As-Salaam-Alaikum to our
Muslim brother and sisters
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and shalom to
our Hebrew cousins,
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peace be upon you to our
Christian brothers and sisters.
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Welcome once again
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to the "The
Descendants of Abraham."
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I would like today to take this
time to say a special welcome,
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a greeting to Brother Angus,
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Brother Angus is in Malawi
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and he has been
emailing us and he has been
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blessed by the programs.
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Brother Angus, we
welcome you to the program
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and thank you so much for
your prayers and your emails.
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And we pray that
you will continue
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to be blessed by these programs.
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I would also like to
take this time to say
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Salaam-Alaikum to Sheikh Qasima.
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I will not mention what country
you are in but we are glad
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and so happy that you
are with us and we pray
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that - that this programs
will be a blessing to you
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and that you will contact
us if you have any question
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and anything to
share, we'll be more than
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happy to answer
those letters or emails.
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Welcome Sheikh Qasima.
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A Muslim brother who has chosen
to follow the God of Abraham
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who he believes to be
Jesus Christ says this.
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"As I began to
examine the Scriptures,
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I came across some
revolutionary teachers.
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In the excellent names of
Allah in Islam, not one is love.
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Not one is father.
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But I read about a God
who loved mankind so much,
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even after they
rebelled against Him,
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that he made a way that
we could come before Him
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and call him Abba, Father."
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I would like you
to ask yourselves
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brothers and sisters the God
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that you worship
is he a God of love?
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Is he a God that says
come and call me Father Abba,
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daddy, papa is
your God and the God
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you worship an intimate God,
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one that has a very
intimate relationship with you?
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Our Muslim brothers and
sisters honor the name of Jesus
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because the Quran states
that He is a great prophet.
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Our Jewish
brothers and sisters claim
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that He was just an
ordinary man, no one special.
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But everyone who
has heard His name
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does not deny His existence.
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Yet today there are still
too many people around the world
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that who have never
heard the name of Jesus
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or what He has
done for humanity,
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all humanity, you and me.
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Do you know that if
you were the only person
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on this rebellious
planet, this very sinful world
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that Jesus Christ
would have come just for you,
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just to rescue you from
the bondage of sin and Satan.
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This is a reason
that He left His home
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in heaven and
came to this world.
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When Adam and Eve disobeyed
God in the Garden of Eden
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and ate of the fruit, the
forbidden fruit every man,
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woman and child every
one that was alive then
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and all we know
is that Adam and Eve
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were the only ones
alive then but afterwards
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when the earth became
popular did every single one
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from that time on started
to die because of the sin.
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We are all facing the
consequences of that sin.
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Let's look at
Genesis 3:6 it says
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"So when the woman saw
that the tree was good for food,
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that it was
pleasant to the eyes,
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and a tree
desirable to make one wise,
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she took of its fruit and ate."
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Now God had given
Adam and Eve instructions
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about that forbidden
tree and that forbidden fruit.
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You know He taught them
about the fall of Satan,
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He warned them that this enemy
will be lurking in the shadows
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and will be looking to destroy
them and to deceive them.
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Well, Eve wandered
away from her husband
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and she went to the forbidden
tree and that is where she came
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face to face with Satan
in the form of a serpent.
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Eve believed what she
was being told that the fruit
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was good that she would not die,
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that God lied and so she
pluck the fruit and she ate it
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and we know what
happened after that.
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God made us all
free moral agent.
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He did not forbid Eve or
Adam to eat of that fruit,
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He warned them, He
gave them the instruction
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and He said don't go there.
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You know we - we
read that's forbidden
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and it was His instruction to
say you don't want to go there.
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This is not something you want,
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it was a test of
their faithfulness
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and their obedience to God.
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But they were free to
go and to eat of the fruit.
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They were free, God makes us
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all free moral agent.
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He does not, He does
not force Himself on us.
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He does not force
us to worship Him,
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He does not force
us to worship anyone.
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He shows us through His love
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who He is and then He
says, you make that choice.
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If you want to come to
me, follow Me, worship Me
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or choose if you want
to disobey and go your way.
