January 21, 2026 • 51 mins
The Porch discusses the concept of the "Remnant"—a faithful group of believers who remain steadfast to God through times of chaos, calamity, persecution, and spiritual decline. The Remnant are called out from both Jews and Gentiles, united in Messiah, and tasked with building God's Kingdom according to His blueprint—not man's traditions or divisions that over time have complicated the original design, yet the Holy Spirit continues to purify and unify the true Remnant empowered by the Holy Spirit, to restore the Church to its original purpose and unity.
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pray for you because they care for you. We always
start out with praise. I praise the Lord for my home,
my wife, my family, son, daughter in laws, grandchildren, furry kids,
and everything I have which only comes from the fact
that He saved me and set me free. I praise
Him for his provision, his protection. THAT'SAALM ninety one covering.
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I praise Him for the dreams and the visions as
we live our Joel to twenty eight. I praise him
for his divine health and healing, what we have, what
we will have, what is available to us, for His
abiding favor, for his continuing revelation by the presence of
the Holy Spirit. I praise Him for making me a
new creation and allowing me to serve Him and to
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live in these prophetic times, which allows me to pray.
I pray for the peace of Jerusalem and they prosper
who love you someone twenty two, verse six. I pray
for the nation. I pray for a Jewish brothers and sisters.
I pray for their protection. I pray for their guidance,
especially with everything going on in the Middle East right now.
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I pray the same for America. We need him to
forgive us and to shed his grace upon us. I
pray for all the people that are being victimized by
their leaders. Look what's happening in Iran. Thousands upon thousands
being slaughtered in satanic, demonic ways. Please pray for them
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to get set free. I pray for the fatherless and
the widows, the persecuted and the martyrd, the innocence and
those that are victims of injustice. I pray against the
slaughter of the innocence, for missing a floided children, for
the victims of human sex trafficking goes on every day,
has been going on for a very long time. For
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our brothers and sisters around the world being slaughtered and
persecuted for their faith. I pray against the growing religious
persecution and anti Semitism that is sweeping this nation and
the world. I pray against the plans and the effort
of the Antichrist and the spirit of the Antichrist, that's
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what's behind all of what we just mentioned. I pray
for Divine holeness, health and healing in me and in you,
and my wife and my family and all who need it.
It's there, Believe it and receive it. I pray for
His protection and divine inspiration, for the remnant alarm clock
to awaken all who are called, for the open doors,
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for all the projects and plans to appear before us,
and the kingdom finances for the kingdom business that he
wants done. Twenty twenty six. Abbah, Papa Daddy, we come
to you in the name above all names, your shoe
Amashiak Jesus the Messiah, your only begotten son. We come
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as your children. We boldly approach the throne of Grace
and mercy. Arms up raised, hearts open to you. We
thank you for your love, We thank you for your forgiveness,
We thank you for your blessings. We pray that you
would protect us homes, lands, family's pet possession, that you
would protect the technology, that the word would go forth
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and do what you desire to do. So, Holy Spirit,
have your way. This is your time, and I pray
all these things and your shoe his name. Amen.
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We live in a time of chaos and calamity. There's
a lot of noise going on out there, a lot
of distractions, a lot of things to frighten us and
make us fearful. But it's time. It's time for us
to speak out above that noise and not be silent,
no matter the cost, speaking encouragement or speaking warning, but
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speaking as I've said, the Day of the Lord will
not surprise believers because we may not know the date
of his coming, but we are spiritually prepared. We are
in new order, the children of the light, the ones
who don't know dates, but always prepared, nobody's shining, always
doing the job at hand. The night is far spent,
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the day is at hand. Therefore, let us cast off
the works of darkness, and let us put on the
armor of light. Let us walk properly as in the day,
not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust,
not in strife and envy, but put on the Lord Jesus,
the Messiah, and make no provision for the flesh to
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fulfill its lust. We are not spiritually drunk and distracted,
as Romans thirteen, verses twelve through fourteen. First Thessalonians five six.
Paul continues the message, Therefore, let us not sleep as
others do, but let us watch and be sober, be awake,
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be prepared morally, spiritually, physically, even physically. You should be
conscious of the fact that your health impacts every part
of you, even soul and spirit, So doing the best
you can with what you have, be physically prepared. That
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word sleep means moral indifference and drunk means have no
self control, and there's a lot of that in the
church today. Titus chapter two, verse starting verse eleven says,
for the remarkable, undeserved grace of God that brings salvation
has appeared to all men. Your Sue is the source
of salvation for all who believe and accept him as
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Savior and Lord. It teaches us to reject ungodliness and
worldly immoral desires and to live sensible, upright and godly lives,
lives with the purpose that reflect spirit maturity in the
present age, and awaiting confidently expecting the fulfillment of our
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blessed hope and the glorious appearing of our great God
and Savior, the Messiah Jesus, the Messiah issue who willingly
gave himself to be crucified on our behalf to redeem
us and purchase our freedom from all wickedness, and to
purify himself a chosen and very special people to be
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his own possession, who are enthusiastic for doing what is good,
Who willingly gave himself to be crucified for what, for
our sins, for the sins of the world. That's what
the word says. Stop listening to these false teachers that
are trying to give you a different salvation message, taking
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away the necessity of the cross, A chosen and very
special people to be his own possession, enthusiastic for doing
what is good. Who are these people? I believe they
are the remnant. What defines the remnant identity is not
institutional structure or denominational boundaries, but faithfulness to the mission,
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the community, the commitment to God's call the Homean Bible
dictionary says remnant is something left over, especially the righteous
people of God, after divine judgment. Several Hebrew words express
the remnant idea yidah which y e r which that
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which is left over, shahar shaar I'm sorry that which remains,
shart residue pelletal one who escapes, sarret a survivor, and
shirut one loosed from bounds. All the same contexts, all
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the same idea. Several activities of everyday life are associated
with these words. Objects or people may be separated from
a larger group by selection, by assignment or consumption, eating food,
or by destruction. What is left over is the residue, or,
in the case of the people, those who remain like
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after an epidemic or a famine, a drought, or a war.
So this is a common message, This is a common idea,
especially throughout the Old Testament. What is left over is
the residue, or in the case of people, those who remain,
those who have survived the war or in a war.
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Right now, we're in a war against religion. A portion
of people left after disaster, especially one that is identified
with divine judgment, are those who remained faithful to God
despite the suffering, and who ultimately experienced his restoration. Some
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examples of that are Noah and his family Lot after
Sodom and Gomorrah was destroyed, Jacob's family in Egypt. Elijah
on the seven thousand followers of the Lord mentioned in
First Kings nineteen when he says, I have reserved seven thousand.
You may feel alone, but you're not. They were survivors
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because the Lord chose to show mercy to those who
had believed steadfastly in Him and had been righteous in
their lives. All whose knees had not bowed to bail,
and every mouth that had not kissed bail, come into
agreement with or developed a relationship with. Joseph told his
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father and brothers that the Lord had arranged for them
to be saved by sending him to Egypt first so
that he could prepare for their safety. They were a remnant,
so to speak, since they were so small in number.
They'd been set aside by God because of what he
did through Joseph. The prophet Amos discovered that many believed
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that God would protect them no matter what, like in
the Jewish community today, even in the Church today. But
Amos told them divine judgment would be poured out on
all of Israel and that at an appointed time he
would bring a remnant of his people to rebuild the nation.
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The warning in Amos four or five was to seek
him and live. Now, this is what the Lord says
to the family of Israel. Come back to me and live,
Seek me and live Amos, Hoseiah Ezra Miikah, Isaiah zeph
and Iyah, Jeremiah Ezekiel. All the prophets pointed towards a
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small group who would repent, who would humble themselves and
find refuge after their affliction in captivity Isaiah thirty seven,
starting verse thirty one. And the remnant who have escaped
of the House of Judah shall again take root downward
and bear fruit upward. For out of Jerusalem shall go
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a remnant. And those who escape from Mount Zaion, the
zeal of the Lord of the Hosts will do this.
