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Well.
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Praise God, hallelujah, thank you, jesus.
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Last time we were together, we opened up this part of the study of our continuing war with Antichrist, who just continues to refuse to concede that he's defeated Amen and is set against the seed of God.
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No place was this more evident than in the life of Jesus.
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We opened this up the last time.
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We looked at three episodes in Jesus's life and there were many, but these three are typical where there was an active effort to exterminate him.
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There was an active effort to kill him, amen.
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The Bible says that when he was a baby, the Lord commanded Joseph to take the child out of Israel because Herod was seeking to kill him.
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You know the story about Herod and the wise men and sending the execution squad to Bethlehem and all that, but they couldn't find Jesus because God had taken Jesus out of Israel and taken him back to Egypt, kept him there, hid him there.
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We're talking about being hidden.
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One of the things that we need to learn is how to be hidden, because we learn that from Jesus.
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This is how Jesus escaped extermination.
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I say Jesus escaped extermination by being hidden.
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See, we don't think about things like this, but the Bible is full of these instances he was hidden in Egypt of all places, to hide the seed.
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He hid the seed in Egypt so he could bring the seed out Out of Egypt.
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I have called my son.
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Remember that scripture Out of Egypt.
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I have called my son, remember that scripture.
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Listen, you've got to learn how to be in the world, and Egypt was, if anything, a type of the world.
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You've got to learn how to be in the world but yet be hidden.
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Amen.
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Because if you don't learn to be hidden, it's going to be hard for God to protect you.
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And I'm not talking about hiding in a cave.
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I'm not talking about going out up into the mountains and hiding.
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They can find you, they can see you from space.
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I'm talking about being hidden supernaturally by the power of God.
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He that dwells in the secret place of the Most High shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.
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Hallelujah.
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There's a secret place in God.
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There's a place where he wants to hide you, that the devil can't find you, hallelujah.
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We learned in Luke, the fourth chapter, that Jesus was saved with from wrath.
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He went to his own hometown in Nazareth and preached a simple message Amen.
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And the people turned from loving him to hating him in zero to 60 in a heartbeat.
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Amen.
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They just turned on him in a second and took him out to throw him off of a cliff.
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The Bible says in Luke 4.30 that he passed through the midst of them and went his way.
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He was hidden from them.
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They couldn't have killed him if they wanted to, and they wanted to, but they couldn't Hallelujah.
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And then, finally, you remember the story where he went with his disciples on a boat across the Sea of Galilee and a windstorm came up.
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Jesus was asleep.
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His disciples said Lord, save us, don't you care if we're perishing?
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He said why are you so fearful, you of little faith?
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Jesus was hidden in his faith.
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Peter did the same thing On the night before he was to be beheaded.
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He was asleep.
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We wonder why wasn't he praying?
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Why wasn't he seeking God?
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Because he was already in faith and he was resting in his faith.
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And he was hidden in his faith.
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He was so hidden that all of those soldiers couldn't see him as he passed through the gates that protected his innermost prison place.
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I'm talking about real stuff here.
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You may not think it's real, but the Bible says it's real.
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Glory to God.
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But if you don't believe it, you're in good company.
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The people at Rhoda's house didn't believe it either.
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When Peter knocked on the door and showed up, rhoda went in and said Peter's at the door.
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No, he couldn't be at the door.
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That's his angel.
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See, they had the faith to believe for angels, but they didn't have faith for Peter to get out.
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Well, you know, you got to learn faith.
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Hallelujah, glory to God.
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But let's talk about today, a little bit of time that we have.
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Let's talk about the time when the time had come for Jesus to taste death for us Now.
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Up until this point, they couldn't touch him, but his time had come.
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He told his disciples this this is the devil's hour, amen.
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But he doesn't have anything on me, he's not going to touch me.
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We're going to talk about how Christ was hidden through death today and how God did what he did in bringing Jesus to the cross in the most amazing miracle that has ever happened.
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Hello, praise God.
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You can talk about anything that Jesus did, anything that Moses did, anything that Elijah or Elijah did, and it pales in comparison to what God did from Gethsemane to Calvary, hallelujah.
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So we know that when the time came for Jesus to be crucified, that the high priest, after interrogating Jesus all night and abusing him took him to Pilate early in the morning.
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Pilate was the governor of Judea and he was the appointed Roman representative to administer the civil and military affairs of the colony.
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He was the governor, so all of the military reported to him.
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Colony.
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He was the governor, so all of the military reported to him, all of the civil government reported to him, and all of the Jewish government, who ruled in their own way, were subject to him in that they received their authority from him.
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Now what you have to understand about all of that is that Pilate was personally appointed by Caesar.
