March 11, 2026 • 42 mins
The Porch offers a Scriptural Reflection on Endurance, Faith, and Hope in the Last Days. The Church should prepare itself, remain vigilant, and continue God’s work, knowing that the Lord’s return will be sudden and unmistakable. Faith and hope are essential qualities for enduring to the end.
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if you need prayer. We care about you. Forgive me
if I sound a little nasal tonight. Don't know if
I caught a cold or the allergies, or want a
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little under the weather. So we'll do as best we
can and just press on. I praise the Lord for
my home first, my salvation, for my home, my wife,
my family, sons, daughter in law's, grandchildren, furry kids and
everything I have. Praise them for provision and protection, for
the dreams and the visions. I praise him for the
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availability of divine health and healing. I praise him for
abiding favor, for the continuing revelation of the Holy Spirit,
for making me and us new creations, and allowing us
to live in these prophetic times. Let's pray someone twenty
two verse six is pray for the peace of Jerusalem
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and they prosper who love you. A lot going on
in Middle East right now, so we pray for is.
Pray for a Jewish brothers and sisters. We pray for
our Middle East neighbors that are biblical in nature, like
the Persians in Iran.
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Pray for America, that.
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He would forgive us she had his grace upon us,
guide our leadership and help us get through these trying times.
I pray for the people of Iran and the soldiers
involved in this situation and all the other surrounding nations.
We're watching prophecy be fulfilled. So stay prayed up. Pray
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for the fatherless and the widow, the persecuted and the martyr,
the innocence and those who are victims of injustice. I
pray against the slaughter of the innocence, from missing and
exploited children, the victims of human sex trafficking, I pray
for our brothers and sisters around the world being persecuted
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and slaughtered for their faith. The growing religious persecution and
anti Semitism, which seems to be growing by day. Attacks
against believers and against Jews just seems to be in
the news all the time. I pray against the plans
and efforts of the spirit of the Antichrist, who's behind
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all those things I just mentioned. I pray for Divine Holeness,
health and healing for those who need it like me
right now, for His protection and the inspiration of the
Holy Spirit that would wake us up to answer the
call to do what needs to be done in this hour.
I pray for the open doors for all the projects
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that He's ordained, all the plans that he's given, and
the kingdom finances needed to do all of it. So, Father,
we come to you in the name above all names,
you sure your son. We thank you, We love you,
we praise you and worship you. We ask you to
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watch over us. We want to feel you, Lord. We
want to feel you Father, We want to feel your
Holy Spirit.
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Lord.
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Thank you for the Cross, the empty Tomb, the Upper Room,
everything that you've done and everything that you are doing.
By your stripes, we were healed. And by your word
and your spirit, we are being healed. We are being strengthened,
we are being uplifted and edified. So thank your Holy
Spirit for doing that, for walking with us, teaching us,
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guiding us, encouraging us. Touch us, now, touch our more bodies,
quicken it, revive it, watch over this technology. Let your
spirit be present this day on the porch. And I
pray all these things in your Shoe's name.
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Amen.
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of the following information. So, like I said, little one
to the weather, not feeling my best, my voice rasped,
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heer than normal, but we're going to press on, do
the best we can for as long as we can.
I just felt like I needed to do this, And
actually I had another Bible study ready to go, spent
two days on it, and then during the night as
I was awake, coughing and hacking, which I hopefully won't
do here.
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And now.
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I suddenly heard the word endurance. At first I thought
he was talking to me about what I'm dealing with
her the things that are going on, And I realized, now, no,
we need to talk about endurance. If we're in a
fight to the finish, what's it going to take to
get to the finish.
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It's going to take endurance.
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So while I have notes and I have scriptures, and
I have my pretty much normal structure, I just want to.
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Talk to you from my heart.
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So of course, as I laid there, I immediately in
my mind went to Matthew twenty four. So let's go there.
We'll start with verse three. Now, as he sat on
the mount of Olives, and if you want to make
a little note right there, this isn't just a random
place for him to be, as he's saying it, It's
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a prophetic place. The disciples came to him privately, saying,
tell us when these things will be, what will be
the sign of your coming and of the end of
the age. And Yeshue answered and said to them, take
heed that no one deceives you, for many will come
in my name, saying I am the Messiah and will
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deceive many. And you will hear of wars and rumors
of war. See that you are not troubled. For all
these things must come to pass. But the end is
not yet. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom
against kingdom. There will be famines, pestilences, earthquakes in various places.
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All these things are the beginning of the sorrows. Then
they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you,
and you'll be hated by all nations from my name's sake.
Then many will be offended and will betray one another,
and will hate one another. The many false prophets will
rise up and deceive many. And because lawlessness will abound,
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the love of many will grow cold. But he who
endures to the end shall be saved. And this gospel
of the Kingdom will be preached in all the world
as a witness to all the nations.
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And then the end will come.
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A lot of chronological words there at that time, in
those days, we see this in our mind, doesn't really
grasp it. We want to understand it. But I think
what he's doing more than pointing us to a prophetic time.
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He's telling us to expectantly watch for him and live accordingly.
Sometimes in our zeal to understand, you know, prophecy, eschatology
and all those things. We lose the fact that what
are the basics of what he is saying, what's the
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core of what he's saying. He's saying, be ready and
live like you're ready, live accordingly. So the glimpses of
the future he provibes are intended to shape our lives
here and now, not just for speculation. And I don't
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really think that's what it was. It was to prepare
the here and now. Focus on that. So when we
examine this passage, we look at the implications of his
teaching on our lives in the days in which we
are living and where are we We're in the interim
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between the resurrection and ascension, we'll call that one thing
and his return. So the unpleasant drama unfolding at the
end of the age has two acts. His birth to
his death is act one, and his resurrection and his
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return is act two. So the time we're living in
that time, which began on the resurrection, on the ascension
in the upper Room, is the end of the age
and the reason we're still living in it because judgment,
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though delayed, has already begun and if we can understand
that it might motivate us to do more. He goes
on in Matthew twenty four of US twenty two. And
unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved.
But for the elect's sake, those days will be shortened, shortened.
