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Spirit of prophecy is the testimony of Jesus.

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Who can understand that?

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I don't myself.

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But I have enough understanding to realize that

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there's a significant conjunction between prophecy and Jesus.

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He doesn't lend his name to anything.

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But that he calls prophecy his testimony is

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something that deserves our deepest attention.

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I'm saying all that in order to say

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this.

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What you're going to hear is not a

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sermon.

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I'm not a sermon bringer.

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I'm a man of a prophetic call.

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And that has a special requirement.

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A special burden, a special urgency.

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That kind of word is often a warning

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rather than a sermon.

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Or it is to alert God's people of

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things that are shortly to come to pass.

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I wouldn't have to say these things if

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this was not unusual for you.

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I'm saying it that you will give special

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attention to the word.

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It's a word beyond sermon.

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It needs to go down into the foundations

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of your faith.

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It's not likely that you'll hear another word

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like it.

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So with that introduction, what would you say

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if I took my jacket off?

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Hallelujah!

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I've been a believer 35 years.

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But I can never understand that they give

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to the singers and musicians the freedom of

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a short-sleeved shirt and an open neck.

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But we who have to labor in the

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word, we are strangulated with something

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that Isaiah and Jeremiah and the prophets never

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had to suffer.

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So I appreciate the freedom that you've given

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me because this word is going to be

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a labor.

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And I have little faith that you can

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receive it.

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It may bewilder you.

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But I'm comforted by the word of God.

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Be assured that your labors are not in

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vain.

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So I didn't come with a prepared program.

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But seeking the Lord for this morning, He

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has impressed me with Matthew, chapter 25, the

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first judgment of Jesus as King.

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So I'll ask Richard to read from verse

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31 until the end of the chapter.

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And he will disconnect one from the other,

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as the shepherd disconnects the sheep from the

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goats.

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And he will place the sheep on his

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right, and the goats on his left.

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Then the King will say to them on

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his right, Go, you who are blessed by

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my Father, share the kingdom prepared for you

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from the foundation of the world.

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But I begged, and you gave me to

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eat.

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I pleaded, and you gave me to drink.

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I pleaded, and you accepted me.

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I was naked, and you dressed me.

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I was sick, and you visited me.

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I was in prison, and you came to

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me.

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Then the righteous will answer him these words.

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Lord, when did we see you begging, and

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we fed you, or wanting, and we gave

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you to drink?

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And when did we see you pleading, and

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we accepted you, or naked, and we dressed

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you?

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And when did we see you sick, or

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in prison, and we came to you?

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And the King, answering, will say to them,

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I tell you the truth, whatever you did

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to one of my youngest brothers, you did

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to me.

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Then he will say to them on his

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left, Go away from me, you curses, eternal

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fire, cooked by the devil and his angels.

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I pleaded, and you gave me to eat.

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I pleaded, and you gave me to drink.

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I was naked, and you accepted me.

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I was naked, and you dressed me.

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I was sick, and in prison, and you

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visited me.

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Then they will answer him, saying, Lord, when

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did we see you pleading, or wanting, or

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naked, or sick, or in prison, and we

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did not serve you?

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Then he will say to them, I tell

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you the truth, whatever you did to one

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of my youngest brothers, you did to me.

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And they will go to eternal punishment, justly

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to eternal life.

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This does not sound to me like a

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parable.

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It sounds like a quite literal description of

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a judgment.

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A really astonishing judgment that ought to mystify

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us.

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That ought to mystify us.

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Because it is predicated on one thing only.

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What Gentiles have done at the end of

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the age with regard to one people.

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And on the basis of that, there is

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a judgment or reward that is eternal.

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It is irrevocable, it cannot be changed.

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Something is sealed for all eternity.

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An ultimate reward for the righteous, and an

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unspeakable catastrophe for the wicked.

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And only one thing distinguishes the one group

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from the other.

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Their response to the least of these, his

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brethren.

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So here is what I want to tell

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you.

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With whatever measure of authority I have in

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Christ, the least of these, his brethren, are

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Jews.

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And they will be suffering a final judgment

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in the earth.

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A final tribulation and sifting through all nations.

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Most of them will not survive this trial.

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But the remnant of them will survive and

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return to Zion as the redeemed of the

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Lord.

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And everlasting joy shall be upon their heads.

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And mourning and sighing shall pass away.

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Now listen to me, dear children.

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This is very real, and it's very soon.

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The factors that are given by God to

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work this great tribulation are already in place.

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And this text is confirmed in many places

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in the prophets.

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I'm not a man who has to scrounge

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to find one text that will substantiate my

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position.

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I'm overwhelmed with the volume of prophetic testimony

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that speaks of the last day's sufferings of

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the Jewish people.

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Why must they go through this?

