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I'm thankful he answers prayer.

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Amen.

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Ms.

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Cindy, you okay?

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Didn't hurt too bad.

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Just making sure.

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All right.

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Well, it's good to have
Brother Stewart with us tonight.

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And some of y'all now are
gonna ask her afterwards what was

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going on.

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But anyway, and Brother
Stewart, we appreciate you and leading

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the seminary, the North
Seminary, and some students here

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in the auditorium tonight,
some members of our church.

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And I appreciate him,
Appreciate him as he studies the

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Bible.

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One of the things I love about
Brother Stewart, and he said to me

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years ago, he said, if I can.

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If I can learn it, and what
I've learned in 30 or 40 years, I

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can put in a student in three
or four years, how much further along

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is the student?

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And so I appreciate his
willingness and his.

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I appreciate his energy at his
aged condition.

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And God's just been so good.

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And I again, appreciate your friendship.

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Come on, preach to us.

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All right.

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Amen.

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Acts Chapter one.

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And I looked out the clock
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over eight.

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I thought, oh, no, I had two
more things to squeeze in.

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My friendship of 40 years was
on the line and whatever.

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And he's still talking to me today.

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So, you know, you're in
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else's flock.

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Acts, chapter one.

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Acts Chapter one.

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We could talk forever.

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This church is very special
and it has studied so many gaps.

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And you have such an
investment in the seminary and you'll

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have such great rewards.

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This is the kind of church you
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doing so much.

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And because you're a member,
you have a part in it.

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This is a classic New
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Here we are 2000 years later,
and this is one of those churches

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that's still on track.

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And thank God, there's many others.

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We don't want to get the
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I'm the only one.

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God says no, I got a few other
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But we need a whole lot more
churches and whole lot churches like

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this.

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All right?

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There are two areas that
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should.

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It's because what precedes
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big.

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And that's the barrel of Christ.

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And then the Ascension.

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What a life.

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Christ lived 33 and a half years.

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And John said, if everything
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written down, the world
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And by the way, there's more
books being written now than there

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ever was before.

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And the world's not full yet.

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Speaking of age, I am now, old
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gonna get to read everything I
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You know, I was at Victory.

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I was doing a lot of writing,
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whatever, and went out to the seminar.

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I thought, man, I'm gonna
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now.

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I don't write.

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I just feel strongly some
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God for other good men and
other writers.

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One of the reasons you train
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what other people write.

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If they don't write, you just
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You want to get grounded so
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good and the bad.

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Spurgeon talked about that, et cetera.

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And you know what I've been doing?

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I write curriculum, I write curriculum.

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I write curriculum.

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I write charts.

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And so God's in charge.

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I guess the world doesn't need
my books.

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But anyway, we need preachers.

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We need properly trained
priests and their wives.

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And I tell the students all
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saying, I want them to be way
ahead of where I was when I graduated.

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I want them a running start
far beyond what I had.

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I thank God for the many
teachers I had.

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was Art Wilson.

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I heard Art Wilson preach
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anybody else preach.

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And then I went and checked it out.

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He's right on the money.

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Well, the life of Christ is fantastic.

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And the death of Christ on the
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expression of God's wrath.

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I think the second would have
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Now, Noah's flood will be
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about the end times after the
millennial kingdom, when God makes

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a new heaven and a new earth
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But the Noah's flood was a big deal.

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We've talked on that.

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So you have the life of
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you have the burial of Christ,
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I mean, the death and the resurrection.

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That burial gets squeezed out.

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That burial is extremely important.

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And once you realize it, you
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It's all through the Bible.

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One of the greatest
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burial is is Jonah in the
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Now, I'm not going to go into
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He couldn't stay in the well.

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Christ couldn't stay in the grave.

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Christ is the one that
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well, as Jonah was three days
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the whale, so shall the Son of
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So you talk about drama.

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The first submarine I've ever
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Well, well, it was.

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Was it underneath the water is
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That's not original with me.

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And then you have the Resurrection.

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Wow.

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But then you have the Ascension.

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And this is what we've been
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The Ascension she's saying
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He ascended to intercede.

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He's our great high priest.

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You just think you're sitting
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How many think you're actually
sitting at Heritage Baptist Church

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now?

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How many think you're actually here?

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None of you.

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Some of you don't know where
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You just got off the highway
at 8, 20 and whatever.

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I don't want you to walk out
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So I'm going to clarify.

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In a sense, you're not just here.

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In a sense, you are.

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You'll see what I'm talking
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All right, Acts, chapter one.

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You have your little pamphlet.

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Okay.

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If you don't have it, you can
get it afterwards.

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I'm going to email over here
the rest of these little studies

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and they'll have them available.

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If you want all these, they
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Alright.

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On the back table, I brought
some more of these supporting materials.

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And this purple one because
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so forth.

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This is five mountain men of
the Old Testament.

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Five mountain men in the New Testament.

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Twelve mountain view words,
definitions for like grace and mercy.

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Twelve mountainous words,
definitions for ransom, reconciliation,

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justification.

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Here are the 14 actual mountains.

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There's more than this, but
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the Bible where God did
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Okay, here's you know about these.

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The 12 mountainous events of
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the world, fall of all Mankind
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And 12 mountainous events in
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Notice I didn't say creation.

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That's okay.

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But that's not enough.

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These are doctrinal foundation
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Amen.

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All through the Bible, 24
mountain peak portions.

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So if you want to do some more
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Those are back there.

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They're not folded.

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I thought if I let you fold
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Okay, now the one you've got
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have been the whole series, really.

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The Ascension is that big, so
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of gives you some Old
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Of Mount Olivet.

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It says Mount Olives.

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O I L.

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That's a typo when you start
using that fancy script.

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And sometimes you can't see
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My glasses are for seeing far
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And so I can take off and see
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It's do you all still here.

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Anyway, so I'm sorry about that.

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It's misspelled.

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So open the pamphlet up, read
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get some background.

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This mountain, the Mount of
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history.

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And here's what this is
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David had some wonderful
experiences, and he had some great

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times with God at the Mount of Olives.

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And Christ is the greater David.

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Of all the people that David
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him, all the people he had.

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He had people like Ahithophel,
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Saul.

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Saul was.

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Saul was something.

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But his son, Absalom, one of
the places he fled was the Mount

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of Olives.

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David, in so many ways,
previews the greater David.

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Christ, the son of David in
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And so there's a lot of history.

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Well, Christ spent a lot of
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Look at your pamphlet there.

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It says, climbing the mountain.

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It kind of starts with David there.

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And so you can kind of get a feel.

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And it says there a mountain
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You go across the page, the
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have some scriptures to look at.

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This is stuff for you to study
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higher, so to speak.

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And then you have a mountain
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Matthew 24.

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Christ gave a tremendous
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We call it the Olivet
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He talked about the future
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And it is an amazing sermon on prophecy.

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And then you have a mountain
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What is right there with the
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Gethsemane.

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Man, what a night when Christ
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they finally come and arrest him.

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That's the Mount of Olives.

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It kind of parallels the tough
times that David had there.

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And then you have a mountain
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That's what we want to look at tonight.

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A mountain of positioning.

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And there's one more big
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and we're going to try to
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So I will continue to talk
very slow, and hopefully you can

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follow me and not go to sleep.

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One of the reasons I talk
fast, it sounds like the building's

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on fire.

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And it kind of keeps people Awake.

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Boy, that was some windstorm
yesterday, wasn't it?

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We walked out of here after church.

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It was still blowing.

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All right, so you're in Acts,
chapter one, and you're in verses

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one.

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And.

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And we're going to just kind
of get right to this.

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We're going to actually start
a little earlier in this chapter.

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Let's pray.

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Father, we look to you tonight
in a very special way.

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And this subject is where
Brother Crawford's going to be as

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he goes through Joshua.

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And he is going to bring this
out in days ahead on so many different

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levels.

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And this is a very important topic.

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So help me to choose my
emphases properly.

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I pray that you would take
full control and we could get this

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across and beyond human
explanation and illustration.

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May the Spirit of God do the
main work.

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And we pray these things in
Jesus name.

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Amen.

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We're going to talk about the Ascension.

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All right, so look at chapter
number one, and look at verse one,

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the former treatise have I
made old Theophilus talking about

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the Gospel of Luke.

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Luke's the writer of Acts of
all that Jesus began both to do and

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teach until the day in which
he was what?

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Taken up.

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Taken up.

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He didn't go well, okay, I'm
finished here.

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I guess I'm going to go up there.

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Taken up now as God, he didn't
need to be taken up, but he's still

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the God man.

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In Mary's womb, he became the
God man.

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He lived 33 and a half years
as the God man.

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He died and was buried, and he
rose from the dead as the God man.

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He's a member of the human
race, and yet he's still in the Godhead.

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Two thousand years ago, he
entered the human race.

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He's the replacement, Adam.

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The same way Adam got us in
the mess is the same way Christ gets

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us out of the mess.

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Adam represented us in the
Garden of Eden.

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Christ represents us from the
time of conception.

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The Bible calls him the second
and last Adam.

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Okay.

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By all the human race, coming
from one man, it's only going to

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take one man to get us out of
this mess.

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By one man's disobedience,
many became sinners.

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So by the obedience of one
shall many be made righteous.

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Romans 5, 19.

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It wasn't Eve that did it.

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I tell you every year, it
wasn't Eve that did it.

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Your mother wouldn't do that
to you.

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It was your father.

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If you want to blame your
parents, go ahead.

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Just go back far enough.

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Everybody wants to blame their
parents for their problems.

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Well, go all the way back to
Adam and Eve.

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And you'll be on track.

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Except Eve was deceived.

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Okay?

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Now it's really important
because he still represents us.

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He came as us to us, for us.

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He is still a member of the
human race.

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A member of the human race was
taken up.

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Look around you.

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These are humans here tonight.

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Amen.

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Where did Jesus get his genetics?

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Got them from Mary.

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Mary got hers all the way back
to Adam.

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Go back and look at it.

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Why the virgin birth?

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Because the sin nature and the
fallen state comes to the Father.

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Eve was taken out of Adam.

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God set this up way ahead of time.

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One of us.

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You got a good pastor.

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But you got another pastor
that's better than him.

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He trained him.

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The Holy Spirit sent him here.

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Acts 20:28.

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And he has a burden to feed
this guy.

