"End Times Deception" Rescue Radio with Marjorie Cole
Join us in celebrating the 500th episode of Rescue Radio as we continue to assess the need for discernment in the end times.
This episode emphasizes the warning Jesus gave us about the power of the Enemy to deceive the people living in the end days.
The one thing Jesus told us how we could know His real followers from the deceived was by the Love they had for one another.
God's love will manifest the truth, including the discernment He has given us to stand strong against deception. The love of God is the only thing that can never be counterfeited by the enemy.
It is the true love and unity amongst believers that will serve as a beacon of light in the world's increasing darkness in the last days.
The bottom line in not being decieved and to discern truth amidst false prophets and deceptive leaders, is to identify true followers of Christ by their genuine love and character.
We thank our listeners for their continued support over the years and urge them to share this vital conversation about standing firm in faith, helping one another, and living in the light of God's eternal truth.
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"Because There Is A War For Your Soul"
00:28 - Introduction to Rescue Radio
01:53 - Celebrating 500 Episodes
03:23 - The Deception of the Last Days
04:14 - Identifying False Prophets
05:17 - The Nature of True Love
06:13 - The Coldness of Many Hearts
10:27 - Indicators of Genuine Followers
13:42 - Jesus’ Healing Mission
14:44 - The Call to Engagement
17:11 - True Fasting and Compassion
19:16 - The Heart of Love
22:34 - Seeing People as Jesus Does
24:29 - The Rise of the Antichrist
26:51 - The Power of True Love
31:21 - The Apostle of Love
33:16 - Conclusion: Love as Our Foundation
0:00 Music. Rescue Radio, because there's a war for your soul. Yes, indeed, Father God, the war goes on. Yet you have already won that war, and we thank you for the revelation of your love and truth, your favor, your blessing, your authority that you have given us as your believers. Thy kingdom come, thy will be done in and through us.
0:42 We thank you, Father, for Jesus Christ, your Son, who was sent, who was willing to come to die for us to purchase our salvation. Thank you, Jesus, for ascending to the right hand of the Father, for sending the Holy Spirit, for giving us power and authority over all of the powers of the enemy, Father God. And I thank you, Jesus, that we do take that authority now to bind the powers of the prince of the power of the air. Anything else that would try to interfere with this communication. With your word going forth through our lives, we thank you, Father, for the power to bind and loosen, forgive and walk in victory, to walk in the power of your Spirit. We thank you for that. We thank you for wisdom and counsel. We thank you for the revelation of Jesus Christ, which sets us free.
1:23 You said you shall know the truth, and the truth will set you free. Thank you for binding as we bind, as you've promised, that no weapon formed against us will prosper. No word said, deed done, action taken. We bind all the words and curses and incantations and sorcery and enchantments of witchcraft and the powers of darkness, and we declare that we are more than conquerors through Jesus Christ and His truth that surrounds us, that follows us, that keeps us. And thank you, Lord, now for giving us eyes to see, ears to hear, and a heart to receive the revelation of this love, this truth, your power, your freedom. Father God, in Jesus' name, amen. Hey, guess what it is, Jerry? Well, we're making the announcement to the world that this is the 500th edition of Rescue Radio. Can you believe it?
2:09 Where did all that time go? Well, yeah, and we thought we've beenâ This is number 500. Think of it. Yeah. I think we've been on the air for how many years now? 11, maybe? Something like that. It felt like five. I don't know. you know time goes so fast when you're having fun they say but yeah but you know the the key to all of this is getting out the word and we just want you to celebrate with us thank you for those of you who have joined us all these years and are adding to our numbers for being prayerful for helping us for getting the word out for prep yeah just just everything you've done to help us yeah and there are people that initially, Helped us financially to get this launched and stuck with us for years.
2:51 And I'm not going to mention names, but you know who you are. Yeah, thanks. And thank you so much for, thanks for listening. Yeah. You know, we never, actually never introduce ourselves on Rescue Radio either. So people don't know maybe who we are, who, well, we're connected with, but we are, we're Life Recovery, True Light Church. And I'm Margie and you're Jerry, right? Are you still Jerry? Yeah, we're husband and wife. Yeah, we've been at this for many years. But we just want to thank you again for joining us, and please pass the word. So today we're going to talk about, you know, the other day I was thinking, and as we see we're going into more and more of the deception, the end times, and where's your location, the blast, the emergencies, the crises, the anxiety, the freakouts.