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And why must they go through it again?

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There's no way to understand historic Jewish suffering

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or that which is yet to come, which

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will be global, except in the light of

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Israel's millennial calling.

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It's something with which you should be acquainted.

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That's why everlasting joy will be upon their

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heads.

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They will be restored to the land of

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which the present Zionist Israel is not the

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fulfillment.

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Only the preliminary for the judgments to come

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that will again disperse this people into all

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nations and bring about a ruin of Israel

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and the loss of their political state in

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order for one thing, that they might return

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as the redeemed of the Lord.

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This is not God dealing with an ethnic

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people.

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This is God dealing with a chosen people,

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a people who have not yet fulfilled their

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destiny, their gift and their calling.

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The evidence of that is to be seen

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in all nations that are sinking into a

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profane, vulgar and obscene lifestyle.

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I've never seen so many half-naked women

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as I've seen them in Poland where one

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doesn't even turn around.

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The miniskirt is normative and so is every

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other aspect of our contemporary culture.

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A direct offense against God which no one

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seems to notice and aspects of it even

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come into the church.

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As the music and the beat.

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Why?

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Because there's not a nation that is priestly

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to call the nations to

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righteousness.

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The priest shall teach the people the difference

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between the sacred and the profane.

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But what if there are no priests?

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And what if there is a nation called

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to be a nation of priests and a

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light unto the world?

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There are people who have not yet fulfilled

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their calling.

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They've given to the world Jascha Heifetz, a

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great violinist, and Karl Marx and other aspects

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of Jewish genius.

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But they've not given to the world the

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light of God.

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For they themselves do not have it.

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Even in their orthodoxy.

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But Romans 11 says that the gifts and

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callings of God are without repentance.

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That means that something must be fulfilled independent

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even of their own willingness.

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If God gives a calling to a nation

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of priests and a light to the world

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that you will bless all the families of

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the earth that word has got to be

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fulfilled that covenant has got to be honored

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and that nation of priests that calling has

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got to be realized or God is not

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God.

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And his word and his promise is vain.

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The issue of Israel is the issue of

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God and it's an issue that is not

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finished yet.

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The fact that it does not occupy you

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as an issue the issue and the supreme

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issue by which the age is concluded and

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with which the Lord comes is the statement

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of the unhappy condition of the church today

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from which being Pentecostal or charismatic does not

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save us.

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I'm crying out for you people to wake

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you from your sleep and from your religious

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culture to understand the drama of the last

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days for which the church is not merely

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an observer but the most critical participant your

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response to these Jews will determine their salvation

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will determine their redemption but it will also

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determine your eternal destiny.

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Notice that both groups say to the Lord

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Lord, when did we see you hungry?

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When did we see you thirsty?

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These are not just mere Gentiles who are

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being judged they are evidently Gentile Christians.

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Who else would say, Lord, Lord, when did

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we see you, Lord?

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This is not the language of the world

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this is the language of Christians but Christians

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of totally radically different kind they both

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were faced with the same challenge but only

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one was able to respond and that one

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is called righteous and the reward is to

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inherit the kingdom prepared for you was their

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righteousness established in that moment?

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No, it was revealed in that moment it's

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a crisis of faith and the Jews have

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always done that to us their relationship to

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us has always been a challenge and which

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we have never successfully met historically but here

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is a last days event do you use

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that phrase?

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The last days?

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Is that part of your consciousness?

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Do you know that we are at the

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end of the age?

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We're moving toward a climax an apocalyptic end

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of history and the Lord's coming and the

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restoration of His people and the establishment of

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His kingdom if you knew that really knew

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that it would change everything it would affect

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everything but we don't know as we ought

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to know even when we say, Lord, Lord

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of course, who's to blame those who will

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turn away?

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He calls these the least of these, my

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brethren and that's exactly what they will be

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some of the biggest Jewish hotshots in the

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world today the great film makers and bankers

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and men in commerce and industry will become

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the least they will become despised and rejected

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of all men you who have an affinity

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for Israel and you think that they're cute

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at that time they will have no beauty

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that you should desire them they will be

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more marred than any man brother,

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your words sound familiar you sound like you're

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quoting from Isaiah 53 the description of the

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suffering servant Jesus to be descriptive of what

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will come upon Jews at the end of

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the age and my answer is yes exactly

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they must walk the road to Calvary do

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you know why?

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because they are also called to be servants'

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sons and how shall they be that to

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you?