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When he was a teenager.

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You know how we got such good friends?

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I may want to talk all the time.

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But he had nonstop questions.

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We would go to Florida.

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We would go to Ohio.

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We would go out doing all
kinds of things.

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Then he got married and had to
put food on the table.

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But we still kept doing a few things.

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One night we ate a restaurant
almost empty.

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I won't tell you about all that.

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But anyway, all the way there,
we're talking Bible all the way back.

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We're talking Bible all the
way there.

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We're talking Bible all the
way back.

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Hungry like a sponge.

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Amen.

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The pastor of this church head
over all things in this church.

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He's at the right hand of the Father.

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This is the church age.

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It was his idea.

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Even if you know about this,
you're going to see some more things

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tonight.

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Because it's just so full.

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Okay, so here we are.

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Look at Acts, chapter one.

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We're going through here.

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Taken up after that.

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He, through the Holy Ghost had
given commandments unto the apostles

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whom he had chosen.

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They took over as he went up.

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They took over in the power of
the Holy Spirit.

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God the Father is prominent in
the Old Testament.

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You know about the Son, you
know about the Spirit.

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But God the Father's prominent
in the New Testament.

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Christ becomes prominent.

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The Son of God because the
Father sends the Son.

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But when Christ grows up, the
Father and son.

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John 14 through 16.

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The father and Son send the
Holy Spirit.

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The Holy Spirit's here on
behalf of Christ and here on behalf

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of the Father.

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That's how the triune God works.

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The Holy Spirit is doing the
same thing as far as leading and

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guiding and directing.

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He's.

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I'll send you another comforter.

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So Christ must have been a comforter.

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And in Isaiah 40, God the
Father's a comforter.

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Aren't you glad we got a God
of comfort, by the way, he primarily

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comforts through this book.

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Okay.

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Just not sitting around and
getting a warm feeling.

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You get in the book and he'll
comfort you.

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And you'll know where to go in
the psalms and stuff to get comfort.

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So keep reading here and see
what the Holy Spirit's doing.

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Christ sent down the Holy Spirit.

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First Peter, chapter 1, verses
10 through 12.

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Acts, chapter 2.

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John the Baptist prophesied
what happened.

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Jesus said, what happened.

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Look what it says here.

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Verse 3.

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To whom also he showed himself
alive after his passion, after his

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death, by many infallible proofs.

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If it doesn't say infallible,
you got the wrong book.

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It's not convincing.

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Infallible means it can't be
proved otherwise.

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Convincing.

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A magician could be convincing.

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A magician?

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I've seen magicians cut women
in half with a saw.

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Did they really?

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No, but it was sure convincing.

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The resurrection was more than convincing.

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Infallible means it had to happen.

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And the Greek word there,
Tekmarion, means foolproof.

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It means infallible.

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It had to happen.

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You know how much hangs on the resurrection?

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Don't give me convincing.

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Give me what the Word means.

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Amen.

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Infallible.

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You all need to calm down, okay?

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It's just a sermon, okay?

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We'll be out of here in a few minutes.

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Just calm down.

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He gave all kinds of
infallible proofs.

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He stayed around for 40 days.

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He taught them things they
could not understand until after

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he resurrected.

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Because now they're in the New Testament.

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The Holy Spirit is living
inside them.

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He breathed on them.

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And now the resurrection Holy
Spirit came inside them to live.

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They're going to be filled in
a few days.

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The baptism is an outward side
to Israel.

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What was going on?

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Look at this.

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Speaking of the things
pertaining to the kingdom of God

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and being assembled together
with them, commanded them they should

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not depart from Jerusalem, but
wait for the promise of the Father,

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saith he.

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Which saith he, ye have heard
of me.

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For John, truly baptized with
water, but ye shall be baptized with

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the Holy Ghost.

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Watch this.

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Not many days hence, when they
therefore were come together, they

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asked of Him, Lord.

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They asked of him, saying,
lord, wilt thou at this time restore

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again the kingdom to Israel?

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And Christ is going to
basically say, well, yes, but there's

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a church age here going on.

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By the way, church day is
about 2,000 years old.

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I don't know how much Luck
have we got?

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I don't believe in setting
dates, but we're getting.

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We're close to where we were
last year.

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And he said unto them, it's
not for you to know the times or

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seasons which the Father put
in his own power, but ye shall receive

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power.

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It says, after, not because of.

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Please read that properly.

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The baptism came first in Acts 2.

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Then came the filling.

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It's sequential.

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Not because of the Holy Spirit
coming on them.

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The Holy Spirit coming on them.

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They didn't give them power.

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It was the Holy Spirit filling them.

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Read Acts 2 carefully.

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It's not for, you know, the
season and power.

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The Father's put in the
seasons, times or seasons.

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Verse 8.

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But ye shall receive power after.

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Not because of.

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After that the Holy Ghost came
upon you.

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Because after that came the filling.

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And ye shall be witnesses unto
me, both in Jerusalem and all Judea

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and in Samaria and to most
part of the earth.

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That didn't happen until
Christ ascended and.

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And sent down the Holy Spirit.

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He had to ascend.

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And when he had spoken these
things while they beheld, he's all

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done.

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He's been teaching for 40 days.

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They're out there, the
apostles, minus Judas.

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And all of a sudden, he begins
to go up.

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He begins to ascend.

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God is making it very obvious
that they're seeing him, not a ghost.

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He has a resurrected body.

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You can touch him.

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They touched him before and
after the resurrection.

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They handled him.

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He's for real.

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He's one of us in a
resurrected body, a celestial body.

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First Corinthians 15.

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Okay, he starts going up.

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Now, if you'll just take a
second and think on this.

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He wants to stand there.

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All of a sudden he's gone.

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Where'd he go?

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00:19:35,185 --> 00:19:35,481
I don't know.

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I saw a flash that direction.

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00:19:37,177 --> 00:19:38,169
I think he went up.

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00:19:38,209 --> 00:19:40,989
No, God's making it very obvious.

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Maybe more obvious than we realize.

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Okay.

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While they beheld, he was
taken up.

509
00:19:51,559 --> 00:19:53,263
There it is again, taken up.

510
00:19:53,351 --> 00:19:56,019
And a cloud received him out
of their sight.

511
00:19:56,519 --> 00:19:59,471
And while they looked
steadfastly toward heaven as he went

512
00:19:59,495 --> 00:20:04,255
up, behold, two men stood by
them in white apparel, which also

513
00:20:04,327 --> 00:20:09,859
said, ye men of Galilee, why
stand ye gazing up into heaven?

514
00:20:10,859 --> 00:20:12,755
I mean, once he's up, once
he's gone.

515
00:20:12,787 --> 00:20:15,331
I mean, what do you keep
looking for?

516
00:20:15,435 --> 00:20:16,179
He's gone.

517
00:20:16,259 --> 00:20:19,279
There's probably more going on
than we have here.

518
00:20:21,019 --> 00:20:22,499
This same Jesus.

519
00:20:22,579 --> 00:20:23,235
Are you listening?

520
00:20:23,267 --> 00:20:24,403
This same Jesus.

521
00:20:24,531 --> 00:20:25,879
The same Jesus.

522
00:20:26,539 --> 00:20:28,691
He's not going to come out of
a forest in Europe.

523
00:20:28,795 --> 00:20:31,319
He's not going to come out of
A well in the Middle East.

524
00:20:32,219 --> 00:20:33,639
He's not an imam.

525
00:20:34,619 --> 00:20:36,489
He's going to come back the same.

526
00:20:36,659 --> 00:20:40,733
He left and can I jump ahead
in case the clock doesn't cooperate?

527
00:20:40,861 --> 00:20:43,849
He's coming back to the very
place he left from.

528
00:20:44,629 --> 00:20:46,557
He's coming back to the Mount
of Olives.

529
00:20:46,653 --> 00:20:48,221
You got a picture of it right there.

530
00:20:48,325 --> 00:20:50,669
Not of him coming back, the
picture of the Mount of Olives.

531
00:20:50,829 --> 00:20:52,449
Alright, I'll keep watching.

532
00:20:54,469 --> 00:20:57,853
Shall so come in like manner
as you've seen him go into heaven.

533
00:20:57,981 --> 00:21:00,375
Now turn in your bibles to
Psalm 47.

534
00:21:00,466 --> 00:21:00,877
5.

535
00:21:00,933 --> 00:21:02,489
Psalm 47 5.

536
00:21:02,799 --> 00:21:05,591
Your pastor's had got some of
this and stuff.

537
00:21:05,735 --> 00:21:08,327
I've got some articles just to
leave with him.

538
00:21:08,463 --> 00:21:11,255
And so he can have this as he
goes into Joshua and stuff.

539
00:21:11,287 --> 00:21:14,295
And these are various things
that we're giving you more information.

540
00:21:14,367 --> 00:21:16,455
But we have a time to talk
about tonight.

541
00:21:16,647 --> 00:21:19,699
And so look at Psalm 47.

542
00:21:19,999 --> 00:21:24,743
I've got men giving commentary
on this that are very respected and

543
00:21:24,831 --> 00:21:27,271
they will talk along these lines.

544
00:21:27,415 --> 00:21:30,071
And so this is not just
something that I dreamed up.

545
00:21:30,095 --> 00:21:32,201
Okay, so look at Psalm 47.

546
00:21:32,305 --> 00:21:36,389
Look at verse 5, Psalm 47,
verse 5.

547
00:21:36,929 --> 00:21:39,753
And if you read the whole
psalm, it gives a little bit more

548
00:21:39,761 --> 00:21:40,553
of a fill.

549
00:21:40,681 --> 00:21:43,481
But look what it says in verse
5 of Psalm 47.

550
00:21:43,665 --> 00:21:46,709
God is gone up with a what?

551
00:21:47,569 --> 00:21:53,385
How's Christ coming back with
a shout at the Rapture, but especially

552
00:21:53,457 --> 00:21:54,629
the second coming.

553
00:21:55,009 --> 00:21:56,029
A shout.

554
00:21:57,019 --> 00:21:59,347
God is gone up with a shout.

555
00:21:59,523 --> 00:22:03,683
The Lord with the sound of a
what is he not coming back with the

556
00:22:03,691 --> 00:22:06,659
sound of a trumpet at the
Rapture and the second coming seven

557
00:22:06,699 --> 00:22:07,519
years later?

