Praise God,
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From whom all blessings flow
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Praise Him, all creatures here
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Below Praise Him above,
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Ye heavenly host
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Praise Father, Son,
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And Holy Ghost!
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Amen
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Strength will rise
As we wait upon the Lord
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We will wait upon the
Lord We will wait upon the Lord
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Strength will rise
As we wait upon the Lord
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We will wait upon the
Lord We will wait upon the Lord
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Our God
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You reign forever
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Our Hope our strong Deliverer
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You are the everlasting God
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The everlasting God
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You do not faint
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You won't grow weary
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You're the defender Of the weak
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You comfort those in need
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You lift us up On wings
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Like eagles
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You are the everlasting God
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The everlasting God
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You do not faint
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You won't grow weary
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You're the defender Of the weak
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You comfort those in need
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You lift us up On
wings like eagles.
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You may be seated.
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Worthy of every
song We could ever sing
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Worthy of all the
praise We could ever bring
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Worthy of every
breath We could ever breathe
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We live for You
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Jesus, the name
above Every other name
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Jesus, the only
One Who could ever save
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Worthy of every
breath We could ever breathe
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We live for You
Oh, we live for You
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Holy,
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There is no one like You
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There is none beside You
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Open up my eyes in wonder
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And show me who You are
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And fill me with Your heart
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And lead me in Your love
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To those around me
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And I will build My life
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Upon Your love
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It is a firm foundation
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And I will put my trust
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In You alone
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And I will not be shaken
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And I will build My life
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Upon Your love
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It is a firm foundation
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And I will put my trust
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In You alone
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And I will not be shaken
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Holy,
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There is no one like You
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There is none beside You
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Open up my eyes in wonder
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And show me who You are
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And fill me with Your heart
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And lead me in Your love
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To those around me
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I heard of a river
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Flowing from heaven
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And all who are thirsty
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Would thirst no more
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I wonder if I can
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Drink of this fountain
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The least of ten thousand
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I come X
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Here at the waterfall
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I stand in awe Under the rock,
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Under the rock
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Where mercy reigns
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Here at the waterfall
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Beneath the cross
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Under the rock, under the rock
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Where mercy reigns
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I heard of a river
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Out of the mountain
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Where healing and pardon
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Are pouring out
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I'm over my head
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In a sea of forgiveness
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Hidden in Jesus,
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I am found
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Here at the waterfall
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I stand in awe
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Under the rock, under the rock
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Where mercy reigns
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Here at the waterfall
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Beneath the cross
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Under the rock, under the rock
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Where mercy reigns
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Ev'rything lives
Where the river runs
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Ev'rything lives
Where the river runs
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Ev'rything lives
Where the river runs
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Ev'rything lives
where the river runs
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Ev'rything lives
Where the river runs
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I come alive, I come alive
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Ev'rything lives
Where the river runs
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I come alive, I come alive
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Ev'rything lives
Where the river runs
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I come alive, I come alive
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Ev'rything lives
Where the river runs
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I come alive
Here at the waterfall
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I stand in awe
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Under the rock, under the rock
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Where mercy reigns
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Here at the waterfall
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Beneath the cross
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Under the rock, under the rock
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Where mercy reigns
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Under the rock, under the rock
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Where mercy reigns
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Under the rock, under the rock
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Where mercy reigns
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Hey, sis, dad, mom, come
on, Children's Story is on.
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Hello boys and girls,
my name is Coach Lonto,
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I'm a physical ed teacher
at Ruth Murdoch Elementary.
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I'm really excited to be here.
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My second favorite thing to do
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is teach kids physical education
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at Ruth Murdock.
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My first favorite thing to do is
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I love to tell kids your
age about the love of Jesus.
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So, my story today is I
was a summer camp counselor
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at Camp Blue Ridge,
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and I love that
job, had a great time.
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One of my favorite things
to do is the Passion Play.
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Every Friday night,
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we would have worship
with the kids in the cabin.
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And every day,
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and we talk about Jesus
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and we teach the kids
about the love of Jesus.
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But then Friday,
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Friday was the final
climax of the whole week.
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And we got to show
people what Jesus did for us.
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He died for us on the cross.
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And He rose again
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to give us His
gift of salvation.
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And it was one
of the best things
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I loved about camp.
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Well, the first week
we had the Passion Play,
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and it went smoothly.
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For some reason,
they always made me Jesus
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at the Passion Play,
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so I got to ride a donkey,
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and they put me on a cross.
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And it was, it was,
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it was really important to me
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because of the way
that I got to play Jesus,
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and how that
affected the kids in my cabin.
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And it went
really well every week,
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while one week came up,
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and the weather
forecast was for rain,
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and it's counselors and people
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that took care
of the Passion Play
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and put on the Passion Play,
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we started to get worried.
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And we were wondering,
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oh, what are we going to do
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if it rains?
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How can we do this if it rains?
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The kids won't get a
blessing if it rains.
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And then it came Friday,
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and we'd been praying
that God would work a miracle.
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And so, it came time
to do the Passion Play
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and you know what?
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The weatherman forecasted rain,
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it looked like it
was gonna rain all day,
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but it did not rain.
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Later on, we found out it
rained all around our camp,
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but it did not rain on our camp.
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And wow, it was amazing.
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Another week came
by, another Friday came,
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another Passion Play
came and weather was fine.
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But then it came time again.
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Friday, another Friday came by
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and bad weather was forecasted.
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And we started praying again.
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Jesus, please don't let it rain
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so that we can
have our Passion Play.
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And Friday came
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and it looked like it
was gonna rain all day,
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but it didn't rain
during Passion Play.
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Another Friday,
it rained on Friday,
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but right before Passion Play,
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guess what?
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It stopped raining.
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And suddenly we
started realizing
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that God is in
control of the weather.
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If God wants to bless you,
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He's gonna bless
you and work a miracle
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so that you can
give your heart to Jesus.
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I hope that
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you know that
there's a God out there
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that loves you
and wants to meet you
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and will control the weather
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so that He can get
to know you better,
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and you can
learn more about Him.
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Dear Jesus, thank
You for the Sabbath day.
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And thank You
for keeping us safe
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and help us to be
blessings to others.
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Amen.
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College life has
never been easy for me.
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My first two years
in Andrews University
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both of my parents
provided loans for my education
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while I worked as well,
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and it was also issues at
home that were slowly arising.
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They all hit a climax
in the summer of 2019.
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I was left with a decision
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to stay with my family
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and help them with their issues.
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And also, the reality
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that I didn't have enough money
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to provide for my education
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or step out of faith.
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I personally wanted
to stay with my family,
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but God convicted me
to walk out in faith.
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And I walked out in faith
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and God had began
to open doors for me.
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That next stage of
faith is still was a struggle.
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I came here and I
didn't have a place,
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I didn't have a job,
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but a job was provided for me.
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It was the job
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that I was
working for my freshman
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and sophomore year.
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And a place was
offered by one of my friends
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that I made at the college.
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And so, I ended
up living with him.
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And I
eventually worked 60 hours,
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and it took a toll on my body.
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But God said, keep going.
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And it wasn't, it
wasn't a very dark time too
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because I really felt like
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God wasn't going to provide
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what He said He
was gonna provide
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which wasn't a
college education.
