Sunday Service - 2025-09-14

Sunday Service - 2025-09-14

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We Will Not Be Silenced
Acts 7

Pastor Chris Bonner

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Welcome to the Lansdale Life Church podcast.

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If you're seeking a closer relationship with Jesus Christ, this podcast is for you.

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Thank you for joining us today.

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So if you could turn your Bibles, in your Bibles, to Acts chapter 7.

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You're bulletin says Hebrew 7, but today we're doing something different.

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And

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you'll see why, you know, with everything going on

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again, Acts chapter 7

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many of you know the story of Stephen and the martyrdom of Stephen and and so

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You know as a Calvary Chapel as you know, we teach through the Bible

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That's the title now. So your title is wrong in your bulletness. We won't be silenced and

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You know we go through the Bible and

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Nowadays the news cycle is so fast and furious, isn't it?

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I mean that you can't even keep up with it. If we try to do a topical study every single Sunday based on the previous week's

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news

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You'd never actually go through a book of the Bible because there's so much happening, which is really an indication, isn't it?

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To for end times and so forth. There's a lot happening and it's pretty exciting and yet

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there's a lot of pain and sorrow that comes with it and

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With this past week just the heaviness of the week and yet in some ways the the miracles of this week

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It's such a phenomenon that I as I was reading through I had the Acts chapter

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I mean Hebrews chapter 7 all planned in the beginning of the week and all of a sudden as the week went on

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I'm like I just this isn't for today. You know, we have to we have to teach on the

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freedom of speech, you know with the assassination of

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Charlie Kirk

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You know, it's and the increase of violence to suppress

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freedom of speech especially freedom to speak truth is

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Really just horrendous, isn't it? And yet at the same time we know through Scripture and we're gonna see in this

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Account of Stephen how when persecution presses down

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Faith expands. It's just something that happens the courage and every believer suddenly

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Rises up and we all rise to the occasion

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This is such a phenomenon. I was just shocked to see all around the world

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Do you see all the countries that are having prayer vigils for Charlie Kirk's family and also?

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For the spread of the gospel. It's it's really amazing we have in England. Did you see that?

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It's like a million-person March right across the bridge. It's amazing. It didn't even like

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Cave in it's just expansive and South Korea

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They're they're just having prayer vigils in Australia

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Italy I saw this one worship service that was just so joy-filled of

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Young people coming to the Lord and you don't know how awesome that is for old heads like myself

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And I'm not too old but I'm getting there

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for us to see young people

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Experiencing salvation and experiencing Jesus Christ to us

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We just thrive on that because that's what it's all about is passing the mantle to the next generation

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I mean, I'm saved. I have nothing to worry about. I am born again. I'm going to heaven

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Okay, but to see the next generation saying yes, or I want your will for my life

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I want to follow you. I want to live for you

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I need I need your spirit in me to to carry me through to eternity to see that happen is so

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exciting and

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Certainly Charlie Kirk had an amazing role in that now if you're here saying where this whole thing is gonna be about a man

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No in the end. It's about Jesus Christ. It really is right. It's not about a person

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Okay, but this is certainly a spark or a catalyst for something that is going on in this world in this country

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But even around the world and it's finally it's like we've had enough of trying to shut us up

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You know because the world needs to know that the deceiver that Satan the devil

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He is a liar and the first thing he wants to do is suppress the truth

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You read through Romans 1 and that's what happened to humanity

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We suppressed the truth and what happened the decadence of humanity, right?

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And so today we're gonna look at this of this idea of what the Lord says about

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freedom of speech and also what we're to do in this in this time and

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Season and you know this message I just want to say isn't about like getting us all filled with angst and anger like yeah

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They can't do this to us. It's not that at all. It's actually almost the opposite

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What do we do in this time? How do we how do we?

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Stored this time this epic time frame in humanity really?

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I mean we need to be ministers of peace, right?