The zeal of the Lord of Hosts will do this.
This isn't easily done, It's supernatural. Jeremiah told Judah that
they would be destroyed for rebelling against the Lord of
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the Covenant. The political, religious, and social institutions of the
state would be eliminated. Many would lose their lives. Others
would be taken and into exile for seventy years. There
is a price for disobedience. There is a price for
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breaking our covenant and our relationship with God. In exile,
those who believed in the One True God, the ones
who held on, the ones who did not compromise, would
be gathered to return to the promised Land, and out
of them God would create a new community. But the
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danger is, and it always will be, that it is
human nature to rebel again Ezra nine, starting verse thirteen,
regarding the Babylonian exile. After all that has come upon
us for our evil deeds and for our great guilt,
since you, our God, have punished us less than our
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iniquities deserve and have given us such a deliverance as this,
Should we again break your commandments and join in marriage
with the peace committing these abominations? Would you not be
angry with us until you had consumed us so that
there would be no remnant or survivor. Oh Lord God
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of Israel, you are righteous, for we are left as
a remnant as it is this day. Here we are
before you and our guilt, although no one can stand
before you because of this. It's the nature. Doesn't matter
how close you are to God. Human nature is to
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be seduced to rebel. Micah foresees the forgiveness of their
transgression in Micah seven eighteen. Who is a God like you,
pardoning iniquity and passing over the transgression of the remnant
of his heritage? He does not retain his anger forever
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because he delights in mercy Without him doing that, without
Israel and his forgiveness, there is no church. We cannot
have the church if you take out the primary ingredient
that he built it all upon, which was Israel. That's
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what he did, That's what the disciples taught. They understood
that he declared that they would be able to find him,
even the gentile. The rest of humanity might seek the Lord,
including the gentiles, all those I've called to be mine
Acts fifteen seventeen. The gentiles were meant to be a
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part of God's people. We'll explain that a second through Messiah.
We are the remnant of the men and women that
were seeking the Lord. And even now among Israel, the
Lord is preserving his remnant Jews, then gentiles chosen by
grace to be delivered. It's always has been, It's always
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been his intention to do this. Paul quoted from Joseiah
from Isaiah to demonstrate that saving a remnant from among
the Jewish people was still a part of the Lord's
method of redemption. Why does the church think that that changed?
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Hoseiah to twenty three. Then I will sow her for
myself in the earth, and I will have mercy on
her who had not obtained mercy. Then I will say
to those who were not my people, you are my people,
and they shall say you are my God. There was
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always meant to be a future for anyone among the
covenant people who would turn to the Lord for salvation,
and he would use a people that were not his people,
the Gentiles to bring the Jews the jealousy, into repentance,
and that would inspire them to return. That's what Paul
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talks about in Romans and this message out there that
the Church has replaced Israel and we should reject that.
In this new old message that has come back about
rejecting everything Jewish, it's not of God. It doesn't line
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up with the word Romans nine, starting verse twenty two.
What if God, wanting to show his wrath and to
make his power known, endured with much long suffering the
vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, that he might make
known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy,
which he had prepared beforehand for glory even us, among
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whom he called not of the Jews only, but also
of the gentiles. He also says in Hoseiah again, I
quoted this to you, but this is Paul quoting it
to the Romans. I will call them my people, who
are not my people, and her beloved who was not beloved.
And it shall come to pass in the place where
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it was said to them, you are not my people,
that they shall be called sons of the Living God.
Isaiah also cries out concerning Israel. Though the number of
the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea,
the remnant will be saved. Does that sound to you
like they've been cut off? This has always been a
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major prophetic theme. Yes, Israel became so rebellious that God
threatened to annihilate her, but he always relented, and he
declared that he would preserve his people by saving a
remnant of them from destruction. From that remnant he would
rebuild as people. This was an act of his grace alone.
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Israel had proven to be totally disobedient as a nation,
and yet He still loved it him and still loves them,
And the Church has done exactly the same thing. In
the New Testament. Paul quotes in Romans nine from Hoseiah
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and Isaiah and demonstrates that saving a remnant from among
the Jewish people was still his method of redeeming his people.
There would always be a future for anyone, any one
who turned to the Lord for salvation. That door is
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not closed. These from Romans nine that Paul talks about
to the Messianic believers today, and they will be the
ones that accept him. During the Tribulation Romans eleven, starting
verse one, I say that has God cast away his people?
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Certainly not, For I also am in Israelite, of the
seat of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. God has
not cast away his people whom he foreknew. Or do
you not know what scripture says of Elijah, how he
pleads with God against Israel, saying, Lord, they have killed
your prophets and torn down your altars, and I alone
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am left, and they seek my life. And what does
the divine response say to him? I have reserved for
myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee
to bail. Even so, then at this present time there
is a remnant. According to the election of Grace. The
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remnant is always there. There are covenant people who have
overcome adversity, persecution, and tribulation. Doesn't sound so glamorous now
to say I am of the remnant, does it? There
are no T shirts and ball caps for that crowd.
There's so many remnant passages that are closely tied to
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the future King, the Messiah, to who would be the
majestic ruler for those who seek his mercies. Like we
said last week, there's always hope and these passages have
a strong eschatological thrust, expecting future generations to be the remnant.
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Even though there a section of them now, there will
be a big section in the future. In that future,
and there will be a new people, a new community,
a new nation, one that has a strong faith in
the One True God. Numerous statements in the latter part
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of the book have an evident futuristic orientation. In that future,
there's a place for the Remnant, which brings us to
what Pentecost Acts two. Starting verse fourteen, Peter, standing up
with the eleven, raised the eleven. How praise your Lord
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for this word. Praise you for your Holy Spirit, Praise
you for your love. Praise you for the remnant that
you have selected by grace. He raised his voice and
said to the men of Judea and all who dwell
in Jerusalem, and let this be known to you, and
heed by words. For these are not drunk, as you
suppose said. Since it is only the third hour of
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the day, it's only nine a m. But this what
was spoken by the prophet Joel. It shall come to
pass in the last day, says God, that I will
pour out my spirit on all flesh, Your sons and
your daughters shall prophesy. Your young men shall see visions,
your old men shall dream dreams. And are my men servants,
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and all my maid servants will pour out my spirit
in those days, and they shall prophesy. I shall wonders
in heaven above, and signs, and the earth beneath blood
and fire and vapor of smoke. The sun will be
turned into darkness and the moon into blood before the
coming of the great, gnowsome day of the Lord. And
it shall come to pass that whoever calls on the
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name of the Lord shall be saved. From where out
of all flesh from which he poured out his spirit,
whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.
That was the message, that was the mission, and he
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did it with what a small group that he had
set aside and selected fifteen thirty, verse twelve. Then all
the multitude kept silent, listened to Barnabas and Paul declaring
how many miracles and wonders God had worked through them
among the gentiles. And after they stopped speaking, James answered, saying,
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men and brethren, listen to me Simon, meaning Simon. Peter
has declared how God at the First visited the Gentiles
to take out of them a people for his name,
I e. A remnant. And this with this words of
the prophet agree, and he's talking about Amos, just as
it is written. After this, I will return, and I
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will rebuild the Tabernacle of David, which has fallen down.
I will rebuild as ruins, and I shall set it
up so that the rest of mankind may seek the Lord,
even all the gentiles who are called by my name,
says the Lord who does all these things. The remnant
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is being called out from among all the nations to
join him in his kingdom. This was the primariest simon
of the Book of Axe Church. Matthew twenty four to
fourteen says, what and this gospel of the Kingdom will
be preached where in all the world as a witness
to all the nations, and then the end will come?