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But He said, keep going,
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keep going in the
midst of your struggle.
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And so, I did.
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I aggravated to
speak to the president
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and the provost about
my financial situation,
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and also my family situation.
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And they said it
helped me achieve my dream.
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If you are student
at Andrews University
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listening to this, I'd
advise you to trust God.
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I know it's hard,
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it's extremely difficult
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as soon as we want
to rely on ourselves,
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but guys,
begging us to trust Him
00:17:16.50\00:17:19.27
because He will
provide all the things
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that we can't
provide on our own.
00:17:21.77\00:17:23.77
And as my shirt says,
if God is all you have,
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God is all you need.
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And so, here we are on today,
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I can proudly say
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God has brought
me back to college.
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I'm Eddie and
this is my testimony.
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Jesus,
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Joy of man's desiring
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Holy wisdom,
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love most bright
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Drawn by Thee
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Our souls aspiring
00:18:41.02\00:18:46.62
Sing to uncreated light
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Word of God
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Our flesh that fashioned
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With the fire
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Of life impassioned
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Striving still
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To truth unknown
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In the love
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Of joys unknown Well,
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we've had an incredible
week here at Andrews University.
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I don't think in the
few years I've been here
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I've ever
attended a week of prayer
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like the one we
just ended last night.
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Student, student
preachers every single night,
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theme loving life.
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And I'm telling you what,
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somehow, God is turning this.
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This will be,
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one day, we're gonna
see God's fingerprints
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all over this week.
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So thank you five
preachers that'd preached.
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Thank you,
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chaplains, that worked
so hard to pull it off.
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So this morning, I'm up early.
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And I'm saying God,
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my heart was moved by
these messages of your love.
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Have we jumped off a cliff here
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with this
apocalyptic prophecy emphasis
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with, you know, weird
and scary beasts and all
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and are we somehow pushing away
from the theme of your love?
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Does this interface, can it fit?
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And while I was,
while I was praying,
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I said, come on,
boy, what do you think?
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What do you think?
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How do you think
Revelation opens?
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And I totally forgot about this.
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I want you to open to
the apocalypse right now.
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Revelation, the
first page of Revelation,
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Revelation Chapter 1,
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and we, you know,
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you know, the first line
everybody knows the first line.
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But I want to show
you what I had forgotten.
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Revelation Chapter 1,
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I'm in the New
International Version.
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Familiar words,
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revelation from Jesus Christ
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or it can be the
revelation of Jesus Christ
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or it can be the
revelation about Jesus Christ,
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which God gave him
to show his servants
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what must soon take place.
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So the apocalypse is
about what must soon take place.
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There will be a
generation on earth
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that will live the last pictures
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of the apocalypse.
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But I want you to
drop down to verse 5.
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We must not forget,
this is not only revelation,
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this is not a revelation
of the weird and scary beast.
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It's a revelation of
the Lord Jesus Christ.
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And now drop down to verse
5, the very tail end of verse 5,
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and to him,
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put it on the
screen, there you go.
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"And to him who loves us
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and has freed us from our sins
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by his blood.
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" I got a line
scribbled right above this line.
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It in my Bible
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right at the top of
the page of Revelation 1,
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I'm going to try to read
it in my own handwriting,
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we'll put it on the
screen for you, as well.
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It's just one line.
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One thing will be
certainly understood
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from the study of Revelation
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that the connection
between God and His people,
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now notice those
next two words, is close.
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And what's the last word?
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Decided.
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The connection
between God and His people
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is close and decided.
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I think of that
that the rabbi raging,
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furious at this
breakaway sect from Judaism.
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The rabbis in Jerusalem
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absolutely incensed
at the challenge to his,
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the church of his childhood.
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He stands there
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when that brilliant
mind is stoned to death.
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He facilitates the execution.
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A massive persecution
breaks out in Jerusalem.
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The disciples, the
followers of Jesus flee
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at all points on the compass.
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Saul is now in rage
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heading to
Damascus, the ancient city.
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He's heard
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there's a group of
Christians hiding out.
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And you know the story.
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On the cusp of the city
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there is this nuclear explosion,
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brighter than the
sun hurled at the ground,
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his eyes now
dark, he cannot see.
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And he hears this voice.
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Saul, Saul,
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why are you persecuting me?
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He knows he's in the
presence of some personage
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greater than he
and he cries out.
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Who are you, Lord?
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And then the voice response.
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I am Jesus, whom you are, what?
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I am Jesus whom
you are persecuting.
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Can you believe that?
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You're a friend of Jesus?
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You made a decision this week,
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I'm gonna align my
life up with my Savior.
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Live out God's love
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and things start falling
apart like Eddie on the screen.
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When you're mocked
for the decision you made,
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when your faith is belittled.
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Guess what?
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Somebody else feels it.
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When that pain, like a knife,
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betrayed by
someone you counted on
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stabbed your heart.
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Somebody else
says, I've been stabbed.
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Saul, what are you
doing, persecuting me?
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Book of Revelation will show
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that the connection
between God and His people
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is closed and decided.
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How close?
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Still a revelation of love
and what we're about to see.
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Yep, yep, yep.
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I'm gonna put a picture
on the screen in a moment.
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But first I
want to pray with you
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and then we'll
plunge into this teaching.
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Oh, God,
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book opens up with
your relentless love,
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close and decided,
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that's what happens to people
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who get into the
apocalypse together.
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May that happen to us right now.
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Close and decided.
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Our connect with you.
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We pray in Jesus' name.
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Amen.
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Turn to the
middle of the apocalypse,
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Revelation Chapter 12.
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Let's go.
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Scary beasts, weird symbols.
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This is the epitome,
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the crux of the apocalypse
with all of the above.
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Revelation 12:1,
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"And a great sign
appeared in heaven:
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a woman clothed with the sun,
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with the moon under her feet
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and a crown of
twelve stars on her head.
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And she was pregnant
and she cried out in pain,
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as she was about to give birth.
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Then another sign appeared,
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an enormous red
dragon with seven heads
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and ten horns and
seven crowns on its heads,
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and its tail swept
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a third of the
stars out of the sky
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and flung them to the earth.
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The dragon stood
in front of the woman
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who was about to give birth,
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so that it
might devour her child
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the moment he was born.
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" Now verse 5, "And
she gave birth to a son,
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a male child,
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who 'will rule all the
nations with an iron scepter.'
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And her child was snapped
up to God and to his throne."
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Everything that's apocalyptic,
you got it in that one picture.
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We just bought the
rights to this picture,
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European artist.
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And I'm so
delighted that we have.
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I want you to take a look.
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His name is Phil McKay.
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We bought the rights
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to be able to use
this again and again.
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There it is.
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There's that
woman, sun shining on her,
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clothed in the sun,
standing on the moon.
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Little garland of twelve
stars around her head, pregnant.
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She didn't look real pregnant
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probably the day one of
the pregnancy or something.
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I don't know.
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He said, man,
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I'm not gonna paint
a picture of this woman
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with her tummy sticking out,
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but that's actually what it is.
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Okay, so there's this woman.
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And here is this
seven headed roaring,
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salivating ferocious red dragon.
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You can count him,
they're all seven there.
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You know, and we,
this may be the first time
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you've ever read this story.
