"The Proof" RESCUE RADIO with Marjorie Cole

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

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Father God, we thank you for the revelation of your love and truth

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that this war, Lord God, that we're in has already been won

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by you, Lord Jesus. And we thank you, Father, for giving us courage to stand and having done all to

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stand in these wicked days, these days of great pressure and deception, Father. So give us eyes

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to see, ears to hear, and a heart to understand that truth that you have kept and preserved for

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us through our walk with you, through the Holy Spirit, through your word. I thank you, Jesus,

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for dying on the cross, this very pivotal moment in human history, where you laid down your life,

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you took on the challenge of death and destruction and sin and Satan himself, and you defeated him

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through your own death. You crushed the head of the serpent. And we thank you, Lord God,

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not only did that accomplish that breakthrough for us, it also brought forth the revelation of

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truth and hope for eternal life for whosoever will. And I thank you, Lord, for that, because

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no one had any way to get us set free, saved, or delivered from this present evil world except

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through you. And we thank you for giving us now your revelation, your Holy Spirit, to help us

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understand, to comprehend, to make personal the things, the message, the truth, the hope, the

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salvation that you've brought forth. Make it personal to each one who's hearing today, that

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they may be delivered from this present darkness by the power of your truth, by the power of your

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spirit, by the power of your Holy Word. And I thank you, Lord, also for the promise that no

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weapon formed against us will prosper. So we're asking today for the divine covenant of God

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to preserve your anointed, appointed, called, chosen, adopted children and keep us from the

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evil one. Put the shields of God around all of us so that the vibrations and frequencies and the

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calamities of this world cannot penetrate into the protective presence of your spirit within us.

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And I thank you now for giving us this opportunity in Jesus' name. Amen.

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Amen. Well, today we're going to take a look at the most precious and the most perverted time

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in all of human history. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. And it's about Jesus and this come down

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from the cross is what we call this. And if you look at Matthew chapter 27, beginning with verse

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37 through verse 42, and they put up over his head the accusation written against him.

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This is Jesus, the king of the Jews. Then two robbers were crucified with him, one on the right

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and one on the left. Those who passed by blasphemed him, wagging their heads, saying, you who destroy

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the temple and build it in three days, save yourself if you are the son of God. Come down

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from the cross. Likewise, the chief priests also mocking with the scribes and elders said he saved

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others himself. He cannot save if he is the king of Israel. Let him now come down from the cross

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and we will believe him. Yeah, it's interesting that the the Luke 22 talks about 53, where this

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is your hour in the power of darkness. There is a time there was a time appointed in in the in time

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and space were for this moment to happen, where the enemy would overpower or look like he'd

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overpower the king of kings and the powers of darkness would prevail. And this was their

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mocking. This was their their gleeful victory over what they thought was a victory for them.

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And they were mocking him. Yeah, it was really echoing the words of Satan. Yeah. When Satan

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tempted Jesus in the wilderness, if you are the son of God, do this. Right. Make stones into right.

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Jump off the temple, you know, bow down to me and I will. Isn't that interesting how they were

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parroting the words that Satan himself and religious leaders were parroting the very words

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of Satan? Yeah. And then he said, you know, they were they were scoffing. They were they were.

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I don't know what what words are good enough to explain what they were doing, the hate,

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the mockery, the contempt for Jesus when they said he saved others, but himself, he cannot save

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how foolish not to recognize, you know, he had saved many. He'd saved many. I mean,

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you just think of the people that he saved. You know, he he saved a crooked tax collector named

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Zacchaeus. He saved Mary Magdalene, setting her free from seven demons. He saved the demoniac

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of Gadara who had the legion of demons setting him free. He saved the woman caught in adultery. He

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bought blind Bartimaeus and gave him his sight. He saved a woman who was hopelessly bleeding to

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death for what, 12 years. And the lady that was what, 18 years. She was bowed down by a spirit of

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infirmity. And he immediately healed a man full of leprosy. And he even raised Lazarus from the dead.

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He'd been dead for four days. So there was no question that Jesus was and could and saved.