3:37 The culmination of events is going to create such chaos and such confusion and such deception that it's going to be in the last days, there's one critical issue, and that is who's telling the truth? How do we discern who's telling the truth and who's not? And Jesus said it in Matthew, he says in the last days, be not deceived. Many will come, many, many will come in my name, saying I'm the Christ. And he said, basically, don't go after them. So the question we're going to talk about today is how do we keep from being deceived in the last days, since there are false prophets, false teachers, Antichrist spirits. Angels of light, all floating around. So that's what we're going to talk about today.
4:19 Yeah, there's a lot of people have a lot of charisma, which means that they're flashy, they look good, sound good, flow good, it seems, and have a lot of popularity. But what is really the bottom line is character, who we really are in Christ. And And also, not only in character, but with that character, it's the people that are characterized by love, the love of God. And of course, there's so many weird ideas about love. You know, I love you, I'm infatuated with you, I lust after you, and it's not love.
4:59 But we're going to look today at what the Bible says as love and how love is a true indicator. The love of God is a true indicator of who's for real and who's a deceiver. Well, you know, it's one thing. It's interesting. Satan can counterfeit everything. He has a counterfeit for every genuine thing God has. Satan has a lookalike counterfeit. But the only thing that he really cannot counterfeit is love. Real love. Real love. He can make it look like, as you said, lust, infatuation, all of these kinds of things. And he does that. He really does that. He really deceives people through their feelings and their emotions and their needs. But the truth is, Jesus said it very simply. And I was just wondering, how are we going to tell, like I said, how are we going to tell who's really the genuine people, the ones that are safe to follow in the last days since.
5:49 In Matthew, he says, can I just read this real quick? 24, 10 and 11, and many will be offended in those days and will betray one another, and they will hate one another. Then many false prophets, false prophets will rise up and deceive many. And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will grow cold, but he who endures to the end will be saved. So the lawlessness, the hypocrisy, the injustice, the offenses, the betrayal, the treachery is going to cause many to just withdraw. They're not even going to want to be out there and they're just going to sit in their little hole or whatever they're at and just hang out till the end.
6:31 But many will be upset, betrayed, and so the love of many will grow cold. Except the good thing about the love of many growing cold is that the true lovers of Jesus Christ, their love will become more apparent. Just like in the darkness, a little light becomes more bright, the greater the darkness. That's true. In the old King James Version, in Matthew 24, verse 12, it says, The love of many will wax cold. We're not talking about wax like paraffin wax or anything like that, or car wax. But we're talking, it means grow cold. And the way, the original language there means, it's like if you have a soup, Say you have a bowl of soup and you have a spoon and you blow on the soup.
7:19 You blow on the soup that's in your spoon until it gets cold, cools off. So it's kind of a gradual thing. And I really believe that it's the influence of this world. Absolutely. The sin, the iniquity, the walledness, the enemy just like blows on us just to gradually cool us off. The wind of fatigue, depression, exhaustion, anxiety, all these winds of confusion. Keep blowing at us. But in 1 Timothy 4, verse 1, Paul is saying to Timothy, Now, the Spirit expressly says that in the latter times, some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving spirits and doctrines of demons, speaking lies and hypocrisy, having their own consciences seared with a hot iron.
8:05 In other words, what they're doing, they don't even care. There's just a hardness, there's a callousness, a loss of any kind of conscience. Towards what they're doing. And Peter says the same thing in 2 Peter 2, verse 1. These guys are warning us of things that they saw prophetically. But verse 1 in 2.1, 2 Peter 2, verse 1, But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Lord who bought them, and bring on themselves swift destruction.
8:46 And many will follow their destructive ways, because of whom the way of the truth will be blasphemed. So by covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words. And for a long time their judgment has been idle and their destructions did not slumber. In other words, they got by with this for a long time, but he's saying, many, you're going to know two things. Their fruit, they'll be destructive, hypocritical, they're going to blaspheme the truth. So by their fruits you shall know them and also the fact that many will follow them. So the fact that many, many is not a few, many will be pulled off into the deception and follow them. So there's another telltale sign of deception.
