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This is Living Waters of Grace, 
the teaching ministry of Clark 

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Wofford, senior pastor of 
Calvary Chapel of Westmoreland, 

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County of Greensburg, PA. 
Now here's Pastor Clark as he 

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continues teaching through God's
Word. 

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We all have a ritual, I hope in 
the morning, something that we 

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do personally be before us and 
our God before we leave our 

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homes, before we leave our 
families. 

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It's there's some place in the 
house that we get alone with God

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where only he can see us and we 
get on our faces before him. 

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And we worship Him this way, 
pouring out our hearts to Him, 

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asking Him to examine our 
hearts, to search us, to know 

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us, to see if there's anything 
in us that needs to be removed 

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and to be taken out. 
Do you have that practice? 

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Do you have a time that's 
dedicated to God, where you talk

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to Him and listen for His voice?
As Christians, we call this a 

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quiet time or a devotional. 
Ultimately, it's just time with 

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Jesus, however that may look, 
Pastor Clark will challenge you 

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today to set aside a time to be 
with Jesus so that he could do 

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the work in your heart that only
he can do. 

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He can cleanse you of sin and 
empower you to live a holy life 

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for him. 
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Here's Pastor Clark in the Book 
of Ephesians, chapter one with 

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today's edition of Living Waters
of Grace. 

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Ephesians chapter one verse 13 
and 14, It says in him you also 

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trusted. 
This is regarding him, Jesus 

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Christ and him you also trusted 
after you heard the word of 

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truth, the gospel, your 
salvation, whom also having 

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believed says you were sealed 
with the Holy Spirit of promise,

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who is a guarantee of our 
inheritance until the redemption

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of the purchased possession to 
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So the Holy Spirit comes to 
dwell in us. 

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We're sealed by the power of God
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Spirit, and it's the evidence 
that we belong to God without 

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the Holy Spirit. 
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And you should know if you have 
the Holy Spirit because whenever

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you have the Holy Spirit, your 
life has changed, your desires 

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have changed, your interests, 
your motivation. 

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You have conviction now about 
sin in a way that you didn't 

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have it whenever you didn't have
the Holy Spirit. 

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And it says in First Corinthians
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baptized into the body of 
Christ, the baptism of the Holy 

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Spirit placing us from one place
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and then doing a work by his 
Spirit and placing us into a new

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family by his Spirit and Spirit 
baptism. 

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And if you study the ancient 
foundational documents like the 

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Nicean Creed or some of these 
things that fought out the 

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truths of historic Christianity 
in the beginning, because of all

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the heresies, says there's one 
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And Ephesians says there's one 
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God and Father of all, who's 
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us all. 
And so we're sealed by the Holy 

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Spirit of promise. 
And it tells us in chapter 4, 

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verse 30 of Ephesians, it says, 
and do not grieve the Holy 

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Spirit of God by whom you were 
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redemption. 
How do you grieve the Holy 

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Spirit? 
It says, let all bitterness and 

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wrath and anger and clamor and 
evil speaking be put away from 

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you with all malice and be kind 
to one one another, tender 

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hearted, forgiving one another, 
even as God and grace forgave 

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you. 
If we hold bitterness and anger 

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and any kind of attitude in our 
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God, toward any kind of 
situation, it says we grieve the

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Holy Spirit, we hurt the Holy 
Spirit, we wound the Holy 

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Spirit. 
And the Holy Spirit can't just 

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say I'm out of here. 
I don't like dealing with Clark 

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right now. 
He's just like making me 

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miserable, you know, He just 
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to be in him anymore. 
With the beauty of the Holy 

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Spirit is he doesn't depart in 
the new covenant. 

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He dwells in US forever. 
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Remember David prayed in Psalm 
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Take not your Holy Spirit from 
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That was his biggest fear 
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permanent of the indwelling of 
the Holy Spirit didn't occur 

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until Pentecost. 
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important. 
But in Revelation 7, this is 

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what he's going to do for these 
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He's going to mark them with the
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And the ceiling is something, 
it's done and seen by God. 

