.
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And His love is
written in our heart
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and we become a
loving, loveable person.
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And notice the name doesn't
go in the back of the head.
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We're on the top of the head.
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We're on the
foot, we're on the hand.
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You get the mark of
the beast on the hand,
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but you can't
get the seal of God
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and the name of God.
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What is-- Why on the forehead?
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Because they are the forehead
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of the front lobe
function to the brain,
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where you make
reason and discrimination
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and judgment and discernment
and decision and choices.
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You made a
decision, I love Jesus.
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I want to have His character
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and the name of
God was revealed.
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The character
of God was revealed
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in the person of Jesus Christ,
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so that Jesus
Christ has imprinted
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the very character of
God on your mind and heart.
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So that
people-- Would you agree?
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If it's on the forehead,
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then that means
it affects the face.
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Can you picture Jacob?
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Coming out of this
prayer struggle with a limp.
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And the family
members are looking at him.
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What's happened?
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But then they look at
him, they look, they look,
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you know, it looks
like he's been in a fight.
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I mean his clothes
are tattered and so forth.
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I don't know how he look,
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but he didn't look like
he just came out of church.
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And so he's looking
mess, his hair is all matted
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and messed up,
dirt and everything.
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Come on, that
wasn't a pretty sight
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expect there was
something very moving.
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I can see dirt and
grime and sweat, all in there,
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maybe a little bit
of blood I don't know,
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but it comes out,
they are looking like,
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what happened to dad?
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What happened to grandpa?
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You know he's
coming out, he's limping.
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He's limping and
his face is glowing.
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Amidst the dirt and the sweat
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and the blood,
his face is shining.
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Jacob, grandpa, what happened?
I've been with the Lord.
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And the Lord has
had Mercy upon me.
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Let's go out to meet Esau.
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And he comes
because he vowed before God.
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He's ready, even
bowed before Esau
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and say, forgive me,
forgive me, forgive me
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and give him gifts.
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Do whatever he
could do to bring about
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the full complete
answer to his prayer.
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Let me tell you something.
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Esau's heart was changed
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because Jacob's
heart was changed.
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There is power in
intercessory prayer.
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Do you want to
save your children?
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Do you want your
loved ones to be saved?
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Why don't you get alone with God
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and do some
wrestling here today.
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Why don't you just
struggle a little bit?
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You know why we don't?
Because we're downright lazy.
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Oops.
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No, that's not a oops,
I'm saying the honest truth.
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Let me tell you something,
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Jacob knew
everything was on the line.
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You know sometimes people
show up at prayer meeting,
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when they go through a
crises, other people realize,
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I need thee
every hour I need thee.
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Don't pass me by
oh, gentle Savior.
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Now listen carefully.
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Take your Bible and look here
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at Genesis Chapter
32, Genesis 32: 29.
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"Then Jacob asked, saying,
"Tell me Your name, I pray."
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And He said, "Why is it
that you ask about My name?"
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And He blessed him there.
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So Jacob, wholeheartedly
he blessed him there.
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I don't know how the
Lord blessed him there,
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but I think I can picture
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the Lord Himself
laying His hands upon Jacob.
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I can picture the
Lord giving Jacob a hug.
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Anybody have an
imagination here?
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I can picture them
embracing with tears.
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I can picture the
Lord saying you're blessed.
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I can picture Him
saying in his ear.
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Jacob you're blessed,
you're blessed, you're blessed.
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"So Jacob called the
name of the place Paniel,
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for I've seen God face to
face, and my life is preserved."
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And the Bible says, Just
as he crossed over Peniel
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the sun rose on him
and he limped on His hip.
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Therefore to this day
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the children of
Israel do not eat the muscle,
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that shrank which
is on the hip socket
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because he touched or
struck the socket of Jacob's hip
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in the muscle that shrank.
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I want to see your pants.
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Particularly the men.
I want to see your pants.
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I want to see the
knees. Worn down a little bit?
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Running out of pants?