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And as a matter of fact, he was saving people out of situations. The Pharisees and his scoffers

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had no power to save people out of blindness and bleeding and death and leprosy. He was obviously

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a savior. And yet at this moment, he was relinquishing that power to submit to them

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and to their plans to crucify him. Luke 19, 10 says, for the son of man has come to seek and

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to save that which was lost. Now the problem with these people, they didn't know they were lost.

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They thought they were the found ones and that he was foolish and that he was anybody who followed

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him was a fool or a scoundrel. Yeah. And, you know, it's not that he couldn't come down from

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the cross. It's that he wouldn't come down from the cross because that was the only way we could

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be saved. The only basically what happens is the cross works backwards and forwards. It's the cross

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of Jesus, the death of Jesus for our sins to be our savior. Right. It goes all the way back to before

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the foundation of the world. This is mind blowing. And it extends into all of eternity. It extends

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basically to the reason people were saved in the Old Testament and the New Testament

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is because Jesus is the lamb of God who has been slain since the foundation of the world.

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And, you know, when they were offering those sacrifices in the Old Testament, all those lambs

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as prescribed in the law, they were actually in a foreshadowing agreement with Jesus dying on the

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cross. They didn't know that all with all that meant they just through an act of obedience,

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they just did what what they were told to do. But they also were therefore partaking of that same

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final sacrifice of Jesus on the cross, the lamb of God slain from the foundation of the world.

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Jesus did not avoid the cross. He embraced the cross because he couldn't he wouldn't come down

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because he couldn't wouldn't come down from the cross. But he was come to earth for the cross.

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That's exactly right. That was his ultimate end point journey to come down. You know,

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the the things he did previous to the cross growing up in the carpenter shop and then taking

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his three and a half year ministry to the people presenting the gospel and all of the

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of the kingdom, the principles of the kingdom was part of it. But the final grand finale was

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actually his death on the cross. Yeah. And again, deliverance from Satan's lies, from Satan himself

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and from sin doesn't come to us from Jesus getting off the cross. It comes to us from Jesus

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staying on the cross. And the reason is because people don't understand. And if you don't understand

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this legal concept or construct in this whole thing, why did Jesus have to die on the cross?

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Why is the blood so important? We have to understand that the problem was sin and the wages

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of sin is death and the soul that sin shall die. And that was all of us. And Satan got us to sin.

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So now he was killing people legally, destroying their lives as much as because they had sinned.

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And so Jesus had to put a stop to that hemorrhaging of the lie and bring people back through the death,

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his own death, bring them back to life. So somebody had to pay the price for the wages of sin. And that

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was death, of course. And Satan demanded that. But the only one who was legitimately legally able,

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qualified to do that was the sinless lamb of God, the son of God. So God himself had to come down

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and pay the price that Satan demanded, the ransom price, actually, that Satan was demanded for his

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children. It's like Jesus came down and paid the ransom because we were all held, kidnapped,

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hostage by the enemy in this snake pit. And God came to rescue whosoever would, whoever would

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believe and receive that ransom, that deliverance, that salvation.

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And of course, we have to keep in mind that the crucifixion of Jesus Christ,

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it's the central and eternal moment in the perfect redemptive plan of God. I mean,

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it's a perfect redemptive plan. There's no other way. I mean, for. Yeah, it's not in the past,

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present, future, there's no future, there's no other way we can be saved, set free,

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transformed from the inside out, delivered from the powers of darkness, from the powers of sin,

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except through Jesus Christ. This is the only way. It's not self and through self-improvement

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or education or a better environment. I mean, all those things can be helpful,

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but it's not it can't save us. None of that we can't and we can't purchase that either.

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It's not just for the elite and the wealthy that they're the only ones who can afford

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this salvation. It's not something that we can do, like you said, through works or through

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earning or obtaining that way. So it puts everybody on an equal playing field here,

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whether you have money or no money, whether you're known or unknown. This simple one requirement

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is that you accept the blood of Jesus Christ as the atonement, as the payment for your sins.

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That's and anybody can do it. A three year old can do it. An eighty nine year old.