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And I think the elect he's speaking of of the
Jews at the end, those that get saved and accept
him as Messiah, those are the elect. I don't believe
that the church is here at that point. Be that
as it may. If he didn't cut it short, nobody
would be saved. That's how bad it's going to be.
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Because he explains how bad it's going to be in
verse thirty seven. But as the days of Noah were,
so also will the coming of the Son of Man
be bad times. For as in the days before the
flood they were eating and drinking, and marrying and giving
in marriage until the day that Noah entered the ark
and did not know until the flood came and took
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them all away, so also will the coming of the
Son of Man be Well, now we know it, the
times are going to be like because we're living in them.
He said, you will be hated by all for my namesake.
But he who endures to the end will be saved.
He who endures to the end will be saved. See
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that you're not troubled, for all these things must come
to pass, but the end is not yet. Troubled equals frightened.
In the end, it's the point of termination, which for
us is the ultimate goal, the appearance of the King
of kings and the Lord of lords. He who endures
to the end shall be saved. That's what I kept
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hearing in my spirit, and I knew the next scripture
was in the Gospel of the Kingdom will be preached,
and all the world as a witnessed, all the nations,
and then the end will come. So those two things
are tied together, the preaching of the Gospel and the
conclusion of all things. This isn't a casual We're going
to sit around and wait for the King to come
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and get us. No, we have to endure, we have
to undergo owes some things, we have to bear up
in the trials. We have to fortitude and persevere. So
when he says that he's going to shorten those days
to make sure that all flesh has the opportunity to
be saved. He's offering a promise of protection and rescue
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from what could ultimately destroy us and keep us from him.
And the thing that encourages me about that is he
sees and he knows, he knows what is going on.
He's not surprised by anything. And I think sometimes we
lose sight of that. Psalm twenty five, verse fifteen says,
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my eyes are continually to the Lord, for he will
bring my feet out of the net. What net is that?
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Well?
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Could be mentioned in Psalm ninety one, starting verse one.
He who dwells in the secret place of the Most
High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I
will say of the Lord. He is my refuge and
my fortress, my God. In him, I will trust. Surely
he shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler,
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that's one who catches birds at a trap or a net,
and from the perilous pestilence. He shall cover you with
his feathers, and under his wings you shall take refuge.
His truth shall be your shield and buckler. You shall
not be afraid of the terror by night, nor of
the hourrow that flies by day, nor of the pestilence
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that walks in darkness, nor of the destruction that lays
waste at noonday. Read that to yourself, Som ninety one.
Remind yourself, speak it out loud over yourself, and remember
this that during times of terrible persecution and threats from
the enemy, there's always hope. And they always had hope
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because they knew that salvation was theirs. And if we
would concentrate on the guarantee of our salvation, we wouldn't
be as frightened of what's going on, the book of
Axs Church, they saw the destruction of the Temple and
the city of Jerusalem in seventy a d by the
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Roman armies, which were a natural harbinger of the armies
of the Antichrist. So they were warned and they were
called to endure. It's about to get bad, and these
times of trial they will sift the true born again
believer from the false fair weather ones, the ones who
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say all the right things and quote scripture. Maybe they
even sing on stage or perform in arenas, but the
trials will sift them, will expose them. So, no matter
what is going on right now, if you feel pressured
to give up and turn your back on the Lord
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don't do it. You have no other hope. In the
midst of all my prayers and my petitions, in the
midst of all of my interaction with the Lord, the
one thing that is always there is Lord. You are
the only hope that I have. Remember the benefits of
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standing firm and continue to live for Messiah, standing firm
to the end. No, it's not a way to get saved.
You are saved, but it is the evidence, the byproduct
of someone who's fully committed to you. Sure, look what
it says in Mark thirteen, starting verse nine. But watch
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out for yourselves. So they will deliver you up to councils,
and you'll be beaten in the synagogue. You'll be brought
before rulers and kings for my sake for a testimony
to them. And the gospel must first be preached to
all nations. But when they arrest you and you up,
do not worry beforehand or premeditate what you will speak.
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But whatever is given to you in that hour, speak that,
for it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit.
Now brother will betray brother to death, and a father
his child and children will rise up against parents and
cause them to be put to death, and you will
be hated by all for my name's sake. But he
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who endures to the end shall be saved. It doesn't
seem like very fun times, does it. Now They experience
some of that immediately, and it's gotten worse. So be diligent.
Your salvation inspires it that diligence is a byproduct of
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the life dedicated to the Lord. And I'll say this
endurance is the means to joy in the Lord. You
focus on him, you read the Word, you listen to
the Word, you praise, and you worship, and your.
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Inner man or woman is edified.
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It's built up, its strengthened because it knows that Messiah
lives in us. He hears us, He knows what's going on,
so that we can remain courageous and hopeful to the end,
firm in our faith, steadfast in our belief, in our
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courage and our hope. Reveal that our faith is real.
That's what people want to see. They want to know
why you have faith. They want to know why in
the midst of all of this you can hold on.
Second Corinthians five seven says, if we walk by faith
and not by sight, you know when I first got saved.
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I'd read that scripture and I'd hear it, but I
really didn't understand it till I had to walk by
faith and not by sight. It means that my eyes
don't tell me the truth. My faith does. Because without
enduring faithfulness will get blown away by the winds of temptation,
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by false teaching, or persecution, or manipulation of the enemy.
It's the anchor our faith in Him. Our faith that
began at the cross is the anchor that holds in
the storm. And our endurance is related to the quality
of our relationship with our al Abba Father, our relationship
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with God. God's people need to remain firm encouraged through
every trial and persecution because it's going to get worse.
We're seeing things happen in the world and now in America,
the violence against churches and synagogues, the violence against believers,
the attacks. Were seeing it or feeling it, and I
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know some are afraid, they don't know what they're going
to do. What do I do if that happens to me, Well,
you listen to the Spirit, you take his guidance, and
then you hold onto your faith. So the secret to
enduring is trust and obedience. Proverbs three, verses five through eight.
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Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean
not on your own understanding and all your ways. Acknowledge Him,
and he shall direct your paths. Do not be wise
in your own eyes. Fear the Lord, and depart from evil.
