"Be Ready" RESCUE RADIO with Marjorie Cole

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Rescue Radio, because there's a war for your soul.

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Yes, indeed, there is a war going on for our soul, and it's crazy out there.

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So, Father God, we thank you for peace. We thank you for wisdom.

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We thank you for protection.

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We thank you that our protection comes from you and your kingdom come.

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We know there's a clash of the kingdoms right now.

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There's a super pressure, a division, strife, stress, everything.

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It is cracking and breaking this world system.

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And we pray, Father, that you are our shelter, our strong tower.

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Our rock of refuge in this time of crisis and crazy.

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So, Lord Jesus, we thank you that you said you are that.

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You said you are the strong tower, the righteous run into it.

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So we're going to run into you, stay safe under your feathers until this commotion

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be overpassed or passed over.

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And we thank you, Jesus, for your faithfulness to keep all of us.

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We thank you for your goodness and your kindness that never changes.

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You are the same yesterday, today, and forever.

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And we thank you, Jesus, for dying on the cross. We thank you for doing that salvation for us.

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It's a real divine, it's a real thing. It happened. It's available. It's salvation.

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It's the way out of here. It's the way of escape.

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You are the way of escape. So we thank you, Lord God, for making that way of escape.

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We thank you for giving us eyes to see, ears to hear, and a heart to receive

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this revelation, this message, and that you'll calm our hearts down and that

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you'll cause us to know who we are, that we are yours, that we follow you,

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and that you give us courage, strength, and wisdom to do that.

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We also thank you for the divine protection that no weapon formed against us,

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no word said, deed done, or action taken within or without is able to be used

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by the enemy to destroy us or separate us from the love of God,

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which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

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So tuck us into the safety of the palm of your hand.

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We've been inscribed upon the palm of your hand in our families,

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all that pertains to us that we will stay in that place of gladness and joy

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and thanksgiving, Father, in Jesus' name. Amen.

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Well, today we're going to talk about this very interesting concept of being ready.

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Be ye ready, Jesus said in, I think it's, yeah, it's in Luke 12,

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verse 40. Yeah, go ahead and read it if you want.

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Yeah. Well, he says, therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming

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at an hour when you do not expect.

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Now, you think, well, yeah, this is common sense, but not really.

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It's not very common these days. But if you're preceding this statement,

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he's coming in an hour when you do not expect, he's talking before that about

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people who are practicing and trying to be rich and save themselves that way,

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and the people who are worried and spinning and trying to toil like the lilies.

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He's talking about these, be anxious for nothing, but in everything,

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by prayer and supplication, seek the first, the kingdom of God,

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and all these things will be added to you.

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He's kind of prefacing all that and summarizing it with this, be ye also ready.

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So the question becomes, the Lord is coming in an hour when you do not expect.

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And what are the things that are keeping us from expecting the Lord?

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What are the things that press us, the urgent things that surround us, that diminish?

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The admonition to be ready. I mean, be ready, ready for what?

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How do I get ready? How do I prepare?

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Well, a lot of, do you think of all the time that we spend in our lives,

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daily lives, getting ready for something?

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You know, sometimes we think, oh, I'm not ready. Hurry up, let's go.

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We've got to get there. Oh, I'm not ready.

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We spend so much time preparing. But Jesus didn't say, get ready.

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He said, be ready. Yeah, that's right. Be prepared.

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That's a constant, ongoing thing. But there are some things that you think about

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that would keep us from attending to that readiness.

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And the urgency of that admonition is being hidden or lost in.

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A couple of things I just want to list.

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Massive deception. Jesus said in the last days, Be not deceived,

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many will come in my name, saying I'm the Christ here, there, and everywhere.

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And not only coming saying I'm the Christ, but saying there is no Christ.

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There's much deception all over the place on what's the truth, who can we believe.

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And for everything that we believe, there's also some contrary story.

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So, contradictions, constant distractions as well.

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Distractions, urgencies, immediate things.

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There's the important versus the urgent.

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The important are set aside because of the urgent that are in our world, in our lives.

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And Jesus talked about being overwhelmed by the cares and the riches and pleasures of life.

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Just our daily stuff that is so overwhelming.

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And here's another thing, too. You mentioned about deception.

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I don't want to go off on a bad rabbit trail here or anything,

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but there are people that really God is working in their hearts.

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You can see it. But what the enemy is doing, he's coming to distract them and pull them away.

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He's bringing lies. He's bringing confusion in there. And so we need to pray for one another.

