Jan. 23, 2025

Nimrod's Rebellion and the Antichrist's Shadow - (Enmity with the Seed– Part 1 - From Abel to Elijah), Episode 03

Nimrod's Rebellion and the Antichrist's Shadow - (Enmity with the Seed– Part 1 - From Abel to Elijah), Episode 03

Send us a text Uncover the epic spiritual battle between Christ and the Antichrist, as ancient as time itself, and rooted deep within the narratives of Genesis. This episode promises to illuminate the enduring conflict between good and evil, as symbolized by the miraculous events of the Bible. Through the lens of Noah and the great flood, we illustrate how divine interventions have been a bulwark against the enemy's schemes across generations. Join us as we trace the lineage of Noah, with a s...

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Uncover the epic spiritual battle between Christ and the Antichrist, as ancient as time itself, and rooted deep within the narratives of Genesis. This episode promises to illuminate the enduring conflict between good and evil, as symbolized by the miraculous events of the Bible. Through the lens of Noah and the great flood, we illustrate how divine interventions have been a bulwark against the enemy's schemes across generations. Join us as we trace the lineage of Noah, with a special focus on Ham and his descendants, notably the enigmatic Nimrod, who signifies a resurgence in the age-old struggle between divine and satanic forces.

Journey with us through the fascinating tales of Nimrod and Semiramis, and witness their profound impact on the evolution of religious systems. These figures stand at the crossroads of monotheism and polytheism, setting the stage for false doctrines that continue to echo through history. We'll explore how their legacy shaped ancient and modern beliefs, drawing connections to the Antichrist while shedding light on the origins of enduring, but false, religious traditions. This discussion offers much-needed clarity on how partial readings of sacred texts can lead to widespread misunderstandings.

Step into the world of early civilization, where humanity's ambition to conquer the heavens clashed with divine sovereignty. Discover how the rise of tower-building technology, spearheaded by Nimrod, symbolized humanity's desire to rival divine power. We delve into the technological advancements of the time and reflect on the inherent dangers of human pride. Our conversation culminates in a poignant reflection on recognizing God's supremacy, embracing humility, and the transformative power of honoring the divine. Join us as we express gratitude for the continuous work of God in our lives, offering a path to deeper spiritual understanding and rebirth.

00:00 - Battle Between Christ and Antichrist

19:21 - Origin of False Religious Systems

35:06 - Building Civilization

43:06 - Rise of Tower-Building Technology

49:35 - The Importance of God's Name

01:05:47 - Rejecting God's Mercy and Offense

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Well, glory to God, hallelujah.

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We're going to continue on this subject of enmity with the seed, taking from the fourth chapter of the book of Genesis, where God said to the enemy that I'm going to put enmity between my seed and your seed, between the seed of the woman and your seed.

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And there has been a battle between the spirit of Antichrist and the Christ amen.

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Since that day and even before that day.

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But let's just combine ourselves to what the Bible says.

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Since that day, but let's just confine ourselves to what the Bible says.

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Since that day, there has been a battle going on between the Christ and the Antichrist, amen.

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Now, that battle and we're going to find this out that battle is described in your Bible in some of the most amazing miracles that the Bible has to account for Amen.

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We don't usually look at these miracles as being connected.

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We look at them as separate events, separated by hundreds of years, and they're just kind of things where God just shows up periodically, hundreds of years.

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And they're just kind of things where God just shows up periodically, but God shows up in a mighty and dramatic form because the enemy has come in.

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But what does the Bible say when the enemy comes in like a flood.

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The Spirit of God will raise up a standard against him.

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Now you may think the Holy Ghost is carrying a flag around and that's what that verse means.

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He just raises up his flag and the enemy just goes away.

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But that's not what that means.

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A standard in God terms is the Noah flood.

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In God terms, is the Noah flood, the enemy raised up an attack against the Christ and that attack was against the righteousness of God and His righteous requirements Amen.

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So the Spirit of God raised up a standard, which was the flood?

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Which was such a cataclysmic event?

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It knocked the orbit of the earth around the sun, altered it by five and a quarter days.

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Nobody said amen.

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It altered the orbit of the moon around the earth by two days.

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There you go.

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Used to be the orbit used to be 30 days.

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Everything was a multiple 30.

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The moon orbited the earth for 30 to 30 days and the earth orbited the Sun in 360 days, which is some multiple of 30, 12, what is that?

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Somebody help me here?

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13, 13?

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13 months, 13 months of 30 days, makes 360 days, amen, or 12?

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I don't know, I can't.

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12 months, 12 months of 30 days, makes 360 days, amen, and 360 days to go one time around, because God is a God of order.

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But that blast that came up out of the depth, we talked about that last week.

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So on the backside of the flood comes a man named Noah and his wife and his three sons and their wives, and out of these eight people come all of the nations of the earth.

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Amen.

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You can believe the Bible or you can believe whatever you hear in science and technology.

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It doesn't matter, it matters to me.

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But I'm going to believe the Bible.

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Amen.

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And this is what the Bible says.

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The Bible says that out of these eight people came everyone.

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Amen.

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And one family out of this family of Noah is the family of Ham.

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Now we know the story that goes on.

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After the flood subsided, noah became a farmer, grew some grapes and he made some wine, got a little tipsy and Ham committed an abomination and Noah cursed Ham and all of his descendants.

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We're going to be talking about the descendants of Ham today because the next main event that happens has to do.

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We are in the 10th chapter of the book of Genesis.

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Glory to God.

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Too much stuff.

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Praise the Lord.

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10th chapter of the book of Genesis.

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Praise the Lord.

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Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, amen.

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And in the eighth verse of chapter 10, it says this that Cush begot Nimrod.

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Cush was the son of Ham, the grandson of Noah, and so he had a son whose name was Nimrod, and so he had a son whose name was Nimrod.

