I'm John Carter in Moscow.
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In Havana, Cuba.
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Now in Kiev, the
capital of Ukraine.
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I'm John Carter in Petra.
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Right here in Communist China.
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Reporting from India.
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Hi, I'm John Carter
in the Solomon Islands.
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I'm John Carter in Soweto.
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From El Salvador.
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I'm John in Sydney, Australia.
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Today, John Carter will teach us
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The Origin and End of Evil,
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the Great Controversy
between Christ and Satan.
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Hi, friend, I'm John Carter.
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Welcome back to
the Carter Report.
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This is part two of, The
Origin and The End of Evil.
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In the first segment,
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we talked about a being
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who is called in
the Bible, the snake.
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He was a slimy creature,
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he brought sin and
death and everything bad
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into this world
through our first parents.
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He was the great, first
you could say, egomaniac.
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We read a text in
the book of Isaiah,
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and it's all about I,
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this guy is
saying, "I'm gonna do this,
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I'm gonna do that I'm
gonna be greater than God."
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We notice that insane people
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usually are
obsessed with themselves.
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The original super maniac,
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the person so
obsessed with himself,
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suffering from a
great spiritual sickness.
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We call it the insanity of sin.
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Are you listening?
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This tide of the great rebellion
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before humanity
existed in a place far,
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far away from Planet Earth.
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It concerned the transformation
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of an exalted
shining angel to the snake.
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To the serpent of death,
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and he is the cause
behind every heartache,
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every death, every sorrow.
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Now when this happened,
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sin was a new,
strange, insidious,
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mysterious invader
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into the
happiness of the universe.
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It was a new force,
it was like a new virus.
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A pandemic was about to
start, nobody understood it.
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Even the holy
angels didn't get it.
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Only God understood it.
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We talked about
this in the first segment
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where this
snake, this beautiful,
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he didn't knock any
of this on the screen.
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But this, more like this.
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A beautiful being
came down to this earth,
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and to deceive our parents
and sin came into the world.
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I'm gonna turn to a text now
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over here in Ezekiel Chapter 28.
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And it talks about
the origin of evil.
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Ezekiel Chapter 28.
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We're gonna start with verse 12.
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These are sort
of amazing verses,
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would you please notice them?
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"Thus says the
Lord God. Yahweh Elohim.
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You were the seal of perfection,
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full of wisdom,
perfect in beauty.
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You are an Eden
the garden of God,
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every precious
stone was your covering.
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You were the
anointed cherub who covers."
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So here is a
beautiful angel super, super.
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"I established you.
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You are on the
holy mountain of God.
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You walk back and forth
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in the midst of
the fiery stones."
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This is the being
who became the snake.
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"You were perfect in your ways
from the day you were created,
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till iniquity was found in you.
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Your heart was lifted
up because of your beauty.
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You corrupted your wisdom
for the sake of your splendor."
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And when you read
this in Ezekiel Chapter 28,
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it is talking
about the king of Sidon.
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That's sort of amazing.
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Because behind
the king of Sidon,
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behind this powerful king,
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there was a supernatural force.
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Just as the snake is behind
many rulers in the world today.
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Rulers who are little dictators,
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pumpers full of themselves,
suffering from I trouble,
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"I'm going to do this,
I'm going to be first."
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And so he was this
being that came into the world
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who was the originator of evil.
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Once he was one of
the heaven's stars,
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but he wanted more.
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He wanted to rule the universe
and the universe's beyond.
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He was powerful, persuasive,
charming, super intelligent,
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and he became the snake.
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And he's called in
scripted via special name,
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he is not only called Lucifer
but he is called, listen to it.
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He is called The Serpent.
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I want to come over here
to Revelation Chapter 12.
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I'm gonna turn
to it in my Bible.
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And if you've got a Bible,
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you may want to go get
it and follow the text.
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Revelation
12:7-9, are you listening?
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Just listen to this,
this sort of amazing.
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Revelation 12:7-9,
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"War broke out
in heaven. Michael,"
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that's Christ,
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"and His angels,
fought with the dragon."