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I was just talking last night about some young men that.

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They've got a good start with the Lord. They're going and they're getting distraction.

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They're getting distracted by a girlfriend. They're getting distracted by some false teaching.

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They're getting distracted by just excuses or the enemies coming against them.

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Everyday things. Everyday things.

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But live in that state of readiness.

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Well, and we have to live in that state with all these everyday things piling

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in on us and keep trying to keep us from recognizing what's important.

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The way we stay anchored in the Lord and on the rock is to stay in the Word

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of God and walking in the Spirit.

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And then you will be ready whether the distractions are coming or not.

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But some of the other things that keep us in that place of desensitization,

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things that demand our time and our energy,

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we have only 24 hours in a day, obviously, and some people are so pressured

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to make money, enough money to stay in their house or whatever they're doing,

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and their goal becomes lost.

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Their real goal of raising a family or whatever all that might look like is

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lost in the urgency of trying to raise that family, for example.

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And then there's other distractions like failing health. We can be all consumed

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with our medical issues and going to doctors and doctor appointments and diagnoses

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and all of that is, It's a toss-up.

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Is this going to be good or not good? Is this going to help or not?

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Is this going to cost me too?

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All of these things. And then we have another set of problems,

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the sifting and the shaking of the nations, the foundations of every nation.

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Everything that can be shaken, God says, is going to be shaken.

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So this is part of our be ready. How can you get ready when your house is falling down around you?

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Then we have the crisis, the cares of life, like you said, Jerry.

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The need for food and clothing and shelter.

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Then we have the constant anxieties, people on meds, depression,

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anti-anxiety meds, broken relationships, endless complications.

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And then on top of all this, we have time absolutely speeding up.

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And then we just sit by the racetrack and say, I can't do this, I can't keep up.

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And so we flip to the other side. We say, okay, we're going to just eat, drink, and be merry.

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And many are marrying and giving in marriage, as Jesus said it would be in the days of Lot.

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And there's tons and tons of counterfeiting truth, you know, false teachers, AI.

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Things are so confused now that you can't even tell if the thing is done by

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a human or by a humanoid or a robot.

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You know, so all these forces are draining our energy.

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And it's like you're trying to keep all the plates spinning or you're picking

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up the pieces of all those plates that crashed.

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And all of this, all of this keeps us too busy to look up. Jesus said,

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look up for your redemption draws nigh.

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So keeping the focus on the sky, on Jesus coming back, is really what he's saying to do to be ready.

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Yeah, and it's interesting, too.

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I remember when I first came to know the Lord, I mean, I was looking up.

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I said, you know, the Bible says Jesus is going to come in the clouds.

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And I would look at the clouds, and I'd think, oh, look at that cloud.

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That's the one who's really bright. Maybe Jesus is coming.

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And you can say, well, that's really naive. But no, it really isn't.

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Well, you know, in the early days, the early church, they also thought that

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Jesus could come back at any time.

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They mentioned that in many of their epistles and things, but we see after 2,000

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years, he's still not here.

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And that kind of leads me to this point that how many times have people cried

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wolf, wolf in the coming of the Lord?

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And so many times, oh, he's going to come on this date, that date,

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he's going to come now. All the things are thought and fulfilled.

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And so calling wolf, wolf so many times has caused people to not even adhere

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to or hear or listen to that warning.

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And then, so when is, so there's just kind of like this fading.

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Fading remembrance or belief that Jesus had said he was coming back.

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Well, yeah, and does he, and how, how can Jesus come back?

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How can an angel preach the gospel from heaven?

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How can, how is this going to, how can the image of the beast start talking and breathing?

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I mean, we see now with our technology, it's not ours, it's a demonic technology.

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That Satan has set this up to keep and fulfill absolutely everything John saw

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in the book of Revelations, but,

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The seductions of all these things, including our technology,

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makes it difficult to be prepared or be excited about Jesus coming back.

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You mentioned all those of it cried wolf, wolf.

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I mean, there was, you know, a specific example was in 1988.

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There was a book that published that went around the world, 88 Reasons Why Jesus

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is Coming in 88, and Jesus didn't come in 88.

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Right, right. And then in 89, he wrote a book called 89 Reasons Why Jesus Didn't

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Come in 89 or 88 or something like that.

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Well, these prognosticators. Yeah. And the Bible says in the last days are we

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scoffers that will come.

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That's exactly right. And say, where is the promise of his coming?

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Well, this is part of the problem. Because everything is continuing on.