It will be health to your flesh and strength to
your bones. Trust in and rely confidently on the Lord
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with all your heart. Don't hold anything back, and do
not rely on your own insights or under trust in him.
Trust God to give you patience to endure. Even in
the small trials you face daily, Take them to him.
Obey him even if obedience demands dangerous activities, or you
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know it's unattractive.
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It's not comfortable.
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It's not easy to be obedient if you can only
if obedience is easy, when it's comfortable, it's.
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Not really obedience.
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John says in First John, Chapter two, verse eighteen, Little children,
it is the last hour. And as you've heard that
the Antichrist is coming. Even now, many antichrist have come
by which we know that this is the last hour.
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The spirit of the.
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Antichrist has been around, done some dry runs in people,
from Nero to Hitler and beyond. But the next one,
the one that's in the Antichrist, will be the true
and perfected evil, but he'll still be defeated.
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Hold on to that.
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Remind yourself of that, because I'm telling you from my
heart with great concern. The last days will not be
an easy time for God's people. And there will be
some that'll compromise. They'll go along to get along, and
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they'll do things that will clearly indicate they're not born again,
and they'll think, well, I escaped it. Well, no you didn't.
You jumped out of the frying pan into the fire.
So these last days, the time in between the first
and second coming, the time that began, and you know,
on the ascension in the upper room, the clock began
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to tick. And the readers of first John, the first
century readers, they lived in the last days, they understood it.
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And so do we.
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But why is it so difficult for us to lock
in on this? Is it the false teachers who pretend
to be believers and lore weak people away from the Lord,
away from the Word. Because that is happening, It has
happened and will continue to happen.
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What is it?
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What is it that gets people to follow the blind
into the ditch, and just before the final conclusion of
all things, the great Antichrist, the one that will be
filled by Satan, will arise, and I personally believe without
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a doubt he is waiting in the wings somewhere, possibly
manipulating a lot of what we're seeing going on, and
not just in the wars and finances and politics and health,
so many things going on that if you're not paying attention.
And I used to share it every weak on reflections
in the dark, and I've decided, you know what, let's
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focus on getting people saved, healed and delivered. The other
stuff will take care of itself. And if you're called
to know what, you will. But there are things that
are going on that clearly are the days of Noah,
genetic manipulation, just stuff that Larry and I talk about
daily that are frightening for those who have no hope.
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So the Holy Spirit is there to walk with us,
teach us and guide us. He's there to point out
error so that we will not be deceived. That's what
the discernment is, the discerning of spirits. What's the spirit
behind this teaching, And that's why the God's word has
to be clear early and cleanly taught, so that the
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weaker members, those that aren't strong enough, don't fall prey
to the false teachers who come disguised as as sheep
at are wolves who will tear them apart. So preparing
ourselves to be ready for the second coming of the Lord,
that's what should be on the forefront of our mind.
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How do I do that? What should I be doing?
I mentioned that Yashua was sitting on the Mount of Olives,
and that's the very place where the prophet Zechariah predicted
that the Messiah would stand when he comes the second comes,
in his case, the second time to establish his kingdom
Zachariah fourteen four. And in that day his feet will
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stand on the Mount of Olives, which faces Jerusalem on
the east. And the Mount of Olives shall be split
in two from east to work, making a very large valley.
Half of the mountain shall move to the north and
half of it towards the south. And we see the
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angels and Acts one to eleven, say to the disciples
who were staring at Jesus leaving men of Galilee, why
are you standing here staring into heaven? Issue has been
taken from you into heaven? But someday he will return
from heaven and the same way you saw him go.
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So it was fitting.
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It was the perfect place for the Lord to explain
to them about when he would come in power and
what he expected of them and of us. So he
emphasized that these events will take place before the end
of the age. He pointed out that don't be concerned
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about exact dates. Be more concerned about being prepared, living
in a way that is consistent with God's word and
God's will, so that no matter when the Lord comes
in glory, we'll be ready and he can claim us
as his own. So we should be aware of the
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signs of the second Coming. But I'll also say these
signs are easily misread, and people do and they get
caught up in the apocalyptic cults, and they misread the signs,
and I think the enemy does that to discourage people.
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The signs for me began when Israel became a nation
and the fig tree blossomed. That was the sign, and
the enemy took it to and things got crazy after that.
Don't be fooled. Don't let anyone fool you. That's what
he says. I was fooled before I got saved. Remember
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I said I was raised Catholic, I went to Catholic
elementary school, high school, university, I did all the rituals that.
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Went with it.
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And I was fooled. I was fooled into the occult.
I was fooled into the New Age because I had
no grounding in the word. I didn't have to have
the abiding presence of the Holy Spirit. It's easy to
get sincerely fooled. You are sincerely looking for the truth,
and what you are fed and what you receive is error.
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And it takes the Lord to open our eyes. If
we focus on the Lord, if we focus on his words,
we won't be deceived. We won't get fooled by the
false signs of false teachers. Our eyes will be on him.
So let's continue to do the important work that needs
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to be completed. Before he returns, the gospel of the
good News of the Kingdom, the message of salvation would
be preached throughout all the world. That's the mission. It
was the disciples mission, and it's hours today. The end
times and the final judgment are a path that we
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should walk with urgency to tell others, Hey, you don't
want to die, do you? You're going to you've already
been judged in sin because of man. And there's a
way out though, and there's only one way out, and
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we're going to show it to you, and people want
to reject it. That can't be right. God wouldn't make
only one way if your house is on fire and
the firemen get there, or somebody says, come on, this
is the way out. This one door is the way out. Now,
I don't think I don't want to go out that door.
I want to go out a different It's the only
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door there is to escape the fire.
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Come on.
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There should be an urgency in our hearts to be
a living witness, and that's what the persecution is about.