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So what is the mission all the world? All the
nations jew gentile? And the purpose from the Father's heart
was to restore the Father to the fatherless and make
them one family. See the Lord set forth an example
of that which we were supposed to follow. This wasn't
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about religion, It was about relationship. And I believe that
those of the remnant promote relationship over religion, because if
you're a part of the remnant, you're sick of religion.
You've had enough of religion. Maybe you've been wounded by it,
disgusted by it. Now you are promoting the father to
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the fatherless Deuteronomy ten eighteen. He administers justice for the
fatherless and the widow, and loves the stranger, giving him
food and clothing Psalm sixty eighty five. A father of
the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his
holy habitation. And if you look at that, a father
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of the fatherless, defender of the widows, he is the
male figure that has stepped in the gap in which
men have abandoned. Those who believed in him. Would no
longer be orphans without a father. And that so resonated
with me, so strongly drove me, filled me still does today.
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The Home and Bible Dictionary says the Old Testament image
of the orphan without a helper at the court perhaps
forms the background for Yeshua's message that his disciples would
not be left orphans. John fourteen, verses sixteen through eighteen.
And I will pray the Father, and he will give
you another helper that he may abide with you forever.
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The Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot receive because
it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him,
for he dwells with you and will be in you.
He will not leave you orphans. I will come to you,
and I will ask Abba, and he will give you
another comforter, an advocate, an intercessor, a counselor strengthen her
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stand by to be with you forever. The Spirit of Truth,
the one that the world can't receive, can't take it
to heart, doesn't see him, doesn't know him. But you
know him because the Holy Spirit remains with you continually
and will be in you. You are born again, You
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are filled with the Spirit. You are connected to him
in the Throne room. You are never alone. And if
the enemy lies to you or tricks you into thinking
you are alone, you need to stop and say that
is a lie. I am never alone. I am not
defenseless because the Holy Spirit is always here. He's always interceding,
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he's always advocating, he's always strengthening. Fatherlessness is a demonic
attack on God's children. It is a satanic scourge on society.
It's a blight that has caused many of the problems
we see and suffer from today. But the remnant have
been separated to Him through adoption. Romans eight starting verse fourteen.
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For as many as are led by the Spirit of God,
these are scriptures tos sons of God. I'll say, children
of God. For you did not receive the spirit of
bondage again to fear, but you received the spirit of adoption,
by whom we cry out Abbah Father. The Spirit himself
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bears witness with hours spirit that we are children of God.
And if children, then heirs heirs of God, joint heirs
with Messiah. If indeed we suffer with Him, that we
may also be glorified together. Hear what I'm saying. Please,
you've not received the spirit of slavery, leading again to
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fear of God's judgment. But you have received the spirit
of adoption as sons and daughters, the spirit producing relationship
by which we joyfully cry out Abbah Father, Papa Daddy.
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When Jason, our grandson, was a little boy, I mean,
he's still a little young, but when he was a
little guy and he could get out of the car
and they'd set him down on the ground. I'd always
be standing outside to greet him, and he would take
off like a rocket, Papa, Papa, Papa, and run jump
into my arms. That's what it's about out now. This
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adoption process has begun spiritually, but it'll be finalized physically
when He restores all creation and we get our resurrected
bodies Romans eight twenty three. Not only that, but we
also who have the first fruits of the spirit, even
we ourselves grown within ourselves eagerly awaiting for the adoption
the redemption of our bodies. And the older you get,
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the more you understand that. But until that time, believers
are in the process of being conformed to the image
of the Sun, with the help of the Spirit, with
the assurance of glorification. So as you've listened, as I've
quoted scripture, as I've shown you what Paul says, what
the prophets say, you can't escape to what we believe.
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The roots of what we believe are Jewish. You can't
eliminate that. You can't dig that out without killing the
vine Romans eleven, starting verse seventeen. But some of the
branches from Abraham's tree some of the people of Israel
have been broken off, and you, gentiles, who were branches
from a wild olive tree, have been grafted in. So
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now you will also receive the blessing God had promised
Abraham and his children. Let me back up a section here,
some of the branches some of the people have been
broken off, not all of the people. So now you
will receive the blessing God had promised Abraham and his children,
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sharing in the rich nourishment from the root of God's
special olive tree. But you must not brag against being
grafted in to replace the branches that were broken off.
My goodness, I'm having a hard time holding it together here,
But you must not brag about being grafted in to
replace the branches that were broken off. You had just
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the branch, not the root. Well, you might say those
branches were broken off to make room for me, Yes,
but remember those branches were broken off because they didn't
believe in Messiah, and you are there because you do believe.
So don't think highly of yourself, but fear what could happen.
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For if God did not spare the original branches, he
won't spare you either. Notice how God is both kind
and severe. He is severe towards those who disobeyed, but
kind to you if you continue to trust in his kindness.
But if you stop trusting, you will also be cut off.
And if the people of Israel turn from their unbelief,
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they will be grafted in again, for God has the
power to graft them back into the tree. You, by nature,
were a branch cut from a wild olive tree. So
if God was willing to do something contrary to nature
by grafting you into the cultivated tree, he will be
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more eager to graft the original branches back into the
tree where they belong. Think about that, For if you
were by nature a wild olive tree, it goes against
nature to be grafted into the original tree, a cultivated one,
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one that's alive, one that's got roots. So because of that,
he'd be eager and it would be easy for him
to do to graft the natural branches back into the
original parent stock of their own olive tree. And He
has done that as Jews have gotten saved and accepted
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him as Messiah. Now the problem with this is people
grasp this message about Hebrew roots and they go running
to examine the roots. Well, that's all well and good.
It's sit there in scripture, but I don't have to
live by that. I lived by the tree. The church
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in Galatia, they decided they were going to go back
to the law. They were going to go back to
being saved by works and not by faith. And I
must say this right down. It's going to get me
in trouble. But I'm sorry. I have posted online things
about grace and been attacked by Roman Catholics, attacked being
a Protestant and out of the rebellion of Martin Luther
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in Germany, and all of that nonsense. And you still
have to do good things. You have to do good work,
You have to do good you have to do this,
you have to do that. And I will quote this
scripture to them. I'll actually write it down, cut it
and paste it. Oh, you foolish Galatians. Who has bewitched
you that you should not obey the truth? Before whose
eyes Jesus the Messiah was clearly portrayed among you as crucified.
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This only I want to learn from you. Did you
receive the spirit by the works of the law the
hearing of faith? Are you so foolish? Having begun in
the spirit are now being made perfect by the flesh.
Have you suffered so many things in vain? If indeed
it was in vain, there are millions out there right now.
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To think you obtain it by works, that is a lie.
They have been bewitched. So you have two extremes, and
the enemy loves to play them both. Now what was
his intention? Paul says in Galatians three twenty eight. There's
neither Jew nor Greek, neither slave nor free, neither male
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nor female, were all one in Messiah Yeshia. And when
they read that, they go, see the Jews are gone.
It's just us. Now do you not know how to read?
Neither Jew nor Greek is supposed to be one church,
the original Messianic Church of Jews and Gentiles. There was
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never suppose used to be a quote Christian church. It
was always intended because those are the foundations that were
built on. They went into synagogues and they went here
and they spoke to the Jews. The foundation of the
church is Messianic in fulfillment with prophecy. They didn't come
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to start a new religion, they came to fulfill an
old one. So what happened? How did we get here easy.
The enemy got into the mix and stained the material.
