Sunday Service - 2025-09-14

We Will Not Be Silenced
Acts 7

Pastor Chris Bonner

Episode Transcript

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Welcome to the Lansdale Life Church podcast.
If you're seeking a closer relationship with Jesus Christ, this podcast is for you.
Thank you for joining us today.

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So if you could turn your Bibles, in your Bibles, to Acts chapter 7.
You're bulletin says Hebrew 7, but today we're doing something different.
And
you'll see why, you know, with everything going on
again, Acts chapter 7

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many of you know the story of Stephen and the martyrdom of Stephen and and so
You know as a Calvary Chapel as you know, we teach through the Bible
That's the title now. So your title is wrong in your bulletness. We won't be silenced and
You know we go through the Bible and

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Nowadays the news cycle is so fast and furious, isn't it?
I mean that you can't even keep up with it. If we try to do a topical study every single Sunday based on the previous week's
news
You'd never actually go through a book of the Bible because there's so much happening, which is really an indication, isn't it?
To for end times and so forth. There's a lot happening and it's pretty exciting and yet

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there's a lot of pain and sorrow that comes with it and
With this past week just the heaviness of the week and yet in some ways the the miracles of this week
It's such a phenomenon that I as I was reading through I had the Acts chapter
I mean Hebrews chapter 7 all planned in the beginning of the week and all of a sudden as the week went on

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I'm like I just this isn't for today. You know, we have to we have to teach on the
freedom of speech, you know with the assassination of
Charlie Kirk
You know, it's and the increase of violence to suppress
freedom of speech especially freedom to speak truth is

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Really just horrendous, isn't it? And yet at the same time we know through Scripture and we're gonna see in this
Account of Stephen how when persecution presses down
Faith expands. It's just something that happens the courage and every believer suddenly
Rises up and we all rise to the occasion

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This is such a phenomenon. I was just shocked to see all around the world
Do you see all the countries that are having prayer vigils for Charlie Kirk's family and also?
For the spread of the gospel. It's it's really amazing we have in England. Did you see that?
It's like a million-person March right across the bridge. It's amazing. It didn't even like

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Cave in it's just expansive and South Korea
They're they're just having prayer vigils in Australia
Italy I saw this one worship service that was just so joy-filled of
Young people coming to the Lord and you don't know how awesome that is for old heads like myself

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And I'm not too old but I'm getting there
for us to see young people
Experiencing salvation and experiencing Jesus Christ to us
We just thrive on that because that's what it's all about is passing the mantle to the next generation
I mean, I'm saved. I have nothing to worry about. I am born again. I'm going to heaven

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Okay, but to see the next generation saying yes, or I want your will for my life
I want to follow you. I want to live for you
I need I need your spirit in me to to carry me through to eternity to see that happen is so
exciting and

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Certainly Charlie Kirk had an amazing role in that now if you're here saying where this whole thing is gonna be about a man
No in the end. It's about Jesus Christ. It really is right. It's not about a person
Okay, but this is certainly a spark or a catalyst for something that is going on in this world in this country

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But even around the world and it's finally it's like we've had enough of trying to shut us up
You know because the world needs to know that the deceiver that Satan the devil
He is a liar and the first thing he wants to do is suppress the truth
You read through Romans 1 and that's what happened to humanity

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We suppressed the truth and what happened the decadence of humanity, right?
And so today we're gonna look at this of this idea of what the Lord says about
freedom of speech and also what we're to do in this in this time and
Season and you know this message I just want to say isn't about like getting us all filled with angst and anger like yeah

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They can't do this to us. It's not that at all. It's actually almost the opposite
What do we do in this time? How do we how do we?
Stored this time this epic time frame in humanity really?
I mean we need to be ministers of peace, right?
We need to carry the love of Christ in the midst of turmoil

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Let the devil show his cards reveal himself on how
Fearful he is about the truth getting out about humanity. Amen
And so as we're thinking about this, you know
I've been listening to Charlie Kirk for four years on podcasts and and
On the YouTubes and all those things and I think a lot of people do have the wrong idea of him because of the mass

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Media are always saying he's hateful. He's this he's that
He's racist. He's a such a bunch of malarkey. It really is if you've ever listened to him for any time you could realize
He was always so gracious
all he wanted to do is debate ideas and
Discuss ideas challenge people especially kids in college who are being indoctrinated