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Jacob had a sign, he
wasn't trying to boast.
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He just couldn't
get rid of the sign.
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You know when
you've been to the Lord,
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you just can't hide it.
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You can't hide the fact
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that you've been
wrestling with the Lord.
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You don't mean to
put it all out there.
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No, no, no, you go
about your business quietly,
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but people can take knowledge.
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You know what?
How many admit it.
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I met a woman in Trinidad.
00:39:13.35\00:39:16.62
We did a crusade in Trinidad,
the gateway to Colorado,
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a dot on the map.
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And I went there
and the pastor said,
00:39:21.82\00:39:25.19
"Mark, I want you to meet
one of our church members.
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Her name is Lillian."
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Really? Yeah.
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She's 104. I said,
"Let's go meet her."
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So we went to her
house, little tiny house
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and he knocked on the door
and he looked in the window
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and he said, oh,
no, here she comes,
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she's not using her walker.
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Well, she's kind of come,
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you know, hobbles
her way to the door
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and graciously with
her face shining, glowing.
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She got, "Oh,
pastor, oh, who's this?"
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Yeah, this is
evangelist, Mark Fox.
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Oh, nice to meet you. Come in.
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And he said, why
aren't you using your walker?
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Oh, I know I should, you
know, and so he sits down.
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And then begins
the most intriguing,
00:40:12.34\00:40:14.78
fascinating, moving,
heart throbbing conversation.
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You know, I don't talk to
a 104 year old all the time.
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And she shared
with me, she says, Mark,
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you know I want to
tell you what I do.
00:40:26.79\00:40:30.36
I say, I get up around
3.30 the Lord wakes me up.
00:40:30.39\00:40:33.96
I said yeah.
00:40:34.00\00:40:35.33
And he gives me, he
gives me revelations
00:40:35.36\00:40:38.80
and insight from scripture.
00:40:38.83\00:40:40.44
And I studied the scriptures
00:40:40.47\00:40:41.80
and my hand
doesn't work as it used to,
00:40:41.84\00:40:43.71
but I pray, oh, Lord just help
my hand to work a little bit.
00:40:43.74\00:40:47.24
And she write,
making copious notes,
00:40:47.28\00:40:49.28
she's got notebooks of notes.
00:40:49.31\00:40:51.91
This woman can't die.
She's too excited about God.
00:40:51.95\00:40:57.19
And it's written all
over her, in her demeanor,
00:40:57.22\00:41:00.29
in the way she conducts herself.
00:41:00.32\00:41:02.29
The character of
Jesus is seen in this 104
00:41:02.32\00:41:06.09
and by now she
would be about 105
00:41:06.13\00:41:07.73
and I believe she's
got to be still kicking,
00:41:07.76\00:41:09.13
all right, I'll
give her phone call.
00:41:09.16\00:41:11.97
Let me tell you something.
00:41:12.00\00:41:13.70
She said to me, she said to me,
00:41:13.74\00:41:18.14
Pastor Fox, is it
okay if I call you my baby?
00:41:18.17\00:41:21.21
I said sure, you
know I have a son,
00:41:21.24\00:41:22.81
he's 80 years old.
00:41:22.84\00:41:24.18
I said, yeah, you can
call me baby, no problem.
00:41:24.21\00:41:29.55
And then she was wanting
to share insights with me
00:41:29.58\00:41:31.99
and telling me, could you please
00:41:32.02\00:41:33.52
share this with
people, share this with people?
00:41:33.56\00:41:38.06
Moses when he
was on the mountain,
00:41:38.09\00:41:40.03
he came down, he did not
know that his face was shining,
00:41:40.06\00:41:45.03
but it was so
bright because he had been
00:41:45.07\00:41:47.07
in the presence of God
that the people around him said,
00:41:47.10\00:41:50.21
you know, this is
making us uncomfortable.
00:41:50.24\00:41:54.24
Could you please, please let
us put a veil over your face.
00:41:54.28\00:41:59.08
Can you imagine that?
