"Heaven Is Our Home" RESCUE RADIO with Marjorie Cole

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I have an emergency, what is your location?

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There's a war going on. I can't wait for you to get out of here.

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I can't wait for you to get out of here.

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Rescue radio, cause there's a war for your soul.

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Yes, indeed, Father God, the war.

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Let us pray, Father, for the war that's within and without.

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And declare, O God, that your kingdom come, your will be done,

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your peace, your justice, your righteousness, your truth.

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And we thank you, Lord God, that we are part of your kingdom,

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even as you are part of us and your kingdom is within us.

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So I pray, Father, today that each one that's listening

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will have eyes to see, ears to hear, and a heart to receive your revelation for them.

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This is a personalized, individual message,

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not just a propaganda blast from somewhere.

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This is meaning that you want to talk to us.

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And thank you, Jesus, for dying specifically,

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particularly individually for each of us,

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knowing our names, knowing who we were,

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knowing all from the very beginning who we were.

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So I'm thanking you, Lord God, that you shed your blood,

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you paid the price, you dealt with the devil,

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you defeated him.

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And now, Father, we see that even in this last hour

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that he is raising up his head, his snake head,

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to try to bite and sting and devour your people still.

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And so we're asking for divine wisdom and authority

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as you've given it to us, courage, protection,

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and no double-mindedness, Father God,

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that we'll be certain in our stance, in our position for you and with you,

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that we will not be lost, that we will not be caught off guard,

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that we will not be thrown away in the shuffle.

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And so, Lord Jesus, again, we thank you for the promise

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and the covenant that no weapon formed against us will prosper,

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that no word said, deed done, action taken

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will be able to be used by the enemy to bring forth

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any shame, trouble, or reproach, Father God.

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And we do not put, we give you the praise, the glory,

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we do not give the devil the honor of becoming afraid

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because we declare that your perfect love

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has cast out that fear, guide and protect our families,

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those who work for us, pray for us, and love us, keep us, Lord.

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And as the apple of your eye, Lord God,

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you know us better than the sparrows,

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and you know every sparrow on every mountain and every place,

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so guide us and protect us now, in Jesus' name, amen.

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Well, Jerry, I have a question for you.

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All right.

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It's a mean question, it's a sad question.

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Sad question.

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What about so many people dying so suddenly, dropping dead, literally?

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You know, people have no warning, and it seems like,

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so shocking and so sudden, it's like they have no time to prepare,

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they have no time to think about what's next in their lives

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after you leave this body.

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People don't maybe know, they have lots of different ideas

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about what happens after we die.

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But literally, as according to the Word,

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there's only two places, two options, two places to go.

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Well, there's ultimate destiny is the new heaven and the new earth

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for those who believe, and the ultimate destiny for those

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who have rejected Jesus Christ is the lake of fire.

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Well, you know, that's right.

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The Bible doesn't teach us about recycling or reincarnation.

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I think the devil wants us to believe in reincarnation and recycling

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so that he can, you know, push off that ultimate decision

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of whose report are you going to believe.

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Are you going to believe what God said and follow him,

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or are you going to believe what the devil did and follow him?

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And a lot of times the devil has caused us to wallow

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in such an indifference and a fantasy world of enchantment

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that we don't even realize we have a decision to make.

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Probably the most famous verse of the Bible is John 3.16,

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for God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son

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that whoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life.

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But a lot of times we forget, don't include the rest of the chapter,

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the rest of those verses following.

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In John 3.17 through verse 21,

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for God did not send his son into the world to condemn the world,

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but that the world through him might be saved.

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He who believes in him is not condemned,

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but he who does not believe is condemned already

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because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten son of God.

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And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world

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and men loved darkness rather than light because their deeds were evil.

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For everyone practicing evil hates the light

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and does not come to the light lest his deeds should be exposed.

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But he who does the truth comes to the light

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that his deeds may be clearly seen that they have been done in God.

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So basically, without Christ, we are under condemnation already

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because we have not believed.

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Well, I think that's part of the deception, unbelief, doubt, double-mindedness.