That's why the enemy does it. It shakes even strong
believers and may make them lose their way, lose their focus,
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find it difficult to be loyal. That's when spiritual warfare
that's gone on for too long breaks people. You can't
stay on the front lines full time. You have to rest,
you have to come off the front lines. You have
to stop fighting. You have to listen to the captain
of the host and do what he says, not what
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you think you should be doing, because his return will
be unmistakable. It'll be no doubt that it's him, Mark
thirteen thirty three. Take heed, watch him, pray, for you
do not know when the time is. It is like
a man going to a far country who left his
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house and gave authority to his servants and to each
his work, and commanded the doorkeeper to watch. Watch therefore,
for you do not know when the master of the
house is coming in the evening, at midnight, at the
crowing of the rooster, or in the morning, lest coming
suddenly he finds you sleeping. And what I say to you,
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I say to all watch. I find so many people
caught up in the wrong things, and they're not watching.
If you have to be told that Messiah has come,
then you don't know the word. Because Messiah's coming will
be obvious to everyone, even to the Jews that don't believe.
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They'll look upon the one whom they pierced. So since
we don't know when he's arriving, let's keep busy. Let's
not be lazy and just chill out, fall asleep, and
then when the sound comes, oh my gosh, we're running around.
I needed to do this, I needed to do that.
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I'm not ready worse yet is well, he's not here
right now, So I think I can get away with this.
I think I can do this. And it's better to say,
you know, ask for forgiveness and ask for permission. No,
because you may run out of time, you may miss
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the moment. So let's live it right. Let's do it
right until he appears, or until we're no longer here,
because we never know. I mean, I believe I'm gonna
fly and not die. But the Lord knows. It's his will,
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his plan. I know what he's shown me. I know
what I believe, and I proceed as such. But I
will be busy. I will be doing what I believe
he needs me to do. I will be prepared, realizing
that any day is the day of his return. And
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I think that's what drove the book of that church.
I think that's why they were so powerful. I think
that's why they turned the world upside down and drove
the enemy crazy. His return will be sudden, it will
be unexpected, and you won't be able to be prepared.
You won't be able to get prepared. So just be prepared.
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Don't live irresponsibly, sitting and waiting, doing nothing, self seeking,
self serving, you know, using his delay as an excuse
not to do what we're supposed to do in building
his kingdom, developing a false sense of security based upon
somebody else's calculation of events, or letting our curiosity about
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the end times divert us from doing God's work. That's
why I stopped teaching about the Nephilum. That's why I
stopped teaching all the things that I taught for a decade.
It had no eternal value. It didn't get people saved,
heal and delivered. It was a distraction from the calling.
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I don't know when he's coming. I couldn't tell you.
I could say it could be around this time based
upon current events and what it looks like. But I
also know that the calendar we follow is not the
right calendar that he established. So who knows what he's
going to do. But I'm not on the time and
place committee. I'm in the welcoming committee. Ephesians one, starting
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verse eighteen, the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, that
you may know what is the hope of his calling,
What are the riches of his glory, of his inheritance
in the saints, And what is the exceeding greatness of
His power toward us who believe according to the working
of His power. So I think that's what I am
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inspired to do today. I could have taken the day off,
I could have done a rewind and put up an
old teaching, and not only did it not feel right,
the Lord had other plans. So I pray that the
eyes of your heart, the very center and core of
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your being, may be enlightened, flooded with the light of
the Holy Spirit, so that you know and cherish the hope,
the divine guarantee, the confident expectation to which He has
called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints,
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God's people, that's who the saints are. So that you
will begin to know what the immeasurable and unlimited and
surpassing greatness of His active spiritual power is in us
who believe these are in accordance with the working of
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His mighty strength. Because it's his strength that propels us forward.
It's his strength that drives us. In that word, hope,
what is the hope? The hope expresses a cherished desire
along with the confident assurance of obtaining that which is
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longed for.
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Gee.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
That sounds familiar Hebrews eleven to one. It's the amplified version.
Faith is the assure, it's the title deed, the confirmation
of things hoped for, things divinely guaranteed, and the evidence
of things not seen, the conviction of their reality. Faith
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comprehends as fact what cannot be experienced by the physical senses.
That's the kind of faith we need in this hour.
And if you have faith, that kind of faith, you
will have hope. And with that hope you will endure
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to the end. That's what this is all about. We're
watching the wars and the rumors of wars, of watching
the earthquakes and the volcanoes and the signs and all
the things happening. We're watching planets aligne excuse me, planets
a line, and all the things going on in the world.
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We're watching things happening in the financial world, We're watching
things happening in the medical world. And it's all swirling
around us at the same time. And it would be
easy to be overwhelmed. It'd be easy to say I
just want to crawl into a fetal position. But no,
we need to stand up. We need to take a
stand when we say, okay, I got my eyes on heaven.
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I'm waiting for the King. I have no control over
all these other things, but what I do have control
over is being ready for him and doing what he
asked me to do in this hour, getting people saved,
heal and delivered. Starting with those around me, telling them, hey,
are you noticing certain things? Are you feeling something inside
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of you? Are you concerned about? What are you going
to spend eternity? If this will your last moment on
earth and you stepped over into the afterlife, where's it
going to be spent. Whatever answer they have, you should
have a response to, a loving response, and then explain
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to them why you have hope, why you're not afraid.
Speaker 2 (40:06):
So from my.
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Heart, the word tonight for you and for me is endurance.
So Father, Abbah, Papa, Daddy, you help me get through.
Thank you you inspired this flowed this morning. First thing,
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I pray a touch to whoever you wanted it to touch.
Somebody who's fearful, somebody losing hope, somebody being pulled off
the path to stand strong, to hold on, maybe to
reach out for help and say hey, I'm slipping, Grab
me right now, by faith, we pray. If that's you,
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hold on. We're reaching out, we're grabbing, we're saying we'll
stand with you, We'll pray for you. Get your eyes
off the shadows and get it on to the light.
Unto him. Now, Lord, whatever help we need, whether it's
in heart, mind, body, soul, spirit, provision, whatever it is,
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and healing, we ask for you to supply our needs
and your riches and your glory, to do what you
need done so that we can be confident we've done
everything that you asked of us. And we ask this
from the heart in your shoe his name. Amen, May
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the Lord bless you and keep you. May the Lord
make his face to shine upon you and be gracious
to you. May the Lord utter nay your shoe a
Hamasiah Jesus the Messiah, lift up his countenance upon you
and give you peace. Give you shall oam. I'm Richard Grund.