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Right of the lies of the enemy. He wanted to challenge their thinking and for that, of course, he lost his life
But he also met a lot of resistance all along the way. Okay
constantly and he spoke of a variety of things and
You know, it's not about issues. It's about salvation

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But certainly there's some issues. There's some things that the Lord tells us in his word that we as believers
Gravitate towards or support or assert one is the unborn
We believe that the Lord cares about the unborn. Okay, and to to him they are human

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Okay, he knew Jeremiah before he was ever in the womb
John the Baptist leaped in in his mother's womb when he heard that when he heard
Mary the mother of Jesus walk into the room
So there's so much evidence throughout scripture that the Lord has always known us before we were even in the womb
So the Lord cares about the unborn
The Lord cares about marriage one man and one woman. I mean, that's almost like, you know, you're walking on thin ice

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You start talking about basics that are scriptural. They're all throughout the Bible, but people don't even know it
so if they don't know how the Lord feels about things
they really don't know the Lord and suddenly the enemy can use ignorance to bring division and
Separate Christianity because they don't know what God thinks of these things, you know how the Lord feels about transgender

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you know how it is defiling and debasing the Lord's
Structure for humanity and his design
I mean, this is not what the Lord wants people to be defiling themselves because basically they're saying Lord
You messed up when you made me
Okay, I reject your your order of humanity and your order of creation

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Okay, and so this is these are things that Charlie spoke about but even believers talk about this in the community
But we're really getting more and more
in
Some cases fearful or timid because we know it's just gonna strike it like a flame and erupt into this
Sorry, I shouldn't have said that I shouldn't have said I shouldn't that but like in the end

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It's not about any of those things. It's about Jesus Christ
But these are still things that God cares and thinks about right?
And so we want to think like him. I think the word says we have the mind of Christ, you know
And how the Lord feels?
About you know work, you know, in fact, you know, he believes that anyone who can work should work

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You know, you don't work you don't eat. Okay, that's pretty
Stern isn't it right? He who does not provide for his own family
Has rejected the faith and is worse than an unbeliever
Boom. Yeah, that's biblical. That's in the Bible, right?
So these are things that you just don't hear anymore because it's it's politically incorrect

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Now it's not about any of these things that bring salvation
It's about Jesus Christ
Even saying that Jesus is the only way, you know, there's there's
Churches that don't believe that
They believe well, there could be a lot of ways. I don't know. How can I know?
Well, the Lord says I am the way the truth in the life. No man comes to the Father

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Except through me. I mean that's pretty clear, you know
And so he is the only way and and yet when you get on the street, you know
We do a variety of street witnessing and you're talking to people
You could tell them about the love of Christ
But then they always want to bring in an issue to talk about do you know what I'm talking about?

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Like whether it's homosexuality whether it's transgender whether it's whatever they want to bring an issue to the table
To see where you stand and it's right then I start to think well, I really want them to get saved
I don't really want to go there
I want to kind of like maybe even appease them a little bit just to get through that question and and but you know
What is not doing anyone any favors, you know, I mean the world calls this hate speech

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Telling what how God feels about things. I call it love speech
Really, it's loving them telling them the truth is loving them
But anymore we're just so concerned about the the outburst or the the backlash and in some cases
now arrest or violence or

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assassination and
So I really believe we are on the threshold of a great awakening around the world. I really do
I think that the the assassination of Charlie Kirk is going to bring out a spirit of martyrdom
And you know martyrdom really first foremost means means actually messenger
Without any fear, you know

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And I believe it's just gonna spark so much around the world that that the believers are just gonna say yeah
I'm not why I won't be silenced. No
In fact, I have truth on my side. I could speak truth, you know as we're thinking about this
Do you remember in the Bible any time that that freedom of speech was suppressed?

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In the New Testament all the time all the time the whole New Testament is about
You know trying to speak truth to humanity and it being suppressed or trying to be silenced, right?
but even in the Old Testament in fact even a in Israel itself, do you remember when a
Jezebel and a hab

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Ahab was a king of Israel and he married a Sidonian woman named Jezebel and you even if you don't read the Bible
You know that name doesn't sound like it's a good name
Jezebel, right and yet Jezebel the first thing she did because she worshipped bail this false
Evil wicked God in fact, do you know any idols they were worshiping were all demons?