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Just as it was. Just as it was for years, centuries.

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Yeah. But that's not really true. scoffers are coming they're

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they're scoffers they're scoundrels they're foolish but

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they have a a huge voice in the

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places where we listen to things you know the media and all

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these things and so that so you can't if

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you're going to really keep your focus and be ready you have to pull yourself

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away from all of the chit chat and the instagrams and the and all the all the

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x and all these things that are trying to propagandize or indoctrinate or deceive or confuse.

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And so the scoffers, Peter said, the scoffers are going to, that's a sign.

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That is a sign of Jesus coming back is the scoffers that show up to tell you he's not coming back.

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And there's these constant sudden changes and turns of world events that like

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something can change in a day.

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One little event, one big event can change the course of nations in one day.

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But these things are eternally relevant to the coming of the Lord because Jesus

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told us in those last days that these things would happen.

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And we also have to get to the place where we really...

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Come against that spirit of, I don't really believe he's coming because he's

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never come before. I don't know what that looks like.

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What would a rapture look like? If there is a rapture, I don't know.

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I mean, all these questions that people are, you go back and read the Bible

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that the Holy Spirit, you know, kind of interpret it for you and stay focused on the word of God.

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Don't be trying to figure things out. Don't, that's a, that's a temptation.

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That's a trick. Don't try Try to figure it out. If you're walking in the Spirit,

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the Spirit of God will tell you, cause you to know things that there's no other way for you to know.

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Well, speaking of the Bible, here it is, Matthew 24, beginning with verse 36.

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But of that day and that hour, no one knows.

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Not even the angels of heaven, but my Father only. But as the days of Noah were,

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so also will the coming of the Son of Man be.

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For as in the days before the flood they were eating and drinking,

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marrying and giving in marriage.

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It means going in and out of marriage.

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Until the day that Noah entered the ark and did not know until the flood came

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and took them all away, so also will be the coming of the Son of Man. Yeah.

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So it's everyday, ordinary days, things just as usual. People just,

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yeah, we're marrying, eating, drinking.

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Nothing unusual, nothing. It doesn't sound like a big crisis or anything like

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that, even though Jesus said there would be famines and earthquakes.

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We've got famines in a lot of places. We don't hear much about it, really.

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And we've got earthquakes all over the place in unusual places,

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floods. I don't think I've ever seen so many floods as we've had even in the

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United States this year, but...

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He says then, verse 40 of Matthew 24, then two men will be in the field,

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one will be taken and the other left, two women will be grinding at the mill,

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one will be taken and the other left.

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Watch, therefore. Watch. That's part of being ready.

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Be alert. Watch and pray. Watch, therefore, for you do not know what hour your

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Lord has come. In other words, you've got to be doing consistently the right thing at all times.

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And he talks about that again in Luke where he's talking about the faithful

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servant where he says, who is then that wise and faithful servant whom his master

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will make ruler over his household to give them their portion of food in due season?

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Blessed is the servant whom his master will find so doing when he comes.

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So in other words, you're going to be about your business faithfully,

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attending to the Lord's work in your life.

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You're going to be faithful whether he's coming today or not because you're

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going to occupy until he comes. You're going to stay faithful.

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Then he says, truly, I say to you that he will make him ruler over all he has.

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But if that servant says in his heart, here we go, my master is delaying his

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coming and begins to beat the servants and the maidservants and eat and drink

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and be drunken. Now, what's he saying there?

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Beating the maidservants, ripping people off, being unkind, you know,

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trampling on other people to get what you need.

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Well, that was characteristics of the days of Noah. The Bible says the earth

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was filled with violence, and men's thoughts were only evil continually.

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The minds were defiled, violence was the rule. Eating and drinking, being drunk.

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And so if you turn away from being faithful, in other words,

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what he's saying here is God is looking for faithful servants.

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And then he says, you know, those men and women that are getting drunk and, you know,

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taking a break, the master of that servant, when he comes on that day when he's

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not looking for him, and an hour when he is not aware, and will cut him,

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and too appoint him his portion with the unbelievers.

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And even he goes on to say, and the servant who knew his master's will,

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and did not prepare himself, or be prepared, or do according to his will,

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shall be beaten with many stripes.

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But he who did not know yet committed things worthy of stripes." Now,

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there's just going to be a group of people, too, who didn't know that much,

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and they should have been beaten, "...shall be beaten with few stripes." Why?

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Because for everyone to whom much is given of him, much will be required.