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Okay, now we know this name very, very well, but what we don't know about him, and what we have to fill in from some of the information that the Bible presents and some of the information of the succession of things that have happened on the earth since that time, we're going to learn a little bit more about Nimrod today than we knew, because Nimrod is the focus of the next attack by Antichrist.

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Nimrod is the focus of the next attack by Antichrist, and what I want you to understand is he did not waste any time.

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We're talking about people who lived for a long time, and we're talking about a man who was descendant out of Ham.

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Ham came through the flood.

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Ham wasn't born on this side of the flood.

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Ham was born on the other side of the flood, came through the flood and had a son named Cush.

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Cush, the grandson of Noah, had a son named Nimrod.

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Nimrod was the great-grandson of Noah, so Cush begot Nimrod and he this phrase right here is very important he began to be a mighty one on the earth.

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This Nimrod, the great grandson of Noah, from that word right there, began to be a mighty one.

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That word, mighty one, is the same word that was used to describe the giants on the other side of the flood.

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Now the Bible says in the sixth chapter of the book of Genesis we looked at this last week that it said that there were giants on the earth in the days before the flood and after.

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So there were giants on the earth before the flood and after.

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So there were giants on the earth before the flood.

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That was one of the primary reasons that God sent the flood was to exterminate that race of giants.

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Hello, you got that.

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But something happened, because when Moses wrote the book of Genesis, he said that the giants were on that side of the flood and they were also on the other side of the flood.

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So something happened.

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And here is the link.

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It says right here Nimrod began to be a mighty one.

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He began to be a giant.

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That doesn't mean that he was a giant by birth.

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On the other side of the flood, giants came to be because the sons of God, the fallen angels, cohabitated with the women of earth and produced a race of giants.

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Then the giants procreated and they did what they did.

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And that same thing happened on this side of the flood also, but the first instance of it was not that.

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It was not by procreation, it was not by birth.

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It was because of consensual demonic transformation.

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Nimrod agreed with Antichrist to allow himself to be transformed into a demonic creation.

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In other words, he allowed himself to be possessed by something so terrible it transformed him into a giant.

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Now, how do I know this?

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Because of the wording.

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How many times have I said this to you?

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The Holy Ghost is precise in grammar.

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He says exactly what he wants to say, because the Bible says that he speaks clearly.

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Okay, when he says that Nimrod began to be a mighty one, what can you do?

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Did he just wake up?

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One morning he went to bed, he was six foot, you know, and 200 pounds, and the next morning he woke up and he was 10 foot and 600 pounds.

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Is that what happened?

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Things like that don't happen, amen.

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Not when you began to be.

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If you began to be, that's a process.

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If you began to be, you started someplace and added to it little bit by little bit Amen, until this transformation was complete.

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Amen, he was the first of a new giant race, supernatural in size, supernatural in strength, supernatural in intelligence.

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See, we think of giants.

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When we think of giants, we think of you know what's that stupid Disney cartoon about, the?

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I can't even remember, it doesn't matter.

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We think of giants being dumb, but they're not dumb.

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They have an unusual level of intelligence that's given to them by angels.

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Hello, hello.

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Not only did he have these supernatural qualities, but he had a supernatural disregard for God.

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He had a disregard for God that could only come from the hatred that the fallen angels had for this God.

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Amen, you have to understand this about.

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They just don't dislike God.

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They this God Amen, you have to understand this about.

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They just don't.

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They just don't dislike God, they hate God.

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They don't just have a disregard for him, they disdain him.

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They can't stand the fact that he's always victorious and they can't stand the fact that they always lose and they can't get over it.

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There's nothing they can do about it, hallelujah.

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So your salvation isn't going to depend on any of this stuff, but it does tell you all of these things.

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Listen to me very carefully.

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We're just not studying this just because we don't have anything else to do.

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Okay, these, every one of these epic battles and how they turned out is being relived right now, is being relived right now Because where we're at right now, at the end of the ages amen, everything that the Antichrist has tried before he's going to try again.

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He's bringing them all up into a compressed attack.

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It's like, okay, if you shot this missile and you shot this missile, and you shot this missile and you fired this gun.

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If you shot this missile and you shot this missile and you shot this missile and you fired this gun and you shot this thing and you did this thing and they didn't fail, hey, let's just try them all at once.

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And that's the world we live in.

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And if you don't understand that, you are going to be greatly deceived in what's going on.

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Because I'm going to tell you, the greatest deception in firing all the guns at once is that you don't have a chance, when the reality is exactly the opposite the enemy doesn't have a chance, the enemy can't possibly win.

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You're not hearing me.

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You're not hearing me.

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Listen, I have been studying this stuff for well over 50 years and I used to be scared, spitless every day that the end was coming.

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You know that they're just going to do this and they're going to do this, and now we're going to all go and get the mark, and then we're going to do this, and then we're going to do this, and we're all going to do this, and it's just going to be terrible.

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Oh, they're going to put us, and now we're going to all go and get the mark, and then we're going to do this, and then we're going to do this and we're all going to do this, and it's just going to be terrible.

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Oh, they're going to put us in concentration camps.

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Oh, they're going to do this.

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Oh, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

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I'm telling you what they cannot win.

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They're not going to win now.

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If they didn't win at the tower of babel, they're not going to win now.

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If they didn't win at the red sea, they're not going to win now.

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If they didn't win in the in the wilderness, they're not going to win now.

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If they didn't win at jericho, they're not going to win now.

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If they didn't win when david met goliath, they're not going to win now.

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Are you hearing what I'm talking about?

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If they didn't win when, when daniel was in, was in Babylon.

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They're not going to win now.

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If they didn't win when Jesus went to the cross, they're certainly not going to win now.

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Why do we think that the only way we can win is to escape?

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Glory to God.

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We better leave that one alone.

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Hallelujah, verse 9, says that Nimrod was a mighty hunter before the Lord.

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So therefore it was said of him like Nimrod was a mighty hunter before the Lord.