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I mean the word actually spells that out. That was demonic, right? And so she
she
executed all of the prophets of
Israel and
Brought forth her own prophets of bail which really didn't have any prophetic utterance, of course for Yahweh and so she

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Destroyed the prophets that's that's suppression of speech freedom of speech is being quenched or crushed
Right and then another one is um when they were exiled. Do you remember Shadrach Meshach and Abednego?
You know, no, we're not gonna bail a bow to that that idol that Nebuchadnezzar built
Well, then you're going okay in the fire of it. They are the oven of fire

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We're throwing you right in there
And you remember what happened they threw in Shadrach Meshach and Abednego into the fiery furnace and so the Nebuchadnezzar say what women
There's three there's four people in there. Who's the other one?
It looks like the Son of God
Well revelation to Nebuchadnezzar
Because the Lord stepped into that and not even a hair on their head was sin

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And then Daniel refusing to to pray to Darius and instead
He continued to pray to the Lord and he was thrown into the lion's den only for the Lord to
Muzzle the lion and he suffered no harm at all
But those who are setting him up for destruction
They actually were all thrown into the lion's den and so the Lord always knows how to rescue his saints

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But sometimes it's by the Lord's design
You know, all of our days are numbered. I
Believe I don't believe anyone took
Someone took Charlie's life, but the Lord always knew how many days Charlie had on the earth
He knows how many days we have on the earth and I always just think of this that how do I want to go out?

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I want to go out in a blaze of glory and that doesn't necessarily mean being
Martyrd, but I don't want to go out timid. That's for sure. You know, he's given us a spirit of power love and
Sound mind or self-discipline, you know, that's like that's fearlessness, you know, and that's what he wants for us
but there's also a

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one
story in the New Testament that I'd like us to just take a look at and it's Stephen in chapter 7 and
Just to set this up briefly
it was the early church, okay, and
the Lord had already ascended to heaven and
The church was growing in Jerusalem and you know, it's funny in the Great Commission

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He said no go now to Jerusalem Judea
Samaria and throughout all the world and spread the gospel. But what did they do? They stayed in Jerusalem
You know, that's what we have a tendency to do. We kind of stay in our comfort zone, right?
and so they stayed there and so, you know, the Lord was going to use the martyrdom of Stephen to actually

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Expand the gospel
Because what happened is when Stephen gets stoned to death people just ran but as they ran from Jerusalem
They spread the gospel everywhere, you know, so the Lord is using this
Assassination of Charlie Kirk to spread the gospel everywhere. In fact, you know what Jill just told me this morning

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He used to have 1.5 million followers
This morning he was at 11 million
He's probably at 15 or 20 by now. I mean, this is epic. This is epic. What's happening here, right?
And it's because you know when finally the scales are just fall off our eyes and we realize wait a minute

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We are there's an enemy here and it's not people
It's not people
It's a spiritual realm. We know that in fact Ephesians 6 12 says our warfare is not we don't wrestle against flesh and blood
Okay, but what do we wrestle against?
Principalities we're not gonna dissect all them

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powers
Okay
rulers of the darkness in this age now Paul wrote that in his age
well, guess what the ruler of the darkness in this age is still at it right and then finally and
spirits of wickedness in heavenly places
So our warfare isn't people and we know that that's why prayer matters

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Because we can pray and tear down these strongholds. So anyway, let's look at Acts chapter 7 just for a couple of minutes here
Verse 51. Oh wait, sorry

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Actually, can you start in at the end of chapter 6 so Stephen is chosen
Because he's spirit-filled he's on fire, but guess what they chose him to do serve tables
You know, you could serve anywhere like Jerry just shared, you know anywhere you serve you are a holy fire in that environment

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And sometimes the Lord just put you somewhere just to start to you know
Ignite your flame a little bit and then he's gonna lead you into something else. But anyway
so
the end of 6 verse 8
Says and Stephen full of faith and power did great wonders and signs among the people and then there arose some

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From what is called the synagogue of the freedmen
Cyrenians Alexandrians and those from Cecilia and Asia
Disputing with Stephen and they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spoke
What's the next thing? Let's kill him

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Right, we can't we can't debate truth
Because we're from lies where the file our father is the father of lies. We can't debate this thing out
So let's silence you let's just shut you up. Okay, that's what's happening here. And so and verse
11 and then they secretly induced men to say we have heard him speak blasphemous words

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Against Moses and God and they stirred up the people the elders and the scribes and they came upon him
Seized him and brought him to the council. They also set up false witnesses
Yeah, that's happening all the time the news media the the mainstream media are a bunch of liars
They really are they also set up false witnesses who said this man does not cease to speak