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He's no longer a
beautiful looking creature.
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Now he's the dragon,
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"And the dragon
and his angels fought.
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But they did not prevail,
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nor was their
price found for them
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any longer in heaven."
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So they tossed out.
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"So the great
dragon," verse nine,
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"The great dragon was cast that
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that serpent of old,
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called the Devil
and Satan or Satan,
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who deceives the whole world.
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He was cast to the earth,
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and his angels
were cast out with him."
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Almost too hard to believe.
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But there came a tremendous war.
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A tremendous war in the heavens.
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On one side, there was
the Almighty creator God.
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And on the other side,
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there was this superlative
creature of excelling beauty
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with a tremendous mind
and tremendous intelligence.
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The one who became the snake,
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but he didn't
start out as a snake.
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He was full of charm.
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And the charm was so
amazing that one third of the...
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This is talking about millions
of super intelligent beings,
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join forces with Satan, in
their rebellion against God.
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And that's why the
world is in such a mess today.
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And there's only one solution.
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And that
solution is Jesus Christ.
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This being who became the
snake had a big philosophy,
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his philosophy was, "Me first."
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All about self,
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not about
anybody, about me first.
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"I'm going to
become the greatest.
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I'm going to exalt my
throne above the stars of God.
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I'm going to become
like the Most High."
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And this tremendous
being with tremendous power,
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and with such a
tremendous personality,
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he was cast down to this earth.
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And this world became his home,
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which tells you
why there is sickness,
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and death, and sorrow and pain,
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and crime in the world.
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But the Bible tells us that
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the God the
Creator loved us so much
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that He came down to this earth
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in the person of Jesus Christ
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to defeat the serpent.
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There are two opposing
kingdoms in this world.
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You and I are on
one side or the other.
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There is the
kingdom of the Creator
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and the kingdom of Satan.
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Let's talk about the Creator,
the kingdom of the Creator.
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The greatest text, the
most famous text in the Bible
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is John 3:16.
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It tells us almost
everything we need to know.
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Listen, "For God."
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This is Yahweh Elohim,
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the Almighty God
who made the universe,
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the Almighty God who
made this beautiful angel
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whose name was Lucifer.
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This superlative creature
of overwhelming intelligence
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and power.
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But the Bible tells us
to meet the great issue
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and the
tremendous threat to the sea,
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to the stability of
the entire universe.
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The Bible tells us that
God Yahweh Elohim became a man.
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The Bible says,
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"For God so loved the world
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that he gave His
one and only Son,"
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that's Jesus,
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"That whoever believes in Him
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shall not perish
but have eternal life."
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The Bible says that God said,
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"I love these people too much
that I'm going to become a man.
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And I'm going to come down
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and die for the
human race on the cross."
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And so God showed the great,
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the great and
overwhelming power of love.
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So what is God like?
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You think of the
nicest person you know,
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and God is a billion
times better than that.
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In the kingdom of
God, you got freedom.
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People say, "Why does
God allow all this to happen?
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Why does God
allow Satan to go on?
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Why does God allow this
world to have dictators?
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Why does God allow
little children to suffer?"
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It's very, very easy because
God has given us freedom,
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freedom to choose.
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God did not make us robots.
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God could have made us robots,
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but because God
is a God of love,
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he wants a service
that comes from love.
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Not because we're
forced to serve Him.
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So in the kingdom of
God, we have freedom.
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In the kingdom of
God, we have obedience,
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but it's not a forced obedience.
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God wants us to obey Him
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because we know it's
the best thing to do.
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It is a kingdom that
is based upon that...
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Listen to me, this is
terrifically important.
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The kingdom of God is
based upon service to others.
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Today, there's a
phrase going around America
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and other countries,
Russia, China, "Me first."
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China first, Russia first.
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That is the very antithesis
of the kingdom of God,
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which is based
upon loving everybody.
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But Satan, my
friend, was the snake first.
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The snake first.
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It's an amazing
thing that in the universe,
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we've discovered a principle,
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which is called "The
Anthropic Principle."