00:41:59.11\00:42:02.18
The disciples after
the day of Pentecost
00:42:02.22\00:42:06.55
went around
preaching and teaching
00:42:06.59\00:42:07.99
and the Bible
says, they took knowledge
00:42:08.02\00:42:09.86
that they had been with Jesus.
00:42:09.89\00:42:13.13
Let your light shine.
Doesn't say make it shine.
00:42:13.16\00:42:16.10
Jesus said, just let
it shine. Matthew 5:16.
00:42:16.13\00:42:20.14
Now listen carefully.
00:42:20.17\00:42:22.07
Take your Bible and
turn with me to Jeremiah.
00:42:22.10\00:42:25.14
Jeremiah, oh, there's
gonna be a death decree
00:42:25.17\00:42:27.14
just like Jacob's
life was on the line.
00:42:27.18\00:42:30.05
Oh, yeah, we're gonna go
through the crucible of trial.
00:42:30.08\00:42:33.68
We're gonna
through the tribulation,
00:42:33.72\00:42:36.08
but we're gonna make
it on the other side.
00:42:36.12\00:42:39.09
We're gonna go
through. Can you say amen?
00:42:39.12\00:42:40.76
I said we're gonna
through. Jeremiah Chapter 30.
00:42:40.79\00:42:45.73
Jeremiah Chapter 30.
Are we learning something?
00:42:45.76\00:42:49.20
Jeremiah 30:7. Alas!
00:42:49.23\00:42:54.67
For that great
day is great. "Alas!
00:42:54.70\00:42:58.21
For that day is great
so that none is like it,
00:42:58.24\00:43:01.88
and it is the time
of Jacob's trouble..."
00:43:01.91\00:43:04.78
Doesn't that sound
similar to Daniel 12:1?
00:43:04.81\00:43:07.35
A time of trouble
such as never was.
00:43:07.38\00:43:09.45
And here, here it's been
linked to Jacob's experience.
00:43:09.48\00:43:14.22
"And it is time
of Jacob's trouble,
00:43:14.26\00:43:17.09
but he shall be
saved out of it."
00:43:17.13\00:43:19.53
How are we gonna
be saved out of it?
00:43:19.56\00:43:21.80
By clinging to the Lord
00:43:21.83\00:43:23.93
and wrestling with
the Lord in prayer.
00:43:23.97\00:43:26.94
Listen to me.
00:43:26.97\00:43:28.30
Why not take an
hour in prayer everyday.
00:43:28.34\00:43:31.71
Now I got your attention.
00:43:31.74\00:43:36.71
Why not take an hour in prayer?
00:43:36.75\00:43:39.75
We sing the hymn,
sweet hour of prayer.
00:43:39.78\00:43:42.98
And if we take five minutes,
we think we're really holy.
00:43:43.02\00:43:46.82
Please let me reason
with you for a moment.
00:43:46.86\00:43:50.79
I'm a parent and I
know how busy things
00:43:50.83\00:43:54.10
get in our house.
00:43:54.13\00:43:57.33
Let me tell you something.
00:43:57.37\00:43:59.73
Where your treasure is,
00:43:59.77\00:44:03.10
there where your prayer life be.
00:44:03.14\00:44:06.64
Where your treasure is,
there where your heart be.
00:44:06.68\00:44:09.48
Jesus found His greatest
joy in communion with God.
00:44:09.51\00:44:16.08
Now listen carefully.
00:44:16.12\00:44:19.22
Jesus said to the
sleeping disciples
00:44:19.25\00:44:21.92
reasoning with them.
00:44:21.96\00:44:24.83
What?
00:44:24.86\00:44:26.19
Couldn't you
watch, pray here with me,
00:44:26.23\00:44:30.23
just one hour?
00:44:30.27\00:44:32.53
The implication of
that is, Jesus saying,
00:44:32.57\00:44:35.84
an hour is not much at all.
00:44:35.87\00:44:38.47
But the devil has so imprinted
00:44:38.51\00:44:42.18
upon our psyche now
that we don't have...