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Blasphemous words against his holy this holy place and the law for we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth
Will destroy this place and change the customs
Which Moses delivered to us and all who sat at the council
Looking steadfastly at him saw his face as a face of an angel, which is interesting

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We're not gonna die sink that part
but so, you know, they they
Started making up lies and they started saying things he said out of context. Does that ever happen?
Taking a little slither. Let's work around this and just like highlight this one little part that can make people hate them

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Okay, and that's what the enemy does for believers
You know, he and he sets us up and if people are not willing to fully listen
They're gonna they're gonna believe a lie
So anyway
So let's go into seven and finish this portion

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so Steven goes into the whole history of
Israel and telling them like rehashing the whole history only to get to the point of the Messiah and then he says
You stiff-necked
Uncircumcised in heart and ears
You always resist the Holy Spirit as as as your fathers did so to you

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which of the prophets
Freedom of speech speaking on behalf of God that is which of the prophets
did your fathers not persecute and they killed those who foretold the coming of the just one and
whom you now have become the betrayers and murderers who have received the law by the direction of the

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Angels and have not kept it and then here we go. Here's the the execution the assassination
54 and when they heard these things they were cut to the heart and they gnashed at him and they're at and with their teeth
But he being full of the Holy Spirit gaze into heaven and saw the glory of God and

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Jesus standing at the right hand of God and said look I see the heavens open and the son of man
Standing at the right hand of God
57 then they cried out with a loud voice
Stopping their ears
We don't want to hear the truth and ran at him with one accord and they cast him out of the city and stoned him and

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the witnesses laid down their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul and they stoned Stephen as he was
Calling on God and saying Lord Jesus
Receive my spirit and then he knelt down and cried out with a loud voice
Lord do not charge them with this sin

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And when he had said this he fell asleep
Meaning in earthly terms he died right and so as Dan was saying earlier
forgiveness
Forgiveness is key here because isn't interesting that Stephen would almost quote Jesus on the cross
Lord forgive them. They know not what they do

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Receive my spirit. I mean, it's so it's so beautiful how Stephen in the midst of that martyrdom
immediately his spirit connected with Christ and he actually
Repeated Christ's own words on the cross, you know, and so as we think about this and we remember, you know how Stephen

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was
Filled with the Holy Spirit and confronted them with the truth saying something that was very politically incorrect
Okay, all of your father's killed freedom of speech
You didn't allow the prophets to speak on behalf of God and you actually killed them
Just like Abraham and I mean, I just like

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Ahab and Jezebel you killed the prophets because you just couldn't hear the truth
And that's what this world is trying to suppress the truth, but the Lord is busting through
Finally people are waking up and saying wait a minute
Who is silencing us? Why can't someone just say some even if you disagree? Why why can't they say it?

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You know, why why does it have to be silenced?
right, and so
What should we do?
Because we will be persecuted it's it's a promise in fact in 2nd Timothy 3 12 and 13
It says if you have that verse it says

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Yes, and all who desire to live Godly in Christ Jesus will suffer
persecution but evil men and impostor and impostors will grow worse and worse
Deceiving and being deceived, but you must continue in the things which you have learned and been assured of

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Knowing from whom you have learned them. And so he's saying you will suffer persecution
just
Brace yourself and rise up, you know, Jesus said himself to his disciples in this world
You will have troubles but take heart for I have overcome the world and that's how we overcome by our faith
Right, and so we will suffer persecution. So what should we do? The last thing we should do is be

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angry
mad and hateful because remember the person you're talking to is being guided by a spirit
It's it's not even then the Lord loves them. He loves them so much James remember what James said in 1
1920 he actually said, you know be swift to listen

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But slow to speak and slow to become angry because the wrath of man never
Produces the righteousness of God
So us getting angrier and angrier the same you can't do this. The enemy is like yes
Beautiful, I got them right where I want them to be. No one's gonna be able to discern the good guys from the bad

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because we're all acting like the same, you know, so we really have to be discerning and
Filled with love we have to speak the truth with love
I love this verse that says that speaks to this
Matthew 5 44 45 I mean 45 and this was of course in the Sermon on the Mount and

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Jesus said but I say to you love your enemies bless those who curse you
Do good to those who hate you and pray for those who spitefully use you and
Persecute you that you may be sons of your father in heaven for he makes his son rise on the evil
And on the good and sends rain on the just and the unjust now. What does that last part mean?