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So the more you understand about this, the more you know about this,

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the more you are aware of what God says, the more it's going to be required

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of you, the higher the expectations. The degree of accountability. Yeah.

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And then he says, Jesus says in verse 49, that he is looking for disciples.

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He says, we talk about the cost of discipleship. What is it he who seeks to

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save his life will lose it.

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He who loses his life for my sake will keep it. So ultimately.

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He's clearly saying, Jesus is saying, if you deny me to save your life,

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to keep your life, to keep it for yourself, you will lose it.

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How many people say, I'm losing it? Yes, but the key is to lose your life for

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the gospel's sake so you can keep it.

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How many people are chased around, driven around with all kinds of fears and

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ways to save their life, protect their life, do it themselves,

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and they don't ever stop and turn to the Lord?

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But then Jesus says, but what is the advantage if a man gains the whole world?

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And he himself is destroyed. We have a lot of people like that.

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What is the cost? What is the price you take on your soul? What are you worth?

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Satan is willing to pay that price to steal your soul.

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He will offer you, like he did Jesus in the temptation, the whole world if you

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just bow down to me. And that's the same temptation.

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How many people are elevated to heights of notoriety and popularity and financial

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million billionaires because they have sold their souls?

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They have permitted, they have accepted the deal, and they have bowed down to

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Satan, and they look like they're super blessed, but they're super lost.

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And is it worth it? What is it? If you gain the whole world and lose your— What's

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your soul worth? Yeah. What is that?

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And even, you know, for those of you who are being beaten up and hard-pressed

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and attacked and ripped off and resisted and, you know, pounded by the devil,

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you say, well, how is that following God?

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Well, if you're suffering for righteousness' sake, it's good.

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It's all counted for good.

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And, you know, the thing is, but sometimes we have to realize,

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too, that we're being pounded by the devil because we don't know our rights.

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We don't stand up and say, no, you won't. That's enough. You won't say to the

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devil, you have no right.

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You're trespassing in the temple of property of the Most High God.

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Get out of me. So there's two things here.

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We're suffering for righteousness' sake, persecuted for righteousness' sake,

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but we're not trying to be martyrs.

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We might be martyred, and that's okay if God says that's what he has for us.

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But I'm not looking to feel sorry for myself and be a martyr.

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I am standing, and having done all, I will stand and declare the will and work

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of the Lord in and through my life. but I can only be accountable for my life.

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I mean, yes, I have many people that I can help and encourage and tell the truth

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to and pray for and even give them a cup of cold water and all kinds of things. But ultimately...

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The one you're going to have to give an account for and be prepared to give that account is you.

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You're going to have to stand before the Lord God, and He will know already.

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He doesn't even have to examine you. He doesn't even have to interrogate you.

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You don't have to present your case in that way because the Holy Spirit and

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Jesus Christ, the faithful witness, already know everything has all been recorded.

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But you can change right now.

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You don't have to be sitting on the wrong side of the street.

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You can get up. You can stay. my life is worth me living it.

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My life is actually worth me giving it, giving it back to God,

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letting God have his way.

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Because, you know, again, that's how we be prepared. We be prepared by being sober-minded.

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He says in 1 Thessalonians, be watchful.

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He says, you don't know the time or the hour.

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But he says in Thessalonians 1,

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chapter 5, you can know the year and the season, the time and the season.

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So, there is a point where watching is important because we're watching the

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days, we're watching the times, we're watching the years, we're watching what

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God is saying in those admonitions. Let me read those.

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1 Thessalonians 5, verse 1. But concerning the times and the seasons,

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brethren, you have no need that I should write to you.

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In other words, you should be able to observe what's going on.

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It's pretty evident. For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord

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so comes as a thief in the night.

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For when they say peace and safety, then sudden destruction comes upon them

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as labor pains upon a pregnant woman, and they shall not escape.

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Worth is placed now in our world situation. Where we're craving peace.

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They're talking peace and safety.

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Well, we're craving it because everything is so out of control,

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and anybody could push the button and everybody would be blown up in a minute.

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But, you know, it's not going to end the way we think it's going to end.

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It's going to end the way God says it's going to end. The way God says it's going to end, yeah.

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And he says, brethren, verse 4, But you, brethren, are not in darkness,

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that this day should overtake you as a thief.

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You are all sons of light and sons of the day. We are not of the night nor of

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the darkness. So don't freak out. Don't be afraid.

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Don't act like you don't know what's going on, because you do know what's going

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on. If you don't know what's going on, it's because you haven't been listening

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to the Lord and the Holy Spirit.

