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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're not to fear anybody or 
anything in this life but God, 

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but why is it so often that we 
fear our wives, or we fear our 

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husbands, or we fear our 
employer, or we fear the bank 

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statement, or we fear the stock 
market, or we fear brothers and 

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sisters in Christ? 
It's crazy the things that we 

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get intimidated by, but the 
Bible only wants us to be 

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fearful of one thing, and it's a
holy fear. 

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What are you afraid of? 
If you do a quick Internet 

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search, you'll find that there 
are lists of over 500 types of 

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phobias that people experience. 
Everything from the fear of 

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spiders, to the fear of heights,
to things like the fear of long 

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words or even the fear of being 
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It is message. 
Today, Pastor Clark wants you to

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know that there's only one fear 
you should have according to the

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Bible, a holy fear, the fear of 
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That is to humble yourself 
before God that you might 

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experience his mercy. 
Now here's Pastor Clark in 

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Revelation Chapter 14 with 
today's edition of Living Waters

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of Grace. 
Then I saw another Angel flying 

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in the midst of heaven, having 
the everlasting gospel to preach

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to those who dwell on the earth,
to every nation, tribe, tongue, 

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and people, saying with a loud 
voice, Fear God, and give glory 

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to him, for the hour of his 
judgement has come and worship 

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him who made heaven and earth, 
the sea and springs of water. 

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And another Angel followed, 
saying, Babylon is fallen. 

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Is fallen that great city, 
because she has made all nations

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drink of the wine, of the wrath 
of her fornication. 

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Then an Angel followed them, 
saying with a loud voice, If 

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anyone worships the beast in his
image, and receives his mark on 

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his forehead or on his hand, he 
himself shall also drink of the 

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wine of the wrath of God, which 
is poured out full strength into

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the cup of his indignation. 
He shall be tormented with fire 

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and brimstone in the presence of
the holy angels and in the 

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presence of the Lamb, and the 
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forever and ever, and they have 
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worship the beast and the image,
and whoever receives the mark of

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his name. 
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Saints. 
Here are those who keep the 

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commandments of God and the 
faith of Jesus. 

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Then I heard a voice from heaven
saying to me, Right, blessed are

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the dead who die in the Lord 
from now on. 

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Yes, says the Spirit, that they 
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and their works follow him. 
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Then I looked, and behold a 
white cloud, and on the cloud 

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that one like the Son of Man, 
having his on his head a golden 

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crown, and in his hand a sharp 
sickle. 

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And another Angel came out of 
the temple crying, with a loud 

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voice to him who sat on the 
cloud. 

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Thrust in your sickle and reap, 
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reap, for the harvest of the 
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So he who sat on the cloud 
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earth, and the earth was reaped.
Then another Angel came out of 

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the temple which is in heaven, 
he also having a sharp sickle. 

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And another Angel came out from 
the altar who had power over for

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fire, and he cried with a loud 
cry to him who had the sharp 

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sickle, saying, Thrust in your 
sharp sickle, and gather the 

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clusters of the vine of the 
earth, for her grapes are fully 

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ripe. 
So the Angel thrust the sickle 

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into the earth, and gathered the
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into the great winepress of the 
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And the winepress was trampled 
outside the city, and blood came

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out of the winepress up to the 
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furlongs. 
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artwork, different types of 
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impressionist art, you see 
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Every one of us, if I had a 
painting up here today and ask 

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you what you saw, you might say,
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I see this color or this, this 
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and someone else might have a 
completely different perspective

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of what they're observing. 
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sometimes when we read into the 
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All of us here are at different 
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in our Christian life. 
And some of us will sit here and

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say, yeah, OK, what, what time 
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And he'll be done maybe in 45 
minutes and we can get out of 

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here. 
Some of us will grab something 

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today and they'll see it and 
they'll say, wow, I never 

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noticed that before. 
Some of us might have some 

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different perspective about some
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Revelation is open to a lot of 
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But the the things that the 
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today are from my perspective, 
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And of course, as a pastor, I 
study these things, pray about 

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these things. 
I have a, a responsibility to 

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have some sense of what I'm 
talking about here this morning.