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We need to carry the love of Christ in the midst of turmoil

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Let the devil show his cards reveal himself on how

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Fearful he is about the truth getting out about humanity. Amen

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And so as we're thinking about this, you know

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I've been listening to Charlie Kirk for four years on podcasts and and

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On the YouTubes and all those things and I think a lot of people do have the wrong idea of him because of the mass

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Media are always saying he's hateful. He's this he's that

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He's racist. He's a such a bunch of malarkey. It really is if you've ever listened to him for any time you could realize

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He was always so gracious

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all he wanted to do is debate ideas and

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Discuss ideas challenge people especially kids in college who are being indoctrinated

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Right of the lies of the enemy. He wanted to challenge their thinking and for that, of course, he lost his life

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But he also met a lot of resistance all along the way. Okay

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constantly and he spoke of a variety of things and

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You know, it's not about issues. It's about salvation

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But certainly there's some issues. There's some things that the Lord tells us in his word that we as believers

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Gravitate towards or support or assert one is the unborn

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We believe that the Lord cares about the unborn. Okay, and to to him they are human

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Okay, he knew Jeremiah before he was ever in the womb

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John the Baptist leaped in in his mother's womb when he heard that when he heard

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Mary the mother of Jesus walk into the room

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So there's so much evidence throughout scripture that the Lord has always known us before we were even in the womb

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So the Lord cares about the unborn

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The Lord cares about marriage one man and one woman. I mean, that's almost like, you know, you're walking on thin ice

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You start talking about basics that are scriptural. They're all throughout the Bible, but people don't even know it

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so if they don't know how the Lord feels about things

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they really don't know the Lord and suddenly the enemy can use ignorance to bring division and

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Separate Christianity because they don't know what God thinks of these things, you know how the Lord feels about transgender

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you know how it is defiling and debasing the Lord's

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Structure for humanity and his design

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I mean, this is not what the Lord wants people to be defiling themselves because basically they're saying Lord

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You messed up when you made me

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Okay, I reject your your order of humanity and your order of creation

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Okay, and so this is these are things that Charlie spoke about but even believers talk about this in the community

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But we're really getting more and more

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in

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Some cases fearful or timid because we know it's just gonna strike it like a flame and erupt into this

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Sorry, I shouldn't have said that I shouldn't have said I shouldn't that but like in the end

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It's not about any of those things. It's about Jesus Christ

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But these are still things that God cares and thinks about right?

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And so we want to think like him. I think the word says we have the mind of Christ, you know

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And how the Lord feels?

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About you know work, you know, in fact, you know, he believes that anyone who can work should work

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You know, you don't work you don't eat. Okay, that's pretty

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Stern isn't it right? He who does not provide for his own family

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Has rejected the faith and is worse than an unbeliever

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Boom. Yeah, that's biblical. That's in the Bible, right?

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So these are things that you just don't hear anymore because it's it's politically incorrect

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Now it's not about any of these things that bring salvation

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It's about Jesus Christ

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Even saying that Jesus is the only way, you know, there's there's

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Churches that don't believe that

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They believe well, there could be a lot of ways. I don't know. How can I know?

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Well, the Lord says I am the way the truth in the life. No man comes to the Father

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Except through me. I mean that's pretty clear, you know

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And so he is the only way and and yet when you get on the street, you know

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We do a variety of street witnessing and you're talking to people

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You could tell them about the love of Christ

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But then they always want to bring in an issue to talk about do you know what I'm talking about?

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Like whether it's homosexuality whether it's transgender whether it's whatever they want to bring an issue to the table

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To see where you stand and it's right then I start to think well, I really want them to get saved

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I don't really want to go there

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I want to kind of like maybe even appease them a little bit just to get through that question and and but you know

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What is not doing anyone any favors, you know, I mean the world calls this hate speech

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Telling what how God feels about things. I call it love speech

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Really, it's loving them telling them the truth is loving them

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But anymore we're just so concerned about the the outburst or the the backlash and in some cases

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now arrest or violence or

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assassination and

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So I really believe we are on the threshold of a great awakening around the world. I really do

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I think that the the assassination of Charlie Kirk is going to bring out a spirit of martyrdom

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And you know martyrdom really first foremost means means actually messenger

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Without any fear, you know

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And I believe it's just gonna spark so much around the world that that the believers are just gonna say yeah

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I'm not why I won't be silenced. No

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In fact, I have truth on my side. I could speak truth, you know as we're thinking about this

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Do you remember in the Bible any time that that freedom of speech was suppressed?

