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24 Sussex Drive has been the
official home of the Canadian
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Prime Minister since 1951.
Protected by the Royal Canadian
Mounted Police, the prime
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minister is able rest securely
in his own home. However on
November 5, 1995, someone
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was able to penetrate the
defenses of 24 Sussex. Andre
Dallaire, who was an
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evening convenience store clerk
made his way to 24 Sussex. He
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was able to wander onto the
grounds and then made his way
into the residence. He broke a
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side door window and then
entered the residence. He
entered with one purpose,
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to assassinate Prime Minister
Jean Chretien. Dallaire suffered
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from a mental illness and
believed killing Chretien would
make him a national
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hero. Dallaire was unsuccessful
in his attempt and was brought
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to court for his actions.
Dallaire forced his way as an
unwelcome visitor into
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the Prime Minister's residence.
Do you know friends that the
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King of the universe has a
residence. It is His residence,
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in which he has also prepared a
place for you. However, you
won't be able to sneak in or
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break in. There is a requirement
that every person who goes there
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must fulfill. Today, we have
come to the last of the
beatitudes of Revelation. This
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beatitude concludes with one of
the most amazing promises of the
entire Bible. For the
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last six weeks we have been
studying the blessings of the
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book of Revelation. In our
study, we have discovered that a
blessing is something that
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brings happiness or joy. Because
of the symbolism found
throughout the book
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of Revelation, many are fearful
or confused by the book. Yet,
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also throughout Revelation God
has placed seven blessings, 7
promises of happiness. The
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book of Revelation is not a book
that should scare us, but rather
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it is a book that should bring
us joy and happiness because of
the promises of God.
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Each on of these promises builds
upon the other and now climaxing
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with the seventh. Listen to the
first six beatitudes in brief
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review: Each one of these
promises of happiness is
bestowed on one who is faithful.
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Faithful to Jesus until the very
end. Now the seventh beatitude
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is found in
Revelation 22:14, it says,
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Now some of you might be just
a bit confused right now. I am
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reading from the New King James
Version of the Bible. If you are
reading this verse in the
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King James Version, you will see
that it is the same as the New
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King James Version. However, if
you are reading from a newer
Bible then the verse reads
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as follows,
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This is the English Standard
Version, but almost all modern
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versions say the
exact same thing.
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Before we understand this
beatitude fully, it is important
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for us to understand why
there is a difference among the
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translations. On a previous
episode, we talked about the
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authenticity and reliability of
the Bible. That show is called
the Book that Couldn't Be
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Silenced. It is available
through our website,
www.itiswrittencanada.ca
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or our YouTube channel at
www.youtube.com/iiwcanada While
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that episode does not
specifically answer the question
of why the difference in this
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text, we can know and understand
that the Bible can be trusted
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and this slight variation
shouldn't be surprising. To
explain why this is the case,
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I'm going to give you the Cole's
notes version of the history of
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the Bible of today. The New
Testament of the Bible was
originally written in
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Greek and those Greek writings
help us to formulate the
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versions we have today in
English. In ancient literature
the original writing is
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referred to as the autograph.
Previous to the invention of the
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printing press almost 700 years
ago, each of the autographs were
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hand copied, those copies
were copied, so on and so forth.
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Those copies are what we would
refer to as manuscripts. The
complete Bible as we know it
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today, comes from a lineage of
thousands of manuscripts. In
fact there are over
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5000 Greek manuscripts of the
books that make up the New
Testament. Over time,
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as other languages developed,
they were also utilized in
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making copies. This is
particularly true of Latin. For
the New Testament alone, there
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are over 24,000 manuscripts of
primarily Greek and Latin
combined, which attest to
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its reliability. As some of
those copies were made, there
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were at times variations. A
different letter here or a
different word there. However,
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some of the best scholars have
estimated that any substantial
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variation only exists in less
than 1/10 of 1 percent in all of
the New Testament. What that
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practically means is that of the
approximately 140,000 words of
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the New Testament, 140 of them
have some type of variation. The
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key is that none of those
variations change any meaning of
any text. In fact it led
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Professor of Biblical Criticism
and Exegesis at the University
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of Manchester, Dr. F.F.