9:31 The big crowds, the big hordes of people, you know, the big glamorous whatever, you know, I don't even know what you call them. Performances, maybe. There will be many, but that's not, does that look like the book of Acts? Does that look like Jesus and his disciples laying down their lives for one another? No, it really doesn't. So, again, there are red flags that will appear, and if you're willing, the Holy Spirit will alert you to them. And if you're willing to take the warning, you'll be able to see that in the last days, there's going to be tons of deception and confusion, and anger and bitterness and hatred and offense because the true gospel of Jesus Christ is being, the enemy's trying to snuff it out.
10:16 Jesus presented the true indicator of who the followers of Jesus are. I mean, so many claim to be followers of Jesus. But the true indicator, he says, by their fruits, you shall know them. And then he said in John 13, 35, 34 and 35, a new commandment I give to you that you love one another as I have loved you, that you also love one another. Okay? As I have loved you. How did Jesus love us? He loved us with a cross. He loved us with, you know, having loved his own who were in the world, he loved them until the end. And he still loves us.
10:57 He says, by this, all will know that you are my disciples if you have love for one another. So this is the indicator. The indicator of true followers of Jesus is that love. We're marked by love. And it's not lip service. Jesus says, many honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. And so we have to realize that there's a lot of, you know, verbiage out there. Satan likes to use the words that are important to us, like justice and truth and love. And so he perverts the words and uses them in a deceptive way to get us to believe that who we're listening to are genuine. But then again, here's the other side of that coin.
11:40 In the last days which we're in, Jesus said he's going to bring to light all the hidden works of darkness. So the more the pressure gets put on the church, the remnant, the followers of Jesus Christ, the world, the more the pressure gets put on us. It's like the heat is being turned up, and the dross is coming to the surface in this refining pot. And so the more the heat goes up, the more the true people, followers of Jesus Christ, are going to be revealed because Satan tries to make everything look like good, wonderful, lovely, you know, but, and all, you know, just wonderful, but it's not all wonderful.
12:24 There's a lot of hurt and pain and truth and people suffering. And what are we doing with and for those people? And how do we treat one another in the crises that Satan puts us through in our relationships? Do we love? Do we forgive? I think forgiveness is a big part of loving one another. And that's part of how we can tell the true followers of Jesus Christ, because you're going to need to know, if you hang around, if we're going to be here at the end, there's going to be all kinds of ways that the devil's going to try to pull us away, divide us, use us against one another to betray one another. And so we're really going to have to do what Jesus did, and that is lay down your life for one another. Truly, the love of God is in action.
13:04 Excuse me. Right, Marjorie. Another thing is that we tend to withdraw because if we're going to show love, people are in such messed up conditions these days. That Jesus, there were so many, if you read about Jesus and his situation, it's very similar to the situation that we face as believers today. Matthew chapter 4, verses 23 and 24. And Jesus went about all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the gospel of the kingdom, and healing all kinds of sickness and all kinds of disease among the people. So this is power. And this is what Jesus told his disciples to do, continue in this.
13:50 And then his fame went throughout all Syria, okay, and they brought to him all sick, all sick people who were afflicted with various diseases and torments, and those who were demon-possessed, epileptics, paralytics, and he healed them. So, this is getting to be the rank and file of people these days, even though they might look so good on the outside, but people are, you know, sick, afflicted, diseases, torments, demonizing, in so many ways, epileptics, paralytics, and he brought healing to them. So, the temptation is this. One of the temptations for the believers, for us, is this.
14:30 This is all too messy, and we don't know how to address this with authority and power. So we tend to what? Withdraw. And we'll just do our little thing and our little life. And wait in our sweet little safe place until Jesus comes. Yeah, stay safe and uninvolved. This is not what he said to do. Right. And so we're called to go into this like it says in Isaiah 58. Well, yeah, we'll get to that. Well, let's do Isaiah 58. So they were fasting and they were being all caught up with religious, yeah. And they were upset with God because God was not honoring their fasting. In 58 verse, tell my people their transgression, end of verse 1, and the house of Jacob their sin.
