>>Announcer: It has
stood the test of time.
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Still relevant in
today's complex world
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Now I want you to stick with me
today, but how would you react
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if I read these words?
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Doesn't that make any
sense? No? Let's try this:
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How about that? No? What's the
matter, have you not brushed up
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on your Greek lately? What about
your Latin? I don't speak latin
and have probably done a
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very poor job myself.
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What I read to you in both cases
was Revelation 14:13. First in
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Koine Greek - what the New
Testament was originally written
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in, then I read in Latin. The
predicament of not understanding
the scriptures that you just
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experienced just a moment ago is
the same predicament of all of
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England in the 16th century
and before. There was no Bible
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readily available in English.
Only Wycliffe had translated it
into English, but that was
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handwritten and not so easily
attainable. So - for the common
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people, their only source of
truth and the Word of God was
through the clergy. Then
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in about 1520 onto the scene
came a Roman Catholic priest who
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had been educated at Oxford
University and Cambridge as
well. He believed that
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all men should be able to have
the scriptures in their native
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tongue. He sympathized with the
principles of the Reformation
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and his preaching put him at
odds with many in the clergy His
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name was William Tyndale. He is
often not recognized for his
contributions in the
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Reformation, some scholars,
however, refer to him as the
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"father of the English
Reformation," or as "the apostle
to England." He believed that
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God had called him to bring to
the people of England the Bible
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in English. So William Tydale
went to the bishop of London,
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Cuthbert Tunstall to request the
blessing of the church in his
translation. No such
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blessing was to be given. So
Tyndale translated anyway. He
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was financed for this immense
project by a good friend of his,
who was also a port
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merchant, Sir Humphrey Monmouth.
Once, over dinner, while arguing
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with another priest, the priest
taunted Tyndale with the
statement, "We are better
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to be without God's laws
than the Pope's". Tyndale was so
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infuriated by this priest, that
he replied, "I defy the Pope and
all his laws. If God spare my
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life ere many years, I will
cause the boy that drives the
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plow to know more of the
scriptures than you!" Because
the situation grew far too
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dangerous in England, Tyndale
knew that he must move his base
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of translating somewhere else.
It is difficult to know exactly
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where Tyndale did all of his
work because he was a master of
hiding and moving before
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any authorities could find him.
However what is clear is that
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Tyndale visited Hamburg and
Wittenburg, Germany - where in
Wittenburg he met with
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Martin Luther. But Tyndale
continued his work of
translation, until finally
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he began to print that Bible
somewhere in Cologne. His friend
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Humphrey Monmouth continued to
finance him and helped get the
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Bibles into England by smuggling
them in on grain shipments.
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As the word of God began to
spread, it caused great anxiety
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among the clergy, as well as the
political leadership of the
country. King Henry VIII, who
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was the king of England at the
time, was in the midst of
controversy himself, he
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had married his dead brothers
wife, Catherine of Aragon who
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had produced no male heir to the
throne. So he went about trying
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to get the pope to allow a
divorce. It was truly a big
mess. It was in this political
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setting that the English Bible
made inroads to England While at
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first, King Henry was very
enchanted with Tyndale, when he
found that Tyndale would not
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support his divorce claims, he
was infuriated Meanwhile Tyndale
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continued to translate and print
the English Bible In 1525, the
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English NT was finished and made
its way all across England.
Tyndale continued his work
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and united his efforts with
people like John Frith and Miles
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Coverdale. Work began on the OT
and all was going well. A new
bishop came to London,
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Bishop Stokesly - he was a cruel
man, who wanted one thing more
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than any other and that was the
capture of William Tyndale.
Tyndale was a difficult
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man to find, for he knew there
were many who sought after his
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life. He was working in Worms
and the completion of the Old
Testament was to come
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soon. While working there,
Tyndale had found a new friend,
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who helped him a great deal,
Henry Phillips, who was also an
Englishmen. One day as
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Henry and William were returning
from a church service where
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William had preached - Henry
insisted upon buying lunch for
William Tyndale. As they
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walked, soldiers came capturing
William, thinking his friend to
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be in grave danger he called
for Henry to run, but he simply
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replied, this is the man.
Unbeknowst to William Tyndale,
he had been betrayed by Henry
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Phillips, who had been
financed by Bishop Stokesly.