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But at the same time, as you 
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you to have your hearts open to 
be prepared for what God would 

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have for your life in regard to 
the light of these Scriptures. 

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The first verse we look at here,
verse 6, very, very interesting.

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This Angel flying in the midst 
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It has this everlasting gospel 
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the earth, to every nation, 
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The Bible declares that in the 
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establishes His Kingdom, there 
will be this event called the 

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marriage supper of the Lamb in 
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What's going to be interesting 
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representatives at that banquet 
of every tongue, tribe, kindred,

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a nation. 
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the world will that ever come to
pass, the day we look at the 

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modern missionary movement. 
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today, missions is the most 
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church. 
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buildings and gymnasiums and 
coffee shops than there is in 

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the getting of the gospel out to
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It's ironic, I would think that 
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responsibility that we have as a
church here and as a church in 

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the world today, the body of 
Christ, that the last mandate he

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gave was to go into all the 
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every living creature, teaching 
them to observe everything I've 

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commanded you, baptizing them in
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Holy Spirit. 
He said, lo, I'm with you 

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always, even unto the end of the
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So that was the last thing that 
was on his heart and he had the 

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expectation that the church 
would be responsive and obedient

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to what it is he called the 
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Recently we had a new Tribes 
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He told me after the service, 
Clark, there's still 

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approximately 780 people groups 
in the world that have still not

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yet heard the gospel of Jesus 
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He said that might discourage us
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we're not getting anything done,
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But it seems because of the 
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even Christians that we we have 
this propensity to dig our heels

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in and just sort of want to do 
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Not that it takes us off the 
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before he comes in his second 
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This angelic being will go 
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Don't ask me how it's going to 
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All the details. 
It's nonetheless here very clear

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that this Angel will be 
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those who dwell on the earth, 
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people, so they'll never be a 
part in this time of life that 

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we can blame God for. 
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everyone will hear, Everyone 
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The Bible tells us that even in 
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lived in a remote island 
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of Christianity, your conscience
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your life. 
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wrong, you know there's 
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You look up in the sky at night 
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and the stars and you diss in 
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did that get there? 
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What's the story behind that? 
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God, who's everywhere present 
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to seek the God of creation. 
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conscience because our 
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behavior. 
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Even if we've never heard the 
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It's written in our heart that 
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and to steal and to do all the 
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us even without us ever hearing 
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But God is faithful for a 
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convicted. 
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He gets a witness there. 
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countries right now, where these
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because of crimes and atrocities
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people of freedom there, some of
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know the truth and if God is 
really real, and it has been 

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visions of people experiencing 
witnesses in the midst of a 

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prison cell. 
God is able to do anything, 

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isn't he, to get his word across
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need of a Savior. 
And so this Angel will preach to

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those who dwell on the earth at 
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And this is the everlasting 
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It's the same gospel that you've
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believe. 
It's the same gospel that was 

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preached throughout the Old 
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Messiah. 
It was the same gospel that John

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preached and Jesus preached and 
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continually preach until Christ 
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Akin now that Christ died for 
our sins according to the 

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scriptures, that he was buried, 
that he rose again the third day

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according to the scriptures, and
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sitteth at the right hand of the
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And the Bible tells us he shall 
come again with glory to judge 

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the quick and the dead whose 
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He says in verse seven with a 
loud voice, this Angel speaking 

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out, fear God and give glory to 
him for the hour of his 

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judgement has come and worship 
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the sea and the springs of 
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We're not to fear anybody or 
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But why is it so often that we 
fear our wives, or we fear our 

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husbands, or we fear our 
employer, or we fear the bank 

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statement, or we fear the stock 
market, or we fear brothers and 

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sisters in Christ? 
It's crazy the things that we 

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get intimidated about, but the 
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fearful of one thing, and it's a
holy fear. 

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It's not an intimidating fear 
where we put our hand up 

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thinking we're going to get 
smacked by God because God 

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doesn't work that way. 
He loves us. 

