(Theme Song) ? Jesus is worthy ?
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? Oh yes, He's
worthy ? ? Worthy of all ?
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Praise be to God today.
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If you have your Bibles,
let me hear you say Amen.
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All right, we're going
to read from the Word today.
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Hello, my name
is Dr. Carlton Byrd
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and we're here live
from the Berean Seventh-day
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Adventist Church in Atlanta,
Georgia, home of Breath of
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Life television ministries.
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And we're excited today that
you've tuned in with us as we
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present the Word of God.
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I'm excited
about the Word of God.
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Anybody else excited?
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Let me hear you say Amen.
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Come on, say Amen again.
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Take your Bibles, hold
them up with me, come on,
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hold them up.
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Say, if it's in
the Word, it deserves
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to be heard.
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Come on, say it one more time.
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If it's in the Word,
it deserves to be heard.
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I just believe we ought to
know what we believe, know why
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we believe it, and
then know where it's found.
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Do I have a
witness in this place?
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If you're going to preach
the Word of God, you ought to
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preach what thus saith the Lord.
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Amen?
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You ought to preach the
unadulterated Word of God.
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We're not up here
to preach what we want.
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We're up here to
preach what God wants.
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Do I have a
witness in this place?
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And with that in mind, let's
go to the Word of God, read
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that scripture from John 14:1-3.
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John, the Gospel
according to John, chapter 14,
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verses 1, 2 and 3.
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If you have it let
me hear you say Amen.
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Amen.
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We are ready to
read the word of God.
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The Word of God says,
"Let not your heart be" what?
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"Troubled.
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Ye believe in God,
believe also in me.
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In my Father's
house," that should make
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somebody get excited.
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"In my Father's house, there
are many mansions." That means
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there's a mansion for
you and a mansion for me.
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Are you hearing what I'm saying?
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"If it were not so, I would
have told you." Jesus said,
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"I go and
prepare a place for you.
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If I go and prepare a place
for you, I will come again,
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and receive you unto myself,
that where I am, there ye may
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be also." Hallelujah, somebody.
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I just want to challenge
you today with the subject
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"Superman to the Rescue."
Come by here, Good Lord,
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come by here.
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God, somebody needs you.
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So come by here.
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Fill us with your spirits,
anoint us with your grace.
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Give us articulation of
speech, clarity of mind, and
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give thy people
receptivity of heart.
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And Lord, when the appeal is
made, I pray that men, women,
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boys and girls will come
and give their lives to thee.
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In the name of Jesus we pray.
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Let everyone say Amen.
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And Amen.
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When I was a little boy,
perhaps you heard it as well,
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faster than a speeding bullet.
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More powerful than a locomotive.
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Able to leap tall
buildings in a single bound.
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Look, up in the sky!
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It's a bird, it's a
plane, no, it's Superman.
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As a child, these words were
etched in my mind every time I
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would eagerly sit up and watch
the Adventures of Superman.
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Eyes glued to the television.
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I watched how Superman
would fight crooked businessmen
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and politicians.
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I would watch Superman
take on injustices and take on
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inequalities by fighting
and standing for social justice.
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Superman--he had x-ray vision.
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He could see, you remember,
through walls, through doors,
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and through buildings.
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And just in the nick of time.
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Just right on time.
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Superman would come and rescue
that man, that woman, that
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boy, that girl who was being
tattered, torn and troubled.
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When I was a little
boy, Superman was my hero.
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I even wanted to be Superman.
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What do you mean, Pastor Byrd?
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Well, I used to, saw in a
store, maybe it was Wal-Mart
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or K-mart back
then, a Superman shirt.
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I had to get my daddy
to buy me a Superman shirt.
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And so what I would do is, I'd
put on my undershirt, then put
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on my Superman shirt, and
then put on my regular shirt.
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You all hear what I'm saying.
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And when the tough got going
and rough, I would break out
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of that over-shirt,
and I would have Superman
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on my chest.
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Superman was my hero.
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Superman was
stronger than everybody.
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Superman could do no wrong.
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Superman was the man.