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But let's look for a second at what about heaven, what is heaven,

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what comes on, what happens after we die.

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We all know that if you don't get raptured,

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there's going to be a way we depart from this world

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and that's going to be called for most of us death

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and some sort of a funeral burial or whatever.

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But Jesus tells a parable, he talks about heaven.

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We need to know that there's more to, there's good things,

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good things coming, good things to happen.

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Go ahead, did you want to say something?

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Yeah, I just want to say that we're living on dangerous ground.

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We are dependent upon God for every breath, every heartbeat.

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And we don't realize it.

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At any time, we can leave this life.

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At any time, suddenly.

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It doesn't mean you have six months to prepare to die.

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You could go at any time.

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And the thing is, Jesus said concerning his second coming,

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he says, be ready.

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He says, don't get ready, live in a state of readiness.

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The old preachers used to say,

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be ready to preach, pray, or die at all times.

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We've kind of lost that idea a lot.

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But let's go back to the story.

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Jesus was talking to them.

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When he's getting closer to the crucifixion,

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there's people who are trying to catch him in his words.

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And people came by and they asked questions about,

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what's heaven like and do we get married in heaven

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and what about this and what about that,

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all these legal silly things.

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But Jesus told a parable in Matthew 22

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about the marriage feast.

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And I don't think we think how wonderful that might be.

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We all are invited, actually, to a wedding in heaven.

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And many are called, but few are chosen.

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God predestines, according to Ephesians,

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everybody he foreknew, he called and chose and predestined

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to come to the wedding feast to be part of that adoption,

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which is an interesting thing we'll get to in a minute.

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But Jesus said, you know, the king in Matthew 22, 1,

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and Jesus answered and spoke to them again by parables

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and said, the kingdom of heaven is like a certain king

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who arranged a marriage for his son.

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Now, who do you suppose that is?

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Well, the king obviously is God, the father.

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And who would be the son?

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Jesus is God's son.

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So he's arranged a marriage.

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Who is the bride for this son of his?

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Who's the bride?

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That would be us.

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The bride of Christ is the church, the true remnant.

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And then verse 3, and so they sent out his servants,

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the king sent out his servants to call those

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The king, they're not willing to come.

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Maybe they didn't like the king's policies,

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like a lot of us would be politically invited

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to a wedding of some sort,

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and maybe if you didn't like the politician who invited you,

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you'd snub them and turn down the invitation.

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That's why it says many are called, few are chosen.

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Everybody is sent an invitation to this wedding.

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But you don't have to RSVP, and you don't have to turn up,

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and you don't have to show up,

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and you don't have to eat wedding cake,

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but that's your choice, but you got the invitation.

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But he sent out these servants, and they said,

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tell those who are invited to see I have prepared

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set up, ready to go.

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We're having the best barbecue, tenderloin, whatever.

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So in heaven, everything is ready.

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But we're still sending out invitations here.

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And it says, and they made light of it, verse five,

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and went their way, one to his farm,

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another to his business.

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the way we're making an income, making a living,

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these things are priority for us, and that is really true.

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our priorities are not the important things,

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they're the urgent things.

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So the urgent things, I got to do my taxes,

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after hockey, I've got to da-da-da-da.

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So the important things get left to the very end,

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end of the day, when there's no time left.

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and do the same thing again tomorrow.

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So we lose our opportunity to, and it says,

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you just lose your opportunity to just do a relationship

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with God or know who you are or why we're here.

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Yeah, the thing is, it says at the beginning here

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of this chapter, it says they were not willing to come.

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Yeah, they were made light of it, yeah.

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They were not willing, and then they made light of it.

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And then actually, they didn't like that message.

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They didn't like the invitation,

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so they decided to kill the messengers.

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Right, right.

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Verse six, and the rest seized his servants

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and treated them spitefully and killed them.

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Now, Jesus is referring here, too, to the prophets,

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the Old Testament prophets that brought the message

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of salvation and deliverance.

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So all along the way, God has been sending messengers

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all from the Old Testament, even through to our today,

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even pastors and preachers today, some of them.