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And even if it
were your first time,
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there's a certain enough,
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there's enough familiarity
in some of the themes
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that we could
guess what the story is.
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We could probably guess that
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that baby that's
going to be born is whom?
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Jesus.
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It's Jesus, yeah, it's Jesus.
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The Christ child.
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The whole story of Jesus
is reduced to half a sentence,
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He's born and sits on
the throne of the universe,
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we know that's the Messiah.
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Rule with a rod of iron.
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The dragon we understand,
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you know, verse 9
in the same chapter,
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he's that old devil,
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the serpent called
Satan, we know the dragon.
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But who is this woman?
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It can't be Mother
Mary, because of verse 6.
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So let's look at verse 6.
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This unfolding the
picture now, verse 6,
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"And the woman
fled into the wilderness
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to a place
prepared for her by God,
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where she might be taken care
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of for 1,260 days."
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Come on, that can't
be Mary, so who is she?
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One of the great Bible keys
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that we can use to pick the lock
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of the apocalypse is this one.
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Women in apocalyptic
prophecy represents something,
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there are two
kinds of woman, women.
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Here's woman number one,
three clues from the Bible.
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What is a woman when
God speaks of a woman?
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Let's put clue number
one on the screen, please.
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Isaiah 62:5,
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"As a young man
marries a young woman,
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" there may be young
man in this space right now.
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There may be a family,
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or two getting ready
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for this to
happen in their lives.
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"As a young man
marries a young woman,
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so will your Builder,"
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capital B, so that's God,
and God is speaking to Israel.
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"So will your Builder marry you,
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as a bridegroom
rejoices over his bride,
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so will your God
rejoice over you."
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Oh, the faith community is
described as a bride of God.
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That's weird.
Let's try another one.
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This is the New Testament.
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2 Corinthians 11:2,
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Paul writing to
the church in Corinth.
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"I am jealous for you
with a godly jealousy."
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Why?
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"Because I promised you
to one husband, to Christ,
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so that I might present
you as a pure virgin to him."
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Old Testament, New Testament,
Church, Bride of Christ.
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Paul nails it now in
Ephesians 5:25, husbands,
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any husbands here?
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This is great counsel.
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Come on,
husbands love your wives.
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By the way, I just
have to throw this in,
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that love me
self-crucifying love.
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That is self-emptying love.
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So you want to love your wife,
you sacrifice yourself for her.
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"Husbands, love your wives,
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just as Christ loved the church
and gave Himself for her."
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So you have a
husband loving a wife
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or you have
Christ loving the church.
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The church is
the bride of Christ.
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Oh, wanna see that picture again
00:31:44.87\00:31:46.20
because we bought the rights.
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Come on.
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We'd look at it
as much as we want.
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Yep, that nobody can't,
nobody can't tell us we can't.
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There's that girl again.
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There's the woman.
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She is the bride of Christ.
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But there, I warn you,
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there are two
women in the apocalypse
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and the other woman,
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well, let's just take a clue
as to what she might represent.
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Come on.
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Let's go to the other woman.
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Please, Hosea
1:2, clue number one,
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"When the Lord began
to speak through Hosea,"
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now, this is a
very young prophet.
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He's just getting
ready to get married,
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okay, young prophet.
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"When the Lord began
to speak through Hosea,
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the Lord said to him,
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'I want you to go and
marry a promiscuous woman
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and I want you to
have children with her.'"
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Keep going. Next slide.
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Next slide.
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"For like an
adulterous wife this land, "
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speaking of Israel,
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the faith community
00:32:45.56\00:32:46.90
"is guilty of
unfaithfulness to the Lord."
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What's going on here.
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He says, I want you
to marry a prostitute.
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The prostitute represents
the fallen community of faith.
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Is that some weird
little one liner description?
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Now, here comes clue
number two, Hosea 4:12,
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"My people, " God
says, speaking of Israel,
00:33:03.18\00:33:05.38
"consult a wooden idol,"
00:33:05.41\00:33:07.25
the, the gods
of their neighbors,
00:33:07.28\00:33:08.62
"and a diviner's
rod speaks to them.
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A spirit of
prostitution leads them astray,
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they are
unfaithful to their God."
00:33:14.69\00:33:17.23
You can start out a pure woman
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and apparently end
up an impure woman,
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you can start
out the bride of God
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and you end up to be
the prostitute of man.
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But here's the clincher.
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I want you to see
it in your own Bible.
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This is clue number three,
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but just turn to
Revelation Chapter 17.
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We're coming right back to 12
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but turn to
Revelation Chapter 17.
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Beware, in the apocalypse,
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you're gonna run into
two ladies, two ladies.
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Be very careful.
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What's this other lady? Okay.
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Revelation 17:1,
00:33:48.89\00:33:53.33
"One of the seven
angels who had the seven bowls
00:33:53.36\00:33:55.86
came and said to
me, 'Come, come, come.
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I'm gonna show
you the punishment
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of the great prostitute.
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'" Some of your
Bible say the great whore,
00:34:00.74\00:34:02.77
"'who sits by many waters.'"
It represents many people.
00:34:02.80\00:34:07.24
We noted that last week.
00:34:07.28\00:34:08.84
"With her the kings of the earth
00:34:08.88\00:34:11.01
committed adultery,
00:34:11.05\00:34:12.38
and the inhabitants of the earth
00:34:12.41\00:34:14.28
were intoxicated
00:34:14.32\00:34:15.65
with the wine
of her adulteries."
00:34:15.68\00:34:17.39
Drop down to verse 4,
00:34:17.42\00:34:18.75
"And the woman was
dressed in purple and scarlet,
00:34:18.79\00:34:21.19
and was glittering with gold,
00:34:21.22\00:34:22.66
and precious stones and pearls."
00:34:22.69\00:34:24.43
She's a streetwalker.
00:34:24.46\00:34:25.79
That's what she is,
00:34:25.83\00:34:27.16
you know what the streetwalkers
00:34:27.20\00:34:28.53
just it's just
slang for a prostitute.
00:34:28.56\00:34:30.60
She's all decked out
00:34:30.63\00:34:32.53
with gold and
precious stones and pearls.
00:34:32.57\00:34:34.10
"She held a
golden cup in her hand,
00:34:34.14\00:34:36.91
filled with abominable things
00:34:36.94\00:34:38.61
and the filth
of her adulteries."
00:34:38.64\00:34:40.21
Now keep reading.
00:34:40.24\00:34:41.58
"The name written on
her forehead was a mystery,
00:34:41.61\00:34:44.21
Babylon the Great,
the mother of prostitutes,
00:34:44.25\00:34:47.58
and of the
abominations of the earth."
00:34:47.62\00:34:49.18
One more line,
00:34:49.22\00:34:50.55
"And I saw the woman was drunk."
00:34:50.59\00:34:51.99
So we have a
drunk prostitute here.
00:34:52.02\00:34:54.89
"The woman was drunk
00:34:54.92\00:34:56.26
with the blood of
God's holy people,
00:34:56.29\00:34:58.56
the blood of those who
bore testimony to Jesus."
00:34:58.59\00:35:02.46
My, oh my, streetwalker,
00:35:02.50\00:35:04.13
that she is, just
put that picture up.
00:35:04.17\00:35:06.80
Just the background, yep.