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and to the Ukrainians who volunteered to man

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the concentration camp at Treblinka and

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enjoyed Jewish suffering Jews are going to be

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priestly to them and patient with them and

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forbearing with them as Paul himself was with

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Gentiles and he said, I'm a man born

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out of time what you see in me

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as an apostle to the Gentiles for whom

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I have been their father and their mother

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in the faith and did not withhold to

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them anything of the counsel of God but

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gave it to them with tears day and

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night he says, this is the picture of

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the nation Israel when it shall come into

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its own apostolate and be to the Gentile

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nations what Paul was to the Gentile church

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it will be nothing less than life from

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the dead but it will not happen independent

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of you it will happen because of you

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that's why Paul says in Romans 11 by

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your mercy they may obtain mercy and I

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tell you children they are going to need

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it and if they don't receive it they'll

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perish and they're going to need it in

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Warsaw and in Poland because the prophet Amos

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says I will sift you through all nations

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you will not be exempt and what will

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you do in that day when so much

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as to acknowledge them or to identify with

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them might be your own death if

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they are so hated that they have to

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flee through all nations when all of human

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society and government is opposed to them what

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will your fate be as a Jew lover

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if you extend to them food or water

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or clothing and get caught doing it that's

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why Jesus calls them the righteous righteousness is

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not cheap it's not convenient it wasn't convenient

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for God and it will not be convenient

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for you true righteousness requires sacrifice that's what

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the cross demonstrated that while we were yet

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sinners he died for us and do you

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know what he's saying to the church at

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the end of the age while they are

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yet sinners will you die for them as

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he died for you but Lord they don't

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deserve it Paul says they are the enemies

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of the gospel but what is mercy if

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it has to be deserved mercy is only

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mercy without qualification I hope you'll not think

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I'm boasting when I share with you an

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episode out of my atheistic life an

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American soldier leaving Germany returning to the States

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do you know what it means to be

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a Jew in Germany no small thing do

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you know what it means to be a

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Jew who falls in love with a German

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woman and will soon enter into a tragic

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marriage with her these were my thoughts in

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the military train on the way to the

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seaport I wanted to reflect on my experience

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why was I sent to Germany and not

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to Korea why was I so affected why

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was Germany more home to me than Brooklyn,

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New York but I couldn't think those thoughts

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the train compartment was too noisy the other

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soldiers were drinking and shouting and carrying on

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their noise was intolerable it was a condition

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that could not be tolerated because it contradicted

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humanity it contradicted human values it

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contradicted decency so I got up out of

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my seat and I went to the man

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with a bottle of whiskey in his hand

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which he was passing around to all the

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other soldiers I took it out of his

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hand to his astonishment and I walked to

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the window and I opened it and I

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threw it out closed the window and turned

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around and there we were face to face

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as we Jews say, nose to nose and

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I was ready to have my nose smashed

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I was ready to have my face smashed

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I was ready to be killed if that's

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what it took because there are certain things

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that are more important than life itself and

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if we will not die for those things

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then what is our living merely to preserve

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our protoplasmic life a life without value without

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humanity I knew that as an atheist how

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much more as a believer that man never

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laid a finger on me and he was

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big enough to do so but the issue

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was not who is bigger or stronger righteousness

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required a response whatever the cost that's what

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it will be for you you will not

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learn righteousness in that moment it will rather

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reveal what all your moments have been till

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that moment it will be the statement of

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the sum of all your moments if your

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righteousness is only a principle it will fail

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because the fear for your own self-preservation

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will become the most important factor but you

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know what it means to be righteous in

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the righteousness which is of God death is

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not so terribly to be feared the righteous

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will have their reward and righteousness requires suffering

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or it's not righteousness at all you righteous

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inherit the kingdom prepared for you the issue

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of the Jew in the last days will

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reveal our righteousness and how are you feeling

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right now toward them oh brother I have

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to confess I'm not Jewish like you I

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don't have this feeling for them frankly I'm

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even a little irritated by them they seem

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so bold and arrogant as if Auschwitz is

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their exclusive territory didn't Poles die there also

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and Jews are forbidding even the sight of

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a cross this rubs me the wrong way

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as well it should humanly speaking but from

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the point of view of a saint of

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the righteous saints of God they are not

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irritated their love is unconditional they understand what

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the cross means to an unbelieving Jew a

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symbol of persecution of which their graves are

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all around us what will you be to

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them in that day when they are the

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least of all men the righteous will not

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be able to withhold themselves I can't imagine

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that people should be thirsty or hungry or

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naked and pass by and I should not

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do something no matter

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what the cost is to myself for a

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Jew what did they ever do for you

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but the same spirituality that is authentic that

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same righteousness which is godly sees in this

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yet unbelieving people still in their sins the

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brethren of the Lord and he says whatever

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you have done for them you have done

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for me when did we see you thirsty

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00:37:37,910 --> 00:37:44,770
you hungry, you naked what you have done

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for the least of these what you have

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done for me such is his identification with

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his own brethren that he says it's me

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what is your identification this is a spiritual

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matter beyond culture, beyond history, beyond nationality and