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In the New Testament all the time all the time the whole New Testament is about

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You know trying to speak truth to humanity and it being suppressed or trying to be silenced, right?

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but even in the Old Testament in fact even a in Israel itself, do you remember when a

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Jezebel and a hab

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Ahab was a king of Israel and he married a Sidonian woman named Jezebel and you even if you don't read the Bible

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You know that name doesn't sound like it's a good name

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Jezebel, right and yet Jezebel the first thing she did because she worshipped bail this false

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Evil wicked God in fact, do you know any idols they were worshiping were all demons?

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I mean the word actually spells that out. That was demonic, right? And so she

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she

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executed all of the prophets of

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Israel and

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Brought forth her own prophets of bail which really didn't have any prophetic utterance, of course for Yahweh and so she

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Destroyed the prophets that's that's suppression of speech freedom of speech is being quenched or crushed

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Right and then another one is um when they were exiled. Do you remember Shadrach Meshach and Abednego?

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You know, no, we're not gonna bail a bow to that that idol that Nebuchadnezzar built

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Well, then you're going okay in the fire of it. They are the oven of fire

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We're throwing you right in there

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And you remember what happened they threw in Shadrach Meshach and Abednego into the fiery furnace and so the Nebuchadnezzar say what women

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There's three there's four people in there. Who's the other one?

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It looks like the Son of God

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Well revelation to Nebuchadnezzar

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Because the Lord stepped into that and not even a hair on their head was sin

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And then Daniel refusing to to pray to Darius and instead

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He continued to pray to the Lord and he was thrown into the lion's den only for the Lord to

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Muzzle the lion and he suffered no harm at all

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But those who are setting him up for destruction

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They actually were all thrown into the lion's den and so the Lord always knows how to rescue his saints

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But sometimes it's by the Lord's design

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You know, all of our days are numbered. I

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Believe I don't believe anyone took

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Someone took Charlie's life, but the Lord always knew how many days Charlie had on the earth

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He knows how many days we have on the earth and I always just think of this that how do I want to go out?

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I want to go out in a blaze of glory and that doesn't necessarily mean being

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Martyrd, but I don't want to go out timid. That's for sure. You know, he's given us a spirit of power love and

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Sound mind or self-discipline, you know, that's like that's fearlessness, you know, and that's what he wants for us

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but there's also a

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one

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story in the New Testament that I'd like us to just take a look at and it's Stephen in chapter 7 and

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Just to set this up briefly

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it was the early church, okay, and

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the Lord had already ascended to heaven and

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The church was growing in Jerusalem and you know, it's funny in the Great Commission

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He said no go now to Jerusalem Judea

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Samaria and throughout all the world and spread the gospel. But what did they do? They stayed in Jerusalem

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You know, that's what we have a tendency to do. We kind of stay in our comfort zone, right?

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and so they stayed there and so, you know, the Lord was going to use the martyrdom of Stephen to actually

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Expand the gospel

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Because what happened is when Stephen gets stoned to death people just ran but as they ran from Jerusalem

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They spread the gospel everywhere, you know, so the Lord is using this

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Assassination of Charlie Kirk to spread the gospel everywhere. In fact, you know what Jill just told me this morning

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He used to have 1.5 million followers

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This morning he was at 11 million

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He's probably at 15 or 20 by now. I mean, this is epic. This is epic. What's happening here, right?