558
00:22:08,539 --> 00:22:11,879
John Gill and others tell you
this is talking about the Ascension.

559
00:22:13,339 --> 00:22:16,787
Okay, well turn to these
verses are in your notes here.

560
00:22:16,843 --> 00:22:18,339
Go to Psalm 68.

561
00:22:18,459 --> 00:22:20,359
Why are they standing there gazing?

562
00:22:22,389 --> 00:22:23,849
Psalm 68.

563
00:22:25,429 --> 00:22:26,809
Look at verse 17.

564
00:22:27,589 --> 00:22:33,293
Sometimes the angels are
described as fiery beings like seraphim

565
00:22:33,341 --> 00:22:36,701
type creatures and very much
that way.

566
00:22:36,725 --> 00:22:38,849
And sometimes they're
associated with chariots.

567
00:22:39,269 --> 00:22:39,965
Verse 17.

568
00:22:40,037 --> 00:22:43,405
The chariots of God are
20,000, even thousands of angels.

569
00:22:43,517 --> 00:22:44,589
The Lord is among them.

570
00:22:44,629 --> 00:22:48,253
As in Sinai, in the holy
place, when God gave the law.

571
00:22:48,421 --> 00:22:50,949
There were angels up there and
Moses saw them.

572
00:22:50,989 --> 00:22:52,901
The angels attended the giving
of the law.

573
00:22:53,005 --> 00:22:56,005
The Bible tells us in several
places way back there where Moses

574
00:22:56,037 --> 00:22:56,853
got the Ten Commandments.

575
00:22:56,901 --> 00:22:58,049
Look at verse 18.

576
00:22:58,509 --> 00:23:01,329
Thou has ascended on high.

577
00:23:03,789 --> 00:23:06,421
By the way the Bible says no
man's ascended up to heaven, but

578
00:23:06,445 --> 00:23:07,409
Jesus Christ.

579
00:23:08,189 --> 00:23:09,941
Thou hast ascended on high.

580
00:23:10,045 --> 00:23:12,409
Thou hast led captivity captive.

581
00:23:13,789 --> 00:23:20,901
Thou hast received gifts for
man, yea, for rebellious also that

582
00:23:20,925 --> 00:23:22,629
the Lord might dwell among them.

583
00:23:22,669 --> 00:23:23,969
What's this talking about?

584
00:23:24,509 --> 00:23:28,249
Paul in Ephesians chapter four
quotes this passage.

585
00:23:28,589 --> 00:23:32,229
He applies it to the Ascension
in Ephesians chapter four.

586
00:23:32,269 --> 00:23:35,125
He's talking to the church at
Ephesus and he's telling when Christ

587
00:23:35,197 --> 00:23:38,373
ascended, he set up special gifts.

588
00:23:38,421 --> 00:23:40,489
One of them was the gift of a pastor.

589
00:23:41,389 --> 00:23:43,689
The other is the gift of an evangelist.

590
00:23:44,129 --> 00:23:48,137
There's all kinds of things
listed in Ephesians chapter 4 about

591
00:23:48,193 --> 00:23:52,761
God gifting Christians to
serve him more effectively in a church

592
00:23:52,825 --> 00:23:53,549
setting.

593
00:23:54,929 --> 00:23:59,609
You were born with native
skills and the Holy Spirit heightens

594
00:23:59,689 --> 00:24:00,073
those.

595
00:24:00,161 --> 00:24:05,209
Paul told Timothy to enhance,
work on, improve those skills you

596
00:24:05,249 --> 00:24:05,593
got.

597
00:24:05,681 --> 00:24:07,193
That's what we're trying to do
out the seminary.

598
00:24:07,241 --> 00:24:09,609
A third of their education, I
told you, is out there.

599
00:24:09,649 --> 00:24:14,159
A third's here in this church
and a third is on their own.

600
00:24:15,179 --> 00:24:15,955
Amen.

601
00:24:16,067 --> 00:24:18,435
A father, children and a husband.

602
00:24:18,547 --> 00:24:18,819
Why?

603
00:24:18,859 --> 00:24:21,011
Because someday you'll be
teaching others about that and your

604
00:24:21,035 --> 00:24:22,323
kids will be perfect examples.

605
00:24:22,371 --> 00:24:22,579
See?

606
00:24:22,619 --> 00:24:24,115
And you'll be able to, whatever.

607
00:24:24,307 --> 00:24:27,879
Alright, so this is talking
about the Ascension.

608
00:24:28,379 --> 00:24:33,811
So why they stand there gazing
if he's coming back the same way

609
00:24:33,835 --> 00:24:38,701
he went away with a shout, the
voice of an archangel and the angels

610
00:24:38,765 --> 00:24:39,529
with him.

611
00:24:40,069 --> 00:24:42,573
Now we have an idea why they
may have been standing there gazing.

612
00:24:42,621 --> 00:24:43,901
Now, I've told this story
several times.

613
00:24:43,925 --> 00:24:45,409
I'm going to tell it very quickly.

614
00:24:47,749 --> 00:24:51,837
When you have your kids, you
want to be a good father.

615
00:24:52,013 --> 00:24:54,929
So you buy them toys you never
got when you were a kid.

616
00:24:55,909 --> 00:24:57,549
Now with your daughters,
that's a little different.

617
00:24:57,589 --> 00:24:59,405
You know, you buy them things, whatever.

618
00:24:59,437 --> 00:25:01,677
And I didn't play with, I had
three sisters.

619
00:25:01,693 --> 00:25:05,019
I didn't play with girls toys.

620
00:25:05,759 --> 00:25:08,699
Now there's some things girls
and guys can play together, okay?

621
00:25:09,119 --> 00:25:14,183
But I was always fascinated
with those gas powered Cox cars.

622
00:25:14,231 --> 00:25:16,999
Cox, is that, are they in your family?

623
00:25:17,039 --> 00:25:18,375
Brother, Are you an inheritor?

624
00:25:18,567 --> 00:25:21,179
Cox cars, you know, gas
powered cars.

625
00:25:21,679 --> 00:25:24,199
I thought, you know, a good
dad would buy his son one of those

626
00:25:24,239 --> 00:25:24,727
helicopters.

627
00:25:24,743 --> 00:25:28,167
You remember the story, I
bought my son that Cox powered helicopter.

628
00:25:28,263 --> 00:25:29,607
And you have to tweak a little bit.

629
00:25:29,663 --> 00:25:30,663
Didn't have any cables on it.

630
00:25:30,671 --> 00:25:31,735
You started up and let it fly.

631
00:25:31,767 --> 00:25:33,255
You went to a big park and you
remember stories.

632
00:25:33,287 --> 00:25:35,803
Somebody remember we went to a
park, Veterans park in Arlington,

633
00:25:35,851 --> 00:25:37,243
the biggest park we could find.

634
00:25:37,411 --> 00:25:38,571
And you had to tweak a little bit.

635
00:25:38,595 --> 00:25:39,479
You get it started.

636
00:25:40,099 --> 00:25:44,267
I mean they're loud and
Jonathan's probably about, I don't

637
00:25:44,283 --> 00:25:45,179
know, 13 or so.

638
00:25:45,219 --> 00:25:47,323
My wife could tell you how old
he was, what he was wearing, what

639
00:25:47,331 --> 00:25:48,971
day of the week it was, what
we had for lunch.

640
00:25:49,035 --> 00:25:52,587
But anyway, we're out there
and it proved pretty good.

641
00:25:52,643 --> 00:25:56,075
After a while, we had that
thing tweaked and it would go up

642
00:25:56,147 --> 00:25:57,931
and people started steadying
around and watching it.

643
00:25:57,955 --> 00:26:00,123
They were out there playing
Frisbee golf and all kinds of stuff.

644
00:26:00,171 --> 00:26:02,959
This helicopter's going up,
it's going up and it comes floating

645
00:26:03,039 --> 00:26:03,659
down.

646
00:26:04,039 --> 00:26:05,551
We were so excited.

647
00:26:05,615 --> 00:26:08,367
We were like those lepers that
found that food in the Old Testament.

648
00:26:08,463 --> 00:26:10,991
And we said to ourselves,
this, this is not good to leave this

649
00:26:11,015 --> 00:26:11,939
to ourselves.

650
00:26:12,359 --> 00:26:15,599
I'm sure my wife and Hannah
would love to see this.

651
00:26:15,639 --> 00:26:17,935
I think Jerusha is still too
young maybe.

652
00:26:17,967 --> 00:26:18,463
I don't remember.

653
00:26:18,511 --> 00:26:21,619
But anyway, we went home and
we brought Hannah.

654
00:26:22,519 --> 00:26:24,191
Jewish wasn't with us, was she?

655
00:26:24,295 --> 00:26:25,743
She was in the mind of God still.

656
00:26:25,831 --> 00:26:27,855
Okay, so John's a little
younger than I remember.

657
00:26:27,887 --> 00:26:31,757
So anyway, we're out there and
that's why I was with him, you know,

658
00:26:31,813 --> 00:26:34,093
make sure he was safe when he
was playing with his helicopter.

659
00:26:34,221 --> 00:26:35,677
And so we got them back.

660
00:26:35,733 --> 00:26:38,813
And of course, I've got
confidence that it's going to fly

661
00:26:38,861 --> 00:26:39,597
pretty good.

662
00:26:39,733 --> 00:26:43,469
And so I, you know, we get it
all set up and my wife, she is on

663
00:26:43,509 --> 00:26:44,173
pins and heels.

664
00:26:44,221 --> 00:26:45,549
Oh, this is so exciting.

665
00:26:45,709 --> 00:26:48,249
Thank you for bringing us out here.

666
00:26:51,429 --> 00:26:52,141
You remember that.

667
00:26:52,165 --> 00:26:52,445
Okay.

668
00:26:52,477 --> 00:26:55,101
But anyway, and Hannah, okay,
That's a family thing.

669
00:26:55,125 --> 00:26:55,325
Okay.

670
00:26:55,357 --> 00:26:55,965
We got there.

671
00:26:56,037 --> 00:26:57,165
I couldn't contain myself.

672
00:26:57,197 --> 00:26:58,489
I wanted them to see it.

673
00:26:58,789 --> 00:27:02,989
And we started that thing up,
and I'll tell you what, that thing

674
00:27:03,029 --> 00:27:10,249
went up and it went up, then
it went up and I couldn't see it.

