(Theme Song) ? Jesus is worthy ?
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? oh yes, he's
worthy ?ú ? worthy of all ?
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(Music) We're going to get right
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into the Word, and as you all
know, I love the Word of God.
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Come on, say Amen.
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Do you love the Word of God?
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Let me hear you say Amen.
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Amen.
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We love the Word of God so much.
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Take your Bibles right
now and hold them up with me,
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everybody.
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Hold your Bibles up with me
and repeat after me and say,
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if it's in the Word
it deserves to be heard.
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Come on, say it again.
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If it's in the Word
it deserves to be heard.
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Praise be to God.
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We have said it and we
will continue to say it.
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Know what you believe,
know why you believe it, and
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know where it's found.
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Are you hearing what
I'm saying, everybody?
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We just don't come to
church, we just don't try to
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be religious and
try to be spiritual.
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But we need to know what
we believe, why we believe
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what we believe,
and where it's found.
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Come on, say Amen.
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Because I believe if
you're going to shout, you
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better say something
worth shouting about.
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Do I have a
witness in this place?
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We're going to take
our Bibles and go to the
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Book of Revelation.
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What book, everybody?
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Let's go to Revelation,
chapter 20, and we're going
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to read verses 1, 2, 3 and 4.
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Revelation 20:1-4.
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If you have it let
me hear you say Amen.
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Praise be to God.
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We're going to read now,
and you're hearing, the Word of
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God says, "And I
saw an angel come down
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from" where, everybody?
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Come on, come down from where?
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Having the key of
the bottomless what? Pit.
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And a great chain
in his what, everybody?
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Verse 2, the Word says,
And he laid hold on the what?
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That old what?
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Which is the what?
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And Satan, and bound
him for how many years?
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One thousand years.
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Verse 3, the Word goes
on: "And cast him into the
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bottomless pit, and shut
him up, and set a seal upon him,
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that he should deceive the
nations no more, till the,"
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how many years?
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Thousand.
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So how many years, everybody?
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"Thousand years should be
fulfilled: and after that he
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must be loosed a little
season."Verse 4, the Word
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says, "And I saw what?
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"Thrones, and they sat upon
them, and judgment was given
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unto them: and I saw the souls
of them that were beheaded for
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the witness of Jesus, and for
the word of God, and which had
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not worshipped the"what?
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Beast, neither his what?
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Image, neither had received
his mark upon their what?
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Foreheads, or in their what?
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Hands; and they lived
and they reigned with Christ
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a thousand years. Amen.
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Turn to your neighbor and
say, "Neighbor, today we're
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going to talk about
the devil's vacation."God,
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right now, come in this place.
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Speak, Lord, for
your servants heareth.
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God, I pray that the Holy
Ghost would just fall afresh
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on each and every one of
us who witness and experience
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your Word today.
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And oh God, when the appeal
is made, I pray that men, women,
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boys and girls would come
running, saying, what must I
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do to be saved?
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And we'll be able to
say, believe on the Lord Jesus
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Christ and thou shalt be saved.
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Forgive us for our sins,
hide me behind thy cross.
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And God, we be careful
to give you all the praise,
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the honor and the glory.
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In the name of Jesus we pray.
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Let everyone say Amen. And Amen.
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Now, as I tell you all the
time, I get excited about the
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Word of God.
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But not only do I get excited
about the Word of God, I get
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excited about
what's in the Word of God.
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Because in the Word of God
we discover that Jesus is God.
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The Bible's very clear in
Genesis 1:1, in the beginning,
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in the what, everybody?
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In the beginning God created
the heavens and the what?
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Earth. In the beginning
God created the heavens
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and the earth.
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Excited about the
Word, excited about what's
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in the Word.
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Excited that Jesus is God.
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How do I know that?
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The Word of God says in
Genesis 1:26, "And God said,
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let us."Let whom, everybody?
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Let us make whom? Man.
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Let us make man after our
image, after our likeness.
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Which means, when we study
the Word of God, when God says,
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"Let us make
man,"that lets us know that they
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are three in one.
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The Father, the
Son, and the Holy Spirit.
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Let us make man.
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The Father, the Son,
the Holy Spirit, all active
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agents in creation.
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And then we go to the
New Testament and go to the
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book of John.
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John, chapter one.
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And we go to John,
chapter one, verse one.
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The Word of God says, "In
the beginning was the Word.
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And the Word was with whom?
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God, and the word
was whom, everybody?
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God.
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And then the Bible says
that the Word became flesh.
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Which means that Jesus, who
is God, became flesh, according
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to John 1:14.