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It means that everything
that exists in the universe,
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everything that
exists in the universe,
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gravity doesn't
matter what it is.
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Everything exists for our good.
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Atheists have been
amazed at this discovery,
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"The Anthropic Principle,"
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but everything in the universe
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is there because God loves us.
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The kingdom of God
is based upon love.
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It is based upon truth.
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Now listen to me and
listen up and listen hard.
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We live in a
so-called post-truth era.
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I hear this on television.
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Oh, no.
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You got your truth
and I've got my truth.
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That's a lot of nonsense.
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That's the biggest
lie you've ever heard.
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There is no such thing
as you having your truth
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and this person having his truth
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and me having my truth.
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We can have our opinions,
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but our opinions may
simply be our subjective ideas.
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But the kingdom of
God is based upon truth.
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Jesus said, "Don't forget it."
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Jesus said, "You
will know the truth.
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And the truth
will set you free."
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A follower of
Christ is not a liar.
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You might say,
"But it's okay to lie.
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Everybody lies."
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No, not everybody does lie.
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Good people are not liars.
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"I know you're being a fanatic.
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Everybody lies.
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Every politician lies.
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Every person lies."
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Well, the Bible tells me
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liars are going to be
cast into the lake of fire.
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There is such a thing as truth.
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And Jesus said,
"You will know the truth,
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and the truth will
make you or set you free."
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The kingdom of God
is based upon justice
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that which is right and fair.
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There's a saying in
America and it's true,
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"No justice, no peace."
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You see, it must
not only be right,
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it must be seen to be right.
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God is a just God.
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And that is why
there is a Judgment Day.
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And the kingdom of
God, God's kingdom,
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the kingdom of Christ is
based upon life and liberty.
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Life, Jesus said
in John Chapter 10,
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I think,
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"I've come that
they may have life
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and have it more abundantly."
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If you want to
be happy, my friend,
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if you want to be fulfilled,
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you need to be on
the side of Christ
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because that is
the kingdom of God.
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People say what's
gone wrong in America?
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What's gone wrong in the world?
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Why is there so
much hate speech?
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Why did the
politicians all the time
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seem to be talking hate?
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Why is this spread
to people everywhere,
00:14:12.25\00:14:14.58
where people just
kind of agree to disagree,
00:14:14.62\00:14:18.35
but everybody's got to be
in this camp or in that camp,
00:14:18.39\00:14:22.12
and people have
got all of this hate.
00:14:22.16\00:14:24.86
But Jesus said,
00:14:24.89\00:14:26.23
"I've come that
people who may have life."
00:14:26.26\00:14:29.86
So there's the kingdom of
God which operates in the world
00:14:29.90\00:14:32.63
and you should ask
yourself the question as I do.
00:14:32.67\00:14:35.47
What kingdom do I belong to?
00:14:35.50\00:14:38.77
And there's another kingdom.
00:14:38.81\00:14:40.78
It is the kingdom
of Satan the serpent.
00:14:40.81\00:14:46.01
It is a kingdom
that is filled with hate.
00:14:46.05\00:14:49.48
Have you ever
heard it, hate speech?
00:14:49.52\00:14:51.35
Every person is a Devil.
00:14:51.39\00:14:53.56
If he's belongs to a
different party to you,
00:14:53.59\00:14:56.36
that's of the devil.
00:14:56.39\00:14:58.86
Hate speech, desire to destroy
our enemies full of poison.
00:14:58.89\00:15:03.26
Look at this text
in Romans Chapter 3.
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It is so strong
00:15:05.50\00:15:07.30
I'm almost
embarrassed to read it to you.
00:15:07.34\00:15:09.30
Romans Chapter 3, it
describes certain people,
00:15:09.34\00:15:12.47
"Their throat is an open tomb."
00:15:12.51\00:15:16.44
When they speak,
the filth comes out.
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"With their tongues
they have practiced deceit.
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The poison of asps,"
00:15:21.28\00:15:22.92
snakes,"
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Is under their lips.