The world, which is the enemy, who rebranded God's design
and to their own created a counterfeit that looks so
much like the real people buy it. And if you
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look in scripture you can see where this began, Acts
eleven twenty six, and speaking of Paul and Barnabas, they
were in Antioch, and so was They were there for
a whole year, assembled with the church and taught a
great many people, and the disciples were first called Christians Antioch.
These believers were the disciples. They've been made disciples, but
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then they were given the name Christians, because the word
Messiah in Greek is Christ or Christus I believe. And
according to others, it was meant to mock. It wasn't
a compliment, but they took it on for some reason.
Lex and Bible dictionarieses The term Christian began to appear
in extra biblical material around the end of the first
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century and beginning of the second century, in both Jewish
and secular Roman contexts. The earliest extant references in Josephus
Antiquities of the Jews. Josephus relates an abbreviated account of
the gospel narrative the Life and Death of Jesus, concluding
that quote, the tribe of Christians, so named for him,
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are not extinct in this day. That's where it came
from Caaciitis. The Roman referred to them as Christians, a
name derived from Christ. Originally, the church was called the Way,
but later on they began to refer themselves as Christians.
Even though the name originated as an object of ridicule,
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it's only used in two other places, Acts twenty six,
twenty eight for Stpeter four sixteen. Here in lies the
problem is, I said the Church in Antioch, although built
on Messianic Jews, as they grew, became predominantly Gentile. And
it was from this church, not the Jerusalem Church, that
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the first foreign missionaries went out. You see this in
Acts thirteen, where they get sent out by the Holy Spirit,
have hands laid on them, and they go when they
preach the Word of God and the synagogues of the Jews.
That's where it starts. In Antioch. The Holy Spirit was
building a foundation on the Jews. Why jew and gentile,
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you sue, came to the Jews first? If this was
going to be a building in which all lived together.
It must have both. But the problem was the further
they got away from building on the foundation, the more
the house shifted in its balance, and other foundations were created.
Another issue that I want to share with you that
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ties into this, and you need to understand it. All
of the main apostles that are still left had key students.
Clement the first of Rome was Paul's, Ignacious of Antiochus,
Peters Polycarpo Smyrna was John's. And they carried on their
teachings directly from them about the divinity and the authority
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of Messiah, the ecclesiastical structure of perseverance among persecution, moral
and spiritual purity, and the defense against false teachings, the
heresies that were seeping into the congregations. And so what
you had is you looked at a chart. You have
Yeshua Jesus the Messiah. Then you have Paul, Peter, and John,
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and then under them you have Clement of Rome, Clement
the first Ignacious of Antioch, and then polycarp And there
was some interaction Clement knew Peter and Ignacious new John.
But then after them, around one fifty a d. You
have Ironaeus justin Martyr Hippolytis, Clement of Alexandria, there's no
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connection to Paul, Peter or John. And the further away
you got, the more they began to add their own
interpretations or thoughts, and the students in the church leaders
that were left began to shift away from foundational roots.
And out of that came a document that really took
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things over. According to the Dictionary of the Latter New
Testament and its developments, the De Duque di id Ach,
if you want to look it up, call the Teaching
of the Lord to the Gentiles by the Twelve Apostles,
or the Teaching of the Twelve as it was known
in ancient times, was a handbook or a manual of
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ethical instruction and church order. Some of the later on
writers Clement of Alexandria origin Didymus, used it as scripture.
Hear what I'm saying here. They didn't just use it
to fill in the blanks. They use it as primary.
They use it as scripture. And no original copy existed
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till eighteen seventy three when a manuscript of it was found.
And what was in that New forms of baptism were created,
other than immersion alterations of the Lord's prayer, man made
institutions and guidelines such as the Church Order. Section of
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this writing bears evidence of change over time. It evolved
partially in due to what was going on in the
community of the church, but it sought it self as
evolving and adapting, transitioning from the more charismatic itinerant ministers
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to less glamorous and i'll say less powerful resident leadership. Basically,
they sat down and a tension between the ideal of
what was and the actual began to grow. By one
fifty BC, it's in its final form. It's a garment
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wrinkling more and more of a time as other clothing
is piled on top of it. Interesting that one fifty
and beyond No, there's no connection left to the original disciples.
And then you jump to the Council of Nicea in
three five AD, the first ecumenical Council of the Church
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convened by Emperor Constantine, and more changes were made. There
are no Hellenistic Jews like Paul, who understood both cultures
are left to tie the cultures together so that you
understand both which kind of what I present and the
variation away from the Book of Act Church continued to grow.
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If you can understand what I'm saying, the light bulbs
are going off in your head. Oh, that's how this happened.
The material that the Lord had set aside, the remnant,
the one that he had chosen, the one that he
had cut, is now horribly wrinkled. But he won't cast
it away, he won't throw it out. So we have
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to remove the wrinkles. And how is he going to
do that? By the purifying fire of the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit has always been building the Kingdom of
God from both jew and Gentile, over and over and over.
That's the foundation, that's the infrastructure. Well Man and the
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Church begin to build their own kingdoms, man made denominations, doctrines, rules, d's,
and don'ts that have nothing to do with the original
foundation or infrastructure. I say, the fire the Holy Spirit
is here in this remnant. That's what we're called to do.
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We're called to build His kingdom with no distinctions and
no variations from his original blueprint. Is that easy?
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No?
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To do that, you have to tear everything down. You
don't have to completely start over, because you still have
a foundation and you still have an infrastructure. But everything
that's been put on it, that doesn't match, that doesn't
line up, that is causing structural problems must be removed.
And the only one that can do that are those
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that have been powered by the Holy Spirit to do so.
The fire the Holy Spirit is here now, in word,
indeed in this remnant, arising to restore things. If this
burns in your heart, if you hear this and you
long for it, you long for a fellowship that did this,
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keep praying, keep believing some of us know what this
feels like. Did we get it right completely? No, we
made mistakes, but we got a taste. We got a
taste of what it's supposed to be like. And after that,
traditional church won't do it. The dog and pony show
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won't do it. What man has created won't do it.
So I ask you, are you of the remnant? Does
your heart burn as I talk about this? Does your
mind and begin to understand, without condemnation or anger, how
it all went wrong. Remember, these men were up against
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a spirit Hacitan who got a third of the angels
to fall. That doesn't exonerate them, but it kind of
gives them an out. And the fact that he's that
powerful a whisper a word, a nudge, one degree off
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becomes way off. The remnant is arising. It's had enough.
It knows the way it can be. It knows the
way the Father wants it, and the Lord desires it,
and the Holy Spirit will empower it. And I for
one am ready, Father, Abbah, Papa, Daddy, Gosh. I love
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calling you that. Yet I know who you are. You
are the creator of the universe, and I have awesome,
awesome respect for you. But in all of that, I
know you're my Dad. I know it in my heart.
I love you. We love you, and we're so so
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sorry that man has done this to what you created
and you designed so Lord, right now, in the spirit,
I ask you to roll out that blueprint and begin
to drop into our mind's eyes and our hearts what
you would like us to do. I know what I'm
called to do. I'm asking you to put it in
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the hearts and minds of those on how they can help.
I'm asking you turn up the heat of the Holy Spirit.
Turn it up right now inside of me and my
brothers and sisters Herd. All the wrinkles in us, all
the things that we've accepted, all the doctrines of men,
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all the things that we were told with away, and
they warnt the way and give us the words and
the love and the compassion to show others. There are
sheep of your flock out there looking for a pen
where they know they belong. And we want to be
a part of that. I want to be a part
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of that. Lord, help us to do that. Holy Spirit,
have your way with us. I know it's your heart
because I can feel it in mine. And I pray
all these things, and you shoe his name. Amen. May
the Lord bless you and keep you. May the Lord,
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May I don't know, I make his face to shine
upon you and be gracious to you. May the Lord
I don't know, you show Hummasiah Jesus the Messiah, lift
up his countenance upon you and give you peace. Give
you shall oam. I'm Richard Grund. This has been the
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start out with praise. I praise the Lord for my home,
my wife, my family, son, daughter in laws, grandchildren, furry kids,
and everything I have which only comes from the fact
that He saved me and set me free. I praise
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I praise Him for the dreams and the visions as
we live our Joel to twenty eight. I praise him
for his divine health and healing, what we have, what
we will have, what is available to us, for His
abiding favor, for his continuing revelation by the presence of
the Holy Spirit. I praise Him for making me a
new creation and allowing me to serve Him and to
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live in these prophetic times, which allows me to pray.