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You're not going to walk in darkness and walk in light at the same time.

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Jesus Christ is the light. So he's saying, walk in that light,

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and this day will not be a day of dread or a day of terror.

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It will be a day of great joy and reward.

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When Jesus comes back, all of the things we've cried out for,

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the injustices that have gone unchallenged.

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The pain, all of the incredible tragedies in the world, all of the tears,

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all of the struggles from every source and every person,

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all these things on that day will be dealt with. They'll be resolved.

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You know, some of them are being resolved now, but on that day,

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and you don't want that day to overtake you as a day of judgment and destruction

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and as a thief in the night. So, you know, many of us, we sleep at night.

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We don't pay attention to what's going on. We don't have Some have alarms, but some don't.

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But we don't want to be sleeping in the light. We want to be awake and aware.

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1 Thessalonians 5, verse 6, Therefore let us not sleep as others do,

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but let us watch and be sober.

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For those who sleep, sleep at night. Those who get drunk are drunk at night for the most part.

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And let's just stop there for a second. So many people have been sleeping.

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They have been drunk. They have made really bad decisions. They've done stuff

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in their lives that just is like almost irreparable.

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The thing is that they've gone too far. They're beyond redemption.

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But that is not true. That's a lie. There's nothing you have done that pushes

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you beyond redemption until you die.

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Once you die, then your days and choices or options are done.

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But whatever you did, and for the most part, whatever the most heinous things

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people have done have been unparalleled.

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All of them, not some of them, all of them have been under the orchestration of the evil one.

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The spirits of death, murder, violence, all these things.

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And we see so many heinous things being done by what we think and perceive to

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be human beings in their hatred for one another. It's just, it's off the charts.

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But even if you've been there, we have heard many, many stories,

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and you know them as well, even Paul the Apostle, how people were absolutely

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vile haters of he, for example, of the Christians.

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And he became a great, not only lover of the Christians, but also a great teacher

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through the revelations God gave him.

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So no one is beyond hope and help.

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And so don't give up. Keep your prayers going. God is the God of the impossible.

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And so you're not beyond help.

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It's not too late for you to be prepared. You still have a breath in your mouth.

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And you know, some people, they use their last breath on their deathbed to choose

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Jesus, which is sad and great at the same time.

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It's very great because God's been super, super patient with you.

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But it's also sad because you lost all of your opportunities to live for God

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during your lifetime and made a zillion people miserable because of your rejection of God.

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It's like you ate the apple and you gave God the core.

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Well, something like that, yeah. Well, it's better to be saved then than not saved at all.

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But still, it's like, what a waste, what a tragedy.

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Here he says in 1 Thessalonians 5.8, But let us who are of the day be sober,

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putting on the breastplate of faith and love, and as a helmet the hope of salvation.

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For God did not appoint us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord

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Jesus Christ, who died for us, that whether we wake or sleep,

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we should live together with him.

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Therefore, comfort each other and edify one another, just as you are also doing.

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This is part of our being ready. It's comforting, encouraging one another. What did Jesus say to do?

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Occupy. King James says, till I come. That means do business.

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And our business is to love the Lord our God with all our heart,

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mind, soul, and strength, and our neighbor as ourself, and to go into all the

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world and make disciples of all nations.

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Yeah, and at the end of chapter 5, 1 Thessalonians, He gives us a list,

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for those of you list lovers out there, a list of things to do.

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Well, that's a good list. Yeah.

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Verse 16, Rejoice always.

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17, pray without ceasing. 18, in everything give thanks, for this is the will

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of God in Christ Jesus concerning you.

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19, do not quench the spirit. 20, do not despise prophecies.

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21, test all things, hold fast that which is good.

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22, abstain from every form of evil.

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There's a list of those who are ready. Yeah, this is how we stay ready.

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This is how we stay ready. And then verse 23, but now may the God of peace himself

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sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit, soul, and body be preserved

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blameless at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.

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He who calls you is faithful who also will do it. This is a very important attachment

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to the end. He who calls you is faithful.

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God is faithful to keep us. He's the one who called us. We responded to the

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call, and now we are committed to him. and he's also committed to keep us in

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our response to him, to follow him, to be his children, disciples, and be prepared.

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So the Holy Spirit is the one who's preparing us. So you don't have to fret.

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You just continue to go forward rejoicing, giving thanks, testing the spirits,

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despising that prophecies.

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But on the other hand, don't trust every prophecy out there because not every

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prophet is prophesying under the Spirit of God because of the confusion.

