March 12, 2025 • 64 mins
The Porch concludes its look at the hereafter with a look at the future hope of eternity with the Lord in Paradise offered to all Believers.
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you though we're spread out all over the place and
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part of this community and I am praying for you.
Speaking of prayer, let's do that right now. Father, we
come to you in the name of Issue of the
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name above all names, Jesus the Messiah, your only begotten Son,
our Lord and Savior. We come as your children. We
boldly approach the throne of Grace and mercy, saying Abba, Father, Papa,
God Daddy. We love you, we need you, We want
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to spend time with you. So we ask that you
do that now with us, that you overshare with your
Holy Spirit. Lord, we thank you for what you did
for us, shedding every drop of blood on the cross
to wipe away our sins so that we could come
home and see Dad, that we could all be a
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part of the same family once again. That the separation
that veil between us and God was torn in two,
torn asunder, and never put there again. Thank you for
doing that. Thank you for the Cross, Thank you for
the empty tomb, Thank you for the Upper Room and
the fire that filled it. Holy Spirit. We know that
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you were sent to walk with us and guide us
and remind us of what the Lord said. But we
also know that you came to have fellowship with us
and us with you. Thank you for doing that. Thank
you for being gentle with us and keeping us on
the right path. So we asked that you do that tonight,
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that we clear our minds right now. We take our
thoughts captive to the obedience of Messiah. We claim the
mind of Messiah, casting down every vain imagination that would
exalt itself above the knowledge of ll E on God
most High, our abba Father, We clear ourselves of all
the sludge of this world and all the things that
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have attached themselves to us, so that we can be
locked in to the throne room right now by the
word of God and by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Protect us, protect this technology, Let your spirit flow, have
your way with us, each and every one of us.
I pray right now all the gods would come off
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our minds, the scales off our ears and eyes, and
all the blockages be gone, so that we can receive
this word and do with it which you desire us
to do in this hour. Touch us, Lord, touch us,
Have you away with us, and I pray all these things,
and you shoe his name, And if you agree with me,
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say amen.
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So get those Bibles open, the Bible apps if you
have them. A tangible herd paper Bible would be great too.
You can take notes in it and always have it.
Power outage or if anything changes in society. We've been
talking about. The hereafter this would be I guess Part
three and if you haven't listened to the other two.
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You should. They all build upon one another, and you
can understand them without having done that. But this one
is the culmination of speaking about the hereafter. Talking about
a future hope. Can't talk about judgment. You can't talk
about she Owhen and Gehanna and Hades and the out
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of darkning. Can't talk about all that without talking about
paradise and eternity with the Lord, and just as a reminder,
hereafter is, according to the American Heritage Dictionary, is something
that immediately follows something in time or in an order.
It's a future time or state, something to come Cambridge
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Dictionary Life after death. And that's really what we're talking about.
The life after death, the state of our soul, and
the eternity, the eternal destiny of every individual, and the
concept of the hereafter is a significant theme throughout Scripture,
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the hope of eternal life, the resurrection of the dead,
and then a final judgment. New Testament makes it clear
that our focus on the hereafter, that revelation of the
hereafter emphasizes the resurrection of the dead and eternal life
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through Jesus the Messiah. Yeshure, I'm a shiach go with
me tewo. Corinthians, chapter five, verses one through five. And
just as a reminder, I tend to teach mostly out
of the New King James. I will also use the
New Living Translation, if that particular scripture is clearer. I
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will use the amplified because it takes all the Hebrew
and the Greek and blows it up, fills it with
you know, word air however you want to look at it,
and lets you see it even bigger. But I'll pretty
much make clear what scripture I'm reading from. But if
I don't establish it, it's the primary foundational translation for
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me is the New King James. Two Corinthians, chapter five,
starting verse one. For we know that if our earthly house,
this tent speaking of the body, is destroyed, we have
a building from God, a house not made with hands,
eternal in the heavens. For in this we' grown earnestly,
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desiring to be clothed with our habitation, which is from heaven.
If indeed, having been clothed, we shall not be found naked.
For we who are in this tent grown being burned,
not because we want to be unclothed. But further clothed
that mortality may be swallowed up by life. Now, he
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who has prepared us for this very thing is God,
who has also given us the spirit as a guarantee.
When this body dies, it goes back to the dust again,
according to what was said in Genesis three nineteen. But
we have a resurrected house to live in forever. This
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body will be dissolved and must be dissolved before we
can get the other body, before you can get that upgrade.
This needs to be gone. It is mortal, and because
of that we've grown. We're burdened by the desire for
our immortal body. That's what our spirit man and spirit woman,
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however you want to look at it, groans for. And
the older you get, the more you feel that groaning.
But our spirit is groaning for a glorious hope for
that future with the Lord, a hope for the future.
So we've talked about judgment, we've talked about all those
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other things. What is the word tell us about a
future reward, a future hope. What is a future hope?
It is the expectation of individuals after their death and
of the world when God brings present world affairs to
an end. Future, hope focuses upon the expectancy of the
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consummation of the individual's salvation. At the close of this age,
with the ushering end of the eternal order of the
return of Messiah, the believer's hope becomes an experienced reality
rather than anticipation of a future experience. The English word
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hope can imply certainty or uncertainty, as well as good
or bad expectations of the future. For example, I hope
it does not rain today. The Greek word for hope
that you see in the New Testament is elpis elpis,
and it carried a similar range of implications when used
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in a non religious context. When Paul is speaking in
Acts twenty seven to twenty, lukewrites, and he's talking about
being shipwrecked. Now, when neither sun nor stars appeared for
many days, and no small tempest beat on us, all
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hope that we would be saved was finally given up.
But that's not the kind of hope we're talking about.
Hebrews ten twenty three tells us the hope we're speaking of.
Let us hold fast the confession of our hope, without wavering,
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for he who promised is faithful. When you use that
translation of alpus, it means favorable and confident expectation, a
happy anticipation of good. The lex and Bible Dictionary says,
hope is the confidence that by integrating God's redemptive acts
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in the past with trusting human responses in the present,
the faithfuill experience the fullness of God's goodness both in
the present and in the future. Biblical faith rests on
the trustworthiness of God to keep his promises. The Biblical
view of hope is thus significant significantly different from that
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found in ancient Greek philosophy. Let me stop right there,
if you remember from all the things we talked about
about how the church was founded and why we do
what we do, much of the influence of what we
call church and the teachings and how we speak is
built upon the Greeks. Getting back to the definition from
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lex and Bible Dictionary, the Greeks recognize that human beings
expressed hope by nature. However, this kind of hope reflects
both good and bad experiences. The future was thus a
projection of one's own subjective possibilities. Biblical hope avoids this
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subjectivity by being founded on something that provides a sufficient
basis for confidence in its fulfillments. God and his redemptive
acts as they culminate in the birth, the life, the death,
and the resurrection of your Shuehammershiock Jesus the Messiah. So
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for us hope is certain, because what is hope for
is based on the character and the power of God.
Human secular reasoning or counseling cannot give you hope. Psalm
one thirty verses five through eight. I wait for the Lord.
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My soul waits, and in his word, I do hope.
My soul waits for the Lord, more than those who
watch for the morning. Guess more than those who watch
for the morning. Oh, Israel, hope in the Lord. For
with the Lord there is mercy, and with him is
abundant redemption, and He shall redeem Israel from all its iniquities. Remember,
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we're grafted into the vine the same promises that Israel
have had. We have same blessings, but also the same curses.
And thankfully we're not under the curse, and we're not
under the law. But as they understood hope through prophecy,
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through experience, through what they had been told, through what
they had seen, their hope was in the Lord. Our
hope is not in man, it's not in this world,
it's not in anyone else but Him. The Home and
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Bible Dictionary says, to hope in God is to stand
in awe of Him and his power, with the confidence
that God will faithfully perform his word. Thus hope becomes
trust in the righteous character of yahweh we're trusting in
his character that he is as good as his word.
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So the element of uncertainty derived from the influence of
Greek thinking on our culture, disappears when compared to the Word.
See Greek society centered their hope on human abilities, how
their own power or the abilities of the powers of
the gods. Small g which were undependable, were capricious and demonic.
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The concept of hope in the Old Testament is related
to trust, to hope in the Lord, to wait for
the Lord. We're common expressions that our hope was based
upon the object of our hope him. If we hope
in God, and that means we are in submission to
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his sovereign will, because He's not going to do anything
that goes against his word. Therefore, we cannot hope that
he will do something that defies his very nature. But
because of that well, you can also see that hope
and fear in God are sometimes expressed together. Psalm thirty three,
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verses eighteen through twenty. Behold the eye the Lord is
on those who fear him, on those who hope in
his mercy, to deliver their soul from death and to
keep them alive in famine. Our soul waits for the Lord.