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But I got a little older
and I learned that Superman was
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fictional, that Superman was
fake, Superman was a good man,
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but Superman wasn't real.
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Superman was TV.
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Oh, but God.
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God, I learned, was for real.
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God was not fictional.
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God was not TV.
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God was the real thing.
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And so as I got a little
older, I learned how to read.
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I learned how to read
the Word of God, and I began
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in the beginning.
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I began reading Genesis from
the beginning, and I learned
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Genesis 1:1-3, that
in the beginning, in the
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what, everybody?
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"In the beginning God created
the heavens and the earth.
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And the earth was
without form and void.
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And darkness was
upon the face of the deep.
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And the spirits of God moved
upon the face of the waters,
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and God said,
Let there be light.
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And there was light." I
learned that on day one,
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God created light.
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I learned that on day
two, God created the firmament.
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I learned that on day
three, God created vegetation
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and the seas.
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I learned on day four
that God created the sun,
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the moon and the stars.
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I learned on day five that
God created the birds of the air
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and the fish of the sea.
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I learned on day six
that God created animals or
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mammals on the land.
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But I also learned that
on day six God created man.
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I learned, Genesis 1:26, "God
said, Let us make man in our
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image, after our likeness."
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And so from this
text I learned that God is
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three in one.
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The Father, the
Son, and the Holy Ghost.
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Three in one, working to
bring about my salvation.
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And so I learned,
because God is three in one, I
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learned that Jesus was God.
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John 1:1, "In the beginning
was the Word, and the Word was
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with God, and the Word was
God." And then verse 14 says
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that the Word became flesh.
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I then learned Superman
wasn't real, God was real, and I
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learned that man, God's
creation, had messed up.
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That man had sinned.
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I learned that we all are
sinners, all of us have sinned
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and come short
of the glory of God.
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If you say you have
no sin, the truth of God
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is not in you.
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You're a liar.
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But if you sin, you
have need for a Savior.
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Do I have a
witness in this place?
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Man was in distress.
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Man was torn.
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Man was tried.
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Man was troubled.
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Man had sin.
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So God had a dilemma.
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Either I excuse sin or I
destroy all and start over.
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God's solution?
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To send Superman.
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God's solution?
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To send Jesus the Christ.
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For God so loved the
world that God gave God's only
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begotten Son, that whosoever
believeth in him should not
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perish, but have
everlasting what, everybody?
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Life.
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For the wages of sin is death.
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I deserve death.
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You deserve death.
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We deserve death.
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But the gift of
God is eternal life.
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Hallelujah, somebody.
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Through Jesus Christ our Lord.
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I learned that Jesus was
the real Superman because he was
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wounded for my transgressions.
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Bruised for my iniquities.
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The chastisement of
my peace was upon him.
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But by his stripes I'm
healed today, hallelujah.
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I learned that there was
no more a need for the Old
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Testament sacrificial system.
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Superman had come to my rescue.
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"Behold the Lamb of God, which
taketh away the sins of the
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world." So I didn't have
to go to anybody else to get
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forgiveness for my sins.
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I didn't have to go speak
and confess to somebody else and
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tell them all that I had done.
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I learned from the Word of God
that "if we confess our sins,
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he is faithful and just
to forgive us of our sins and
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cleanse us from all
unrighteousness." I learned
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that there is no other name
under heaven whereby we can be
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saved, but save
the name of Jesus.
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And so it was, because of
sin and men had messed up.
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Jesus, the real Superman,
had to come the first time.
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He had to come the first
timeś to save his people.
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And so in his coming the first
time, Matthew 1:21 says, "And
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she shall bring forth a son.
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Thou shalt call his name
Jesus, for he shall save his
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people from
their" what, everybody?
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Let's look at that text.
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Go with me to the book
of Matthew, chapter one, and
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let's read that together.
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Matthew 1:21,
And she shall what?
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Come on, she shall
bring forth a what?
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Thou shalt call his
name what, everybody?
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For he shall, what?
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He shall what?
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Save his people from their what?
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Sin.
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So, at Jesus' first coming
to this earth, when he came as a
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babe, he came to
save his people from sin.