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if I sound a little nasal tonight. Don't know if
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little under the weather. So we'll do as best we
can and just press on. I praise the Lord for
my home first, my salvation, for my home, my wife,
my family, sons, daughter in law's, grandchildren, furry kids and
everything I have. Praise them for provision and protection, for
the dreams and the visions. I praise him for the
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availability of divine health and healing. I praise him for
abiding favor, for the continuing revelation of the Holy Spirit,
for making me and us new creations, and allowing us
to live in these prophetic times. Let's pray someone twenty
two verse six is pray for the peace of Jerusalem
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and they prosper who love you. A lot going on
in Middle East right now, so we pray for is.
Pray for a Jewish brothers and sisters. We pray for
our Middle East neighbors that are biblical in nature, like
the Persians in Iran.
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Pray for America, that.
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He would forgive us she had his grace upon us,
guide our leadership and help us get through these trying times.
I pray for the people of Iran and the soldiers
involved in this situation and all the other surrounding nations.
We're watching prophecy be fulfilled. So stay prayed up. Pray
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for the fatherless and the widow, the persecuted and the martyr,
the innocence and those who are victims of injustice. I
pray against the slaughter of the innocence, from missing and
exploited children, the victims of human sex trafficking, I pray
for our brothers and sisters around the world being persecuted
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and slaughtered for their faith. The growing religious persecution and
anti Semitism, which seems to be growing by day. Attacks
against believers and against Jews just seems to be in
the news all the time. I pray against the plans
and efforts of the spirit of the Antichrist, who's behind
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all those things I just mentioned. I pray for Divine Holeness,
health and healing for those who need it like me
right now, for His protection and the inspiration of the
Holy Spirit that would wake us up to answer the
call to do what needs to be done in this hour.
I pray for the open doors for all the projects
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that He's ordained, all the plans that he's given, and
the kingdom finances needed to do all of it. So, Father,
we come to you in the name above all names,
you sure your son. We thank you, We love you,
we praise you and worship you. We ask you to
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watch over us. We want to feel you, Lord. We
want to feel you Father, We want to feel your
Holy Spirit.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
Lord.
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Thank you for the Cross, the empty Tomb, the Upper Room,
everything that you've done and everything that you are doing.
By your stripes, we were healed. And by your word
and your spirit, we are being healed. We are being strengthened,
we are being uplifted and edified. So thank your Holy
Spirit for doing that, for walking with us, teaching us,
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guiding us, encouraging us. Touch us, now, touch our more bodies,
quicken it, revive it, watch over this technology. Let your
spirit be present this day on the porch. And I
pray all these things in your Shoe's name.
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Amen.
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to the weather, not feeling my best, my voice rasped,
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heer than normal, but we're going to press on, do
the best we can for as long as we can.
I just felt like I needed to do this, And
actually I had another Bible study ready to go, spent
two days on it, and then during the night as
I was awake, coughing and hacking, which I hopefully won't
do here.
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And now.
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I suddenly heard the word endurance. At first I thought
he was talking to me about what I'm dealing with
her the things that are going on, And I realized, now, no,
we need to talk about endurance. If we're in a
fight to the finish, what's it going to take to
get to the finish.
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It's going to take endurance.
Speaker 1 (07:44):
So while I have notes and I have scriptures, and
I have my pretty much normal structure, I just want to.
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Talk to you from my heart.
Speaker 1 (07:52):
So of course, as I laid there, I immediately in
my mind went to Matthew twenty four. So let's go there.
We'll start with verse three. Now, as he sat on
the mount of Olives, and if you want to make
a little note right there, this isn't just a random
place for him to be, as he's saying it, It's
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a prophetic place. The disciples came to him privately, saying,
tell us when these things will be, what will be
the sign of your coming and of the end of
the age. And Yeshue answered and said to them, take
heed that no one deceives you, for many will come
in my name, saying I am the Messiah and will
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deceive many. And you will hear of wars and rumors
of war. See that you are not troubled. For all
these things must come to pass. But the end is
not yet. For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom
against kingdom. There will be famines, pestilences, earthquakes in various places.
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All these things are the beginning of the sorrows. Then
they will deliver you up to tribulation and kill you,
and you'll be hated by all nations from my name's sake.
Then many will be offended and will betray one another,
and will hate one another. The many false prophets will
rise up and deceive many. And because lawlessness will abound,
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the love of many will grow cold. But he who
endures to the end shall be saved. And this gospel
of the Kingdom will be preached in all the world
as a witness to all the nations.
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And then the end will come.
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A lot of chronological words there at that time, in
those days, we see this in our mind, doesn't really
grasp it. We want to understand it. But I think
what he's doing more than pointing us to a prophetic time.
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He's telling us to expectantly watch for him and live accordingly.
Sometimes in our zeal to understand, you know, prophecy, eschatology
and all those things. We lose the fact that what
are the basics of what he is saying, what's the
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core of what he's saying. He's saying, be ready and
live like you're ready, live accordingly. So the glimpses of
the future he provibes are intended to shape our lives
here and now, not just for speculation. And I don't
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really think that's what it was. It was to prepare
the here and now. Focus on that. So when we
examine this passage, we look at the implications of his
teaching on our lives in the days in which we
are living and where are we We're in the interim
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between the resurrection and ascension, we'll call that one thing
and his return. So the unpleasant drama unfolding at the
end of the age has two acts. His birth to
his death is act one, and his resurrection and his
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return is act two. So the time we're living in
that time, which began on the resurrection, on the ascension
in the upper Room, is the end of the age
and the reason we're still living in it because judgment,
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though delayed, has already begun and if we can understand
that it might motivate us to do more. He goes
on in Matthew twenty four of US twenty two. And
unless those days were shortened, no flesh would be saved.
But for the elect's sake, those days will be shortened, shortened.
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And I think the elect he's speaking of of the
Jews at the end, those that get saved and accept
him as Messiah, those are the elect. I don't believe
that the church is here at that point. Be that
as it may. If he didn't cut it short, nobody
would be saved. That's how bad it's going to be.