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And so then the king says, well, then, okay,

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the wedding is ready, but those who were invited

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are not worthy, because how do you get worthy?

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Well, you get worthy by answering the call,

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and that makes you worthy, but they didn't consider

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this thing as important as whatever they were doing.

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Therefore, he said, go to the highways and find as many

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as you can find and invite them to the wedding.

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So the servants went out into the highways and the byways

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and the hedges and whatever and gathered together

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all whom they found, both bad and good,

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and the wedding hall was filled with guests.

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So they went out to the homeless.

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They went to the scattered around, the broken,

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the unimportant.

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Yeah, the outcasts, there you go.

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And so the wedding was filled.

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But then the king came in to see the guests.

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He saw a man there who did not have on a wedding garment,

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and he said to him, friend, how did you come in here

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without a wedding garment?

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And he was speechless.

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Now, stop for a second.

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In those days, you know, they provided this garment.

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And what really is the parable is about is not so much

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how you're dressed.

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It's how you're prepared.

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Are you coming in with an invitation?

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Are you coming in to the salvation to anybody who comes

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up any other way than through the door, which is Jesus

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Christ, is, you know, basically illegal.

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Thief and a robber.

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Thief and a robber.

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They can be poor.

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They can be broke.

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They can be broken.

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They can be outcast.

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They can be.

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But but you have to take that vision, which is salvation,

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salvation.

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And the right it's the righteousness of Jesus Christ

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whole feast, they provided wedding garments.

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You had to wear this special garment.

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I'm going to get in on my own.

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That's key.

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You can't get in on your own.

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in the beginning, chapter one, got Paul, the apostle of

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Jesus Christ to the by the will of God to the saints who

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In Jesus Christ, grace to you and peace from God, our father

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in the Lord, Jesus Christ, blessed be the God and father

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of our Lord Jesus Christ, who blessed us with every

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spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ, just

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as he chose.

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He chose us in him when before the foundation of the world.

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there in his mind that we should be holy and without

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blame before him and without blame.

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All we do down here is get blamed.

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accused.

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Having predestined us, he predestined us.

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He chose us.

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He predestined us to adoption as sons by Jesus Christ himself,

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according to the good pleasure of his will.

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So why did we have to get adopted?

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have the DNA of God made his image and likeness.

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No, I don't want that job.

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I want to be God.

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So we all have a chance to reject what God has said, designed

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or called us to be.

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He called us to be blameless.

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He called us to be, you know, with him in love.

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He predestined us to be adopted.

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being predestined to be his sons and daughters unless we are

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adopted back into his family, because everybody got lost.

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wilderness of sin.

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coming through the door of Jesus Christ, coming back to God and

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then we are officially adopted back in to the family, according

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to the good pleasure of his will.

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Does that make sense?

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So adoption is an option.

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Adoption is an option and salvation is an option.

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It's not somehow.

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Oh, God is so good and kind that anybody, no matter who they are,

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what they've done are going to be saved no matter what they

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believe.

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That universalist lie is not true.

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It's prevalent.

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Let me just share this, too, about, you know, can I say one

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more thing about that?

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So, you know, if we're if we agree to accept God's invitation

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to be adopted into something, we have chosen to be chosen.

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You make the choice to be chosen.

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That's it.

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Jesus said at one point, he says, many are called, but few are

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chosen.

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What does that mean?

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A gentleman, brother in Christ, years ago shared with us about

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his understanding of that.

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And it makes a lot of sense to me.

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He said, well, years ago, he applied for a job and he he was

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accepted for the job.

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But he decided he was going to take another job.

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So he was called to to that job.

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But he was not.

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But he was he was called.

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He decided to go another direction.

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So as far as his work career.

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He doesn't force us to accept him to follow his be part of his

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family.

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profound truth.

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terms of acceptance.

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And that is our destination is set when you believe that Jesus

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Christ died for your sins.

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That's not very complicated.

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And it's eternal life.

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That's what he gives us.

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You know, and we're going to be, in a sense, we're all eternal.

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Our soul and our spirit.

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We're going to live forever in one place or the other.

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One place.