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He came to save us
from our evil walk.
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He came to save us
from our evil talk.
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He came to save
us from adultery.
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He came to save us from lying.
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He came to save
us from stealing.
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He came to save us from doubt.
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He came to save
us from depression.
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The Bible says that he
came to seek and to save
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that which was lost.
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That's why he
came the first time.
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He came to save his people.
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And the Bible teaches, I
learned, when I'm studying
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about the real Superman,
that the Bible teaches that he,
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that she, that believes
on the Lord Jesus Christ,
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they shall be saved.
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Do I have a
witness in this place?
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But I've learned also in
my life that everybody doesn't
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believe on Jesus.
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Everybody doesn't
believe he's a way-maker.
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That he's a company-keeper.
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That he's a wheel in
the middle of a wheel.
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Everybody doesn't believe he's
a bridge over troubled waters,
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that he's
shelter in time of storm.
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Everybody doesn't believe
that he has the power to save.
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And so as a result of
everyone's unbelief, we have a
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world full of mess,
strife and confusion.
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Understand that
every day somebody's being
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burglarized or victimized.
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Every day we turn on the news,
somebody is the victim of some
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sort of crime.
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Every day in our
world, somebody is being
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infected with HIV.
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Every day we have
children in our world who go
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to bed hungry.
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Every day there's
trouble of some sort.
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Tornado over here.
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Hurricane over there.
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Tsunamis over there.
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Understand, every day there's
murder here, fight over there,
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crime there, death
here, child hungry here.
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When will it all end?
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But let me tell
you something today.
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Hold on.
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Because help is on the way.
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Let me tell you today, hold
on, because one day Superman
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is going to come to our rescue.
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Let not your heart be what?
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Troubled.
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Ye believe in God,
believe also in me.
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In my father's
house are many mansions.
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The first time Superman came,
Jesus the Christ, he came to
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save his people, he
came to do what, everybody?
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Save his people.
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And the second time he comes,
he's coming to get his people.
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He's coming to do what?
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Get.
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Now, that's what the
Christian life is all about.
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That's why we pray.
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That's why we sing.
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That's why we
study the Word of God.
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That's why we preach the
Word of God, because we are all
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looking forward to
Jesus' second coming.
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This is what
we're all looking for.
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And eyes haven't seen, neither
ears heard, the things that
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God has prepared
for them that love him.
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So, okay,
Superman's coming, Pastor.
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We recognize his
coming, you've made that clear.
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The Word of God says
that in John chapter 14.
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But when will he come?
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We know he's coming,
but when will he come?
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And Pastor, we don't want
to hear your own words, we want
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to hear from the Word of God.
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When does the Word say that
the real Superman is going to
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come to my rescue?
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Well, I'm glad you asked.
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Go with me to
the book of Matthew.
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What book, everybody?
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Let's get some Word.
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Know what you believe, know
why you believe it, and know
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where it's found.
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Let's go to Matthew 24:36.
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Let's get some Word today.
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The Gospel according to St.
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Matthew, chapter
24, and verse 36.
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The Word of God
speaks clearly to us today.
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It says, But of that, what?
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Come on.
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Of that day and
hour knoweth no what?
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Man.
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No, not the angels
of heaven, but my what?
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Father only.
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Let's stop right there.
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So if anybody's walking
around, talking about the real
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Superman, Jesus Christ, is
coming on a certain day, you
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know that's a lie
from the pits of hell.
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Because the Word of God says,
"But of that day and" what?
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"hour knoweth no man, no,
not the angels of heaven, but my
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Father only." Go to verse 37.
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The word continues, "But as
the days of Noah were, so also
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the coming of the Son of Man
be." For as in the days, verse
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38, that was before the flood.
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They were eating and what?
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Marrying and giving in what?
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Until the day that
Noah entered into the what,
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everybody?
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Entered into the ark.
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Verse 39, and knew
not, until the flood came.
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Took them all away.
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So shall also the
coming of the Son of Man be.
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When the real Superman comes,
Jesus Christ comes, the second
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time, it's not going to be
like you knew he was coming.
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The Bible is clear that no
one will know but the Father.