00:44:42.21\00:44:46.01
Even, even most people today,
00:44:46.05\00:44:47.48
they don't even keep the Sabbath
00:44:47.52\00:44:48.88
and even Sabbath keepers,
00:44:48.92\00:44:50.42
they don't even
have a prayer life.
00:44:50.45\00:44:56.42
The idea was such a secularized.
00:44:56.46\00:45:00.13
How many agree we are
a secularized society?
00:45:00.16\00:45:02.73
We are
materialized, heathenized,
00:45:02.76\00:45:04.67
pleasure mad society.
00:45:04.70\00:45:06.53
We have time for leisure.
00:45:06.57\00:45:08.37
We have time to do
what we want to do.
00:45:08.40\00:45:10.51
We have time to
watch those movies,
00:45:10.54\00:45:12.67
but why not spend an
hour with God in prayer,
00:45:12.71\00:45:16.71
in addition to
Bible study everyday.
00:45:16.75\00:45:19.81
Come on now, are we not
preparing to live with God
00:45:19.85\00:45:25.82
and it's not your
family on the line.
00:45:25.85\00:45:29.32
Don't tell me you
love your children,
00:45:29.36\00:45:32.43
but you don't have a prayer life
00:45:32.46\00:45:34.53
because, would you agree
if you ultimately love them,
00:45:34.56\00:45:37.63
you want to spend
eternity with them.
00:45:37.67\00:45:40.74
But you're not gonna
spend eternity with them
00:45:40.77\00:45:42.97
unless you do what Jacob did.
00:45:43.00\00:45:45.17
You wrestle with
the Lord in prayer.
00:45:45.21\00:45:46.81
Please, please I
open my heart to you.
00:45:46.84\00:45:51.68
I open my heart to
you. I'm no better than you.
00:45:51.71\00:45:53.78
I've to be saved
by the same blood
00:45:53.82\00:45:55.78
as you're saved by.
00:45:55.82\00:45:57.45
But I don't know, I'm
just gonna tell you something.
00:45:57.49\00:46:00.96
I don't want your
trials and you don't want mine.
00:46:00.99\00:46:03.89
But I'm here to
tell you, the only way
00:46:03.93\00:46:05.43
I can deal with my
trials is by prayer.
00:46:05.46\00:46:10.83
I pray.
00:46:10.87\00:46:13.87
In 2003, I was
down to 113 pounds.
00:46:13.90\00:46:21.54
The doctors
didn't know what to do.
00:46:21.58\00:46:25.78
My wife crying.
00:46:25.81\00:46:28.12
It looked like I
would never preach.
00:46:28.15\00:46:29.85
I'd been an
evangelist for number of years.
00:46:29.88\00:46:33.02
I was working with Mark Finley
00:46:33.05\00:46:34.46
as associate evangelist
there, It is Written telecast.
00:46:34.49\00:46:38.29
And I had to take a leave
of absence for six months.
00:46:38.33\00:46:42.93
I had this health problem
around the time of Net 96.
00:46:42.96\00:46:48.34
How many remember Net 96
00:46:48.37\00:46:49.80
that originated
from Orlando, Florida.
00:46:49.84\00:46:51.64
I was working with
Mark Finley at that time,
00:46:51.67\00:46:53.81
that's when I was diagnosed
with the Epstein-Barr virus.
00:46:53.84\00:46:57.41
I had serious chronic fatigue.
00:46:57.45\00:46:59.55
I would, I would
many times for years,
00:46:59.58\00:47:03.12
I wouldn't even be able
to hold up my head very well
00:47:03.15\00:47:05.95
without great
effort at the dinner table.
00:47:05.99\00:47:08.49
And I would be
pleading with my wife,
00:47:08.52\00:47:10.53
please pray for me
because I'd have to go
00:47:10.56\00:47:12.56
and preach that night.