Bruce to stress the following,
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So why then the difference in
this last beatitude of
Revelation. First let's
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look at the original text. Right
now you see a graphic on the
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screen that allows you to see
the original language. As you
can see, the difference in
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the original language between
"that keep his commandments,"
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and "wash their robes," is just
a few letters in the ancient
Greek language. But what
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is more pertinent to our study
is, do the differences change
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the meaning of the text? I would
humbly assert that the answer to
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that question is no. It seems
clear from the scriptures that
those who wash their
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robes will keep God's
commandments and those who keep
his commandments will
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have washed their robes. As
we continue studying this last
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blessing found in the book of
Revelation, I think that you
will find that to be true too.
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While the robe certainly was a
covering worn in ancient times,
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the robe is also used throughout
scriptures as a symbol for ones
spiritual condition.
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We find this apparent need for
covering right in the beginning
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of the Bible with Adam and Eve
in Genesis 2:25 we discover how
things first began for
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them,
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So, in the beginning, they did
not have a covering, they did
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not have a robe, they were
naked. When we think of the word
naked today, we think of being
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unclothed. While it's true that
Adam and Eve were not clothed by
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any man-made or artificial
means, we see that most
importantly they were not
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ashamed, they were sinless and
completely innocent. They had
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nothing to hide. However, when
Adam and Eve disobeyed God, this
is when they tried to cover
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themselves, Genesis 3:7 states,
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Adam and Eve making themselves
clothing from fig leaves, while
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literal, also symbolize our
effort to cover our own sin.
Trying to cover our own
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sins, like Adam and Eve trying
to cover their bodies with fig
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leaves, is not effective or
practical. But God had a plan
for them and later in
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chapter 3 and in
verse 21, the Bible says,
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Here God instituted a principle
of being covered by Him. While
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Genesis 3 does not explicitly
say that the sacrificial system
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was instituted here, the reality
is that the tunics of skin
likely required the death of an
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animal. And it is here that the
imagery for the beatitude we are
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studying today is found. We need
to be covered, but we can not
effectively cover our own
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sins we need to be covered
by the robe that Christ provides
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for us. That robe is spoken of
in a number of places in the
Bible. Isaiah 61:10 tells us of
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the robe we need,
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Zechariah 3:4 which is a
metaphorical judgment scene
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speaks again of a garment,
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Friends, when we rely on
ourselves, we have filthy
garments. And a filthy
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garment prevents us from
entering the city of Heaven.
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What can we do? The beatitude
tells us that we need to wash
our robe. What do we learn
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from the scriptures about what
it means to wash ones robe? The
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book of Revelation tells us
clearly what the robes are
washed in. In Revelation
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7:14 an angel,
speaking of the 144,000, says,
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This sounds like a great irony!
How are robes made white by
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washing them in blood? What does
it mean to be washed in the
blood of Jesus? Friends, 1 John
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1:7 says,
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1 John 1:9 says,
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My dear friends to wash our
robes means to be forgiven of
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our sins and to be cleansed from
all unrighteousness. It means
coming to the conclusion
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that we cannot depend on
ourselves, that we can't fix
ourselves, That we can
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only depend on Him. To be
washed in the blood of Christ
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ultimately means that we have
made a decision to no longer
live for ourselves, and that we
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realize that there is someone to
save us from our sin, someone to
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save us from ourselves.
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Friends, we are in desperate
need of a Savior. Even when we
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think that we are doing right,
the Bible tells us in Isaiah
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64:6, But there is hope! Isaiah
1:18 tells us what happens when
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we are cleansed by
the blood of the Lamb,
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And with great assurance The
Bible also promises in Romans
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10:9, What does this look like
practically speaking? As you
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make a decision to give your
life fully to Jesus Christ.,
Romans 6:3-7 tell us what that
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life lwill look like,
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We are no longer slaves to sin;
we are no longer trapped by the
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sin in our lives for sin and
self have been done away with.