15:17 Yet they speak of me daily, delighting to know my ways as a nation that did righteousness and did not forsake the ordinances of their God. They ask me the ordinances of justice. They take delight in approaching God. Why have we fasted, they say, and you have not heard? Why have we afflicted our souls and you've taken no notice? So they're saying, we've done all these hard things. We fasted, we've afflicted ourselves. All these religious things. We've punished ourselves. And why aren't you paying any attention? I mean, this is a religious manipulation of God. Okay, so I'm going to fast my eyes out and I'm going to die to make sure that God does what I want him to do.
15:58 Trying to arm wrestle God with fasting. Manipulating God with your religious practices. So another thing he says there in the last part of verse 3, in fact, in the day of your fast you find pleasure and you exploit all your laborers. In other words, you're doing all this religious stuff, but practically day to day you're exploiting the people that work for you taking advantage of them not paying them you know you fast for strife and debate you come into well I fasted 40 days well I only fasted 21 days I mean, He says, you're trying to make your voice to be heard on high, but your day-to-day lifestyle is just wicked.
16:38 And then verse 5, yeah, go ahead. Yeah, and then verse 5, he said, Is this a fast that I have chosen, a day for a man to afflict his soul, to bow down his head like a bulrush, to spread out sackcloth and ashes? Would you call this a fast acceptable to the Lord? Well, I'm fasting. Oh, I can't eat a hamburger today because I'm fasting, you know, for the Lord. We're not criticizing fasting, but what we're saying is these people were doing it for the wrong reasons. For the wrong reasons. They were trying to manipulate to get God to do what they wanted to do. And then God says in verse 6, is this not the fast that I've chosen? Here we go, going back to love one another. The real fast. To lose the bonds of wickedness, to undo heavy burdens, to let the oppressed go free, and that you break every yoke.
17:21 Is it not to share your bread with the hungry and that you bring to your house the poor who have been cast out? Plenty of those these days homeless people street people living on the streets everywhere when you see the naked that you cover them and not hide yourself from your own flesh then your light will break forth as the morning and your healing shall spring forth speedily and your righteousness will go before you the glory of the lord will be your rear guard then you shall call and the lord will answer you will cry and he will hear you say here am i so we you know. So God wants to transform us, internally transform us, so that we're not just doing things that look good and holy, but we're actually being holy.
18:06 We're actually letting the Holy Spirit work and move in and live his life through us to do those things that are pleasing to God. And there's plenty out there to do. But ultimately, you've got to stop looking at what it looks like. Nothing is as it appears, Jesus said. Don't make your judgments based on appearances. Says, make your judgments based on fruit. And not all fruit looks, I mean, look at Jesus. I mean, perfect in every way, following God, totally in the will of the Father, every day, every minute, every hour. And yet what happened to him? He was slandered, slimed, attacked, accused, scoffed at. And so you can't really judge the true matter until you know the heart.
18:48 And Jesus said, what the heart is full of the mouth speaks. But at the same time, if you and I are following Jesus, we may also, you know, there may be accusations and judgments and witchcraft and attacks and all kinds of things thrown against us to criticize, to question our intentions. But the thing is, you need to know who you are. And whether they slander you, slime you, or praise you, it doesn't matter. What matters is that you do the will of God and know that you are loved and then love. Because if you don't know you're loved, the Bible says the commandment is love the Lord your God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength, and your neighbor as yourself. You cannot love your neighbor if you don't love yourself. And loving yourself means to understand the purposes and the passion and the compassion of God and his heart in making us and even in allowing us to be brought forth through trials and tribulations in this snake pit.
19:40 This is a refining pot. This is where silver is refined. Gold is brought forth. So your faith may be as precious gold. This is not a cruise ship. This is a destroyer that we're living on as we float through the seas of life. In 1 Corinthians 13, we hear a lot about this, but do we really hear it? He said, beginning with verse 4, love suffers long and is kind. In other words, is very patient, right? Kindness. Okay, these are all attributes of love. You know, he talks about what love is and what love isn't. Right. Love does not envy.