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Because he explains how bad it's going to be in
verse thirty seven. But as the days of Noah were,
so also will the coming of the Son of Man
be bad times. For as in the days before the
flood they were eating and drinking, and marrying and giving
in marriage until the day that Noah entered the ark
and did not know until the flood came and took
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them all away, so also will the coming of the
Son of Man be Well, now we know it, the
times are going to be like because we're living in them.
He said, you will be hated by all for my namesake.
But he who endures to the end will be saved.
He who endures to the end will be saved. See
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that you're not troubled, for all these things must come
to pass, but the end is not yet. Troubled equals frightened.
In the end, it's the point of termination, which for
us is the ultimate goal, the appearance of the King
of kings and the Lord of lords. He who endures
to the end shall be saved. That's what I kept
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hearing in my spirit, and I knew the next scripture
was in the Gospel of the Kingdom will be preached,
and all the world as a witnessed, all the nations,
and then the end will come. So those two things
are tied together, the preaching of the Gospel and the
conclusion of all things. This isn't a casual We're going
to sit around and wait for the King to come
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and get us. No, we have to endure, we have
to undergo owes some things, we have to bear up
in the trials. We have to fortitude and persevere. So
when he says that he's going to shorten those days
to make sure that all flesh has the opportunity to
be saved. He's offering a promise of protection and rescue
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from what could ultimately destroy us and keep us from him.
And the thing that encourages me about that is he
sees and he knows, he knows what is going on.
He's not surprised by anything. And I think sometimes we
lose sight of that. Psalm twenty five, verse fifteen says,
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my eyes are continually to the Lord, for he will
bring my feet out of the net. What net is that?
Speaker 2 (14:47):
Well?
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Could be mentioned in Psalm ninety one, starting verse one.
He who dwells in the secret place of the Most
High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. I
will say of the Lord. He is my refuge and
my fortress, my God. In him, I will trust. Surely
he shall deliver you from the snare of the fowler,
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that's one who catches birds at a trap or a net,
and from the perilous pestilence. He shall cover you with
his feathers, and under his wings you shall take refuge.
His truth shall be your shield and buckler. You shall
not be afraid of the terror by night, nor of
the hourrow that flies by day, nor of the pestilence
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that walks in darkness, nor of the destruction that lays
waste at noonday. Read that to yourself, Som ninety one.
Remind yourself, speak it out loud over yourself, and remember
this that during times of terrible persecution and threats from
the enemy, there's always hope. And they always had hope
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because they knew that salvation was theirs. And if we
would concentrate on the guarantee of our salvation, we wouldn't
be as frightened of what's going on, the book of
Axs Church, they saw the destruction of the Temple and
the city of Jerusalem in seventy a d by the
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Roman armies, which were a natural harbinger of the armies
of the Antichrist. So they were warned and they were
called to endure. It's about to get bad, and these
times of trial they will sift the true born again
believer from the false fair weather ones, the ones who
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say all the right things and quote scripture. Maybe they
even sing on stage or perform in arenas, but the
trials will sift them, will expose them. So, no matter
what is going on right now, if you feel pressured
to give up and turn your back on the Lord
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don't do it. You have no other hope. In the
midst of all my prayers and my petitions, in the
midst of all of my interaction with the Lord, the
one thing that is always there is Lord. You are
the only hope that I have. Remember the benefits of
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standing firm and continue to live for Messiah, standing firm
to the end. No, it's not a way to get saved.
You are saved, but it is the evidence, the byproduct
of someone who's fully committed to you. Sure, look what
it says in Mark thirteen, starting verse nine. But watch
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out for yourselves. So they will deliver you up to councils,
and you'll be beaten in the synagogue. You'll be brought
before rulers and kings for my sake for a testimony
to them. And the gospel must first be preached to
all nations. But when they arrest you and you up,
do not worry beforehand or premeditate what you will speak.
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But whatever is given to you in that hour, speak that,
for it is not you who speak, but the Holy Spirit.
Now brother will betray brother to death, and a father
his child and children will rise up against parents and
cause them to be put to death, and you will
be hated by all for my name's sake. But he
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who endures to the end shall be saved. It doesn't
seem like very fun times, does it. Now They experience
some of that immediately, and it's gotten worse. So be diligent.
Your salvation inspires it that diligence is a byproduct of
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the life dedicated to the Lord. And I'll say this
endurance is the means to joy in the Lord. You
focus on him, you read the Word, you listen to
the Word, you praise, and you worship, and your.
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Inner man or woman is edified.
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It's built up, its strengthened because it knows that Messiah
lives in us. He hears us, He knows what's going on,
so that we can remain courageous and hopeful to the end,
firm in our faith, steadfast in our belief, in our
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courage and our hope. Reveal that our faith is real.
That's what people want to see. They want to know
why you have faith. They want to know why in
the midst of all of this you can hold on.
Second Corinthians five seven says, if we walk by faith
and not by sight, you know when I first got saved.
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I'd read that scripture and I'd hear it, but I
really didn't understand it till I had to walk by
faith and not by sight. It means that my eyes
don't tell me the truth. My faith does. Because without
enduring faithfulness will get blown away by the winds of temptation,
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by false teaching, or persecution, or manipulation of the enemy.
It's the anchor our faith in Him. Our faith that
began at the cross is the anchor that holds in
the storm. And our endurance is related to the quality
of our relationship with our al Abba Father, our relationship
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with God. God's people need to remain firm encouraged through
every trial and persecution because it's going to get worse.
We're seeing things happen in the world and now in America,
the violence against churches and synagogues, the violence against believers,
the attacks. Were seeing it or feeling it, and I
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know some are afraid, they don't know what they're going
to do. What do I do if that happens to me, Well,
you listen to the Spirit, you take his guidance, and
then you hold onto your faith. So the secret to
enduring is trust and obedience. Proverbs three, verses five through eight.
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Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean
not on your own understanding and all your ways. Acknowledge Him,
and he shall direct your paths. Do not be wise
in your own eyes. Fear the Lord, and depart from evil.
It will be health to your flesh and strength to
your bones. Trust in and rely confidently on the Lord
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with all your heart. Don't hold anything back, and do
not rely on your own insights or under trust in him.
Trust God to give you patience to endure. Even in
the small trials you face daily, Take them to him.