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And it's because you know when finally the scales are just fall off our eyes and we realize wait a minute

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We are there's an enemy here and it's not people

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It's not people

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It's a spiritual realm. We know that in fact Ephesians 6 12 says our warfare is not we don't wrestle against flesh and blood

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Okay, but what do we wrestle against?

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Principalities we're not gonna dissect all them

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powers

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Okay

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rulers of the darkness in this age now Paul wrote that in his age

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well, guess what the ruler of the darkness in this age is still at it right and then finally and

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spirits of wickedness in heavenly places

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So our warfare isn't people and we know that that's why prayer matters

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Because we can pray and tear down these strongholds. So anyway, let's look at Acts chapter 7 just for a couple of minutes here

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Verse 51. Oh wait, sorry

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Actually, can you start in at the end of chapter 6 so Stephen is chosen

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Because he's spirit-filled he's on fire, but guess what they chose him to do serve tables

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You know, you could serve anywhere like Jerry just shared, you know anywhere you serve you are a holy fire in that environment

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And sometimes the Lord just put you somewhere just to start to you know

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Ignite your flame a little bit and then he's gonna lead you into something else. But anyway

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so

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the end of 6 verse 8

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Says and Stephen full of faith and power did great wonders and signs among the people and then there arose some

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From what is called the synagogue of the freedmen

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Cyrenians Alexandrians and those from Cecilia and Asia

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Disputing with Stephen and they were not able to resist the wisdom and the spirit by which he spoke

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What's the next thing? Let's kill him

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Right, we can't we can't debate truth

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Because we're from lies where the file our father is the father of lies. We can't debate this thing out

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So let's silence you let's just shut you up. Okay, that's what's happening here. And so and verse

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11 and then they secretly induced men to say we have heard him speak blasphemous words

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Against Moses and God and they stirred up the people the elders and the scribes and they came upon him

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Seized him and brought him to the council. They also set up false witnesses

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Yeah, that's happening all the time the news media the the mainstream media are a bunch of liars

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They really are they also set up false witnesses who said this man does not cease to speak

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Blasphemous words against his holy this holy place and the law for we have heard him say that this Jesus of Nazareth

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Will destroy this place and change the customs

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Which Moses delivered to us and all who sat at the council

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Looking steadfastly at him saw his face as a face of an angel, which is interesting

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We're not gonna die sink that part

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but so, you know, they they

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Started making up lies and they started saying things he said out of context. Does that ever happen?

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Taking a little slither. Let's work around this and just like highlight this one little part that can make people hate them

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Okay, and that's what the enemy does for believers

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You know, he and he sets us up and if people are not willing to fully listen

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They're gonna they're gonna believe a lie

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So anyway

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So let's go into seven and finish this portion

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so Steven goes into the whole history of

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Israel and telling them like rehashing the whole history only to get to the point of the Messiah and then he says

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You stiff-necked

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Uncircumcised in heart and ears

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You always resist the Holy Spirit as as as your fathers did so to you

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which of the prophets

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Freedom of speech speaking on behalf of God that is which of the prophets

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did your fathers not persecute and they killed those who foretold the coming of the just one and

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whom you now have become the betrayers and murderers who have received the law by the direction of the

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Angels and have not kept it and then here we go. Here's the the execution the assassination

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54 and when they heard these things they were cut to the heart and they gnashed at him and they're at and with their teeth

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But he being full of the Holy Spirit gaze into heaven and saw the glory of God and

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Jesus standing at the right hand of God and said look I see the heavens open and the son of man

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Standing at the right hand of God

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57 then they cried out with a loud voice

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Stopping their ears

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We don't want to hear the truth and ran at him with one accord and they cast him out of the city and stoned him and

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the witnesses laid down their clothes at the feet of a young man named Saul and they stoned Stephen as he was

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Calling on God and saying Lord Jesus

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Receive my spirit and then he knelt down and cried out with a loud voice

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Lord do not charge them with this sin

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And when he had said this he fell asleep

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Meaning in earthly terms he died right and so as Dan was saying earlier