00:47:12.59\00:47:14.00
Night after
night, what would happen
00:47:14.03\00:47:16.13
is when I would get up
to preach, all of a sudden,
00:47:16.16\00:47:18.43
the power of God
would come upon me
00:47:18.47\00:47:20.54
and He would
enable me to preach.
00:47:20.57\00:47:22.07
And after I would
preach, I go right back down to,
00:47:22.10\00:47:24.77
not having much energy.
00:47:24.81\00:47:26.14
I had just enough
energy to get by, but no more.
00:47:26.17\00:47:30.08
I know what it's like to
feel chronically fatigued,
00:47:30.11\00:47:32.88
feel wasted, no
energy and shriveling up.
00:47:32.91\00:47:38.39
I was anointed, I
don't know four, five times.
00:47:38.42\00:47:41.39
Ron Halvorsen Sr. also,
he helped to do an anointing.
00:47:41.42\00:47:46.46
Mark Finley was praying for me.
My parents were praying for me.
00:47:46.49\00:47:50.00
Nothing, people
like Jennifer LaMountain,
00:47:50.03\00:47:51.87
I would have her
singing at some of our crusades.
00:47:51.90\00:47:54.60
And she one occasion, I
think we're at Lodi, California.
00:47:54.64\00:47:57.67
Heritage singers
were also coming out
00:47:57.71\00:47:59.11
to sing at our crusade
00:47:59.14\00:48:00.48
and she said,
Mark, are you okay?
00:48:00.51\00:48:02.54
You look like you lost weight.
00:48:02.58\00:48:04.91
By the way you
think I'm thin now?
00:48:04.95\00:48:06.28
No, no, no, you
got to see pictures.
00:48:06.31\00:48:11.69
Week after week,
month after month,
00:48:11.72\00:48:13.96
I know what it's
like to only feel
00:48:13.99\00:48:17.29
that I just need to
get by one hour at a time.
00:48:17.33\00:48:21.63
I know what that feels like.
00:48:21.66\00:48:23.80
I know what it feels like
to cry out to God and feel,
00:48:23.83\00:48:28.50
why doesn't He deliver me now?
00:48:28.54\00:48:31.87
He can. Why not?
00:48:31.91\00:48:35.64
Because God, Jesus want
to be wanted more than ever,
00:48:35.68\00:48:42.52
and sometimes He allows
trials of faith to call us
00:48:42.55\00:48:47.49
to reach out to
Him with an intensity
00:48:47.52\00:48:50.33
and a fervency of desire
00:48:50.36\00:48:52.19
and a faith that
will not be denied.
00:48:52.23\00:48:55.03
Trials are among
our greatest blessings
00:48:55.06\00:49:00.04
if we flee to Jesus.
00:49:00.07\00:49:04.37
Now listen carefully. I
will tell you what happened.
00:49:04.41\00:49:09.08
I'll tell you what
happened. My parents wept.
00:49:09.11\00:49:13.88
My wife wept.
00:49:13.92\00:49:15.72
It looked like I
would never preach again
00:49:15.75\00:49:19.45
when I had to take
that leave of absence.
00:49:19.49\00:49:23.46
But my Jesus came
down in my darkness
00:49:23.49\00:49:28.23
and He sustained me.
00:49:28.26\00:49:30.10
I never gave up my faith,
but I tremble before the Lord.
00:49:30.13\00:49:35.74
God will allow you to
go through circumstances
00:49:35.77\00:49:38.87
where it seems
like He's forsaken you,
00:49:38.91\00:49:42.54
but in the depths of your heart
00:49:42.58\00:49:43.95
you know that's not true,
because you have His promises.
00:49:43.98\00:49:48.02
And His promises
are the breathing
00:49:48.05\00:49:50.45
of His love into your heart.
00:49:50.49\00:49:54.76
When I was... At Net 96...
00:49:54.79\00:50:01.43
I was at Net 96, just
have a few more minutes.