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Are you hearing what
I'm saying, everybody?
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But the Bible lets us know
that just around the time of
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this coming, people
are going to be doing any
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and everything.
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That if it feels good, do it.
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People going to be doing
whatever they want to do.
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Let's get some more Word.
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Go to verse 42.
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So because of that, the
Word of God, Jesus says, Matthew
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24:42, the Word says, Watch
therefore, for ye know what?
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Not what hour your
Lord doth what, everybody?
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Come.
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Verse 44:
Therefore, be ye also what?
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For in such an hour
as ye think not, the
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Son of Man cometh.
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So we don't know
when he's coming.
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But what we do know
is, he's coming soon.
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Are you hearing what
I'm saying, everybody?
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We do know he's coming soon.
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Well, Pastor, we don't know
when he's coming, but we know
00:17:37.36\00:17:40.23
he's coming soon, so what are
some of the signs surrounding
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Jesus', the real
Superman, his coming.
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What are some of the signs?
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Let's now go up in
Matthew 24 and go to verse 1.
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Matthew 24, we've got it
straight from the Word of God,
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straight from the Bible.
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Have to be a Bible preacher.
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Matthew 24:1, what are
some of the signs of his coming?
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The Word of God says in
Matthew 24:1, and Jesus went
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out and departed from
the what, everybody? Temple.
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And his disciples came to
him to show him the buildings
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of the temple.
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Verse 2, And Jesus
said unto them, See ye not
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all these what? Things.
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Verily I say until you, there
shall not be left one here,
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one stone upon another,
that shall not be thrown down.
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Verse 3, "And as he sat
upon the Mount of Olives, the
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disciples came unto him
privately, saying, Tell us,
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when shall these things be?
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and what shall be the sign
of thy coming, and of the end of
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the world?" Jesus responds,
verse 4, "Jesus answered and
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said until them, Take
heed that no man deceive you."
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Now, let me stop right there.
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That's why it's so important
for me to preach the Bible.
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That's why it's so
important to preach what thus
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saith the Lord.
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Not what you
think not what I think,
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but what God
thinks and what God says.
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Are you hearing what I'm saying?
00:19:10.90\00:19:12.26
Because if you're not
careful, you can be deceived
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on the Word of God.
00:19:15.23\00:19:17.23
If Satan can
deceive Adam and Eve in the
00:19:17.23\00:19:21.13
Garden of Eden, if
Satan can try to deceive even
00:19:21.13\00:19:25.16
Jesus, don't you know
Satan will try to deceive
00:19:25.16\00:19:28.73
you and me.
00:19:28.73\00:19:29.46
Are you hearing what I'm saying?
00:19:29.46\00:19:30.73
Jesus says, take heed
that no man deceive you.
00:19:30.73\00:19:34.90
Know what you believe, know
why you believe it, and know
00:19:34.90\00:19:37.90
where it's found.
00:19:37.90\00:19:39.40
I find in my travels
today that a lot of people claim
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that they're followers of
Jesus Christ but they don't
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know what the Word of God says.
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Verse 5: "For many shall
come in my name, saying I am"
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whom, everybody? Christ.
00:19:53.03\00:19:54.76
And shall deceive what? Many.
00:19:54.76\00:19:56.63
Verse 6: And ye shall hear
of wars and rumors of wars.
00:19:56.63\00:20:01.83
We've got wars
going on everywhere.
00:20:01.83\00:20:03.13
Are you hearing what
I'm saying, everybody?
00:20:03.13\00:20:04.43
See that ye be not what?
00:20:04.43\00:20:05.66
Troubled.
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For all of these
things must come to pass.
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But the end is not yet.
00:20:11.06\00:20:13.73
Let's keep on.
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For nation shall
rise against what?
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Nation.
00:20:15.76\00:20:16.70
Kingdom against what?
00:20:16.70\00:20:17.43
Kingdom.
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There shall be what?
00:20:18.46\00:20:19.93
Famines and pestilences and
earthquakes in diverse places,
00:20:19.93\00:20:23.83
meaning all these natural
calamities will happen in
00:20:23.83\00:20:27.90
diverse different places.