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Either it's going to be in the new heaven or it's going to be in

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the new heaven and the new earth or ultimately in the lake of fire

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where there's no end to it.

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And guys.

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So not even comprehensive.

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We do.

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Do people comprehend that?

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Is that message brought out?

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Powerfully enough.

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Clearly enough in our world.

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I think the Holy Spirit is going to bring it on.

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I think the Holy Spirit and the angels and what we're going to see

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coming up in the wrap up here.

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I really believe what we're seeing right now.

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We are seeing God move.

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Believe it or not.

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This is God orchestrating from heaven the various things that he's doing

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to bring to pass his plan.

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Ultimately we think we got rulers that are doing this and that and obeying

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and disobeying God and rebellion.

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But ultimately God knew everything from the beginning.

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He's moving this thing directly as he will to bring it to an ending.

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But we're back to what about heaven?

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What about heaven?

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What's that really like?

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So we see the first part.

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We have to have a marriage garment to get in.

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And by the way, they don't talk about it in Revelations,

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but they're invited to the marriage supper of the Lamb.

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The marriage supper.

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Supper is usually in the evening time.

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So there is going to be in heaven a great feast, a great celebration,

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a great day of rejoicing and expectation.

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I believe the people who have died already that are in heaven

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are at some place.

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Maybe it's paradise.

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I don't know where they're waiting.

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I don't know where they're waiting.

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It's a good place.

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But there's a super expectation of anticipation of this marriage supper of the Lamb,

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but they can't get at the party until we all get there.

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So I really believe God is drawing people up quick, quick, quick.

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Satan was trying to kill people off quick, quick, quick to get rid of them,

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but God is saying, Nope, this is my plan.

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I'm taking them in.

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So if you're losing loved ones suddenly, quickly, and kind of shocked and terrified,

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it is your time to rethink your direction, rethink your position,

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because the time is, you know, we honestly don't know if we have another minute,

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another second, you know, you just don't know.

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So make up your mind.

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You're going to follow Jesus today with the grace he's given you

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and then go on to the next day and the next day.

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Joshua said, Choose you this day whom you're going to serve.

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Don't put it off.

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Are you going to serve the Lord?

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If you're going to serve the Lord, serve him with all your heart.

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Right.

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And do whatever you can, prayer wise, speech wise, to to make sure do what you can

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to make sure your loved ones, your family, your friends, your coworkers,

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your neighbors have an opportunity to receive Jesus Christ.

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This is very important.

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This is this is life or death.

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This is eternal life or eternal death in the lake of fire.

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So there is an urgency about that.

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There's a desperation.

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And we are called to follow the spirit.

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The spirit of God will lead you.

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If you let the spirit of God lead you and open your mouth, open your mouth.

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We've heard statistics that ninety five percent approximately of professing

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Christians never share the gospel with anybody during their entire life.

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Now, professing Christians, you know, anybody can be a professing Christian.

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But there's only the few, relatively few that are the true ones.

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And it's a rescue mission.

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Proverbs 24, 11, Psalm 24, 11, rescue those who are perishing.

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It's a rescue mission.

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Think of it that way.

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Every day, it's a rescue mission for us to reach somebody for Jesus.

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We're going back to another parable that Jesus gave us in Luke 14 about this

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marriage supper, the lamb.

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And so they said they they wanted to know one of them who sat at the table.

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They were at table here.

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He says to bless us.

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He who eats the bread and the kingdom of God.

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And he says a certain man give a great supper, invited many and sent his

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servants at supper time to say to those who invite us at supper time.

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So I think it's an evening thing.

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Come, come for all things aren't already.

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But they all with one accord began to make excuses.

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I ask you to have me excused.

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I ask you to have me excused.

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Still another said, I have married a wife and therefore I cannot come.

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So the servants began to report these things back to the master.

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The master of the house was angry.

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byways and bring the people in and bring in the poor, the maim, the lame, the

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blind that might.

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their outward appearance or a position or ability.

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I have to go look at it.

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Don't you look at it before you buy it?

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And it says a flimsy excuse.

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I've got things to do.

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I got money to make.

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I got, you know, empires to build.