675
00:27:10,709 --> 00:27:12,809
Then Jonathan couldn't see it.

676
00:27:13,349 --> 00:27:14,461
Nobody could see it.

677
00:27:14,485 --> 00:27:15,229
You could still hear.

678
00:27:16,565 --> 00:27:17,149
Was up there.

679
00:27:17,189 --> 00:27:19,209
I'm going, what in the world?

680
00:27:19,989 --> 00:27:22,209
And we're standing up there gazing.

681
00:27:23,029 --> 00:27:25,649
Why stands ye gazing up into heaven?

682
00:27:26,709 --> 00:27:30,969
I saw this big head come down
and we're up there looking at it

683
00:27:31,829 --> 00:27:35,293
and it cuts out, I thought.

684
00:27:35,381 --> 00:27:36,925
Then it starts back up again.

685
00:27:37,077 --> 00:27:39,309
If you think about those
cock's eggs, I don't know how it

686
00:27:39,349 --> 00:27:40,205
started back up.

687
00:27:40,277 --> 00:27:41,277
My wife's right there.

688
00:27:41,333 --> 00:27:43,169
She always is truthful.

689
00:27:47,749 --> 00:27:49,809
And then we couldn't hear anymore.

690
00:27:50,149 --> 00:27:53,113
So we're out in that big field
and it's going to flow down.

691
00:27:53,301 --> 00:27:54,577
We're looking like this.

692
00:27:54,633 --> 00:27:56,465
We're watching all over for it.

693
00:27:56,617 --> 00:28:00,257
Now, it's kind of a silly
story, but something was going on.

694
00:28:00,313 --> 00:28:04,305
If you hear a trumpet and you
hear a shout and Christ is taken

695
00:28:04,377 --> 00:28:06,561
up, that would get your attention.

696
00:28:06,625 --> 00:28:07,457
Amen.

697
00:28:07,633 --> 00:28:12,389
It was a big deal for one of
us to go to heaven.

698
00:28:12,809 --> 00:28:13,749
Amen.

699
00:28:14,329 --> 00:28:17,569
Now, I've got several
references there for you to look

700
00:28:17,609 --> 00:28:17,953
at.

701
00:28:18,041 --> 00:28:20,129
But I want you to go to
Ephesians Chapter two.

702
00:28:20,169 --> 00:28:21,659
Because here's the big deal.

703
00:28:21,809 --> 00:28:23,499
Most of you know this passage.

704
00:28:23,839 --> 00:28:24,779
Okay?

705
00:28:26,079 --> 00:28:26,939
Huh?

706
00:28:28,479 --> 00:28:29,799
It never came back.

707
00:28:29,919 --> 00:28:31,303
We drove all over the neighborhood.

708
00:28:31,351 --> 00:28:32,619
Thank you for asking.

709
00:28:33,519 --> 00:28:34,311
Thank you.

710
00:28:34,415 --> 00:28:36,103
We drove all over the neighborhood.

711
00:28:36,231 --> 00:28:39,335
I got behind people's fences
and looked at their trees and stuff.

712
00:28:39,367 --> 00:28:42,007
And, I mean, I didn't want to
get shot, but, I mean.

713
00:28:42,063 --> 00:28:43,543
And you know, we did a few times.

714
00:28:43,711 --> 00:28:44,551
We drove by there.

715
00:28:44,575 --> 00:28:44,983
We drove.

716
00:28:45,031 --> 00:28:46,939
I said, I'm going to find that helicopter.

717
00:28:47,449 --> 00:28:50,673
And I finally realized, you
know, there's probably a favorite

718
00:28:50,721 --> 00:28:54,709
toy that God's got for us in heaven.

719
00:28:55,449 --> 00:28:58,229
And that was such a wonderful
family moment.

720
00:28:59,769 --> 00:29:02,369
It flew way beyond we ever expected.

721
00:29:02,489 --> 00:29:05,329
I wouldn't be surprised when
we get to heaven.

722
00:29:05,409 --> 00:29:07,149
God says, come here.

723
00:29:11,449 --> 00:29:12,481
He's got a string on it.

724
00:29:12,505 --> 00:29:13,921
God said, I just pulled it
right on up here.

725
00:29:13,945 --> 00:29:14,321
I don't know.

726
00:29:14,345 --> 00:29:15,549
We never could find it.

727
00:29:17,559 --> 00:29:20,687
It's one of those stories that
you're glad your wife was with you

728
00:29:20,823 --> 00:29:22,899
because people think I'm exaggerating.

729
00:29:23,399 --> 00:29:24,639
I don't know what happened to
that thing.

730
00:29:24,679 --> 00:29:26,659
It was the strangest thing
that ever happened.

731
00:29:27,639 --> 00:29:30,047
I don't think the apostles
walked away going, huh, that's pretty

732
00:29:30,063 --> 00:29:30,255
cool.

733
00:29:30,287 --> 00:29:31,583
I wish I would have my cell
phone with me.

734
00:29:31,591 --> 00:29:32,783
I would have gotten that.

735
00:29:32,951 --> 00:29:35,455
They walked away and said, did
you see what I saw?

736
00:29:35,527 --> 00:29:38,735
Now I don't know for sure, but
I know there are angels there.

737
00:29:38,807 --> 00:29:40,925
And I know he just went up and
he was gone.

738
00:29:41,047 --> 00:29:44,017
There's very likely if he's
going to come back in the clouds

739
00:29:44,033 --> 00:29:44,593
with the angels.

740
00:29:44,641 --> 00:29:46,881
The shouting of trumpet that
may have been going on.

741
00:29:46,985 --> 00:29:50,001
There's other passages, but
I'm trying to tell you God got our

742
00:29:50,025 --> 00:29:50,629
attention.

743
00:29:50,969 --> 00:29:52,529
And it was from Mount Olivet.

744
00:29:52,609 --> 00:29:55,025
It'd be more effective from a
mountain than a valley.

745
00:29:55,217 --> 00:29:57,393
He uses mountains all the time.

746
00:29:57,481 --> 00:30:00,749
God is so excited about
revealing himself to you.

747
00:30:01,049 --> 00:30:01,601
God is.

748
00:30:01,625 --> 00:30:04,269
So God put all this on for us.

749
00:30:05,209 --> 00:30:06,149
Amen.

750
00:30:07,059 --> 00:30:08,279
Think about that.

751
00:30:08,579 --> 00:30:09,759
What a God.

752
00:30:11,139 --> 00:30:12,939
He doesn't have a distant galaxy.

753
00:30:13,019 --> 00:30:13,883
This is it, folks.

754
00:30:13,931 --> 00:30:15,147
This is what he's doing.

755
00:30:15,283 --> 00:30:19,243
He didn't become God, Martian
and God, Venusian God, man.

756
00:30:19,411 --> 00:30:20,959
He became an earthling.

757
00:30:21,539 --> 00:30:23,067
He's coming back, too.

758
00:30:23,203 --> 00:30:25,239
Now go to Ephesians, Chapter two.

759
00:30:27,619 --> 00:30:29,947
I've got a few others that I
can tell the stories, but I can't

760
00:30:29,963 --> 00:30:31,559
tell them as quickly as these.

761
00:30:32,109 --> 00:30:36,449
July, July 1969.

762
00:30:39,469 --> 00:30:43,409
I was 10 years old, 10 and a half.

763
00:30:44,109 --> 00:30:46,849
And I walked on the moon that night.

764
00:30:49,549 --> 00:30:50,569
Don't leave.

765
00:30:51,629 --> 00:30:52,293
Don't leave.

766
00:30:52,341 --> 00:30:52,981
I'll explain.

767
00:30:53,045 --> 00:30:54,165
But I walked to the Moon.

768
00:30:54,277 --> 00:30:58,991
Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin
and Michael Collins circling the

769
00:30:59,015 --> 00:30:59,619
moon.

770
00:31:00,039 --> 00:31:01,999
That lunar thing came down.

771
00:31:02,039 --> 00:31:05,327
And by the way, if you know
the story, he had like 13 or 14 seconds

772
00:31:05,343 --> 00:31:06,459
of fuel left.

773
00:31:06,999 --> 00:31:08,415
They were a little bit off.

774
00:31:08,567 --> 00:31:09,775
First time to land on the moon.

775
00:31:09,807 --> 00:31:12,143
Neil Armstrong's piloting that
lunar module.

776
00:31:12,271 --> 00:31:15,167
And this is what Buzz Aldrin
tells us.

777
00:31:15,303 --> 00:31:16,399
And they're coming down.

778
00:31:16,439 --> 00:31:17,551
There's craters there.

779
00:31:17,655 --> 00:31:18,831
And he was bringing it in.

780
00:31:18,855 --> 00:31:21,711
He said, if Neil Armstrong had
not been such a good pilot, we would

781
00:31:21,735 --> 00:31:22,271
have crashed.

782
00:31:22,335 --> 00:31:25,077
He got them finally past these
craters, and he brought it down with

783
00:31:25,133 --> 00:31:27,569
13 and a half seconds of fuel left.

784
00:31:27,949 --> 00:31:29,557
If it's not 13, it's real close.

785
00:31:29,613 --> 00:31:30,421
15, 17.

786
00:31:30,525 --> 00:31:32,389
Okay, so just very little.

787
00:31:32,509 --> 00:31:34,549
They settled down, they got out.

788
00:31:34,669 --> 00:31:36,449
What did Neil Armstrong say?

789
00:31:37,149 --> 00:31:41,909
One small step for a man, one
giant step for mankind.

790
00:31:41,989 --> 00:31:43,089
You know what he's saying?

791
00:31:43,469 --> 00:31:45,009
It's not just me here.

792
00:31:46,349 --> 00:31:50,165
It's all those guys down there
in Houston, the people who built

793
00:31:50,197 --> 00:31:53,029
this rocket, the people who
guided us here.

794
00:31:53,489 --> 00:31:55,149
It's not just those guys.

795
00:31:55,489 --> 00:31:57,545
I'm here on behalf of America.

796
00:31:57,737 --> 00:32:00,041
I'm not just here on behalf of America.

797
00:32:00,185 --> 00:32:01,913
I'm here on behalf of mankind.

798
00:32:01,961 --> 00:32:02,749
Amen.