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I don't see a physical mark on 
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But it's evident by how we live 
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we are in Christ. 
But Jesus says by this shall 

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people know you're my disciples 
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another. 
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is doing in verse 2, he is 
making this mark visible though 

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to the spirit world and all the 
demons of hell and the person, 

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the Antichrist. 
They're going to know for sure 

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that these people have been set 
apart by God and there will be a

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certain protection given to them
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cataclysmic events during this 
time in order for them to do 

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what it is God's called them to 
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All those from the ends of the 
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other people groups will be 
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evangelistic methodology of 
these 144,000 during this time 

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of tribulation. 
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not harm the earth and the sea 
or the trees till we have sealed

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the servants of our God and our 
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So this command is given to the 
angels and these angels are the 

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very ones that will sound the 
trumpet judgments as we get into

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chapter 8 next week. 
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these servants of God are sealed
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So how are people going to get 
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When you think about it, I mean,
with the Antichrist ruling and 

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hassling people and persecuting 
Christians, how are people going

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to be saved? 
Well, we'll study later on about

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the two witnesses that were 
eventually martyred that God 

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will raise up. 
But there's going to be such 

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powerful testimony during this 
time of tribulation, in the 

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midst of the chaos, in the midst
of the trials and the 

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tribulations that are going to 
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It's going to cause people to do
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They're going to move away 
farther and farther from God and

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curse him, or they're going to 
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there's got to be an answer to 
this. 

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I don't want to have to deal 
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I need mercy. 
I need grace. 

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And many of those people will 
remember the things that you and

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I had told them while we were 
alive, prior to us being caught 

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up in the air. 
I don't know about you, but as a

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unbeliever prior to coming to 
Christ, what drew me to Christ 

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was trials and tribulation. 
It was the lifestyle I was 

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living. 
It was the condemnation and the 

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guilt and the darkness. 
It was all about me from my drug

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induced hippie stage. 
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God I didn't know existed and I 
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him if he was real, that he 
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show me who He was. 
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And it put me on the beginning 
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I, I look at people in life and 
I know that God uses trials for 

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both groups. 
He uses trials and believers 

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lives to cause us to get on our 
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move towards you, not away from 
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And for unbelievers, he causes 
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break them so that they would 
repent and turn to God for mercy

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and for grace. 
So God the Holy Spirit, as we 

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talked about last week, last 
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and he fills all things. 
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the rapture, the Holy Spirit as 
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He goes with us to the Kingdom. 
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Spirit is a spirit. 
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everywhere present. 
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up with us, he's nowhere else. 
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And the only way this work of 
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of the earth this time with 
these 100 and 44,000, is through

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the power of the Holy Spirit. 
John 16-8 And this is prior to 

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the Holy Spirit being poured out
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This is what the Lord says about
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It says He will convict the 
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He'll still be doing that during
the tribulation and of 

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righteousness and of judgment of
sin because they do not believe 

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in me of righteousness because I
go to my father and you see me 

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no more. 
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ruler of this world is judged. 
Of course, that's the the 

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Antichrist. 
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here in verse 4 and it says and 
I heard the number of those who 

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were sealed. 144,000 of all the 
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Israel, verse 5, the tribe of 
Judah, 12,000 were sealed. 

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Of the tribe of Reuben, 12,000 
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Of the tribe of Gad, 12,000 were
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Of the tribe of Asher, 12,000 
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Of the tribe of Neptali, 12,000 
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Of the tribe of Manasseh, 12,000
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Of the tribe of Simeon, 12,000 
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Of the tribe of Levi, 12,000 
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The tribe of Issachar 12,000 
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The tribe of Zebulun 12,000 were
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The tribe of Joseph 12,000 were 
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The tribe of Benjamin 12,000 
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So we see this tremendous move 
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And what's what's amazing is if 
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what tribe are you descending 
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They don't have a clue. 
They've lost all record of their

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historical setup in the in that 
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But God knows, he knows our 
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Of course, we're all descendants
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That's that's a fairly easy one 
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right? 
But the tribes are real specific

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and they'll be used to give God 
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Revelation. 
And so we see the specific names

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of these tribes. 
Now, some of you are Bible 

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scholars in here and you might 
say, well, there, there's a 

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couple mistakes in there. 
Clark, why isn't the why isn't 

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some of these other guys 
mentioned in here, like Dan, the

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tribe of Dan, It was mentioned 
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Well, some people, you know, 
there's sometimes some things in

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the scripture. 
What are you going to do make it

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up and just say, well, I think 
it, you know, sometimes it's 

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better to say, I don't know. 
But God has a reason, though. 

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He God doesn't make any mistakes
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There's a reason why there was a
couple of adjustments and, and, 

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and this tribe of Dan, Some 
people believe the reason it 

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wasn't included. 
This is conjecture, but it's a 

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possibility that the Antichrist 
will come up through the the 

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tribe of Dan. 
I don't know, but one of the 

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other interesting things here is
that we see the the tribe of 

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Levi's mentioned here and they 
weren't given a inheritance in 

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the sense of an earthly Kingdom.
Whenever they're their reign was

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going on, they were the priests 
unto God and the and the temple 

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and their inheritance was a 
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Their inheritance was the Lord. 
But here they show up again. 