I pray for the peace of Jerusalem and they prosper
who love you someone twenty two, verse six. I pray
for the nation. I pray for a Jewish brothers and sisters.
I pray for their protection. I pray for their guidance,
especially with everything going on in the Middle East right now.
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I pray the same for America. We need him to
forgive us and to shed his grace upon us. I
pray for all the people that are being victimized by
their leaders. Look what's happening in Iran. Thousands upon thousands
being slaughtered in satanic, demonic ways. Please pray for them
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to get set free. I pray for the fatherless and
the widows, the persecuted and the martyrd, the innocence and
those that are victims of injustice. I pray against the
slaughter of the innocence, for missing a floided children, for
the victims of human sex trafficking goes on every day,
has been going on for a very long time. For
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our brothers and sisters around the world being slaughtered and
persecuted for their faith. I pray against the growing religious
persecution and anti Semitism that is sweeping this nation and
the world. I pray against the plans and the effort
of the Antichrist and the spirit of the Antichrist, that's
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what's behind all of what we just mentioned. I pray
for Divine holeness, health and healing in me and in you,
and my wife and my family and all who need it.
It's there, Believe it and receive it. I pray for
His protection and divine inspiration, for the remnant alarm clock
to awaken all who are called, for the open doors,
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for all the projects and plans to appear before us,
and the kingdom finances for the kingdom business that he
wants done. Twenty twenty six. Abbah, Papa Daddy, we come
to you in the name above all names, your shoe
Amashiak Jesus the Messiah, your only begotten son. We come
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as your children. We boldly approach the throne of Grace
and mercy. Arms up raised, hearts open to you. We
thank you for your love, We thank you for your forgiveness,
We thank you for your blessings. We pray that you
would protect us homes, lands, family's pet possession, that you
would protect the technology, that the word would go forth
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and do what you desire to do. So, Holy Spirit,
have your way. This is your time, and I pray
all these things and your shoe his name. Amen.
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We live in a time of chaos and calamity. There's
a lot of noise going on out there, a lot
of distractions, a lot of things to frighten us and
make us fearful. But it's time. It's time for us
to speak out above that noise and not be silent,
no matter the cost, speaking encouragement or speaking warning, but
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speaking as I've said, the Day of the Lord will
not surprise believers because we may not know the date
of his coming, but we are spiritually prepared. We are
in new order, the children of the light, the ones
who don't know dates, but always prepared, nobody's shining, always
doing the job at hand. The night is far spent,
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the day is at hand. Therefore, let us cast off
the works of darkness, and let us put on the
armor of light. Let us walk properly as in the day,
not in revelry and drunkenness, not in lewdness and lust,
not in strife and envy, but put on the Lord Jesus,
the Messiah, and make no provision for the flesh to
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fulfill its lust. We are not spiritually drunk and distracted,
as Romans thirteen, verses twelve through fourteen. First Thessalonians five six.
Paul continues the message, Therefore, let us not sleep as
others do, but let us watch and be sober, be awake,
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be prepared morally, spiritually, physically, even physically. You should be
conscious of the fact that your health impacts every part
of you, even soul and spirit, So doing the best
you can with what you have, be physically prepared. That
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word sleep means moral indifference and drunk means have no
self control, and there's a lot of that in the
church today. Titus chapter two, verse starting verse eleven says,
for the remarkable, undeserved grace of God that brings salvation
has appeared to all men. Your Sue is the source
of salvation for all who believe and accept him as
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Savior and Lord. It teaches us to reject ungodliness and
worldly immoral desires and to live sensible, upright and godly lives,
lives with the purpose that reflect spirit maturity in the
present age, and awaiting confidently expecting the fulfillment of our
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blessed hope and the glorious appearing of our great God
and Savior, the Messiah Jesus, the Messiah issue who willingly
gave himself to be crucified on our behalf to redeem
us and purchase our freedom from all wickedness, and to
purify himself a chosen and very special people to be
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his own possession, who are enthusiastic for doing what is good,
Who willingly gave himself to be crucified for what, for
our sins, for the sins of the world. That's what
the word says. Stop listening to these false teachers that
are trying to give you a different salvation message, taking
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away the necessity of the cross, A chosen and very
special people to be his own possession, enthusiastic for doing
what is good. Who are these people? I believe they
are the remnant. What defines the remnant identity is not
institutional structure or denominational boundaries, but faithfulness to the mission,
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the community, the commitment to God's call the Homean Bible
dictionary says remnant is something left over, especially the righteous
people of God, after divine judgment. Several Hebrew words express
the remnant idea yidah which y e r which that
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which is left over, shahar shaar I'm sorry that which remains,
shart residue pelletal one who escapes, sarret a survivor, and
shirut one loosed from bounds. All the same contexts, all
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the same idea. Several activities of everyday life are associated
with these words. Objects or people may be separated from
a larger group by selection, by assignment or consumption, eating food,
or by destruction. What is left over is the residue, or,
in the case of the people, those who remain like
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after an epidemic or a famine, a drought, or a war.
So this is a common message, This is a common idea,
especially throughout the Old Testament. What is left over is
the residue, or in the case of people, those who remain,
those who have survived the war or in a war.
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Right now, we're in a war against religion. A portion
of people left after disaster, especially one that is identified
with divine judgment, are those who remained faithful to God
despite the suffering, and who ultimately experienced his restoration. Some
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examples of that are Noah and his family Lot after
Sodom and Gomorrah was destroyed, Jacob's family in Egypt. Elijah
on the seven thousand followers of the Lord mentioned in
First Kings nineteen when he says, I have reserved seven thousand.
You may feel alone, but you're not. They were survivors
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because the Lord chose to show mercy to those who
had believed steadfastly in Him and had been righteous in
their lives. All whose knees had not bowed to bail,
and every mouth that had not kissed bail, come into
agreement with or developed a relationship with. Joseph told his
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father and brothers that the Lord had arranged for them
to be saved by sending him to Egypt first so
that he could prepare for their safety. They were a remnant,
so to speak, since they were so small in number.
They'd been set aside by God because of what he
did through Joseph. The prophet Amos discovered that many believed
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that God would protect them no matter what, like in
the Jewish community today, even in the Church today. But
Amos told them divine judgment would be poured out on
all of Israel and that at an appointed time he
would bring a remnant of his people to rebuild the nation.
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The warning in Amos four or five was to seek
him and live. Now, this is what the Lord says
to the family of Israel. Come back to me and live,
Seek me and live Amos, Hoseiah Ezra Miikah, Isaiah zeph
and Iyah, Jeremiah Ezekiel. All the prophets pointed towards a
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small group who would repent, who would humble themselves and
find refuge after their affliction in captivity Isaiah thirty seven,
starting verse thirty one. And the remnant who have escaped
of the House of Judah shall again take root downward
and bear fruit upward. For out of Jerusalem shall go
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a remnant. And those who escape from Mount Zaion, the
zeal of the Lord of the Hosts will do this.
The zeal of the Lord of Hosts will do this.