20:23 Love does not parade itself. Look, stop, go back for a minute to the first part there. It says, though I speak with the tongue of men and angels and become a sounding brass, I can be a big name preacher somewhere. And you have the gift of prophecy and understand mysteries and knowledge and have faith so that I could even remove mountains. But I can do this all without love. And if I have not love, it doesn't count. Though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor and give my body even to be burned. But I have not love. You can do all these outward things without. without having love. So love actually, you know, isn't what we think it is. We think that love is a feeling and love is infatuation and I'm in love and oh, lovely, lovely, everything is wonderful.
21:05 But love actually is a place of suffering. Love believes all things, is kind. Love does not envy. Love does not parade itself or puff itself up or act arrogant, does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, puts other people first, is not provoked, thinks no evil. I'm not putting other people first because I want to people please them. I'm putting them where they belong. Seeing the goodness of God, that we are creatures carrying the image of God, gives me a love and a compassion for every one of God's people that is deeper than behavior or what they do or don't do. It's because God loves them.
21:47 I love them because God loves me. I love him. The love sees the best in people, sees the destiny, sees the pain in people's lives and stands up and says, okay, send me, Lord God. What do you want me to do? I mean, we're doing out of being here, not doing to be. Does that make sense? Yeah, exactly. And what you mentioned is so powerful about the Lord opening our eyes, giving us a revelation of the love that he has for us. And for them. Be able to see people more and more as Jesus sees them. He saw them in Matthew 9, 35 through 38. It talks about Jesus saw the multitudes.
22:28 They were scattered. They were scattered. They were messed up. They were like sheep without a shepherd. They were suffering. And he was just moved with compassion. Just his guts were just stirred with love for them because they were lost like sheep without a shepherd. And he said... So he saw them that way. That's how he sees them. We see people so often just by outward appearance. You know, we see people and we make an automatic judgment about who they are by the way they look or the job they have. Or how they treated us. How they treated us. And we go, well, let's go beyond that. How many of us have done that where we look at somebody and we think, oh my, oh, they're like this and they're like that.
23:13 Then we really get to know them and find out our whole, We had a great misconception about their true nature. We prejudged them without giving them a chance. And this is now. Wait till it gets really messy. Wait till Daniel, the chapters in Daniel where he says that in the Antichrist in verse chapter 8, in the latter 23, and in the latter times of their kingdom, when the transgressors have reached their fullness. We're on our way. The transgressors are reaching their fullness. us. The king will arise having fierce features, understanding sinister schemes. We're uncovering sinister schemes, but I don't think we've even scratched the surface of these sinister schemes that this thing, this fierce one has in mind.
23:59 His power shall be mighty, but not by his own power. In other words, somebody is giving him that power. That would be the devil. He will destroy fearfully and prosper and thrive and shall destroy the mighty and also the holy people. Through his cunning, he shall cause deceit to prosper under his hand. So we are in this place of major, be not deceived in the last days. Again, many will come in my name. So deceit is going to prosper, and he will magnify himself, and he shall destroy many, even in their prosperity. He shall even rise against the prince of princes, but he shall be broken without a hand. That's Daniel 8. Now go to Daniel 11. We see some more of these things in the end, 11, 34, 35.
24:44 And those who do wickedly, let's go with 31 first, and forces shall be mustered against him, and they shall defile the sanctuary fortress, and they shall take away the daily sacrifices and place there the abomination of desolation. You know, many people, this is a true powerful sign that God has given us to see what's going to happen, but many people haven't learned what this sign is. They don't know about it because they're too busy in their virtual world and being mesmerized, stupefied, enchanted, and sorceried. That's a new word, sorcerer. Yeah, that's a new word. Those who do wickedly against the covenant, he shall corrupt with flattery. So, he's going to, the people who know their God, they shall be strong and carry out great exploits.
25:28 Those who are of the people who understand shall instruct many, yet for many days they shall fall by the sword and flame. So, you can't look at how it's going in your life to determine whether or not you in the right place, because you're going to be persecuted, you're going to be attacked, you're going to be slandered and slimed and made to look like hypocrites and full of hypocrisy. By captivity and by plundering, there's going to be a lot of pain out there. Now, when they fall, they shall be aided with a little help. So God's going to help us a little, a little help from God's a lot, though. But many shall join them by intrigue, flattery, or slipperiness. So there's going to be many that join our ranks, and some of those who understand shall fall. We see that now.