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William Tyndale was taken
to Vilvoorden Castle in Belgium
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where he was arrested and
imprisoned. Let me read to you
the charges that went against
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Tyndale: First: He maintains
that faith alone justifies.
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Second:   He maintains that to
believe in the forgiveness of
sins and to embrace the mercy
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offered in the Gospel, is enough
for salvation. Third:    He
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asserts that human traditions
cannot bind the conscience,
except where their neglect
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might occasion scandal. Fourth:
 He affirms the freedom of the
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will. Fifth:     He denies that
there is any purgatory. Sixth:  
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He affirms that neither the
Virgin nor the Saints pray for
us in their own person.
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Seventh: He asserts that neither
the Virgin nor the Saints should
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be invoked by us. He had been
labeled a heretic, and on
October 6, 1536 - William
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Tyndale was strangled and then
burned at the stake. He died a
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martyr's death - trying to bring
the Bible to the common people
in the common language. In
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1537, Miles Coverdale finished
the work of William Tyndale and
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the entire English Bible made
its way across England This time
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with the stamp of approval of
the king. The Tyndale Bible was
such a good translation that it
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was the foundation work for
the King James Bible, which was
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commissioned in 1611. William
Tyndale.he was a man willing to
die for his faith, a man
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willing to die to bring the Word
of God to the common people.
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Please open your Bibles to
Revelation chapter 14 and verse
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13 A simple and concise
statement pronouncing a blessing
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on those who die in the Lord. I
would like to point out three
items of interest in this text.
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The phrase "in the Lord." The
first blessing is pronounced on
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those who die in the Lord. The
Greek word in can be translated
within, among, or for. The
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point is this, those who have
their full trust and faith in
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the Lord Jesus Christ, who die
before his return are blessed.
Notice the context of the
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passage, Revelation 14:12
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Those who die in the Lord or for
the Lord are those who have been
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true to Him, by having their
faith in the reality that we are
saved by our faith in Him
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and the fruit of that faith
is their obedience to Jesus.
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Sometimes the idea of faith
is made to be very complicated.
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However it doesn't need to be
complicated. The word in Greek
for faith and belief
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are the same word. The Bible is
quite simple, and defines faith
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in Hebrews 11:1 states,
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The word substance can be
translated confidence, or
foundation. Let's read it
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again with one of
these other definitions,
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Faith in Jesus can be summarized
by saying that he is the very
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foundation, the very substance,
the very essence of who you are.
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Being in the Lord, literally
means in Him. Your very nature
is so much into Him that you
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become like him. So, are you
all about Jesus. Is He your very
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foundation and substance? The
second blessing is actually not
found in the text, it is
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in fact a glaring omission.
Notice the text states that
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those who die in the Lord are
now resting from their labors,
it does not say "blessed
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are they who die in the Lord for
now they reside in paradise with
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Jesus." It is this glaring
omission that I find very
important to point out. We
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had a whole series, Is Heaven
for Real, where we covered this
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topic. And you can go to our
website ItIsWrittenCanada.ca and
there you can find that
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entire series. But it would
seem to me that when we speak of
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being blessed for being in the
Lord, we would want to present
the greatest and nicest gifts
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that we will receive. And since
we know that eternal life in the
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paradise of heaven is the
eventual destination of those
found "in the Lord." Why does
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the text not say, blessed are
those who die in the Lord, for
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now they are in paradise? Well
we know the answer to that
question It is because the Bible
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is clear from cover to cover
that when a person dies they go
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to their rest awaiting their
resurrection. KJV Ecclesiastes
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9:5 KJV Psalm 6:5
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Over and over again the Bible
clearly points out that death is
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a totally unconscious state of
being where we await the coming
of the Lord. And why is
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this a blessing? Isaiah 57
answers such a question in verse
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1 There is a blessing to those
who have fallen asleep in Jesus
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because they have been taken
away from the evil of this world
and await the return
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of Jesus.
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The third blessing is that
"their works follow them." This
point is intimately
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tied to point number one. A
person who is in the Lord will
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have works that follow them. In
other words they have a legacy.
The legacy of William
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Tyndale is the Bible in the
language of the common people.
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The legacy of Martin Luther
is justification by faith alone.