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forgiveness

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Forgiveness is key here because isn't interesting that Stephen would almost quote Jesus on the cross

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Lord forgive them. They know not what they do

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Receive my spirit. I mean, it's so it's so beautiful how Stephen in the midst of that martyrdom

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immediately his spirit connected with Christ and he actually

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Repeated Christ's own words on the cross, you know, and so as we think about this and we remember, you know how Stephen

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was

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Filled with the Holy Spirit and confronted them with the truth saying something that was very politically incorrect

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Okay, all of your father's killed freedom of speech

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You didn't allow the prophets to speak on behalf of God and you actually killed them

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Just like Abraham and I mean, I just like

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Ahab and Jezebel you killed the prophets because you just couldn't hear the truth

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And that's what this world is trying to suppress the truth, but the Lord is busting through

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Finally people are waking up and saying wait a minute

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Who is silencing us? Why can't someone just say some even if you disagree? Why why can't they say it?

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You know, why why does it have to be silenced?

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right, and so

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What should we do?

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Because we will be persecuted it's it's a promise in fact in 2nd Timothy 3 12 and 13

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It says if you have that verse it says

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Yes, and all who desire to live Godly in Christ Jesus will suffer

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persecution but evil men and impostor and impostors will grow worse and worse

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Deceiving and being deceived, but you must continue in the things which you have learned and been assured of

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Knowing from whom you have learned them. And so he's saying you will suffer persecution

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just

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Brace yourself and rise up, you know, Jesus said himself to his disciples in this world

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You will have troubles but take heart for I have overcome the world and that's how we overcome by our faith

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Right, and so we will suffer persecution. So what should we do? The last thing we should do is be

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angry

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mad and hateful because remember the person you're talking to is being guided by a spirit

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It's it's not even then the Lord loves them. He loves them so much James remember what James said in 1

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1920 he actually said, you know be swift to listen

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But slow to speak and slow to become angry because the wrath of man never

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Produces the righteousness of God

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So us getting angrier and angrier the same you can't do this. The enemy is like yes

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Beautiful, I got them right where I want them to be. No one's gonna be able to discern the good guys from the bad

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because we're all acting like the same, you know, so we really have to be discerning and

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Filled with love we have to speak the truth with love

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I love this verse that says that speaks to this

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Matthew 5 44 45 I mean 45 and this was of course in the Sermon on the Mount and

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Jesus said but I say to you love your enemies bless those who curse you

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Do good to those who hate you and pray for those who spitefully use you and

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Persecute you that you may be sons of your father in heaven for he makes his son rise on the evil

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And on the good and sends rain on the just and the unjust now. What does that last part mean?

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It means he loves the person you're speaking to

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Just as much as he loves you

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He wants to save them just like he saved you

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You know, he they're not the enemy to him

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He loves him he died for their sins too now until they receive them

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They aren't a child of God and that's John 3 18, you know, but maybe you're that

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Ambassador that's gonna invite them into the house of God

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So we have to see that person as and and have pity for them because they're so

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They've this they've been deceived

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They've been manipulated by the devil and they're twisted in their thinking but maybe you're the voice of truth

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Maybe you're the one that's gonna bring them in to the kingdom

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Another verse that speaks to this, you know

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Overcoming evil with good Romans 12 2 says do not be overcome with evil but overcome evil with good

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We're the good guys

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We are why because God is good and he lives in us

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You know, we are the good guys and I know that sounds so what makes you because the Lord is good

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We we work for him. We're on his team. We're his army

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We're his soldiers or his you know, royal priesthood

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We're his kings and King acts, you know on this earth, but to represent his kingdom

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So we have to have a love for people. It's amazing what love does when someone can be so bitter and angry

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I've seen it time and time again

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So wrought with just hatred and all this stuff and just words of love and they can really see in your eyes

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That you care about them

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You don't hate them, you know, it's not their fault

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They've been manipulated in this world to believe all these lies