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"All these are the
beginning of sorrows.
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Then shall they deliver you
up to be afflicted, and shall
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kill you, and ye shall be
hated of all nations for my
00:20:37.30\00:20:40.50
namesake.
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And then shall many be
offended, shall betray one
00:20:42.53\00:20:44.86
another, and
shall hate one another.
00:20:44.86\00:20:46.40
And many false prophets
shall rise." Lord have mercy.
00:20:46.40\00:20:51.53
Many false prophets
shall rise and deceive many.
00:20:51.53\00:20:57.56
And because iniquity, meaning
sin, Lord have mercy, shall
00:20:57.56\00:21:01.90
abound, the love of
many shall wax cold.
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That's why I tell you all the
time, don't keep your eyes on
00:21:06.43\00:21:09.36
me, but keep your eyes on Jesus.
00:21:09.36\00:21:10.93
Are you hearing what I'm saying?
00:21:10.93\00:21:12.13
But the Word says he,
hallelujah, that shall endure
00:21:12.13\00:21:18.33
until the end, the same
shall be what, everybody?
00:21:18.33\00:21:22.36
And this Gospel of the Kingdom
shall be preached as a witness
00:21:22.36\00:21:27.70
into all the world, for a
witness unto all nations, and
00:21:27.70\00:21:31.26
then shall the end
what, everybody? Come.
00:21:31.26\00:21:35.73
Oh yes, he's coming back.
00:21:35.73\00:21:36.96
He's coming back the
second time to get his people.
00:21:36.96\00:21:41.90
But let's go on some more.
00:21:41.90\00:21:42.53
Let's get some more Word.
00:21:42.53\00:21:43.93
Go with me to the book of Acts.
00:21:43.93\00:21:45.46
What book, everybody?
00:21:45.46\00:21:46.63
Let's get some more Word.
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Take your Bibles.
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Acts, chapter one, verse nine.
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We know he's coming.
00:21:49.43\00:21:53.66
How will he come?
00:21:53.66\00:21:56.16
We know he's coming, we know
the signs of his coming, but
00:21:56.16\00:21:59.93
how will he come?
00:21:59.93\00:22:04.40
Let's get some more Word.
00:22:04.40\00:22:05.23
The book of Acts, chapter one,
and we're going to verse nine.
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Know what you believe, know
why you believe it, and know
00:22:11.23\00:22:14.00
where it's found.
00:22:14.00\00:22:15.30
Acts 1:9, the Word of God
says, "And when he had spoken
00:22:15.30\00:22:20.03
these things, Jesus, having
spoken to the disciples, while
00:22:20.03\00:22:22.96
they beheld, he
was taken" where? Up.
00:22:22.96\00:22:26.46
And he was received in
a cloud out of their what?
00:22:26.46\00:22:29.36
Sight.
00:22:29.36\00:22:30.20
Verse 10: And while they
looked steadfastly toward
00:22:30.20\00:22:33.43
heaven, as he went up, the
Bible says, behold, two men.
00:22:33.43\00:22:39.73
How many men, everybody?
00:22:39.73\00:22:40.23
Two men stood by
them in white apparel.
00:22:40.23\00:22:44.56
Verse 11: Which also said,
ye men of Galilee, why stand
00:22:44.56\00:22:50.76
ye gazing up into heaven?
00:22:50.76\00:22:53.60
Because this same Jesus, you
do understand this same Jesus,
00:22:53.60\00:23:00.60
this same Jesus who locked
the lion's jaw, this same Jesus
00:23:00.60\00:23:04.93
who provided air-conditioning
in the fiery furnace, this
00:23:04.93\00:23:07.76
same Jesus who took two fish
and five loaves of bread and
00:23:07.76\00:23:11.00
fed 5,000 men, women and
their children, this same Jesus
00:23:11.00\00:23:16.86
which is taken up from
you into heaven shall so
00:23:16.86\00:23:18.90
come in what?
00:23:18.90\00:23:20.10
Like manner as ye have
seen him go into where?
00:23:20.10\00:23:23.76
Heaven. So you know
what this teaches me?