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And then you have Joseph who 
had, you know, two sons, 

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Manasseh and Ephraim. 
Well, for whatever reason here 

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we see Manasseh mentioned, but 
we don't see Ephraim mentioned, 

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but we see Joseph mentioned so 
that the number still comes down

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to be the same. 
But all these guys, they're, 

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they're descendants of Jacob and
historical, why God's doing this

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that we'll get into a little bit
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Revelation 2112, after the 
Millennium and the new heaven 

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and the new earth and the new 
Jerusalem, there's going to be 

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12 gates in this new Jerusalem, 
and each one will bear the name 

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of one of the tribes of Israel. 
It's going to be fascinating. 

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And there will be that great 
door of Judah representing the 

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line of the tribe of Judah, our 
Savior Jesus Christ. 

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In verse 9 it says, after these 
things I looked and behold, a 

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great multitude which no one 
could number of all the nations,

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tribes, peoples and tongues, 
standing before the throne and 

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before the Lamb closed with 
white robes, with palm branches 

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in their hands, and crying out 
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salvation belongs to our God who
sits on the throne into the 

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Lamb. 
What a tremendous picture here 

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of hope that in spite of the 
hell that's going to be poured 

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out into the world during the 
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have all these people from all 
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There's so many people here, he 
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number. 
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because there will be some of 
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it out in the Rapture with us, 
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for them. 
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Hey, you might not buy into 
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That's between you and God. 
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remember that there's still hope
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face true death and martyrdom to
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Christ. 
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have white robes on. 
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robes is a beautiful situation 
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robes that are washed and 
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of the Lamb. 
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Amen, can make us clean, not by 
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have done, but according to His 
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He saved us without the shedding
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There is no remission of sins. 
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think I live or you live our 
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As the old hymn said, nothing in
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cross I cling. 
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upon every one of us today. 
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don't we? 
Down deep inside we know what we

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still are and what we need to 
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But that God in his mercy looks 
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that's been shed and that we're 
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by this blood, not having a 
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but the righteousness of Jesus 
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That should give you such hope 
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such comfort that as He sees 
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clothed in the righteousness of 
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and we see the warts and the 
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struggles. 
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a vision of one another that 
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white and it's pure and you're 
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inconsistencies or the 
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lives, but you're looking at 
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holding him without blame before
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And they're waving these palms 
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rejoicing and gladness and, and 
they and they begin to sing and 

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all this worship that's going on
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Rick talked about it, says 
they're crying with a loud voice

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saying salvation belongs to our 
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the lamb. 
Salvation belongs to our God, no

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one else. 
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the ability to save us. 
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throne and the elders and the 
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fell on their faces before the 
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saying Amen, blessings and glory
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honor and power, and might be to
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Amen. 
I know so little about this kind

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of worship, but I long to 
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God. 
We all have a ritual, I hope in 

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the morning, something that we 
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our God before we leave our 
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families. 
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house that we get alone with God
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get on our faces before Him. 
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pouring out our hearts to Him, 
asking him to examine our 

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hearts, to search us, to know 
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in us that needs to be removed 
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And this is true worship, guys. 
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is here this morning, right? 
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what this worship is like in the
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I think the beautiful thing is 
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we're not going to have to look 
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We're all going to be in unison.
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face and it's just going to all 
come together because worthy is 

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the Lamb that's slain before the
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We'll see him and we'll all fall
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True worship. 
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Thanksgiving and prayer, praise.
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out to you, what is our worship 
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Is it too casual? 
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life or mine that it's it's OK 
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I mean, if they do it here, I 
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it here too, right at home. 
You got all these pews in a way 

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it's tough to get on your face 
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know, the first church had no 
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historical study of the, the 
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gathering, of course they 
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There was no such thing as pews.
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chairs. 
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whenever help me guys, was it 
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word and everybody stood up 
Ezra, I'm sorry. 

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Good. 
Your guys are listening here. 

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You're paying attention. 
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to hear the word of God and they
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They weren't like man, I'm 
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Can't I sit down? 
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the word all day through Ezra 
the servant as Nehemiah was also

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involved in that. 
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to to fall on the face of of on 
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Sometimes we give people an 
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service, to come up and get 
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Our culture is, is too, I don't 
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may be in most places isn't 
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that's reasonable. 
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think if I did that? 
I'm messed up. 