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But you're the one the Lord has sent in that very moment of time. We have to minister the moments

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We're in a moment right now. We have to be ministers of this moment

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Don't we amen and then the next thing we have to speak the truth and love but also not have fear

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You know, sometimes, you know, we can either be fearful that we're gonna lose it on somebody

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Oh, I better just walk away because I'm really feeling angry. Well, maybe you do need to walk away and pray

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You know because we want to have a right heart towards people if you feel yourself getting filled with anxiety and emotions and all this

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You could just step away and just pray Lord. Just help me. Help me minister this moment. Help me actually

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represent you

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Because you're hurting more than I am right now Lord you you love this person more than I do even

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Help me in this very moment, right? So we can't be afraid and I love

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Matthew 10 28

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Lord says do not fear those who kill the body

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But cannot kill the soul

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But rather fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell

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Now, what does that mean? Are we always supposed to be fearing God?

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Well, there is a healthy fear of God. In fact, the beginning of understanding is the fear of God, right?

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So when when you finally realize oh that you know, there is hell to pay if I do not know the Lord

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That's a healthy fear

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But then when we come to him and we fall in love with him what perfect love casts out fear, right?

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In fact now that fear of the Lord is is something that protects us

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And the only fear we have then of the Lord is fear of missing out on what he wants to do

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I don't want to miss out on what God wants to do in my life. I don't want to miss out on that

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It's no longer serving God because I'm I'm waiting for like a smack across the head

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You know, it's not that you're you're serving God because you love him so much and you're like Lord

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What else what else are we doing now? What I don't want to miss out on anything you're doing

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Lord show me because where you're at. That's where real living is Lord

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I want to live that abundant life, but another part of this is that you know, we do

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We're not to fear because we have

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weapons of the truth the Word of God the sword of the

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Spirit and nothing can come against us, you know greater as he who is in us

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That he who is in the world and it's speaking about the antiChrist

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so all those spiritual realms of principalities the powers the rulers of the darkness of this age and the spirits of

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Wickedness in heavenly places. They can't touch you

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They are you are impervious to the devil. Do you realize that you know things can happen in this life?

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Okay, and we live in a fallen world. I'm not gonna go down that road at this moment

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But the devil cannot oppress you unless you let him and he can never possess a believer

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Because you're already possessed by a spirit and that's the Holy Spirit, right? He's the one who lives in you

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He doesn't let other spirits come in and live with him. Right? He's he doesn't he's not a

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Whatever. Anyway, I'm trying to think of something funny, but it doesn't matter

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but anyway, but we have we have weapons that are spiritual second Corinthians 10 for to

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6 says for the weapons of our

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Warfare are not carnal meaning fleshy, but mighty in God for pulling down

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strongholds

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casting down

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arguments and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of God

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bringing every thought into

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captivity to the obedience of Christ and being ready to punish now we're gonna

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Dissect that word in a second all

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Disobedience when your obedience is fulfilled

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So, you know what that means that that punish means really to vindicate

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You know when the Lord gives you a word to share and it's truth and you're just sharing the truth in love

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Someone who is speaking on behalf of the devil or the liar because they've been manipulated

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It their their wisdom cannot stand against yours

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Because you have God's wisdom and and that and that's a disobedient spirit

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That's causing them to speak now if you're usually watch any of those debates

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typically the people just walk away with a bunch of you know swearing and

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hateful things and because it's like I can't compete with truth

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So I just have to be angry or nastier and more hateful, you know

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And so the Lord has given us this moment in time to really represent

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Him to love speaking truth and not be afraid

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He says what I tell you in the quiet stand up on the roof and shout it out

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Right because that's what the Lord wants us to do, you know

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I believe this is a moment of time if the worship team can come forward. I

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believe this is a moment of time. We're really

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The

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Courage is the courage of every believer is just gonna rise up and you know what happens

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You ever notice when?