He is our hope and our shield Someone forty seven eleven.
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The Lord takes pleasure in those who fear him, in
those who hope in his mercy. Proverbs twenty three, verses
seventeen and eighteen. Do not let your heart envy sinners,
but be zealous for the fear of the Lord all day,
for surely there is a hereafter, and your hope will
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not be cut off. See even then, they were thinking
of the hereafter because their hope was in the Lord.
Their hope was in his mercy. But they also had
an expectation of judgment, understanding that he was a holy God.
He was a righteous God. So to hope in God,
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to hope in our Father, is to stand in awe
of Him and his power, that he will faithfully perform
his word whenever I speak to him. Whenever I talk
to him, sometimes I'll just remind him that I trust
in his word, that I know that he is as
good as his word. Blessed is that man who makes
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the Lord his trust and does not respect the proud
nor just turned aside to lie some forty verse four.
And as I was working on this today and reading
these scriptures from the Psalms, from Proverbs, from the Prophets,
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it's amazing how without being born again, without the infeeling
of the Holy Spirit, they understood hope, but trust and
hope was missing something, something that they did not have
that we do the Cross, which gave us a personal
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connection and intimacy with Almighty God as our heavenly father.
That's why I always approach him as Abbah as father.
But I also understand, and we've talked about this before,
sometimes love means he has to chastise me. Sometimes that
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love means he has to correct me, because even though
he loves me as I am, he does want me
to stay this way. He wants me to be better.
He wants you to be better. So if you get chastised,
if you get corrected, don't take it as rejection, take
it as another step towards perfection. So the future hoped
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that they began to see was an expectation of the
Messiah and the restoration of the Kingdom of Israel. And
this is one of those things. Then when I speak
to Jews, my Jewish brothers and sisters, and I try
to get them to understand what I'm talking about, they
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don't have an expectation of Messiah. They've not been taught that.
They're not looking for that. Some don't even understand why
they need a Messiah. And because there was so much fraud,
you know, numerous people making messianic claims, building up the
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expectation of the people, only to collapse into defeat and
destruction when they found out that they were and who
they said they were. The future hope of Israel began
to take on a pessimistic tone, especially in Rabbinical thought.
But those that should have known better, They should have
known more of the Word, they should have understood more
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of the character of the God they claimed to serve.
The focus of a future hope for them became a
based upon personal effort and a religious achievements, unfortunately that
no man could ever fulfill. Some believe they're not even
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judged by the law anymore. Oh that went away, No,
it did not. God's word is eternal. If you're not
under the blood, you're under the law. And if you
fail at one aspect of the law, you fail at
all of it. So this uncertainty became a personal uncertainty,
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and it required them to please God without the help
of the Holy Spirit, hoping for the resurrection of the
body and inclusion of the coming Messianic kingdom. But that
makes no sense when you think about it. If you
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don't have your name on the list, you're not getting
invited into the banquet. But the New Testament hope and trust,
though built on the Old Testament roots, was grounded in
the absolute trustworthiness of an almighty God. Romans fifteen thirteen possays, now,
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may the God of Hope fill you with all joy
and peace in believing that you may abound in hope
by the power of the Holy Spirit. That right there
says this kind of hope, this future hope, the basis
of our expectation of the hereafter, is supernaturally empowered and
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supernaturally confirmed. And if you don't have it and you
don't understand it, you probably need to seek the Spirit
first one Timothy four ten. For to this end we
both labor and suffer reproach, because we trust in the
Living God, who is the savior of all men, especially
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of those who believe He's available to everybody. Like the
song says, if you want it here it is, come
and get it, which in a better hurry, because it
may not last. Seek him while he may be found.
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This future hope focuses on the expectancy of the culmination,
of the completionent of the finality of our salvation at
the close of the age, a confidence that your name
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is written in the Lambs Book of Life, and when
the Messiah returns, When the Lord returns and that eternal
order is implemented, the believer's hope, my hope, your hope
becomes an experiential reality, rather than an end anticipation of
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a future experience. I think that's why the spirit grows.
It knows, it knows what it'll feel like. It has
an expectancy in an understanding that our natural mind doesn't have.
One Corinthians, Chapter one, starting verse four, I thank my
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God always concerning you for the grace of God which
was given to you. By Messiah Isshua, that you were
enriched in everything by Him, in all utterance and all knowledge,
even as the testimony of Messiah was confirmed in you.
So that you come short no gift, Let me say
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that again, you come short in no gift, eagerly waiting
for the revelation of our Lord Jesus the Messiah, who
will also confirm you to the end, that you may
be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus the
Messiah is sure hamashiak. Our hope is an expectancy in
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the return of the Lord. That's why in that quote
from the beginning, those that had the most effect on
this world were the ones who had the most expectation
of the one to come. We have an expectation and
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hope of the coming day of God saw Peter three,
starting verse eleven. Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved,
all of nature, everything around us, the sky, the stars,
everything will be dissolved what manner of person ought to
be in holy conduct and godliness, looking for and hastening
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the coming of the Day of God, because of which
the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the
elements will melt with fervent heat. Nevertheless, we, according to
his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth
in which righteousness dwelves. Therefore, beloved, looking forward to these things,
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be diligent to be found by him in peace, without
spot and blameless. Because of these things we should be
looking forward to it. We should be diligent to be
found by Him in peace and without spot and blameless.
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What to spots, spots or sins, spots or things on
our garment which could keep us out of the banquet?
Put it under the blood repent, Let him wash away?
What can wash away my sins? Nothing but the blood
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of Jesus. And she was teaching on watchfulness. Failure be
expecting the return of the son of Man can cause disaster. Boy,
is that an understatement? This expectation of a future hope,
the day of the Lord stands as the incentive to
holy living. Now, we don't do that in fear. It's
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not like way till your father comes home. No, it's
Dad's coming home soon, and we need to clean up
this mess. We need to be obedient so that when
he walks in he likes what he sees. There's no fear,
there's no fear of rejection. There's no fear of anything
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but honesty and transparency. And you know, if you notice
what's going on in the world, people don't want transparency.
They like smoking mirrors, they like shadows, they like things
covered up. Oh, don't pull it out into the light,
don't you dare. Lift up that piece of cardboard and
expose all those roaches and make them run. That's the
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way it is with sin, That's way it is with
the Tamonic. Don't bring it out into the light. Nope,
that's exactly what you gotta do. If you think there's
anything in you that's not of God, call it out
into the light, say Father, in the name of your shoe,
I just call these things out into the light. Let
your glory shine upon it, expose it, and then clean
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me from it. Take it out of me, take it
from me. So the uncertainty that the Greek language created
disappeared in the word and is replaced with a sense
of confidence based upon the promise that the Lord would
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come again. It's amazing to me, and we've talked about
the statistics, how many people that claim to be Christians,
to be believers don't even believe in a second Coming.
They have no expectation of the return of the Lord.
They're not even looking for him. But the Apostles and
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the Book of Acts Church upon which we base what
we do. Boy, did they have an eager expectation of
the coming of Messiah in the future. He promised them
with certainty, total certainty. That's what drove them. As I've
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said many times, over all the years we've done this,
what fourteen years now? No, fifteen years? Is twenty five?
Started twenty ten? Oh, my goodness, fifteen years did one
eye on the job and one eye on the sky?
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Marrin after come Lord Jesus C. S. Lewis also says,
and I have a lot of quotes from him. He
seemed to talk a lot about having in paradise and
the hereafter. A continual looking forward to the eternal world
is not a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but
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one of the things a Christian is meant to do.
It does not mean that we are to leave the
present world as it is. If you read history, and
I said this quote before, you will find that Christians
who did the most for the present world were just
those who thought most of the next. Do you even
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think about that, not about your mortality, not about you
know how old you are, and eventually you know it's
coming soon. You know there's a train to come in
kind of thing now, I mean, do you think about eternity?
Do you think about paradise? Do you think about walking
with him and talking with him and sitting at his
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feet listening to the angel's worship, a worship that will
reverberate throughout the universe into your very cellular structure. I do,
I do. Look twelve verse thirty five, read letters. Let
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your waist be girded, in your lamps burning, and you
yourselves be like men who wait for their master when
he will return from the wedding. When he comes and knox,
they may open to him immediately. Blessed are those servants
whom the master, when he comes, will find watching assuredly.
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I say that he will gird himself and have them
sit down to eat, and will come and serve them.