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Jesus became flesh
and he dwelt among us.
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Now,
understand, we were sinners.
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We had messed up.
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And if you think you are not
a sinner, you think you have not
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messed up, think again.
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Because all of us have
sinned and come short of
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the glory of God.
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If you have sinned,
then, you need a Savior.
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So what did for us was, God
sent his Son, Jesus Christ, to
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come to this
earth to be our Savior.
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We know that familiar text,
John 3:16, For God so loved
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the what, everybody?
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World, that he gave his only
begotten Son, that whosoever
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believeth in him
should not perish but have
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everlasting what?
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So I am excited
about the Word of God.
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I'm excited about
what's in the Word of God.
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I'm excited that Jesus is
God, and I get excited that
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Jesus saved my soul.
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Matthew 1:21 says, "And
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 sins.
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"And so it was.
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At Jesus' first coming,
when he came as a babe, when he
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came lying in a manger.
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When Jesus came the
first time, Jesus came to
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save his people.
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Jesus came to save
each and every one of us.
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Jesus came to save us
from everything and everybody.
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And I must be clear today that
while I praise Jesus, while I
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worship Jesus, while I love
Jesus, I also understand that
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for every action there is
an equal and opposite reaction.
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What do I mean by that?
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While I love Jesus, and
for everything that's good I
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recognize there's something bad.
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For everything that's
right, there's something wrong.
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For everything that's
nice, there's something nasty.
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And so then the opposite or
the antithesis, if you will,
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of Jesus is Satan.
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Satan is bad.
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Satan is wrong.
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And Satan is nasty.
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Satan is a liar.
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And he's the father of all lies.
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Let me be clear:
Satan does not like you.
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Satan does not
like your husband.
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Satan does not like your wife.
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Satan doesn't
even like your mama.
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Satan doesn't like your
daddy, Satan doesn't like
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your son, Satan
doesn't like your daughter.
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Satan does not like
you. But guess what?
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Satan and I, we
have an agreement.
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I hate him, and he hates me.
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Do I have a
witness in this place?
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But understand, and don't
get it twisted today, while
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Satan is the opposite or the
antithesis of my Jesus, Satan
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is no match for Jesus.
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Because greater is he that
is in me than the devil Satan
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that's in the world.
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Are you hearing what I'm saying?
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Understand that if there
is a greater than, there must
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be a less than.
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So why is Satan
no match for Jesus?
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Well, go with me to
the book of Ezekiel.
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What book did I say, everybody?
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Go with me to the book
of Ezekiel, Ezekiel 28 is
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where we're going.
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Why is Satan no match for Jesus?
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Go to Ezekiel, chapter 28,
and we're going to verse 15.
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Why is Satan no match for Jesus?
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Understand, number
one, Satan is no match
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for Jesus because
Satan is a created being.
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Satan is a created being.
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Go with me to Ezekiel 28.
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I want to show you where it
points out in Ezekiel 28 where
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Satan is a created being.
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In other words, you're
never to put the devil, not even
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close to the
power of who God is.
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Because the devil
is a created being.
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God, you see, wasn't created.
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God has always been here.
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God will always be here.
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God always was, God
always is, God always will be.
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Are you hearing what I'm saying?
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The Bible is very
clear in Ezekiel 28:15,
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talking about Satan.
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The Bible says, and I read
and you're hearing, Thou was
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perfect in thy what?
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Ways, from the day
that thou was what?
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Come on, from the day
that thou was what, everybody?
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Created.
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He's a created being.
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Till iniquity was found in thee.
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The devil is a created being.
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Therefore, because the devil
is a created being, he cannot
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have all power.
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But let me give you some advice.
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Quit giving the
devil so much credit.
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The devil is not all powerful
like the all-powerful God.
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Are you hearing what
I'm saying, everybody?
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The devil is no match for God.
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And let me give you
another word of advice.
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Don't get on God's bad side.
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Let me tell you something,
they used to say it years ago:
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Your arms are too
short to box with God.
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You better know that any time
creation tries to war against
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the Creator, they are
going to get beat down.
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For Creator is never
going to lose to creation.
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Do I have a
witness in this place?
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Now, the devil was
not created the devil.
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He's a created being,
but he was not necessarily
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created the devil.
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For the Bible says that
because of his own corruption
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he became the devil.
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Which means that not only is
the devil a created being, but
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number two, the
devil is a corrupt being.
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Look at verse 18 again.
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"Thou was perfect in all
thy ways, from the day that thou
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was created, till
iniquity was found in thee.