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Whose mouth is full of
cursing and bitterness.
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And the way of peace
they have not known."
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Do you know people like that?
00:15:35.23\00:15:37.27
"There is no fear of
God before their eyes."
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And so you've got people
00:15:39.67\00:15:41.60
when they speak
out comes to hate,
00:15:41.64\00:15:44.01
out comes the
poison, out comes the lies.
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You know what Hitler said,
00:15:47.91\00:15:49.71
"If you want to ruin our nation,
00:15:49.74\00:15:51.08
there's one good way to do it.
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Not only tell a
lie but tell a big lie
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and repeat it over and
over and over and over again."
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We are living today in
the age of the super liar.
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It may have a lot
to do with religion,
00:16:07.33\00:16:08.86
but it's got nothing to do
with Christ and the Kingdom.
00:16:08.90\00:16:14.04
The kingdom of
Satan, the serpent
00:16:14.07\00:16:16.97
is based on force and coercion.
00:16:17.01\00:16:19.74
That's why dictators
flourish in the world today.
00:16:19.77\00:16:24.78
We believe in the truth.
00:16:24.81\00:16:26.85
You can think as you please,
00:16:26.88\00:16:29.48
we do not believe at
least as a Christian,
00:16:29.52\00:16:32.22
I do not believe in coercion.
00:16:32.25\00:16:35.52
This is what
America was based upon.
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No fear, no coercion.
00:16:38.53\00:16:40.50
When I became an
American citizen,
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I received a letter
00:16:42.60\00:16:44.27
as many others did from
the President that said,
00:16:44.30\00:16:46.33
"You got the right
to think as you please."
00:16:46.37\00:16:49.50
Nobody can tell
me what I can think.
00:16:49.54\00:16:52.27
Nobody can tell me
what my beliefs are.
00:16:52.31\00:16:54.98
I refuse to be dictated to
by the state or by any church
00:16:55.01\00:17:00.32
because I believe in freedom.
00:17:00.35\00:17:02.18
That's how God made us.
00:17:02.22\00:17:04.82
The kingdom of Satan
is based upon lawlessness.
00:17:04.85\00:17:08.59
He's the original anarchist.
00:17:08.62\00:17:11.43
Look at 2 Thessalonians 2:3&9.
00:17:11.46\00:17:14.86
Amazing text, it says,
00:17:14.90\00:17:16.70
"That no one
deceive you by any means
00:17:16.73\00:17:18.47
for that day will not come
00:17:18.50\00:17:20.67
unless the
falling away comes first
00:17:20.70\00:17:22.67
and the man of sin or
lawlessness has revealed,
00:17:22.70\00:17:25.41
the son of perdition.
00:17:25.44\00:17:27.78
The coming of the lawless one."
00:17:27.81\00:17:29.98
This is the antichrist,
00:17:30.01\00:17:31.35
"Is according to
the working of Satan
00:17:31.38\00:17:33.31
with all power signs
and lying wonders, lies,
00:17:33.35\00:17:37.22
slander, hate speech,
lawless deeds, anarchy.
00:17:37.25\00:17:43.16
This is a part of
the kingdom of the snake.
00:17:43.19\00:17:49.93
Kingdom of the snake,
00:17:49.96\00:17:51.73
Satan is based upon selfishness.
00:17:51.77\00:17:53.64
It's all about me,
the prosperity gospel.
00:17:53.67\00:17:56.44
In this great land,
00:17:56.47\00:17:57.81
there's such a thing
as the prosperity gospel.
00:17:57.84\00:17:59.77
And Christianity is simply used
00:17:59.81\00:18:02.88
as a means for
people to become wealthy,
00:18:02.91\00:18:05.95
they think
blessed are the people
00:18:05.98\00:18:08.52
who are super rich.
00:18:08.55\00:18:11.55
It is not the kingdom of God.
00:18:11.59\00:18:12.92
It is the kingdom of the serpent
00:18:12.95\00:18:16.22
masquerading in
the God of religion.