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But He does say
there are consequences
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because by
disobedience the consequence
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for Adam and Eve was death.
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And you know, they
started to make excuses
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blaming each
other, blaming the serpent
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and so and so forth but God
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does not accept
excuses, only repentance.
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So yes, we are going to
sin, we are going to fall
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but that's okay,
because we need to get up
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and repent of our sinful acts
and God and ask for forgiveness
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and our loving
Father will forgive us.
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When we choose to believe a lie,
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we then choose to
disbelieve the words of God.
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And that's what Eve did.
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She chose to believe the
lie that Satan was telling her
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instead of believing the truth
that what God was saying about
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staying away from the tree.
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See God can not
coexist with sin,
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it just can't happen,
He is pure, He is sinless
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and so when Adam and Eve sin,
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He had to be separated from us.
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God through Jesus Christ is now
calling us to dwell with Him,
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He is reconciling us to Himself
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because it is
only through Christ,
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that we can be
reconciled to God,
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never by ourselves.
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We read in Romans 6:23,
"For the wages of sin is death,
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but the gift of
God is eternal life
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through Jesus Christ our Lord."
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There are laws in
the kingdom of God.
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It is so unfortunate
that we as human beings
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we want laws in our
land, in our country,
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even in our
homes, in our schools,
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in our government everywhere
all around us we expect
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that laws will be there
but so many of us do not want
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to believe that the
God of heaven has laws
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in His
government, in His kingdom.
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Eve thought it was all right
to eat from the tree of life,
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I'm sorry from
the forbidden tree.
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The fruit looked
delicious and safe to eat.
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She lingered at the
forbidden tree and by doing so,
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she invited Satan's temptation
to pick and eat of the fruit.
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And that one act of disobedience
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can still be seen
in our world today.
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Eve deceived
herself into thinking
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that something so
small, so insignificant
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could get by God,
that He won't be holding
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her accountable for that.
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How many times do
we do the same thing.
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We know in our hearts
what is right and what is wrong
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but we start to
rationalize our sins away
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and we can't do that.
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So many people
believe that God loves
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so much that He
would never destroy us
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and God is not
looking to destroy us.
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He loves us, He
wants to save us,
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He wants us to
dwell with Him in heaven.
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So many choose their own God
and their own way of worshiping
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and then they believe that their
way will get them into paradise.
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This is very dangerous
ground brothers and sisters.
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Here is what our
Creator says in Proverbs 14:12,
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"There is a way that
seems right to a man,
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but its end is
the way of death."
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And we can also
read in Malachi 3:6,
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"For I am the
Lord, I do not change."
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Because our first
parents Adam and Eve violated
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the law of God and by
doing so sinned against God,
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the whole world
became contaminated.
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Men are teaching
that we are released
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from the obedience to
God's law but this teaching
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has weakened
our moral obligation
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to our holy God
and open the doors
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of sinful living
in our world today.
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For many people
sinning has become
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as easy as drinking
water, but all is not lost.
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Our Creator already had a plan
instituted for just such a time,
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the plan of salvation
through Jesus the Christ.
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We will take a
look at a very tender
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and compassionate Father
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in the Book of Isaiah 59:14-16.
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It says,
"Justice is turned back,
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and
righteousness stands afar off,
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for truth is
fallen in the street,
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and equity cannot enter.
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So truth fails
and he who departs
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from evil makes himself a prey.
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Then the Lord saw
it, and it displeased Him
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that there was no justice.
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He saw that there was no man,
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and wondered that
there was no intercessor.
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Therefore His own
arm brought salvation
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for Him and His
own righteousness,
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it sustained Him."
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Isn't that beautiful.
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God saw that there
was no one in the universe
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that was
qualified to bring salvation
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to a fallen man
and so what did he do?
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He stepped in, He became
the sacrifice for our salvation.
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What a great and glorious
and awesome Father He is to us.
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What love He has for you
and for me brothers and sisters.
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Jesus had to come
to this fallen world
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so that we can
reconciled to our Father God
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because when sin
entered our world,
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we became separated from Him,
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that is the reason
that Jesus the Christ,
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the anointed one had to
come here to reconcile us
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to His Father and our Father.