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So therefore it was said of him like Nimrod the mighty hunter.

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In other words, if somebody was a great one, he was like Nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord.

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It took me decades to wrestle with that scripture, because that just did not make any sense.

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Why would a guy be known as a great hunter?

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I mean, he's going out with spears and killing mastodons.

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I mean, is this why he's a great hunter?

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He's a hunter of elephants.

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He's a hunter of what offense?

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He's a hunter of what.

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We've already established that his mightiness, amen, came from the fact that he was a demonic transformation and he was before the Lord.

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Now watch this.

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He was in the Lord's face, he was confrontational with the Lord, he was against the Lord.

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You know when you're before the Lord.

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You know, when you're like this, what this wants to give you the image of is that this man was mighty and he had a following, amen.

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He had hunted and he had gathered the souls of men and he was before the Lord with his face set against him Hallelujah.

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He was a giant that hunted and gathered the souls of men.

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He caused men to bend to his will and to follow him.

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He was the first Remember we're only two generations away from Noah.

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He was the first of the giant kings that ruled the earth in the days after the flood and this is evidenced in places all over the earth that there was a race of giants that populated the people and established themselves as their rulers.

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People and establish themselves as their rulers.

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Just Google giants in America and you'll spend a rainy afternoon chasing after more rabbits than you can count.

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Amen.

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A lot of accounts.

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There was one in what was in 18, late 1800s.

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They had all kinds of physical evidence of this guy and the United States government.

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It was a.

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It was a traveling show.

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The United States government shut them down, seized all their materials and nobody's ever seen hide their hair of all that documentation, since they didn't want anybody to know this.

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Praise God, anyway, that had to do anything.

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He rose up and challenged God, even to the point of attempting to extract revenge for the flood.

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In other words, what this means is that he gathered people behind him and, in exchange for their following him, in exchange for their loyalty and all of that, he said I'm going to go against this God and I'm going to challenge him on the basis that he destroyed the earth.

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He destroyed all of our forefathers, he destroyed our heritage, he destroyed our cities, he destroyed all of that.

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We're going to go after him.

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Well, you know, what do people know?

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They don't know.

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Listen, they're not Noah.

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You know the people that have come out and been born after the flood.

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They know about Noah, they've heard Noah's stories, but they haven't been through what Noah went through.

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His sons didn't go through what Noah went through.

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His sons were not even born yet when Enoch went home with Jesus just walked on through.

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You know, they didn't get any of that.

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Those are just stories.

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They're just.

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You know, sit around the campfire and exchange stories.

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Listen, they didn't have chapter 10, verse 8, nor verse 9, nor verse 11.

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They just had stories.

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Well, you can just imagine that.

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Some guy that's 10 foot tall, he's four feet taller than you are can pick you up like a match stick and flip you across the room, you know.

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And he tells you come, follow me.

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Okay, you know they're going to follow him, but you better have a good story.

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My story is I'm going after God, you with me.

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Did he destroy your family?

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Yeah, destroy your cities?

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Yeah, let's go get him.

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Okay, they don't know.

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I mean, he might just be around the corner waiting for us to come.

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Listen, they did not know what Noah did and the sons of Ham disregarded what Noah knew.

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Are you hearing me?

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Okay, he was in the Lord's face.

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He was before the Lord.

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This is the typical, the prototypical Antichrist position.

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I am against you, I am opposite of you.

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I am in your face.

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I'm going to try to thwart everything you do, everything that the seed was destined to do.

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Antichrist was destined to come against.

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Are you getting this?

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This is why we're studying this.

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You know, everybody knows who.

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Oh, yeah, antichrist 666, get the stamp.

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Yeah, you know, you know, you know.

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And they think they read a couple of paragraphs out of Revelation and they know something.

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You know, I've had people all my ministry time come up and want to discuss something that's in Revelation, I go why are we having this discussion?

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Why did you start there?

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You don't start at the end of the book.

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You know and don't start at the end of the book.

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You know and don't start at the beginning.

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But people think, just because they know they've learned something, they've heard something, they've heard something on the end, now they hear it on the internet.

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They think they know something, but they don't know anything.

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Praise God, this Antichrist has set himself against our Christ, the anointed of God.

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Hallelujah, verse 10.

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The beginning of his kingdom was a place called Babel, and this place was in the land of Shinar.

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Now, this is what is now modern day Iraq, iran in that area okay, where the Tigris and the Euphrates come together, and the origins of Babylon, or the city that grew up out of that, is Nimrod and his queen, samaras.

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Samiramis I'm sorry, samiramis.

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They were worshipped as gods, his being a giant.

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He was worshipped as the warrior, priest, king, and she was worshipped as the fertility god.

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They had a son, whose name was Tammuz, to whom was given supernatural powers.

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Now, this trinity of gods a father, a mother and a son would be a pattern that was replicated in every religion that came out of Babylon.

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In the Egyptian system of religion, it was Diana and Zeus.

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The Catholics got in Father Mary and whoever they tried to push off as Jesus.

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Hello, one of the names of this woman I can't pronounce her name Semiramis.

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Semiramis was the queen of heaven.

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Her name in the Bible is Ashitar Amen.

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She is mentioned by name many times as one of the high chief false gods.

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Amen, being the queen of heaven.

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Another name for the spirit of who?

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The spirit of Jezebel?

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The spirit of Jezebel is called the queen of heaven.

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Hallelujah.

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Are we hearing where any of this is coming from?

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This core of false religion started with Nimrod.

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He was the first departure of a large, of a man who had a following and could command people to follow him, of people who departed from the true God.

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After the flood, nimrod and his wife and their son introduced polytheism into the earth.

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You know what polytheism is the worship of many gods.

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The worship of many gods, amen.

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On the other side of the flood, the bloodline of Seth held on to the true and living God and there were other people who worshiped many gods.

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That was wiped out at the flood, so that what came out of the ark was Noah, and again, the worship of the true and living God.