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It means he loves the person you're speaking to
Just as much as he loves you
He wants to save them just like he saved you
You know, he they're not the enemy to him
He loves him he died for their sins too now until they receive them

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They aren't a child of God and that's John 3 18, you know, but maybe you're that
Ambassador that's gonna invite them into the house of God
So we have to see that person as and and have pity for them because they're so
They've this they've been deceived
They've been manipulated by the devil and they're twisted in their thinking but maybe you're the voice of truth

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Maybe you're the one that's gonna bring them in to the kingdom
Another verse that speaks to this, you know
Overcoming evil with good Romans 12 2 says do not be overcome with evil but overcome evil with good
We're the good guys
We are why because God is good and he lives in us

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You know, we are the good guys and I know that sounds so what makes you because the Lord is good
We we work for him. We're on his team. We're his army
We're his soldiers or his you know, royal priesthood
We're his kings and King acts, you know on this earth, but to represent his kingdom

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So we have to have a love for people. It's amazing what love does when someone can be so bitter and angry
I've seen it time and time again
So wrought with just hatred and all this stuff and just words of love and they can really see in your eyes
That you care about them
You don't hate them, you know, it's not their fault

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They've been manipulated in this world to believe all these lies
But you're the one the Lord has sent in that very moment of time. We have to minister the moments
We're in a moment right now. We have to be ministers of this moment
Don't we amen and then the next thing we have to speak the truth and love but also not have fear

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You know, sometimes, you know, we can either be fearful that we're gonna lose it on somebody
Oh, I better just walk away because I'm really feeling angry. Well, maybe you do need to walk away and pray
You know because we want to have a right heart towards people if you feel yourself getting filled with anxiety and emotions and all this
You could just step away and just pray Lord. Just help me. Help me minister this moment. Help me actually

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represent you
Because you're hurting more than I am right now Lord you you love this person more than I do even
Help me in this very moment, right? So we can't be afraid and I love
Matthew 10 28
Lord says do not fear those who kill the body

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But cannot kill the soul
But rather fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell
Now, what does that mean? Are we always supposed to be fearing God?
Well, there is a healthy fear of God. In fact, the beginning of understanding is the fear of God, right?
So when when you finally realize oh that you know, there is hell to pay if I do not know the Lord

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That's a healthy fear
But then when we come to him and we fall in love with him what perfect love casts out fear, right?
In fact now that fear of the Lord is is something that protects us
And the only fear we have then of the Lord is fear of missing out on what he wants to do
I don't want to miss out on what God wants to do in my life. I don't want to miss out on that

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It's no longer serving God because I'm I'm waiting for like a smack across the head
You know, it's not that you're you're serving God because you love him so much and you're like Lord
What else what else are we doing now? What I don't want to miss out on anything you're doing
Lord show me because where you're at. That's where real living is Lord
I want to live that abundant life, but another part of this is that you know, we do

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We're not to fear because we have
weapons of the truth the Word of God the sword of the
Spirit and nothing can come against us, you know greater as he who is in us
That he who is in the world and it's speaking about the antiChrist
so all those spiritual realms of principalities the powers the rulers of the darkness of this age and the spirits of

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Wickedness in heavenly places. They can't touch you
They are you are impervious to the devil. Do you realize that you know things can happen in this life?
Okay, and we live in a fallen world. I'm not gonna go down that road at this moment
But the devil cannot oppress you unless you let him and he can never possess a believer

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Because you're already possessed by a spirit and that's the Holy Spirit, right? He's the one who lives in you
He doesn't let other spirits come in and live with him. Right? He's he doesn't he's not a
Whatever. Anyway, I'm trying to think of something funny, but it doesn't matter
but anyway, but we have we have weapons that are spiritual second Corinthians 10 for to

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6 says for the weapons of our
Warfare are not carnal meaning fleshy, but mighty in God for pulling down
strongholds
casting down
arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God
bringing every thought into

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captivity to the obedience of Christ and being ready to punish now we're gonna
Dissect that word in a second all
Disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled
So, you know what that means that that punish means really to vindicate
You know when the Lord gives you a word to share and it's truth and you're just sharing the truth in love