00:18:16.26\00:18:20.30
It is a kingdom of
Satan based upon lies.
00:18:20.33\00:18:23.67
Look at John 8:44.
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Well, look at
this text, John 8:44.
00:18:25.73\00:18:29.14
This is talking about Jesus.
00:18:29.17\00:18:30.67
He said, "You are of
your father the devil
00:18:30.71\00:18:32.71
and the desires of
your father you want to do,
00:18:32.74\00:18:35.48
he was a murderer
from the beginning,
00:18:35.51\00:18:37.51
and does not stand in the truth.
00:18:37.55\00:18:41.35
There is no truth in him.
00:18:41.38\00:18:42.78
When he speaks a lie,
00:18:42.82\00:18:44.15
he speaks from his own resources
00:18:44.19\00:18:46.25
for he is a liar
and the father of it."
00:18:46.29\00:18:48.79
People say today,
"It's okay to tell lies."
00:18:48.82\00:18:51.89
Yeah, we know the Satan
but he is lying over that.
00:18:51.93\00:18:54.06
But that's okay.
00:18:54.10\00:18:55.96
God doesn't care about this.
00:18:56.00\00:18:58.80
The last book in
the New Testament says
00:18:58.83\00:19:00.90
that in the lake of
fire will be the people
00:19:00.94\00:19:03.87
who loved lies,
believed in lies,
00:19:03.91\00:19:08.01
and who practice lies.
00:19:08.04\00:19:09.81
But the kingdom of
God is based on truth.
00:19:09.84\00:19:11.98
But the kingdom of
Satan is based on lies.
00:19:12.01\00:19:14.35
It is based upon injustice.
00:19:14.38\00:19:18.05
The oppression of the poor
or the oppression of people
00:19:18.09\00:19:22.42
because of the
color of their skin.
00:19:22.46\00:19:25.83
It brings forth
death and causes death.
00:19:25.86\00:19:28.80
So there are two
systems in the world today.
00:19:28.83\00:19:32.63
What do you belong to?
00:19:32.67\00:19:35.27
There's the kingdom of Christ
00:19:35.30\00:19:37.31
and there is the
kingdom of the serpent.
00:19:37.34\00:19:40.11
And the two will never,
never reach a compromise.
00:19:43.48\00:19:47.92
This kingdom, this
battle has no boundaries.
00:19:47.95\00:19:50.25
It's in every country.
00:19:50.29\00:19:51.62
It's in America. It's
in every organization.
00:19:51.65\00:19:55.69
There's going to
come a final outcome.
00:19:55.72\00:19:58.46
There's going to be
a great final battle.
00:19:58.49\00:20:03.70
There's going to
come a great climax.
00:20:03.73\00:20:05.53
This world is
heading towards the climax.
00:20:05.57\00:20:08.94
People say, "What's
going to happen to America?
00:20:08.97\00:20:11.14
Same as what's going
to happen to the world?
00:20:11.17\00:20:13.24
There's going to be
the last great showdown.
00:20:13.27\00:20:16.21
It won't be the
shootout at the O. K. Corral,
00:20:16.24\00:20:19.78
it is going to be a final battle
00:20:19.81\00:20:22.18
between Christ and Satan.
00:20:22.22\00:20:26.99
This battle has gone on,
00:20:27.02\00:20:28.92
as seen in the
lives of many individuals
00:20:28.96\00:20:31.76
your life and mine.
00:20:31.79\00:20:34.73
Abel versus Cain, Noah
against the antediluvians,
00:20:34.76\00:20:41.17
Lot against the depraved
Sodomites, Jacob against Esau,
00:20:41.20\00:20:46.17
Moses against Pharaoh,
00:20:46.21\00:20:49.11
Christ against the
leader of the big church,
00:20:49.14\00:20:52.05
Caiaphas, Paul against
the established religion,
00:20:52.08\00:20:55.62
the Christians
against the Romans.
00:20:55.65\00:20:57.65
You see the battle?