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But here we are, two, three generations later, and now we're having a system of many gods infiltrating the earth.

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So what do we got?

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What God wants is I am the Lord, your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt and out of the house of bondage.

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There shall be no other gods before me.

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First commandment.

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So what's the first thing the Antichrist is going to do?

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On the other side of the flood, there are many gods and they're better than this god, and you can't see this god, but you can see this one.

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And if you don't follow after me, amen, me being 10 feet tall and all the people around me there are giants.

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We're going to have a good time feasting on your children.

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Glory to God.

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Now, what comes out of that?

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Listen to me very carefully.

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I'm going to make a case here.

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I may not be the most elegant person and I may not be the most elegant person and I may not be the guy that's on TV.

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Just, I've got all the charts and I've got all the stuff and I'm not going to bore you with all that stuff.

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Amen.

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With this one man came a system of many gods, and where the system of many gods exists because they are of man's creation.

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Amen, because they are of man's creation.

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What's going to evolve out of that eventually is man worship.

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And when man is worshiped, the one thing that's going to be elevated higher and more important than God's righteousness is man's own works.

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So what happens out of this system and you're going to see the evidence of it here in just a minute, but what you see coming out of this, you think okay, well, I'm just swapping Noah's form of religion with another form of religion.

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He's got one God, we got many gods, everybody's happy, we're just no.

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As soon as you substitute men's concept of what this universe is about, what God is about, what God says about himself, all that is brought into question.

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It's not brought into question by one of these phony gods, it's being brought into question by your mind.

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It's being brought into question by what men think.

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And when the thoughts of men become elevated to the thought level of God, that's contrary to what Scripture says.

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Because Scripture says my thoughts are not your thoughts, my ways are not your ways, simple as that can get.

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But man wants to elevate his thoughts to that level and then beyond.

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So that the purpose of that I'm trying to make a point here, the purpose of that is this If God says that all of your righteous acts are as filthy rags before me, in other words, anything you try to do to please me is not going to please me.

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In fact it's going to be just the opposite.

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Well see, man doesn't like that, because in his heart, because of Adam's sin, he believes that his works are of a sufficient righteousness to earn a place with God.

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But God doesn't say that.

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God says you can take all of your righteous acts and throw them into a basket, and I'm going to tell you what I think of it and I will tell you that all day long.

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I'm telling you in you, in me, at the depth of who we are.

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In Adam, we hate God's righteous requirements.

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We want to substitute them with ours.

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Christ came to pay the penalty for that sin, amen, and teach you how to die daily to that sin, so that you never rely on your own works to justify you before God.

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You always rely on the Christ, not the antichrist.

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See, the Christ says it is only by my blood and my sacrifice that you can please God.

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Without faith, it is impossible to please God, and there is no faith without the blood applied.

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Amen.

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Ah, you know well Antichrist.

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The first thing Antichrist says no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.

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If he can't get you to fall for no blood sacrifice, the next thing he's going to do is say hey, you can work your way to heaven.

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So you've got, you've got.

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Listen, I could.

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I could run down the list of the most populated religions in the United States, and the first bunch out of the top 10, the majority of them out of the top 10 are works, righteousness organizations.

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How are you going to get to heaven?

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Well, I hope, I hope, I hope.

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Here's what here's.

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There's this giant scale in heaven, right, and here's all your good works and here's all your bad works.

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Now, who's judging that?

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Well, we'll get to that some other time, amen.

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But if there's just one feather's worth of more good works than there are bad works, now who's judging that?

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Well, we'll get to that some other time, amen.

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But if there's just one feather's worth of more good works than there are bad works, you're in, oh.

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But if there's just one feather's worth of bad works, I'm sorry, but I'm going to tell you, we're going to make it.

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We're going to give you a, we're going to give you a deal.

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Today's deal, amen.

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You're going to love today's deal, today's deal, and today only, you make a.

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You make a $10,000 contribution to the church.

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We're going to put a mountain of intercessors to work on that and we're going to take that one feather off so that they balance out and you get to go to a place called purgatory and wait for somebody else to come in and get one more feather out.

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You know how many people fall for that.

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A lot glory to god.

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Hallelujah, god's way is a lot simpler, but we're not talking about his way today.

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We're talking about somebody else's.

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So here we have the situation.

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Nimrod has a following, a large following.

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He has enough of a following to build a nation and populate it with some major cities that existed for a long time, and chapter 11, verse 1 says this.

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Now, the whole earth had one language and one speech, and it came to pass that as they journeyed from the east.

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Now, who was they?

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The they there is the kingdom of Nimrod.

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That was the last thing that was mentioned.

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So they, kingdom of Nimrod.

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They found a plain in the land of Shinar, and they dwelt there.

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Now what you have to understand is that Nimrod was the great-grandson Noah.

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Now it's listed under the bloodline of Shem that the great-grandson of Noah line those men were still living to be over 500 years old.

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So Nimrod could have lived 500 years.

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It's not like he has to make his name and fortune in 40 years and then cash in his chips.

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He could have lived to have been five, 600 years old.

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Plenty of time to amass a huge following and to build a large city, to establish other large cities and to build a tower.

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You know things take a while to do.

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In my research I'm going to.

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I don't want to get ahead of myself, but one thing that I did look at was I looked at some of the old towers that men have built and a lot of them took a long time.

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There's a church in Washington DC called the National Cathedral.

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It took 100 years to build that.

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It took 100 years to build Notre Dame in the first phase.

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It took 100 years or more to build St Peter's years or more to build St Peter's.

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When you're building at mule and man speed, things take a while.

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But, to say the least, they found a place to set up camp at where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers come together, a plain, and they would have had time to amass a civilization.

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Because if you're going to build a tower, amen, and it's going to go to heaven you've got to have some trained workers.

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Hello, you know, I've said this a lot of times.

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I used to use this illustration when I worked in the computer business, because I was I was responsible for putting together teams of people to build large, large systems, large scale systems.