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Someone who is speaking on behalf of the devil or the liar because they've been manipulated
It their their wisdom cannot stand against yours
Because you have God's wisdom and and that and that's a disobedient spirit
That's causing them to speak now if you're usually watch any of those debates

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typically the people just walk away with a bunch of you know swearing and
hateful things and because it's like I can't compete with truth
So I just have to be angry or nastier and more hateful, you know
And so the Lord has given us this moment in time to really represent
Him to love speaking truth and not be afraid

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He says what I tell you in the quiet stand up on the roof and shout it out
Right because that's what the Lord wants us to do, you know
I believe this is a moment of time if the worship team can come forward. I
believe this is a moment of time. We're really
The
Courage is the courage of every believer is just gonna rise up and you know what happens

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You ever notice when?
If you're the only one who's a believer in the room for what you could see
It can be fearful to speak up can't it and
Because you don't want to be the odd one
You don't want to be the one that everybody murmurs about know they're the one they're a weirdo or whatever. Yeah

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So our instinct is to just be quiet
Even though we've been reading that we're not supposed to but what happens when one person just starts speaking out
And you're like, yeah
What he said what she said, right? I agree with that and then all sudden what? Yeah. Yeah
Yeah, well, that's what's happening right now around the world

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Suddenly people are saying I'm not gonna be quiet. No
No, I'm gonna speak the truth because the truth will set you free right when the Sun set you free you are
Free indeed and and and the world is so shackled with lies
They're under the yoke of the evil one
In fact, the word says actually the whole world is under the sway of the evil one

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And I know I've shared this before but you know what that word sway means. It's actually what they say when a mom is like
Swinging a baby and it could also be a cradle, you know, well, the devil is just nurturing this generation
Just believe me don't believe them

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Don't believe the good guys
Just trust me, I mean that's what the world is being indoctrinated into a demonic philosophy
And yet we have the words of truth, right?
And so we need to just speak it out and shout it out
You know this what has happened to Charlie Kirk and others
Okay, it's just a kernel of wheat. Remember what Jesus said in John 12 24 to 26

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most assuredly I say to you unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and
Dies it remains alone. But if it dies it produces much grain
He who loves his life will lose it
But he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life
In other words, he's saying don't live life for your comfort zone for what you were

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What you were comfortable with live my life
Live my life. That's the eternal life
He wants you to live is to live his life to speak out
And you know this this seed that died and fell into that it's just gonna grow and grow and grow it's gonna be a harvest
I'm sorry. We are heading into a massive
Harvest and we need to be ready. We need to be you know, cleanse within you know

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If there's things that we're still ensnared with with any type of addiction and then any type of sin that's still
Shackling us. We need to be free of that. We need to be clear-minded and
And a full vessel like Jerry was saying a vessel that's just
Overflowing overflowing with goodness. We need to be ready because the Lord is counting on you

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He's counting on you to speak out for him
You are his messenger
You are his ambassador. He is sending us. Isn't that amazing? Like I don't know if he can trust me
Well, he chose you
He trusts you
Now you have to trust him. Amen. Let's all stand up and Lord

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We just thank you that you have put us on earth for such a time as this this epic
Monumental time to bring many to you Lord and Lord. We need your Holy Spirit to just fill us
To fill us right now to complete

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And if there's anyone here right now who has never
Given their lives to Jesus Christ
Probably a lot of what I've said right now
Is strange and peculiar
But right now you can receive Jesus as your Lord and Savior
And it's so easy

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Romans 10 9 10 says if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is the Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him
From the dead you will be saved. Why not get saved right here
Right now on this epic time
This is the moment be a minister of this moment and just pray something like this Father God

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I am a sinner and
I need to be saved. I
Believe that Jesus Christ died on the cross for my sins. He became my sin on the cross
So that I could have eternal life he paid for my sins

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Offering me forgiveness today. I want to receive that gift of
Forgiveness I want to receive you as my Lord and Savior
Today, I give you my life. I lay my life down for you right here right now and
I asked you to fill me with your living spirit your Holy Spirit

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In Jesus name
Amen, if you did that today, please come up afterwards
We'd love to talk to you more and give you a Bible
And so may the Lord bless you and keep you may he be gracious to you
And may he lift up his countenance and give you peace father God
We just thank you that you have chosen us

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For great things because you are great in Jesus name. Amen. Let's give the Lord a round of applause
Thanks for joining us at Lansdale Life Church as we praise God and discuss his word

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Be blessed and have a great day
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