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It's not held. It doesn't restrict ages. It doesn't restrict stations, financial

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abilities. It is open and free to whosoever wants universal. I mean, anybody, any human being

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culture, any religious background, whatever it is, no matter what people find themselves in,

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what situation they find themselves in, either genetically or politically or

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emotionally or anything like that, it it's it's open to all. It's as he says,

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where the son of man has come to seek and to save that which was lost. That's his mission.

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So we qualify. Whoever will can come, can come. So they have to be willing to come.

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And it seems in some ways so simple and so simplistic. And so how can this even work?

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Because we're expecting everything to be complicated as the devil complicates everything.

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But God is a simple is a simple message of coming to me.

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All you that labor and I have related, I will give you rest.

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Yeah, I think of this, what we again, what we read here in Matthew 27, Jesus on the cross,

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they're mocking him. They're saying, come down from the cross. What was going on there?

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Well, while Jesus was dying, death itself was dying. While the people were cursing him,

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God was breaking the curse of sin by becoming a curse for us.

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Profound.

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And while Satan was dishing out his worst, God was given the world his very best.

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And while the crowds were railing, Jesus was redeeming.

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All they didn't realize. Yeah, they didn't realize it.

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Blinded to it.

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All the filth, horror, shame and guilt of the crimes of the human race were laid upon him.

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Now, think of that broken. You think of that? I mean, just all the filth, the horror, the shame,

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the guilt, we could say the pain, all the crimes of the human race.

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All their cries.

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Were being laid by him. It's like he became a sponge, a celestial sponge,

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soaking up all the sin and grief of the whole world.

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That's something that we cannot comprehend.

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No, and I think part of his dying on the cross and, you know, think about the pain.

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You can think about the pain, the nails in his wrists or the dry, parched tongue or his,

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you know, this excruciating pain in his body and his limbs.

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I'm sure his pounding, tormenting headache, the leaking of the blood through his pores and through

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the lashes. You can imagine the physical pain, but I don't think he was even there

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with a comprehending feeling. I think he had checked out on that because he was into another

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arena, another sphere of pain. I believe he was able to see, like sometimes people die and they

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see within a moment their whole life flashed before them. I believe that Jesus was seeing

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in that moment flashing before him as he was dying on the cross for those three hours.

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The whole, the tragedy of the bloodshed of the whole world, all of the human sacrifices,

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all of the wars, all of the lies, all the treachery, all of the deception,

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all the cunning of Satan to bring people into death and destruction, the torture,

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the programming, the insidious division, divisive, bitter hatred of Satan towards the people,

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the children of God. I'm sure Jesus disassociated, disconnected from the pain of the cross

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to look at the pain and the redemption and the healings.

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And also I think what sustained him was the promise of his father that all of these grievances

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and bitter, wicked things against the people would also be brought up into the court of heaven

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and judged and that justice and peace and restoration, reparation, if you will,

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would be made for the ones who were made to suffer at the hand of Satan and the serpent.

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There's a song that says, while he was on the cross, I was on his mind.

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Yeah. And it says, just think of this, a totally sinless man, fully man, fully God bore our sin.

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Had feelings, had emotions, felt rejection, felt betrayal, felt all of the things that we are

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frustrated, was falsely accused. All of these things that we humanly suffer, you know, he also

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suffered. If you read carefully the gospels, the last, the endings of each of the gospels right

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before the crucifixion and the days leading up to it, you will see the building of the

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bitter hatred of the religious leaders and their contempt for him and their actual plotting to

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kill him. They hadn't even, it wasn't even under wraps anymore. It was out in the open.

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We are looking for a way to kill him. And so you can imagine how Jesus began in the beginning

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of his ministry with, you know, keep it secret, don't say anything. Even the demons who said,

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we know you're the son of God. He said, be quiet. He did not want this, this information

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about who he was to get out until the last minute, because he knew that the minute there was leaking

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of his miracles and the, and the healings and stuff, he would be the focus of the, of the

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bitter hatred of the, and the contempt of the religious leaders. And so he was, he stayed in

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the wilderness. He hung by the seaside. He went at the, he taught them in the mountain, you know,

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all these places with publicans. Well, he kept off the main path, you know, because it was all

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timing. It's all a matter of perfect time. And they wanted to remember that time they wanted