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Okay, and I used to use this example.

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I said, just because you, just because you know how to build a dog house, because everybody come up and say, well, you know, my, my, my, my, my laptop can do this, or my, my, my, my, my computer in my house can do that, I can do this on my computer.

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Why can't I do it?

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I said look, look.

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I said, just because you can build a dog house doesn't mean you can build a skyscraper.

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The skill set is not extendable.

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Just because you can put, you know, the little frame and put a roof on it and your dog can live in it, doesn't mean you're going to build something that's a hundred stories high and thousands upon thousands of people are going to be in that building every day.

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I mean, it's a whole different thing.

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You know, the the, the skill sets are not even close.

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Okay, it's one thing to have a bunch of people living together in tents.

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Okay, it's one thing to have a bunch of people living together in tents.

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It's a whole other thing to have several tens of thousands of people living together in a walled city and then, in that city, start building buildings that are going to go up to heights that have never been built before.

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See, the first thing you have to have is you better have some structural engineers or about?

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You know, three or four stories up the thing's going to fall flat on its face Because the things that the skills that you did in building a one-story house are not the same in building a multi-story, big building, because the weight factor is different.

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You're going to find out real quick that you need you can't build the thing on sand.

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You're going to have to build it on rock, which means you, if you're standing on sand, you may have to dig down to find rock and anchor the thing to rock.

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But you know, men didn't just come out of the caves.

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You know, knowing that they either learned that from fallen angels, or they learned it by repeated failures.

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But anyway, nimrod's five going to live 500 years, he's got time to do that.

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And it came to pass verse two, and we read that verse, verse three.

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Then they said to one another, come, let us make bricks and bake them thoroughly.

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And you think, okay, why not?

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But see, there's a, there's a process here.

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Okay, they, they followed Nimrod, they settled in this place.

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It's got a big bunch of people, amen.

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First thing they're going to do is try to find somehow to live.

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Okay, well, you're in kind of semi-arid or not semi-arid.

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You're in arid, kind of a semi-desert kind of environment.

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There's not a lot of wood, not a lot of trees.

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So what do they figure out?

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Okay, let's, let's, let's get into the brick making they had.

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The bible says that they used asphalt or tar for mortar.

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They built these bricks, amen.

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They had brick for stone, they had asphalt for mortar.

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Immediately, listen to me immediately, this technological change revolutionized the way that they were going to live together, because all of a sudden, they had the ability to build brick houses.

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They had the ability because of the strength of the walls and the mortar.

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They had the ability to go up, so they didn't have to always go out.

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They could go out and they could go up.

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The further that they went up, the more that they learned about how to do these things.

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So now that they had, and since they had the brick and they had the mortar while they were building houses, they could also build a wall.

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What's the advantage of the wall?

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Well, the wall will protect them so that they can build inside the city walls.

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If we grow, what are we going to do?

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We'll just extend the walls.

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There's a good chance that this technology did not exist before Nimrod.

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This technology did not exist before Nimrod.

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They may not have needed it on the other side of the flood.

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They may have, they may not have.

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The earth was a different place then.

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But somehow, someway, they learned this technology.

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Not only did they learn it, but they learned how to do it in large-scale fashion, so that they could build walls, they could build cities, they could build fortifications and, most importantly, they could build towers.

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Now, not only did they have the technology to do it, but because so many people had followed Nimrod and because he had this large gathering and they were concentrated, he had a workforce.

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Okay, I don't care if you do know how to make bricks, I don't care if you and your father-in-law and your wife's brothers and your two cousins on your mother's side all get together and help you raise up a house and then you go over and help them build a house, because now we know how to build bricks.

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Oh, glory, hallelujah, let's bake some bricks.

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Mom will bake some cookies.

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You know, dad will sing bass and mom will sing tenor and we'll just all slap up these houses.

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And you know it's like using Tinker Toys.

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That's a different problem than organizing a workforce to build a tower.

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And so Nimrod had enough people and he had the skill set to train them in how to build towers.

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So and this is the archaeology and the history supports this that in Babylon, in Nineveh, in Ur, in other places where these cities were, where Nimrod established these cities, there's evidences of towers being built.

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If you don't like the word tower, substitute the word pyramids, because that's what they were.

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They figured out that if they wanted to build a pyramid, they had to build, and they wanted to build a high tower and a high pyramid, they had to build a.

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Wanted to build a high tower and a high pyramid, they had to build a long, a wide base.

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Okay, evidence is all over the place.

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And this is what they were building.

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So not only did they have the technology of brick building, but they started to develop the technology of a workforce.

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And then they said come, let's build ourselves a workforce.

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And then they said come, let's build ourselves a city and a tower whose top is in the heavens.

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Let us exalt ourselves against God and be his equal.

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Now they figured, you know at about what 300 feet they're going to find God.

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I don't know.

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You know what is the is the pyramid of Giza, somewhere around 400 and something feet to the to where the pinnacle would be, I think.

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So they must have thought okay, well, we'll build one that bigger, maybe a little bit bigger, and there we go and we'll find.

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We'll find God.

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We'll add a couple of bricks on top.

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We'll be taller in God and he'll have to capitulate.

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I mean, they may have found out how to make bricks, will be taller in God and he'll have to capitulate.

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I mean they may have found out how to make bricks.

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They may have found out how to organize a workforce.

00:46:18.489 --> 00:46:20.452
They may have found out how to build a city.

00:46:20.452 --> 00:46:22.494
They may have found out how to build walls.

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They may have found out how to build a tower, but they hadn't found out anything about how God operated.

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It hadn't helped them on that regard.

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So they said let us make a name for ourselves.

00:46:45.626 --> 00:46:52.074
Here's where this issue of exalting yourself against God.

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You know you're going to find out that it just doesn't work.

00:47:02.219 --> 00:47:07.923
You know you can think you're smarter than God, but you're not, you know.