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The legacy of John Wesley is
sanctification by faith. And the
list goes on and on. But here
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is the key question that we must
ask of ourselves in this 2nd
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beatitude of Revelation What is
your legacy? Hmm. What is the
legacy of this generation?
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And What should it be? I don't
know exactly, but I have some
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ideas. How about this generation
building a legacy of renewing a
faith in the scriptures? The
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statistics are difficult to come
by for Canada alone, but when we
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look at statistics for a belief
in the Bible, they are
startling. However in the
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US 49% of those in the US don't
believe the Bible is totally
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accurate. 65% of the those
without religious affiliation
say that Satan is not a living
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being but is a symbol of evil.
57% state that a good person can
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earn his or her way into Heaven
51% assert that when Jesus
Christ lived on earth, He
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committed sins. (2004) But
even more startling are the
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statistics of those who are
members of the church: 7%
believe that God is the total
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realization of personal human
potential. 15% say God is no
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longer involved in their life.
By a 3-to-1 margin (64% vs. 22%)
Christians adults said
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truth is always relative to the
person and their situation. 4%
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of Christians said they had
consulted a medium or spiritual
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advisor within the past month.
61% of Christian adults view
gambling as a morally
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acceptable behavior. Friends
what will be our legacy? A
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people who are hypocrits, who
say one thing and then do
another. A people worried about
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their own personal business and
material possessions than that
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of Christ's A people who have no
time to be witnesses for Jesus
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by living a loving
Christ-centered life. What will
be your legacy? What will be my
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legacy?
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William Tyndale died trying
to bring the Word of God to
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everyone. He was fulfilling
the gospel commission. His very
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essence, his very foundation was
preaching the gospel. He knew he
would die, but he knew
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what his legacy would bring. As
William Tyndale was being tied
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to the stake, upon which he
would be burned, his last words
were, "Lord, open the king
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of England's eyes." It was his
very essence. We too, all know
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that if the Lord doesn't come
first, we will die. What is it
that we are all about, what is
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our very essence and foundation,
what will be our legacy? It is
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not too late to change. It is
not too late for us to strive to
leave a legacy like
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that of our forefathers. Won't
you join me today, in
consecrating our lives
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to be in the Lord and to leave a
strong legacy? To be someone who
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is found in Him.In Jesus and
who's legacy and influence is
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positive for the kingdom.The
beatitudes of Revelation promise
that you will be blessed
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by leaving such a legacy.
Jesus - my Jesus I love thee.
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He is the one that can give you
that strength to leave such a
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legacy ? Jesus, I love
Thee, I know Thou art mine;
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For Thee all the
follies of sin I resign
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My gracious
redeemer, my Saviour art Thou
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If ever I loved
Thee, my Jesus, 'tis now.
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I love Thee because
Thou hast first loved me
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And purchased my
pardon on Calvary's tree
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I love Thee for
wearing the thorns on Thy brow
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If ever I loved
Thee, my Jesus, 'tis now.
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In mansions of
glory and endless delight,
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I'll ever adore
Thee in heaven so bright;
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I'll sing with the
glittering crown on my brow;
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If ever I loved Thee, my Jesus,
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My Jesus, 'tis now.
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>>Chris: Let's pray. Oh Heavenly
Father, we love Your son Jesus
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because we know that it is
through Him, through His grace,
through His mercy, through
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His strength, that we can be in
Him and that we then can leave a
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legacy that will benefit your
kingdom. Lord, we want to be
good people. We want to be
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people who others love to be
around. We want to be people who
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are known for their love of
Jesus. So change us, mold us,
and make us into that people.
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This is our prayer
in Jesus' name, amen.
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The book of Revelation is a
blessing to read, a blessing to
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understand, and a blessing to
follow the leading of Jesus. I
want to offer you today a
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free set of lessons called
"Focus on Prophecy." It'll help
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you understand the book of
Revelation better, and to become
more like Jesus and follow Him
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every day of your life. Here's
the information you need to
receive today's free
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offer.
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The revelation of Jesus Christ.
Literally the unveiling of Jesus
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Christ. This book that so many
say is a hard book to understand
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is actually the unveiling, the
revealing of the true character
of Jesus. That's what It Is
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Written Canada is committed
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relationship with Jesus Christ
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our website, you will find a
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His Word, read His Word, study
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Thank you for joining us today.
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next week. Until then,
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remember, it is written: "Man
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but by every word that
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