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to kill him by pushing him over the cliff when he was in Nazareth and he walked right. He said,

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it is not the right time. And he just passed right through them. But their, their intention

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to defend the law of God was so has so overtaken them with demonic rage that they were willing to

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push the son of man over the cliff, but that would not have counted. He would have been a

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murder victim. And at the cross, he was the sacrificial lamb of God. And so Satan tried,

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like I said, many times to kill him or to cut him off. That's why he had to keep himself quiet and

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secret yet. The secret couldn't be kept. Yeah. It's good. And second Corinthians five 21 for he,

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that is God, the father has made him to be sin for us who knew no sin that we might be made the

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righteousness of God in him. And I think of, you know, isn't that amazing? The righteousness of

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God in him. So Jesus's death purged our sins and our righteousness no longer comes from being right

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or being perfect or, or, um, you know, all of those things we think the world demands of us

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to be perfect, to be righteous, to be awarded the prize or earn the right to this or that.

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But our righteousness comes from submitting to the righteousness of Jesus Christ. He is the only one.

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He is the fountain. He is the source of righteousness. It's not my rightness. And so

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people who have to be right in order to think that if I'm not right, I'm wrong. If I'm wrong,

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I'm not right, right. I'm not righteous. They, they contend with their opinions. They submit

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not to God and the truth. So our righteousness is already taken care of if we surrender to Jesus

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Christ. Yeah. And you can see the demonic rage and contempt among the, the very religious elite,

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the ones who were supposed to be the holiest, the ones who were supposed to be the most avid

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keepers of the law were the most vicious and violent. It wasn't the common people. It wasn't

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the tax collectors. It wasn't the harlots that were saved. It wasn't the common people, the beggars

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that were saved. It was that religious elite. Now think of, think of this now, the cross for us,

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Christ's obedience took them to the cross and our obedience will take us to our cross as well.

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And it's interesting when he said, um, Mark chapter eight, this is, you know, earlier actually

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in his ministry, he says when, when he had called the people onto him with his disciples also,

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he said unto them, whosoever will come after me, let him deny himself and take up his cross

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and follow me for whosoever will save his life. She'll lose it. But whosoever shall lose his life

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for my sake and the gospels, the same shall save it. That's Mark eight, 34 and 35. So basically

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when people took up the cross, they usually didn't back in those days, there were people

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being crucified all the time. It was one of the popular methods that the Romans had borrowed.

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I think it was from the Babylonians to execute people, execute the lowest of the criminals.

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Most people that carried the cross didn't carry the whole post thing. It was the cross beam.

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And when everybody, when anybody saw they were someone carrying their cross or cross beam

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going up to go Gotha or wherever it was, they knew it was a one way trip.

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They were not coming back. That's the last time you're going to see them alive.

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That's the last of their hope. And you know, but the thing is, as you, um, but here on earth,

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what do we talk about? Well, we, instead of losing our life, denying ourselves,

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we try to save ourselves or satisfy ourselves or indulge ourselves or assert ourselves or defend

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ourselves. We try to affirm ourselves. We're always trying to get in touch with ourselves.

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This is the whole world. This is the world's programming. This is the world's recommendations

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to serving ourselves and finding ourselves instead of denying ourselves to follow Jesus.

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The following Jesus is absolutely contradictory and contrary to everything the world encourages

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you to do. Every advertisement that you see, which is the world basically programming at

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another level of subconscious and physiological and physical destruction is contrary to what

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God says to do. He wants safety. He wants to save his life, lose it. And that's the message of,

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that's the true message of freedom. If you can, it's not up to me to keep my life safe anymore.

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It's who's going to, who's going to protect me. Who's going to protect me. That's what people

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look. Well, what's going to help me. What's going to, is this, is this pill, is this person,

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is this relationship, what's going to help me. Jesus is going to help you. If you find yourself

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in him, he will protect you. He will keep you. He will save you. He will keep you from whatever

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Satan has planned for you. But most of us don't know that we have that great asset

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in our relationship with Jesus Christ. We have the relationship, but we still think it's up to me

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to try to be good, figure it out and avoid trouble and don't get sick and whatever else

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we try to avoid and do. Part of the cross is, is that we're on a one-way journey, as we mentioned

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with him, there's no turning back. Jesus said, if anybody puts his hand to the plow and looks back,

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he's not fit for the kingdom of heaven. And how many do that? They start out with God.