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If you're the only one who's a believer in the room for what you could see

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It can be fearful to speak up can't it and

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Because you don't want to be the odd one

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You don't want to be the one that everybody murmurs about know they're the one they're a weirdo or whatever. Yeah

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So our instinct is to just be quiet

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Even though we've been reading that we're not supposed to but what happens when one person just starts speaking out

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And you're like, yeah

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What he said what she said, right? I agree with that and then all sudden what? Yeah. Yeah

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Yeah, well, that's what's happening right now around the world

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Suddenly people are saying I'm not gonna be quiet. No

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No, I'm gonna speak the truth because the truth will set you free right when the Sun set you free you are

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Free indeed and and and the world is so shackled with lies

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They're under the yoke of the evil one

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In fact, the word says actually the whole world is under the sway of the evil one

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And I know I've shared this before but you know what that word sway means. It's actually what they say when a mom is like

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Swinging a baby and it could also be a cradle, you know, well, the devil is just nurturing this generation

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Just believe me don't believe them

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Don't believe the good guys

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Just trust me, I mean that's what the world is being indoctrinated into a demonic philosophy

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And yet we have the words of truth, right?

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And so we need to just speak it out and shout it out

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You know this what has happened to Charlie Kirk and others

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Okay, it's just a kernel of wheat. Remember what Jesus said in John 12 24 to 26

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most assuredly I say to you unless a grain of wheat falls into the ground and

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Dies it remains alone. But if it dies it produces much grain

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He who loves his life will lose it

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But he who hates his life in this world will keep it for eternal life

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In other words, he's saying don't live life for your comfort zone for what you were

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What you were comfortable with live my life

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Live my life. That's the eternal life

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He wants you to live is to live his life to speak out

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And you know this this seed that died and fell into that it's just gonna grow and grow and grow it's gonna be a harvest

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I'm sorry. We are heading into a massive

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Harvest and we need to be ready. We need to be you know, cleanse within you know

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If there's things that we're still ensnared with with any type of addiction and then any type of sin that's still

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Shackling us. We need to be free of that. We need to be clear-minded and

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And a full vessel like Jerry was saying a vessel that's just

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Overflowing overflowing with goodness. We need to be ready because the Lord is counting on you

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He's counting on you to speak out for him

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You are his messenger

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You are his ambassador. He is sending us. Isn't that amazing? Like I don't know if he can trust me

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Well, he chose you

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He trusts you

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Now you have to trust him. Amen. Let's all stand up and Lord

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We just thank you that you have put us on earth for such a time as this this epic

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Monumental time to bring many to you Lord and Lord. We need your Holy Spirit to just fill us

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To fill us right now to complete

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And if there's anyone here right now who has never

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Given their lives to Jesus Christ

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Probably a lot of what I've said right now

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Is strange and peculiar

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But right now you can receive Jesus as your Lord and Savior

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And it's so easy

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Romans 10 9 10 says if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is the Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him

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From the dead you will be saved. Why not get saved right here

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Right now on this epic time

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This is the moment be a minister of this moment and just pray something like this Father God

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I am a sinner and

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I need to be saved. I

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Believe that Jesus Christ died on the cross for my sins. He became my sin on the cross

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So that I could have eternal life he paid for my sins

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Offering me forgiveness today. I want to receive that gift of

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Forgiveness I want to receive you as my Lord and Savior

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Today, I give you my life. I lay my life down for you right here right now and

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I asked you to fill me with your living spirit your Holy Spirit

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In Jesus name

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Amen, if you did that today, please come up afterwards

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We'd love to talk to you more and give you a Bible

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And so may the Lord bless you and keep you may he be gracious to you

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And may he lift up his countenance and give you peace father God

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We just thank you that you have chosen us

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For great things because you are great in Jesus name. Amen. Let's give the Lord a round of applause

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Thanks for joining us at Lansdale Life Church as we praise God and discuss his word

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Don't forget to join us for worship lives Sunday mornings at 10 a.m. Eastern on YouTube

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Be blessed and have a great day

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