And if he should come in the second watch or
come in the third watch, and finds them, so blessed
all those servants. But know this that at the master
of the house had known what hour the thief would come,
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he would have watched and not allowed his house to
be broken into there. For you also be ready for
the Son of Man is coming at an hour you
do not expect. Could be the first watch, could be
the second watch, could be the third watch. Anytime of
day or night. Remember what time it is here in
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the East, it's six hour the head in Jerusalem. I
can't tell you what clock he's going to go by,
but I would suspect it'll be that clock. Be ready,
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for the Son of Man is coming at an hour
you do not expect. You know, when Paul was testifying
before Governor Felix, he talked about being shipwrecked. But he
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also said this, But this I confess to you as
his acts twenty four. This is verses fourteen through sixteen.
But this I confess to you that according to the
way Capitol w and that's what they called the Messianic
believers of the day, which they call a sect. So
I worship ship the God of my father's, believing all
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things which are written in the Law and in the
prophets Verse fifteen. I have hope in God, which they
themselves also accept. And therefore and there will be a
resurrection of the dead, both of the just and the unjust.
This being so, I myself strive to have a conscience
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without offense toward God and men. He was the way,
the truth in life, and they called him the way
until they started calling them Christians and antioch there were
the way. You have to believe. You have to have hope.
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What's your hope in? Now? I'm asking you a question.
I'm not there to hear your answer. You can email
me if you want. What's your hope in? Is your
hope in government systems? Is your hope in your wallet
your bank account? Is your hope in your husband, your wife,
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your brother, your sister, your mother, your father, your family,
your friends? Is your hope in your job? Is your
hope in anything less than Jesus and his righteousness. My
hope is in God. My hope is in the Lord.
My hope is in his word. If she was said
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in John chapter five, verse twenty four, most assuredly, I
say to you, he who hears my word and believes
in Him Who's sent me has eternal life and shall
not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life.
You can't just believe in God. You have to believe
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in God and the Son that he sent most assuredly.
He goes on to say, I say to you the
hours coming, and now is when the dead will hear
the voice of the Son of God, and those who
hear will live. For as the Father has life in himself,
so he has granted the Son to have life in himself,
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and has given him authority to execute judgment. Also because
he is the son of man. Do not marvel at this,
for the hour is coming in which all who are
in the graves will hear his voice, and come forth,
those who have done good to the resurrection of life,
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and those who have done evil to the resurrection of condemnation. Oh,
I just need to be good? Then? Is that all
it is? And it's a little more than that. You
can't be good without him. It's his righteousness we partake of,
not our own TTYs Two thirty, verse eleven, for the
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grace of God that brings salvation as appeared to all men,
teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lust, we should
live soberly, righteously and godly in the present age, looking
for the blessed, hope and glorious appearing of our great
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God and Savior, Jesus the Messiah who gave himself for us,
that he might redeem us from every lawless deed and
purity for himself his own special people zealous for good works.
You cannot do good works without his help. You cannot
do the kind of works he's talking about without being
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born again, because you do it through the Holy Spirit.
If I do something good, I do it in his name.
I do it for him. I do it to glorify him. Consciously,
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I understand every day when I get up who I serve,
who I am. I'd go to sleep praying that my
mind and my spirit man would remember that. But even
the Old Testament heroes had hope. Abraham had a future
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hope Hebrews eleven, verses eight through ten. By faith, Abraham
obeyed when he was called to go out to the
place which he would receive as an inheritance, And he
went out, not knowing where he was going. By faith,
he dwelt in the land of Promise, in a foreign country,
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dwelling intense with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him
of the same promise. For he waited for the city
which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God. They
had hope. They didn't get to receive it in this
world they got the next. They could see it, they
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knew it, they felt it. They knew what the words said,
they knew what the prophet said. James, the half brother
of Jesus, who was the head of the Jerusalem Church,
taught them guided them to look for this hope in
James Chapter five, verses seven and eight. Therefore, be patient, brethren,
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until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer
waits for the precious fruit of the earth, waiting patiently
for it until it receives the early and the latter reign.
You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming
of the Lord is at hand. Oh Richard, We've heard
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this over and over and over, and then we never
see him. It never happens. Remember, he's outside of time.
He's not bound to our clock. He's not bound to
our schedule or our calendar. If he said it, he
means it. And your hope is in his promise. Your
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hope is in the word. If the word says it,
hold on to it. Don't let the enemy steal that
from you. Don't let secular reasoning steal that from you.
When somebody tells you, well, maybe you should give up
that's not going to really happen now. Nope, I rebuked
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that in the name of you. Assure if he said it,
I believe it. If he confirmed it, it's a done deal.
It'll happen when it's as to happen, and I'll be ready,
like I said. The apostle Paul focused on many things,
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but the key to all of it was the future
hope Romans eight, studying verse eighteen. For I consider that
the sufferings of this present age are not worthy to
be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
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For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for
the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation
was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him
who subjected it. In hope, because the creation itself also
will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the
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glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know
that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs
together until now all of creations groaning, just like we are.
The darker it gets, the more evil it gets, the
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more demonica gets. They react to it, They sense it,
they feel it. We know that storms coming. The birds
take off, are something catastrophics about to happen, an earthquake
or whatever. Suddenly the birds are gone, the animals stop chirping.
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There's a stillness in nature because they know. They have
an expectation of something coming. Well, folks, I gotta tell
you there's an expectation of something coming. The King. The
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King is coming. And while we glory in that, the
enemy grits its teeth and grumbles and does what it
does because they have an expectation, and well they should.
One Corinthians one s thirty verse four. I thank my
God always concerning you for the grace of God which
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was given to you by Messiah Yeshiah, that you were
enriched in everything by Him, in all utterance and all knowledge,
even as the testimony of Messiah was confirmed in you,
so that you come short and no gift, no gift.
Every gift came from above. Everything you need, eagerly awaiting
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for the revelation of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah, who
will also confirm you to the end that you may
be blameless in the day of our Lord. God is
faithful by whom you were called into the fellowship of
his son Jesus Messiah, Our Lord, you're not short in anything.
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You need to make it to the end. The enemy
has taken your confidence in some areas. Don't let them
do that. If you fell down, get up. If you
got bruised, get it prayed for. Confess your sins to
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one another. It's good to have a prayer body. It's
good to have someone you can air things out with
who won't judge you, won't repeat it, won't use it
against you. But don't let it fester inside of you.
Don't let the enemy poke it. And hey, remember when
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you did that. Wow, that was pretty bad. Nope, no, nope,
don't put it under the blood. Say I'm sorry, Lord,
I messed up. Remember where you are, and don't mean geographically.
Remember where you are. You're in a fallen world. This
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is not our home, a world that's under the rule
of Hastatan, Satan and the fallen. He's the god of
this world. You sure it took back spiritual authority on
the cross. The natural one will come when he returns. Well,
remember this. Our citizenship is in heaven, from which we
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also eagerly await for the Savior. The Lord Jesus the Messiah,
who will transform our lowly body that it may be
conformed to his glorious body, according to the work by
which he is able even to subdue all things to himself.
Larry and I were talking about this, and I said,
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you know, I'm at the point for anything that distracts
me from the Lord, from the Word, from the calling,
from whatever it is he's put upon my heart to do,
offends me. Social media has begun to offend me. It's
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become a distraction because before you know it, you've gone
down the rabbit hole and there's Alice in wondering Land
and the cat's smiling at you, and the guy's got
the hat, and you're thinking, I think I fell down
a hole. I need to get out of here, because
the minute you watch one thing, then you watch another
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and you listen to this and oh my gosh, and
oh no, I just I'm tired of it. I'm tired
of it all. Yes, I should know what's going on
so I can pray about it. But I'm also at
the point where that logic doesn't work either. If it's
important enough, the Holy Spirit will tell me. Because they
had go choke this out. I told you the story.
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He did that once we were Tallahassee and I don't
know why I was watching the TV. I guess I
think deeb was away at a woman's retreat and he
I'm flipping channels and I flipped by something that was
so demonic it made my spirit go look away, look away.
Clicked it and I didn't want to see it, and
the Holy Spirit said, go back and watch that. I'm like, what,
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go back and watch that? And it was a really
foul thing made by Clive Barker about the underworld and
how the good people, the men on earth were bad
and the demons were good, and the demons were going
to come to the surface and take over. I think
it's called night Breed. I'm not telling you to watch it.