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I got deals to make.

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I got a wife.

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Wait, we're getting to the wife part.

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Now we got, now we got to get the oxen.

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So we get the oxen.

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I have to go try them out.

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Test them.

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Now it's like buying a car.

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So I'm going to go buy a car and then I'm going to test it.

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He's, he's, he's making an excuse as a backwards.

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If you're going to buy a car or a set of oxen, you're going to test them out

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before you buy them.

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This is not even good business ideas.

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He just says, I married a wife and you understand I cannot come.

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So many women or men are controlling the other person to the point where that

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person, you know, is, is obligated to serve them and not the Lord.

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And so we have this interference in a relationship that should be positive

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and helpful.

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Now let's go to some serious, this is serious, but let's go to the serious

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part in revelation where he says, and he says, and he says, well,

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this is all very interesting.

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In chapter 12, he says, the great dragon was cast out.

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That serpent of old called the devil and Satan who deceives the whole world.

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He was cast to the earth and his angels were cast out with him.

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They heard a loud voice saying, now salvation saying in heaven,

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now salvation is strength and the kingdom of our God and the power of his

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Christ have come for the accuser of our brethren who accused them before our

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God day and night has been cast down.

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And it says they overcame him by the blood of the lamb,

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the word of their testimony and they did not like love their lives to the

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death.

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These are the opposite kind of people who are not making any excuses.

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They're giving their lives if they have to.

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And then he, so he goes on to say, this is where we're at now.

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The war is here.

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The devil has a short time.

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He's crazy and going nuts.

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And we see this all over the place.

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I think it's interesting that the young ones are seeming to catch on to this

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faster than the old religion, one religionized ones.

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We're getting young people who are turning.

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I just saw, you know, you watch anything you look at, um, guys,

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I was talking to God and 22 year old talking to God.

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And he says, you know, you're here for such a time as this and blah, blah,

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blah.

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And just these awesome little things that they're saying,

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and they're only like 20 years old, you know?

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And so what is our excuse?

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But so there is no excuses.

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And then it's going to be that in this last time that the final chapter,

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it's going to be, behold, he says, I'm coming quickly.

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My reward is with me to give to every one according to his works.

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I'm the alpha and the omega, the beginning and the first and the last.

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This is Revelation 22, 12.

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I'm coming quickly.

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And my reward is with me to give to everyone according to his work.

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Now, I thought we didn't get to heaven by work.

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Well, we don't, we get to heaven by salvation.

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But out of that abiding, there comes the works, the fruits of righteousness,

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peace, joy, kindness is good deeds.

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Doing obediently what God says to do.

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Preach the gospel like you said a minute ago.

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You know, tell people about Jesus because he's coming back.

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And so, again, you have a minute.

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You have two minutes.

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You maybe have 20 minutes.

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You maybe have two years left.

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You may have something left.

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You have something left.

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You've already spent some of it.

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You spent a lot of it maybe of your life, your years, your time.

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But now what are you going to do with the rest of it?

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It's not too late.

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You can't say, oh, you know, I'm 45, I'm 90, and it's too late now because I wasted my whole life

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or I didn't know about Jesus or it's too late now.

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Do not listen to that lie.

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God knows exactly at what moment he was going to invite you,

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at what moment the invitation would arrive.

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He knew exactly what.

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You can't do anything until you get the invitation.

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You got the invitation now.

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Maybe you got it and left it laying in the desk drawer for five years.

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I don't know.

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But pull it out and it's not too late.

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This is an invitation that doesn't grow old until you're dead.

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So get up.

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Deal with yourself.

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Say, Lord, God, forgive me for rebelling, for turning away from you, for being so busy.

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I mean, if nothing, what is going to get people's attention if what we're doing right now,

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going through right now with World War III, whatever, what will it take?

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We just went through a horrible epidemic and people are still dying and dying and dying.

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What will it take for you to say, okay, okay, okay,

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whatever I got going is not as important as what eternity's got for me.

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When are you going to say, I give up, I surrender, God, you're right, I turn my life over,

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and I'm not going to just give you a 40% of it.