00:23:23.76\00:23:25.83
The Word teaches me that
when Jesus, the real Superman,
00:23:25.83\00:23:29.66
comes back, the Bible
says that he will come
00:23:29.66\00:23:33.06
the same way he left.
00:23:33.06\00:23:34.70
If he left in a cloud,
he's coming back in a cloud.
00:23:34.70\00:23:39.86
But there are some people
who think that when Jesus comes
00:23:39.86\00:23:42.30
back, the real Superman comes
back the second time, there
00:23:42.30\00:23:43.96
are some people who
believe that Jesus' feet
00:23:43.96\00:23:47.36
will touch this earth.
00:23:47.36\00:23:49.36
But the Bible is very clear
that the same way he left is
00:23:49.36\00:23:52.70
the same way he's
coming what? Back.
00:23:52.70\00:23:55.13
Know what you believe, know
why you believe it, and know
00:23:55.13\00:23:59.46
where it's found.
00:23:59.46\00:24:01.40
Jesus left in a cloud, he's
coming back in a cloud, which
00:24:01.40\00:24:05.80
means then that Jesus'
feet will not touch this earth
00:24:05.80\00:24:10.66
because sin cannot come
in contact with the divine.
00:24:10.66\00:24:15.13
Are you hearing what
I'm saying, everybody?
00:24:15.13\00:24:17.73
The feet of Jesus can't touch
this sin and touch the earth
00:24:17.73\00:24:20.53
until this earth is cleaned up.
00:24:20.53\00:24:21.56
Are you hearing what
I'm saying, everybody?
00:24:21.56\00:24:23.53
Let's go on.
00:24:23.53\00:24:24.46
Jesus' feet will never
touch the earth because of sin.
00:24:24.46\00:24:28.00
Now, we know the signs of
his coming, we know that he's
00:24:28.00\00:24:33.30
coming, we know
how he will come.
00:24:33.30\00:24:37.63
But when he
comes, who will see him?
00:24:37.63\00:24:41.16
Got with me to the
book of Revelation.
00:24:41.16\00:24:43.10
What book, everybody?
00:24:43.10\00:24:43.96
Come on, let's get some Word.
00:24:43.96\00:24:44.80
Revelation, chapter 1, verse 7.
00:24:44.80\00:24:51.80
Revelation 1:7.
00:24:51.80\00:24:55.93
The Word of God says,
Revelation 1:7, the Word says,
00:24:55.93\00:25:10.43
Behold he cometh with what?
00:25:10.43\00:25:11.93
Come on, behold
he cometh with what?
00:25:11.93\00:25:13.43
Now, that's how the Bible
does not contradict itself.
00:25:13.43\00:25:16.30
Because we just read in Acts
what the Word of God says, he
00:25:16.30\00:25:23.10
left in a cloud, and that
he's going to come back the same
00:25:23.10\00:25:26.40
way he left, so if he left in
a cloud, he's coming back in a
00:25:26.40\00:25:29.86
what? Cloud.
00:25:29.86\00:25:31.63
Verse 7 of Revelation, Chapter
1: Behold he cometh with what?
00:25:31.63\00:25:35.66
Clouds.
00:25:35.66\00:25:36.66
And every what?
00:25:36.66\00:25:37.60
Come on, every what?
00:25:37.60\00:25:38.46
Every eye shall see him,
and they also which what?
00:25:38.46\00:25:43.10
Pierced him, and all
kindreds of the earth shall wail
00:25:43.10\00:25:45.80
because of him.
00:25:45.80\00:25:46.63
Even so, Amen.
00:25:46.63\00:25:48.13
The point we're making is,
when Jesus Christ comes back
00:25:48.13\00:25:51.76
the second time with Superman,
the real one comes back the
00:25:51.76\00:25:55.76
second time, every
eye is going to see Jesus.
00:25:55.76\00:25:59.30
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CB: Don't keep your
eyes on me, but keep your
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eyes on Jesus.
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are you hearing what I'm Saying?
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Superman is coming to my rescue.
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Because I've got
the real Superman.
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I've got Jesus.
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