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I'm just telling you what it was. And when I
got done, I really felt like I needed to take
a shower, and I think I might have. And I said, Lord,
why did you make me do that? He said, you
need to understand what these kids you're ministering to a
watching You've stuck your head in the sand and you
do not have a clue what's going on out there
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right now. And I realize that in my zeal to serve,
you get caught up in that religious mindset, and I was,
and I was losing touch with the threat. I was
losing touch with doing reconnaissance, as I call it, the
supernatural battle on the enemy. That was an example of
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the Lord saying, hey, I want you to look at this.
So now when I see things, pray over my mind,
pray over my heart, pray over my home, and I
look to see what it is he wants me to
know from within it. I take notes, this is not
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our home. We don't belong here. Hebrews nine, starting verse
twenty seven, as it is appointed for men to die once,
but after this the judgment, So Massaiah was offered once
to bear the sins of many to those who eagerly await,
to those who eagerly wait for him, he will appear
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a second time apart from sin for salvation. You know
this is a pattern here, those who eagerly await for him.
He talked about the servants in that parable, eagerly looking
for the return of the Master, where the first watch,
second watch, third watch doesn't matter. Are you watching He
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wants us to be watching. Are you going to be ready?
Titus chapter three, verse four through seven. But when the
kindness and the love of our God, our Savior Jordan
Mann appeared, not by works of righteousness, which we have done,
but according to his mercy, he saved us through the
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washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Spirit,
whom he poured out on us abundantly through Jesus the Messiah,
our Savior. Having been justified by his grace, we should
become heirs. According to the hope of eternal life. It's
always the connection of the Holy Spirit. The guarantee of
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the Holy Spirit, pointing out of the Holy Spirit like
a like an oil over you gives you that hope,
that supernatural hope, This future hope was ordained from the
beginning of all things, saved for these for the last times,
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for those who believe. See, he had a plan in
the garden. He knew where it was all going to go,
that it would get made right in the end. There
was always a plan for this. He wasn't surprised. He's
not surprised by anything that happens. One Peter, Chapter one,
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verse eighteen. Knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible
things like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct, received
by tradition from your father's but with the precious blood
of Messiah, as of a lamb without blemish and without
spot He indeed was fordained before the foundation of the world,
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but was manifest in these last times for you. What
last times began on the day of Pentecost. He was
the one who stood up and talked about the second
chapter of Joel. These are what he was talking about,
verse twenty one. Who threw him believe in God, who
raised him from the dead and gave him glorious so
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that your faith and hope are in God. If he
said it, I believe it, and He'll do it. And
that hope can only come from you, shure from Jesus
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and the blood, the blood of the Lamb. You know,
we're coming up on Passover, We're coming up on Resurrection
Sunday and all that goes with it. And in those
days we'll talk about the Cross, we'll talk about the
empty tomb, we'll talk about the Upper Room. Just to
get it stirred up inside of you. If you've been
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with me for the duration we've talked about it before.
Sometimes it's good to be reminded to reminisce to stir
things up, because I need you to stir it up.
I need some of you to wake up. Clausans one
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nineteen were pleased to Father that in him, meaning ashure,
all the fullness should dwell, and by him capital age
to reconcile all things to himself, by him, whether things
on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through
the blood of his cross, and you and me, who
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were once alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works.
Yet now He has reconciled in the body of his
flesh through death, to present you holy and blameless and
above reproach in his sight. If indeed you continue in faith,
grounded and steadfast, and are not moved away from the
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hope of the gospel which you heard, which was preached
every creature under heaven, of which I Paul became a minister,
you can't expect anything. You can't expect anything but hope
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in him. When you focused on His word, when you
focused on His spirit, when you are praying and reading
and worshiping, you have a hope, a future hope. Oswald
Chambers says, the cross of Jesus Christ and his baptism
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expressed the same thing. Our Lord was not a martyr,
he was not merely a good man. He was God incarnate.
He came down to the lowest reach of creation in
order to bring back the whole human race to God.
And in order to do this he must take upon him,
as representative man, the whole massed sin of the race.
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He took it all on. He shed his blood for everybody.
But you had to receive it. You had to take.
You had to believe, You had to confess with your
mouth and believe in your heart. Everybody wasn't forgiven. Everybody
doesn't go to heaven just because he shed his blood
on the cross. You have to receive it. You have
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to accept the gift, you have to accept the payment. Therefore, Beloved,
looking forward to these things, be diligent, to be found
by him in peace, without spot and blameless, Be steadfast
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Taco Peter three fourteen. Peter, it's very clear about being steadfast,
about being holy, about being spotless and blameless. What it
was really clear about was hope inspires action to be
diligent and to be ready feet the Salonians five three
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and twenty four. Now may the God appeace himself sanctify
you completely. I'm speaking this upon you now. May the
God appeace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit,
soul and body be preserved blameless at the coming of
our Lord Jesus the Messiah, he who calls you was faithful,
who also will do it. You know, speak these words
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over yourself. When I speak and you're listening, I'm speaking
it upon you. You're absorbing it. Believe it and receive it.
Scottish minister and theologian Alexander MacLaren said the early Church
thought more about the second coming of Jesus Christ than
about the death or about heaven. The early Christians were
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looking not for a cleft in the ground called a grave,
but for a cleavage of the sky called glory. They
were watching not for the undertaker, but for the uppertaker.
Get it, upper taker, taking you up. Over and over
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and over. This methoge about a living hope. We've been
begotten in a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus
the Messiah from the dead, an inheritance, incorruptible, un defiled,
that does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you,
kept by the power of God through faith for salvation
ready to be revealed in the last time, his bounding mercy,
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boundless mercy. We've been born again to an ever living
hope through the resurrection of Jesus the Messiah from the dead.
I'm in First Peter chapter one, anew into an inheritance
which is beyond the reach of change and decay. It
can't perish, it's imperishable, it's unsullied, it's unfading. It's reserved
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in heaven for us. We are being guarded, garrisoned by
the power the Holy Spirit, by God's power through your faith,
till you fully inherit the final salvation and is ready
to be revealed for you in the last time. A
living hope, a future hope that is guaranteed and confirmed.
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It's guarded, it's strong, it's protected like a garrison, and
we're being kept by the power of God through faith
to be salvation ready. This isn't an ordinary hope. It's
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an extraordinary hope. It's extraordinary. It's a supernatural gift from God.
That's why we persevere. That's why we press on. That's
why I do this, That's why you listen. That's why
we share. That's why we pray. Therefore, having been justified
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by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord
Jesus the Messiah, through whom also we have access by
faith and this grace in which we stand and rejoice
in the hope of the glory of God. And not
only that, we also glory and tribulations, knowing that tribulation
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produces perseverance, and perseverance, character and character. Hope. Now, hope
does not disappoint because the love of God has been
poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit, who
was given to us Romans five. Hope, confident, assurance, expectation
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of fulfillment. God will not disappoint us. The Holy Spirit
guarantees that because it is a blessed hope. Let me
leave you with this quote from C. S. Lewis, if
I find in myself a desire which no experience in
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this world can justify, the most probable explanation is that
I was made for another world, the world talked about
in Revelation twenty one, and New Heaven and New Earth,
the Holy City of New Jerusalem, where He wipes away
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every tear from our eyes. No more death, no sorrow,
no crying, no more pain. All the former things have
passed away, a future hope of paradise, which is a
return to the life intended for us in the garden
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of Eden. So our future hope is what was to
become now again. That's what we live for, That's what
we hope for. That's why we do what we do.
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We fulfill the great commission because we want others to
have that hope. So Father, thank you for that. Holy Spirit.
Help us, help us to tell others, help us to
do this. Remind us, when we become caught up in
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this world and hopeless and oppressed and beat up, that
this is not our home, that we have a future
hope of return to paradise, a return to the life
that you intended for us in the garden. Remind us
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right now, correct any false thinking, any false teachings. Fine
tune us, focus us like a laser from their broadbeam
to that really tight, powerful beam of light, capital l
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into the darkness. Set the captives free, break the chains,
open the prison doors, shaking this world one last time
before the return of the King, and doing it with
a smile on our face and hope in our heart.
We pray all these things in your shoe his name. Amen,
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May the Lord bless you and keep you. Made the Lord,
May I don't I make his face to shine upon you,
and be gracious to you. Made the Lord. I don't
know you. Shuehamasiah, Jesus the Messiah, lift up his countenance
upon you and give you peace. Give you shallow. I'm
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Richard Grunn. This has been the Porch on Firefall Talk Radio.
And it's that time again. Welcome to the Porch on
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doing so, I believe we find the Church a Lord
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We will get that word out and plug you in
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you though we're spread out all over the place and
we may not know each other, but if you tune
in to the Porch regularly every week, then you're a
part of this community and I am praying for you.