00:35:06.84\00:35:11.01
There are two
women in the apocalypse,
00:35:11.04\00:35:15.01
one's the bride of Christ,
00:35:15.04\00:35:16.95
the other is the
paramour of the dragon.
00:35:16.98\00:35:21.65
And for the heart
and soul of this book,
00:35:21.68\00:35:26.76
this is where the play
00:35:26.79\00:35:28.12
and counterplay will take place,
00:35:28.16\00:35:29.49
it will be between
these two communities.
00:35:29.52\00:35:33.29
The bride of Christ,
00:35:33.33\00:35:35.13
the paramour or the
lover of the dragon.
00:35:35.16\00:35:40.17
Again and again
we come back to that.
00:35:40.20\00:35:44.14
What's that mean?
00:35:44.17\00:35:45.87
Let's be clear.
00:35:45.91\00:35:48.78
Revelation 12, the
bride of the Christ,
00:35:48.81\00:35:50.68
bride of Christ, Revelation 17,
00:35:50.71\00:35:54.32
the adulterous and
impure woman of the dragon,
00:35:54.35\00:35:59.12
two faith communities.
00:35:59.15\00:36:00.49
You can start out the
bride and end up the prostitute.
00:36:00.52\00:36:04.66
Give me a break. No.
00:36:04.69\00:36:08.63
Oh, we left the woman,
00:36:08.66\00:36:10.23
the bride of Christ, the dragon,
00:36:10.27\00:36:12.33
spinning from missing out
00:36:12.37\00:36:14.14
in fury and able to
just slay the Messiah,
00:36:14.17\00:36:16.87
he turns on the woman.
00:36:16.91\00:36:18.37
And let's read that,
let's read that verse again.
00:36:18.41\00:36:21.38
Back to 12:6,
00:36:21.41\00:36:23.04
and so child
snatched up to heaven,
00:36:23.08\00:36:25.08
"The woman fled," verse 6,
00:36:25.11\00:36:26.45
"into the wilderness to a
place prepared for her by God,
00:36:26.48\00:36:29.58
where she might
be taken care of,
00:36:29.62\00:36:31.12
" for how many days?
00:36:31.15\00:36:33.19
"1,260 days." Now
what's going on here?
00:36:33.22\00:36:37.73
In this book of
apocalyptic symbols,
00:36:37.76\00:36:39.66
the beasts and sea and earth
00:36:39.69\00:36:43.57
and water and sky in
the midst of these symbols,
00:36:43.60\00:36:48.20
there's time and
time is symbolic as well.
00:36:48.24\00:36:52.31
Let me share something with you.
00:36:52.34\00:36:54.01
1,260 days,
00:36:54.04\00:36:55.71
you're gonna see on
either side of this chapter,
00:36:55.74\00:36:58.35
another time period represented
00:36:58.38\00:37:00.08
and it's called 42 months.
00:37:00.12\00:37:01.95
Now, the Jewish day,
the Jewish month rather,
00:37:01.98\00:37:05.02
the Bible month
is only 30 days long.
00:37:05.05\00:37:06.72
And so, 30 times
42 would be here.
00:37:06.76\00:37:08.62
1,260 days equals 42 months.
00:37:08.66\00:37:10.76
And you can read
a little further,
00:37:10.79\00:37:12.89
three and a half years.
00:37:12.93\00:37:15.53
Same time,
00:37:15.56\00:37:17.10
nothing's changed
in the amount of time,
00:37:17.13\00:37:19.30
same timeline.
00:37:19.33\00:37:20.77
But what's going on?
00:37:20.80\00:37:22.34
The Great English
mathematician Sir Isaac Newton,
00:37:22.37\00:37:25.97
everybody knows Isaac
Newton, the law of gravity,
00:37:26.01\00:37:28.94
was fascinated
with Bible prophecy
00:37:28.98\00:37:31.01
and discovered this key,
00:37:31.05\00:37:32.65
put the key in the lock
and the lock popped open.
00:37:32.68\00:37:37.65
What's the key?
00:37:37.69\00:37:39.09
A day in Bible prophecy
equals a year of real time.
00:37:39.12\00:37:44.83
Come on.
00:37:44.86\00:37:46.19
Yeah, if I needed a
Bible, yeah, long before,
00:37:46.23\00:37:48.36
long before Isaac Newton.
00:37:48.40\00:37:50.00
God actually had
designed the key.
00:37:50.03\00:37:51.83
Let's put it on the screen.
00:37:51.87\00:37:53.20
Numbers 14:34, "For forty years,
00:37:53.23\00:37:55.04
" he's talking to the children
of Israel in the wilderness.
00:37:55.07\00:37:57.94
"For forty years,
00:37:57.97\00:37:59.31
one year for
each of the forty days
00:37:59.34\00:38:01.14
you explored the land.
00:38:01.18\00:38:02.51
" You remember the 12th
spies and they reconnoitered
00:38:02.54\00:38:04.71
and they came back after 40 days
00:38:04.75\00:38:06.88
and 10 of them said,
00:38:06.92\00:38:08.25
we can't do it,
we're losers, we're losers,
00:38:08.28\00:38:09.75
we've lost.
00:38:09.78\00:38:11.12
And two of them said, come
on, God will get us through.
00:38:11.15\00:38:14.12
God says, "For forty years,
00:38:14.16\00:38:15.49
one year for each
of the forty days,
00:38:15.52\00:38:16.99
you spies explored the land,
00:38:17.03\00:38:18.83
you will suffer for your sins
00:38:18.86\00:38:20.30
and know what it is
like to have me against you."
00:38:20.33\00:38:23.73
Forty years, okay,
00:38:23.77\00:38:25.10
you're gone for forty days,
00:38:25.13\00:38:26.47
for forty years
until the last one drops,
00:38:26.50\00:38:28.47
you're gonna be
wondering this wilderness.
00:38:28.50\00:38:30.21
Hey, that wasn't
Isaac Newton, that was God.
00:38:30.24\00:38:32.54
God says the same to Ezekiel.
00:38:32.57\00:38:33.91
Go to Ezekiel,
00:38:33.94\00:38:35.28
young prophet Ezekiel Chapter 4.
00:38:35.31\00:38:36.78
"I have assigned you
the same number of days
00:38:36.81\00:38:39.71
as the years of their sin,
00:38:39.75\00:38:41.78
a day for each year."
00:38:41.82\00:38:44.59
Of all the apocalyptic keys,
00:38:44.62\00:38:46.45
this one is most
readily substantiated
00:38:46.49\00:38:49.09
by scholarship today.
00:38:49.12\00:38:50.83
In apocalyptic
prophecy, a day equals a year.
00:38:50.86\00:38:53.16
So what does it mean?
00:38:57.97\00:39:00.04
Let's put it up here in fact,
00:39:00.07\00:39:01.40
1, 260 days in prophecy
00:39:01.44\00:39:04.17
would equal
1,260 years of history.
00:39:04.21\00:39:06.27
Does this make sense?
00:39:06.31\00:39:07.74
So when you run into a
day in apocalyptic prophecy,
00:39:07.78\00:39:10.05
it really is
hinting that it's a year.
00:39:10.08\00:39:13.28
Now scholars
are rather unanimous
00:39:13.31\00:39:17.05
in describing
this 1,260 year period
00:39:17.09\00:39:20.36
as none other than
00:39:20.39\00:39:21.72
the Dark and Middle
Ages of church history.