00:47:07.923 --> 00:47:09.324
You know God made it real simple.

00:47:09.324 --> 00:47:11.407
He said I'm going to make this easy for you.

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My hangout here.

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I'm going to make this easy for you.

00:47:14.369 --> 00:47:19.355
My hangout here I'm going to throw out a few tens of thousands of stars that you can see.

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Trust me, there's more.

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You don't need to know that.

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You can't see them.

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You won't need to know that till Galileo comes along and builds a telescope and you don't want to be that guy, because they're going to essentially crucify him for doing it.

00:47:32.132 --> 00:47:33.690
But all he's going to do is prove to be that guy, because they're going to essentially crucify him for doing it.

00:47:33.690 --> 00:47:37.835
But all he's going to do is prove to you that there's more out there than you think.

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Okay, god said this.

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He said I'm going to hold everybody accountable for recognizing me as God, simply on the basis of what I've done.

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Because, listen, you can get up tomorrow morning and you can look at your pretty wife and your fuzzy little kids and pat them all on the head and pour out their porridge, and go milk the cows and do all that kind of stuff, and if any one of you says, you know what?

00:48:09.012 --> 00:48:18.755
I created all these things, they're going to lock you up.

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They're going to lock you up and I'm going to tell you something else that's implicit in all that that if you didn't do it and you won't honor me for doing it, then you're going to come up with some system of how all these minor gods and figments of your imagination have done it, and it won't hold water, it won't make sense, it won't hold the test of time.

00:48:44.382 --> 00:48:45.983
Amen.

00:48:45.983 --> 00:48:52.150
And none of these gods can do for you anything, because they're just ideas.

00:48:52.150 --> 00:48:55.235
But men will do it.

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He said, and I'm going to hold everybody accountable to me for honoring me as the one who created all this, because if you honor me as the one who created all this, you won't do all this foolish nonsense of creating all these gods and you won't even have the thought of ever exalting yourself up to my level.

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So when I have you in that position which is humbling yourself before the mighty hand of God that he might exalt you in due season, once you're in that position, amen then he can do something with you, then he can reveal himself to you.

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Does any, is any of this making sense?

00:49:35.780 --> 00:49:38.967
This is how god works.

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He's going to say he said look, I put enough out here that if anybody wakes up tomorrow morning and takes credit for one thing, I made that cow over there no, you didn't.

00:49:56.000 --> 00:49:58.849
Well, I made the corn that the cow's eating no, you didn't.

00:49:58.849 --> 00:50:03.027
Well, I made the milk that the cow gave no, you didn't do that either.

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You didn't even make the ground that the cow's walking on.

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And even I'm not going to say that, lord, you didn't do any of this.

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You didn't cause the sun to rise, which it doesn't do anyway.

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And you didn't cause the earth, the moon, to rise, which it doesn't do anyway.

00:50:25.931 --> 00:50:28.163
And you certainly didn't cause the earth to spin, because you don't know that.

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Does that, hello?

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The earth to spin?

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Because you don't know that, does that, hello?

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You didn't do any of this.

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So all you have to do is honor me, keep yourself from idols, and you'll be in a position where I can reveal myself to you.

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Well, that's exactly what Antichrist does not want.

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So he keeps mankind in perpetual stupidity and foolishness in taking credit for creating this.

00:51:07.311 --> 00:51:08.572
Well, they don't do that.

00:51:08.572 --> 00:51:09.273
Yes, they do.

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They came up with a doctrine called evolution.

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They came up with a doctrine called this.

00:51:15.742 --> 00:51:16.489
They came up with a doctrine called this.

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They came up with a doctrine called that, which explains how all of this got here and takes the glory away from God.

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What does that sound like?

00:51:23.945 --> 00:51:41.202
That sounds like a modern, man-made religion, hallelujah.

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So let's make a name for ourselves.

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We're going to make a name for ourselves and we're going to let our works establish our name, not God.

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Another way of saying this and this is the essence of it is that we're going to let our works establish our righteousness before God and not God himself.

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So you can make a name for yourself.

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You can do great things.

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You can do not so great things.

00:52:13.306 --> 00:52:19.568
You know, jesse James made a name for himself by robbing trains and banks.

00:52:19.568 --> 00:52:22.800
Billy the Kid made a name for himself.

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You may not know anything about the West, but I bet you know about Billy the Kid, or you know the name Amen.

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He made a name for himself Wasn't even his name.

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Glory to God.

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Everybody says his name is William Bonney.

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That's up for debate.

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Hello, you trying to get what I'm saying?

00:52:49.449 --> 00:52:51.152
You try to make a name for yourself.

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You can make a name for yourself.

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But it saying, you try to make a name for yourself, you can make a name for yourself.

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But it's much better if God makes a name for you.

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If God calls you a son of God, if God calls you a destined of God, if God calls you the redeemed of God, it's better that he give you a name that's not based on any work that you've done.

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Hello, why is that important?

00:53:20.826 --> 00:53:22.067
Because you know it's true.

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Oh, praise God.

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You know.

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I've been around people that you know they have a name.

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They've made a name for themselves, but in most of those cases they didn't do it by themselves.

00:53:40.309 --> 00:53:41.644
You would think that they did.

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By the way they talk and the way they conduct themselves, the way they carry on, you'd think they were the only person doing it.

00:53:47.726 --> 00:53:58.068
When they've got a whole factory full of people, they've got, you know, international networks of people helping them out, you know you would think you would think that that.

00:53:58.068 --> 00:54:03.269
What's the guy's name that runs Amazon's name Jeff Bezos, I think, is his name.

00:54:03.269 --> 00:54:08.152
You would think he hand delivered every piece of stuff that Amazon does.

00:54:08.152 --> 00:54:25.228
I mean you would think you know he's got just clones of Jeff all over the place, running little packages up to your door because he gets all the credit, never mind the millions of stockholders that own Amazon stock.