00:50:01.46\00:50:04.40
When I was at Net 96,
at the close of Net 96,
00:50:04.43\00:50:09.94
when I found out that I
have the Epstein-Barr virus,
00:50:09.97\00:50:14.94
my doctor Kelvin
Thrash of Uchee Pines,
00:50:14.98\00:50:17.85
he's passed away since then.
00:50:17.88\00:50:19.61
He sent me the letter
because I had the blood test,
00:50:19.65\00:50:21.45
blood work done there
00:50:21.48\00:50:22.82
and I shared
that with Mark Finley
00:50:22.85\00:50:24.19
'cause during that
crusade going visiting to people
00:50:24.22\00:50:26.72
that were attending
Mark Finley's meetings.
00:50:26.76\00:50:29.32
I said, honey, you got to drive
00:50:29.36\00:50:30.69
and I got in the
passenger side seat
00:50:30.73\00:50:32.93
and I put it back and I
said, honey, please pray for me.
00:50:32.96\00:50:35.53
I just feel wasted.
00:50:35.56\00:50:37.37
And so we got back to hotel room
00:50:37.40\00:50:38.73
and that's when I got
the letter of the results
00:50:38.77\00:50:40.94
of the blood work
Epstein-Barr virus.
00:50:40.97\00:50:43.20
And so at the close
of that five week series,
00:50:43.24\00:50:48.18
Mark and I walked
around the quarter mile track
00:50:48.21\00:50:52.65
and I said, Mark, I
have the Epstein-Barr virus,
00:50:52.68\00:50:56.69
I need to go to Uchee Pines.
00:50:56.72\00:50:58.05
They're telling me
I need to go up there
00:50:58.09\00:50:59.75
and get some fever treatments,
hydrotherapy fever treatments.
00:50:59.79\00:51:04.16
And he says, Mark,
we will support you,
00:51:04.19\00:51:06.39
we'll help you, just go up there
00:51:06.43\00:51:08.16
because my son Mark
had the Epstein-Barr virus
00:51:08.20\00:51:11.03
also manifested in mono.
00:51:11.07\00:51:13.00
He says, Mark,
go ahead up there.
00:51:13.03\00:51:14.80
Go ahead up there.
Our prayers are with you.
00:51:14.84\00:51:16.34
I went up there.
00:51:16.37\00:51:18.41
And let me tell you something,
00:51:18.44\00:51:20.54
they submerge me
in a tub of water,
00:51:20.58\00:51:23.95
sometimes that was 112 degrees.
00:51:23.98\00:51:26.41
This is no spa
treatment. Can you say lobster?
00:51:26.45\00:51:31.82
I was submerged
in that tub of water
00:51:31.85\00:51:34.66
and I had a hydrotherapist
who worked with me and his--
00:51:34.69\00:51:38.49
One of his primary roles is,
00:51:38.53\00:51:40.63
keep the guy under the
water at least up to here.
00:51:40.66\00:51:45.57
It would take
the breath out of me.
00:51:45.60\00:51:48.80
It will make a grown man cry.
You don't believe me, try it.
00:51:48.84\00:51:53.74
And so I would
want to put my arms out.
00:51:53.78\00:51:56.04
No, no, Mark, you can't do that.
00:51:56.08\00:51:57.48
You got to put
your arms back in.
00:51:57.51\00:51:59.11
I felt so claustrophobic
and so like a car overheating,
00:51:59.15\00:52:04.45
I would just want to
put my arms out, try to,
00:52:04.49\00:52:06.45
you know, cool
off just a little.
00:52:06.49\00:52:07.82
He said, Mark,
you can't do that,
00:52:07.86\00:52:09.19
you're gonna lose the affect.
00:52:09.22\00:52:10.56
We got to, we got to
induce this artificial fever
00:52:10.59\00:52:12.29
and that will
boost your immune system,
00:52:12.33\00:52:13.93
increase your white cell count.
00:52:13.96\00:52:15.30
We got to do it, Mark.
00:52:15.33\00:52:16.67
You got to overcome
this Epstein-Barr virus.