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So Caesar said to Pilate you are my representative, you are my governor in Judea, and he gave him the sign of his authority.
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So that meant that Caesar, when he acted, was acting for Caesar.
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So when Pilate acted, he was acting for Caesar.
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It was like Caesar was standing there doing it himself.
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Okay, so Jesus was appearing not only before Pilate.
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So Jesus was appearing not only before Pilate, but he was appearing before Caesar himself.
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And the line of authority was like razor.
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You could pass a razor between the line of authority between Caesar and the governor.
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The governor did not answer to anybody else, he answered to Caesar.
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Are you following this?
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So it wasn't like you know.
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There was an assistant Caesar and a deputy assistant Caesar and assistant Caesar for you know financial affairs and a deputy assistant assistant to the assistant assistant assistant.
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See, it wasn't like that.
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The governors of the provinces reported directly to Caesar and Caesar was the one in effect.
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Whose authority was there interrogating Jesus.
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So here's the line of authority Pilate was appointed by Caesar.
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The Jewish authorities, like Ananias and Caiaphas and the others, were appointed by Pilate or by his predecessor.
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So here's what happens in all of this stuff.
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There's all this confusion historically about who killed Jesus.
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Okay, countries, the main justification for anti-Semitic behavior and policies and politics and all that kind of stuff was that they're the ones that killed our Savior.
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And I heard this kind of stuff when I was a kid.
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I mean, it is a real thing that went through Western Europe that these are the people that killed Jesus.
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Well, the fact of the matter is that, yes, they did, but so did the Romans.
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The Jews may have brought him to Pilate, but Pilate gave in to them and agreed for him to be crucified, and it was Roman soldiers who took him to Calvary and drove the spikes through his hands through his feet, drove the spear into his side Amen.
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The ones that came to him and broke his to try to break his legs and he was already dead and impaled him with a spear, those were Roman soldiers, hello.
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So it doesn't matter.
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At the end of the day, it doesn't matter who killed him, whether it was Romans or Jews.
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There's plenty of blame to go around.
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But the fact of the matter is that in Acts 2.23, it tells you exactly who killed him.
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Are you ready for this?
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He said lawless hands crucified him.
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Acts 2.23, lawless hands, in other words, a spirit of lawlessness had broken out on both sides, and lawlessness is a spirit under Antichrist.
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If you want to see the Antichrist in manifestation, amen.
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Watch a news clip of riots.
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Watch a news clip of looting.
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Watch a news clip of burning down inner cities.
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Is anybody paying attention?
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That's lawlessness.
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That's where law breaks down.
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Now I just read an article the other day about a situation in Germany where an immigrant from the Middle East had come into Germany and he was involved in a multi-person gang attack on a 14-year-old girl.
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They then put three of them in prison and the fourth one, because he was a minor.
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They sent him back someplace with $1,000 in his pocket to get relocated when he got to his native country.
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Now, if somebody hasn't figured out yet that if you do that once or twice, they're going to come by the multiplied hundreds because they're going to get free money.
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All I got to do is just walk out on the street, abuse some young girl and they're going to give me a thousand dollars and a plane ticket.
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What is wrong with this picture?
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I'll tell you what's wrong with this picture.
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It's a spirit of lawlessness.
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There's no law in that.
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If you said well, that's just the law in our country.
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That's not law.
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That's legal, that's legal tyranny.
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But that's not law, not the way God sees it.
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Anyway, hallelujah.
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A spirit of lawlessness killed Jesus.
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Lawless hands the Bible says Lawless hands, a spirit of God says this Lawless hands crucified him in Acts 2, 23.
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And both the Romans and the Jews were under the rule and authority of Antichrist and Jezebel.
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They were under Babylonian control.
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Now, remember the case we made two weeks ago, or last Sunday in fact, that this Babylonian cult that started in will.
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It passed to the control of the Roman government and when Caesar became emperor, it passed to him From there on out, the seat of the Babylonian cult was in Rome.
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So when Pilate is acting for Caesar, he's acting as a representative of this Babylonian cult.
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Let me digress just a minute.
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Amen.
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One of the things we, as spiritual people, have to learn to do is to discern.
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Not everything that says it's a church is a church.
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Not everybody that says they're Christians are Christians.
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Not everybody that says it's a good government is a good government.
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There are Babylonian governments.
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There are Babylonian churches, amen.
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Somebody say amen.
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You may not like that, you may not like to admit that, but there are churches out there that are not Christian.
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They have all of the way of looking.
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They look like a church, they have a form of godliness, but they deny the power thereof and because they are so wimpish and so non-spiritual, they disqualify themselves.
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Listen, my dear brother and sister, the baptism in the Holy Ghost is not an option, it is a commandment.