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He apprehends us by His grace. 
But nonetheless, we're to fear 

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God, realizing that one day His 
judgement will come and we will 

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all give an account of ourselves
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And I want to have a good 
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don't you? 
I want to be able to stand 

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before the throne, not in my 
righteousness, but in his, his 

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blood that was shed for me, 
having a clear conscience, 

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knowing there was nothing left 
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And stand and hear Him say well 
done, good and faithful servant.

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And he speaks to the world, this
Angel about this impending 

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judgment. 
And he says give glory to him. 

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Now all these people on the face
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outside of those 144,000 
witnesses and those who will get

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saved during the tribulation, 
the majority of people will 

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still be rejecting the gospel of
Jesus Christ. 

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They're animus, they're 
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they're atheists, they're 
agnostics and they don't believe

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the truth of God. 
And what will it take for them 

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to believe? 
Well, God sends a spectacular 

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representative here, an Angel, 
and begins to speak to them 

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regarding the creation. 
The evolutionists will once 

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again be challenged of their 
premise that what they say is 

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true is not true. 
It's a lie. 

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And he clearly defines and 
delineates that God himself, the

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God of heaven, the one who made 
heaven and earth, the sea and 

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the springs of water, you will 
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The hour of his judgement has 
come, the Angel saying, and it's

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no wonder when we think about 
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tribulation, there'll be many, 
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tribulation which will give 
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have unsaved loved ones. 
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too late for them. 
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Chapter 7 verse 9, I looked and 
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no one could number of all 
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tongues standing before the 
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clothed with white robes with 
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crying out with a loud voice 
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God who sits on the throne and 
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All the angels stood around the 
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four living creatures, they fell
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and worship God, saying Amen, 
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Thanksgiving and honor and power
and might be to our God forever 

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and ever. 
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be many people that will get 
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testimony of this Angel. 
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world the importance of 
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life to the Lord. 
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life to the Lord in this life, 
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before the holy God to surrender
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But it'll be too late. 
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Philippians chapter 2, verse 9 
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Therefore, God has also highly 
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and giving him the name which is
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name of Jesus every knee should 
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those on earth and of those 
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tongue. 
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in your Bible. 
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leader of Iran, every tongue, 
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rulers who scoff at Christianity
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dead faith, every tongue will 
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Lord to the glory of God the 
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on this earth today are damning 
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personal personally rejecting 
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this life. 
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they'll be forced to face the 
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Lord, right? 
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athletes that are lost, all the 
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unfortunately, because of their 
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ability to act on movie screens 
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people we we think are really 
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without Christ, they're nothing.
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the adulation they've received 
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have to bow down and all the 
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I live my life for something 
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too late. 
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and have to say, Jesus Christ, 
you are Lord to the glory of God

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the Father. 
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preached to those in the latter 
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last call of grace to a world 
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refuses to acknowledge Christ's 
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insanity. 
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of isolated at times because 
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word and we sort of like to hang
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And so, you know, but we still 
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So as a result, you know, people
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crazy stuff. 
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falling into an eternity with 
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Christ. 
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it's going out to every tongue, 
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this will be a fulfillment of 
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And it says in Matthew 2414 and 
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preached in all the world as a 
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then the end will come. 
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what the apostle John is saying 
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the prophecy fulfillment of what
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Jesus himself says this gospel 
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world as a witness to all the 
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come. 
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responsibility is up to you guys
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As much as we like to see the 
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you know, how long will it take 
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I don't know. 
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responsibility and our time to 
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to our kids, to our neighbors, 
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people we live with every day. 
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come? 
Do you know Jesus Christ as your

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Lord and Savior, your friends in
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Everybody is in need of a 
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We're all missionaries. 
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where you are every day, and we 
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us. 
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another Angel, the second Angel,
saying Babylon has fallen this 

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great city because she has made 
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of the wrath of her fornication.
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scripture in numerous ways, a 
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system, a false religious 
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movement of this false religious
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established in the last days, 
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who respond and obey his 
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his image, his mark on their 
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they're going to have to suffer,
offer the terrible consequences 