00:54:25.228 --> 00:54:27.608
Without them he couldn't do all that.

00:54:27.608 --> 00:54:44.739
But there's.

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If God wants to give you a name that he made for you, amen.

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That name can't be taken away from you.

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That name doesn't depend on anything else other than God and you.

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Are you hearing me?

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The essence of works righteousness is this that you can do something in your own strength and your own initiative and your own way of being and doing.

00:55:12.250 --> 00:55:24.190
You can do something to please God, when, in fact, the fact that the Bible teaches is that Adam's sin keeps that from happening.

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Adam's sin that is attached to you because you have been born of the earth.

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Amen.

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You, because you have been born of the earth, amen Makes it impossible for you in your flesh to please God.

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The only way you can please God is in is by the spirit.

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But the only way you can get into the spirit is not by anything that your flesh does.

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Your flesh, contrary to what you like to think, has to die for you to enter into this realm of the spirit so that you can please God.

00:56:01.543 --> 00:56:11.846
Religion will teach you this that Adam sin.

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Well, adam shouldn't have done that, but it doesn't come to you.

00:56:16.586 --> 00:56:31.786
So if you live a good, clean life, you know your behavior changes will atone for Adam's sin and you can get to heaven.

00:56:31.786 --> 00:56:41.371
Even though Adam sinned and supposedly passed his sin down to you, you can get to heaven and bypass the surrender to the Christ.

00:56:41.780 --> 00:56:44.108
Now, who would lie to you like that?

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Who would lie to you like that?

00:56:48.487 --> 00:56:50.023
I'll tell you who would lie to you like that.

00:56:50.023 --> 00:56:50.646
The Antichrist would lie to you like that.

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I'll tell you who would lie to you like that.

00:56:51.646 --> 00:56:57.512
The anti Christ would lie to you like that, because the Christ did not tell you that.

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The Christ said if any man come to the father, he must come by me, because I am the way I am the truth and I am the way I am the truth and I am the life, and no one comes to the Father except by me.

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Amen.

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So you're not going to get around the Christ, you can only get through the Christ.

00:57:24.240 --> 00:57:28.206
Somebody help me preach this or we're going to miss lunch.

00:57:28.206 --> 00:57:33.335
Amen, somebody hear me now.

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You can't get around this Christ.

00:57:35.603 --> 00:57:37.706
You can only get through this Christ.

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Amen.

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If you get around this Christ, I mean, you're going to end up finding another Christ and you don't want to deal with this one, because the end of that road is death.

00:57:49.286 --> 00:57:52.686
Amen, jesus said it this way.

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He said you won't receive the word that I preach to you, but you'll receive the word of another and you'll just let him do whatever he wants to with him, and you'll still receive.

00:58:06.065 --> 00:58:11.280
He's talking about the Antichrist but you won't receive the word that comes from God through me.

00:58:11.280 --> 00:58:14.146
But this is what he says.

00:58:14.146 --> 00:58:15.548
He says you can't get there.

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You can't get to the Father except by me.

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You can't get around me, to him, you have to come through me.

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I'm the only way.

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I am the true and the living way and the only way that has been made.

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We've been all over.

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This is what, through the veil, which is his flesh here's the thing, here's the other thing Works.

00:58:43.320 --> 00:58:51.648
Righteousness teaches you that somehow, on the basis of your good works, you're going to enter into eternity.

00:58:51.648 --> 00:59:11.670
What they don't teach you is that's a true statement, except you don't probably want the eternity that your works are going to buy you, because the eternity that comes through your good works is not the eternity that Jesus talks about.

00:59:11.670 --> 00:59:27.248
The eternity that Jesus talks about, about being in him forever, comes by way of entering into him, which is only by laying your works aside and putting on his works.

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He said it this way.

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He said it is the Father in me that is doing the work.

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So you want to do good works, let the Father do them.

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You want to do God works, let Jesus do them.

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Amen.

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There is a way that you can have God working in you.

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You know what that is.

00:59:48.927 --> 00:59:52.753
It is called the baptism with the Holy Ghost.

00:59:52.753 --> 00:59:53.715
Amen.

00:59:53.715 --> 00:59:56.347
You put on this spirit of Christ.

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Amen.

00:59:57.210 --> 01:00:17.827
And the law of the spirit of life in Christ Jesus can set you free from the law of sin and death, for that law of the sin and death was made weak through the flesh.

01:00:17.827 --> 01:00:20.878
In other words, you can't please God in the flesh.

01:00:20.878 --> 01:00:24.489
You can only please God by, by, in the spirit of life.

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If you can only please him in that law of the spirit of life, you have to enter into the realm of the spirit.

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Amen.

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Now we know all this.

01:00:36.605 --> 01:00:38.411
This is not.

01:00:38.411 --> 01:00:43.306
This is not new, but not everybody knows this.

01:00:43.306 --> 01:00:52.311
I mean, if you went out and had a serious discussion with a lot of people, at the end of that conversation it would be.

01:00:52.472 --> 01:00:53.474
Well, I hope I make it.

01:00:53.474 --> 01:00:58.206
I said the sinner's prayer.

01:00:58.206 --> 01:01:00.648
I hope that I've done enough good in my life.

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Well, you didn't really get.

01:01:02.300 --> 01:01:03.722
You didn't get the some.

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Somebody didn't explain to you what that prayer was all about.

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Then, hallelujah, praise the Lord, glory to God.

01:01:19.585 --> 01:01:24.485
I just want to say a couple more words and we'll close here.

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If there was one thing that Jesus had to go to the cross for, it was to purge works righteousness out of the equation.

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For pleasing God, for working in the realm of the spirit, for doing things that are worthy of salvation, for living in a way that is that is not only pleasing to God, but a way that God can get his hands on your life and use you in a valuable, eternal way.

01:02:03.355 --> 01:02:09.231
Works righteousness is the monkey wrench that gets into that process.