799
00:32:03,409 --> 00:32:07,829
In a sense, what he was
saying, you're up here with me.

800
00:32:09,489 --> 00:32:10,429
Amen.

801
00:32:10,769 --> 00:32:13,869
So I didn't literally walk on
the moon, but I did representatively.

802
00:32:14,369 --> 00:32:16,029
You get the picture?

803
00:32:16,459 --> 00:32:19,399
I know somebody that went
further than the moon.

804
00:32:20,859 --> 00:32:23,039
I know somebody that left our
solar system.

805
00:32:23,579 --> 00:32:25,639
I know somebody left our galaxy.

806
00:32:26,299 --> 00:32:28,359
I know the guy that made the galaxy.

807
00:32:29,019 --> 00:32:30,159
Do you know him?

808
00:32:30,859 --> 00:32:32,759
I know the guy that made the universe.

809
00:32:33,499 --> 00:32:36,519
And though the universe can't
contain him, he's outside the universe.

810
00:32:37,579 --> 00:32:42,537
I know a man who went to the
right hand of God.

811
00:32:42,603 --> 00:32:43,249
God.

812
00:32:48,309 --> 00:32:49,613
And there's a chair.

813
00:32:49,781 --> 00:32:51,069
The Father's in one chair.

814
00:32:51,109 --> 00:32:51,613
Ask Stephen.

815
00:32:51,661 --> 00:32:54,329
Stephen saw Jesus standing on
the Father's right hand.

816
00:32:56,149 --> 00:32:58,289
Why do you think that's in the
Book of Acts?

817
00:32:58,629 --> 00:33:02,429
In Acts, chapter seven,
Stephen is preaching.

818
00:33:02,509 --> 00:33:04,061
Boy, did he preach a sermon.

819
00:33:04,205 --> 00:33:05,613
And he's stoned to death.

820
00:33:05,701 --> 00:33:08,669
And while he's dying, he sees
Jesus standing at the Father's right

821
00:33:08,709 --> 00:33:09,289
hand.

822
00:33:09,789 --> 00:33:11,529
That tells me he ascended.

823
00:33:12,909 --> 00:33:13,653
Start reading.

824
00:33:13,701 --> 00:33:15,509
And look at these guys.

825
00:33:15,589 --> 00:33:17,205
You know what Luke's key word was?

826
00:33:17,277 --> 00:33:20,277
Those things, these things,
those things, these things he keeps

827
00:33:20,293 --> 00:33:23,845
telling you things that prove
Christianity is true.

828
00:33:24,037 --> 00:33:25,765
That's the key words in Luke.

829
00:33:25,877 --> 00:33:28,245
And he is hammering the
resurrection ascension.

830
00:33:28,277 --> 00:33:30,757
I told you a couple days ago,
we can't turn there tonight.

831
00:33:30,853 --> 00:33:32,005
But go home and look at.

832
00:33:32,077 --> 00:33:32,661
Don't do it now.

833
00:33:32,685 --> 00:33:33,333
Don't do it now.

834
00:33:33,421 --> 00:33:34,529
Acts 3, 17.

835
00:33:34,919 --> 00:33:36,079
I'll do it If I want.

836
00:33:36,119 --> 00:33:37,023
Okay, if you want to.

837
00:33:37,111 --> 00:33:41,935
But Acts 3:17, it says, Talk
about Jesus, whom the heavens must

838
00:33:42,007 --> 00:33:42,739
receive.

839
00:33:43,639 --> 00:33:48,499
He said, well, he's God, yes,
but he's a member of the human race.

840
00:33:48,999 --> 00:33:52,259
If you're saved tonight, he is
your high priest.

841
00:33:52,919 --> 00:33:54,735
He's my high priest.

842
00:33:54,927 --> 00:33:56,779
He's there for us.

843
00:33:57,159 --> 00:34:02,121
He came down here so we could
go to be with him up there.

844
00:34:02,305 --> 00:34:04,297
Now, look at Ephesians,
chapter 2.

845
00:34:04,433 --> 00:34:05,789
Look at this passage.

846
00:34:06,529 --> 00:34:07,481
Boy, I tell you what.

847
00:34:07,505 --> 00:34:09,989
You open the Bible, where do
you start and where do you stop?

848
00:34:10,529 --> 00:34:11,909
Look at verse four.

849
00:34:13,089 --> 00:34:18,073
But God, who is rich in mercy,
not making you pay what you owe,

850
00:34:18,201 --> 00:34:19,929
not requiring the payment that
you're due.

851
00:34:19,969 --> 00:34:20,169
Why?

852
00:34:20,209 --> 00:34:21,945
Because Christ took the
payment for you.

853
00:34:22,097 --> 00:34:23,269
He paid it.

854
00:34:24,369 --> 00:34:27,401
But God, who is rich in mercy
for his great love, wherewith he

855
00:34:27,425 --> 00:34:28,229
loved us.

856
00:34:28,559 --> 00:34:29,383
See that word?

857
00:34:29,431 --> 00:34:30,135
Loved us.

858
00:34:30,207 --> 00:34:31,383
Put your name there.

859
00:34:31,551 --> 00:34:32,459
Loved.

860
00:34:32,799 --> 00:34:34,019
Put your name there.

861
00:34:40,159 --> 00:34:45,255
Even when we were dead,
separated from God, dead in sins,

862
00:34:45,367 --> 00:34:49,415
hath quickened us together
with Christ by grace.

863
00:34:49,447 --> 00:34:56,399
Are you saved and hath raised
us up together.

864
00:34:56,779 --> 00:34:57,203
Wow.

865
00:34:57,251 --> 00:34:58,531
There's a resurrection.

866
00:34:58,675 --> 00:34:59,399
Whew.

867
00:35:00,539 --> 00:35:03,587
When he's walking the streets
of Jerusalem for 33 and a half years,

868
00:35:03,643 --> 00:35:06,147
I was walking the streets of Jerusalem.

869
00:35:06,323 --> 00:35:07,159
Amen.

870
00:35:07,979 --> 00:35:09,651
In the womb, he represented me.

871
00:35:09,675 --> 00:35:13,091
He represented you in the
womb, he represented you for 33 and

872
00:35:13,115 --> 00:35:14,099
a half years, keeping the law.

873
00:35:14,139 --> 00:35:14,979
That's what we were talking about.

874
00:35:15,019 --> 00:35:19,759
Sunday, when they put him on
the cross, he was there for us.

875
00:35:22,288 --> 00:35:25,256
Have you ever heard the song I
saw one hanging on a tree in agony

876
00:35:25,272 --> 00:35:26,028
and blood.

877
00:35:26,528 --> 00:35:28,228
John Newton wrote that one.

878
00:35:28,688 --> 00:35:30,792
He talks about how he's
watching this guy being crucified

879
00:35:30,840 --> 00:35:33,268
and he begins to realize he's
up there for him.

880
00:35:33,728 --> 00:35:36,440
And the whole countenance of
Jesus changes when he's looking at

881
00:35:36,464 --> 00:35:36,600
him.

882
00:35:36,624 --> 00:35:37,592
He realizes that.

883
00:35:37,680 --> 00:35:39,508
He realizes it's for him.

884
00:35:40,048 --> 00:35:42,808
And once he realized it for
him, he was ready to get saved.

885
00:35:42,888 --> 00:35:43,368
Powerful.

886
00:35:43,448 --> 00:35:45,868
Maybe in your hymnal, I saw
one hanging on a tree.

887
00:35:47,019 --> 00:35:50,919
And when they put him in the
grave, I was in the grave.

888
00:35:52,219 --> 00:35:55,639
And when he raised from the
dead, I was raised from the dead.

889
00:35:56,699 --> 00:35:58,759
It'd be neat if we had an ordinance.

890
00:35:59,419 --> 00:36:03,363
If we had an ordinance that we
could do in our churches that illustrate

891
00:36:03,411 --> 00:36:08,899
that when James Stone got
saved, it was just as though he was

892
00:36:08,939 --> 00:36:09,587
on the cross.

893
00:36:09,683 --> 00:36:11,901
Just as though he died this.

894
00:36:11,925 --> 00:36:13,213
As though he was raised from
the dead.

895
00:36:13,261 --> 00:36:15,449
Wouldn't that be so if we had
an ordinance like that?

896
00:36:16,469 --> 00:36:17,405
We do.

897
00:36:17,557 --> 00:36:18,849
It's called baptism.

898
00:36:19,749 --> 00:36:21,229
It's a picture of the Gospel.

899
00:36:21,309 --> 00:36:22,109
Amen.

900
00:36:22,269 --> 00:36:23,517
What a picture.

901
00:36:23,693 --> 00:36:24,893
But keep reading.

902
00:36:25,021 --> 00:36:26,929
It doesn't stop at the resurrection.

903
00:36:27,349 --> 00:36:28,349
Look what it says here.

904
00:36:28,389 --> 00:36:31,449
Raised us up together and made
us sit where?

905
00:36:32,309 --> 00:36:33,613
In heavenly places.

906
00:36:33,661 --> 00:36:35,005
In Christ Jesus.

907
00:36:35,197 --> 00:36:37,453
I told you the other night,
the reason you go to heaven when

908
00:36:37,461 --> 00:36:38,889
you die, because you're
already there.

909
00:36:40,189 --> 00:36:41,413
That's your home.

910
00:36:41,581 --> 00:36:44,249
Philippians says our
conversation's in heaven.

911
00:36:46,829 --> 00:36:49,381
You turn on the TV set
tonight, you go home, you turn on

912
00:36:49,405 --> 00:36:53,125
for just a few minutes just to
make sure that Ukraine and Russia

913
00:36:53,157 --> 00:36:54,101
are staying calm.

914
00:36:54,245 --> 00:36:54,837
Okay?

915
00:36:54,933 --> 00:36:55,525
I don't know, whatever.

916
00:36:55,557 --> 00:37:00,389
You turn on for a minute and
you see James Stone sitting beside

917
00:37:00,469 --> 00:37:02,293
Donald Trump in the White House.

918
00:37:02,381 --> 00:37:04,661
And they're laughing it up,
they're shaking hands, they're having

919
00:37:04,685 --> 00:37:05,109
a great time.

920
00:37:05,149 --> 00:37:10,919
You go, wow, James, he knows
Donald Trump.