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This is what Jesus
said to His disciples,
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we can read about
it in Mathew 18:11.
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He says, "What do you think?
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If a man has a hundred sheep,
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and one of them has gone astray,
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does he not
leave the ninety-nine
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and go the mountains to
seek the one that is straying?
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And if he should find
it, assuredly, I say to you,
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he rejoices more
over that sheep than over
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the ninety-nine
that did not go astray."
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And so He came seeking,
this is why He left heaven
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and left His
Father and the angels,
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the holy angels and why He left
that perfect piece in heaven
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to come to the
sinful chaotic planet.
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It is to rescue you
brothers and sisters
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each one of you and me, if
we will allow him to do so.
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If you were the only
one, He would have come
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to this earth, He is
still seeking to reconcile
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you to His Father our Father.
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Here is what His disciples in
the Book of John 1:1-5 tells us.
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"In the beginning was the
word and the word was with God
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and the word was God.
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He was in the
beginning with God.
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All things were
made through him,
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and without him
nothing was made that was made.
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In him was life and the
life was the light of men.
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And the light
shines in the darkness
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and the darkness
did not comprehend it."
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As we learned in
the previous program,
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Jesus here was
beginning His ministry,
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His earthly ministry
lasted only three and half years
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and in that short time
He was working to show us
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the character of our
Father and His Father.
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You see beginning in
heaven and continuing
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to our present day,
Satan has been accusing
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God of being unjust and unfair.
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He managed to deceive a
third of heaven's angels.
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These are angels
that were created by God
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and that - that were face
to face with him in heaven
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and yet here is Satan
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who managed to deceive them.
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God could have
destroyed Satan and these angels
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but in His infinite
wisdom, He chose to allow Satan
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to reveal his character of sin.
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The unfallen beings in God's
universe will see first hand
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that God is a God of
love and forgiveness,
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compassion and mercy.
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When Jesus spoke of
leaving the 99 to save the one,
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I believe He was
speaking of having to leave
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the unfallen
beings to rescue us.
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He left heaven,
He left the angels,
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He left His Father.
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And you know in
this vast universe
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should we be so
pompous and arrogant to think
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that we are the only planet
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that God has placed life upon.
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He is a Creator and I
believe that may be just may be,
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there are other
beings on other planets
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that He has created that are
watching this rebellious planet
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and watching this
battle between God and Satan
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playing out and they are
seeing first hand what happens
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when sin enters the heart.
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I believe Jesus left
all of these creations
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to come and rescue us.
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There are several verses
in the Bible that supports
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that and in a later day,
we will look at some of those.
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Lets look now at Luke 10:17, 18.
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"Then the seventy
returned with joy,
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saying, "Lord, even the demons
are subject to us in your name.
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And he said to
them "I saw Satan fall
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like lightning from heaven."
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What Jesus was
saying to His followers is,
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I have conquered
Satan, I was there in heaven
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and I saw him fall, I
threw him out of heaven,
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I saw him fall from
heaven, I have conquered Satan.
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I fought with him and
the rebellion there is done.
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It is all now
happening on this earth,
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but there is nothing for
you to be afraid of my children,
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none of you, do
not be afraid of Satan.
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Many people today will tell
you that they believe in God,
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ask a lot of
people and they say,
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do you believe in God?
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And they will say absolutely
yes and yet bad things happen,
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when bad things
happen they blame God.
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Well, if we
believe in God the Creator
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and we believe
in His love for us,
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then we have to
believe what He tells us
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that there is an adversary that
there is a devil known by Satan.
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Satan is the one
that wants to destroy us.
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He is the one that brought sin
into this world and destruction.
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Why do we tend to blame
God for the good and the bad?
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God will allow us to go through
trials that will help to shape
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our characters and that
will bring us closer to Him.
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He also promises
to be by our side
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as we are going
through these trials.
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He never leaves us alone.
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I can attest to that personally,
but we can't blame him
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for the sins of this world.
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There is a devil and the
devil Satan, he is to be blamed.