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"How, Pastor Byrd, was
iniquity found in Satan?
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We don't know.
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It was found in him.
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Satan is a corrupted being.
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He is corrupted because
he violated relationship
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with God.
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And understand what
was the outcome because
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of his corruption.
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God threw Satan out of
heaven and Satan was then
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assigned to planet Earth.
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In fact, according to
Revelation, chapter 20, one
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day God will
punish Satan for good.
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Which means, number
three, he's a condemned being.
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So number one,
he's a created being.
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Number two, he's a corrupted
being, and then number three,
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he is a condemned being.
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The day is going to come
where God is going to say,
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enough is enough.
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Satan, I've had enough.
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I've had enough of you
messing with my people.
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I've had enough of
you deceiving my people.
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I've had enough of
you hurting my people.
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I've had enough of
you causing confusion.
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I've had enough of your
lying, I've had enough of
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your stealing, I've had
enough of your killing, I've
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had enough of
doubt, depression, deceit.
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I've had enough of
death; Satan, I've had enough.
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Cancer, I've had enough.
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I've had enough of children
going to bed hungry at night.
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I've had enough of recession.
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I've had enough of sickness.
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God is going to tell
Satan one day very soon, Satan,
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I've had enough.
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And so one day very soon,
God is going to also tell Satan,
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and because I've had
enough, I'm coming back
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to get my people.
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Because, you see,
the first time Jesus
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came to save his people.
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But the second time
Jesus comes, Jesus is coming to
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get his people.
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John 14:1-3 says, "Let
not your heart be 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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If it were not so,
I would have told you.
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I go and prepare a place for
you, and if I go and prepare a
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place for you,"God
says, "I will come again and
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receive you unto myself,
that where I am, there ye may be
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also."And friends,
that's what I'm looking for.
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That's why I wave
my hands sometimes.
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That's why I raise
and elevate my voice in
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worship sometimes.
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That's why I stomp my feet
sometimes, because I know that
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one day soon and very
soon, Jesus is coming back
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to get his people.
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"Behold,"Paul says,
"I show you a mystery,
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that one day we
shall not all sleep,"
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but one day, in a moment,
in the twinkling of an eye, we
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shall all be changed.
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For this corruptible must
put on incorruption, where this
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must put on immortality,
and death is going to be
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swallowed up in victory.
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For the Lord himself
shall descend from heaven with a
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shout, with the
voice of the archangel and
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the trump of God.
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And God says, "The
dead in Christ are going to
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rise
first."Hallelujah, somebody.
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The first time, Jesus
came to save his people.
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But the second time, Jesus is
coming back to get his people.
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Does anybody want Jesus to come?
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Is anybody tired, sick
and tired of living from
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paycheck to paycheck?
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Anybody tired of
paying that house note?
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Come on, say Amen.
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And you're upside down on
your house note right now.
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Anybody tired of taking
medicine this, medicine that?
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Anybody tired of
chemotherapy, insulin shots?
00:15:07.76\00:15:10.86
Anybody tired
of high gas prices?
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Well, God's got
some wings just for you.
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Tired of your high house note?
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God's got a mansion
prepared just for you.
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Because Jesus, thank
you Lord, is coming back.
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He's coming back the
second time to get his people.
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Hallelujah, home at last, the
redeemed will be home at last.
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So Jesus is coming back.
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When is he coming back?
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Will we recognize?
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Go to the book of Matthew.
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What book did I say, everybody?
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Go to the book of Matthew.
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When is Jesus coming back?
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We don't know exactly the
date, but we do know Jesus is
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coming back real soon.
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Matthew chapter 24,
and going to verse 36.
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The Word of God says to us
today, Matthew 24:36, the Word
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says, "But of that day and
hour knoweth no man, no, not
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the angels of
heaven, but my Father only.
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But as in the days of Noah,
so shall also the coming of the
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Son of Man be.
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For as in the days that were
before the flood, they were,"
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doing what, everybody?
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Eating and what?
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Marrying and giving in what?
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They were marrying and giving
in marriage until the day that
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Noah, the Bible
says, entered into the ark.
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The Bible goes on in Matthew
24 and says they were doing
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all these things 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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But the Bible goes on some more.
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Verse 42: Watch, therefore,
for ye know not what hour your
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Lord doth come.
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Which means, you
may think Jesus is
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going to come at 8:00.
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You don't know that.
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No one knows the time,
the day of Jesus' coming.
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Verse 44: Therefore,
then, be ye also ready.
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Everybody say ready.