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So stay in the place of peace between you and God God, peace in your soul.

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By the way, Marjorie, I can tell you exactly when Jesus is coming. Yeah? When is that?

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Matthew 24, 44, Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at

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an hour you do not expect.

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Well, that could be right now, because I think a lot of us don't expect him to come right now.

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Don't expect him to come. Yeah, well, people say— That's when he's going to

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come. That's why you're prepared.

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You know, if your house is clean all the time, you don't have to freak out when

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all of a sudden your aunt and uncle George, who are very picky,

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are going to be showing up at your— You find out in 10 minutes they're going to be here.

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If your house is already clean and neat and in order and everything,

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you don't have to sweat because you're ready.

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Well, if you're doing what the Lord is counseling you, causing you to do.

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If you're being obedient to the Spirit of God, walking in that place of peace

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and thanksgiving, walking in that place of faith and expecting,

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then remembering also that God is faithful, too. You're not doing this all by yourself.

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God is there. He's faithful to keep you, to keep and complete the work.

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He will also do it. He's the one who knows.

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He's the only one who can keep us in this mess. He was the only one who could save us.

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He's the only one who can keep us. We're not going to tempt God by trying to

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live on the edge of His forgiveness.

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We're going to live in the center of God's will and be at peace and not try

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to see how much we can get by with.

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You know, I don't need to live on the edge of the cliff. That's not a safe place,

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and it's not a place of comfort.

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So we're going to live in the center of God's will, which means we love God.

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We let God love us. And in that love He has for us, we love one another.

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Father, we anticipate your return.

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We anticipate the return of Jesus Christ. However it's going to work out,

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Lord, all the speculations that we've endured for all these centuries,

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Lord, we know you're coming for your people.

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We know you're coming for your people, and you're coming with your people to

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rule and reign on this earth for a thousand years, and then there's going to be an eternal kingdom.

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And we shall reign, he shall reign forever and ever and ever,

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and we're going to rule and reign with you.

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That is a mind-blowing idea for us, Lord, but it's the truth.

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And so we live in that hope. In the meantime, in this mean time, we are being faithful.

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We're going to worship you. We're worshiping you. We're serving you.

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We're loving one another.

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We're sharing the good news of Jesus with everybody we can, any way we can while we can.

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Yes, Father. So we thank you, Father, for this promise that your word,

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everything is going to work out according to what your word has determined, Lord.

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And no matter what, how human beings and politicians get into all kinds of freaky

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ideas and things and plans, it's going to happen your way. Thank you,

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Lord, for your faithfulness.

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Complete the work that you have begun in us.

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In Jesus' name, amen. Amen, amen.

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Tell us about your book, Marjorie, Spiritual Warfare and How Deliverance Can Change Your Life.

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Wow, this is, I mean, are we all in need of deliverance?

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Is that just for a certain extreme

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group of people? If Paul was in need of deliverance, I'm sure we are too.

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He says, O wretched man that I am, who will deliver me from this body of death?

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He says that after he recognizes that, he says, if I'm doing the things I do

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not want to do, it's not me doing them. It is the sin that dwells within me.

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So he's recognizing this entity he calls sin that was operating inside of him,

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causing him to be deceived and do things he didn't want to do.

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And then he calls out, O wretched man, who will deliver me?

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So deliverance is getting out that body of lies. It's getting the rats out of our house.

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It's tearing down the strongholds. It's closing the rat holes.

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But people don't understand the rules. There's rules to this war, the spiritual war.

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And so spiritual warfare, we all talk about, it's kind of a buzzword now,

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but we don't realize how deep and how insidious and how complicated and clever

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that war can be within and without.

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So what I have done in spiritual warfare and how deliverance can change your

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life is giving a little, I don't know, I think it's a simple overview of what's going on.

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Some people say it's very, you know,

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detailed, and it is, but there's so much more.

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I could write probably 10 more volumes on it, but you know, right now,

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Spiritual Warfare on How Deliverance Can Change Your Life pretty much tells you what's in the book.

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So it's Amazon. Yeah, Amazon's the best place to get it right now,

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and I would say, you know,

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read it and then share the concepts with the people you love,

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because the people you love are struggling in this war, too,

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and they don't know up from down sometimes, and they just need, you know,

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throw them a rope, throw them a broken board or something to float through to

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get to the island, whatever they're needing to do.

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So help those around you by reading the book and giving out the truth to them as well.

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God bless you, and thank you for joining us today.