Speaking of prayer, let's do that right now. Father, we
come to you in the name of Issue of the
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name above all names, Jesus the Messiah, your only begotten Son,
our Lord and Savior. We come as your children. We
boldly approach the throne of Grace and mercy, saying Abba, Father, Papa,
God Daddy. We love you, we need you, We want
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to spend time with you. So we ask that you
do that now with us, that you overshare with your
Holy Spirit. Lord, we thank you for what you did
for us, shedding every drop of blood on the cross
to wipe away our sins so that we could come
home and see Dad, that we could all be a
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part of the same family once again. That the separation
that veil between us and God was torn in two,
torn asunder, and never put there again. Thank you for
doing that. Thank you for the Cross, Thank you for
the empty tomb, Thank you for the Upper Room and
the fire that filled it. Holy Spirit. We know that
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you were sent to walk with us and guide us
and remind us of what the Lord said. But we
also know that you came to have fellowship with us
and us with you. Thank you for doing that. Thank
you for being gentle with us and keeping us on
the right path. So we asked that you do that tonight,
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that we clear our minds right now. We take our
thoughts captive to the obedience of Messiah. We claim the
mind of Messiah, casting down every vain imagination that would
exalt itself above the knowledge of ll E on God
most High, our abba Father, We clear ourselves of all
the sludge of this world and all the things that
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have attached themselves to us, so that we can be
locked in to the throne room right now by the
word of God and by the power of the Holy Spirit.
Protect us, protect this technology, Let your spirit flow, have
your way with us, each and every one of us.
I pray right now all the gods would come off
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our minds, the scales off our ears and eyes, and
all the blockages be gone, so that we can receive
this word and do with it which you desire us
to do in this hour. Touch us, Lord, touch us,
Have you away with us, and I pray all these things,
and you shoe his name, And if you agree with me,
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say amen.
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So get those Bibles open, the Bible apps if you
have them. A tangible herd paper Bible would be great too.
You can take notes in it and always have it.
Power outage or if anything changes in society. We've been
talking about. The hereafter this would be I guess Part
three and if you haven't listened to the other two.
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You should. They all build upon one another, and you
can understand them without having done that. But this one
is the culmination of speaking about the hereafter. Talking about
a future hope. Can't talk about judgment. You can't talk
about she Owhen and Gehanna and Hades and the out
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of darkning. Can't talk about all that without talking about
paradise and eternity with the Lord, and just as a reminder,
hereafter is, according to the American Heritage Dictionary, is something
that immediately follows something in time or in an order.
It's a future time or state, something to come Cambridge
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Dictionary Life after death. And that's really what we're talking about.
The life after death, the state of our soul, and
the eternity, the eternal destiny of every individual, and the
concept of the hereafter is a significant theme throughout Scripture,
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the hope of eternal life, the resurrection of the dead,
and then a final judgment. New Testament makes it clear
that our focus on the hereafter, that revelation of the
hereafter emphasizes the resurrection of the dead and eternal life
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through Jesus the Messiah. Yeshure, I'm a shiach go with
me tewo. Corinthians, chapter five, verses one through five. And
just as a reminder, I tend to teach mostly out
of the New King James. I will also use the
New Living Translation, if that particular scripture is clearer. I
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will use the amplified because it takes all the Hebrew
and the Greek and blows it up, fills it with
you know, word air however you want to look at it,
and lets you see it even bigger. But I'll pretty
much make clear what scripture I'm reading from. But if
I don't establish it, it's the primary foundational translation for
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me is the New King James. Two Corinthians, chapter five,
starting verse one. For we know that if our earthly house,
this tent speaking of the body, is destroyed, we have
a building from God, a house not made with hands,
eternal in the heavens. For in this we' grown earnestly,
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desiring to be clothed with our habitation, which is from heaven.
If indeed, having been clothed, we shall not be found naked.
For we who are in this tent grown being burned,
not because we want to be unclothed. But further clothed
that mortality may be swallowed up by life. Now, he
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who has prepared us for this very thing is God,
who has also given us the spirit as a guarantee.
When this body dies, it goes back to the dust again,
according to what was said in Genesis three nineteen. But
we have a resurrected house to live in forever. This
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body will be dissolved and must be dissolved before we
can get the other body, before you can get that upgrade.
This needs to be gone. It is mortal, and because
of that we've grown. We're burdened by the desire for
our immortal body. That's what our spirit man and spirit woman,
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however you want to look at it, groans for. And
the older you get, the more you feel that groaning.
But our spirit is groaning for a glorious hope for
that future with the Lord, a hope for the future.
So we've talked about judgment, we've talked about all those
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other things. What is the word tell us about a
future reward, a future hope. What is a future hope?
It is the expectation of individuals after their death and
of the world when God brings present world affairs to
an end. Future, hope focuses upon the expectancy of the
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consummation of the individual's salvation. At the close of this age,
with the ushering end of the eternal order of the
return of Messiah, the believer's hope becomes an experienced reality
rather than anticipation of a future experience. The English word
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hope can imply certainty or uncertainty, as well as good
or bad expectations of the future. For example, I hope
it does not rain today. The Greek word for hope
that you see in the New Testament is elpis elpis,
and it carried a similar range of implications when used
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in a non religious context. When Paul is speaking in
Acts twenty seven to twenty, lukewrites, and he's talking about
being shipwrecked. Now, when neither sun nor stars appeared for
many days, and no small tempest beat on us, all
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hope that we would be saved was finally given up.
But that's not the kind of hope we're talking about.
Hebrews ten twenty three tells us the hope we're speaking of.
Let us hold fast the confession of our hope, without wavering,
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for he who promised is faithful. When you use that
translation of alpus, it means favorable and confident expectation, a
happy anticipation of good. The lex and Bible Dictionary says,
hope is the confidence that by integrating God's redemptive acts
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in the past with trusting human responses in the present,
the faithfuill experience the fullness of God's goodness both in
the present and in the future. Biblical faith rests on
the trustworthiness of God to keep his promises. The Biblical
view of hope is thus significant significantly different from that
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found in ancient Greek philosophy. Let me stop right there,
if you remember from all the things we talked about
about how the church was founded and why we do
what we do, much of the influence of what we
call church and the teachings and how we speak is
built upon the Greeks. Getting back to the definition from
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lex and Bible Dictionary, the Greeks recognize that human beings
expressed hope by nature. However, this kind of hope reflects
both good and bad experiences. The future was thus a
projection of one's own subjective possibilities. Biblical hope avoids this
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subjectivity by being founded on something that provides a sufficient
basis for confidence in its fulfillments. God and his redemptive
acts as they culminate in the birth, the life, the death,
and the resurrection of your Shuehammershiock Jesus the Messiah. So
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for us hope is certain, because what is hope for
is based on the character and the power of God.
Human secular reasoning or counseling cannot give you hope. Psalm
one thirty verses five through eight. I wait for the Lord.
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My soul waits, and in his word, I do hope.
My soul waits for the Lord, more than those who
watch for the morning. Guess more than those who watch
for the morning. Oh, Israel, hope in the Lord. For
with the Lord there is mercy, and with him is
abundant redemption, and He shall redeem Israel from all its iniquities. Remember,
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we're grafted into the vine the same promises that Israel
have had. We have same blessings, but also the same curses.
And thankfully we're not under the curse, and we're not
under the law. But as they understood hope through prophecy,
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through experience, through what they had been told, through what
they had seen, their hope was in the Lord. Our
hope is not in man, it's not in this world,
it's not in anyone else but Him. The Home and
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Bible Dictionary says, to hope in God is to stand
in awe of Him and his power, with the confidence
that God will faithfully perform his word. Thus hope becomes
trust in the righteous character of yahweh we're trusting in
his character that he is as good as his word.
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So the element of uncertainty derived from the influence of
Greek thinking on our culture, disappears when compared to the Word.
See Greek society centered their hope on human abilities, how
their own power or the abilities of the powers of
the gods. Small g which were undependable, were capricious and demonic.
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The concept of hope in the Old Testament is related
to trust, to hope in the Lord, to wait for
the Lord. We're common expressions that our hope was based
upon the object of our hope him. If we hope
in God, and that means we are in submission to
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his sovereign will, because He's not going to do anything
that goes against his word. Therefore, we cannot hope that
he will do something that defies his very nature. But
because of that well, you can also see that hope
and fear in God are sometimes expressed together. Psalm thirty three,
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verses eighteen through twenty. Behold the eye the Lord is
on those who fear him, on those who hope in
his mercy, to deliver their soul from death and to
keep them alive in famine. Our soul waits for the Lord.
He is our hope and our shield Someone forty seven eleven.