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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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Oh yes, he's coming.
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But what are the
signs of his coming?
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Matthew 24, we can
read those as well.
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Take heed that
no man deceive you.
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Because just before Jesus
comes, the Bible is very clear
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in verse 5 that there are
going to be many folks that
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come in the name of Jesus.
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Jesus' Word says, himself
speaking, he says, there are
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going to be wars and rumors
of war, earthquakes, famines,
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pestilences, but I am
encouraged by the Word of God,
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because the Word of God says
in verse 13 of Matthew 24, but
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he that endureth to the end,
the same is going to be saved.
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Hallelujah, somebody.
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Understand, this gospel of the
kingdom must be preached, as a
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witness into all the world,
and then shall the end come.
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No later, no sooner.
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But then shall the end come.
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Let's get into the Word.
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We understand that
Jesus is coming soon.
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We understand the
signs surrounding his coming.
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We understand how
he's going to return.
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According to Acts 1:9-11,
Jesus left this earth in the
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clouds, and when he
comes back, he's coming
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back in a cloud.
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We also recognize that
because of that, Jesus' feet
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will never touch the earth.
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Understand, there's a
whole lot of erroneous teaching
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going on out there, but
if it's not in the Word it
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doesn't deserve to be heard.
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Understand that if anybody
tells you that Jesus' feet
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will touch this earth
when he comes, that's a lie
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from the pits of hell.
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Because he left in a
cloud, Acts 1:9 says, he's
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coming back in a cloud.
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But not only that, Revelation
1:7 says that when he comes
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every eye is going to see him.
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Everybody, we're all going
to see Jesus when he comes.
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Now, I shared this with
you earlier, and I share
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it again today.
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I believe that repetition
deepens the impression.
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Understand that when Jesus
Christ returns, there will be
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four, there will be
how many, everybody?
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Come on, how
many, everybody? Four.
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Four primary groups of people.
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When Jesus Christ
returns the second time.
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Because remember, the
first time, he came to what?
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Save his people.
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He came to what, everybody?
00:19:06.96\00:19:07.83
Save his people.
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The second time Jesus
comes, Jesus is coming to what?
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Get his people.
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Now, when Jesus comes the
second time, and when he comes
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to get his people, the Bible
is very clear that there are
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four primary groups of people.
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What are they, Pastor Byrd?
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I'll tell you what they are.
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The Bible's very
clear in I Thessalonians,
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chapter 4 and verse 16.
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The Bible says, "For the
Lord himself shall descend
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from heaven with a shout, with
the voice of the archangel and
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the trump of God, and the
dead in Christ shall rise"
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what, everybody? First.
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So that means at Jesus'
second coming, listen to
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me carefully, at Jesus'
second coming, group number one,
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primary group number one,
the righteous dead, the Bible is
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clear that they are
going to rise what? First.
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Now, let's read verse 17 of
the same book of the Bible and
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the same chapter.
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The Bible says in I
Thessalonians 4:17, Then
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we which are alive and what?
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Remain shall be caught
up together with them in
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the what? Clouds.
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That makes sense, because we
just read in Acts 1:9-11 that
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Jesus left in a cloud,
he will return the second
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time in a cloud.
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Then we which are alive
and remain shall be caught up
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together with them
in the what? Clouds.
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And so shall we
ever be with the Lord.
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So group number one, the
righteous dead, they rise
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what? First.
00:20:32.86\00:20:33.86
Group number two, the
righteous living, are caught
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up to meet the
Lord in the what? Air.
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Group number three,
primary group at Jesus'
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second coming.
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First coming, save his people.
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Second coming, get his people.
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When Jesus comes back
the second time, Group number
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three, the wicked or
the unrighteous living.
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Go with me to II Thessalonians,
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what book, everybody?
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And we're going to chapter 2.
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II Thessalonians 2:,
and we're going to verse 8.
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II Thessalonians 2:8.
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Let's find it
there in our Bibles.
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II Thessalonians 2:8.
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The Word of God says,
And then shall that wicked be
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what, everybody?
00:21:17.83\00:21:19.50
Revealed, whom the Lord shall
consume with the spirit of his
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what? Mouth, and
shall destroy with
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the brightness of his what?
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All right.
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Know what you believe,
know why you believe it,
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know where it's found.
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When Jesus comes
back the second time, he's
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coming to get his people.
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Group number one, the
righteous dead, rise first.
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Group number two, the
righteous living, are caught
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up to meet the
Lord in the what? Air.
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Group number three, the wicked
or the unrighteous living, the
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Bible teaches that they
die at the brightness of
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Jesus' coming.