00:39:21.76\00:39:25.76
You know what was happening?
00:39:25.79\00:39:27.13
Exactly what
it's described here.
00:39:27.16\00:39:29.26
You got a furious dragon,
00:39:29.30\00:39:31.93
setting out to decimate
00:39:31.97\00:39:34.00
and obliterate
the bride of Christ.
00:39:34.04\00:39:37.54
Remember the two, the
split screen a moment ago.
00:39:37.57\00:39:40.41
That's the battle
all the way through.
00:39:40.44\00:39:43.04
They're both fronts
for the primary players,
00:39:43.08\00:39:46.11
the Lamb of God,
and the dragon of hell.
00:39:46.15\00:39:49.82
Every battle
fought on this planet
00:39:49.85\00:39:51.29
is between the two,
00:39:51.32\00:39:53.29
these are
surrogates, the two women.
00:39:53.32\00:39:58.06
I've stood in the Alpine valleys
00:39:58.09\00:40:00.23
of Northwest Italy,
00:40:00.26\00:40:02.03
the Piedmont Mountains.
00:40:02.06\00:40:03.40
Oh, I tell you what,
00:40:03.43\00:40:04.77
if you're in the
School of Architecture,
00:40:04.80\00:40:06.13
I hope that pandemic
does not stop the tours to,
00:40:06.17\00:40:09.67
to that
beautiful Alpine setting.
00:40:09.70\00:40:13.38
We've gone twice Karen and
I with Kathy Demsky and the,
00:40:13.41\00:40:17.81
was it the third year
class of architecture.
00:40:17.85\00:40:20.18
Anyway,
00:40:20.22\00:40:21.55
they're up there studying
a Waldensian architecture.
00:40:21.58\00:40:26.02
We had the privilege of
moving into some of the caves.
00:40:26.05\00:40:28.22
You know what was
going on in the caves?
00:40:28.26\00:40:29.72
You know why they
were in the Alpine valleys?
00:40:29.76\00:40:33.46
Because there's another woman
00:40:33.50\00:40:35.60
and the other woman
is absolutely furious
00:40:35.63\00:40:38.23
at the thought
00:40:38.27\00:40:39.60
that there would
be any other woman
00:40:39.63\00:40:41.90
to share the stage with her.
00:40:41.94\00:40:45.47
Unable to brook
the idea of opposition,
00:40:45.51\00:40:51.21
that prostitute sets out to
destroy the bride of Christ.
00:40:51.25\00:40:56.79
Just last week,
00:40:56.82\00:40:58.15
we were talking about
the French Revolution.
00:40:58.19\00:41:01.36
Have you ever heard of
the St. Bartholomew's Day
00:41:01.39\00:41:03.49
Massacre August 24, 1572?
00:41:03.53\00:41:05.66
Near the end of the
Dark and Middle Ages,
00:41:05.69\00:41:09.63
the sign was the tolling
00:41:09.66\00:41:11.53
of the cathedral
bells at midnight
00:41:11.57\00:41:15.77
and then by the thousands
00:41:15.80\00:41:18.14
Huguenots,
00:41:18.17\00:41:19.57
these are the spiritual
descendants of the Waldensians
00:41:19.61\00:41:21.64
actually, the
Huguenots dragged out of bed
00:41:21.68\00:41:26.21
disseminated, watch this,
00:41:26.25\00:41:27.75
from the apocalyptic classic
Great Controversy these words.
00:41:27.78\00:41:30.59
"The blackest
00:41:30.62\00:41:31.95
in the black catalogue of crime,
00:41:31.99\00:41:34.66
most horrible
00:41:34.69\00:41:36.02
among the fiendish deeds
of the dreadful centuries
00:41:36.06\00:41:38.83
of the Dark Ages,"
00:41:38.86\00:41:40.23
keep reading,
00:41:40.26\00:41:41.60
"was the St.
Bartholomew Massacre.
00:41:41.63\00:41:44.63
Noble and peasant, " okay,
00:41:44.67\00:41:46.13
second estate, third estate,
00:41:46.17\00:41:47.54
we talked about
the three estates
00:41:47.57\00:41:48.90
back in those days in France,
00:41:48.94\00:41:50.27
"noble and peasant alike,
00:41:50.31\00:41:52.17
old and young, mother and child,
00:41:52.21\00:41:54.08
were cut down together."
00:41:54.11\00:41:55.44
Keep reading.
00:41:55.48\00:41:56.81
"The butchery
continued for two months."
00:41:56.85\00:41:59.61
When it was over.
00:41:59.65\00:42:00.98
"Seventy thousand
of the very flower
00:42:01.02\00:42:03.49
of the nation of
France had perished.
00:42:03.52\00:42:08.22
" Drunk the
blood of the children
00:42:08.26\00:42:14.33
of the bride of Christ.
00:42:14.36\00:42:16.23
I'm warning you.
00:42:16.26\00:42:18.10
Two women and one battle.
00:42:18.13\00:42:23.94
John, we'll
reprise the battle here.
00:42:23.97\00:42:26.11
So jump over to
verse 13 in Chapter 12,
00:42:26.14\00:42:28.54
"And when the dragon
saw that he had been hurled,
00:42:28.58\00:42:30.28
" so that the
Messiah snatched to heaven.
00:42:30.31\00:42:31.65
"When the dragon saw that
00:42:31.68\00:42:33.01
he had been hurled to the earth,
00:42:33.05\00:42:34.38
he pursued the woman
00:42:34.42\00:42:35.75
who had given
birth to the male child."
00:42:35.78\00:42:37.12
Verse 14,
00:42:37.15\00:42:38.49
"And the woman
was given two wings
00:42:38.52\00:42:39.85
of a great eagle,
00:42:39.89\00:42:41.22
" we sang about that
a moment ago, didn't we?
00:42:41.26\00:42:42.59
"Two wings of a great eagle
00:42:42.62\00:42:43.96
so that she
might fly to the place
00:42:43.99\00:42:45.33
prepared for her
in the wilderness."
00:42:45.36\00:42:47.20
Somebody's looking out.
00:42:47.23\00:42:49.46
Saul, Saul, why are
you doing this to me?
00:42:49.50\00:42:53.37
Somebody when you align with him
00:42:53.40\00:42:55.90
will never forsake you.
00:42:55.94\00:42:57.94
He will never leave you.
00:42:57.97\00:43:00.01
And every crucible you drink,
00:43:00.04\00:43:04.81
he drinks with you.
00:43:04.85\00:43:06.95
Somebody looking out for her.
00:43:06.98\00:43:09.42
"Had a place prepare
for her in the wilderness,
00:43:09.45\00:43:10.92
where she would be
taken care of for a time,
00:43:10.95\00:43:13.15
times and half a time.
00:43:13.19\00:43:14.52
" There it is,
three and a half years.
00:43:14.56\00:43:15.89
But we know
three and a half years
00:43:15.92\00:43:17.26
is really 1, 263
and a half days rather.
00:43:17.29\00:43:21.16
Three and a half years
00:43:21.20\00:43:22.56
is actually in days, 1,260 days,
00:43:22.60\00:43:25.83
and that would be that long
Dark and Middle Ages period.