Obey him even if obedience demands dangerous activities, or you
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know it's unattractive.
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It's not comfortable.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
It's not easy to be obedient if you can only
if obedience is easy, when it's comfortable, it's.
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Not really obedience.
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John says in First John, Chapter two, verse eighteen, Little children,
it is the last hour. And as you've heard that
the Antichrist is coming. Even now, many antichrist have come
by which we know that this is the last hour.
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The spirit of the.
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Antichrist has been around, done some dry runs in people,
from Nero to Hitler and beyond. But the next one,
the one that's in the Antichrist, will be the true
and perfected evil, but he'll still be defeated.
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Hold on to that.
Speaker 1 (23:13):
Remind yourself of that, because I'm telling you from my
heart with great concern. The last days will not be
an easy time for God's people. And there will be
some that'll compromise. They'll go along to get along, and
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they'll do things that will clearly indicate they're not born again,
and they'll think, well, I escaped it. Well, no you didn't.
You jumped out of the frying pan into the fire.
So these last days, the time in between the first
and second coming, the time that began, and you know,
on the ascension in the upper room, the clock began
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to tick. And the readers of first John, the first
century readers, they lived in the last days, they understood it.
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And so do we.
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But why is it so difficult for us to lock
in on this? Is it the false teachers who pretend
to be believers and lore weak people away from the Lord,
away from the Word. Because that is happening, It has
happened and will continue to happen.
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What is it?
Speaker 1 (24:30):
What is it that gets people to follow the blind
into the ditch, and just before the final conclusion of
all things, the great Antichrist, the one that will be
filled by Satan, will arise, and I personally believe without
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a doubt he is waiting in the wings somewhere, possibly
manipulating a lot of what we're seeing going on, and
not just in the wars and finances and politics and health,
so many things going on that if you're not paying attention.
And I used to share it every weak on reflections
in the dark, and I've decided, you know what, let's
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focus on getting people saved, healed and delivered. The other
stuff will take care of itself. And if you're called
to know what, you will. But there are things that
are going on that clearly are the days of Noah,
genetic manipulation, just stuff that Larry and I talk about
daily that are frightening for those who have no hope.
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So the Holy Spirit is there to walk with us,
teach us and guide us. He's there to point out
error so that we will not be deceived. That's what
the discernment is, the discerning of spirits. What's the spirit
behind this teaching, And that's why the God's word has
to be clear early and cleanly taught, so that the
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weaker members, those that aren't strong enough, don't fall prey
to the false teachers who come disguised as as sheep
at are wolves who will tear them apart. So preparing
ourselves to be ready for the second coming of the Lord,
that's what should be on the forefront of our mind.
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How do I do that? What should I be doing?
I mentioned that Yashua was sitting on the Mount of Olives,
and that's the very place where the prophet Zechariah predicted
that the Messiah would stand when he comes the second comes,
in his case, the second time to establish his kingdom
Zachariah fourteen four. And in that day his feet will
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stand on the Mount of Olives, which faces Jerusalem on
the east. And the Mount of Olives shall be split
in two from east to work, making a very large valley.
Half of the mountain shall move to the north and
half of it towards the south. And we see the
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angels and Acts one to eleven, say to the disciples
who were staring at Jesus leaving men of Galilee, why
are you standing here staring into heaven? Issue has been
taken from you into heaven? But someday he will return
from heaven and the same way you saw him go.
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So it was fitting.
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It was the perfect place for the Lord to explain
to them about when he would come in power and
what he expected of them and of us. So he
emphasized that these events will take place before the end
of the age. He pointed out that don't be concerned
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about exact dates. Be more concerned about being prepared, living
in a way that is consistent with God's word and
God's will, so that no matter when the Lord comes
in glory, we'll be ready and he can claim us
as his own. So we should be aware of the
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signs of the second Coming. But I'll also say these
signs are easily misread, and people do and they get
caught up in the apocalyptic cults, and they misread the signs,
and I think the enemy does that to discourage people.
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The signs for me began when Israel became a nation
and the fig tree blossomed. That was the sign, and
the enemy took it to and things got crazy after that.
Don't be fooled. Don't let anyone fool you. That's what
he says. I was fooled before I got saved. Remember
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I said I was raised Catholic, I went to Catholic
elementary school, high school, university, I did all the rituals that.
Speaker 2 (29:14):
Went with it.
Speaker 1 (29:16):
And I was fooled. I was fooled into the occult.
I was fooled into the New Age because I had
no grounding in the word. I didn't have to have
the abiding presence of the Holy Spirit. It's easy to
get sincerely fooled. You are sincerely looking for the truth,
and what you are fed and what you receive is error.
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And it takes the Lord to open our eyes. If
we focus on the Lord, if we focus on his words,
we won't be deceived. We won't get fooled by the
false signs of false teachers. Our eyes will be on him.
So let's continue to do the important work that needs
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to be completed. Before he returns, the gospel of the
good News of the Kingdom, the message of salvation would
be preached throughout all the world. That's the mission. It
was the disciples mission, and it's hours today. The end
times and the final judgment are a path that we
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should walk with urgency to tell others, Hey, you don't
want to die, do you? You're going to you've already
been judged in sin because of man. And there's a
way out though, and there's only one way out, and
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we're going to show it to you, and people want
to reject it. That can't be right. God wouldn't make
only one way if your house is on fire and
the firemen get there, or somebody says, come on, this
is the way out. This one door is the way out. Now,
I don't think I don't want to go out that door.
I want to go out a different It's the only
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door there is to escape the fire.
Speaker 2 (31:04):
Come on.
Speaker 1 (31:07):
There should be an urgency in our hearts to be
a living witness, and that's what the persecution is about.
That's why the enemy does it. It shakes even strong
believers and may make them lose their way, lose their focus,
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find it difficult to be loyal. That's when spiritual warfare
that's gone on for too long breaks people. You can't
stay on the front lines full time. You have to rest,
you have to come off the front lines. You have
to stop fighting. You have to listen to the captain
of the host and do what he says, not what
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you think you should be doing, because his return will
be unmistakable. It'll be no doubt that it's him, Mark
thirteen thirty three. Take heed, watch him, pray, for you
do not know when the time is. It is like
a man going to a far country who left his
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house and gave authority to his servants and to each
his work, and commanded the doorkeeper to watch. Watch therefore,
for you do not know when the master of the
house is coming in the evening, at midnight, at the
crowing of the rooster, or in the morning, lest coming
suddenly he finds you sleeping. And what I say to you,
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I say to all watch. I find so many people
caught up in the wrong things, and they're not watching.