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of following a false savior. 
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fornication and verse 8, this 
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what it means literally and in 
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humanity. 
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involved in those things at what
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But the good news is I love what
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you. 
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sanctified, you're justified. 
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from all of our sin. 
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and nonetheless we don't point 
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stuck in those sins thinking 
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We show forth the love of Christ
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But the apostles referring to a 
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worshipping Buddha and Allah, 
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false ideologies today that are 
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wrapped up in. 
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connection with something that 
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worshipping these things, the 
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judgement in verse 9 through 11.
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tormented with fire and 
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holy angels in the presence of 
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It says in verse 11, the smoke 
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and ever and they have no rest 
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Who worship the beast in his 
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mark of his name. 
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like thinking about this stuff. 
The horror of hell for people 

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that we walk by every day that 
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Know that maybe we haven't had 
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about what Jesus has done for 
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We haven't given them Full 
disclosure about, hey, you know,

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I'm not telling you this because
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you, but I'm telling you this 
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saved me and has forgiven me of 
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That you need a savior too. 
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the consequences that are going 
to fall upon you in your life 

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one day are going to be without 
end torment forever and ever and

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ever. 
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hearts, as Rick prayed this 
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And and I don't mean we're 
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and ash type attitudes, but it's
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vulnerability and this love in 
our hearts that we want 

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everybody to get saved. 
That's really what we should be 

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like, right? 
We should have this great desire

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to this love on people and see 
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has revealed himself to us. 
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people are are it's without end.
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deception, it's going to be, 
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pressure on the earth at this 
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commerce, but people still have 
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make it very, very difficult, 
impossible really for us who are

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believers. 
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be here. 
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lot of this stuff coming into 
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Christ at this time will have to
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accept the mark of the beast. 
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to be martyred. 
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internment camps, concentration 
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go through during the Holocaust.
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in this world anymore because 
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control. 
It was almost like what happened

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in the early days of the church 
where the people were commanded 

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by Caesar to take a pinch of 
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of the person of Caesar, 
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And those who pledge allegiance 
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verse 10, are forced to drink of
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the cup of wrath. 
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forced to drink this. 
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in the Scriptures Psalm 75, 
eight it says for in the hand of

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the Lord there is a cup and the 
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It is fully mixed and he pours 
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Surely it's dreg show all the 
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drink down Jeremiah 2515. 
For thus says the Lord God of 

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Israel to me, take the wine cup 
of fury from my hand, and cause 

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all the nations to whom I send 
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The fulfillment of these very 
things that were written 

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thousands of years before by the
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Jeremiah talking about things 
and I'm sure at times they 

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couldn't really grasp and put 
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come to pass. 
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Matthew 2639, he says, if it is 
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me. 
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God's wrath for you and me. 
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anger and the wrath of his 
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me. 
And Jesus willingly took the cup

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of God's wrath that you and I 
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We are digging into the Book of 
Revelation here on Living Waters

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of Grace. 
Pastor Clark is tackling this 

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challenging book as we try to 
discern the messages that are 

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within its pages. 
There's so much imagery, and at 

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times you're not always sure 
what's literal and what's 

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metaphorical. 
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reference to an adulterous woman
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And as someone else mentioned, 
at one point it almost sounds 

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like a rodeo from hell. 
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You learn about the downfall and
demise of a sinful and 

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rebellious world, falling down 
in worship to someone who is the

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anti hero, the enemy, Satan 
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the minds of fallen people. 
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but it's a classic story of good
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Thankfully, we know how this 
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Jesus wins, Jesus reigns, and 
evil is conquered once and for 

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all. 
We pray and trust you've 

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received Jesus as your savior. 
But if you haven't, don't wait 

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until the events in Revelation 
become what's happening on the 

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streets. 
None of us wants you to be there

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at that time. 
Instead, we'd love for you to be

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with us in heaven as we 
celebrate the marriage supper 

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with Jesus as his bridegroom. 
To get a better understanding of

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where we are in the Book of 
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To listen to any messages before
or after this one, you can find 

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them at our website, 
calvarychapelonline.com. 

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That's it for today's edition, 
but we hope you'll want to hear 

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Pastor Clark teach more from the
Book of Revelation. 

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It can be exciting to think 
about the future for believers, 

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but it can feel a bit harrowing 
for those who don't believe. 

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Come hear more next time on 
Living Waters of Grace.