00:20:57.69\00:20:59.45
The battle, truth versus era,
00:20:59.49\00:21:01.72
the Protestant
reformers against the Papacy,
00:21:01.76\00:21:05.46
the Remnant
against the Antichrist.
00:21:05.49\00:21:10.30
Behind the Scenes of everything
00:21:10.33\00:21:11.73
that's going on
in the world today,
00:21:11.77\00:21:13.10
there's a great
spiritual battle.
00:21:13.13\00:21:15.50
The struggle of
truth and righteousness,
00:21:15.54\00:21:18.47
the struggle against
wickedness in high places.
00:21:18.51\00:21:22.51
If our eyes could be open,
00:21:22.54\00:21:23.88
we would see the
great controversy,
00:21:23.91\00:21:25.71
we would see the
opposing forces of Christ
00:21:25.75\00:21:29.35
and his angels and
Satan and his angels.
00:21:29.38\00:21:32.52
And the question is,
00:21:32.55\00:21:33.89
brother, sister,
what side are you on?
00:21:33.92\00:21:39.76
I want to be on the side of
Christ and truth, don't you?
00:21:39.79\00:21:43.80
In our own lives,
00:21:43.83\00:21:45.17
the Great Controversy continues
in every heart and every place,
00:21:45.20\00:21:48.04
we feel the tug.
00:21:48.07\00:21:50.47
It is time to decide
for Christ and truth.
00:21:50.51\00:21:54.41
Look at
Revelation 12:17, please.
00:21:54.44\00:21:59.25
It says this, Revelation 12:17,
00:21:59.28\00:22:02.68
"And the
dragon," that's the devil,
00:22:02.72\00:22:04.39
"Was enraged with the woman,"
00:22:04.42\00:22:05.75
that's the church,
00:22:05.79\00:22:07.12
"And he went to make war
with the rest of her offspring,
00:22:07.16\00:22:09.79
who keep the commandments of God
00:22:09.82\00:22:11.19
and have the
testimony of Jesus Christ."
00:22:11.23\00:22:13.19
In the last days,
00:22:13.23\00:22:16.16
demonic forces are going
to come against God's people
00:22:16.20\00:22:20.44
in an attempt to destroy them
00:22:20.47\00:22:22.57
and brought them from the earth.
00:22:22.60\00:22:24.04
But I've got good news for you.
00:22:24.07\00:22:25.87
If you follow Christ,
you are on the winning side.
00:22:25.91\00:22:31.31
Want to talk about this.
00:22:31.35\00:22:34.15
Come over here to
Revelation Chapter 20
00:22:34.18\00:22:36.48
because it talks
about the climax,
00:22:36.52\00:22:38.22
Revelation 20:7-9.
00:22:38.25\00:22:41.22
This is the climax, I've
read the back of the book.
00:22:41.26\00:22:44.46
And because I've
read the back of the book,
00:22:44.49\00:22:46.39
I know that God's
people are going to win.
00:22:46.43\00:22:48.76
What about you? What
side you're on today?
00:22:48.80\00:22:51.93
"And when the
thousand years have expired, "
00:22:51.97\00:22:53.97
this is after millennium,
00:22:54.00\00:22:55.34
"Satan will be
released from his prison,"
00:22:55.37\00:22:57.14
that's the snake,
00:22:57.17\00:22:58.51
"and will go out
to deceive the nations
00:22:58.54\00:23:00.08
which are in the
four corners of the earth
00:23:00.11\00:23:02.01
Gog and Magog to gather
them, together to battle,
00:23:02.04\00:23:05.11
whose numbers as
the sand of the sea.
00:23:05.15\00:23:10.22
The wicked like
the sand of the sea,
00:23:10.25\00:23:12.19
"They went up on
the breath of the earth
00:23:12.22\00:23:13.72
and surrounded
the camp of the saints
00:23:13.76\00:23:15.96
and the beloved city,"
00:23:15.99\00:23:17.33
look,
00:23:17.36\00:23:18.69
"And fire came down from God
00:23:18.73\00:23:20.96
out of heaven
and devoured them."