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And I yeah, I mean, I need to. 
Sometimes I just want to come up

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here and fall on my face because
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before. 
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need to do that corporately with
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I mean, no pressure on anybody, 
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provide here for, for people to 
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this, this kind of worship one 
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heaven. 
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earth in this way, God scans our
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motives. 
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when I'm alone with God, he 
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He shows me what I need to see 
that I can't see. 

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If I don't put myself in this 
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humility before him, if I'm too 
busy discharging out and running

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and just doing what I think I'm 
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What God wants to say to me, and
that's still quiet moment. 

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I'm too busy, I'm distracted. 
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something in the morning or at 
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where you have that time to give
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to you, but also a time where 
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a new way and not so much, Lord,
I got this problem. 

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I need your help. 
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But can we just say, Lord, 
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and we just repeat these things.
Amen. 

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Blessing and glory and wisdom, 
Thanksgiving and honor and power

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and might be to our God forever 
and ever, Amen. 

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That's a great thing to be 
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Make that part of your prayer. 
Doesn't get any better than 

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that. 
That's the word of God. 

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And verse 13 and one of the 
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who are these arrayed in white 
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from? 
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they came out of the great 
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period which will eventually end
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Christ. 
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verse 31. 
It says, For then shall be great

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tribulation, such as was not 
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to this time, nor shall ever be.
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throne of God in verse 15 and 
serve him day and night in his 

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temple, and he who sits in the 
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That again, at this astounding 
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God, the privilege that these 
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throne, serving Him day and 
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We won't need sleep in heaven. 
We're going to have new bodies. 

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We're going to have energy that 
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be dwelling among us. 
They shall neither hunger 

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anymore. 
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heaven, guys, don't be 
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We're going to have that great 
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We're all going to be able to 
eat, you know, but you're not 

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going to be up there starving. 
When are we going to eat? 

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There's not going to be any more
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The sun shall not strike us 
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For the Lamb who is in the midst
of the throne will shepherd them

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and lead them to living 
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And God will wipe away every 
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we're going to have this safety 
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blood of Jesus Christ that never
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God that washes us and keeps us 
pure for all eternity. 

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There'll be no more tears. 
What's that going to be like? 

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I still cry, don't you? 
There's still things that affect

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me. 
There's still things I'm 

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burdened over. 
There's still things I'm 

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concerned about or I don't 
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And sometimes when you're alone 
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God, there's only one person who
can comfort you. 

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Your friends can give you 
solace. 

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Your loved ones can put their 
arm around you. 

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But there's only one that can 
really touch your heart and tell

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you it's going to be OK. 
And he's faithful to do that. 

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But one day when we get in his 
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we've been through in this world
and this life, all the 

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injustices are the things we 
didn't understand why they 

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happened the way they happened. 
It won't matter because he's 

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going to wipe away the tears. 
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Later on in Revelation, there'll
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former things for the former 
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What a day that'll be. 
I have a lot of celebrating to 

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do throughout all eternity. 
This has been Living Waters of 

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Grace with Pastor Clark. 
We're going through the 

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challenging and also intriguing 
Book of Revelation. 

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Whether you're a fan of reading 
ahead in books of fiction, 

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there's such a benefit to 
reading ahead in the Bible to 

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read about how it all ends. 
But in an interesting turn of 

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events, the Book of Revelation 
is not really the end, but 

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rather the beginning. 
Life as we know it here on 

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earth. 
But there's so much to look 

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forward to. 
But what comes after all? 

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The judgement of the earth and 
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There's a lot to work through, 
and it can be heartbreaking to 

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read through the intense 
judgements and wrath that will 

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come on those who hate God with 
all their might. 

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The thing is, God has given 
chance upon chance to these 

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people. 
They don't want it. 

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So the outcome is that there are
judgments and consequences for 

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those who've rejected the good 
news and the gift of salvation 

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that's offered through Jesus's 
death and resurrection. 

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Are you one who has heard about 
these things but doesn't really 

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want it because you want to live
life on your terms? 

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Trust me, living for Jesus is so
much better. 

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That doesn't mean it will be 
easy, but as you listen and read

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through Revelation with us, 
you'll come to a stark 

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realization that you don't want 
to be on earth when the 

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apocalypse happens. 
So check out Calvary Chapel 

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online.com to learn how to come 
to a saving grace through faith 

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that will allow you to be with 
Jesus for eternity. 

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We'd also love to meet you in 
person at Calvary Chapel 

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Westmoreland. 
Come join us at 400 E Pittsburgh

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St. 
Ste. 6B in Greensburg, PA 15601.

445
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This has been living waters of 
Grace.