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And sometimes I
have to test myself.
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And I have to look at
the sun dead in the eye.
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I have to sometimes look at
light dead in the eye to make
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sure I can look at them,
because I don't want to die
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at the
brightness of Jesus' coming.
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Come on, say Amen.
00:22:08.50\00:22:09.40
Righteous dead rise first.
00:22:09.40\00:22:11.76
Righteous living are caught
up to meet the Lord in the air.
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Wicked or unrighteous
living die at the brightness
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of his coming.
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Then group
number four, Revelation.
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What book did I say, everybody?
00:22:21.50\00:22:23.50
Let's go to Revelation
chapter 20, and we're going
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to verse number 5.
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Revelation 20:5.
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The Word of God says to us
today in Revelation 20:5, But
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the rest of the what?
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Dead live not again
until the thousand years
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were what? Finished.
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This is the first resurrection.
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This is the
first what, everybody?
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Now, keep your
Bibles open to that text.
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We're going to go back
there in just a moment.
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Keep your Bibles open to
that text, Revelation 20:5.
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Group number four, the wicked
dead, are going to remain dead
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at Jesus' second coming.
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Are you hearing what I'm saying?
00:23:01.70\00:23:03.43
The wicked dead at
Jesus' second coming are
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going to remain dead.
00:23:06.80\00:23:08.70
But the rest of the dead live
not again until the thousand
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years were what? Finished.
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So at Jesus' second coming,
we know he's coming back,
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and I get excited about that.
00:23:19.06\00:23:20.76
But at Jesus second coming
the righteous dead will rise
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first, the righteous living
will be caught up to meet the
00:23:23.53\00:23:25.96
Lord in the air, the
wicked living will die at the
00:23:25.96\00:23:28.56
brightness of his coming,
and the wicked dead will remain
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what, everybody? Dead.
00:23:32.20\00:23:33.26
Now, let's know what we
believe, why we believe it,
00:23:33.26\00:23:36.16
and where it's found.
00:23:36.16\00:23:36.96
I shared it with you
earlier, I share it again.
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If the righteous at their
earthly death were already in
00:23:38.96\00:23:44.70
heaven, who would Jesus
be coming back for at his
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second coming?
00:23:50.53\00:23:52.80
The righteous would
already be in heaven.
00:23:52.80\00:23:54.66
So if Jesus, when Jesus comes
back the second time to get
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his people, there would
be nobody for Jesus to get
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because if the righteous
at their earthly death would
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already be in heaven,
there would be nobody that
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would rise first.
00:24:05.36\00:24:06.10
But the reality as we're
getting into the Word of God
00:24:06.10\00:24:11.33
and digging deeper,
knowing what we believe, why we
00:24:11.33\00:24:13.83
believe it, and where
it's found, the reality is that
00:24:13.83\00:24:15.86
when an individual dies their
earthly death, they don't go
00:24:15.86\00:24:20.86
straight to heaven.
00:24:20.86\00:24:22.56
The Bible says that at
Jesus' second coming the
00:24:22.56\00:24:27.00
dead in Christ
shall rise what? First.
00:24:27.00\00:24:29.26
Then we which are alive
and remain will be caught up to
00:24:29.26\00:24:31.96
meet the Lord in the what?
00:24:31.96\00:24:33.23
Air?
00:24:33.23\00:24:34.03
So we want to be a
part of group one or two.
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Do I have a
witness in this place?
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We want to be a
part of group one or two.
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Know what you believe, know
why you believe it, know where
00:24:41.80\00:24:44.40
it's found.
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So let's talk now
about the devil's vacation.
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What is the
devil's vacation all about?
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Christ's second coming
signals the beginning of what
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we call the Millennium.
00:24:55.60\00:24:58.00
Everybody say millennium.
00:24:58.00\00:24:59.00
Or the 1,000-year period.
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Because
millennium means 1,000 years.
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Now, let's be clear.
00:25:04.70\00:25:05.80
This resurrection which
begins the Millennium, is a
00:25:05.80\00:25:10.86
resurrection of the righteous.
00:25:10.86\00:25:12.83
Go back to Revelation
20, let's look at the Word.
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Revelation 20:5.
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If you have it, let
me hear you say Amen.
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The Word says in Revelation
20:5, But the rest of the
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what?
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Dead live not again until
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Finished.
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This is the first resurrection.
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Verse 6: Blessed and holy is
he that hath part in the what?
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First resurrection.
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On such the second
death hath no what?
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Power, but they shall
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