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I'm going to give you 100%.

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When is that going to happen?

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It really needs to happen today.

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Paul writes to the Corinthians, as behold, now is the accepted time.

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Today is the day of salvation.

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The thing is, too, is like some people that, you know, does it have to be such a shock?

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Do you have to lose a loved one close to you?

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Do you have to get into a car crash and just about die?

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Do you have to have a heart attack or a stroke?

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And then you say, oh, you know, maybe I should give my life to the Lord.

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Do it now.

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Does he have to go to that drastic?

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Some of these drastic experiences don't bring people closer to the Lord.

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They just get hardened.

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So the same sun that softens the clay hardens the, softens the wax, hardens the clay.

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So, you know, don't wait for some shock thing to come.

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Don't wait.

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Don't wait.

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It's like, yeah, it's like, you know, Jesus told the parable of the rich man and Lazarus.

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And the guy says, you know, oh, man, I'm going to get all this stuff laid up for many years.

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And, you know, I've got so much money and I'm just going to enjoy myself and all that kind of stuff.

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That is such a deception.

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God gives us virtually everything to enjoy.

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But listen, you know, and God said, the thing is, you think you're going to do all this stuff?

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You're going to pull down your barns and build bigger barns.

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You're going to say to your soul, eat, drink and be merry.

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And God says, but just guess what?

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Tonight, this day, this night, your soul is going to be required of you.

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And then what's going to happen to all your stuff?

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Yeah.

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So.

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Well, Lord Jesus, we just thank you that our stuff is not as important as you, Jesus.

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So let your spirit convict us, Lord.

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Let us be tender and receive the chastening or the correction or the admonition from your word by your spirit.

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Lord, you're so gracious, so patient, so kind, so not willing that any should perish.

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So, so, yeah, gentle.

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He says the goodness of God leads men to repentance.

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Let the hearts of our people be encouraged today.

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Be softened today.

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And let the Lord carry you.

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The burdens some of you are carrying are super hard, impossible.

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You're anxious beyond words.

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You're overwhelmed.

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This is not the way you're going to be able to get through it.

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You're going to have to lay down these burdens.

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Jesus said, my yoke is easy, my burden is light.

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Before you can make this journey, you're going to have to declutter and lighten your load by letting Jesus Christ carry it and not be so anxious and uptight about everything.

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So, Father, again, encourage our hearts.

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Lift the loads off your people.

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Reveal yourself.

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And thank you again, Lord.

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We just want to thank you, God, for your being God, being good, being righteous, being just, being in control, being full of the truth, having nothing but good things in your heart for us, Lord God.

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And let us not believe the lies of the devil who has framed you and accused you of every bad thing that he has done.

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We thank you, Lord, for heaven.

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We thank you for this exciting, this celebration, the marriage supper of the Lamb.

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We thank you, Lord, we're not too busy.

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We're not too busy and we're not too stubborn to lay down our stuff and follow you.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Amen.

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Well, you've got a whole bunch of resources for helping people on the journey, you know, on the journey in this life, on the journey with Jesus and how to get people off the wrong road and onto the right road.

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And Jesus Christ, of course, is the way.

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He's the road.

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He's the truth.

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He's the life.

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So you've got spiritual warfare and how deliverance can change your life.

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Yeah.

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Well, we all need deliverance in one way or another.

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Tell us a little bit about that.

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Well, I'm going to tell you something a little different about that.

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I'm going to say that, you know, if you want to check this stuff out in video format, we do have this some of these things on YouTube.

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And so you can find our YouTube channel by just using my name, Marjorie Cole, M-A-R-J-O-R-I-E, Cole.

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And there's some stuff that pops up on healing and spiritual warfare and deliverance and all kinds of stuff.

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And some of you don't like to read, so you can watch.

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And guess what?

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You can watch it for free.

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So check it out.

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Time's running out.

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And we love you very much and we'll talk to you again soon.

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I have an emergency.

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What is your location?

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There's a bloodbath around here.

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I can't quite make out anything.

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I think we're all going to die over there.

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Rescue Radio.

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Because there's a war for your soul.