If you have to be told that Messiah has come,
then you don't know the word. Because Messiah's coming will
be obvious to everyone, even to the Jews that don't believe.
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They'll look upon the one whom they pierced. So since
we don't know when he's arriving, let's keep busy. Let's
not be lazy and just chill out, fall asleep, and
then when the sound comes, oh my gosh, we're running around.
I needed to do this, I needed to do that.
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I'm not ready worse yet is well, he's not here
right now, So I think I can get away with this.
I think I can do this. And it's better to say,
you know, ask for forgiveness and ask for permission. No,
because you may run out of time, you may miss
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the moment. So let's live it right. Let's do it
right until he appears, or until we're no longer here,
because we never know. I mean, I believe I'm gonna
fly and not die. But the Lord knows. It's his will,
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his plan. I know what he's shown me. I know
what I believe, and I proceed as such. But I
will be busy. I will be doing what I believe
he needs me to do. I will be prepared, realizing
that any day is the day of his return. And
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I think that's what drove the book of that church.
I think that's why they were so powerful. I think
that's why they turned the world upside down and drove
the enemy crazy. His return will be sudden, it will
be unexpected, and you won't be able to be prepared.
You won't be able to get prepared. So just be prepared.
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Don't live irresponsibly, sitting and waiting, doing nothing, self seeking,
self serving, you know, using his delay as an excuse
not to do what we're supposed to do in building
his kingdom, developing a false sense of security based upon
somebody else's calculation of events, or letting our curiosity about
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the end times divert us from doing God's work. That's
why I stopped teaching about the Nephilum. That's why I
stopped teaching all the things that I taught for a decade.
It had no eternal value. It didn't get people saved,
heal and delivered. It was a distraction from the calling.
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I don't know when he's coming. I couldn't tell you.
I could say it could be around this time based
upon current events and what it looks like. But I
also know that the calendar we follow is not the
right calendar that he established. So who knows what he's
going to do. But I'm not on the time and
place committee. I'm in the welcoming committee. Ephesians one, starting
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verse eighteen, the eyes of your understanding being enlightened, that
you may know what is the hope of his calling,
What are the riches of his glory, of his inheritance
in the saints, And what is the exceeding greatness of
His power toward us who believe according to the working
of His power. So I think that's what I am
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inspired to do today. I could have taken the day off,
I could have done a rewind and put up an
old teaching, and not only did it not feel right,
the Lord had other plans. So I pray that the
eyes of your heart, the very center and core of
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your being, may be enlightened, flooded with the light of
the Holy Spirit, so that you know and cherish the hope,
the divine guarantee, the confident expectation to which He has
called you, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the saints,
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God's people, that's who the saints are. So that you
will begin to know what the immeasurable and unlimited and
surpassing greatness of His active spiritual power is in us
who believe these are in accordance with the working of
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His mighty strength. Because it's his strength that propels us forward.
It's his strength that drives us. In that word, hope,
what is the hope? The hope expresses a cherished desire
along with the confident assurance of obtaining that which is
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longed for.
Speaker 2 (37:51):
Gee.
Speaker 1 (37:51):
That sounds familiar Hebrews eleven to one. It's the amplified version.
Faith is the assure, it's the title deed, the confirmation
of things hoped for, things divinely guaranteed, and the evidence
of things not seen, the conviction of their reality. Faith
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comprehends as fact what cannot be experienced by the physical senses.
That's the kind of faith we need in this hour.
And if you have faith, that kind of faith, you
will have hope. And with that hope you will endure
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to the end. That's what this is all about. We're
watching the wars and the rumors of wars, of watching
the earthquakes and the volcanoes and the signs and all
the things happening. We're watching planets aligne excuse me, planets
a line, and all the things going on in the world.
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We're watching things happening in the financial world, We're watching
things happening in the medical world. And it's all swirling
around us at the same time. And it would be
easy to be overwhelmed. It'd be easy to say I
just want to crawl into a fetal position. But no,
we need to stand up. We need to take a
stand when we say, okay, I got my eyes on heaven.
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I'm waiting for the King. I have no control over
all these other things, but what I do have control
over is being ready for him and doing what he
asked me to do in this hour, getting people saved,
heal and delivered. Starting with those around me, telling them, hey,
are you noticing certain things? Are you feeling something inside
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of you? Are you concerned about? What are you going
to spend eternity? If this will your last moment on
earth and you stepped over into the afterlife, where's it
going to be spent. Whatever answer they have, you should
have a response to, a loving response, and then explain
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to them why you have hope, why you're not afraid.
Speaker 2 (40:06):
So from my.
Speaker 1 (40:07):
Heart, the word tonight for you and for me is endurance.
So Father, Abbah, Papa, Daddy, you help me get through.
Thank you you inspired this flowed this morning. First thing,
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I pray a touch to whoever you wanted it to touch.
Somebody who's fearful, somebody losing hope, somebody being pulled off
the path to stand strong, to hold on, maybe to
reach out for help and say hey, I'm slipping, Grab
me right now, by faith, we pray. If that's you,
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hold on. We're reaching out, we're grabbing, we're saying we'll
stand with you, We'll pray for you. Get your eyes
off the shadows and get it on to the light.
Unto him. Now, Lord, whatever help we need, whether it's
in heart, mind, body, soul, spirit, provision, whatever it is,
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and healing, we ask for you to supply our needs
and your riches and your glory, to do what you
need done so that we can be confident we've done
everything that you asked of us. And we ask this
from the heart in your shoe his name. Amen, May
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the Lord bless you and keep you. May the Lord
make his face to shine upon you and be gracious
to you. May the Lord utter nay your shoe a
Hamasiah Jesus the Messiah, lift up his countenance upon you
and give you peace. Give you shall oam. I'm Richard Grund.
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