00:43:25.87\00:43:31.17
But then I want you to see this.
00:43:31.21\00:43:32.54
Verse 15,
00:43:32.57\00:43:33.91
"And then from his mouth."
00:43:33.94\00:43:35.64
So he's pursuing
the bride of Christ.
00:43:35.68\00:43:39.11
"Then from his mouth
00:43:39.15\00:43:40.48
the serpent or the dragon
spewed water like a river,
00:43:40.52\00:43:43.75
to overtake the woman
00:43:43.79\00:43:45.12
and sweep her
away with a torrent."
00:43:45.15\00:43:48.22
But verse 16,
00:43:48.26\00:43:52.09
"The earth helped the
woman by opening its mouth
00:43:52.13\00:43:56.73
and swallowing the river
00:43:56.77\00:43:58.10
that the dragon had
spewed out of his mouth."
00:43:58.13\00:44:00.97
I want you to catch that line.
00:44:01.00\00:44:02.34
This is just, I saw
that line on the screen
00:44:02.37\00:44:04.81
but the earth helped the woman.
00:44:04.84\00:44:07.61
Wait a minute, wait a minute.
00:44:07.64\00:44:08.98
Last week we had an earth
beast and a sea beast, right?
00:44:09.01\00:44:10.68
Yep, we did.
00:44:10.71\00:44:12.08
Well, that earth beast,
could that be the earth here?
00:44:12.11\00:44:15.05
Why couldn't it be?
00:44:15.08\00:44:16.85
Remember the earth beast?
00:44:16.89\00:44:18.22
It comes up right at the
end of the Dark Middle Ages
00:44:18.25\00:44:21.42
comes up right
here in the late 1700s,
00:44:21.46\00:44:24.36
comes up far
away from the people
00:44:24.39\00:44:26.80
thoroughfares of Europe.
00:44:26.83\00:44:28.40
This is all new world over here,
00:44:28.43\00:44:30.07
old world, new world.
00:44:30.10\00:44:32.47
And it comes up at the moment.
00:44:32.50\00:44:35.17
This woman,
00:44:35.20\00:44:36.54
the bride of Christ is desperate
00:44:36.57\00:44:38.64
for somebody to save
me from the decimation.
00:44:38.67\00:44:43.85
My, oh my, are you
suggesting, Dwight,
00:44:43.88\00:44:46.38
that God Himself
raised America up
00:44:46.41\00:44:49.82
so that she could
be that safe haven
00:44:49.85\00:44:52.45
for those fleeing
persecution in Europe?
00:44:52.49\00:44:54.76
That's what I'm suggesting.
00:44:54.79\00:44:57.26
You mean, the new
world was intended by God
00:44:57.29\00:45:00.00
to offset and
neutralize the massive slaughter
00:45:00.03\00:45:06.60
on the other side of the sea.
00:45:06.63\00:45:08.00
Yep.
00:45:08.04\00:45:11.57
Great Controversy
again on the screen.
00:45:11.61\00:45:13.14
"In America,
00:45:13.17\00:45:15.41
it was demonstrated that
the principles of the Bible
00:45:15.44\00:45:18.05
are the surest safeguards
of national greatness,
00:45:18.08\00:45:22.68
and the world
marked with wonder,
00:45:22.72\00:45:25.42
in this land of the New World,
00:45:25.45\00:45:27.36
the peace and prosperity
of a church without a pope,
00:45:27.39\00:45:32.29
and a state without a king."
00:45:32.33\00:45:36.36
Truth is, come on.
00:45:36.40\00:45:38.43
And I say,
00:45:38.47\00:45:40.04
God had needed a
place where the last seed,
00:45:40.07\00:45:45.97
the end time, the
King James actually
00:45:46.01\00:45:49.01
will call it the remnant seed.
00:45:49.04\00:45:51.71
God needed a place
00:45:51.75\00:45:53.52
where that final generation
00:45:53.55\00:45:55.12
of the bride's children
might grow up unmolested.
00:45:55.15\00:45:59.19
And from that base,
00:45:59.22\00:46:01.16
extend the
mission of the kingdom
00:46:01.19\00:46:03.83
to the entire planet.
00:46:03.86\00:46:06.03
One more line
left in Revelation.
00:46:06.06\00:46:07.60
Let's read it now. Verse 17.
00:46:07.63\00:46:10.93
Revelation 12, the
last line, verse 17.
00:46:10.97\00:46:13.23
And then when he saw
00:46:13.27\00:46:14.97
that this refuge
had been raised up
00:46:15.00\00:46:17.61
to snatch his victims,
00:46:17.64\00:46:19.57
"Then the dragon was
enraged at the woman,
00:46:19.61\00:46:23.38
and went off to make war
00:46:23.41\00:46:24.78
against the rest
of her offspring."
00:46:24.81\00:46:27.52
So now she's produced children
00:46:27.55\00:46:29.22
and these children
carry on the legacy of mother,
00:46:29.25\00:46:32.09
he enraged
00:46:32.12\00:46:33.92
went off to wage war
00:46:33.96\00:46:35.29
against the rest
of her offspring.
00:46:35.32\00:46:36.66
Who were these offspring?
00:46:36.69\00:46:38.03
"Well, they're those who
keep the commandments of God
00:46:38.06\00:46:40.33
and hold fast the
testimony of Jesus."
00:46:40.36\00:46:45.10
There it is.
That's the remnant church.
00:46:45.13\00:46:46.84
You hear people once in a while
talk about the remnant church.
00:46:46.87\00:46:48.60
That's it right there.
00:46:48.64\00:46:49.97
What they're
really trying to say is,
00:46:50.01\00:46:51.34
that's the bride of
Christ at the end of time.
00:46:51.37\00:46:54.11
That's what it is.
00:46:54.14\00:46:55.48
Two identifying marks, by
the way, let's put them up.
00:46:55.51\00:46:57.41
"For this bride, the
children of the bride,
00:46:57.45\00:47:00.12
they keep the
commandments of God.
00:47:00.15\00:47:01.78
" I suppose that
includes the Ten Commandments,
00:47:01.82\00:47:03.32
I suppose that we also
include the fourth commandment,
00:47:03.35\00:47:05.82
for God's from the
very beginning of time
00:47:05.85\00:47:07.72
is set aside the
seventh day Sabbath
00:47:07.76\00:47:10.86
to be a memorial of His office
00:47:10.89\00:47:14.73
as Creator of the universe.
00:47:14.76\00:47:18.57
So, as it turns out,
00:47:18.60\00:47:20.27
the bride, the
woman before Calvary,
00:47:20.30\00:47:26.64
the woman before
Calvary and after Calvary
00:47:26.68\00:47:28.71
has always been a
Sabbatarian community.
00:47:28.74\00:47:32.91
Because God set aside
the seventh day Sabbath
00:47:32.95\00:47:36.38
as his gift to the human
race, gift of a relationship,
00:47:36.42\00:47:39.39
gift of a friendship,
00:47:39.42\00:47:40.76
we're going to
spend time together
00:47:40.79\00:47:42.12
you and I on this day.
00:47:42.16\00:47:43.49
This day is dedicated to us.