This isn't easily done, It's supernatural. Jeremiah told Judah that
they would be destroyed for rebelling against the Lord of
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the Covenant. The political, religious, and social institutions of the
state would be eliminated. Many would lose their lives. Others
would be taken and into exile for seventy years. There
is a price for disobedience. There is a price for
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breaking our covenant and our relationship with God. In exile,
those who believed in the One True God, the ones
who held on, the ones who did not compromise, would
be gathered to return to the promised Land, and out
of them God would create a new community. But the
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danger is, and it always will be, that it is
human nature to rebel again Ezra nine, starting verse thirteen,
regarding the Babylonian exile. After all that has come upon
us for our evil deeds and for our great guilt,
since you, our God, have punished us less than our
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iniquities deserve and have given us such a deliverance as this,
Should we again break your commandments and join in marriage
with the peace committing these abominations? Would you not be
angry with us until you had consumed us so that
there would be no remnant or survivor. Oh Lord God
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of Israel, you are righteous, for we are left as
a remnant as it is this day. Here we are
before you and our guilt, although no one can stand
before you because of this. It's the nature. Doesn't matter
how close you are to God. Human nature is to
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be seduced to rebel. Micah foresees the forgiveness of their
transgression in Micah seven eighteen. Who is a God like you,
pardoning iniquity and passing over the transgression of the remnant
of his heritage? He does not retain his anger forever
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because he delights in mercy Without him doing that, without
Israel and his forgiveness, there is no church. We cannot
have the church if you take out the primary ingredient
that he built it all upon, which was Israel. That's
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what he did, That's what the disciples taught. They understood
that he declared that they would be able to find him,
even the gentile. The rest of humanity might seek the Lord,
including the gentiles, all those I've called to be mine
Acts fifteen seventeen. The gentiles were meant to be a
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part of God's people. We'll explain that a second through Messiah.
We are the remnant of the men and women that
were seeking the Lord. And even now among Israel, the
Lord is preserving his remnant Jews, then gentiles chosen by
grace to be delivered. It's always has been, It's always
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been his intention to do this. Paul quoted from Joseiah
from Isaiah to demonstrate that saving a remnant from among
the Jewish people was still a part of the Lord's
method of redemption. Why does the church think that that changed?
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Hoseiah to twenty three. Then I will sow her for
myself in the earth, and I will have mercy on
her who had not obtained mercy. Then I will say
to those who were not my people, you are my people,
and they shall say you are my God. There was
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always meant to be a future for anyone among the
covenant people who would turn to the Lord for salvation,
and he would use a people that were not his people,
the Gentiles to bring the Jews the jealousy, into repentance,
and that would inspire them to return. That's what Paul
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talks about in Romans and this message out there that
the Church has replaced Israel and we should reject that.
In this new old message that has come back about
rejecting everything Jewish, it's not of God. It doesn't line
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up with the word Romans nine, starting verse twenty two.
What if God, wanting to show his wrath and to
make his power known, endured with much long suffering the
vessels of wrath prepared for destruction, that he might make
known the riches of his glory on the vessels of mercy,
which he had prepared beforehand for glory even us, among
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whom he called not of the Jews only, but also
of the gentiles. He also says in Hoseiah again, I
quoted this to you, but this is Paul quoting it
to the Romans. I will call them my people, who
are not my people, and her beloved who was not beloved.
And it shall come to pass in the place where
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it was said to them, you are not my people,
that they shall be called sons of the Living God.
Isaiah also cries out concerning Israel. Though the number of
the children of Israel be as the sand of the sea,
the remnant will be saved. Does that sound to you
like they've been cut off? This has always been a
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major prophetic theme. Yes, Israel became so rebellious that God
threatened to annihilate her, but he always relented, and he
declared that he would preserve his people by saving a
remnant of them from destruction. From that remnant he would
rebuild as people. This was an act of his grace alone.
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Israel had proven to be totally disobedient as a nation,
and yet He still loved it him and still loves them,
And the Church has done exactly the same thing. In
the New Testament. Paul quotes in Romans nine from Hoseiah
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and Isaiah and demonstrates that saving a remnant from among
the Jewish people was still his method of redeeming his people.
There would always be a future for anyone, any one
who turned to the Lord for salvation. That door is
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not closed. These from Romans nine that Paul talks about
to the Messianic believers today, and they will be the
ones that accept him. During the Tribulation Romans eleven, starting
verse one, I say that has God cast away his people?
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Certainly not, For I also am in Israelite, of the
seat of Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin. God has
not cast away his people whom he foreknew. Or do
you not know what scripture says of Elijah, how he
pleads with God against Israel, saying, Lord, they have killed
your prophets and torn down your altars, and I alone
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am left, and they seek my life. And what does
the divine response say to him? I have reserved for
myself seven thousand men who have not bowed the knee
to bail. Even so, then at this present time there
is a remnant. According to the election of Grace. The
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remnant is always there. There are covenant people who have
overcome adversity, persecution, and tribulation. Doesn't sound so glamorous now
to say I am of the remnant, does it? There
are no T shirts and ball caps for that crowd.
There's so many remnant passages that are closely tied to
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the future King, the Messiah, to who would be the
majestic ruler for those who seek his mercies. Like we
said last week, there's always hope and these passages have
a strong eschatological thrust, expecting future generations to be the remnant.
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Even though there a section of them now, there will
be a big section in the future. In that future,
and there will be a new people, a new community,
a new nation, one that has a strong faith in
the One True God. Numerous statements in the latter part
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of the book have an evident futuristic orientation. In that future,
there's a place for the Remnant, which brings us to
what Pentecost Acts two. Starting verse fourteen, Peter, standing up
with the eleven, raised the eleven. How praise your Lord
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for this word. Praise you for your Holy Spirit, Praise
you for your love. Praise you for the remnant that
you have selected by grace. He raised his voice and
said to the men of Judea and all who dwell
in Jerusalem, and let this be known to you, and
heed by words. For these are not drunk, as you
suppose said. Since it is only the third hour of
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the day, it's only nine a m. But this what
was spoken by the prophet Joel. It shall come to
pass in the last day, says God, that I will
pour out my spirit on all flesh, Your sons and
your daughters shall prophesy. Your young men shall see visions,
your old men shall dream dreams. And are my men servants,
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and all my maid servants will pour out my spirit
in those days, and they shall prophesy. I shall wonders
in heaven above, and signs, and the earth beneath blood
and fire and vapor of smoke. The sun will be
turned into darkness and the moon into blood before the
coming of the great, gnowsome day of the Lord. And
it shall come to pass that whoever calls on the
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name of the Lord shall be saved. From where out
of all flesh from which he poured out his spirit,
whoever calls on the name of the Lord shall be saved.
That was the message, that was the mission, and he
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did it with what a small group that he had
set aside and selected fifteen thirty, verse twelve. Then all
the multitude kept silent, listened to Barnabas and Paul declaring
how many miracles and wonders God had worked through them
among the gentiles. And after they stopped speaking, James answered, saying,
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men and brethren, listen to me Simon, meaning Simon. Peter
has declared how God at the First visited the Gentiles
to take out of them a people for his name,
I e. A remnant. And this with this words of
the prophet agree, and he's talking about Amos, just as
it is written. After this, I will return, and I
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will rebuild the Tabernacle of David, which has fallen down.
I will rebuild as ruins, and I shall set it
up so that the rest of mankind may seek the Lord,
even all the gentiles who are called by my name,
says the Lord who does all these things. The remnant
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is being called out from among all the nations to
join him in his kingdom. This was the primariest simon
of the Book of Axe Church. Matthew twenty four to
fourteen says, what and this gospel of the Kingdom will
be preached where in all the world as a witness
to all the nations, and then the end will come?