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this last day's episode will find it out

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it's not a heroism that we're going to

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find in the last moment we will have

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to be living consistently in the righteousness of

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God or we will not find it in

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that moment and the issue is eternity where

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are you going to spend it will it

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be a place of reward and rejoicing or

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of shame and of disappointment that you fell

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short of the glory of God and lived

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a predictable Christian life totally

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undistinguished and non-sacrificial where you were the

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object of your own concern and could only

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respond to those who are like you and

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even there your response was often lacking well

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I know you're anxious to go home so

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I won't talk to you about Ephesians chapter

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3 and verse 10 of which I suspect

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you have no more familiarity and understanding than

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you do with the issue of Israel because

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the two subjects are profoundly apostolic so very

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briefly Paul tells us in Ephesians 3.10

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God's reason for the creation of the church

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God has created all things in order that

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through the church that the church is so

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important in God's sight that He did not

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think it extravagant to frame an entire world

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that would support it and this is the

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eternal purpose of God in Christ Jesus are

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you occupied with God's eternal purpose or only

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your own purpose or your own agenda or

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your own program that's only religious to be

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apostolic and priestly and righteous is to be

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occupied with God's purpose His eternal purpose as

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being your first purpose that would change everything

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and what is that purpose I'll say it

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but you may not understand it to demonstrate

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to the principalities and the powers of the

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air the manifold wisdom of God what

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a mouthful to see that who can understand

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that who can fulfill that and it's only

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given to the church to make that demonstration

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is important to God before the invisible powers

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of the air a demonstration a demonstration that

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can only be made by the whole church

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what wisdom the wisdom that will lay its

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life down for another the wisdom that thinks

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that righteousness is more important than physical preservation

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the wisdom that sees in the least of

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these Jews the brethren of God who while

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yet in their sin are called to be

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a nation of priests and a light unto

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the world through the mercy that you will

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extend that they might obtain mercy this is

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the mystery of God and what is that

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church that is not occupied with it that

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has not taken it into its deepest consciousness

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that is not seeking God as to how

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to fulfill it such a church might be

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a candidate for the judgment of God for

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it has forsaken his eternal purpose as it

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has forsaken his ancient people and God is

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speaking now to save us from that eternal

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loss this is what you call a prophetic

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message it's not a sermon it's an appeal

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it's a warning it's a call and something

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is required of you who hear it something

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more than an amen did you like the

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message, brother?

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this kind of message requires a certain kind

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of response ultimate response yes, Lord I

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heard your word and if this Christ I'm

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so short of your righteousness but impute it

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to me in proportion to my brokenness to

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the degree that I'm aware of my need

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for which mere religion is not enough even

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with our intense Pentecostal praying Lord, change me

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Lord, fit me Lord, prepare me give me

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an understanding he'll hear that prayer let's bow

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before him so

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precious God I know what these people don't

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know that when the prophetic word comes our

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response is critical it's expensive to hear and

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not to hear it will not allow us

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to go on as we were before we

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will not remain what we were we will

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be worse for the spirit of prophecy is

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the testimony of Jesus and if we discount

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that word we're discounting the Lord and inviting

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his judgment so I appeal to you, Lord

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speak to their hearts break through their categories

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give them a fixed religious understanding touch them

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in the deeps of their being give them

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a sense of the last days and of

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the requirement of it so beyond any ability

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in ourselves to fulfill hear our cry

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be merciful to us in our great need

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so that we can have a mercy that

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we can extend but we have not needed

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00:48:24,470 --> 00:48:28,030
it till now till now we were quite

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able to continue by ourselves quite able to

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conduct our own services but this requirement this

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crisis to these people is beyond any ability

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00:48:46,790 --> 00:48:52,530
in ourselves you must be all in all

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and when they will see that through us

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they will believe for this will be the

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undeniable evidence that the God of Jacob lives

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and is full of mercy even through his

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Gentile people especially in Poland who will stand

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for this who will welcome the Lord's dealings

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who will welcome the Lord's disciplines to fit

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us and form us as the sons and

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daughters of God to remove what is false

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and establish what is authentic the righteousness of

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God himself who will stand for that and

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welcome those dealings that you will not be

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ashamed on that day I invite you to

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stand and make a statement to God don't

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stand because you are tired of sitting or

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that you would be embarrassed to be found

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seated God is righteous God is present and

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he will not be mocked better to remain

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seated in your uncertainty than to stand mindlessly

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but for those who are standing in truth

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for what authority that I have in Christ

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I bless you I seal you for this

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precious call of God and I ask the

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Lord to put a seal on it and

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to call for it on that day and

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that Jews will be saved out of death

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and called to redemption because of what is

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being transacted right now in the Spirit, in

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Jesus' name Amen