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The Lord takes pleasure in those who fear him, in
those who hope in his mercy. Proverbs twenty three, verses
seventeen and eighteen. Do not let your heart envy sinners,
but be zealous for the fear of the Lord all day,
for surely there is a hereafter, and your hope will
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not be cut off. See even then, they were thinking
of the hereafter because their hope was in the Lord.
Their hope was in his mercy. But they also had
an expectation of judgment, understanding that he was a holy God.
He was a righteous God. So to hope in God,
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to hope in our Father, is to stand in awe
of Him and his power, that he will faithfully perform
his word whenever I speak to him. Whenever I talk
to him, sometimes I'll just remind him that I trust
in his word, that I know that he is as
good as his word. Blessed is that man who makes
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the Lord his trust and does not respect the proud
nor just turned aside to lie some forty verse four.
And as I was working on this today and reading
these scriptures from the Psalms, from Proverbs, from the Prophets,
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it's amazing how without being born again, without the infeeling
of the Holy Spirit, they understood hope, but trust and
hope was missing something, something that they did not have
that we do the Cross, which gave us a personal
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connection and intimacy with Almighty God as our heavenly father.
That's why I always approach him as Abbah as father.
But I also understand, and we've talked about this before,
sometimes love means he has to chastise me. Sometimes that
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love means he has to correct me, because even though
he loves me as I am, he does want me
to stay this way. He wants me to be better.
He wants you to be better. So if you get chastised,
if you get corrected, don't take it as rejection, take
it as another step towards perfection. So the future hoped
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that they began to see was an expectation of the
Messiah and the restoration of the Kingdom of Israel. And
this is one of those things. Then when I speak
to Jews, my Jewish brothers and sisters, and I try
to get them to understand what I'm talking about, they
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don't have an expectation of Messiah. They've not been taught that.
They're not looking for that. Some don't even understand why
they need a Messiah. And because there was so much fraud,
you know, numerous people making messianic claims, building up the
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expectation of the people, only to collapse into defeat and
destruction when they found out that they were and who
they said they were. The future hope of Israel began
to take on a pessimistic tone, especially in Rabbinical thought.
But those that should have known better, They should have
known more of the Word, they should have understood more
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of the character of the God they claimed to serve.
The focus of a future hope for them became a
based upon personal effort and a religious achievements, unfortunately that
no man could ever fulfill. Some believe they're not even
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judged by the law anymore. Oh that went away, No,
it did not. God's word is eternal. If you're not
under the blood, you're under the law. And if you
fail at one aspect of the law, you fail at
all of it. So this uncertainty became a personal uncertainty,
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and it required them to please God without the help
of the Holy Spirit, hoping for the resurrection of the
body and inclusion of the coming Messianic kingdom. But that
makes no sense when you think about it. If you
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don't have your name on the list, you're not getting
invited into the banquet. But the New Testament hope and trust,
though built on the Old Testament roots, was grounded in
the absolute trustworthiness of an almighty God. Romans fifteen thirteen possays, now,
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may the God of Hope fill you with all joy
and peace in believing that you may abound in hope
by the power of the Holy Spirit. That right there
says this kind of hope, this future hope, the basis
of our expectation of the hereafter, is supernaturally empowered and
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supernaturally confirmed. And if you don't have it and you
don't understand it, you probably need to seek the Spirit
first one Timothy four ten. For to this end we
both labor and suffer reproach, because we trust in the
Living God, who is the savior of all men, especially
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of those who believe He's available to everybody. Like the
song says, if you want it here it is, come
and get it, which in a better hurry, because it
may not last. Seek him while he may be found.
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This future hope focuses on the expectancy of the culmination,
of the completionent of the finality of our salvation at
the close of the age, a confidence that your name
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is written in the Lambs Book of Life, and when
the Messiah returns, When the Lord returns and that eternal
order is implemented, the believer's hope, my hope, your hope
becomes an experiential reality, rather than an end anticipation of
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a future experience. I think that's why the spirit grows.
It knows, it knows what it'll feel like. It has
an expectancy in an understanding that our natural mind doesn't have.
One Corinthians, Chapter one, starting verse four, I thank my
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God always concerning you for the grace of God which
was given to you. By Messiah Isshua, that you were
enriched in everything by Him, in all utterance and all knowledge,
even as the testimony of Messiah was confirmed in you.
So that you come short no gift, Let me say
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that again, you come short in no gift, eagerly waiting
for the revelation of our Lord Jesus the Messiah, who
will also confirm you to the end, that you may
be blameless in the day of our Lord Jesus the
Messiah is sure hamashiak. Our hope is an expectancy in
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the return of the Lord. That's why in that quote
from the beginning, those that had the most effect on
this world were the ones who had the most expectation
of the one to come. We have an expectation and
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hope of the coming day of God saw Peter three,
starting verse eleven. Therefore, since all these things will be dissolved,
all of nature, everything around us, the sky, the stars,
everything will be dissolved what manner of person ought to
be in holy conduct and godliness, looking for and hastening
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the coming of the Day of God, because of which
the heavens will be dissolved, being on fire, and the
elements will melt with fervent heat. Nevertheless, we, according to
his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth
in which righteousness dwelves. Therefore, beloved, looking forward to these things,
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be diligent to be found by him in peace, without
spot and blameless. Because of these things we should be
looking forward to it. We should be diligent to be
found by Him in peace and without spot and blameless.
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What to spots, spots or sins, spots or things on
our garment which could keep us out of the banquet?
Put it under the blood repent, Let him wash away?
What can wash away my sins? Nothing but the blood
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of Jesus. And she was teaching on watchfulness. Failure be
expecting the return of the son of Man can cause disaster. Boy,
is that an understatement? This expectation of a future hope,
the day of the Lord stands as the incentive to
holy living. Now, we don't do that in fear. It's
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not like way till your father comes home. No, it's
Dad's coming home soon, and we need to clean up
this mess. We need to be obedient so that when
he walks in he likes what he sees. There's no fear,
there's no fear of rejection. There's no fear of anything
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but honesty and transparency. And you know, if you notice
what's going on in the world, people don't want transparency.
They like smoking mirrors, they like shadows, they like things
covered up. Oh, don't pull it out into the light,
don't you dare. Lift up that piece of cardboard and
expose all those roaches and make them run. That's the
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way it is with sin, That's way it is with
the Tamonic. Don't bring it out into the light. Nope,
that's exactly what you gotta do. If you think there's
anything in you that's not of God, call it out
into the light, say Father, in the name of your shoe,
I just call these things out into the light. Let
your glory shine upon it, expose it, and then clean
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me from it. Take it out of me, take it
from me. So the uncertainty that the Greek language created
disappeared in the word and is replaced with a sense
of confidence based upon the promise that the Lord would
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come again. It's amazing to me, and we've talked about
the statistics, how many people that claim to be Christians,
to be believers don't even believe in a second Coming.
They have no expectation of the return of the Lord.
They're not even looking for him. But the Apostles and
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the Book of Acts Church upon which we base what
we do. Boy, did they have an eager expectation of
the coming of Messiah in the future. He promised them
with certainty, total certainty. That's what drove them. As I've
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said many times, over all the years we've done this,
what fourteen years now? No, fifteen years? Is twenty five?
Started twenty ten? Oh, my goodness, fifteen years did one
eye on the job and one eye on the sky?
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Marrin after come Lord Jesus C. S. Lewis also says,
and I have a lot of quotes from him. He
seemed to talk a lot about having in paradise and
the hereafter. A continual looking forward to the eternal world
is not a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but
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one of the things a Christian is meant to do.
It does not mean that we are to leave the
present world as it is. If you read history, and
I said this quote before, you will find that Christians
who did the most for the present world were just
those who thought most of the next. Do you even
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think about that, not about your mortality, not about you
know how old you are, and eventually you know it's
coming soon. You know there's a train to come in
kind of thing now, I mean, do you think about eternity?
Do you think about paradise? Do you think about walking
with him and talking with him and sitting at his
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feet listening to the angel's worship, a worship that will
reverberate throughout the universe into your very cellular structure. I do,
I do. Look twelve verse thirty five, read letters. Let
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your waist be girded, in your lamps burning, and you
yourselves be like men who wait for their master when
he will return from the wedding. When he comes and knox,
they may open to him immediately. Blessed are those servants
whom the master, when he comes, will find watching assuredly.
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I say that he will gird himself and have them
sit down to eat, and will come and serve them.