921
00:37:11,619 --> 00:37:14,811
And then the camera turns and
Donald Trump says, I want you to

922
00:37:14,835 --> 00:37:16,919
meet my good friend James
Stone right here.

923
00:37:17,299 --> 00:37:17,835
Alright?

924
00:37:17,867 --> 00:37:18,667
Amen.

925
00:37:18,843 --> 00:37:20,171
I want you to meet him.

926
00:37:20,195 --> 00:37:23,799
You say, wow, he's on our
church staff.

927
00:37:24,739 --> 00:37:28,639
And he says, brother Stone's
invited me to come visit his church.

928
00:37:29,699 --> 00:37:30,651
Some of you may not come.

929
00:37:30,675 --> 00:37:31,451
A lot of you want to be here.

930
00:37:31,475 --> 00:37:31,867
I don't know.

931
00:37:31,923 --> 00:37:32,559
Okay.

932
00:37:32,879 --> 00:37:36,739
That is nothing compared to
what I'm talking about.

933
00:37:39,679 --> 00:37:40,459
Wow.

934
00:37:41,519 --> 00:37:42,663
He sat down.

935
00:37:42,751 --> 00:37:43,463
Amen.

936
00:37:43,591 --> 00:37:46,855
There was no place for the
priest to sit down in the temple

937
00:37:46,887 --> 00:37:49,047
or the tabernacle because his
work was never done.

938
00:37:49,103 --> 00:37:54,007
But this man, after he'd
offered one sacrifice for sins, sat

939
00:37:54,103 --> 00:37:59,529
down and he got up for
Stephen, but he stayed there.

940
00:38:00,229 --> 00:38:04,269
Tonight, tomorrow, next week,
next month, next year, 10 years from

941
00:38:04,309 --> 00:38:06,205
now, he's coming back.

942
00:38:06,357 --> 00:38:08,077
Quickly, quickly.

943
00:38:08,173 --> 00:38:09,005
Don't do it slowly.

944
00:38:09,037 --> 00:38:09,869
We haven't got time.

945
00:38:09,909 --> 00:38:10,429
Okay.

946
00:38:10,509 --> 00:38:12,141
Brother Crawford gives me
plenty of time.

947
00:38:12,165 --> 00:38:15,181
I don't mean in any way to
come across any other way.

948
00:38:15,285 --> 00:38:16,461
Just kind of having fun with you.

949
00:38:16,485 --> 00:38:18,253
It's better than telling a
good three minute joke.

950
00:38:18,301 --> 00:38:20,969
Okay, go to Zechariah, chapter 14.

951
00:38:21,269 --> 00:38:22,701
Now, we're just touching on that.

952
00:38:22,725 --> 00:38:25,631
I gave you a bunch of passages
here, and if you want to go back

953
00:38:25,655 --> 00:38:27,823
and read those, it'll be more
clear to you.

954
00:38:27,911 --> 00:38:31,151
And your pastor's got several
articles here, alright?

955
00:38:31,295 --> 00:38:34,191
And it talks to you about why
the ascension is so important.

956
00:38:34,375 --> 00:38:36,879
Colossians 1, Ephesians
chapter 1.

957
00:38:36,919 --> 00:38:39,631
And he knows this stuff he can
share with you when he feels led

958
00:38:39,655 --> 00:38:41,407
to do it in later sermons and messages.

959
00:38:41,503 --> 00:38:43,871
That's kind of why we
connected on this, because what your

960
00:38:43,895 --> 00:38:47,823
theme is this year, and it
starts in Genesis and it goes all

961
00:38:47,831 --> 00:38:50,399
the way to Revelation, so he
can address this.

962
00:38:50,439 --> 00:38:53,409
Go to Zechariah, almost the
last book of the Old Testament, when

963
00:38:53,449 --> 00:38:54,829
Christ comes back.

964
00:38:55,289 --> 00:38:57,601
Now, you think what I shared
with you there was striking.

965
00:38:57,665 --> 00:38:58,209
This is what R.

966
00:38:58,249 --> 00:38:59,601
Wilson was sharing with me.

967
00:38:59,705 --> 00:39:02,189
When he shared this, you know
what I did?

968
00:39:03,449 --> 00:39:05,469
I did the Berean thing.

969
00:39:05,849 --> 00:39:10,337
I went and I got my
concordance out and stuff and I started

970
00:39:10,393 --> 00:39:12,749
checking this out, what he was saying.

971
00:39:14,409 --> 00:39:16,909
But I started reading other
guys just to make sure.

972
00:39:18,739 --> 00:39:20,155
Zechariah, chapter 14.

973
00:39:20,227 --> 00:39:21,051
Look at your notes there.

974
00:39:21,075 --> 00:39:23,439
I'm on the third panel down at
the bottom.

975
00:39:24,099 --> 00:39:25,771
The mountain of purification.

976
00:39:25,835 --> 00:39:27,067
When Christ comes back.

977
00:39:27,123 --> 00:39:28,907
Let's get the big picture.

978
00:39:29,083 --> 00:39:30,315
The Rapture happens tonight.

979
00:39:30,347 --> 00:39:31,451
I don't know when it's going
to happen.

980
00:39:31,555 --> 00:39:33,051
It may happen next month, who knows?

981
00:39:33,115 --> 00:39:35,931
But when the Rapture happens,
all the saved of the church are out

982
00:39:35,955 --> 00:39:36,459
of here.

983
00:39:36,579 --> 00:39:37,915
You won't even have time to think.

984
00:39:37,987 --> 00:39:39,279
Did I hear a trumpet?

985
00:39:39,619 --> 00:39:41,643
No, it'll be you're gone.

986
00:39:41,691 --> 00:39:42,635
Graves open up.

987
00:39:42,707 --> 00:39:45,621
We're out of here to be absent
in the body, to be present with the

988
00:39:45,645 --> 00:39:46,277
Lord.

989
00:39:46,453 --> 00:39:48,389
And our loved ones are going
to come back with us.

990
00:39:48,429 --> 00:39:49,989
You're going to see your loved ones.

991
00:39:50,149 --> 00:39:50,837
Amen.

992
00:39:50,933 --> 00:39:52,689
What a time that's going to be.

993
00:39:53,949 --> 00:39:58,549
By the way, we have 6,000
years record of Christ keeping his

994
00:39:58,589 --> 00:39:58,805
word.

995
00:39:58,837 --> 00:39:59,765
Let not your heart be troubled.

996
00:39:59,797 --> 00:40:01,649
You believe in God, believe
also in me.

997
00:40:01,949 --> 00:40:03,781
In my Father's house there are
many mansions.

998
00:40:03,845 --> 00:40:06,741
I go to prepare a place for
you that where I am, there you may

999
00:40:06,765 --> 00:40:07,333
be also.

1000
00:40:07,421 --> 00:40:09,301
And he goes on to say, if I
told you it was going to happen,

1001
00:40:09,325 --> 00:40:10,209
it's going to happen.

1002
00:40:10,999 --> 00:40:11,939
Amen.

1003
00:40:16,599 --> 00:40:21,139
Wow, do we have a future man alive.

1004
00:40:21,879 --> 00:40:26,287
Alright, look at when he comes
back, he's going to land on the Mount

1005
00:40:26,303 --> 00:40:27,215
of Olives.

1006
00:40:27,407 --> 00:40:29,327
Zechariah, chapter 12:14.

1007
00:40:29,463 --> 00:40:31,979
And it's going to split in half.

1008
00:40:32,999 --> 00:40:35,295
And a fountain of cleansing is
going to be opened up.

1009
00:40:35,367 --> 00:40:37,673
What water's going to run down
to the Dead Sea.

1010
00:40:37,721 --> 00:40:38,825
It won't be dead anymore.

1011
00:40:38,857 --> 00:40:41,369
It's going to open up in the
bottom of it, the south part of it.

1012
00:40:41,489 --> 00:40:43,909
And that place is going to
come to life.

1013
00:40:45,009 --> 00:40:47,589
And Israel's going to
recognize him.

1014
00:40:48,449 --> 00:40:51,113
And boy, there's a whole lot
going on.

1015
00:40:51,201 --> 00:40:53,657
He's going to still have the
scars in his hands.

1016
00:40:53,753 --> 00:40:55,417
You ever heard of Stars and Stripes?

1017
00:40:55,513 --> 00:40:59,709
There's an old quartet song
called Scars and Stripes.

1018
00:41:01,179 --> 00:41:04,003
After the resurrection he
said, put your hand in my side where

1019
00:41:04,011 --> 00:41:05,123
they stuck that spear in.

1020
00:41:05,211 --> 00:41:06,563
See my hands, see my feet?

1021
00:41:06,611 --> 00:41:07,395
It's me.

1022
00:41:07,547 --> 00:41:10,679
Then he started eating to
prove one of the proofs he was resurrected.

1023
00:41:12,539 --> 00:41:17,059
But before he lands on the
Mount of Olives, he's going to tread

1024
00:41:17,139 --> 00:41:20,119
out the vintage where the
grapes of wrath are stored.

1025
00:41:24,219 --> 00:41:26,739
Now I called your attention to
Zechariah 12.

1026
00:41:26,779 --> 00:41:27,715
Look at your notes.

1027
00:41:27,827 --> 00:41:30,643
And look at your wording here
for the sake of time.

1028
00:41:30,811 --> 00:41:34,707
On the bottom of page three,
that third panel.

1029
00:41:34,883 --> 00:41:37,283
Behold, the day of the Lord cometh.

1030
00:41:37,411 --> 00:41:39,395
I will gather all nations
against Jerusalem.

1031
00:41:39,427 --> 00:41:42,083
The battle and the city shall
be taken, and the house is rifled.

1032
00:41:42,131 --> 00:41:45,571
Then shall the Lord go forth
and fight against those nations as

1033
00:41:45,595 --> 00:41:47,875
when he fought in the day of
battle, Old Testament days.

1034
00:41:47,947 --> 00:41:50,483
His feet shall stand in that
day upon the Mount of Olives.

1035
00:41:50,531 --> 00:41:51,891
You got a picture on the front?

1036
00:41:51,995 --> 00:41:52,611
I've been there.

1037
00:41:52,635 --> 00:41:57,565
I've been on the Mount of
Olives, which is before Jerusalem

1038
00:41:57,597 --> 00:41:58,045
on the east.