01:02:09.231 --> 01:02:24.855
If you think for one second that this has anything to do with you, amen, that is an anti-Christ thought.

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Now, that's not surprising, because anti-rist works through your flesh.

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You can't work through your spirit.

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Amen.

01:02:33.123 --> 01:02:35.608
That makes sense.

01:02:37.070 --> 01:02:38.954
But we all have moments like that.

01:02:38.954 --> 01:02:43.788
We all have moments when we want to take the credit.

01:02:43.788 --> 01:02:49.184
We have moments when, you know, didn't I do a good job on that?

01:02:49.184 --> 01:02:58.521
Well, if you need to be, if you need to be validated and you need to be, you know, patted on the back and you need to be, you know, good job.

01:02:58.521 --> 01:03:00.826
Oh, hallelujah, glory to God.

01:03:00.826 --> 01:03:10.952
You know, if that, if you need, then you need to let the Holy ghost do that, and if you don't hear the Holy Ghost telling you that, then you don't need it.

01:03:10.952 --> 01:03:20.789
Now, I know that flies in the face of you, know the way, you know.

01:03:20.789 --> 01:03:24.925
But we've raised, we've created a world where everybody wins.

01:03:24.925 --> 01:03:29.887
You know, there's no consequences for being a dunce, there's no consequences for screwing up.

01:03:29.887 --> 01:03:30.753
There's no consequences for being a dunce.

01:03:30.753 --> 01:03:31.739
There's no consequences for screwing up.

01:03:31.739 --> 01:03:34.608
There's no consequences for making mistakes.

01:03:34.608 --> 01:03:36.246
There's no consequences.

01:03:36.246 --> 01:03:37.967
There's just no consequences.

01:03:37.967 --> 01:03:43.731
Do whatever you want and every outcome is already guaranteed for you.

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That's not reality, that's insanity.

01:03:48.282 --> 01:03:50.085
We try to make a name for ourselves.

01:03:50.085 --> 01:04:06.333
Instead of exalting the name of Jesus, we try to establish our own works, our own efforts, when in fact, what we need to do is just enter into his rest.

01:04:06.333 --> 01:04:08.646
Let God do what he wants to do.

01:04:08.646 --> 01:04:12.028
We can't please him without faith.

01:04:12.028 --> 01:04:24.769
We can't do anything about Adam's sin except crucify his flesh, and we can't even do that without the work of the Holy Ghost in our lives.

01:04:24.769 --> 01:04:42.090
We certainly can't achieve immortality and eternal life without putting on the life of Christ, and any thought that we can is contrary.

01:04:42.090 --> 01:05:02.068
This idea of, with our own strength, we're going to build a tower to reach into the heavens and thereby avenge ourself of this angry God.

01:05:02.068 --> 01:05:05.251
What a foolish thought.

01:05:07.193 --> 01:05:18.686
And yet, do you know how many people, daily, daily, take umbrage at God because of something that has happened in their life?

01:05:18.686 --> 01:05:22.811
And they are going to.

01:05:22.811 --> 01:05:24.586
Well, that's it.

01:05:24.586 --> 01:05:26.668
I gave him a chance.

01:05:26.668 --> 01:05:28.126
He failed me.

01:05:28.126 --> 01:05:30.507
I'm never going to serve this God.

01:05:30.507 --> 01:05:30.847
I'm never going.

01:05:30.847 --> 01:05:31.992
I'm never going to serve this God.

01:05:31.992 --> 01:05:34.519
I'm never going to, I'm never going to, I'm never going to, I'm never.

01:05:34.519 --> 01:05:42.273
And they repeat this sin over and over and over and, over and over and over.

01:05:42.719 --> 01:06:08.371
And when the Antichrist is listen to me carefully when the Antichrist begins to pass out 666 badges to see whose kingdom you belong to, he's going to be knocking on that door first, the one who has rejected God, the one who has rejected his mercy, rejected his goodness, taken offense at him, taken offense at his spirit, and said I'm never going to have anything to do with God.

01:06:08.371 --> 01:06:22.688
The next thing you're going to have, let me give you this little badge that you can put right there on your upper arm, you know, and in a little bit of time it'll just sink right in and we'll know who you belong to.

01:06:22.688 --> 01:06:29.547
And you think I'm joking.

01:06:29.547 --> 01:06:46.253
This world is populated with people that are angry at God, hate him because they feel like he's failed them, and the root of that is that God is only here to take care of your whims.

01:06:46.253 --> 01:06:57.492
You haven't seen people that take that kind of attitude, Haven't honored him first the way Romans chapter 1 says, so they never have been in a place where he can reveal himself to.

01:06:57.492 --> 01:07:05.023
They are rebelling against an idea that they have concerning God, which is just another form of man's righteousness.

01:07:05.023 --> 01:07:08.929
Amen.

01:07:08.929 --> 01:07:13.456
You see how this is not as simple as people make it seem.

01:07:13.456 --> 01:07:20.353
It's insidious in the way that it ties knots in people because they won't do the first thing.

01:07:20.353 --> 01:07:26.329
They won't do the first thing first.

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Hallelujah, praise God.

01:07:29.047 --> 01:07:33.307
Thank you, jesus, lord.

01:07:33.307 --> 01:07:38.601
We thank you for revealing yourself to us.

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We thank you, Lord, for the so many, through all of the folk that are gathered here today, that you have revealed yourself to others through us.

01:07:49.206 --> 01:07:51.472
We give you praise for that.

01:07:51.472 --> 01:08:00.867
We give you all the praise for that, because we could not have ever imagined the kind of life that you have caused us to lead.

01:08:00.867 --> 01:08:03.367
But you are not done with us yet.

01:08:03.367 --> 01:08:10.248
We give you praise, we thank you for the resurrection of Jesus in us on a daily basis.

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We give you glory and honor in Jesus name.

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Hallelujah, praise God, praise God, praise God, praise the Lord.