And if he should come in the second watch or
come in the third watch, and finds them, so blessed
all those servants. But know this that at the master
of the house had known what hour the thief would come,
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he would have watched and not allowed his house to
be broken into there. For you also be ready for
the Son of Man is coming at an hour you
do not expect. Could be the first watch, could be
the second watch, could be the third watch. Anytime of
day or night. Remember what time it is here in
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the East, it's six hour the head in Jerusalem. I
can't tell you what clock he's going to go by,
but I would suspect it'll be that clock. Be ready,
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for the Son of Man is coming at an hour
you do not expect. You know, when Paul was testifying
before Governor Felix, he talked about being shipwrecked. But he
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also said this, But this I confess to you as
his acts twenty four. This is verses fourteen through sixteen.
But this I confess to you that according to the
way Capitol w and that's what they called the Messianic
believers of the day, which they call a sect. So
I worship ship the God of my father's, believing all
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things which are written in the Law and in the
prophets Verse fifteen. I have hope in God, which they
themselves also accept. And therefore and there will be a
resurrection of the dead, both of the just and the unjust.
This being so, I myself strive to have a conscience
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without offense toward God and men. He was the way,
the truth in life, and they called him the way
until they started calling them Christians and antioch there were
the way. You have to believe. You have to have hope.
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What's your hope in? Now? I'm asking you a question.
I'm not there to hear your answer. You can email
me if you want. What's your hope in? Is your
hope in government systems? Is your hope in your wallet
your bank account? Is your hope in your husband, your wife,
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your brother, your sister, your mother, your father, your family,
your friends? Is your hope in your job? Is your
hope in anything less than Jesus and his righteousness. My
hope is in God. My hope is in the Lord.
My hope is in his word. If she was said
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in John chapter five, verse twenty four, most assuredly, I
say to you, he who hears my word and believes
in Him Who's sent me has eternal life and shall
not come into judgment, but has passed from death into life.
You can't just believe in God. You have to believe
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in God and the Son that he sent most assuredly.
He goes on to say, I say to you the
hours coming, and now is when the dead will hear
the voice of the Son of God, and those who
hear will live. For as the Father has life in himself,
so he has granted the Son to have life in himself,
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and has given him authority to execute judgment. Also because
he is the son of man. Do not marvel at this,
for the hour is coming in which all who are
in the graves will hear his voice, and come forth,
those who have done good to the resurrection of life,
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and those who have done evil to the resurrection of condemnation. Oh,
I just need to be good? Then? Is that all
it is? And it's a little more than that. You
can't be good without him. It's his righteousness we partake of,
not our own TTYs Two thirty, verse eleven, for the
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grace of God that brings salvation as appeared to all men,
teaching us that, denying ungodliness and worldly lust, we should
live soberly, righteously and godly in the present age, looking
for the blessed, hope and glorious appearing of our great
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God and Savior, Jesus the Messiah who gave himself for us,
that he might redeem us from every lawless deed and
purity for himself his own special people zealous for good works.
You cannot do good works without his help. You cannot
do the kind of works he's talking about without being
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born again, because you do it through the Holy Spirit.
If I do something good, I do it in his name.
I do it for him. I do it to glorify him. Consciously,
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I understand every day when I get up who I serve,
who I am. I'd go to sleep praying that my
mind and my spirit man would remember that. But even
the Old Testament heroes had hope. Abraham had a future
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hope Hebrews eleven, verses eight through ten. By faith, Abraham
obeyed when he was called to go out to the
place which he would receive as an inheritance, And he
went out, not knowing where he was going. By faith,
he dwelt in the land of Promise, in a foreign country,
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dwelling intense with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him
of the same promise. For he waited for the city
which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God. They
had hope. They didn't get to receive it in this
world they got the next. They could see it, they
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knew it, they felt it. They knew what the words said,
they knew what the prophet said. James, the half brother
of Jesus, who was the head of the Jerusalem Church,
taught them guided them to look for this hope in
James Chapter five, verses seven and eight. Therefore, be patient, brethren,
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until the coming of the Lord. See how the farmer
waits for the precious fruit of the earth, waiting patiently
for it until it receives the early and the latter reign.
You also be patient. Establish your hearts, for the coming
of the Lord is at hand. Oh Richard, We've heard
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this over and over and over, and then we never
see him. It never happens. Remember, he's outside of time.
He's not bound to our clock. He's not bound to
our schedule or our calendar. If he said it, he
means it. And your hope is in his promise. Your
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hope is in the word. If the word says it,
hold on to it. Don't let the enemy steal that
from you. Don't let secular reasoning steal that from you.
When somebody tells you, well, maybe you should give up
that's not going to really happen now. Nope, I rebuked
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that in the name of you. Assure if he said it,
I believe it. If he confirmed it, it's a done deal.
It'll happen when it's as to happen, and I'll be ready,
like I said. The apostle Paul focused on many things,
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but the key to all of it was the future
hope Romans eight, studying verse eighteen. For I consider that
the sufferings of this present age are not worthy to
be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us.
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For the earnest expectation of the creation eagerly waits for
the revealing of the sons of God. For the creation
was subjected to futility, not willingly, but because of Him
who subjected it. In hope, because the creation itself also
will be delivered from the bondage of corruption into the
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glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know
that the whole creation groans and labors with birth pangs
together until now all of creations groaning, just like we are.
The darker it gets, the more evil it gets, the
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more demonica gets. They react to it, They sense it,
they feel it. We know that storms coming. The birds
take off, are something catastrophics about to happen, an earthquake
or whatever. Suddenly the birds are gone, the animals stop chirping.
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There's a stillness in nature because they know. They have
an expectation of something coming. Well, folks, I gotta tell
you there's an expectation of something coming. The King. The
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King is coming. And while we glory in that, the
enemy grits its teeth and grumbles and does what it
does because they have an expectation, and well they should.
One Corinthians one s thirty verse four. I thank my
God always concerning you for the grace of God which
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was given to you by Messiah Yeshiah, that you were
enriched in everything by Him, in all utterance and all knowledge,
even as the testimony of Messiah was confirmed in you,
so that you come short and no gift, no gift.
Every gift came from above. Everything you need, eagerly awaiting
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for the revelation of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah, who
will also confirm you to the end that you may
be blameless in the day of our Lord. God is
faithful by whom you were called into the fellowship of
his son Jesus Messiah, Our Lord, you're not short in anything.
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You need to make it to the end. The enemy
has taken your confidence in some areas. Don't let them
do that. If you fell down, get up. If you
got bruised, get it prayed for. Confess your sins to
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one another. It's good to have a prayer body. It's
good to have someone you can air things out with
who won't judge you, won't repeat it, won't use it
against you. But don't let it fester inside of you.
Don't let the enemy poke it. And hey, remember when
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you did that. Wow, that was pretty bad. Nope, no, nope,
don't put it under the blood. Say I'm sorry, Lord,
I messed up. Remember where you are, and don't mean geographically.
Remember where you are. You're in a fallen world. This
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is not our home, a world that's under the rule
of Hastatan, Satan and the fallen. He's the god of
this world. You sure it took back spiritual authority on
the cross. The natural one will come when he returns. Well,
remember this. Our citizenship is in heaven, from which we
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also eagerly await for the Savior. The Lord Jesus the Messiah,
who will transform our lowly body that it may be
conformed to his glorious body, according to the work by
which he is able even to subdue all things to himself.
Larry and I were talking about this, and I said,
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you know, I'm at the point for anything that distracts
me from the Lord, from the Word, from the calling,
from whatever it is he's put upon my heart to do,
offends me. Social media has begun to offend me. It's
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become a distraction because before you know it, you've gone
down the rabbit hole and there's Alice in wondering Land
and the cat's smiling at you, and the guy's got
the hat, and you're thinking, I think I fell down
a hole. I need to get out of here, because
the minute you watch one thing, then you watch another
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and you listen to this and oh my gosh, and
oh no, I just I'm tired of it. I'm tired
of it all. Yes, I should know what's going on
so I can pray about it. But I'm also at
the point where that logic doesn't work either. If it's
important enough, the Holy Spirit will tell me. Because they
had go choke this out. I told you the story.
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He did that once we were Tallahassee and I don't
know why I was watching the TV. I guess I
think deeb was away at a woman's retreat and he
I'm flipping channels and I flipped by something that was
so demonic it made my spirit go look away, look away.
Clicked it and I didn't want to see it, and
the Holy Spirit said, go back and watch that. I'm like, what,
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go back and watch that? And it was a really
foul thing made by Clive Barker about the underworld and
how the good people, the men on earth were bad
and the demons were good, and the demons were going
to come to the surface and take over. I think
it's called night Breed. I'm not telling you to watch it.