00:52:16.70\00:52:18.50
I said all right,
Lord, You led me here.
00:52:18.53\00:52:20.74
And then he would have
his basin of cold water
00:52:20.77\00:52:23.97
with ice cubes and a wash cloth
00:52:24.01\00:52:26.21
and he would dip it in there
and try to cool my forehead
00:52:26.24\00:52:29.91
and he would have a tall
cup of water with a straw
00:52:29.94\00:52:33.72
and I would sip
on that and try to,
00:52:33.75\00:52:35.98
you know, not
lose it completely,
00:52:36.02\00:52:37.75
but I could feel
the fever coming on,
00:52:37.79\00:52:39.55
fever coming
on, fever coming on,
00:52:39.59\00:52:41.36
stronger and stronger.
00:52:41.39\00:52:42.89
And then he would
share, he had a little,
00:52:42.92\00:52:46.29
a little plastic,
a little mini bread,
00:52:46.33\00:52:50.13
you know, that has
those little promises.
00:52:50.17\00:52:52.27
How many know
what I'm talking about?
00:52:52.30\00:52:53.64
Those bread of
life, daily bread,
00:52:53.67\00:52:55.07
little Bible promises, a
little strips of cardboard.
00:52:55.10\00:52:58.74
And he said, Mark, let's go
through these Bible promises.
00:52:58.77\00:53:00.74
Well, I love the Bible promises.
00:53:00.78\00:53:02.14
How many love
the Bible promises?
00:53:02.18\00:53:03.51
So I would go through.
00:53:03.55\00:53:04.88
We would rehearse
these Bible promises
00:53:04.91\00:53:06.45
and I'm not gonna lie,
sometimes I just break down
00:53:06.48\00:53:08.95
and I cry, "O'
Lord, please help me,
00:53:08.98\00:53:10.85
please help me, please help me
00:53:10.89\00:53:12.85
to overcome
this, please help me."
00:53:12.89\00:53:14.96
And then Mircha, a
Romanian hydrotherapist said,
00:53:14.99\00:53:20.10
"Mark, can I share
my testimony with you?"
00:53:20.13\00:53:21.93
I said please do.
00:53:21.96\00:53:23.77
While I'm there
submerged in the water.
00:53:23.80\00:53:27.54
He said, Mark,
when I was in Romania,
00:53:27.57\00:53:32.17
they threw me in jail
for keeping the Sabbath.
00:53:32.21\00:53:35.74
Mark, after a
couple of years I got out
00:53:35.78\00:53:39.58
and then they threw me back in
00:53:39.61\00:53:41.82
for continuing
to keep the Sabbath.
00:53:41.85\00:53:43.28
Mark, I spent all
together 5 years in jail
00:53:43.32\00:53:46.05
for keeping the Sabbath.
00:53:46.09\00:53:48.89
And immediately I
made the connection
00:53:48.92\00:53:52.29
of what the Lord
was trying to tell me.
00:53:52.33\00:53:54.06
Mark, you have
nothing to complain about.
00:53:54.10\00:53:56.00
This is not 5 years in
jail for keeping the Sabbath.
00:53:56.03\00:54:00.80
I went through all together
with 32 fever treatments there,
00:54:00.84\00:54:04.27
my wife helped to
give me eight at home,
00:54:04.31\00:54:06.44
40 fever treatments.
00:54:06.47\00:54:07.81
Forty is a number of
guess ultimate deliverance then.
00:54:07.84\00:54:13.78
Let me tell you something.
00:54:13.82\00:54:19.19
I know what it's like
to have bloody stools.
00:54:19.22\00:54:26.13
I know what it's like to get
blurred vision all of a sudden
00:54:26.16\00:54:29.03
when I'm at a Bible
study, blurred vision.
00:54:29.06\00:54:32.17
I know what it's
like to be able to eat
00:54:32.20\00:54:35.17
only a handful of
things, no gluten products,
00:54:35.20\00:54:37.87
no this, no that,
not this, not that,
00:54:37.91\00:54:40.44
just you would
see me with rice cakes
00:54:40.48\00:54:42.94
and some vegetables.