00:47:43.53\00:47:46.23
So whatever this the
seed, the remnant seed,
00:47:46.26\00:47:50.00
the offspring of the
woman, we know one thing,
00:47:50.03\00:47:52.23
we know that
they're going to keep
00:47:52.27\00:47:53.60
the commandments of God
00:47:53.64\00:47:54.97
and what's the other
one, the other qualification?
00:47:55.00\00:47:57.04
They hold fast their
testimony about Jesus.
00:47:57.07\00:48:00.08
They're going to
be a Jesus people.
00:48:00.11\00:48:01.88
They're going to
talk about Jesus,
00:48:01.91\00:48:03.68
they're gonna focus on Jesus.
00:48:03.71\00:48:05.48
And they're
going to uplift Jesus.
00:48:05.51\00:48:08.38
Two challenges from the atheist,
00:48:08.42\00:48:10.32
secular world that
they will be living
00:48:10.35\00:48:12.82
in at the time of the end game.
00:48:12.85\00:48:14.82
There are two major challenges
00:48:14.86\00:48:16.19
and that these twin IDs
are for those twin challenges.
00:48:16.22\00:48:20.96
Challenge number one,
00:48:21.00\00:48:22.63
there's no such
thing as the divine,
00:48:22.66\00:48:24.00
there's no such
thing as salvation.
00:48:24.03\00:48:25.37
You're your own
savior and good luck.
00:48:25.40\00:48:27.77
Nope, nope, nope.
00:48:27.80\00:48:29.24
Jesus as Lord of
salvation means He is Savior.
00:48:29.27\00:48:33.01
Jesus as Lord of the
Sabbath means He is Creator.
00:48:33.04\00:48:36.64
This anti Genesis
apostasy on this planet,
00:48:36.68\00:48:39.58
they're raised up to challenge
00:48:39.61\00:48:42.82
the worldview that says
you got here by accident
00:48:42.85\00:48:45.89
and you'll leave by accident.
00:48:45.92\00:48:49.22
The children of the
bride, the end game,
00:48:49.26\00:48:52.69
children of the bride,
keep the commandments of God,
00:48:52.73\00:48:57.20
holdfast their
testimony about Jesus.
00:48:57.23\00:49:01.50
I tell you what,
00:49:01.54\00:49:03.37
whatever you want to
say about the remnant,
00:49:03.41\00:49:05.77
and there are some conversations
00:49:05.81\00:49:07.88
that challenge the
veracity of that notion.
00:49:07.91\00:49:12.18
The fact of the matter is,
00:49:12.21\00:49:14.68
God loves the
children of the woman
00:49:14.72\00:49:17.55
at the end of time.
00:49:17.59\00:49:20.26
And it's no wonder,
it isn't rocket science,
00:49:20.29\00:49:23.73
why the dragon would
target that faith community
00:49:23.76\00:49:28.16
and say, destroy him,
00:49:28.20\00:49:29.76
do whatever it
takes, blot them out.
00:49:29.80\00:49:35.34
What's that line a moment ago?
00:49:35.37\00:49:38.11
We began with this,
put it back on the screen.
00:49:38.14\00:49:39.97
"One thing will
certainly be understood
00:49:40.01\00:49:43.21
from the study of Revelation
00:49:43.24\00:49:45.51
and that is,
00:49:45.55\00:49:46.88
that the connection
between God and His people,
00:49:46.92\00:49:50.02
Christ and His bride
is close and decided."
00:49:50.05\00:49:56.96
You know what some people say?
00:49:56.99\00:49:58.96
They say, hey,
listen, you know what?
00:49:58.99\00:50:00.33
This is my life philosophy.
00:50:00.36\00:50:02.30
I love Jesus.
00:50:02.33\00:50:05.17
I don't love His church.
00:50:05.20\00:50:07.40
Now, I'm a Jesus guy.
00:50:07.44\00:50:09.94
I only go for
Jesus, forget the church.
00:50:09.97\00:50:15.74
I really can't stand the
church to be honest with you,
00:50:15.78\00:50:18.38
but I love Jesus.
00:50:18.41\00:50:20.15
Can you imagine going
up to a husband and saying,
00:50:20.18\00:50:21.92
you know what,
I really love you,
00:50:21.95\00:50:23.65
but I can't stand your wife.
00:50:23.69\00:50:26.49
I mean, next.
00:50:26.52\00:50:33.09
Right?
00:50:33.13\00:50:34.56
You wouldn't say
that to your husband.
00:50:34.60\00:50:36.50
It's absolutely,
00:50:36.53\00:50:37.87
absolutely ludicrous for
people to tout the concept.
00:50:37.90\00:50:41.90
It really doesn't matter
what church you belong to,
00:50:41.94\00:50:44.01
as long as you love Jesus.
00:50:44.04\00:50:45.81
It matters a whole lot
00:50:45.84\00:50:47.61
because Christ and
the church are connected.
00:50:47.64\00:50:49.74
That's the one little
take home truth right now.
00:50:49.78\00:50:52.38
Christ and His
church are connected.
00:50:52.41\00:50:54.38
You can accept one, but
you can't reject the other.
00:50:54.42\00:50:56.89
If you accept the
one, you accept the other,
00:50:56.92\00:50:58.65
if you reject the
one, you reject them both.
00:50:58.69\00:51:01.62
It's impossible to
segregate that and say,
00:51:01.66\00:51:04.53
I only want Jesus, I
don't want the church.
00:51:04.56\00:51:07.96
They can't do it.
00:51:08.00\00:51:09.33
It's ludicrous.
00:51:09.36\00:51:12.10
He has poured everything.
00:51:12.13\00:51:13.57
Acts 20:28,
00:51:13.60\00:51:15.40
he bought the
church with His blood.
00:51:15.44\00:51:18.04
Do you understand that?
00:51:18.07\00:51:19.41
He bought the
church with His blood.
00:51:19.44\00:51:21.71
It's the one object on earth
00:51:21.74\00:51:23.78
upon which God
bestows His supreme regard.
00:51:23.81\00:51:26.58
This is what makes Him,
just sets Him to singing.
00:51:26.61\00:51:30.89
He says in Zephaniah,
I sing over you, girl.
00:51:30.92\00:51:34.16
He's talking about the church.
00:51:34.19\00:51:35.72
I sing over you, woman.
00:51:35.76\00:51:37.53
I know there are people
that are circling around
00:51:40.96\00:51:43.06
out on the fringes
of faith communities.
00:51:43.10\00:51:47.50
I wanna say something to
you if you're one of those.
00:51:47.54\00:51:50.61
The time has
come for you to come,
00:51:54.18\00:51:57.98
for you to return
to the heart and home,
00:51:58.01\00:52:02.45
the spiritual heart
and home of your birth.
00:52:02.48\00:52:07.36
It's time to come
back to the remnant.
00:52:07.39\00:52:10.63
I realized there
are people out there
00:52:10.66\00:52:11.99
that just kind
of drifting along.
00:52:12.03\00:52:15.06
They don't know it,
but they're drifting away.
00:52:15.10\00:52:19.10
I want to say to you,
00:52:19.13\00:52:22.00
it's time to come back
to your heart and home.
00:52:22.04\00:52:25.54
It's time to come
back to the remnant church.
00:52:25.57\00:52:29.34
I want to say to those of you
who are saying you know what,
00:52:29.38\00:52:31.45
maA ana, maA ana, maA ana, I
want to get serious, maA ana,
00:52:31.48\00:52:34.58
I'm gonna go deeper.