00:23:21.00\00:23:22.33
The Bible teaches.
00:23:22.36\00:23:23.70
There is going to come
a great war, the very end.
00:23:23.73\00:23:26.47
After the millennium.
00:23:26.50\00:23:27.84
Don't have time to
talk about that now, sorry.
00:23:27.87\00:23:31.47
The Bible says a
super resurrection,
00:23:31.51\00:23:35.54
every person who's ever lived
is going to be brought forth
00:23:35.58\00:23:38.21
that includes you and me.
00:23:38.25\00:23:41.22
As the Bible says,
00:23:41.25\00:23:42.58
"God's people are going
to be in the New Jerusalem
00:23:42.62\00:23:44.62
and the wicked led by Satan
00:23:44.65\00:23:46.72
are going to
surround the City of God."
00:23:46.76\00:23:50.66
And the Bible says that
after the final judgment,
00:23:50.69\00:23:53.73
fire is going to come
down from God out of heaven
00:23:53.76\00:23:56.36
and destroy Satan
and the evil angels
00:23:56.40\00:24:01.07
and those who
practice falsehoods and lies.
00:24:01.10\00:24:06.88
So what are we
talking about today?
00:24:06.91\00:24:09.34
We're talking
about getting serious.
00:24:09.38\00:24:11.98
We're talking about getting away
00:24:12.01\00:24:13.35
from manmade religion.
00:24:13.38\00:24:14.75
We're talking about getting away
00:24:14.78\00:24:16.52
from silly little pratitude.
00:24:16.55\00:24:18.69
We're talking about getting away
00:24:18.72\00:24:20.16
from believing lies
and following people
00:24:20.19\00:24:23.86
for political expediency.
00:24:23.89\00:24:27.30
Then the Bible says,
00:24:27.33\00:24:28.66
"After the last
great showdown, "
00:24:28.70\00:24:30.80
God does something special,
00:24:30.83\00:24:34.44
"After the fire,
after all of this,"
00:24:34.47\00:24:38.21
we're gonna read this
because this is so important,
00:24:38.24\00:24:41.14
Revelation 21, got to see this.
00:24:41.18\00:24:44.11
Don't have a lot of time.
00:24:44.15\00:24:45.48
So listen,
00:24:45.51\00:24:46.85
"I saw a new
heaven and a new earth
00:24:46.88\00:24:48.22
for the first heaven in
the earth had passed away,
00:24:48.25\00:24:50.22
and there was no more sea.
00:24:50.25\00:24:52.92
And God will wipe away
every tear from their eyes.
00:24:52.95\00:24:55.66
There shall be no more
death, no sorrow, no crying,
00:24:55.69\00:24:59.69
nor shall there
be any more pain,
00:24:59.73\00:25:01.56
for the form of
things have passed away.
00:25:01.60\00:25:04.63
And He who sat
on the throne said,
00:25:04.67\00:25:06.27
'Behold, I make all things new.'
00:25:06.30\00:25:08.67
He said to me, 'Write,
00:25:08.70\00:25:10.31
for these words are
true and faithful.'"
00:25:10.34\00:25:13.78
Listen to me.
00:25:13.81\00:25:16.28
The end of
sorrow, the end of cancer,
00:25:16.31\00:25:18.91
the end of
death, the end of lying,
00:25:18.95\00:25:22.38
the end of Satan.
00:25:22.42\00:25:24.09
God's going to
clean up this world,
00:25:27.36\00:25:30.43
and He's going to destroy evil.
00:25:30.46\00:25:32.96
And then God is
going to make a new heaven
00:25:32.99\00:25:36.26
and a new earth for you.
00:25:36.30\00:25:39.23
So how do I get there?
00:25:42.84\00:25:46.14
By believing in
Christ, by following Christ.
00:25:46.17\00:25:49.68
So I say this to you
today, from my heart to yours.
00:25:53.31\00:25:59.45
Believe in the God
who believes in you.
00:25:59.49\00:26:04.59
Amen.
00:26:04.63\00:26:06.13
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