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Be ye filled with the Spirit.
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He breathed on them and said be full of the Holy Ghost.
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Be filled with the Holy Ghost, amen.
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It's a commandment, it's not an option, it's not a difference of belief.
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Since the Holy Ghost was poured out of Azusa Street in 1906, amen.
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The Christian church on earth has been under judgment for rejecting the ministry of the Holy One.
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Now you can say whatever you want to, but the fact of the matter is that the church that Jesus wants is a church that is full of His spirit.
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And if you are a church that says there is not such thing as a spirit, I'm going to tell you what the formula for the Babylonian church is.
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It is father, mother and son.
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There is no spirit.
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Are you hearing me?
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We have to know when we're talking about Babylonian churches or real expressions of the body of Christ.
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When are we talking about Babylonian government and a real expression of lawfulness?
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Because as soon as lawlessness becomes an expression of a government, you're in deep trouble because that government is Babylonian in nature.
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As soon as the government becomes Babylonian in nature, the church is going to follow after it if they are tied to the government.
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I remember back in the day when all these things called faith-based initiatives were taking place and I mean it was hot and heavy in the circles that I was running in about how we had to become friends with the government, you know, get grants and do all this kind of stuff, and we were going to work together and we had, you know we were going to set up shelters for women and battered children and you know we were going to set up shelters for women and battered children and you know, homeless, all this kind of stuff.
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It was just money was pouring out.
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People were getting rich on it.
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I'm saying people in the church were getting rich off the grants that were coming through.
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It got so bad that church couldn't run it anymore.
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They had to set up these ancillary 501c3s to take care of it.
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You know people could do whatever they want.
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That's just, that's fine.
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And I'm not saying the good work didn't come of it.
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But I stood up one day and I said there's a catch in all of that.
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There's a day that it's going to have to be paid all of that.
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There's a day that it's going to have to be paid.
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I said the government does not give away stuff without a catch, especially not to churches.
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Oh, that's not ever going to happen.
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That's not ever going to happen.
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But you know what?
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You know blah, blah, blah, blah.
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I said, listen, the government is not your friend.
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I mean, I was ostracized.
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It's no longer welcome.
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But wisdom is proved by her children.
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Glory to God, hallelujah, praise the Lord.
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There's going to.
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You know the pipe.
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What's the phrase?
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The piper will come and you have to pay the piper, amen, you have to show your allegiance.
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So we didn't.
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We didn't know what the what the price tag was going to be back then.
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But we know now.
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Glory to God.
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Let's turn to John, the 19th chapter, john 19,.
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Verse 10 says then Pilate said to him are you not speaking to me?
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Pilate had asked him some questions and Jesus wasn't answering back.
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He said are you not speaking to me?
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Do you not know that I have power?
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I have authority to crucify you and power to release you.
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Hallelujah, he is standing before Caesar.
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There is no other higher authority where Jesus is standing.
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Now we will learn in the ministry of Paul that Paul had one ace up his sleeve that, no matter what judgment was passed to him as a Roman citizen, he could appeal to Caesar so he could go that one step more.
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He was standing in front of the governor.
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He could go one step more and go to Caesar.
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Amen, jesus didn't have that option because he was not a Roman citizen, so he was standing in front of the highest authority that he was going to see on the planet.
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Hello, I want you to understand this.
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He's standing in front of Caesar and this is the last opportunity he has.
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And so this is how Jesus answered him.
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Pilate's playing the power card.
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I've got the power to crucify you.
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I've got the power to release you.
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Now you tell me what I want to hear, and here it goes.
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But see, jesus knew that he wasn't under his power.
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He wasn't under his authority.
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His time had come.
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Now listen, when your time comes, with God, there's not too much that anybody can do about it.
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That's on the good side and the bad side.
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I've seen it work both ways.
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When God wants to bless somebody and somebody wants to get in the middle of that, they better not get in the middle of it, because it's not going to be a blessing for them.
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Amen.
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And if it's time for God to deal with you, there's not anybody who can get you out of that.
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Deal with you.
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There's not anybody who can get you out of that.
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Glory to God, hallelujah.
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Jesus knew where he was, he knew who he was, he knew what his time was.
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He knew this was the time.
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See, not any holy week would have done Not.
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Any Passover would have done Not.
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Any first fruits would have done?
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Not any of that.
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You can't just do whatever.
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The clock was set when Daniel prophesied the entry of the Messiah down into the streets of Jerusalem.
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The clock was set and the clock had already started ticking in the previous Sunday, when Jesus went down the streets of Jerusalem and purged the temple.
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Glory to God answered their full questions.
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The clock had been ticking.
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He knew it and God knew it.
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Glory to God.
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He said.
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You could have no power.