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So what is the mission all the world? All the
nations jew gentile? And the purpose from the Father's heart
was to restore the Father to the fatherless and make
them one family. See the Lord set forth an example
of that which we were supposed to follow. This wasn't
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about religion, It was about relationship. And I believe that
those of the remnant promote relationship over religion, because if
you're a part of the remnant, you're sick of religion.
You've had enough of religion. Maybe you've been wounded by it,
disgusted by it. Now you are promoting the father to
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the fatherless Deuteronomy ten eighteen. He administers justice for the
fatherless and the widow, and loves the stranger, giving him
food and clothing Psalm sixty eighty five. A father of
the fatherless, a defender of widows, is God in his
holy habitation. And if you look at that, a father
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of the fatherless, defender of the widows, he is the
male figure that has stepped in the gap in which
men have abandoned. Those who believed in him. Would no
longer be orphans without a father. And that so resonated
with me, so strongly drove me, filled me still does today.
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The Home and Bible Dictionary says the Old Testament image
of the orphan without a helper at the court perhaps
forms the background for Yeshua's message that his disciples would
not be left orphans. John fourteen, verses sixteen through eighteen.
And I will pray the Father, and he will give
you another helper that he may abide with you forever.
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The Spirit of Truth, whom the world cannot receive because
it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him,
for he dwells with you and will be in you.
He will not leave you orphans. I will come to you,
and I will ask Abba, and he will give you
another comforter, an advocate, an intercessor, a counselor strengthen her
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stand by to be with you forever. The Spirit of Truth,
the one that the world can't receive, can't take it
to heart, doesn't see him, doesn't know him. But you
know him because the Holy Spirit remains with you continually
and will be in you. You are born again, You
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are filled with the Spirit. You are connected to him
in the Throne room. You are never alone. And if
the enemy lies to you or tricks you into thinking
you are alone, you need to stop and say that
is a lie. I am never alone. I am not
defenseless because the Holy Spirit is always here. He's always interceding,
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he's always advocating, he's always strengthening. Fatherlessness is a demonic
attack on God's children. It is a satanic scourge on society.
It's a blight that has caused many of the problems
we see and suffer from today. But the remnant have
been separated to Him through adoption. Romans eight starting verse fourteen.
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For as many as are led by the Spirit of God,
these are scriptures tos sons of God. I'll say, children
of God. For you did not receive the spirit of
bondage again to fear, but you received the spirit of adoption,
by whom we cry out Abbah Father. The Spirit himself
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bears witness with hours spirit that we are children of God.
And if children, then heirs heirs of God, joint heirs
with Messiah. If indeed we suffer with Him, that we
may also be glorified together. Hear what I'm saying. Please,
you've not received the spirit of slavery, leading again to
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fear of God's judgment. But you have received the spirit
of adoption as sons and daughters, the spirit producing relationship
by which we joyfully cry out Abbah Father, Papa Daddy.
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When Jason, our grandson, was a little boy, I mean,
he's still a little young, but when he was a
little guy and he could get out of the car
and they'd set him down on the ground. I'd always
be standing outside to greet him, and he would take
off like a rocket, Papa, Papa, Papa, and run jump
into my arms. That's what it's about out now. This
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adoption process has begun spiritually, but it'll be finalized physically
when He restores all creation and we get our resurrected
bodies Romans eight twenty three. Not only that, but we
also who have the first fruits of the spirit, even
we ourselves grown within ourselves eagerly awaiting for the adoption
the redemption of our bodies. And the older you get,
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the more you understand that. But until that time, believers
are in the process of being conformed to the image
of the Sun, with the help of the Spirit, with
the assurance of glorification. So as you've listened, as I've
quoted scripture, as I've shown you what Paul says, what
the prophets say, you can't escape to what we believe.
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The roots of what we believe are Jewish. You can't
eliminate that. You can't dig that out without killing the
vine Romans eleven, starting verse seventeen. But some of the
branches from Abraham's tree some of the people of Israel
have been broken off, and you, gentiles, who were branches
from a wild olive tree, have been grafted in. So
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now you will also receive the blessing God had promised
Abraham and his children. Let me back up a section here,
some of the branches some of the people have been
broken off, not all of the people. So now you
will receive the blessing God had promised Abraham and his children,
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sharing in the rich nourishment from the root of God's
special olive tree. But you must not brag against being
grafted in to replace the branches that were broken off.
My goodness, I'm having a hard time holding it together here,
But you must not brag about being grafted in to
replace the branches that were broken off. You had just
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the branch, not the root. Well, you might say those
branches were broken off to make room for me, Yes,
but remember those branches were broken off because they didn't
believe in Messiah, and you are there because you do believe.
So don't think highly of yourself, but fear what could happen.
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For if God did not spare the original branches, he
won't spare you either. Notice how God is both kind
and severe. He is severe towards those who disobeyed, but
kind to you if you continue to trust in his kindness.
But if you stop trusting, you will also be cut off.
And if the people of Israel turn from their unbelief,
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they will be grafted in again, for God has the
power to graft them back into the tree. You, by nature,
were a branch cut from a wild olive tree. So
if God was willing to do something contrary to nature
by grafting you into the cultivated tree, he will be
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more eager to graft the original branches back into the
tree where they belong. Think about that, For if you
were by nature a wild olive tree, it goes against
nature to be grafted into the original tree, a cultivated one,
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one that's alive, one that's got roots. So because of that,
he'd be eager and it would be easy for him
to do to graft the natural branches back into the
original parent stock of their own olive tree. And He
has done that as Jews have gotten saved and accepted
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him as Messiah. Now the problem with this is people
grasp this message about Hebrew roots and they go running
to examine the roots. Well, that's all well and good.
It's sit there in scripture, but I don't have to
live by that. I lived by the tree. The church
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in Galatia, they decided they were going to go back
to the law. They were going to go back to
being saved by works and not by faith. And I
must say this right down. It's going to get me
in trouble. But I'm sorry. I have posted online things
about grace and been attacked by Roman Catholics, attacked being
a Protestant and out of the rebellion of Martin Luther
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in Germany, and all of that nonsense. And you still
have to do good things. You have to do good work,
You have to do good you have to do this,
you have to do that. And I will quote this
scripture to them. I'll actually write it down, cut it
and paste it. Oh, you foolish Galatians. Who has bewitched
you that you should not obey the truth? Before whose
eyes Jesus the Messiah was clearly portrayed among you as crucified.
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This only I want to learn from you. Did you
receive the spirit by the works of the law the
hearing of faith? Are you so foolish? Having begun in
the spirit are now being made perfect by the flesh.
Have you suffered so many things in vain? If indeed
it was in vain, there are millions out there right now.
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To think you obtain it by works, that is a lie.
They have been bewitched. So you have two extremes, and
the enemy loves to play them both. Now what was
his intention? Paul says in Galatians three twenty eight. There's
neither Jew nor Greek, neither slave nor free, neither male
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nor female, were all one in Messiah Yeshia. And when
they read that, they go, see the Jews are gone.
It's just us. Now do you not know how to read?
Neither Jew nor Greek is supposed to be one church,
the original Messianic Church of Jews and Gentiles. There was
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never suppose used to be a quote Christian church. It
was always intended because those are the foundations that were
built on. They went into synagogues and they went here
and they spoke to the Jews. The foundation of the
church is Messianic in fulfillment with prophecy. They didn't come
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to start a new religion, they came to fulfill an
old one. So what happened? How did we get here easy.
The enemy got into the mix and stained the material.
The world, which is the enemy, who rebranded God's design
and to their own created a counterfeit that looks so
much like the real people buy it. And if you
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look in scripture you can see where this began, Acts
eleven twenty six, and speaking of Paul and Barnabas, they
were in Antioch, and so was They were there for
a whole year, assembled with the church and taught a
great many people, and the disciples were first called Christians Antioch.