1039
00:41:58,077 --> 00:42:00,797
And the Mount of Olives shall
cleave in the midst thereof toward

1040
00:42:00,813 --> 00:42:02,093
the east and toward the west.

1041
00:42:02,181 --> 00:42:04,369
And there shall be a very
great valley.

1042
00:42:04,949 --> 00:42:07,661
And half of the mountain shall
be moved toward the north.

1043
00:42:07,765 --> 00:42:10,093
And the half of it shall be
moved toward the south.

1044
00:42:10,181 --> 00:42:11,469
And it shall be in that day.

1045
00:42:11,509 --> 00:42:14,769
We're jumping through this
passage that living waters.

1046
00:42:15,669 --> 00:42:17,969
By the way, who's a fountain
of living waters?

1047
00:42:18,549 --> 00:42:20,733
Christ himself, as we told the
warmth of the well.

1048
00:42:20,821 --> 00:42:24,195
That's what you see In John,
chapter 7, verses 37 through 39,

1049
00:42:24,317 --> 00:42:25,303
when you got saved.

1050
00:42:25,351 --> 00:42:27,719
The Holy Spirit is like a well
of water that comes inside of you.

1051
00:42:27,759 --> 00:42:30,343
An artesian well shall go out
from Jerusalem.

1052
00:42:30,391 --> 00:42:32,631
Half of them toward the former
sea, the Dead Sea, and half of them

1053
00:42:32,655 --> 00:42:34,631
toward the Hydro Sea, the
Mediterranean Sea.

1054
00:42:34,695 --> 00:42:36,743
And the Lord shall be king
over all the earth.

1055
00:42:36,791 --> 00:42:40,019
And that day there shall be
one Lord, and His name, 1.

1056
00:42:40,639 --> 00:42:43,575
The waters continually
springing up are an outward expression

1057
00:42:43,607 --> 00:42:46,039
of what the New Testament
brings on inwardly in the person

1058
00:42:46,079 --> 00:42:48,807
of the Holy Spirit and the
power and cleansing of the Holy Spirit's

1059
00:42:48,823 --> 00:42:49,499
ministry.

1060
00:42:50,329 --> 00:42:53,121
Titus says, we have the
washing of regeneration with the

1061
00:42:53,145 --> 00:42:53,345
Word.

1062
00:42:53,377 --> 00:42:55,569
I mean, it's just amazing
stuff going on here.

1063
00:42:55,689 --> 00:42:58,449
But here's what I want you to
see, what I want you to think about.

1064
00:42:58,569 --> 00:43:03,665
If you go back a little bit in
that section there and you'll look

1065
00:43:03,817 --> 00:43:06,417
those passages above about the Ascension.

1066
00:43:06,513 --> 00:43:07,985
Then you come down here.

1067
00:43:08,137 --> 00:43:10,109
Guess what goes on here.

1068
00:43:10,409 --> 00:43:12,065
And I did stick them in here somewhere.

1069
00:43:12,097 --> 00:43:13,869
Let me make sure where I put them.

1070
00:43:14,249 --> 00:43:15,869
I thought I put them in here.

1071
00:43:18,159 --> 00:43:20,295
I could have swore I put them
in here.

1072
00:43:20,447 --> 00:43:21,939
Let me look real quick.

1073
00:43:23,679 --> 00:43:27,047
Well, I'm going to rework this
one and send it to you.

1074
00:43:27,103 --> 00:43:28,659
Guess what's going on here?

1075
00:43:29,039 --> 00:43:29,863
They may be in there.

1076
00:43:29,871 --> 00:43:31,527
I'm just trying to hurry.

1077
00:43:31,703 --> 00:43:35,559
The Bible says in the Psalms,
go to Psalm 60.

1078
00:43:35,599 --> 00:43:36,391
We'll just peek out there.

1079
00:43:36,415 --> 00:43:37,159
Go to Psalm 60.

1080
00:43:37,199 --> 00:43:39,779
I know it's in there, so why
am I not seeing this?

1081
00:43:41,289 --> 00:43:42,465
Go to Psalm 60.

1082
00:43:42,537 --> 00:43:43,041
Yeah, it is.

1083
00:43:43,065 --> 00:43:43,505
I'm sorry.

1084
00:43:43,537 --> 00:43:45,057
Yeah, Just above there.

1085
00:43:45,193 --> 00:43:45,585
Okay.

1086
00:43:45,617 --> 00:43:47,409
The third panel, just above
point two.

1087
00:43:47,449 --> 00:43:48,465
Camping on the mountain.

1088
00:43:48,577 --> 00:43:49,937
Go to Psalm 60.

1089
00:43:50,073 --> 00:43:54,229
Before he lands on the Mount
of Olives.

1090
00:43:55,529 --> 00:44:00,097
There is a bunch of Jews
hiding out in Petra, Mount Seir.

1091
00:44:00,193 --> 00:44:02,193
If you've ever been there,
you'll see how it can happen.

1092
00:44:02,281 --> 00:44:04,189
I was there with a lot of
other people.

1093
00:44:05,049 --> 00:44:06,225
I can tell you a lot of stories.

1094
00:44:06,257 --> 00:44:08,545
We had a man in there that
didn't believe in the pre tribulational

1095
00:44:08,577 --> 00:44:10,721
rapture, believe the
premillennial turn.

1096
00:44:10,825 --> 00:44:13,329
He was of another doctrinal
persuasion, a Christian.

1097
00:44:13,409 --> 00:44:14,897
And he says, you know what, guys?

1098
00:44:14,993 --> 00:44:16,065
He's a pastor.

1099
00:44:16,177 --> 00:44:16,849
You walk around.

1100
00:44:16,889 --> 00:44:20,657
He says, being here and
knowing what you pre millennialists

1101
00:44:20,673 --> 00:44:24,353
and pre tribulationists
believe, it almost convinces me you

1102
00:44:24,361 --> 00:44:25,057
guys might be right.

1103
00:44:25,113 --> 00:44:26,305
You go down through this tunnel.

1104
00:44:26,337 --> 00:44:27,665
There's rocks on either side
of you.

1105
00:44:27,737 --> 00:44:29,281
Brother Cox, you been there?

1106
00:44:29,465 --> 00:44:30,817
You go down through this thing.

1107
00:44:30,873 --> 00:44:32,417
Brother Crawford, you've been
there, haven't you?

1108
00:44:32,473 --> 00:44:34,177
Do you go to Mount Seir and
Stu Petra.

1109
00:44:34,273 --> 00:44:36,289
You go down through there and
you can see the devil.

1110
00:44:36,369 --> 00:44:40,391
Revelation 13 tries to drown
the remnant, and God sends them there

1111
00:44:40,415 --> 00:44:41,799
and protects them and feeds
them with men.

1112
00:44:41,839 --> 00:44:45,815
In the last half of the
tribulation, the Antichrist shows

1113
00:44:45,847 --> 00:44:46,791
who he really is.

1114
00:44:46,895 --> 00:44:50,887
He begins to declare war on
Jerusalem and the Jews, and they're

1115
00:44:50,903 --> 00:44:53,219
going to face a holocaust like
they've never seen before.

1116
00:44:53,679 --> 00:44:54,551
And they flee.

1117
00:44:54,615 --> 00:44:58,007
The believing remnant flees
into this place called Petra Mount

1118
00:44:58,023 --> 00:44:59,879
Seir, and God hides them out there.

1119
00:44:59,919 --> 00:45:02,855
Revelation 13 is going to take
care of them, feed them like manna.

1120
00:45:03,047 --> 00:45:06,423
And the song of Moses, Exodus
15 is all involved in this, is in

1121
00:45:06,431 --> 00:45:07,179
your Bible.

1122
00:45:08,029 --> 00:45:09,829
And Christ is protecting them there.

1123
00:45:09,869 --> 00:45:10,569
Okay?

1124
00:45:11,229 --> 00:45:16,709
When he comes back, he stops
by there, gathers them up, he says,

1125
00:45:16,749 --> 00:45:17,685
look at Psalm 60.

1126
00:45:17,757 --> 00:45:19,009
Look what it says here.

1127
00:45:20,189 --> 00:45:21,029
Look at verse one.

1128
00:45:21,069 --> 00:45:22,485
O God, thou hast cast off.

1129
00:45:22,557 --> 00:45:23,829
Thou hast scattered us.

1130
00:45:23,869 --> 00:45:24,853
Thou hast been displeased.

1131
00:45:24,901 --> 00:45:26,373
O turn thyself to us again.

1132
00:45:26,461 --> 00:45:27,813
Thou hast made the earth to tremble.

1133
00:45:27,861 --> 00:45:30,837
Thou hast broken it, healed
the breaches thereof, for it shaketh.

1134
00:45:31,013 --> 00:45:32,709
Thou hast showed thy people
hard things.

1135
00:45:32,749 --> 00:45:34,853
Thou hast made us to drink the
wine of astonishment.

1136
00:45:34,901 --> 00:45:37,173
Thou hast given a better to
them that fear thee, that it may

1137
00:45:37,181 --> 00:45:40,793
be displayed because of the tr
Truth Selah, that thy beloved may

1138
00:45:40,801 --> 00:45:41,481
be delivered.

1139
00:45:41,545 --> 00:45:43,305
Say with thy right hand and
hear me.

1140
00:45:43,377 --> 00:45:44,729
God has spoken in holiness.

1141
00:45:44,809 --> 00:45:45,433
I will rejoice.

1142
00:45:45,481 --> 00:45:48,457
I will divide Shechem and meet
out the valley of Succoth.

1143
00:45:48,553 --> 00:45:49,417
Gilead is mine.

1144
00:45:49,433 --> 00:45:50,297
Manasseh is mine.

1145
00:45:50,313 --> 00:45:51,945
Ephraim also is the strength
of my head.

1146
00:45:52,017 --> 00:45:53,177
Judah is my lawgiver.

1147
00:45:53,273 --> 00:45:55,497
Moab is my wash pot.

1148
00:45:55,633 --> 00:45:57,909
When you tread out grapes,
what do you do?

1149
00:45:59,089 --> 00:46:01,609
You take your shoes off and
you sit there and you walk around

1150
00:46:01,649 --> 00:46:04,829
in that vat and you walk and
you walk and you're treading out

1151
00:46:04,929 --> 00:46:05,861
the grapes.

1152
00:46:06,005 --> 00:46:08,197
Revelation says the grapes of
wrath are stored.