26:09 We see many who are falling to refine them, purge them, and make them white until the time of the end, because it is still for an appointed time. So there's going to be a lot of sorting in the last days. The righteous, the ones who know their God, they're going to do exploits, but they're also going to suffer. They're going to be persecuted and will be aided with a little help. But some of us are going to fall and be exposed because everything that's hidden is being brought to the light. So it's going to be a mess. It's going to be a big super mess. The only thing, however, that we can hold on to and in being assured or sure that we are with the right group and that we are with those who love us is by the love we have for one another.
26:51 And this isn't just an outward thing, but it is truly cherishing the other person, knowing, caring for them, empathizing, understanding their pain, pitying them sometimes, seeing what the enemies try to do to knock them out, loving them at the core of their being as created sons or daughters of the Most High God that have been thrown into the snake pit and bitten by serpents and cast out. The ones that we shun and cast out and reject are usually the ones that are gods. But again, going back to love, Satan counterfeits everything, but he cannot counterfeit true love. That's the only thing he cannot counterfeit.
27:34 But he can make a lot of lookalike loves. But you, if you know your spirit, God's spirit is bearing witness with your spirit, that you know what you're seeing and what you're experiencing is from him, and that he wants you to love others and bring the truth to them, this will be our most glorious hour, even though it is our most terrifying hour. Yeah, and there's so much prayer in the Bible, in the New Testament, about growing in the love of God. Philippians chapter 1 and verse 9, it says, And this I pray, Paul is praying for the church of Philippi, that your love may abound still more and more in knowledge and in all discernment.
28:19 Okay, we've heard the expression that love is blind, but love is 20-20 vision, right? In God, yeah. In God, that our love may grow more and more in knowledge and in all discernment. And then in Colossians 1, verses 3 and 4, we give thanks to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, praying always for you since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and your love for all the saints. And it's interesting in 1 Thessalonians 1, 3, 2 and 3, we give thanks to God always for you, all making mention of you in our prayers, remembering without ceasing your work of faith, labor of love, and patience of hope in our Lord Jesus Christ in the sight of God and Father.
29:13 In Acts, we have kind of a picture of this. The beginning kind of is mirroring the end, it's like a bookend kind of thing. So, in the book of Acts, in chapter 4, it says, Right after they were filled with the Holy Spirit. Now the multitude, verse 32, 432. Now the multitude of those who believed were of one heart and one soul. Neither did anyone say that any of the things he possessed were his own, but they had all things in common. And with great power, this is because of their unity, with great power the apostles gave witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ, and great grace was upon them all. God had given them grace at this moment to knit them together to make a critical mass of power and communion and relationship.
29:59 The body of Christ, the church, the remnant, was coming together at this moment. And since then, it's been attacked on every hand with every kind of device the devil could come up with, including counterfeiting the message of Jesus Christ, or preaching half of it or creating a whole counterfeit system of religion to pull people who love God into a pit of works and despair and depression. But the thing is, I believe as it was in the beginning, they were kind of in their little tight-knit groups, but eventually God had us say, get out of here. We got to get you spread out in the world. You can't just stay here and hang out and have fun because there's work to be done.
30:41 And so I believe that even now, as we might look to find our tribe, so to speak. Our tribe is in Christ Jesus. Our tribe is in the Holy Spirit. And as you go out, as God sends us out into our individual paths to find the people going to the marketplace, going to the square, going to the this and that, that we will find God's people also there doing what they've been called to do. And so just be diligent and recognize the true love and compassion that identifies us as genuine, and then we will not be deceived by everything else that's a lookalike and counterfeit. Interesting that the Apostle John.
31:23 And his brother James, Jesus called them sons of thunder. They were pretty hot-tempered. They wanted to call fire down on the Samaritans that rejected the message of Jesus. But what happened is basically John hung out with Jesus very closely, and he became the apostle of love. And he talks about that. We read from John 13, 34 and 35 about the new commandment. By this shall all men know that you are my disciples if you have love one for another. And he became really the apostle of love. And it's interesting, Marjorie, that the apostle of love got the greatest revelation.