These believers were the disciples. They've been made disciples, but
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then they were given the name Christians, because the word
Messiah in Greek is Christ or Christus I believe. And
according to others, it was meant to mock. It wasn't
a compliment, but they took it on for some reason.
Lex and Bible dictionarieses The term Christian began to appear
in extra biblical material around the end of the first
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century and beginning of the second century, in both Jewish
and secular Roman contexts. The earliest extant references in Josephus
Antiquities of the Jews. Josephus relates an abbreviated account of
the gospel narrative the Life and Death of Jesus, concluding
that quote, the tribe of Christians, so named for him,
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are not extinct in this day. That's where it came
from Caaciitis. The Roman referred to them as Christians, a
name derived from Christ. Originally, the church was called the Way,
but later on they began to refer themselves as Christians.
Even though the name originated as an object of ridicule,
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it's only used in two other places, Acts twenty six,
twenty eight for Stpeter four sixteen. Here in lies the
problem is, I said the Church in Antioch, although built
on Messianic Jews, as they grew, became predominantly Gentile. And
it was from this church, not the Jerusalem Church, that
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the first foreign missionaries went out. You see this in
Acts thirteen, where they get sent out by the Holy Spirit,
have hands laid on them, and they go when they
preach the Word of God and the synagogues of the Jews.
That's where it starts. In Antioch. The Holy Spirit was
building a foundation on the Jews. Why jew and gentile,
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you sue, came to the Jews first? If this was
going to be a building in which all lived together.
It must have both. But the problem was the further
they got away from building on the foundation, the more
the house shifted in its balance, and other foundations were created.
Another issue that I want to share with you that
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ties into this, and you need to understand it. All
of the main apostles that are still left had key students.
Clement the first of Rome was Paul's, Ignacious of Antiochus,
Peters Polycarpo Smyrna was John's. And they carried on their
teachings directly from them about the divinity and the authority
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of Messiah, the ecclesiastical structure of perseverance among persecution, moral
and spiritual purity, and the defense against false teachings, the
heresies that were seeping into the congregations. And so what
you had is you looked at a chart. You have
Yeshua Jesus the Messiah. Then you have Paul, Peter, and John,
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and then under them you have Clement of Rome, Clement
the first Ignacious of Antioch, and then polycarp And there
was some interaction Clement knew Peter and Ignacious new John.
But then after them, around one fifty a d. You
have Ironaeus justin Martyr Hippolytis, Clement of Alexandria, there's no
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connection to Paul, Peter or John. And the further away
you got, the more they began to add their own
interpretations or thoughts, and the students in the church leaders
that were left began to shift away from foundational roots.
And out of that came a document that really took
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things over. According to the Dictionary of the Latter New
Testament and its developments, the De Duque di id Ach,
if you want to look it up, call the Teaching
of the Lord to the Gentiles by the Twelve Apostles,
or the Teaching of the Twelve as it was known
in ancient times, was a handbook or a manual of
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ethical instruction and church order. Some of the later on
writers Clement of Alexandria origin Didymus, used it as scripture.
Hear what I'm saying here. They didn't just use it
to fill in the blanks. They use it as primary.
They use it as scripture. And no original copy existed
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till eighteen seventy three when a manuscript of it was found.
And what was in that New forms of baptism were created,
other than immersion alterations of the Lord's prayer, man made
institutions and guidelines such as the Church Order. Section of
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this writing bears evidence of change over time. It evolved
partially in due to what was going on in the
community of the church, but it sought it self as
evolving and adapting, transitioning from the more charismatic itinerant ministers
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to less glamorous and i'll say less powerful resident leadership. Basically,
they sat down and a tension between the ideal of
what was and the actual began to grow. By one
fifty BC, it's in its final form. It's a garment
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wrinkling more and more of a time as other clothing
is piled on top of it. Interesting that one fifty
and beyond No, there's no connection left to the original disciples.
And then you jump to the Council of Nicea in
three five AD, the first ecumenical Council of the Church
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convened by Emperor Constantine, and more changes were made. There
are no Hellenistic Jews like Paul, who understood both cultures
are left to tie the cultures together so that you
understand both which kind of what I present and the
variation away from the Book of Act Church continued to grow.
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If you can understand what I'm saying, the light bulbs
are going off in your head. Oh, that's how this happened.
The material that the Lord had set aside, the remnant,
the one that he had chosen, the one that he
had cut, is now horribly wrinkled. But he won't cast
it away, he won't throw it out. So we have
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to remove the wrinkles. And how is he going to
do that? By the purifying fire of the Holy Spirit.
The Holy Spirit has always been building the Kingdom of
God from both jew and Gentile, over and over and over.
That's the foundation, that's the infrastructure. Well Man and the
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Church begin to build their own kingdoms, man made denominations, doctrines, rules, d's,
and don'ts that have nothing to do with the original
foundation or infrastructure. I say, the fire the Holy Spirit
is here in this remnant. That's what we're called to do.
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We're called to build His kingdom with no distinctions and
no variations from his original blueprint. Is that easy?
Speaker 2 (46:38):
No?
Speaker 1 (46:40):
To do that, you have to tear everything down. You
don't have to completely start over, because you still have
a foundation and you still have an infrastructure. But everything
that's been put on it, that doesn't match, that doesn't
line up, that is causing structural problems must be removed.
And the only one that can do that are those
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that have been powered by the Holy Spirit to do so.
The fire the Holy Spirit is here now, in word,
indeed in this remnant, arising to restore things. If this
burns in your heart, if you hear this and you
long for it, you long for a fellowship that did this,
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keep praying, keep believing some of us know what this
feels like. Did we get it right completely? No, we
made mistakes, but we got a taste. We got a
taste of what it's supposed to be like. And after that,
traditional church won't do it. The dog and pony show
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won't do it. What man has created won't do it.
So I ask you, are you of the remnant? Does
your heart burn as I talk about this? Does your
mind and begin to understand, without condemnation or anger, how
it all went wrong. Remember, these men were up against
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a spirit Hacitan who got a third of the angels
to fall. That doesn't exonerate them, but it kind of
gives them an out. And the fact that he's that
powerful a whisper a word, a nudge, one degree off
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becomes way off. The remnant is arising. It's had enough.
It knows the way it can be. It knows the
way the Father wants it, and the Lord desires it,
and the Holy Spirit will empower it. And I for
one am ready, Father, Abbah, Papa, Daddy, Gosh. I love
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calling you that. Yet I know who you are. You
are the creator of the universe, and I have awesome,
awesome respect for you. But in all of that, I
know you're my Dad. I know it in my heart.
I love you. We love you, and we're so so
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sorry that man has done this to what you created
and you designed so Lord, right now, in the spirit,
I ask you to roll out that blueprint and begin
to drop into our mind's eyes and our hearts what
you would like us to do. I know what I'm
called to do. I'm asking you to put it in
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the hearts and minds of those on how they can help.
I'm asking you turn up the heat of the Holy Spirit.
Turn it up right now inside of me and my
brothers and sisters Herd. All the wrinkles in us, all
the things that we've accepted, all the doctrines of men,
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all the things that we were told with away, and
they warnt the way and give us the words and
the love and the compassion to show others. There are
sheep of your flock out there looking for a pen
where they know they belong. And we want to be
a part of that. I want to be a part
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of that. Lord, help us to do that. Holy Spirit,
have your way with us. I know it's your heart
because I can feel it in mine. And I pray
all these things, and you shoe his name. Amen. May
the Lord bless you and keep you. May the Lord,
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May I don't know, I make his face to shine
upon you and be gracious to you. May the Lord
I don't know, you show Hummasiah Jesus the Messiah, lift
up his countenance upon you and give you peace. Give
you shall oam. I'm Richard Grund. This has been the
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