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Oh, it's all exciting for about three days or four days, but then they don't find any, um, any

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encouragement or discipleship. They don't find any, they, they dry up. They don't, or they go

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to a place where the water is, is polluted and poisoned and they can't just be sustained. So a

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lot of people putting their hand to the plow, um, don't know how to, that, that's courage,

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that endurance, that trust in the faithfulness of God. This is the problem. You can put your hand

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to the plow, but if you don't know that, you know, that God is the one who's keeping you,

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God is the one who's going to get you through, that God is the one who's faithful. If you think

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it's still up to me somehow to show, to be strong and to do it all myself, you will not be able to

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plow that field. Yeah. And the cross, and someone put it this way, the cross is for us is when God's

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will crosses our will and we choose to do the will of God. So we lined up our will with his

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will. And the thing is too, is that, you know, it means dying to our own plans and ambitions.

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And that's exactly what it means because all the way through this, we have to keep

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surrendering to the cross of Jesus with the will of God, the leading of God, the power of every day

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is surrendering what you think to what you know. Yeah. And our cross too includes

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suffering, even death, shame, ridicule, rejection, and other enemy attacks, fear of being rejected

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because not because we're doing something stupid or wrong, because we're doing something right

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because we are followers of Jesus. If the Jesus said, if the world hates me, the world is going

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to hate you as well, including many in the professing church. Because we become a threat

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to them. I think that as Jesus became more and more of a threat to his enemies, they became more

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and more livid in their desire to rid themselves of him. And we, as his followers, carrying the

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same authority, the same light, the same mandate, the same truth, also become a very incredible

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danger. We're the greatest danger to Satan on the earth, because we rebel against his lie,

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because we follow Jesus Christ, our leader, instead of Satan. We're not coming to fear.

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We're following Jesus Christ through faith and confidence. And this is not easy. The devil has

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not made following Jesus easy, but the Holy Spirit is within us. And the word of God, he uses to,

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you know, when you start following Jesus, it's not automatically going to be easy, but at the

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same time, you are already victorious if you just keep following. You just keep believing Jesus has

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got this. You're okay. Trust him. Don't take matters into your own hands. Abide in him, Jesus says.

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He's the vine with the branch. As we abide in him, it is doable to follow Jesus, because we're

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right there connected with him. Where he goes, we go. What he does, we do. And out of that abiding,

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resting place comes the fruits of righteousness, peace, and joy. You can rest in the middle of

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this war if you know who you are and who you're connected to. And that would be the only way to

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get through this real harassment, this conflict, this diabolical war, is to be in that place of

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standing, in a place of rest, and knowing that we are loved and forgiven.

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Yeah, and the cross of Christ is the most unique. It's a unique and most extreme

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action ever taken by God in order to rescue us from Satan, sin, and death, and eternity in the

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lake of fire. So the cross of Christ, it's God went to the most extreme extremity.

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And he had to. Giving his only son. And showing his love. To show his love. And he, you know,

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he willingly went to the cross. And Jesus, of course, willingly went to the cross and stayed

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on his cross until death. They were both in agreement about this, the father and the son.

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I believe that the father sustained the son in this journey. And the son was willing to trust

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the father that he would do the right thing in the end and bring justice and resurrect him. And

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even though Jesus had taken upon himself all of the sin of the world, he was trusting that his

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father would see him apart from the sin and bring that day of resurrection to him, which he did.

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And yet, today, this message of the gospel is still seen as foolishness to those who are

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perishing. But to those of us who are accepting, it is the power of God. And when you follow Jesus,

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you do have that authority to legislate on his behalf. Power to bind, to loose, to move forward,

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to forgive. These are the things God needs his church to do because they release then that

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prayer, that permission for God to come and act again in the affairs of men. That's what prayer is.