00:52:34.62\00:52:35.95
I want to tell you
something, my friend.
00:52:35.98\00:52:37.32
We are running
out of maA anas today.
00:52:37.35\00:52:39.35
We're out of them.
00:52:39.39\00:52:40.79
It's time to come back.
00:52:40.82\00:52:42.62
It's time to come
back to the remnant church.
00:52:42.66\00:52:47.80
Jesus loves you.
00:52:47.83\00:52:49.93
I love you.
00:52:49.96\00:52:51.67
We love you.
00:52:51.70\00:52:53.84
Why not?
00:52:53.87\00:52:55.20
You can't say you love Jesus
00:52:55.24\00:52:58.24
and disconnect from His bride.
00:52:58.27\00:53:04.15
One last line
00:53:04.18\00:53:05.51
from this
little American writer,
00:53:05.55\00:53:08.35
put it on the
screen. You see it there?
00:53:08.38\00:53:10.35
"God's love for his
church is infinite."
00:53:10.39\00:53:15.96
His love for you
00:53:15.99\00:53:17.99
because you're a
part of the bride,
00:53:18.03\00:53:19.89
His love for me because
I'm a part of the bride.
00:53:19.93\00:53:21.66
His love for us is infinite.
00:53:21.70\00:53:25.43
He gave His life
to save the church.
00:53:25.47\00:53:27.24
He will never lose the church.
00:53:27.27\00:53:28.77
He may lose me, He may lose you,
00:53:28.80\00:53:31.24
but He won't lose the church.
00:53:31.27\00:53:33.88
I've been fighting toe to toe
00:53:33.91\00:53:35.78
with his dragon
for millennia now,
00:53:35.81\00:53:37.65
and I'm not losing the church.
00:53:37.68\00:53:39.91
Not the children of the
woman at the end of time,
00:53:39.95\00:53:43.28
they're mine.
00:53:43.32\00:53:45.15
You belong to Jesus,
do you understand that?
00:53:45.19\00:53:47.89
You belong to Jesus right
now and He has a claim on you.
00:53:47.92\00:53:53.43
You can't just walk away
and say, easy come, easy go.
00:53:53.46\00:53:57.30
No, there are only two choices.
00:53:57.33\00:54:01.10
Two women,
00:54:01.14\00:54:03.67
two destinations, one choice.
00:54:03.71\00:54:08.81
Please choose Jesus
00:54:08.84\00:54:13.45
by choosing His bride.
00:54:13.48\00:54:18.19
Let's go to our connect cards.
00:54:18.22\00:54:19.82
Put a URL link on the screen
00:54:19.85\00:54:24.33
you see it there
pmchurch.org/connect.
00:54:24.36\00:54:28.33
Put that into
your phone right now.
00:54:28.36\00:54:32.43
And here's the Connect card.
00:54:32.47\00:54:34.44
Three next steps.
00:54:34.47\00:54:35.80
Next step number one,
00:54:35.84\00:54:37.17
I want to renew my commitment
to the bride of Christ.
00:54:37.21\00:54:39.54
Boy, if you've been
playing around on the edges,
00:54:39.57\00:54:42.81
I'm saying to you, my man,
00:54:42.84\00:54:44.18
I'm saying to you,
lady, come on, please,
00:54:44.21\00:54:47.75
reconnect.
00:54:47.78\00:54:50.99
I want to renew my commitment
to the bride of Christ.
00:54:51.02\00:54:54.26
Me too, by the way, check.
00:54:54.29\00:54:56.62
Box number two,
00:54:56.66\00:54:57.99
I would like to
join the church of Jesus,
00:54:58.03\00:54:59.36
please contact me.
00:54:59.39\00:55:02.30
You want to be a
part of that end game,
00:55:02.33\00:55:05.83
faith community
00:55:05.87\00:55:08.60
that Christ has poured
all His attention into now,
00:55:08.64\00:55:12.87
for the last chapter,
00:55:12.91\00:55:15.34
you can be a part of it.
00:55:15.38\00:55:16.71
Just put your email address
00:55:16.75\00:55:18.58
on the other
down below actually,
00:55:18.61\00:55:20.92
put your email address there,
00:55:20.95\00:55:22.28
we'll be in touch
with you electronically,
00:55:22.32\00:55:23.69
we'd like to do whatever we can.
00:55:23.72\00:55:26.96
This bride is taking
more children right now.
00:55:26.99\00:55:30.69
We had a bunch of
decisions by the way,
00:55:30.73\00:55:32.33
during the week of
prayer, there were young men,
00:55:32.36\00:55:34.53
there were young women saying,
I want to join the bride,
00:55:34.56\00:55:36.00
they didn't know
they were saying that
00:55:36.03\00:55:37.37
but that's what they're saying.
00:55:37.40\00:55:38.73
I want to join the bride.
00:55:38.77\00:55:40.10
I want to be
baptized into Christ.
00:55:40.14\00:55:42.70
I'm so proud of them,
you may be one of them,
00:55:42.74\00:55:44.34
I'm so proud of you.
00:55:44.37\00:55:45.71
There are thousands more
00:55:45.74\00:55:48.11
that need to be
reached for Jesus
00:55:48.14\00:55:49.78
and you are the strategic,
00:55:49.81\00:55:53.75
MO, modus operandi for
Jesus to reach the world.
00:55:53.78\00:55:58.12
Good for you.
00:55:58.15\00:55:59.49
And then box number three,
00:55:59.52\00:56:00.86
we've already talked about this.
00:56:00.89\00:56:02.22
You want to join a Grow Group,
text join to 269-281-2345,
00:56:02.26\00:56:06.90
that's easy to remember.
00:56:06.93\00:56:08.26
281-2345.
00:56:08.30\00:56:10.23
I want to pray
with you right now.
00:56:10.27\00:56:12.10
Oh God,
00:56:12.13\00:56:14.27
two women, two communities,
00:56:14.30\00:56:19.27
but only one of
the women is a bride.
00:56:19.31\00:56:22.51
It's your bride.
00:56:22.54\00:56:23.88
You died for that bride.
00:56:23.91\00:56:27.02
You love that
bride with infinite love.
00:56:27.05\00:56:31.79
Don't let us say no,
don't let us push away and say,
00:56:31.82\00:56:37.33
I'll go the other way.
00:56:37.36\00:56:39.29
There are only two choices.
00:56:39.33\00:56:42.06
We choose the bride
00:56:42.10\00:56:44.40
by the grace of the Lord Jesus
00:56:44.43\00:56:46.27
who loved us and
freed us from our sins,
00:56:46.30\00:56:50.31
we choose the bride.
00:56:50.34\00:56:53.34
Before you go,
00:56:58.38\00:56:59.71
let me take an extra
moment to share with you
00:56:59.75\00:57:01.08
an opportunity to
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00:57:01.12\00:57:02.45
in a fresh new way.
00:57:02.48\00:57:04.29
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00:57:04.32\00:57:05.65
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people are hearing the call
00:57:05.69\00:57:07.02
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00:57:07.06\00:57:09.42
If you felt drawn to
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00:57:09.46\00:57:11.56
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00:57:11.59\00:57:12.93
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00:57:25.51\00:57:27.28
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