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He loves to be
portrayed with a - a red manned
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with you know these,
these horns and a tail
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but that's not who he
is he is a fallen angel
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and he was beautiful, he
was the head angel in heaven.
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But through his pride he fell,
fell from grace and he is now
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here to take us with him.
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You know the old
adage misery loves company,
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he doesn't want
to go on his own.
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He wants to take
each one of Gods children
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so that they will
be destroyed also.
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Let's take a look at
what the Holy Scripture
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tells us in 1 John 3:8.
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"He who sins is of the devil,
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for the devil has
sinned from the beginning.
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For this purpose the
Son of God was manifested,
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that He might destroy
the works of the devil.
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Jesus came, brothers and sisters
to set us free from the bondage
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of Satan and to
ultimately destroy Satan
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which He will do at
the end of this age.
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And we read in 1 Peter 5:8.
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"Be Sober, be
vigilant, because your adversary
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the devil walks
about like a roaring lion,
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seeking whom he may devour."
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Right here in this verse we can
see that the devil is our enemy.
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As our enemy Satan
is out to destroy us,
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all of us, he is out
to destroy you and me,
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his whole life work has
been to separate us from God
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and he is accomplishing
that unfortunately.
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His fear is that we
will turn to God in prayer
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and we will repent of our
sins and that we will confess
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and come to God and be saved.
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Our creator shows us how
to resist Satan in James 4:7.
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"Therefore submit to God.
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Resist the devil and
he will flee from you."
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This is a wonderful promise,
submit to God, resist the devil
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and he will flee from you.
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God will give us the
strength and protect us in this.
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Brothers and
sisters if we are not living
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in sin Jesus Christ
would never had have to come
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to this earth to
face shame and suffering.
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He has given up so much
for us for you and for me.
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He came to reveal to us the
true nature of our Creator God.
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In 1 John 3:12, we read,
"Cain was of the wicked one
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and murdered his brother.
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And why did he murder him?
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Because his works were evil
and his brother's righteous."
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When bad things happen to
good people, don't blame God.
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There is evil in
this world of course
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there is and the one responsible
for you for this is Satan,
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so let's put the
blame where it belongs.
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The 9/11 attacks,
the innocent lives
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that are being
destroyed around this world,
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the murders that's
going on, the terrorism,
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there is an evil one
behind it all and that is Satan.
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In John 1:1-5 we
read, "In the beginning
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was the word and
the word was with God
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and the word was God."
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He was in the
beginning with God.
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"All things were
made through him,
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and without him
nothing was made that was made.
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In him was life and the
life was the light of men.
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And the light
shines in the darkness
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and the darkness
did not comprehend it."
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Brothers and sisters,
His light is still shining
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in this wicked world and many
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are being brought out
of darkness into light.
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Please choose, do
not stay in the darkness.
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Allow the light to shine
in your hearts, in your mind.
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Ask God, pray to Him
and ask Him to guide you
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into His truth not mine,
not anyone else's but His truth.
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And I promise
you, He will do that.
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He will guide you
into truth, into the truth
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of the true God of Abraham.
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We will be right back.
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When you get to the
Descendants of Abraham,
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you can be sure that
you're lighting the way for all
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in search of the Creator
God and His message of love
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Listen to what the
young disciple John
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has to say about Jesus
throughout his ministry
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as he was here on this earth
and after Jesus was crucified.
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Let's look at John 21:24, 25.
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"This is the disciple who
testifies of these things,
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and wrote these
things, and we know
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that his testimony is true.
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And there are also many
other things that Jesus did,
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which if they were
written one by one,
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I suppose that even the
world itself could not contain
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the books that
would be written. Amen."
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What reason could these men have
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to lie brothers and sisters,
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many of my Muslim
brothers and sisters believe
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that they Injil the gospels
were corrupted but I have to ask
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this question and I would like
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you to ask
yourself this question.
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When was it
corrupted and by whom?
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Can you please open your hearts
to the true God of Abraham
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and He will
teach you all things,
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allow Him to guide you into
the path of His righteousness.
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I will be praying
for you and I pray
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that next week you
will join us again.
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