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I'm just telling you what it was. And when I
got done, I really felt like I needed to take
a shower, and I think I might have. And I said, Lord,
why did you make me do that? He said, you
need to understand what these kids you're ministering to a
watching You've stuck your head in the sand and you
do not have a clue what's going on out there
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right now. And I realize that in my zeal to serve,
you get caught up in that religious mindset, and I was,
and I was losing touch with the threat. I was
losing touch with doing reconnaissance, as I call it, the
supernatural battle on the enemy. That was an example of
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the Lord saying, hey, I want you to look at this.
So now when I see things, pray over my mind,
pray over my heart, pray over my home, and I
look to see what it is he wants me to
know from within it. I take notes, this is not
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our home. We don't belong here. Hebrews nine, starting verse
twenty seven, as it is appointed for men to die once,
but after this the judgment, So Massaiah was offered once
to bear the sins of many to those who eagerly await,
to those who eagerly wait for him, he will appear
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a second time apart from sin for salvation. You know
this is a pattern here, those who eagerly await for him.
He talked about the servants in that parable, eagerly looking
for the return of the Master, where the first watch,
second watch, third watch doesn't matter. Are you watching He
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wants us to be watching. Are you going to be ready?
Titus chapter three, verse four through seven. But when the
kindness and the love of our God, our Savior Jordan
Mann appeared, not by works of righteousness, which we have done,
but according to his mercy, he saved us through the
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washing of regeneration and the renewing of the Holy Spirit,
whom he poured out on us abundantly through Jesus the Messiah,
our Savior. Having been justified by his grace, we should
become heirs. According to the hope of eternal life. It's
always the connection of the Holy Spirit. The guarantee of
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the Holy Spirit, pointing out of the Holy Spirit like
a like an oil over you gives you that hope,
that supernatural hope, This future hope was ordained from the
beginning of all things, saved for these for the last times,
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for those who believe. See, he had a plan in
the garden. He knew where it was all going to go,
that it would get made right in the end. There
was always a plan for this. He wasn't surprised. He's
not surprised by anything that happens. One Peter, Chapter one,
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verse eighteen. Knowing that you were not redeemed with corruptible
things like silver or gold, from your aimless conduct, received
by tradition from your father's but with the precious blood
of Messiah, as of a lamb without blemish and without
spot He indeed was fordained before the foundation of the world,
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but was manifest in these last times for you. What
last times began on the day of Pentecost. He was
the one who stood up and talked about the second
chapter of Joel. These are what he was talking about,
verse twenty one. Who threw him believe in God, who
raised him from the dead and gave him glorious so
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that your faith and hope are in God. If he
said it, I believe it, and He'll do it. And
that hope can only come from you, shure from Jesus
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and the blood, the blood of the Lamb. You know,
we're coming up on Passover, We're coming up on Resurrection
Sunday and all that goes with it. And in those
days we'll talk about the Cross, we'll talk about the
empty tomb, we'll talk about the Upper Room. Just to
get it stirred up inside of you. If you've been
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with me for the duration we've talked about it before.
Sometimes it's good to be reminded to reminisce to stir
things up, because I need you to stir it up.
I need some of you to wake up. Clausans one
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nineteen were pleased to Father that in him, meaning ashure,
all the fullness should dwell, and by him capital age
to reconcile all things to himself, by him, whether things
on earth or things in heaven, having made peace through
the blood of his cross, and you and me, who
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were once alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works.
Yet now He has reconciled in the body of his
flesh through death, to present you holy and blameless and
above reproach in his sight. If indeed you continue in faith,
grounded and steadfast, and are not moved away from the
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hope of the gospel which you heard, which was preached
every creature under heaven, of which I Paul became a minister,
you can't expect anything. You can't expect anything but hope
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in him. When you focused on His word, when you
focused on His spirit, when you are praying and reading
and worshiping, you have a hope, a future hope. Oswald
Chambers says, the cross of Jesus Christ and his baptism
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expressed the same thing. Our Lord was not a martyr,
he was not merely a good man. He was God incarnate.
He came down to the lowest reach of creation in
order to bring back the whole human race to God.
And in order to do this he must take upon him,
as representative man, the whole massed sin of the race.
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He took it all on. He shed his blood for everybody.
But you had to receive it. You had to take.
You had to believe, You had to confess with your
mouth and believe in your heart. Everybody wasn't forgiven. Everybody
doesn't go to heaven just because he shed his blood
on the cross. You have to receive it. You have
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to accept the gift, you have to accept the payment. Therefore, Beloved,
looking forward to these things, be diligent, to be found
by him in peace, without spot and blameless, Be steadfast
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Taco Peter three fourteen. Peter, it's very clear about being steadfast,
about being holy, about being spotless and blameless. What it
was really clear about was hope inspires action to be
diligent and to be ready feet the Salonians five three
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and twenty four. Now may the God appeace himself sanctify
you completely. I'm speaking this upon you now. May the
God appeace himself sanctify you completely, and may your whole spirit,
soul and body be preserved blameless at the coming of
our Lord Jesus the Messiah, he who calls you was faithful,
who also will do it. You know, speak these words
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over yourself. When I speak and you're listening, I'm speaking
it upon you. You're absorbing it. Believe it and receive it.
Scottish minister and theologian Alexander MacLaren said the early Church
thought more about the second coming of Jesus Christ than
about the death or about heaven. The early Christians were
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looking not for a cleft in the ground called a grave,
but for a cleavage of the sky called glory. They
were watching not for the undertaker, but for the uppertaker.
Get it, upper taker, taking you up. Over and over
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and over. This methoge about a living hope. We've been
begotten in a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus
the Messiah from the dead, an inheritance, incorruptible, un defiled,
that does not fade away, reserved in heaven for you,
kept by the power of God through faith for salvation
ready to be revealed in the last time, his bounding mercy,
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boundless mercy. We've been born again to an ever living
hope through the resurrection of Jesus the Messiah from the dead.
I'm in First Peter chapter one, anew into an inheritance
which is beyond the reach of change and decay. It
can't perish, it's imperishable, it's unsullied, it's unfading. It's reserved
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in heaven for us. We are being guarded, garrisoned by
the power the Holy Spirit, by God's power through your faith,
till you fully inherit the final salvation and is ready
to be revealed for you in the last time. A
living hope, a future hope that is guaranteed and confirmed.
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It's guarded, it's strong, it's protected like a garrison, and
we're being kept by the power of God through faith
to be salvation ready. This isn't an ordinary hope. It's
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an extraordinary hope. It's extraordinary. It's a supernatural gift from God.
That's why we persevere. That's why we press on. That's
why I do this, That's why you listen. That's why
we share. That's why we pray. Therefore, having been justified
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by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord
Jesus the Messiah, through whom also we have access by
faith and this grace in which we stand and rejoice
in the hope of the glory of God. And not
only that, we also glory and tribulations, knowing that tribulation
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produces perseverance, and perseverance, character and character. Hope. Now, hope
does not disappoint because the love of God has been
poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit, who
was given to us Romans five. Hope, confident, assurance, expectation
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of fulfillment. God will not disappoint us. The Holy Spirit
guarantees that because it is a blessed hope. Let me
leave you with this quote from C. S. Lewis, if
I find in myself a desire which no experience in
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this world can justify, the most probable explanation is that
I was made for another world, the world talked about
in Revelation twenty one, and New Heaven and New Earth,
the Holy City of New Jerusalem, where He wipes away
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every tear from our eyes. No more death, no sorrow,
no crying, no more pain. All the former things have
passed away, a future hope of paradise, which is a
return to the life intended for us in the garden
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of Eden. So our future hope is what was to
become now again. That's what we live for, That's what
we hope for. That's why we do what we do.
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We fulfill the great commission because we want others to
have that hope. So Father, thank you for that. Holy Spirit.
Help us, help us to tell others, help us to
do this. Remind us, when we become caught up in
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this world and hopeless and oppressed and beat up, that
this is not our home, that we have a future
hope of return to paradise, a return to the life
that you intended for us in the garden. Remind us
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right now, correct any false thinking, any false teachings. Fine
tune us, focus us like a laser from their broadbeam
to that really tight, powerful beam of light, capital l
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into the darkness. Set the captives free, break the chains,
open the prison doors, shaking this world one last time
before the return of the King, and doing it with
a smile on our face and hope in our heart.
We pray all these things in your shoe his name. Amen,
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May the Lord bless you and keep you. Made the Lord,
May I don't I make his face to shine upon you,
and be gracious to you. Made the Lord. I don't
know you. Shuehamasiah, Jesus the Messiah, lift up his countenance
upon you and give you peace. Give you shallow. I'm
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Richard Grunn. This has been the Porch on Firefall Talk Radio.
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