32:06 He's the guy that gave on the Isle of Patmos, Death Island, he received the revelation. Now, we know the book of Revelation because he had that intimacy with the Lord. He was the apostle of love. And the more we are apostles of love, one sent forth with love, the more revelation and understanding we're going to get about not only who the Lord is, but what we are to do and what's going on in the world. I want to just read this in 1 John 4, 7 through 11. Beloved, let us love one another, For love is of God, and everyone who loves is born of God and knows God. He who does not love does not know God, for God is love.
32:47 In this the love of God was manifested toward us, that God has sent his only begotten Son into the world that we might live through him. And this is love. Not that we love God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins, the sacrifice for our sins. Beloved, if God so loved us, we also ought to love one another. So here, to wrap it all up, again, in the last days when there's mega deception everywhere and people saying they're of Christ and go over here, go over there, they're preaching, there's false teachers, false apostles. We're looking at fruit.
33:29 Jesus said, by their fruits, you shall know them. But we're also looking at the heart, the intentions of the heart And finally, it's all summed up in cutting through all the deception, the treachery, the lookalikes, even the plots of the enemy. It all kind of settles down source out to John again, 13, 35, by this, by this. How? How are we going to know the true from the false? How are we going to know the true guys, the true from the liars and the deceivers and the treacherous one? By this. All, all will know that you are my disciples. Even the bad guys are going to know that you're his disciples. If you have love for one another. By the love that we have for one another, we are going to shine as lights in the very dark and darkening and becoming darker world.
34:17 It's going to get a little darker out there, but the light shines brighter when it's darker. So how do you do this? How do you stay in that place of love? Well, first of all, you have to ask the Lord for love, I believe. Stay in His Word and walk in the Spirit as opposed to the soul. Don't use your soul software to try to figure things out because the heart, which is part of the soul software, is full of adulteries and fornications and foolishness and lasciviousness and an evil eye. Don't use your heart to try to figure things out. Don't use your mind because it's been programmed by the ways of the world. Go flip over to your spirit software, a spirit software where God's Spirit is bearing witness with your spirit and using the Word and the power of the Holy Spirit to bear witness to you as to what the truth is.
34:59 And if you are in the Spirit, you will have the fruits of righteousness, peace, and joy. And so when you have those peace, righteousness, and joy, that's the antidote for anxiety. That's the antidote for sickness and illness and infirmity and inflammations. And peace is the antidote, the thing that we crave and covet in this crazy, insane, anxious, fearful world, the peace of God. So, Father, we pray that the peace of God, which goes beyond understanding, will keep us in the love of Jesus Christ. And because you love us, Lord, you'll give us the love that we need, the wisdom we need, the resources we need, the influence, the power, the opportunities that we need, to love others, and that even in these very dark days, Lord God, we will be more than conquerors, and you'll cause our lights to so shine before men that they will see you through us, Father God.
35:54 And we thank you again for blessing us with 500 years, no, 500 shows. 500 years. 500 years of a rescue radio. Sometimes it feels like, well, maybe it's 500 years, but anyway. So thank you guys for joining us and share this, if you will, with others. Again, we bless you with the love of Jesus Christ. Be strong in the Lord and in the power of His might. Amen. And we appreciate your prayers so much for us as we minister with Rescue Radio and a lot of other things. And so, again, I just want to mention that we have a lot of resources for you today. There's so many things, it's hard to say. I was thinking, what would be the number one book that you would recommend to our listeners today?
36:37 And I got to thinking, well, I kind of answered my own question. It's whatever your need is. You know, if you're struggling with family relationships, there's doing relationships God's way. You know, understanding the spiritual warfare. There's taking the devil to court and spiritual warfare. Yeah. So many resources. If you have a lot of questions, and I think people do, about why did God, where was God? Why did God let this happen? This isn't fair. The case for justice will really settle a lot of your questions. So, again, liferecovery.com. And, you know, bondage to, you know, addictions and stuff. There's the book Cravings. Yeah. So there's justâ Why do I do the things I don't want to do? Yeah.
37:19 These are helpful tools to help you to walk in the love and freedom that the Lord has for us. And we thank you for your prayers, and thank you for your support. And God bless you and take advantage of the things out there because, you know, you need to get it now because who knows, you know, what's next on the horizon. In Jesus' name, we praise you, Lord, for your faithfulness to keep us in all of these days. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Music.
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