1153
00:46:08,293 --> 00:46:09,769
It's a word picture.

1154
00:46:10,909 --> 00:46:13,125
Now, you wash it before you
get in there, and you wash them afterwards

1155
00:46:13,157 --> 00:46:14,453
because they're all stained
and so forth.

1156
00:46:14,501 --> 00:46:16,389
Keep reading over Moab.

1157
00:46:16,549 --> 00:46:20,729
That's modern day Middle
Jordan, Ammon, Moab and Edom.

1158
00:46:22,189 --> 00:46:24,369
And then it says, look what it
says here.

1159
00:46:25,389 --> 00:46:27,209
Who will lead me into Edom?

1160
00:46:28,349 --> 00:46:30,165
Moab, my wash up over Edom.

1161
00:46:30,197 --> 00:46:30,501
Verse 8.

1162
00:46:30,525 --> 00:46:31,781
I will cast off my shoe.

1163
00:46:31,845 --> 00:46:32,821
Why do you take your shoes off?

1164
00:46:32,845 --> 00:46:34,327
To tread out the grapes of wrath.

1165
00:46:34,493 --> 00:46:35,923
Now, this is just one reference.

1166
00:46:35,971 --> 00:46:38,003
There's Psalm 108, okay?

1167
00:46:38,051 --> 00:46:39,059
And several others.

1168
00:46:39,179 --> 00:46:42,675
And when he ends up when he
lands on the Mount of Olives, he's

1169
00:46:42,707 --> 00:46:43,959
already been in battle.

1170
00:46:44,779 --> 00:46:47,907
He's already judged and done
some horrible things, and there's

1171
00:46:47,923 --> 00:46:48,879
blood on him.

1172
00:46:49,339 --> 00:46:51,843
Revelation has him coming in
on a white horse.

1173
00:46:51,971 --> 00:46:53,479
It is dramatic.

1174
00:46:55,099 --> 00:46:58,403
He lands on the Mount of
Olives, and the battle of Armageddon

1175
00:46:58,451 --> 00:46:59,239
begins.

1176
00:46:59,829 --> 00:47:03,129
And he destroys the Antichrist
with the brightness of his coming.

1177
00:47:03,429 --> 00:47:05,249
It is amazing.

1178
00:47:06,149 --> 00:47:09,293
He ascended from the Mount of
Olives, he's coming back from the

1179
00:47:09,301 --> 00:47:10,289
Mount of Olives.

1180
00:47:11,029 --> 00:47:14,205
There's no way that you can do
this just without several sermons

1181
00:47:14,237 --> 00:47:15,309
and stuff and lay this out.

1182
00:47:15,349 --> 00:47:18,209
Go back and read these
references in Isaiah.

1183
00:47:18,949 --> 00:47:21,229
We got time to peek at Isaiah 63.

1184
00:47:21,269 --> 00:47:22,477
Go there real quick.

1185
00:47:22,613 --> 00:47:24,169
Isaiah 63.

1186
00:47:25,119 --> 00:47:28,999
You know, you sit here and you
try to describe this, and it's just

1187
00:47:29,039 --> 00:47:29,831
unfathomable.

1188
00:47:29,895 --> 00:47:31,639
You cannot totally grasp it.

1189
00:47:31,759 --> 00:47:34,007
Look at verse one of chapter 63.

1190
00:47:34,063 --> 00:47:38,939
Who is he that cometh from
Edom with dyed garments from Bozrah?

1191
00:47:40,479 --> 00:47:45,095
This is that is glorious in
his apparel, traveling in the greatness

1192
00:47:45,127 --> 00:47:46,183
of his strength.

1193
00:47:46,311 --> 00:47:48,503
I that speak in righteous
mighty to save.

1194
00:47:48,551 --> 00:47:52,221
Wherefore art thou red in
thine apparel and thy garments like

1195
00:47:52,245 --> 00:47:54,381
him that treadeth in the wine fat.

1196
00:47:54,445 --> 00:47:56,349
This goes into Revelation, etc.

1197
00:47:56,429 --> 00:47:59,661
I have trodden the winepress
alone, and of the people there was

1198
00:47:59,685 --> 00:48:00,445
none with me.

1199
00:48:00,517 --> 00:48:04,221
For I will tread them in mine
anger and trample them in my fury,

1200
00:48:04,285 --> 00:48:07,021
and their blood shall be
sprinkled upon my garments, and I

1201
00:48:07,045 --> 00:48:08,509
will stain all my remnants.

1202
00:48:08,589 --> 00:48:10,409
Several of the passages have it.

1203
00:48:11,189 --> 00:48:15,325
Man, it is an amazing battle
that takes place.

1204
00:48:15,397 --> 00:48:18,633
All the nations of the world
turn on him.

1205
00:48:18,721 --> 00:48:20,429
You say, what about America?

1206
00:48:21,729 --> 00:48:25,737
America will not be the
America you know, right now, 30 seconds

1207
00:48:25,753 --> 00:48:31,417
after the Rapture, as soon as
the Rapture takes place, there's

1208
00:48:31,433 --> 00:48:33,229
nobody left on the earth
that's saved.

1209
00:48:34,369 --> 00:48:37,065
Now, people get saved during
the Tribulation, but there's nobody

1210
00:48:37,097 --> 00:48:37,625
left.

1211
00:48:37,777 --> 00:48:40,153
The Antichrist comes in and
sets up a false peace.

1212
00:48:40,201 --> 00:48:42,069
Look what's going on in the
Middle east right now.

1213
00:48:43,179 --> 00:48:46,439
Donald Trump is sincere, and
why shouldn't he work for peace?

1214
00:48:47,019 --> 00:48:49,459
I mean, why should they have
worked out peace deals before?

1215
00:48:49,499 --> 00:48:50,679
They wouldn't have survived.

1216
00:48:51,339 --> 00:48:52,243
I don't know.

1217
00:48:52,331 --> 00:48:53,363
Does Abraham accord?

1218
00:48:53,451 --> 00:48:54,915
Who knows what's going to
happen out of this?

1219
00:48:54,987 --> 00:48:58,099
He may be totally innocent and
this thing may take off very well.

1220
00:48:58,139 --> 00:48:59,971
But then somebody will step
into that.

1221
00:49:00,155 --> 00:49:02,611
Maybe after his presidency is
over, somebody else comes in and

1222
00:49:02,635 --> 00:49:03,619
takes credit for more things.

1223
00:49:03,659 --> 00:49:04,479
I don't know.

1224
00:49:05,019 --> 00:49:08,643
But Israel is the size of
Rhode island and every president

1225
00:49:08,731 --> 00:49:09,935
has to deal with it.

1226
00:49:10,107 --> 00:49:11,735
They're talking about, what
are you going to do with Gaza.

1227
00:49:11,767 --> 00:49:14,055
You go back and read your
Bible, and things have to change

1228
00:49:14,127 --> 00:49:15,975
over there for these prophets
to be fulfilled.

1229
00:49:16,007 --> 00:49:18,871
And in your lifetime, things
are happening right now over there

1230
00:49:18,975 --> 00:49:22,695
that haven't happened for
2,000 years.

1231
00:49:22,767 --> 00:49:23,927
They've been run out of their country.

1232
00:49:23,983 --> 00:49:25,459
They're back in their land.

1233
00:49:26,399 --> 00:49:28,419
They're a sovereign nation again.

1234
00:49:28,719 --> 00:49:30,455
You saw the 70th anniversary.

1235
00:49:30,487 --> 00:49:31,719
Jerusalem became their capital.

1236
00:49:31,839 --> 00:49:36,939
We are living on the threshold
of things that are absolutely astounding.

1237
00:49:40,559 --> 00:49:46,103
This little lowly baby, this
little lowly Jesus, he comes back.

1238
00:49:46,271 --> 00:49:47,879
Read about him on that white horse.

1239
00:49:47,959 --> 00:49:48,979
Chapter 19.

1240
00:49:49,599 --> 00:49:50,379
Wow.

1241
00:49:51,199 --> 00:49:53,719
And he's coming back to the
Mount of Olives, and we're coming

1242
00:49:53,759 --> 00:49:54,659
back with him.

1243
00:49:55,199 --> 00:49:57,499
And he's going to accept the
millennial kingdom.

1244
00:49:57,919 --> 00:50:00,259
There's more in these notes
you can look at later.

1245
00:50:00,959 --> 00:50:02,979
And I want to close with this thought.

1246
00:50:04,399 --> 00:50:06,779
How long halter be too, to an opinion.

1247
00:50:08,079 --> 00:50:09,911
Wherever you can serve, do it.

1248
00:50:10,015 --> 00:50:10,663
Get involved.

1249
00:50:10,711 --> 00:50:11,335
Get active.

1250
00:50:11,367 --> 00:50:12,979
I don't know how much time we
have left.

1251
00:50:15,279 --> 00:50:17,299
You know why you have a higher call?

1252
00:50:17,759 --> 00:50:20,459
Because God seated you in
heavenly places.

1253
00:50:21,039 --> 00:50:25,619
I ask you to go home tonight
and read Colossians 3:1 5.

1254
00:50:25,919 --> 00:50:28,071
Go home and read Colossians
3:1 five.

1255
00:50:28,175 --> 00:50:32,375
Set your affection on things
above, not on the things of the earth.

1256
00:50:32,487 --> 00:50:35,415
When it says mortify the deeds
of the body, it's not what you do.

1257
00:50:35,487 --> 00:50:39,495
You mortify them by putting
God first and spiritual things first.

1258
00:50:39,647 --> 00:50:41,095
This is the church age.

1259
00:50:41,247 --> 00:50:43,859
This is exactly what you're
supposed to be doing.

1260
00:50:44,159 --> 00:50:49,271
Praying to your high priest,
witnessing being salt and light on

1261
00:50:49,295 --> 00:50:51,819
the job, studying and reading
your Bible.

1262
00:50:52,399 --> 00:50:53,271
Amen.

1263
00:50:53,415 --> 00:50:55,799
Wouldn't it be great if this
was one of the churches that was

1264
00:50:55,839 --> 00:50:58,729
on fire for God when the
rapture took place.

1265
00:50:59,269 --> 00:50:59,693
Wow.

1266
00:50:59,741 --> 00:51:02,189
As your pastor comes one
minute ahead of time, brother.