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Petitioning God to come and act in a situation. You have the right to pray that prayer, cry out

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to God and call on his power because he is willing to save us. So, we're here, we are the

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fruit of the cross. And Jesus died that we might live. He says, except a corn of wheat fall into

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the ground and die. It abides alone. He was talking about himself. As he died, that one corn of wheat

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or whatever brings forth hundreds and hundreds of corns of wheat or grain. And so, this is the

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process of promoting the gospel of Jesus Christ to the death of one man.

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Yeah. And there's a hymn writer named Thomas Shepherd that wrote this. He said,

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must Jesus bear the cross alone and all the world go free? No, there's a cross for everyone and

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there's a cross for me. The consecrated cross I'll bear till death shall set me free and then go home

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my crown to wear for there's a crown for me. So, there's without a cross, there's no cross,

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no Christ, no cross, no Christian, no cross, no crown. Basically, this is what it is. And the

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unmistakable proof, Jesus Christ is the lamb of God. They saying if you're in Matthew 27,

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they're they're mocking him. If you really are the Christ, if you really are the son of God,

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come down from the cross, prove it to us and we'll believe. Well, he proved it by staying

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on the cross and we thank God that he did. And he not only proved it by staying on the cross.

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Yeah, but he rose from the dead. It's not that he came down from the cross

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or even that he stayed on the cross, but that he came up from the grave. That's the positive

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proof that Jesus Christ and this is in this savior, the only savior, the son of the living

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God. And this is the this is the victory, the triumph. And yet another side note to this is

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even in these days where we call this this wonderful moment, the day of resurrection,

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we rename it, giving it the name of a pagan god, goddess, and we defile it with Easter

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rabbits and colored eggs and chocolate bunnies and things like that with it, which has nothing

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to do with the lamb of God. And yet people don't see through this foolishness, this fantasy,

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this fable. These are children that are drawn into fantasies and fables and and, you know,

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silly stories to to distract from the power, the life giving power of that of that stone

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that was rolled away from the tomb by angels that shook the earth. That real event. Jesus

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really didn't need to have the stone removed. You know, he could have just came out because he was

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going through walls already. He could have. But the stone was removed for the people to come in

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and see. Not for that. So he could come out. But let's say we could go in. And so. But the thing

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is, please, this in this this season, this moment, this week, do not be caught up with Easter rabbits

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and Easter baskets and bunnies. As a matter of fact, refrain, refrain from it. Don't do it.

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Find the holy substitute, which would probably be, you know, just revel, you know, meditating

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on reveling and rejoicing and teaching and reading to your children the good news of the gospel of

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Jesus Christ and not mix and mingle the defiled with the holy, because that only waters down

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your strength, your witness in God. So, again, we're just praising you, Jesus. We thank you for

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delivering us from darkness. And Lord God, I pray that everyone who's here and listening

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will get it. It will sink deep, deep, deep into our beings, into our understanding,

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and we will walk in a new place of gratitude and thanksgiving for what you have done to set us free.

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This is a holy week in many ways, a very holy time to meditate on these very holy things.

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But that doesn't mean now we can stop at the end of the week. We will continue to walk in a very

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we're in a very holy time in the preparation for the return of the king of kings. So be aware,

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read your Bibles and stay tight with God and stay close to God. Let the Lord Holy Spirit lead you.

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Tell us about your book, Spiritual Warfare and how deliverance can change your life.

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Well, this is true. Deliverance can change your life, but you have to understand the strategy.

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There's several rules to this war. This is not a war based on power and strength. It's based on

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legal rights and understanding our rights as a believer. And so maintaining

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that power, that authority that God has given us, is not just about binding and loosing. It's about

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going to court. It's about declaring and petitioning and coming into that court as a

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petitioner to ask God to move things, change things, break things, release things. And so again, that's

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part of this. This battle is not just a power struggle. It's a legal battle. It's a legal

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understanding with God wanting us to know our rights and declare them. Because Satan knows

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if you don't know the rights, if you don't know your rights, you will not be able to stand. And so

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taking the devil to court is one of the books I've written. And this is another one,

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Deliverance and how deliverance can change your life. You can get them both on amazon.com.

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And there are others too by Marjorie Cole. Yeah. Thank you for listening. Thank you for listening

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and may the Lord bless your meditation and may your thoughts be on him. Amen.

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