We can walk in the newness
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of life. What does that new life
look like? 1 John 2:3-4 tell us,
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This is where the meaning of the
two texts come together. To wash
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your robe means that you have
been forgiven of your sins and
are cleansed from all
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unrighteousness and the only
way that we know what sin is and
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that it needs to be forgiven is
because of the commandments.
Paul points this out in Romans
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7:7,
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It is only as we "do his
commandments" that we realize
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our need to "wash our robes".
Jesus Himself emphasized the
importance of keeping the
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commandments on several
occasions. In Matthew 19:17, He
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said, Our obedience demonstrates
that we are in a committed
relationship with Jesus.
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But the keeping of the
commandments cannot be done
through some mere "To
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Do" checklist. 1
John 5:3 emphasize,
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The keeping of God's
commandments demonstrate our
love to Christ. But
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keeping them is not a burden,
it is not some great encumbering
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challenge. But through faith and
the power of the Holy Spirit,
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we, as God's people are able to
be obedient to Him. Those ten
commandments found in
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Exodus chapter 20. The first
3 commandments give guidance on
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our relationship with God. The
fourth commandment is a bridge
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that helps us connect our
relationship to God with our
relationship to each
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other. Then the last six
commandments having to do with
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our relationships with each
other. What might happen
friends, if each of us, through
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a committed relationship with
Jesus kept His commandments and
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taught others to do the same.
Wouldn't this world, wouldn't
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this nation of Canada look
vastly different! No more
killing, no more crime, no
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more hatred. This is what Jesus
desires, that His people would
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bring a taste of heaven here on
this earth. This beatitude of
Revelation can be read
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either way, because the meaning
is just the same, those who wash
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their robes will keep God's
commandments and those who keep
his commandments will
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have washed their robes.
The fulfilled promise of this
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blessing is that those who have
committed their life to Jesus
Christ and have the fruits of
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obedience manifest in their life
will experience the greatest joy
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to ever be experienced. The
Bible says that they will have
access to the Tree of Life
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and the Gates of Heaven.
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Friends, the story of humanity
is a story of paradise lost. As
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a result of the sin of Adam and
Eve, humanity was forbidden to
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partake of the Tree of Life
anymore, Genesis 3:24 tell us,
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But now here in the last
Beatitude of Revelation,
Paradise is Restored.
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Saved humanity can now partake
of the tree of life. Those who
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have washed their robes, those
who have obeyed Jesus now can
enter into the joy of
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the master. What a wonderful day
that will be! That day is coming
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soon. And here is the beautiful
thing. Jesus is doing and has
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done everything He can to make
sure you're there. Do you want
to be there? He wants
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to take you there! It's your
home. He's prepared it just for
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you. He died for you, so you can
be cleansed and come home. Won't
you today just make
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a decision to come to Him all
the way and be prepared to go
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home? In letters of
crimson, God wrote His love
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On the hillside
so long, long ago;
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For you and for me Jesus died,
And love's greatest story was
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told. I love you, I love you
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That's what Calvary said;
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I love you, I love you,
I love you, Written in Red
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Down through the
ages, God wrote His love
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With the same hands
that suffered and bled;
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Giving all that He had to
give, A message so easily read.
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I love you, I love you,
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That's what Calvary sai
d; love you, I love you,
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I love you...
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Oh, precious is the flow,
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that makes me white as snow;
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No other fount I know,
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nothing but the blood,
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The blood of Jesus.
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I love you, I love you
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That's what Calvary said;
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I love you, I love you,
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I love you, Written...In Red
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>>Chris: Friends, the seven
Beatitudes of Revelation are
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seven promises for those who
wash their robes and give their
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life to Jesus. Friends I'd like
to offer to you today the seven
part DVD series "The
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Beatitudes of Revelation". I
know it will encourage you and
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it will encourage others. Here's
the information you need to get
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today's offer. Friends, the book
of Revelation brings happiness
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and joy. I hope today's program
has brought you happiness and
joy and encouragement.
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Thank you so much for watching.
I encourage you to watch again
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next week. Until then, remember,
it is written: "Man shall not
live by bread alone, but
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by every word that
proceeds from the mouth of God."
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