00:54:42.98\00:54:46.55
Talk about a bland diet.
00:54:46.58\00:54:50.95
I know what it's like to have
indigestion beyond description.
00:54:50.99\00:54:56.12
I know what it's like to
feel that I'm getting the flu,
00:54:56.16\00:54:58.39
all of a sudden having
flu symptoms here and there.
00:54:58.43\00:55:00.46
I know what it's like to
go this doctor, that doctor,
00:55:00.50\00:55:03.00
be anointed here,
be anointed there.
00:55:03.03\00:55:05.53
Have people
praying for you here,
00:55:05.57\00:55:06.90
people praying for you there.
00:55:06.94\00:55:09.74
But you can't give
up. You can't give up.
00:55:09.77\00:55:14.78
You must hold on.
00:55:14.81\00:55:17.25
You must not just
drift through life.
00:55:17.28\00:55:19.21
You must take hold.
00:55:19.25\00:55:20.85
Isaiah 27:5 I
say this in closing.
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Let him take
hold of my strength,
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that He may make peace with me.
00:55:30.06\00:55:32.93
And He shall make peace with me.
00:55:32.96\00:55:37.10
Isaiah 27:5.
00:55:37.13\00:55:39.40
I close with a verse
in Matthew 11:12 please,
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Matthew 11:12.
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You know David said,
00:55:49.78\00:55:51.81
"Whom have I in
heaven besides thee.
00:55:51.85\00:55:54.58
Who do I desire more than thee."
00:55:54.62\00:55:57.42
Psalms 73:25.
00:55:57.45\00:55:59.19
All right let's
look at Matthew 11.
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I want to close
with this. Matthew 11:12.
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And I want you to
apply this to your life.
00:56:07.86\00:56:10.70
How many believe
when the preacher
00:56:10.73\00:56:12.07
preaches the word, the
word is to go into our heart
00:56:12.10\00:56:14.77
and to become a
word of faith, amen.
00:56:14.80\00:56:17.67
Listen, "And now from
the days of John the Baptist
00:56:17.71\00:56:25.25
until now the Kingdom
of heaven suffers violence.
00:56:25.28\00:56:31.79
And the violent
take it by force."
00:56:31.82\00:56:39.76
Would you agree
that is one of the most
00:56:39.79\00:56:42.60
interesting
passages in all the Bible?
00:56:42.63\00:56:45.97
What is it saying?
00:56:46.00\00:56:47.90
Jesus is saying, you
must have spiritual violence
00:56:47.94\00:56:52.51
if you want to be saved.
00:56:52.54\00:56:54.68
What is that spiritual violence?
00:56:54.71\00:56:56.81
Were you take the word of God
00:56:56.85\00:57:00.58
with a force that is
compared to violence.
00:57:00.62\00:57:03.99
Violence is when force is
being used to take something.
00:57:04.02\00:57:08.62
Spiritual violence means
when you take hold of the Lord
00:57:08.66\00:57:12.39
and say, I will not let
You go expect You bless me.
00:57:12.43\00:57:16.90
How many want to have
that spiritual violence
00:57:16.93\00:57:18.63
from now on for
the rest of your life?
00:57:18.67\00:57:22.47
That's what Jesus had in
the Garden of Gethsemane,
00:57:22.50\00:57:25.71
when He took hold of His Father,
00:57:25.74\00:57:28.34
not My will but
thy will be done.
00:57:28.38\00:57:30.55
I wonder who wants
to take hold of Jesus
00:57:30.58\00:57:32.75
and expect miracles?
00:57:32.78\00:57:35.55
Although sudden
and alarming changes
00:57:35.58\00:57:37.62
are sweeping across the globe,
00:57:37.65\00:57:39.82
you and your
family can be prepared
00:57:39.85\00:57:41.56
to face the
future with confidence.
00:57:41.59\00:57:44.29
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